skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but I do know that data with respect to college admissions: HS GPA is consistently as good or slightly better than standardized test scores.

The data I've seen says the reverse, that SAT is a better predictor than GPA, but both together contain more information.

https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/underreview...

> then more energy should be spent on expanding those same opportunities to a greater number of people, not worrying about the speculative incremental decline in quality that might be incurred when switching from one set of entrance criteria to another.

Making all schools better is a noble goal. But I thought the point of selective magnet schools was largely to gather selected students in one place. It's not so much that you give superior teachers to some, it's that a whole class of kids who are all into math (or whatever) can be taught more, faster, than an average class.
If it's bayesian-unlikely they want your phone then why should it be any less bayesian-unlikely they want your cash. That's one weird argument. And BTW your phone is usually quite visible, like sticking out if not actually being used.

> and max-spend limits

Ok, now they've got your expensive phone and can spend up to your limit.
> Are you even the same person

Legally, yes.

> moment to moment

Some need twenty years to life.
I often chain unix tools, domain-specific binary executables and python scripts in shell. Julia feels very slow for this type of workflow. A few years ago there were discussions about whether Julia could replace Python. No way just due to Julia's long startup time.
The GUI that the traders use?
Where will new development take place? What's the russian / chinese equivalent of github?
I don't exactly identify with the parent post, however, I do not think humanity as a whole would wield immortality well. It is not impossible that I watched Altered Carbon a little bit too much and internalized its message a little too well.

Still, while I am sure every single one of us loves the idea of not dying, I am relatively certain that mass immortality does not scale well.
Metabase 0.37
> Why move that bracket? The answer is simple: we want the syntax to also denote a serialized data structure: a tree of atomic elements.

In other words, to evaluate "f(a, b, c)", what you really evaluate is "a", "b", "c", and "f(a, b, c)". You never evaluate "a, b, c". If you move the bracket, then "what is in bracket" matches "what is evaluated".
Well, it doesn't help you, but supporting independent online "magazines" give you much more quality articles than in the good old days.
I support "The Pod", a german-based video- and computer game podcast. The quality is beyond everything I had in the years before and I bought magazines since the mid 80s.

I am pretty sure there are far more magazines/podcasts/blogs which work with just supporting readers, but you have to find them.
FYI I use Open Broadcaster Software https://obsproject.com/ . I record my own screen while playing the YouTube content.
It is horrible, but I wonder if it’s not designed to push more use into mobile. If they get more data and better ads conversion from mobile, the desktop friction may be financially beneficial.
Very possible that the majority of people who truly care about these things "haven't logged on Facebook much in the past couple years". I very much fall into that category. There are so many awful things about it that the UI is the least of my reasons for drastically limiting usage.
I take notes on my iPad. I love it because I can type, record audio, sketch, include photos, annotate PDFs, etc... How would your service help someone like me?
My RSS reader (Feedbin + the Reeder app) really is my little corner of coziness on my phone or computer.

Three times a day I spend 10-20 minutes to skim through the headlines and fully read the interesting stuff.

So in 30-60 minutes per day, I stay up to date on all important, interesting and worthwhile stuff going on. It’s fantastic.
It's weird that Berlin is not on the list. Hardly any city has seen such a price increase in the last decade.
Japanese is interesting because one “letter” in the alphabet represents a complex sound (e.g. か = “ka”) and one kanji can describe an entire word (e.g. 花 = “hana” = flower). So a column of Japanese characters is actually more information dense than a column of English characters, at least phonetically.
Let's see if there's another peak in 2024 then.
I used to think the same thing - my previous workhorse was a Mac Pro, but I switched to the iMac to get "Retina" back in 2015 (hard/annoying on Mac Pro at the time), and it totally impressed me.
I don't know why but i'm still on the old interface.
Enterprise Edition of Metabase source available
You may be interested in Hypernomicon

http://hypernomicon.org/
"Ok, so the story about how they obtained the laptop is sketchy. "

It is well beyond "sketchy", it is about as plausible as Isaac having sex with every current and former Victoria's secret model.

"What about the actual contents of the laptop? The emails, text messages, photos, and videos?"

Have they been authenticated by a credible third party?

"Nobody from the Biden camp has come out and denied the authenticity of the emails or the text messages that have been published. Why not?"

When did you stop beating your wife?

"In fact, you have one of Hunter Biden's former business associates who has come out and confirmed the authenticity of some of the materials."

I honestly think I could sell you the Golden Gate bridge.
I actually feel uncomfortable with both scenarios (though obviously substantially more with B). I think the question comes down to how much you trust your government/leaders (or future gov/leaders). I believe in the west distrust is correlated with the rise of authoritarianism. Which with those two correlating I'm actually more concerned because the potential for that power to be abused. I do not think the west is immune to dictators or autocrats, and far from immune to those in power abusing that power. To me surveillance hinders free speech, I mean isn't this the theme of 1984? (Many forget that it isn't that the government was always watching, but could.) It makes it more difficult to vocalize our feelings about abuse of power and makes it difficult to share messages conveying as much. We should feel free to communicate and criticize, and surveillance is one means to suppress that communication.
exactly, a tweet is a platform specific mode of communication that shouldn't be covered by one's 1st amendment rights. You have the right to say what you want, Twitter has a right to not let you on Twitter.
The title implies the VPN didn't provide anonymity, but the case is against 17 unknown defendants. They just hope to be able to identify them by the (unverified) email addresses they used on a torrent site.
I mean, they tried desperately to make it illegal in the 80s. The Betamax case went to the Supreme Court! [1] Given the current makeup of justices, I would imagine Betamax would be decided differently today, in favor of Universal rather than Sony. Aereo lost 6-3, even though the dissenting justices cited Betamax from 30 years previous.

ReplayTV was sued and went out of business before it could be fully adjudicated. Dish was sued over its Hopper DVR that auto-skipped ads and ultimately had to settle. TiVo won some of their lawsuits but because it didn’t do automatic commercial skipping of the recordings, was spared her wrath of the networks like Replay was. (TiVo was ultimately ruined by the cable companies who sought to introduce their own inferior DVRs that they could charge a monthly fee over.)

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Uni....
I have had a similar experience. ClojureScript ruined JavaScript for me.
This is such an egregious violation of trust because end-users don't even choose to use Expensify. An exec makes that decision and everyone in the company has to use it, so when Expensify spams an end-user, it's like Expensify has violated the trust between the employee and their leadership, the trust that leadership will carefully choose the partners that receive access to user data and contact information. If this email had just gone to the Expensify admins, the people at the company who actually had a relationship with Expensify, it would be vastly different (still annoying as fuck, but not a your company should not exist kind of trust violation).
I'd argue it's the photographer beyond all else that makes the picture good. Camera vs lens - who cares. The lenses and sensors are good enough on these smart phones for their use case. They aren't meant to replace pro gear.

That's why I think smartphones are great. They lower the barrier for taking pretty good pictures. You don't have to worry about balancing exposure or figuring out how to merge multiple photos into one - etc. The smartphone does it all for you. It's an automated photo editor with some intelligent tricks that are very hard (or impossible) to do on a traditional camera.

No one is saying a smartphone is going to replace a pro-camera. If you want to do birding with a 1200mm equivalent, you're going to have a hard time doing that with a smartphone. But if you know the limitations (in the same way that all cameras have limitations) then it can do really well in those parameters.. and I find those parameters are more than enough for 90%+ of consumers out there.

Most people are fine with zooming with their feet.
It looks like gun ownership is legal in South Africa... surprised that the victims aren't fighting back more often.
In addition, midwest US farmer suicides are at 17.3 per 100,000. So there's that. Thanks, administration.
Thanks! That should be an easy fix. The documentation is terrible.

What else did I miss?
I killed my Facebook accounts a while ago but walked past my partner's station while she was doing some Facebook stuff. I was a bit surprised how bad it looked... Tonka Toys meets White Mode AOL.

Probably right about the A/B testing.

Glad I don't have to care.
To my knowledge, and looking at http://riscv.org, this is supposed to be an open-ISA (instruction set architecture). Their specification allows chip manufacturers to write their own extensions using the "custom" opcodes.

The Kendryte K210 is a RISC-V-compliant CPU. It has off-core components, such as what they're calling a KPU The ML and GPU cores are controlled via I/O, not by the CPU directly. These are called platform-level components. In general, this uses MMIO with a hard-wired memory address to control. You can see the KPU (their ML accelerator) here: https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/dl.kendryte.com/docum...

See section 3.2.

I think the extensions are meant to be modular. Right now, not many embedded devices allow for the H mode, and hypervisor-ing is still in development. Currently, I know of Machine mode, Supervisor mode, and User mode, but since the change from 2018 to 2019, they have really started to ramp up the virtualization ISA support.
Exactly that: statistics may tell you in any group of adults, 60% of the men will be taller than the women. It doesn’t tell you anything about which ones will be.
With Oculus' mandatory Facebook policy, it's up to Congress or EFF to save VR
YouTube even offers a Creative Commons feature, such as on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUY01kW8p2o: if you scroll to the end of the description it reads: License
Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed).

I've never understood why they don't offer a download option for such videos: the likes of youtube-dl is the only way to get a copy, and it's perfectly legal.

Likewise for public domain videos.
Wish I had thought of #2 long ago. The majority of videos I've saved are long gone.
Python has a perfectly useful CFFI. There's no need to write an extension module.
One. Million. Robotaxis
They were wrong, potentially and have adjusted their stance since.

They’re still poorly managing it because they lack decent information. I’d argue it’s the fault of the civil service that they’ve been crippling and obvious cronyism (e.g. Dido Harding) not equipped to provide decent information that they need for decision making.
"No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany's Industrial Expansion?", by Frank Thadeusz at Der Spiegel.

Eckhard Höffner explores the question of whether Germany's lack of any real copyright law served to accelerate the spread of knowledge and industry

[O]nly 1,000 new works appeared annually in England [during the Enlightenment] -- 10 times fewer than in Germany -- and this was not without consequences. Höffner believes it was the chronically weak book market that caused England, the colonial power, to fritter away its head start within the span of a century, while the underdeveloped agrarian state of Germany caught up rapidly, becoming an equally developed industrial nation by 1900.

Even more startling is the factor Höffner believes caused this development -- in his view, it was none other than copyright law, which was established early in Great Britain, in 1710, that crippled the world of knowledge in the United Kingdom.

Germany, on the other hand, didn't bother with the concept of copyright for a long time. Prussia, then by far Germany's biggest state, introduced a copyright law in 1837, but Germany's continued division into small states meant that it was hardly possible to enforce the law throughout the empire.

The emergence of Germany as a major technical and industrial power by the end of the 19th century was quite remarkable, considering it was a not only agrarian, but not even a single state. German in 1800 was a collection of independent principalities and states, corresponding roughly to the present-day states of unified Germany plus Austria, and parts of Switzerland, France, and Poland.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/no-copyright-l...
Don’t forget when the workers at Walmart need to go on Medicaid and other government programs we’re subsidizing their profits.
What is very interesting to me is that there are large groups that are underserved, even suffering, that have no voice. Yet the current administration identifies the situation and corrects it, winning over a significant number of voters.

The first example that comes to mind is US armed service veterans. Apparently, the medical care they received from the Veteran's Administration was really terrible, with apocryphal stories of veterans dying while waiting for appointments to see Drs. There were many bad actors in the VA medical service who would have been fired in any other organization but due to VA policy, kept their jobs. Through programs such as VA Choice and VA Accountability[0], the approval rating of the VA jumped to 91%, a record.

In the US, there are 17.4 million veterans, and as you indicated, they all have family and friends who are going to see these improvements in a positive light.

It makes me wonder how many other situations there are like this that we don't hear about.

On the other end, the president can pardon one person at a time. Perhaps that's the least number of people who can be positively affected by one act.

[0] https://www.va.gov/opa/choiceact/documents/choice-act-summar...
The amount of tests performed in Madrid in that same period went down from 2500 to nearly 1000, so it's only natural that the amount of cases is going to go down or stay steady. Is there a dataset that disputes this? If testing has indeed gone back up, we'll see the numbers in a week or two (because data from the past 2 weeks is always missing large chunks that get added later).

I believe we're still in for a few surprises, and I can only pray the magnitude of those surprises remains tolerable.
Still on github though. It's only a question of time till it's found. They'd do themselves a favor by moving off of there.
> Calling C APIs from Python is not pleasant. [...] Python requires writing/compiling a separate dll written in C (see [^1]).

No, it doesn't, see [0] and [1].

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html

[1]: https://cffi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Gee, well that leaves me debunked. I guess recessions are quite common and ZeroHedge is ... much more reliable than I thought? A scary discovery.

If you are planning your investments around not having a recession about once a decade, I'm unconvinced it will end well for you.

Anyway, the point stands - regularly predicting recessions is a sensible approach, and saying ZeroHedge overpredicts is wrong. The normal financial press are reckless in assuming that recessions are not imminent. Looking 5+ years into the future to assess the present state is prudent.
It's a bit troubling that the definition of racism specifies what colors the actors must be to meet the definition. That fact alone makes the definition suspect.
I think you can delete a comment shortly after it was made and if there's no answers to it yet.

Edit: for example, right now I have a delete button for this message
What's the difference between "Chaos Engineering" and fault injection, which has been around since 1970~?
I logged in for the first time in a few years a month or so ago to delete my account permanently, and was surprised how terrible it looks. It's got a real kindergartener vibe.
This reminds me of the good old days of Facebook and the massive protests by users whenever they made any UI updates, including all the "bring back the old Facebook" groups. Users never like changes, but like always they'll get used to it and eventually talk about how good this interface was when the next change comes around.
down-vote all you want but I take the same stance with liberal "news" as I do with conservative "news". News shouldn't be political. News should be factual. Observe and report, never interfere. I take the same stance with journalists reporting on BLM protests when they stand on the side of the protesters. You're going to get arrested with them, credentials or not. Journalism has now become a "Social Justice" platform and not reporting of fact.
https://ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/2011/04/20/the-fall-and-r...
I'll bite, what the fuck is passive racism?
There seems to be a pervasive fear of covering topics that would influence the election which is rooted in the 2016 WikiLeaks releases.

Obviously in this instance, there are political components in the reporting, but there are also undeniably components of truth as well.

A healthy journalistic environment would dissect the facts from many angles and leave readers more informed. However, this recent trend of topic censoring adds confusion to the discussion while at the same time sowing distrust of media institutions. That is to say: it creates the precise environment in which an alternative reality can thrive.

My biggest concern is that it will culminate in the president claiming victory next week, and the discussion of it in the media will be inherently incomplete and untrustworthy. That would be a real pickle for our country moving forward together.

Edit: the irony of downvoting this take to 0 without responding is hilarious.
Because this is about distribution, not a home copy. You could copy and paste the test code into a terminal window and download the video. That’s not the same as a home recording.
In addition to what others said, if you know or suspect the procedure is extremely risky, and no other good options exist, you _do_ start with the least healthy.

As an example, the patient who got the first heart transplant:

“As a result of heart attacks in 1965, approximately only one third of his heart was still functioning. In late October, he went into a diabetic coma, but regained consciousness. […] He was also suffering from kidney and liver failure.”

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Washkansky)
From the talks/podcasts I've heard, the goal is for the resolution to be good enough to measure and target individual neurons.
Not sure where you get the ultrasound beacon part, but the images they have on their are using only red/near-infrared light.
That being said, all of these is based on their own advertising. Curious to know, what are the fundamental physical constraints you are referring?
Would you be willing to share more about your fear of death? I'm curious about what that's rooted in alongside a belief in reincarnation. Fear of pain? Of getting a bad lot the next time around? Of the possibility of being wrong? Something else?

My own fear of death is fear of nonexistence (I'm atheist), and of the pain of loss (of myself and loved ones). A little bit physical pain too.
I don't think we truly know. I'd bet on the story being not accurate, but I'm unsure to what degree: Did Bloomberg eat some total fabrication? The method described seemed questionable, but variations on it could be possible and be easily in the realm of "reporter doesn't understand source". Did something happen, was caught earlier and embellished (on the way to the journalists, or by the journalists?) and Bloomberg doesn't want to admit they didn't validate that properly? To my knowledge Bloomberg has not given any further statements about this, which IMHO doesn't look good. Neither is there any third-party information outside the denials, which also could be inaccurate or hiding behind technicalities.
Mobile Facebook is a mess, they’re so far down the RN rabbit hole, supporting dark mode is a huge chore.
So fix the programs that provide those things. I’m a hard libertarian on this issue. The government should not be telling us where we can travel or live. We wouldn’t accept it from our government and nobody should accept it from other governments either.
MLIR and Verona are both ambitious state-of-the-art compilers projects and it's interesting to read about the intersection of the two.

I've been planning a language project to be implemented in MLIR, once I have some more free time. The dialect mixing is an attractive approach that allows for progressive IR lowering and I'm excited to use it.
It wasn't a huge PR mess for no reason...
> but a woke white person might sic a Twitter mob on me for the sin of cultural appropriation.

Who cares. Wasn’t the point of the article you’re commenting on that a tiny minority is responsible for outsized impact in discussions like this?

So who cares what a “Twitter mob” says about you practicing yoga? Does this really have any bearing on current social justice issues like real cultural appropriation, anymore than a right-wing figure posting a video of someone yelling about the patriarchy has any bearing on feminism?

It’s a distraction that boils down the issues to figures you can hate: Cultural appropriation is stupid because someone got angry on Twitter because of yoga. Feminism is stupid because Ben shapiro filmed himself winning a debate against a feminist.
Remember TiVo?

Recorded TV and cut out the ads.
It’s still true for Java 8, because a lot of people still use Java 8, because Oracle changed the licensing model.
Curious as to the basis of your claim?

Dublin property isn't cheap but as a multiple of disposable income, it's in the lower half of European cities[1] - certainly far below Paris or Amsterdam. I'd imagine property which is more affordable is less likely to collapse in price?

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/722946/house-price-index...

* edit - replaced paywalled FT article with a different source
Maybe interesting for you : https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/what-you-should-know-before...
Facebook almost always has a long-term holdout group in experiments like this to make sure that any gains from the design change aren't just short-lived blips from the novelty factor that ultimately result in long-term regressions.