skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what do they stand to gain by eliminating standardized testing, if they also don't benefit from legacy advantage?
Would Rocky Linux be an option for CERN?

I'm assuming the Centos 8 install instructions for e.g. GitLab also work with Rocky Linux? Conda/Micromamba definitely should.
Yep that will be coming first - rail is a good example or a dedicated road for freight from say a factory complex to a port.

NY to Jersey - nope.
> is to ensure the programmer does not try to write this exact code

I agree with your thoughts around the language constraints, but I see more room for what you once could have gotten from using FizzBuzz as a minimum-skill filter. It depends on the level you're hiring at.

From a novice engineer I would be content if they're demonstrating awareness that multiples of 15 represent an edge case without it being included in the instructions.

If I'm hiring someone more senior, I'd expect them to provide (or iterate to) a more optimized solution to FizzBuzz.

But in a further tangent - I think this using this type of question as a minimum-talent filter stopped becoming viable as soon as it became commonly used. In the time since, it's become more a minimum-knowledge filter -- and that doesn't tell you anything about the candidate's methods in solving a problem with derivable requirements.
The modern argument is that SAT and ACT tests discriminate against minorities. The reasoning is that minorities score lower because of socioeconomic factors.
I used to support a corporate CentOS fork for years. I think I built something like 10,000 custom packages over several releases. If I found a bug and wanted to submit a code fix, I couldn't just submit it, because corporate wouldn't allow us to "release intellectual property". If I wanted to donate money I had to do it from my own wallet, because the company wouldn't approve the expense.

But if our only legal option (given our size) was to pay one flat fee for infinite installs, or one flat fee per N nodes or something, the company would have approved that, because we needed to use something RHEL-like. If it's totally free, the company won't help at all. I think a few large companies could probably provide most of the funding necessary for the project, and still be ridiculously cheaper than RHEL.

I'd only do this for business-focused projects, because of the tendency for those "users" not to contribute anything back. FOSS only thrives when people contribute. Otherwise you're a one-man software welfare program.
It was, but now it's actually a very significant component. In many regions, the cost paid for lumber went from like 5% of the cost to ~20%!
They aren't saying that the feature gating code adds to app size, but rather that there's a lot of code behind feature gates (for tests/staged rollout/locale-specific features/etc) that most users won't see which still add to app size.
Incredible. Instead of putting tariffs on Chinese cheap stuff that most people can get by without, US is putting tariff on one of the main exports of its closest allies.
In 2017 a lot of people I know randomly called me to ask about bitcoin. I didn't own any at the time but I knew it was only a matter of time before it would crash. It can't be a good sign when people who never heard about it before suddenly start wanting to sell property in order to invest in it.
They are eating crow, Orange Man was right again.
Extracurriculars and essays.
> Thus for the average woman in Somalia with 6 children, statistically, none of her children will actually die.

If deaths are evenly distributed at 12%, there's a 54% (1-0.88^6) chance a woman will have at least one child die.
“students from families earning more than $200,000 a year average a combined score of 1,714, while students from families earning under $20,000 a year average a combined score of 1,326.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/03/rich-students-get-better-sat...
They're doubling down because their technoking can't admit he's wrong, and they keep getting away with it. Maybe a class-action lawsuit would be a good idea.
> If you wanted to make that much money from rent

It's not either/or, which is why I'd assume the parent poster called it weird. That investor could make the appreciation and of top of it could make the rental income. So it is weird, from their perspective, to leave it empty. If they're flipping real estate for profit (as opposed to buying a home to live) why reject the extra income.

Also, selling a rental property with a solid history of rental income tends to be better than one with a history of sitting empty. Although that probably doesn't apply to mansions.
I think a low baseline admissions standard should be required and then any applicants that meet that are selected via lottery.
He said macro level. In other words, statistically kids do better when they are in a wealthier household or have higher educated parents.

You also never mentioned what exactly your social status or wealth was then. Were you living in poverty when you got those scores?
That will put a stop to parents getting their unqualified kids into the Colorado School of Mines.
I wish we could have experienced this. Our OBGYN didn't catch (after we insisted) that the baby was breach. After 2 hours of labor we were rushed to an emergency c-section.

I'm thankful that my wife did get a little skin-to-skin but it was not immediate and it was for maybe 5 minutes before they were seperated. I think we got to see our baby about an hour later.

The whole experience during and after was horrible but I'm not sure if we or the hospital could have handled it better other than if we had insisted more strongly that the position felt wrong weeks before delivery.
intelligence has a hereditary component; social status and wealth correlate with intelligence.
The 1.4 to 2.0C range is where we are going to start seeing large scale crop failures. Also massive fish die offs in the ocean. Unless we drastically change trajectories, this will occur during the lifetime of your children.

You hope you and they will be able to handle these changes, but there are going to be a lot of downstream effects from warming and sea level change.
True that. More to this, no automatically curated feed should qualify for the Section 230 protection.

We understand that manually curated feed doesn't qualify for Section 230 protection. In this case, automatically curated feed should be legally the same, given that the automation is wholy created and maintained by Facebook or other relevant platform, for the express purpose of scaling out their manual processes.
Haha nope, I've dealt with JSON files that were deeply nested and in the 100s of MBs.

When you're dealing with complex data, JSON isn't very fun, but XML is still worse.
It's interesting who owns a lot of the saw mills in Canada.

https://www.lesprom.com/en/news/13_biggest_lumber_companies_...

*Four of the top ten largest firms are based in B.C. (West Fraser, Canfor, Interfor and Tolko), with the first three holding substantial sawmilling assets in the U.S.*

So it seems these Corps own assets on both sides of the border and it isn't clear how these tariffs help them. From what I understand (possibly wrong,) there has even been more consolidation in the Lumber Industry in the last couple of years and like 5 Companies own all the Sawmills on both sides of the border.
It still adds 20-30k when building a new house so not exactly a trivial amount.
Since you can't expand rules into any other rules, yes, it's pretty restricted. Kind of a feature though.
TBF, the glut of [Chinese,] solar panels has significantly helped lower the cost of renewables; which is in everyone's interest.
I find that I can absolutely tell where golden-age sci-fi is going. I loved it when I was much younger, but today it feels "thin".

Partly it's because they invented the tropes; after all, Hamlet is just a string of cliches. But partly it's because I know the writers, even the ones I've never read. They come from a really narrow range of social backgrounds. The great stuff is still great, but that's mostly survivorship bias, and I've long since read all the survivors.

Finding good new books is still damn hard. Sturgeon's Law was, and remains, in full force. And the unpredictability is not always an advantage: the predictability of those sci-fi books is very comfortable. If I really didn't know what I was getting into I'd have to work a lot harder, and I often don't want to.
This guy killed Google Glass by really overhyping it.
Again, it's entirely possible the linked research is garbage, that's just a different thing from NPR stating something at-odds with what its own source claims.
Yow, the real core of the article is about the SAT/ACT.

I'm glad that they're ditching them, because of how much I hate the College Board, and those exams.

But as a matter of principle, college admissions must be on merit. It's easy to say it shouldn't be based on family ties... But what will replace exam scores?

I don't like this discussion on "equity", because it seems that the inevitable conclusion is that race will become a metric in deciding college admission.
Hell, I wrote my own PXE server (from scratch, starting with UDP primitives for DHCP and TFTP) that could PXE boot and track/log the status of several concurrently PXE booting servers in a rack. That sounds crazy, but its' surprisingly easy in Elixir. It was arguably easier (and more reproducible) to do this than to figure out how to configure, say, isc-dhcpd to give out specific ip addresses based on a mac-ip lookup table you put on s3, log the progress of each client, and then ninja out isc-dhcpcd to not exist anymore once you've provisioned the rack (and then figure out what to do if you had an error)... you can imagine the nightmarish statefulness problems with system config files all over the place.

> learn how to extract and create an initrd

that was the hard part. CentOS and Ubuntu (poorly documented) give you a specific bootstrapping pathway that would kick in the initial installer, and at the other end you would have the system as you wanted it. The PXE instructions for alpine drops you into a shell. I couldn't figure out how to create and launch a "script" that would kick off the software installation beyond the basics. Like I said, it's probably easy, just not my wheelhouse.
The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits is a great book on this topic.

It makes a great argument that, unfortunately, merit based admission to elite universities does nothing to increase equality of opportunity because the rich are so much better at training and educating their children.

The upside is that people are forced to earn their privilege with hard work and study, rather than having it handed to them at birth. The downside is that there’s no light at the end of the tunnel, privilege begets more work, which begets more material wealth, which begets yet harder work / overachieving children.
URLs are not supposed to change since a URL identifies a resource. It is weird arguing for HATEOS as a mitigation for breaking a more fundamental constraint of REST.
I've had a Tesla, and I still have a Bolt, so I have experienced both. The supercharging experience is smoother. But the standardized infrastructure generally works fine, even if it is more expensive.

What I think a lot of people are starting to realize is that the road trip angle is small. It needs to work, but it doesn't make or break the experience. In both cases I found that I did 99% of my charging at home, and so the experience has been the same.

The third-party networks are also collectively growing at a rate much faster than Tesla is growing the supercharger network. At some point in the foreseeable future it will be a disadvantage that you can only DC fast charge a Tesla at a proprietary supercharger.
Colorado College is way more selective than either.

And maybe the Air Force Academy is the hardest to get in to? Although that's neither state nor private.
Review: How a California acid trip made Michel Foucault a neoliberal
Costs.

The type of lumber used to frame American houses is (well, used to be) quite cheap. Concrete is like $10 per cubic foot. While, a timber framed wall is mostly air. An 18x8 foot wall made of timber would take about 16 boards to make and take an experienced team less than 20 minutes to put up. That's $100 or so in material costs at current (extremely high) prices, plus maybe $100 in labor (this is pretty hard to estimate, actually).

That same wall would be like $700 if made from concrete. And labor costs would be probably equally as expensive because those forms take a long time to assemble. They need to be shipped in, assembled, left to cure, disassembled, then hauled away. While lumber just needs to be dropped off the back of a truck into a pile in the yard.
Well, then they're judged on their extra-curricular, volunteering and community activities, rather than their SATs.

I'm willing to bet poorer people don't do so well on those.
Yes, here is some info,

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/4G
Curiously - Are Humans are AGI benchmark? Or is there more upper room at AGI+ level intelligence? I just think that we're on a continuum from virus to Humans, Chimps being significantly lower on the intelligence scale compared to Humans. There is nothing that says continuum stops at Humans. So, I am curious if AGI is defined as something profound (Turing complete, beats humans at every imaginable task by a large margin or mathematically max intelligence?) or just someone who can converse in a Turing test with humans without giving it away or drive as good as humans.
Robinhood says payment for order flow works. This Wall Street expert disagrees
I suppose poor people can't write essays? And if the argument is "wealthier students can afford help for writing essays" then the same could be said of the SATs too.
CentOS failed because it's sponsor willed it to do so. When it went from being focused on long term stability to a rolling release, it was no longer in alignment with the reason it's users selected it. Since Rocky is being developed by some of the same people that did CentOS, I suspect that things will be just fine... after all, they benefit from being a downstream distribution.
Accelerating Renewable Energy: 3 Key Challenges
In many communities it’s clear that the DAs won’t prosecute criminals, so vigilantism is inevitable. People demand justice, in other words punishment, for criminals, and they will obtain it if the system fails.

We’re heading toward the Albanian model and that’s actually OK. If we all drop our little safe happy delusions we’ll see it’s necessary to get your own justice.
Entrance by subjective determination. Might as well make it a lottery. Apply, get ticket, random number generator makes selection.
> The staffer who brought up the terms of service violation was ignored in that specific Slack room, and the broadcast continued

This sums up my experience with diverse opinions and observations in tech companies
Colorado School of Mines is public.
This is simply a response to the new Canadian digital tax.
Wow, history goes back to 1979. Roughly same 200-600 USD envelope until 2020.
Hey, relax. He’s not playing the victim. He’s just explaining how moderation works at HN.
It is disingenuous to equate general self driving with tesla autopilot.

The idea the full AGI is required is silly and incorrect. Waymo does not have these issues at all. It couldn't happen either. You don't need AGI to have a detailed map, you don't need AGI to properly localize to a detailed map.

these are problems Tesla is giving itself
That must by why all those children of Asian immigrants excel on standardized exams, who btw also happen to be the poorest group in places like NYC. Many of them still send their kids to cram schools for coaching, however dire their financial situation, and their kids in turn sacrifice after-school, weekends, and summers vacation toiling with tutors/coaches.

This insane unfairness has to end.
An entirely different class of bad behaviors that were commonplace in the past has absolutely no bearing on whether or not social media makes us worse people and just confuses the issue for no reason.
I think landings allows for a much broader scope of accomplishments. For example, if refactor an entire system for demonstrably better maintainability and efficiency, that's a landing, but not a launch.
> Furthermore, our data indicated that high school GPA had a stronger correlation with college success for Non- Submitters than the ACT/SAT (for the 27% of Non-Submitters for whom we had test scores)

The problem is, is high school GPA measured the same way across different states and schools?

> The test scores continued to most strongly correlate with family income.

I have no doubts about this. But I'm pretty sure you would get the same result by looking at family stability and parent's educational achievements.
If you can't compete in intelligence, you want to compete in bullshit (essays / "activities") because you have a much better chance of winning that than someone who can't afford it.
First - online learning is generally not necessary with my Conformer model (which is generally >5x better at not making errors than the current public model). It's also quite good at accents. My overall goal is to ship speech models so good you won't actually wish for model training.

I view fully automatic online training as a sort of anti-pattern - Dragon does that and it will randomly forget entire words. Talon may eventually have some kind of process for self-serve model training. I do have some plans for what that might look like.

Even without automatic model training there's already a feature to automatically create a sort of "personal dataset" as you use Talon, which you can use to train speech models (Talon or otherwise) down the line, or even send me to improve the main model.
So there should be no fail safe since it can't be guaranteed to work in every scenario.
> Well none of this has any effect on the bitcoin network now does it?

After having been stripped of most of the functionality that gave BTC it's original value proposition, you might be surprised at the degree to which it really does need ads like this to attract fresh investors.

BTC killed it's most powerful tool for cementing it's position as the leading cryptocurrency, it's network effect.

They killed it by merging "full replace by fee", making it trivial to cheat bitcoin-accepting merchants during times of higher network congestion. This made it even super risky for merchants and many opted out. They even had a much safer alternative (FSS-RBF) ready to merge.

* https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6352

* https://blog.plan99.net/replace-by-fee-43edd9a1dd6d

They killed it by using the size of OP_RETURN to gaslight Counterparty, a company that was trying to build a rich smart contract ecosystem (yeah like Ethereum has now) on top of bitcoin. This was the second time the core devs' hatred of smart contracts killed new use cases for the coin. The first time led Vitalik to create Ethereum.

*https://old.reddit.com/r/decred/comments/6wxueo/your_best_pi...

They killed it by blanket censoring on all the big bitcoin related communication channels all discussion about increasing the blocksize and/or building/supporting alternative BTC full nodes. This censorship completely fractured the community and directly led to the network fork called Bitcoin Cash. As a result of this fork, many of the oldest supporters and infrastructure devs left BTC forever.

* https://medium.com/@johnblocke/a-brief-and-incomplete-histor...
This article encapsulates the problem with modern media. Yglesias spends a large portion of the article debating the finer points of Tom Cotton's take on the lab leak theory.

As if a junior senator from Arkansas, who's not on any relevant committees (aside from maybe intelligence) is some kinda Rosetta Stone for understanding the media's lack of pushback on the lab leak denials from China and the WHO.

Yglesias labels senator Cotton a "China Hawk," as if that's enough for the story to live and die on his thoughts and quotes.

To examine the lab leak hypothesis through the lens of a Republican senator under the pretext of blaming the senator for the media's assessment of a possible lab leak, turns this article into just another liberal think piece masquerading as objective journalism with irrelevant timelines and a puffed up word count.
On the subject of moocs and books, which were some of your favorites? I'm an SWE with an out-of-date background in AI and I'd love to deep-dive into ML, but there are _so many_ mooc options nowadays without a great way to determine quality.
I can't understand why both political parties are so bad for the 100%.

Rich to poor, it seems everyone is constantly losing.

Who wins? A lumber yard owner? The employees need to buy homes, so they lose. Are we really doing these anti market policies for the benefit of less than 12 people.
We can be a bit more specific to it: no automatically curated feed should qualify for the Section 230 protection. Simple feeds ordered by time (or however the original poster arranged it) with no suppression, should carry regular Section 230 protection in the usual way.

We understand that feeds curated manually by platform employees doesn't qualify for Section 230 protection, example being any regular newspaper's articles. In case of online platforms, automatically curated feed should be legally similar, given that the automation is wholy created and maintained by the platform, for the express purpose of scaling out their manual processes.
Seed is not only a slang term for semen, but a literal translation of the word.
Forbes [0] claims 11% have never left their state, but it doesn't cite a number for people who have never left their town. It has to be smaller, of course.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/lealane/2019/05/02/percentage-o...
I think the argument is that someone whose parents are richer can afford to boost their kids' scores through tutoring, prep classes etc. So, if there are two identical kids, one whose parents have more resources will come out ahead.

I think one needs to be careful of survivorship bias here -- "the system worked for me, so it is fine".

The issue with banning SAT/ACTs, etc. is that is the system they're using in its place with actually better?

However, many well off parents will feel like they worked hard to move up, and provide their kids with best educational opportunities... but now the rules are changing. It is definitely a hard problem to try to equalize for wealth and at the same time not overly penalizing somewhat wealthy parents that also care about kids' education.
I worked at a marketing company and we had a targeting engine that was basically this, but not as elegant. Will give this a try this weekend and see how it compares in practice, cool project.
This is why it's important that you can submit test scores if you want.

I expect a lot of people will anyway, if the test scores are good.
Two things;
Adding more energy to a system doesn’t tend to produce (calm, sunny, scattered showers). I believe mild weather is a low energy outcome.
Also, humans like predictable weather. Weather becoming less so, good or bad, will make things harder.
Without SATs, upper income parents can put their kids in private schools with inflated grades and pay top dollar for high-end extracurriculars, sports and music coaches, etc.

While I won't get into whether the SATs also "discriminate" in some way against students who are disadvantaged by poverty, etc., eliminating the SAT won't solve the problem. It will just make things worse! They are, for all their problems, a great equalizer.
I don't know about that. Musk and Karpathy have always been pretty gung-ho about solving self driving with nothing but cameras.

We'll know for sure if they ever re-add radar to the Model 3/Y in the US. I think they won't. My main source of, "WTF are you doing, autopilot?" is phantom braking due to the radar incorrectly perceiving an overhead sign as an obstacle.