skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s hilarious that Dick Costello thinks that capitalists like him will be spared in “the revolution.” Costello is like the bourgeoisie in Russia that were sympathetic to Bolshevism and collaborated in their own executions.
Meh. Article headline depends on your definition of “elite”.

Admissions to the top 5 schools are broken. There’s more qualified students than there are slots. The only solution to that is more slots.

If you get a 1500 on your SAT that’s a free ride to almost any university in the country. Especially if you come from an under-represented background. This includes Ivy League schools. But not Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT.

The best ticket to a top 25 world class education is a high SAT score. It’s a free ticket available to anyone.

I have many complaints about our university. But even a mediocre test score gets you a free ride to very very good state schools. Articles like this only reinforce the false necessity of Top 5 or Top 10 status.
"No human enterprise, no new technology or utility or service, has ever been adopted so widely so quickly. "

Smartphones, Android, Google, and well, I don't know about services/product used in China, all of them disagree with this statement.
I've thought about this for awhile, and I can only come up with two ideas: a) laziness or b) lack of imagination.

It's a bit of a harsh criticism, but we are spatial creatures who live in a world full of objects that are organized into different forms. The "list" is a very valuable organizational structure and convenient to implement digitally, but it is a rather simple structure, being a 1D-structure. We use "lists" (in the form of shelves and stacks) to store objects and give the collection order, but in order to interact with objects, we remove them from their list and interact with them in higher dimensions (spreading out on a desk, pinning to a wall, arranging in space, etc). The fact that we only have 1D structures in most software UIs may well be that higher-order structures are too complex to practically implement or are not viewed as necessary, but again, this is an argument out of "laziness", convenience to the developer who is implementing the UI. Or, designers and developers genuinely believe that we are most-suited to composing with 1D structures (eye-roll).
I think the reception of the work by the public gives it away, not the work itself.

There are people who do work of all kind all the time but when the public is ready to take it it becomes iconic, that is, it represents the psyche of the popular culture. Sometimes when the public is ripe and there's no current work of art to match the public, you can see old movies, books and music that went mostly unnoticed for years suddenly become popular.

So, it's not like movies/books/music push public opinion but they can become icons of an idea. A materialisation of a thought that people were trying to put into words but they couldn't until they read a book, watch a movie, listen to music.

Sometimes the creators of the art hate it when their work becomes an icon of something they do not support.
> I can't figure out where the electron transport chain is

It's at the lower half of Part 2; search for "oxidative phosphorylation".
Samsung TVs take screenshots of displayed content and send them to their servers. They use it to track what you watch, whether it's the latest blockbuster DVD release or your private homemade porn video :). It's all sent to them.
This is probably my number one VR application I want. I don't like Lego CAD applications (physical feel of building is important) and don't want to/have the room for "infinite" sets. I've seen some prototypes of VR lego builders. If I had the time I'd absolutely do this as a hobby project, with a focus on VR interaction and feel.
That's obviously PR fluff.
Here is my first thought when reading this kind of studies about sustained poor sleep:

Did anyone do a study on parents? Are all (where all is not 100% but around me pretty close to that) parents going to suffer from Alzheimer.

I am saying this because with few notable exceptions (like N=2) all my friends, including myself and my wife, slept poorly at least during the first year of their child and sometimes up until second year. I think this counts as sustained poor sleep.

So either I am living in a bubble and I should add this to the list of stressful things I feel (I read) I am not doing right as a parent, or nature decided at one point to select children of parents predisposed to alzheimer.
Not all grad students get a salary. In particular older grad students who support other people and can't afford to live on a grad student stipend (which is a starvation wage for one, let alone more) and therefore must work a job while in grad school do not get any stipend, they pay their way. Which is of course a much easier arrangement for the student to manage if they have a trust fund or wealthy family to dip into (speaking to the article at hand)
Storage Access with Android 11
Costello is worth $500 million.
I mean as the most commonly reported measure of unemployment. So use the measure that most people would intuitively view as unemployment (include discouraged workers, etc).
This is a chapter 11 bankruptcy, which usually brings about debt restructuring and some store closings. I would hope most of the stores will remain and the employees will continue as if nothing happened.
By far my favorite trick is the one described here https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html

Effectively generators a la python or javascript, implemented using a set of macros that expand to a Duff's device control structure.

#define crBegin(state) \
int *__state_ptr__ = &(state); \
*__state_ptr__ = 0; \
switch(*__state_ptr__) { case 0:
#define yield(x) \
do { \
*__state_ptr__ = __LINE__; \
return x; \
case __LINE__:; \
} while (0)
#define crFinish }

struct counter_frame {
int state;
int i;
};

int counter(struct counter_frame *frame) {
crBegin(frame->state);
frame->i = 0;
while (1) {
yield(frame->i++);
}
crFinish;
}

int main() {
struct counter_frame my_counter;
while (1) {
printf("%d\n", counter(&my_counter));
}
return 0;
}
Glad I'm not the only one who thought his screen was dirty because of that.
I worked there once as a sales associate.

Worst job I’ve ever had.

Disclaimer: I am terrible at sales.
and with all of those systems you mentioned, you are the product.
Does the article say anything that substantiates the headline? I was expecting evidence of causality but didn’t see any when I skimmed through it. Did I miss it?
I was curious about this function:

fun addRefs(
a : forall<h> ref<h,int>,
b : forall<h> ref<h,int>
) : total ()
{
a := 10;
b := 20;
return (!a + !b);
}

Why is it total instead of st<h>? Won't this have a side effect of setting the references?
Advanced React and Webpack Configuration
It seems google has managed to greatly increase the complexity of interacting with a filesystem while decreasing functionality and performance, all in the name of security.
Thanks, ory was already recommended to me and seems nice. I will give authelia a look!
"More so because grad students receive grants that cover their tuition and some basic salary."

That only tends to be true for PHD programs where the student is expected to work on research that actually brings in grant money.

That's not true for all grad programs. Some are not research-focused at all, and for those the student usually has to pay their own way or get other forms of financial aid (which not all students qualify for).

Even if they do qualify for financial aid, they might not get any, if the limited amount that is available has already been given out to other qualified students.
No.

The NYU gives a clear statement on why they want this data (to track ads) and what data they collect, this is informed consent.

CA on the other hand obfuscated the purpose and what they collect as much as possible, pretending it was a personality/IQ quiz (something fun and benign) when in fact they harvested the data in order to create models for targeted advertising which they then used in political campaigns. This isn't informed consent.

That's a very different starting point already.

Your argument seems to be "well, if that doctor with the curious name of 'NYU' and working for a reputable facility asks you for informed consent to do a surgery to remove a cancerous mole, this doctor can in theory just be lying and cut off your leg!!!1!". CA in this context would be the back alley quack who pretends to provide you with a free non-invasive exam for skin cancer, but then steals your kidneys and sells them on the black market.

The NYU also tries to be as transparent as possible beyond the initial value proposition, including open sourcing the collection software (browser extension), again the opposite of what CA did.

Is there still a possibility of abuse by NYU? Sure, and that's why it is entirely fine to keep an eye on them, and keep holding them accountable, but for things they actually do or don't do.

However, I think trying to hold the NYU to an unachievable standard ("we need to audit everything they do independently") while at the same time not even remotely applying that same standard to FB, their FAANG buddies, and everybody else really, that's just... wat

Tell me again how you think there may be a vague security and privacy concern with the NYU voluntary ad data collection for the willing participants when Target starts selling your daughter pregnancy products (because they knew before her herself that she is pregnant), facebook detecting your face in other people's image shares and adding public tags with your name automatically, google telling you "you have visited this place 2 times in the last 10 years", or famous twitter users (or rather the new owners of their accounts) pushing bitcoin scams because twitter had their systems compromised.
The difference is that you can throw unlimited money to guarantee to get eye pairs. The one with the most money will get their message across best. And also the advertising is part is much easier to regulate. We already have loads of regulations and limitations about advertisement, so there would be no problem adding one more.

Unless FB is in on the scam, you cannot buy eyepairs on the platform.
My high school friend was accepted to MIT, couldn't afford it, and also went to a state university. So that's 3!
> Costello is worth $500 million.

well well... such a deep far left anti capitalist revolutionary he is, isn't he?... who the hell is he kidding?
I clear my search and watch history every few weeks, sometimes more often. It does improve things when you notice that everything in your recommendations is stuff you've already watched or very closely related.
No joke, dude. I believe I'm going to think about this when I fail to fall asleep too.

What solves my sleep problems easily is a some weed but I don't always have where to get it since it's not fully legal at my location.
Yes. In person, referring to someone with a limp. They were implying that said person would be unable to attend a hike (they were wrong).
I guess tombs don't count as used
The abuse of grad and PhD students might be even more egregious than undergrad admissions. Paying objectively world class talent a meager $15,000 stipend to work themselves to the bone while they earn the university millions in grants and industry contracts, teach undergrad classes, and slave away on their own thesis. It’s super gross.
I hope they make it through to the other side. When I was looking for headphones a couple of years ago, Guitar Center was the only place I could find where I could physically compare them side by side. Online will never replace that.
It's funny that that reminded me of James Damore. After his memo, there was I think an NYT article interviewing some women at Google's campus about their thoughts. One of them said something to the effect of "I just like to code, I'm not doing it to be revolutionary", but she was almost forced to take a position just through circumstances.
I‘d recommend Zettlr instead: open source, free, local (so you own your data), great active community.

Obsidian is closed source, and I’d say its features do not justify choosing that over Zettlr (unlike something like Notion.so)

https://www.zettlr.com/
We need to be able to speak negatively about the king in order to change him. Also people like to be able to talk and don't want to be in jail for doing so.
He was the CEO of Soylent and it's not satire, he's just unhinged. Soylent had to write an announcement that Rob does not speak for them anymore.

https://twitter.com/soylent/status/1322588020185341952

https://soylent.com/blogs/news/update-from-soylent-ceo-demir...
If the students at these schools aren't any better than those at dozens of others high ranking schools, why are so many executives, judges and politicians graduates from these few school?
Linus Torvalds on the new MacBook Air
There are several arguments to be made for a non-evil Facebook. But people are unlikely to engage with a starting comparison like that. Perhaps that's why you haven't see any opposing arguments.
> When you come to the end of the 90's and the beginning of the 2000's you have movies like Fight Club and Matrix denounce technology as the destroyer of the society or humanity.

Really depends who's in power. By the 2000s, film people were obsessed with litigating 9/11, the Iraq war, etc. Avatar comes to mind. Looking at ultra big name top budget stuff, it's going to be a product of its time because that's what's marketable.

M.I.A. has some cuckoo beliefs, but her performance aesthetics and her harping on giant Internet and media companies was wildly ahead of its time. Was that anti-technology?

YouTube is the populist agenda, it is the #1 Internet time sink, did people want technology or did they want free music and TV? How are you supposed to advance an anti-audience agenda?
High family income matters for college admissions not because it causes a higher SAT score. People could study for the SAT regardless of income.

It matters when elite admissions favor legacy students, athletes, and those with unique extracurricular activities. All of which favor the rich.
IBM did that by licensing the PC "clone" design, not Microsoft. Microsoft added the lockdown layer on top.
I'm actually facing the same situation because of a 'use-case limbo' and I'm devastated.

Google is locking me out of my 11 years old Google account (Gmail, Adsense, YouTube, Analytics, ...) I use for a side project (electronic music blog) because I'm trying to log in from a new device/country/IP.

Alright then, I'll try to recover the account with the security question or the recovery email.

Nope, Google doesn't even let me enter the recovery process because of the same error. I can't do anything because of a stupid flag on the account.

The best part? Everytime I'm trying to log into my account, I get a security alert email sent to my recovery email. I can say to Google that I don't recognize the connexion (AccountDisavow) but I have NO OPTION to allow it. What's the point of having a recovery email?

Can't Google see that it's the same IP trying to log in and trying to access the "Review activity" from the security alert email?

If any Google employee is reading this, I'd love some help!
It's an Indian outlet, so it's likely targeting prospective Indian students and informing them beforehand.
I think it's that they work OK at first, but then fall into patterns. Like getting stuck in a local maxima.
Saying Lean "rules out many kinds of mathematics" and not giving a single example, sounds more sensationalist to me. I also don't see what's wrong with anonymous comments as long as they are constructive and people are nice.

I don't know Kevin as well as you do (apparently) but maybe he is just ignorant on the topics you know so much about. Why something gets attention of media (Quanta Magazine?) is complicated. From your comments, you also seem very "bold".
So summary of the summary: Google is doing something illegal here?
Did you or anyone you know work on the obvious issue of cataloging the vast piles of legos out kids have using computer vision / AI? Cataloging inventory by hand is so discouraging. Ps. I didn’t check but I assume I can just upload some CSV with what parts I have etc? The issue is that doing it by hand sounds like a nightmare. Any ideas of attempts to auto scan parts on the floor and giving some estimate at least using open CV etc? (I should Google it first before asking probably...)

Edit: are solutions like this practical, or it’s easier to just sort by hand?

https://towardsdatascience.com/machine-learning-lego-image-r...
Call me cynical, but just seems like another tool in the CPC toolbox to use against companies and organisations if they do something against the party interests.

China has a fine constitution and IP protection legislation as well, they are just.... very selectively applied.
The problem of making CAPTCHAs accessible while keeping them effective at curbing abuse is truly a hard one. Audio CAPTCHAs help, but as HN user miki123211 pointed out [1], they're only useful to blind people who aren't also hard of hearing and can understand the spoken language being used (usually English). And I assume that for the sites that use CAPTCHAs, just dropping them isn't an option. So, since there's no solution, I'm glad there are services like Be My Eyes to help.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25011654
It's rather straightforward to create .bashrc aliases on Linux to transform xclip or xsel into pbcopy and pbpaste [0]:

alias pbcopy='xclip -selection clipboard'
alias pbpaste='xclip -selection clipboard -o'

[0] https://superuser.com/a/288333/72342
$5 gigs, not $10m deals: the story of US punk label Dischord Records
The video suggests 64kb in 45min for vinyl, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette was 100kb in 30min tape.
Ask HN: How do you prevent headaches from screen use?
Much my life is in front of a computer, even without taking into account my hobbies. Every so often, I get a massive headache (its effect compounding from my pretending it will go away soon) after which I need to take several days away from the screen. Obviously, this is impractical.

I'm pretty sure that reading books/on a Kindle e-ink display has not made headaches worse. But I can't transfer much of my routine away from the computer.

So far, I've tried taking more breaks to focus on something distant, maybe now I will try actually scheduling breaks instead of taking them when I remember. Maybe I need to change how I set the brightness, or try distancing myself from the monitor, get special glasses, ... I don't know what I should do.

What has worked for you HNers who struggled with headaches from screen use?
Who cares about most people you know?
Awesome...thanks for the feedback. Totally agree with your request.
There's a surprising amount of perfectly valid C code that's not valid C++ (not even taking regrettable design warts like VLAs into account). The "common subset" of C and C++ is both a subset of C, and a subset of C++, e.g. C++ has forked C and turned its C subset into a non-standard dialect.

It's interesting that the other C descendant Objective-C has decided to "respect" its C subset instead of messing with it, with the result that new C standards are automatically supported in ObjC.
> Sometimes I see comments being downvoted literally within seconds of posting

I think the velocity that comments are read on HN would be surprising to a lot of people. I don’t have any particular inside knowledge but it stands to reason there are more readers than commenters. People viewing the Comments link will see comments, most recent first. I’ve noticed similar behavior with how quickly people can respond. If you’ve noticed quick downvotes on others’ comments, that means you’ve also viewed very recent comments, whether or not you’ve chosen to vote or respond.
Not going away, just restructuring. I have fond memories of hanging out in Guitar Center. I hope that this is just a blip and not the first in a series of moves where stores selling music making gear become extinct. That has been happening to electronics making stores and it doesn't bode well for the future.
> …unless she goes to every bar with a full staff for wardrobe, hair, makeup, nails…

If you search for pics of her "out of uniform" (i.e. without wig, makeup, etc.), you'll see how Dolly can walk around more or less completely anonymously when she's not in her full performance regalia.

Generous professional that she is, when she chooses to be "in character" I assume that she's at the ready for performance at the drop of a hat.
Same story, but Yale and a couple others. Had a great SAT score, national merit scholar, yada yada. The big names don't even offer academic scholarships. There's not a chance in hell my family or I could have afforded it.

Edit:
Not to be misleading - I hadn't been accepted as I never applied. The below replies are based on talks with recruiters prior to applying, which I ultimately never did.
The Lenovo Yogabook C930: a dual screen laptop with no keyboard but a eink display instead. It is light, very thin, and USB-C. Both screen are tactile and wacom pen enabled. The laptop folds at 360 so you can use either screen.

But the best is when you hold it in portrait mode like a book to display the paper on the color screen on one side, and take notes on the eink on the other side with a pen.

Even better: with the 2020 update, set the eink display to "clone" and select the option to turn the screen off, and you have a eink laptop to read technical paper in the browser, BUT in eink so it goes easy on your eyes.

It only serves one purpose, but it serves it perfectly.

It's replacing my Sony 13' DPT RP1 eink reader, thanks to its better integration with OneNote, and also the "side uses" (you can use it as a eink laptop or screen by hooking a USB keyboard. vi on eink display is a pleasure to code with)

I would suggest the 256G version to have lots of room for content as it's the ideal device to consume media on (mostly book) ; a few resellers still have it new-in-box. If you can afford it, get the Korean model on ebay, with LTE enabled - it's a Fibocom L850-GL CAT9 WWAN Module II which is has an Intel xmm 7360 insde, so it's multiband and will work everywhere.

Don't get it used or open-box returned due to a bug on the charging side: if you try to use the yogabook at 0% battery but with the AC plugged, REGARDLESS of which AC adapter you use, it won't draw enough power.

This means it will turn itself off in a few seconds, but right after damaging the battery - 10% loss of capacity is easy to do in just one day when trying to do the "first boot" if you are not patient ...
Is that a bad thing if it helps you to find great new content?
I didn't know. Really nice!
That's a very reductive (and unoriginal) take.
> First, the SAT, it turns out, does not measure scholarly aptitude or native intelligence independent of social and educational background

Wouldn't this mean if you compared two groups of kids from the same income quintile one with a very low SAT score and one with a very high one they'd have the exact same life outcomes? I find this hard to believe.

Also this study disagrees that coaching has much of an impact on SAT scores.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/h2pva2jus90c1el/2012-montgomery.pd...
Got accepted at Berkeley, didn't get a scholarship that I needed, ended up studying in India instead. To be fair, you can always go to MIT or any top notch university for a graduate/second undergrad degree, but you can only go to IIT/NIT once.
> If you get a 1500 on your SAT

A bit OT, but: I was going to say that the 1600 point scale hasn't been used for years (since 2005, when they switched to a 2400 point scale), but it turns out that they went back to the 1600 point scale in 2016.
All: https://www.forbesindia.com/article/take-one-big-story-of-th... is a bit older and has more background. There was also a smaller thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24867212

(Submitted URL was https://nextbigwhat.com/whitehatjr-files-20-cr-defamation-ca... but it contains no extra info. More explanation at bottom of this page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25176990.)