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> someone who I would almost certainly spend little or no time with outside of work

That might be your experience, but the best cofounder for me is one I can share everything with. At work or outside, we're always in sync. I don't know how you would pull through difficult moments with an ice wall in the middle. Being able to see the worst of each other is how you really know somebody.

> Finding someone who deals with stress in a healthy way is huge.

Agree.
Elite institutions need to juggle a few responsibilities:

They need to let in the children of the ultra wealthy for the status symbol, money, and networking for students.

They need to let in the children of high paying donors (not always the same group as above) for the money.

They need to let in a lot of smart students to give legitimacy to the above groups and create new families of donors.

They need to have a demographic profile that roughly approximates the US demographic profile to not appear racist. They also need to have a balanced gender ratio, not overly favor a single region, etc.

They want to have a balanced class, i.e. not everyone studying computer science and economics, people who can play trombone, people for the Fencing team.

You can argue that it's basically all about giving legitimacy and prestige to the ultra donors and wealthy, but it's also about introducing high-achieving people from less privileged backgrounds to those from more privileged backgrounds in the hope that you will get new generations of wealthy donors.
That was exactly what I was thinking about. This is a quite impractical attack, in the sense that if you are able to do that, you are able to do way more simple attacks, like tuning the final output without even going through the pretend & mine phase -- that could be more effective btw, depending on the mixing algo and the presence of true randomness in the mix or not, but arguably slightly easier to detect. So the hw rng path would only be reserved to extremely high profile targets subject to APT, and those target better generate their keys on dedicated hardware, or there will be 10000 manner for them to be owned. (and even if they do on dedicated hardware, subject to an attacker so motivated, I predict they are still owned...)

And above all: you will also probably be able to modify others supposed sources of entropy (if you restrict yourself to sources, I still think it is a terrible idea if you have that kind of capabilities), so short of analyses showing why this would be way more difficult, dropping the dedicated hw gen for a theoretical problem that would also be an end-game for virtually everything else is insane. You get no actual advantages, and tons of drawbacks.

Really, the hypothesis of what the attackers are able to do and what they are not makes no sense IMO; like:

> For example, an attacker can't exert any serious control over the content of my keystrokes while I'm logged in; I don't see how hashing this particular content into my laptop's entropy pool can allow any attacks.

Yeah, so that mythical unicorn can invoke utter craziness in RDRAND, but is somehow unable to modify the key inputs and/or timings just when that data reaches the entropy input algos? I just don't buy it. Like I don't buy that the user is somehow recomputing everything on a second computer and comparing both results (or using other fancy proof of work things, that I'm not aware that even exist on real code we are talking about).

My litmus test is: imagining I'd have to attack, I would never do it by such a convoluted method. Or maybe only ever if Ben Laden Two is the target, AND if it seems to actually make sense in the technical context of the attack: the proba of both occurring is, I guess, quite low...
Is there something like this but for YAML?
holy shit, some of these are making me actually cry. this list is something else
I'm not a NY resident so I don't know. If not a law, it's possible labor unions push back against automation, allowing their union members to continue to be toll booth collectors
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Harvard's endowment is around $40 billion. They're awarded about $600M in Federal grants per year. Though I'm sure they'd prefer to keep receiving them, they'd be just fine without them. It seems like turning down Federal grants and handling admissions as they like would satisfy everyone.
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Yeah, I mean all of that's true. I'm just saying A) this is just the latest decision in a long legacy of maintaining race as part of college admissions, and that B) Harvard's specific admissions process survived immediate scrutiny.

Also, I'm saying this mainly because a lot of the comments in this thread are missing that context (especially when speculating on what happens next in this case, or on what implications this might have).
I didn't mention how I feel about hash tables (I'm not OP), but I think we feel the same? I definitely agree that arrays (potentially vector style growable arrays) should be a programmer's go to data structure, both for simplicity and performance. For my use cases I'd probably swap array and hash table usage with OP (70% array and 30% hash) but really it's probably more like 90, 10. Computing hash functions and resolving collisions can be very fast with the right hash table implementation, but it's absolutely not free. There is a reason why Lua tables can implement array like access and memory usage, even if from a language standpoint a Lua table looks like a hash table with some fancy features.
The reception of his response to this on Beto O'Rouke's reddit AMA was amusing: he received 13k+ downvotes

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d6etv5/hi_im_beto_oro...
As for "good catch": I think it took me at least 6 months from I first read the paper before I actually tried to find the research in question. Not finding even a single credible reference was a humiliating and humbling experience. I've looked for it several times over the year since and stille come up empty-handed.

I was giving a talk where I was going to refer to Feynman's speech and I felt I needed to fact-check it.

(I ended up using the speech in the talk I was giving, but I did give a hint at the end that perhaps this speech might possibly contain a joke at our expense, or something along those lines. So as to not look like a total idiot if someone else did a better job of checking the speech faster than I had done :-))

So kudos to you @killjoywashere :-)
Elizabeth Warren has made calls to _BREAK UP_ big banks and pharma companies for her entire career. She has literally used those exact words SEVERAL TIMES idk what to tell you.

She is not targeting those industries with anti trust legislation because it’s inappropriate. Antitrust is not the only means with which to disrupt or break up companies.

I’m perfectly on topic dude, you griped about how Warren is so unfair to the poor tech companies but there is an insurmountable wealth of evidence that she has had various problem industries in her sights for _DECADES_

Your ONLY rebuttal was to mention anti trust laws, which is ignorant at best. This is currently topical because people are currently talking about it, that doesn’t mean she is leading a disproportionate effort to dismantle tech companies.
I propose creating a school that only looks at quantitative measures, gives a single test once a year that is grueling in mathematics, science, logic, reading, and writing. They just pick the top x-percentile of students. If there is a tie, students are picked randomly. We can call it the HackerNews Academy.
Is there a study on this?
Sure it is. Most people I know could never, ever, cut it as a developer. Most people are just too stupid. And most developers are pretty stupid as well, so that’s saying something.
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Such is the distinction between what is good in a utilitarian sense and what is good in an ethical sense.

Blind and dogmatic utilitarianism says "it's in the politician's best interest to suppress the citizenry". Ethics says "it's in the people's interest for the politician to be nice to them".
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> I was under the impression that Jews commonly don't think of themselves as being white whereas the rest of the 'white' groups did.

In the Anglosphere, Jews have pretty much always been considered "white". For example, both the Confederacy and Apartheid South Africa, two regimes obsessed with racial classification, never even considered that Jews might not be white.

The conception of Jews as a separate race, has historically been an Eastern European idea. Even in 1930s Germany, the Nazi party's base of popularity was always firmly rooted in the most Eastern federal regions.
It will undoubtedly happen that someone hired due to diversity and not skill will do something very wrong, and possibly cause great harm to others. I wonder what the reaction will be then...?

Luckily, the world still follows the laws of physics.
There are companies that fit the following operational niche:

* Need to run Kafka (for domain-specific reasons)

* Need a relational database, but not necessarily a large or performant one

A project that lets you "buy a Kafka cluster, get the relational database free" is strictly simpler and cheaper to operate (in theory...) compared to operating both a Kafka cluster and a traditional relational database.
Which wealth statistics? From this article, 90% of family wealth is lost by the third generation.

http://money.com/money/3925308/rich-families-lose-wealth/
yes sir!

oops, is that not inclusive enough? I would like to rephrase then:

yes person!
Basketball is zero-sum, undergrad college admissions mostly aren't. As long as Harvard lets in enough students who are "good enough" to not fail out or besmirch their reputation, it can continue indefinitely as a prestige-generating institution. Put another way - the "Michael Jordan" of undergraduate academics doesn't really exist (in other words, there is no individual undergraduate you could admit who would instantly make your college superior to every other one)
+1. The dual populations of dropouts and higher performers smells like survivorship bias.
By realising that India is not homogenous at all, and is inherently diverse?
I bailed out of social media and while I can see how people will value that kind of interaction, I’ve felt a whole heap better forming closer connections and putting the effort into maintaining them.

For me personally, I didn’t see much value in getting second hand info from Facebook. It felt too impersonal and distant.

If I cared about someone getting pregnant or married or whatever I would have preferred the direct conversation over the social optimisation of receiving a broadcast. And if we weren’t close enough for that, then I’m sure it’d come up in conversation at some point. No need to be looking out for an announcement.

Getting rid of social media was basically my decision to cultivate a small handful of meaningful, high quality relationships over a much larger number of less meaningful associations. I see a lot more people in person now I’ve done that.

As an aside, it was as if one aspect of my depression was fuelled by having too much of the rest of the world in my head and not enough of myself, so it was a great move for self-care too.
> but the justification is that these classes are/have been historically discriminated against and constitutional admissions which take race into consideration are a temporary measure to right these historical wrongs by leveling the playing field.

So under that thought process... when does the temporary measure end? Is there a specific goal? Or is it something unachievable like "when income inequality is fixed".
New York City bans term 'illegal alien,' institutes fines up to $250K
Really? Kennedy is gone and was replaced by Kavanaugh. Kennedy was in the majority (pro-AA) in the 2016 case, and I would venture to guess (based on nothing more than the discussions in the legal circles I'm in) that Kavanaugh would not be as friendly to affirmative action as Kennedy was.

If I were a betting man, I'd put the odds north of 2:1 that this will be overturned if the current SCOTUS sees it.
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The light goes on! :) Yes, the problem is not as impossible as it seems if you start with a best effort here, best effort there approach and converge to a point where the exceptions don't matter so much.
> I don't like that their salaries are based on employee's costs of living.

I don't know, it seems fair to me. If you pay your workers in a high-COL area the same in terms of absolute money as those in a low-COL area, then the people in the low-COL are effectively making a lot more than those in the high-COL area.

What's important, in terms of business or personal finances, isn't gross income -- it's net.
> We have to trust the bootloader to verify the digital signature on the kernel

Do we? I was under the impression that most people would not care if the bootloader did that or not.
"Well it's simple you see, Asians are simply less personable, as a group, than white folk. No no no, it's not blatant discrimination at all, I assure you! It's just science, I swear!"

I really don't see how anyone justifies this kind of thing in 2019. This is like the barest possible fig leaf over obvious prejudice. They could rename it to "Cromulence Factor" and it'd make as much sense.
A race is a "folk science" version of an ethnicity (it's defined culturally instead of scientifically). An ethnicity is a genetically similar group of people that often come from the same geographic origin.
Interesting that DHS has a term for things like this, HILF.

>Various agencies have emphasized, and recent events have demonstrated, the critical nature of power transformers in the face of possible high-impact, low-frequency (HILF) events. HILF events include intentional malicious events (e.g., physical attacks, cyberattacks, coordinated attacks, electromagnetic pulse weapons, and others), natural disasters (e.g., hurricanes, earthquakes, severe geomagnetic disturbances, etc.), and non-intentional
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> buttons are pushed down slightly.

When I worked in banking, we'd get similar complaints about things of exactly as much importance as that complaint. We even frequently had people who would email such things directly to our CIO, and he would come downstairs and ask us about it. And we'd say, "Yep, that is a legit problem. Do you want us to drop all the mission-critical priorities to fix it?" He'd say, "No.", and go back to his office.

By all means, send them a bug report. But shaming a company because your bug report doesn't become their #1 priority? No thanks.
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They can't seed it while creating the AMI. If they did that, everyone would share the initial seed and I could boot up the published image, run the generator with that seed, and be able to predict (for example) what ssh key your server will have.

(Or if you meant creating the VM, as explained before they can't do that for encrypted volumes for example)
What would be a better answer to you? No, seriously, what would convince you?
> Linux does not use RDRAND is a direct source for random numbers, but rather mixes it with the entropy pool. Since xor'ing with (potentially) low-entropy data does not reduce the entropy

And this is still insecure https://blog.cr.yp.to/20140205-entropy.html
Well... the generation after them do, anyway. The actual people who were actually made redundant in each wave don't generally fare that well.
I mean that's fine. I'm not out to get Harvard. They have every right to their private wealth. Just don't expect governmental recognition and public praise.
Right, that's historically been true for humans because we are pattern recognition workhorses.

We have some other examples worth considering though, like literal workhorses. Once the engine came around, horses became inefficient and were relegated to shows and races. With AI able to do superhuman pattern recognition, it's only a matter of time before humans also become a luxury, as they're no longer needed for traditional work.
Having some experience of living in one of those Southern countries, IMO consumer/infrastructure/gov IT is at least as good as the UK's.

Broadband is patchy, but where it exists it's often faster than the products available in the UK, and service call-out times are better. (I've had next-day engineer visits after reporting an outage, which would be unheard of in the UK.)

Major and minor services all have apps and web sites, and online shopping is very much a thing. There's also a single unified government-administered ID system that works with the major government portals, banks, and some other services.

Small biz sites are some way behind, but design agencies are growing at a healthy pace in the major cities.

There isn't much of a startup culture in the Bay Area sense, but that probably has more to do with lack of a strong investment culture than lack of talent or ability.

So I'm certainly not seeing evidence of "low IT adoption" or generally poor performance. I'm not even seeing unusual evidence of corruption, nepotism, or incompetence. They certainly exist, but not at the scale the UK is currently experiencing.
In my experience they have been 'waffle' machines rather than pancake ones.
Nitpick: Comparing UC to Harvard isn't that straightforward. The UC system is California's, it disproportionately takes people from California, and California does have more Asians than the country as a whole, as well as more than the Northeast region in which Harvard is based.
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