skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get a lawyer, ask them, not randos on the internet ;)
Wow, I looked up the data to refute this, but it was worse than I presumed:

https://www.brookings.edu/research/race-gaps-in-sat-scores-h...

My initial thought was we could just have a floor. We don't need to ensure a perfect score amongst the pool that gets randomly selected, so if there there is minimum that is still "high," and that isn't biased toward outliers from any race, then it would work.

But it looks like the floor we'd need to have a reasonable representation would be something like a 500/800 math score. That is much too low, at least for elite schools. Choosing something like a 700 cut-off ends up being very racially selective.
Anyone else expecting some new, racy comments from Notch?
There's many steps between a vote and getting killed. Someone tries to kill you, you try to kill'em right back.
Back around 2004, Azul created a special machine to run Java. It had 792 small CPUs. You would put it in your datacenter and then replace the JVM on each machine with one that could use this box. There were some constraints on which calls and libraries you could use, but most Java code just worked.

It would use the network to do the JIT on this custom Java box, and it was super fast as long as your machine shared a fast switch with the box.

I wonder if this is basically the resurrection of that with some extra magic to make it work over the internet.
Both Firefox and Chrome support it behind a flag [1] with some limitation. I think Chrome doesn't support animation ( yet ). As usual, any media codec support on Safari requires an OS update. And I dont think Apple has shown any signs of interest ( or disinterest ) yet.

I hope we have more people testing out JPEG XL soon. Personally I am still undecided whether bit per pixel below 1.0 is important enough. Otherwise JPEG XL would have been a clear victory.

[1] https://caniuse.com/jpegxl
It's especially hard to get athletic scholarships at Harvard, because as with all Ivy League universities they don't award them.

Of course, I'm sure the athletics department does apply other forms of pressure to various parts of Harvard, making it easier for athletes to get admitted and pass their classes etc. But any scholarships they award are (corruption aside) at least theoretically based around financial need.
No, half of everyone is below median :)
We train neural nets on the same training sets for multiple iterations and expect it to come up with new/better connections. When learning a new skill we may meditate on previously solved problems and discover better solutions. Why would the immune system not have the capability to continue experimenting and learning from the same stimulus?
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Yes, that'd be me, too.

But how I use Facebook doesn't change my fascination with how others handle (what I'd consider) outright abuse by Instagram. Your implied "sucks to not be able to use it" must be strong indeed for them – way past anything I'd describe as nonchalantly as you did.
What? I think we're talking about different processes and different time frames. The blues musician who just wants to be popular/mainstream isn't really what I'm going for, because they stop at step 2:

1. "Hipster" creates music that is anti-mainsteam, becomes popular for doing something different (and doing it well, at the right time/place, etc.)

2. Over years, mainstream music adopts unique thing hipster did. <- this is where you stop

3 New generation of hipsters create music that is anti-mainstream... <- this is what is relevant to this discussion

You can find examples of the above in any modern genre of music and I would argue is a part of a bigger pattern that happens to any sub/counter culture.
You're not making any sense. From a liability standpoint, there is no legal distinction between platform and a publisher.

You might be getting confused by the concept of a common carrier. Facebook is not a common carrier. It might be possible to amend the common carrier law to cover Facebook, but in the current political climate that seems unlikely.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/153
>According to the researchers, 40 percent of the near-surface material of the 15,830 square mile (41,000 square kilometer) region could be water ice.

That’s potentially billions of tons of water ice.
Had this, did this, got 99th percentile score -> ivy league.

It's happens. I think I'm pretty smart but obviously very privileged.
This is just a semantic argument about what "capability" and "autonomous" means. The system is obviously capable of autonomously navigating in an engineering sense, because that's what it does.

The system as deployed ("FSD beta") also requires a human driver, and actively monitors for driver attention. So it is not actually operating autonomously.

It seems that the spirit of the law is to disallow unregulated testing of cars that are actually operating autonomously. Cars with a human in the loop don't really seem to be what the regulations were thinking of.

The letter-of-the-law argument would seem to disallow any sort of uncommanded control by the vehicle, including lane assist and 1970's cruise control. And that's not right either.
I think it's still open source, it's just not free right?
It wasn't incorrectly deleted. They don't allow the use of Hitler in the posts, being Jewish doesn't give you a free pass on that.
Don’t forget Applied Science!
It’s also possible to use advisory locks to implement a job queue in Postgres. See e.g. Que[1]. Note there are a fair number of corner cases, so studying Que is wise if trying to implement something like this, as well as some (a bit older) elaboration[2].

We implemented a similar design to Que for a specific use case in our application that has a known low volume of jobs and for a variety of reasons benefits from this design over other solutions.

[1]: https://github.com/que-rb/que
[2]: https://brandur.org/postgres-queues
While flawed in practice, I think the so-called "domino theory" had some valid roots in the so-called Paradox of Tolerance.

It's hard to dispute one historical aspect of communism in particular, namely that it cannot tolerate competing ideologies. The only way to implement communism is through the use of force; it's not something free people will adopt voluntarily. I may think of myself as a tolerant person, but if you have to stick a gun in my back to make me practice your ideology -- which you do -- why should I be required to tolerate that?

It can be argued that it's a moral responsibility to stop the spread of such a pathological system of thought by any means necessary, just as if we were fighting an infectious disease. I won't go that far personally, but others in America did, and the wars in Korea and Viet Nam were the result. Not so much an apology as an (admittedly oversimplified) explanation.
They also don't listen anymore, thanks to echo chambers.
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Housing is not a human right.

Shelter is a human right.

Normal garbage how people what a cool apartment downtown in large cosmopolitan cities, and quite evilly abuse the concept of what human rights are to get it.
In my last sentence above, I was thinking more of cults in Roman times that were competitors, before Christianity took over.

Modern cults that I've heard of are different.
Strong disagree on using a database as a message queue. This article[0] covers many of the reasons why. Summary: additional application complexity and doesn't scale well with workers.

0. https://www.cloudamqp.com/blog/why-is-a-database-not-the-rig...

EDIT>> I am not suggesting people build their own rabbitmq infrastructure. Use a cloud service. The article is informational only.
So you're saying there's more to the term "woke" than the definition you provided. In fact, the additional context you gave makes the definition almost completely meaningless.

But what if (and it's a big what if) there is a whole side of thought in America that believes issues of racial and social justice are not worthwhile and have already been settled? Would the term "woke" still be offensive then, based on what you just said?

I don't really know if the 2nd paragraph of your comment is supposed to be satire or serious, but that often happens when these undefinable words are thrown around as if they are cannon.
Every 5 or 6 years since I was born, NASA has discovered water on Mars. I was predicting they would discover water on Mars back in 2020, but I think COVID clearly slowed them down this time.
True. It’s one of only a handful of YT videos I’ve ever left a comment on. In summary, just because something is “wrong” at one scale doesn’t invalidate useful models and workaday theorems at another.

Also, for such a pedantic video his field lines were wrong.
Fun to introduce general population to some interesting physics but please, don't call it "settling physics debate".

There is NO debate. Not physics debate, not even practical debate because that knowledge is in practical everyday use.

We know signals in wires take time to propagate and I have to take this into account when I design my circuits. Things like matching lengths of traces (especially differential pairs) so that critical signals take same time to propagate or matching length of trace and return to improve signal integrity are staple for anybody that is working on anything over couple hundred megahertz.

All of this only because it takes time for signal to actually travel through the length of the wire.
Are the current rulers of China related to the Qing dynasty?
Facebook cares about advertising revenue. They only care about "facts" when content posted by users causes advertiser boycotts, or attracts unwanted attention from powerful politicians.
I didn't use social media from 2020 to mid-2021. So, no, not part of my identity.

Decided staying abreast of friends' updates, sharing my own, and being aware of current humor were important for me. I've definitely been happier since using it again (terribleness of Meta support notwithstanding)
Melting glaciers may produce thousands of kilometers of new salmon habitat
> FatELF exists

Thank you, I had not seen that before:)
Most SPAs nowadays load JS for new components dynamically on route change. I expect this to increase the stack, too. Just something to keep in mind.
Looks like I am too late to edit my comment but I will acknowledge I was wrong about that those indicators seem to be reasonable and I could see myself possibly being in support of something like that not in the SAT itself but as a factor in admissions.
Why is it called Full Self Driving?
> Historically, the village church wasn't just about worshipping the sky father and shunning non-believers. It was the original social safety net and the congregation would support people who were experiencing hardship.

So because charity in the past had these massive strings attached in the past today we should do what exactly?

Modern social safety nets are more widely available and free from guilt trips, controlling busybodies, and harmful superstitions.

> By rejecting all religion and vacating churches we've sort of thrown the baby out with the bathwater. We've damaged everyone's need for belonging and increased loneliness.

IME far more emotional and physical harm was done by centuries of religion than this brief interm period between when they've been thrown off and the establishment of saner institutions and memes.

McDonalds may not be the picture of healthy food options, yet as an established at least they don't encourage shaming or ostracizing people for being different. A relatively clean, dry, and welcoming place to meet isn't a bad thing.
The first amendment has nothing to do with that. The first amendment protects the individual and the press from government censorship. As I said, the spirit of the law is to protect from censorship. Unfortunately social media companies are abusing their power.
Crypto Will Change the World (Or Not)
or The Science Asylum
Go through linkedin and email everybody ;)
TSMC Unveils N4X Node: Extreme High-Performance at High Voltages
On the contrary, it's politicians and old media who came up with the "fake news" slogan and demanded FB and others start censoring opposing viewpoints. FB is all too happy to help spread falsehoods and inflammatory articles since they both drive engagement.
Perhaps I didn't explain myself well.

I am not a lawyer, obviously, but what I meant was, threatening someone to sign a legal document can't be legal, even if its your employer.
That doesn't sound worthwhile to me, because of the official records which would carry more weight anyway.

People used to take notes to prove their boss wrong when he said "I never said that!" because they weren't under surveillance.
That video perfectly summarizes online discourse. I personally found it fantastic as a resource. It was the best and most clear explanation of transmission of energy in an electrical circuit that I have seen. It debunked a lot of myths in my head that we were all taught in school.

The thought experiment he proposed was just a hook to keep people interested - and it certainly did the job. Because it is a popular internet video by a popular YouTuber, however, the entire scientific community made it a mission to nitpick every detail of that experiment and show that the conclusion wasn't 100% accurate without a bunch of caveats. Which is fine, I guess, but also missing the point of the whole thing.
The people who boo at operas are detestable. Like they have a mental image that the work is preserved in amber and the staging must never change. It's crazy and short-sighted. Example, they booed Patrice Chereau at Bayreuth in 76 and that is now considered a classic that rebooted Wagner out of the endlessly stale swords and horns look.

Plus there is the absolute dickishness of booing a team that spent six months or more slogging their guts out so they could sing, in tune, for three hours straight, for their entertainment.

In short: it wasnt you.
This is a fantastic hack.
This week I watched tech demos where AWS services like kinesis were used to articulate services processing on the order of .3 to 3 jobs per second. Lol. CLOUD
If your comparison is iOS devices then sure, being allowed to boot your own kernel is a sign of progress. It's a very low bar even when compared to Intel Macs though, not to mention competing laptops. But this is definitely going much better than I anticipated. They've gotten quite far in not too much time. I'm definitely hopeful Apple laptops will again become an interesting option.
Well I bought a 1,000 ft spool of CAT6a for nothing... beaten to the punch!
Heck, without microbes it could just be Martian mummies.
This is amazing. Less sophisticated atheists would share memes about how the Dark Ages was a literal time of scientific backwardsness in the Middle Ages caused by Christianity (look at this graph!). But some robotmen[1] eventually suspended their (dis)belief for long enough to get the idea that there might be some reason why people have followed traditions (i.e. not just label it as irrationality). And some even take the brave step into whatever pagan (relatively speaking: backwards) ritual might be going on next door. And they still manage to keep their robot qualities: the ritual’s benefits are “pro-social” and promote “the belief in community”. (One can forgive this robot for not just going full neuroscientist and just saying “oxycotin”.) And they even start their own little clubs and hangouts which are labeled <common adjective>ist, like “people who are rational and think long term”. Of course these little clubs are firmly rooted in some blogosphere and have no connection to any real traditions out there.

Maybe they will indeed end up being embedded in some tradition somewhere, where they will ritualistically get to practice pro-socialness, belief-in-community, etc. (Emphasis on ritual.)

All these efforts are commendable in that they are very sincere in their efforts to find some actual human meaning out there. (I guess that’s called meta-modernist, or meta-something or other…) Which is a step beyond the postmodernist posers.

[1] The robotmen and atheists simply overlap somewhat. This is about the “rationalist” types, not about secular people.
It's good to see principle component analysis used to select only two components. Configure the algorithm to give you all statistically significant components and it can come back with 30 or 40 components, which fit the data exquisitely but which are as interpretable as a tarot deck and almost as meaningless.
In the AC world, the wire pairs are transmission lines with a characteristic impedance, and this whole thing can be modeled as a bunch of lumped elements.
The gains from more advanced compilation are going to be so small as to not be worth the hassle for most code bases. It's better to focus effort on other areas.
Facebook's relationship to accuracy is deeply poor.

At the fundamental "entity" level, Facebook continues to glaringly miscategorize the recording of social relationships between people as "friendships". Clicking a "Friend" button for a family member is an insult, and doing the same for a casual acquaintance can incorrectly suggest mutual admiration.
Interesting, not entirely implausible. Similar stimulus to auto repair on the East Coast from bad road paving, and future road repair from faulty repaving. Any evidence, even anecdotal?
You might be interested in the PEP introducing structural subtyping to Python: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0544/ - there, they use "structural subtyping" and "static duck typing" as synonymous.
Is a new kind of religion forming on the internet?
I'm 40, I feel like I've had a good, relatively free life, and I largely accept that is over and mostly feel bad for younger people who have to grow up in the fallout of the over reaction we've had.

Imagine dating, going to university, getting married, celebrating things with your family, all under masks and restrictions, having to show a vaccine pass wherever you go, and hysteria from all sides about whatever the covid news of the week is. Or worse, living and working over video chat.

Personally, I'm done, but it's like we've all collectively said fuck you to the younger generation.

That, and I've lost any respect or feeling of civic responsibility towards the government. The pandemic has been handled so badly, oscillating between absurd overreaction and trying to talk away poor response (for example where I am we had huge delays in vaccine availability), all while trying to exert a completely inappropriate level of control over what people do. I no longer feel like a part of society and feel like the government and my countrymen have broken any social compact we have and I don't owe them anything.
The problem is the reality that outcomes on standardized tests show very different distributions for different racial categories [1]. If you focus on the tests, you will get strongly undesired outcomes. So the admission process needs to find other methods to identify candidates that are both academically likely to succeed and roughly match the racial distributions of entire population. On a societal level, in my opinion, the right thing to do would be to address the causes of why certain groups have very low scores, ideally in a non-racial way, such a universal pre-K or more funding for math education and lower-performing schools or whatever. But universities have decided that more subjective evaluations are the way forward for their short term needs.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/research/race-gaps-in-sat-scores-h...
That was my impression too from 15 years ago, curious if this has changed at all.
> I feel like taking that away will severely disadvantage poor kids who are otherwise bright with strong work ethics.

They can still take the test and get a high score.

> How are the SAT/ACT not objective tests? Are they not objective measures of how you perform on the SAT/ACT?

Most of the studies on this show that all of the cultural references in the reading passages and math word problems were things that wealthy people would have experienced in real life, but poor people would not, so it gave an advantage to wealthy kids. Also a lot of the vocab were words that wealthy kids had heard at home but not poor kids.

So while it was supposed to be a test of intelligence, it is really a test of how wealthy you were growing up.

Edit:
Here is the main study from 2003 from Harvard: https://meridian.allenpress.com/her/article-abstract/73/1/1/...

Here is a writeup of someone who replicated it with more recent test scores: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/21/new-evidence-...
Oh, yes you can. Never seen anyone waste a whole day grinding in a game? Never seen someone pour genius into a non-problem? These things happen all the time, as a result of exactly those intersections.
When you close a switch to initiate an electrical current down some long wires it takes a measurable time before you know what's at the far end of the wire.

Therefore if the wire is either intact or broken at the far end, over a 500m distance the first 1.6us of measurement looks exactly the same.
It seems you have no idea about the subject. You just cast a fishing net.
The strongest theory about the origin of the big horse is that it was an advert for a horse shop. Maybe we can form more rituals around great advertisements from ancient times. Let's start greeting each other on the phone with "wazzaaaap".
200uA of current flows through the lightbulb instantly, but it doesn't reach full current until speed of light delay.
> [FSD beta] needs close monitoring and physical control by a human operator at all times, no exceptions, no ifs or buts.

It requires it, for sure, because there are still bugs and edges. It really doesn't "need" it, not for routine driving. My car drives me around now. Zero-disengagement drives are the rule now, not the exception. And where I do take control it's never really been a "safety" situation in the sense of an impending collision. It's because the car is being a jerk and not letting someone merge, or making a poor lane change, or trying to "go around" cars stopped at a light, etc...

Really, it's pretty amazing. No, it's not done. But the kind of hyperbole you're deploying there just isn't correct anymore.

Have you not had a ride yet? Seriously, call a friend and get a ride.
roughly : electric power (and resulting work) is transmitted at the speed of light in the form of magnetic waves, not by the movement of the electrons in the wire the current goes through
Here is a chart of (some of) the conversation so far on Mastodon:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Chartodon/107464941539596242.svg

Language warning.
Sure it can? All sorts of jobs are contingent on signing contracts (NDAs, acceptable use policies, background check authorizations). Why would you think it wouldn't be legal? The "threat" is simply to stop employing you, which your employed (in the US) has an almost absolute right to do anyways.
Because those have similar uneven racial distributions.
> In Europe being an engineer has civil accountability on issues. You can be fined really high if you hire a self-called engineer without a proper degree.

One more case of mistakenly presenting 'Europe' as an homogenous entity, whereas it depends on countries like anywhere else.

In France anyone can claim an engineer position, it is not licensed. You just cannot tell you hold an engineer degree if you haven't one; and that's pretty theoretical, because basically nobody uses the proper formal title (unlike for example in Germany where they always use the words Dipl. Ing.), so you can always fall back on claiming you are talking about the position and not the degree title.