skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But for someone who did well on the SAT, you would be expected to do well on the GRE too. That you were able to prep your way into a good score doesn't indicate the GRE is measuring the wrong thing. You already previously showed a strong aptitude for g-loaded tests. What you needed was familiarity with the content and the kinds of questions asked. But that doesn't invalidate the test.
The Maker Foundation appears to be winning auctions to cover a debt shortfall
Wikipedia article says this:

> DHL offers worldwide services, including deliveries to countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Myanmar (formerly Burma). As it is German-owned, DHL is not affected by U.S. embargoes or sanctions and will ship to Cuba and North Korea. However, there are strict codes for delivering to North Korea, as the country has shaky relations with the West. As DHL is no longer a United States company, it is not allowed to make domestic flights between U.S. airports. DHL contracts these services to other providers.

> DHL ended domestic pickup and delivery service in the United States in 2009
No, a Roth IRA is funded with post-tax money. A traditional IRA is funded with pre-tax money.

Once you reach the correct age, money coming out of a Roth IRA is not taxed. Money coming out of a traditional IRA is taxed.

As GP noted, contributions to a Roth IRA may be withdrawn at any time without penalty or taxes. The gains from those contributions follow different rules however.

E.g. Suppose you put in $1000 to a new Roth IRA account with no other contributions. Suppose the account is worth $1500 today. You may withdraw the $1000 you put in with no penalties or taxes leaving $500 in the account.
The main problem I see with this philosophy, is that Tcl and C are two completely different languages

So switching from Tcl to C, I think might require two teams in most organizations, one writing in Tcl and another writing in C

For large organization, this is probably not a big problem, but not so for small teams

This is why I had high hopes for gradually types or optionally types languages, but it seems this doesnt really work in practice, Raku is not fast, Dart (as far as I understand) dropped gradual typing, it remain to see if Red will make it work
I wish WHO would temper their statements a bit.

I understand sounding the alarm early on to get people's attention. But COVID-19 has our attention, so at this point people need practical advice delivered calmly.
I saw that. Open source and patented? These folks don’t seem to understand open source. It’s perfectly possible to patent something and then release all rights to it.... but why?
"Jony Ive was the hero long enough to become the villain" may be an overdone take at this point, but this just continues to prove it true. Ive led Apple's design org through a renaissance that lasted two decades, but it ultimately collapsed in a string of vanity projects that put a serious dent in Apple's design credibility.

Maybe it was not having Jobs as a counterbalancing force that wasn't afraid to say "no;" maybe it was something else. But it's clear Apple is both immeasurably better for having had Ive from the 90s to the early 2010s, and is now better for his having given up the reins.
The ARM comparison in terms of power efficiency doesn't really make sense, does it?
I guess he's right about the efficiency but there isn't a real competitive ARM-based laptop available right now, at least I haven't heard of one and even if there is one: Apple couldn't just go for ARM they'd have to adapt their OS for that and I assume by now there is a lot of code in there making use of x86 quirks not easily adaptable to ARM
> College Prep is a giant business that needs to be dismantled. They have a monopoly in this area.

Is there really a single company called "College Prep"?
Wait, is this the origin of https://xkcd.com/2030/ ?
Bingo. The less objective their evaluations are, the easier it will be to hide the cronyism, bribery, and racial bias. Going to be a lot easier to discriminate against Asian kids when you don’t have to notice their test scores are better than the kids you admitted.
Please, continue with these. As experts have shared many times on here, ventilator shortages will soon become commonplace, and medical professionals have been discussing ways to use a bag, facemask and manual labor to work as a ventilator. Trying to apply a ventilator to a COVID-19 patient when you're a medical professional isn't possible when you don't have any free ventilators. Every bit helps.
I get a 404 - is this account private?
They do reduce large particulates but you are right, they do nothing for NO2, CO, and Hydrocarbons.
Open source designs could help scale up production in times of need by allowing manufacturers to self-assess whether they're capable of providing additional capacity.

Yes, we assume blueprints have now been shared and that production is scaling up - but it has required a lot of time, effort, communication and bargaining.

That said, open source alone is not a panacea. Questions should be asked of open source designs:

- Do the designs meet regulatory standards for the market(s) they are intended for?

- Is the quality assurance process equally open, so that manufacturers & recipients can verify whether products are authentic and fit-for-purpose?

It looks like the OSV project are aware of these questions and provide their working assumptions and information about work-in-progress on their homepage.
We get shocked when an airplane with 150-300 people falls: we spend months talking about it. Now we see multiple instances of these numbers daily: two airplanes in Italy, one in Spain, a small one in the US, but it still doesn't feel as terrifying as a real airplane crash to me.

I'm not saying I'm denying COVID or that the deaths are not horrible, just that for some unknown reason airplane crashes still seem so much more horrible: I'm talking about feelings, not facts. I don't know.

OTOH, thinking about the economic implications of this crisis prevents me from sleeping.
> The President is doing something very dangerous

And if he didn't do what he did, you'd be saying the same thing once hundreds of people start dying per day because there's not enough chloroquine available. How do you know it's "hype"? Because orange man bad? It has shown effectiveness against SARS previously. It's been available for 50+ years and doctors are familiar with its side effects and safety profile. The Chinese list it in their official treatment guidelines right next to antivirals. It's also being used in France and Italy. Sure, the study produced in the last 2 weeks in France was not very rigorous, but it's not the only evidence of efficacy.

Could you quarantine your partisanship for a while? Maybe order it to shelter in place until, say, July?
I agree that western governments seem to believe this, but I don't believe it's true. All you have to do is start enforcing the order, and people will start to get the message.
For someone with obvious bias, he seems to think the old MacBook Air was bad. I would think someone with an obvious bias wouldn’t be very critical of Apple products at all. Can you point to the bias in this article?
You don't need to use the SAT or ACT as a criterion. The problem if you don't is probably two-fold.

1.) You're throwing out a signal that has proven to be pretty reliable in at least establishing a floor as what students have a good chance of succeeding and

2.) As a related matter, it's a very simple, quantitative, standardized metric (with decent predictive power) that lets you bucket applicants pretty easily.

Do you maybe throw out some applicants who are really bad at standardized tests, but would otherwise thrive in an undergraduate academic setting? Probably. But the data suggests that standardized testing is a pretty good predictor of success in school (which, of course, is not necessarily the same as success in life).
It says it’s printed in PLA? That’s the most common kind of filament.
So I'm halfway through the report, it's a very beautiful document, great work from the team that wrote, and if I understood correctly, a VOTING application:

- Uses ad-hoc cryptography as the main cryptography

- Does not use the recommended security facilities on the target platforms (iOS and Android)

- Is deployed manually, with hardcoded secrets (AWS account with name "admin" had its credentials hardcoded in a scala file named "AmazonOtpUtility.scala")

- Has provably de-anonimizablity as a property (All is needed is apparently access to the databases, and might I remind you of the Twitter / UAE/Saudi Arabia recent story)

- (And this is the biggest, most annoying thing) Is not end-to-end verifiable.

- The actual threat model is almost childish, as showed by the testing team.

I do apologize for the wording in the following paragraphs, but this a fucking dumpster fire of a project for a voting platform.

Who the fuck authorized this to go forward as a voting platform for any state in the United States ? Who the fuck is selling this as a "secure" platform ? Can they sleep well at night ? When will the government intervene and stop people from compromising democracy with stunts like these ?
Can we stop with these low quality fear mongering articles please? I’m by no means dismissing the virus but there’s no substance at all here, none.
> test-taking drones

I've never done well on a test when I didn't understand the material, and I've always done well on test when I did.
it is a crying shame when it goes to landfill especially considering the appalling low quality of feed at industrial animal farms. Back then, my grandmother was selling milk from the cows on her farm to the cheese making factory, and the factory was returning back the resulting whey which the grandmother used in the pig, chicken, turkey feed. Animals were in great shape, and the meat was very good.

Another thing i wanted to mention is that during 198x, especially during anti-alcohol campaign, when people in the USSR would be making moonshine out of everything containing anything resembling sugars (and there were shortages of real sugar, etc.) nobody used the whey for moonshine. Knowledge is power. Opposite is even more true :)
It's hard to do without breaking the market because it's so cheap. Reagent grade ethanol is dirt cheap and for this reason also spiked with chemicals to penalize people who drink it. Without sin taxes and regulations that accomplish similar ends you could probably sell 1.75L of vodka for 2 dollars. But then poor people could afford to have fun in a non-puritan fashion and Americans hate that for some reason.
Safe Airway Society–Airway management&tracheal intubation in Covid-19 patients
Apple would be dead if Steve Jobs had not come back.

Nothing MS did would have saved Apple if Jobs hadn't come back and turned the company around.

That's the end of the story.
> If this drug isn’t useful, then sending hundreds of millions of people out to swallow all of it that they can find will be a massive waste of time and money, and will actively harm people besides.

I don't think folks are reading the whole article.
CDC launches Coronavirus Self-Checker chatbot with the help of Microsoft
I don't know if "dozens" of developers constitutes the right sample size. Otherwise, good article.
He clearly prefer's the Apple ecosystem and general approach. There's nothing wrong with that.

He does call out Apple when he disagrees with something they've done.

As someone that also prefers the Apple approach but has frustrations with a lot of their decisions, I appreciate his analysis.
Make your own from packing organic fibers or using smaller amounts of n95 material.
I live in Oregon where everything is vote-by-mail, and on the whole it works great. Each ballot is basically a generic survey-style scantron form and dead simple to fill out (fill in the circle next to your choice, or next to the blank line and write in a candidate), as of this year no postage is required so the only cost to the voter is a pen or pencil, and voters without a mailing address can register to pick up a ballot at the county elections office and can then drop off that ballot at any post office or in one of the drop boxes at libraries and public squares.

It also has overwhelming bipartisan support (>75% among both Democrats and Republicans) and results in turnout well above most of the country (63% in 2018 midterms compared to 49% for the US as a whole).
dunno, maybe you haven't been reading?

"This whole thing is an embarrassment for the richest company in the world." https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/02/17/apple-store-emp...

"I consider these keyboards the worst products in Apple history." https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/03/27/strn-kyboard

"iOS 13 Autocorrect Is Drunk" https://daringfireball.net/2019/09/ios_13_autocorrect_is_dru...

"The iPad at 10 is, to me, a grave disappointment." https://daringfireball.net/2020/01/the_ipad_awkwardly_turns_...

"Then I think about software. And that means thinking about MacOS 10.15 Catalina… Off the top of my head I’m hard pressed to think of anything in Catalina that’s an improvement over 10.14 Mojave, and I can think of a lot of things that are worse." https://daringfireball.net/2020/02/my_2019_apple_report_card
Absolutely glowing review. Personally, I'm not as enthusiastic about its design. My 2016 Dell XPS 13 (Ubuntu) with a 4k screen is lighter at 2.6lbs and smaller without a bezel around the screen.
WA has high testing capacity compared to rest of country and has a very low "new-cases" grade (almost flat). So until it gets worse, they're probably in an "okay" position.
It's not more vulnerable, it's as-vulnerable as any other package manager where anyone may upload code without sufficient review for people to blindly install and run.

We have already seen this abused in browser extensions being repurposed to inject advertising, in node and ruby modules being converted to malware, cryptocurrency miners being added to games on Steam etc. There was even a Nintendo Switch game that bundled a Ruby IDE, I believe iOS has had apps surreptitiously bundling other software too.
It's "martial" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/martial#English) rather than "marshal" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/marshal#English). The two are homophones, but the first means 'military' and the second is a particular rank or role within an army or government.
I don't see the reason to buy a such a compromised machine over a X1 Carbon or a XPS 13. No ports, crappy soldered everything, worst company for consumer rights, etc. They have nice screens I guess? And you can't deny the brand appeal of the Apple logo.
This isn't resetting the global warming clock. Atmospheric CO2 is still going up not down. It's a temporary and small reduction in CO2 output coupled with a much more severe and much longer term reduction in scientific output that might actually solve global warming, and a much longer term and much more severe economic recession that limits our options to (further) hurt the economy to switch to greener means of energy production.
That story was invented by a PR agent to pitch eBay to the press.
I actually think he's escaped the Reality Distortion Field. If you read through his posts, there's actually a lot that are critical of Apple's recent missteps
Why would you prefer the government to manage your money instead of investing and saving it yourself?
Please post to this site if English subtitles become available.
XPS is better in many ways, apart from its obvious failure in the market.
I was rejected by MIT even though my father attended. I don't think MIT does legacy admissions, or sports admissions.
The reason for the reasonableness requirement is that in a normal year, you are required to pay that estimate on Apr 15 when you file the extension. If the estimate was too low, the IRS wants their pound of flesh.

In a year where no one has to pay until Jul 15, there is no point in enforcing that clause.

There is benefit to people in pushing the filing deadline even after the payment deadline has been changed as it does reduce the paperwork burden, especially for those who rely on paid preparers.
Within the article this statement was made

> Trail of Bits engineers said Voatz' code was written intelligibly and free of many common security foibles, but added “it is clear that the Voatz codebase is the product of years of fast-paced development.” The summary goes on to list several technical flaws, such as a lack of test coverage and documentation, infrastructure provisioned manually without the aid of infrastructure-as-code tools, vestigial features that have yet to be deleted, and nonstandard cryptographic protocols.

That honestly sounds pretty good in terms of software quality, adding additional tests for proofs and ramping up ops are both addressable problems - especially if handled by a government sponsored team. But...

How confident are you that we could reach a well engineered and proofed electronic voting platform that also adheres to theoretical rules around vote security?

And which component of that, adherence to theoretical requirements and perfected development practices, do you see as a larger hurdle to overcome going forward?
In the current market, if they have alcohol and a bottling line, making hand sanitizer might be a better idea.

The "high end vodka" thing is such a joke. A few years ago, one of the vodka companies put an article into Wikipedia with all their high-end vodka hype. That did not end well for them. People started digging for reliable sources about the company, and found them. Turned out the vodka company was entirely a marketing operation. Production, bottling, and distribution was outsourced to another company, one that makes liquor products to order in addition to marketing brands of their own. That company is quite open about what they do in the trade press, so lots of reliable info was available.

The ethanol came from an industrial refinery sized plant in the Midwest, where corn went in and ethanol and cattle feed came out. Some of the alcohol was re-distilled for beverages and cosmetics, and some of it went to oil refineries to be blended into gasoline. Tank cars of ethanol went by rail to the outsourcing company, which had its own railroad sidings. The outsourcing company took in ethanol, did a bit of re-distilling and polishing, added de-ionized tap water and flavoring, and bottled. Just like they did for the other thousand or so products they make. No secret in the industry, but something the general public usually doesn't find out about.

It's all bottles and labeling. The outsourcing company admits they make a thousand different brands of booze, but only have a hundred different recipes. The company moved to an area north of San Francisco a few years ago to be next door to the bottle-making plant, and have better rail access. All that ended up in Wikipedia.

There's an interesting economy of scale in doing it this way. Under US law, the booze industry is divided into distillers/brewers, wholesalers, and retailers. Usually, the distiller/brewer makes the final product and bottles it, there are bulk shipments of bottled goods to wholesalers, and wholesalers are basically a fulfillment operation serving retailers. But the way this outsourcing company does it, the distiller/brewer is an industrial plant sending them tank cars of ethanol, and they make up the consumer product and distribute it to retailers. Only one step of trucking instead of two.
TraceTogether: Community-driven contact tracing to stop the spread of Covid-19
New York's growth rate is going to look terrifyingly high as testing capability ramps up significantly.
Personally I think the argument is hideous. And it's wrong as well. It's a 'bargaining' argument. Of the same genera of argument that justifies doing nothing about sex trafficking because it doesn't happen women and girls from respectable families.
They're business people and CEOs elected in public functions. They did what they were trained to do. Watch their own backs.

This is why business people should not be eligible for public functions unless 10-20 years removed from any executive job. Would love to see a government led by academics for once.
Once they are in college, the impact of parents is quite minified. So if you have a stupid whose default academic potential is 10 but has a parental multiplier of 2 for having involved parents and another kid whose default academic potential is 15 but has a parental multiplier of 1 for parents who don't care, once they get into college and the parental multiplier goes away the one who has a 15 should do better than the one who has a 10.

Now, numbers aren't that easily available. And maybe parents caring has a permanent effect that lasts even once they are gone. Real life is far more complicated than my example. But it shows a very simple possibility of why measuring potential while ignoring environmental failures can lead to a sub-optimal ranking.
This should've been done much sooner, certainly before St. Patrick's Day. He rejected an earlier proposal by De Blasio. It was obvious that this was coming and also clear that NYC would've been hit very hard. No state government has done well.
IANAMDOMP. After respiratory therapists, it seems like perfusionists will be stretched thin too because there are so few of them globally. I would predict lots of ECMOs and long waiting lists for lung transplants in the next few months, but also lots of poor outcomes for COVID patients with preexisting cardiopulmonary issues. I just hope young and middle-aged people take it seriously and don't avoidably waste healthcare resources through irresponsible behavior.
> Apple couldn't just go for ARM they'd have to adapt their OS for that and I assume by now there is a lot of code in there making use of x86 quirks not easily adaptable to ARM

If you think Apple doesn’t have macOS running on ARM today, then you’re probably missing something.
Guess you've not been reading Money Stuff - they were already imploding, with lots of borderline fraud by the CEO, but this has really killed them.
A number of comments here seem to be confusing SAT subject tests, which are domain-specific tests about subjects like biology, with the "standard" SAT. It's only the former that MIT is dropping from consideration in admissions:

> We will continue to require the SAT or the ACT, because our research has shown these tests, in combination with a student’s high school grades and coursework, are predictive of success in our challenging curriculum.
I assume the point is that you have to implement a pure software rasterizer. It's not actually that difficult, but it feels like a lot for an undergrad who's not familiar with the space. I assume this is done as part of a class that gives you context.

For an example of a rasterizer, you can take a look at my pure JS implementation of canvas (which is roughly the same imaging model as SVG). All lines and shapes are flattened into a pure line polygon, then drawn with a scanline rasterizer. Getting the basics working is fairly easy. Handling the endless edge cases, however.... :)

https://github.com/joshmarinacci/node-pureimage
As non-specific antivirals the benefits of these drugs are most likely at disease onset or as preventives. A trial has started in the US for people with known exposure: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04308668?term=hydroxy...

Note the dosage being trialed is quite high. Definitely not something to do without proper medical supervision.
Postscript: For more on this, see https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/10/21171464/co...
And the curve is still going upwards. Are they all wanting to die?
I wish Apple would bring back a true anti-glare matte display option. I can't stand the reflectivity on any of their laptops despite their claim that it's "anti-glare." I love the macOS ecosystem, but I REALLY love the 100% Adobe matte 4k screen on my Dell Precision.