skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historically the SAT was designed as an anti-Semitic discrimination measure; the racist belief that underlay it was that Jewish people were doing well on college admission criteria because they worked too hard, so designing a test that it was impossible to study for --- a test that measured academic aptitude rather than achievement --- would restore the racist world order in which non-Jewish white people constituted virtually the entire student body. Much to the racists' surprise, Jewish people continued to excel on the SAT, and it turned out to be easy to study for.

Today, alongside Jewish people, US universities want to discriminate against Asian-Americans, who have the same high test scores, high academic achievements including grades, and stereotypes of working too hard; often they carry out this discrimination by requiring higher test scores from Asian-Americans than from white people https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2017/08/07..., but this practice is illegal in California and under attack elsewhere. Consequently Asian-Americans constituted 40% of in-state UC freshmen in 02019, double their share of the population https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-01/affirmat... and this explains why UC wants to drop objective admission requirements like SAT scores in order to admit a more balanced (read "white") student body, provoking strong opposition from Asian-American groups: https://asianamericanforeducation.org/en/pr_20200519/

Unsurprisingly standardized testing increases representation of low-income students https://50.cresst.org/2020/05/20/cresst-recommendation-for-n... because, within a context of inequality, the only alternative to meritocracy is inherited privilege.

This is closely related to why US tech companies, who hire you based on whether you can program in an interview, are dramatically more diverse than, for example, US tech journalism companies, who apparently hire you based on whether you're white: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29277661
What kind of sick mind will want a giant borg cube with 3 billion humans miserable at being overpowered by the other 4 billion? Even in US, half of population is perpetually angry and miserable because the other half gained power. How fun is it going to be for US and China to vote on each other's culture? We should go in the opposite direction of allowing California and Texas to be more like Netherlands and Poland, able to run their own affairs while central body gets involved only when absolutely necessary, say for trade and common defense. Then let people move and self sort based on how they want to live.
WOW. I can't not believe this is a comment on hacker news. Really.

You're saying a women's report of rape === ex-lovers on the run eloping?

That's fucked and disgusting.
Hack IG Account: Hack Scammers and Appropriate Step: https://www.hackerslist.co/hack-ig-account-hack-scammers-and...
I think it's 23 people in a room. The canonical example is people on a football (soccer) pitch. With 11 per side plus the referee there's a 50% chance that two will share the same birthday.
timestamps and decimal are the two most useful additions compared to json. They would be nice to add to json if that is somehow possible.
Nice! I am a big fan of the emphasis comma ;)
I sport Cooler Master NovaTouch TKL with Cherry Stems, its ok. its the keyboard I use when i need to go fast and get the keyboard out of the way. Its smooth its fast and I like it, but not for a slow ride.
but they have so many different races members?
Aren’t standardized tests a poor indicator of thinking and capability? Don’t they favor those who can memorize over abstract thinking?
Are governments not monopolies which eventually fail to serve their citizens the same way monopolistic businesses fail to server their customers?
> everyone was scared of opening monitors

Lol. I repaired them while running/being on and made them shine again!

Without having a real clue, just looking into them, and turning things with improvised tools this way and that way, until it worked.

Thereby getting some clue about how they worked, and were fixable :-)
Thanks, I will check them out.
Kristall – Visual cross-platform browser for gemini, http, https, gopher, finger
There are many people in this thread recommending cherry mx red/brown/blue. There are also as many stating mechanical keyboards are not for them, often referring to same switches.

Those that would like to explore a bit more, in the custom keyboard world the aforementioned switches are mostly considered starters. More popular, people use switches like Gateron Black Ink V2, Alpacas, Tangerines for linear. U4T, Zealios, Kiwis for tactiles. And about 100 different alternatives available based on taste [0].

Combined with a more premium quality board that fits your typing angle and keycaps in a profile you like (you have cherry profile but also KAT, KAM, DSA, and many more to fit your liking) it may differ considerably from pre-built options.

Not saying it will be for you, but discarding mechanical keyboards on base of what the pre-built market offers is not the best measure of things. It is like saying you hate scissor switch keyboards because you typed on an Acer laptop once.

P.s. Be careful as you will quickly learn topre keyboards are not that expensive.

[0] https://www.theremingoat.com/ - popular switch reviewer
> yet side mirrors are large enough and concave (like on all modern cars) that if you set them up properly, there's really no blind spot a car or bike can fit in.

Not in the US unfortunately. All my European cars had almost no blind spot. Then I moved to the US and was really surprised.
Thank you. The lab that developed this set the video to be only viewable when embedded on their site, and my privacy tools mean vimeo thinks the video isn't being loaded via their site.

Absolutely baffling that they don't allow it to be viewed directly on vimeo.

...Almost as baffling as a video that is several minutes long and doesn't communicate in the slightest how the thing works.
Pffft...
I would rate Putin as extremely intelligent. What he has achieved is pretty impressive and he has held his position for a very long time. . You don’t have to like him but you have to accept that he is very good at what he does.
It really is madness. "We tested as many ways as we could think of, but we couldn't game it to get the results we want so we just decided testing doesn't work". These are the people in charge of training our children, and they think this these are valid conclusions.
Alibaba, Baidu and JD Fined 500k Yuan for Market Law Violation
I don’t believe objective measures of intelligence tell you all that much about someone.

There are plenty of extremely intelligent people who for various reasons accomplish nothing and plenty of dropouts bringing enormous value to the world.
> When my family wants to go do things, I want to stay at home and "work on my projects".

Try to get into the habit of saying yes to all their activities for a while. You gotta treat time away from the computer as room you make in your head for new impulses.

You will never find it on the internet. The internet rewires your brain into inaction. Especially since your body is inactive as well in front of the computer.

Imagine all people doing cool projects to have a write-only interface for the internet. They do things in the real world and then type stuff into their computer for others to consume. They never find inspiration through browsing the internet.

Maybe you won’t come up with cool projects or ideas, but if you move your body and do things, the desire for them fades in a positive kind of way, because you nurtured your prehistoric brain.
I consider it to be a perfect example of "optimized for the continuation of the organization to the exclusion of the stated mission".
interesting design document:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bup/bup/master/DESIGN
This is both excellent instructional content, and, judging from the comments below it seems as though John is a very engaged and generous teacher. I've recently taken up drawing after a 15 year hiatus so this is excellent timing to find such a great resource. Maybe I'll draw some birds with my son tomorrow.

I'd love to find something like this for fish. I don't know why but I've always found fish to be very beautiful. Both the fish and their environments – I'm so drawn to water, the way light plays on it, the life inside and around it.

For other fish lovers, John does have a 2 part series on drawing fish available on YouTube:

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTzC5War9Ac

2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib6U2oLNZAk

I'll definitely check these out as well.
Winamp has 2X size mode built-in. I personally find it good enough. :-)
Flytrex raises $40M to build its drone-based delivery service in the US suburbs
"UC admissions officers have said they were able to thoroughly evaluate the flood of applications without test scores"

Of course, there's no way to determine if they were thorough or not.
From one of the blog posts[0]:

> There is also the threat of lawsuit. As I’ve later learnt, 51nb was sued by big L on the pretext that the images and website contained trademarked terms. However, the real reason was revealed that 51nb actually owned the tp.cn domain name and big L wanted it for themselves. Even though 51nb actually won the lawsuit, it hurt their financials badly and they were very reluctant on continuing these projects.

[0]: https://www.xyte.ch/2021/11/09/t700-part-1-preparation/
“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs
Maybe try Making Embedded Systems by Elecia White, more of a software eng into firmware dev but it won't be C++ but maybe teach your LED to blink before you teach a robot to pathfind.
Never, it doesn't agree with me. It breaks my concentration and makes my thought patterns more erratic. With my technical work it doesn't fit.

I think it may not be so bad for brainstorming scenarios and I've definitely been drinking with colleagues in semi-business gatherings like meetings on business trips.

Also I rarely drink alone. It makes me depressed afterwards :) And I never really feel the need to drink in such a situation.
> Government's typically last about 250 years

Successful ones. The ones poorly set from the start don't make it anywhere near that.
First it's all about the pinch points and tangling and other safety like fire.

You have to assume children share the space for instance.

Then how useful practically. I guess you have two wheel chairs.

And how replaceable it is when your condition gets worse.

Interesting idea. I feel like once you pay for a builder you might not install something that simple.
Russian too, yep thats not funny, but you should know one of the most must-do things for US (gov payed) historian today - eventually write story about freaky-bloody Stalin, Gulag and Beria who eats children. For the sake of Freedom and Wellfare of course. Don't forget that von Neumann was truly genious at least because he wanted to wipe that Hell from the Earth (Yep they never told you that)
Somewhat expressive and subjective comment, though not worse than the style of linked piece of mind.
> everyday materials usually obey the Pauli exclusion principle

In the everyday case, this is pretty much always in reference to electrons (which are fermions). Even when we're talking about atoms or solids, the effects of the PEP are due to electrons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_exclusion_principle#Appl...

The quantum-mechanical wavelength of everyday whole atoms is much smaller than their physical size, so they behave as classical particles (and the PEP doesn't really apply). In contrast, electrons have wavelengths large enough that they exhibit macroscopic quantum mechanical effects in everyday scenarios.

> Since it's only a even/odd difference, I would expect that roughly half materials form composite bosons, and the other half form composite fermions, but this doesn't seem to be the case.

Every element has bosonic and fermionic isotopes. Neutral atoms have equal numbers of protons and electrons, so any neutral atom with an odd number of neutrons is a composite fermion, and any neutral atom with an even number of neutrons is a composite boson.
In China there is 1 exam, the Gaokao. This exam in no small part decides your future. In the past, you had one attempt, and if you failed, tough luck. Now they let kids retake it a couple times.

One exam. One billion people. One standardized metric to determine who goes where.

There are flaws to this of course. The rich, with better access to tutoring and such, naturally have an advantage over the poor. But herein lies the benefit of such a system -- it is an explicit advantage. Everybody knows it. Everybody can see it. The path to obtain it is as clear as day -- "simply" have enough money. Similarly, the path to obtain success is clear -- succeed on the Gaokao (besides cheating, which is a whole other thing, and corruption, which is yet another thing).

People naturally stratify themselves in competition. When you eliminate standardized metrics to distinguish people, they will find other ways. Your friend has an internship opening that your kid can fill. Your boss lets your kid work under him. You know people who can help your kid get ahead. Meanwhile, the underprivileged are still pushed down, but in a much more subtle way. It is not scores that divides them and the privileged. It is connections -- and when you are a kid, these connections come from your family. And if you are poor, you do not have these connections. And unlike the singular exam, the path to obtaining these connections is not so clear.

Removing entry exam requirements does not help underprivileged students. It hurts them, but because it is a subtle hurt that ties to their family's place in society instead of a loud hurt like the cost of tutoring, people pretend it is somehow better. It is not. It is worse.
There's a vaguely similar-ish project Hangover, which integrates Qemu and Wine, to run Windows apps on ARM and whatnot: https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover

As I understand it, Qemu in this arrangement only translates the code, without emulating hardware.

Alas, the project does not target Android anymore (at the moment)—it was one hope for running 90s games on a phone or tablet. Though the current status seems quite raw anyway, so things may change many times yet.
msgpack is near the top for speed and size... Readability is nice. Are there other advantages?

https://msgpack.org/index.html
I have the same problems... That's because I have many mentally problems and my brain found an easy way to have "work addiction" - my psychotherapist says.

There is the only way: go to a doctor. Books don't help much.
> For Japanese readers: in the United States, when you get your statement, you can pay in full, in which case you will not be charged interest, or you can pay any amount less than full but more than a specified minimum payment, in which case you will be charged interest on a revolving basis, starting on the day you made the transaction but being assessed in the statement cycle following the one you didn’t pay in full. You are correct, this system is virtually incomprehensible to people not professionally involved in it, and it is a cause of much angst for users and regulators of the financial industry. It is probably because of America's inscrutable culture.

At first I didn't get the implied joke jab, sincerely wondered about the same thing myself.
The parent comment said that the losses would be 21 times higher. My thought was, surely the losses on a short, liquid cooled cable were pretty negligible to begin with..
10 year Topre user (Realforce 87U 30-45g variable)- recently picked up a Niz and it's been an absolute dream. Tactile, light (35g uniform), quiet. This keyboard is awesome.

Could never find Cherry MX Blue/Browns which worked for me- always triggered RSI in my outer wrists. Chiclets caused problems in my fingertips from bottoming out.

Topres gave me a decade of heavy coding after battling RSI and I love them for that. But this Niz is making me smile. I'll get another Niz before I go back to my Realforce.
There's an engine cover, and a cowl cover - the one on the bottom is good, the fake plastic trim on the top is worthless.

https://www.forgemotorsport.com/Hyundai_i30NVeloster_N_Carbo...

this is worthless, and better to keep it off.
It's great the author learnt a lot about themselves and is feeling better. I was quite surprised to see that they wanted to try "cupping" though, which is well documented as pseudo-science snake oil and sometimes even extremely harmful.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/cupping-olympic-pseudoscien...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2019/05/13/the-r...
Good luck to those firms that have the fastest b-tree optimizations physically possible, and no customers.
I am French. This is the exact problem I have with some movies my Polish friends told me to watch.

They were from the 70-80's and were making fun of the situation at that time (how to game the communists, the system, or the absurdity of said system).

I did not find them funny at all because I did not have the context. To me they were depressing.

I wonder how contemporary young Polish people see them today (when they watch them at all).
Yea, this is a very cool apparatus! When my 80 y/o grandmother had a stroke she went from walking 3+ miles a day to barely being able to walk around the block. She still had the drive to use her muscles as she could but she lived in a three-story house and the stairs were terrifying (though we were lucky enough to have a lot of family that could help out)… something like this would have done wonders for her both physically and mentally.
It is all basic stuff indeed. The video, while it is good at explaining energy flow, is not giving the complete picture. Several comments there and here are providing the correct solutions.
Iran seized foreign ship in Gulf – report
Unions can care about whatever it is their members care about.

Workers often care about not throwing the people who use their products under the bus, or at least those who are paid on salary have a less strong financial incentive to throw people under the bus than shareholders, and thus in many cases may be able and willing to exert a positive influence.
$650 is a lot of money for a lot of people
Sounds like a UC degree is getting less and less valuable from a signaling perspective. They ignored the research results of their own team and professors which conclusively showed standardized testing was the highest signal for academic success across all races. Talk about political bureaucracy
Old news from (2020).

Current:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29285696

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29282174
> That would be nice if it worked.

It looks like you didn't even try it. In order to do what the GP described, when your bank calls you, you say nothing and answer nothing. You hang up and call back on a number you know.

> Calling back was also impossible since apparently there was no way to get connecter back to the person with whom I was speaking.

You don't have to. You just ask the bank when you call them back: did someone just call me a little bit ago? What about?

If the bank can't answer that question, it's time to find another bank. Any reputable bank will be able to look at your file and see that a call was made to you and what the issue was.

> The next time they called, they didn't ask for the security questions anymore and just got to the point immediately. They have never asked for it since.

This does not look like success to me. It looks like failure. What your bank should be doing is sending you a message via some known channel--like the message center on their website, where you can see messages for you when you log in--telling you that there is an issue that you need to call them about. If you're giving information to someone who calls you out of the blue and says they're from your bank, you're setting yourself up to be scammed.
I acknowledge there’s a dispute there, but I’m not going to uncritically accept the statement from Marriott’s spokesperson on this issue.

I’m not saying they’re lying, but I also think it would be naive to simply assume that their statement is definitely true.
for what reason?
Yeah, but it’s a schema-less, self-describing data format. It’s not like a specific position in a data stream has a requirement to be a specific type.

I can see why sum types would be useful in a schema or for the elements of a collection that is required to be homogeneous (ie. List<Foo|Bar>).

For what use case would one use custom sum types in a schema-less data format?
I’ve been a proponent of the somewhat unique utility of the concatenative calculus going on two decades now, so it is great to see a thoughtful attempt at a modern and practical implementation. Looking forward to seeing how it progresses.
Philly Startup Using Biosensors to Combat Food Waste and Improve Supply Chains
Perhaps the core of the neutron star, but light would have to reach there first, through the many layers of less dense matter above, right?
I had never thought about using superscripts on HN for footnotes. Thanks for showing that. :-)
Ah, you mean seti@home? That‘s like 22 yeas old.
Lot of room for accomplishment in a broad field!
> The issue I imagine here is that calling the bank can be costly both in hold time

The solution to the time wastage problem is for the bank to have a better method of sending you information than random calls out of the blue. Most banks have a message center on their website, where you can see any messages waiting for you when you log in and can send messages in reply.
BBC: Tesla drivers left unable to start their cars after outage https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59357306
Try Pluto TV, their content isn’t as good as the paid offerings but I love the mindless channel surfing experience.
It has been my impression from people who lived in China that guanxi (connections) is far more important than the Gaokao and the main difference between the have and the have-nots is whether you and or your parents have a permit to live in a city.

When I bring the point of the standard exam as a great equalizer they immediately laughed and told me that the US is a egalitarian paradise compared to what goes on there.
It immediately eliminates anyone not thinking to spoof-call GPs small credit union. Given that most of the scammy calls I receive are about accounts with places that I don't have accounts, I don't think that level of targeting is the norm.
Try being a photographer. Work I delivered just a couple of years ago - or sometimes even months - makes me cringe. Those are someone’s once-in-a-lifetime event that you now think looks terrible and that you proudly posted to your social media accounts.

That’s gotten better for me in recent years, but I suppose that means I’ve somewhat plateaued. Either way you can’t win.
Glaring omission: battlefield illumination flares

My cabin borders a massive Marine base (29 Palms) and there's often what appear to be UFOs hovering in formation for minutes at a time over the nearby mountain range. It's the Marines doing night exercises w/flares, and they just linger in place for a surprising amount of time. They must have parachutes or something keeping them afloat on the heated air.
The majority were rubber dome, and all the Sun keyboards I own are, but they made some mechanical type 5’s. They pop up on eBay once in a while. I am not sure the deal with their existence.

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=78888.0
It surely is, software field is in deep need of liability enforcement.
The fallacy here is that we can only measure whether AZ is playing human strategies, by comparing against our own known space of strategies. Sure, we human have developed good heuristics the AI has also found, but we can’t know if it has better/more subtle concepts that we haven’t discovered, exactly because we haven’t discovered them yet. Who is to say “mobility” is even a coherent top level concept compared to some unpronounceable abstraction the AI has figured out?