skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I attended Caltech, there was no evidence that it was a rich kids school. For example, very few students had a car. The ones that did had a Bug or an old Ford pickup. I don't recall anyone wearing tailored clothes, the students mostly wore completely unremarkable stuff. When I'd meet their parents, they were perfectly ordinary people.
Well, in some cases certainly it could be an increase in quality.
This is so cool! I just tweeted about it! https://twitter.com/ghostforceone/status/1632459945185783808 I think AI is going to make the world great again :)
If you buy a xiaomi phone from within China, the OS that comes with it has tons of ways to push ads to you. Every preinstalled app, even the settings app has ads in it, and most of them cannot be disabled without some struggling, even if you managed to disable them, often times they will just come back afterwards.
Thanks. That was my intent, but guess I mucked it up.
They are being so vague that’s it’s impossible for us to know, but they didn’t say “at scale”. You’re certainly correct that there isn’t some secret sauce that we could just apply to everyone. But it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a service that costs (high) 5 or 6 figures per year that could substantially increase test scores.

Though I would imagine such a service would have to take place over months/years and not days/weeks, and that kind of blurs the lines of whether it even counts as test prep at that point.
> One new study of 6,300 heterosexual couples

Why are major sociology studies done with such small samples? I understand that if everything is done correctly a relatively small sample can strongly reflect a population. However wither someone has a full time job or not (1099 or W2) is reported to the IRS, and marriage/divorce records are public. Why are government departments not collaborating with academic institutions publish these types of insights?
To your point, the biggest issue that I see is that elite schools are not growing physically to accept more students. When the eliteness is built on exclusivity versus the quality of the education/graduates that pits admissions of legacy versus new admits.

Its kind of like when Nokia used to sell the mobile phones with gold plating and the only way to get one was via an invite from an influencer. Basically creating the perception of value via false scarcity.

The first elite university school system that can physically expand to multiple campuses to accommodate new in person students and provide them with the exact same quality education and opportunities to network with legacy students will become Apple of collegiate education.

IMHO, the UC school system gets probably closest to this ideal.
It's finding systems like this that make HN valuable from time to time. I didn't even "think" to look for a system like this, and I could use it right now, and I find there are multiple other ones similar in the same posting from comments.
That being said, writing chinese characters is a unique skill, separate from being able to read them.
All of these takes ignore the fact that college shouldn't be a privilege. As long as we keep to the point that only a select few can go to college then we'll keep fighting over scraps. Nobody in this debate wants a meritocracy because implementing one would harm their interests.
> Isn't the whole point of Amazon generally, and these stores specifically in not having staff, that it's supposed to be cheaper?

I'm pretty sure the goal is to have a higher profit margin than competitors by leveraging technology, not lower prices.
This article also says something about IAT test being strongly correlated with other things, so their individual contribution to racist outcomes is small as evidence against IAT tests which the original article turned around and tried to say means implicit basis isn’t real or that IAT tests are bad, but it literally doesn’t, just that you could measure implicit bias in other ways
In my case it's not just nerves that feel it. I can get my fingers to vibrate at presumedly 50 hz by stroking the laptop lid. There is an audible hum.

It happens with just one charger I have. The other charger just went out with a bang that tripped the fuse. So guess which one I use now.
> So you're suggesting… they shouldn't follow a schedule?

This is the Göteborg way. Want to take a tram and go there 5 minutes earlier? Ah, there was no traffic and you see the tram already leaving anyway. Now enjoy waiting 20 minutes for the next in freezing temperature and strong winds.

> and introduce electronic ticket checks at every stop

Copenhagen does this on bus. Basically every stop suddenly takes 2x as long at the very least.
Just plagiarizing https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/technology/artificial-int...
Safety and Soundness in Rust
Under employed and unemployed men are less likely to be the primary breadwinner of the household. Pretty much all the formulas and tables that divorce courts use to determine how hard of a financial fucking a man gets deliver much less of a fucking if the man is being out earned by their spouse so there's less incentive for under-employed men to "fix things". While state laws different and some states are pretty equitable about divorce enough aren't that it should show up in statistics.
The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier is a great practical book on engineering management.
Those languages (except maybe Rust) cannot do FP just fine.
That's funny because most of the thousands of Vim users I have helped in 10+ years of support on various channels were incredibly dumb, lazy, and shallow.

"Better" is indeed all they could hope to become but they were definitely not there yet.
Yeah, context is essential. We've seen plenty of examples of website names where the spaces being squashed out gives alternative meanings. Two come to mind where the last word was "exchange" and it followed a plural. No simple-minded spel chequer is going to be able to figure that out.
While I don't care about the whole carbon boogeyman spectacle I do care about minimising our environmental impact as well as dependency on, well, as many external things as I can. One of those things is electrical power so I put about 14.5 kW worth of solar panels on a barn roof, connected to a 10kW hybrid inverter [2]. Since I don't like external dependencies I do not use the supplier's "cloud-based" management feature - Fronius Solar Web for those who care about such details - and disallow the thing access to the 'net. Instead I made my own system based around OpenHAB [1], a bunch of ESP8266 microcontrollers hooked up to things like the utility power meter (which has a handy P1/HAN port just for that purpose), a heat pump, a water heater, a small heater in the feed storage etc. The thing gets hourly electricity prices for today and tomorrow and creates a schedule to enable/disable devices based on demand, price and energy production from the inverter. Once I had everything set up it has worked fine without the need for intervention. This does not yet include the washing machine and dishwasher since these devices do not offer an easily automatised interface and because scheduling their use also depends on what we put in them and when we want them to clean those things. I just check the graphs to decide when to switch them on which works fine, no need for more automation.

Our electricity rates - both use as well as returns for power we deliver to the net - vary by the hour. Using the interface to the utility meter and the inverter I get readings every 10 seconds, the inverter also tells me the net frequency so it is easy to see whether the net is overloaded (frequency clearly below 50 Hz) or oversupplied (clearly above 50 Hz).

[1] ...but I have not yet connected a battery since a) we can sell overproduction and b) batteries are still too expensive. I expect battery prices to go down once enough used electric car batteries enter the market.

[2] https://www.openhab.org/
Lifting Discrete Logarithm Based Cryptography to Post-Quantum Cryptography
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Not in this case, Chase years ago started requiring you to waive them in favor of arbitration.
> I think a big problem is that it shouldn't require an app to use.

That’s not the issue that’s being discussed though. It’s a fair criticism, but that’s still irrelevant to the topic of Amazon Go stores requiring them and that you should therefore expect to need one if you want to enter a store.

> No wonder it isn't popular.

I wouldn’t deduce popularity from the closure of the stores. In Seattle at least, the stores had already been “temporarily” closed for a while and are in a fairly high-crime area of the city. [0] At the same time, they’re actively building larger suburban stores [1] which indicates a pivot, but that the format itself is still popular.

They’ve also added it to other venues like Climate Pledge Arena and Lumen Field in Seattle in the form of “Just Walk Out” [2]. You still need an Amazon One account to use it.

[0]: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon-shutters-some-c...

[1]: https://www.winsightgrocerybusiness.com/amp/topics/amazon-go...

[2]: https://justwalkout.com/
One of my favorite facts is about Nvidia release cycle speed. At the peak of nvidia 3dfx war new chips were coming out every 6-9 months:

Riva 128 (April 1997) to TNT (June 15, 1998) took 14 months, TNT2 (March 15, 1999) 8 month, GF256 (October 11, 1999) 7 months, GF2 (April 26, 2000) 6 months, | 3dfx dies here |, GF3 (February 27, 2001) 9 months, GF4 (February 6, 2002) 12 months, FX (March 2003) 13 months, etc ...

Nvidia had an army of hardware engineers always working on 2 future products in parallel, 3dfx had few people in a room.
Important puzzle piece in all that is also Microsoft's Fahrenheit diversion.
Very interesting, I also have recently come to think that higher-order logic and its relationship to type systems and verification are the way to go for alignment.
What’s the minimum single GPU that’ll work for the smallest model?
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Every day I'd make sure the screensaver came on just to see what he would do that particular day. I still miss that screensaver.
I am submitting this initially out of a quote from Henry Kissinger:

> One needs to differentiate between information, knowledge and wisdom. In the internet era they tend to get mixed up. The more time one spends simply absorbing information, the less time one has to apply wisdom. And then there’s common sense. Lord Salisbury had long periods of reflection in which he applied wisdom and common sense [ ~~~ H. Kissinger]

(The interview is at https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/henry-kissinger-intervie... )

This, the author, Douglas Murray, mentions as a reason why the promise one quarter of a century ago about an intellectually Utopian society after the democratized and exploded access to information did not happen.

One must note that there is another crucial reason to be mentioned: the paradoxical collapse of "low culture" - of the dissemination and increase of civilization through the exchange of peers.

But then, the author proceeds narrating how a different image of Thomas Jefferson has spread someplace. It is humiliating - humiliating for the framework of values that seem to be on a fight to be dominant -, considering e.g. the idea John F. Kennedy promoted when he said, in front of a group of Nobel Prize winners: «I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone».
Is it surprising though? Regardless of how far we’ve come in terms of viewing gender roles, the society still expects men to provide. Most women don’t prefer marrying down, while men are okay with it and that is a fact. And when married men do not have stable jobs, most women get additional pressure from people around them, friends, family, etc.
So you think if a train driver happens to show up 30minutes earlier at the train station, a long distance train should just depart earlier, leaving all the passengers and people with connections stranded?

Your comments are fascinating. Completely nonsense, but fascinating.
Could you provide a link to the "naughty list"?
Yes, but do you think that's what normally happens? I would suggest that what normally happens in your situation is that no studying gets done and you bomb the test.

I also know people who've been in your situation, and that's what I see more often than not.

I can understand if you think that's what the SATs are for though, a kind of lifeline for kids in bad situations. I just have reservations about it actually working enough of the time to not simply be another opportunity hoarding play by wealthier people.
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Well first, match context, there's neighbouring countries and regional countries. Countries neighbouring PRC, i.e. land connected are just as friendly towards PRC, and by friendly I mean relatively geopolitically aligned because PRC settled borders with 12/14 of them (India/Bhutan hold out) and they know they're too close to PRC to step out of line. This is similar to US, except US who only has 2 land neighbours, CA/MX, both of whom she knocked the shit out historically into compliance. The you have regional countries, expecially once limited to maritime access, they hedge, just like South America is now hedging PRC against previously almost uncontested US influence.

The broader answer is because PRC hasn't (had chance to) done what the US did, kick the shit out of their neighbours or exploit shit kicked countries near their adversaries and coerced geopolitical compliance that over generations becomes ingrained on a cultural level. PH/JP/SKR/TW are structurally coupled to US post WW2, and all had very strong anti-US sentiment across society and politics earlier on in their existence, but lacked power to kick US out and generations of US influence and increased dependence in more than just economics now makes them bias compliance towards US interests.

Canada good example, used by British to wage existential war on US, and US seriously considered annexing Canada until British was comprehensively defeated and Canada stopped becoming geopolitical threat. Even then Canadian domestic politics was antiUS project until well into the 70s, meanwhile anytime Canadian leadership tried to depart from US strategic interests, it gets reigned in. Ditto with Mexico, and rest of Americas via Monroe Doctrine.

The TLDR is US empire wasn't built on friendship, it was built on opportunistically ruining / exploiting ruined countries and turning them into vassels structurally to be friendly, until over generations, people start drinking the koolaid and the cause becomes reversed. Alternatively, like in South America, beatings will continue until geopolitical compliance improves. Money and influence ops is rarely enough to dislodge such alignment. Which raises the unpleasant implication that countries around PRC won't be friendly until PRC successfully asserts regional hegemony and it can't convincingly do that without basically kicking US out of east Asia forcefully. Sometimes the only way to win over geopolitical "friendships" is by kicking the old friend out and demonstrating implications of trying to remain unfriendly.
Go solves no correctness problem regarding parallelism, it is as chock full of foot guns as any other multithreaded largely imperative language.
There are two competing needs to be considered when figuring out what your workflow should be in regard to history.

Both come from the fundamental question: “When (if) we look back in history, what are we looking for?” Keeping everything as it was reduces the risk of deleting something that will later be important; consolidating is supposed to reduce the risk of missing the needle in the haystack or discouraging looking back at all.

Curating the past is 99% wasted effort since looking back is rare. I think the best compromise is to add some automation if you really care, as Ted suggested.
Proper way to multi-task (and achieve more)
Even cars turning, quoted here as something easy, is deceptively complicated once you really start thinking about what the rubber actually does on the road surface. In the end, both an angular momentum and a centripetal force are generated, but it's very hard to figure out why those things happen from first principles.
I work on the matching engine of a stock exchange. So it kind of is fairly sensitive, but I get what you mean.

> interactive session, you get instant feedback (either verbally or via emotional cues) into what they are expecting.

For some people, like myself, that is a nightmare scenario. I do not do well in these type of sessions. Which are also not even close to reflecting the real work we do. There are absolutely no meetings I go into that I can't prepare for [1] and there are absolutely no meetings where I have to solve a problem on the spot.

Being on the autism spectrum also means "emotional cues" are pretty lost on me.

There is also the fact that interviews have to be during normal working hours. Some people prefer to do a "homework" assignment which they can do in an evening or weekend.

This is again why we provide the choice. Not everyone is the same and prefers different interview and assessment routes. Both types are useful for different people.

> If a homework assignment is necessary, it would be better if that were more of a "probationary employment" type scenario, perhaps at a very reduced amount of pay, to only imply that both parties actually have skin in the game.

Really? You would refuse a "homework" assignment, but would agree to "probationary employment"? The later just sounds like WAY more work on both sides.

We have discussed something like this in the company I work for, but came to the conclusion that it just is way too much work. Getting the contracts in place and working out the insurance and tax implications and all that. It just is way too much work to do legally, because it would be the same amount of work to just hire them. However: we can't just hire everyone.

Maybe if you are already a freelancer beforehand then we could work something out that way, but in the jurisdiction I am in not every software engineer is ready to accept freelance contracts. It is a simpleish process to do, but not everyone does and those that do don't apply for full time positions.

[1] You can "prepare" for interviews, but more in a scatter shot approach studying all the interview questions that could possibly be asked. That is not what I mean. There is no meeting I am going into where I do not know the precise topic that the meeting is about.
For a convenience store, they were missing items you'd find reliably in 7-11s, like charging cables or headphones, at least when i asked the guy at the front.
Taking one of Tufte’s classes was such a great experience. A large takeaway from it is on information density - and is why there is such an emphasis on writing side-notes and in the margins.
>This to me looks like stupidity more than malice

Any sufficiently stupid technology is indistinguishable from malice.
Well, for starters, that's not what we're debating. We're debating the idea that companies have DEI programs out of legal necessity.
My very first question! I was actually hearing that odd yell sound in my head.
Sorry, but I take offense at this "it is all a matter of opinion and all opinions are equally valid" BS.

1) It is trivially true that if you define your measure right, you can make anyone succeed. For example black people are better at looking like black people. But we try to define "stuff" in a way that correlates with ability to do economically useful tasks. There are excellent reasons to do so.

2) You are ignoring the obvious fact that blacks do NOT get anything like equal treatment. They start with terrible schools, in neighborhoods that are aggressively targeted by police, and grow up with realistic expectations of going to jail that are amply born out by lived experiences. It takes willful blindness and stupidity to ignore that there are excellent reasons why we should expect poor black performance.

Given that the inferences on which this affirmative action position are based require willful blindness and stupidity to believe, there really is a giant logical flaw. It is most emphatically NOT plausible to say that we should expect equal performance from children whose fathers are in jail, whose schools are atrocious, whose neighborhood is dangerous, and who rightly believe that they are being unfairly targeted by police. Both how common these factors are and how important they are to actual outcomes is borne out by extensive research.

The scientific truth is that we have no data either way that can even begin to address whether one group is innately better than any other. The reason being that we have no way to separate out the impact of racism and history from innate ability. Read https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190808/th... if you want a more complete accounting of that fact.

But you do not need to have an opinion on that question to identify many factors that are helping ensure that black kids don't get a fair shake at life. And it is obvious that affirmative action can be at best too little, too late, compared to the things most urgently in need of fixing.
/ Emacs joins the chat...

Bro I write in assembly with my farts.
Unlike most terminal file managers out there (based on the TUI), Clifm is entirely based on the command line (just as your everyday shell): bookmarks, selections, tags, workspaces, trash, bulk rename, TAB completion, autosuggestions, file previews, plugins, deep FZF integration, and more.
That's a conveniently non-falsifiable argument, isn't it?
A child boom != fertility rate.
I'm not sure why you think that the bias there would be racial

This seems off to me as well. Wealth, and schooling, are not relvant here. Just grab an old computer, install Linux for free, and off you go.

Loads of free tool stacks, github is free, etc.
I am a big fan of Tufte's work and try to employ my understanding
of it when possible. I've never really had a criticism that seemed
worthwhile. Even this page - I read to the end and thought this is
fantastic.

However, perhaps because I only skimmed the page contents,
I struggled to find the link to the github project.

Wonder if that is my brain being conditioned by expectations of
a "normal" webpage or that the links have to be highlighted differently.

PS: I do not recall if Tufte's work addresses hyper-links explicitly.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there would be more people on Java 19 than on Haskell, for what it’s worth.
If you can't afford even the cheapest housing in America, then housing isn't the problem, right? And if someone can't afford a bus ticket (or even come up with the money) chances are they need a lot more help and it's also not about housing. The point is how can it be housing when the rational thing to do is to relocate, and if you can't even do that, then you need way more help and it's not just housing.

The real solutions are different for each individual, since it has to do with keeping a job and being able to pay rent. Affordable housing is only a tangential problem at best.
TBH SGI 320/540, well namely Cobalt were rather interesting tech-wise. Not sure if they could've gone against Microsoft at the time (NT/Softimage for example) and rise of OpenGL2 (with 3dlabs and all).
Honestly I think your observation is mostly right... if you don't have a hard performance requirement, then rust probably isn't the best language to write your code in...