skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... so here's the thing (speaking as someone who has taken many of these tests, been in admissions committees, and researches these tests). Take learning disabilities, and now expand it out to consider the similar factors, but with things like cultural background, life circumstances, and so forth and so on. Learning disabilities are not the same as those other things -- I don't want to equate them -- but they share some of the same issues with the test being normed on a certain standard population, and once you get outside of that, weird things happen.

Those density gradient plots in the linked blog post are interesting and useful to think about, but they're kinda hiding the fact that the vast majority of the data going into them is based on test-takers with a certain standard background, characteristics, and so forth. That in turn shapes the contours of what is error in those plots and analyses. The problem isn't necessarily that the tests are useless per se, it's that it's hard to interpret them in a way that accommodates people in nonstandard situations, or even accommodates the idiosyncracies of differences between people in general, differences that wouldn't matter in the real world.

The errors of using ACT-only, GPA-only, and so forth in the post is pretty interesting, but the author is missing the fact that that table has never really been the point of contention. The point of contention is whether that table's patterns apply equally across divisions of gender, race, SES background, age, disability status, and so forth and so on. They raise the point that the improvement in error from switching from ACT to GPA is comparable to (or better than) adding ACT to GPA, but isn't the real question whether doing so increases certain types of "predictable error variance", in the sense that you could predict the residual from things like SES, race, and so forth and so on?

I think GPA is seen as more acceptable than ACT because it's exchangeable in an important sense with the criterion being predicted. That is, if you want to know college GPA, maybe secondary school GPA is a little flawed, but at least it's ostensibly similar in terms of what it actually is. I think people have a sense that, say, you aren't using standardized tests as the criterion for college graduation, so why use it for prediction? Why have college and college GPA at all? Why not just let people take standardized tests and skip the whole degree program thing? There's reasonable arguments for doing that, but also reasonable arguments for not doing it, and many of those are the same arguments for and against using the test for admissions.
The term of art is practice effect.

https://www.explorepsychology.com/practice-effects/
On the scale of banal evil, corporate tax accountants are a lot lower than the people directing them to do what they're doing. The benefits of Fancy Tax Practices are not accruing the people enacting them.

Hard agree on the second clause, though.
> It has a lot to do with not understanding the other person's motivations. If a person's hobby doesn't interest you, but you can see the lucrative value of said hobby, one might be compelled to suggest making said hobby a career.

That's a really interesting point I never considered. I guess people with no interest in an area would certainly be more likely to see the financial side of things rather than the actual... well hobby part. Also gonna admit I've been guilty of that myself, and have only quite recently realised that it may have been a tad overbearing.
They should state very clearly what RexEx version/engine
> It has a lot to do with not understanding the other person's motivations. If a person's hobby doesn't interest you, but you can see the lucrative value of said hobby, one might be compelled to suggest making said hobby a career.

Yeah, this is a big annoyance to my wife. She does knitting, sewing, other fiber arts. When speaking to other non-crafty types, almost always the first thing they say is "you should sell your pieces!" or "can you make me X for $Y?" Her response is always a hard no. This is something she does for fun and to share with friends and family. It's not a job.

Similarly, I did programming as a hobby growing up. I turned it into a career, and now it's the last thing I want to do in my spare time. This was actually kind of a difficulty, I had to go find new things to do for fun. Now I do woodworking and guitar and spend very little time on computers at home!
So you want to solve a problem created by authoritarian enforcement of healthcare costs distribution by introducing authoritarian enforcement of lifestyle?
“So is there a reason for that? ”

If you work 60-80 hours a week, your job is your hobby. Pretty simple unfortunately.
IME, the most useful way to keep your energy usage down is to get an energy monitor. Almost akin to seeing how fast your electricity meter spins, it's enlightening to see how much money you're spending per hour/day/month in real time.
Maybe so. But I think a lot of people feel like me in that they find the entire process daunting. I’ve got young kids, a full-time job, I’m pretty much slammed all the time. Just the theoretical idea of adding “lawsuit” to my to-do list is already exhausting.
There's generally non-compete clauses in employment contracts in my experience. I think #2 is a valid concern. And #3 only is if they were deceitful, which isn't always the case when someone is working multiple jobs.
Aspartame and probably all the other artificial sweeteners are small molecules. All small molecules have the potential for drug-like interactions with biological processes. I would expect that in most cases at small doses the body can maintain homeostasis, but caution is still warranted.

More generally, It’s a reasonable heuristic to avoid foods that can’t be prepared without industrial chemistry. For example, I can’t prove that oils chemically derived from seeds are unhealthy, but I think the burden of proof lies more in showing that they are and that has not been done.
Condensers promise to accelerate Java programs
Think support staff, PMs, etc.
Actually, this is pretty common in the US as well. Generally though, they structure it (more reasonably) around parking provisions, and have visitor parking limited to 2 hours and no overnight guests. This is /incredibly common/ in rental units in the US, partly because landlords charge a fee per occupant for shared services like sewer, trash, etc. and have limited parking.

Nearly any rental, including whole apartments, will have rules around overnight guests in the lease with some limitation if not an outright ban to prevent shadow occupancy or subletting.
Seems like you could cut Google X and save a bundle without affecting the company in any material way. Same for Verily. THere, I saved you a billion, Sundar.
Can't they just look at your company's Github and see you belong to their org + your commits to their repos?
"I'm more worried about the national DNA database where literally every single citizen who been born in Sweden is in. Seems usage by police and others are increasing while the purpose was suppose to be only for research."

It's a blood bio bank, not a DNA database - although the latter can be created from the former, of course. As far as I know it's only been used once by the police to identify a criminal, they used it to confirm the identity of the person who killed the minister of foreign affaris(?) Anna Lind.

The main purpose of the biobank is to detect rare disases in newborns, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newborn_screening

It's not mandatory to take the test on your newborn, and it's possible to request your sample be destroyed.

There has been talk of opening up the samples to police use, but so far it's been decided that the downsides would overweigh the benefits. One of the fears is that opening up the samples for other use would mean fewer infants will be tested (increasing suffering for those who miss an important diagnosis), and some adults will reques their samples be destroyed (reducing the research value of the data set).
It's been many decades since I took the SAT (3x, at ages 11, 12, and 16), but I seem to recall that I had a choice of which schools to share my SAT results with, such that a school that only ever saw my age 16 SAT test couldn't possibly average in the other two scores.
I don't really see how LiFePO4 is not superior to lead acid in every possible way. Deep discharge ability alone makes LiFePO4 better not to mention over 10x more charge cycles.

But if I'm wrong, I'd really like to learn why, because I'm about to buy some batteries.
28 on the ACT, no studying.

1.4 GPA.

I was eligible for the maximum academic grants for my state, just to be denied due to GPA because the string of high schools I went to were utter dystopian nightmares.

this tracks.
> An admissions officer saw it and they have to stop the school getting too Asian.

Where do you believe that this specific situation has actually happened this century?

I am fairly certain that this has not happened at any elite school in the recent past.

The worst actual evidence I’ve seen is of an admissions officer referring to a “standard strong” applicant as something slightly less flattering like “a familiar profile” Asian applicant.

Note that “standard strong” basically means great grades and scores and little else of significant note. This title defaults to non-admit.

Below is a link to a click-bait article that discusses the topic. Note how almost all of these “inappropriate” statements fall into the category of least charitable possible interpretations of the rater’s comments rather than the explicit malice that you seem to suggest is happening in admissions offices.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/asia...
Is it a fancy resistor? If you have a cop above 1, you're extracting more energy than could be got just using straight heat exchanger. I don't see why that would break just because you go above an arbitrary temperature (arbitrary because the output temp of the heat pump isn't the ambient temperature of the room)

Or am I missing something?
True, location and culture definitely seem to have an effect here. San Francisco and Silicon Valley are the land of startups and people looking to get rich quick, so I guess it shouldn't be surprising that more people there would be focused on that side of things.
I think this is very true. I have a sense that you are right, though I'm not sure if anyone is doing high quality studies on the topic.

One reason I think is due to declining economic stability. It's hard to have the mental space for hobbies when the basics of healthcare or shelter are out of reach for so many people. And even if you are doing well, there's the constant sense that one slip-up could have you fall off the middle class pedestal, never to recover.

I think an equally important reason is that pervasiveness of the attention capturing tech companies. Some of the world's largest companies build their empires around capturing every last second of free attention. The smartest people in the world are measuring and experimenting to make sure their product is as addictive and time consuming as possible. There's even an advertising company trying to invent self driving car robots so that they can colonize the last bits of our day not spent staring at a screen.

Put these two things together and it doesn't leave much room for stamp collecting for the typical person. My mom collected stamps and coins, which seems positively quaint now.
I suspect that many people will exploit others for personal gain under 'duress,' when they would not take that action if they could not justify their immorality by claiming that they had no choice. Of course, most will suddenly fail to make any effort to escape this duress. The canonical example is soldiers who rape and pillage but complain that they were just conscripts following orders.
" Joswiak said, “Obviously, we’ll have to comply; we have no choice.”

With luck, next they may be forced to install removable batteries. Cemented-in batteries should have been outlawed from the start.

(Unfortunately, laws are forced upon us when the greedy, the unreasonable and idiots don't or refuse to see reason.)
>And making money off something you love is not, by itself, a bad thing. The issue is that making money off a hobby you love will often kill that love, because the hustle requires a lot of extra work that is related to making money, not the hobby.

I do woodworking as a hobby (and restore old woodworking machines as an actual side hustle to fund my addiction to buying cherry lumber). This is why I absolutely do not turn down requests for furniture or other woodworking projects. I just price them so absurdly high that the return is ridiculous, or that people just politely decline. For example, I was recently asked to make a shelf for an acquaintance. I priced the single floating shelf at $930. That's about $30 worth of materials, and three to five hours worth of work depending on what finish I choose. That 5 hours of my free time absolutely is worth $900 to me.

As an aside, if anyone is looking for a very vintage, single phase 7.5hp, 24" jointer, I have one for sale.
Scams like this, selling get rich quick, often depend on the poor ethics of the victim. A lot of the work of the scammers amounts to filtering out the skeptical and the honest.
China is not a low-cost producer of natural gas and doesn't import low-cost natural gas

https://about.bnef.com/blog/rising-gas-prices-threaten-china...

North America, on the other hand, leads the world. Europe has fading production in the North Sea and had a crisis at the Groningen gas field that is further limiting production.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/dutch-limit-groninge...

For better or worse, Europe is not pursuing fracking. In the long term the world is going to have to green up its chemical industry and BASF could use this as an opportunity to be early to get into the next thing.
That's very wise.
Isn't working for me anymore, hug of death ?
And here I am feeling like having a gold fish memory and being addicted to chewing gum that apparently has a cocktail of sweeteners.
It is a really poor take, not least because "memory usage, CPU-time..." was more important when computers had less resource.

We can instead spend our time doing really cool things with massive amounts of data, beyond the wildest dreams of the early coders.

The uWebSocket's authors take is SO bad in SO many other ways too. They should be prescribed a dose of real world.
Is the trade money going in to their respective economies or is it increasing trade deficits? If a country goes in to a massive trade deficit and sells its natural resources then it might look like a lot of trade is happening, but the money is flowing out of the country along with mineral wealth
Loved this! Super fun, but the timer feels a bit fast sometimes and as far as I can tell the game will randomly give you anywhere from a very easy or quite difficult level at any point, so there doesn't feel to be a natural progression in difficulty as you start a new game and finish each level.
No it doesn't. You can buy F-150 parts from third parties.
Sure, I did not mean you are doing something bad. I just happen to hate JS and Webpack with passion ;)
love it in 2022 we still cant agree on some common form standards for this type of data
Be more discriminating of who you receive input from. The vast majority of what people have to say is worthless if not actively detrimental noise.
You got to give it to Google, all these issues Facebook is having with Apple right now, google saw like a mile away and that's probably the main reason they created android.
By contrast, the unit of humility in computer science should be the Bellard.
Sure, but is this unique to Windows or Word? and there are various ways Microsoft could kill bit this driver if it was widely exploited with no support from the company that made it
> Apple's hardware revenue, both in general and in specific categories such as iPhone, Mac, and iPad, is higher now than ever before. Plus now they have Watch, AirPods, etc.

If you look at the trajectory of iPhone sales (others devices barely matter), its reaching a peak. As are smartphone sales in general.
Ford doesn't operate a marketplace.
I wouldn't put that much importance into a specific editor, even touch typing. Typing is not a programming bottleneck. Programming is thinking and talking to people. You would have a hard time doing that if you don't even know Windows, which everyone uses on desktop.
That's a excellent point. That ecosystem is also one of the main reason packaging in python is a bit of a clusterf*ck.

For C/C++ extensions, I think there may be hope to support a slow/emulating C API and a faster, less internals-leaking new API that extensions could adopt. It would take years for the migration, but if speed gains was say 5x, I think it could be realistic.

pypy managed to emulate the C API fairly well, after all. E.g. you can build numpy and pandas on top of pypy and it actually kinda works.
> there's plenty of tutors who teach it

There are also $30 books that teach it and youtube videos that give it away for free.
This rate is for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage, and more a reflection of the uncertainty for that period of time and not something that will necessarily influence shorter-term lending rates.
The UK shower like that too.

Gas boilers with long pipes means you need to wait for the hot water to come through, and if you stop it again you then have a load of cold water just waiting to take you by surprise.
A data-based approach to understanding user intent
I'll bail from a job application if the tech trivia starts. Even a fizzbuzz.

It's a complete waste of time. Easily gamed or "crammed" for and provides little to no measure of actual problem solving or capability in the context of actual work.

On the other hand it's a strong signal that the company adheres to many "best practices" that aren't grouned in reality. So I say thanks for the red flag interviewer, goodbye!
Some interesting comments a few months ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29948473
I have a Dell Precision. It's the worst electronic device I've ever had, and not just among computers.

Audio driver stops working randomly, I have a bookmark named "fix driver" on my bookmarks bar. Its update crapware interrupts me constantly, it rejects sleeping often, external display working is a lottery, sometimes the battery doesn't charge and sometimes windows gives warnings on low voltage adapter while I'm using the one it came with, screen backlight has weird gradients and bright points, the hinge makes weird sounds so I think it won't live too long, the fans are noisy, keyboard lighting leaks through key edges like a 10$ keyboard from AliExpress, fans are too noisy (yes I know I already mentioned this but seriously, they are noisy), battery optimized mode makes this laptop a slug and it sometimes takes a couple of minutes to wake up from sleep if you managed to make it sleep by luck.

But yeah, other than that it's a great business laptop.
Google is very good at converting people into money, yes.
I'm not finding it on their website. Do they have a "release as open source" option?
> Apple’s strategy to handicap Safari/Web is paying off big time, but it is hitting consumers.

This has nothing to do with Safari. This is about Apple taking a cut of in-app purchases for a niche case where it formerly did not. As TFA notes, Apple had been politely asking Facebook (not users, as you suggest) to do this for years.
Seriously, its a paid for subscription service for small businesses...no need or desire to sell.
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Yeah, that's a good point. The folks posting about it on Twitter/Reddit/YouTube/Instagram are usually the ones who want to go pro with their work, whereas a lot of others are probably only sharing their works with those close to them rather than marketing it to the entire internet.
> I consume them but have come to the conclusion that they are probably pretty bad in light of this new science.

That's how I feel about brown butter. It's so tasty that I don't really want to give it up entirely, but I doubt I'll consume it more than a few times a year.
What is the premise of this first paragraph, why do people feel like they need to introduce this fluff:

> "Sitting on the Marine Atlantic ferry, I’m watching the Newfoundland skyline disappear on the horizon as I type away. I see the rocking of the ocean waves, inhale its salty breeze, feel and hear the buzz of the ship’s rumbling engine. I try to focus on writing this sentence, but my eyes hopefully scan the ocean for a rogue, splashing whale."

Nice, you took a boat once and you wanted to see some whales, not what I came here for.
Caliptra: Building Cloud Security from the Chip Up
These are a nice way to show larger companies you want to work with that you've made long term considerations for the sustainability of your software. We've brought this sort of thing up later in deal cycles if prospects have concerns over company future. We have contract clauses ready if they want to participate in the code escrow and many are happy to pay to join on as a beneficiary if we shut doors or discontinue our product.

In practice though, code escrows are kind of fraught with issues -- deposited source code that doesn't compile, out of date, etc. It's up to vendors to deposit working materials, as there isn't usually any kind of audit process. I can't imagine the costs and time it would take to pick up a vendor's source code, staff some maintainers, and get them efficient. Enterprise customers are usually shopping by requirements, not underlying tech, so they are likely not even aware of the tech they would need to hire for.
You are incorrect to conclude that I believe in Libertarian free will, and thus, are incorrect in how you interpreted what I wrote.
Every metric has problem, but experience in a university suggests that, if one has to use a single metric to rank students, by far the best choice (the only choice really) is average grade.
> I think it's more the case that the Honda Fit would come with engine problems that the service doesn't effectively repair under warranty, and also with a 5000 pound trailer full of unwanted junk that's hard to remove from the car.

No. A lot of the complaints, including in the OP are about things like product-line complexity and design compromises likely from designing to a lower price.

Some people are venting anecdotes about horrible support and product quality experiences, but that's true for even Apple laptops. The literal worst laptop experience I've ever had was with a 2018 MacBook that would inscrutably and randomly freeze on wake for minutes on end. Apple replaced random parts but otherwise refused to help. The only thing that fixed the problem was a OS downgrade that Apple tried its hardest to make impossible.
I remember it was also that cloud as a term was pure marketing hype. Unnecessary rebranding of a thing we already had a good name for, servers. And also to pick such a irrational name ”cloud” which didn’t relate to technology at all. You could hear everyone use it in nonsense high flying keynotes. All the hands-on computer people laughed at it and I think cloud to butt was part of that.

In the end it’s actually really good word for newish concept and using it does not feel silly to me anymore.
I was surprised to learn that Linux has a “2262 problem” because of 64-bit time being used to store nanoseconds rather than seconds. That seems like a huge problem without an easy solution either. Yes there are almost 250 years to fix it but it seems like surprisingly bad planning. In any case it’s an interesting thought exercise to imagine what the fix should be.