skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CA is 10% of the US population. Also, UCLA and Berkeley are huge international schools (and have students from all 50 states).

A lot of people will take that test for sure. And if it turns out to be a good indicator, other states would probably accept the scores too.

Then California makes it free for CA residents and makes test prep part of the HS curriculum and you're on your way to solving a few systemic problems at once!
This looks super cool, I'm very interested in trying it. It looks like the link to the Firefox extension is broken though, is there a workaround to install the extension?
> 'more supply will come in' just isn't working for housing

Curious where you live because in Seattle this has definitely kept the rent prices from growing as fast as in the SFBA.

Admittedly these are apartments on the expensive side though, affordable housing is not a priority for developers because it's not as profitable per square foot. Blame {wealth inequality | zoning}, depending on your outlook.
> without proper price controls

US government injected about 3 trillion worth of liquidity into the country since the start of the coronavirus, similar to how UBI of $1000/month to every single adult would cost. And did you see any price rise?
It's the "boomer" fantasy of what their parents and grandparents were doing before them. Hence why movies in the 60s/70s began to carry anti-authority "live your life" messages more and more until we're saturated in them at this point generations later.
I agree. Piecing together a bunch of extensions doesn't help improve my workflow. I love that it is all integrated here. Being able to share is great!
https://github.com/nefe/You-Dont-Need-jQuery
In our case we send these photos to in-laws ourselves, and every now and then they futz something in just the right way to put one of these photos in a story.
Yep its showing me swift code when I search for C. Pretty cool idea otherwise.
This is not true for the SAT. Having extra time to double check answers or work out harder problems will definitely lead to a better score. Speed is intended to be a factor in the SAT.
Antidote has been around for a while It supports both French and English.

https://www.antidote.info/en/antidote-10
I'm now left even more confused. Are you saying that you do a certain number of chores during your commute, and that you wouldn't be able to do these chores if the commute time was removed?
>>The threat model has fundamentally changed

Not really, Authoritarian governments through out history have still killed more people than all of terrorism put together.

The Threat Model is still Authoritarian government...

>I'm not so convinced it's acceptable to tell people "We will change nothing because you probably won't die"

What is not acceptable is telling people "just give up your liberty and you will be safe" history proved that is never the case, government will (not if, or can but WILL) abuse that power, and the end result will be mass death
Hence this quote from media coverage at the time: "The McLibel case has achieved what many lawyers thought impossible: to lower further the reputation of our law of defamation in the minds of all right thinking people." English libel law already had quite the reputation even by the time of this case.
It isn’t a “huge” problem but I have noticed this happens in physical goods as well. Backpacking / soft goods companies sometimes release multiple versions of the same SKU.

The initial version will be reviewed in detail. Then for various reasons the product is changed. Often it fixes issues however sometimes different materials or even zippers are used that are lower quality.

No notice of these changes are given to consumers.
This video is excellent and a great comparison of expectations vs reality.
Yeah but those people still have to eat no? Bad job is better than no job (Granted, not talking about extremely bad)
The most direct way to get admitted to an elite university is to have your parents be a major donor. This is not a secret, but explicit.

In the past it HAS been embarrassing if that admit came with a low or super low test score. So no question are the elites happy about this.

https://slate.com/business/2019/09/harvard-admissions-affirm...
netflix, twitter, BT, Walmart I believe...
Postgres tips for optimizing Django and Python performance
Maybe because email leaves a trail? Unless the phone call was recorded, it's your word against theirs.
Nice list of tools from prowler author:

https://github.com/toniblyx/my-arsenal-of-aws-security-tools
> Yes, being able to understand the conditions should maybe be part of passing the test.

I agree, when It's part of the subject in test. I don't see any reasonable cause for a student to have to know about file types to submit a test, if that test isn't about file types. I don't, for example, expect my doctor to know how to convert an image file because that's not his job.

> The OP article claims "Spencer ... tried to convert it by renaming the HEIC file to PNG" which is not how you convert files.

This highlights the level of knowledge the users of this application have in this area. The developers should have made it Painfully Clear that uploading directly from an iPhone isn't supported.

> Maybe students learning that early on is not a bad thing?

I agree they should learn this stuff, but don't think it should cost them their grade to do so.

Now, I'm not saying that we shouldn't increase public understanding of these "slightly-technical" topics but I think we're a long way off and we can't expect that understanding just yet.
I admit I've never really looked into how detailed Linux is in access rights, but on Unix systems, it's very normal to have install rights for specific directories. If Linux doesn't allow that, that would be disappointing, but I strongly suspect Linux allows this just as much as other unixen. So that would mean you can install stuff without sudo rights as long as you get group rights to the right directory. And that's a much safer approach to security than all-or-nothing.
I used TST for some time until I realised that the vast majority of the time I just needed 2 layers of open tabs, which are perfectly represented by tabs and windows.

Aggressively closing unused tabs has been much better for my organisation than organising them.
We're releasing our extension soon for all browsers.

https://forwardemail.net

Here's extensions I use and my full setup: https://gist.github.com/niftylettuce/39597a7b3bc0660ffe1e09d...

git clone https://github.com/zenorocha/codecopy
git clone https://github.com/philc/vimium.git
git clone https://github.com/OctoLinker/OctoLinker.git
git clone https://github.com/ilGur1132/Smart-HTTPS.git
git clone https://github.com/ovity/octotree.git
git clone https://github.com/mrcoles/full-page-screen-capture-chrome-extension.git

+ https://github.com/jswanner/DontFuckWithPaste
+ https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
I like the idea of micro-saas's better than all these unicorns. I love stories from Indiehackers about companies making 5-20k/month w/ 1-2 devs and that's all they need. It pays the bills, gives some freedom to do what they want etc....

Opposed to these behemoth's who really only have a hope and a prayer that they're a bit enough disruption that they will pay off. Like Uber, Groupon, Living Social, WeWork, AirBNB, etc... I think they all could be more valuable had they operated more lean, w/ a solid strategy to monetize early and less focus on VC money and raising seed rounds.

TLDR; I like the little guy stories, and am also fatigued of the giant so-called unicorn stories.
Studies suggest the opposite. UBI does not cause inflation.
I hope the founders of Notion will read this.

I really love Notion. It's filling the vacuum left by Evernote, once Evernote started spamming the hell out of its users.

I like how it's built with a "developer" mentality: there are things that you can do that require a little learning, but become very powerful productivity shortcuts.

What I really, really HATE about Notion is how they handle using it offline. At least for me, every few weeks it happens that I get logged out of Notion, and I couldn't have access to my files offline. It happened to me twice on a plane, and it was frustrating because I needed to access the information.

The other thing that I am not sure about is how they handle security. I've simply been lazy not to read enough about it, but perhaps Notion could make it more clear.

Overall, great job guys. (p.s. I live two blocks from your office, I'd love to come and say hello post-covid if you'd like. My email is my HN username @ gmail.)
Probing CDs paint chemistry in Munch's “The Scream” w spectroscopy&synchrotron
>Under what conditions are you writing math on a computer where you don't have proper tools to do it?

Chat applications. From IRCs and MSNs to Skypes, Telegrams and Discords. Other places would be comment sections such as these. They're never going to have built in TeX or any other such support.

Does the compose key work on different keyboard layouts?
> Knowing a file type is an "esoteric technical requirement" ?

Yes, when it is outside of the scope of the test. Unless they're testing the students on their knowledge of data storage, or similar, this is out of scope.
Because it's a university senior design project - they often pair students with related majors together to work on a project over the course of a semester or two. It's about the interesting engineering of the entire project. They never claimed any one part of it was "novel" but the project as a whole clearly is.
I doubt if we investors who funded earlier wil want to continue doing that. At some point they have to decide to cut their losses. Like wework
Except if most other schools follow this path, the average student will go from 1 boss to 5+. That end result would almost unquestionably be worse for the kids this is trying to help.
>since companies will have to pay significantly more than UBI.

They would only have to do that if people had to choose between taking the job and getting UBI.
Even if companies uproot, selling to US consumers means paying US VAT taxes. US companies pay european VATs too, they all complain about it but don't leave the market as long as profits are positive.
Amen. Anyone running a company who opts to put it in San Francisco or Silicon Valley at this point is issuing a big F-U to employees.

And this pay-cut policy is bullshit. If employees are allowed to work offsite, then that site should not be dictated. It's a win/win, because although the employee saves money, so does the company. And thanks to Trump and Republicans, employees can't even deduct the money they spend on electricity, office equipment, and rent.
That's right. They needn't. And I'm not going to let go of my organs for free either. I'm comfortable with that outcome.
All the Freds got together and decided they want some of Bob’s stuff.
Just drop the salaries further and force them to move to the poorest areas of the country?
I had dreams about this ~2006, FWIW.

I think there's something to be done there, even if it's only for visualizing existing textual code, via some kind of VR, using human spatial memory and intuitions to better effect than tabs and treeviews and back buttons for navigating files and code structure.
They must have something very valuable in the defense space.
I hated this admissions process so much that I did the ACT as early as I could, graduated high school a year early, and started college faster. As soon as I knew the battle was over, I knew I could drop the facade of playing the game. It felt so liberating to focus on what I deemed "more relevant" tasks.

My problem though is that I do not think educational reform is my passion. My passion aims at progressing in my chosen major, and I desperately wanted to show to colleges this passion, but my test score was the Great Filter that decided whether or not the other aspects to myself mattered, such as personality, side projects, or personal achievements. I did well in high school, so it's not that I dislike the system because I didn't perform well. I dislike the system because there is such a great disconnect between what is relevant to the college experience and what college admissions is based off.

In general, high SAT/ACT scores correlates with well-achieving college students, but I'm sure most begrudgingly pushed themselves to get over the IQ test hump.

I have thought about this issue a lot. The incongruence between college admissions and student achievement really compels me to strive for a better system so that future generations will not have to waste time like I did. However, I suspect that all the great people who could work on a better system do not stick around.
Mentoring a Software Engineering Team
The situation is very similar to what's happening with a lot of Android developers. Many incidents where their app gets banned or removed for silly things. One I remember was getting removed because they had the word "windows" in their play store metadata and Google banned it because of having third party platform name. Except the app was using the term "windows" in reference to a house window, not the OS. Emailing play store support is pretty much useless unless you are a big company or can generate enough viral outrage on social media for them to notice.
You have to appreciate how big California is (>People than Canada, and any other US state). The UC system is actually the reason that the writing section was added to the SAT (the SAT II writing test used to be mandatory for UC admission). Everyone in my high school (public HS in CA) with even a chance at college admission applied to the UC system. Once you have that process in place it is easy to imagine other state universities copying the test.
Yeah, I was going to add that Verge seems confused on this point too.

> Senior Dave Spencer took a demo test before his Calculus AB exam to make sure he understood the process for uploading photos. He Airdropped an iPhone image of his responses to his Mac and tried to convert it by renaming the HEIC file to PNG. Changing a file’s extension does not guarantee that it will be converted, but Spencer was still able to submit the demo test with no problem.

> Spencer used the same process on the real exam and thought it went through, but he received an email the next day saying the files were corrupted and that he needed to retake the test. The College Board’s tweet went out just a few hours before Spencer’s scheduled exam; he doesn’t have a Twitter account and didn’t see it.

Obviously changing the file extension just bypassed the filtering that allows the demo test to be submitted. It's just checking that the extension is in a whitelist. There's no "does not guarantee that it will be converted" about this and The Verge's reporting is misleading on that score, IMO. Changing the extension simply does not affect the problem, it just means you're lying to the website about the format of the image.
What is the implication and why is it socially corrosive?
No, I referred to the broad category of "universities with highly competitive admissions". More of those are on the east coast than the west coast. California is a bit of an outlier in the US in both Asian American population and integration, so maybe UC is better and they'll be able to do away with standardized tests without hurting Asians too much. Anecdotally, though, people I know who grew up in California tend to think that UC lets in too many rich mainland Chinese and not enough from the large but poor and less integrated (vs. Vietnamese and Koreans) Filipino and Lao populations. Not sure how true that is, and I don't think UC records demographic info that granular, but as I mentioned the perception matters.
I’ve been skeptical of VR myself, but Oculus Quest feels like it is going to be a hit.

I don’t have data but the pulse I’m reading is a very high consumer satisfaction and it continues to sell out.
Maybe so, it's been many years since I took the SAT and I can't remember much about that experience. But I think with respect to more general academic performance, extra time on tests won't usually help much. In my experience in college, very few of my peers ever used up the full hour or two given for exams. The ones that did seemed to be worrying themselves sick double-guessing themselves, and it never seemed to do them much good.

I had one friend who I suspected of having a bogus disability. He had rich parents and got double-time on exams. But it's a miracle he graduated at all, he seemed to always be on the brink of flunking out. I think that had a lot to do with his video game addiction that stopped him from studying much. He was a reasonably bright guy with a horrible work ethic, and I really don't think the extra time on exams helped him at all.
I would LOVE to see more US experiments with UBI. The economics have already been tested. The federal government has these enormous funded installations where the people living there don't have to worry about the economy at all.

These gov-funded individuals then go and spend their largesse in the local economy, in many cases propping them up all by themselves.

This happens on a massive scale, right here, right now. They're called military bases. Politicians lobby hard to get the federal government to build them in their states, whether they're needed for military purposes or not.

People pooh-poohing UBI just don't seem to understand just how much of the economy already is paying people to do not much that is actually useful. So many of us have bullshit jobs. There would be mass poverty and unemployment otherwise.

Formalizing it instead of hiding it behind a veneer of fake usefulness will allow us to study it. Companies will have to entice people to take jobs rather than coerce them.

It'll be amazing.
European entrance exams, including Finland's, are far, far worse than the SAT. They are much more serious and shape one's life far more and enforce systemic bias to much higher extreme.
The whole issue is easily circumvented by correctly setting the accepted inputs, which is clearly the responsibility of the webpage owners. Next time, someone uploads JPEG2000 and runs into the same problem. I guess then it’s again someone else who gets the blame?
Trump's interview where he calls Republicans suckers, for example.
>but if you can't learn that, why learn math?

You can say this, but you won't like the response. The response is probably "okay" and they just won't learn math. I don't think the world is better off when that happens. It's not a question of whether people are capable of doing this, it's a question of whether this is worthwhile.
Correct. Chrome doesn't have such mechanism and if I'm not mistaken, they've already shot down the idea of adding this API.
What's most interesting to me about this discussion is that most of the participants will, within a few short decades, be needing the UI enhancements we're talking about. It's interesting because until now accessibility is definitely not a mainstream thing, but when all the X'ers and Millennials get to retirement age, it certainly will be.
Thanks! Sorry, I'm fixing this. The extension is actually open source, so you could install it from source from here: https://gitlab.com/histre/browser-extension But then you won't receive updates. So please give me some time to fix it and then you can install from Firefox addons page.
"Holistic" often ends up meaning "I'll make up the rules, and you dont get to know what the rules are"

I'd rather take my chances on an unfair system with open rules than on an unfair system with opaque rules.

Edit: spelling
This series from 3blue1brown is also an excellent (re-)introduction. Maybe not deep enough to prepare you for relativity, though.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDMsr9K-rj53...
"the intensity dip in the South Atlantic occurring now is well within what is considered normal levels of fluctuations."

https://phys.org/news/2020-05-swarm-probes-weakening-earth-m...
You would be surprised how many students use an iphone and a macbook but are unwilling to use safari (or icloud, photos) because of privacy concerns.

If you stay in the "regular" apple workflow everything is fine: iphone camera -> icloud/photos (airdrop/photos) -> safari. If you deviate at certain points though the workflow breaks down. Whose fault is that?
In a way, the VexRiscv is already implemented in both directions:

While stages are specified individually, you can declare those stages to collapse together.

The VexRiscv can be specified to be between 2 and 5 stages.

In terms of readability, you still have the 5 stages separated out within the same file.
For every billion the USG wastes, $3/year could go to each citizen. Not to mention that almost all the money sent over makes it's way back to defense industry jobs in the US.
There are libraries you can use to modernize without adopting a full framework. I like lit-html https://lit-html.polymer-project.org/
There is a more complete framework that goes with that, lit-element, but you can get most of the benefits using lit-html in your own framework.
It's 2400 now btw. There are three sections
It's really hard to setup a cohesive engineering culture in the same office, harder to do with a remote office - and nigh impossible with an outsourcing firm with 12 hours time difference.

Not every business needs a cohesive engineering culture - but if your primary product is tech, then it stands to reason that the cost of your developers is a second priority to effective execution at scale.
Plenty of schools fiddle with that or just refuse to provide the data.
Thanks for the data. I don’t doubt units will be sold - but when viewed as the search for the next personal computer, these embodiments fall woefully short.

There are very interesting use cases in ‘perspective collaboration’ - as in, ‘do you see what I see?’ Other stellar use cases are how you can prepare for new spaces and new environments. These use cases will sell many units (along with the de facto: gaming).

All this said, I feel the parent comment is correct. The way these companies are approaching the ‘why’ is very ‘it’s like you’re there’ ; ‘look at how connected you are’ ; and some variant.

All is not lost though. There are incredible changes in society if these embodiments (VR, AR, MR, XR) are seen as one of the many user interfaces for the next kind of personal computer. As in, if you change the basic command structure between user and computer - then the next generation PC can take shape.

[Edited: clarity and still terrible]

Honestly, Snap isn’t too far off, but the valley is uncanny.
Thank you, those all sound interesting. I installed a Nanobots mod and the game was twice as enjoyable, it really should have that built-in.
Following this argument, the replacement cost for a SWE in SF is also 90k$ since they can hire an engineer to replace them in Atlanta. Thus resulting in most of the SF office being let go.
The idea that wealth won't buy other methods of access, now with no embarrassingly low test score - is hard to beleive. The rich private school WILL give donor kids X all A's.
At least in the past the SAT score filtered out the super lazy donor brats.
And yet the collegiate programming contests includes high performing computer science schools from every region. You can raise an incredible programmer from Wisconsin, Colorado, Texas, Virginia, and Ohio just fine.
Most readers here don't have any sense of humour and can't take a joke! %:-O)
> if you're in high school in 2020 you probably need an iPhone

Not disputing anything else in your comment, but where is this true? I go to (and work at) a fairly prestigious university, and even here it's at best a status symbol, not a "need" of any kind. One of my friends uses a flip phone.
I can’t see how that makes anything more fair?

Some people are just bad test takers. What good does it make to penalize them for studying and trying to do the best they can do? Someone with a learning difference would be at a disadvantage.

Also, why wouldn’t I just lie?