skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s more complicated than that because the students expect to get jobs after completing the degree, if they even can complete the degree.

For example, Im not great at art and don’t really have a passion for it. Should an art school accept me even though I’ll never have a career as an artist? Keep in mind I’d be taking a spot from someone who could. I have no doubt they’ll be able to improve my abilities but that’s not why many students apply.
Since Shatner was Bezos' guest, Bezos should have known. While you may not have personally known about it, it has been widely reported.

Basic hospitality is important. Most folks are rightfully indignant when an interviewing company haven't read their resume, while virtually all companies want interviewees to have read the company public website.
They are very upfront in terms of rhetoric about wanting more black and Hispanic students, but their policies are a lot of shuck-n-jive, trying to get that result while pretending to be fair. Nothing has worked so far. The pretending-to-be-fair sure hasn't either.

So, one thing that will work and keep it all simple: Just establish quotas. "We will admit the highest scoring black students until we hit x%." But I suppose that would make legal challenges easier.
I didn't know it at first. Also, as pointed out, the risk is theoretical.
Some of the flaws are obvious. Some of them aren’t. Either way they can lead to very interesting conversations and get the mind thinking. You should be flagging blind hatred not observations and criticism.

You’re literally shutting down free speech. Metaphorically you’re creating a walled compound where all the “happy” people can pretend everything is fine and dandy meanwhile on the opposite side of the wall is a bunch of unhappy homeless people who literally had their house taken away by the people in the compound just because they happened to disagree with something one of the powerful people said at a dinner party.
There's this: testimonies from lispers https://gist.github.com/vindarel/3484a4bcc944a5be143e74bfae1... gently biased towards CL.
It reminds me of European universities switching from selecting on humanities to selecting on maths a century ago.

The idea was to remove the social upbringing's impact on test scores, as candidates from higher socioeconomic status are heavily advantaged from using a larger vocabulary from birth.

A PhD friend who studied this told me it had no measurable impact. Put aside raising math tutors salaries of course.
I am OP :). I really hope the future isn't so grim, I mean, to be honest it's me rejecting what is the most common outcome for people with MS, slow degradation. It pains me because just 3 years ago I was feeling so good, my brain was working great (due to a mix of circumstances, financial windfall, low stress, and pretty certainly a great mix of diet and exercise), I had so many product ideas and the energy to pursue them. Anyway, I digress... The thing is, as far as I know, no non-esoteric options provide what I'm seeking. As I've replied elsewhere, my initial intention was to collect (even very speculative) hints to future research and treatments that might do what current ones don't: restore, repair.
> Its not like the field of theology is doing any better at it.

As a comprehensive whole, even as somewhat of a supporter, the results seem unimpressive to me.

But then this overlooks at least two things:

- we do not have access to an accurate counterfactual reality machine, thus we ~~must~~ speculate (note: the ~~ ~~ is intended to cross out the enclosed word, as supported on Reddit)

- there may be substantial unrealized value within subsets of theology (I'm a big proponent of Taoism, but then I'm surely biased (which is not necessarily synonymous with incorrect))

> We’ve tried sending thoughts and prayers at every single peoples we face, but it just doesn’t seem to work.

See the "accurate counterfactual reality machine" comment above.

Two questions:

- is this intended as an accurate representation of theology? If not, what is it intended as?

- it seems to me that: delusion is a substantial contributor to causality, most of human communication (some exceptions exist) is at least partially delusional (in a technical sense of the word, not pejorative), and arguably causality is the most important known phenomenon - from my frame of reference, science seems to have very little serious interest or knowledge about either (delusion and causality), yet despite this seems to have somehow ascended to the throne of the de facto superior metaphysical framework for discovery of reality. Is it just me, or does something seem "off" about this state of affairs?

inb4: popular and persuasive thought terminating cliches/memes.
Just like any other skilled job, there is an interview process.
> Changing directions: Steering science, technology and innovation for the Sustainable Development found that research and innovation around the world is not focused on meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, which are a framework set u­p to address and drive change across all areas of social justice and environmental issues. ­

After reading the UN SDG document, I wonder: How did things like mitigating climate change, stopping overfishing, gender equality, and access to education all end up falling under the heading of sustainability at the UN? It feels really broad and mixed up to me. Usually not having a tight focus or a single goal is a bad sign for initiatives. It reads like: "our vision for this initiative is to solve all major problems", which is admirable, but feels ... out of scope to me.
With the 10s of thousands of applications top universities get, there isn't enough time to evaluate the "complex, multi-dimensional entities" behind each application.

At University of Washington, applications are not reviewed by "admissions people". They hire temporary workers (grad students, retirees etc.) to review applications, and give them 8 minutes per application [1]. And this is typical of most universities.

[1] https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/a-look-inside-admis...
Perfection through negativity is a thing I am guilty of. "Wouldn't it be better if..." is often a phrase that runs through my thoughts when evaluating something artistic.

But like you, I was thinking, is that a video with actors pretending to be computer characters or actually a thing.
How is it benefiting the people suffering?
Because people like taking down fences without knowing why they are there, because they are of course smarter than everyone who came before them.
The incentives don't align for what we want the news media to do (inform us about key global information that affects us without lingering on the bad, and without bias) vs what makes money (maximal eyeballs, particularly on ads in content). Until this happens or the money mostly leaves the medium, reporting is fundamentally broken and an enemy to the mental wellbeing of those who consume it. As journalistic standards have eroded, more blatantly bad content is tolerated (advertorials, write-ups of reddit articles, reposts of stories from other outlets, etc.).
You don't need the hacking capabilities of a government, simply transferring files (like child porn) onto someone's computer without them knowing would be trivial to do once an exploit is found on the target's computer - certainly a lot simpler than ransomware which seems pervasive. Surprised it does not happen more often considering how easy it is, or maybe it does, after all who is giving an accused pedophile the benefit of the doubt?
Being a CS player, I had the weirdest dejavu feeling ever when I went to Venice. The level of detail is so much better now its not even funny.
It should be easy to make the student body reflect the diversity of applicants: select them at random.
And I had the Intel Puma modem chipsets come to mind.

Names are hard.
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What drives differences in population growth among states?
I think you’ve defined a tutor. Tutors cost less than college tuition. And top professors answer emails from non-students, sometimes they teach for free on MOOCs. Perhaps you’re on a very narrow field where knowledge is extremely scarce, but that’s atypical.
Shaping the ethnic demographic of the school is a big component of the modern intent as well. Particularly, these "holistic" admission standards are designed to facilitate discrimination against Asian Americans. This is justified with transparently racist bullshit claims about Asian American students being too focused on academic performance, not "well rounded" whatever the hell that is supposed to mean. They reduce Asian American students to the stereotype of dull people with no personality because they spent too much time doing homework and learning piano, and use this stereotype to justify discriminating against them. Flagrantly racist.
common app is over 20 years old.
Agree with you about the magical mexican clinic sounding a little too good to be true.

However, I can totally see doctors in the US and Europe ignoring or not knowing about the latest treatments for conditions. As I've aged and watched my parents age, We've dealt with several conditions where doctors have no idea and at some point they just think you're making it up. It feels like most doctors are just barely showing up to work mentally. If you don't fall within the dozen or so conditions/treatments they are familiar with they throw their hands up.
I think, it's only bleak because of the names.

Sociopath are very lonely and losers can be very happy in comparison.
It’s really disappointing that many recent attempts of progressivism have just turned into new sexism and racism but defended as “the correct” versions of those. It erodes the intellectual validity of these institutions.
This is the attitude we need to teach average people to take every time they see a video as proof of something. Especially if the video otherwise reinforces some sort of ideological position they hold.
Free will is also incoherent in any religion or philosophy presupposing a bi-omni deity (which itself is an incoherent notion).

The point, that many ignore, however is that, free will does not matter. It is irrelevant. Regardless of whether one has free will or not, one still has to make choices and support the consequences of said choices. Lack of free will was never the get out of jail free card some fear it to be.

If you bring in to the discussion sociology and psychology, free will makes even less sense.
It's because it's complicated, your energy is the product of your physical, mental and social environment, including your body and mind. It's a resource that affected by your health as much as you perception and abilities, and in turn all of these affect each other, they are interconnected, and it's all a big jumble. Eat right, think right, move right is all you can do, but if you have an underlying condition, you were abused as a child, or simply just live in the 21st century with all of it's stresses it's not that easy.

At the end of the day you are just one flimsy person in this big pile of spaghetti, surviving the best you can, so you have to learn to let it go. Not entirely, not to the point of an accelerated decay, but to the point of not taking life and yourself too seriously. You have to be like water.
Honestly really good point. Comic is funny but I like that you're bringing a bit more sanity here.
Cities are almost always built next to water, even today. Before long roads existed connecting distant places, waterways were also the only way to transport things faraway. It was much, much easier to load a boat with stuff and paddle it or use wind to move it, than it was to try to build much more complex horse-pulled vehicle that could move long distances in the absence of roads (imagine a charrot moved around on plant-covered terrain or even worse, sand).
dragons live forever / but not so, little boys
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MS is a weird disease, it can stabilize for long periods of time and it can suddenly get worse (an "attack"), and then improve, but sometimes not completely. If I were you, given your current problems, I'd check into what your options are as far as disability payments. If you are currently employed does your employer offer long term disability or short term disability? If you are US-based you could apply for social security disability or SSI (if you haven't made enough SS contributions), potentially food stamps and free/reduced cost healthcare depending on your state. All the best.
When I first read this, I found it too cynical for my tastes. But now, I can say it's a bit relatable. Being a software engineer, I don't find the "bad" bargain I have for myself that bad. I am a happy "loser."

But over the years, I have observed— multiple times—obviously talented people who have been slogging for a shitty company for years. It takes them forever to realize they are wasting their time and have to take some action. Some never realize, too.

Usually, they are people who have been promoted by the organization. They were early employees. They believed in the vision and found it hard to lose hope that things might change. The "Clueless" as the article notes.

But there can be an easier explanation as well. Partly, it's also sunk-cost bias. It's possible they do recognize the terrible place they are in. But find it incredibly hard to cut their losses. The organization can always dangle the carrot of "the turnaround is around the corner", "we will promote you soon", "the team depends on you".

A parallel is stock investing. I once invested in terrible company. Even though the deluge of bad news never stopped, it took me four years an my investment falling by 60% to admit that I need to admit I made a bad decision and sell my holdings.
Then the US was fucking stupid if they thought the money wasn’t going to get gobbled up.

You can’t just $$$ to an unstable country and expect it to work.
It helps immensely to hear poetry read, particularly if it's read well. I didn't understand how important the sound is until I started listening - it changed the way I view poetry. If I can't find a recording of a poem, I'll even try reciting it myself.

Years ago I started sticking a cassette (!) of Eliot reading "The Waste Land" in my Walkman (I did say "years ago") before walking to work. It was around 20 minutes each way. I could expect to hear "Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead ..." as I was walking in the front door of the math building. I'd get to the end of the poem around halfway on my way home. Eliot is (to my ears) a good reader, and after months of doing this I'd memorized large chunks of the poem. There are also recordings of him reading "Prufrock" and "Four Quartets" which are very good.

One drawback to this is that I can't multitask while listening to poetry (though now, even music is a problem). So it has to wait till I'm doing something which doesn't require too much attention (which may not be a good thing).

Other good readers of their own poetry - Yeats (though the recordings are very old), Dylan Thomas. Professional readers can sometimes do a good job - I have a recording of Michael Sheen doing "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" which is completely over the top. Best to listen to a sample before you buy.
Safer for who? I’m sure enough of the disproportionate minority men in prison and jail or who get harassed by police would disagree with safer. Same with transgender people or people not fitting into traditional social norms.
> Basically you are trying to make an argument by redefining words to make arbitrary distinctions that don't have any bearing on whether physicalism is true or false.

No, this is a well studied problem by thousands of philosophers over 40 years. Maybe reconsider your position that you understand this argument better than they do. I don't see any benefit in continuing this discussion at this point.
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If your hotel reservation is not refundable - you are out of your luck. You can potentially get refund from credit card company, as I once did, but the same is available for AirBnb - never tried though, was no need.
They had an emergency pizza analyst on site and Domino's had the best price/performance and quantity/delivery time ratios at the time.
The 5600X and M1 scores seem quite significantly lower than what I’ve found but the overall trend holds true in that the single thread performance of the A16 Bionic beats all but the highest end X86 CPUs. WebKit also plays a bit of a role, accounting for something like 20% difference on the same device for this specific test. Also this isn’t the latest version of Speedometer there is a 2.1 now so anyone trying it out be careful you use the same revision as newer ones perform faster (I assume they use newer versions of the libraries named in the test which are more optimized over time).
Our modern society couldn't exist without some trust, but there are huge differences in types of trust and the trustee's underlying motivations.

Trusting the community to audit is like trusting the scientific method. Anyone can find and point out a flaw, which can then be verified by everyone. That's an idyllic description, and the process is quite imperfect, but it's the best we've got.

Meanwhile, trusting a surveillance company to self police is like trusting a quack medicine healer.
Fortunately I feel convinced that it's a passing fad. I just hope that the pendulum does not swing too far the other way.
Yes, I'm aware of that. That's why I experimented with being further behind out of their peripheral vision
Some governments also adopt this kind of hierarchy. Faux democracies in particular look like this - the actual power sits in the hands of autocratic oligarchs (largely sociopathic in outlook), the 'elected politicians' who are in reality selected by the ruling oligarchs serve as the clueless middle managers, along with appointed bureaucrats who sit atop the various state agencies. These levels are rewarded with various kickbacks (hence they attain millionaire status, while the oligarchs have billionaire status). Sitting at the bottom of the pyramid are the so-called losers - the prison guards, the tax collectors, the local politicians and bureaucrats, etc. Their socio-economic status is pretty low, but it's at least a step above those who live in the slums and shantytowns.

This model characterized, for example, Brazil during the fascist dictatorship era of the 1950s and 1960s, Indonesia and Chile under similar regimes, the Philippines under Marco, probably much of India, a great many African countries, and increasingly it's what the United States seems to be falling into.
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Lars Andersen does a lot of "crazy" stuff with archery that people would probably not believe can even be done. But it can. You may think what you will of the "stunt" aspect of it (I'm not a fan) but it doesn't change the fact that this is definitely possible.

It may also seem "impossible" because you don't see Lars using what people might expect of an archer: a compound bow. You really don't need it. You can get incredibly accurate with a traditional bow, especially on the short distance you see in the video.

Source: I shoot traditional bows.

Smarter Every Day episodes that seem relevant:

Episode on archery w/ Byron Ferguson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Yp9SjCU5E

Episode on the Archer's Paradox is very interesting in this regard as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKMS2wO7WTI
That's awesome. The results were terrific and fun. Thanks for your work on that!
“toxic mold exposure”

Red flag!

This is among the constellation of fake, unlikely, or exaggerated conditions concocted by the alternative medicine industry so that they can sell more sham treatments.
This is why, in the UK system, you're only allowed to apply to five or fewer universities in the same academic cycle. (It's possible to enforce this because all applications go through the same centralised system.)

You're also not allowed to apply to both Oxford and Cambridge in the same year - otherwise both universities would get twice as many applicants.
This is "woke" clap-trap.

The thesis appears to be that it is bad that some countries are wealthy enough to pursue any research on non-subsistence topics.
Hey, I appreciate your intent, I feel I can sort through this fine after so many years with this. It's funny because my initial intent was collecting some speculation about _future_ medical advances (even just "AI will solve this in 10 years, trust me, I'm working on it!"), just so, to be very blunt, I can convince myself that it's worth living if in the future I can be made whole again.

It's true that newly diagnosed people might be more vulnerable to such things, I mean, I was and have pursued speculative things out of despair, so it's a fair warning to them.
The title is wrong, it's a "Q" prefix not a "G" prefix.
Yep basically the tradable music format before MP3s took over.
I could see them in my peripheral vision. As long as I did not stare at them they did seem to mind
It's really helpful to identify sociopaths. They know what's up and make things happen, but not friendship material. Kinda dangerous when you interact with one without noticing.

Losers are cool and mostly harmless. The alphas can be a bit annoying sometimes, but most of them can be good friends.
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You haven't clarified anything except that you don't actually consider externalities. If buying endangered animal parts and thus creating a market for poaching animals is not an externality then I must not understand what an externality is. Let's try another one. I put kiddie pools full of stagnant water all around my property in order to breed mosquito larvae to feed my pets. These mosquitos end up causing a malaria epidemic for everyone around including you but I am not affected by malaria and don't care. Are you saying that you have to go to court to sue me and prove that it is my mosquitoes giving you malaria? Why not sue the person the mosquito bit who had malaria who then gave it to you? You say the government would do this, but I have trouble believing a libertarian state would allow them to act in such a way since it would involve having departments extremely similar to the EPA and CDC.

The problems I have with libertarianism are around these issues and your handwaving of them, and this is compounded by the fact that you haven't defined what libertarianism actually is, besides that it is 'not anarchy'.

Have you really thought about these things, or do you just find the idea of self-sufficiency and absolute personal freedom enticing?
That’s not true in North America.

In the northeast, the forests we see are actually cultivated, and much that is deciduous would become pine forest with impassable underbrush without human intervention.

Prevention of wildfires requires human intervention and brush clearing. I believe this is a factor right now in California.

The Great Plains is largely cultivated, and without proper maintenance is shrinking.

Some people theorize that much of the lush vegetation European settlers saw in New England was actually human cultivation, that was left untended due to mass smallpox deaths.

Strategic neglect is a strategy, but when applied naively you may not end up with the ecosystem you wanted.
> The big part of education is being able to directly ask a knowledgeable person once you're stuck.

Stuck on what? For an undergrad, those problems can easily be solved by going online or to a tutor for a fraction of the cost. And that's for STEM based problems, humanities is all about flattering whatever opinions the professor personally holds.

The best piece of advice I got was from one of my english highschool teachers who told me a story about how when he was in university he was getting graded really poorly on essays until he basically regurgitated what he thought the the professor wanted to hear.

It's been a while since I've been to university, but I think it probably still holds.