skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For facial recognition I believe it's possible to use pre-trained networks and add extra layers for specific (visual) demographics. You're correct that for the engineering of soap dispensers an actually different method might be preferable. That however boosts a previous point; if the engineers behind the soap dispenser had a number of black members, would they have designed something that didn't work for them, or discarded it in the design stage?
And how would such a test not work out well for you?

You would still score well, and the fact that you have extra work will still hold in good stead.

Let me turn this question that puts your self interest first.

You’ve got two people who you can hire for your team.

I turns out one guy got a lower sat score than the other.

The lower scorer is someone from the projects where people don’t go to college. He still managed it, and crunched his way through everything to get to community college.

The other chap has good parents who are highly educated and comes from a stable household.

Without a doubt, the first individual has proven a tenacity required to overcome a world of adversity.

Frankly - this is a handicap we already give people if we are made aware of their context.

The same reason people respect first responders, or people who’ve made it out of poverty are respected.

Because it IS harder, and far more fail to get out in the current environment, than those who do.

This will end up being more of a “how effective were you with the opportunities you had.” Measure than any other - and that’s provided it takes off in the first place.
Wait now he has to write his own optimization routines too?
This is still how it works today. The wheel must sense a certain amount of turning resistance or it will say there are not hands on the wheel even if there are. Short of installing new sensors in new steering wheels, all they can do is adjust that sensitivity level which they might not be able to do at risk of false positive detections.
It would be interesting to see Clinton's return extended one more year. He exited right before the dotcom bubble imploded.
americans are funny. proning positive discrimination to get into a school and sacrify 5 years while not being prepared intellectually to succeed in the degree you got positively discriminated into and they call that a chance. as long as the guys proning that will have positively discriminated surgeon and cancerologist to cure them Im ok with it.
Serverless platforms need to support stateful computations, function placement
Enough with the stereotypes!
so there are several levels to "improving your sleep". I agree that if you sleep like shit and only get 4 hours per night you don't need the ring. you need to get more sleep.

but for some people that actually sleep well and want to tweak the quality of their sleep it can be valuable. let me give a few example of such tweaks: altering the time you go to bed, altering the surface you sleep on, reducing the amount of blue light you get, playing with the temperature in the room, not using screens X hours before going to bed, not eating X hours before going to bed. I could go on. The point I'm trying to make is that if you already get enough sleep (or you think you get enough sleep) the ring might help you. yes - the price is ridiculous. but it's not about the price, it's about improving a [very] important aspect of your life.

If you want to be scared shitless into paying attention to your sleep I recommend: "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker. Everything from cognitive abilities, fertility, risk of cancer and other diseases can be influenced by poor quality sleep. Sleep, along with eating properly and exercise is a pillar for a good quality life. I believe it's worth making it a priority.
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Electric underfloor heating works pretty well. Though personally I think we should all go back to having hypocausts.
r u serious? before IT, engineering in us meant making cars, space shutles, airplanes and i garantee you that those were well earning jobs.
I would bet money the MCATs won't start some ideological BS like this.
In particular the interiors of brutalist structures don't get enough appreciation. Boston City Hall — not done by Pei — stands out in that the exterior is quite ugly but the interior is utilitarian and soothingly cavernous.

Unrelatedly, my grandfather lived in one of the Kips Bay Towers during the 70s when he was working in New York as a graphic designer. I have a soft spot for them.
It's really time to give ugly people, short people, fat people, etc. an adversity score boost. I mean what could be more adverse?
> So I get what you're saying, but let's not pretend Microsoft in 2000 was larger than Google or Facebook is now.

Larger in terms of what? Cash flow? Probably not. Monopoly power? Microsoft had something like 95% of a market that didn't even have 3 major players. The 4-firm concentration ratio was ridiculous, as was the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index. Microsoft owned so much of the market for PC operating systems that they loaned Apple money to avoid anti-trust issues.

Google is at about 92% of the global share of searches, but Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex exist. DuckDuckGo actually entered the market not too long ago. Google now has nowhere near Microsoft's monopoly power.
There's going to be a lot of Veterans that feel the same way. Imagine serving in the military for a while, saving up money to move somewhere where your kids will have good schools and good quality of life, getting a good job after working your ass off to jump careers, and then have the College Board tell you that this will disadvantage your child when applying to college. This is insane.
Nowadays you just all in the dip the moment Trump tweet anything negative(aka trade war) —— he’ll say the opposite the next day and the market will rebound magically.

This brings my portfolio return 2x already. Honestly I’ll be surprised if no one in his family/asset management chain exploits this
Jesus this thread is toxic. I can tell the SAT board made the right decision based on the salt content here.
This whole thing is about who deserves the opportunity for higher education.

The truth is, except for a small handful of schools (whose seats are mostly already spoken for, either through donors, athletes, or the elite prodigies who are going to get in regardless of their socioeconomic background) it is almost irrelevant whether or not you go to school A or school B in the long run.

Your grit, your personal talents, your luck/karma/destiny etc are basically what carry you through anyway.

Anyone who blames their failure in life on “some kid took my seat at Harvard because adversity score” probably doesn’t have what it takes to make it anyway.
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Didn't your public school teach you not to consider Wikipedia a convincing reference for validating political opinions? Maybe you could have used some vouchers...
It's not about having no safety rules, it's about having more reasonable safety rules that weren't enacted with the goal of increasing costs.

Safety is always about trade offs. One solution makes things 30% safer and costs $2500, another makes things 0.000000002% safer and costs $2,500,000, another makes things 10% safer and costs $50,000 but is strictly an alternative to a newer technology that makes things just as safe but costs $500.

The problem with existing nuclear regulations is that they're stale and brittle. You're not allowed to do something which is a safety improvement because every change has to go through a slow, expensive bureaucratic process. By definition, preventing safety improvements does not improve safety.

But it also increases costs, because technology gets better over time in multiple dimensions, including efficiency. You can't use the technology which is both safer and less expensive because existing rules require you to do things in the strictly worse ways that existing reactors do them.

The process of improving the rules is itself the source of significant expense. Opponents will fight sound proposals on spurious grounds just to extend the duration of the process and increase costs. Or propose wastefully inefficient "safety improvements" that are politically difficult to argue against, because pointing out that you can get ten times the safety improvement at 10% of the cost with other technologies will only cause them to turn around and argue for all of those things too, so then your costs increase by 110% of the unreasonable amount instead of 100%.

The existing process is inherently broken. It isn't optimizing for safety or cost, both of which would be improved by a more efficient regulatory environment. Like the regulatory processes -- by no means perfect but a thousand times better than this -- that are used for other things with equally dangerous potential like dams and large chemical plants.
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I really don't like where you are going with this. It is too close to an anti-intellectualism theory for my comfort.
>Majority of people don't have a PC with a dedicated GPU. Or PC at all. Thanks to the Smartphone.

Problem is, smartphones still are shit for input (lol touchscreen) in any precise manners so what point is there in trying to run intensive games on it via streaming.
It is better alternative than upwork for people with niche area development skills.
Clients come to you instead of submitting proposals. Fees is a bit high but that's fine.
If someone can find your work on medium, why would the bother to find your site and read it there instead?
"For most of the history of the HSR, it was a dual-party state where the minority Republicans"

Republicans were almost always in the minority in both houses (often, Democrat supermajorities), and you call that a "dual-party" state?
> I see a "Pardon the Interruption" notice every time I want to read something

https://makemediumreadable.com/

I stopped minding medium (as a reader) since installing that.
it's good for you as in it will scare the shit out of you and make you pay attention to your sleep. the examples can be a little exaggerated and one has to wonder how anyone that does not get enough sleep is still alive - but yeah. if you haven't already, read the book
I don't think you can ever eliminate that, short of removing kids from their parents Plato's Republic style.

Adding more rules will just create perverse incentives (e.g. parents incentivized to increase crime rate in their neighborhoods to boost their children's scores.)
I own a 2.3K star Github repository (https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo), that while trivial in it's implementation, it's pretty useful to a ton of people.

There are a few core contributors to the project now and a Discord server as well and everything in this article rings true to me.

It becomes an obligation of sorts and you definitely feel like you're letting people down, especially when it comes to people who have taken the time to contribute and share feedback, let alone people who actually open PRs.

What I think can help is having more core contributors with write permissions, share the load. Or be up front in your readme and say, "I only check this once a quarter".
>One of my computers got its BTRFS filesystem into a state where it would hang when trying to mount read/write. What I suspect is that there was some filesystem thing happening in the background when I rebooted the machine.

>The first problem is directly attributable to BTRFS. There is no way a filesystem should get corrupted by a simple user-initiated reboot, regardless of what the system is doing in the background.

It doesn't seem like you have any direct evidence that this has something to do with rebooting. In fact, Btrfs is much less susceptible to these sorts of problems than previous file systems. That's because writes in Btrfs are atomic, so a file is never "partially" written to disk. Either it's written, or it isn't. You can't get disk corruption from write failures.

What I suppose might potentially happen is that you rebooted the system while in the middle of installing a bootloader or kernel update. I don't know if you tried mounting the partition r/w from another system or not, but assuming you didn't, it's probably more likely that something broke on your system that prevented it from remounting the partition during the boot process.
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There's nothing stopping people from continuing this either. There are myriad ways to promote your own creations.

In fact there was a recently promoted site called https://1mb.site/ which allowed a small free website. If you hotlink your images from your own https://imgur.com account, you can have a relatively easy site.
>If they don't have drive, they likely wouldn't succeed anyway and they are taking the spot of someone with said drive.

I promise you that I know people who, in a short few months, who burn the light out of the brightest soul.

Make them that test subject’s parent and I’ll give you a sure shot to medicority and a life of emotional issues.

Anecdote is never data. On a large enough scale of human data we see that programs that improve basic things like food, interaction with parents and teachers - all improve student outcomes.

Unsurprisingly - these are also things that better off families tend to take care off and spend their resources on.
Had me going for a second.
Did you see the reference to 'autistic savant' up above? That was the example referenced. And even if someone does work/practice some, if the effort is minimal relative to other people ('normal' people, or what not), does it diminish the ability because they didn't "work hard" for it?

personally, I'm no savant, but as a child I really didn't have to work hard at anything in school. I was pushed up a grade, and was still at the top of that class, and bored, for years. i put in basically no effort in to any schooling for years, and was still, generally, way ahead of many other students who, looking back now, were struggling (this was in the day when students could be 'held back' to repeat a grade - I don't think that's done much today?).

i have learned plenty of skills, and some took years, and it's never ending. but some came - essentially - effortlessly (or appeared effortless relative to peers' efforts).
False equivalence fallacy.
Mystery of deadly Indonesian tsunami cracked using social-media videos
I was looking for the source, I can't find it, but there was a (I think 17th century) French monk was into climbing, and based on his diary entries and the local crags near the monastery they guessed he was pulling 5.13a, which, for climbers today usually it takes several years of dedicated training to get to that level.
The negative externalities of Warren Buffet's fortune are truly cataclysmic for the environment.
California had total Democrat control of the government from 1999-2003

Technically, Republicans controlled the Assembly for parts of 1995-6. Willie Brown bought off three different Assembly members to try to keep control, but each was recalled by his/her district.
When you have some object O that has a reference to a set of hundreds of thousands of other objects, and drop the last reference on O, you don't know how many of those other objects will also be traversed and have their reference hit zero. It could be none of them; it could be all of them.
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How is the user paying for this? Generally the cost ends up being longer compiles and more development time.
Uhh, there was a story on HN stating exactly that a few days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19858762
Fine. I’m going to make a Medium alternative this weekend and this person better try it out.
I think the tricky thing about it is that income / wealth distributions are exponential, so no matter where you are on the curve, it basically looks the same. The people that have more than you have massively more, and the people who have less don't really seem to have that much less.
So instead of you submitting a proposal you make a profile and they come to you. So... How does that change the dynamic of cheap asses only hiring the lowest cost workers and workers racing to the bottom?
The crime rate in a neighborhood is actually something kids can control (i.e. they can commit crimes to boost their scores).
But how will I "clap" for top-shelf webshit content if it's not on Medium?
I'm aware of Hack and it's quite nice, but I can't use it because a) my coworkers are … less open to new ideas … and will rightfully resist a "whole new language", whereas mgmt will see it as an attempt at "job security", and b) the biggest use-case for generics is third-party libraries (e.g. [0], [1], [2], [3]) which will never add support if this is not a core language feature.

[0]: https://github.com/doctrine/collections

[1]: https://github.com/schmittjoh/php-option

[2]: https://github.com/schmittjoh/php-collection

[3]: https://github.com/widmogrod/php-functional
I guess the only surprising part to me was paying behind the clients back and charging a little more.

Because on the surface, of course you pay the ransom! I specifically selected insurance that stated up front they would pay a ransom if they had to. I think this has to be fairly common knowledge outside of infosec.

Perhaps some CTO/CIO/CFO types would rather the peace of mind or the idea that they aren’t helping these ransom-entrepreneurs out by paying them.
I used to be a fan of keepass as well, but I moved to bitwarden maybe 18 months or so ago. For $10 a year for the paid version I get MFA and some other features. I find it a much more seamless experience than keepass/etc, as it works as a browser extension or a discrete app (the Android app uses accessibility features so it detects other Android apps asking for authentication as well as Android browsers such as Firefox). Anyway, just another thing to try if you are looking...
Your use of white is sort of shitty here- While it may reflect the truth of the demographics, whiteness is not the salient point when we're talking about legacies and 'athletes'.

The point there is the power of wealth and social connections. Thats what is unjust. Dragging race into it sort of undermines the point, and it certainly hurts the universality of the point, as other countries have different dominant class identifiers.
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I predict we won't have fully autonomous ("total") self-driving in the next 25 years. To think it will be out in the next year or even in the reasonably expected lifespan of currently shipping Teslas is utter folly, IMO.
If one ever makes the mistake of giving Medium a valid email address, one's inbox will be 78% Medium article recommendations until one gets quite aggressive with the spam flags.
You're splitting hairs. Their "score" just becomes whatever function the university uses to decide, and if they use it then their score would indeed be altered by the "adversity" score.
There are implementation details that could make the data recoverable even when RSA is used. The data itself is typically encrypted using a symmetric cipher (e.g. AES) and the key used for it would be encrypted using RSA. However, if the key for the symmetric algorithm was generated in a predictable way (e.g. using a pseudo-RNG initialized from the system time), it could be possible to bruteforce it in reasonable time.
I recall we all said the same crap about streaming HD movies with a monthly fee too. I think the only true problem with streaming gaming is that the quality of games will diminish even more.
Makes no sense to measure from day of taking office. With a 1 year offset, Trump's market goes from performing "very well" to the erratic mess that it has been ever since.
The availability of AP classes is part of the calculation. This will backfire for College Board. Now it becomes undesirable to offer any AP classes in the high school!

Assuming that means AP classes that have been properly registered to use the trademark on transcripts, we will likely see pseudo-AP substitutes. The material will be taught, and students will take the tests, but officially there will not be AP at the school. Students will have to go elsewhere on test day.

Another possibility is that a completely different alternative will become far more popular. This could be dual-enrollment or International Baccalaureate.
I've found the app recommended by wirecutter

https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-sleep-tracking-app/

Quite accurate, at least for time to sleep, and time asleep. I think the REM, NREM etc is mostly noise, if you are getting 8+ hours a night every night (super hard to do!) the quality of sleep should be fine.

The best thing is to set a "go to bed" alarm, for night owls like me its so easy to say you go to bed "around 10" when in fact it can be much later.
As someone else has said above:
companies are using a material that lasts 10,000 years for items that are single-use. That should be outright illegal unless there are literally no alternatives.

Its insanely wasteful when you view it like that.
> Didn't your public school teach you not to consider Wikipedia a convincing reference for validating political opinions? Maybe you could have used some vouchers...

I think they were too busy teaching me that randos on the internet disputing Wikipedia's sources are definitely more reliable than Wikipedia.
That assumes they applied the encryption correctly. There are many ways to mess it up, and there have been anti-ransomware software made for buggy versions of ransomeware in the past.
The article says there are groups that will do this for you explicitly, and one hopes for lower fees than the companies that claimed they were doing it without paying the ransom.
Reminds me of the time I was eating whole plant vegan food. We went to Nandos Peri Peri, a famous Peruvian chain. I ordered salad for like 8 or 9 bucks, but was extremely hungry when I got back to my desk. So I checked the calories on their menu, and the salad had 40 calories.
That depends on time between compromise and detection. With password manager you'll lose only passwords for sites you actually logged in to. While with browser, you'll lose all passwords instantly.
You still need 60% from somewhere. This is why France's new policy of replacing 20…25% nuclear out of 70…75% with renewables is good. Germany is just obliviously burning almost 50% coal instead.
> I also don't understand how a single organization making a change to its testing package, in the interest of leveling the playing field, is somehow "pushing" your political beliefs in any one direction... It's your choice whether you want to align your beliefs more closely with any side.

Leveling the outcome is NOT leveling the playing field. And by keeping the algorithm secret, it is tyranny not justice.
I just wish the Uvex glasses were more comfortable.
I feel this is actually a decent service for a few reasons:

- Many average users don't want to understand cryptocurrencies, how to safely and securely buy and use it is a challenge in and of itself.

- They're on the hook and the client pays nothing if the ransomer fails to provide a working key.

- They'll also manage the ransom decryption software - if there's problems with it there are 3rd party tools that can often do a better job of decryption than the original decryption tool, again, this is something that's going to be complicated for average users to deal with.

- For some ransomware there are decryption processes available without the need to pay the ransom, figuring out which of these applies can be challenging

- Certain institutions may be unable or unwilling to work with the attacker directly - introducing a middle man to broker can help solve this.

Overall the piece seems somewhat hyperbolic.
Emails can be sensitive if they are corporate and patent trolls are the buyers.