skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a bit more in [0], but in short my point is that they don't "test for intelligence or academic competence". The idea that standardized college entrance exams like the ACT and SAT are useful predictors of these things is a lie sold to you by their manufacturers, made believable only because they obfuscate the truth: that these tests are predominantly indicators of economic means and stability.

There does not exist a meaningful test of general intelligence that outputs a number that is equally meaningful to people from all socioeconomic (or even cultural) backgrounds. Similarly, there does not exist a meaningful test of academic potential (aside from a student's existing academic record).

College entrance exams are a scam meant to make money for the people who manufacture them. I say this as someone who did pretty well on every standardized exam I took, and felt guilty because I knew students who performed worse and had fewer college prospects than I did because of it, even though I knew they were better students who would easily out-perform me at the more prestigious institutions to which I was admitted in most meaningful metrics.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29601780
Reminds me of Bernard Rudofskys 'In praise of stairs'. A great piece of writing available in a freely borrowable chapter here https://archive.org/details/streetsforpeople00rudo
They are not photos. They are just renders.
And? That is entirely the point. Pharma marketing & government sold this as a preventative cure which of which people with the know were skeptical about from the beginning.
So one small battery on your head is scary. What happens if this happens in an electric car where you are sitting on a huge bank of batteries?
Maybe because Telegram had been lying for years and deliberately confusing end-to-end transport encrypted with end-to-end message encrypted?

I’ll never trust Telegram.
Tried salvia once. Impressed by the visuals and the intensity; but there's no euphoria. Without euphoria, it's just weird perceptual distortions, and loss of the ability to move or speak. I thought it was like being ill.

Tried DMT once. It offers euphoria, visuals and intensity; but the speed with which it came on was such that I was effectively disabled before I could complete dosing - so no breakthrough.

Visuals are all very well - but I've been there and done that decades ago. Euphoria and joy are harder to come by, and drugs that provide them don't "keep on giving".

People react very differently to these substances, and my experiences are by no means normative.
>If some API is responsible for creating a job, storing it in the database AND publishing it can never be an atomic operation.

We use transactional outbox for that - we insert a record about the event into the event table in the same transaction as the rest of the operation (providing atomicity), and then a special goroutine reads this table and pushes new events to the message broker on a different server. In our design, there are multiple services which might want to subscribe to the event, and the rule is that they shouldn't share their DB's (for proper scaling) so we can't handle event dispatch in some single central app instance. Of course we could implement our own pub/sub server in Go over a DB like Postgres if we wanted, but what's the point of reinventing the wheel if there's already existing battle-tested tools for that, considering you have to reimplement: queues, exchanges, topics, delivery guarantee, proper error handling, monitoring etc.
I switch between tons of tools and computers throughout the day. No way I want to customize all of them.

Sure, yes I do have a huge bashrc on my main workstation and yes I do add macros and other combos for repetitive tasks. But some fundamental things, like rebuild file, I really don’t want to be the weirdo unique guy who can’t operate someone else’s keyboard and vice versa. Missing F keys is just not a professional programmers keyboard.
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I'm a former model. I am interested in your opinions on my photo sets. Thank you!
Instead of arguing why the data sources they have analyzed is limited or not fully representative, I suggest we get interested in their findings and look further into the matter. The authors are open about the limitations and possible biases in the data sources, and how modern use of language could affect the interpretations. I think they've provided good descriptions on how they have taken this into account in their study.
You haven't mentioned anything about disliking code reviews other than the way this architect conducts them. It sounds more like you're tired of micromanagement than code reviews.
> I used to read books all the time. I spent most of my waking hours as a teenager reading books. I’m 35 now and can barely hold attention on anything, I read maybe 3 books a year if I’m lucky. Even on Hacker News I almost exclusively read and comment on the comments, not the actual article unless I see someone says “have you read the article?”

I used to be this way too. Then I just started reading again and now I can't stop. The trick for me -- which might be circumstantial and not related at all -- is an e-reader I always carry on my person, and an unlimited free books policy from my employer.

Sometimes I only get a few minutes of reading here and there. Sometimes there's a few hours at a time. But it's on the level of when I was a child and teenager again.

I mean, I still don't, generally read the article because the comments on HN are often higher quality. But the books I read are even higher quality.

And the things I've learned from mathematical, financial, systems theoretical, organisational, political, anthropological, and technical literature has really taken me places.
I doubt that you can name one in the US.
Nobody used it because it didn't work on most browsers.
HF exposure is a possibility from lithium battery fires. It's definitely something to be aware of, although it sounds like the doctor(s) you spoke with might be aware.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5577247/
Obviously, some rules are less ambiguous than others. For me, it is hard to understand why lobbying is legal at all.
Facebook is a trillion dollar company. Spend more money on content control and content verification. Use intelligent humans and more of them. It may not be profitable but it will increase trust in the platform immensely if the fact checkers are fair and consistent. Not nameless bots or people that don’t give a fuck.
> California experienced a population decline in 2021, the first in its history as a state. That may be what GP was referring.

That couldn't be the population drop GP referred to costing a house seat, since it was after the Census on which the apportionment was based, and would have no effect on apportionment except in how it contributes to the state at the time of the 2030 Census.
Fed raising interest rates before corona was short-lived and symbolic at best. The stock market will not react until investors are convinced that the Fed has changed it’s multi-decade stance of extraordinarily low interest rates. This shift in market sentiment may not occur immediately after the Fed shifts, particularly since many of the younger investors know nothing else but low interest rates and expect them to continue indefinitely.
Maybe. I'm mostly asking honestly because it doesn't seem that hard.

I've lived in 6 cities between the great lakes and FL, and it seems like all were way too far in one direction or the other.

If not in policy itself, then in the people.
HNers are falling over themselves to make sardonic comments accusing politicians of only changing their minds because there's an election coming up.

Couldn't possibly be that:

* homelessness is a really complex problem, with lots of varied causes, not to mention a lot of barriers to anyone who is homeless reintegrating into society (for example, thanks to paranoia over terrorism, it can now be very difficult for someone who is or was homeless to get ID, get a bank account, etc. Homeless people don't have their birth certificates handy, don't typically have an address they get mail at, they don't receive bills, etc.)

* policies and programs take time to get going; there are lessons learned in planning, implementation, etc.

* change does not happen overnight; think of a city program to address homelessness like a container you're using to bail out a canoe that's full of water.

* it takes time to collect data, and more time to figure out what the data means

* it takes time to figure out what to do about that data

And so on, etc.
‘No evidence’ Omicron less severe than Delta, say UK researchers
Sounds like lobbying for the poor.
30days of paid leave first though? isn't that like giving 30days of paid vacation to the unvaccinated?
Exactly. At about 30V / km the potential to do damage to smaller electric circuits is limited, but anything connected to longer lines is at risk.
archive link: https://archive.md/0QjvI
> Forcing people to get vaccines will only result in contrarian noncompliance due to the peculiarities of the American psyche

In my country most non compliance is due to lack of confidence in authorities and passive aggresive behaviour. People would rather believe all sorts of mumbo jumbo than get vaccinated.

Anyway, I feel like vaccine mandates and the green pass only further divides society and after we get rid of the pandemic we'll be stuck with a fascism epidemic.

I'm triple vaccinated and somehow managed to avoid getting infected so far.
Plenty of type II diabetics are thin. Fat mass is corollary but excess carb intake is causal. You’re conflating excess carbs and excess calories. One is a macronutrient and the other is a unit of energy.

The answer is simple… like most things, it won’t map to every individual diabetic but it certainly maps to the population at large.

The knee jerk reaction, feigning fat martyrdom, is what’s actually preventing us from looking critically at the causes behind type II diabetes. Our priors regarding what an acceptable human diet should look like have been shaped by a fifty+ year insurgence of processed food in the supply chain and marketing.

American health is in dire straights and we refuse to look in the mirror.
>It’s gonna happen.

Yeah, and when it does, the manufacturer of that lithium bomb should pay for it.

And not just to compensate the victim, but to make the cost of negligent manufacture higher than the savings it brings to the company in engineering, QA, and production.

Numbers are not an excuse. There is over a billion cars in the world, most filled with highly flammable gasoline that actually burns inside them. Yet none are spontaneously exploding.

Self-immolating headphones - small speakers that you put on your head, mind you - are an egregious abuse of safety, public trust, and all reason. By an ostensibly "luxury" brand, no less.

There is no "but" about it. If they can't make safe headphones, they should not make headphones period.

OP, please report them to CPSC here: https://www.saferproducts.gov/IncidentReporting
One of my favourite things about Remix, and where it beats Next IMO, is that you can deploy it anywhere. Bring your own server.

Whereas trying to deploy Next.js anywhere other than Vercel is a nightmare.
As a west-coaster I'm curious, if during a warning people are driving/walking around what's the standard thing people do? Do business allow public in for safety or do people try and go home?
> The idea that entrance exams balanced things in favor of people from lower socioeconomic classes is, and always has been, a bunch of malarkey.

You are looking at this absolutely, not relatively. The rest of the admissions criteria have similar issues you raise, if not worse. (Essays and interviews especially risk class bias)

> They don't test anything other than an applicant's ability to do well on the test, and that is primarily determined by (a) the applicant's to spend time studying for the test and (b) the applicant's ability to utilize resources to study for the test.

Citation needed here. They are quite predictive of college success (GPA) which is why they are used.
that's an oxymoron. ideas are inherently non copyrightable
https://californianewstimes.com/sleeping-couple-wake-to-find...

I worry about this too. Cripes!
GKE Autopilot v/s Standard Cluster
It's unclear whether this is a one-in-a-million freak li-ion battery malfunction, or something systemically wrong with that model of headphones.

It could be the former. But it could also be the latter, in which case the OP taking legal action might save a few other Bose users some pain and suffering. Which is partly why he should escalate this.
You’re comment resonates a lot with me. I used to read many books and now just mindlessly browse the internet. I feel like a zombie at times.

At the same time, I’ve never read as much as today. I get inspire by people like you living at the other side of the world. This new world we live in has definitely pros and cons.
>I don't really have a personal 'horse' in this as I'm neither black nor white

I think we all do, to be honest. But, I shouldn't have phrased my response in a way that suggested you were being disingenuous. Sorry if it came across that way.

What I was trying to say is that was the really important bit and deserves more focus IMO.

>I just don't really see how that changes the fact that it's unfair to the person rejected because of an immutable characteristic

Well, the short answer is, that there may be some who are so rejected, but there are also real individuals on the other side.

And, this brings up a really important point, that I think presents the challenge when discussing these things. That is, we kind of oscillate between the macro and micro levels without announcing it.

So, we're talking about these ongoing and historical effects that really are generational and persistent, so bear down on Black people in ways that disadvantage them today. And, generally, you have many White people who benefitted from that equation and passed those advantages down to individuals. Not all, but certainly many, and even neutrality is better than disadvantage.

Now, we'll acknowledge that it's not fair to the Black individual. However, when any talk of remedy is had, there's an intense focus on whether an individual White person might be perceived to be negatively impacted. And, the conclusion generally runs along the lines of "well, you can't fight racism with more racism".

But, then, what about the individual Black person, who continues to be disadvantaged? He/she just becomes an externality; the by-product of a history and system that are really hard to address.

So, this treats the Black person at the macro level
("we must fix the system!") and the White person at the micro level ("we must now apply treatment evenly to every individual!").

However, if we do attempt to address the issue, then we charge the individual Black person with receiving any perceived benefits, and we forget about the system that operates at the macro level. So he is treated in the micro at the least advantageous time for him.

But, going the other way, we tend not to attribute generational/systemic advantages to White people at the micro level. So, individually, they are seen only as victims of efforts to remediate, and we push those advantages up to the system at the macro level. So she is treated in the micro at the most advantageous times.

The other part is that we tend to talk about this as if it's only the legacy of our history that we're remedying, when there are very real, persistent systemic issues from redlining to mortgage rates to unequal pay and more. So, these are ongoing advantages and disadvantages being mitigated. It's not as simplistic as a head-to-head match up wherein a Black person benefits from a diversity policy that directly disadvantages a White person.

Those two individuals are part of a larger system that doles out advantages and disadvantages in various ways and at various times.
I bought my kids a hover board for Christmas a few years back. Then it was in the news that some, a different brand, were catching fire on people. I never liked the thought of lithium ion batteries charging unattended after that. I started placing it to charge away from the walls on on ceramic tiles in case it start to burn. Even cell phones I feel better with them charging in a glass dish. Call me paranoid but I’ve seen too many internet videos of these types of batteries spontaneously bursting into flames.
Is it lithium ion? or lithium polymer? Apparently there’s a difference and lithium polymer is supposed to be a lot safer.
> do HKers 'identify' as 'Chinese' then, just not 'from China'?

If they were born in HK and raised there, they would call themselves a HKer (香港人) from Hong Kong. It's highly unlikely they would say they are from 'China' because in their eyes China is Mainland China (大陆/中国) and there is negativity associated with it.

Confusingly, my friends whose parents are from Hong Kong and were born in the UK identify themselves as 'British Born Chinese' rather than 'British Born HKer'.

I use Cantonese or English when in Hong Kong. Speaking Mandarin there, when you look East Asian, is just asking for trouble if you are in wrong part of town.
It's not a "sense" of community that's lost, but actual community.

> Secular movements to restore a sense of community would be welcomed IMO (there are articles about how local mcdonald's have become gathering places in small american towns, surely this isn't ideal)

Because there are no communities, there is nothing to organize or coordinate that can possibly hope to raise the very substantial funds that would be necessary to operate a public building.

Really, this kind of thing should be tax-funded, like libraries often are. Organizing that way would be easier and more sustainable, yet still seems hopelessly far out of reach.

Churches manage to live from "tithing" donations which requires deploying a very complicated mental infrastructure to keep people so willing to invest so much. The idea of manipulating enough people in some way to cause them to forward so much of their income to a secular community center seems also hopeless.

Outside libraries, America doesn't have indoor public spaces, "third spaces." Except for whatever businesses might set up as their little hooks to get sales -- probably short-lived since a faux community built on a semicovert sales strategy isn't easy to develop either.
The term people of color is bad and shouldn't be used. We shouldn't classify people into group of colors. When people see an African American person they are likely to have different bias about the person than when they see an Indian person. The bias is not about the skin color, it's about the group the person belongs to. Another example, Indians and African American have completely different issues in the US. Indians have great representation in academia, all top professions (tech, medical, law, etc), live in rich suburbs, etc. Racism against Indian people is usually from anti-immigrants people. African Americans have bad representation in everything I just listed and racism against them have nothing to do with immigration. In the US at least, the Indians and white groups are much closer to each other than Indians and African Americans (obv I'm generalizing here, even white is way too broad as a group).

Sorry for digressing on the topic here...
Things happened very quickly. I managed to get the headphones out of the house in under 10s. I may have been screaming obscenities at the time. I just recall a sticky residue somehow ended up on my hands and that's what burned. There was also some burning from thermals. I obviously tried to hold my breath to some extent, but the smoke persisted in the house for a while.
Excess carbs ≠ excess calories. You’re conflating the two. How do you achieve one but not the other? Eat carbs and nothing else - which is surprisingly common. My father is quite thin, yet drank soda religiously my entire life, and is now struggling with metabolic disease.
You cannot be certain that this was entirely "spontaneous".

Yes, the OP prefaced with a number of common reasons this might happen that do not apply in his case, but that does not mean the root cause is faulty manufacture.

Hell, it's possible that a high-energy particle from space hit the battery in his headphones in just the right spot and that's why it exploded. Would you hold Bose responsible in that case?
Possibly relevant: helping students cheat on the SATs is a whole industry in China,

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-...
This seems like a strained framing. News that a politician is OK with high crime is bewildering. News that they want to curb high crime is not bewildering, regardless of whether their existing policies contributed to the crime rate. And either policy seems like a pretty standard thing to report on, no? Lastly, announcing a stance against something is not "crying" about it.

I think you really just wanted to make the case that the city's policies spurred crime, which is fine, but you should then do that directly instead of making kind of nonsensical snarky quips.
Translating the Dreyfus Developmental Model to the Learning of Clinical Skills
The Flaws of Bloom’s Taxonomy as a Pedagogical Concept
I'd like to disagree as someone who knew Ross during my time at Berkeley. He absolutely is intelligent and thoughtful enough to know what he was doing -- including the consequences.

Berkeley's IRB is similarly illed -- resulting, a lot of trust (i.e. empathy) is placed that the lead will not do anything as obviously unethical as this. This is not the mistake that someone as intelligent as Ross makes, this was a conscious decision that backfired.
No, I really don't think a literal genocide IN China is less worse than bombing "tens of millions" (where did you get this number?).

> while their current competitor hasn't done much on the international scene.

So holding African ports for ransom and illegally invading the territorial waters of countries from Ecuador to Argentina doesn't count?
At this stage I expect Lithuania would be very against the EU forcing any other countries to shutdown nuclear power plants in the future. The Belarusian Astravets problem and soaring energy prices mean they are in a very tough place compared to 20 years ago, when they were a net energy exporter. The EU has actually made them much more dependent on Russia, not less.
> If you want a healthy society, you need to set aside the individual in order to create balance across the society.

That's fine, but the question is, who gets to decide? Individuals.

> Equality of outcome feels horrible at the level of the individual, but across a society, it leads to greater equality and happiness.

Receiving unearned money doesn't lead to happiness due to lack of fulfillment. Having earned money taken away doesn't lead to happiness due to a lack of reward. Equality of outcome always ends up killing the initiative and freedoms needed for prosperity to support such a society to begin with.
Hold? No thanks. How does that work when you are debugging code and have to repeatedly press the step over button. Both VS and IntellJ use F-keys as default for this. With lots of shift-modifiers already, to toggle step in, over, out.
No. There is very little lithium in the lithium battery.

The amount of chemical energy released by burning of the electrolyte, and graphite is many times higher than battery's stored electric energy.

Most of what burns in a lithium cell is electrolyte, and later graphite.
Lithium metal is probably what you're thinking of as being very reactive, however there is no lithium metal whatsoever in a LiPo battery.
Can someone explain how to read the readings from Instruction Latency(InstLatX86).

For example how to read the following line,

201 X86 :INC r8 L: 13.36ns= 1.0c T: 6.68ns= 0.50c

This instruction is incrementing the value of r8 general purpose register. But I am not sure how to parse L: and T: section.

Also, does this number change proportionally if it is in low power mode or if the CPU is undervolted?