skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a higher correlation of being black and poverty than some other races in the US. That higher poverty rate combined with some other social issues leads to lower levels of academic preparedness overall.

This is evident by the weights that universities used for affirmative action. Using white students as a basis for comparison, Asian students needed to get a higher SAT score, while black students had equal odds of admission with a lower score.

See also the number of k-12 schools with literally zero students performing at grade level, which tend to be concentrated in areas of higher poverty.

Assuming, as OP pointed out, that you want to bring in higher numbers of black students, there are two possibilities: for some reason, academically prepared students aren't going to college (less likely) and / or you need to lower the bar (more likely, and one I have personally witnessed).
here's one landmark case in 1992. There have been more since.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastman_Kodak_Co._v._Image_Tec....
Or the lack of a portable stat :(.
It is my understanding that many E2EE chat systems won't actually E2EE your initial message to someone you aren't already mutual in-app contacts with.

Either E2EE is something you "upgrade" an existing conversation into (only after both sides consent to the conversation); or E2EE is something that only inherently establishes once both sides have sent one-another a message; or E2EE is something you can only enable before you start a conversation, if you already have the other person's public key (which you only get when you request to add them as a contact, and they accept.)

I think schemes like this balance privacy with spam-prevention quite well: privacy-conscious people can explicitly add each-other before either person says anything / can send intentional small-talk as pairing messages; while everyone else gets the benefit of a central spam-filter sitting between them and messages from strangers.
To be fair it's probably how pizzas are made for marketing photos. A steaming microwaved wet tampon in the background gives the illusion of heat.
Seems like you can get AA power pack that has a USB output, and use that to power/charge a standard smartphone (maybe one with a removable battery, if you want to be a purist about it)? https://www.coolerguys.com/products/usb-aa-battery-charger-a...

You can do some rough back-of-the-envelope math for this. A typical smartphone might last about a day with a battery about 4500 mAh @ 3.7V nominal = about 16 Wh. That battery pack of 4 AAs is about 48 Wh, so it should run the phone for 3 days or so (with some losses). But depending on the phone, it may or may not be able to run off a standard USB outlet anymore (USB-A is usually limited to around 10W, some newer phones need ~18W to properly charge while on). But anyway that should give you an idea. With batteries and some electronics, you should be able to make a modern smartphone run off AAs. Here's a youtuber showing something like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qObYrj1Foc&t=633s (or a DIY version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaoCPv0GTSg)

The question then is if you consider a "phone" a "computer". If not, probably you can find some Raspberry Pis, Beaglebones, etc. with a similarly low power draw. Or an Apple Watch, for that matter. From there it's just an issue of having enough AA batteries in series and some voltage converting electronics/USB ports to connect them to the smartphone.

There is nothing inherently impossible about this. Low-power electronics exist (in everything) these days. We just don't use AA batteries because li-ion is more energy dense (capacity per volume) than most AA chemistries, and if you're going to use li-ion anyway, a flat form factor is typically easier to carry around in a pocket than cylindrical cells.
I suppose someone could submit a foia request and get a list of the people who donated and how much. I suspect that either nobody is donating to them, or that lots of interesting people/companies are regularly donating large amounts to them.
Right, but would that have been achieved with a clause open-ended enough to allow this additional paperwork on exit?

Or would that have been an "if you break the law" thing?

Seems unlikely that OpenAI are legally in the clear here with nice clear precedent. Why? Because they are backflipping to deny it's something they'd ever do.
They fixed up the worst part a while back. It used to be that you had to "type" your password by using an onscreen keyboard (to prevent keylogging?). Now it's a normal password field at least.
Then they just handed them that victory without extracting any sort of price.

The incoming challenger is riding on a "populist" base. These polices are legitimate "populist" policies. The strategy here is obvious.
I'm not following this very closely, but agreements that block employees from selling (private) vested equity are a market term, not something uniquely aggressive OpenAI does. The Vox article calls this "just as important" as the clawback terms, but, obviously, no.
>Twitter's good!

It's really not. It was good for a short while, way before the Muskquisition but the quality both of the service and of discourse have declined.
I have many academic friends. One woman is a professor at a lower-tier state school. They are keeping their enrollment consistent but fewer people apply every year, resulting in intellectually declining classes every year. There are simply too many colleges, and our public schools are by-and-large atrocious for the money we spend, so it’s not going to get any better. Certainly throwing more money at public schools is not the answer. In my opinion we need to take all the smart and ambitious kids and segregate them into good schools, while the rest can be glorified day care for kids on their phones.
Installer should install programs without your input, and Settings should change your settings! Oh wait
When it comes to holding corporations accountable for their actions, very little actually does ever change. Our entire system treats business/corporations with kid gloves, and it's not a partisan issue that will change with a different party in control.
I work in ad tech and have had to sign this when laid off.
No, P/E being high means the stock market thinks the company's income will grow by a lot in the future. The price may go up or down as those expectations for the future change (a high P/E stock can announce record profits and have the stock go down, if in fact the stock was being priced on the expectation that the profits would be higher than announced).
for those in that industry, the answer is implementing LLMs
They should, but this is arguably social work rather than the sort of education we should charge [massive quantities of interest-bearing] money for.

What I don't understand is how you can ethically accept someone for admission to a university knowing you will have to do extensive social work to bring them up to the standard of education you were supposed to test for at admission. Big chunks of that are affirmative action, sports scholarships, and functionally-for-profit admits (in my system, overseas admissions to a state university). Every student like this you accept for a normal course of undergrad work represents another student that you're going to reject for not meeting admissions criteria.

We have historically used "Community Colleges" as a second tier system that assisted this sort of student for minimal debt with significant subsidy, and "Universities", especially "Research Universities", as a first tier system where both professors and students are expected to perform higher level work.
Thanks to Tippi Hedren!

When Vietnamese refugees arrived in the US after the fall of South Vietnam, Ms. Hedren (Melanie Griffith's mother) visited a camp outside Sacramento. The women of the camp expressed interest in her manicured nails, so she suggested that learning how to do nails would be an excellent career for them - relatively little English is required, so lack of fluency was a minimal barrier. She had her personal manicurist flown up to the camp to teach an initial class of 20 women, and after they had been trained, she helped them get licenses and jobs.

And that's why so many nail salons in the US are Vietnamese-owned and -staffed.
> AI cannot and will never be able to provide this motivation to learn, which is what kids actually need, because it is not human.

We hear all the time about digital addiction, gamification, FB, Tiktok, etc. Addiction is arguably more difficult to achieve than motivation. AI will be able to motivate people just fine
I've learned to interpret anything Sam Altman says as-if an Aes Sedai said it. That is: every word is true, but leads the listener to making false assumptions.

Even if in this specific instance he means well, it's still quite entertaining to interpret his statements this way:

"we have never clawed back anyone's vested equity"

=> But we can and will, if we decide to.

"nor will we do that if people do not sign a separation agreement"

=> But we made everyone sign the separation agreement.

"vested equity is vested equity, full stop."

=> Our employees don't have vested equity, they have something else we tricked them into.

"there was a provision about potential equity cancellation in our previous exit docs;"

=> And also in our current docs.

"although we never clawed anything back"

=> Not yet, anyway.

"the team was already in the process of fixing the standard exit paperwork over the past month or so."

=> By "fixing", I don't mean removing the non-disparagement clause, I mean make it ironclad while making the language less controversial and harder to argue with.

"if any former employee who signed one of those old agreements is worried about it, they can contact me and we'll fix that too."

=> We'll fix the employee, not the problem.

"very sorry about this."

=> Very sorry we got caught.
"if ((age < 18)) ; then ..." works in bash.
Indeed. The fact that we all remember that as a remarkable feat shows just how dicey things are for intel.

It’s good that there is precedent proving it can be done, but duplicating it is another matter
Banning would be less impactful than popularizing some widely more preferable alternative.
I think not using an Orthodox Cross for the logo is a missed opportunity https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-emoji-symbol-stand-for
Yeah they’ll be sorta ok. I just wouldn’t put any money into what smells of decline to me
I agree... But the reality is that what you suggest requires a significant shift in thinking and practice from a meaningful proportion of the very people you suggest we shouldn't be targeting. And they, in my experience, aren't exactly the kinds of people that are about challenging the status quo, rocking the boat, or moving beyond the received wisdom of their profession.
Some research:

Students learn and understand college math more when the classes are contextualized (usually engineering, biology, but you can also use everyday examples). See decades of research on situated learning and related approaches.
https://careerladdersproject.org/docs/Contextual%20Approache...

Developmental courses can also be compressed
https://blog.careertech.org/research-review-promising-practi...

Dual enrollment saves time and money and improves success. Let high school students take college math courses.

Corequisite remediation is the current best practice. Let students take regular (not remedial) math courses, and improve advising and support.
https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/easyblog/future-of-corequisite-...
https://strongstart.org/resource/corequisite-mathematics-too...
The eradication was a major achievement, but not strictly a scientific achievement IMO.

I find it hard to imagine 300-500 million people died from smallpox in the 20th century. Yet we both eliminated it May 8, 1980 and had drastically reduced the number of cases well before that point. The last US case was in 1949 and the vaccine was being administered starting in 1796.
Yet nobody seems to ever ask whether or not the merger is a question of survival - would TM or LN poof out of existence if they didn't have this release valve? - or simply just another attempt to stifle existing competition in the market.

People who are really opposed to this will probably think this is wildly off base, but if it came to pass...isn't that worse than one company absorbing the other because although the endgame is similar, it's messier and doesn't necessarily improve the overall situation.

An example: Barclays acquisition of Lehman Brothers business in North America in 2008 after the latter imploded. They had an agreement in principle, but the government balked, so it happened after the fact...bringing an even larger crisis along with it.
Yeah buying NVDA right _now_ could be the equivalent of buying TSLA at $400.

Since literally everyone and their dog now knows AI is the next big thing and NVDA is selling all the shovels to the miners, the contrarian in me (don't believe reddit OR HN) suggests its a good time to stay away.

There should be growth stocks buried in the Russell 5000 somewhere that would be much better bets at this point.
If after reading the guidelines, that was your takeaway closing sentence, you'd probably also fail the remedial class.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
so many folks here have industry knowledge that is as valuable as insider knowledge yet they don't have fortitude to act on it. Instead, they dismiss their own intuition and listen to reddit/social hivemind.
Protein isolate powder has more protein than red meat, so you should be eating that, not meat, by this measure.

* The density of protein is not important at all. What is important is that you get the sufficient daily amount of protein, which is easily achievable by eating plant-based foods only.

* It is a myth that the "amino acid spectrum" is not always complete. Plants contain all essential amino acids, and as long as you aren't on a strict white-rice diet, you'll get everything you need from a modest variety of foods.

Please stop spreading misinformation.
The best parts of C++ are generics and RAII, neither of which have anything to do with OOP and both of which Rust wisely stole (well, only the latter is really unique to C++).
This is good news especially because Alpine is a lightweight distro that many many containers are built on top of.

If you have Docker Desktop on e.g. an x86 or arm machine then you can try it with just..

docker run -it riscv64/alpine sh

... as QEMU is built in to Docker.

6.58 MB image, updated 7 hours ago.
My fundamental problem with these studies is that they don't separate out reckless drivers (speeding, drunk, etc). This is a problem because widespread (but not universal) adoption of driverless vehicles might not actually address the underlying problem. Instead of forcing people to use driverless cars, the problem might be more effectively solved by forcing auto manufacturers to use GPS-based speed limiting.

And I am not at all convinced that Waymo is safer than a responsible driver who obeys the speed limit, so forcing driverless cars could very well be more dangerous than limiting the speed of human drivers. The worst case scenario is responsible drivers using self-driving because the data told then it was safer (even if it isn't), while irresponsible drivers control their vehicle manually so they can still speed and run red lights.

The other problem, more minor, is that Waymos are relatively new vehicles in good condition, but the human crash rates include a number of mechanical failures that driverless cars haven't experienced yet. My most cognitively demanding driving experience was a tire blowout on the interstate... kind of hard to accumulate 60,000 instances of training data for the AI to learn from.
> the US political system because its "operating system" is tainted by lobbyists for the billionaires.

It's "tainted" by lobbyists in the same way a Superfund site is a bit "dirty".
My offer still stands to help the Bluesky folks implement these types of things if they can't figure it out. Call me!
Not the OP, but I sometimes get rather disgusting/distressing "you might also like" in search results (not home screen). Think thumbnails for diseases/injuries/gore, with shock thumbail and so on.

No, I do not want to see thumbnail for parasite infested arm in my search results.
HN rules: please don't intentionally take an uncharitable interpretation of the post you're replying to. The personal attack isn't necessary either.

Nowhere did he say the Voyagers weren't great. He cited other projects that were/are greater, which was the original question. Including other space probes that have delivered thousands of times more data.
In the relevant time period, the US was not the global hegemon, and there was no global dollar trade.

Also a lot of the policy mistake in the US were made at the state level, and that is comparable in scale with Canada.

In any case, it's easy to compare different economies, as long as you are careful what you are doing. And, if anything, overseas demand for your currency should make it easier to run your monetary and financial system.
Those that want free healthcare could easily fund it. Honestly I think it would work far better than anyone imagines.
The market is too fickle to rely on your own experience and knowledge. Remember, there's plenty of experts in the tech industry whose sole job is to trade tech stocks, this information is baked into the market. It's far more likely that you were lucky, rather than had some super special inside knowledge compared to others. The only (semi)reliable stock is an index.
Does anyone know if there's an article that explains the technical details of how they fixed the problem?
was it not fairly obvious that all the big software companies were going to ramp up on training AI models? the writing was on the wall, some people just didnt read it.
You can have 0.2 lbs of red meat or 3 lbs of lentils for the same amount of protein. It’s not easy to consume that amount of lentils per day.
"The Unexpected Truth about Animals" by Lucy Cooke talks about this and goes into more detail. Enjoyed the other animals too. It has a good example of how humans will still ignore reality in the animal kingdom when it comes to religious beliefs.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34211802-the-unexpected-...
This is great news but: Please also stop giving Ticketmaster your money. Every dollar you voluntarily give them (for a totally optional product, I might add) encourages them to continue their horrible practices.

"Ticketmaster is such a terrible company!" he says as he buys more concert tickets from them.
Then you shouldn't trust the dev or a random second pair of eyes either, but probably get an independent security audit from a professional cybersec auditor, and even then, have insurance and a plan in mind for when leaks/hacks occur (they will, once you're big enough scale).

Security is something that even professional devs get wrong all the time and why the industry has vulnerability disclosure processes (https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Vulnerability...), listings (https://cve.mitre.org/), and entire groups that try to find them before the blackhats do (https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/)

If you just want "good enough" security for a side project or whatever, then using standard libs & algorithms (NOT inventing your own) is usually a good bet. As a layperson you probably can't evaluate the security knowledge of a developer. Most developers can't even evaluate that of other devs. Security is a specific specialty that most devs only know the very basics of (if even that).
The average commute in this country is ~40 miles which is easily covered with weekly charging on 60-70 mWh battery packs. A typical $30,000 EV (matching the average price of US ICE sedans and hatchbacks) with those sized batteries today gets 260 miles on a full charge or about 200 miles driving it down to 20%.

So half the country today could charge weekly or less and commute just fine with an EV that costs the same as an ICE, even if they live in apartments with no charging infrastructure, even if their town or city has little to no public charging infrastructure, and it's cheaper than ICE for most of them who have some access to cheap charging, like home charging or work charging.

That's the tipping point, half can have their needs met with today's tech at today's prices. Most others could get by but they might have some slightly higher burden in charge times or vehicle price, especially outliers with very long commutes to and from locations with no good infrastructure.

For example a truck driving construction contractor in a rural home commuting to a new subdivision under development also in a rural area but 65 miles away has a 130 mile daily commute and his truck has a 150 mile range from 80% to 20% so he has to charge daily, either at home, or at the construction site. Hopefully being rural he's in a house and not an apartment building so can charge overnight, but if he lives in a suburb that's pretty rural and has no charging at home, he's kinda screwed. Or, if he's gotta carry 20 bags of cement mix in the bed or tow a trailer, then he's gotta charge at home and maybe also at the construction site to even finish the commute. So, for some rural construction workers, EVs may not quite be the optimal solution (yet.)

But most people, yes, they're holding it wrong. They're holding their 20th century car notions in 2024, where we're now decade before ICE cars get phased out in the US and as we're on a clear trajectory toward enough range and infra for no one to care just like no one cares about ICE cars and the gas stations they visit weekly.
lol, so short the stock...?
That doesn't have to happen when locals can help their local community. Do you see yourself trying to bring community together to help? Have you tried discussing homelessness with public fugures? Celebrities? Anyone besides complaining that nothing works?

Grassroots movements start at a local area and grow, particularly where government doesnt help. What have you done besides make an excuse for taking action? Do you really think that being a random person complaining on the internet is actually helping the people you say need help?

I noticed you didn't answer any of my questions. Just filled space with empty words.

Again, I ask, what have you done to help unhoused people? Besides finding excuses why it won't happen, then complaining nothing gets done.

What you don't seem to understand is sitting around comfy and cozy in your residence complaining about stuff doesn't actually solve anything.

What needs to happen is individuals, such as yourself, actually need to try and help the unhoused instead of crying that the government doesn't do enough or that people as a whole will never make it happen.

How much of your life has actually been spent assist8ng others instead of being cynical and doubting? How many excuses have you made up in order to not help? I get that complaining on the internet is "cool" nowadays, but with society growing larger, we need more people to help instead of crying and whining about every step of the process (see my previous comment about NIMBYs). But everyone just wants to complain and be seen as someone who cares instead of actually doing it.

So again, what have you done to help? Because being upset nothing/not enough is being done and finding excuses to not do anything is quite frankly, useless.
I’ve seen that for a well-known large tech company, and I wasn’t even employed in the US, making those seem stranger. Friends and former colleagues pushed back against that (very publicly and for obvious reasons in one case) and didn’t get to keep their vested options: they had to exercise what they had before leaving.

There was one thing that I cared about (anti-competitive behavior, things could technically be illegal, but what counts is policy so it really depends on what the local authority wants to enforce), so I asked a lawyer, and they said: No way this agreement prevents you from answering that kind of questioning.
What I am proposing is that Wikipedia infoboxes should be included in Wikidata