skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I mean a plot of say high school GPA vs say college graduation rate or college GPA would be rather informative.

You'd have to be very careful in how to measure both the inputs and the outputs.

First, "weighting" makes high school GPAs pretty difficult to interpret without a lot of context. This is compounded by the fact that "weighting" is a bad solution to the underlying problem of trying to compare fundamentally incomparable coursework. There's really no numerical way to compare a grade in a remedial Biology course to a grade in an AP Biology course.

Second, grading varies wildly from school to school and teacher to teacher, and what an "A" means will also vary wildly. Some teachers emphasize understanding, some emphasize busy work, and some hand of "A"s like candy. To give one example that might be useful to the HN audience: I've volunteered in several AP CS courses:

- In one course, getting an "A" required writing thousands upon thousands of lines of if-else conditions following inane string formatting guidelines. Barely any looping. AFAICT the teacher was the least competent math teacher that was removed from teaching any math courses that were tested for in state standardized tests (never taught algebra or geometry -- just all the random remedial courses and electives).

- In another course, getting an "A" required writing real programs, using some data structures appropriately, knowing the difference between constant/linear/"not linear" algorithm, etc. Students even wrote some simple proofs. Teacher was a CS major.

- In a third course, basically everyone got in "A". Teacher was, I shit you not, a gym teacher. Literally a warm body. Course was basically self-study on days I wasn't there.

So, even in relatively "standardized" AP courses, there's often not a nice bell curve, teachers aren't using the same rubrics or even assignments, and you really have no clue whether that grading reflects ability to put up with bullshit busywork or actual understanding.

Third, you also have to be careful about how you're measuring the results. College GPA and graduation rates are not field-agnostic. A 4.0 in CS or Physics or Math is not easily comparable to a 4.0 in Communications. Also, universities aren't comparable. A degree/GPA at Small Noncompetitive Liberal Arts College is simply not comparable to a degree/GPA at MIT or Stanford.

Also, dropping your lucrative major for a useless major can have an even bigger impact on your life than dropping out. The number of people who start in STEM and end up with a Communications or Business degree is just as relevant, or arguably even more relevant, than the number of Communications or Business majors who end up without a degree.
>Why is everyone picking on the WHO constantly?

Because they've made multiple avoidable bad calls.

>In this case you're spinning really hard.

'WHO was recommending not to use it' is a quick summary of statements like "routine corticosteroids should be avoided
unless they are indicated for another reason,”. How is this not a recommendation against it and 'spinning really hard'?

At any rate, I didn't dig into that part much (WHO recommendations are much much less important than medical trials), I just found it interesting enough to mention.
Fascinating part in the story about his arrest (first link in the vice article) is that the FBI set up cameras outside his home to correlate his physical presence with internet activity from the IP address.

You frequently get people on the internet saying "Your IP address doesn't prove anything", but I was always curious how that worked in the real world.
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Yes, I've noticed this as well. ARM Linux desktops feel sluggish. It is not IO, because I have done tests after everything has been cached, loaded once. I have a RPi 4 here, as well as some older Pine64 boards.
If your experience with "desktop UI on ARM" is based on the RPi and other ARM SBCs, the overwhelmingly likely explanation for this perceived lag is lacking I/O performance. Running a Raspberry Pi (or any system) from any cheap flash storage setup like SD cards or cheap eMMCs degrades desktop responsivity a lot. The ARM desktop hardware most of us have experience with has significant I/O problems, but that's due to them being cheap hardware, and not due to ARM.

I/O is actually the real prevalent bottleneck for desktop interactivity on all modern hardware. Even older x86 systems with spinning platter hard drives are set up for a more responsive desktop experience due to the I/O performance being suited for the desktop. Modern Android phones and iPhones also have much better I/O setups for interactive use (UFS for high end Android, Apple actually uses NVME because responsiveness is so crucial) .

Certainly CISC vs RISC has nothing to do with it as that discussion really has no bearing on the situation anymore on discussions about modern ARM and Intel (see my other post).
Just to clarify to readers who aren't aware, you should be using uBlock Origin and not uBlock.org: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin
I'm a bit confused, but isn't this a one year response to the effects of Covid? I saw that there were difficulties even with AP exams this year.
> the most obvious would be that Steve Jobs is no longer around...

The other one is the popularity of iOS.

Edit:

Also the departure of Forstall in 2013.
But whites still are the majority in SF by a huge margin.
Confused why this got -4 on it?

Is linking to graphs about the issue frowned upon here?

When submitted, it looked quite relevant to the discussion within the minutes beforehand.
A few years back we did a tour of Auschwitz - the excellent Polish guide gave us his personal view that there is nothing about Germans that made them prone to such acts and that many countries to this day routinely plan for far greater acts of slaughter and somehow we think this is normal.
A zombie process is a process that has exit()ed but hasn't been reaped (wait(), et al) by its parent yet; a different mechanic that has to do with keeping the child's exit status and process statistics due to wait() being asynchronous, not to do with network locks.
Don't know why this is getting downvoted. Tone aside, it's a fairly accurate assessment.
Shiny new thing (SNT) comes along, sales people and thought leaders get excited about SNT because they can sell it, everyone piles on as SNT picks up more and more hype, SNT falls apart as soon as it hits real world use cases, sales people and thought leaders start looking for new SNT and the cycle repeats.

I can not stop the cycle. You can not stop the cycle. All we can do is notice it and let it pass and hope some SNT will eventually be useful instead of pure hype. Oh, and also, avoid joining any cults: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3440104/10-software-develo....
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In general, this is not a safe assumption to make -- for example, due to DNS Rebinding attacks.

The article also mentions that the exploit is working remotely:

> As the vulnerability occurs before the Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) token is checked, this exploit can also be served via a CSRF attack. If a user with a vulnerable router browses to a malicious website, that website could exploit the user’s router. The developed exploit demonstrates this ability by serving an html page which sends an AJAX request containing the exploit to the target device.

Also, if you're replacing the firmware, the new firmware can create an outgoing root shell to a destination of your choice. There's no internal limitation here.
Maybe gravity is just diffusion of energy as it tries to smooth the tremendous discontinuities between its condensed form (mass) and free (?) form (vacuum).
Patents can be used to protect yourself from others.
In Javascript, maybe, but frameworks like WebForms already had 1st-party components (called "user controls") back in the early 2000s. Granted, it was server-side only.

Hooks are a tough one (they're very specific to reactive frameworks), but we did have other kinds of abstractions that provided similar benefits.
Components as jQuery plugins aren’t encapsulated or easily composable. What do you do if two plugins used the same namespace or class names? How would you put one component inside another?
What do these have to do with managing fads?
You are not the first to think of this, or even the hundredth. It's been decades since I first saw it, but I did see someone propose kind of an interesting approach, for amusement: why not take the aether thing as far as it could go? Keep adding bizarre properties to it to explain experimental results. Go wild!

If I recall, the end result was something very much like the properties of spacetime. But with no particles. Just ... take the particles away. You're attached to the particles.

The reason you cannot let go of that feeling is that you're trying to attach your base human experience (which is largely Newtonian, low spacetime curvature, quantum effects not immediately visible, a fairly confined region of temperatures and pressures) to a domain where your base experience is completely irrelevant. All of the waves you witnessed were the disturbance of matter as a traveling phenomenon. It's what you grew up on. And so envisioning a scenario wherein the wave isn't carried on some kind of matter, however hidden, "feels" wrong.

Also, don't do physics without math. If you just want to keep reaching from one analogy to another, you can build all kinds of castles in the sky, but you won't have anything at the end of it. Remember, physics is a quantitative prediction. Your concepts have no math or calculations, and so there is no measurement to contradict them. Nor can you "farm the math out" to other parties. Nobody capable of doing the math will do the math for you. If you desire to pursue this, you must begin to do the math, yourself.
The person responsible for the initial error is quoted in today's article. I singled him out in my comment. It takes more than one researcher to ignore a protocol calling for a dosage 3x in excess of that used by any other study, then paper over the fact that this happened.

>Well, no, actually a single doctor MIGHT have, during a single incident.

You'll find that I used the word "likely", indicating a lack of absolute certitude. This is a statistically reasonable statement based on their dismal HCQ results.

Please stick to material critique of the informational content conveyed.
Heterogeneous Multi-Core Processing. 2 big cores. 4 small cores. Meanwhile Intel CPUs have 6 big cores.
I know the Intel ones are available from Microsoft’s site and you can find it if you just search for “Windows 10 ISO”. Are the ARM ones different?
Fair enough, I'm just surprised
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Would you be Ok with GitHub recruiting based on political opinion since there would for these to "match"?
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My argument for using axios is developer ergonomics. There are a few libraries that I use both in the frontend and the backend, for which I gladly accept the increased bundle size: axios, lodash, moment, Q. My users get the benefit in me being able to ship features faster because I don't have to constantly keep up with which feature ships in which browser version etc. I also found the fetch API horrendous to use. It's a tradeoff I'm willing to make.
> Edit: I was checking how common was it to give corticosteroids before the trial (pretty common as I suspected) but it's almost amusing that the WHO was recommending not to use it[0]. I wonder if this will be yet another miss for them.

So what you're saying here is that you blame the WHO for not recommending something before there was evidence for it, because now there is a study indicating effectiveness and they should have known that before the study was performed?
No one should rely on SMS for 2FA! Phone numbers are bad authentication tokens (they can change hands, be diverted etc).

Proper 2FA should either be TOTP codes and apps for those or hardware tokens. Any of these should also have backup codes.
or how easily a 600B company spends thousands of dollars
If you're stopping for 15-20 mins every three hours you could probably drive for 8 hours in a Tesla Long Range 3/S right now. If you stopped at superchargers.
After reading that article a while back, I started making longer to-do lists. I found that it's hard for me to do a task on a three item to-do list. But if my list has 20 items, it's somehow easier to pick an item from the middle of the list and bang it out.
I think that is more of a personal experience. I've worked in startups for over half a decade now and founded two. I've never been turned down on the basis of my founding experience or my desire to learn certain skills.

The company I'm currently at even knows about the work I'm doing outside the company and supported me as I was working through the latest YC application rounds.

You want good people to join your company, it provides brand recognition if they then go on to found or do amazing things even better. You should never assume when hiring someone they'll stay for any length of time, obviously you want to try and create and environment where they want to stay but if you got a year or more out of the arrangement I consider that successful. That's why you need strong documenting and knowledge transfer policies.

The days of staying at companies long term (>3 years for senior people and >1.5ish years for regular folks) really isn't a thing any more at least in tech and startups.

There are no structures in place that make it advantageous to stay and 10s of thousands of dollars on the table as a worker that make it advantageous to shop around.

Plan accordingly as a manager and things will be a lot easier instead of losing talent because your worried they'll want to do other work at some point which is pretty much a given for most people.
Isn’t that what the parent means by ‘classless’? As in it only generates styles for all instances of particular elements instead of classifying them like ‘div.my-special-div’ or whatever
I once worked with a group of people that were afraid of makefiles. I doubt it was your age. People are always afraid of things that are unfamiliar. This applies to snakes and spiders just as much as it applies to programming languages and associated technologies.
I think athletic success increases the awareness of the college among potential applicants, more people apply, the selectivity percentage goes down, the college looks more selective from a naive perspective used by college ranking formulas, its ranking increases, and thus its prestige increases.
Yeah, I'm becoming increasingly frustrated by the flood of "anti-hype-driven-development" blog posts being praised.

The entire article could be summed up with:
> Is it solving your problem, and what is the cost?

And it cuts both ways. Change for the sake of change is bad. But so is stagnation for the sake of stagnation.

Picking the best tool for the job and continuous improvement are the closest thing to universal advise in front-end land.

The "everything new is bad" rhetoric is getting exhausting.
I have a cousin, who's both parents are heavily into medicine and wanted for him the same path,while he only wanted to do anything related to cars. Didn't work out well tbh. Pushing your own kids to learn isn't necessarily a bad thing,but to do so purely with a single goal of getting them into a university and then in a predefined job path, is outright crazy.
? Have you ever been to SF? That's not true for the general population and even less true for youth. And the white youth that are there tend to go to private schools

https://priceonomics.com/where-are-all-the-white-people-in-s....
> it's simply stored as gravitational potential energy

This answers the "how", but not the "where". Since energy itself has mass, we would expect the potential energy to carry mass as well; and that that mass/energy should be concentrated in some region of space.
I would like to take this opportunity to point out that the author of "Eloquent JavaScript", Marijn Haverbeke, also created both CodeMirror and ProseMirror [1], which are both extremely well-regarded open source code/text editing tools. I can especially recommend ProseMirror after spending a lot of time with it recently. It's an actually sane wrapper around contenteditable.

[1] https://prosemirror.net/
How was personality scored? Was this specified?
The main problem, when I was there, as with many places throughout Asia, is the poor air quality. You’ll definitely notice it, my eyes were burning to get through the adjustment period.
What's Left of Magic Leap?
Looks like I'm late the party but I submitted a YouTube video talking about this as "The Wall of Awful" emotions and experiences you need to get through in order to start a task that has negative emotions associated with it. It totally changed how I approached my procrastination by simply asking myself "why" I was avoiding a task.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo08uS904Rg
For Go, there's xo/xo, sqlboiler and gnorm. But they mostly are used to generate data access code only.

Hasura, couchdb, supabase and PostgREST wrap your database but don't generate code they just run in memory (and you have to deal with Haskell and Erlang).

Prisma is most similar in spirit but has it's own data description language whereas this uses SQL. This generates a Go backend currently (I'm working on Java though too) but Prisma generates typescript.
I would expect legacies to have a higher admission rate. They are a subpopulation coming from homes with intelligent parents, likely grew up in intellectually stimulating environments, and were probably focused on the Ivy League before many of their peers had even heard that term.

There is definitely some application boost legacies get simply by virtue of being a legacy, but their applications are probably quite strong in general. So it's unlikely that dropping the SAT was meant to cater to them.
Hacker competitions often seem very contrived to me. I suspect that in order for the red team to make any progress you have to tie the blue teams hands behind their backs. Most of what I see from the penetration testing community is pretty gimmicky and situational generally and often doesn't take into account the attackers risk/reward ratio.
Assuming this is targeting the lower end of the Apple line up, AAA gaming wasn't really much of a thing to begin with. In general though, iOS/iPadOS has a pretty expansive gaming lineup. I’d expect that library to mostly end up working on any hypothetical ARM-based macOS machines. Especially considering the iPads are already adding keyboard and mouse support.
The argumentation went like:

We did design projects for companies and showed them our ideas as mock images and they didn't like them.

We then implemented the exact same designs as prototypical apps, they clicked around in it and loved it.
>Test scores don’t prove much except who had the resources, time, and motivation to study the most.

Aren't colleges looking for people who will study the most? Who have the motivation and the ability for the motivation to translate into results?
"Standard of care" basically means "whatever the current protocol to treat the disease is" (normally it means "the accepted treatment", but there isn't one yet), which can mean just trying to keep the fever down, supplementation of fluids, but also administration of drugs (with the exception of the one tested, of course).

As you can imagine, it is quite variable in what it means, because it varies across countries and occasionally even hospitals (I'm sure the RECOVERY people have taken this into account, though).

It is different from a placebo study because in that case your control is something you know is inert and "does nothing".
> Test scores don’t prove much except who had the resources, time, and motivation to study the most.

Dunno about you, but even if this is true, something that shows you were highly motivated and took time to do something seems very valuable if your goal is to produce people what produce.

In most areas of study, being motivated and investing time are key contributors to success. They aren't the only one. Intelligence, diversity of thought and resources matter too, but they certainly aren't negligible or dismissible.
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I don't agree on the "Everything written in Java feels emulated" part. Have you tried IntelliJ? It is completely written in Java and looks and feels as if it is using native GUI (alhough it indeed isn't).
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Amazing that after a distinguished career as a respected philosopy professor at Stanford, Perry's greatest contribution to humanity may be that humorous article on procrastiantion.
>> Why is everyone picking on the WHO constantly?

Because they are a political organization first and a medical organization second, and not a particularly effective political group either, combining the worst of bureaucracy with questionable alliance and motives.

In short, they're ineffective and untrustworthy.
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I expect any differences to manifest in the student's life over the subsequent years. Many people build a significant chunk of their social network in those first two years of undergraduate college
The number one pain point for me is that sometimes time is wasted tracking TS error or bugs than actually solving my problem.
I'm not an expert on GR, but basically: energy density and mass density are summed up in the Einstein field equations to get the metric tensor that determines the curvature of spacetime. We can measure the curvature, so we can measure the mass/energy density, in absolute term.

This article gives an example of how that would work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_binding_energy#N....
>The SAT has always generally been a test showing how well you prepared for the SAT. For top schools all viable candidates had very good scores so it wasn’t much use.

There are many people who have high GPA's but are not intelligent enough to do well on the SATs. Removing this bar will allow those people through.

Not necessarily a bad thing but a thing nonetheless.
Why wouldn't they feel that way? As bad as Trump may be, he isn't trying to keep their kids from following the same successful path.
That's interesting, and I can certainly see your point.

But back then the speech was considered to be brave, not preaching to the choir.

Throughout the sixties and seventies Germans had a tendency to paint themselves the victims. Maybe not as much as the Jews, but still, the Allied Occupation was so terrible, Red Armists raping every woman, woe be us.

Weizsäcker drew lots of criticism for articulating the point that the Third Reich wasn't some pretty well-functioning state with just the little side-effect of mass murder. That the Allies shouldn't have been so harsh, why couldn't they just remove the concentration camps and let society go on?

He saw the Nazi rule as an imposition on the German people, not in way of exculpation, but as a way to accept the defeat and move on, trying to build a better world.

You're right that most Germans knew about the atrocities. Research is very clear on that point. But it wasn't really emotionally accepted, especially in conservative circles. That speech was one little turning point, as was Brandt's fall to his knees (tabloids labelled him a traitor, for something that seems obviously right now).

I suppose he could have been more direct. But I suspect he and his people had gauged the public sentiment very well. Say too much, and nobody cares about what you said. Say too little, and you're not doing anything. The speech had a huge impact, and I guess that proves it right, maybe not from an absolute ethical point of view, but from a political and contemporary point of view.
I couldn't disagree more.

IMO it encapsulated everything wrong about Apple's approach to laptops during these past 5-6 years like the butterfly keyboard.
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