skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also Colgan Air 3407, a codeshare for United, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgan_Air_Flight_3407, which crashed with no survivors in February 2009.
To a point yeah but the venue also has the power not to sign the contract in the first place (ime the venue is the side typically negotiating from the position of power) if they think the penalties are too high on their end.

In all likelihood they ran the math and figured it was worth it to yank the rug out from under Defcon, penalties be damned.
This reminds me of some dystopian science fiction film where everyone is immersed in a shiny AR layer, while reality without the layer is dirty and derelict.

Scene:

A fancy nightclub, pretty people dancing to very loud music, surreal virtual objects and effects everywhere.

Swap to reality: The music turns off. It's no longer night. An old, run-down building. Headset people in shabby clothes dancing to inaudible sounds, talking way too loudly, interacting with non-existent objects in the empty air. Everything is dusty. Beams of sunlight shining through half transparent windows. They haven't been cleaned for decades.
Recently saw an article about parents spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to have their kids work with professional resume builders just to get an advantage with college applications. Now that many colleges are trying to phase out SATs because “it discriminates against poorer households”, it’s being replaced with essay and resume based things that seem to provide an advantage to the richer households who can afford the absurd amounts to very carefully cultivate the documents.
Self employed since 2006. Currently working for a couple of customers. Three of them would be too much, no meaningful weekly deliveries for at least one of them. Current stacks: Django with server side rendering and Rails with a Vue.js frontend. Side projects on my home servers in whatever fits short time slots and small footprints: Lua with OpenResty, Python with customized http.server POST and GET methods, Ruby and bash scripts. Possibly other things that don't come to my mind now.

The greatest thing it to be able to adjust the daily and weekly schedule around what I want or have to do and when, and no commuting.
“Trust me bruh! This is the last of the screw ups!! Oh and, the plane is totally safe! Legit!”
You don't.

It took like 2 extra months for Azure OpenAI to get GPT-4 turbo. There's a noticeable time delay between OpenAI deploying their latest model and when Microsoft manages to shove it in Azure.
If you want to be extremely cynical and seek to strictly extend and project the USA's power as harshly and effectively as possible, the war in Ukraine was God's gift to the USA. They get to basically take out Russia (China's key geopolitical ally) without losing a single American life, for a tiny fraction of the amount they're used to spending on wars.

And yet it's American nationalists themselves who want it all to stop, to throw all of its European allies under the bus and burn the alliance with the rest of the Western world to the ground. An amazing and almost impressive act of self harm.

It's not so much "America first" with you lot, it's "America alone".
Wild. I thought they were fully on the Russia train
What does it have to do with Deno and why do any of that to draw boxes and text on the screen? FLTK could do GUIs that took almost no CPU power starting with 100KB binaries 30 years ago.

People doing hardware accelerated GUIs have been using openGL for almost as long. This doesn't need to be a science project or a rabbit hole, drawing a GUI quickly is well worn territory.
Ya, Calhoun has been there four years already, so he's had plenty of time. Also, he decided to continue outsourcing to Spirit despite Spirit's known issues. Everything in your post indicates he's not inclined to make fundamental alterations to the post Stonecipher strategy which fits with all this.
this fact suggests that dartmouth is not weighting sat test scores highly enough in their admissions process

if dartmouth took sat scores into account in the admissions process by precisely the right amount, then within the set of people they actually admitted, sat scores would have no predictive value with respect to academic achievement, because the students who were admitted despite low sat scores would have been admitted due to some advantages detected by admissions that turned out to matter precisely as much as the higher sat scores would have

if, across the entire population, higher sat scores had no predictive value with respect to academic achievement, dartmouth could get this result by preferentially admitting students with lower sat scores. (for example, maybe you would need a high school gpa of 4.1 or higher to get in if your meaningless sat score were 1500, but this hypothetical bizarro dartmouth would let you in with a high-school gpa of 3.1 or higher if your meaningless sat score were only 1000; if the 3.1 students in high school continued being 3.1 students at dartmouth, it would make the meaningless sat scores highly predictive of academic achievement at dartmouth, among the people who actually got in.)

of course that would be an extremely unlikely thing for dartmouth to do, and they mention a lot of other evidence that sat scores predict academic achievement in general, not just among the students they admit

r-squared of 0.22 is still not a great predictor, though

if you want to read this report, it may be useful to open it in two separate browser tabs, scrolling the second one to the figures, which begin on p. 9
There is a lot of support for students who can’t afford to take the test. What isn’t really included is test prep. China has the gaokao, which everyone can take, but the prep factor is real even if they tried to outlaw it.
Move headquarters back to Puget Sound. It’s the only way.
Haha well I made one point, which was self-evident, the rest I'll leave it to the adults.
> I found this book dull, uninteresting and pretentious.

Yup, exactly my thoughts. But for some reason, the HN crowd keeps recommending it. Its gotten previously-- 5-10 years ago, it would be recommended in almost every book recommendation post
From time to time you see a press release about a Hollywood star who just got an "IQ Test" quoting a score which is the maximum for

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices

Given that that test has a limited number of questions and the nature of the test it seems that anyone who is good at remembering lines could benefit from coaching. In fact they've come out with versions of that test which are different from the standard test because the standard test is too well known.

My perception is that there is a psychologist who administers the test and another psychologist who administers test prep, but a lot of people hang onto the idea that Alyssa Milano must have really gotten a perfect score on Raven since everyone successful must be really smart, the system is fair, etc.
An ID is like social security number. When you give it away on the street corner, who knows what other people will do with it.

IMHO, leaking an ID always impose a risk. It is always have negative impact if leaked, no matter how perfect your system is.
Codebase Assistant: Answers technical questions on LlamaIndex
> And dozens of his projects have utterly failed. Remember The Boring Company? Hyperloop? The-site-formerlly-and-forever-known-as-Twitter-until-Musk-ruined-it?

You say dozens and name two, one of which (X) is still up and running with active user engagement. Many people have thrown darts, none have developed self-landing reusable rockets and outcompeted ULA or developed a satellite based global internet provider. Not even Google at its peak was able to come up with anything better than Project Loon. I’ll concede there’s a little luck in every venture, but what Musk and SpaceX have accomplished is well beyond luck and quite remarkable.
This is not surprising to me. Our local school district started using social promotion several years ago when a new Superintendent started. Struggling students were ratcheted down to being taught materials 1-3 grades below their level. Extra credit not related to the subject were allowed to boost grades (such as coloring assignments in 4th grade Spanish). The end result was a huge population of kids with straight B averages who performed dismally on State standardized testing.

We know because our kids were two of those students. We took them out of public school into private last year. The first six months were hell as they had to catch up from their deficits and learn how to study for real. 18 months later they are getting real A’s and B’s (and a few C’s) that are real grades.

We need standardized tests because more and more school districts are going the social promotion route
Nobody is debating or wanting to debate you. Certainly you are used to this.
Later GPA is subject to distortion via less prepared or capable students switching into easier majors. Here's a paper indirectly showing the effect at Duke with a racial framing: https://izajole.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/2193-8997-...
> most Russian techies left

This was about them getting paid fat paychecks from western clients/employers not out of draft fears.
The problem I've found with flip phones is that they're still smartphones, complete with apps. Just very limited smartphones.

I want an actual dumbphone, but I can't find any on the market anywhere.
Sorry, it seems complicated. Since it is a finetune of Deepseek-Coder, I had to include their license.

Deepseek is pretty open, just says not to use it for:
- military purposes
- exploiting vulnerabilities etc.

Just trying to include as much information as possible from the initial base model.
> Even Kevin de León, the city council member who represents downtown, emerged from his hiding hole on Groundhog Day to tell KTLA Channel 5 that Los Angeles should not be an “open canvas [for] budding artists.”

I don’t know de León, but I see he’s got the conservatives’ gift for describing his opponent’s desired world in the coolest possible way. “Taco truck on every corner” vibes here.
If you look into other Android E-ink devices they all run Android 11. I can't find where I saw it now, but I looked into it when I bought a Onyx Boox device and it apparently had something to do with the driver blobs for the screen not supporting Android 12 and higher.
Space isn’t the limiter, teaching hours via faculty are. The most popular universities, research ones, have faculty that teach only a few undergrad classes a year. Changing those popular universities into ones more focused on undergrad education would make them less popular.

Germany might be a better model where barebones education is easily accessible. They leave much more up to students: your homework might not be looked at and your grade depends solely on a final exam. No student centers or leafy campuses either.
I run a fractional CTO business. I started it in 2013, went full time as CTO with my 4th client and stayed through exit a couple of years back, and then took on multiple clients again starting around 12 months ago.

The flexibility and being my own boss is great. I have enough bandwidth to work on long term bets, while keeping income flowing. The type of clients who hire fractional CTOs can be challenging - they're typically bootstrapping, and often have unrealistic expectations. Finding new clients hasn't been particularly hard, at least so far; word of mouth in my network has been about 70% of engagements, with online postings the remainder.

Not for everybody. I own my house and don't have kids, so I have a high risk tolerance. But, if you have a safety net and the confidence in your skills, it's a great lifestyle.
Researchers are spying for signs of life among exoplanet atmospheres
If a school asks for SAT or ACT scores but, hypothetically, wants to discriminate based on race or some other characteristic, doesn't requiring the ACT/SAT make them more likely to be liable for discrimination because there is an objective standard to show that they are treating some groups differently than others? I thought that some of the recent rulings against selecting students based on their race hinged on the statistics showing that some groups were able to get in with lower ACT/SAT scores, while other groups had to have a much higher score to be admitted.
Thanks. I think for me, going deep is really good. Pomodoro never worked for me as I prefer to wrap up everything, or at least one milestone in one shot, so I have to spend hours. Good luck for the app BTW!
Airlines can just pass higher operating costs onto customers rather than making a capital investment that would make service more economical in the long term.
A direct link to the LinkedIn post instead: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7160295...

I know LinkedIn is bad but a link to Twitter that links to LinkedIn is worse.
When my wife first moved here to the US (from overseas), we'd pass by some used car places and they had cars with big "$1999" and "$2799" in the windows. "Wow... they've got great prices!" she said. I burst her bubble with "that's just 'downpayment'". Eventually we went up close to one to show her "yep, the car is actually $11k, but they put $1999 in giant numbers to get you to pull in.

She's not dumb by any means, but I don't think this was legal in the UK where she came from. That was a bit of an eye-opener for me.
Flags don't cancel each other out, so me and twilight-zone me get along just fine.
It's probably not going to be all that different - similar to switching between programming languages. Typst markup feels more modern and intuitive. That may give it a slight advantage while note taking. But LaTeX has an elaborate layout algorithm that plays a big part in why its output is so good looking. I'm curious about how Typst's layout compares with that.
That's very smart.
Possibly the impact of extremely low interest rates for so long (Thanks FED). I would expect it to fade away slowly since the behavioral changes need time.
>Given it just needs to be done once

Since it is still the early days I think they are hesitant to ban every insecure device once one is discovered. This greatly decreased the cost for attackers.

>and a hdcp stripping device

Those only work with older versions of HDCP. Over time newer versions of HDCP will keep making the security better making it eventually impossible for an external splitter to work. No such splitter exists for HDCP 2.3 which came out 6 years ago.
Yes please do! Looks awesome, would love to help any way I can as well.
The road to hell is paved with asphalt
Liability for driving a car should come in form of subsidized debt not insurance. If I cause damage and I am at fault and can't pay out of pocket, the govenrment should pay for me and then I would be in debt for that cost to be paid over 7-10 years time(basic liability is 25-30k,so maximim 250/mo for a decade).

Being forced to pay for a damage I have yet to cause is messed up. The fear of being in debt would also lead to better and more careful driving. This is for the manadatory stuff, insurance should still be an alternative option.

In a free society, citizens should not be forced to do business with a business. All manadatory obligations by the government must be with the government. Alternatively, the government can provide a no-profit minimal insurance service kind of like the postal service.
thank you, wow that's buried deep. Been using firefox for forever, and don't think I've ever noticed / seen that button. Thank you.
The thing is: completely unsuitable students need to fail out in the first year. That's what "weeder" courses are for. They prevent students wasting time and money, only to fail out years later.

Which means: you don't have the same stats for 3rd and 4th year students.
No issue on my end. Is it already fixed, or does Android Chrome just overcome poor implementations?
Context about the author: He wrote the EGUI library, an immediate mode rust GUI library. It's very good; one of the best GUI coding experiences I've had.
Soup! Hens make delicious delicious soup. Meat comes out of a good soup tasting like sawdust anyway.
It's interesting that you bring up Iran. They are actually doing pretty well considering that the US stole all their foreign currency reserves (and also precipitated the original conflict in the first place).
Dartmouth in 1950 was an all mens college that enrolled less than 2,500. Women weren't allowed until the 1970s.

Dartmouth today has 6,700 students of all races, genders, religions.

Enrollment numbers can and do change, but it is much harder and slower to change something that is physically and resource constrained than it is to change policy.
> I'm as cynical as they come but I'm actually happy that they report these issues and I hope that they will do this exhaustively until they have a proper inventory of what went wrong so they have a chance to really repair both the issues and their culture, and hopefully before there is another incident.

Sure, me too.
If - for some reason - FreeBSD would not be available - I would be running NetBSD.

The things I miss in NetBSD (having them on FreeBSD) are:

- ZFS Boot Environments with beadm(8) command.

- Bhyve (I hope NVMM will get to similar level)

- Jails - not sure NetBSD will bring any containers into the 'game' ...

- Probably some other things that I missed because of not not running NetBSD daily.

I heard WINE is not a 1st class NetBSD citizen - so that helps a lot here.

IMHO (with my limited NetBSD experience) seems to look bright ... and I wish NetBSD and NetBSD community all the best.
Yeah, Canonical presented one of these 40 question style interviews that felt like a very thinly veiled class check in comparison to the usual interviews in my country. I'd much rather a whiteboard exercise than that.

Apparently it's been discussed on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37059857
That was the aim always. To disadvantage the poor and middle class by disguising under “equality” and “diversity”.

Two-faced hypocrisy at its peak.
Waste of space: Not really? The plot of land the building is on is ~ 1/3rd of an acre. Immediately adjacent to it are multiple street level-only parking lots that have a larger footprint. I guess providing parking to 60 cars is more useful than an empty building, but not by much, especially considering the building will probably be rehabbed eventually. For reference the LACC 1 block away has parking for 6000 cars, and done in a reasonable, space-efficient manner (multilevel underground parking).

Waste of money: Whose money? The developers? Sure. But it isn't like random tax paying citizens of LA had any kind of stake in it.
I was debating with people with regards to Honda vs Prius, and this old website came up.

This is a detailed simulation of what the Prius's computer system is thinking about, trying to balance the three motors (1x ICE + 2x Electric) to achieve the wheel-speeds across different driving conditions.

For those unaware: the PSD (Power-split device) is a glorified and inverted differential. Instead of allowing 2x wheels to be driven at different speeds, the PSD allows multiple power-inputs (MG2 Electric motor + ICE) to combine together to drive the axle (which ultimately goes into a differential to power the two wheels later in the car's powertrain).

In any case, this is all possible because the two motors, MG1 and MG2, carefully are controlled to allow the ICE engine to shift up or down through "virtual gears", so to speak. The ICE engine at 1000-RPM can (depending on MG1 vs MG2 settings), travel as low as 0mph to 65mph despite never changing its RPM (albeit requiring different amounts of power to be given to MG1 and MG2 electric motors).

What the computer chooses depends on the battery pack's power. In particular, the ICE engine also charges up the battery pack, so loading the ICE more for more battery charging could be chosen. Or the computer could choose to run more EV power (draining the battery, "making room" for more power from regenerative braking later). There's a lot of decisions the computer could make, and it all comes down to the speed of MG1 and MG2.

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Modern Prius from 2024 has a beefier system with far more power for the ICE, MG1 and MG2 motors. The RAV4 Hybrid and RAV4 Prime systems are even bigger (as appropriate for a larger SUV). So the specific RPMs may not be true anymore for a modern system, but its still a good demo to give an idea of what the computer is thinking about.

Despite the changes in motor size and ICE engine size, and a few gear ratios... a modern Prius, Prius Prime, Rav4 and RAV4 prime still uses this 2x electric motor (MG1 + MG2) plus ICE system today in 2024 as its hybrid drive train.
> That would be perfect for long-term sustainability.

I guess if you don't care about your country or continent legacy that could work yes
I assume you don't live in one of the tech/finance hubs anywhere in the world. Because really, 10k a month is nothing really special. no fancy car, no fancy house. Just a lot of fixed costs. And for your information. Our daycare is only 2.5 days a week. I take care of my kids 1.5 weekdays and my wife 1 day. Can you imagine daycare a full 5 days a week? that's 2 times more expensive.
Title feels misleading since the study specifically calls out "processed" foods and meats.

> MFA revealed trends in the data and a strong correlation (Lg = 0.92, RV = 0.65) between the daily consumption of processed food and meat items in AD patients.
> I tend to think there is an unspoken fear that if it became more accessible it loses its prestige

That might be a concern for Dartmouth and the Ivys. But for US state schools, not so much. And those generally provide a very high value:cost product.
What, you mean kids from a disadvantaged background can't build a 10 page CV filled with outreach, volunteering, expensive sports and musical practice by the time they're 18? They don't have an instinctive feel for the current pieties, bred into them since they're 3, to put in their admission essays?
Maybe I'm missing something, and this is a "dropbox" comment, but this article makes this sound like it's high-effort or high-skill.

While I'm sure Neural Networks bring this to a new level, I feel like this wouldn't be hyper difficult to automate without them.

What's more, $15 sounds like a lot. If this wasn't certainly going to be used for less-than-ethical purposes, I feel like it would be ripe for disrupting this market with $5 or $2 IDs of various quality.
Ah, but how well does academic achievement (at Dartmouth, or others) correlate to job/life performance?
I don't see how anyone could trust Microsoft or openai given their track records.
IMO the thing that tests do not sample is persistance. Missing that degree of freedom misses important mind-sets to achieving goals.

One of the most interesting studies, not specifically focused on "success" / GPA, but on "life-satisfaction" comes from a longitudinal study "Project Talent"[1]. The key correlation to "life-satisfaction"/happiness is how many questions a person _attempts_ to answer on an otherwise un-finishable exam.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Talent
Always felt that the ability to think was indicative of academic success.

But also a good SAT for (those not naturally brilliant = most of us) also a positive indication of the student work ethic (to study for the test).

The problem I believe with the disadvantged students argument, which I believe to be a very real problem - is that lowering the standards wrt the test scores - is just a bad solution to a real problem.

Poor students do sit at a disadvantage - but the fix is much more difficult and complicated, and involves that child's entire life experience until they become 17 or 18 y/old. No one has a handle on how to fix it.

I get the feeling smart + hard work will come back into fashion when it comes to academic opportunities.