skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you even read the article?

> How do I know all of this? Because unlike the regents, who enthusiastically voted to eliminate the tests for the first time in 2020, I did not ignore the findings of a 225-page report that was prepared for them at the request of the UC’s then-president, Janet Napolitano. This report[1], by the Academic Council’s Standardized Testing Task Force, was based on years of UC admissions data and was the product of a tremendous amount of work by a formidable team of experts in statistics, medicine, law, philosophy, neuroscience, education, anthropology, and admissions.

> The scholars determined that the obvious challenges faced by low-income Black and Latino students were poverty and poor K–12 education. And they found that the UC’s use of standardized tests did not amplify racial disparities. They agreed that the university should continue using test scores in admissions, but recommended that the UC begin developing its own test, which would be designed to meet the needs of both students and the institution.

[1] https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/committees/...
> I don't see why the option to sideload stuff onto the iPhone you've bought would make the platform less secure, especially if it is disabled by default and requires explicit user consent to be turned on.

You don't see how running any code you want on a device is less secure than restricting the kind of code that you can run? I think the risk is heavily overstated by Apple, but it's a bit inane to claim that it doesn't make the platform less secure.

I agree with you that the process you describe is probably sufficient and I don't think the security aspect is a reasonable argument against allowing sideloading.
The US hasn't formally declared war on anyone since World War 2. Not Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, nor any of the many smaller conflicts we've fought.

However, the United Nations did declare war on North Korea, with US support, and the US is the major participant in that war; and no peace treaty was ever signed, merely a cease fire.
Please show me where anyone in this thread is glorifying anything close to sexism.
Sure, there are lots of industry and region specific funds. You can go for a small cap fund, a foreign fund, a developing markets fund, a real estate fund, a heavy industries fund, retail, food, whatever.
I'm a huge Lucasarts fan and I played FT for the first time last year. I found it to be the weakest adventure title and found his criticisms mirrored a lot of my experience. I found a lot of the puzzles and gameplay (particularly the action-y ones) not very fun as well. So, YMMV.
The first time I saw it detect pedestrians and cyclists that the human driver hadn't even noticed yet, I realised it is also going to save lives.
We could but we don't.
The only reason Christians no longer call for killing gays is because they have been convinced to stop doing this - often using force.
Wowsa, I know I’ve made comments like the one the US Marshal service investigated, along the lines of “I wouldn’t be surprised if ${victims of some injustice} didn’t start seeking vigilante justice”. Cory Doctorow wrote a whole novella (“Radicalized”) about the premise. It doesn’t mean I want someone to, because I’ve been to law-free places and hell if I wanna live in a Might Makes Right society. It means that I’ve read about the French Revolution and would prefer we identify when we might be going down that road so we can avoid it.
Out of curiosity, what were the other ones?
you are becoming evil
Interesting. I have too many ideas and far too little time. I wish I didn't have to work so I could do the hobby full time. Alas it doesn't pay as well as the day job.
If you need multiple 100GbE transit connections from ISPs larger than yourself, in multiple locations, you most likely also are a fair sized ISP, so the situation is very different because you'll also be purchasing a variety of transport (point to point circuits) between cities at 100/200/400GbE capacity, various DWDM circuits, lighting your own dark fiber, etc. It's a whole other ball game.
> 1. I get acoustic isolation from my neighbors. I don't care when they watch loud movies. They don't care when I make music.

This part is so hard to overstate! I will never voluntarily move into shared-wall or shared-ceiling housing. Unless I was so broke that I had to do it or become homeless. The neighbors' TV. The neighbors' arguments. The neighbors' partying. The neighbors having sex. The neighbors clomp-clomp-clomping up the stairs directly outside my door. The cops making loud visits to the neighbors when they misbehaved again. This has been pretty much a constant for me in apartment living, no matter the town. I knew I "made it" as a grown-up when I finally moved to a single family house where I couldn't hear a neighbor. Never again!

The other things you mentioned are great bonuses of suburban living, but the major benefit is acoustic distance from neighbors--and stepping back a bit--in general not being forced by proximity to be a part of your neighbors' wild lives.
So personalized tutoring does nothing to improve your score? What an absurd suggestion.

That USED to be line line but it has since changed: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/05/...
sooo .. is this website made by the same guy who thought it was fine to take snapshots of people staring at apple computers? if this is him then he's a genius.
Only the illiterate one.
To be honest I think I really like “long jumps in time”. It’s like the author builds up a world that you understand and care about, and then it becomes a backdrop of this new world, which adds another layer of complexity. There are parallels to notice and explore, “how things might turn out” tales, etc.

The one other author I’ve seen pull it off was Brandon Sanderson in his Mistborn trilogy, though he does it 2 times (once for each book) where the previous one becomes “the legends” for the next one, with all the misunderstandings that this usually entails.
I think a Mexican restaurant that has to comply with a raft full of regulations about grill temperature, cooler temperature, counter time, disinfectants, labor practices, business licensing and taxes, etc. can rightfully complain about a taco truck that shows up with no license, no inspections, no license plate, and underage employees serving beer.

Of course, sometimes the incumbents spend many years constructing regulation after regulation to build a moat. Then somebody comes along with the funding to defy all those regulations. And the incumbent complains that the newcomer is ruining the moat.

Sometimes it takes a good deal of wisdom and discernment to decide which rules are moats and which are legit. Then it takes character to tear down what should be torn down and defend what should be defended.
They also have the war-chest to acquire any startup that does the hard work of tech R&D.
Are you suggesting Tesla is lying?
I documented it now in smhasher. It wasn't classified as GOOD there due to other issues
As mentioned earlier in the thread, the US is technically still at war with North Korea. If there were to be one and only one country on the face of the planet that you should not be giving any kind of information or money to as a US citizen, it is North Korea.

This isn't vague or arbitrary. The sanctions against NK are very specific, and lengthy.
But it is a software problem. Surprised that you mentioned robotic arm, which is basically just 3-5 servo/stepper motors connected to case and not super complicated to build with 3d printers. It's the software that powers it. Boston dynamics robots are not the top of the line in terms of hardware. It is the software that gives their robot the power to even stand up, which anyone who has coded the robot knows it only looks easy.
Why are you marketing this as “Expedia” for vets instead of zocdoc for vets?
Easy fix: Compute the moon's position in the sky (for current GPS location) and compare it to the car's heading. And factor in ascension. And weather.
It's not really rejecting it, it's just getting confused why the yellow light is still there when stationary objects typically fly by at about the same speed you're moving forward.

Whatever stereo-depth perception of the camera they're using apparently can't tell the difference between where a traffic light should be and a celestial body. OTOH, I have mistaken a Burger King light-up sign for a full moon when it was coming up behind some trees, so I can't fault them too badly.
And the need is there. Tesla's previous CTO, JB Straubel, recently lost his wife to a driver who hit her while she was cycling [1]. Everyone on HN shits on Autopilot (and I'll be the first to admit it has flaws and isn't perfect), but humans are just terrible (tens of thousands of deaths per year, hundreds of thousands to millions of injuries). You don't have to be perfect, just better than humans.

The software will improve faster than humans will, as arguably, we've already hit our limit. Software doesn't get tired and it doesn't drive impaired. It makes mistakes, but so do we, and it's mistakes can be improved upon at scale. This is not blind faith in technology or software, but an acceptance of the limited capabilities of your median human (as well as the disadvantaged outliers).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/business/boryana-straubel...
Most people probably don’t want an external GPU built into the display.

What they maybe do want is to plug a mobile computer into a big sharp hi-res monitor and get great performance. Since many graphic loads scale with resolution, building some processing horsepower directly into the monitor could be a way to deliver the experience that people want, even if their current computer doesn’t have very powerful graphics.
It will be all boring company tunnels on mars, no surface roads. So no moons.

A lot of autonomous car problems would go away if companies and governments went for enhanced roads instead of trying to create a generic solution on the first try. No need to detect traffic signs or lights if that information was made readily available by the road you are driving on.
At risk of attracting the attention of the US Marshals (whom I previously held in high regard): These kinds of stupid games will end in all political discussions happening over TOR with all the implications that entails.
I'm pretty sure it was a silly joke. "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" (brioche is a light pastry bread) is unlikely to have actually been said by Mme Antoinette anyways.
Ode to Hydrangea
Sure. I'm just not totally sure there's a meaningful point at which you trust that your government won't hyper-inflate your currency but you don't trust that the existing monetary supply is real, i.e., I don't think that it helps anything to have cryptographic proof of the government's existing monetary supply.
“Biblical scholars” are often theologians: political officers rather than scientists, they are trained to lie about that. Amount the actual scholars, it’s pretty much the consensus at this point.
Facebook will likely try to acquire Epic in the near future.
Its going to be a tradeoff that current USA safety first culture is ill prepared to deal with appropriately. ~30,000 people die and massive injuries and property damage happen each year in the USA. How many people's deaths should we accept as a society to reduce those numbers by, say, two orders of magnitudes? 1,10,100,1000,10000? I hope we don't choose not to develop this tech just because automatic cars will kill 100's of people per year but save ten of thousands also.

A million people are killed on the roads yearly world wide. How many deaths would you accept to reduce that to 10,000/year?
This is open source and self-sustainable non-profit project idea: https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org

Would love to connect with other developers to work on this.
I went to UT and having this program in was a great experience. It allowed for a lot of variety and kids from all sorts of backgrounds, but you still had crazy smart people. If you're from the city, the school's super hard to get into. I don't know about the more suburban or rural areas. That being said, my classmates were very diverse and it was a blast. CS education was phenomenal there and I still think their approach puts them in the best of the best globally. Everything else was really nice too, can't have asked for a better experience.
It is harder than x-y + down, however I don't think this video is impressive really, having slowed down the video it doesn't look special to me and I did work on robotics/machine vision around that time.
Now everyone know about it and vidme’s ad space is more valuable

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The difference between Artists and Entertainers
Why does it have to be servos in the first place? A very narrow way to think of robotics. Boston Dynamics is more about the hw than the sw.
It's been stuck in beta for a year now. More likely to shut down than advance from beta.
The order was time limited, narrowly scoped. The comment was by no means a clear threat, but its also not unreasonable to interpret it that way.

I don't really think techdirt has much to complain about here.
The stuff the person is talking about is a bad faith argument.
Someone should give those guys an old-school CRPG to provide an outlet for this make-the-number-go-up fixation.

The metric that can be measured is not the eternal metric. The result that can be result-driven is not the eternal result.
Having played both, I must say I was more intrigued by The Dig than SC2. Granted, Star Control had a pretty great story arc, but the feel was just very comic-arcade-like. I also played it because it was so hyped and maybe my expectations were just sky high because of that.

Then again, I played The Dig much younger as a pre-teen and can still distinctly remember that intro. It was one of the few games that pulled you in just like a movie. The atmosphere was really dense and it felt way more like a movie you could interact with than a game.

I didn't care about the shallow, less coherent story back then and I also don't remember it as a game that was so great I wasted months on like XCOM, but it was definitely pretty good.
Hiring for Principles Outperforms Hiring for Skills
And what will happen when you get to a light with the moon behind it?
Oh thanks, I've been T1 since 1982, so I'm not surprised that science has improved. Keto-acidosis is a toxic state for T1 diabetics at least, I'm not sure if T2 can handle them better.
They can be cherry-picking without being lying.
> Wait, didn't tfg fast track it and said it would be here by end of 2020.

Yes, but he also downplayed the pandemic leading a large number of his followers to believe that COVID is no more threatening than a mild flu.

If you believe that COVID is no worse than a mild flu then there is no more reason to get COVID vaccine than there is to get a flu vaccination. Only about half of Americans get an annual flu vaccination.
“TurboTax” for Industrial Cybersecurity (failed startup idea #5)
Indeed. You can find the original on the-eye.
Admissions are already way too complicated. Just have a GPA cutoff and randomly select people via a lottery.
We have a lens that has to flex to bring far away objects into focus, so I figure that can give us some feedback.
Vernor Vinge is usually fantastic.
The Pandemic Was Office Culture and Middle Management's “God Is Dead” Moment
They are plenty of homophobic organizations, eg the Vatican.
I'd go farther and say that it's not possible to drive correctly in some cases on current roads. Everyone who's driven east/west with the arc of the sun parallel to the road knows this.
You still have to renew it yearly to keep the expiration 10 years away.

Also most registrars will send you an email when it's about to expire. If it does get dropped, there's a grave period to recover it.
When people hear about a university they don't know about, they often get their initial impressions from the rankings. I imagine universities that fail that test can end up being filtered out very early on in the process. For some people anything top 20 is great, but I think even the top universities don't want to be written off by the best candidates because they were #11 instead of #10.
You obviously need to check the database again then, because there are remarkably few cases where the person had a adverse reaction to the mRNA-based vaccine. Furthermore in the majority of those cases (of which were already slim to begin with), they are usually something like anaphylactic shock a.k.a. an allergic reaction which they can deal with at the time that the vaccine is administered.

It infuriates me that "armchair experts" who likely lack even a bachelors degree in STEM much less epidemiology think that they know better than the majority of medical professionals.

They are more likely to follow their advice of the mechanic who tells them that their catalytic converter needs to be replaced than a medical professional who has nearly a decade of specialized training.
TikTok doesn't promote this "legend" whatsoever. Indeed, 99% of the time I've read about TikTok's algorithm, it has been naysayer conspiring about how it's an evil addiction engine.

I've seen zero articles technically praising TikTok.

Like everything, it probably isn't for everyone (as an aside -- it seems like a considerable portion of TikTok's base now are middle aged...they aren't targeting any particular demographic), but personally I get a wonderful selection of FYP videos. I only use the app every week or so, but when I do it is one of the most interesting, entertaining digressions available.
> Here’s (yet another) argument against using third-party embeds on your respectable website

Well, it's an argument against using embeds without having any way to validate their authenticity.

This is analogous to having a software distro (e.g. package manager) which downloads upstream tarballs or git repos without checking any hashes.

Is there a solution for this? Say you want to embed a video from some third party sites; what tools are there for ensuring that the embedding will somehow lapse if the video at that URL has been replaced or altered?

Ideally, you'd be notified if that happened. While not showing porn is good, but videos not working is bad. You can't be checking an entire site all the time for non-working external content.
Sometimes I miss Windows. MacOS has a huge amount of weirdness where an errant swipe or button combination does something completely unexpected as a new user.
Considering the resources spent on Tesla's “self-driving” systems… if you used that money on public transport, how many lives could you (improve and) save by reducing the number of cars on the road? (My guess: you could build a massive amount of public transport on a local scale, but not much on a global scale, so you'd probably only save a several dozen lives and significantly improve a few tens of thousands.)

Factoring in that bad drivers start being really negligent when there cars are “self-driving”, I'm not certain this will save more lives than the opportunity cost. But if it's mostly used by good drivers, and bad drivers get off the road, it could be huge.
More like “The surveillanceverse” IMO
Californians mostly drive north and south, so facing the moon head on would be rare xD
The weird thing about this to me is, the company or person who scooped up the domain... in order to get their plan working so quickly, wouldn't they have had to set up a site perfectly beforehand so the embeds would work as desired and then just sat there waiting, hoping, ready to hit the button to scoop up the domain at just the right time, praying nobody beat them to it?

Isn't that a lot of work for almost no gain?
In other words, proofs cannot exist without axioms.

"The Simple Truth" addresses this from a different angle: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/X3HpE8tMXz4m4w6Rz/the-simple...
I don't understand this comment lol.

You say you don't understand the hate for SAT, but then proceed with an example of how you did better than your ex-gf in college despite doing presumably worse on the SAT then her?
I was out for a day after the first shot and was for two after second shot.

My wife requires care and those days were difficult when we both were sick. I had to take paracetamol on last night to clean and cook.

I assume someone dependent on day wage would think twice and possibly would not choose the best option for the comfortable one.
> sounds like a loan with extra steps.

Loan is a debt based funding, where as I am proposing equity based funding.
Or for the life of their company, whichever is shorter.
The same amount of effort spent on academic pursuits (or the same amount of external support) will get you further on a local–relative scale in a less competitive environment. Even the 75th %ile students at many schools filled with children of upper-middle-class professionals work insanely hard. But sure, being one of the few academic strivers in a less competitive school has its own challenges.

I think making the system more equitable by supporting kids from all backgrounds is socially beneficial, even if it sometimes makes suburbanites complain.
I have been on both sides of hiring decisions a lot. Here's what I can tell you: a developer who has a shit load of Perl experience will be more likely to get a job at a Python shop if they show flexibility in their choices. A Python developer who bashes Perl for being a shitty terrible language will not simply because having a bad attitude is a red flag.

If you have only worked with PHP 4 for the past 20 years and have no plans to move off that language then yeah you will have a harder time. But getting defensive about it in an online discussion is a weird thing to do and honestly a red flag more than anything. The tools may define you as a professional (to some), but not as a person. Getting defensive is a personal thing. If you do it as a professional that's pretty bad. If you take professional discussions personally, in my experience you'll be very difficult as a coworker.
Not to be nihilistic, but this was the case over 40 years ago, and if something similar were still true today, it would mean 70+ years of officially constructed popular perception. (e.g. your grandparents beliefs were manufactured) This rabbit hole goes very deep, where a lot of famous writers and artists were funded by cold war efforts, where writers and editors for magazines were selected and funded to produce narrative for either soviet or american interests. Whether the story is apocryphal or real, former CIA Director William Casey apparently said, "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false," - and from a certain perspective, whether it's real or not doesn't actually matter either way.

When you look at what you can really verify as true or evident in the world, it all has a pretty high bar. If it's not made of math or physics, it's a representation made of artifacts of language that reinforce belief. Symbols are comforting, and they provide a means to negotiate some physical security for our organisms to thrive without cannibalizing each other, but I'd ask whether constructing and maintaining a false reality is necessary to that end, or if is it just a kind of low, sadistic pleasure. We can't just write the CIA infiltrating all mass media and culture off as "other humans with jobs doing their best." There are ethical and noble ways to provide stability and order that encourage people grow and for life to thrive.

This article twigged me, as I just don't see converting 70+ years of managed deception into an addictive panopticon as the right thing to do.
NoScript improves another webpage. Scrolling's working just for me, you just have to prevent the site from working as intended.
Public transportation in the US will never replace the automobile. There is simply too much infrastructure to replace and not enough GDP. It's a fine solution for SF, Chicago, and NYC, but not the rest of the country.