skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to a RURAL school. My graduating class was 20 people. We didn't really do SAT prep, basically all time was eaten up triaging students who were struggling, and dealing with poorly behaved students. Or the teachers were sometimes completely lazy.

I didn't even know AP classes EXISTED. I got to go home for a work study after my first class senior year because I had taken all of the classes available to me. A lot of my peers weren't so lucky and had to sit in study hall for the entire day. The school was gaming attendance because kids in seats means more money, and with how small the school was every student mattered.

Either way: Not a great place to be as a reasonably intelligent young person with an aptitude for technology. I was so profoundly unprepared for college, I had to work twice as hard to do half the work as everyone else, but I managed to sneak by with never failing a class. ( OK, I failed one statistics class because I walked into the final without a calculator. )

I had to work during the day to support myself and do night classes my Jr and Sr year of school. I have this memory of all of my classmates going to an "Of Montreal" concert, and I really wanted to go, but I didn't have the money to buy the ticket. Or the time, I never went out, I had to spend my free time on the weekends doing my homework.

So yeah, this is a nice gesture. The SAT is easier to study for when you are a product of an achievement driven environment and have mentors to coach you through the process. College is more valuable when you actually have the time and capacity to take advantage of your education and it's opportunities. Same as everything else, there is a massive gulf of education and training between students of wealthy districts, and the rest of us. Personally, I think those of us from the sandlot deserve a swing as well.
The real world is full of 'edge cases' that humans can deal with through their intuition and understanding of context. Humans are unlikely to mistake a yellow-ish moon for a yellow traffic light unless very intoxicated.

I'd like to see a Tesla on full autonomous autopilot take a drive in Calgary or Edmonton a few days after a heavy snow, when it's been mostly plowed but the lines are missing from the roads, all the lines at the side of the road are covered in snow, etc.
The problem is that every approach to university admissions will be flawed.

Personally I think there should be a lottery system after a certain grade/extracurricular cut-off. The difference at a certain point between students is negligible and a lottery system would help alleviate some bias. Of course there's plenty of things wrong with this approach as well, you're never going to find something that pleases everyone.
This is a bizarre canard that people keep running with. You can prep for the SAT but it adds 20-30 points at most. So mostly you can't prep for it. You certainly can't buy a high score.

College sports is a racket though for sure.
“In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.”
The dig came a bit after Myst(a game I absolutely loved) and I felt like it was going after those players who wanted "more" after beating myst. The graphics were ok, but my biggest complaint was some of the puzzles being really really hard(I remember the skeleton part and was like "what am I supposed to do here?"). a little QA would have gone along way to fix that but I don't remember it being horrible like the author states.
I very much want Apple to allow proper sideloading on iOS and iPadOS without any sort of developer account requirements that they currently impose and without any sort of weird workarounds to refresh certificates like altstore [1]. I think Apple absolutely should change their policy here because it is something I find unattractive about their devices and their devices are worse than they should be because of it.

With that being said, your analogies don't actually hold up at all.

> People paid good money for their phones, and so they must be free to use them as they see fit.

Apple doesn't hide its policies from its customers and while some people may be ignorant to them, it doesn't change the fact that it's not hidden away. You're not tricked into buying an iPhone thinking you'll be able to install any software you want on it. Anyone that cares enough to want to do so is also fully capable of looking this information up and understanding that they can't (even if they really want to).

> To me this sounds like buying a car that's restricted from entering Germany

It's more like you buy a car knowing fully well that it doesn't run Spotify on its computer then buying it anyway, then being upset that it doesn't run spotify. I get that your point is more that a car's purpose to drive places and an iPhone is a computer so its purpose is to compute things, but even a car imposes restrictions on its use with things like a governor to prevent you going over a certain speed. If you want a car without that restriction you buy one without it.

> or buying a fruit processor that forbids you to blend fruit

If anyone bought a fruit processor that doesn't blend fruit, that's kind of on them. But given that this were hypothetically possible, the person wouldn't have to buy that fruit processor because they should know before hand that that particular one doesn't blend fruit.

[1] https://altstore.io/
I'd say "not so fast".
I think he's saying if you're in a bad urban school, it's hard to see how you're any less likely to be in the top 6% than if you're in a bad rural school given the same academic abilities. (Academic abilities which don't always need to be very highly developed.)
What’s going on is more interesting than that.

The Tesla keeps seeing it as a traffic light then rejecting it as not a yellow light over and over in the UI. Just the right atmospheric conditions plus just the right angle probably don’t show up a lot in it’s sample sets.

GPS gives accurate timing and location which should make filtering out the moon straightforward, but it might just be overly cautious as a level 3 system.
Isn't Apple walking-back that whole Touch Bar fiasco now?
> He's a moderate classical liberal, which is generally described as a centrist position.

Organizations like the Hoover love to present this as such, but there is a reason why the departments just 100 or so feet away don't interface with them - and it isn't because they are centrists.
A liberal state is not capable of granting religious freedom. All it can offer are religious rights, which means that you are allowed to imagine that you are Christian (or whatever other religious affiliation), and you may dress up in funny costumes and participate in funny symbolic rituals, but as soon as you attempt to exercise your religion in a way that contradicts the economic logic of our society, then the state has to crush you as ruthlessly as any political enemy.

To ask the liberal state to do otherwise is nonsense. If you want to exercise your religion in a way that exceeds the bounds that are set for you by the state, you have to step outside of your fantasy and engage directly in politics to convince the rest of society that your religion should have greater authority than the state. If you actually believe that your religion is greater than all others, then you should be able to prove it in the political realm.
Did you write this with your “knows things” brain, or your “fitness maxing” brain? ;)

I think, from talking to you, that we both believe in a “knows things” brain: we can know things, including that there are limitations to our knowledge, and certain vulnerabilities that can lead us to know wrongly. The kinds of arguments you have been making are predicated on our thoughts having truth value, as such.

The “fitness machine” brain’s thoughts have no truth value, only fitness value. It does not experience “reality as it exists, at all.” As such it cannot even determine that there is truth value to its self-evaluation as a “fitness machine.” Even worse, it has no access to its objective function as a fitness maximizer, so it can’t even tell if its own thoughts are, indeed, fitness-enhancing! So yeah, fitness brain is susceptible to the “demon” scenario you described.

If we want to posit that the “fitness machine” brain can indeed “know things,” we need to specify how. This doesn’t seem obvious at all to me.
>We want to understand your thought process

That's one reason, but from my personal experience interviewing, an even bigger signal is a candidate's attitude to a challenge. I've found that the best candidates tend to be those who 'own' the challenge such that they clearly get excited about solving it themselves, rather than just to please the interviewer.

>Why do you ask?
This is a particularly interesting question, as I'd say it's asked by the best and the worst and the best performers, the best looking to solve the underlying problem, and the worst looking to shirk responsibility.
Every apartment or condo I’ve lived in in the US (and it’s been at least 10) has had terrible problems with noise from neighbor units, except 2, and one of those was the top floor. The other was actually a concrete high-rise built as condos so I suspect that solid construction helped. Voices, TV, footsteps, sex, arguments, domestic violence, parties, demo/remodeling, noisy pets; you name it, I’ve heard it in excruciating detail. It’s not been my experience that “niceness” of the building makes any difference either, just height, as wood frame construction becomes impractical over a certain number of stories—but that’s getting higher every few years.

I understand there are construction techniques to mitigate this even in low-rise wood frame buildings, but I’ll eat my hat if any designer or builder in the US bothers unless forced by regulation.
No one ethnic group owns the schools.
"Easy" is provocative. But the Economist publishing an article on an engineering problem by someone who evidently didn't bother to talk to an engineer is more provocative.

To an engineer, there little space between "easy" and "too expensive for you".
That is a concern, but it's not one related to how many branches exist in the code.

"How did we get here?" and "Are we in the right place?" are distinct questions.
Murray Gell-Mann did say once that he was annoyed by Feynman's tendency to invent anecdotes about himself. He wasn't lucky in the sense that he was a brilliant scientist but he also had a huge ego which he needed to validate publicly.
Owning a game doesn't make it legal to pirate it
You could have told us your evidence of Tesla safety data is "Tesla says" and saved me a click.
Now consider the cake. The baker, contrary to headlines, didn't object to selling them a cake. If they wanted a generic cake like the dozens on his shelves, or wanted to buy bottled water or any other of his creations, he would have sold it to them immediately.

He objected to making them a personalized cake that endorsed their relationship on it, which would require his creativity to be poured into something explicitly endorsing the issue. And his argument is that if he can be forced to write something endorsing their relationship, why couldn't, say, a racist come in demanding he write something racist on a cake?

I don't really object to that balance. If it's something generic and impersonal, sell it, and if it's something very personal, have the right to object. That's not significant exclusion from society. Are you truly significantly excluded from society when you can get the same service from a 7 minute walk to Walmart (as the court case declared), or buy some icing and do it yourself?
What is the point of the first paragraph?
Redbean: Portable Executable Web Server (Justine Tunney) [video]
https://www.sfchronicle.com/travel/article/PG-E-owns-land-ac...
Leviticus is pretty clear, though. So ... why not mention that?
Around the time this was written I knew a number of people who had bought a Mac because it was a nice BSD-like command line environment with a reasonable GUI. These same people also spent a lot of their times in ssh sessions to various Linux and FreeBSD servers.

MacOS 10.0 and 10.1 were buggy messes, but the successors were pretty good. Shortly afterwards, MacOS 10.4 and 10.5 improved on it a great deal.
Any objective measure like the SAT is bad because it is dominated by Asians who the State has deemed undesirable and unworthy of this dominance. They tried changing the objective measures but it didn’t work, they could do Harvard admissions by 100 meter sprint times and Asians would still find a way to dominate. So they need to remove objective criteria as they are roadblocks to ethnically cleaning their universities of Asians.
That doesn't explain the difference between the opinions on taxes and it's change before and after the Civil Rights Act.
Awesome, are you planning to participate in LVFS[1]? I see there's an entry for Framework, but no firmware uploaded yet.

[1] https://fwupd.org/
In my home country you have the constitutional right to visit a judge at their home to plead particular kinds of cases.

All the same, threatening the judiciary is one of the most anti-social things you can do, and should be strictly policed. I don't know if trawling news comments is an effective way to do that, but I'm glad to know they're making an effort. A few false positives (appropriately handled) is a good sign of sufficiently high sensitivity.
You are not attempting to have branch coverage; you are attempting to cover the space of possible inputs.
Thanks so much!

The initial version of ContainIQ is in a similar space to what pixie has built, but our eventual vision has a few differentiators. I believe Pixie was built using BCC (an assumption based on the 2GB requirement and their BPF trace tooling) which requires llvm and the kernel headers to be installed on every node. This ends up requiring a lot of ephemeral storage. Since Kubernetes is most commonly used for stateless applications this ends up being a problem, because the default node storage allocatable is relatively low. We’re in the process of migrating out from BCC to libbpf which should alleviate a lot of the issues associated with the larger storage/memory footprint of BCC. We also have a few unique features in the pipeline that I believe are unique to our product (EX: P95, P99 http latency by microservice endpoint).
Interesting how bad is the USA image after 2003 invasion of Irak. The West supported USA after 9/11, people felt really sorry for what happened. It felt like a betrayal when all that good will was used to steal oil at the cost of destabilizing the region, killing hundreds of thousands and delaying green energy sources. There is a limit on what propaganda can fix.

Russia seems to play the game differently. They just want to cause chaos, maybe because they are playing defense. China is also growing influence and propaganda in the West, and if the USA does not fit it's internal problems it can become the next world power in the minds of most people.

Interesting read. It feels part of a past that is not coming back.
Given that Windows Update has deleted user data for the last three years running, there really isn't room for people in glass houses to throw rocks.
For me I feel like a 10 year pre-pay would be worse. I'll forget about the fact that I need to pay for it again in 2031.

Yearly at least keeps me on my toes a bit.
Transportation might be the identifiable target market, but the actual market of buyers for robotics in transportation is very small, and the problem is that the chasm between the incumbent market and new entrant robotics space is far too large to surpass by the emerging startups.

This is truly a crossing the chasm problem.
You can get Full Self Driving* for only $199/month now!: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/17/tesla-debuts-fsd-subscriptio...

Plus the cost of the latest FSD computer upgrade, even if Elon Musk promised your old model "has all the required hardware for Level 5 autonomy". Your fault for believing him, pay up.

* Isn't actually Full Self Driving
That's the rumor, but nothing official has been shown off yet
> What's the win for the new owner, do they make money from linking to the porn somehow?

They are the porn (the new owner is a porn firm), so, yes. I haven't seen the actual linked content, but I assume its something like free samples with directions telling people where to get more; its a move that gets porn ads placed for free in a lot of places that would never choose to allow porn ads.
Red herring or strawman.

No one asserted that

In fact, the person you responded was asserting that this course of action is meant to deny access to members of certain groups because of their membership in a group, not that they are entitled to access because of their membership in a group.
All the best colleagues I've worked with aced the SAT and/or other standardized tests. I would hate to not be able to refer to them while interviewing job candidates.

Honestly, standardized test scores and some case study type questions would be sufficient to make a decision (along with 1 on 1 convos). I hope a decision like this opens a channel for smart people to get to employment without having to go to school or spend as much time in it.

Edit:

Some people are commenting that relying on scores from years ago can unfairly disadvantage people who have improved since then, and can generally be misleading. I agree with that.

There should be a robust ecosystem of aptitude tests that are generally accepted, are as unbiased (culturally) as possible, and that can be retaken at any time.

I think it's developing, as I've seen some examples of this in the hiring process.
There are some subtle ways HN is different.

I think GP's important insight here is that people need to start being selective about their social media engagement and ditching their smartphones entirely.

I've used a flip phone for a couple of years now and I would never go back to a smartphone. Having a rich interface to the internet in my pocket is too addictive and does not enrich my life at all. More importantly, I feel like I'm part of the solution to the world's vanishing privacy problem. Yes, I'm just 1 person without a smartphone against 1,000 with smartphones, but by existing this way, I am preserving a lifestyle of deliberate technology use that I know is smarter, healthier, and worth preserving.
"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", said to have been spoken in the 17th or 18th century by "a great princess" upon being told that the peasants had no bread.
I'm not sure the us death count in the middle east has quite hit millions yet.... High hundreds of thousands, maybe.
I think it's the 'historic' that matters, healthy downtowns seem to require some specificity and coevolution with the people there. The original comment as I understood it was speculating what would happen if something resembling a healthy downtown was simply dropped into place one day.
At level 3 they just reject things back to the driver if they can’t see road markings. Longer term GPS makes that an easier problem for self driving cars than bad weather. The post blizzard random trails through deep snow seem like a more difficult challenge, largely because it’s so rare.
Affirmative action is a shortcut, but sometimes the shortcut is the only way to make any progress.

There may be a few very large issues, but also a gazillion small factors that make up systemic discrimination, both racially and against women. It is impossible for minorities to fight those individually, especially not from a position of weakness. It is more effective to counter at least a small part of the net discriminative effect by relatively simple quotas.

And usually those policies don't make up the balance anyway.
That press release is not evidence that Tesla's Autopilot is saving lives, for at least three major reasons.

For one thing, Autopilot is more likely to be engaged for some types of driving than others. Comparing statistics with Autopilot engaged to the total of all miles driven is comparing apples and oranges.

Similarly, it's comparing statistics about the people who buy and drive Teslas with the entire driving public. You don't know how many accidents Tesla owners would have gotten into if they were in cars that didn't have self-driving features.

Finally, you can't draw any conclusions about whether lives were saved by just looking at the number of accidents and ignoring their severity. Hypothetically, if Autopilot caused fewer accidents at low speeds but more catastrophic collisions on highways, it could be easily be causing more deaths than it prevents.
of course Americans like single family homes. I'm sure most people throughout the world would love the option. They are appealing by definition. But are single family homes good for society? They use space so much more inefficiently. They encourage more electricity usage, along with other resources. They forcibly maintain the wastefulness of American car culture. They are ludicrously profligate yet have been normalized in this country. It's not that some "nefarious organization" hoodwinked people - they are a devil's bargain that nobody had the foreknowledge to contain.
This is an all time favorite game from my childhood. It captured my imagination in a way that had a lasting impact. Like others have said, I was obsessed. While the Monkey Island games were my first adventure game loves, the serious subject matter and eerie otherworldliness of The Dig appealed to me at some primal level. The art, the incredible soundtrack, the sense of isolation, even the insane puzzles, all added up to a very different experience from other adventure games of the time.
That 6E6 on the end looks ironically like a floating-point exponent. :)
How much would 1k 100GbE links cost from one of those providers? How much would 10k of those links cost? Does the price increase linearly or exponentially?
I would be more supporting of turning off my ad-block if the average blog or news post didn't have 70% of the screen be ads, with 2 ad popups, a cookie banner, an auto-playing video, and a redirect to another ad page on first click.
It’s just three slides:

1) mine Ethereum

2) buy nuclear materials/secrets with ETH abroad circumventing sanctions

3) nuke US
That was mostly based off the base-model 13" MacBook Pro from before which didn't have a touchbar.
Interesting point about the new dialog button layout. I hadn’t thought about it, but you’re right, it is a step back in that regard!
AI and Its Effects on Open Source Software
"you should be able to prove it in the political realm."

Well, you've got Saudi Arabia, and countless Arab nations. You've got Israel, and there's also Vatican City (which is a nation inside Italy, albeit a small one).

However they aren't exactly popular in liberal society...
A reference for those who don't know about it: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
At least it's not detecting it as a red traffic light and slamming on breaks at 60mph. I know AP can't do that but if it happened on a FSD car.
So interesting! Some similar work on this area:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23258-x

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020AGUFMP001...01C/abstra...