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I've been in SV since 1997.

I am not a coder. I am a very experienced manager/director/PM OF development/DevOPs/IT teams.

However, prior I was in architecture.

And starting out as a draftsman, it was extremely common for architectural companies to tes out your drafting skills on AutoCAD with a timed test.

I recall the two I took:

In Redmond Washington in 1994, I was given a test to draw out a site plan for a chevron gas station, whom was their primary client.

I was given 15 minutes. I drew it in 12.

They said that not only was I the most accurate, but the only person ever in the history of their company to finish it. [became a core designer on what was then the 'revolutionary' designs of marriage of gas-stations and fast-food restaurants... [[Soul killing]]

I got hired... but then I became CAD manager - and then just decided I liked "computers" and not arch... so I then moved to SF. So I moved on to hospitals... gosh...

... (became IT manager of a small firm on the peninsula)

So then I worked for a design firm, and they also tested me upon interview... in CAD...

Isometric datacenter cabling plans....

I wasnt really familiar with plane changing in AutoCAD at that point so I did it all manually designed based on switching my orthos for each thing. Finished a complete cable tray design in the allotted 30 min window.....

Got the job - which resulted in me being on the core data-center design team for the Lucas Presidio project.

(and I have many other storis such as this)

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Challenges are good which are practical to the company's/teams goals and needs -- but bullshit if they want you to design their whole shit for them.

Now get off my lawn....

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Oh I forgot to mention - now I am director of tech for a cannabis org... GET THE FUCK IN CANNABIS TECH.
Again, from the people living there, what's the housing crisis?? Yes, they are trying to limit how many people are coming in, that's obvious. This is different from inclusive and diversity issues. This is about 100 new diverse people rather than 1,000.

Again you can disagree with them, it is fair, but I think their approach is perfectly understandable, and if you want to argue and debate, no one should assume they are hypocritical or morally inferior. I read thosr comments all the time on HN.

The minute you say "housing crisis", you show which situation/point of view you're coming from. It's not a crisis that "needs" to be solved with more housing, it is just your viewpoint.
> reasons that speak of the culture of the Linux ecosystem

"Everyone ships source; just recompile"? It would be convenient, but with source and a compiler you can hit everything anyways.
> That's dramatically false. Slander in fact. Apollo involved thousands of engineers. It was not largely made up of Nazi engineers.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/vonbraun/bio.h...

Accordingly, von Braun became director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that would propel Americans to the Moon. At Marshall, the group continued work on the Redstone-Mercury, the rocket that sent the first American astronaut, Alan Shepard, on a suborbital flight on May 5, 1961. Shortly after Shepard’s successful flight, President John F. Kennedy challenged America to send a man to the Moon by the end of the decade. With the July 20, 1969 moon landing, the Apollo 11 mission fulfilled both Kennedy’s mission and Dr. Von Braun’s lifelong dream.
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> Would it be more accurate to say SubstrateVM? Or is it now called GraalVM Native Image?
So GraalVM is the umbrella project. The part that can compile ahead-of-time is called the "GraalVM Native Image Generator"

> Edit: I wonder why they didn't open source it?
I think open sourcing a complex 20 year old proprietary software product is non-trivial.

But yeah I'm sad to see them leave as well.
$140k is household income:

https://siliconvalleyindicators.org/data/economy/income/hous...

I agree that it might be tough to buy a median house with median income in some areas, however you can easily afford to buy a decent house almost anywhere with $400k income.
Right. The idea that someone can become tougher by subjecting themselves to stress is silly (or at least misguided). That path leads to burnout which is crippling. It doesn't lead to tougher people who can keep burning themselves even more. They just hit a wall where they aren't capable of much of anything.
its not so much 'sussing out tricks' as a blanket ban on anything that can be abused. My parents made roughly 100k when I was going to school but they were terrible with money and have a lot of children. The 'expected contribution' was actually quite high but I never received anything from my parents at all. Thus, I have much in the way of student loans.

Not to take away from your point but the colleges having to work against these sort of tricks has a lot of unintended consequences.
Which, incidentally, is not really different from how workers were treated in the US before the 40s, when many important laws for labor protections, minimum wage, etc were passed.

Including purchasing your own uniform and tools (which you did at the "company store", often with "company money" (scrip), which you could only spend for products (food, drink, etc), there anyway.
Hard to use a mirror in your sleep.
The Green Building definitely had the better view. Plus it was understandable. I often got lost in Stata above the first floor.
Regardless of materials batteries store large amounts of energy that are dangerous when released in an uncontrolled fashion. That’s what they do.
Those with less privilege are getting a smidge closer to an even starting point, and your idea is to get more conservative?

What if your family had the choice to move wherever without sacrificing opportunity?

This isn't about penalizing anyone. It's about offering a modicum of equality in a privilege-drowned world.
On the contrary, my Charge 2 is generally pretty accurate in terms of when I'm asleep vs awake.
Thanks for mentioning those patterns, I'll take a look at them. The idea for this project is to allow the user to choose the pattern, frameworks, and backend services easily so they fit with their use case.

Right now, we have a React + React Router pattern with an Express node backend, but the goal is to incorporate different patterns and technologies in the generation wizard so users can choose. One piece of feedback we want to hear from the community is: what do you prefer to use when it comes to frameworks and application patterns for web applications?
No, the data does not suggest otherwise. I won't be surprised if Vancouver is very different from San Francisco, which has extremely low vacancy rates.

https://sf.curbed.com/2019/3/21/18276227/vacancy-rate-san-jo...
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> it saves you time and hazzel
Trump Administration's Redefinition of Poverty Could Shrink Social Services
No one is claiming that it is the best place forever and ever and that can never change.

But today, facebook rules from network effects. Someday it won't (just like myspace doesn't anymore).
That is done. If you live in a rural area, hitting a deer is not uncommon. If you take it home to eat it though, you're poaching. A game ranger told us on a class trip one time after a student asked about hitting a deer if you could eat it. He said, "If you hit a deer, call us. We know lots of hungry families, but don't load it up and taking it home. That's illegal."
> It was being built in the wrong order (why would you build the parts that would get the least ridership first?!)

Because the initial operating segment needed to be near one of the endpoints (San Jose to Bakersfield was the plan) in order to maximize ridership, meaning the initial construction segment should be, at least largely, part of such a segment (the ICS was Bakersfield to Merced), and the ICS was specifically select because of relative ease of construction and federal funding being available for work that could start relatively soon at the time with a priority to economically hard hit areas for economic development purposes, which the valley end of the planned IOS fit.

> at the end of the day, it would not have helped the poor communities between SF and LA.

Yes, it would have.

> We have hundreds of flights a day between SF and LA. We don't need a train to replace that.

The economic case for the train was made on the bases of expected displaced road traffic and reduced funds dedicated to highway construction and maintenance with it versus without it, not replacing air travel.
One thing I have to say about this SAT thing is that, there are lots lots of Asians working in SAT as statisticians, psychometricians, and analysts. There must be lots of Asians working on the project related to the 'Adversity Score', unless they intentionally exclude Asians from this project.

But we've never heard anything about internal disagreement or resistant against this stuff. This fact tells something.
This is a great example of how quantitative facts decide over the qualitative evaluation of all things in Silicon Valley - including deeply personal matters like sleep and even relationships. I've been living in Silicon Valley for a while now and I can't believe my eyes and ears sometimes!
Unfortunately this is true. Some on the left have become 1980s republicans when it comes to free speech, Russia, and the goodness of big business.
OP is saying that their family sacrificed a lot to live and attend school in a geographic area that was probably catering towards wealthier people. The new system will be unfair for people like OP as their socioeconomic adjusted scores now get bunched together with the average wealthy student in the area despite not having actually been well off. Perhaps the student had to work after school at her mother's laundromat all day despite living in a good neighborhood and attending a decent school. Not only does this "adversity" not get reflected but basically the effort part of the student (and their family) is getting lost with this new system.

Honestly, given that the sole purpose of the SAT is to apply to college, which get tons more information about the test taker/applicant than College Board, hopefully this gets ignored and college admissions make their own judgements on "adversity" versus the SAT's simplistic, reductionist view of quantifying it... Admissions should and will have full ability and better info to do a much better job at this. Indeed, the Ivies do seem to take these things into serious account based on the stats they release every year on new admits.

Also, the cynic in me thinks this is more of a way to make up for the losing market share to the ACT and attract more test takers away from the ACT that would benefit from this adversity scoring system.
If you're trying to find a technical answer, it's not the best. But on other topics I'm blown away at the depth of some of the answers.
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Hey look another step towards college being a joke.
Yes, because intelligent parents tend to make more money. And their children tend to be more intelligent as well.
It's not suffering to some of us. But those of us, like in another thread who feel like we should have the right to own multiple homes and big cars and keep the A/C too high or low -- or at all.

Those who want steak every day. Those who want fully automated houses. They are going to suffer more. Lots of them.
I'm sure you wouldn't have appreciated somebody saying you cant live where you do now, before you moved there.

However you are completely onboard with doing the same to others.
Is killing people required to build things quickly? I think you might conflating issues.

How many people die on Chinese infastructure projects?
Totally irrelevant; this isn't a matter of the author being one thing or another. The point Vonnegut makes in the story is a philosophical one, namely that a blind pursuit of equality is wicked and inhuman, which is transparently correct.
Fun and informative to read. Loved the old memes. Ds.js sounds like an useful tool but I couldn't find any links to the bookmarklet in the paper.
The US food supply in general needs to be cleaned the hell up...but, I think people ascribe way too much agency to "processed foods" and not enough to the fact that all the lifestyle changes they say definitely worked for them probably also just resulted in them eating a lot less food.

Convince yourself you absolutely shouldn't eat pre-packed whatever, and then if your kitchen's empty you're pretty likely just to power on through it on less.
Not if they pay for the car repair with debt, i.e. with a credit card. Not saying this is a good idea, but it makes more sense to pay down existing CC debt than to put money into a 2% savings account in case your car breaks down..
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Recently I think the scandals haven't been the single biggest factor when deciding between Facebook and other firms.

The common reason I heard from most of my friends who turned down FB, or quitted FB was that the working culture is too demanding and kind of pressure. Google on the other hand is more laid back and family friendly. So people who started building a family will prefer Google over FB. The nice thing is FB tends to offer higher level than Google, so in some cases, if you get matched, it works out pretty well.

I have a friend who worked at FB, after he came back from paternity leave, his manager told him he has been slacking (his reviews were always "meet all"/"exceeding" before), it's time to put in more work, he quitted after a month.
A set of encryption keys for a critical system is another point of failure: when there is a problem with the keys the system stops working. I'd posit that the risk of a failure due to a problem with the keys is greater than the risk of a failure due to spoofing, so the safest solution in practise is to leave the encryption out until failures due to spoofing are more common than failure due to keys (meaning it is unlikely that encryption will ever be installed).
Is it being "identified more often" or is it made into a thing when it's not more often (because experts follow fads too, because it helps sell drugs, because it helps justify various programs, plus it's not like measuring such issues it's some hard science, so nobody will be able to prove otherwise anyway).

"Kid's bored at school? Get them some ADHD drugs!".

(Not that there aren't legitimate cases, but there's also mass over-prescription).
as I posted somewhere else as well:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90305242/taxing-empty-apartments...

There are lots of vacant homes. Foreign buyers are pushing their wealth to the west to protect it from their own governments.

So yes, another strategy to lower housing costs is to reign in foreign ownership.
1. how's this different from pysparnn or faiss?

2. does this support both sparse and dense vectors ann?
I mean, the reason of the SAT's existence is the convenience of boiling down one's entire academic experience into one number. Perhaps the real problem is that university admissions allow the dualopoly of College Board and ACT control the academic fates of the nation's students with no public accountability.
Yes. Exactly it.
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>They definitely collect much more data than Facebook. The only reason they haven't faced the same shitstorm is because they don't seem to share all that data with 3rd parties.

And that is something that is much more relevant to many users. I don't mind sharing a lot of my data as long as I know where my data actually ends up. If Google uses my data to improve their ad algorithm I'm fine with it, if my Facebook data ends up in the hand of some election manipulation company I'm not fine with it, no matter how much data it is.
Pretty much every failure of nuclear power can be summed up as a management problem.
The value of the diploma is directly linked to the value of the college. When you break it down a college diploma is only worth as much as the reputation of the college.
>actually look at the applications.

So that they can infer the same "adverse conditions" and call it a holisitc process like they do now?
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Console and when unused, a cloud gaming streaming server could reduce lag.

That's what I'm thinking about right now.
Well, there's also a declining middle class -- middle aged poor people that used to be predominantly white middle class.
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Rust is described as having "lots of automatic magic". Not quite sure what they are describing.
> I have been resistant to the idea of government/state support for people who are losing jobs to automation

Hazarding a guess: your job is not immediately at risk due to automation.
I mostly agree, I do think the limit is higher for Chinese, but it’s not infinite
Anedoctically, it's a thing the other way around too. When I moved to the UK from Italy, lots of foods tasted too sweet to me. After a year here, I don't feel that any more.
it didn't look like an itemized list of every single expense he expects to pay over the year, just some of the big ticket items. he's not filing his taxes with his comment.
It's a chicken/egg problem. The jobs are in the cities. The population density in other areas makes it even harder. People move to the cities for jobs because there aren't any where they are from.f
How is giving underprivileged people a leg up "punishing" anyone?

Privileged people need to start recognizing their inherent pre-rigging of the system.

For those in power, equality feels like oppression.
Prisoners by and large do not become productive members of society, nor do they fear prison enough to avoid recidivism. But they almost never escape, and the handful of escapes this century were all captured or killed within weeks. Quarantine is, if not what it’s it aimed at, what it accomplishes in practice.
I grew up in a poor, dangerous neighborhood as a child. Later in my teens I lived in a wealthy suburb with collectible cars in the driveway after my father's startup succeeded.

My father was physically abusive, and child services got involved. My father's lawyers sorted things out to get the investigation to stop and drop charges if I lived somewhere else. I unfortunately went into the Troubled Teen industry (which I had definitively no reason to be in other than as part of his lawyers' story blaming me for what happened). That industry is filled with abuse.

The day I turned 18 I was pulled from there and struggled with homelessness for a year. It was extremely hard to succeed when you are homeless.

Financial aid for university is tied to your childhood guardian's social security number until you are 25, so I was a homeless person, and not eligible for any financial aid.

This is just a start. I've never broken any laws or done anything particularly wrong.

Did you ever think of my story? Apparently bureaucrats didn't.

Also, why should I need permission from some bureaucrats to study from the top degree programs? Shouldn't the goal be the opposite: to expand the best education opportunities to as many people as possible?

We have so much wealth and enormous social spending in America, and yet look at our outcomes with homelessness, poverty and suicide...
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Devil's advocate: do you think children who lack families that provide such advantages must necessarily "suffer" as a consequence of that lack? And conversely, why did you wait to object until this, in particular, became a consideration instead of before (when ethnicity and other factors were already considerations)?
Nope. Is sunset when the lower limb of the sun touches the horizon? When it's halfway? When it disappears completely? And is that the actual horizon where the sun happens to be today? The treeline above it? The tower block in the way? Where sea level would be if there wasn't land there? Or just when it gets dark? But then is that civil twilight? Nautical twilight? Astronomical twilight? When the light from the sun gets dimmer than the light from the streetlights that happen to be in your area?
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> potential criminals

This is a self-referential definition.

The removal of vibrant individuals from such communities is design to crippled them, making them more reliant on, e.g. unfavorable employment.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I think most of the difficulty in the CAHSR project didn't come from technical challenges. It came from mismanagement and NIMBYs, in particular NIMBYs in Atherton, Palo Alto, the Tehachapi pass, and other segments that blocked construction and put the project into a death spiral.
Yes, and it's not like it's difficult to check. Dictionary definition:

middle age, noun: the period after early adulthood and before old age, about 45 to 65.
Japan has them now and has had them for more than 60 years. If we meet the 2033 deadline (seems doubtful, given our track record), Japan will have had HSR 80 years before CA got its first. Further, Japan continuously expands and improves the bullet train lines. Despite earthquakes, Japan's largely mountainous terrain, a shrinking population, and other challenges, every year work continues on making the bullet train network larger and faster.

Meanwhile in the US we spend nearly 700 billion annually on the military (roughly 75% of the Japanese government's entire budget). Get what you pay for (in our case, missiles).
I use an Apple Watch and an app called Pillow and it does a plausible job of guessing when I went to sleep and when I woke up. It also identifies light/deep sleep and REM, but I have no way of telling how accurate. It seems to detect awake periods at night as well as I can remember them.

But ... I kinda assume it's a crapshoot and I use it more as a novelty and an estimate of total sleep than any kind of accurate representation of sleep cycles.
Has Google ever disclosed exactly what data they collect, what they do with it, who can look at it, etc? We "know" that Google takes privacy "seriously", but that is a faith based position.
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The adversity score, as far as I can see, gives high scores to students who succeed in worse school districts. While none of the sites reporting on this bothered to link to any kind of official announcement, it looks like this may be a refinement of the tool announced here in 2016: https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/pr...

From the college board's description of the tool, it weights applicant scores by the quality of their neighborhood and high school. So a disadvantaged student whose family focused on moving to a neighborhood/school where lots of students succeed is not given a high score in this analysis.

The OP had the same opportunity, but because they did the traditional things for a poorer family to encourage their students to succeed (moving to a good school district and sacrificing on the commute) they will be considered a privileged student in this analysis.
In the biological sense, a population of creatures is immortal if "the rate of mortality from senescence is stable or decreasing with age".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality
The SAT is supposed to be a test measuring scholastic aptitude not a pure IQ test.

IQ tests always have a knowledge component anyway. Unless you specifically design a test to only measure something like working memory. And who cares about that. Colleges would only care to the extent that it correlated with performance.

But you can have 2 people who have equal performance in a given field even though one has a higher working memory because the other has better context from more time spent reading.