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I think increasingly so due to the prevalence of touch screen typing (I've no evidence to cite, it's just a gut feel). My kids, aged 10 & 12 cannot touch type, despite plenty of experience on a keyboard, they just spend far more time on phones and tablets.

Personally, I learned to first type in the mid to late 80s on a 286 using Mazis Beacon and an IBM selectric typewriter. I wasn't hunt and peck, but still looked at the keyboard while typing.

I didnt really no-look touch type until a took a typing class in high school where they covered your hands so you couldnt see the keyboard. That was the key to me really improving. I went from around 45 wpm to about 120 wpm. I didnt really get comfortable with the number/symbol row until I started programming heavily. Still had to look down for a while to find those symbols. Also one of the reasons I hate nonstandard keyboard layouts. I know where "{}[]/\" are, but on a laptop or compact keyboard, I'll have to gunt for those potentially.
I started reading "India and China at Sea" [1]. Seems to be really well put together.

[1] : https://global.oup.com/academic/product/india-and-china-at-s...
> if any billionaire's dumb dumb kid can get in with enough money thrown at the institution

Do you really think this isn't already the case?
I don't either - but neither do I want it to be determined on the even more absurd basis of who your parents are.

There should be a fair evaluation of students, designing that fair evaluation isn't trivial, but it's something we can work toward.
you can visit

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

and download the driver any time you want, just like it always was. GeForce Experience is mostly for the convenience of receiving automatic notifications and download when a new driver version is released.
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I think the solution is clear. Legalize tall buildings. Requiring someone to own or rent thousands of square feet of land to get access to hundreds of square feet of housing is guaranteed to lead to shortages.
> No. No amount of money should get you a way to get into an "elite" school if you don't deserve it.

Why? What's so precious about elite schooling that you're willing to sacrifice 10 kids getting a free education just to prevent one billionaire's kid from going to an elite school?

> The issue with trying to solve every single problem with money is that capitalism isn't designed to solve problems where a moral compass is needed.

Except that capitalism will give more people an elite education, and your moral compass will give fewer of them one. There's a reason we don't guide economies by moral compass - it doesn't work very well.
The article I linked in the footnote has quotes that are arguably more WTF than the Tesla statement. It quotes the wife describing how she had told him many times that the car was swerving in that spot.
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IMO the problem is that people want to buy Agile. They want to pay a consultant, or go to a class, implement a dozen scrum rituals, and call it “agile.”

Agile is not Scrum, Kanban, or even XP. It is the manifesto. It is shipping all the time at a sustainable development pace.

I have had great success implementing agile and I attribute this to continually reindexing on the manifesto and examining the impact of our process. Spoiler: removing processes is a solution as often as it is adding a process. No amount of stand-ups or sprint planning or retrospectives makes your software process a good one.
It's hard to be a superpower without allies and I think invading Taiwan would turn China into a country surrounded by enemies. The region is already worried about Chinese expansion.
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The low visibility and low attendance aren't the result of any kind of management repression. I think it's a real change in sentiment. Most people don't care about this affair. Among people who are paying attention, there's a fair amount of internal skepticism and outrage fatigue.

I hope this is a bellwether for the rest of SV, the Bay Area, and the rest of the country.

The small core group of habitual protesters is as active as ever, but they've struggled to come up with concrete evidence that substantiates their "systemic retaliation" narrative, and it feels like they've lost the hearts and minds of the public.

Ditto.

It's telling that the main mailing list that these people use to communicate has enacted strict moderation policies that effectively ban debate and disagreement.

When "movements" start going around using authoritarian intimidation tactics to keep their own ranks in line, this is a sign that the movement is no longer guided by principles. It's devolved into yet another group which is in a power struggle against a different group.
Coaches and administrators of D1 sports programs are already well compensated. Plus no one needs $400k payments to feed their kids unless they have made some horrible financial mistakes.
Stanford has explicitly said they do not accept donations in return for admission, for what that's worth.

Source: https://news.stanford.edu/2019/03/14/admission-case-info/

"A donation does not purchase a place at Stanford, and we work very hard to ensure that prospective donors understand this. Stanford does not accept gifts if it knows a gift is being made with the intention of influencing the admission process."
Source?

Edit: sorry that was rushed. Source of my skepticism - worked with grads from both, tech-wise CalTech is way better and therefore comp follows.
Well, they are. Airbnb, Wework.
Eternum currently isn't, it's using an IPFS node. IPFS cluster might be a very good choice for pinning, I'll look into it and see if it can help.
You did miss something. The first guilty plea was from a couple who paid to get their eldest daughter into UCLA and their next daughter into USC.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-01/first-par...
If I were interested in this kind of scheme, I'd be in it for my own ego - my image of myself would be better if my kids went to a big name college, and other peoples' image of me would also be better. Well, my image of myself (and others' image of me) would take a hit from even a week in jail.

Mind you, I'm not saying a week is the right answer. Just saying that, to those kind of people, it's embarrassing, and that's a deterrent.
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Isn't it more or less a case of usually launching an application into a newly created window? It's been a long time.

The Plan 9 emphasis on per-process namespaces corresponds to the idea that a new graphical application is given a handle for a framebuffer that corresponds to the size of the window it can draw in. The Rio idiom has every window start by default as a textual terminal, so it's natural to be able to take over that framebuffer to run a graphical app.

It's a bit like the situation on older systems, like Sun workstations, where the textual console and the graphical display were only informally separated: sometimes the X server's display would be interrupted by lines of text printed onto the screen by the kernel's console driver.
It's not up to me, or any of us. It's up to Harvard, and specifically its board of trustees. Presumably Harvard doesn't want just anyone to be able to donate the accounting cost of a seat, because the cost doesn't scale linearly. Just like with company culture, it's hard to scale up. And putting the machinery in place to facilitate such transactions would be difficult.

It's much easier to say that they'll give a spot only when the donation far exceeds the cost of a seat. That way you don't need any complicated machinery. The exact limit may not even be written down anywhere. It might just be a sort of "I'll know it when I see it," sort of deal, since the number of seats given this way per year should be fairly small, even at a university as famed as Harvard.

Of course, we don't actually know that any of this is happening at all. It's just a cynical presumption, as far as I can tell. All I'm saying is that it would be reasonable if it were done this way, at least from the perspective of all stakeholders who have a say in the matter.
Hey mate,

I have checked this out, running the docker-compose method, and kudos for your work. Looks great.

One issue I ran into was regarding videos (tried with a couple of MOV and MP4) - it doesn't generate a thumbnail and in fact throws an error along the lines of:
File "/srv/photonix/photos/models.py", line 84, in base_image_path
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'base_image_path'

Happy to open a gitHub issue, but thought I'd drop you a line here to see if it was your intention to support videos (which would be cool!)

Cheers,
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We hire by competencies, not age/seniority. We hired an 18 year old security hacker for the summer between high school and when he started at Stanford, for example: https://www.marketplace.org/2017/08/10/tech/17-year-old-hack...

That said, most of the engineers we hire have done things like stand up large web-scale services, deploy things to the cloud, and often have some good scars/stories/experience as a result.

Whether it's a good fit now or down the road, I really like that you're using mobile app interaction traces to look for UX insights that can improve things!
If the school would benefit from that building why should it be dependent on a rich kid needing to get in to secure that funding?

If that rich family didn't end up having a kid that needed to get into that school then the building would never be built - but the family is certainly able to afford funding the construction of that building. I think that's unfair in it's own way on all parties involved.
This is dangerously untrue; while totp is clearly not as secure as a hardware token, it's much more secure than just username/password. It requires the adversary to do more work, and also provides more clues for the server that something phishy is going on. It's also much easier to sell to users, especially for free-but-critical services like webmail. You're not going to convince everyone to buy a $30 hardware token to protect their free Gmail account; meet your users where they are.

By all means, move towards a hardware-based 2fa setup. But don't let that prevent intermediate steps to improve security along the way.

Your example is also deeply flawed as it can be used to steal auth tokens for 2fa sites, even if they use Fido. Mitm is game over.
There's a fixed amount of "desirable" land, and a growing population competing over it. This means some combination of "up" and "out" is necessary - either we end up using less land per person (density), or new growth gets channeled into marginally desirable locations (sprawl).
This is a really exciting result. I don't have anything else to add, but this line really made me smile,

"To accomplish
this, the Linux kernel has been continuously expanded to
support a wide range of functionality; it is a hypervisor, a real-
time OS, an SDN router, a container runtime, a BPF virtual
machine, and a support layer for Emacs".
If you aren’t familiar with the US education system, it’s a school ranked in the top 20 with an 11% acceptance rate, only twice as high as Stanford’s with a body 4x as large. It's a large school with a massively beneficial and incestuous network. Based on LinkedIn numbers, 1 out of 4 people in SV that didn't graduate from Stanford went to USC. Go around talking misinformation about that school in particular and see what wonders it does for your career.
In socialist countries. In the Soviet Union, rent was 2% of take home pay. Many of these countries started out poor, so the housing quality may have been commeasurate with the development of the country. In the US, as a material issue, we could easily provide decent affordable housing to everyone by destroying the market and having the public march in and build.

One system that is being tried in some region in China is you buy your house from the government and sell it back. This keeps things democratic and market free. Landlords should be cast into the dustbin of history.
I agree, and I wish this came up more in discussions around this scandal.
These three are clearly at the same academic level. Way below Stanford and Caltech though.

19: UCLA
22: Berkeley (tie)
22: USC (tie)

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-unive...
I find it incredible as well. The only way housing can increase above inflation without it being a bubble is if everything else is below inflation -- because housing is a big part of the inflation calculation. If inflation is 2% and you are "making" a 10-15% return on your house investment, something is very seriously wrong where you live. The piper will be paid. The problem is that you don't know when. If you are opportunistic you might be able to make some money off this inbalance, but it's certainly not a condition you should wish for if you actually want to live in that area long term.
> The government can decide that some groups deserve protection more than others - for example, that being Gay is a part of who you are, whereas voicing particular political views is a choice.

Indeed, a government could in theory do this. A government could refuse to take action when banks refuse to accept customers with particular political views. A government could allow "redlining" housing practices against people with particular political views. A government could cut off police services to people with particular political views. Barring legal and constitutional restrictions (which these days are very "fluid") a government can do almost whatever it wants to do until it meets pushback from its power brokers.

Just because this could happen, doesn't mean it should. Modern civil society is based on the notion that non-criminals are entitled to some degree of participation in society, even if they are disliked. If you take away that foundation, society will quickly become paralyzed by violence. I personally would like to live at least a few more decades, so I'm not too eager to see where that road takes us.
> its important to have different viewpoints in discourse as long as they're rooted in principles.

OK, so besides James', which other viewpoints rooted in principles were represented on the council? Did Google assemble a panel of balanced viewpoints?
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Tesla engineers talked about this in great depth during the recent streaming event. Manual disengagement of Autopilot is the mechanism used to trigger an upload of the sensor data. It is automatically uploaded to Tesla servers and used to train the driving model.
> One new caveat: I've changed the license to CC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0. This is really just to prevent people from directly selling the stuff they export from Tinkersynth. I hope artists will use this as input to their creative processes!

Absolutely appreciate the effort you put into making this, and very grateful that you’ve open sourced it.

When I read the text quoted above my takeaway was that the intention is that people should still be able to use the outputs in their own work. However, as I understand copyright law, the copyright of a work also applies to derivatives of it such that permission is required (either directly or through a license for the work) to make use of the derivative works in ways extending beyond any initially agreed upon use.

Fortunately, you’ve got that bit covered in the details about the license.

> If you use Tinkersynth as input to your creative process, and the output is so different that it would be unrecognizeable as a Tinkersynth design, please feel free to use it commercially, or however you wish. The art is 100% yours at that point. I'm not sure if this is technically within the bounds of the license (I just picked the closest representation of what I want I could find), but please feel free to contact me and I'll grant a personal exemption after seeing the work.

To play devils advocate it might be difficult to say what would qualify as “unrecognizable as a Tinkersynth design” though.

From the point of view of most of your users I think it will turn out to be a non-issue.

I do think however that there is some potential that some users might interpret what it means to be “unrecognizable” differently from what you do, and so there is a risk of future disputes between you and some users. Hopefully there won’t be of course. I am not a lawyer, by the way. Just offering my thoughts on this.

Secondly, however, and more importantly, I wonder to what extent it is actually possible for the author of a tool to claim copyright on the output of a tool if said tool has sufficient amount of randomness or user input controlling the output. I don’t have an answer to this, and I don’t know if it would apply to your tool. But I think it might be worth looking into, just to ensure that the restrictions you are putting on the output of your tool are actually possible to put there.

(And again, IANAL, TINLA.)
William Rick Singer, the guy at the center of this, said exactly that:

"There is a front door which means you get in on your own. The back door is through institutional advancement, which is 10 times as much money. And I’ve created this side door in"

(unfortunately for him, he said it on a wiretapped phone call...)
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I lived in NYC for a few months last year and they are true recycle-nazis. Having to rinse/wash contaminated items seems ridiculous. I would think water is the more precious commodity, particularly with climate change warming/drying things up.
that's tip of the iceberg.
Taiwan Can Win a War With China

“One of the central hurdles facing the offensive is surprise. The PLA simply will not have it. The invasion will happen in April or October. Because of the challenges posed by the strait’s weather, a transport fleet can only make it across the strait in one of these two four-week windows.“

“There are only 13 beaches on Taiwan’s western coast that the PLA could possibly land at. Each of these has already been prepared for a potential conflict.”

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/25/taiwan-can-win-a-war-wi...
> USC is definitely a status symbol on the West Coast (especially in Southern California).
> it's still very much an exclusive brand

I would say weirdly exclusively in Southern California. I can’t think of a school with more regional status and less national status than USC. Maybe some of the bespoke NYC schools? Hell, I’ve worked with folks in Oregon and Washington who have thrown out resumes because they went to USC.
Anyone can get leverage in Forex.

Housing, though, is the only place where you can get leverage with literally 0% down.

Real Estate is also MUCH less volatile than the stock market, which (I think) makes it seem less risky (and maybe factually is, but I don't know for sure).
It will serve you well for many years to come. My gazp6 from 2011 still runs solid
This ponzi scheme is second only to bitcoin in the number of victims who continue to insist it will be successful so they don't have to face the fact that they got fleeced.
Just so you know, no one takes USNWR rankings seriously -- it's well-known that public schools are dinged due to lower endowments and higher student counts. To wit, the idea that Berkeley is academically comparable to USC is a joke.
Can anyone suggest interesting work that is kind of the opposite of this? Vast real estate, rich HIDs, dynamic autonomous presentation?

So focused on many/big screens, with an eye towards future high-res AR/VR 3D, rather than a single "space is precious" small screen. Rich human interface devices, like multitouch and 3D hand pose and stylus and head position and gaze, rather than a single mouse. Display as a dynamic ecosystem of presentations, under the influence of multiple agents, rather than detailed manual control. UI as collaborative improv dance, rather than as micromanagement.

Punchcards and console toggles; teletype printer; VT100 terminal; small bitmapped monitor and mouse; larger monitor; largerer monitor; largererer; multiple monitors; with multitouch and stylus tablet; future high-res AR/VR... as tech so very slowly becomes less crippling, the UIs do too...

Hmm, though for current VR, with its 1980's VGA-like non-blurry pixels are more precious than they've been for decades, fine-grained control and space sharing might be quite nice?
Hopefully more jobs turn remote so people are free to live anywhere and still have jobs.
Two people in my high school told me they cheated on the SAT. They got _perfect_ scores and the high school actually bragged about them during graduation. They also happened to live across the street from each other in a relatively large town.

I’ve always wondered what they did to cheat, I wonder if they’d be as open about it now since they’re both graduating at MIT and Harvard soon.
Can we get the actual numbers and breakdowns for fats? They're so quick to say less saturated fat is the cause, but I bet the difference in polyunsaturated fats is even BIGGER and is probably the REAL reason they are healthier. PUFAs as they are called are incredibly unhealthy, and there is Big Business trying to hide this.

http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturated-oils.shtml
The ruling basically ratifies fake ideological "blank slate" pseudo-science as actual science. It's findings with regards to James Damore's employment status may still be valid, but that particular part is wrong and pernicious.
And you can't forget that these wealthy parents have the same desire as many parents to keep their children close to them. So USC offers enough prestige while keeping their kids closer. It is also prestigious in that it is hard to get in and very expensive.
As far as ranking the quality of colleges, USNews is about as garbage as you can get. Anybody with any shred of awareness of what those three schools are would not rank them anywhere near each other.
In the country I come from (France), all the top schools are publicly funded and you get in by taking exams where the whole country students compete once a year. Based on how you rank, you get in or not. Most of them have really low annual tuitions. In some of them, you're even paid! Hard to imagine anything remotely close here when there's always a way to throw money at something (your congressman, dean...) to get the outcome you want.
Perhaps it is minor, but I hate how not all packages are imported using the same syntax. For example you have "import numpy as np" and then "from keras.layers.convolutional import Conv2D" You have two mix two different import styles. Ugly.
Notwithstanding your tone of reasonability, you are equating "being a Nazi" with "being gay", despite the countless times people have explained why it is different, including in this thread and why one of them is a protected class and the other is not.
Next time someone says "just let people enjoy things" I'm going to point them to this article and ask them if this is what they really want for this world
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