skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is being framed poorly. The "-based" in "race-based" suggests that race is a dominant factor. But it sounds like the real question is, can admission decisions consult race even as a minor consideration.

> The court is hearing challenges to their admissions policies, which consider race among many factors when evaluating applications.

> Institutions like Harvard say they consider an applicant's race as one of several factors - including economic status and religious belief - in order to build classes that accurately represent the racial and ethnic diversity of the country.

In which case -- sure, perhaps this is a valuable conversation to have. But if one considers the efficient frontier of tradeoffs between the goals of having the most "meritocratic" class of students with the best grades and test scores or most AP credits etc, or having a "representative" class which reflects the diversity of the nation, I'm guessing there are bigger opportunities for improvement. Legacies and athletic recruitment, perhaps?

If the explicit consideration of race is removed from admissions, are there not plenty of ways for admissions offices to try to consider similar factors other than personal academic performance, which would leave the plaintiffs still unsatisfied? Non-race factors for which admissions offices could try reflect national statistics in incoming classes:

- percent public school vs private school

- percent households which rent vs own their primary residence

- distribution over home values in admits' zipcodes of residence

- share of admits who had a parent incarcerated for some portion of their childhood

- personality big 5 scores

We get indignant in public about different treatment on the grounds of race. But I think students and families get frustrated because of the (inevitable) feeling of a loss of control when being judged based on criteria out of their control. If instead of race, one had the sneaking suspicion that one was not admitted because there were too many other private school, owned-home, 800k - 1.2M home, non-incarcerated-parent, high-conscientiousness applicants ... would you feel better?
You seem to be misunderstanding who I'm talking about, or even what TPS is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome

The Tall Poppy Syndrome folks are not those at Twitter. I know a few, and respect them, and have no problem with them making more than most (as I did myself when I worked at FB). No, the TPS folks are those right here bashing Twitter employees, as you yourself complained about. I don't know who they are, but I do know how they act because they're acting out right here in front of us.

> The ONLY bad guys in this scenario are Musk and his yes-men

So you no longer have a problem with the haters? What changed in the last two hours?
This is largely down to GOP-administration tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy and to a lesser extent the Iraq War. During the Clinton administration the US was briefly even running budget surpluses.
A male with some pills and makeup doesn't become a female.
Weird for an existentialist Christian to recommend Darwin over Kierkegaard, though admittedly the former is much more readable.
I actually did love Facebook and had success with ads in the past but there were so much redesigns in the ad manager that I can’t use it anymore
Really interesting results, thanks for sharing!

The sound of the AI encoder is distinct and probably not suited for music at that bitrate, but would probably serve fine for Facebook videos and podcasts. I'd be really interested in seeing a model optimized to compress human speech...
Forget about what might happen in decades into the future, Japan's debt-to-GDP ratio is 275% right now and the sky hasn't fallen.
I'm sorry but I find it incredibly absurd the number of people walking away from autonomous driving basically saying "The hard work is done, the problem is solved, it's time for me to move on to something else".

Bullshit. In the last 5 years we've gone from optimists saying "Hey these new ML models are really smart we might be able to solve self-driving with this", to "We've totally solved self-driving, sure you can't, you know, let it drive, and in fact we've had to install cameras that monitor you to make sure you don't try and let it drive, but we've totally solved it trust me". Yeah sure buddy, you solved it, good job.

It turns out the guys making grandiose claims five years ago, are still willing to make the grandiose claims today, and it doesn't matter that over the last 5 years their credibility slowly shrank to zero.

Self-driving is more than throwing an ML model in a car.
>Bikes and scotters move you more quickly though certain routes than cars, as you tend to get through each light in just one clycle.

These small micromobility devices will come to dominate urban city streets over the next decade. These devices typically cost less than $1,500 (a tiny fraction of an automobile), and are significantly faster than driving in city centres. A lot of people will still choose cars for comfort, but the travel time and cost savings of e-mobility are tough to compete against.
It's old enough the mid-life upgrade (MLU) program is happening for it.
Wealth is a proxy for race.[0] Good luck to any court striking down wealth based admissions.

Also, Biloxi is very affordable![1]

[0]https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/weal...

[1]https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/bilxi-ms_rb/
You are making another assumption that a large meteor didn't destroy everything on the planet surface.

Considering we believe this happened to earth, it's not unreasonable to think the same happened to Mars at least once.

https://youtu.be/PENT_hnyO-o
>conservatives outnumber liberals by ~40% in the general population! [1]

You seem to have misunderstood the article you cited, from the article:

>The percentage calling themselves conservative has been steadier over time and, at 36%, is the same today as in 1992.
Given how excellent my Model 3 wasn't at determining the speed limit of the freeway near me, let's not. If you want people to slow down, there are effective ways to design roads that work better than arbitrary speed limits.
Well, suppose you have a circuit with four mesh currents. Now you have dynamics going on in four dimensions.
> In our tests, it was demonstrated that this protocol performed up to 6 times faster than JSON.

https://auth0.com/blog/beating-json-performance-with-protobu...
Not the poster, but the implication is that all white students are highly privileged in well resourced school districts. It's not technically what was said, but I agree the implication is pretty strong and unreasonable. You can have other readings ofc.

Honestly the boundary between race/money/class/privilege is a pretty rough space to hang around.
Exactly, and the only people surprised by this are those who assume that everyone is perfectly ethical and empathetic, just like them.
In my experience, the only people actually alienated by a failure to strictly comply with WCAG's assumptions about color contrast are the ones who run random websites through automated scanners and complain about the results. WCAG's rules allow some color combinations that are inaccessible (eg black text on a red background, which is not visible to people with protanopia) and disallow some color combinations that are fine.

You really need to have actual humans with disabilities look at your website to find out if it works for them.
Much, much less processing to do. Most of pb decoding is just reading bytes until you fill your data structure.
Sorry, but part of being a good engineer is being able to explain why your work is critical (or isn’t, be honest) and how it works in as reasonably simple terms as possible.

I’ve learned to ‘ask first, write later’ when it comes to open source as well, unless I’m willing to fork or just keep the changes for myself. There’s no guarantee all contributions are welcome, so don’t sink the cost until you can be reasonably sure your code will get used.
Not legal on public roads or pavements.

UK is almost as bad as the US when it comes to car-centricism, or it was historically.

https://www.halfords.com/cycling/advice/are-electric-scooter...
Coal is more labor intensive than other forms of power. It also doesn’t require particularly skilled labor. That makes it deeply unappealing to the West and deeply appealing to developing countries with low labor and high unemployment rates.
It would help if there wasn't blatant corruption in the installation and maintenance of those cameras. At least locally, multiple municipal officers have been arrested for taking bribes. It doesn't have anything to do with convenience.
No; these things have been a plague everywhere, even in cities organized with good public transportation and non car-centric centers.
It makes sense, I didn’t really mean my comment as a dismissal of your product btw; I understand that you’re trying to build a set of tools that cover the whole range of what a company might need to do KYC — you’re not really competing with onfido in that sense, as the next onfido could use your product as a building block (or acquire you).
> A university designed to be fully walkable can only accommodate so much simultaneous construction.

Well, your implication here is that accessible, affordable colleges are clearly a second-rate experience. I'm not necessarily disagreeing here, but it's something academia themselves have not admitted.

Your example forgets that they are still allowed to look at financial/hardship data to determine merit. So presuming that someone with identical upbringing must have had a harder life because of the color of their skin only exists to perpetuate bias.
They’d probably use old conversion data to train their model. With time, it’ll be less useful but they only need a short term solution for now.
> It's complicated, and you can have your own takeaway, but mine is that merit often defined wrong. I'm on the lookout for people who did more with less, or even did equal or near to it with less. To me, that is more a measure of merit than top line measures like test scores.

I agree with this, and the problem is how many schools look directly at race for that. This reminds me of predictive policing ML models that take race as a factor. Yes it gets more accurate results than if it didn't use that information, but that doesn't make it fair.
> It certainly is simpler now to make quality code.

Just think of the log4j fiasco last year. Or the famous left-pad thing. Perhaps you don't import any dependencies, but just imagine the complexity of (for example) the JVM. Point is, you can surely write "quality code", but even with quality code it's much harder to control the quality of the end product.

Requirements have gotten more complex too. 30 years ago people were generally happy with computers automating mundane parts of a process. These days we expect software to out-perform humans unsupervised (self-driving?). With exploding requirements software is bound to become more and more buggy with the increased complexity.
On various level, yes

“ Currently, there isn't a specific law for e-scooters so they are recognised as "powered transporters" - falling under the same laws and regulations as motor vehicles, and subject to all the same legal requirements - MOT, tax, licensing and specific construction.
However, because e-scooters don't always have visible rear red lights, number plates or signalling ability, they can't be used legally on roads.
Private e-scooters can only be used on private land and not on public roads, cycle lanes or pavements.
The only e-scooters that can be used on public roads are those that are rented as part of government-backed trials.
E-scooter trial in London, June 2021
IMAGE SOURCE, GETTY IMAGES
Do I need a driving licence?
Yes. To use an e-scooter from an official trial, you need to have category Q entitlement on your driving licence.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48106617
at least in the frontend (without WASM), it depends.

a few months ago i tested https://github.com/mapbox/pbf and while it was faster for deep/complex structs vs an unoptimized/repetative JSON blob, it was much slower at shallow structs and flat arrays of stuff. if you spend a bit of time to encode stuff as flat arrays to avoid mem alloc, JSON parsing wins by a lot since it goes through highly optimized C or assembly, while decoding protobuf in the JS JIT does not.

of course it's not always feasible to make optimized over-the-wire JSON structs if you have a huge/complex API that can return many shapes of complex structs.
For me, the only use was buying one for cheap right after the Switch came out. Everybody and heir mother was getting rid of their games, so everything could be had for cheap (Nintendo cheap).
Eh, at this point we could probably do without the lane for cars in anything even vaguely approaching urban density - delivery trucks are fine though.
https://browserbench.org/ (instead of ..benchmark..), right?
I don't really get your attitude here. In particular, I'm not disagreeing that JSON parsers in the browser could be currently faster than protocol buffers.

I'm saying that computer science and hardware dictate that protocol buffers are faster for a wide range of reasons. That part's not in question- smaller data encodings have better cache use, and require far fewer dictionary (hash table) lookups at parse time, as well as far length work parsing strings. If you want to argue against my point there I don't know what to say.

If it was a priority to write a blindingly fast protocol buffer parser in JS, it's almost certain than an expert could write a faster one than a similar JSON parser.
It mostly puts the risk and consequences on the elderly, disabled, and impoverished. Which is evil, but socially acceptable and with many other strong precedents in the US.
The companies operating them seem to actively encourage users not to give a shit. They're dockless, you can end a ride anywhere, if the battery dies or you get bored you're just supposed to leave it wherever and let it be someone else's problem. The companies running them all seem content to just proliferate scooters all over the street with no regard for expense or the non-scooting public since they're all trying to out-compete each other.

Here in the DC area I have a particular love for Capital Bikeshare because they're extremely affordable and (mostly) use dedicated docking stations.
Former new yorker here, but ev-hybrids were (maybe still are?) allowed in carpool lanes even if they were only carrying the driver. When I lived there priuses were by far the biggest population of hybrids or evs
Not a Californian, but I believe there used to be a deal where in some places a more efficient vehicle would be allowed in the carpool lane regardless of the number of occupants.
<<treasury bond debt owed by the federal government is owed to... none other than the Federal Reserve

First time I saw that I was genuinely dumbfounded. I honestly can't find an explanation of it other than 'stability of the system', but even that appears to be something of a stretch since to a person like me just appearance of that kind of meddling creates hesitation.

I think US is really milking the whole 'the only game in town' in terms of stability. The issue is.. that will not always be the case. At some point, reality will set in.

And I am saying all this as ( minor compared to the rest of stuff ), US bond holder.
I’m not an expert on these admission practices, so I can’t say whether the claim is true, but that is what is being claimed, no?
It’s supply shock. Why won’t anyone say those words?
C++ was different on different operating systems (every compiler rolled his own template instantiation model). Portability was hard work.
GNU Make 4.4 released
because JQ is already loaded, and it IS minimal. You could do querySelector(...).addEventListener etc but why would you?
> management that rewarded the appearance of great work more than great work. T

Two reasons: 1. The management can't really differentiate appearance from substance. 2. The management is not incentivized to reward great work. Either way, it shows the failure of Meta's culture.

> but the infrastructure they sat upon was too hard to use to do anything different

Ironically, so many Meta engineers had such superficial understanding of their platforms and infrastructure that they couldn't even pass the most basic interview discussions on systems design. Seems another sign that Meta grossly over hired or had a culture that focused only on some so-called impact.
Can someone comment on the significance of this book?
Honest question: Is that seen as a lot? Or rather, why is that a lot?

When an individual takes a loan to buy a house or something like this, their debt to income ratio is often 10, so 1.85 doesn't sound scary at all.

I understand there's a difference between income (of which a large portion can be spent freely by the individual) and GDP, but still, doesn't sounds crazy.
> In the real world, however, a single developer can do it in less time than that.

Which single developer can rollout payments globally in 6 days? How much time do they set aside to ensuring regulatory compliance with dozens of jurisdictions that have occasionally conflicting rules?
Not only that, but sometimes even the threat of an outbreak can hamper the availability of childcare. Last winter, a few staff members were exposed to a close contact, so they held them out of work as a precaution - but that resulted in one of the rooms having to close for a week.
I think most Europeans would be shocked by the cost of having a baby in the US. See 'A typical American birth costs as much as delivering a (UK) royal baby' [1]

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/04/23/a-typica...
Always did. You just see it more now with 24/7 online news
Deriding paperwork is a bit annoying because the CPSC determines the safety at least partly through the paperwork. I kind of agree that the warning stickers have gotten a bit out-of hand, but upon digging many of those sorts of things are actually instigated by in-house legal counsel rather than any external regulations.
I agree not much different. I started writing code for a living in the early 1990s. How I wrote code then was not much different from how I write code today: using a text editor, write a little, test a little, keep building up working code. I debug mostly with print statements and logs, which is how I've always done it.

I've never liked IDEs and still don't use them. Version control is much more widespread. My favorite was mercurial, but I'm now mostly using git as swiming against the current there doesn't seem to be worth it.
> This is an odd take because EVs are no more computers on wheels than ICE cars. They probably actually have fewer electrical components to drive and monitor.

Somewhat true, somewhat untrue. All modern cars have at least some kind of ECU, and have done now for a long time now, with lots of sensors etc for engine management and more - however comparatively these are simple and un-networked devices with a singular purpose - managing the engine and basic electronics (lights, wipers, critical stuff). Some modern luxury cars including ICEs and EVs have gone way beyond this and added "entertainment units" aka distractotrons, and then networked the entire car to this thing (including the ECU) as a central control with remote network access, and millions of lines of code more than the majority of OS and browsers.

Perhaps it's because most EVs are luxury cars, but EVs do tend to fall into the latter category of overcomplicated networked monstrosities. Especially tesla, where a software update can brick something as trivial and traditionally dependable and independent as an electric window motor.

Simple ECUs should make the need for security patches extremely unlikely simply due to the attack surface. There should be an international automaker law that prohibits them from making a networked, remotely accessible ECU, keep the distractotron as a separate thing so that when it inevitably bricks itself it wont take the actual car with it.
‘Planet killer’ asteroid spotted hiding in the sun’s glare
Yeah, it should be obvious that automobile infrastructure can only support a finite amount of density. Once you cross that threshold you either need to halt growth and aggressively downzone OR build infrastructure for alternative modes of transit to absorb the excess.
Sounds like they've been excluding Asian students for a long time then.
I remember Turbo Pascal 3.0, the one that generated COM files for MS-DOS (like EXE files, but about 2KB smaller).

I loved that Turbo.com and COM files 30 years ago!

later I started to use Turbo Pascal 5.5 with OO support and a good IDE.
Yeah it's absolutely amazing to think of the huge, HUGE names in the computer world from the 90s whose only product was something that is now entirely open source and given away for free.

I'm talking not only things like Netscape Navigator but all the server software vendors, etc. And even where things still exist (the only real OS manufacturer anymore is Microsoft and Apple, everything else is a Linux) they've been driven free or nearly so. Windows 95 was $209.95 on launch ($408.89 in today's dollars) but a boxed copy of Windows 11 is $120 - and MacOS is now "free".
This seems like a stretch--they are taking data collected from the effect of the evening scooter ban (after 9PM) and applying it to commute patterns. But people ride scooters in the evening to get to and from large events like Atlanta United games or concerts--it's a very different context than commuting.
There's no good replacement for it. For the people using C today, Zig isn't ready for production yet, C++ and Rust are too complicated and don't have the same platform support, and managed languages are obviously out.
> I have no idea what you mean by "problems several orders of magnitude." Driving is driving. Your hardware and software can do it, or it can't. What do billions of dollars have to do with anything?

We've had the technology for level 2 for 20 years. You just need to track the painted lines and track the distance to the car in front of you. Higher levels are orders of magnitude more complicated.

If you think level 2 is the best we'll get, that's fine, but that's giving up. It's not what people mean by self driving.
What about the people who find scooters helpful for getting around? And why is it a problem in the parks? Do you have a better solution for reducing car traffic? Or the last mile problem?
Alot of our modern software practices have introduced layers of complexity on to systems that are very simple at a fundamental level. When you peel back the buzzword technologies you will find text streams, databases, and REST at the bottom layer.

It's a self fulfilling cycle. Increased complexity reduces reliability and requires more headcount. Increasing headcount advances careers. More headcount and lower reliability justifies the investment in more layers of complicated technologies to 'solve' the 'legacy tech' problems.
It's not - Python has innovation going on into new techniques for interpretation and GC. Perl doesn't have any activity like that at all.
> If this level of segregation can happen in San Francisco, I can't imagine how bad it is in the rest of the country.

The forward conclusion is that the rest of the country must be unimaginably worse than SF—which is an easy failure of imagination.

The backward conclusion is that what SF is doing is unhelpful or actively counterproductive—which is not inconsistent with track record.
Looks like I was partially right (but wrong on the price!)..

https://twitter.com/reckless/status/1586884530988027904
> If the printing can’t be verified by the person right after voting, it’s useless.

I don't agree with that. I'm curious about where a person can verify that their vote is actually the one counted? Because you can't in the US (whether by mail or in person).

Don't get me wrong, I think and individual printout would be great! And even better if you could go online (or somewhere) and verify that the vote counted was the one that you have a receipt for. I just don't think these improvements justify Bolsonaro's claims.