skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked in Admissions at a large state school from 2005-2007. Our method for determining admissibility reminded me of the heat map chart in this article - ie GPA on one axis, SAT/ACT score on the another axis, trace your finger along both paths to see if the applicant was in or out.

I probably reviewed 20-30 applications a day. If high school transcripts were universally formatted, decisions could have been instantaneous but alas, we live in the real world and some human-in-the-loop normalizing had to be done over-and-over.

With all that reviewing, patterns emerged, namely that SAT and ACT scores strongly correlate to GPA. Now, I’m the kind of person that roots for the genius to overcome his grades and emerge a genius on the SAT/ACT. But in two years, it probably happened only twice. Before calculating a normalized GPA, I could look at the test scores and predict “admit” or “deny”.

While the author is correct to say “the irrelevance of test scores is greatly exaggerated”, in my experience, whether or not something is irrelevant has very little to do with what universities do.

I’d recommend only using test scores. Or, only go with GPAs. Only test scores is more efficient. Only GPAs looks better on press releases.
nice. to anyone else curious about the difference between the two images in the repo, here's the difference and then equalized: http://telnet.asia/diff.png
Apple isn’t causing a problem in the manner you’re implying - they’ve been using those codecs for years at this point.
All that’s happening here is chrome is adding support for an existing standardized format that is used by the general public in presumably sufficient amounts to warrant the complexity.
Yes but no one gets fired for picking Google or Microsoft.

All you really need is a little background about the company running the thing. That would be enough for someone like myself to cover my ass for picking your tool.
This could also be a way to identify Stalking As A Service sites.

If a site gets lots of individual people going to the trouble to Google-remove themselves from it, maybe that's reason to consider delisting the site.
The Prime Minister is technically the leader of the party so more like the US Speaker of The House than the President. Technically the King as the head of State has the role of President, but of course the King is effectively a figurehead.

Imagine if the House of Representatives managed to slap down the President and the Senate so hard that they never got up again, and you have what is effectively the UK system of government.
A distant third.
Do you feel the same way about the many, many startups with all-Indian or all-East Asian rosters? That they seem to have “avoided” the various ethnicities not currently employed by them?
Cool, but Least significant bit steganography is kind of old now. It would be nice to see hiding data in the content or meaning of images, probably using Stable Diffusion.
M2 doesn't have AV1 hardware decode.

My guess is that the next shot is with a TSMC N3E chip, which _may_ debut with iPhone 15 Pro. There's been conflicting reports if N3E will be ready when Apple needs it - September 2023 if it's for iPhone 15.

N3E based M3 Macbook Pro with hardware raytracing and hardware accelerated AV1 decode/encode would be nice.
Debug heap libraries existed in 1895.
Photographs are back. Either your resume contains a link to your LinkedIn profile, or else your LinkedIn IS your resume to begin with.
Scrubbing on Search is a good first step towards reclaiming some modicum of privacy, but what about Bing, DDG, Ecosia, Metager, Swisscows, Yandex, Baidu, Kagi, You, Brave, etc?

Guess you’re still just shit out of luck if someone really wants to find you, and knows how.

Also, scrub as much as you want, but Google will still store your info forever and it will be monetized.
This is one of the reasons why I’ve all but sworn-off theaters. It used to mean a lot more to me to see something in the theater but I’ve traded that for subtitles, pausing, multi-day-viewing, picture quality, manageable volume, whatever food and snacks I want, and -surprisingly high up on the list - talking through the movie with my wife.

I guess I’ve gotten old (and also own my own house and can buy whatever equipment I want)
no comment but i hope for greater breakthroughs in that field.
I suppose that makes some sense, but this project has been around for at least a decade (I don't want to look it up either).
Of course it's a problem, this is a way for microsoft (and it's customers) to side-step it's (their) competitors software licenses (contracts).
The silicon would be to save money compared to general purpose compute. The savings should overcome any fixed cost. Doubt it's having that great an impact to R&D cost growth.
> As I mentioned in another comment [1] on this thread, soundness and decidability are non-negotiable for me. Types in C#, F# and TS are all Turing Complete [2], and therefor these languages are tooling-adverse in the sense that static analysis is fundamentally unreliable.

How on earth do you consider Kotlin acceptable then? Kotlin's type system has never been shown to be sound or decidable and is visibly a lot more ad-hoc than any of that list (and if by some miracle it was sound or decidable last week, I'm sure whatever new feature they added this week broke it). I suspect the only reason it hasn't been formally proven to be Turing Complete is that Kotlin's developers haven't bothered to write a specification for it - as far as I can see your link's example for C# would translate directly into Kotlin with the same properties.
Good question and thank you for raising that possibility. I am ignorant here. Of course I'd prefer patches applied asap but...

We are almost daily discovering upstream changes like this one that breaks something N components removed so our kneejerk response is usually to pin aggressively when found and periodically upgrade deps for a whole component.

What are the chances I have some dep somewhere that says python<=3.10.8 and is working today but when that 3.10-slim spec allows 3.10.8 turn into 3.10.9 it will break? That's what happened today for scipy but on the 2nd int and not the third one, because we had started with 3-slim.
Piracy is predicated on a rejection of intellectual property rights. So it's not clear why they would care who owns a codec.
1 GiB * 1000000/day = 29.01 PiB/mo, not 300. But yeah, if they're giving it as an example...
This is a psyop to make regulators and low-information users think it'll achieve anything.
I don't see why this is necessary or useful. Just press the "pause" button and go to the bathroom when you need to. While you're at it, you can grab a snack or drink from your kitchen before you unpause. Take a few minutes and brew a nice cup of tea perhaps. Then come back to your recliner and cover up with a cozy blanket while watching the movie.
makes you wonder, what exactly the headcount is going to. Double the headcount, but sure doesn't feel like double the innovation/product-growth.
Ads. It's always ads.
My father started at Univac just after the Korean War. He never did a lot of coding, instead he was a "systems man". He went from the room size mainframe systems with huge dedicated tape and disk machines to time sharing to buying me an Apple II around 1980.

Unfortunately, systems and procedures is no longer sexy and is mostly an after thought today. But back in the hey day of the 1960/70s that was where the money was.
Notice how the stock cratered after hours? Growth is slowing on cloud revenue. It's lower than expectations. Cloud is a big reason for the expanded PE ratio on both Amazon and Microsoft. Amazon reports in 2 days, already it's taking a hit. A bit of the assumption is cloud spending would not be as impacted as the Microsoft one is showing. Tech companies in general will likely show red tomorrow, as the markets digest this news.
Wow I had no idea that was the case I had the same misunderstanding as the other posted. Thank you for that, I will be revisiting my understanding of time and space
Very very few people are probably interested in doing that.
Spitballing here, but one could imagine a compatilibity assurance mechanism that baked in a hash of all the structs and function signatures in the kernel interfaces in some well-defined way that fixes the ordering. Runtime check when loading the module, bail if the hashes don’t match.
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Archived: https://archive.ph/Z501w
Great & useful article. We should have more of these for “popular papers”.
I expected it with web apps and can almost excuse it there, but switching native desktop UIs to this format seems weird.
...they killed some productivity apps. Don't say never. Hangouts, dead. Keep App, dead. Enterprise Search, dead. etc
Sure, it just means it's a bit of a pointless debate...

Questions that are much more interesting to me are:

* should any level of the education system attempt to correct for underlying socioeconomic factors?

* if so, how? (I would love more discussion about this because it both seems like an extremely difficult problem and because otherwise we waste all our time and energy on non-effective things like removing standardized tests from admissions requirements.)

In the software engineering interview world, for instance, a whole lot of active discussion is spent around interviewing methods. Let's make that bigger! Let's figure out how to get the people who never even make it to the interview stage today a better opportunity.

Otherwise it's like taking two plants, reducing the amount of sunlight one gets to 50% of what the other one gets for several years, then moving them both to a new environment, waiting four more years, and saying "huh, the one that was taller before we moved them 4 years ago is still taller, guess that's a good measurement to use to pick plants, since even controlling for that, the taller ones from the light-limited cohort are also ended up taller than their cohort-mates after the last 4 years!"
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> It comes down to whether you want type checking to work all the time, or most of the time? If your answer is "most of the time", then just use a dynamically typed language with GPT-based autocompletion. Most of the time completion and refactoring will work just fine.

This is bad advice. Such an approach will go wrong often enough to burn you, and it will go wrong silently, whereas the kind of issues you describe tend to lead to something far more visible (and therefore correctible) like a complier internal error or an IDE refusing to perform a refactor.
Google does not use GCP internally. If they did they'd be bragging about it.
I live in an small (by American standards) apartment and I have a reclining sofa and 65" TV. You don't need to own a house to have a decent viewing experience.

All the other stuff I completely agree with. Movie theaters are obsolete, as far as I'm concerned.
Since acknowledging your evidence will inhibit my ability to blame the white supremacist cis-hetereonormative ableist patriarchy for my problems I will instead respond with an anecdote about how I know a lesbian indian in a wheel chair that bombed the SATs and is now president of the united states.
Aren't NYC's financials a basket case though? Surely its politicians don't care much about bringing revenue to the city, rather bringing profit to their friends and families and lobbyists. That is what makes more sense here.
Yes. Webpack is essentially going to get deprecated/unmaintained over time from what I understand, so I think it is fair the author names this the successor.
"What's a resume?", said in the voice of Maggie Smith ;)

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhfpBW-nUWk)
From my memory of Engineering School in the “colonies” in 1990, CS were very geek, EE were normal geek, mechanical engineers were normal engineers, and civil engineers were social deviants (to use stereotypes). There was a certain geek pride abnormality that was almost expected of the better EE engineers . . . or perhaps I thought that because I identified as a geek? I don’t recall noticing any strong demand for EE engineers. I think I noticed the uptick in demand for computer skills in the mid-90s, although I admit I surely was unaware of the world around me.
I’m going through Effective Haskell. https://pragprog.com/titles/rshaskell/effective-haskell/ Pretty great resource, but still WIP.
Why bother paying to be in a theater at all then? Why are you paying to be bored?
In New Zealand you are required to attach your name and address to formal submissions responding to proposed public policy changes. A while ago there was a proposal regarding The largest Harbor Bridge in the country. A lot of people attach their name to a submission supporting adding a cycling lane to the bridge , And all these peoples names and the address they used are just there online attached to their political opinion. I don’t know if people would expect their address to be public so they probably use their home address. It would be good if there were a way to report documents containing a lot of private information and suggest that Google doesn’t index them.
".mp4" is just a file extension, the source of the colloquial name for the container. But both the container and the codec are named MPEG-4 and both are colloquially called "MP4."

"Box level" is apparently referring to types of cryptography, "S-boxes are non-linear transformations of a few input bits that provide confusion and P-boxes simply shuffle the input bits around to provide diffusion"[1] The basic function of S-Box[2] is to transform 8 bits input data into 8 bits of secret data using a precomputed look-up-table (LUT). A "permutation box (or P-box) is a method of bit-shuffling used to permute or transpose bits across S-boxes inputs, retaining diffusion while transposing."[3]

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/learning/symmetric-cryptography-ess...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-box

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_box
oh so typical

literal fraud by banks and security rating agencies was directly responsible for the crisis. They defrauded their customers and each other.

Thats why they were called subprime loans.
Not sure what your point is. My point is that controlling for SES is useless in context of the predictive validity of SAT. Regardless of the degree in which socioeconomic factor casually influence test scores and educational outcomes, you get no substantial gain from learning them above what you learn from test scores alone, as long as the goal is to select students who are most likely to learn and succeed at your university.

This means that admission officers who want to learn about SES of candidates in addition to learning their test scores usually either are looking for something else the student’s aptitude for learning and ability to succeed, or are completely unfamiliar with state of the research (this is sadly quite common, and this is often willful ignorance too).
A "text object" is just an overly verbose name for... a string. Which doesn't necessarily have to be called a capital-s String in your chosen language, atoms/symbols are also forms of strings.
Getting Next.js up to Rails feature-wise is using something that already wires up the niceties like Auth, ORM, Tailwind styles, and Typescript. Create-t3-app is a huge contender here: https://init.tips/ and https://github.com/t3-oss/create-t3-app

A DB is as simple as pressing a button on Planetscale or Railway, copying the secret strings to your .env file, and 'npx prisma db push'.
Your comment would be equally or more effective without this sentence:

>You seem to be completely unfamiliar with the research in the field.
Yes, I should have been more specific. Out of the two italian olive oils in tall bottles, the one with the purple colors tasted bad to me. I think it says Italy on it in big letters. The green label bottle, also from Italy but which says Toscano, tasted just fine (though I still prefer the Spanish bottle).
I can't speak to a change in this over the pandemic, but after doing this kind of work for over 15 years (helping hardware startups make hardware, often as a consultant, sometimes as an employee) the companies that end up being successful are the ones that are more flexible and have the attitude of securing the right talent (either consulting or direct, full or part time) at the right time and not so much on the details that dont truly matter. It's about finding the right person with the right skillset and then just saying "we want your help, what will that take?" and then doing that. The ones that have preconceived notions of things and then try to put these talented and in demand people into those preconceived boxes don't end up getting anywhere.

Good, smart, successful people who have a track record of delivering have options, lots of options. Your company just needs to be one of the best options. If your not one of the best options, you are not getting the best talent. If you are not getting the best talent you cannot lead your industry. If you cannot lead your industry, it's difficult to compete as a startup against entrenched players who dont need to demonstrate 10x returns to their investors.

Edited - typo
SAT/ACT are basically poor IQ tests, because study for them results in heavily loading onto memory aspect of IQ but unloading on some others somewhat.

Ideally, you would want an IQ test and the 'Big Five' personality traits. The latter though can be annoying to get.

I have seen some firms get very good results by basically using a disguised IQ test, there are some firms that basically compose the tests, give them to 1000s of people and perform the factor analysis to extract IQ from the test, then contract the the test out for hiring departments. Some of those tests are pretty creative in that most people wouldn't know they were taking an IQ test.
When I was in Istanbul in 2013 they had an intermission. Kind of surprising to me. Also it seemed like it was a time based thing because I vaguely recall it was right during an action sequence and bam, movie stops and the lights turn on. My first thought something went wrong with the projector but then everybody around me just started getting up and acting like it was completely normal :)
Also relevant: https://xkcd.com/937/

(In this case it seems like the app worked.)
Samsung owns most HEVC patents? That doesn’t make sense given that MPEG LA is suing Samsung for HEVC patent infringement
It is. You also tend to tarnish your company's brand with the ad-hoc remarks. Let your Marketing, PR, and CFO handle the comms on this.
> By my definition each individual release of something that doesn't belong in the air is pollution.

Does your classification of CO2 have a real upper limit of ppm wherein it becomes considered a pollutant? Or is it just “all plastic supply burned + 1”
An attitude which I've found to be curiously pervasive amongst self-proclaimed egalitarians and socialists.
How do you use the web audio API without JavaScript?
This is a terrible step. This isn't your private data, it is information about you.

Phone books were a great step towards a high-trust society. This is a great leap backwards, brought to you by the same personalities that were responsible for previous great leaps.
You only get a good discount on Microsoft Dynamics if you also get some cloud credits ... oh and while getting it: do you want the LinkedIn integration to Dynamics? LinkedIn is accounted for under cloud, too.

They can shift the revenue accountingwise wherever they want it. (Just have to make sure they internally track it better, to see which products actually bring the money ...)
Sounds like that would be open to abuse of from black hat seo types.
Well that's bad news for anyone hoping this driver would ever be upstreamed, linux requires real identity for participation.
What does it offer? Does it have a killer web framework? Great data modeling? May as well just use typescript.
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I have never seen complex numbers represented via linear algebra... would love a crash course on this as I find reasoning about complex numbers to be very difficult and find linear algebra to be imminently logical in all cases.
For us, it's more like an interest in the continuing adventures of existing beloved characters.
How much water do data centers use?
I have nice, mature infrastructure (and expertise) for managing linux boxes. I do not have any desire to build or purchase infrastructure (and expertise) for managing windows boxes. If I have a task that can be done reasonably on my existing infrastructure, I’m not adding Windows to the mix without good reason.
I found https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics... which says “there were 70 non-COVID-19 on-duty firefighter deaths and 78 firefighter deaths resulted from COVID-19 in 2021”.

Also “In 2021, 1,353,500 fires resulted in 3,800 civilian deaths and 14,700 injuries”. By comparison, Wikipedia says there were 42,915 deaths due to motor vehicles in 2021, more than 10x. So it makes sense that even if fire department only dealt with road crashes they would spend more time on that than on fires.
I'm pretty sure you can transfer your save game for Cyberpunk off of Stadia to PC or consoles. It's not true of every game, but I think it works for Cyberpunk if you plug it into your search engine of choice.
Well said. But my counter argument is: why does Netflix do a revert course and introduce titles back to their job lines? At the beginning, Netflix used to just have senior SDE title. Now, they are starting to introduce more SDE titles into the company.
If focusing on retention has been working great for Netflix, what made them change their mind?
This is the first I’ve heard of exhaust scrubbers! I thought we were talking about the literal impact of burning plastic?

How does burning plastic impact things for people that don’t own exhaust scrubbers?
> I know other companies are often worse but we really need legislation around this

The last thing we need is some crappy poorly written law that is filled with a bunch of unrelated hanger-on pork projects to appease politicians into voting for it.
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Amazon is the new Google. Google the new IBM. MS seems to be doing fine. What is Google's next cash-cow? Google's Cloud pitch sure reminds me of IBM's "Big Data" push.
Thanks, I like reading this stuff. But that link was 3.5 years ago
This is true, but the only way you're going to fix that problem is to start trying. Expertise can be built, even rebuilt, it's just difficult.

Plus, money DOES allow you to hire outside consultants and teachers.

Decentralising the chip foundries is a necessary step, arguably one that should've been made long ago.
>My 10980XE is like 96% occupied while watching AV1 without HW acceleration

That shouldn't be the case. I play AV1 (via dav1d, software) w/o issue on much weaker CPUs than that (a zen1 laptop cpu and a haswell i7). The CPU is mostly idle.
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