skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if you take "grit" to mean "discipline", it goes a long way.

In my opinion, it's better think of school grades as a measure of efficacy instead of intelligence. Given a fixed amount of time, how correctly could you perform the task? Discipline, or "grit" as it has been called earlier in the thread, refers to one's propensity to allocate larger portions of time towards accomplishing a single task, especially in the face of adversity.

Hopefully this perspective makes it more clear how "grit" is useful.
As other commenters have mentioned, they do have the same system in the US, but they actually use the proper alert types, unlike in Canada where they're all just thrown under the highest alert level that can't be ignored or silenced.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20720587
> I like to write my code and not too concern myself with types until I’m close to committing

I'm genuinely curious here. How do you ensure contract correctness? The whole point of static typing (or rather explicit typing) is to declare and enforce certain contract constraints prior to writing [client] code, which prevents certain bugs.

What's the point of using type-safe language if you deliberately circumvent type safety? If you "fix type errors" by declaring things to be strings you do not get much more type safety from TS than plain JS.

Or am I hugely missing something here?
A tangential comment. I opened the page on a non ad blocked browser and my eyes burnt. I am OK with ads but this is next level intrusive.
Yes he is more ready to be a clog in the machine. He passed the first test. He studied enough leetcode and it doesn't matter how he got there. Will the tutor be there in college and will he be able to absorb all the information college gives are bigger questions.
What difference does it make if you real self is an illusion or just something deep down outside our consciousness?
Sorry, you're right; Chromium and Safari do, not Firefox.
And killing adblocks next year ;)
Still, isn’t the point that this clearly demonstrates that the system directly causing the physical movement is not the same system you identify as your “self”? That still seems profound, at least for anyone who places a lot of importance on that feeling of identity.
Obviously we currently don't ignore it while not studying it in details either, so we've come up with IQ=racist and stopped there.
"...surprisingly hard to direct"

Yeah, don't I know it!
I don't know the specifics here, but it seems possible for something to both:

A) have received more money than ever before

B) not have enough money to function properly
It’s surprising to me that new bundles mainly advertise their speed. There are other things that are so much more important for a great DX.
curious to which fps this is? painkiller? ut? quake? reflex? diabotical?
> Again, though, if creating new, better widgets requires calculus, student A may not have what it takes, but student B almost certainly can't do it.

I'm not so sure about this. What if student A was just better suited to learn Calculus when they were tested while student B bored by the class and teacher and stopped going/caring but, if given the chance to apply themselves in a non-academic setting working on real problems that affect people's lives, student B would learn Calculus twice as fast as student A and deliver a better widget in less time?

There are many more scenarios here that I could list but I think the primary point is that the context around the students, their lives, and the testing environment matters a lot and this is something that cannot easily be accounted for using numerical test scores

> But they also require some solid skills, and those skills are testable

Maybe badly. Leet Code is supposed to do this but is famously criticized. Probably better than nothing I suppose
It's part of a model update loop.

If this theory is factual, are there any parts of your world/self-model that would be in conflict, and need updating to be more accurate?

After updating your model, are there any other parts of your model that are now in conflict and need updating? etc.

For many people, after a few rounds of this, the world is perceived very differently.
Do you have any idea how much high-traffic shopping malls charge for a storefront? What you call "tax", shopping malls call "rent".
> When your flight gets canceled, you aren’t owed another flight at the same date/time.

No, but you are owed another flight in a reasonable timeframe. The airline doesn't get to give you your money back and say "we've upheld the end of our bargain" and leave you stranded. I'd argue that Booking (and friends) have a similar obligation not to leave you homeless in a city you're probably unfamiliar with. In fact, the article itself claims that it's standard policy for Booking to find you alternate accomodations and that their rep (allegedly) screwed up.

> At no point was she in tangible danger

She was a 5-month pregnant woman who found herself without a roof in front of an NY homeless shelter at (almost) midnight with no place to go. She may not have been in actual danger, but that's pretty high on the "unsafe" scale.
Apple's App Store introduce advertising tax (30%) in iOS apps
I don't see the use case for Sonic. It doesn't support clusters, which is where ES really shines, and if footprint for a local instance is a concern I'd go for SQLite.
> Check your math on that one.

Honestly, just insane. I'm never going to see conversations like this and be unphased.

> One way to use this information without putting anything in the phone is by making a tone generator. This can be done by hooking up wires to a power source and playing with the frequencies until the correct tones are generated. Then, when these tones are played into the payphone, it will think money has been placed in it even though no money was actually used.

fucking hell
That doesn’t seem to contradict the first explanation. It’s not surprising that your subconscious mind could acquire abilities due to practice initiated by your conscious mind, just like it’s not surprising that your muscles can grow due to exercise initiated by your conscious mind.
I think the author is missing some really key points here. Namely that GPA and test scores are highly correlated. I'd go so far as to say that there is a confounding variable that predicts both. I'd even say there are several upstream predictors, but I think we all know that (or I thought we did). Every single graph they show demonstrates this yet they keep missing it. The top comment right now (by ajwinn[0]) notes that they used a heatmap like the one in the article for determining admission. This is great because it builds multiple pathways to gain admission. That's honestly how we should treat variables like these: rely on either.

As to explain the confusion in the models, well when you have confounding variables like this it is easy to reduce one variable's weight nearly to zero and place the rest in the other variable. So if I'm right (might not be) I think you could also show that the inverse is true, that grades aren't a good predictor and test scores are. The breakdown suggests that this is true too tbh.

But I also disagree with some of the analysis and techniques here. It's not always easy to use models that have continuous(ish) variables (GPA/ACT/income) and discrete ones (race/gender). I bring this up because there's some hints that they aren't a stats expert. For example there's the line

> The “likely-to-graduate” score becomes a probability after a sigmoid transformation.

Which just isn't true. A Softmax function[1] creates a probability distribution but a Sigmoid[2] doesn't. A Sigmoid bounds the output to [0, 1] (or [-1,1]) but being bound on that range isn't the only requirement to a probability distribution. A sigmoid does not guarantee that the sum of the elements is 1 (cumulative density), but a softmax does. In fact, it almost never will. (I mention this in my ML class a lot so make sure you all don't make this mistake too! I'll be really annoying if you do)

There's some more errors and novice approaches here and so I just want to note this because we shouldn't just take the results and conclusions as is when the modeling is bad. But I still think he makes some good (and bad) points and those are definitely up for discussion.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33338809

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmax_function

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_function
Literally no substance or examples except the settings and stage manager redesign.
The code of our Internet simulator (2015)
I think what you're describing with your eSports experience _is_ 'flow' -- the same as you get when coding. It's a state of focus and immersion you can get into with many different activities, not just coding.
> My comment was about effectiveness in reducing infection and transmission.

This is not the same as

>>> "Being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting Covid-19"

Being vaccinated does not 100% prevent infection and transmission, but it does reduce the likelihood of infection and transmission by about half. The fact is the vaccines are effective in reducing infection and transmission. Your assertion that "the vaccine barely moves the needle on transmission if at all," is gross exaggeration at best and entirely false at worst. The science of immunology and vaccines is sound and well-established. The risk of adverse effects from vaccines is vanishingly small, while the likely benefit of reduced risk of infection, severity of illness, hospitalization and death is huge.

The COVID vaccines are nothing short of a miracle of modern medicine. The only grave problem here is laymen making uninformed medical decisions based solely on political tribalism and failed political ideologies, evangelizing their logically unsound and medically ignorant position, and refusing to cooperate with the interests of public health while needlessly putting themselves and others at significantly increased chances of infection, severe illness and/or death. This is the very definition of anti-social behavior, placing one's ego and whims above the needs of all others, and not caring whether others get sick, suffer and die.
The author of the publication suggests that herpes (HSV1, but also others) is a likely cause of dementia and Alzheimer’s. Especially in carriers of the APOE-4 gene.
This. I booked an international flight with Delta for next month. On Saturday I awoke to find that KLM changed my European connection to 28 hours later than originally booked and this would screw up all of our hotels and rental car. I talked to Delta and after about 30 minutes of the agent doing everything she could including escalating was told that they couldn't make any changes for 10 calendar days as KLM was blocking them out.

Today, I found a Delta itinerary that actually fits our plans better than the original flight. I called back and got my original flight canceled and the new one booked. It still took 3 agents to get everything settled but I can't imagine how much worse the whole experience would have been if I had booked through Expedia or Kayak or any other 3rd party.

Now to hope nothing else changes between now and our departure.
UT and Quake don't sound like they would require complex button presses. They are mechanically fairly simple.
New theory? You can find this claim at the Encyclopedia, in Condillac, in La Mettrie, in last Descartes’ works, etc. Imagination and Memory has been pivotal to explain consciousness for a long time…
No, it was due to inflation, recession, people going outside more after covid.
Well, there are services that do that for you for about the cost of a Netflix sub.

I used a YC company https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/optery

There might be better ones, but I haven't looked.

I have an extremely common first name and last name combo. While it does help a lot, even then it has limits. If they have any detail like an address, email, or phone number; more info was available about me online than I was comfortable to share.
Yeah, they're synonymous in many cultures (the amount of time someone holds their current post, and not experience skill). But it seems they mean different things in this context.
It feels like the idea of refining something to the goal perfection is not mutually exclusive to the idea of being adaptable.

To me it implies that since the definition of perfection is always changing, you are continually altering course to get closer to where you want to be.
ts-loader maintainer here. webpack never did typechecking. It's possible to run ts-loader in two modes; with type checking active and with it disabled. For years I've been advising running type checking as a separate process to improve the development workflow:

https://blog.johnnyreilly.com/2017/09/07/typescript-webpack-...

Exciting news about turbopack - the world is about to get much faster!
Whilst I agree fully with you that having a partner take over some of the tasks (kids, etc) she is unable/unwilling to. Net result after speaking to her about burning out, nothing changed, I’m still doing all of the same things I was before and have no way to unload anything. Which makes me question why I’m married and if I should continue to be.
> you demand they be the most protected by the vaccine, and thus require them to have it

No, because they will just refuse. That’s the whole problem.
API routes are not supported yet for /app
Sure, and you can pay for App Store ads separately... The issue is not that Apple charge for exposure, but that you are forced to.
The Canadian Islamophobia: Industry Mapping Islamophobia’s Ecosystem [pdf]
> had this figured out

To be fair, nobody has figured it out. It's a hypothesis.
Yes that seems to be how it goes. Drum up irrational fear, lay the blame at the others, create hatred against them, then it becomes almost a self-sustaining mass psychosis. Intellectually I understood that's basically how it works, I guess I just didn't want to believe it.

People didn't care that vaccines didn't stop the virus spreading, they didn't care that insignificant transmission occurred due to individuals or small family groups enjoying the outdoors, they didn't care that some people were as irrationally scared of the vaccines as they were of covid. It wasn't about any kind of measured response designed for the real greater good. They wanted to see those hated others suffer and be punished for their heresy and audacity.
Samsung too has a tonne of bloatware crap. I bought a phone for 30K (which is a decent amount for a phone IMO) and it was loaded with absolute crap I don't use and can't even remove with adb.
> As much as I hate Comcast, if 100Mb Comcast was available in my area I would trade it in a heartbeat.

And that's expected. Elon Musk has publicly stated before that Starlink has no plans for competing with Comcast.
I’ll be honest I just can’t find the motivation to do so. Even when I’m not so tired I feel guilty about leaving the kids to my wife etc and when I’m out I tend to rush back to support/take over. I know this is probably an issue with how I view this and not necessarily because I’m made to feel guilty.
How to deal with people who aren't tech savvy, and cause harm because of it?
A sample of things I have received from people by e-mail, by mistake -- sometimes by people I don't even know.

- Someone's complete passport in pdf.

- Someone's complete contact list, with names, addresses, e-mails, phone numbers, employers, age. I'm sure all these people would be thrilled to know.

- Someone's legal will, complete with lawyers' comments and bank account details.

And this is just a sample from e-mail mistakes.

Much is said of software vulnerabilities, malicious hacking, et al. But good grief, people can't even use e-mail yet in 2022.
Thanks for the tips, I’ll try these!
What you describe it's sort of a Laffer curve for our time/attention, and I totally believe that it has an effect.
Imagine, for a minute, that it was a crime for a politician to try to pass unlawful laws. That would, sooner or later, be abused by the group with political control to effectively criminalize opposition. Declare their opponents' efforts unlawful, convict them, and they're out of the way.

You have to consider not only the effects of nominal usage, but also the effects of abuse. In this case, they're extreme.
For all its use of the term time, for example “backward in time” or “does consciousness flow linearly with time,” there is no definition of time itself provided in the article. I had hoped the Definitions section would at least acknowledge some concept of time.

I suppose we all collectively agree on some generic concept of a fourth dimension with a strictly forward movement of instances, a progression toward entropy, but if the theory is going to argue temporal transcendance I’d expect a more formal thesis around what time itself is.

I’ve picked up this book but yet to read it. It’s on my list when I get the time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Order_of_Time_(book)
Conscious experience involves will to action and sensation. It is highly hierarchical: for instance, humans can deliberately move individual fingers (low level) or play a sonata (high level).

When we let go of low level control and pursue higher level intentions, our subconscious mind is freed to participate in a vast array of hierarchical loops of sensation and action. Symbolic verbal control is powerful, but only subconscious flow can yield the precision of high level skilled performance. It is more like an attunement of oscillators than an execution of a (symbolic) program.
The etymological tidbit is but a distraction from the meat of the issue, which is that you are wrong.

Namely, herd immunity absolutely does make vaccines work better, and is the basis of all vaccine policy in the modern world. I'm not even sure how you can state it's a tertiary effect when it is the primary reason vaccine policies exist.

You're simply spreading misinformation. Herd immunity due to vaccination has resulted in the eradication or near eradication of multiple deadly infectious diseases over the last few centuries. And if not for humans, then look only to farm medicine. Ignoring the power of vaccine policies and mandatory vaccination walks humanity back hundreds of years. Eradicating small pox took hundreds of years. We've been combating COVID-19 for close to three years.

Ask yourself: what qualities of a COVID-19 vaccine would satisfy you?
Can Top-Down Agile Work?
the moment I stepped in I could only say 2 words: "holy shit"
I really like the new storage panel. It does a really good job of telling me what’s taking up space on my Mac.
Exactly this :( time is a killer. My day usually starts around 6.30 and ends when the kids go to sleep around 20:00 at which time all I can think about is crawling into bed by 10 to do it all again the next day
I had lots of positive experiences with them until one I didnt and they wouldnt do anything to help or refund me for sending me to a smoke filled crack house. Since then I don't use them anymore.
Noone calls MPEG-4 Part 2 "MP4". Usually it's MPEG-4 Video, MPEG-4 ASP, or (when using that encoder) Xvid.
Reminds me of a previous job where IT wouldn't let me install netcat, because "it hadn't been updated since like forever", my response: "because it's fucking done", I was eventually permitted to install it..
Not the worst theory I've come across. However, it sounds a bit metaphysical.
A number of those using zig in production have played with zig for a considerable amount of time (I started playing with 0.5.0 where large breaking changes came shortly after) thus know what to expect. Afaik most of those are within embedded, using it as a toolchain (zig cc not zig), or have similar constraints.
Depends on what you mean by IO. The http library can be used without IO (i.e. you give it a request and it gives you the response and potentially does some effect (but that's e.g. done through the async library). But it also includes functionality to bind to a port and listen to requests there in the way the async library (or maybe a streaming library) controls etc.

> In Zig, I am using a TLS library that does not perform I/O, it just writes to writers and reads from readers, so using it with io_uring or DPDK or send/recv or pcap files requires 0 additional work.

Of course. Now imagine you need backpressure (reactive streaming) and writer/reader interfaces don't support that. Can someone provide you a library that you import and then automatically the types of the TLS library change and it works with the new interfaces that it doesn't even know exist? Because that's what I'm talking about.
I didn't know about Husserl, very interesting, thank you for sharing.
I agree. I was going to say something similar, and wanted to highlight that exact sentence.

I’ve written software that has lasted over 25 years. That’s not forever, but it’s nothing to sneeze at.

I’ve found the secret to long-lasting software, is to use boring tech. Put away the Buzzword Bingo cards.
Just to mention another event: there is also the 7 day Roguelike challenge: https://7drl.com/
Deeply impacted is an overstatement. Not a lot happened really, but maybe most people here are not used to earthquakes.
What should we do if our vehicle is from pre OBD-I era?
This honestly isn't that surprising. It's not incompatible per-se. Linux has plenty of ABI-incompatible kernels (-rt, -ck, -pf), plus the assortment of forked kernels which never had changes merged back into upstream for various embedded boards, intel's fork for feature development, the same for network, and so on.

One of the "big" guarantees Red Hat customers like RHEL for is that they will not break kernel ABI through a release cycle. They like this because it's really hard to do, and even very minor dot releases of the kernel provide no assurances that the ABI won't break.

This seems to be normal distro stuff, and the problem broadly seems to be in two parts:
* The Illumos team and distros need to either figure out a better mechanism for indicating minor kernel versions than the old "patch release", or they need to actually pay attention to it now that they know things diverge sometimes.
* This worked fine when building from source. The assumption that all of the IllumOS distros can freely share binary packages seems to be a bad one, and they may need to go to the same process as every other distro and actually... rebuild.
Wow, really? So where is it all going?
Person A didn't do the unwise thing because they knew the system inside out.

Person B did an unwise thing and spent the weekend working to fix the consequence.

If the problem was subtle and management didn't immediate corelate the action of Person B with the problem, they are likely to profusely praise Person B's working their asses off to save the company during the weekend.

On the flipside, if the company only contains A kind of people or if A people are too influential, it's likely that you'll stick in a local optimum where people are not incentivized to try out new things that may fail but may also succeed.
I fail to see the helpfulness of describing or defining something we do not understand in terms of something related we equally do not understand, „understand“ here in the sense of „have a clear theory that gives meaning to the words we use“.
In relation to the problem of how qualitative self-aware experiences can arise in a biological information system this article does not seem to help at all.
Is the statement really „consciousness“ in the sense just vaguely described is just „memories“? Then what are memories? How can they have qualities and where does the self awareness come from? How to model it mathematically?
I feel we’re still in the age of the humoral theory of consciousness.