skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There is no reason for there to be a scarcity of excellent education in our wealthy, developed country.

I'm under the impression that at least for undergraduate education, your average StateU is probably on par with the best name brand colleges. Most of the value of going to a selective school is the signaling/branding aspect, not necessarily the education itself (although it still might be above average). When considering that aspect, you really can't have "1 million excellent schools", because if every school is excellent, than no school is.
They’re too successful as a group and it makes everyone else look bad (near as I can tell)
This.

Actually I use it frequently. Usually I follow the script:

1) Hear someone saying something I agree with.

2) Walk there and ask: "Well, have you considered..." and present a counter-argument I think is reasonably strong.

3) Listen and learn objections, sometimes asking for clarifications, pointing weaknesses or going back to 2 until I'm convinced position is consistent or the person doesn't know what is talking about.

4) I say: "Thanks, I now understand your point. I actually didn't know or had not thought about it."

The problem is that sometimes I lose a friend between steps 2 and 3.
Right, if you look under the "GPS shift problem" section, it does mention that it is due to the difference between the GCJ-02 and WGS-84 datums.

So it is not like the regulations are saying "you must shift the coordinates by this amount", which would be stupid. It's just that foreign map publishers have not obtained the license to use the correct datum for Mainland China, so they make do with another one.
> Fork with cow is inefficient.

> Compared to what?

vfork()

> Any numbers on that?

I added links to the gist, some of which discuss performance in detail. E.g., https://blog.famzah.net/tag/fork-vfork-popen-clone-performan... and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682922

But you can just reason about this:

- vfork() is O(1)

- copying fork() is O(N) where N is the
amount of writable memory in the parent's
address space

- copy-on-write fork() is O(N) where N is
the resident set size (RSS) of the parent

O(1) beats O(N).

And O(N) is just the complexity of fork() for a single-threaded parent process. Now imagine a very busy, threaded, large-RSS process that forks a lot. You get threads and child processes stepping all over each other's CoW mappings, causing lots of page faults and copies. Ok, that is still O(N), but users will feel the added pain of all those page faults and TLB shootdowns.
Why should there be an expectation of uniformity?

Subgroups of people come from different families and cultures, and at an aggregate level (not necessarily individuals) will have different values. Those values will lead to different talents and interests. Those different talents and interests will lead to meeting and failing different sets of standards.

Wouldn't it be a boring world if things were entirely uniform? Can you really say that different cultures even exist if the differences are so trivial that they don't really make any difference to your life?

Of course, nobody should be locked into a cultural stereotype. If they, individually, meet the standards, they should be treated as anyone else who does.
You realize this article is, in part, talking about admission to a public high school right?
Cleary, you have not had a Grapple[0].

https://www.grapplefruits.com/

Yes, I realize the irony of correcting someone in this thread ;-)
Refer to my other reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30523751
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' The social contract that citizens sign with their government ...'

I do not consent to your fake contract that gets changed every couple years. No thank you.
I notice a lot of companies avoiding hiring remote workers from Colorado. This may exacerbate this, even though I don't think it's bad policy.
As a candidate, I don’t mind opaqueness with regards to salary. My time outside of work is pretty much worthless. I don’t mind talking to someone for an hour or however long if it’s a job I might like doing. If the price is right, great, if not, well whatever. The benefit to me is that if they get invested in hiring me, I can push them on salary if I choose to do that.
> For example if the standards include "child of an alumni", that's not very fair. If the standards include GPA, that's not very fair to someone who went to a school that doesn't offer AP tests.

Some of this is pretty on-point. 'child of alumni' is somewhat dumb standard. I guess part of it is looking at standards and ensuring they're based in rational, and logical ideas.

However, if the issue with the standard being good GPA is that it's not fair to someone who went to bad school. The issue isn't the standard, it's the school. A better attempt to increased enrollment is to focus on ensuring better schools are provided to those students.

> And what they look like is important because certain people experience life very differently depending on what they look like.

That's correct. However, it's not clear to me how lowering standards is good? It's simply lowering the quality of students overall. Again, the solution falls to actually improving the level of quality of education for the under-represented groups instead of lowering standards.

In general, this discrimination is the definition of racism. Replace Blacks with White, and replace Asians with Blacks and you can be pretty clear how similar it is to racism of the past.

Quoting a paragraph from the article with slight changes:

> Among other things, standardized testing requirements were eliminated, and subjective admission criteria were added in an effort to deny slots to African-Americans and boost enrollment among white Americans.

If I saw that in a newspaper, I would conclude that's some racist stuff right there. If I remember correctly, most of the world, including America, in general decided a while ago that this Racism thing is not good.
Very anecdotal and personal, and non-technical, but I believe wordle words are usually very simple ones, so in your case, BLAME will stand a better chance than the remaining three. BLADE could be second.
>Blinding applicants' high schools would reveal the inequality in treatment latent in our educational system.

Which way?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tri...

(Not saying this study is necessarily predictive of "inequality in schools", just that we shouldn't expect it to be a sure thing like you suggest)
Having used a lot of Samsung software, I have to wonder if the root cause here is a language barrier. Their software frequently has translation errors, and their kernels are compiled on a computer in Korean Standard Time. For a lot of open source software, or basic introductions into, say, how to use AES-GCM, they're really only available in English reliably. Content in other languages frequently lags or is non existent.

I could totally imagine something like Google Translate missing a critical not or similar that completely changes the meaning of a sentence. For technical documentation, that could be a huge problem.
I once guessed the word on my first try on the Russian version!
Just my own opinions to respond to a couple of your points:

- Visuals: Disappointing. Looked like a cheap free-to-play MMO. Cheap-looking textures, stock-looking characters

What settings did you have the game on? This has never been my experience with a Souls game - and definitely not Elden Ring.

- bad rigging (e.g. characters holding things in unnatural poses), etc.

Yeah, agree. Pretty typical for every game though.

- Controls: Unpleasant. Controls felt very sluggish. If this is supposed to make the game more challenging or something, this isn't a very fun mechanic.

The Souls series is definitely a little slower in that sense than most other games. If you want a faster weapon, use a faster weapon. There are a ton available, but there are tradeoffs! The series puts a focus on calculated, well-timed strikes; the most successful strategy is to learn your opponents' attack patterns and take advantage of the right moment to strike. Once you hit the attack button you're locked in to the attack, so you absolutely have to know the boss isn't winding up for another attack.

- Software quality: Terrible. Performance is not good, tons of bugs, graphics issues, wouldn't recognize my controller when I had multiple input devices plugged in.

Keep in mind these games are designed for and primarily sold on consoles - PC is the minority.

- Dialogue: What little I saw was super corny. Used as a crutch for poor level design. E.g. a ghost telling you something to the effect of "you need to jump into this hole to continue the game".

I won't comment on the "corny" part other than saying you kind of just have to lean into it... Enjoy it for the fantasy it is.

"you need to jump into this hole to continue the game" - that's the first 15 minutes of the game, teaching you that you'll need to pay attention to that kind of stuff later. There is very little handholding past the intro.

- Multiplayer felt like a cheap gimmick. I wanted to turn it off.

I'm curious about this, can you elaborate?

- Am I missing something? This is my first souls game;

In my opinion yes. But the genre is just not for everyone. It's a really different type of game and some people just won't like the gameplay.

- is feeling cheap and clunky part of the aesthetic?

Yes, but as someone who enjoys the genre, I wouldn't use the word "clunky". It intentionally pushes the player away from the modern norm where a game can be blown through by mashing the attack button.
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In addition, standardised tests do not have any bias about your past or about your education. Anyone can start from scratch, prepare and ace them. All other forms of admissions, GPA, essays etc have biases of other parties. Essays and recommendation letters especially. Also they are so easy to game.

They should clearly eliminate the test fees and make free prep material available for those who can't afford them. Conduct free preparation classes for anyone to attend etc. A lot can be done to make standardised tests more accessible. That would serve a greater purpose.
Regulatory issues are one reason.
The second is that the wifi side of things might be some 3rd party IP they bought and the licencing terms prevent open sourcing it.
Wifi stacks are complex and filled with edgecases. And every release just makes that moat bigger.
I can think of several patented medicines that are not being pursued commercially in the US despite their approval in other countries and proven efficacy. I can think of one that's sat on by a company that already produces a similar medication.

Companies will sit on new medications until right before/after the similar, but older, medications they own/license are off patent, that way they always have another patented medication waiting in the wings for when they're done squeezing every cent they can out of their old ones.
Father's name as last name and has studied in a top government college - backward caste. got it via reservation.

Brown skin + studied in a top government college. backward caste. got in via reservation

Fair skin + College(non-goverment quota) - probably from upper caste

All these can be known from an interview by looking at the person and resume.
You are right. This anti "affirmative action" rhetoric is quite common among upper caste people in India. Unless OP managed to get faked documents and pretended to be from a lower caste, they absolutely did not gain anything.
I'm new to From Soft games and decided to buy Elden Ring because it's a similar game to Zelda Breath of The Wild which I really liked.

I was afraid that the game would be too difficult. After playing 17hrs, the game is indeed difficult but there are many things you can do in the game to make it easier for yourself (Which I did because I'm more interested in exploring the world than mastering the gameplay).

For example, if you're a casual gamer focus on exploring and having small wins (beating mobs, beating mini bosses, buying weapons) in the game before tackling the suggested route.

There are guides online to help you lower the difficulty through finding certain items and buying certain things in the game. This is essentially the easy mode everyone wanted but the core souls fans.

Anyway, great game.
I mean this conversation could go somewhere. I'm sure someone here can get access to the maps backend and redirect a few missiles if the rumors are true. This crowd is probably 99th percentile in working out the details.

(That is to say, probably not competent at it, which is better than "definitely not")

Also, you can bet concrete actionable suggestions made here will bubble up to silicon valley execs by the morning.
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I asked a friend who was about to list his house for sale how much he wanted. He said nine btc and another higher price in usd.

I will rephrase this to make it accurate:
->>except crypto as it was worthless in getting a loan.

becomes

->> except crypto as it was worthless in getting a lien against crypto.

In other words, they can't lien your 1000 ounces of gold coin you claim to have in your basement.
If you can get the sounds to speed up, it sounds like the WOPR playing tic-tac-toe
As a visible minority who has lived in a western country for more than 2 decades I bristle every time I'm asked this question.

The majority of the time it isn't asked from a place of genuine curiosity but as a way of boxing you in and "other"ing you. I shouldn't need to justify my existence to you just because my skin color stands out.

Also restricting your exploration to just food topics doesn't make you curious or cultured. There's more to experiencing a culture than looking up a recipe online, going to an "authentic" restaurant or going backpacking while surrounded by expats of a similar cultural background as you.

Ultimately I'm not a zoo animal for you to poke or probe at. I'm a complicated individual with my own personal story just like you are & I deserve the same respect I give you.

How would you feel if I just met you and started interrogating you on whether you are an Angle, Saxon or a Jute?

Now how would you feel if every single non-white person you met asked you this dozens of times over the span of a decade?
Well, Apple was only an example of a company with the money and perhaps the inclination to do so. But no, it isn't really an Apple specific question.
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The "correct datum" is actually WGS-84 but deliberately obfuscated with a nonlinear transform. Yes, the regulations are explicitly saying "you must shift the coordinates by this amount".

Wikipedia: "GCJ-02 (colloquially Mars Coordinates, officially Chinese: 地形图非线性保密处理算法; lit. 'Topographic map non-linear confidentiality algorithm') is a geodetic datum formulated by the Chinese State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping and based on WGS-84. It uses an obfuscation algorithm which adds apparently random offsets to both the latitude and longitude, with the alleged goal of improving national security."
claims that performance on standardized tests is not a measure of competency

That's mostly an attempt to get around this:

Average US Asian IQ: 105.

Average US White IQ: 99.

Average US Black IQ: 85-90.

Most comments focus on the black-white gap, but the Asian/non-Asian is substantial.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-black-white-test-scor...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence
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I think it can be fruitful to analyze games through the emotions they evoke. After all, the whole reason we play games is to feel a certain way.

I think the problems with many clones stem from misidentifying the emotion of FromSoft games to be frustration.

The reason we play a souls game isn't to get frustrated, that's the price of admission not an ends in itself. What we want is that feeling of accomplishment.

Along this axis, FromSoft's games are closer related to something like The Witness than say Diablo (which is more about feeling strong and powerful).
I’ve only read the Mistborn series, but I didn’t find it all similar to Tolkien–not in style or themes.
Ukraine had no nuclear weapons 8 years ago. Ukraine has all required equipment and nuclear materials (weapon grade Uranium, Plutonium) to create nuclear weapons at will. Are you sure that Ukraine has no will to defend itself?

> The US and Russia have danced around very carefully in Syria; the only direct conflict I know of involved Russian "mercenaries".

Turkey shot Russian airplane.

> NATO operations in Ukraine carry a very large risk of accidental escalation, in addition to Putin's threats.

I'm sorry to inform you, but war between two nuclear nations has much larger risk of escalation when NATO will play the role of coward.
This is pretty wild.

I’ve spent a decade working in the industry, most of it unwinding complex infrastructure and codebases. I don’t hate GPG because I can’t be bothered to figure it out. I understand it and it’s bad at handling the problems it claims to solve.
Nuget has the same issue - it can execute arbitrary code during installation. Perhaps it's being exploited already but nobody noticed?

Regardless, even in case of package managers that don't have install scripts (e.g. Maven) one could simply insert malware directly into library code and have it execute whenever you run tests or your application.

The only true solution would be some sort of sophisticated sandboxing or sophisticated malware detection or distributed code review.
I knew there was going to be Ethereum involved.
Elantris is great, but the end of the books is basically a gaping gap. Not entirely, but a bit like the story was cut off in the middle.
A right of first refusal does not require you to sign a contract. (Otherwise you'd have to have negotiated all the terms in advance, which by my understanding isn't how it works.)

So yes, you can negotiate in bad faith. At which point it basically becomes a forced delay before you can show it to anyone else. But if you do that you'll probably earn a bad reputation in the industry...
Ah, just admit it. :D

The sooner you admit it, the sooner you can get into the culture. It's not only one of the best series of games made in the past 15 years, but it's also got one of the more fun communities around.
I am saying people make that choice when they choose which device manufacturer they go with (for example buying a Google phone vs a Huawei phone).
The actual underlying phenomena is probably that as GPA increase, there is "diminishing returns" to skill. With this in mind, you can improve the lottery by assigning probability of winning relative to ln(x) or 1-1/x, which awards additional hard work, but doesn't give undue credit to the very top performers.
Just realized I’ve been using Wireshark over two decades (well, Ethereal until 2006).

One thing some may overlook is that it uses WinPcap (now Npcap) to actually do packet capturing. It is trivial to make .NET and probably other framework applications to make your own special-purpose sniffer using that library.

I once wanted a feature that mimicked the Wireshark Conversations feature but didn’t require storing total details of every packet. Rather it just stored the bytes in/bytes out of every host seen on the wire. Had first version up in about an hour! Took a day and some iteration for it to be fast enough to handle the real-time flow of data coming from WinPcap though.
This is fantastic! I love it. "I don't even like video games" :D

Having the experience of fail, score 1, score 1, score 14,... is really fun. I think it has just the right mix of difficulty/friction and reward, such that it's pretty easy to get success once you "lock in".

I'd be curious what your creative process is, if you start with a goal idea and then code to build it, or if you go the opposite direction, starting with what can be built and seeing how to make something fun out of it. I've never written any games, though it's something I think about.
The writers who translated Goethe became some of the best writers in English
I’m no fan of noncompetes — and I would also rather generate (and have previously generated) loyalty through compensation, goodwill and camaraderie, but this entire argument strikes me as disingenuous.

- The almost conspiracy-esque malice of bending ‘to the rich’ that the grandparent poster was talking about is much more easily explained by ‘these people also have unusually privileged information’.

- I think the thinking (perhaps unfairly) went like this: Whilst there is such a thing as domain skill, a noncompete should affect a secretary or assistant minimally in practice, as they generally have a broad, non-domain-specific skillset, unlike the executive they report to.
I think it's just an agreed fact that moss is cool. What's not cool about a plant carpet.
Ha! I read the instructions and did exactly what it said. Hit space once and the "ball" started to move on non-touch device, I was trying to figure out how to move the paddles so continuously kept watching the ball drop with 0 score. I was halfway convinced that it was a joke game (which would have been pretty clever).
I have not used it in production. It looks good to me wrt to code however i have not audited so can't say for sure. May be you can check in github discussions if anyone is using it in production
I weigh the scope creep of the US negatively. I'm aware they partnered and that the US was initially making sure that Al Queda could not use Taliban resources.

If this is something you are passionate about, somebody else should have attempted to deal with the Taliban, which is the future we are currently in.
I... didn't mean that containers have to have a copy of the operating system inside them, systemd and many other things included. I meant only that they should be created in ways like how the BSDs and Illumos do it.
Given that many Eastern European countries need people anyway, this might be an acceptable idea. I am just not sure that many would accept Russians or that Russians could easily integrate with the local populations there.
Are you feeling obnoxious?
The shell reads a command and then executes it. It doesn't buffer the whole script into memory.
Successful demographics are evil. They must have become successful via exploiting others.
I’ve found it really helpful to post the right answer and collect all the other right answers also.
It's a US asset that tips the balance of military power towards individuals.

Someone can use Google Maps to plan a peaceful protest or a Molotov cocktail strike more easily than a missile strike. Why would you expect them to take that capability away from people they've publicly sided with?