skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I did get a little confused from how we went from Asians doing well in Michigan means the PRC is going to dominate the engineering sector. There seems to be an implication that these are connected. Its my understanding that these demographic data would represent South, SE, and East Asia as part of the same demographic.

No, I think his observations about Asians doing well on the SAT in Michigan is unrelated to his point about China. He's saying that since China generally gets high scores on international math tests, and they have a greater population, there's just going to be many more qualified STEM grads than in the US. It's a higher proportion of talent multiplied by a higher population.

This makes sense intuitively. But I'm unsure how reliable these international tests are. Is the test being given at an elite school in Shanghai or in a small rural village? Is it representative of all of China? Do higher scores translate to more innovation down the line? Are high scorers likely to also come up with creative ideas for solving problems? Lots of questions.
We should not, because race is a useless concept.

There are traits individuals can have, some of which are immutable, and some of which correlate with what we call "race". But race itself is, even taking the most benign meaning possible, at best a surrogate.

The sooner we get rid of that awful meme the better.
Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro
You have to force push, but you have to do that when pushing a rebased branch as well. In either case it’s a history rewrite. It’s not a big deal unless other people have pulled that branch—if they have they will need to reconcile things on their end as well.
You didn't say why you want to replace/complement Python, but should you want to build web backends, Go is the obvious choice. Decent performance, relative ease of use, good GC, rich standard lib for the task, large third-party support and here to stay.

I like Nim too, but it needs more adoption.
In developed world, we already have all the goods we want and need, we spend a lot money on services. It is kind of like the world your teacher described :)
Isn't that likely driven by a selection bias? "Everyone in school A takes the test in-school" vs "School B does not offer the test, so a subset of school B's students take the test on a weekend."

From that alone, I'd expect school B's test results to substantially outperform school A's results.
It comes down to culture, society, and policies.

The parents in my community growing up were poor. But all our parents worked with us every day to push us to success. We had a neighborhood working together every summer, parents involved in the school board, etc.

I’ve see that slip over time. Particularly, the idea parents can make enough to spend time. But also a general attitude.

One thing during the George Floyd riots I heard was “it’s horrible what happened to Floyd. But the real issue is that George Floyd should have been a foreman in a factory. He should have had a family to go home to, a reason not to be doing drugs and children to care for. The tragedy is those opportunities don’t exist”

It comes down to parents being involved. Often they can’t or they’re distracted due to stress. Government can’t help directly, it’s about providing the opportunity for parents to nurture and support. It’s also that parents need to potentially pick their focus. I personally took a 50% pay cut, moved to a better area and made other sacrifices to ensure my children can have the best opportunity. I could afford that, all Americans should be afforded that. It starts with more good jobs.
I suppose if you thought that the comp would return in the near future and the work environment was better than you'd find elsewhere.
> On a small budget, you can do a lot with just two decent speakers rather than speakers built into an ultra thin flat panel. Thrift stores often have nice speakers that may not be visually pleasing but are likely to be aurally pleasing.

This is very true, almost any separate speaker is going to be better than TV speakers, especially in the age of flat panels.

And one thing software room-compensation can do is let you build a surround system with mismatched speakers, without having to lose a day manually tweaking levels. No need to buy a full 7.1 or 7.2 set at once. Thrift decent pairs of speakers and orphaned subwoofers and let the software figure it out.
By the same logic: if FTC thinks net neutrality is bad, it probably is...
This is so cool! 1.6 million jobs in Africa (if that's where people will be hired!) are really needed.
The court decides whether a subpoena should be upheld or not. If the judge has signed off on this one, then it's all legit. Failing to comply would be contempt of court.
That doesn't say exactly what was run and how. From measurements with nvblas, that difference could be dwarfed by the effect of tile size and pinning buffers or not.
Not if the test difficulty stays the same, and you get more 800s and lotteries (or, dare we say it, more seats?!) for next level positions, at college or career. Tides, boats , bars.
> Their support for paying clients is much better.

One could argue that is the whole point behind making life for non paying users harder.
> I rather give my money to Satan, or even Google<

I giggled. When you go from "don't be evil" to this, you know you fucked up big time. This has to be the tagline of the decade in regards to Google ("Google!, the boss of Satan", hi hi hi).
? It is literally coming from Meta. That's what the subpoena and court filings that are screenshotted on that page show. Meta sought the subpoena, the court granted it, and now Simula has to testify at a deposition where the questions will be asked by Meta.

And... it sort of has to work this way? It's not the job of the court to do Meta or FTC's advocacy for them.
See also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33100836 (18 hours ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33093467 (1 day ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33083095 (1 day ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33070843 (2 days ago)
> The SATs, particularly the mathematics score, is very much a reflection of your parents' willingness to push you academically.

Is there any way to prove/disprove this? Also doesn’t this also beg the question as to why non-Asian parents apparently won’t teach their kids to be good academics?
From what I understand vexatious litigant is a really, really high bar to cross, and any remotely competent lawyer should be able to prevent you from crossing it.
The timing is too early and the product and the company are mismatched.
That's the kind of comment stories like this attract.
Yep. That is clearly it.
A small mail security checker shell script
Not exactly on top but in the SimulaVR video linked in the article there is a HN easter egg [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/x293SiEdv4M?t=55
I attended prep courses and they didn't have an impact on my scores, measured by before and after practice testing (~1500 in the late 90s).

What did help is that I was encouraged to read a lot from a young age, which seems fairly accessible to most families.

Support your local libraries.
Rebasing is re-applying a sequence of commits to a different parent.

I like using explain git with D3 to show how things work - https://onlywei.github.io/explain-git-with-d3/#rebase

Compare that with merge - https://onlywei.github.io/explain-git-with-d3/#merge

At the end, the HEAD has the same content, but the structure of the graph is different.

Note that rebase falls in the set of "rewriting history" operations in git and so pay attention to the caveat in the explanation:

> For this reason, you never want to rebase commits that have already been shared with the team you are working with.

Rebase and reset are two of the commands that need to be done with caution and full awareness if working with commits that have been shared with other people.
I'm not saying that people were caught doing it, I'm saying that if someone did, election officials would literally have a sheet of paper in their hand with the name of someone who tried to vote twice.
I think the point is that if education wants to be selective it should not be catastrophic for that that it does not select (i.e. it should be cheaper). Especially when the cost (and revenue) of education is so high it creates all the wrong incentives and mindsets.
For clarity: I don't think the upthread poster is gay. At all. He made it very clear he is not.

I'm drawing attention to that fact, and the fact that the other upthread commenter and you seem to be likening the possibility that someone might think he was[1] as some kind of insult. And that's exactly why identity matters, even among people who claim it doesn't. It matters to you that people not confuse someone for being gay.

And I'm hoping maybe you take that to heart and realize that other people think the same way about their own identities. This seemed like a learning opportunity to me.

[1] Which, again, was the whole idea! He was going to claim he was gay to the DOE!
Admittedly, I haven't been paying attention, but since when does MI do SAT? We all took the ACT when I was in school.
I used to think so, but I have yet to own a Mac that survived more than 3 years. However, that may have been partially due to the "Dark Ages", but more like 2014-2021.

I'm happier with something Linux friendly (thinkpad x220, pinebook pro, etc) and a remote system I use over ssh (sshfs, ssh+vim+tmux, etc). All at the great cost of ~$220 + $5/month?
I wish my formal math was stronger. I've been programming for 30 years but once a paper I'm reading starts using math notation I can't parse 90% of it and I'm lost.
So basically what you are saying is this.

A firm with a competent IT team is unable to get splunk to work and only "outside help" can make the product work?

Given splunks license costs are tied to data ingested, how do you integrate new infrastructure to the deployment and not have license costs go up?

Way to sell us on Splunk?
One of the articles referenced in this paper looks pretty interesting:

https://sci-hub.se/10.1080/1369118x.2019.1637447

> Bruns, A. (2019). "After the “APIcalypse”: social media platforms and their fight against critical scholarly research."

Here's a sample:

> "In early 2019, Facebook also took explicit steps to disable the functionality of a browser plugin promoted by the investigative journalism initiative ProPublica that would capture the Facebook ads encountered by plugin users, as well as a number of similar other tools. Using direct Web scraping methods that did not rely on API access, the plugin sought to generate independent, publicly accessible observational data especially on political advertising practices in the United States and elsewhere; citing a need ‘to keep people’s information safe’, Facebook responded by deliberately obfuscating the HTML code served by its Website in such a way that ads could no longer be immediately recognised as distinct elements of a Facebook page (Merrill & Tobin, 2019)."

The social media business model is still based on selling people's information to third parties, but they don't want independent scrutiny of their propaganda practices (aka content curation, labeling and promotion of 'trusted sources', etc.)
I find a well-curated Reddit to be more reliable these days, but honestly: I try to get most of my news from local sources, with subscriptions to a handful of major papers to get analysis on national or international topics.

National or international topics are, I think, best approached via analysis. Most people aren't expert enough to take advantage of primary-source data there, and things at that scale rarely impact one's day-to-day life (national / international things that impact one's day-to-day come in via the emergency broadcast system or, in the case of something like COVID, local and state health ordnances). Far more impactful is who is getting elected to your school board or who is responsible for the condition of your local streets. If I want to understand, say, the war in Afghanistan better, I'm going to try and grab some analysis from some journalists and authors with a track record of being right.

Twitter is the opposite of all of that. One-shot, short-snippet bursts of mostly secondary-source information (and the occasional primary). Shallow analysis. Amateur discourse. No track records. And thanks to what has been discovered during this Musk purchase plan, we have come to learn: probably way more bots than Twitter estimates anyway.

It's a hole where discourse and rational thought goes to die.
This text, with minor, mostly typographical, differences had been previously published internally as "MIT AI Lab. AI Memo No. 8" in March 1959.

Two other earlier publications by McCarthy include various very important innovations, e.g. the conditional expressions in "AI Memo No. 1" (September 1958) and the "select" expressions (i.e. what are now named as "case" or "switch") in "AI Memo No. 4" (October 1958).

The text published in CACM in 1960 is the conclusion of the memos written by McCarthy between 1958-09 and 1959-03, when most of the ideas on which LISP is based have been conceived.

The "cond" and "select" expressions and the McCarthy "and" and McCarthy "or" expressions (i.e. C language && and ||) were not only new at that time, but they were much more convenient than the means used for expressing conditional execution in most later programming languages, which had various weird restrictions or peculiar syntax, for no good reason.
They have to follow the laws of the countries they operate in. Keep in mind that business operations and server locations (and incorporation locations) are not the same thing.

If you serve customers in another country, their laws apply. You can either follow the law or not serve in that country. This is pretty much how it has worked forever.

This is obviously not great if you have a set of less-restrictive and more-restrictive laws that contradict each other. And it's not great if values, politics and rights in general aren't compatible. As much as we can disagree with what mass-murdering authoritarian regimes are up to, unless we go to war (after we have already applied all the sanctions we can think of) there isn't much you can do about it.
OK, assuming you are correct, what's the root cause of difference in time spent studying? If the primary cause is less study time spent by black and brown students, how do you address that?
maybe pushing is the wrong word but i would say parents who care about their child's education have children who score substantially higher than children who don't have parents who care. And "caring" is highly related to family stability and the education level of one or both parents. Where education level manifests itself is in how a parent cares. My uneducated mom (who is asian) asked us to study and get good grades (an asian cultural value), but she couldn't really tel if we were actually "studying" since she was uneducated. Now the asian values meant that i at-least got "bare minimum" grades compared to other races of people but i never had enough "care" to excel (which i think i could have done). Now imagine a group of people with neither cultural values emphasizing education nor educated parents who might have their child's best interest and tell them to 'study and work hard' but given the circumstances and how kids will be kids, it is very very difficult for those kids to achieve.
Nor have I heard of it. (not OP)

There are probably tools built around merging too.
Air Force cyber unit moves software development team to downtown San Antonio
True, employment costs out-compete costs for hardware very quickly. If your employee takes 10 minutes per day waiting on tasks because the system is too slow, you can instead buy a pretty decent rig every year.
There is no benefit to using he or she. It's giving me unnecessary information. I don't care about the gender of the user.

This issue here is the mixed pronouns. They/them as singular pronoun has existed longer than you have, and it's here to stay.
You can hide a high IQ with starvation, sleep deprivation, withholding books from a child, and stress hormones from an unsafe environment.
Neither athletic nor scholastic performance are objective measures. Sports are contests of arbitrary skills, that on the highest level require time intensive and expensive commitment since basically childhood, and whatever method you choose to measure scholastic performance with it's never going to be free of class/geographic/cultural factors.
When you talk about some of the least served communities, there is a lot of moving from school to school as people move from one housing solution to another. My wife taught in public school and out of the 35 students in a class there might have been a third to 40% who stayed with her the whole semester. She would have two extra pages of names of students who came and went throughout the year.
I damaged my laptop's screen by leaving it running at 100% CPU with the lid closed for too long(not my intent - that was "sleep mode"). The adhesive keeping the LCD layers came off, creating a diagonal striped clouding pattern.

I was meaning to do something similar to the author[0], but couldn't make time and just used this opportunity to buy an external screen.

I'm glad someone put in the work so that now I may be able to use my original screen again.

[0] My most desperate idea was to run a RDP session locally and process the displayed image. Seemed simpler than trying to modify the content of the screen directly.
if anybody doubts that the future isn't in the US (or rather, the west), this is the evidence. China has both the brains and brawn to bully every other nation (provided it doesn't collapse under its own weight)
> Society doesn't adapt in the way you suggest by people disregarding what you think is irrelevant.

It's not what I think, it's what has been proven in the 32 years since photoshop was invented. What killings are you talking about that were caused by the existence of image manipulation?
Practicing won't teach you language and math.
What's your point, anything you do that doesn't flow from some deep internal fire so powerful it overwhelms any external circumstance "doesn't count"?
There's a typo in this title anyway. It's "is", not "us".
The 50:50 figure is in aggregate. You would not be able to infer if the distribution is a regressive based on that number alone. The linked article does not say that the vast majority of schools are regressive.

"A handful - Nevada, Wyoming and Illinois are weakly regressive, and the majority have a weakly progressive distribution of funding to poo vs non poor students"
Betting on being able to sell Twitter shares for 54.20 was, and is, one of the safest bets on the stock markets this year.
The test was mandatory for all HS students to take, but I do think there is an element of selection bias. Those who took the test on the weekend may have been more invested in the result. They certainly dedicated at least an extra weekend's worth of time.
I've done intrapeneuriship a few times. You don't need to just convince your CTO, but your whole executive team.

Your company has existing goals, revenue projections, hiring plans, budget allocation, headcount allocation, etc that all of your company leaders have agreed on.

Asking to build an MVP requires not only the cost (budget, headcount, etc) to build and launch the MVP, but also an opportunity cost as less resources are being used towards the existing plans.

When I've worked on new businesses, we first get buy in from the top execs, but the next step is to work with finance on budget and revenue projections, and with departmental VPs on finding headcount to join the new team.

This might be a lighter weight process in a smaller company, but my point is that it's not just your CTOs approval you need, though your CTO could be your champion to help persuade everyone else this is worth doing.
On Mac, I prefer Gitup, a free and open source GUI which makes rebases (and a bunch of other git operations) much easier: https://github.com/git-up/GitUp
This article has the same incident as its starting point, but is really about the question of using courses to filter students (and a bit of Covid musing). Unlike those other articles, the actual firing is not the main thrust.
India is clearly in Asia. So yes, by definition Indians are Asians.
Wikimedia Legal team took down Wikiless repository
Maybe I'm immune to it, or just lucky, but two hops (Logging it at home to a Citrix Network Desktop to Remote Desktop to the PC in my office) has been shockingly fine. I live very close to the servers in question though, so speed of light isn't a limiting factor, and I have solid and reasonably fast home internet. It can work fine.
I could lie and talk about something cool, but usually I just anxiously stare outside the window.
Zelle fraud is on the rise–and many victims are denied refunds
Your analogy doesn't make sense. There's nothing about the programming languages you consider "least common denominator" that lock you into a specific design, unlike your Ikea table. Actually those LCD programming languages are generally the least opinionated in how you use them.
Lower the ceiling and admit by lottery. End the artificial scarcity in education. Tax the rich to fund it.
One annoying thing about Facebook is that they already have zero goodwill among anybody who pays attention to this kind of stuff, so it isn't like these kind of shenanigans will really hurt their reputation.
I work in banking. Everything company-hosted I access via a split tunnel VPN. Everything else goes through the normal internet connection, with a company root CA inserted to sniff HTTPS traffic.

One of the lucky few I guess :-)
These parades of intellectual property are embarrassing to Google in light of open releases by the likes of Nvidia and Stability.
you cant talk about the potential causes in here.
I remember the broadcasters also implemented this solution straight into the stream, the TV spectators did not have to do anything.
Ask HN: Zoom hacked/forced Zoom password reset?
Was Zoom hacked? I use randomly generated passwords for every site that are unique but Zoom logged me out this morning and then told me I need to reset my password because:

> Your username and password have been compromised on 3rd-party site or app. To secure your Zoom account, update your password.

Picture: https://cs.joshstrange.com/eBPRd4

I know for a fact I never used that password elsewhere, did this happen to anyone else? And/or is the message they show just bad/wrong?
I will never understand the US legal system. How is this even allowed? This is IP pilfering through a sham lawsuit and the courts.
Yeah, an Eagle Scout who did debate and very well academically going to a pretty good public school for computer science isn't some travesty. I am a little surprised at some of the results but I guess admissions have become more competitive over the past decade
Why?

Google still provides android, Google maps, Gmail for free. World changing at it's time still helping people around the globe.

Their research blog is fantastic and shows what they value.

Google Io focus on people and security and trust.

Google is much further away from evil than plenty of other companies.

Did they kill stadia? Yes.

Did actually anyone care? No. Because stadia didn't matter anyway.
irony is that my team use gitlab and we have auto squash before merge, avoiding manual rebasing
My point is that "quality of parents" shouldn't be the way we pick the elite
I would recommend not doing anything complicated such as git rebase and just add more commits, patches (git diff / apply), or merges until your code works. If the number of commits is large, it doesn’t really matter. Optimizing for a pretty looking git history is probably the most foolish thing to focus on.

If you are doing anything that involves rewriting the history you are doing it wrong.