skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for posting these publicly. Note that they are very good, and they are competitive for the schools you applied to. That said, they are also not that uncommon for some of the schools you applied to.

The grandparent post did not ask for (imho) the important thing. Namely, what is something significant you have done on a regional, national, or international scale? This can be academic, artistic, athletic, or whatever.

Note that this is not a requirement for admission to any of these schools, but it really helps a lot -- it serves as the one thing that sets you apart when you are not a recruited athlete or an applicant with the right social capital (e.g., come from a powerful and known family)... assuming that you don't fall into these categories.

Also note that many (most?) applicants from a variety of backgrounds (white, Asian... actually pretty much everyone) with "almost perfect scores and GPA" fall into the category of whiffing on this front.
> UC may choose to advance goals like diversity and equal opportunity using a broad range of admissions that are not based on an individual’s race or gender. For example, holistic review in admissions considers income level, first-generation status, neighborhood circumstances, disadvantages overcome, low-performing secondary school attended, and the impact of an applicant’s background on academic achievement.

these things are highly correlated with race, however.
It would go unspoiled, which is a bit different of a thing than tasting it's best.

Grain has quite a bit of lactic acid producing bacteria in it, on top of it's just being readily available in nature in general, so breweries naturally have a ton of it around. Most common lacto and pedio bacteria, the primary two type of LAB, is not very tolerant to hops. If you make a really hoppy beer, this naturally helps prevent the beer from souring.

Of course, a lot of beer is intentionally soured by these, and basically all beer originally would sour, and it's perfectly safe to drink. Just not desirable in every style of beer.
Yes it was: https://reason.com/2019/10/22/orchestra-study-blind-audition...

Also no: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-02/that-b...

Either pick the source that best fits your pre-existing bias or do your own study.
We’re part of some Google Business listing navigation program or AdWords conversion tracking program at work. We applied and got a postcard with a two-factor code in our business mailbox. We validated our address in this way. Later we received what appears to be either a Bluvison (now HID) BVBLN5W-IDT or BVBI45W-IDT. The former does BLE beacon functions and motion detection. The latter does even more:

Motion, Light, Vibration (3-axis, up to 800 hz), Magnetometer, Temperature -13° to +149° F (-25° to +65° C)

I’m guessing for the Google program we are part of, we got the BVBLN5W-IDT. It’s available for $31.20 USD in quantities of 20 or less direct from the vendor HID, “for demo purposes only,” of course. Here’s some info I found about it and the Google programs.

FCC info

https://fcc.io/SL6-BEEKSIBEEK

Datasheet

https://www.hidglobal.com/sites/default/files/resource_files...

Google Project Beacon info related to the My Business program

https://developers.google.com/beacons/place-visits

Google My Business program beacon setup guide

https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7577917?hl=en

A video that goes over the pack-in documents and the beacon and what it does

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tm2Qr0e_JV8

Who made the beacon we got

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161201005500/en/HID...
Bold move... I've resorted to smoking because I can't buy eliquid for vaping heh.

On that note there was a whole thread on Reddit with people saying they might kill themselves if lockdowns go on for months.

That would be hilarious, "cause of death: Covid-19"
To play the devil's advocate, if these poorer neighborhoods, which may correlate with race, have a culture that discourages kids who study, that might actually be an argument to take race into account, if there's say, a black applicant whose score isn't as good, but it's competitive and they came from a bad place and overcame the odds. Due to my own values and experiences, I'd empathize with someone who values intellectualism but has been kept down due to their outside circumstances. It's an unfortunate situation and I would hope that the kid's hard work pays off.

However, I think that this should stay as judging individuals and their circumstances and putting them in the context of the environment, and it should not justify wide-scale generalizations like secret quotas hidden with personality tests, etc. As you point out, such things further anti-intellectualism and penalize Asians and Jews for working hard.

(It would also be more productive to support people in those neighborhoods from the start, such as by supporting elementary schools, instead of waiting until college admissions.)
Are we now making the argument that different cultures and histories are capable of producing unequal outcomes? Because if that's what we're talking about, then I don't have any disagreement.

Nigerian and West Indian immigrants, for example, are among the most successful immigrant groups in the country, and among the most well-educated. Their blackness is not an obstacle in securing positions at universities or employment, because blackness is not the obstacle. In almost every university or large employment opportunity, their blackness works actively in their favor. Compare this with Asian immigrants, and you are now getting to the sort of comparison that I'm making.
I thought you might like this past idea for a Netflix for toys.

https://www.failory.com/interview/toygaroo
If it goes on long enough, black markets and protests, nothing new.
The local breweries in the Seattle area have been collaborating with the restaurants doing delivery for weeks to offload their keg stock. We've been getting growlers basically at-cost. (WA relaxed liquor laws during the SAH order so regular food deliveries can also bring you alcohol.)
Then it should be based on poverty, not race. The people that didn’t deserve to get in to those top tier schools can make just as much money after graduating from a “lesser” school.
> An income-based affirmative action would be far more effective in my opinion, as opposed to affirmative action based on ethnicity, which to me just seems like a proxy for socioeconomic status that is objectively worse in its attempts at representation.

I completely agree with this.

One of the challenges is that income can be gamed, but I think that this can probably be worked around somehow.

Edit: Maybe the UC implementation would work?

> UC may choose to advance goals like diversity and equal opportunity using a broad range of admissions that are not based on an individual’s race or gender. For example, holistic review in admissions considers income level, first-generation status, neighborhood circumstances, disadvantages overcome, low-performing secondary school attended, and the impact of an applicant’s background on academic achievement.
Because it is a decentralized protocol - like email
Asians were enslaved to build the West though. That is just true. While 'paid', they were not entitled to full legal rights and were held in conditions akin to slavery. We talk about reparations for african americans despite not being able to properly track who is an ancestor of whom. On the other hand, we know full well which Japanese were held in concentration camps by America, and some are even alive today, and they receive nowhere near a proper compensation.
Asian American itself is an interesting (and quite arbitrary) category. It perpetually fascinates me what is considered "Asian". East Asians are undeniably lumped in. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who considers Chinese/Korean/Japanese not Asian. SE Asia as well. South Asian (i.e. Indian, Pakistani, Bangla, etc.) ditto.

But the moment you cross this devious little Bactrian border, you start getting more and more pushback upon being labeled Asian. Talk to someone from Georgia or Armenia, or even Israel (yes, Israel is in Asia), and they'll quickly tell you that no, they're not Asian. Except...yeah you are.

One could make an argument that well, they're culturally European. I don't buy that. If you're in Asia and then your culture is Asian culture by definition. Of course nobody goes by that metric. So how do people determine Asianness? My estimate is that they do it by otherness. I.e. Asian culture is that which is not European or at this point American-European. A neat corollary to this is that Asianness is associated with a lack of social capital. Hence the insistence on not being Asian that you face in Central and Western Asia.

Which ties itself neatly into this problem. Asian-American as a category is borne out of otherness. It's that which is not European or American. And it makes sense that this group would face trouble in getting cultural, if not financial acceptance.

What to do about this? Well one thing not to do is to lash out at other people who are struggling to gain social or financial capital. Black and hispanic people are not our enemies here. A society that does not acknowledge the damaging effects of racism in its institutions and in its culture will not be a society that is beneficial to Asians.

I'm not sure what the solution is to college admissions. I don't think anybody does. But I'm adamant that it should not be used as a tool to divide minorities.
Those "1000 lines of boilerplate" is why imgui and nuklear are so popular. If you're on a commonly used platform, say SDL and OpenGl, you can just copy all or most of it. But the magic here is that imgui and nuklear will integrate into any engine or rendering api you can imagine.

To simplify a little, you pass these libraries the events from the windowing system and it gives you a list of triangles back. Then you feed the triangles to the GPU and you're done. All the logic (and nothing but the logic) is done by the GUI library.

This is why dear imgui is perhaps the most popular GUI library in the world. It's used in a lot of game development tools, etc.

If anyone is interested in the topic, I am writing a lightweight flexbox-based retained mode GUI layout rendering library that integrates like imgui/nuklear. Give me a shout if you want to know more.
lol, can you elaborate?
A general audience summary of this has previously been submitted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22968345

I thought it deserved some more attention, because the more elaborate vaccine candidates seem less likely to become available worldwide as quickly.
I agree 100% with the Alphabet/Apple approach. There's no additional absolute location tracking. But it's easy to get the contact histories for all those infected.

If health authorities want to identify infection hotspots, they can request location histories from infected people and their contacts. That's no more than health authorities have requested in the past. It's just easier to produce, and more accurate.
This already exists. It's mainly focused on high-strength (10% and up) dark beers. Think imperial stout, triple bock, that sort of thing.

The exeception to this rule is that beers with added acidity, like a lambic or a Berliner weisse, will age well despite being lighter and lower alcohol content.

I have a few like this sitting in the basement. At least one of them has a label recommending at least one year and up to 20 years of storage. It will be fun to see how it tastes at some point.
I thought this discussion was settled 30 years ago?

Write what you want to do, not how to do it. There is no difference.
You can run the AppImages you don't trust with the Firejail sandbox which has native support for AppImage.

https://firejail.wordpress.com/documentation-2/appimage-supp...
I've tried replacing "commitment" with "forecast" in my team for the same reason. Even though it's an official recommendation [1], the management didn't like it.

[1] https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/commitment-versus-forec...
Yes, it's legal. After all, sweets haven't been banned and they cause lots of tooth decay.
Germany is mostly pils, heff, and radler. The USA has more beer variety, maybe it's more difficult logistically? Companies in the USA do have a beer man, never heard of individual houses hiring one.
This new method works well for partially transparent regions (hair) and allows slightly larger background movement and color overlap between foreground and background.
ROI on college -It depends what you study, not where
It's so amusing how when Asians ask for respect and equal treatment in American society, that we get painted as uppity and are told we should step aside for others. Even by our own group, who have been raised in that American society to think this way. Look, if you want to make the argument that more disadvantaged people should be given the leg up, I totally agree. What I disagree with is the way people think it's okay to ask Asians to settle for less, to step aside, or to leave if they don't like it when they would never treat any other minority this way.

This is why they can put us into internment camps. No one cares.
Linux Uptime Command with Usage Examples
Free beer? Maybe structured to generate tax credit.
Discrimination against Asians during the admissions process has been a well known fact inside the academy for over a decade. The fact that this had to go to court is somewhat laughable. The other thread here about the Jews at Harvard is a similar story that comes up in this context and many academics simply nod knowingly and shake their head, probably because no one wants to deal with the nightmare of admissions.
What about the poor asians like my parents who immigrated here, after facing rampant discrimination in their homeland, lived in a poorer neighborhood, because that's all they could afford as new transplants, were enslaved by their own family, but managed to break out of that, go to school again to get into their dream job, and who now want to send their two sons to the best schools in the country?

Why shouldn't those circumstances be taken into account? Perhaps it's because -- as a race -- most Asians are too proud to talk about this in their admissions essays, and moreover, their intellectual accumen would tend to indicate that these -- frankly minor -- issues are not important when considering what school to attend.

What we should really be talking about is why anyone -- Asian or black or whatever -- needs to elicit the sympathy of some old WASP to attend school. The whole 'write a sob story' trope is true because this appeals to popular white culture. It's time that ends, and we let adults run the show.
Really nice and easy to use UI. The text extraction is working well, and the area selection is great

I would definitely suggest adding image support.

Also, I noticed the function to keep line breaks put sometimes 2 line breaks instead of one.

Good job :)
It's really astonishing how far you went out of your way to clarify the narrow comparison you're making, and how many words were written in response to claims you didn't make. Or, it would be astonishing if it wasn't typical of the lack of rigor or critical thinking ability that tends to dominate one side of such conversations...
You use this argument to defend engineers but then question c—level executive salaries. The exact same principles apply but at a multiplicative level

That’s simply not true, workers and managers are qualitatively different. There are no shortage of examples of managers of companies losing money and marketshare who nevertheless are paid bonuses every year then leave with a golden parachute.
The Catholic Church in Germany had it written into LAW that they can deny its employees to unionize or strike and they can discriminate them (e.g., fire them) for their personal and religious beliefs. Oh, and did I mention that thousands of cases of sexual abuse went unpunished because the German Catholic Church made sure that they would not be prosecuted?

So, give me a break with for-profit company morale - or put differently: what is YOUR baseline to compare these actions against?
Thanks! Been a while since I saw that.

Was a solid idea but problem was with shipping, cleaning and storing toys.

That’s why I decided to make them digital or rather kids or their parents can build them themselves.

Also children get bored of toys easily so these can be recycled and you can print new ones, how many you want.

Their model worked but just didn’t scale well.
Process substitution deserves a mention: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/process-sub.html
I'm not sure if any of that is true or if any of it leads logically to a need for affirmative action in the ranks of the entertainers.
You cannot generalize the culture in investment firms to other businesses. Very toxic working environment for everyone involved.
I fear we may be talking past each other.

1. Affirmative action was designed to benefit African-Americans, that is: the descendants of African slaves brought to the US centuries ago. This is a separate cultural group from recent black immigrants from Nigeria, the West Indies, or other African countries.

2. The percentage of immigrant Africans is also tiny in comparison to the descendants of slaves. So using them as an example to disprove the idea that there is discrimination against black people, is again, not really relevant.

In any case, the problems probably arise from the basing of affirmative action decisions on race/skin color and not cultural background. I don't know if this is a really a solvable problem, but blankety stating that "Asian people have it worse than Black people in America" is so blatantly wrong that I have to call you out on it.
Or might make gender bias even worse: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tri...
Yes, fair comment on my downvote rant.

I should have put it differently: for those who disagree: please tell me how I’m wrong - so at least I can learn something from it
Used to drink 6-10 cups a day, even one at bedtime.

These days, it's one or two in the morning for breakfast. I find I work better if I am more relaxed than if I'm wide awake. All-niters are a thing that is gone decades ago.
AFAIK one common reasoning is that it is a writable folder that is easy for the users to find when they need to contact support.
Vinegar can actually get better with age.
The whole debate over one space vs. two is just stupid. TeX got it right 40 years ago, recognising that it's no longer necessary to constrain ourselves to a integral number of space characters (a holdover from the typewriter era), but instead to use what it calls "glue" as separators between characters, words, and sentences.

Glue between words is given a higher weighting than that between characters. Glue between sentences is given a higher weighting than between words. So you end up with sentences being separated from each other by more whitespace than words. The exact amount will vary, as the Knuth-Plass line breaking algorithm [1] tries to find the most aesthetically pleasing set of places to break lines.

Arguing for one space or two spaces misses the point.

[1] http://www.eprg.org/G53DOC/pdfs/knuth-plass-breaking.pdf
On another note, what makes you think Asian Americans aren't being discriminated against at their second or third choice schools either?

You need to stop thinking this is a fight between Asian Americans and other disadvantaged groups. The fight is about Asian Americans being systemically treated unfairly in American society. It is not acceptable. It wouldn't even be up for debate if we were talking about any other disadvantaged group. Not all Asians come from wealthy families and are trying to get into Harvard.
Thanks for the feedback!

I’m not quite sure what to say to “cash is not a resource”. Even if just a proxy for attention cash is obviously a resource. But really, cash in itself is a resource. $10 trillion dollars can do a lot of things if spent wisely. $10 trillion dollars can also be destroyed for practically no benefit at all.

I agree it’s not strictly $1 spent on A means $1 less to spend on B. But it’s at least true to some extent, and again, as a proxy for attention and willingness to enact change, it’s a valid measure.

So the flu comparison is because they are both respiratory illnesses which kill a lot of people. In the 2017-2018 season the flu killed 61,000 in the US. Hospitals in NYC were stretched very thin. Nobody really noticed. It wasn’t even declared a pandemic.

Obviously it’s impossible to say with certainty if we have seen 1/4th, 1/3rd, or 1/2 of the total deaths that we are going to see from this SARS-CoV-2. But I think nobody is currently out there claiming that we’ve only seen 1/10th of the total deaths from SARS-CoV-2 that we’ll get by the time it’s over. (SARS-CoV-3 is another story?)

“Ten times flu on an annualized basis...” So 50k times 4 is 200k. That’s not nearly 600k. Just trying to follow your math. If we’re halfway through now (IHME thinks we’re about 3/4 through) then we‘ll have seen in COVID the equivalent of two bad years of flu.

Orders of magnitude generally provide rough measures of classification and are a nice rule of thumb for telling if one thing is “radically different” than another thing. So, flu kills up to 650k globally per year. Maybe COVID will do roughly the same, maybe 2-3x, but I think at least we’ve long past the days of claims that COVID will kill 5 million worldwide are being tossed around. And it’s not because no one’s caught it and we just need to keep hunkered down. It’s because a massive number of people caught it and overall its just not that deadly.

If governments around the world had done their jobs and shared data and been truly prepared and with a little luck and a lot of hard work this whole thing perhaps could have been avoided by early and arduous contact tracing. That day is long behind us.

I worry that by now so much energy and ink has been spilled getting the country into lockdown, and people are so politically invested in it, and all the social pressure campaigns have ramped up to max,... that now as data finally emerges which demonstrate it was all a gross overreaction, we will be too slow to correct.

In the meantime 10s of millions have lost their jobs, perhaps millions have lost their businesses. A $1T deficit seems like a quaint memory (sorry grandkids!).

And it was all for, what, exactly? When herd immunity is the endpoint and the IHME hospitalization predictions were wrong by 10x... overbending the curve only causes suffering and does not save lives. Bending the curve too far into next winter could actually cost lives, which the CDC acknowledged earlier this week in a very roundabout way. And bending the curve at all only helps if additional medical treatment availability would have actually saved more lives, something which I have not seen a strong case for.
Frankly, a degree from Harvard is not that prestigious anymore, due to these kinds of shenanigans. A degree from most any top-notch west coast school is likely to be met with more respect not only in industry but also to the populace at large.
> Xpeng said in a filing that it’s already assisted Tesla voluntarily and in response to a prior subpoena served on XMotors, including by turning over a forensic image of Cao’s laptop and more than 12,000 documents. The U.S. carmaker’s latest demand for information doesn’t change the fact that there’s no evidence that any Tesla trade secrets were passed on to Xpeng, the company said.

When even Bloomberg acknowledges that the accusations are shaky you have to start questioning Tesla's narrative (literally, there's a section of TFA called a "Questionable Narrative"). Musk is known for being paranoid about "short-sellers", maybe the same could extend to "ip theft".

> Tesla is finally learning the lesson that all other companies doing business in China have already learned.

The events described involve engineers working in the US and the entire thing is being judicated in San Francisco. It has nothing to do with "doing business in China".
People with a limited budget don't use it, which makes the service less useful.