skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this patently obvious that dropping the SAT is entirely about creating pretext for continued discrimination against Asian applicants?

In 1996, California repealed affirmative action via Prop 209. At the UC Berkeley and UCLA, considered the 'best' of the UC system, Asians represented 25-30% of the student base. Studies and fear-mongering at the time showed that a repeal of affirmative action would imply that Asians would become 90% of the enrollment based on the admissions factors used.

The UC system dismantled its admissions framework, and yet despite moving to a 'softer' framework, Asian enrollment at UC Berkeley rose to 65-70%, which is the case today.

Now the ithe same thing happening, but on a national scale, 27 years later. It's about time!
The reality is on any quantifiable, OBJECTIVE framework, Asians and to a lesser extent, whites, have been shown to be discriminated against. The only way to sustain this, especially in light of the pending ruling from SCOTUS likely banning affirmative action policies at Harvard et al... is to dismantle any external, objective framework for measuring applicants.

Chief Justice Roberts said it plainly: "the only way to end discrimination is to end discrimination."

My question is, if you eliminated race - 'banned the box' on applications, what would the outcomes be? Answer is self-evident and that's the true reason the SAT and test scores in general are going away. "a rose by any other name".
Yes and the main swiss gov site (www.admin.ch) is running on amazon....including the certificate.
I hope you're right but I'm friends with a number of second and third tier photographers, and work is already a struggle. Many are already moving to other professions.

The cost and hassle of a professional photo shoot is insane, the cost of a model agreeing to allowing her/his likeness be AI generated is pennies.
You pay for most real time data on top of the Bloomberg subscription. Bloomberg would be an unrealistically good deal if it included real time data.
"Not fully guaranteed" is putting it mildly. There are no personal property rights in China. Or any other rights. Try crossing a CCP member, or worse a member of the military.
Toblerone to change design under ‘Swissness’ rules
Money is recorded electronically and is near costless to produce.

Metalism lost the argument centuries ago.

Money is a promise, not a thing.
In 1998, Tom’s Hardware had a long article on “NVIDIA vs 3DFX - The Wind Of Change“

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia,87.html

It’s a great article that predicted a lot of things.

Side note: love that an article 25-years old is still accessible.
> The Super Tiny Compiler

Written in JS, runs in the (super big) web browser.
What AIO did you use? I just built a new PC with an i9-13900k and an MSI MEG Coreliquid 360 AIO cooler.

It benchmarks really well and I’ve never seen it over 50*C, the fans are really quiet, and I haven’t changed any of the configuration for it.

On the flip side I’ve got a i9-12900k in a different PC with air cooling and a more compact case and between that and the graphics card, the smaller machine runs super hot and noisy.
Yeah, I'd assume it's something in lemons that has the absolute opposite effect of Vitamin C, if it breaks up stones. I believe on strong circumstantial evidence that vitamin C contributes to them, so whatever lemons have, my dad should've squeezed more of it.
Obviously software does run on distributed systems. It just has to use different hardware and software instructions. Many have tried to abstract away the difference between local memory and distributed memory but there's very few success stories, if any.

Check out "The fallacies of distributed computing", the history of CORBA, and "A note on distributed computing". The conclusion from the later:

> objects that interact in a distributed system need to be dealt with in ways that are intrinsically different from objects that interact in a single address space

The memory bus is not the network. They differ in fundamental ways (concurrency, semantics, atomicity, ordering, latency, control, responsibility, determinism, observability) that require entirely different programming approaches.
Cipher and convolutional encoder/viterbi decoder accomplish different things. Cipher package deals with encryption/decryption, while convolutional encoder/viterbi decoder deals with error correction. Here is a brief explanation:

A convolutional encoder is a type of error-correcting code used to encode digital data for transmission over noisy channels. It works by taking a sequence of input bits and transforming them into a longer sequence of output bits, which includes redundant bits that can be used to detect and correct errors that may occur during transmission.

The key idea behind a convolutional encoder is to use a linear feedback shift register (LFSR) to generate the output bits. The LFSR is essentially a shift register with feedback connections that allow it to generate a sequence of bits based on the current input and the previous state of the register. By carefully choosing the feedback connections, it's possible to create an encoder that can detect and correct a certain number of errors in the received data.

A Viterbi decoder, on the other hand, is a type of maximum likelihood decoder used to decode the output of a convolutional encoder. It works by using a trellis diagram to represent all possible paths that the encoder could have taken to generate the output sequence. The decoder then uses the Viterbi algorithm to find the most likely path through the trellis, which corresponds to the most likely sequence of input bits.

In space communications, convolutional encoding and Viterbi decoding are commonly used to improve the reliability of data transmission over long distances. Space communications are subject to various sources of noise and interference, including solar radiation, cosmic rays, and other forms of electromagnetic interference. Convolutional encoding and Viterbi decoding can help mitigate these effects by adding redundancy to the transmitted data and using sophisticated decoding algorithms to correct errors that may occur during transmission.
"A tired, irritable, unskilled player is not appealing, and probably shouldn’t be looking for a relationship". "See how psychology just helped you become both rich and attractive?". I don't know, this article is a no from me. I believe there is more to life than chasing the presented "great ambitions" and this article doesn't reflect that.
The ticket also covers (local/regional) buses (which are more common in the rural areas of germany) so you don't even have to be near a train station.

But rural areas are usually better traversed by car because buses take longer (more stops, more detours, maybe not going where you want to).
Are you saying there is some particular training program that increases scores much more than the 30-90 points claimed by various studies?
Grades in the UK are based 10 percentage point increments if that helps.
I think this is actually what's happening...it's not the west's best interest to end the war. As long as there are people willing to kill as many Russians as possible, why stop them? Russia will end up with only its nuclear deterrent and nothing else. A kind of big N Korea, threatening, but only on paper.
Diversity and security of investments.
But all it will take for those arbitrary requirements to get reinstated is another recession...
Agree totally. Australian development companies (and some of them are part-owned or fully-owned by Chinese nationals) benefit from the property investment. And Aussie Universities are basically funded by Chinese students now (not that the quality has improved, just the staffing levels). But the average Aussie doesn't benefit.

Imho we should do what the Asian countries do: disallow buying property in Australia from non-Aussie citizens (or at least non-residents).
I live in a society with free education for all, up to and including university. To make that possible, there are a limited number of seats, and the number is based on the needs of society, and on our government's budget. The seats are allocated based on testing, but there are multiple ways to "test into" a seat, i.e. "you missed it this time, but go do another two years of pre-university and you might get in later".

This is the best we can hope for: a transparent system, with clearly defined multiple pathways, and a limited number of completely free seats at the education table.

Also: one thing which other systems miss is different maturity. If someone is bright but at 15 does not see the point of studying and prefers to smoke with the stoners, fine. At 18, get a job in retail, and perhaps at 20 the light will go on and they will realize that there's a way put of retail hell and they are smart enough to test into university with night prep classes.
Why Open Source ERP Systems Are the Better Choice for Your Business
These things were so insecure they were used to train script kiddies on basic hacking techniques. Many fond memories of ".... wait, wtf?!" A simpler time...
The schools and education offer students a tools to achieve good scores in SAT. Some do better, some do worse. On average I doubt most students are capable of self-learning or sufficiently directed towards it at that age.
There was no singularity in 2001. Or in the entire series.
Probably because the textures were just too low resolution. You add bilinear filtering to low-res textures, you get something that looks blurry.
I know I keep hammering on Bing Chat lately and I feel like a shill, but: it's really, really good. Bing already handled the stuff Google is still good at well enough, and now it's better at the stuff Google used to be good at.

Two Goliath companies forced to compete in the blue ocean of practical LLMs. It's going to be a wild ride of innovation and cool new stuff. When was the last time Google faced real competition? This is it. This is the next era of tech.

Hopefully someone decides to compete on consent, credit, and compensation for the people whose work these models depend on. Google's bargain was: We index your stuff to make it searchable, and we run ads on it while sending traffic to you.

The LLM chat-based search bargain is similar: we scoop up your work and help you make more. The glitch is that LLMs have the potential to negate the you and your and take over, like Google has with that bargain in trying to answer all queries on-search instead of sending traffic.

Someone has to solve the problem of people needing to work for compensation to survive. I really can take or leave copyright and IP in general. It exists to get people paid for creating stuff we enjoy and benefit from as a society.

I would happily hand it all over to these machines to help me come up with new stuff if I weren't struggling to survive when my only real skills are at risk of being turned into a mush of data that people will acclimate to and forget they ever cared about craft or the people who used to make it.

Wouldn't it be wild if our discussions about this became input for the models, and those models came up with some good solutions?
A friend of mine had an early access Qube that we ran qmail on (back then I was an anti-Windows activist and a djb cultist.) The machine worked pretty well.

It fell down during the "Love Letter" virus attack and to get it back up I had to write a script that scanned the logs and inserted firewall rules to block virus-infected machines.

The worst problem it had was that the system clock ran 15% slow so it had to be resynced frequently with ntp.
> The US is executing the same broad strategy against both China and Russia - surrounding them with US-friendly states who then get military support. It seems to be working extremely well against Russia since they can barely get Russian troops into the Donbass safely.

What US-Friendly states are between Russia and the Donbass then?
I have creative background, always feared and never learned C++.
Maybe if one has years of OOP experience, feeling can be different, but for me, borrow checker felt straightforward.

There could be some complicate cases of trait bounds using some 3rd party libraries. However one will hardly encounter that while playing with Nannou.

Having rust-analyzer is also huge plus.
> I, in fact, do. All laws come with baked in sunset dates. No exceptions.

The problem with this, I imagine, is that when the sunset dates comes around, and a new political party is in control, they will let the new law lapse and laws will be ping logging back in forth given they even get the votes to go back in effect.

This would be terrible for very important laws like the Civil Rights Act.
That looks to be about the equivalent of 1400 in the SAT. An ACT of 31 is more aligned to Tulane’s admitted class than Harvard’s. (Tulane is a top 50 university, so still “a good school” relative to the entire population of 18 year old high school grads.)
Many CPU/SoC systems could be made vastly simpler while maintaining binary compatibility if you're willing to sacrifice performance/area. Anything that's not visible from the ISA level can be implemented however one wants. You can cram more logic per pipeline stage, stall instead of having complicated bypass logic, etc. Much of the complexity of modern circuit design comes from the desire to eek out every last percent of performance from a process, which is completely unnecessary for a historical project like this.
1999 was such a good tech year.
I don't think it's disingenuous? Gun manufacturers develop guns that gun stores buy to sell to people, Shopify develops tools to track people that they sell to business owners. The gun can be be bought by an individual that can do good or bad. Same for Shopify.

Shopify is developing tools that can be used to do harm or to do good. But when they develop tools they know will be used for surveillance, then they can't just wash their hands away. There is responsibility there. Shopify knows how people are using the tools they are creating.

I think facilitating independent shops is positive, but developing more and more tracking functionality to get these shops to be "data driven" is harmful to society. Although that seems to be "the market pull", a lot of times the most ethical choice is not necessarily the most profitable one. Shopify wants to compete with Amazon and they believe a good way of doing that is offering their customers (business owners) better ways to track their customers (shoppers).

All you're doing is giving a third party the gun and your justification seems to be "well if we don't do it, they'll get their guns from amazon anyway". Who owns the data matters, I agree, and I commend Shopify for that, but it's a problematic trend that is being facilitated by these tools anyway. I mean, we should get rid of the guns, not go "we need more good guys with guns". That's my opinion at least.
Were the countries around China coerced to be friendly with America somehow? I’m pretty sure the CIA do a lot of evil shit to maintain American power around the world but I’m really not sure they are this omnipotent. I think these countries are simply more scared of China than they are the US, until that changes China will be surrounded by US friendly countries.
Just a little bit of piano. First turntables at 14. Bedroom producing since 2001
>>> What's up with freaking programmers of all the people in the world thinking they're in a position to give far-reaching life like this?

As if programmers are not people. All Programmers are not rich and privileged, there are all kinds of programmers, rich ones, middle class and poor ones too.
Absolutely not. The domain registrar does not own my server and they should have nothing to do with what's on it. DMCA notices should be issued to me, and if I ignore them I should be sued. If I lose the suit then an order should be issued to my hosting provider to take my server offline.
Once you have a lot of influence you can influence the future instead of predicting it. This is a handy way to profit without providing any value to the rest of the system.
That’s nice since MailHog seems dead. I’ve had PRs open for their SMTP server package for years. One for a bug, the other to support Unicode recipient addresses.

Once I got one of their attention on Twitter and they said they would have it looked at the next week, but nothing seemed to happen.
It's not really that bad.

Practically for most areas in Germany it can be available from May the 1st as an in-app only ticket.

That is what matters.

---

PS: No idea why anyone is discussion chip card, it's not an option. Every public transport system in Germany (should) have the capability to scan QR codes from APP or paper. Partially due to DB RE/RB/IC/ICE trickets having "include local transportation at start/destination" options. (And I think roughly that system was also used for the 9€ ticket.). Chip cards on the other hand can not be read by many public transportation systems and even if it would be a mess due to how such systems work, i.e. chip card systems (as used by public transportation) are generally not build to be accessed across disjoint independent systems and are much less flexible. They have their benefits, but non of the benefits matter for a person bound monthly fix price ticket in the context of how public transportation works in Germany. So integrating chip cards would be just a grate wast of resources IMHO.
Decoupling has already started and is accelerating. It’s possible to be mostly done within 8 years
From the title it sounds like research on humans but the paper is actually all about a simple software model of a group of entities going 'foraging'

The model is using a program called NetLogo

https://github.com/NetLogo/NetLogo

https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/index.shtml

Source code for the model used in this paper

https://figshare.com/articles/software/Netlogo_code_supporti...

Seems like a fun program, you set up 'turtles' and give them attributes and rules and then watch them roam around

I thought this was interesting:

;adding individual noise into the speeds of individuals, to avoid computational problems caused by all individuals being on top of each other in a cell
ask turtles [
set individual-speed 0.95 + random-float 0.05
]

Like, seems like a good idea to add the random speed but why does having all the turtles in one cell cause such a problem?
Don't forget that China has significant oil reserves too, they're just hardly tapping them because they know oil only becomes worth more over time.
Can China prop up its economy forever?

There has been some alarming articles about China's economy the past year, particularly that the real estate market, exports, and other issues are putting the company into a very terrible financial situation. However, the government in China IS the bank. They can declare a company solvent that is not, bailout anyone and everyone, shut down companies at will, etc.

In such a non-market economy, where the government controls everything, how does one measure the economy and its likelihood of implosion?
When Is Apple Releasing New Mac Pro, 15-Inch MacBook Air, New iMac, M3?
I'm running LLaMA-65B on a single A100 80GB with 8bit quantization. $1.5/hr on vast.ai
"I never sat in heavy traffic because you can easily circumvent that in a car"
Having lived in places that actually have heavy traffic (LA) this reads like total bull. Nobody can "easily circumvent" heavy traffic.
Iirc they are highly dependent on fertilizer imports as well
There are more ringers taking tests than we probably know. I used to teach SAT prep and I was propositioned multiple times about this (usual subtle). Of course I never did it, but I’m sure they could find someone.
> after your education

I don't think one can just hand-wave away the primary school in this way and at the same time talk about a level playing field and dismiss extra-curriculars. They're all related.

Moreover, for better or worse, college is not a purely academic exercise. Colleges are looking for applicants who will participate in the social life of the campus, not just robotically go to class. They want students to participate in college extra-curriculars too.
I think it’s time we intentionally misalign AI to give the nerds a spook.
Thoughts about the ethics of Large Language Models
CVS evolved from a retail pharmacy into a health care behemoth
> It’s opposite. Venv is built into python and part of standard library.

Well, you simply don't know your stuff, but are overcome with confidence... where have I seen this before?

Let's start with this: standard library (without quotes) means there's a standard that describes a collection of library functions that constitute a standard library. Python doesn't have a standard. Well, technically, there isn't really Python, there are Pythons. Each accepted PEP that deals with the language creates new language, they are just similar enough that they all, collectively, can be referred to as "Python" for many practical purposes.

Python is notorious for its vague and incoherent use of nomenclature. It doesn't follow its own definitions, but it also doesn't create good definitions to begin with. Someone in Python's history decided to call a chunk of Python's token implementation "the standard library", and the term stuck. But, in reality, nothing makes code found in CPython repository a standard, nor is it even in any way prescriptive for other implementations.

There's a bunch of other code that's optionally included or enabled in the "standard library", and there's no formal document that describes what should be included. In particular, there are a bunch of features that are only enabled by compilation switches (eg. various garbage collection helpers). And you cannot possibly argue that a mere presence of those features in CPython's source code somehow makes them necessarily a part of the "standard library", because then the very definition of "standard library" becomes contingent on the compiler options you provided when compiling Python.

Now, whatever pip authors think is "standard library" or "complete" or "incomplete" Python distribution shouldn't bother anyone really. Their opinion is just as valid as mine or that of my cat: none of us defines nor controls what any of those things are.

Subsequently: who told you that there aren't any Windows or Mac distributions that don't have venv? I can easily make however many I want. But, most importantly, again, who cares? Why does it even matter? To show that venv isn't a necessary part of something, it's enough to find a single example where it's not included, you don't need to search for places where it's included...
Well meanwhile the US is sending military aid targeting the donbas region, so what’s the difference?
I loved my 3DFX cards but there was a moment where I realized that a Nvidia Riva TNT would properly accelerate OpenGL 3d applications (3dsmax in my case) and it was over. 3DFX didn't implement OpenGL properly at the time. It always felt like something was broken if you were outside of Glide.
That's right. Now add the fact that people can have a thirty point swing in score between attempts and without a difference in studying.

Total education and intelligence are largely what determines one's score. Beyond basic studying that literally everyone can and should do, no one is going to cram-course their way to a 250 point difference. Which when I took the test, was often the difference between say a successful Ivy applicant and a successful Duke applicant. Lesser private and public school applicants dropping from there.
Politics doesn't want to stop technological progress, it wants to make sure it controls it and not you. And it largely does, and where it doesn't, it still makes your life miserable.
Would you like to provide an example then? Government inequality please, I’m not interested in hearing why you believe a private party should be obligated to give you anything.
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