skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah this is a really hard problem and I don't see a fix outside of standardized testing. Every school is individually incentivized to use every trick - grading out of 5.0, grading loosely, giving a bonus score for AP/IB courses "because of difficulty", etc and teachers are obviously very sympathetic to the future of their students and the impact that being a Grading Nazi could have. And parents are obviously incentivized to find the school that's going to make Little Billy look best (best educated is great but not sufficient, that's why we're discussing testing).

You need a uniform grading system, which means a uniform material and a uniform grading process, which is... standardized testing, or at least AP/IB courses.
Is unclear how this will end still. A Russian army full of young and demotivated people keeping control over the biggest nuclear plants is a -huge- problem.
IQ Tests aren't illegal though? If colleges wanted to administer IQ tests they absolutely could.
Thanks for the great explanation
When I first encountered this idea it quickly jumped to me that the universe does not appear to be "static", or at least our observation of it is constantly changing. This also plays into homogeneity, and the last assumption of being "infinite" is somewhat irrelevant, because if the first 2 aspects don't hold, being infinite still won't make the sky appear 'filled', at least past the point of our observation.

Of course there's still the theory of an imploding universe which could shrink back together all matter and thus maybe achieve this effect, but even then we still don't have a static characteristic, it only makes an argument for an 'infinitely occurring universe', maybe something akin of the theory proposed by Penrose.(which however still has a lot of unanswered questions, imo)
Happy to answer questions or hear your feedback!
Mirrorless.

I shoot with a Sony α7ii. Overall I like it, particularly the selection of lenses, but I do think (1) it gives more pixels than the optical system can really make "tack sharp" (that is I get depressed when I look at the images at max enlargement but when I print them or put them on the screen as I'd expect people to see them they look great) and (2) you have a choice between compressed RAW files that have visible quality loss and uncompressed ones that are huge.

Before I had the Sony I had a Canon, I love the ultrasonic motor for the autofocus in Canon and was worried I'd miss it but I don't.
Did a quick skim - did they release the data?

What does this mean:

> when you control for socioeconomic factors that correlate with testing.

Which factors are these exactly?
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It's ok, I think I misunderstood your comment a little bit, but it looks like we are both on the same page here now that I go back and read. Have a good rest of your day :)
And yet based on further comments trotting out the NATO canard, the inference was correct. While there are certainly abstract free speech arguments to be made about Germany (and larger Europe), and despite being a proponent of the ideal of frees speech, I'm not particularly eager to advocate for it in the context of Europe during wartime.
My one question there would be was he certain he could figure out the statistics to get to what he wanted? I feel like you need to get a rough idea of that much at least before you start pitching. Obviously you don't need every bell and whistle, all the data pipelines and so on. But basic proof would still be good to make sure you can deliver something vaguely in tune with what you're promising. But dropping all that money on contractors before you've done any REAL market research is wild to me.
>A keybase equivalent that gains widespread layperson adoption.
signal?
Unsure if I buy this.

I'm definitely not the person you describe, but the idea of standardised testing being equivalent across all factors just strikes me as being fundamentally untrue.

Personally I am very lucky to test well; and I definitely buy the notion that people who test well in SATs may go on to do better in University, but the reasons are probably the same: freedom from worry about financial circumstances will affect grades. 10 times in every 10.
Living in Mexico can be a good deal. If it worries you, setting up a trust is not that big an issue. It's routine and your agent usually handles it. I do pay about $500 a year for my trust, but my property tax is only about $85 a year.
I have had the exact same problem with Go recently. I have just started using it and have been disappointed to see that, for a language that claims to be modern, it doesn't have proper sum types/enums OR convenient product types/tuples.

Tuples can be emulated using structs but it can generate a lot of boilerplate for a single function. The only alternative to express iterating over "zipped" lists is to have the two lists side by side and iterate using an integer.

However, sum types are just plain missing. I guess interfaces help, but they're really limiting in what they allow and even regular C-style enums are painful and can't be checked for exhaustivity at compile time.

Does anyone have tips on what the "idiomatic" solutions are for these problems?
This goes well into apologia territory. You ascribing rationale and arguments to Graeber which simply don't exist in the text.

I don't know what you think the tribute system was but it most definitely did not involve a rug pull.
>>reduce CPU usage. Its like GPU cards,

It uses another CPU to do that. GPU is fundamentally different, high memory bandwidth, embarrassingly parallel, virtually no branches, and what not. That's just using a different CPU to do more CPU, and using the same OS the host already runs.

Then it requires its own security maintenance (+training) and patches.
A few folks may have seen a preview of Andi before (there were a couple of kind mentions on here before we launched). If you did try it out it (thank you!) and want to check out the new version with the question answering, you may need to refresh/reload the page (or quit browser) to force an update. It's a little Progressive Web App so it does background-updates, which helps performance but means updates don't happen immediately. You can always try it out in a new Incognito/Private window. Thanks again!
Engineering Effectiveness Handbook
"We worked at a startup that leveraged autonomous blockchains to transfer money from naïve investors to slightly less naïve twenty-somethings."

My favorite line from the post
One alternative approach to storage/batteries is trying to provide over 100% of the average daily demand of electricity. Excess electricity could be priced lower. Consumers & industries could use those cheaper hours for certain tasks. This is already done in many areas. Run your dishwasher, charge your car, etc. at night.

Which leads me to think storage/batteries is not the issue & that manufacturing, installation & infrastructure is. I also imagine getting land permits, regulations, politics, etc. is also a huge factor.
Are you sure?
What about wars?
The debate is about the quality and predictive value of the tests. Opponents claimed that the tests had a cultural bias so students from some backgrounds would do better than others, that students who had a good education before university would be better prepared, and that studying for tests or taking tests repeatedly has been shown to improve scores but is only accessible to people who can afford it. These are all claims that the tests are not good at predicting aptitude.

The arguments against these tests are, of course, awful. Objective tests are the best way we know of to remove human bias. Aptitude tests (basically IQ tests) are the best way we know of to measure someone's natural ability (determined in early childhood) with little influence from their experience. Since their arguments make so little sense, it is reasonable to wonder about the psychology of opponents of standardized testing. But their arguments are, at least on the surface, about predictive value.
I think my problem with writeups like these are that they attack the problem from the wrong (or uninteresting) angle. Like, say I'm writing software for an airplane then I'm gonna be chained to DO-178C. How will using Rust help me achieve all the objectives it requires for e.g. Level A? Is Rust gonna get me there cheaper (I think it might one day)? Is it gonna enable me to build systems that use constructs that I wouldn't have dared (due to complexity, safety or whatever)? Of course it's kind of hard to present this without a particular system design in mind (maybe it's PSAC for an abstract system I'm really after...). I suspect the situation is similar when getting some kind of security certification/accreditation (haven't seen much of that side of the coin). I'm not saying this project isn't valuable (it is), I just miss the top-down perspective of the language in this context. :)
The overlap between people on government food assistance and buying a significant fraction of their groceries at Whole Foods is probably not very high...
Yes, the idea that you can't hold "the neoliberal view" of your household, and "the communist view" and the "romantic view", and the "spiritual view" all together for all their benefits and tradeoffs seems worse to me than even subscribing to one holistically without this imperative.

I've had this called out as absolutely faux pas if not totally asinine by people who are deep into philosophy, but I'm doing great, a lot better than some of them born with silver spoons.
You might be interested in ReactOS[1]. Their objective is to make a 100% FOSS Windows Compatible OS, including drivers.

Currently, they're at around ~WinXP level support

[1]: https://reactos.org/
I think that is more about the disconnect between coding tests and the actual day to day work and skills required to do the job. Example: I could have a high level of competency in software engineering and also not care how a mouse gets out of a bucket.
I agree.

A fun side story is when I got a new manager a while back. In our first one-on-one, he told me that he has connections through the company and can use them to get me promoted to another team if I make him happy. I get that making the boss happy is part of a job, but that should be accomplished by doing good work. This direct proposition just felt too quid pro quo and had a stink to it, in my opinion.
It's similar but it also brings in a challenging problem: coding tests costs candidates far more than it costs employers in terms of time. I am currently interviewing and two of the companies I am otherwise excited for sent take-home tests that just exhaust me, especially after a long day of otherwise productive work. I've got 12 years of experience under my belt but somehow great references and a killer resume aren't enough to convince them I can find a security vulnerability.
Check in once every few months. That's plenty. Done. [EDIT] Exception for local news. Maybe every week or two.

Use the extra time to read books on political science, economics, and history. Maybe some media studies. You'll be a better voter doing that instead of following the news closely. It's not as if it should have taken someone who knew nothing about either person, but a lot about the actual issues and how politics works, a ton of time to figure out if they wanted to vote for Trump or Biden. 20 minutes of googling right before going to the polls should have been enough.
>To be fair, I don't think the debate was ever about the quality or predictive value of the tests.

It is. The common argument is that GPAs are as predictive as SATs. MIT says it is not. I think the problem is you only need average ability to a good GPA, but a top 1-5% SAT score confers a higher ceiling of ability. MIT wants to admit exceptional students, not just average or above average ones.
Say "thank you" to the US for the 2014th regime change. It all started with that little forgotten incident.

Please.
The amount of bad faith interpretation and just missing the point in response to this solid bit of career advice is just astounding.
I understand your frustration, but the way it works is I have partnerships with providers to aggregate the jobs.
The quality of clicks are determined by some factors including the candidate’s location.

Geo restrictions might not be the most accurate solution but it’s a starting point. I talked to many employers complaining that they state on their job ad they don’t accept application outside their country yet they still receive applications from other countries.

Your point about confirmation is my long term plan, but I’m afraid it will take some time to see the light.
What languages and compiles are certified for satefy-critical software? And how is it decided? That is super interesting, and I didn't know it was a thing.
> When health insurance and housing rely so heavily on work (speaking from the perspective of an American), not working feels terrifying.

It seems as though the American system is intentionally setup so that we feel this way. We go through some cycles where capital is in greater control (the Gilded Age, and our current age from about the 80s till Covid)) and then the pendulum swings the other direction for a while and labor gets more of an upper hand - The Progressive era in the early 20th Century, During the Great Depression, COVID (referring to the Great Resignation and the rise in wages that has accompanied it). Let's hope we can continue with labor having a seat at the table again, but given our electoral college system and how our Senate work (Wyoming's less than 1 million population gets the same representation as CAs 39 million + filibuster) I'm not optimistic that this will last long.
More reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30832350
m1 mac user here. No issues when compiling things. Maybe you got a lemon?
You're right. That's what I meant by "telling"; MIT are making it clear that standardized tests are valuable.
> The buyers were nice enough to give us the precise reason for their drawback:
- churn
- business too dependant on us

> About the second point, I was also surprised because we already talked about it a lot.

> And this is why we agreed to stay as long as 18 months to train a new team.

Wow, that sound so short. When acquiring a business for multiples of the ARR, you need long term success to break even. If the founding team wishes to leave ASAP after selling, barley giving enough time to find a train a replacement, I can understand that the buyer has cold feet. Especially if churn is a concern.

I wasn't in the discussion, but I bet you could have closed the deal, by negotiating (potentially bigger) earn outs on a longer period (3 to 5 years), showing confidence in the long term success of the company. But to me, 18 month sounds like a bare minimum where objective can be achieved by aggressively pushing the company potentially even hurting it on the long term.
As a counterargument, a fake ID is all that a rich person needs to put a smart kid in their place at the testing center. Those places are usually huge, nobody knows anyone, and if you flash a legit looking ID, you will have no trouble sitting the test. GPA and such require effort over years to game (and maybe the kid actually learns something from all that tutoring, who knows).
>VSCode is FOSS
not really, the Microsoft extension store/repository is the only practical way to install extensions, and the totally open-source fork (VSCodium) is literally unable to install a lot of fairly key extensions because MS is apparently alright with open-sourcing the editor but not the tools they build for it.
regardless, I do not want to have to disable telemetry in my text editor -- the idea that it exists in the first place is frankly baffling.
Depends on your definition of high performer.

If you prize delivering short-term value by chugging through the task pile faster than other people can, then sure this article is not aligned with your ideals.

That is not what I would call high performance; I would much rather be someone who can take a razor/lawnmower to that pile of tasks and do exactly the subset (down to potentially none at all) which delivers the most marginal value for the units of time I think are warranted for the project as a whole - then repeat until the goals are met.
Leica’s new camera puts skill back into focus
Why people used to look so serious in photos but now have big smiles (2015)
I’m an economist, this is well observed and eloquently stated.
Passwords are not insecure. Certs have tradeoffs.
I think that is the implied meaning of "quite telling". Many institutions hastily removed SAT scores due to social pressure that standardized tests weren't effective or equitable, while the data shows the opposite
Assuming we possesed that capability it seems like it would be simplet to build a dyson sphere around another star and setup shop on a nearby planet.
They added those types of arenas years ago and removed them all. In the ranked games these honestly felt to gimmicky and I'm pleased that the differences between arenas are now only cosmetic.

They still keep adding other game modes some of which are only there for a few days.
Blocking light means absorbing energy. In an eternal universe, you have to reach thermal equilibrium eventually, so you have to shed that energy somehow, and for a constant amount of matter just hanging around in empty space radiation is the only logical possibility. At the end of the day, your absorber will reach the same temperature as the emitter and emit the same amounts of light that it absorbs on frequencies where it does absorb, though perhaps in different directions. This is the insight behind Kirchhoff’s law and blackbody radiation.
Plastics at least pretty clearly had waste issues at design time.

Eg. Coke removed it's bottle pickups when they switched from glass to plastic bottles
Howard Gardner's "Intelligence Reframed" (1999)
> the khanith of Arabia

I'm very well aware of Arabian culture. khanith is a homosexual and/or effeminate male, and is heavily used as an insult today (almost like "fag" in english). It was never a "third gender" as you're trying to claim. So no, the entire basis is incorrect.

Repeat after me, there are two genders. Everything you described has one of two parts between their legs, barring physical ailments like intersex, which are extremely extremely rare.
A more concise explanation can be found in the Usenet Physics FAQ:

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/olbers....
Cells blaze their own trails to navigate through the body
I'm assuming all cloud providers have vulnerabilities discovered, reported and patched all the time, as it happens in any complex set of software.

Do you have any link where the cloud providers are compared to show that Azure in particular has a higher rate or are you just making unfounded speculations?
> Like you are watching Avengers End game in Netflix and they ask you if you wanna pay 5 dollars more to watch Captain America use his well known outfit instead of regular clothes?

I don't think it would be this exactly, but I can absolutely see this type of thing happening.
I agree with much of what the author states. However I find it hard to completely quit cold turkey.

I’ve settled into three subscriptions: the local paper (which also carries syndicated inter/national stories that I ignore completely–I’m looking for local politics and economy, and especially the special interest pieces in the Sunday edition and the monthly community-events inserts, not the crime report type stuff); The Economist, in which I ignore all the leader articles and merely try to find at least one or two interesting articles to read each week; and The Atlantic, with mostly the same strategy as that for The Economist.

I recently let my IEEE membership lapse but did the same with their Spectrum magazine.

I try to do the rest of my reading in books and not social media–HN excluded, of course!

I still have this teetering idea that I should cancel The Economist, it often seems like a gossip rag dressed up in sophisticated verbiage. But every now and then I do find interesting, if not useful, articles. Maybe I’ll switch out The Economist and go back to IEEE Spectrum or something similar.

I usually enjoy the long featured pieces in The Atlantic.
> A 30 point increase out of 2400 points is not material to college admissions.

Not so sure about that. Beyond the fact that that number is an average, the question is from where to where. So many kids get perfect 2400 scores that going from 2370 to 2400 might be the difference of getting eliminated from competitive admission pools altogether. Whereas nobody will care about you going from 1850 to 1880.

P.s. I am dating myself a bit with the 2400 range, which seems to have changed at some point. Transform accordingly :-)
This chimes a lot with what I've seen, and indeed, what I do myself. I had a few friends plough hard-earned money into a really bad start-up idea (basically an inferior pay-walled Wikipedia), and instead of telling them what I really thought of it, I weaselled out saying something bland, non-committal and mildly supportive.
Ukraine’s Intel Chief: We Have Sources in the Kremlin, but We Need Jets
Yes. The problem needs to be pervasive, painful, and willing to pay to fix it.
It's in poor taste to use the term "third world" in a pejorative way.
I get it, the problem is there is no way to verify residence or citizenship in a non-privacy violating way, and yes I've been on the other side getting foreign applicants so I understand their frustration too, but I'm not sure what the solution is - either way you exclude potentially good candidates.

The other side of that is, remote work is (and had been long before COVID) a thing, so accepting foreign applicants (at least those from countries with tax treaties) might not be a bad thing, if you can convince companies of that.
> IMHO Fuchsia will be a massive (real world) improvement over Linux in security.

Exploits in the Linux kernel are very few & far between. How would Fuchsia represent a massive (real world) improvement in Linux over something that basically doesn't happen?

By contrast for the Windows 9x -> NT kernel transition, the 9x kernel (in Windows ME at the time) had rampant worm issues and was notoriously unstable in very significant & practical ways, like plugging in USB devices would trigger BSODs with some regularity.

These days the majority of kernels (Windows, Mac, and Linux) have vanishingly few exploits and are for the most part extremely stable. There's not much to improve on at this level.

> For the past 12 months, I've been running Chrome "on Wayland" (without XWayland in between) and although it is definitely usable, there are many small bugs some of which has existed the entire 12 months.

Note that neither ChromeOS nor Android use Wayland or X11. That compositor fight that desktop Linux can't move on from isn't something that plagues anybody else, so there's nothing for Fuchsia to "fix" there.
That’s why you also do due diligence on your prospective buyer. Also when talks are reasonably advanced, ask for a non-refundable advance as a proof of love.
This is pretty good. I noticed the academia search to be particularly strong. Can you update the router to include the query in the URL so they can be shared?
Hey, thanks for your comment-you're right there aren't too many details on the protocol changes we made in part because we will follow up on that in another post. This blog post was getting too long as it is and we wanted to focus more on the need to simulate and test. Your comments on the hacker news post you link too actually partially served to inspire us!
they suggest that the yeast "burp" the carbon dioxide. If they consumed carbon dioxide then expelled it (like when a human drinks a soda) then it would be like a burp. Nay... they consume sugars and OUTPUT CO2. They don't burp. They fart carbon dioxide.