skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it reasonable to assume that an African American with SAT score in the top band(s) would probably get accepted to a better college than Michigan? There are loads of kids here with pretty low scores, so clearly this is not representative of the highest performing students in the US, nor that the race breakdowns are representative of the highest performing students in each race.

This only seems to give us information about the admittance criteria of Michigan. Without understanding the distributions of other institutions (especially the more competitive ones), it seems hard to draw stronger conclusions.
I used to have a Pixel 5 and loved it. Recently switched to an iPhone 14 Pro and... frankly it sucks. iOS UX is pretty bad, IMO, and the photos are subpar. Google's computational photography is much better and faster. Android keyboards are more powerful and lets you easily type punctuation. The notification system is way more customizable. Imessages doesn't filter spam. In fact there isn't even spam filtering built in like there is on the Pixel. You have to buy a separate app. I regret getting an iPhone...

My partner has a Samsung and she's fine with it. But having their own photo and calendar apps makes things super confusing when you're trying to share with another Android user using the Google standard apps.

If I were getting another Android, which I really wish I did, I wouldn't even consider anything but the Pixels...
I'm sorry if I misinterpreted or misremembered something you said, but this was my impression from an answer regarding the state of the stdlib docs, that there'll be more effort put into them after 1.0.

If that's not the case (or maybe plans changed?) I stand corrected. It's definitely not my intention to spread BS.
I think the point is that

are those differences just because of race

or they are made because of external factors due to race?

For example:

You're successful because of X race

or

You're successful because you were treated differently than if you had Y race
Pan Am Airlines Introduces the Boeing Stratocruiser
As a Canadian I'm happy the prices haven't gone up and I can order a 256 GB model in any color. Now do I buy one...
True, that wasn't precisely stated. I honestly believe that these blobs wouldn't need to be proprietary.

I work on proprietary code for embedded systems too and we don't release the source either. But if it were leaked there is not really a threat to our intellectual property. Maybe the main benefit really is security through obscurity. We don't do general hardware though and it wouldn't be of much interest, but it would be nice to get manufacturers to open up here. Not even the source for the blobs, but some documentation to interface the firmware perhaps.

Sure, it is always some work if you release something to the public or maybe parts of your software need licences themselves, but if possible I would expect this to net secondary benefits for the manufacturers. If people know your hardware, they might use it in their applications as well...

Just getting manufacturers here to open up would still be nice and I believe they could benefit as well.
The really interesting thing about Kibbutzes is that they're radically communal - to the point where children are not supposed to belong to any individual, but to the community.

I'm sure it's impossible to factor out the human element of relationships, but it is interesting to me as an example of the spectrum that human societies will build.
Or maybe the class was full of slow students.

I once had a math professor explain he stopped grading on a curve because he once had a class where the highest grade was a low C and he didn't feel that deserved an A.

And I agree with him.

You're there to learn, the grade isn't supposed to be a reflection of your effort.

I once had a class where the professor would put things on the test that weren't in the lecture. Caught me off guard the first time, didn't catch me off guard the rest of the semester. The gap between my grade and everyone else in the class was huge (I think I'm the only one that passed in that class).

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At the end of the day, if a student cannot show some sort of mastery of the subject, they should be failed.
Yes there is a way, you put kids in test prep and see if they do better.

For this to be a real test, you'll need parents of twins willing to send only one kid to test prep..and not send the other one..you know..for science.
Doubt there is a parent who would do that.
Twitter launches Birdwatch - US users to see crowdsourced fact checks on tweets
Being on Psychedelics and being strapped onto an MRI machine where I couldn't move sounds terrible. There is some definite measurement problems going on with a study like this.
I helped my math teacher (we didn't have computer science yet) set up econet in the computer lab so learned all about how it worked (all of which I've now forgotten) and took advantage of its lack of security for the rest of the year.

We also transitioned from actual typewriters to beebs in typing class, and I ended up writing a user(/idiots) guide for the beeb word processor.
Includes "5 years of Pixel updates."

Great news --- long overdue!
What if a ruling requires information held by someone else? Should the case just be dismissed because of lack of evidence? Having a functional justice system is probably worth some snags.

The legal cost aspect is unfortunate. However, as others have mentioned, the court probably doesn't require the assembly of new documents, but rather submission of existing ones. So while there is a cost, it's not devastating.

The interesting question is whether or not this specific subpoena has real merit, or if the court was played by Meta.
I wouldn't be surprised if his teaching style changed in his late 70s early 80s; people can naturally tend to become much more inflexible at that age. He might still be a genius in his area of expertise but no longer a good teacher.
> Because they don't value their kids being good at academics.

Yes, my memory of high school is that everyone including the adults celebrated sports, and hardly anyone gave a crap about the high academic achievers, who were often social outcasts.

I spent a lot of my childhood trying (though largely failing) to pretend that I was not so smart. I can't speak for other countries, but anti-intellectualism is widespread in the US.
> Google still provides android, Google maps, Gmail for free.

I paid for the phone and they are still collecting my data. For me this is not free.
I love rebase. It allows for a Draft PR workflow where you can have your WIP out in the open for a big project, and then clean it all up via rebasing right before asking for reviews. Just don't rewrite history on master. :^)
For CS, getting into Michigan is incredibly competitive. They are tied (at #11) with places like CIT in CS and way above a lot of ivies and elite technical schools.

Michigan CS is like Carnegie Mellon CS -- getting into the school for non-CS is waaay easier than getting into the school with the intention to major in CS, and the filter starts at admissions. Michigan is closer to an ivy than a "state school" for CS.
Considering all the Google shutdowns and the news that the Pixel 4 is hitting EOL after 3 years, I've pretty much written off any new Google products/services.
Stop with the conspiracy nonsense already. You are not the holder of "tHiNgS THEY DoN't WaNT U tO KnOW!!1~", as much as you'd like that to be the case.
better than X11 did? better than Display Postscript did?

(genuinely wondering since i've not had a chance to play with Plan 9, kinda randomly)
To me the biggest problem is when the prof includes test questions that weren't covered in either the lectures or the study material (or maybe it's mentioned once on some random page of the 500 pages of study material that one was expected to read). That is simply setting up the students for failure.
Sure, but you can say the same about Ruby on Rails… but for some reason, Ruby is on the list of ‘never use’ languages
MRI machines are the stuff of nightmares for me, I can't imagine the hell that would be.
> you are doing the latter

Not necessarily. If intelligence is genetic, then by OP's hypothesis, immigrants are more likely to be intelligent and pass that on to their children - whereas GP's hypothesis (seems to suggest) that intelligence is effectively random but determination is what's passed down from parent to child. Of course, it's probably a combination of both.
Your success in life is partially a reflection of how you were raised, just like your success in math.
Frankly I am fine with number 2 and it is the most common I have experienced when this happens.
Is that not what your computer arch class was? In mine we had to write every mips instruction and what it did, from memory, on pencil and paper. And that was the "Final" along with some demorgans.
> Yeah, no. The difference between the WMDs and Xinjiang is that for one we only had the State Department’s word for it

No, we didn't. We had the word of every single insitution in the Angloamerican controlled part of the Western hemisphere. From NGOs to media. NYT was publishing dozens of articles talking about the WMDs, then one article 'questioning' whether we were "acting too fast", but inevitably concluding that the risks of 'not taking action' were far greater.

It was a TOTAL media propaganda just like now.

The French were even ridiculed for contesting the veracity of those claims. So much propaganda was done that they were able to smear an ENTIRE nation as 'surrender monkeys' and 'cowards' for persisting in questioning the claims.

> Just looking at Pakistan, for example: Pakistan has been given tens of billions of dollars by China and is owed billions more, China is a major trading of Pakistan, and China is investing in major infrastructure development there. I don’t think anything could get Pakistan to not support China in the UN.

This is a supremacist talk: "They are siding with the baddies for profit". Whereas on the other hand, the Western satellites that supported the US in the UN have absolutely no profit in backing the US. They just did it out of goodwill and morals. Nothing related to profit and foreign policy.

Qatar and Turkey abstained in order to not upset the US. Abstaining itself is already opposing since there is no way that any country in the Middle East can turn a blind eye to an actual genocide of muslims if it took place. Which makes it even more significant that every other country opposed it.

> since the genocide in Xinjiang is against a specific group of Muslims, not against Muslims in general

There is no such thing. I don't know where you pulled that out from. Xinjiang muslims are sunnis and the majority of the muslim world is sunni.
Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it could reuse
Erik Bernhardsson and Etienne Dilocker on Vector Search in Production
That sounds like a bold faced lie to me. To quote the article:

>Meta sells reasonably good gaming headsets to customers who want to be entertained in VR; we're selling general-purpose productivity devices which are aimed at replacing PCs and laptops. So our real competition is laptops & PCs, not other gaming headsets.

Everything Meta has been releasing publicly about their VR Headset plans make it blatantly clear that it is not only targeting gaming.
Not because of this one thing, every bank offers some return on holding cash. Most are ridiculously low.

Personally I like to think of it as, the US govt guarantees a return on overnight cash based on the Federal funds rate. Banks and other people that hold cash will give you that rate minus some fee(s) for the hassle of keeping up with your cash for you. Most banks have a very hefty fee, but not all banks.

As of this writing:

The Federal Reserve will pay 2.56% for cash deposited with them.

Bank Of America pays 0.01%, for a fee of 2.55%/yr.

Ally bank pays 2.25% for their savings account for a cost of .31%/yr

If you are willing to hold cash in an ETF, ICSH will hold cash for a 0.08%/yr fee.

For the record, I'm not against Bank Of America, I have an account with them, but I don't hold much, if any, cash with them for any length of time, because I know they charge a lot for that service.
Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, maybe everyone is. You should try and take a moment to think about why you feel the need to defend the interest of the biggest US company. Does Google reimplementing features for iOS impact your usage of iOS in any way? Doesn't convergence help people switch ecosystem and improve competition in a 2 players market?
Since 2003 (ATX12V version 1.3), the -5 V rail has become optional.

Most recent power supplies no longer provide it.
Still no 512 GB model in Europe.

I got my 512 GB Pixel 6 Pro by having a friend but it for me in Australia and shipping it by mail. It arrived safely after a more than 17K km trip and some customs paperwork, and I'm very happy with it, but I don't think I'm going to do that again for the 7 Pro.

Sometimes I feel tempted to switch to Apple just because they don't do this market segmentation thing (or at least in the countries that I know of). If you want 512, you pay and you get it. If you want 1 TB, you pay and you get it.

Why can't we get 512 GB in Europe on a phone with a great camera that many of us use to take lots of photos and videos, Google? It doesn't make sense.
> Atlanta, where I live, spends 30%* more per pupil in APS than the surrounding suburban counties do.

If you look a bit deeper at public school funding in more well-off areas and you will usually find a system of tax-deductible private donations to the school, organized by a PTA or similar organization. Much of the spending difference vanishes when you consider that.

When you count the value of the PTA volunteer time by professional parents (which doesn't appear on the books), it tips the scales even further toward greater spend in well-off areas.
So, I have never taken organic chemistry, but in my Electrical Engineering studies at Univ of Illinois (a top-5 in the nation program at that time), math courses were used for a similar filtering purpose. In particular, Calculus and Differential Equations.

In every EE course afterwards, we would in the first week or two solve problems using calc/diffeq, then get told "of course that's not how we want to really do it, so here's how you do it using algebra and complex numbers". It was pretty clear that Differential Equations, maybe even parts of Calculus, were not necessary to learn the engineering, they were a way of having another department (Math) do the filtering. In ten years of work in the semiconductor industry, I never once needed to use calculus or differential equations.

I think there are a lot of fields that have "weed-out" courses, and the author of this article is right to point out that the more fundamental issue is whether or not this is the right way to do the (probably necessary) filtering.
> Difficult/opaque lecture style, very high difficulty tests, openly mocking students in a 500+ person lecture if he deemed a question not intelligent enough

I don’t want to condone or encourage this behavior. However, I often think back to a similar professor I had in college who I loathed at the time. I gritted through the course and complained the whole way.

Then I graduated into the working world and encountered a similarly difficult person in my management chain. Weirdly, I felt prepared to handle the situation and kept relatively calm while navigating the not-nice boss. I didn’t stay for long, but I was able to thrive and get some early career wins even under a not-nice boss.

So I don’t think mean teachers or bosses are a good thing, but at the same time I feel like I grew more during those periods than I did at other times in my education/career. I still don’t know exactly what to think about all of this.
If what you said were true, there would have been lots of Chinese phone manufacturers eating Apple's market share for lunch. There aren't.
You might also want to review NewRelic. Their new plans allow for lots of data ingestion at low price including logs.
Hope to see GrapheneOS support it soon.
I have recently started doing this and it's excellent. I can just wander away from my desktop, take my laptop and go work somewhere else in the house, and I used something very similar going away abroad.
The Pixel Watch is official: $349, good looks, and a four-year-old SoC
I remember when devices this size were somewhat derisively labeled "phablets". Now people want ever bigger. Apple should rebrand the iPad Mini as iPhone Max PRO, it would probably sell like hotcakes.
Based on your descriptions of those played out tropes I think you'll enjoy this "blockbuster movie trailer" template.

https://youtu.be/KAOdjqyG37A
I have no experience in data interpretation, so please be forgiving. But isn't it the case that:

60,000 white students * 0.04 = 2,400
4,000 Asian students * 0.25 = 1,000

These cohorts seem fairly similarly-sized, to my thinking. If you're thinking of either curriculum, culture, or parental involvement (I don't think it matters which), it seems to me that looking at this at the level of percentages is not the best heuristic for thinking about which students are prepared to attend top universities. There just aren't that many students who get whatever it is they need to achieve that.
I think it depends on what problems you want git to solve for you.

Some people like having the context from the complete the history of little commits without the risks of rebase breaking something.

Some people like using rebase to group all changes needed for a feature into isolated(ish) commits.

Some people just like the aesthetics of a straight master branch without the clutter of little "corrected typo" or "fixed bug for real this time" commits.
When I visit that link I am asked to log into my Google account.

If I open the link in private mode, I get redirected to a region picker, where Google reluctantly lets me choose US ("are you _sure_ you want to visit the US store?") From there I have to navigate to the new pixel phones, having completely lost where the link pointed.

I can't believe how difficult Google, a company that claims to have its mission to organize the worlds information, makes it to access their marketing webpages!
My highschool chem teacher was a pyromaniac, we did things on the regular during class downtime that should have been expelling offenses.

My college chem professor was a first year out of industry, incapable of basic socialization, we all knew why he became a professor. The head of the department had his own text/work books, we had to spend like $400 on ~5 books for one class. This new guy had to teach off of this and had strict guidelines around testing etc. The brightest and most studious students got like B+ end of semester. The majority F-C, and we needed a B to continue the class schedule. 80 students had their grades bumped by the dean by like 20 points so an entire engineering year wasn't flunked. It was a tight schedule and if the majority failed chem it would look bad on the school and gum up the scheduling for that class and the following class.

My friends in other majors weren't having a much better time.
Why do language courses ask students to memorize the meaning of the letters of the alphabet?

How are you going to keep up with a chemistry course if you have to consult documentation every time you encounter Pb to remember that means lead? Organic chemistry entails a lot more memorization than that, but memorizing the periodic table at least is simply table stakes for entry level highschool chemistry. Memorizing the periodic table is month one of 10th grade chemistry 1. What the periodic table means is also taught at the same time, and is trickier than the basic memorization. Most students can get the basic memorization of the periodic table figured out in a week or two with a stack of flash cards. If you can't manage that much, what's the point in going further?
I don't know if I'd say "service to the students", and I definitely have a few things to say about the artificial caps placed on med students and use of absolutely irrelevant courses (like biochemistry lab and anything beyond basic organic chemistry) but sure, I suppose some some filtering mechanism is of value.

> But what cynical advantage does the school gain from weeding out premeds? Besides tough love for the students who won't cut the mustard, what is their motivation for weeding out premeds?

Teaching these pre-med courses is expensive and hard. They're huge, require armies of TAs, and the educational experience blows (that's a scientific term) for both professor and student. Aside from the raw economic incentives (professors in this area tend to bring in far more money from research than teaching even the largest classes), believe it or not, a lot of professors actually want to teach their subject well. They love it. They do not love giving Biochem 101 lectures to a an audience of 100-1000 uninterested, uninspired undergrads who are only there because the AMA is making them jump through a hoop.

Just to be clear, though: I don't think I'm suggesting anywhere that this is "cynical" behavior. Everyone is acting rationally given the rules of the game. Even the O-chem professor from my own life was acting in an extreme form of rationality -- I assume he didn't make the course hard out of some cynical motivation, but because he had a huge class and he wanted to provide a useful measurement of talent. One way to do that is to make it really, really hard and spread out the curve.

(But he might also have been forcing the pre-meds into a different section by reputation.)
Kids are applying to more schools today than in the past (pre Covid study)
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/09/a-majority-...
It could be with the higher applications that just means the 1200 score naturally migrated higher, they really could not accept the same number of students at that score.

I had something like that commenter's score in the 1980's and was offered scholarships for four years for public universities in Texas and both gave me a private pre high school graduation tour so maybe the other criteria for this particular student (extracurricular activities, school scores, rank) were not comparable or that is just a random internet troll (disqus is particularly easy to spam based on other websites I've seen use it or maybe that's just the ubiquity of disqus, although it would not load for me:) ).
iPad mini is an awful device ergonomics wise. Any large phone is more comfortable
The pixel "a" line is around the $300-400 range.
Dunno why HN let me submit this again, more discussion from hours earlier here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33105269
A related issue, that people are slowly starting to realize, is that there are big variations in life expectancy between races. Asians live 10 years longer than blacks on average (and about 7 years longer than whites) [0]. Also, women live about 4 years longer than men.

These differences may not seem big relative to total lifespan, but they are enormous relative to retirement span, and that has huge implications for the fairness of defined-benefit programs like Social Security. If we take 65 as the retirement age, then the average black male gets about 8 years of retirement, while the average Asian female gets 23 years.

That creates grotesque unfairness in Social Security payouts. The Asian female and black male might contribute the exact same amount to the program over the course of their careers, but the former will receive about 3x more in payouts than the latter.

I doubt our society is capable of repairing the grievous unfairness of life expectancy gaps. But we should at least not add racist insult to racial injury by using schemes like Social Security.

[0] : https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/life-expectanc....
Mega Millions (which is still in line with your first comment).

> [0] The probability of winning Mega Millions