skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SAT isn’t really coachable for most people: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124278685697537839

> The college counselors' report concludes that, on average, prep courses yield only a modest benefit, "contrary to the claims made by many test-preparation providers." It found that SAT coaching resulted in about 30 points in score improvement on the SAT, out of a possible 1600, and less than one point out of a possible 36 on the ACT, the other main college-entrance exam, says Derek Briggs, chairman of the research and methodology department at the University of Colorado in Boulder and author of the admissions counselors' report.

https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/sat-prep-courses-do-the...

> Once scholars control for all these factors as best they can, they find that coaching has a positive but small effect: Perhaps 10 or 20 points in total on the SAT, mostly on the math section, according to careful work by Derek Briggs of the University of Colorado Boulder and Ben Domingue of Stanford University.

> Some estimates run a little higher: A 2010 study led by Ohio State’s Claudia Buchmann and based on the National Education Longitudinal Study found that the use of books, videos, and computer software offers no boost whatsoever, while a private test prep course adds 30 points to your score on average, and the use of a private tutor adds 37.
That's fair, it forces you to document your assumptions. But at some point as you drill down into assumptions, the trail will grow cold. The article even talks about inserting priors that are either subjective or some default function provided by the software.

A possible third approach is to create a hypothetical model and feed random data through it, to get an idea of the spread of the outcomes. Modeling doesn't stumble on conditional terms, and if you're unclear on an assumption, it won't run. The computer doesn't know whether it's a frequentist or a Bayesian, or something different from both.

I'm not a statistician. Whenever I need to do something with statistics, I always test my computation with random data.

In fact I wonder, if modeling had been possible since the birth of statistics, if we would even bother with things like elaborate formulas for statistical tests.
I meant no use-after-free bugs in production, otherwise we find a lot in development with daily tests etc. but looks like we catch them pretty effectively. It works good for us but doesn’t mean it’ll work for all other projects, so yeah I can imagine myself applying such tricks to a project some time, especially when you jump to another project which has messy code, you become paranoid and start to ‘fix’ possible crash scenarios proactively :)
I guess the closest thing will be Mars colonisation less the natives (hopefully).
It also seems useful (in a Girardian but not just Girardian way) to demonstrate to other super wealthy people that it's worth donating to biotech and other causes. Effusive praise from fans may help that.

And for the super wealthy, seeing that a modest-relative-to-the-scope-of-complete-clinical-trials amount matters is also useful, and may encourage more of said behavior.
I wish it were so. Apple has no reason to allow other operating systems on its devices because macOS and iOS are gateways to their massive array of paid services.
That they can "get away" with means demand. By increasing demand for the unit, for example by putting it under rent control, then landlords will be able to charge more. You are assuming that demand for the unit with rent control is the same as demand for the unit without rent control. This is why you think the rent control is "free" -- that it doesn't raise prices for tenants even though they think it's very important and are willing to pay more for such units.
And WiFi, audio, ... Basically what's problematic is proper (or any) hardware support.
We tried that for a while, yeah? https://coffeescript.org/
Sorry, how are rich people being punished in this straw man vision of reality of yours?

I came from a well off family (who were on food stamps when I was first born — socialism FTW), and had tons of advantages while I meandered through college before eventually graduating. I was not overly disciplined but had many extra chances someone from less means would not have.
Apply to https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200174315/apple-silicon... and find out ;)
In most American kitchens,

The spoons that you would eat with are equivalent to teaspoons. They hold approximately 5ml.

There are larger spoons called tablespoons that are primarily used for serving food from common dishes and called that because they were for “the table”. They hold approximately 15ml.

Personally, I like to use the tablespoons for eating soup.
They often don’t offer either.

They only offer financial aid. It is a distinct application process (at least was was I applied). But that financial aid is extremely generous. I.e. you can have family income of over 100K and still qualify.

A high school friend who went to an Ivy missed this part. She thought that not offering merit scholarships meant you couldn’t get any money to reduce the cost.
Bouffalo apparently has been giving Pine64 the necessary documentation access to make their initiative for a full open software stack workable: https://www.pine64.org/2020/10/28/nutcracker-challenge-blob-...

Edit: a better reference is Bouffalo’s GitHub org showing the docs and mostly open code: https://github.com/bouffalolab
Distinguish smoking and vaping. The latter excludes the toxins from combustion.

The body naturally retreats from smoke inhalation which is of course deadly in the extreme.

THC makes me want to fix technical debt as I come across it.
same niche as old thinkpads maybe?
Then create a separate chain with the "partial connectivity" rules you want and jump to that.

Not everyone is comfortable running random github code as root.
That is only if you focus on the curriculum covered in SAT. If you instead see SAT as a proxy for the eventual success in the society, then I believe SAT is a great indicator of the factors which lead to this success - family wealth, willingness of parents to invest in their children, diligence and rote work required to ace such tests, ability to find loopholes to strategize and game the system (we love "hackers" here, no?) etc etc. In other words, if someone is going to succeed because of SAT, they will succeed even if you remove SAT from the picture.
It's just not a great argument against YouTube since "accumulates everything I do into their DB and AI" is something both services do in the name of better recommendations.
The decline of rigor made computing accessible. Do you really want computing to become like civil engineering or biotechnology? Where changing the shape of a button would require several committee meetings followed by ethics board clearance and regulatory approval before anything gets done.
Agree that extra online market is not good, but I am lucky and have an awesome, locally owned family shop right by my house (Guitar city / drum land in wheat ridge colorado). They are great, usually beat Guitar Center prices by ~10% via bonus gear or cash discounts, and has a more legit musician feel to the store.

If GC ends up closing, hope more local shops can benefit.
Yup, and when Madoff eventually blew up the SEC instituted the whistleblower program in which they pay up to a fraction of recovered funds, to kind of make up for the fact they slept on this problem for soooo damn long.
I'm really not holding out much hope that Linux will natively run on these M1s, even if we get it to boot there's all the driver issues for the integrated GPU, audio, wifi etc.

I'd imagine there is a lot of power management stuff on there too.
Failure to launch US phone Covid-tracking apps?
What's going on with phone based covid-tracking apps? Apple & Google
have widely released bluetooth based tracking capabilities that need an app to leverage them, and in the US these seem to be state based. The US has a disgraceful national failure to have a countrywide plan for most cv19 issues. The Google & Apple strategy we have seems to be that each state makes their own app leveraging the infrastructure. My state (Washington) doesn't have an app as of now.

Only a few states have released them. Washington State people have been working on an app for a while; commoncircle.us seems to be their website, they have a github site that hasn't had a checkin for a couple of months. Is this effort dead? Their twitter account has nothing since July. Why isn't there an app available or any discussion?

Overview article of the US situation: https://gazette.com/health/people-proving-the-weakest-link-for-covid-tracking-apps/article_42a267c4-2aaf-11eb-85d8-cf1d8cde5661.html

Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2020/11/20/people-are-proving-to-be-the-weakest-link-for-apps-tracking-covid-exposure_partner/

UW engineering presentation about the effort by prof. Stefano Tessaro (Oct 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geAIEwBOSRY&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=UWVideo
A properly done effects system with type-level annotation of the "color" of functions helps this, rather than hurts as you might surmise.

Take for example logging or tracing - we almost always in a modern backend application want an ambient trace or span ID and a log destination. What we don't want is to have to add those as parameters to _every function_.

So we want to paint these functions with the "logger" and "traced" colors, which respectively allow a function to send messages to an ambient logger via log(message: str) and to get the current trace context via getTraceContext() each with no other arguments.

The compiler will tell us if we call these functions from an unlogged, untraced function, so at a very high level - say at the RPC request level, we paint them early on. In Haskell we might even be able to do something like

handleReq req =
withTraceSpan (...)
. withLogging (...)
$ handleReqInner req

Where handleReqInner requires these "colors".

Having too many effect handlers is never a problem either - you can always call an untraced function from a traced function. The "trace" effect handler just falls off at that call. Or in other words: you can always call a function whose colors are a subset of the call-site's.

This is somewhat a foreign concept to people who haven't worked with type systems like this and whose only concept of the color of function is purely binary - either async or not. In a good typed effect system, the compiler will assist you in knowing where you're missing an effect handler, and it will be easy to add those effect handlers sufficiently far from the business logic that you won't have to think about it.
The problem, of course, is that it is much easier to destroy trust than create it.
> I fundamentally do not think remote teams can ever be as
> productive as in-person teams

Remote teams are much more productive[1] as "in-person teams". What maybe is missing for you is that remote teams are polishing their process, documentations and tools and searching people that "fit" in this working style for years while the "in-person teams" are trying to learn it just now.

[1] https://www.timedoctor.com/blog/remote-teams-future-of-work/
>Instead of downvoting the parent (who is asking a legitimate question) or getting snarky, maybe the commenters can actually explain how such a donation makes a significant difference to an industry that operates with much larger numbers.

Downvotes with no explanation is all too typical on HN, just like it is on other platforms. Seems like having to comment should be required before downvoting, if only to help the commenter understand why their comment was bad and to give some justification for the downvote. If the justification for downvoting is bad, then the downvoter also deserves a downvote, and not the no-repercussion downvoting system we have now.
Food is not only insanely subsidized ..in the United States, it is cheap due to imports from developing countries and exploited farm labour.

Also: farmers get 7.8c of every food dollar.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/05/02/why-f...

[..] Economists say those trends, coupled with low commodity prices, caused farmers’ share of consumer food spending to fall 1.2 cents in 2016, reaching the lowest point, adjusted for inflation, since USDA began the measure in 1993. (It's the latest year for which data is available).[..]
The exam is totally coachable, you just have to do cram school. Those studies look at private tutoring which spends possibly 1/20th of the time kids spend in cram school. Cram school is often conflated with private tutoring but they are completely different things.
On the other hand, I am a programmer and receive a lot of ads about basic programming courses or even something slightly tech related (build your own startup, how to improve your UI/UX skills etc.) that target me for what they think I do, but not for what I am really interested in.

I think good advertising shows people something that they don't already know a lot about to get them interested, knitters probably already have their channels to research about the tools they use.
Ah, I was wondering that too. I went and looked up the book this was excerpted from and was surprised they were referencing the 1600 point scale.
Real question is how much value they stripped out before they filed.
I don’t know why we keep caring what he thinks
Yeah, still no guarantee of that. A blockchain solution is ideal, but requires browsers to do DNS lookup using the blockchain.

Namecoin was/is working on this. Another project is mentioned somewhere else in this thread (but it might be a scam, not sure).
It's a pretty uncharitable description, but yeah. There are only two types of companies that do this though: companies where they're working at such a scale that spending a few extra months to years of developer time doesn't make a dent compared to the BOM savings. You're more likely to get vendor support by name recognition at these kinds of companies, so it's not as bad as the hobbyist experience. The second kind is where either the project or the company can't afford the capital outlay for better documented chips (or support packages). Stay the heck away from these if you value your sanity or know your own worth.
I believe I saw some estimates that it starts throttling after 8 minutes under load? But I can’t remember the details, unfortunately.
Please reread what I actually said. I didn't say to stop targeted advertising, but that who is targeting, how they're targeting, and what the ultimate reach of a given ad is should be publicly available. Targeted advertising is too powerful a force to remain completely in the dark as it has so far.
This was many years ago. Maybe it's better now, but far too late for us! Also, wow, state school is a lot more expensive than in my day.
Wait, grandfathered in is racist? How?

Edit, for other's curious, as the person I'm replying to said, it's not racist per se, but has its origins in racist practice:

> The term originated in late nineteenth-century legislation and constitutional amendments passed by a number of U.S. Southern states, which created new requirements for literacy tests, payment of poll taxes, and/or residency and property restrictions to register to vote. States in some cases exempted those whose ancestors (grandfathers) had the right to vote before the American Civil War, or as of a particular date, from such requirements. The intent and effect of such rules was to prevent African-American former slaves and their descendants from voting, but without denying poor and illiterate whites the right to vote.
That and attending better schools growing up.
Do we even know how to access the GPU? On x86-based systems there would be a standard bus (PCI/AGP/PCIe) to enumerate the the graphics device, but my impression is ARM doesn't have such things.

A lot of the recent improvement in graphics on Linux has come from manufacturers deciding to become cooperative rather than there being more people reverse-engineering graphics drivers. (Broadcom is contributing support for the Pi 4; AMD added its drivers to upstream; nVidia releases binary drivers to support enterprise customers.)
I feel like I've seen this suggested by candidates for years now and it never seems to get any traction.
If it makes you feel any better, there's some research showing that the ability to be accepted is a better predictor for success than actually attending. I.e., students accepted to elite colleges who went to "lesser" schools had just as good of outcomes.*

* There's a caveat that for those in the lowest incomes, attending mattered. I wonder if this is due to a networking effect rather than the quality of the school
Honestly, I don't think anyone is holding their breath for the day that corporations like Apple and Microsoft give the world the Linux that they deserve.

Imagine if these power brokers didn't exist and a whole generation of children grew up on Linux rather than Mac/PC. Huge opportunity cost for society in my opinion.
> In theory, the merchant is supposed to look at the signature

They are not by the card schemes' rules, and I think they haven't been in quite a while.

> You can even write ID REQUIRED and then they’re supposed to check for ID.

Yes, but they are also supposed to make you sign on the spot after checking your ID. No signature on the card, no purchase – at least officially.

Vice versa, "ID REQUIRED" has no consequences (by scheme rules at least).
Altitude really affects cooking too. I've lived at ~10k feet before and the cooking and baking times really are affected. For instance, water boiled at 88 C, not 100 C.
Setting our expectations for the Covid vaccine
Can you please define "MAP"?
Independent tests show 5-8min of full load before it throttles, which really is quite impressive.
Wait is this the same doctor that’s in dolly partons America, as in the host of radio lab’s dad? Amazing!
It's bitter sweet. It was a soulless store with underpaid and often (rightfully) rude employees. The customer base was completely asinine where I used to go shop - some dude on the drum machine for way too long. Sweet, because when I was little I didn't see any of this and it was a marvelous store to go to and it made me learn music.
I'm sympathetic, but I also have to confess that calory counting works better than most folks want to admit. Some of that likely comes from the necessity of avoiding overly caloric foods that don't fill me up, I'm sure. But the month I started basic calorie counting/restriction, I managed to get below what I thought was my realistic low weight. It was dramatic.
A few comments on this book excerpt:

- For the most part, high SATs are tables stakes for applying to elite schools, they are not the deciding factor. The exceptions are for athletes and other folks with preferred admissions. I don’t know why people continue to think that great grades and high SAT scores are the main or only factors in elite school admissions — the admissions materials themselves make it abundantly clear that they are looking for more.

- All that said, the “more” mentioned above is typically easier to access if you come from a high income family.

- The excerpt mentions low % of students who go from bottom quintile to top quintile after an elite education (~2%). Is that 2% of the total student body or 2% of the bottom quintile elite school students? This is unclear to me, but if it’s the former, that’s probably a big win since lowest quintile students are a small part of the student body to begin with.

- Note that some (many?) jumps from bottom quintile to top quintile may just be a well-off family that ran into bad times. This happened to a friend of mine — wealthy family one generation, the next generation lost it to drugs and alcohol, and the third generation reverted back to wealthy.

- The leap from the bottom quintile to the top typically requires much more than education. There are a ton of soft skills that are common in the top quintile that are foreign or antithetical to people from the bottom quintile —- general communication, conflict resolution, attitudes towards money, socializing skills, etc. Without these skills, it’s really tough to make it to the top quintile unless you effectively hit the time-in-history and degree lottery with a FAANG-type of high paying job. Even then, someone from the bottom quintile will have limited upside without the soft skills mentioned above.

- To close, I wish people would stop presenting elite schools as the gateway to riches or even a stable high income. Learning how to play the “game” that the top quintile plays is much more important than where someone went to school. Obviously schooling (esp. elite schooling) is part of that game, but based on the wide variety of winners in the game that I have known, the soft skills I have mentioned are a much more common and salient trait than an elite schooling.
It's the claim, but it's not substantiated, it's just asserted.
Magnetic spray turns tiny inanimate objects into insect-scale robots
The history of the church in the middle ages provides an interesting comparison. Instead of technocratic experts, there were priests who claimed a monopoly on truthiness. Members of the laity or even academics like Galileo were declared heretics when they diverged from official truths.

Yes, smoking is bad for your health and tobacco companies famously worked to cover it up. Interestingly, they employed scientific studies (with credentialed scientists no less) in their attempts to downplay the risks of smoking.

The US gov. also employed scientists to buttress cannabis prohibition. Funding was made available for researchers who toed the line and denied to those who did not. After millions of arrests, CBD is now touted as the latest panacea. The DEA still lists cannabis as a schedule 1 substance with "no therapeutic value".

Then there are the experts who sold us the war in Iraq. Skeptics were labeled conspiracy theorists.

Media outlets parroted official narrative of the war in Iraq, the war on drugs and other elite promotions.

As a hypothetical, consider that climate change and COVID both give license for increased central planning. Observe that the research is funded largely by the same institutions which will gain power when these objectives are reached. Putting aside the contentious debate, both sides should be able to accept that there is a conflict of interest here.

Yes, we should look to history. There is a long history of experts, technocrats or otherwise anointed individuals attempting to smear dissenters. Attempts to claim a monopoly on truth are regressive. We are all worse off for it.

Science is not a system of belief. It is a system of rational inquiry. Those who seek to shut down discussion by labeling dissenters as "science deniers" deserve to be scrutinized.

https://maps.org/news/media/2986-war-crimes-suppressing-scie...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470431/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Blix

https://norml.org/blog/2008/06/24/still-more-on-cannabis-can...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/one-doctor-vs-dea-insid...
Unlearning Disruption
Oh god. You're right. I'd blotted that out of my memory.
I use the iPad. I mean the competition is basically iPad vs ePaper like Remarkable or Sony DPaper. IMO iPad best because you can do so much on it than just reading or writing and the price is similar, but some people really like EInk.
I would bet it is to the degree it makes business sense. But there’s a lot of other business considerations.
China moved on from lockdowns over 6 months ago. They switched to citywide testing with 5:1 and then 10:1 pooled PCR tests in May and then recently switched to pooled rapid antigen testing. With the current testing methodology, they place one sample on a test strip, wait to see if there's a color change, and if not, they'll put a subsequent sample on. You can use a single antigen test for up to 10 people and patients get their results while at the testing site.