skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Replacing the SAT by a "Holistic" process is a convenient way to impose a quota on some groups judged problematic. To directly quote the article:

"There is only one group of students who are “overrepresented,” to use the chilling language of social engineering, at the university: Asian Americans. Twelve percent of K–12 students are Asian or Pacific Islander, compared with 34 percent of UC undergraduates. Aligning enrollment with state demographics would require cutting the share of those students by almost two-thirds. It would mean getting right with contemporary concepts of anti-racism by reviving one of California’s most shameful traditions: clearing Asians out of desirable spaces.

[...]

The UC has an established history in this dirty art. In the 1960s, Asian enrollment at UC Berkeley was strong, and it soared through the ’70s. But in the ’80s, it plummeted mysteriously. Berkeley was investigated by the Department of Education, and in 1989, the chancellor apologized and pledged that this would never happen again."
Agree on the Foundation criticism. From what I've seen of the Apple series based on it, it's gonna be a politically correct mess.
> But I do think Americans are generally smart enough to like single family homes mostly because they like single family homes and not because they have been hoodwinked by some nefarious pro-suburbia organization.

Maybe, but I would also argue that the US dependence on cars makes anything other than single family homes totally suck.

The fact that you need a car means you need somewhere to park that car. Don't need to go anywhere for a couple days? If you've parked on the street, sucks to be you, your car got towed. So, you need a garage. And probably enough space for two cars, not one.

You want to walk? Great! Except that you have to cross several 4 lane highways because we have to accommodate all those cars. And, that's assuming you have somewhere you want to walk to within a reasonable distance.

You don't have a car so you want some big thing delivered? Hope you can wait 2 months and can take off an entire day from work.

etc.
Not disagreeing, I just tend to flinch at the word "easy" for complex engineering tasks :-).

Certainly a ballast transfer system would be useful, and there are examples of that with deep sea drilling rigs that transition from horizontal to vertical.
Humans have more than just stereo vision sensors. Like GP said, we also have robust schemata, seeded by biology and improved over our entire lives, that allow us to make sense of the things we see. These heuristics are trivial for us to access, but relatively difficult to describe and implement in a software system. That's what "common sense" means in this context.
Amazon pledges to investigate discrimination after employees sign petition
Disclaimer: I'm in ATX around UT.

The high school I went to was public but it had 15 perfect SAT scores in my grade, numerous full rides to Harvard, and such. Good luck with getting into the top 10% of that.

A fairer way would be to rank the top 10% of students statewide by SAT/ACT and GPA.
That’s an issue with running untrusted code. If you’re intentionally downloading and running untrusted code, there’s not a security protocol in the world to help you.

Seriously. Don’t do that.
We live in a country that has the rule of law, you can't just arbitrarily use a vague characterization of a country being "hostile" to abridge the rights of someone. I would be alright with this if the us had a formal declaration of war with north Korea, but it doesn't.
Well, assuming this also moves funding this may actually do wonders for balancing out the system. And there may be some benefits to all the students, in seeing how the other half lives, making more advanced classes available in poorer neighborhoods, etc.
Similar to Eric Schmidt using Blackberry and iPhones over an Android phone:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/21/eric-schm...
https://archive.is/M9yI2
Tom Scott had a good video a couple of weeks ago about a grocery packing warehouse that has a sophisticated picking network:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssZ_8cqfBlE
Stereo vision is overrated. One of my buddies is a pilot with 1 eye (since birth) and around 11 thousand landings. Top of his game. There is more to depth perception than stereo vision for sure
> When it's fully rolled out, it's going to kill a loooot of people.

Do you have any data to back this up?

Because there is definitely evidence that shows that it is saving lives: https://twitter.com/Model3Owners/status/1383545728488808453

I think it is more fruitful to realize that humans also make mistakes. It may also be also beneficial to compare Human + FSD driving vs. Human driving (instead of just FSD vs Human).
How dare people not like what I liked?!
Sounds cool.

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T490 which struggles to drive two 4k displays at reasonable refresh rates. 4k60 + 4k30 is the best I was able to achieve so far (via Thunderbolt and an additional HDMI cable).
Hey Vini! Thank you for the kind words. That actually helps a lot, working on it now.
What a coincidence. I've just finished David Brin's Existence (2012). The edition I have has a few pages of 2312 at the end as a form of 'if you liked this, you might like…' advertising. I guess I should look into this book.
>they wouldn't even be able to file the lawsuit

Pedantic, but anyone can file a lawsuit about almost anything, regardless of proof or standing or lack thereof. The barrier to doing so is negligible. It would get dismissed at the earliest consideration, but the point is that the filing of a lawsuit means incredibly little.
Yes, it would be better if a school system produced racially unbiased test results, rather than abandoning the racially biased tests.

Unfortunately the former is vastly more difficult than the latter. So, while you wait for the school system to catch up, why not stop the system from inflicting some of its worst discriminative damage in the meantime?
When you break a law, say speeding it is sufficient to prove that you were going above the speed limit. Pretty simple. Bribery laws aren't written like speeding laws, it is insufficient to prove that a official took money or favors and then acted in a manner beneficial to the payer, you must prove that they did so due to the payment specifically. This is virtually impossible so long as they aren't idiots and write the agreement down.

One way to enforce this would be to do sting operations from time to time. This was done during the 70's, it was called ABSCAM and they hooked twelve high ranking public officials. Congress got real mad when the FBI did that and it was never attempted again.

Must be nice to make the laws.
Yep, people will do all the jobs.... even hard, shitty jobs... just not for minimum wage.
In a way aren't all vocational skills possibly fun, exciting and interesting? I don't really like the idea that there are "bad things" to teach. I can have fun cooking, woodworking, plumbing and even filling my taxes.
Indeed. Feynman talked in ‘surely you’re joking..’ about his affection for MIT students in his fraternity setting one another puzzles, and he talked about the question of how trains go round corners being one he found particularly interesting. In fact he repeats it in this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7h4OtFDnYE

He doesn’t answer the question ‘how does a train stay on the track’ with ‘some trains don’t’; he doesn’t switch to talking about rollercoaster trains and insist that the way they stay on the track is with horizontal wheels. He finds the logical, geometrically satisfying answer quite delightful.

And in fact, in many cases the flanges which he says are just for safety and aren’t supposed to impact the track because otherwise they make a terrible sound… are expected to hit the track to help the train make it round particularly tight turns. Coming from New York and having ridden the subways you’d think Feynman would know there are some corners subway trains take where the flanges rub all the way round, and the lovely conical wheels aren’t what keeps the train on the track at all.

So I definitely find this a weird characterization of a Feynman-ish approach to this kind of problem. I think he’d probably have delighted in the geometric neatness of why circular or triangular manhole covers can’t fall down their holes, and been happy to ignore the practical fact of square ones for the sake of a good puzzle story.
TBF, I think when OP was talking about "conservative" vs "liberal" s/he was more less talking about progressive vs regressive systems.

A regressive system takes away from those that don't have much to give to people that already have a lot.

In this way - a blanket statement of guaranteeing the top x% of students admission into state schools is - I would argue fair and reasonable - but I would also argue is regressive.

This is assuming the top x% of students come from wealthier & more educated families. It's possible this assumption isn't true.

I think progressive policies would be like those that make it easier for certain groups to get admitted (i.e. harder for other groups). This seems unfair, but if you want change, I don't see how you do it fairly.
Perhaps submit some articles you think HN would appreciate. So far not many have been submitted, and only one in 2013 got some conversation going: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mondediplo.com
> many policies in “conservative” Texas

Just want to point out that the policy you're referring to was put in place while Democrats ran Texas. Historically Texas was a Democratic state, with only eight years of Republican governors from 1874-1995.

> more progressive than what we have in “liberal” California

And also that California was historically a Republican state. For most of the years from 1943-1999, they had a Republican governor.
Because on average the children of urban/suburban professionals have more academic support, higher expectations placed on them, and more competition, and as a result end up with more academic practice/preparation, compared to rural or working-class children.
"Isn’t it great that you can give all of your money to a bunch of people you don’t know"

This is how buying Crypto coins works.
Racism is not always about the biology, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_racism
Then don't. Live somewhere with good public transportation. Just don't think that you're ever going to live in a small town and be completely satisfied with not having one. Most people who don't want to live in a concrete jungle simply don't like having everything crammed together like that. I certainly don't.
If you delete your account, you get a JSON containing all your data, but I could implement the option separately. Great idea!

Are you thinking of some specific file format?
I don't know about other brands, but for ThinkPads (both in the IBM and Lenovo eras), there was often a stated maximum RAM that was based only on the capacity of SODIMMs available at the time of manufacture.

But it wasn't an artificial limitation. In practice, once larger capacity memory became available with the same technology and form factor, it would work fine. I have upgraded several ThinkPads with memory beyond what the original datasheets said was possible.
Not if it's a new account.
Good Luck.

The State of California will do precisely nothing about the abuses of the largest company on the planet, domiciled in their state, employing tens of thousands of the most well-paid and politically-connected taxpayers of their State, whose primary competitor in this space is doing exactly the same thing to their users, is also domiciled in the State, and is also pissing firehoses of money into its budgetary coffers.

Your call will be politely received, and the regulator on the line will duly note your concerns. After the call concludes, the regulator's office will promptly file your concerns under L, for "LOL @ this fucking nerd".
What Do the UFO Videos Show?
Offshore capacity factor can be very high:

https://www.equinor.com/en/news/20210323-hywind-scotland-uk-...

"With an average capacity factor of 57.1% in the twelve month period to March 2020, the floating offshore wind farm set a new record in the UK."

In France 2019 nuclear capacity factor was 68.7% (379.5 TWh produced out of 63.1 GW installed capacity).

Edit: nice sortable table here https://energynumbers.info/uk-offshore-wind-capacity-factors
It didn't. The author seems to have a gut-felt conviction that there is no bias or damage in standardized testing or its subsequent use for university admissions.
Robotics is not a software problem and SV companies bias is towards software development (a little different with X but still apparent). I think most companies that try to throw data at existing problems in robotics using existing machines will have a hard time matching human efficiency. For example, in something as straightforward as the usb insertion task.

Hardware and mechanical is like 95% of the problem so there's a need to take the approach of making the machines that make and then add the software on top and developing synthetic task orientated data from that. E.g. the dishwasher, which works because its physically designed for washing plates and then automation was added. The robot arm is a general purpose technology that has been around in the same form since the 60s/70s. There are many options as alternatives (e.g. magnetic assembly or even self-assembly in certain industries) but ofc these are incredibly risky commercially.

I'm aware that this is just the first post and the above is well known in robotics development so excited to see what gets built!
Imo using cloud vendor apis is more bespoke than using kube/nomad or even old school andible/salt on baremetal cluster. With the exception of s3 all your knowledge will tabled if ever need to switch the vendors
The other implication is that the US is unwilling to take advantage of the millions of people that want to immigrate here.
I think the hacker name for physically attacking power lines is 'darkening'

Short lived, in Europe. Never really took off. And mostly wire and a rock.
Kubernetes-lxd: run Kubernetes inside an LXC container
> Same argument could be made about reproduction.

Could you please articulate what you're actually trying to say here?

> I am not saying I am making that argument.

Then what are you trying to say?

> In both cases, people are pressured to do something they dont want to do. Period.

There's well established precedent for requiring people to do some particular thing (eg. "get a driver's license" or "earn a particular qualification") before doing something that, without that qualification, would endanger other members of the public (eg. "driving a truck through the middle of town" or "claim to have engineered a skyscraper".
It feels like, in every one of Feynman’s arithmetic stories I’ve read, he always says how lucky he was that someone used a specific number.

At some point it stops being luck.
AWS, may be, subsidizes the costs of its loss-leaders by (what seems like) charging disproportionately for egress. I reckon, as Cloudflare gears up to take on incumbent cloud leaders, it modus operandi will be to commoditize its competitor's advantages.

Apart from CloudFront and Lambda@Edge, Cloudflare has offerings that compete with Lambda (Workers Unlimited), Web Application Firewall, AWS Elemental (Stream), and (app/network) load balancers (Argo, Spectrum, Magic Transit). Check out Cloudflare's bandwidth / usage pricing for some of those, and it isn't much different than AWS.

Cloudflare, I'd predict, will eventually arrive at a similar pricing model for its IaaS outside of the Bandwidth Alliance (which, ironically, is Hotel California with select though multiple providers at play).
There are no homophobic organizations in the country. You don't need people going around stoking hate flames. There are no hate flames to stoke, just people not wanting to see the abnormal. You don't address that with economic sanctions (which seems to be the go-to whip of so-called developed countries). It just won't work.
As an LGBT, I agree its a difficult situation. On the one hand, as you likely do, I feel strongly about private business owners having the freedom to run their businesses the way they see fit, including being able to choose their customers. If someone told me they don't want to sell to LGBT, I would accept that decision without complaint because I respect their autonomy (in fact, I would be happy I avoided giving them money). On the other hand, what happens when everyone in an area decides that LGBT, or black people, or Muslims, or anyone else universally aren't welcome. Those people basically get shut out of society, and that doesn't seem like something we want to encourage at a societal level either.

Finally, as much as it pains me to say it, there is also the matter of logical consistency: Many Christians would go absolutely ape shit if they were stopped in a store while wearing a cross and told "hey, your kind isn't wanted here"; yet because their preferred exclusion is noted in an old book (which of course, they wrote) that is suddenly perfectly acceptable.
You mean down to Lorne.
>Gachapon (which is a Japanese slot machine game)

Gachapon are capsule vending machines, which unlike slot machines always spit some kind out of a prize out of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gashapon
I really wish this would get a remaster like Monkey Island did. It's technically playable on modern PCs but it's very clunky and crashes a lot.
I visited the website just to check which distro they were using. I was surprised when I saw the only two "distros" available. LOL
The point about spatial representation is spot on. The problem is that in Excel calculations tend to be presented as huge unreadable formulas with no intermediate steps. Thus the spatial representation actually only covers the first and the last step, but rarely something in between.
I take it you never visited Yates High?

I think you mean if you go to a good school you need to apply yourself. If you live in a rough neighborhood and go to a bad school, it's not really all that difficult. Of course, you have to get through high school, which is not so easy in the rough neighborhoods. But you get the idea.
If you check out the beginning of the video link (I had it fast forwarded towards the end) you can see that it is doing an awful lot more than that, and in 2013.

A pick and place is 2-axis movement with a suction cup. This is controlling a robot arm with a ton of degrees of freedom and developing paths for moving through all those degrees of freedom without hitting anything and using internal models to do so.

I suppose in some very broad sense it looks similar, but the difficulty of x-y + down is way, way lower than what you're seeing in that video.
I do agree that logic puzzles which require a single observation and/or have a binary outcome tend to be very bad interview questions. That being said, I think the original post demonstrates that the issue with the manhole cover problem isn't necessarily the question itself, but how it's evaluated. I'd be quite pleased if I were asking the question and the interviewee gave that answer (though I might raise the point that the configuration necessary to drop a rectangular cover is also one of the most ergonomic for holding it). The general notion that there is a single right and wrong answer is incongruous with a class of question used to evaluate the candidate's reasoning ability. Though I wouldn't be surprised if these were historically evaluated appropriately and candidates simply misinferred why they were being rejected.
I wish they'd been doing that when Google Video shut down. Lost a lot of good content I didn't download.
There is a bug on their configuration website where you get to the step with all the expansion cards and you get kicked out back to the main site.

I wonder how many sales they are losing
The founding text is Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1992). It's short, funny, entertaining, and full of new ideas in a freewheeling early 90's spirit. The list in the comment you are replying to is not bad, since most interactions you will ever have with someone about a metaverse will hinge on shared descriptions you have with them of a metaverse, so whichever books you hear about the most are by definition the most useful ones to read.

Almost everyone has read or heard of Ready Player One (2011), which contains extensive descriptions of its own corporate dystopic metaverse, albeit one that I find insufferably cliche and unoriginal.

Metaverse descriptions are descended from the first cyberspace descriptions in Neuromancer (1984) which is a beautiful book worth a read.
Your points may be valid, but do these points qualify as “like reaaalllyy bad”, of course not.

We’re quite a few to think that REST api design principles are silly, dand that people who impose their view / mock others for not following them strictly are mindless zealots.
"hostile" is too vague. The us is not supposed to be just "any government on earth" In order to arbitrarily declare someone to have transgressed post facto, there had better be a declared state of war. Otherwise, the government should enumerate exactly what can and can't be said in the laws, and some fed tapping you on the shoulder and saying "don't do that" should not carry water unless that fed points to the specific provision of the law preventing it. Especially when the action is just presenting freely available information. Otherwise anyone who has made a freely available YouTube video on the Blockchain should ALSO have charges levied against them, starting with Grant Sanderson (who I love, btw).
A new air-conditioning system manages without nasty gases
Cue the Star Wars "that's no moon..." jokes in 3, 2, 1....
Google is finally doing something about Google Drive spam
I'd get it if it was Goatse, but this is just regular porn. If they simply wanted to earn money from ads, serving something more milquetoast would make more sense, because now there's a rush to remove old embeds.

Why?!
Um this moderation is broken, this has become a right wing site where people just use coded language to get around the rules.
It works great in ScummVM https://www.scummvm.org/
You're saying it would be easier if you imported the support and expectations with you? Otherwise I still don't get it. If rural school students as a class are poorly supported and have low expectations, and you are a member of that class, I don't see where your advantage arises.
Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging (2006)
And just today: https://www.aitrends.com/robotics/softbanks-humanoid-robot-p...
Remember when rich people built thousands of public libraries and giant public learning institutions to create their legacy instead of taking glorified joyrides to the edge of space and patting themselves on the back?
Well, while cost are high in first world country, labours are mostly limited to services sector.

In manufacturing most of these labour are still in Asia. And the cost / productivity is still insanely cheap. It isn't just the cost of the Robot itself, but to program a new task which requires software testing and engineers. So the cost barrier is still so far apart. Foxconn make hundreds of millions of smartphone every year. You would have thought saving $10 per phone would have net them a few billions extra profits. And yet their employment rate has remained largely the same.

If and If, US and Tech managed to do this ( there is nothing even remotely close in the next 10 years, but let say somehow there is for the sake of argument ), this will be the largest reset of manufacturing and likely be Industrial Revolution 3.0.
Or, when you enough special cases, you're almost always lucky to hit one of them.

Which is another way of saying what you're saying, I think.
The correct answer really depends on what role the candidate is trying to get.

An engineering person would come up with the thought process to their estimate.

A business person might start asking questions about the business needs for trying to fill a 747 with ping pong balls.

But someone trying to get an engineering role should think twice before trying to sound smart and replying in an out of line manner.