skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends- if they end up doing race based red-lining, where they’re only boosting minority dominated zip codes instead of generally poor ones, they could still get dinged.
I read that as "sack 10% to selectively threaten the other 90% with a return to office".
Uber gains benefit of functioning better under low/no connectivity, better location access and local/remote notifications as well as visual integration (e.g. showing ETAs and updates in the Dynamic Island or on the Lock Screen).

Some of these (increased caching and remote notifications) you can get on iOS if you install a web app as a Home Screen icon, but as just a website Uber might not get their minimum bar of functionality for widespread use. So far, I haven't seen any large companies have installed web apps as their go-to-market strategy.
This is a super goofy thing to say about Dartmouth admissions, because as of 2019 they expected admits to have all of that and have a 1550+/35+ test score.

I'm beginning to think a lot of the people commenting on these things have this weird concept of these schools admitting poor kids from the sticks and asian kids from Chinatowns with no resume items except good grades and test scores....it's true they have much lower standards for them, but they still need to have a decently "pointy" resume to get in.

The only way Dartmouth can fix it's "equity" problems is by shutting down for good.
BaofengUV5R-TRRS: tiny board to connect Baofeng UV5R radio to phones
It happened very soon after launch actually, maybe a few days. Because the name essentially is a search term, people were able to find it right away
Hmmm: I know that phrase all too well! But where was I associated with it? Whoever you are, I suspect we met at one of these places:

A whiteboard at Newfield Wireless around 2015 (amongst LTE geolocation wizards)?

Space Telescope Science Institute during the pre-launch doldrums (I scribbled it on one of the VAX-780's)?

While an exchange scholar in Nanjing in 1980, I tried to translate this into Mandarin, to the confusion of my astronomical colleagues at Purple Mountain Observatory.

Either way, thank you for your smile this morning!
- Cliff on a windy Monday morning in Oakland, California.
When was the last time you remember the USG nationalizing a large corporation?
I think even if I were very proficient in LaTeX I'd still not be able to keep up with the lecture. It seems to me that pen and paper is better. Even better would be if the professor would just post the notes for their own lectures.
I was just commenting to a friend (who was on a massively delayed flight out of SFO yesterday) that, when I'm in Economy, I want a window so I can see what's going on outside. I feel anxious during delays and just want to get off the ground.

When I'm in business class, I simply don't care what's going on outside. Let me know when we land.

Now, bear with me, because this might sound obvious, but I don't think it is. You can have in-flight-entertainment in Economy. You can have videos playing on your tablet or whatever. We have far more distractions than ever before. You can read your book, listen to your music. The seats are comfortable enough in the first hour of your delay. At 5'10" I have sufficient legroom.

I think the difference is the seat pitch. I don't consider myself claustrophobic, but staring at a seatback 2 feet in front of my face just makes me want to see what the hell is going on to get me off the ground and to my destination. I think this is far more of an issue than the curvature of the fuselage.
Lol... interesting how they only lock half of a paragraph behind a subscribe-wall.
Ticketmaster "convenience" fees send me the hardest. They mean I'm paying for their convenience of not having a physical location or staff?
> I also asked whether she was worried that conservative critics of affirmative action might use test scores to accuse Dartmouth of violating the recent Supreme Court ruling barring race-conscious admissions. She was not. Dartmouth can legally admit a diverse class while using test scores as one part of its holistic admissions process, she said.

I am conservative and I have no problem with poor students from disadvantaged backgrounds having their scores weighed differently.

I absolutely do have a problem with race-based admissions. Most conservatives have a problem with race-based admissions because it is not fair to poor students.

I remember a girl from my college (elite institution on west coast) that would go on and on about how disadvantaged she was because she was 'black'. Firstly, she's like a quarter black and looks completely white. Secondly, and more importantly, she's filthy rich. I mean... like multiple international trips a year growing up. Super picky about fashion, etc. Both parents had PhDs. Nevertheless, she qualified for all the diversity offerings the school had, including scholarships, special programs, etc.

Meanwhile, we had kids whose parents never attended college and grew up in the middle of bumfuck nowhere with very disadvantaged background, who were given nothing because of their race and sex.

Now, I'm certainly not part of the latter group (grew up middle class and am neither white nor black or any 'disadvantaged' minority) and frankly don't have a whole lot to lose in this debate, but seeing this with my own eyes has convinced me that we need to look at actual disadvantage, not just race. There are A LOT of high-achieving black, latinos, <insert minority here>. That's great! More power to them. I have no qualms with rich people.

I do have qualms when they pretend to be disadvantaged to get an advantage over obviously more disadvantaged others. This is annoying when Donald Trump does it. It's annoying when Elon Musk does it. And it's annoying if someone who's not white does it too.

The idea that simply because you're of a particular race, you're automatically disadvantaged is retarded.
Something that requires you changing your whole dev process around it and then shuts down one day is not an asset.
It's pretty typically American to only be able to see the world through the lense of their own parochial internal interests and partisan conflicts. Their economy and military and geography of the country are so big that the gravity field of the place is massive, and both liberals and conservatives there rewrite things in terms of their own dysfunctional political cultural battles. Not to say other places in the world don't have ideological blinders, but the US is extreme.

The prime example of this was the nonsense that got Trump impeached ... Trump trying to strong-arm Zelensky into intervening into US domestic politics. "Art of the deal" wasn't so much that, as it was just total blindness to anything outside his own internal interests. American tribal politics were clearly so important that the survival of Ukraine itself was a bargaining chip.

FWIW up here in Canada none of the 5 mainstream political parties have taken a position against supporting Ukraine, financially and militarily. Given the size of the Ukrainian-Canadian population (third largest Ukrainian population after Ukraine and Russia) such a position would be electorally toxic.
And Coleman had to leave the US and go to France to get her license, because she was an African-American woman and no US school would teach her. She took French classes to send applications to the flight schools.
I feel its memory leak issue should get more attention
I teach whitewater kayaking and swiftwater rescue with my company https://whitewaterworkshop.com. I started doing it on nights and weekends around a full time tech job and then when COVID hit, demand for outdoor activities skyrocketed so I went full time with it.

I worked in tech for about 15 years where I paid off my student loans very aggressively, then once those were done I started pushing the same amount of money into retirement and savings accounts. My wife and I have no kids and were probably putting $50k+/year away. Turns out if you do that for 15 years, you end up with enough money to never need to worry about rent or health insurance again and you can choose what you want to do that is more fun. For me that was instructing and leading epic multi-week rafting trips like the Grand Canyon 3 times, the Maranon River in Peru, and the Alsek River in Alaska.
> What kind of applications would this be useful for? What can you build with an AI data science intern that's right 75% of the time?

The kind of stuff that it is very easy to validate if it works or not :)

I am building a warehouse management system at the moment, and it's great to quickly churn out lots of SQL views (particularly as the schema is changing/evolving slightly as I am writing it, so being able to go back to GPT4 to churn through the changes to some of the 'views' of my pages helps, even if it requires a little testing/validation).
The real cost is the opportunity cost. Prepping for a competitive test (I don't know if SAT or ACT is one) is a full-time job. If you work for living, you don't have the time and energy to prepare adequately.
Sometime last year, they had someone cold call me from the US to sell me stuff. I’m not sure where they got my number from, but I don’t think that’s a good strategy for trying to sell B2B solutions.
All good. Just wanted to mention this was with a company I started before my current to which you are referencing.
Isn't this more just KYC stuff? If I sign up to a gambling website/crypto exchange/whatever - they ask for a photo of my driving licence or passport. I'm assuming this is just one way around that.
My own experience was that I was a mediocre high school student due to my ADHD-Inattentive, but then the SATs were interesting enough to me that I was able to really, really focus for the length of the test. And I did far better on that test that anyone would have suspected I could do based only on my grades, and it was, in fact, predictive of my college performance. In college, I was able to figure out tricks to manage my ADHD.
Just want to highlight that you put a blog named "Astral Codex Ten" claiming patchiness and methodological flaws because "data are very noisy" against the peer-reviewed journals like Oxford Scientific which for example states:

"This comprehensive meta-regression analysis reports a significant decline in sperm counts (as measured by SC and TSC) between 1973 and 2011, driven by a 50–60% decline among men unselected by fertility from North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. "

If the "data are very noisy" argument were a sound argument it would have dismissed most of the science that we have today.
Is it, though? Does _any_ of this need unique hardware?
I use tmux with neovim. Typically I just use neovim's tabbing and splits. However, when I'm running multiple processes such as a psql and a dev server I'll have that in another tmux session, usually split in there.
Additionally, i can ssh into that neovim session if I switch to my laptop, or just leave it open for later without having to :mks!
bad leadership strategy. Plain and simple. They like many once powerhouse IP controlling firms have failed to realise the very thing that gave those IPs any value in the first place..... individual identity that was not centralized by some corporate quarterly objectives.....
This used to be the iPod touch.

iPhone 12 mini is my first smartphone late 2023. I have used iPads for ten years. Love how the iPad freed me from sitting at the PC.

Now similarly I wonder if I’ll ever buy iPad again and just buy a good smartphone. Can go airplane mode anyway if I want to.

iPhone is kinda like a iPad mini with the SIM card stuff.

The convergence is inevitable, Apple Pay is great. My banking app is easier to use on phone than on PC WTF phone doesn’t require me to swipe card in some physical card trader, just type in a short code.

It only makes sense someday the phone will be like your ID for everything.

IMHO the core unease here is not really the device but just how apps are built, especially social media, which itself is symptomatic of a distorted way of life (cf koyaanisqatsi)
A company reckless enough to make "no single point a failure" a pay-for optional feature is not a company whose planes I would like to fly on, regardless of where the company operating the plane is registered.
Namecheap files suit against ICANN for removal of price caps
When I signed up with Neon Bank here in Switzerland, I went through a process involving a picture of an ID:

https://www.neon-free.ch/en/blog/about-neon/identification-v...
Garmin still uses MIP-LCD on a lot of their smartwatches, though even they have started offering more OLED variants which trade battery life and sunlight readability for better aesthetics.
Although my family moved around too much to actually be from Appalachia, I was a white kid with an Appalachian family background that grew up on government assistance (on and off) that was significantly helped on my academic journey by the use of the ACT to award scholarships.
Theres about zero websites I use that I want to be "full applications". For things that should be applications I prefer native (open source) desktop programs.
If you mean client like client, and not application server, don't do that (assuming you want to use uuidv7). Client generated IDs mean they can lie in the timestamp bits. Only use client generated ids as an idempotency key.
No. It does depend on where you live. Buying vehicles across state lines is very common and can result in significant differences in price. Doesn’t mean you couldn’t advertise the price as “for residents” or something.
Sun Microsystems never had an engineering-career CEO; whether Scott McNealy, Ed Zander, or Ponytail ... all on the sales side. No doubt it had strong "CTO" type people. Though not in the CEO, chairman or president/COO positions.
re: grade inflation, they can statistically normalize the grades

fwiw GPA and SAT scores are highly correlated anyway
edit: i will not be taking this comment in good faith, i had a look through parents comments and it looks like they simply do not agree with Slint's approach to GUI programming: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39223499#39229382

> What does it have to do with Deno

can we at least try to give people the benefit of the doubt instead of pretending like everyone is out to get you? if you read the change-log, it spells it out well:

> Our goal is to provide a windowing solution for WebGPU without linking to native windowing systems like X11

> This is a low level API that can be used by FFI windowing libraries like sdl2, glfw, raylib, winit and more to create a WebGPU surface using native window and display handles.

do you get it yet?

> 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.

i suggest talking to other graphics professionals to get a better understanding of why opengl is not _the_ solution. for a tldr[0]:

> regular OpenGL on desktops had Problems. So the browser people eventually realized that if you wanted to ship an OpenGL compatibility layer on Windows, it was actually easier to write an OpenGL emulator in DirectX than it was to use OpenGL directly and have to negotiate the various incompatibilities between OpenGL implementations of different video card drivers. The browser people also realized that if slight compatibility differences between different OpenGL drivers was hell, slight incompatibility differences between four different browsers times three OSes times different graphics card drivers would be the worst thing ever. From what I can only assume was desperation, the most successful example I've ever seen of true cross-company open source collaboration emerged: ANGLE, a BSD-licensed OpenGL emulator originally written by Google but with honest-to-goodness contributions from both Firefox and Apple, which is used for WebGL support in literally every web browser.

also, openGL is deprecated on macOS.

[0]: https://cohost.org/mcc/post/1406157-i-want-to-talk-about-web...
I recently worked on a data import project and because we used UUIDs I was able to generate all the ids offline. And because they’re randomly generated there was no risk of conflict.

This was nice because if the script failed half way through I could easily lookup which ids were already imported and continue where I left off.

The point is, this property of UUIDs occasionally comes in handy and it’s a life saver.
Looks like I'm not the only one that got intrigued by this phone from the comments in the NYT Smartphone article this morning ;)
I still find your comment hilarious
There's web-based readers that work in Chrome. After Google Reader died, I moved to Feedly which seems to still work alright.
Yeah, with some rare exceptions, I think I agree: even if you happen across an untrustworthy person in person-to-person sales, at least they don't have the additional benefit of a whole infrastructure around them set up specifically to aid in screwing you.
FastHak
There is always aliexpress, I suppose.
I myself paid ~320$ total, for the 6/128GB version.
FastHak is an extensible live-reloader built in Go.
> SATs are the chemotherapy of inclusion

This is very apt. And then all the anti science people come and argue we need to take every patient off chemotherapy because it hurts them, and thus making things worse for these poor patients. I think it is ok to think that those kind of people are insane and need to be stopped, and that chemotherapy is overall a good things for patients even if it hurts a bit.
Ironically they were at their best when doing nothing!
With that is goodbye to any chance of wider Europe investing in Russia for the next century.

I hope India takes notice because so far they seemed to have cared little about the blood on their hands.
Bottom 80% of US households persistently forced to dissave - spending more than income.

There, corrected it.
I think it’s long past time for OSS supporters to at least acknowledge the fact that, to adapt a common phrase:

Commercial software can travel half way around the world while the Open Source version is putting on its shoes.

Open source is slow, and it’s simply not feasible to live a life where everything is 100% tech freedom without making enormous sacrifices. For example the only way to avoid software in cars would be to drive something 20+ years old, which just isn’t realistic for (mostly) everyone.

The incentives for companies are so strong that in most cases you don’t even have an option, as every available product has the same type of lockdown.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256114
At first, thank you for the insights. Could you please provide a pdf version of your article with a proper formatting so it can be also read offline?
Errr the pandemic profitability and refund was extremely abnormal.

It was due to the lockdown where essentially no one drove for several months and then there was reduced driving for a year is so.

The refunds were also not done willingly, they were done due to DOIs demanding it and peer pressure.
I think it very much depends on the viewing distance. Using https://qasimk.io/screen-ppd/:

* Your 22" screen at a distance of 32" has a horizontal FOV of 33°. Moving your eyes from the middle of one screen to the adjacent screen is a 33° movement. Assuming 1080p it would have a PPD of 58, which is roughly retina PPD.

* My 27" screen at a distance of 20" (I measured it [update: originally measured at 14", remeasured in a more relaxed posture]) has a horizontal FOV of 60°, almost twice as wide. Moving my eyes to an adjacent screen would be physically impossible and I'd have to turn my head since the maximum adduction angle for human eyes is ~45° (each side). At 4K it has a PPD of 32, not even retina.

Although you can move your eyes from the center of the left screen to the center of the right (33 * 2 = 66°), you can't see the edges of your outer screens without turning your head slightly (33 * 3 = 99°, greater than human adduction of 45 * 2 = 90°).

Your three screens have a combined FOV of 99°, which is 50% bigger than my single 27" at 60°. That's definitely more, but it's 1.5x, not 3x, more. So our setups are not that different, it's just that you are using three monitors to cover a little more horizontal FOV than I get sitting closer to just one.

> I find it more uncomfortable to eyes to switch screens on the same window, especially if one is light and the other is dark. The blinking is disorientating and can be eye hurting, because eye is not prepared for the color switch/ doesn't know what to expect.

I use dark theme for everything so don't have this issue and am constantly switching between tabs and windows.
Back in 1997, in my college dorm, we had a big red emergency mushroom switch mounted to the wall, hooked up to the lights and one of those greeting cards you can record a personal voice message on. If you raise the plastic cover and hit the mushroom switch, the lights turned off, some red lights turned on, and the greeting card played Ride of the Valkyries out of its pathetic little tinny speaker.
I set up a raspberry pi + SDR antenna to publish a streaming audio feed just so I could listen to Red Sox games on my Sonos.
A lot of people feel that way. Not everyone.
Just that deeply inside that forest of functions you just wrote is the inner join that the SQL query would do in a couple of lines of code embedded.
People used to fret over the crisis of youth reading novels.
The demo was ~20 min. I put my name on a list and waited about 30 min. I was surprised that most people at the store were not there for the Vision Pro.
Thanks very much! I’d like to learn more about marketing to help me grow it. It’s hard to put an exact figure on it because it’s essentially growing every day which i’m so happy about, but recently it’s become just enough to sustain me. Perhaps at an entry level software engineering position
You would be surprised how much more comfy reading stuff is on such phone, over conventional ones.
Yes, you can use v7 today with uuid columns, you just need to add a custom function (or the more performant pg_uuidv7 extension) to generate them.
The one example I saw in a quick search that was -4 (dead) did not have the arrow to allow downvoting. So it appears that, once it's at -4, you can't subtract any more points from the user's karma via that post.
I actually specifically mentioned airlines operating in the U.S., which includes international flights operated by foreign airlines. But yes, you get to the heart of the matter. The U.S. in general expends more time and effort on safety: higher-spec airplanes, more crew hours and training, better maintenance, etc.

It doesn’t feel relevant to most people on this site to include airlines operating on a shoestring budget in Southeast Asia or Africa in the statistics. It also doesn’t feel fair to manufacturers to penalize them for operators that barely maintain their planes, overfly inexperienced pilots, and that lack basic safety regulation.
A. People who attend poor high school and get a 29 on his ACT are admitted over students to went to a college prep private school and got a 32.

B. People who are of a certain race that get a 29 on their ACT are admitted over people of another race that get a 32.

It sounds like Dartmouth is doing A. The recent court cases had to do with schools that were doing B. If a college requires SAT/ACT tests and continues doing B, then it is pretty easy to see they are doing so based on objective data.

I believe those court cases are one of the reasons schools are moving to test optional--not because the SAT/ACT isn't useful to predict success at college, but because they see it as a liability in their acceptance process.
Why should I work when other people can inherit money?
That sounds very localized to the institution your friend works at. And public universities have very different admission procedures than private ones.

You won’t get into a high tier private university (Ivy or not) without SAT/ACT scores.