skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A crucial proviso, though, is that they're comparing the applicant's test scores to their high school peers rather than to other applicants.

> They don't know that their 1400 might be a great score given the challenges of their neighborhood and educational environment.

"standardized testing—when assessed using the local norms at a student's high school—is a valuable element of Dartmouth's undergraduate application" https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/apply/update-testing-policy
Gemini's AI Image Generator Accused of Being 'Anti-White'
Fair use is an exception to copyright. The issue here is that it's not fair use, because copyright simply does not apply. Copyright explicitly does not, has never, and will never protect style.
Or, even more commonly:

3yo: "What if we have ice cream today and ice cream tomorrow too?". Because small children know better than to constrain themselves to artificially restricted choices offered by parents.

Source: experience from navigating such negotiations for the past 1.5 year with my now almost-5 daughter.
You might have to if they look sufficiently weird on the scan. But your end of the conversation is unlikely to be much more involved than "Yeah, that's my bag", "It's a bunch of eclipse viewing glasses".
I think it is clear that it is broken now.

But thinking what we want is worth discussing. Maybe they should have some diversity/etnicity dial with the default settings somewhere in the middle between no correction and overcorrection now.
can someone explain why nVidia doesn't just hold their own AI? And literally devote 50% of their production to their own compute center? In an age where even ancient companies like Cisco are getting in the AI race, why wouldn't the people with the keys to the kingdom get involved?
This was a great read and I loved the sections on intuition. But I kept wondering when the author would circle back to showing how the D stat would perform against the cases they presented for other correlation stats as evidence that those stats were flawed.
it's a solution in the sense that it forces them to pay even though they don't want to, just like payroll withholding is a solution to the problem of people not wanting to pay income tax
The opinion in the Alabama Supreme Court ruling is a fascinating read, as the justices attempting to figure out what the heck the legislature's intent was in a poorly-written and sparse law.

https://publicportal-api.alappeals.gov/courts/68f021c4-6a44-...
Would you use recycled plastic twine?
Seconded! Also check out a complex shadow (like that of a bush) just before or after totality. The camera obscura effect will generate many images of the eclipse crescent, it's really uncanny.
Have you ever used the stuff? Because by the end of the growing season it very much is shredded plastic.
You’re probably right, but I also think this perspective of “they don’t want these costs, so we will find some way of laundering it into the supply chain” makes people feel like they are being infantilized.

People don’t like the increasingly paternalistic perspective policymakers take, even if it is perhaps justified sometimes.
My wife has google-fi and her coworker has verizon. Both of them say they can't make calls.
> They certainly meant more intense representation of symptoms, of which there is a broad range.

Perhaps, and hopefully so.

> you need here but you’re wrong in that there aren’t any tests for it.

I've taken the CPT test, WAIS-IV, etc. and I am aware of the others to some degree. I never said there was no way to test for it. I said there was no definitive way to prove someone has ADHD beyond a reasonable doubt by means of any known biomarker. No blood test, fMRI, etc..

> I know this because I didn’t have any relief in symptoms until I took a few types of these and learned that my symptoms are far more of inattentative type than hyperactive and I had been completely mistreated for a long time.

You have piqued my interest. What changed for you for I have seen no research about different subtypes being treated differently (I do not doubt its legitimacy though)? I am -C, but more likely on the -PH side of things. Stimulants have always been rather... less than effective to say the least.
Ideally, said tests are part of the normal tests done in the last year of highschool, right?

Shit, having to travel and pay for another test before you can go to college is borderline dystopian...
The sibling comments seem to interpret your need in a lispy way! In IPython, you could use arrow keys to go back in history and then edit the code you want and execute it. It seems you're saying that CL doesn't have this feature. But what the commenters say is you don't probably need this feature anyway because you can write the code you want in the editor and send it to REPL. Python's REPL has this feature too, but obviously it's not a "clean" approach because sometimes we just want to experiment with things and don't want to pollute the main code with these one-off expressions.
> Feel free to volunteer to not have children and spread the word to your family and friends.

Given the precipitous drops in fertility in the developed world, I'd say that this is happening.
Of course it was on purpose. It was to cater to certain political people. Being white is a crime in 2020, didn't you hear?
You are the farmer's customer.
I have a very surface understanding of mdx, but basically it's a mix of markdown and JSX syntax, no? Didn't know you could define some sort of fields like you seem to do with:

import { MdxLayout } from "components/mdx-layout.tsx";

export const meta = {
slug: "all-time-high",
publishedAt: "2022-09-16T10:00:00.000Z",
title: "All time high",
headerImage: "https://june-changelog.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/changelog_ath_cd256d0719.png",
authors: [
(...)

I suppose I should be able to hack it by defining it as a JSON frontmatter and some custom delimiters.

If you let me know how you would see this working, I'll try and get something working tomorrow.
Every year I teach a few weeks of "coding" at my kids elementary school. I always start with the Peanut Butter Sandwich and it's a huge hit. For time's sake, i print & cut out 30-40 random instructions like "openTheBag();" or "holdJellyOverBread();". They get in 4 groups, choose which instructions to use, and put them in order.
I think the groups championing stuff like this had a lot of clout a few years ago. Unfortunately for them, concrete positive results never materialized. In the meantime, the Supreme Court ruled negatively on race-based admissions and DEI offices are facing public backlash. If there really were any ideas with pursuing, those groups squandered their chance.
> A lot of introspection needs to be done to determine why these decisions were made.

Not really. It started with the pandemic, which messed up everything, including testing.
It's a bit more nuanced than what you're describing. I suggest listening to this (or reading the transcript): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/podcasts/the-daily/the-wa...
There have been legal challenges against travelling for the procedures we're talking about, there are laws on the books in some of these states that criminalise helping someone to leave the state to receive treatment.

There's a reason why many companies who have offices here have offered relocation to employees so that they don't need to contend with these laws if/when they are enforced upon them.
What I like about Nebula is that when I am using it I feel like they aren't trying to coerse me into anything. They don't push me to watch the next video, they don't push me to comment, like or subscribe, they don't push new channels or features on me. I just subscribe to the RSS feed of channels that I like, watch the video and leave.

I think there enough decent quality channels (many that I was following on YouTube before anyways) that it is definitely worth my subscription.
Probably not. Do you see any particular reason to say that it has?
So, everyone that buys food?
Well if they're black and you were describing their race you'd just say they're black.

If they're black and British and you're describing their nationality you'd say they were British.
Brilliant article.

I dislike annotation-driven code, as well as opinionated frameworks like Spring.

Throwing out Spring (or similar) is probably not going to happen if your team uses it.

I have found that you can greatly reduce your coupling to Spring (and other annotations) while still letting it work for you.

To do so, you use inheritance (which in general I dislike, but in this case - two wrongs make a right?)

Split your FooService into two: {SpringFooService and FooService}, where SFS inherits from FS.

* SFS may contain annotations, but FS must not.
* FS must contain all your business logic. SFS must be a thin 1:1 wrapper over FS.

This means that:
* SFS can be autowired, and managed by Spring.
* Your business logic remains "simply-instantiable" with _new_ for the purposes of unit testing.
I'm curious - where are the GPUs with decent processing power but enormous memory? Seems like there'd be a big market for them.
Oh, yeah, can't help you there. I was thinking you were commenting as a person in a blue state worried about a red state political policy. There's blue vs red and then there's Europe vs US. A whole different order of magnitude. I mean all the same economic freedom vs policy concerns trade-offs still apply; but I'm well aware that there is a massive rift in risk comprehension going in both directions. The US is huge and the stuff you see on the news isn't happening where people with nice salaries live (I mean, statistically never, the news is not statistically accurate).

But I encountered a funny additional problem with that recently when talking to a European transplant which is: you need a car in the US. The US is huge and cheap and safe but you need a car. If you don't have a car you have to live within a subway system. Then it's not cheap/safe (pick one).
I don’t feel like it truly matters since they’ll release it and people will happily fine-tune/train all that safety right back out.

It sounds like a reputation/ethics thing to me. You probably don’t want to be known as the company that freely released a model that gleefully provides images of dismembered bodies (or worse).
Honestly, memory leaks are common in software, so I really don't buy it when people say they don't need to do it. Unless it is a server where the memory footprint is arguably simpler due to not having graphics + UI + different interfaces and peripherals, I can't convince myself that a reboot won't freshen things up.
> Plastic is the foundation of so many aspects of modern life

I genuinely can not think of a single product that only exists thanks to plastic.
Nobody wants to hear about the major classes of crime: wage theft and tax evasion. Everyone wants 24x7 TV news coverage of a guy stealing shampoo from Target. But the impact of wage theft is even larger than the article states, because it is a major inefficiency for public works projects. Cities send inspectors out to a job site and stop work to ask every laborer if they are getting paid. If they didn't do this the contractors would rip them off every time, but to keep the problem under control they have to do these inspections every week. Massive drag on productivity which could be easily solved by throwing one or two guys in prison instead of relying on fines.
growing up, I remember visiting and touring AMD in high school through some youth technology summit. It felt like AMD were these tiny little Davids against this absolutely enormous Intel goliath. How did the dominance ratio shift so dramatically?
I believe you need to be signed in to see the NSFW stuff, for what it's worth.
Yeah when I was a teenager I investigated my high schools plastic recycling supply chain. It is absolutely a scam, at least in many modern ‘single stream’ incarnations.

Split stream is real for at least some I think. Or was.
I don't like how normalized it is to ask "how did you explain sunglasses in your luggage to the police?".

Too totalitarian for me.
The Rising Cost of the Oil Industry's Slow Death
I'm glad you said what you said. I am dismayed by the sheer number of transparently bad faith "just asking questions" happening in the comments here.
My wife and I are same account (AT&T, Texas) and hers is down but mine isn't. Only difference is my phone is slightly newer (15 Pro Max vs 14 Pro)
That seems unrelated to the discussion at hand.

Something cannot be ignored by pointing at something else.
Thank you for your thoughtful answer, and does assuage my concerns. Full speed ahead!
I've found I like SF Pro from Apple, and Iosevka from Belleve Invis. SF Pro especially is really nice for UI elements, and Iosevka is great for coding and terminal work.

https://developer.apple.com/fonts/

https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

I'm curious as to how you perceive those 2 font families?
The way i see it is that we can do it intentionally, or it can be done to us via infrastructure failure, societal breakdown and other factors.
Would you count Cargill[0]? Cause they are privately held, all in on the farming world, and have net income in the billions annually

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargill
The multiple groundbreaking announcements from the past week feel like a plateau to you?
It does not have 1600+ employees. It's in the couple hundreds. Again, source, I worked there.
Sure! Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models.
FYI https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817
I'm not part of Stability AI but I can take a stab at this:

> explain like I have ~~Asperger (ELIA?)~~ limited understanding of how the world really works.

The AI is being limited so that it cannot produce any "offensive" content which could end up on the news or go viral and bring negative publicity to Stability AI.

Viral posts containing generated content that brings negative publicity to Stability AI are fine as long as they're not "offensive". For example, wrong number of fingers is fine.

There is not a comprehensive, definitive list of things that are "offensive". Many of them we are aware of - e.g. nudity, child porn, depictions of Muhammad. But for many things it cannot be known a priori whether the current zeitgeist will find it offensive or not (e.g. certain depictions of current political figures, like Trump).

Perhaps they will use AI to help decide what might be offensive if it does not explicitly appear on the blocklist. They will definitely keep updating the "AI Safety" to cover additional offensive edge cases.

It's important to note that "AI Safety", as defined above (cannot produce any "offensive" content which could end up on the news or go viral and bring negative publicity to Stability AI) is not just about facially offensive content, but also about offensive uses for milquetoast content. Stability AI won't want news articles detailing how they're used by fraudsters, for example. So there will be some guards on generating things that look like scans of official documents, etc.
Modding Plugins Back into Xcode
uuu cool stuff. Ill def try and start using it
Obviously I mean "the terminal application installed on your local host system where you develop".
Not only that, but a manually written lexer has much more flexibility. It allows you to easily implement things that lexer generators struggle with. Think of significant indentation, nested comments, interpolation inside string literals. Sometimes you can't do this at all with generators, sometimes you can, but code becomes a mess. That's the reason why many popular programming language implementations use a hand written lexer and parser.
This is not true. Installing Node on Ubuntu with a package manager using the official instructions [0] installs both Node and npm.

If you are using an unofficial repository, and that maintainer did not include npm in his Node package, then yes I would consider that a problem.

> to install the latter it wants to get about a hundred of dependencies

Yeah, as software engineers, let's discourage code reuse, shall we?

Node and npm are not trivial pieces of software. I expect it to have lots of dependencies. This is hardly surprising.

[0] https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager#debian-and-ub...
Just the code.

For example, https://pagescms.org is an 11ty website:

- The code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/pages-cms/website
- The site is built and hosted by Cloudflare Pages

You can have a look at the config there: https://github.com/pages-cms/website/blob/main/.pages.yml
I'm 50% hack and 50% BGP but my gut says cyberattack.
Way back in the day, I remember having to travel to take the SAT. In fact, I got a speeding ticket on the way to the test! Naturally, that didn't help my score.
I live next to the Amish, trust me my township isn't passing anything related to AI.

For a reality check, name one instance of policy that has stopped the amoral march of tech being a tool of power to the hands of the few? Last one I can name is when they broke up Ma Bell. Now of course you can pick Verizon or AT&T, so that worked. /s

And that was 42 years ago.
> scores were the single best predictor of students’ academic performance

I wonder what the best predictor of high scores is?
I disagree that "Gentrification" started in the 80's in NYC. It was the 80's that made it not a wasteland of abandoned or intentionally burned buildings due to improving finances for the city government itself. However the influx of transplants did not happen until the late 90's. Crime was still astronomical compared today until the mid 90's. It was still considered unsafe. Once the city was comparatively safer, the trend started which still continues today. Areas like Bushwick are now home to transplants from the midwest while 20-30 years ago they would never set foot in there.

Places like CBGB's held on until the 2000s. Working class people could still affordably live in most places in the city until then as well.
> How long will it take before GIMP has usability on-par with Photoshop?

Here's the bleak assessment: It's been almost thirty years - If it was going to happen, it would have happened already. The economics and development model just don't support the same sort of usability and in-depth feature development work that can be supported within a large commercial software organization.

You can also observe this in software like language implementations. Ruby, Python, and Java are all rough contemporaries of each other. They were all released in the early to mid 1990's, and they were all released at approximate technical parity. (Basic automatic memory management techniques and simple/slow bytecode interpretation.) Now, flash forward thirty years. While Python and Ruby are still mostly interpreted, Java has been through multiple generations of increasingly sophisticated runtime implementations, now has first rate GC and JIT compilation to machine code.

This is the sort of improvement that can only really be bought by continual long term investment in dedicated engineering. It's what takes to escape local maxima in the design space. If a project can't assemble the resources to do this, it winds up stuck wandering around its current local maxima and maybe making marginal improvements, but never able to break free of the fundamental constraints of its current design.

This will remain true unless there's some sort of investment in additional resources, which brings me to my more optimistic assessment. With GIMP (and other open source software), it's at least possible for outsiders to make the investment. It's possible to make a contribution, and it's possible to improve the situation. This can itself be a useful and profoundly enabling aspect of software, particularly over the longer term.

(I also think this suggests that open source software should tend to be developed in ways that emphasize the discoverability and customizability of the codebase. It's for this reason that I think open source is the key enabling factor for tools like Emacs.)
why would you believe Intel can actually catch up to the far-ahead competition?

TSMC aren't standing still, they obviously aren't stupid and they have shitloads of money. Intel probably scores zero on those 3 points.
Show HN: Released Chartbrew v3.0 an open source client reporting platform
Prioritizing short-term benefits over long-term consequences is probably one of the most consistent problems for humanity.
I think that the distinction makes the code clearer to read. LET tells a future reader that they don't need to bother scanning each variable binding for parent variables, whereas LET* tells them that they do. Seems like the same logic behind having a WHEN and UNLESS as opposed to just an IF, the former meaning that one needn't search for an 'else' block. The LISP family encourage good style.
When did the officials find this out?

It's only been known for close to a century. It is the reason why standardized tests were accepted in the first place. It has been confirmed in many ways since. If they were ever ignorant of this fact, it is because they were willfully choosing to be ignorant of it.

Research also found that IQ tests are a better predictor of job performance than other available measures, such as interviews. This was first established in the military, then in the 50s and 60s was confirmed for a variety of jobs. Unfortunately the case Griggs v. Duke Power Co. make it illegal to use IQ tests, because it results in hiring fewer blacks.

But IQ tests can still be done indirectly. For example coding boot camps can use what is essentially an IQ test to decide who will be a student, and then graduation from said boot camp serves as a signal to companies that this inexperienced person is smart, motivated, and willing to learn. That signal is likely to be more valuable to the company than the training itself.
Honestly as a v1, I'd just love for you to parse out the whole text file and give me a basic markdown editor!

I don't particularly care about having advanced filtering or of parsing my "meta" data
I admire that they actually stuck with it and tried it, but it's still crazy to me that anyone thought this was a good idea.

I don't know how anyone who spent decades within school and then academia could convince themselves and others "let's get rid of the one part of the Kabuki theatre application process that isn't a massive performative time suck". In the name of equality!
Silicon Valley is not "far left" by any stretch, which implies socialism, redistribution of wealth, etc. This is obvious by inspection.

I assume by far left, you mean progressive on social issues, which is not really a leftist thing but the groups are related enough that I'll give you a pass.

Silicon valley techies are also not socially progressive. Read this thread or anything published by Paul Graham or any of the AI leaders for proof of that.

However most normal city people are. A large enough percent of the country that big companies that want to make money feel the need to appeal to them.

Funnily enough, what is a uniquely Silicon Valley political opinion is valuing the progress of AI over everything else
Oh so reasonable and correct, in oh so many ways.

But we are talking about human behavior, at scale. Between the truly desperate, the idiots, the compulsive and performative violators of social norms, and people whose fingers forever itch for light sockets to poke into...

I'll admit that the risk (of human pandemics where "Patient -1" was a bat) could be reduced quite a bit. Probably.
There's a minor difference in that the cost of recycling is extracted up front so it disincentivizes a farmer from mounding up plastic waste in a field and burning it.
Perfect, thanks! Awesome stuff here I think it’s going to be what a large swath of users have been looking for!
They are a business and operate in the objective reality that a product that can generate imagery like child porn draws intense scrutiny from investors and law makers. Not to mention they have their own moral compass that they don't feel comfortable giving away a tool that they feel can do harm.

You're free to start your own competing business.