skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NYTimes "The Daily" podcast had an informative episode on the matter[1]

I'm out of the loop since my college days are behind me, and I don't have kids.

I had heard colleges were going to rely less on standardized testing (and many dropped the requirement during Covid when SAT tests didn't take place at all). I had also heard that there was controversy over reliance on standardized tests, because the wealthy can more easily afford expensive test prep, which initially seemed reasonable to me.

But then when I listed to the podcast I was stunned that the colleges seemed to think relying much more heavily on grades and extracurricular activities was somehow an _improvement_. I thought "grade inflation" was a big worry over the past couple of decades? I thought we all joked about today's nonsensical GPAs where kids get, whatever, 4.5s or 5.0s on a scale of 0-4. And it goes without saying that it's obvious to most of us that volunteering and participating in travel sports and debate teams and so on, is FAR more accessible to those with money, with transportation, with resources, with involved parents?

Standardized tests can't tell us how diligently kids do their homework, how well they do after encountering a setback. Maybe they favor kids who are smart but lazy. They can't tell us how a kid will do when they go from being a high school standout to a below average Harvard student.

But they sure as hell tell us a lot more than utterly subjective grading systems with no standardization whatsoever, and "intangibles" that tell us only how good a kid's family (or hired college prep expert) is at identifying activities that will get them into a selective University.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/podcasts/the-daily/the-wa...
Levels.fyi used Google Sheets for their back end
The event timestamps embedded in the UUID can be correlated with external event streams, or even with other events within the same dataset, to de-anonymize the context of the event associated with the UUID. This is a common class of de-anonymization attack. Anything that allows temporal correlations to be inferred potentially leaks quite a lot of info about the data underlying the unique ids.
Cardboard boxes aren't subject to leaked electronic keypad codes.

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/liberty-safe-changes-its-p...
EU is working on an "EU Digital Identity Wallet". Which might be a good step in that direction. Even though it remains to be seen whether it won't be piggy-backed on some current weak authentication/identification methods in practical implementations.
This is the legacy of Jack Welch. His short-term thinking to bolster stock price has become the new norm. There is a whole generation of CEOs who are following in Jack's failed footsteps.
Maybe your comment is a bit US-centric.

I experienced once a minor car accident where another driver did some damage to my car (well, and his). There where no courts involved. Just one insurance company retrieving a bill (not mine because it was not my fault as the other driver and me agreed on (and used a form to confirm that) and paying the bill.

And my point is less about _who_ paid, but more about that _anybody_ pays. If two people without insurance hit each other, who's going to pay the bills?
That's what AI is for, and it does a great job of this today.
California program to convert unused space into homes for unhoused hit milestone
Looks cool. Would love to know pricing and how/where you store data?
Well yeah, our society doesn't really reward hard work and advanced knowledge for the many. There are the rare exceptions, but for the most part to make $$$ you need to buy into the current system which is all about making spreadsheet numbers go up YoY at the cost of everything else. If you don't do that, well I hope you can find a niche somewhere that is stable and comfortable.
The point of the report is that SAT scores are less correlated with socioeconomic status than other metrics used by admissions like GPA, high school reputation, extracurriculars, essay content, etc. They're still correlated. One of the interesting findings of social science research is that a lot of different metrics like IQ (itself a correlation between different subtest performances), GPA, parental income, child's income, parental wealth, child's wealth, college acceptance chance, eventual education level, ability to delay gratification, general health, etc are all correlated - that's the idea behind the g-factor, a measure of general intelligence that highly correlates with wealth & income. But this research shows that among those correlates, SAT scores are actually less correlated with socioeconomic status than the other metrics that admissions committees can use.

This is also why the SAT was adopted by Harvard in 1934. Prior to that, most students attending Harvard came from private New England boarding schools that could only be afforded by the upper class. They saw an opportunity to diversify the student body by testing the general public and admitting those that scored highest. As an added benefit, the SAT was much easier to grade than previous essay-based admissions standards, and so it reduced cost for the University.
> it will probably take years

In the direction things are going ... maybe a few months :)
The article is translated from Swedish to English. "Pajama paper" is perhaps a localized expression for this paper style. I've also never heard it before.
The war will not end there. Just pause.

It will not "end" until Russia has installed a subservient client regime in Ukraine like it has in Belorussia.

If you doubt this, I encourage you to look at actual opinions within Russia itself. Interviews with Russians (the 1420 channel on Youtube for example), Russian media, Russian politicians. Their objection is far more than "there's Russian speakers being persecuted by Ukraine." Their national chauvinism leaves them unable to tolerate actually-sovereign nation states on their borders, especially one with an intertwined cultural-linguistic-political history like Ukraine.

"Split Ukraine into two and give the far western half to Poland and absorb the rest into Russia" is a commonly held "solution".
Clojure sits on top of the JVM and allows for Java interop, but the language itself does not losslessly encode all of the semantics of Java. Same goes for ClojureScript and the other dialects.

The difference here is that the lisp's AST would need to map 1:1 with its underlying language.
Naymee: The social network for people that love domains
Fully agree, in this race of "2000 NIT ULTRA BRIGHT OLED FOR DAYLIGHT!!!" screens, transflective displays make sunlight seem like a gift. My previous smartwatch (Amazfit Bip) had one and it's a real pity no one bothers too much with them.
Exactly.

There's no shortage of people who can teach, there is only a shortage of a willingness to pay them to do so.
Nitrates in meat have long been known as a problem for other reasons too, haven't they? Particularly with regards to various digestion related cancers - this gives another reason to cut back.

The linked artical is a bit ambiguous though; initially it says:

> diet with lots of meat and processed foods

and then later

> patients with Alzheimer's tended to eat a diet rich in "processed food and meat items"

is "processed" in the second one referring to just "food" or both food and meat?
I speak zero Japanese. I've met a lot of immigrants here in the last couple of weeks, and it seems that you can get to a working level of Japaneses within a couple of months. After that, it seems that working for a Japanese company IRL is the biggest determinant of becoming fluent.

The good news it that Japan seems to be in desperate desire of skilled foreigners, and announced plans this week for a digital nomad visa: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/02/02/japan/society/d...

I've heard that the path from temporary visa to a more permanent one is somewhat straightforward for a self-employed person if you're able to show moderate revenue from Japanese clients.
I like it too . I even liked the old website better than the current one. It was more colorful and fancy.

Brand reflects a project's philosphy. Deno is thought to be easy and simple, and the "childish" branding reflects that.

So you may not be wrong at all in your criteria. Subjective human communication can be more effective than objective communication sometimes ;). It just works at a different level.
I'm bootstrapping https://www.crone.ai and making a small amount of money.

I've bootstrapped a few companies. B2B apps are easier since you can do custom work for business clients while you perfect your software.

Crone AI is much harder. It's my first edtech consumer app. It's been live for 3 months and we've made $1,500 so far (lol).

My previous business startups made $200k ARR and $1M ARR. Iterating on consumer apps is more fun and you can still extrapolate growth from small numbers.
At least for the last point i can recommend jellyfin. It has a web interface, a android tv app and an iphone app. I use it on my phone, tv and in the browser.

https://jellyfin.org/
> I do not know what "Pagerduty" is

You lucky bastard.

It's for getting paged into on-call events. It shows you don't go on-call which makes me want to know...is your company hiring? haha
The world is about to make a lot more green hydrogen. These charts show how
Good for you, downvote away, don't feel the need in the future to justify it. I've no issue losing internet points if you're butthurt about jokes.
Such a good point, I never thought of that and think it would add credibility to the product too. 90% of traffic comes from the app store and the pricing is shown there on Google and Apple, most people never see the landing page, but I think this would be good to add.

PS it’s about $30 for a year and $6 for a month (depending on your state/country)
That’s why they choose something not directly associated with race like socioeconomic environment. If the result is correlated with race, that’s not necessarily an issue with admission processes.

There are other non-academic tests like CogAT, Wechsler, etc. that may be even better since they evaluate abstract reasoning and scale from young to old without significant modification. Those are used by gifted programs and organizations like Mensa. It’s possible that these would be adequate replacements for college admissions as well, but you may get a bunch of mildly on-spectrum kids who have never had to work hard for academic success (from my personal experience).
That’s all configurable. You can choose to download and build at startup, bundle into the docker image or “prebuild” the cache in advance / separately from the main app. I think it’s quite alright for both cloud, Docker and VPS-y deployments.
Which was, of course, a major justification for creating the SAT in the first place:

> First offered in 1926 by the College Board... Early proponents of the SAT argued that the admissions exam made higher education more meritocratic. Admissions officers at elite institutions like Harvard believed the test would identify talented applicants at less academically strong high schools and accelerate their journeys into higher education. [1]

[1] https://www.bestcolleges.com/blog/history-of-sat/
The Swift Method Dispatch Deep Dive
You may have missed the sarcasm here.
Uw you win, I guess. Already started to think what I would write in that code review comment ;)
"a very promising M&A process with a larger company fell through at the 11th hour. And so we decided to shut down"
Max Stirner's Philosophy Is Worth Reading
This is why buying a used car from a private individual is a much nicer experience and probably how I will buy any future car.
Not just a higher score. Kids with 1600s (or close) were straight up not even considered.
Is it the smart phone that's the problem or what's on the smart phone? Sounds more like the latter.
Lots of people take pictures on their phone and then look at them on other devices.
A comment starts with a score of 1. As long as the score is 1 or higher, it stays dark. It starts to fade when the score is below 1. With each step below that, it fades more.

So all the grey means is that someone downvoted it, once, before anyone upvoted it. That happens - someone reads it (or misreads it), decides it's wrong or offensive or whatever, and downvotes. That happens rather often, even to completely innocent posts. Usually it self-corrects after a bit, as others decide that there's no reason for the post to be downvoted and therefore upvote it.
An example of the same thing at a macro level:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-reb...
One can very well argue that Hertz played the market correctly. Not the actual rental market, but the stock market.

How many investors propped up Hertz's stock price and bought into Hertz with those announcements? How many $Billions did Hertz raise (aka: take from those investors) as they did this? Would Hertz have been able to take money from investors if they didn't play on the EV hype?

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hertz-announces-pri...

HTZ sold all of these stock at $29 per share. Given the stock price of HTZ now at $8.5ish, that's basically $20.5 of free money they extracted from every share over the last few years.
Kind of like a structured professional sabbatical / workcation with a built-in community and some events. (I paid for it, to be clear.)

Here's a video one of the residents made about the program I did:

https://vimeo.com/350701368
>The problem, at least in this case, is that Boeing chose to break off what is now known as Spirit Aerosystems into a separate entity

Spirit is nothing more than a basket of limited liability set up by Boeing for precisely such an ocurrence. Pretending that it's anything else is just buying into their BS corporate spin.
It sucks that the CCP makes all this innovation a nonstarter. If the CCP were to disappear the Chinese hardware hackers would benefit hugely and the West would even benefit from the added innovation/competition. I feel robbed in a way.
A projector is not going to be able to compete with the picture quality of an emissive (i.e OLED) display.
Boeing Finds More Misdrilled Holes on 737 in Latest Setback
I can definitely appreciate security concerns but I don't see how providing your schema is of any concern whatsoever.
the claim that you are not unusual is blatantly you generalising from your own experience! You didn't even bother with the figleaf of "and I know many others like me"...
> 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?

Yeah this is the issue I have with all of the SQL generation stuff. Not only should the SQL be valid, a prompt like "generate a query that pulls sales for the last quarter" should generate the same output for everyone without fail. Vanna's business logic embedding is a good first step but even then it is only correct like 90% of the time with GPT-4.

Even then, it will only work if there are strong standards and data governance structures in place that everyone within an organization is aligned on. For example, "sales" can mean different things to different people and all of that needs to be buttoned up as well.
Things have really started changing with when radio receivers became popular. Before them, there really was no technology for easy, cheap, endless, captivating passive entertainment. TV was radio on steroids, and Internet and smartphones are even more captivating.
If you know how much to charge me, you know how much to advertise. It's literally that simple.
Yes, the context of my comment was lost when I edited it. For clarity, I wasn't claiming that Yandex was an acroynm.
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My only point was that hearing about the issues found by more inspections shouldn't change your mind about the safety because performing more inspections and reporting on the findings doesn't reduce the safety of what it already was (what you were presumably already OK with before simply hearing about the new inspections and issues found).
> You keep talking about the judgement

That's to be expected in a HN story and discussion literally about the judgement. Two parties disagreed, and a judge listened to both sides, judged the disagreement, and came to a judgement on the facts of the case (stated in my above), and on which one of the parties was right, and which was wrong.

Maybe you think shareholders will re-approve an agreement re-negotiated with new directors, and this time he can't defraud shareholders, but I doubt it, and it's not really relevant here. The clawback is done, on behalf of shareholders. I appreciate the shareholder who brought the lawsuit on my behalf. I get everything I had before, plus 50 billion dollars worth of wealth is going to make us, rather than elmu, more money. Win-win (for us)!

The rest of the post is mostly fawning over musk [0][1] and opinions about the nature of reality which were carefully considered and then overruled by the judge. It really feels like some folks are having trouble accepting the realities that the judge laid down about how elmu defrauded shareholders. How else to say it?: If someone disagrees with anything the judge said in their judgement [2], that someone is incorrect.

The shareholders did indeed crush it, with this ruling. This was a shareholder lawsuit brought against elmu for acting against the interests of the shareholders, and he lost, because that's precisely what he did. You personally being okay with it, doesn't change that. The article here is a good link, but I encourage you to read the judgement against elmu in full – that is linked for you in my above post, as well as below [2].

Also, looks like you played the '"hatred" for musk' card. That gives me a bingo!

[0]: "You could put Musk in charge of apple and he would save you 50 billion on the first day – I think we both know he'd try to cost apple 50 billion too, like he did Tesla, which he'd spend on another social network to shitpost on instead of doing an actual job. It's not like he actually innovates ('lol look at my kitchen sink joke and anti-semetic conspiracy theories what an innovation'). Apple would keep on keeping on with or without this particular inflammatory figurehead, just like Tesla would.

[1]: the theory about his huge twitter failure causing their competitor to succeed, and this is somehow an indication of his good management, is... interesting :)

[2]: (PDF warning) https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rpaOEefQ...
If someone has my social security number and name and address I'm pretty sure they can just impersonate me however they like (and I have to give my social security number to so many random institutions that it isn't that secret). Honestly if someone steals my mail at certain times of year it's pretty likely they could steal my whole identity
> I'm still frustrated that Apple (or really, any manufacturer), for all their money, can't figure out how to make a water resistant laptop.

Depending on your luck and your laptop's vintage, many business class laptops offer(ed) keyboard spill protection. I think my HP ProBook 430 G3 had it, I've definitely spilled a lot of water once from a big bottle and it was mostly "fine". (The headphone jack didn't work but I don't remember if that was a pre-existing issue.) Iirc thinkpads may also offer it.
> > I can't see why a company couldn't have one long-term customer.

> Let's hope you won't find out why that's a very bad idea.

The way you phrased it feels needlessly patronizing (perhaps unintentionally), but more importantly, it does not really address my comment.

I wasn't arguing if it is a good idea or not. I was responding to the argument that having multiple customers is necessary to be regarded as "truly" self-employed in the eyes of the taxman. My point is that it's not uncommon nor unusual for a small company to be invoicing only a single customer. Hence my examples. Whether it is safe business-wise is another story.

> If at the end of the year you've only sent invoices to a single customer then you are simply at risk. You need multiple customers to be stable and secure. Two is better than one and three is really the minimum.

Noone denies that having diversified sources of income is (other things being equal) the safer option. But the subject was legal recognition, not optimal business strategies.
So do you think all of Russia's annexations should be recognised by the international community?
Apple would have sliding magnetic add hoc buttons, like black polished gravel sliding over a self raking sand garden.

Also everyone can make a car, but then you become a competitor and get locked out of all other cars.
Doesn't surprise me. He's been wrong about many things before. Uber and Tesla are both doing very well financially.

More seriously, there have been Tweets[1] about small credit unions having this issue. Don't most small credit unions use the same outsourced tech provider?
its a bad IQ test. a poor G proxy
A few years back, we were watching the Lucifer series—which, after being cancelled on whatever network it was on, was picked up by Netflix for its last...2 seasons, I think.

One day, it just...disappeared. One of Netflix's own shows (we were, by that time, watching the episodes they had produced).

Every source I could find said that Netflix carried it. But when I searched for it on Netflix, I couldn't find it.

A few months later, it reappeared, as mysteriously as it had vanished. Of course, by that time I'd simply downloaded the remainder of the series and we'd watched it through Plex.

I live in America.
They aren’t because latex has non local syntax rules - figuring out why it is saying missing $ inserted instead of showing you the equation is rather damning to the free flow of thought. And when you are solving a problem, your thoughts are likely to be quite wrong, where you think a thing is an X but it is a finitely blah blah blah X’ which is totally different for the thing you want to calculate/prove.

I will often generate ten pages of scribbled on paper to come up with one page of LaTeX homework. And the I joyfully crumple up the ten pages and recycle them.
I poked around your website because I was curious if the name was a band reference. Love the Spiderland photo of the staff!
Here is the link to their "master plan" to read all of the excavated scrolls: https://scrollprize.org/master_plan

It looks like there are two main bottlenecks to reading more: the need for manual intervention in segmenting the scanned scrolls, and the cost in scanning new scrolls.
still, card board boxes have no security at all; doesn't matter whether the codes were leaked or not.

there's a point to be made for expections of strong security where it's actually weak, but is no security at all really better than bad security?
Turns out you’re correct. The engine is a CFM, but the cowling (which is supposed to contain ejected fan blades) is designed by the airframe manufacturer. In this case, Boeing. TIL!

Chalk one death up to a Boeing design in the last 21 years.
I concur that Christian Dominionism is an enormous factor, but I think it's important to realize that the cult-like behavior goes beyond that. They are political allies with both "mainstream" Christians and staunch atheists. The Dominionists are only about 1/4 of the United States -- enough to dominate a ruling party, but only if the rest accede to it.

The origins of that alliance are complex and deep. They've definitely been cultivated over that 50-60 year time frame you mention, though they go back even further. You mention the John Birch Society, which is about 20 years further back. Before that it was anti-immigrant hysteria, and back through the Civil War and the founding of the country.

I don't fully understand what makes that alliance work now, seeing as the allies in it should be at each other's throats. They each seem to think that they're getting something over on the other, somehow.