skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
School size is a related factor. For example, Harvard is not going accept 50 applicants from the same school, even if it's a relatively large and exceptionally competitive one like Stuyvesant in NY or Thomas Jefferson in DC. But Harvard will totally accept 8-10 applicants from a small exclusive private or parochial school. The ratio plays in favor of smaller high schools if (say) the population of students going to any one college is capped at 5% for a large school and 10% for a small one.

This bears out in what I've observed (all anecdotes ofc). Many people who go from these sorts of large south bay high schools to top-5 UCs are head and shoulders smarter than the graduates of the small private school => Ivy League pathway, despite the Ivy schools ranking better.

When you see it in action (brilliant kid who went to a large, highly competitive public high school who was rejected from every Ivy, and is way smarter than many students who went to the schools that rejected them), it feels rotten. Happily most of the folks I've met in this category have great careers but their confidence often takes a hit at the age of 17-18.
The definition of "trusted code" in this domain is essentially non-existent. "Oh, it's from Spitfire Audio, no problem" is about as sophisticated as it gets.
I had a personal project that I got bored with so I let the domain expire. Then I got emails from former users saying that the domain was now hosting malware. So yeah I would like it for all the old links to the site to somehow know that the owner has changed. Not sure what a reasonable solution would look like though.
Shouldn't this be fixed earlier, and not after they get the lower scores?

Equal opportunity is ok, but equal outcome is really shitty for kids of other groups who work hard and lose their spots due to the color of their skin.

> Note that communist societies had the analogous problem; whenever they implemented standardized testing, class enemies filled the ranks of top scorers.

Meh, we were lucky, we were the "3rd world" (literal definition, before the current one), and our top students left the country and worked in other, western, capitalist countries (and sent money back to their families :)) I think for a huge range of years, our biggest export was the workforce :)
No seriously, no.

Dive straight into debunking #noestimates but don't get to the fact that no one ever really knows what they want.
Interesting how basically the same thing happened to Apple in the 90s: the original, more radical successor to System 7 was in development for years under the name Copland, before they ended up scrapping most of it and releasing the much more conservative MacOS 8. Although I guess the only real takeaway might be that OS development is hard.
From a scientific point of view we can - not just will - never know the origin of life.
Of course, popular science frames it differently.
Thanks for the corrections on solar output! I was off by a factor of 1000 because I didn't square from square meters to square km.
I enjoyed reading the backstory to what I had always assumed had been a troubled production. Overall, I think the article’s assessment is fair. But for all its flaws, it’s not a terrible game. It just unfortunately stands deep in the shadow of half a dozen great LucasArts predecessors.

The hype in gaming in 1995 was fully focused on 3D and FPS titles, and I distinctly recall thinking how dated the pre-rendered sequences of The Dig looked.

Still, just because a game isn’t an instant classic doesn’t make it a failure either, as long as you judge it for what it is, not what the hype made you think.
If we are personnel constrained right now (we might not be) surely this competition for talent will result in it being a more attractive area for graduates.

One of the smartest things the UK power companies did was create very generous sponsorship programmes for students. For a tiny fraction of a yearly salary they could encourage someone to specialize in their niche. Now the UK has a great pipeline of engineers and they're saving on costs in the long-term because they don't need to compete amongst themselves on salary because there's plenty of talent.
This is such a dumb quote, because obviously they are creating a lot of value for customers as well. It's easy to blame "rich shareholders" and ignore our own impact via consumerism. Especially when many Americans themselves are shareholders through retirement plans.
I’m sorry, but it’s a Christian equivalent of Flat Earth. There’s too much bullshit there to even start untangling it.
> Especially when those cheap labor countries start having the same effect.

You missed the comment’s pivotal point. As developing countries, well, develop, higher labor prices will affect the entire supply chain. It’s a Good Thing (TM), and that’s why we’ll need better robotics in that future.
do you think, if i created a dragnet of internet comments threatening violence might happen in multiple forums across the internet, to varying degrees to silly to seriously contemplative?

you think, perchance, they were actually looking at multiple comments from multiple sources presenting a pattern of behaviour by some pseudononymous potential plotter?

people are so self centered and ignorant of these things,.
Low-precision mathematics saves lives.
> Somebody would have to buy the assets

Most of those assets fall into two categories:

1. Real estate, which doesn't need to be liquidated to be put under public ownership

2. Corporate shares, which don't need to be liquidated to be put under public ownership

The thought experiment around liquidating that wealth and cutting everyone a check was purely a response to your own hypothetical of liquidating a fraction of one billionaire's wealth and cutting everyone a check. Specifically, it was to point out that your "argument" misses the bigger picture around how much wealth is locked up in the accounts of even just billionaires, let alone millionaires.

> But beyond that, stealing money assets, or even in this case "net worth" is immoral.

Unless the wealthy do it through rent, lobbying, labor exploitation (including union busting), and monopolization, then it's all hunky-dory, right?

That's why I put "steal" in scare quotes. Retaking wealth already stolen from the working class is the precise opposite of theft, yet here you and others are, white-knighting for the poor millionaires.

Something's gotta give, or else the outcome will inevitably be far worse for that 1% than merely having to liquidate their assets.
> serving something more milquetoast

Never gonna give you up...
Property taxes pay for local schools in NJ.
The Chernobyl Tragedy – From the Memoirs of Nikolai Ryzhkov
You don't change a test to serve the needs of student, you change students to serve the needs of the test.
Leviticus is pretty clear about many things, starting from shellfish.
I used to use satellite internet like Viasat (Hughesnet), and there's a good goddamn reason I'm using Starlink now. At first I was convinced that our slow speeds and high latency were just a limitation of the technology, and the folks at Hughesnet were trying their hardest: boy was I wrong. They started introducing insanely low data caps (25gb/month), and charging us $15/gb overage.

I hope they go out of business. Their services were clearly exploitative, and this is a lame excuse to try and stamp out competition.
many of those arrested are in 23 hour solitary for the past months without any charges filed on them... ( no, this is not in Guantanamo Bay, but right here in the heart of USA, right under the nose of the 'free' press )

No substantial charges will likely be filed too, simply because the evidence is not there.

Those here on HN who had hyperventilate about freedoms and rights and such, but have maintained a studied silence in this case are being exposed as hypocrites.

As the days go on, it will be seen how much longer they will pretend to be ignorant.
AotC – Risk Off Risk On
Note that until recently, there was little correlation between the progressive/conservative axis and the Democratic/Republican axis. The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to the downfall of the Dixiecrat faction of the Democratic party and the current ideological sort. Ezra Klein's book "Why We're Polarized" has a lot of good background on this.
what? did you RTFA? The author gives an argument based on concrete evidence that the SAT helps underrepresented minorities, and states there ALREADY is a pathway (that also lots of underrepresented minorities use) that avoids the SAT, the biggest problem being that statewide guidance counselors are not instructed on the existence of that pathway.
https://archive.is/GHK1Y
Scholar, as in somebody doing science. Science follows certain rules. Catholic theology explicitly rejects those rules, thus it’s not a science.

There is a science researching those topics, it’s called Religious Studies. It is to theology what chemistry is to alchemy.
Can you point me to an article that shows a simple way how to do a simple SQL-like join (no aggregation) of two regions in the same spreadsheet? Two source tables, and one result table - all in the same spreadsheet.

Something that is as simple as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYCtoRTEk84
Right, but the campus of choice difference is huge!

The UC system includes schools like UC Merced which just aren't that competitive or prestigious to begin with, just as the UT system includes schools that are much less competitive/prestigious than UT Austin.
> Beau (YC S21) - Automate repetitive client-facing tasks - https://beau.to/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930568

get your own name! >:[
>And if this results in horrific consequences because we've fundamentally undermined security, who's accountable for that? No one (and everyone)?

It will be quite the moot point then, won't it? May I add for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's record that I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords.
Maine recently passed a law preventing offshore wind in our state waters :( . Our lobstering industry is very politically strong because they are very well united and put other political issues aside to improve the lobster industry.

However, state waters only legally go out a few miles, and our (democratic) governor, while signing the law, specifically called out wanting offshore wind power in the federal waters off the coast, but we also have a shitload of mountaintops that could have wind power, and a few installations already, as well as our biggest state university having a hugely and important wind energy lab and facility
Why does the author hate Elon so much?

Elon Musk, like anyone, has faults. Unlike others, he doesn’t bother trying to hide them. He’s not perfect. He’s probably not even the best he could be. But he’s not a “liar, cheater, and grifter” either.
I listened to a podcast recently (Reply All) where they spent quite a bit of time praising the TikTok recommendation engine.
Most people have to constantly remind themselves they can't change the world, and adjust their expectations and priorities accordingly. Some tiny fraction of people find themselves in the position where they actually can change the world. I'm not surprised they try to; I'm more surprised that more of them don't.
I like syncthing, but when I was trying it on just 3 laptops on the same wifi network, the speed seemed much slower than what I expected the maximum to be.

(Anecdata I know).
Artificial General Intelligence Compiler
They did: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Google_Video
hmmm. i don't get the joke.
I'm not referring to the intentions or what it was/is trying to do, but to the reality of its userbase and how they play the game and live their life. I mean, as a whole gaming tends to be similarly 'sad', but not to as large an extent as SL (in my opinion, of course).
Can't the tests be made to reflect the whole subjects? For example have the math test cover everything that high school math programmes are supposed to teach, so there's no way to prepare for the test, except to actually teach the whole subject?

For example, our general high schools ("gymnasiums") have predefined lists of topics, that sudents will learn there, and the standardized tests basically cover everything. How can you prep for eg. derivatives, except by actually learning and doing derivatives?
Sounds like something subresource integrity[1] could be expanded to include.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
Australian birds have a huge evolutionary advantage over species in other parts of the world. Modern birds evolved in Australia.

See: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=oJxZCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT11
I have always wanted a robot to plug the HDMI cable into my TV. Life will never be the same.
Almost no place has this (fairly pointless IMO) policy in place. How predictive is the SAT test I took when I was 16 to my performance on the job a decade later?
"To be clear, we have no legal department, let alone a subpoena compliance section of it. However, what we thankfully have is a very helpful Ken "Popehat" White on speed dial"

Beautiful. For anyone not familiar with Mr White, his blog is worth a read. I can't imagine someone I'd rather not face off against as a gov't official making spurious demands.

[0] https://www.popehat.com
[1] https://popehat.substack.com
I've heard of some families gaming this system by having their students attend less competitive high schools in order to improve their rank.
What Causes False Positives? Understanding Blood Culture Contamination
But Elon Musk is hiding things.

Elon Musk wants people to believe that the SolarCity buyout was good for Tesla, and not a thinly veiled attempt to rescue his cousin's money.

This comes up now, because the SolarCity / Tesla court case is up in court right now.

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> But he’s not a “liar, cheater, and grifter” either.

He's really good at it. Solar City solar-roof seems to be a lie made up to help sell that company to his shareholders.

But its not just that: the battery-day replacement demo (back in 2013 or something) seems to have been for obtaining California EV credits for fast-charging, even though the battery-replacement technology never even was ever mass produced or developed.

And now we have "FSD 9.0" which will solve all problems, but can't tell the difference between the moon and a traffic light (https://twitter.com/JordanTeslaTech/status/14184133078625853...)

Elon Musk said "Coast to Coast Autopilot" will exist in 2016. Its been 5 years, thousands of people have bought $5000 to $10,000 autopilot packages on this promise.

The grifting is so obvious when you step back. FSD doesn't work. Solar roofs don't work. Solar City wasn't a good buy for Tesla shareholders. Etc. etc. And now Elon Musk is pumping BTC again, as if people haven't realized that he's utilizing Tesla assets to create a one-man manipulation engine to pump-and-dump BTC and/or DOGE.

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Lets just focus on the Cryptocoin aspect alone. What do you think of Elon Musk's antics over the BTC / DOGE prices? This alone should be proof of his grifting attitude.
The Container Ship That Can Carry 29B USD Worth of iPhones
depending on how vidme stored their videos it could just be as simple as returning any request for a video file with whatever they were showing.
https://archive.is/y4OwA
The article makes no mention of the lawsuit that was brought against the UC system. They ended up settling, with the UC system agreeing to stop using the SAT for the next 5 years. I think the lawsuit had a lot more influence on the decision than most people think.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/Judge-bars-Uni...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/UC-settles-student...
To me, this is robot vs process - how much do we need clever robots and how much do we need to change the job.

There is an old saw about the transition from steam powered factories to electrical power. Initially the large steam engine was in one location, and basically its power was delivered by belts running off one central location. The factories initially tried to replace the steam engine with one big electric motor, and it worked ok but the factory was still a hub and spoke and pieces had to be moved from one spoke to the next.

It was not until a new generation of factories were built with many motors at any point in the factory that the modern line was built.

Of course this is a massive simplification, but I look at two robots using 10 m2 to assemble some Ikea cabinet, and think "awesome geekery" but if you want a factory producing pre-made furniture go back at least three-steps.

Robots that can replace a human arm in the assembly process just feel like we are replacing that big steam engine in the middle of the factory.

And, yes industrial robots is where you start, of course. But a factory can change its process to eliminate the need for a general purpose robot. But the home - that's a different story.

* Take up two "normal" sizes of a washing machine. A hopper accepts clothes, sorts them using RFID tags, and begins a run in a smaller drum, spins, dries and folds them. (yes, its probably magic but this would be on everyone's XMAS list)

* (completely foregoing everything I just said) a mobile robot arm that can learn where each item in a house belongs. 3D tracking, ML etc, and it picks up the toys my kids have left lying around.

* I am not sure where the "robot" vs "process" sits here, but food purchase and prep is a large time sink for many, but there seems to be a viable disintermediation of supermarkets - I mean if i choose a decent set of meals for a week, why send the food to the supermarket so it can use its shelves as a collection point to send it on to me. And if the food is picked so i get "nice meal on Saturday" plus "something with the extra Tues lunch"

I think there is a real possibility of robots making the middle class home like a B&B.

As Jerry Hall said, "My Mother told me if I wanted to keep a man I needed to be a Chef in the Kitchen, a Maid in the living room and a Whore in the bedroom. I said I would hire the first two and take care of the rest myself."

Edit: honestly I am not trying to be HN-negative, and I think all this investment is only going to build better robots. Which is a win. But I remain under-convinced that building general-purpose robots to replace general-purpose humans, when humans are already having the easy bits replaced by specific purpose robots is a good idea - it feels like running uphill.
I've worked in software automation for about a decade now, and that's been my learned wisdom too.

Don't try and boil the ocean: see what COTS is available, adapt your process to be able to leverage that, plug it in, and move on to the next project

As commentor above noted, volumes have to approach obscene to justify a moderate+ amount of custom, one-off implementation work.
You can't just "make everyone upgrade", not without a time machine-- because there are transactions which may have been written arbitrarily far in the past, already signed, potentially lock-timed, whos signers (or at least their keys) have sailed off into the sunset.

If compatibility with their signatures is dropped those funds will be irreparably and irrecoverably destroyed.

So, for example, BCash deployed an earlier version of our schnorr signature spec (from before the taproot part was finished) in a "hardfork" but preventing destroying funds meant that they had to keep the ECDSA support around (duo to presigned transactions, hardware security modules, etc.) -- so they didn't escape any complexity in that change, they introduced a disruptive flag-day which introduced its own extra complexity.

> often hear a bunch of garbage that they can't make sense of

The changes are compatible so you know those extra fields are stuff "from the future" which you don't understand and know you can ignore.

> but they won't be able to make sense of it or accept

The recipient of funds always specifies their own rules, you'll never specify rules that you don't understand so there isn't any issue with not being able to accept it.
Yes, that's what I was getting at with my final sentence.
I do a slight take on that which I found worked for me quite well during these pretty tiring times.

Usually my normal workout would be 30-45 minutes of a guided class (peloton, etc). But in days where I'm just not feeling it, I select a bite sized class (~10 minutes).
If after that short class I'm still feeling lethargic, then I call it a day, still being quite satisfied that I completed a "full" class.
But usually I find that after "pressing play" my energy levels are restored and I end up adding another 20 minutes class on top.

I feel this adds the benefit of knowing that there's a clear early "exit path" in which there is no act of quitting, since you do something till completion.
Schools are not static. Some will fail. New ones will pop up. If there is a group of people in an area that are not served then somebody can create a school to serve them. Make the only government run part of the school system the funding attached to a child.
90s Russia: t.A.T.u and Army of Lovers fandom and Ruki Vverkh![1]

Russia 25 years later: This rainbow-colored ice cream is too gay.[2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phxQFEH51SE

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-53319505
> How many deaths would you accept to reduce that to 10,000/year?

Zero.
I'm in the beta and I have played Horizon. I'm not impressed at all. The worlds are tiny and uninteresting. The color pallet is cartoony. Audio has enough delay still to be unnatural (a problem with cell phones too, btw, but made much worse when the person is standing in front of you).

Their world building tools are kind of interesting, and surely were difficult to implement, but lack any real purpose or traction.

All in all, I'm surprised more by how basic and bad Horizon is than I am by how good it is. Its been in development for a long time, and by now, I expected a lot more.
New Drug Eradicates Breast Cancer Tumors in Days
That's a very interesting question.

Apple was once into design for assembly. The Macintosh IIci was Apple's peak at design for assembly. It was designed for vertical assembly. Everything clicks into place with a straight-down insertion move. No wiring harnesses. The power supply plugs into the motherboard. An automated plant in Fremont CA did the assembly.

Then Apple gave up on design for assembly and went to offshoring and cheap labor.

Motorola flip phones were designed for automated assembly. All parts were on boards, and the boards were stacked and compressed into a solid block, with bumps on the boards making connections to the next layer. A tough, reliable phone resulted.

Then Motorola gave up and went to offshoring and cheap labor.

Sony pioneered this approach. The Sony Walkman,, the original tape unit with motors and contra-rotating flywheels, was built for vertical assembly and assembled by a simple Cartesian robot.

Then came the iPod.
in california the top X% of all public high schools are guaranteed a berth at SOME UC, so to some degree intra-school comparisons are less at issue. (parent article is about the UC system as a whole).
Looks like a scene from a sequel to Untitled Goose Game
I sent you two links with information, including images that show the process.

Here's a video of the process:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/merge-queries-and...

Here's another video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV3srtI20Bo
It's using https://www.npmjs.com/package/@tensorflow-models/face-landma...

Here's a fun demo of that library that shows a wireframe of your face: https://storage.googleapis.com/tfjs-models/demos/face-landma...
Remap caps lock to escape.
Gordian Software (YC W19) is hiring back end engineers
Not sure if you read the same comment I did, but there was nobody 'wishing for injury or harm' here - it was an observation that someone might choose that path.
I am not talking 6-12 inches, when it’s 4+ feet of snow even pickup trucks need to stick to the valley’s which rarely have much to do with traffic lanes.