skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The truth is, having a good GPA or resume is more likely to get you in, and some of the more impressive/rare “accomplishments” that students like to tout in their activity summaries and essays are simply unavailable to lower income students, making it harder for them to appear competitive to an admissions committee.

Yes, but admissions officers know this, so I don't think the inability of students whose parents don't found startups for them to play with is really that much of a hit.

In reality, if all else is equal, a student from a low-SES background has a much better shot at admission -- because doing all those upper-middle-class college-signaling things is much harder when you're not upper-middle-class, and thus much more impressive because it indicates a level of ability above and beyond the equivalent upper-middle-class student.

I posted about this elsewhere in the thread, but admissions committees are not actually trying to optimize over the set of various typical middle-class college-aspirational things -- they are trying to optimize for success & fit both in college and post-college, so they'll students in the incoming class will become good friends, have fond feelings, and bring both financial and prestige rewards to the university.

They don't care -- and shouldn't care -- who can perform the motions the best.
UBI needs to be framed more as a dividend. It isn't the safety net. It is profit sharing.
a) Google doesn't pay for bandwidth. They have peering agreements because of all the dark fiber they bought (https://www.lightreading.com/optical/dwdm/google-dark-fiber-...)

This isn't exclusive to Google though - most large bandwidth users have peering agreements.

b) Google does have edge caches[1]. It's true that the long tail of YouTube videos is longer than Netflix, but since Google doesn't pay for traffic (see (a)) this only affects speed, not cost.

[1] https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure
Laurance Doyle: Interspecies Communication and SETI. [video]
There are estimates that herd-immunity is achievable at 43%

"The disease-induced herd immunity level is 43% ... when immunity is induced by disease spreading, the proportion infected in groups with high contact rates is greater than in groups with low contact rates"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03085
What's monadic about this?
That's fair, like I said I'm no calculator aficionado and have zero prior experience with the HP42. So I'm coming at it cold and those choices are coming through as defects and an inability to make good use of the hardware being purchased.
It wouldn't be difficult, the question is, does it have merit or not.

Canada has far fewer wealthy people, far less extreme poverty, far fewer private schools and essentially no private universities.

Even the relative quality of universities is flatter. The top schools are pretty good, the mid-tier schools not hugely different. Whereas Harvard can offer something considerably more substantial than most state schools, on average. (It always depends on many factors, especially the student)

Very different landscape as well.
Interesting that this is downvoted without comment. That ratio is mighty suspicious, especially since this is an idea worth discussing.
the problem with cost of living averages is that they don't take into account different living standards.

cost of living is largely driven by cost of property and rent. places with lower living standards are much cheaper than others. even within the same city. if the majority of people in a city accept those lower standards then the average goes down. But if you want to have the same nice apartment that that your colleagues in more expensive cities afford then your cost goes up.

this is especially noticeable in large asian cities where the majority of people live in cheaper housing than what a european standard would consider acceptable.

for example the salaries gitlab offers for china make it hard for any expat to work for them because they don't take this into account:

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...

(i am picking out gitlab because they have this nice calculators that makes their pay very transparent)
Hmm: " (Alas, sorry, we’re unable to open-source the ISA translator.)"

For...legal reasons? Or because they lost it?
I love how people discover old, hidden gems like this. Despite what we know about how people learn and modern tools like video resources, every once in a while, someone unearths some decades-old resource that explains things far better than what's available now.

It reminds me of when I was learning antenna theory and propagation. I was looking for something that started at step one. The best videos I found on YouTube were a series created in the 1950's by the Royal Canadian Air Force.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bDyA5t1ldU
Isn't buying stock a great way to help the economy recover?
What's a bit interesting is that as a consultant with an OK rate I always attributed it to being onsite, directly talking with top management (what I do is routine so pay is basically for being able to interact successfully up and down org chart). This meant I felt very GEOGRAPHICALLY tied down.

Now I've not shown up onsite to ANYONE in 3+ months (we went remote early before shutdown). And it's not clear to me that value has diminished, though I need to up my zoom game a bit.

So some people may be discovering they thought they were geo tied / competitive but may be more broadly valuable or able to serve into that market remotely more easily than they thought?
List of companies going full remote after Covid
Why not just post the URL to the thing instead of a URL to something that just redirects to the thing?

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tools/nginx
Standing with the Iranian People – United States Department of State
U.S. Department of State called on technology companies in the U.S. and globally to do their part to improve the free flow of information to the Iranian people:
https://www.state.gov/standing-with-the-iranian-people

So if you are working on a technology company or own one, please help to remove restrictions from Iranian people.
https://www.tailwindtoolbox.com/

https://github.com/creativetimofficial/tailwind-starter-kit
What would be the implications on one country two systems policy/approach ?
Dairy farmers already feed cattle a large magnet to catch any pieces of metal that they might eat in the field so it doesn't travel through their intestines. No use getting squeamish about this kind of stuff, it's just how the sausage is made (well, milk and cheese).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_disease
Sorry I wasn’t clear about what I was trying to say. My argument was that most violent independence movements aren’t successful, an example of which was the Civil War, which was also called the “War for Southern Independence” by the rebels. Having a revolution sounds great if you expect it to turn out like 1776, but the majority of the time it doesn’t work out that way.
Nice socially-conscious exercise. For possible comparison, I was interested to listen to an interview on KPFA progressive radio with the alleged "math is racist" woman, and unfortunately she did disappoint. One of her first examples was essentially: the one-drop rule involved counting, so counting can be racist. (Every culture counts to one.) On the plus side, in a YouTube video to math teachers she was more about pepping-up teachers, I thought.
Close, and a good intuition for well-behaved problems. Unfortunately, Newton's method only remembers the location of the current point, rather than of two points surrounding the target value. This can result in some pathological cases where Newton's method fails to converge, or gets into an infinite loop.
I used to live on a street that had our own Facebook group. It was all things like "They're inspecting trash cans on the sidewalk again, I threw all your trash cans up on your porches to avoid the fine" and "Tim's backyard bike shop is open again, stop by with a six pack for a tune up"

I miss that street.
I'm pretty sure (from people I know that this happened to) you can apply for unemployment even if you're furloughed and "still employed".
Relevant wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu
It's funny how stuff that got put together quickly like GW-BASIC and JavaScript got so much success because of luck and popular appeal. It's like music. The best music has never been in the top of the charts. The best movies have never won Oscars.

This is pop computing.
> Is Youtube even profitable?

Yes, extremely[1].

Google (and most large bandwidth users) doesn't pay for bandwidth because they have peering agreements. Storage is cheap.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...
What profit sharing when we run a deficit every year?
> Yes, you can improve your SAT score by studying somewhat, but not massively.

This is completely mistaken.

Just taking a couple sample exams will net you almost 100 points as you don't waste time figuring out how to take the test.

Simple prep will net you 200+ points right off the top.

For example, generating a correct answer is almost always way slower on these kinds of tests than quickly removing wrong answers. Knowing where you are on the statistical curve and knowing how the test is catered toward tripping your precise cohort up is extremely important when you have a binary choice remaining.

And that's before you start doing actual systemic improvements like memorizing a couple thousand vocabulary words or drilling basic arithmetic so you don't make simple, stupid mistakes.
EarthArXiv announces new partnership to host earth sciences preprint service
Interesting questions, but I think GP used the shortened form of "negative income tax bracket".
Similarly, I always hear people talking about how tech companies should pay their contractors higher wages to account for the cost of living in the Bay Area. But given that the largest expense there is rent, that has the same problem: if there are more people looking for housing is greater than the number of available units, all you've done is changed who gets housing, and number of people with housing remains the same.
I'm really surprised to see so much positivity about rabbitmq here when it's probably the most sweared-at software in the space.

Let me share my anecdote. In my last work place I got onboarded on rabbitmq and it was such a painful software to work with and almost impossible to set up locally that I silently sneaked in simple redis list as queue alternative for my dev environment. The whole rabbitmq and it's pika library was replaced by 3 lines of python and redis server.

One day rabbitmq died and it tooks sys admins few weeks to get it back running. In that time I deployed my simple redis list and never looked back. To this day redis solution works without any friction whatsoever with fraction of resources.

The rabbits AMQP exchange model is severely flawed and convoluted. It's the worst example of corporate software where everything works and doesn't work at the same time.

I wouldn't recommend rabbitmq to my worst enemy yet there's still something attractive about it. Maybe there's a sane alternative? Maybe zeromq?
I was referring to Twitter and Square.
I keep seeing completely contradictory information on this. Just a few days ago I saw that they were on track and expecting to reach herd immunity some time in June. Then I read there is doubt, and it would take a month or so longer. And now, they are nowhere near that goal.

It is easy to understand why there is so much frustration in the world over this pandemic. For my household, we're going to continue to err on the side of caution.
> I'm a bit baffled; when did attending church become unusual in America?

It’s not. Even in Manhattan 45% of people attend religious services “frequently” or “regularly.”
None yet, but I don't really blame them. As-is it uses TCP rather than UDP. Also, if you want to prototype an RTS you'd probably make a mod for Starcraft II - the air is, I think, well and truly sucked out of the room.
All education will be biased toward people who have had more resources from early childhood on. But what has been revealed is kids that go to elite colleges but have fewer resources growing up and get worse grades actually do about as well as their better trained and supported counterparts.

So the conclusion is that there's probably a cultural bias going on for kids who are underprivileged that goes away once they enter the workforce if given the opportunities.
> How many times do you really need to style button/link and write out your 8px margins.

Either 0 or 1 times. Use semantic classes `<a href="/path/to/create-stuff" class="button">` and use custom properties or the cascade from there:

:root {
--button-margin-block: 1ex;
--button-margin-inline: 1em;
}

dialog {
/*
* Modals buttons need more block space and
* less inline space.
*/
--button-margin-block: 1em;
--button-margin-inline: 1ex;
}

button,
.button {
margin-block: var(--button-margin-block);
margin-inline: var(--button-margin-inline);
}
I guess one way to combat this is to just not worry so much about whether a comment gets lots of upvotes or whether or not it is even read. They’re fake internet points, don’t mean anything, and are not worth anything. If you feel you can contribute to the conversation, do so. Don’t worry about whether you’re commenting early enough or whether you are betting on the right “lucrative” thread. Your comment could be one out of a thousand—who cares? HN karma is not some kind of competition.
> In a world where the wealthy have ever more advantages in college admissions, standardized tests serve to level the playing field

wish I could upvote this more than once. Rigorous testing and merit based examinations have a reputation for being elitist but they're the exact opposite.

There's some benefit for people coming from higher social classes, but the difference in intellect is much smaller than the difference in networking, cultural attitudes or any other vague criterion that tests are replaced with.

At any country you look that has truly high mobility in education and has managed to produce a broad, national high quality system there's almost a Leninist attitude towards discipline and putting people through examinations. It's much harder for social privilege to be sustained in these institutions than in some kind of essay writing competition. It's also I think the reason for the pretty strong diversity of the military.
I've taken exams in college where the professors intentionally put more questions on the exam than you have time for. They say, "think of each question as an opportunity to increase your score" as opposed to caring about answering them all. The score is then standardized at the end, since most results are below 50% correct. It turns out exams like this usually give a very normally shaped distribution. More time is a massive advantage in these cases.
This is misguided. The problem is not how quickly one format or the other iterates. The problem is forcing your users to endure a closed, licensed format.

A USB accessory will work on any device, but a lightning accessory only works on an iPhone, to nobody's benefit but Apple. Apple's hate of standards is anti-consumer, and that's why the EU ruled against them.

What particularly ircs me is that Apple has acknowledged that USB-C is the superior plug by going all in on their laptops. But they can't let go of all the money they make selling licenses for third party cables on iPhones.
I'm not making any morale or financial decision making judgements :) - I'm mostly pointing out that using your UBI to make stock market investments is not usually mentioned as a use case by UBI proponents.
Oh, I didn't mean from a legal perspective! I meant in terms of what historical insights the newly available GW-BASIC source can provide.
This looks cool!

Something that I'd be interested in, when trying to determine if this would be useful to me, is seeing how useful it had been to other people: in X industry, doing process to achieve Y, compared to industry standard Z this achieved a W percent speedup in time to insight

That wasn't immediately obvious to me from the front page
Well now with remote work those people actually have job choices.
Social Debt: framework for Covid's mental health cost
The SAT is divided into sections, with a time limit for each one. If I recall correctly, each one is 10 - 30 minutes, with multiple sections making up reading, writing and math.

The test is also designed with time pressure in mind.
Tried to save it to my watch later list and apparently it's disabled because it's a kids video. Interesting.
>But communication and collaboration is just much harder work remote and you can't change my mind.

Don't want to change your mind, so instead consider that your statement might be more accurate if you said:

"But communication and collaboration for me is just much harder work remote."
The GiveDirectly trial in progress now (been a few years) is the closest to what you're talking about - 20k people in 197 villages in Kenya getting a basic income covered fully for 12 years.

https://www.givedirectly.org/ubi-study/
Why does it prevent you from saving a kids video when you presumably are not a kid?
I suggest you and Andrew Yang start giving Surfer Fred a cut of your paychecks every month. I bet the idea palls after you pass Fred hurrying to the beach with his surfboard as you drive to work.
>about 3 Trillion a year.
What a coincidence, that is approximately how much we've spent on corporate welfare since the Corona Virus crisis started.
Washington state lost ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ to unemployment fraud
No, it's an income tax which grows progressively with income plus a general refundable tax credit. So the overall tax liability goes negative for low incomes, and since the credit is "refundable" that involves actually getting money from the government. The general idea is sound, there's some difficulties involving ease of administration, e.g. paying the grant weekly or monthly rather than yearly.
Best Health Care Systems in the World
No. Sharing (private) details is a digital right, no one forces the fb users to do that. But there should also be a right to control the information that you’ve shared. An easy way to remove it.
$3 billion total...

That’s enough money to give $100,000 to 30,000 startups.
> In my public elementary school my principal deceived state officials to try to put me into special ed. She was admonished after it was revealed she hid my Iowa standardized test scores from state officials.

I think a student talking about that during the application process would actually be considered for admission.
In SAT you're not allowed do this. Each section has fixed time, then pencils down.
Ever hear of the urban legends of knocking people out and stealing one of their kidneys? This would make it real.
There's a whole bunch of science fiction based on this, Larry Niven coined the term organlegger:
https://blog.oup.com/2008/02/organlegger/
it runs on the 5k lut ice40up5k, e.g. as the default bootloader in fomu: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/fomu

(the whole thing fits inside the usb-a port)
Because in the long term you do plan to replace existing welfare systems.
GWBasic was good resource to get into programming world during my teenage. Now I want to teach coding to my 10 years old son. Will you still recommend GWBASIC/Quick basic or Python or other languages for kids?
You can already see this in countries with less extreme difference in the society's economy, e.g. Scandinavian countries.

They do not have UBI (yet) but have generous benefits for unemployment, sick pay, disabilities and pseudo minimum pay so that most people earn a decent income.

I am not an economist or sociologist but the economy still works, most people still work and it has lead to 2) and 3). There is less interest in the less desirable jobs so their salary has subsequently increased. And there is heavy investment in automation, in farms, in manufacturing, in shops, etc.

It is not perfect though. Maybe UBI will be even better.
I don't need extra keyboard shortcuts and am not sure how they would help. I already have Vimium for keyboard shortcuts. My tabs are just naturally organized into logical groupings, so I can visually scan for what I want very fast. Searching is nice when you can immediately think of the appropriate search terms but it's not a replacement for a clean visual arrangement of my tabs. Another very simple benefit is that I can read the tab title text easily even with lots of tabs, something that breaks down very fast with horizontally arranged tabs.

It helps that at this point I have a lot of subconscious habits about how I arrange tabs automatically. For instance, when browsing something like HN from the front page, if a link interests me I'll middle-click the comments link first, opening it in a sub-tab. If I'm interested in the article as well, then from the comments sub-tab I'll middle-click the article link, generating a sub-sub-tab. I don't even think about this; it's just how I've browsed sites like HN for a long time at this point. I end up with a nice little structured recreation of whatever part of the homepage I'm interested in at that moment. Then, if I don't want to worry about HN right now, I just collapse the entire tree and come back to it when I want a break.
His videos are good for giving intuition (I also liked the linear algebra ones), but it's really easy to fool yourself into thinking you understanding things better than you do, so you really need to work a lot of problems too.
It was no DONKEY.BAS, that's for sure. :)
Innovation is not generally about hiring people who are really good at programming contests.
The boring work has to get paid better because companies can't exploit the fact that people have no other choice. I think the businesses based only on that exploitation and not on real innovation will probably suffer as a consequence.
The title.

Seriously though, I think that "fluent" interfaces are being re-branded as "monadic" -- I assume because you're creating or piping around bound state and unwrapping/re-wrapping it with the various constructs.
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> I'd rather take my changes on an unfair system with open rules than on an unfair system with opaque rules.

I think this is a perfect summary. No system is perfect but at least the flaws are consistent and well-known, not subject to the whims of a particular group on a particular day.
And me! (and a few hundred/thousand people in this great forum)!!
Oh I still remember that Amstrad PC1512!!! What a carefree age that was...
Which is why Coca-Cola, which has decisively won the advertising war as much as a corporation can, can jack up prices willy-nilly and people plagued by cognitive biases don't switch to Pepsi.
Interesting experiments. Too bad they're not releasing the JFT pretrained models. I guess the cutoff point of what's too valuable to share has been reached.
rather than accepting them for an entire year and then kicking 2/3rds of them out, why not don't kick them out and just teach three times as many students. feels more humane somehow
Yes! QuickBasic 4.5 was my jam! I used to churn out apps with that left and right.
Well...remember it is 'just' a BASIC interpreter.

Woz wrote Apple integer BASIC in the evenings while working at HP in just a few months. Guys were writing crazy stuff at the time. The original version of DOS that Microsoft bought to license to IBM for the PC was written in 6 weeks.
As a Rochester native and current resident, this is really great. If you're ever in the Finger Lakes region, the Strong Museum is absolutely worth visiting whether you have kids or not for the Toy and Video Game Halls of Fame.
A lot of people mean "underrepresented and underprivileged people", which has a less racial implication than "minority".

In that case, regardless of race, they would look at your parents' income, or the kind of school you went to and the district it was in.
Motto: Google for people who know how to use Google

Edit: PS it's great!