skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a horror show.

Were the MCATs used for admission sufficiently reliable? Most people think so, and since future test scores are most strongly predicted by prior test scores, medicine is trending away from ranking (ie non instructive) exams once you’re “in.” Net increase in pass fail medical programs. Step 1 just became pass fail. Things like ABSITE becoming optional (ie diagnostic or instructional). Inbound students are so high quality despite there being so much more of them that maybe the testing really is counterintuitively too intense.

Even if it were true that the students cheated, it isn’t material anymore, it maybe never has been, after you’ve been admitted.

Could it work differently? I feel like your average medical dropout (no offense, essentially the average programmer on Hacker News) probably cheated more in school than an admitted medical student does. Remote leetcode has exacerbated that.

On the other hand, a 23 year old who has made it just past the 1st year into their BigCo job probably faces more soul crushing false positive bureaucracy like watching your every digital move than a 23 year old 1 year into a top ranked medical program. The EFF would get much more mileage out of advocacy about 360° reviews, PIPs, stack rank, meetings about meetings, “mental health days,” etc. than this fortunately isolated and rapidly ameliorating incident.

Because if there’s one thing big tech people are actually really bad at, it’s reducing soul crushing bureaucracy.
I'm sorry, but you are making it very difficult to follow your train of thought. If you don't want to answer direct clarifying questions, that's fine, but a refusal to answer questions is generally not a sign of trustworthiness. Good luck.
And if you have a contract to buy a certain amount from a supplier then they will hold that much stock in their own inventory to cover your contract.
> high IQ is needed to at least be sufficiently proficient in coding,

Should I even bother on what's the source of this claim?
With brakes connected to the internet and useless touchscreens.
warning that it removed code based on an assumption that was inferred by the compiler

That would dump a ton of warnings from various macro/meta routines, which real-world C is usually peppered with. Not that it’s particularly hard to do (at the very least compilers know which lines are missing from debug info alone).
I know some people who fled the war as well, to Russia. Not liking war doesn't necessarily mean supporting handing Ukraine over to the USA. This part is completely lost in the "Russia bad" narrative though.
Nope, in this case it's just science. Specifically ecology.

It turns out that when we understand what the plants and animals are doing in detail (through science) we can arrange them in time and space in ways that are vastly more efficient than what we've been doing these last ~12k years.

Think about it, if it wasn't so that would mean that our ancestors discovered optimal farming in antiquity, eh?

Just think: we used to burn chaff rather than composting it. It turns out that that is not a good idea. It's that sort of thing that I'm thinking of when I call ag "the dumbest way" to grow food.
A couple of days ago I was watching a dramatic video showing test collisions of old cars vs modern cars. I was surprised by how much safer a 2016 car was than a 1992 car. Not to mention the 1959 death trap Bel Air. (It's alarming though that 1992 is now the olden days.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TikJC0x65X0
This discussion has been done to death here, but I think the most salient point is that the tracking is hardly covert when private mode says, right on the tin:

Your activity might still be visible to:
Websites you visit
Your employer or school
Your internet service provider

I buy that some consumers don't understand the separation between Chrome the browser and Google the website. But if ignorance is allowed to create liability as would be required for this case . . . I don't know what that means for companies offering products that interact mostly at arms length with one another.

Possibly Google will still lose this lawsuit. We'll see. I kinda doubt it.
I've read about manufacturers limiting RAM to e.g. 8GB to be able to stay within some power-consumption deemed acceptable for a notebook device. More RAM draw power.

Given that RAM size can have those ramifications energy-wise, it sounds almost like it would be a win, to go against the grain of the article and push for an upper limit of memory, say 4-8GB, if the environmental factor was the lone metric to judge on.

Secondary effects follows due to restraints, software makers who doesn't want to see users churn from their applications start scrambling to optimize codebases so the executives won't loose out on their bonuses for that fiscal year.
Not everyone's tech savvy enough to order and install their own RAM. For every person buying 4GB of RAM to upgrade later there's probably 10 buying 16GB RAM at 100+% markup.
I see where you're coming from, but though we might dislike the commercialisation, the fact you can complain that something got commercialised shows it's a continuation of the same genre. Electronica was always a rubbish pretentious ill defined term but at least edm (as I use it) is a good name from the perspective of being exactly what it says on the tin.

Thanks for the perspective though!
The correct pronunciation of Apache is "a patchy" as in "a patchy HTTPD server". The pronunciation of the Spanish and Nahuatl etymological origins of the other side of the pun are irrelevant.
Newer variants search and destroy backups first, and poison systems for a couple weeks before cryptolocking everything first.
I've read your article, and it helped me understand the shape of the proof, but I still don't understand it.

If no information is transmitted between the people observing the quantum particles, how is it that you can improve their "performance" at the CHSH game above 75%?

Like, what is the fundamental unit of "information"/coordination the players are extracting from their particles/qbits?

Actually, while I'm being confused, what even is a qbit? From the descriptions, it sounds like it's not just an information, where two qbits with the same vector representation are equivalent, and it's more like a physical concept. Is it a particle? Or, like, it it some sort of global variable of the universe that stores some information that is undetermined until you "collapse" the global variable?
Nothing wrong with JIT. The mistake was thinking you could dole penalties for late deliveries, but stop purchasing whenever you like without consequences.
IS this a reproduction of a critique from 2001? Because suggesting something that has been around 20 years has a "fatal flaw" is perplexing to me. When exactly will this fatality happen?

It's also absurd to say it's English-only. There are currently 18 Wikipedia languages with more than 1m articles: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#1_000_000...

The notion that it would fill up with poorly sourced fan garbage is also woefully out of date. That's what fan wikis are for. A good example here is the "Endor Holocaust", the fan-generated notion that when the Death Star was blown up the material would have rained down on Endor and wrecked the ecosystem. That was removed from Wikipedia a little over 15 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Endor_Holocaust&a...
Hyenas are notorious for being assholes

But any carnivorous pack animal is just an Alpha's decision to attack away from being a problem. The scarcer food gets, the more riskier sources they'll pursue.
Is this that same dubious Incognito Mode lawsuit from the other year?

Yep, old news article as well.
People who erroneously say "an historic" and pronounce the h.
Oof sorry, sounds like they should add your voice to the training dataset.
I'm an actual OCaml programmer, almost daily, and I don't understand this objection. We use autotools and make as the build tool (but you could use ninja/meson, cmake or whatever), and don't bother with opam/dune. We properly package over 100 OCaml packages in Fedora. For anything else not covered by a package we mostly call into C libraries, which is very easy to do from OCaml.

I guess it depends on exactly what you're trying to do, but we've developed a large amount of complex software in OCaml this way.
yep, reminds that copyright fight 500 years ago that changed the world.
Maybe it's 5%? 20%? Who can say? Also, things are often just plain wrong, through commission and omission, and not biased.
I agree with others there is no technical solution to a cultural problem like this.
However Amazons intentions are made clear by this fact:
The ability to search or properly filter/visualize the reviews for xyz product has been extremely limited until recently. (And I would argue it still is very limited, intentionally by Amazon).

In other words on Amazon‘s website and their apps the interface for filtering/searching within reviews for a given product is horrible and very limited. Does anyone doubt Amazon has the ability and/or resources to improve the review GUI/interface? Why do they refuse to? (Rhetorical)
Im the opposite. I very ocassionally watch a JP video which I find interesting and it means Google no longer fills my feed with woke stuff which is nice.
I wonder if this is because it lowers the production of H2O2...?

https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P27338

So maybe supplements that promote glutathione production would be a better avenue.
I would think the chiplet strategy that AMD used is also a benefit compared to Intels more monolithic design when it comes to yields.
It’s a pretty notorious hideout for cranks, both benign and weird nationalist ones.
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Pretty idiotic name, I realize this now.

Great software package tho.
Elon Musk reveals he has Asperger's syndrome
Jacobin's criticisms reek of ignorance, slaves were clearly the engine of the country if you understand how they were also financialized.

US slaves were securitized and used as collateral for loans/leverage/etc (slaves were the first assets to be securitized in America). People around Europe, in countries where slavery was illegal/unpopular, and the rest of the US could invest and profit from the trade without getting blood on their hands directly.

Each slave was approximately the value of a single family home (~1kg of gold) which means the British/Americans were able to "create" the value of 10,000,000 or so single family homes worth of wealth (~$1,171,852,800,000) out of thin air using African men, women, and children's backs before cotton production (which was more valuable than all other exports combined), other labor, and other investment activity is even accounted for. (Note: I'm not even counting the slaves that were domestically produced in this calculation, this is just the number brought across the Atlantic.)

Cotton misdirection is what Jacobin is attempting, they (or their quoted 'experts') lack awareness of the financial ecosystem that operated with slavery at its foundation. The volume of money/gold involved built the first stages of a large % of early US/UK/etc cities and accounted for a much larger % of GDP and US/UK wealth than Jacobin is attempting to claim.

That fact that I need to explain this very recent history to educated US adults is yet another signal that this history is inadequately covered and should be compulsory. There is nothing more American than understanding the foundations of American Capitalism, and its evolution from the slave economy.

Final note: Speaking of India, destroying Indian and Chinese cotton production allowed the US/UK to dominate 2/3rds+ of the global cotton trade, not technical know-how or advanced intelligence... it was mostly torture,murder, and destruction (historical record has many accounts of invaders breaking/cutting off hands of poor Indian/Chinese textile laborers en masse, at the time these workers produced the finest muslin and other textiles in human history).

Ghandi's promotion of textile (yarn/khaadi) production during his protests/boycotts wasn't a fluke/random...
I change cars every 10 years. Had the current car for 7 years so probably this chip shortage is not going to impact me.
You posted massive flamebait: shallow dismissal ("it all boils down to $horrible"), pejorative putdowns of racial/national groups, snark ("can't bear the thought"), complete with downvote baiting—and no actual information to redeem the comment. This was pure provocation and a flamewar was absolutely to be expected.

In fact, it was a textbook example of what the site guidelines ask you not to post. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? Note this one, among the many that you broke: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." That's there for good reason.

> Or am I only allowed to say

It isn't about your views, it's about comment quality. That has nothing to do with the U.S. or anything else that you mentioned; it has to do with internet forum dynamics. We're trying for thoughtful, curious conversation here. That requires conscious care on all our part or we'll end up with the internet default: a forum that sucks, bursts into flames, and eventually burns to a crisp. The way you and other users perpetuated this flamewar is an example of that outcome—another textbook example actually.

I know it always feels like the mods must be against you when you get moderated (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), but if it helps at all, your counterparts on the opposite side feel like we're secretly on your side. This is routinely true on all divisive topics.
I'm not sure why you're making sarcastic responses to things I didn't say in the first place.

If there is no disincentive for abuse, then abusive people will continue to inflict abuse on others for as long as they derive some emotional/social/financial gain from it. You are arguing that it is wholly up to those others (ie non-abusive people) to change themselves by making themselves less attractive targets in some fashion. But this has a cost and meantime the abusive person is gaining in strength and confidence. Also, new people are coming along all the time who are vulnerable to abusive behavior, so if previous targets become unattractive, abusers can rely on a relatively steady supply of new ones. I think you need to explain what the overall benefit of your approach is at the collective level.

It's also perplexing to me that you equate inflicting penalties upon abusers with 'becoming the abuser instead'. An abuser, by definition, is someone who inflicts pain or suffering on someone else who doesn't deserve it. Retaliation against abuse cannot be considered abuse, unless you want to argue that there is no such thing as a right to self-defense, only to self-protection. That seems similar to suggesting everyone become like turtles or snails, building shells which they can withdraw into when attacked but never developing any retaliatory capability.

I look forward to considering your alternative perspective.
This sounds very much like something I need, but just to clarify, this requires me to use Telegram? I am unsure as to why that is, and why I can't just use the normal Android sharing.

Also your example doesn't quite show how I can annotate a podcast, which is (as far as I am aware) your biggest differentiater compared to something like Pocket.

I am a bit mystified, but I am super interested.
Is this study making the weight, and health of the individuals pre-covid available?

My girlfriend and I both got covid, she had trouble breathing on the first day, probably from panic if anything, but other than that we both got over the fever in a couple days and spent the next week coughing up mucus. No lasting damage besides our sense of taste/smell taking a month to recover. We're both in our 20's, both in great health.

It's difficult for me to believe that anyone who doesn't have comorbidities is at risk here. Barring the virus laying dormant for several years like HIV, I don't see why anyone should care about this more than the flu. I feel like I fell for the media hysteria in the early days, and now I wonder who profited the most from that fear, and whether that has more to do with our lockdowns than anything else.
> maybe it's just that intelligent people know how to take personality tests

Also why ADHD meds, prescribed legally, are rampant on college campuses.
The thing that bothers me so badly is that if they just took all the resources they put into RGB-everything development and “gamer” branding and put that into tactile improvements, better trackpads, more solid hinges, less chassis flex…I bet there’s a big market for gamers who want the function over the form. It doesn’t have to be a beige box either, I just want something like a Dell XPS with TotL GPU + CPU. For some reason, that also necessarily comes with ugly chintzy obnoxious hardware design. I feel like PC HW mfgs are so out of touch with what people actually want. Look at the NVidia RTX 3080/90 FE cards and how they’re actually classy and solid, without a giant fan shroud and 6 additional cheap loud LED fans. It’s not like they had any problem selling every single one they made, just sad that it lives inside the case.

Razer is one kinda-exception that I can think of, where they have fairly solid laptops that can be more minimal, but the build quality is still not quite up to mobile workstation standards.

TL;DR I wish I could get a MBP with TOTL hardware instead of having even the highest-end config still shoot for thin-and-light.
It's like voting politicians: you don't vote for who you think is the best, you vote for the least worse. More so, you don't vote for the candidates you'd want, but for the candidates other groups picked for you.

Apple is not doing the best for us, but compared to the alternative (Google), it's less worse.
I've noticed that people I meet that I think of as intelligent usually had an adult that talked with them intelligently when they were younger.

I think thinking is seen, then emulated, and this emulation needs a bit of coaching.

Yes, once you start reading some of this can happen without someone else available, but ultimately thinking is learned by exposure to good examples of it and iterated practice.
If you don’t mock out an RPC call in a microservice it has the same implications as not mocking out a database query in a monolith. I’d argue microservices actually encourage testing in isolation which can increase risks when you do ship (assuming you don’t have e2e or integration tests, which can also be more complicated with microservices).

I’m not arguing either way is right or wrong, but I disagree that microservices inherently makes things easier to test. Isolated tests actually implies you tested the lego bricks but not the overall assembly, which would potentially imply higher risk.

It’s also possible to write microservices that are architected in a way contrary to FP, such as having services that mutate their data stores, so I’m not sure id compare microservices to functional programming either.

You compare services to functions, which they are, only with the added complexity of dealing with distributed nature of it. I’m not obviating the benefits, but I disagree microservices are the automatic win you imply.

I would instead attribute the benefits you mention to having good abstraction, whether that’s functions or classes or services, abstractions allow you to isolate mock and reason in isolation.

For instance, the article mentions microservices are supposedly better so a change to your service doesn’t cause spooky action at a distance. I’m not buying this. In a poorly done microservices architecture emitting events can indeed cause spooky action at a distance, especially if you invested heavily into isolated testing only. It is easier for a monolithic architecture to shift boundaries, and in a microservices architecture it is possible (and in my experience common) that changes will need to be made across boundaries
What's stopping more people from moving cloud workloads to AMD? Unless you're running a rickety legacy application using Intel features you'll instantly save money by moving to AMD.

Both my work and all my side projects have moved to AMD instances where available, except for some legacy on-prem stuff.
I was using C++ 25 years ago! Worked fine.
Good numerical graphics
F#? That's very popular.
> Perhaps their abilities are "unlocked" to the fullest

My impression is conscientious people work within the system and don't toe the line.

edit: disclosure, I am highly unconscientious, didn't finish uni etc.
Saving a click, the download size of all content in English is ~82GB, compressed.
I think service-changing requests should be passed to a higher level in the chain, to the architects or whatever, changing service contracts can end up changing the domain. I'd assume the architects would have a high level view where they can instruct teams whether to prioritize the requested change, delay it or just veto it completely
Less than 20%. Around 90% of millionaires in the US are selfmade
I was entertained to learn that silversword and yucca, which live in similar conditions, look quite similar, and have similar flowering habits, are utterly unrelated. One is a dicot and one is a monocot!
I like this if it gives me access to my chrome extensions- can’t live without some of them. Non-chromium is a non-starter because of this
"You can sleep in your car, but you can't drive your house."
What brand supplements do you take and what dose? I did a cursory look online and was nervous about not finding any brands that I was familiar with, and I am concerned about quality given lack of regulations in the supplement market.
My (lay) understanding is that personality data tend to be clustered such that it's best explained by five factors, with the names of the factors (Openness, Conscientiousness, etc.) having been added later.
I executed the test files manually. Unfortunately.