skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree that there are 'biases' no matter what. If students are evaluated purely by merit, without regard to that categories typically associated with biases (race, gender, etc.), then by definition the process is unbiased.
It's not your thinking I have an issue with, it's your masturbatory writing style.
Amazon = Buy n Large (Wall E)
Isn't YouTube now actively throwing out old content?
Being underpaid does not legitimize being rude.
Apple does allow you to disable secure boot, yes even on the M1 Macs, and that's not even Microsoft's job.
Asking rich parents on HN:
Why bother sending your kid to ivy schools?

I'm far from being rich, but I plan to pick a private but modest school / university for my children. Even if I were multimillionaire I wouldn't change this.

My rationale is:

- I don't want to deal with underpaid and possibly bitter public school teachers

- It's not like you need an ivy school to find a job or be successful, that lies within you

- Education is as useful as your kids will have a passion for, not how much you pay for an oversized planetarium

- Rich kids sound like the worst people to surround your kid with
Is it even possible to make as much as the hype fields (webdev, data science, ML) in embedded? Is there opportunities for startups in HW sector?
I can understand how the ideas are important and revolutionary, but they were then adopted/extended/reused in other languages that seem to have far surpassed lisp in recognition and pragmatic use. Why hasn't lisp reached the heights of usage of something like C++ or Javascript or Java if it's so popular with computer scientists?
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Historically, a competitive framing has made it much easier for States to motivate their populace. A friendly competition over who does better in fighting a common enemy would absolutely have made everyone be more careful and wear masks more often (it would be seen as a patriotic duty).

Instead we have a POTUS constantly downplaying the threat, accusing China of being responsible for deliberately infecting the rest of the world with this (supposedly nonexistent?!) threat and masking is seen as treading “freedoms”.
Indian startup WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic
Not really. PE takes good businesses, strips the assets, loads up debt and issues a dividend. Then shockingly files for bankruptcy.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15029960
(I've flipped the order of some statements, since I think it reads better this way.)

> there is transmission as the article documents to Europe

The article cites opportunity (Jesuit missionaries) and motive (Gregorian calendar reform), but there's no actual evidence that, say, Clavius actually brought back the full body of the Kerala school's work, or even anything that wasn't related to calendars.

"But wait," you might interject. "The article itself states: 'For some unfathomable reasons, the standard of evidence required to claim transmission of knowledge from East to West is greater than the standard of evidence required to knowledge from West to East.'"

But this is an assertion, without any evidence in itself. For instance, gunpowder and paper both spread from China to the Middle East before making their way to Europe. The concept of zero (as a digit) is also widely acknowledged to have originated from India. And even these are just anecdotes, not to be taken as proof or refutation of a broader trend.

> The earliest discoverer is given the credit as long as there is some evidence of the dissemination of the discovery.

Unfortunately, that's not always the case, especially once the associated names become ingrained. Sometimes there's co-credit even for independent discoveries, something nothing.

Some examples, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_examples_of_Stigler%27... :

- Chernoff bounds were actually named because of a notable paper that used them, even though Chernoff simply failed to credit Rubin because he thought it was a minor lemma (since it's an application of Markov's inequality).

- Floyd-Warshall is named after two independent discoverers, even though there's a third independent discoverer.

- Gaussian elimination was well-known (and present in textbooks) at the time that he said he used "common elimination".

- The Ising model was given to Ising by Lenz, his doctoral advisor.

(There are plenty of other instances, e.g. Cooley-Tukey FFT, Reynolds number, Schottky diode.)

Some other examples:

- Watson and Crick get most of the credit for discovering DNA's structure, even though they leaned heavily on Rosalind Franklin's work (she died from ovarian cancer, probably due to x-ray radiation).

- "Arabic numerals" were invented by the Indians.
That's horrifying. What is the fix/mitigation if you don't have proper atomics? I can't see how to properly avoid that.
C compiles in a flash on today's hardware. It's only when you have a BIG C codebase (the kernel counts as big), or a medium-sized C++ codebase, that things slow down.
I went to a pottery-class on a whim, and I've kept going for the past year.

Objectively my results are pretty terrible, but I'm getting better over time, I find it relaxing in fun, and nothing beats eating a meal you've cooked on a plate you've made, while drinking coffee from your own unique mug:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDYo7FhjKkQ/

(No wheels involved, though I'm looking forward to trying those in the future.)
Of course but it never reached the levels of c, c++, VB or Java usage.
> Just download and chmod it

No source? No thanks.

Edit: Discard this comment! I thought pwk in the repo was an executable because it did not have a ".py" ending and did not care to check. Sorry!
You can disable the the tracking on your account if you want with or without Youtube premium.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6139018?co=GENIE....
1. The results you list are just average. There could be a bimodal distribution.

2. What those studies call coaching isn’t remotely comparable to years of 20 hour a week cram school.

3. Of course the SAT is coachable. How do you think you learn the math techniques and vocabulary in the first place?

If it’s not possible to increase your vocabulary, how do people learn new languages?

4. The percentage of students who make a perfect score on a similar test, the ACT, has increased by 5x in the last five years while the average score has only risen slightly.

Clearly a subset of test takers has figured out a way to reliably prep for the test.
Is anyone working on this right now? I would be interested to follow the development.
Yes, it works with counting calories. But there are a lot of edge cases where the caloric value doesn’t represent the amount of energy your body can take out of the food. Also basically all values printed on the boxes are very vague as nobody does own measurements but relies on previous measurements instead. Here’s a nice article summing up the issues with counting calories:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/vv7d78/weve-been-counting-ca...
Ah, fair enough, scratch that one then.
Yeah I can't imagine why anyone would care about what the guy who created one of the most widely used operating systems in the world would think about computers. It doesn't make any sense at all.
maybe we don't need the GPU drivers? for embedded applications in robotics that crave single threaded speed, the performance/watt would be a welcome improvement over embedded i7's
My favorite thing about GC is their climate controlled guitar section, where there is an outer and inner sanctum with the most precious instruments. I would occasionally even run into amazing musicians just trying things out. I feel bad I was not able to afford such nice instruments but I often bought some other things along the way like sheet music, accessories etc.
"believe" in science, not adhere to what science is and what it means.

You need "prophets" (approved "trustworthy" scientists) in order to interpret the world. You can't make those hard choices yourself.
Not even a nod to __future__.braces?
Yes, that is him.

If anyone hasn't listened to the podcast "Dolly Parton's America" it is totally worth a listen--even if you don't like her music at all. Totally engrossing on creativity, the history of American music, modern red-state thinking, and a generous view of Appalachia.

Extremely listenable and totally engrossing. It also tells the full story behind the friendship that made the early research being this vaccine possible.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america
Well, exactly that. As soon as there is some sort of economic advantage, they do support alternatives. Economic advantage may not mean additional direct sales, but it may mean introducing a different customer base to their product or encouraging active development. I mean, MS has now released its second iteration of 'subsystem for linux' on Windows 10.
Linus has incredible knowledge about the lower levels of the computing stack (CPU architectures, etc), and so I, for one, am very interested in knowing what he thinks about those things. But regarding his other opinions in general... yeah, I'm with you.
Brick and mortar is inneficient and takes up to much land. Amazon is the future. Just get a prime memebership and order anything you want. no shipping charges. it's great.
There are two types of familys for recsys

User-item and item-item, recommendations are often a mix of both, yt in particular has a skew to use user-item based on your history ( maybe it's because they found out that people like to view the same thing or more from creator they already know) but when the mix is skewed liked that you tend to miss on de serendipity of the recsys

It all depends of the target metric that their models where trained, if you look at their papers they said that they want to maximize view time
I am extremely thankful for mosh. Made life easier to be able to develop across high latency links (sometimes you don't have a choice).
If they have the headphones you're using correctly modeled they could in theory pre-process the audio to get close to the output of whatever it is you're testing. The PC/phone DAC may introduce quite a bit of inconsistency though.
Can someone help me understand the rationale behind semantic whitespace as a replacement for explicit delimiters? Is it purely aesthetic?
I think the era of stores where people hang out is past. Record, camera, and stereo shops hung on longer than computer stores. But even book stores seem to have had their run. At least at chain scale. An electric guitar was cutting edge cool sixty years ago.
Spotted: Amazon robot maps sidewalks of Seattle
Thanks for the feedback! There are two problems which is the idealism, which causes people to try and if they fail, they might not try again. And the unwillingness to plant the seeds to grow the big trees. That's true, ambition doesn't go away but it changes that is why we need to take care of it like a garden. Thank you!
iPad mini is probably my most used device and it's excellent for reading papers and note taking.
I'm sorry but I'm not aware of any keyboard like that, bit that's just because I've never been interested in it.

What I can say for sure is that any Bluetooth keyboard works, so, as long as you find a folio-fitting one you should be fine.
food stamp is fine unless it's abused, it's designed to level the play field, the so-called 'equal opportunity'. poor family already got helped there. some made it by this help, many did not.

so the trend now becomes 'equity result', which will make nobody wants to work hard anymore, that's socialism at its worst.

this is also called mob to the hard working "rich" families.

US is moving to that direction, fast.

by the way, I was from a poor family, and now barely made it.

I would rather keep working my way up instead of seeing socialism-for-equity-result here.

I also hope for those who depends on food-stamp and now is in good shape, donating to the community, and always be thankful to other taxpayers who gave you and your family a hand, money is not from air, it's from other working persons' pocket.
Can fat be made into glucose? I can’t figure out if glycogen stores get replenished while fasting?
The key benefit to buying expensive audio gear is hearing things you couldn’t hear before, no amount of computational magic is going to add dynamic range or lower distortion on cheap speakers.
I mean if you think Trump would win, why would you bet that instead betting no for Biden?
This talks about coaching for SAT specifically, as opposed to general education.

For example, looking at specific question formats; learning the only topics that would be covered by tests and nothing else.
What? It's a python script, 'it' there is the source. It's executable via the python interpreter given in its shebang line.
>It’s not a surprise that the Ivy league exists to educate the children of the wealthy.

It was very much a surprise to me until I was like, 25-26 years old, which was when I really learned how the world works.

There's some very strong propaganda out there that you can do anything if you just apply yourself.
Compared to Sweetwater or any of the other ones, GC's webstore is one of the worst I've ever used. Pre-COVID, GC's irlstore was generally overpriced, they refused to price match anyone, things like earplugs would be double the price of most places, and their brand/stock lineup was not very useful. It felt like you were nowhere near the prosumer/power user/pro user lines, but at the same time you were incredibly overpriced past beginner items.
Well clear your schedule, it's most commonly used interface is through it's python bindings (a library called BCC):

https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
Do you tip at McDonald's then?
Sophomore in college here.

A 3.81 GPA and a SAT score of 1540 were enough to get me a full ride at a decent school in the UT System (not Austin, though).
18 months of misery for a Master
~7 years of misery for a PhD
Online it’s easy to open the chat window and just ask for the best price they can give you and get a really competitive number. I just don’t think people realize you can do that.
I don't think the argument is that most of the people at Ivies are blue blood WASPs. I think the argument is that if you happen to be a blue blood WASP you are disproportionately likely to get in regardless (or in spite of, in the case of legacies and donors) your merit.
She gave a million dollars to an early research project that turned out to be a successful one. Does that really count for nothing?
Your comment seems disingenuous, because the predominant user interface paradigm in all sorts of programs (file managers, vector editors, text editors, ...) on all sorts of platforms is that when you select something, you can click and drag that selected thing.

This is a thing that is different in GIMP: that the selection specifies an area of the image which is affected by operations, rather than an object to manipulate.

"I did not know another way existed" seems outlandish. I mean, launch any paint program developed for any platform in the last 40 years; chances are you can select a rectangle and just drag it.

There is a rhyme and reason to the way GIMP does it, and you can learn it quickly, but it's going to cause complaints.

It could be that 99% of the anti-GIMP ranting is caused by this one issue.
This got me thinking: how can someone who didn't grow up with the relevant soft skills learn them later in life? Are there any specific books or places to role play these soft skills that are recommended?
Misleading title. The link is announcing a $30/mo "Unlimited" plan and 1.2TB/mo cap.
Scientism Isn't Science
Who can afford to fly anywhere more than once every few years (assuming no surprise expenses), or not to drive 20k miles a year across urban sprawl to their jobs?

The first restriction is so alien to much of the population as to be meaningless, the second is a threat to their livelihoods. An accompanying promise of public transit rings hollow for many Americans, who think of their local governments as only marginally competent enough to fill potholes in the road sometimes.

Naturally people will bristle at the abstract of many climate restrictions. Not because the fun will stop, but because they aren't having any fun in the first place, and they just don't want things to get less fun than that.
ARM does, in fact, use standard buses, PCIe on most high/medium end parts -- although, some low end chips just use a built-in USB controller or SPI/I2C for all peripherals.

What isn't always available is a way to dynamically enumerate a device's, uh, device tree. On PCs, this is usually accomplished through ACPI tables, where the bootloader (BIOS or UEFI) populates a table of data and callbacks to AML bytecode functions which the OS kernel can read and eval. [0]

So on x86, the OS finds the PCIe memory mapped addressed in the MCFG table.

On most ARM devices, this data has to be passed to the kernel at runtime, in what Linux calls a "device tree reference", compiled to a "DTB" file.

So, on a UEFI-based ARM system, it should be possible to just insert, say, an AMD graphics card onto the PCIe bus and get a working GPU.

[0] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/arm64/acpi_object_usa...
The bootloader and drivers aren't the only problems holding Linux back from being ported to these SoCs, it's that Apple's ARM SoCs have the same challenges all ARM SoCs have when it comes to Linux ports.

ARM servers are similar to x86 machines in that they use UEFI and have enumerable buses for hardware discovery.

ARM SoCs use custom bootloaders, and lack enumerable buses. Hardware configurations are almost always unique between ARM SoCs, and each of those configurations need their own Linux port.

Here's an idea of just some of the work that is required to port Linux to each individual ARM SoC[1].

[1] https://elinux.org/images/a/ad/Arm-soc-checklist.pdf
> The SAT isn’t really coachable for most people

Based on info from a buddy of mine who runs an SAT prep business, this is a half truth. He says:

- It is tough to get gains from a kid who doesn’t want to be there — that is, the parents are pushing the students to prep when the student doesn’t want to. My friend actually tries to filter out these folks in his sales funnel.

- Motivated kids can get ridiculous amounts of improvement (40-100 per skill), especially if they are starting off in the lower or middle part of the scoring range (people at the top are capped in improvement by max scores).

- I have done some minimal tutoring for a friend’s kid, and his SAT score went up by 110 in math and 80 in verbal from a middling starting point. Anecdote, but still... My “curriculum” was just have him take a practice test every week under test like conditions, review the principles behind the math problems that he missed, review any test strategy issues that pop up, and give him 50 vocab words a week with skills on how to search for how these words are used in a natural setting. With a longer runway, I think he may have been able to double that improvement (the kid was smart enough to get a perfect math score, but didn’t have the confidence to execute in a testing context).
The name Bain Capital just sounds evil.

Guitar C. was my favorite place to go and not buy anything because I don't have 1000 drum machine disposable income.

Almost all of the people I met working there were pretty talented musically and it was a shame how little money they were making.
I was discussing this with someone yesterday. A materials engineering PhD candidate, who took an engineering coding class during undergrad, but found everything so complicated that she never looked back and actually learned how to write a script. She's not alone, and it's frustrating to see the number of otherwise highly-educated people who seem handicapped in certain tasks because corporate vendors like Microsoft, Mathworks, and (maybe to a lesser degree) Apple create a situation where they're unaware that there's a free, native paradigm where writing a little bit of code isn't a pain in the butt.

I myself didn't really consider how I could use code to speed up mundane tasks until I was forced to copy files over from an embedded Linux system over bash. The introduction from "open up a terminal, and type these commands in, which does these things" to "now just put those commands in a file called script.sh and type ./script.sh, and it will do the thing automatically" was eye-opening, at 22 years old. Looking back, it's the exact same problem that resulted in a company I used to work for doing 100s of GB of data processing in Excel, because writing Excel macros was more accessible than writing a bash script to append two .csv files.

I think a lot of kids would probably really be attracted to it as well. Linux gives you control over your computing environment, in a world where children rarely have any autonomy. I don't think every one of them needs to grow up to be a professional developer, but computer literacy seems like a hugely valuable skill.
For most international retail products, local pricing is based in-part on the cost of service centers/staff that are required to maintain local operations.

How does it work with musical instruments?
Finland, Home of the $103,000 Speeding Ticket (2015)
I'm in the UK, where AFAIK we are free to accept whatever payment methods we like.
> when COVID-19 forced my company to go work from home it thrust in to my face all the things that about that company that made me hate my job

The main thing we had to adjust to at my work during that period was understanding just how many decisions were being without all the stakeholders present.

I had a good two months where every day felt like being a chef who was asked how the banquet preparations were going, without anyone having ever informed me there was even a banquet scheduled.

"Oh, we had an hour long call the other day about that. Didn't figure out needed to be in on it"
So apparently there's a film on Le Roux in the making by Michael Mann ("Miami Vice", "Collateral", "Black Hat"), which is not based on the Evan Ratliff reporting (Atavist Magazine and later the book "The Mastermind", cf. the original HN discussion from 2016), but a different book from NY Times author Elaine Shannon.
iOS App automatically edits videos with AI
Yeah, what has rational thought ever done for us? Except possibly inventing cigarettes and cancer?

I think we'll have to disagree about what "science" is and does.
I think tipping in Germany is quite established as well, not as a genuine expression of gratitude but because not doing it "looks bad".
What is the root cause of those incentives? Is it the platform, or the predominate audience on the platform?

I’d argue the only reason subscription based platforms have a higher probability of offering quality is that the pay barrier creates a more filtered user base that prefers quality.

If a platform dependent on ad revenue had some other barrier to entry, like content only accessible to an audience that preferred that type of high quality content to low quality content, I don’t see ads having a negative effect.
While there are elements of truth to the article's assertion (eg., legacy admissions), this narrative is mostly untrue and certainly unhelpful. Literally, if you study hard enough, you can go to an elite school if you want, full stop (source: did this myself.) The root of whatever "problem" may exist is mostly that kids from wealthier backgrounds are more often pressured by their parents to do the studying necessary to get into such a school.
In my experience, everyone complaining about elite admissions is either a self-hating old-money grad of such a school, or is salty because they got a mediocre SAT score.
I believe Cilium (ebpf based) is now default in kubernetes.