skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You keep throwing "plausible deniability" around, thinking that is what is happening here.

You're assuming that the decision is someone selecting a candidate solely based on their race, when it is far far more nuanced than that. For Ivy's, the pool of candidates is so unbelievably large to available spots, that they look at hundreds of different data points when evaluating candidates, and they weight certain ones higher/lower depending on the criteria set by the faculty and institutional goals.

If the goal of the institution is to have a student body that is more representative of the overall population, this isn't "plausible deniability" it is the institution attempting to prepare their students for the real world.

Prior to affirmative action (and it's not perfect by any means) these institutions were overrun with white men, and our society has still not course corrected from the overwhelming benefit that afforded that specific class of people.

I fail to see how taking two students, one from an afluent area who happens to be white, and one from a less affluent area, with fewer advantages, but the latter scored at or near the former candidate and has nearly the same extra-curriculars, volunteer experience etc. is such a bad thing. Your "plausible deniability" is really just a lazy way of saying that you would prefer purely "objective" bias when it comes to evaluating students, but the world is not purely objective, and I think we're better served with a bit more subjective consideration when we're allocating scarce resources that have traditionally benefitted (significantly) one class/race over another.
> but the population will remain overwhelmingly white.

That is highly unlikely. As a comparison, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a magnet school in Northern Virginia that has often been ranked the best high school in the US, had a student body that was 73% Asian in the last year that they had completely race-blind admissions (largely based on scores on an entrance exam and grades) despite Asians making up 20% of students in the entire county.

In 2021 they switched to a policy that gave automatic admission to the top X% of students in their respective schools with the goal of increasing black and Latino enrollment. Asian enrollment fell from 73% to 54%, black enrollment went from 1% to 7%, Hispanic enrollment from 3% to 11%, and white enrollment from 18% to 22%: https://apnews.com/article/hispanics-racial-injustice-scienc...

Point being, Harvard currently has a freshman class that is < 50% white, so going to a completely race-blind policy would take that down considerably.
> - 5G

"Luddite", don't need it.

> - Visual voicemail

Built into Android.

> - Roaming (esp. international)

Estoy un gringo.

> - Tethering

Built into Android.

> - Limited to lower video resolutions

My eyes can't see 1080p on a phone screen.

> - Spam filtering

Built into Android.
Do specialized devices at Google Cloud run all sorts of customer software? Do the customers typically target other CPUs that have this extra stuff in their cache?
A c-section performed after several hours of active labor leads to a much higher chance of hemorrhage and danger to the baby than a scheduled c-section.

Additionally, there are many factors that can be used to determine the risk of natural birth.
>your account lost submission privileges for a different reason: you were posting a plethora of unsubstantive Ask HNs that users were flagging

Well that's a convenient explanation. But doesn't make any sense. On the day I "lost my submission privileges" I hadn't posted any Ask HN which had been flagged or could even be remotely considered unsubstantiated for at least 11 days. I already stopped talking about those topics entirely. (Not that I believe any of my posts were unsubstantiated, as they all affect internet users and the future of the internet at large) I lost it directly after posting a story critical of the US government(which got 80 points) and then was retroactively punished for posts I made in the past. Is that how this works? When you want to take someone out you look through their history for something they submitted weeks ago in the past and use it as your justification to ban them in the present?
I know. I think they left out a qualification which is why I piped in about what I perceive the actual point was.
>No one wants to build a religion around them.

The phenomenon literally has a wikipedia page describing it[0]. That's a lot of people to describe as "no one."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming
This comment gave me a flashback to Celko's SQL for Smarties. I believe the updated books are split off into a few smaller books? But the section/book on trees in a relational database helped me greatly once in a galaxy far far away.
Minority isn't just numerical, it can also mean having a minority of power. For example, in South Africa Black people were (and still are in many ways) a minority even though they were a numerical majority.
The best individual components don't necessarily result in the best system.

There may well be benefits to diversity that are not easily quantified at the individual level.

The classic example of the development team that created a computer vision system that didn't work well at all with certain skin tones but they were unaware of this until feeling it live at a conference comes to mind. They didn't have anyone on their dev teams or QA teams with that skin tone.

There are numerous studies showing that diverse teams come up with better solutions. Diversity pays dividends at the group level, and assessments that only consider things at the individual level may miss that
Survivorship bias. You don't know how many plots were prevented by making it difficult to obtain explosive precursors.
There is no conspiracy or rigging- it’s because of sunlight

> Additionally for working parents, the hours one can work largely must coincide with school hours as well as times of day when the more affordable option of group childcare, as opposed to private childcare, is available.

Dual working parents, like compulsory schooling, are a recent invention

The morning work/school schedule is because of sunlight

Who would send their kids to school at night or in the dark

Think of the history of humanity and thinking of working the fields or construction at night because you are a “night person”
Debilitatingly so. How many processes were not automated to justify keeping friends by the thousands.
I'm not claiming the problem is identical to pre-existing problems in the copyright space, just that it's sufficiently similar not to pose a significant challenge for legal scholars, IMHO. Existing copyright laws not only forbid verbatim reproduction, but require derivative works too not prejudice the original author, and grants those authors the power to authorize and reject derivation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work

You anthropomorphic analogy falls flat in its face because the algorithm does not "know" anything, not in any sense of the "know" word for sentient and rational creatures. The algorithm embeds an association between the text "Wonder woman" and actual artistic representations of Wonder woman included in the prior art it is trained on. When prompted, it can reproduce one (see the Copilot fail where it spited out verbatim copyrighted code including comments) or a remix of such representations and integrate them into the output. That's plain as day a derivative work.

The particular case you are referring too, style extraction, could be considered fair use assuming you can technically separate the base visual model from the output style and you can prove the training data for the output module is distilled into abstract, statistical quantities pertaining to that style, such as color palete, stroke weight etc. That sounds like a tall order and I would consider any AI-model trained with copyrighted works as tainted until that burden of proof is satisfied.
I don’t see a problem with more women getting into university if they have better grades. They already dominate humanities and STEM won’t be affected anyway, so job outcomes won’t be heavily affected.

If we want to fix that then we need to help boys in elementary school, not dumbing down the admissions process.

Sometimes reality is exactly what society needs to confront.

I have the same view with censorship. I’d rather let the dummies embarrass themselves in public than hiding them in the shadows and pretend they wont all still believe that crap and never having the opportunity to have their ideas challenged.

Taping over problems often hides the root causes while doing nothing to deal with it.
As an armchair sceptic — ask 100 economists how the world in economy will fare in the next 20 years, and not only will you get 100 different answers, you'll still manage to find one that hits the mark every single time.

That doesn't necessarily mean they knew what they were talking about. Could be they just got really lucky.

In a recession we're always looking for a way out, a silver bullet, someone to whom we can hitch a ride (and our money) to.
> Is it fair to penalize my son for working hard and being an excellent student?

No its not fair which is why its controversial. The real problem is that famous schools are too prestigious right now and there aren't enough of them. Perhaps over time the newer schools who accept all the smart, hardworking students will become recognized for having the best grads.
A top security kind of person shouldn't panic even if they had to watch Jaws on a moonless night then go solo night diving in a wreck at below 40m. There are indoor deepwater pools with complex structures for gaining training
> It’s not that they couldn’t get into bed earlier. It’s that doing so wouldn’t make them sleepy.

Do late night people need less sleep than morning people ?

Wake up early and you’ll be sleepy at the same time as the morning types
That's why I put mine in my neck. If they cut it out, external access to my accounts is not my main concern.
Customs check basically. If you aren't allowed to bring something into the country you land in, they simply confiscate it when you get there. (And I'm sure arrest you and make you miserable because ... that's what justice is I guess.)
You need to meet every kid I know
Frankly it's surprising this doesn't happen more often.
I've since learned SteamVR is considered inside-out marker based tracking because of the sensor placement. My general understanding of inside-out tracking was correct and it would more accurately be referred to as markerless inside out tracking.

My concerns are strictly with markerless inside-out tracking, here's an article detailing accuracy issues that have been associated with markerless inside-out tracking:
https://www.roadtovr.com/htc-vive-cosmos-accuracy-test-contr...
Thanks for doing this!

I reported typescript install size issue back in 2018 and changing to modules seemed to have the biggest impact here!

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/23339

For anyone curious, TS 1.0 was 7MB and today it’s 65MB.

https://packagephobia.com/result?p=typescript%401.0.1%2Ctype...

Really excited to see this number move in the downward direction for a change :)
>No it doesn’t. Open community doesn’t have to be open source. Open source doesn’t have to have an open community.

That's in direct contract with Grafana's own messaging. The following is from their OSS marketing page.

>Open Source is at the heart of what we do at Grafana Labs. We believe building software in the open, with thriving communities, helps leave the world a little better than we found it.
https://grafana.com/oss/
And what would be the alternative? A joystick maybe? (No, the joystick idea isn't serous of course).

You can already program by drag & drop. Try Scratch. But this just does not scale…

Before we give up keyboards and switch to brain interfaces, maybe we should first try to liberate programming form the monadic style, or something like that. ;-)
You should have the modules downloaded to the module cache for the occasional case when you don't have direct internet access.

> Another case: repo of your dependency is removed, or force-pushed to overwriting history. You’ve lost the ability to build your project, and need to either find another source for your dependency, or rewrite it.

The GOPROXY (https://proxy.golang.org/) still contains that removed repo, and since everything is summed people can't just force overwrite it. Plus, you still have it in the module cache locally.

You can of course always come up with "but what if...?" scenarios where any of the above fails, and all sort of things can happen, but they're also not especially likely to happen. So the question isn't "is it useful in some scenario?" but rather "is it worth the extra effort?"

> Moreover, relying on checksums to me seems a bit overcomplicated.

It's built-in, so no extra complications needed.
> Rust? It's much more painful to use than C++.

As someone who has used C++ professionally for two decades, I disagree. Rust's pain is superficial and all up front. C++ pain is death by a thousand paper cuts, especially if you have people on your team that aren't intimately familiar with its pitfalls and its more modern constructs. I don't plan to write a new C++ project ever again, unless there's some very compelling reason to do so. Rust is an absolute breath of fresh air.
Coming from South Africa, AA leaves a bad taste in my mouth as there it went hand in hand with massive amounts of corruption.

Maybe a ZA issue tho?
Off-topic, but something seems dangerously off with urlscan.io (a service I had never heard of before).

If I go to urlscan.io and look at the recently scanned sites (which are live-updated), every now and then I can find links with potentially sensitive information.

I found OneDrive and SharePoint links. I was unable to actually access the documents in them (it asked me to login), but I could see their content (or metadata) with UrlScan's "live screenshot" feature.

At one point, it scanned a "reset password" link with the authentication token in the query string (!). I was able to access that link and I would likely be able to reset the password for that specific user. I won't share the underlying website so others don't go ahead looking for it, but it was for a non-US government service.

The impression I have is that some email provider (or perhaps some antivirus software?) is automatically scanning user emails and the links are being shared publicly, alongside a "live screenshot".

I might be missing something, but this is weird.
The frustrating thing is I have excelled in this career before. My second last job was really amazing and I made real, valuable contributions. I stayed with them for years, it was a match made in heaven that I'm starting to think I won't find again.

I am definitely scared of the optics of a long break. At least with the medical leave I was still technically employed during that time. I will probably only take a gap if I really truly have no choice, it'd be better to switch into anything else.
I don't think this shows the entire picture.

The USA has larger disparaties across quintiles, in large parts due to its history as a country of (sometimes involuntary) immigrants. I think it will be interesting to see how Sweden's favorable metrics here change as a result of their wave of unskilled immigration, which is probably too recent to be fully incoporated in any generational study. I'd also be interested to see mobility in 'absolute' terms, perhaps relative to global percentiles. Moving up 10% in a very disparate country might reflect more social motion than jumping two quintiles in a very flat country.

Also, moving between income quintiles misses other aspects that might be relevant for a broader definition of social mobility: moving into the top 1% or top 0.1% of income and any movement in wealth. I'm not having luck finding a source at this moment, but I recall seeing that the USA performs favorably on this metric compared to europeans with millenial legacies of state-sanctioned hereditary nobility.
> Every few days, my development environment got borked. Often it was a quick fix. Sometimes not. But always time taken from one of the most productive programmers (Alex, not me.)

No, Alex has made this bed, and now he's lying in it.

There comes a point where you have to spend some of that 'productivity' on things that keep you from being preempted in the middle of something else. Things like a stable development environment, self-cleaning scripts, etc. It's not necessary to make things bulletproof. It is necessary to make things self-service.
Why not a trigger that maintains this in a simpler query in a separate table? Sounds more performant to me!

Recursive CTEs sounds like something you would do if your total comment count in the db is not in the six figures or something. What does HN do?
Slightly on topic, I have been experiencing packet loss in a game that I'd not had for years. Seemingly at the same time my powerline adapters have been disconnecting.

It's extremely hard (I've found it) to identify if packet loss is a problem in your house, or with the service you're using. Also, if you don't have a baseline for how your network normally operates, everything looks like a nail when you go digging.

I was having packet loss problems every 5 seconds in a particular game where it would spike up to around 15% then recover. I ran a ping plot to the router at 0.1x per second and had absolutely no packet loss. So is it me or is it the game server.
@thejman5200 That used to be the case, but for the last 2 years, CollegeVine's chancing calculator is pretty close (+/- 4%) to the real acceptance rates (https://www.collegevine.com/admissions-calculator)

Our HS uses both CollegeVine and Naviance. FWIW, Naviance shows my kid's chances ~2% higher on average.
They'll figure out how to cut or disable the antenna and/or transmitter pretty quickly.
Rucking is great, but it can be just as bad if not harder on your knees if you’re not careful.
Furthermore, if all it takes for you to take away someone's posting permissions is a few flags/complaints (That anyone with a bot farm who operates multiple accounts can submit) you should really grow a fucking spine. Thanks for confirming that government operatives can infact silence any user here, just the mechanism is a little different than I originally hypothesized, instead of having a backdoor throttling permissions all they need is a few proxy accounts instead, amazing!
> The simplest reason I believe we won’t have a repeat of the 1970s inflationary spiral is because Fed officials have studied that period and the mistakes made by their predecessors.

There are no mistakes to be made because the Fed is a talking organization only. It stopped trying to regulate money decades ago. Bank reserves are the only thing it can control, and they have very little effect on the real economy. The Fed raises and lowers interest rates, begins and ends QE, to exactly the opposite effect of what's purported and nobody comments on it.

Here's the real reason this isn't the 1970s: the bond market is telling all of us so. The bond market is telling us that inflation is about to fall and fall hard. The yield curve is inverted all the way up to the 3 month. Inversion has been the norm for months now. Inflation will roll over and the Fed will have had nothing to do with it.
Can I read more about this somewhere? On Haswell I've observed a 5% speedup (for a whole program that mostly does a bunch of other work) from spacing a bunch of arrays that are typically all pretty small and all accessed consecutively all the way through to have their start positions differ by some amount of cache lines other than a power of 2. So it certainly seemed to me like I was working with a set-associative cache where power of 2 strides were pathological.
Since race is a social construct with no objective definition, your son can select whichever value he likes in the race field without legal penalty. Or just leave it blank.
Google homes works
just fine! :)
Likely not, if nothing else, it should have gotten moved to area code 425 in 1997 when 206 was split.
The ruling almost certainly would include sex because it's part of the same law that protects against racial discrimination. Title VI of the civil rights act specifically protects these plus religion and nationality. If it applies to race (and it obvious does) it applies to all of them.

It's honestly astounding that anyone finds this racism either moral or legal. It's precisely the same thing that the civil rights act forbids and for good reason.
A society composed of 99% peasants, who all earn and own about the same amount, and 1% nobles (who dont 'earn wages' and own many times more than all peasants combined) would look very good through many social mobility metrics.
> One never needs to login with different creds to access another project. You just use your Google login or activate a service account.

It's the same in AWS with AWS SSO/IAM Center. You only login once, and you can access every other account (project) you're allowed to access.
They also take advantage of different spectrum/color temp at different points in their lifecycle too. I was growing pre-led era and I'd swap bulbs for the weed growth phase and then flowering phase.
change the laws then...
Ideally we'd have reliable local developer experiences. An unreliable cloud-based developer experience is certainly worse than an unreliable local developer experience, and IME cloud-based developer experiences tend to be unreliable and extremely tiresome to debug when they break.
Yeah it happened to my car like 6 or 8 years ago. I called around to salvage yards to try to buy a used exhaust. I needed basically everything from the manifold back due to where the thief made his cuts. Every yard told me that they aren't allowed to deal in used exhaust systems. I had to buy a new aftermarket exhaust or a new one from the dealer.
The audiobooks are also good.
The page still loads in HTTPS, but turning off HTTPS-only mode means that the HTTP requests succeed, at least more than before. So I guess there's nothing wrong there.

The blue ticks actually don't work, though. They're always accompanied by red and seem to be timing out instead of the usual exceptions.
Nope, not missing something.. it has been a problem for GitHub (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30348980) and others (https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/urlscan-io-api-unwittingl...).
Is there, by any chance, a MacOS-based machine running in your network?
Zig does this although zig is more geared towards systems programming I think, not complex software (like games) as C++ is.
Of course, why would government operatives need a backdoor or even bother sending you secret takedown requests when the process to silence any user is way easier than anyone had imagined? just proxy up a few fake accounts on residential IPs to flag the post and then complain to you a few times!
My reply was replying to:

Secrets kinda conflict with the whole Open part of OSS.

Please note that the open source definition has no mention of community:

https://opensource.org/osd

As I said, please stop conflating open source software with open communities. They’re part of a thriving and healthy project, but are not the same thing.
These days, it's tracked at https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/27891.

I have a gameplan to drop this by another 7 MB (by turning our executables into ESM), probably for 5.0 as well if we decide that Node versions older than 12 are worth dropping.
I once achieved it by setting a parent_id string column - for root comments it’ll just be article id. For replies it’ll be “parent_comment.parent_id || parent_comment.id”. Then it’s just a single list no recursion needed to get the full hierarchy at whatever level. Can also be easily migrated to dynamodb and get infinite scaling and zero downtime costs.