skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you admit as many students as a UC, you can easily run regressions to determine whether a particular admissions officer is being discriminatory. They should also be able to anonymize applicants pretty well.
Oh yeah. Not a Christian myself, but I would prefer if someone would steelman the argument rather than the usual wishy-washy business about Sodom and Gomorrah, an area of general crappiness which probably called for smiting along a lot of axes.
If the test is unfair they should demand more support for preparation rather than removing the test.
Discussions of merits of the investigation, burden of information retention and gag, and the threat-level imposed by the comment in the first place, what's highly evident to me is that gag + retention + investigation result in a much larger audience for an incidental comment then if no such orders had been placed.

Streisand sings again.
It seems a number of people on this site who fully live off the market economy but like to indulge their emotional leftist tendencies didn't like your spot-on comment. I otherwise can't think of any reasonable cause for all the downvotes.
One needs to learn derivatives at least in the form they'll be on the test. A lot of high school teachers I had were familiar enough with sorts of questions on the standardized tests their classes would be taking that they taught these subjects with an artificially narrow focus, in order to boost our grades compared to other schools. Of course, teachers at those schools no doubt did the same. The result is that a lot of people who studied eg. derivatives would be much less able to apply that knowledge in any environment except the standardised test.
While too little funding is an issue, once you hit a baseline the issue is no longer funding.

The rich neighborhoods (and working class neighborhoods that value education) have better schools because their kids are on average better students. They make sure of it and set high expectations.

Nobody believes that you if you just funded Northeastern Illinois State University the same as Northwestern that the student outcomes would be the same. Why do we think the same thing doesn't apply in elementary and high school.

Want to fix the problem? School vouchers at the statewide level.
that's exactly correct. If we're going to start abridging freedoms (which I concede may be necessary in exigencies), we'd better get a congressional vote on it.
I didn't know Khan Academy was elitist, expensive or personalized.

No amount of expensive tutors is going to help a rich kid on the SAT unless they really do all the work.
If I remember correctly, according to Leonard Mlodinow's Feynman's Rainbow, Gell-Mann wrote that in Feynman's obituary for the Physics Review. It "raised quite a few eyebrows".
The problem that someone else can move your domain.

The same problem it solves for finance: That someone else can move your money.
But why fix then? Will the performance gap vanish when they get accepted by an university (even if someone else from some other group, wouldn't get accepted with the same score)?
Santana Row was pretty much just fabbed from whole cloth and it's really fun.
Although the present shows us that most people will be happy corpo serfs. : p
> The article makes no mention of the lawsuit that was brought against the UC system.

The article very clearly references the lawsuit: "Do the tests prevent low-income Black and Latino students from getting college degrees? This is the charge of a lawsuit filed in 2019 and settled by the university in May"
But even before the social aspects went online and remote, they were already there.

The arcades of 20-30 years ago were a place to meet friends and make new ones, playing games, competing.

Then we'd meet at each other's houses for FIFA/NBA/NHL championships, to play Street Fighter or Mario together, etc.

Then there were the LAN parties, where friends would take their desktops with big CRT monitors so they could share a low-latency LAN for multiplayer gaming, whilst being able to talk to each other.

It's really just that much of this is now online rather than in person, like many other activities.
I'll have to pull this one out next time I hear somebody complaining about the imperial system of measures being useless
> That's a good thought - but worth considering that just because lines are fuzzy doesn't make them either 'arbitrary' or even 'subjective'.

Interesting and plausible, but you didn't give an argument or any example for that.
>"individual college or program rankings do change substantially."

I hadn't considered that. Good insight.
Where I work devs usually have the most force. We know privacy laws, we care about not collecting bullshit data that might ruin our day when our org looses it later. We are not a software company however, software is mostly for us and our customers
"As a Californian I find it quite ironic that many policies in “conservative” Texas (ex. university admissions, property tax, income tax) are more much more progressive than what we have in “liberal” California."

While I (as a graduate of UT Austin) agree with most of your comment, I would like to know why you believe Texas' tax policies are progressive?

(Texas does not have an income tax, but does have (very high) property taxes. A resident of Texas with a large income but a small real-estate footprint pays relatively few taxes (which is why many wealthy individuals choose Texas as their state of residence) while an average homeowner, whose house is the largest asset, pays a greater relative tax rate.)
But the links here haven't rotted, in that they will not return a 404 or whatever. They will still load videos, it will just be replaced with porn. So you need more code to detect all vidme links as something to fall back to the Archive for.
MacOS was starting to get good in 2004, but unfortunately I feel that it went to their head. My opinion of MacOS didn't really start to decline until Catalina, at which point it started to become blatantly obvious that Apple was focused more on "business" than "computers" these days. I was surprisingly content with the openness of Mojave, and even hopeful for the future of the OS. If any slivers of hope were hanging on during Catalina, they were certainly demolished when they showed off the Big Sur redesign.
That's pretty cool. Looks like it's not active for 3rd party SFOS apps yet, though: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-community-news-17th-...
Removes the motive to excel for all groups of students, why strive when you get accepted by quota instead of test score?

It's how communist countries allocate admissions and jobs, what mattered most was not merit, but collusion to the party. So there was no reason to try to be very good in any field.
He can afford advice that tells him whether he can get away with it. Evidently they said he could, at least for now.
Yes, I am old enough to remember how we were all sold the promise of the "information superhighway", a bright future of a fully open, inclusive network where people would share knowledge freely in an instant. Every passing year the Internet has become:

- More censored.

- More commercialized.

- Less open, more walled-gardened.

- More banal (For example, academics used to write long Usenet posts, then they started to write blogs, now they mostly bicker on twitter)

- Less sincere and personal, now people mostly use it as just another PR tool.If you dont conform, you will be cancelled, downvoted,banned, etc.

Now, before someone comes to accuse me of "Old-man-yelling-at-the-clouds syndrome", I fully accept that in absolute terms we have more good things now, but the signal/noise ratio is also a very important thing, or as papa Stalin used to say: "Quantity has a quality on its own" , for every thoughtful post,blog,site we are drowned in thousands of crappy sites and it is not always very easy to distinguish them, because it is the sad reality that quality publications will little by little become crap just to survive or fit-in.
Of course Catholics were bound to be against woman rights - the pope himself told them so.

Your problem here is you seem to believe anyone cares about the (largely made up) distinction between doctrinal vs non-doctrinal, which in real life doesn’t matter at all.
Assuming that chilling effects aren't an objective all their own....
It looks like each of those 12,385 items is a big 10.4GB archive of thousands of videos.
I really dislike this writing structure of "before I get to the point, let me tell you a story about my life"

Edit: I'm not alone, https://style.mla.org/dont-bury-the-lede/
There is a hadith in Islam : "Which deeds are better accepted by Allah? The continuous ones, even it is small."
I like, and respect t Feynman, but feel most of his stories are a humble brag.

I can only take so much of his writing. On a psychological level, I have thought about it over the years, and come up empty. I probally don't know enough about the man.

What got me thinking about it was one of his stories about the kid who could tell you what's wrong with your radio with his hearing.

I understand needing to protect your ego later in life when you didn't get the respect you deserved. In the stories, the trait started very young.

And maybe I'm completely mistaken? It just might be his way writing that has me wondering?
> Something being possible, even if unlikely, is obviously more dangerous than something being impossible. Feynman would definitely understand that even if he insisted that the main reason for the shape of the cover is the shape of the hole (which is probably true).

This is a very good point for someone who is known, among other things, for his O-ring demonstration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Commission_Report#Role_...).
Ask HN: How to publish papers at rapid pace?
I want to write papers CS or otherwise that are of reasonable quality and can get accepted with 50% acceptance rate at moderately competitive journals.

My topics of interest are CS, human cognition, intuition, HCI, computational storytelling.

1. How to write a paper that gets accepted and gets high citations?
2. As a non-academic, who to approach and how to get papers accepted?
3. How to write high quality papers?

My goal is to publish 10 papers in next 9 months.

Cheers.
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I think it's simpler than you're allowing. Death in animals is the absence of consciousness with no possibility of recovery. In plants and maybe-but-probably-not-sentient life, it's more complicated.
Idk Seattle for example is liberal as hell but 25% go to private schools. Likely because equity goals are not good for non target groups
Oh, I like SFHs too, but my new-build home in London was sound-proofed to the gills. I ran into the neighbours at the lifts one day and they apologized for their kids shrieking "they've been awful this weekend, I'm sorry". I hadn't heard a thing. I could hear the river boats and everything with my window open (faced the Thames) but I never heard a peep out of a neighbour.

American construction is shoddy, which is why American homes are relatively cheap, even at the mid-luxury end. High-end luxury is pretty good. My cousin pays some $12k/month for his home and it's really quiet.
> kids should explore possibilities and be kids instead of having to worry about their vocation so young and being put on a track to become something.

Yeah that's a really tough line to track. At some point they're going to develop a sense of purpose and I have no idea when or where or what or how I can nurture it.

ANXIETY
feynman is always smart in his autobiography.
As a teacher I'd say that depends. If it's relevant to the job, then you should obviously know it, and perhaps even be able to expand upon it. Though after reading the posts here I have a sneaking feeling that things like that usually aren't relevant.

With that said, having a conversation with someone solving a problem right in front of you, gives you a very good insight into how the person thinks. To that end I've censored a lot of pupils where they have to "defend" (i.e. talk about or explain) a piece of code that they made, sometimes beforehand as a bigger project, or sometimes on the fly.

I'd often give them extra problems and talk with them about it as they solved it if I was unsure about the grade. I find that this gives me far more insight in where the pupil is coming from, and hence his level of competence, rather than seeing the code on its own, or having him answer a multiple choice or SAT type test. I can see how an interviewer might make use of a similar technique if he's unsure about the candidate.
Chiming in to say that I, too, loved The Dig when it came out.

At the time, I read the lukewarm reviews, and it wasn't hard to see that The Dig had suffered a bit from being so long in production. That said, while technology-wise it was perhaps a bit behind some other games at the time, as a LucasArts game, it definitely felt state of the art, from the lush music to the high-quality voice acting and the gorgeous pixel art. Only Full Throttle came close.

And while it wasn't a perfect game, its sense of place was superb. To a young adventure gamer seeking fantastic, alien worlds, it did feel immersive.

There was another adventure game that came out around the same time that's now largely forgotten: Heart of Darkness [1], by Éric Chahi, notable for making Another World (aka Out of This World). It had a similar troubled development process, and had a similarly pretentious marketing boasting of music performed by a real symphonic orchestra (the Sinfonia of London), and it met similarly lukewarm reviews. The game is actually beautiful (except for the horrifically outdated 3D cut scenes), but it's also not quite the classic that Another World was.

(Coincidentally, Chahi also worked on a sci-fi point-and-click for Delphine back in 1989 called Future Wars [2]. It's a beautiful game that has some parallels with The Dig, though modern players are going to be really put off by the horrible user interface.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness_(video_game)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Wars
Just to take a recent HN front page example, the link to SyncThing. It says "Since Android phones, at least, are Linux-based, one need only set up a normal shell environment on it and put Syncthing there to achieve this goal; the process shouldn't take more than a day or so."

The disconnect between the two worlds "people who use Apple products" and "people who think a day or so of your life is a reasonable amount of time to install an app that copies files over a network" is, well there's no way to cross that gap. And then you describe what Apple does as "dumbing down", for dumb people. People who don't want to care that SyncThing is written in Go instead of Java which means they can't access the Android API to write to an SD Card and the docs lead to a Github issue with 128 comments explaining why they aren't going to fix it. People who give their iCloud account login and Apple has their photos? Dumb people.

[I know people choose SyncThing to keep control locally and that often comes at a cost of more trouble, more effort. It's illustrative of very different worlds, that's all].
If you click through to Modern Farmer at the top of the article the rest of it is on that site.
Yeah, if kids all have equal time outside of school (because poor kids have the same workloads at home as rich kids), equal access to resources (because poor kids have equal access to computers and internet access as rich kids), and we're relying solely on the kids motivation (rather than parents who can supply time to engage with their kids education, unlike the kids whose parents are working multiple jobs just to make ends meet).

If all that's true, then yeah, it's just the kids' choice of how they spend their time and effort, and NOT a proxy for wealth. But I don't think all of that is true.
Theology is study about religion. Science, by definition cannot apply to things such as determining whether spirits exist. But that doesn't mean that there aren't spirits floating around us, you can't prove that to be scientifically false either. Science also can't tell us if we have a soul, but that's a core element of almost all religions.

By definition, Science does not work on Religion, but that does not make the religion false (because you could have a soul even though science cannot prove it), but rather shows you are hitting the limits of what Science alone can achieve.

And it is not fair, in that case, to call a Bible Scholar not a Scholar because their field intrinsically cannot use what people call "Science."
Please name some actual examples in which the truth or falsity of any particular "conjecture[] in prime number theory" has a observable bearing on the performance of any algorithm.

I felt it was clear from context that the OP meant one of the serious conjectures like GRH, which is an awful long way away from being 'shaky'.
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Non Chinese in general didn't realize the ferocious competition between video apps companies like Bytedance and Kuaishou. When tiktok emerged it was already very strong.
At a quick glance, everyone in this thread seems to be assuming 'random' gives you Coke or Pepsi with equal probability ….
But like, I'm not a good soccer player at all and I don't harbor a belief that I should be placed on a soccer team to the exclusion of others who are much better (as opposed to just marginally better).
Chinese and Russian lobbies are absolutely nothing compared to the Israeli lobby [1].

[1] - https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/israel-lobby-and-us...
Generally neither team wants any players going to jail, not even those on the other team. Once you start that the game itself gets disrupted.
> Homosexuality has been around since the Roman era

TIL that the Romans invented homosexuality.
A lot of us do this to some extent, don’t we? I mean, I’m no Feynman, but I have done some things thinking, if this works out, it’s going to be a great story. Sometimes there really is no other good reason for doing them.
That is the number of megawarc items. Each one of these items contains many videos.
the software isn't using the radar even if the cars are still shipping with it.
I'm still waiting for a robot that can assemble a LEGO model from a pile of Legos.
Don't normal domains work the same - you pay a fee and you get the domain for X years? In both situations the domains expire and a porn site can nab them.
Italy is the “remnant of Papal States”. There was never a “Vatican nation”, only an artificial country.
Maybe I'm off base here, as it's no small feat by any means, but it's especially jarring to read when "first-website-building-SaaS" has so little to do with industrial robotics at its surface.
Thankfully they gave us back the physical escape key in the next version! I had the version you're using for 3 years as a work issued machine. Between the touchbar and the butterfly keyboard repeatedly failing on me it was pretty bad.
> China has realized what Russia knows so well. You don't compete with the USA, it's cheaper and more effective to buy its politicians.

Maybe the Cold War would've ended differently if the Soviet Union had just hired better lobbyists.

There's a saying that goes something like "a capitalist will sell you the rope you'll hang him with," and I think there's more than a grain of truth to it.

If Huawei wants to lobby the US government, let the Chinese Ambassador do it. I don't think foreign companies should be able to hire lobbyists to manipulate the US government, let alone companies from non-democratic countries. And it should be illegal for an American to take such a job.

Edit: also TIL this isn't the Podesta emails guy (that's John), rather it's his brother.
My guess is that this comment was flagged by an automated system and only once someone reviewed it did they say "nah, this is nothing."

> it means the thought crossed your mind...might start to look like something if there are a lot of them

This doesn't make any sense. Thinking about worst case scenarios is normal. The person who is going to rob you is the one person who is definitely not going to tell you in advance that you're going to be robbed.
The fact is that requiring the SAT leads to worse educational outcomes for Black and Latinx students. You can close your eyes to it all you want and say "but I don't see how that happens, they don't ask you skin color on the test!". That doesn't change the reality on the ground. We need a better system than the SAT as the gatekeeper to higher education. And yes, maybe UC doesn't have the perfect replacement. But at least they're trying.
I've never understood this response: everybody already knows that "Muslim" is not a race.

When people refer to racism against Muslims, they're referring to the ways in which Western countries, in particular, racialize a religious group: our tendency to treat Islam as a uniquely Arab/ME phenomenon and to assume the contrapositive as well (that anybody who looks vaguely Middle Eastern is Muslim). These are all patently obvious ways in which people are racist against Muslims, even though "Muslim" itself is not a race.
> If we were to think about this assertion rationally instead of emotionally, we would have to face what California has done: consigned its most vulnerable students to some of the worst K–12 schools in America

...assuming a given school is responsible for 100% of its students' SAT scores. In reality parents are responsible for at least 50% of a kid's performance in school and so even if you put low income students into gold-plated schools they would still underperform because they lack a strong family life outside of school (i.e. educated, non single, motivational parents) that would have prepared them.

Take a truant kid from Baltimore and put them in the finest high school in America and they would still fail because the problem is the family life enabling truancy, not how much money the school has.
Vista changed the driver model (for the best), and some manufacturer quite simply never bothered to upgrade.
Well, I graduated from TJ this year (2021) and it wasn’t very common for people to have a 4.5+. Yes, some, but not the average by any stretch - average was probably a 4.2, or a 4.3.
Actually, if you enter Catholic spheres (which I have to examine their thinking), they argue about doctrine and non-doctrinal all the freaking time. Constantly. They argue whether they need to follow the Pope on something or not and their internal Canon Law requirements without stop.

However, there is no dispute about what is doctrinal. There is instead dispute about how that doctrine is put in practice. Such as can a Pope do Action A without being doctrinally not Pope anymore, and what non-doctrinal process would need to follow.
> I would like to know, how are you using Syncthing to create local backups for WhatsApp database/msgstore (crypt14) and media files.

Not the parent poster, but I also do this; I just configured Syncthing to share the /storage/emulated/0/WhatsApp (aka /sdcard/WhatsApp) directory. WhatsApp stores its daily local backup on the Backups subdirectory of that directory, and the media files are all in the Media subdirectory of that directory.

> have you tested it via a restore? If so, how?

I have actually used it to move all the WhatsApp and Signal data from an old phone to a new phone. Just have Syncthing synchronize these directories (with the same path) on the new phone before installing WhatsApp and Signal, then install and launch WhatsApp and Signal. When first launched, if that directory already contains a backup, both WhatsApp and Signal ask if you want to restore from that backup. Signal then asks you to type a long backup encryption key you should have written down somewhere, while WhatsApp asks its servers for the backup encryption key.
Extending the lives of phones with degraded batteries is a good thing. In fact, the feature still exists today.

The thing they did wrong was not telling people. Now they do.
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