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What is "the best school" here? It must be "the school that will best develop their particular talents", right?

Presumably you want them to go to that school so they can produce the best music possible with their abilities, for the benefit of society. The other option I see is that you might want them to go to that school because they have "earned it", but this is silly, especially considering a case where they haven't done anything, and are just naturally talented!

You now have two problems- first, one school might be excellent at training good musicians but not so great at training savants. Second...

Suppose you have one spot in a magical "savant school", which is able to develop somebody's skills better than anywhere else in the world. You'd want to assign the student who would benefit most to this spot- the one who has greatest potential.

This is NOT the student who currently writes the best music- this is the one who will write the best music after attending the school.

You don't care about ability now- you care about ability later. Predicting the latter from the former alone has an obvious flaw- training and practice improve ability.

Because of this, it's a good idea to consider measures of how much training somebody has had, in addition to their current ability, for admissions decisions.

Unfortunately, quantifying that is hard- so other metrics are used as proxies. In considering admission to an Olympic swimmer training program, for example, perhaps one might consider how early somebody learned to swim, or how often they visited a swimming pool.

No?
This is misleading. That video is demonstrating Tesla's "full self driving" feature, which is not yet launched. You can future proof your car by paying for it, but Tesla is clear the FSD is still forthcoming, and that their current cars are not fully autonomous.

I think you can rightfully give them shit about calling the current gen "autopilot", and think their full of shit for claiming FSD is as close as it is, but this video is not intended to suggest you can operate the existing car in that manner.
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Statistics don't include situations where Tesla went wrong and the driver manually intervened to avoid an accident. One is just human drivers and the other is a team effort between human drivers and AI, if the results are the same then that's quite condemning of the AI.
Yes. Really.

Your family is not model to be aspirational of. Yours is a warning to others.
Wouldn't it be hilarious if universities found that higher adversity score predicted worse outcomes and used it to penalize applicants afflicted with adversity! Once it's well accepted that it's OK to discriminate based on the adversity score, they can discriminate in whichever direction they want and it will be hard for critics to complain without admitting that it's really racial discrimination in disguise.
I am merely trying to simplify a complex matter to make it easier to understand/debate.
I would say, in reality indeed a certain % of surgeons would be the B students. The problem is that some social policies would increase this %, while others would decrease it. In my opinion, giving points for anything other than raw measurable performance would increase this %.

To answer your question, I would prefer a person who is passionate about what they are doing and capable of thinking outside the box. However, unfortunately, it's not something that could be easily formalized. Sure, self-taught students would likely be better motivated than tutored ones, however once you begin counting it as a part of the score, people would start gaming the system. Someone would lie about not being tutored. Someone else would actually skip taking private lessons and will miss out on learning something important, because doing so would give them a better score. A much better solution, IMO, would be to point out and quantify the traits and skills the self-taught people show, and include them in the test, giving everyone a chance to learn and practice them.
I guess I was more getting at the question of how we got to the point where we're giving out college admission, based on who your parents are? And what your parents lived through?

If you want to incentivize character built through life experiences? OK, I guess. But it should have to be the life and character of the actual student that counts. Not his mom.
It's not for everyone, but there's a way out: accept existential "futility", as Antirez puts it.

Let your project be less than it could be.
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I recall some threads on best practices around working with engineering (leaders and ICs alike). I wanted to ask HN if they have suggestions or blogs that you'd recommend
Street signs use symbols. Street signs actually spelling out "No left turn" instead of a crossed out arrow are very rare outside US. Where text is really needed its in Swedish.
Comparing any reactor the US has ever built, commercial, nuclear, or even research, to Chernobyl is not in any way justified. Chernobyl was a seriously flawed design that no country but the Soviet Union would ever have considered building.
Can you name other groups that made Jewish people wear gold stars?
Since it's users, maybe call it a directory... And since it's changing, maybe even an Active Directory? Like this https://aws.amazon.com/directoryservice/ ?
> Second, this place was targeted at middle income families

There's a random apartment building near downtown Pittsburgh that was designed by I.M. Pei [0] -- a little nicer than others in the area, but by no means a luxury building. It's indeed refreshing to see "normal" buildings for "normal" people designed by famous architects, even if the building itself isn't flashy by any means.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_View_(Pittsburgh)
I was not talking about warhead incidents, I was talking about reactor incidents.
Life here in the US.
> None of these requirements make sense for a stationary civilian power plant.

Yes, and not having to meet those requirements makes the reactor easier to design, operate, and maintain.
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MD5 is one thing as a password can be retrieved from a hash table. But pulling out passwords from a hashed + salted value (e.g. via bcrypt) is many orders of magnitude more infeasible, no?
Not parent but it reads like they wrote their own (presumably driven by DB server log data with query logging enabled).
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HN is skeptical towards the substance of college. I think most would recognize that going to Harvard or Stanford opens a lot of doors, regardless of what you learn or don't.
If that’s the case, then I apologize. It seemed like you were the one downvoting since I would get downvoted right after you replied.
Amazon is a pretty good example of people willing to pay more for being able to return anything for almost any reason. There’s more comfort behind the click so more people buy noticeably more.

I still prefer Southwest over Spirit and any other airline but i’m just one anecdote.
No there isn’t. But if you understand it I don’t get why you think 20% isn’t a good performance boost, especially considering the rate of return for power and area in silicon.
And how does it do on hashes that are not known to be useless, eg bcrypt or argon2?
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$20 is for a standard prototype or a quick wireframe, its a marketing strategy to bring to client to the discussion table. I don't do full web app gigs for that price! The other two packages (standard & premium) is where most of the development happens.
Plausible deniability for a CTO that doesn't want to be known for negotiating with terrorists As A Service?
Equal opportunity vs equal outcome is just a matter of perspective. If we take the desired outcome as can complete college then both proposals are attempting to provide equal opportunity.

Declaring that one denigrates people while the other doesn't based solely on outcome vs opportunity requires arbitrarily picking an observation point that supports your view.
Which is why nobody should use Quickbooks Online.
[John] Maxfield always tried to stay off the radar, but after he was exposed as an FBI informant in late 1983, he became the most loathed man on the internet.

Well ... the ARPAnet? Until RTM came along?

The word Internet was first used in RFC 675, in December 1974. But I think the author actually means "the Inner Circle and their friends and supporters". The man had his day as a vigilante until about 1990, then faded into obscurity.
I would encourage you to read more political news/geopolitical discussion.
I'm threading the needle in a project I've been working on which is both Open Source and has premium features around cloud sync:

https://getpolarized.io/

... it's been interesting. I'm trying to give everyone the best of both worlds but since I'm catering to a large user base I have to make sure to keep everyone happy.

Some people DO NOT want to do anything cloud. Some want their own cloud. Others want cloud and they want it easy.

I think part of what I'm learning is that in order to get the trust from users I'm going to either have to be around for a long time or get the thumbs up from other organizations that can vouch for my positive intentions.

For example, I want to write up a document about our commitment to Open Source but of course that takes work and I don't have a ton of time.
my apologies, I’ll refrain from doing that in the future
There are many different ways to get compromised. Reducing attack surface is always a good idea.

And, yes I do close all browser windows/processes before login, and after logout of important websites for instance to make sure cookies and passwords are gone from browser memory.
Pebble bed reactors and small modular reactors are two examples. Also, even a conventional light water reactor can be passively safe on shutdown if the reactor cooling system is designed to take advantage of natural convection. US submarine reactors do it that way because it's quieter (no noise from reactor coolant pumps), but the passive safety benefit is also there.
Well, nobody should be using MD5 (nor should they have been using it 20 years ago with the introduction of bcrypt). In fact, nobody should be using any hash function that was designed for speed (such as the SHA family) because you don't want fast hashing of passwords.

Modern cryptographic hash functions that are tailored for password hashing (such as scrypt or Argon2) are much harder to brute-force and have tunable knobs to allow you to increase the memory or CPU hardness. Obviously you cannot be safe forever but if you have a database dump of Argon2id-hashed passphrases with very strong parameters you aren't going to break it any time soon.
How would you go about finding someone to contract and pay for say, Firefox?
I take it to mean that they've looked into their logfiles and accesses to their resources as closely as they can and so far haven't spotted anything. So, not exactly meaningless, but also not entirely reassuring.

At any rate, I still have some degree in trust in the people running things over there to tell us if the reality is different.
The gods decided that we shall not wield exponential fire less it serves them, thus your smartphone advanced a thousand years, but your cigarettes lighter did not.
To contemplate a fusion driven cigarette lighter is heresy.
Theire will shall be done, the thought not even contemplated.
I know of no one that is against putting up more housing near transit. People that live near the new construction will see their property values and quality of life rise due to more walkable businesses nearby. People selling existing houses on up zoned lots should also be able to charge a premium, knowing the developers are putting in >>$10M of housing units on the lot.

I wish I knew which legislators blocked this so I could donate to their opponents.
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It’s basically like golf handicapping. Imagine if pro sports gave the Oakland A’s a few extra runs per games when they played the Yankees because they have a lower payroll. That’s what this is. Except you wouldn’t know how many runs would be added to the score until the end of the season. I went to high school with many lower-middle/poor people (I was one of them,) despite identical neighborhoods, crime, income, etc.,) most Asians I know aced the SAT — some were 1st generation and arrived in the US from places like Laos and Vietnam and spoke no English when they arrived. They (like me,) didn’t have expensive private tutoring; their families just put an insane focus on education. The tiger mom stereotype is there for a reason. Many of these families worked 16+ hour days in small shops, with the entire family working. Most of these kids went to Ivy schools or for full-rides at the state schools. Yet non-Asians living on the same block barely graduated, if that. Yet the only difference was parental motivation and cultural background. These kids respected the teachers, did their homework to a high standard and didn’t roam around the neighborhood looking for trouble. And discrimination? Asian kids with little English in a mostly black and white lower class neighborhood — they got picked on relentlessly.

If parents value education, they find a way. Perhaps having a two parent, tightly knit family helps. If we want to really help future generations, we have to find ways to support and encourage two-parent families. That’s one of the biggest predictors of academic and social success and there is plenty of data to back it up. Limited income, educational level of the parents, crime ridden neighborhoods — somehow, statistically, Asians don’t seem to care, they find a way. Until we reverse many of the social policies created in the early 1970s that destroyed the two-parent family in certain communities, you’ll get more of the same results. Interestingly, black kids from two parent families perform just as well academically as does a white student from a two-parent family. All of these other “factors” are just noise. The problem is in the home, not with the tests.
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It most certainly is.

I recently attended a diversity workshop at a large organization that you’d recognize where we were taught some key elements of white supremacy are things like: perfectionism, urgency, defensiveness, individualism, etc.

https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/white-supremacy-cu...
The hands on policy is reiterated constantly by Tesla, and Musk.

In a recent release note adding the ability to turn off lane-change confirmations when in 'Navigate on AutoPilot', they have the following;

> With confirmation turned off, lane changes will only be made once we've confirmed that the driver's hands are on the wheel. Disabling lane confirmation does not abdicate the driver of their responsibility to keep their hands on the wheel, be engaged at all times and carefully monitor their car's surroundings. [1]

Here's what Elon actually thinks;

> [C]an’t make system too annoying or people won’t use it, negatively affecting safety, but also can’t allow people to get too complacent or safety again suffers. Latest update should have a positive effect on latter issue especially. [2]

Fundamentally, as a TM3 driver, you just absolutely must be looking out the damn window when using AP. Hands on or off the wheel is a proxy for "are you taking responsibility for your vehicle" which first and foremost means; looking at where the car is going.

I'd like to see Tesla add gaze tracking on the driver facing camera, even if it doesn't work when wearing sunglasses. If it is able to track your gaze, then it should use that. Fallback to wheel torque detection as a secondary. I couldn't find a sample video of what that camera captures, but on the PCB it is apparently labeled "SELFIE".

[1] - https://imgur.com/a/gxePQ75#6cklbYQ

[2] - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1005879049493725186
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people forget Bush was fighting an energy recession, and those were a godsend to many. my brother used the money to apply for college and buy books to give college a go and see how it is, he's an MD now. I disagreed with almost everything Bush did, but that was not one of them.

The same is true for Trump, in the sense had it not been for the Trump tax cuts, we would be in a recession right now.
Could you please not use HN for ideological battle? It's tedious, destroys curiosity, and is not what this site is for.

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This is the third known FATAL US autopilot crash. There are other non-fatal crashes. Many with video.

Fatal crash in China: [1] Rammed into street sweeper at full highway speed.

Non-fatal crash in California.[2] Rammed into fire truck stopped on freeway.

Tesla's system does not detect big solid objects in front of the vehicle. It's "recognize rear of car", then "brake for car". No recognition, no braking. Machine learning at its finest.

I know, I've posted this before, but I keep seeing denial.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc0yYJ8-Dyo

[2] https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/utah-driver-slammed-tesla-...
That's not how it works always. There are tons of compromises that do not imply system compromise, like XSS, or arbitrary browser process memory reads, or extension bugs, or java ghost scripts, etc...
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It's the same as those who believe that if you ask the person selling you weed if they are police, they are under obligation by law to tell you so.

They are not.
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Truck drives lose their jobs to automation. C programmers are superseded by java programmers, and then Rust/Go. Simplex optimization jobs get swept away by CPLEX, and later tensorflow. 20 years ago Visual Basic was all the rage, and 20 years before Cobol. Lots of people find themselves obsolete because, you know, the world changes. What's so special about truck drivers that they need government assistance?

To be honest, my guess would be that a typical truck driver is more resourceful than a typical javascript programmer. Take a look at [1] where a truck driver asks for advice how to switch careers and become a welder. You'll be impressed: the guy goes from asking a question to having his welding rig in two months.

[1] https://weldingweb.com/showthread.php?57666-From-Truck-Drive...
Those have worked for a while now? Like https://umaar.com/dev-tips/129-inline-breakpoints/

The bigger issue is when local variables aren't captured by the context when paused in chrome. I'm curious how the Firefox devtools handle that.
Do I necessarily agree with this score? No. But you should read Rothstein's book "The Color of Law" and the Supreme Court decision Milliken v. Bradley and think about how these "good school districts" came about
It's a lot easier to buy an SDR than a SAM -- even ignoring the cost differential.

Building an SDR which can output a signal strong enough to overpower the ILS array is not going to be cheap, subtle, or particularly easy. ILS is glitchy and pilots are trained to deal with the glitches — a localizer can be disrupted merely by having a plane (or any other large metal object) nearby.
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Yes I moved back two years ago. I don't regret leaving. I make less money, but still live comfortably. I can afford a two bedroom apartment a 15-minute walk away from work. I'm back in a bit city so there are as much social activities as I could want.

If you're asking if I'm happy, I would say I'm definitely more emotionally stable. I've been at the same job since I came back and currently don't plan to leave. I still feel down from time to time, not completely fulfilled, but I think I'd feel that way anywhere. I feel a little lost these days because I don't really know what I want to do with my life. I feel like I lack purpose.

Dating here in a big city seems easier than in the Silicon Valley suburbs. It's tricky (because dating is tricky), but I have no trouble getting dates. I did lose touch with many acquaintances after being away for a year. Party friends, when you stop going out with them regularly, stop thinking about you. I have a small number of close friends that I had before I left and I generally feel like I get enough social.
I'm glad this exists, and very impressed with how front-and-center their source code is, but I decided a while ago that I'm not installing random add-ons unless I have a very high level of trust in their integrity.
In fact it is not as easy as it seems. Bitcoin is in fact 'something' that is a by-product for performing the most appropriate Proof of Work for a given block of transactions. For this mining reward the miners burn the hell out of resources and because of the immutable history in the chain and such efforts put, Bitcoin has a value.

Ether in Ethereum follows a similar logic. But plus to just rewarding the miners, Ether is 'required' as a mean of payment for performing additional computing tasks for a smart contract to run as requested. That is so called GAS and it makes Ether somewhat called 'Utility Token'.

I think these are the basics how cryptos have values and how to have it properly with right proposition. Value comes from successful execution of certain task in a decentralized way for the currencies are created in such a manner. So called 'Tokenization' may have some advantages over traditional applications but currently, properly positioned tokenization projects are scarce in the industry.

For blockchain to be able to properly scale up and create value, still the infrastructure is in early stage development. But as a person who is working in the industry, I see the improvements are being made in both centralized and decentralized forms.
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Do you really know what Benjamin Franklin said, and what the context was?

https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-ben-franklin-really-said#.U...
I would be impressed if SO's user password table is in bcrypt.
I have always found Fiddler to be far more useful when debugging web traffic. It runs independently of applications, tabs, etc and allows for easy re-invocation of requests. And you can also test error handling easily by overriding the request and sending back an invalid response.

Fiddler is not the most user-friendly (it appears to be a bit thrown together), but it is very useful if you know how to find the right knobs.
No, Newsom killed that plan.

It's insane to think that this would actually be completed. It's more like the stealth fighter project that should never have gotten funding, or should have had its funding cut decades previous at this point.