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<quote>dealing a significant blow to the multibillion-dollar college admission testing industry.</quote>

You mean those tests are privately done? It's not some standard high school end test administered by the state like the baccalaureate exam?

Sheesh.
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If you want to try out the what-if tool in a jupyter notebook (for free), create an account here on www.hopsworks.ai. It's our new SaaS ML platform, with a feature store. If you run the deep learning tour, it will populate a project with this notebook (it's open-source):

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The end of this year will be very bleak. By then, the stimulus checks (to businesses and individuals) will have run out, mortgage / loan deferrals will have come due, jobs will be lost and there's continued talk of a second wave of the coronavirus around then.
Darn. I loved NC.
> If i have a product definition, would i be able to get prototypes for say, $1000 assuming its a fairly (seemingly) simple product?

No.

Simplest microcontroller prototypes start to fly from $6k-$10k if you want anything beyond a kickstarter project.

I once worked in an LED lighting company, a simplest analog IC went into $3m after cost overruns from $1.2m after a few failed tapeouts.

To make any IC under $1m requires you to really know what you are doing. It's not what a startup with green, unexperienced engineers can do.
Ouh disappointing, I was expecting a transpiled CSS alternative that reads as English, eg.

When touch screen is bigger than 600px:
Paint class important-button:
- red background
- solid 1 pixel white border
You are way off the mark. Managers do have more meetings. The output they produce is not the number of meetings, but the results from those meetings. When done over teleconference, those meetings take a toll on the people involved. The managers were attending as many people interactions as before - just that the medium over videoconference makes it more tiring.
And if that's not enough, there's also z-index.
> I've never had reliable palm rejection on a touchpad under Linux.

I'm curious what hardware and drivers you've tried. I'm using a fairly large Synaptics touchpad on a Dell laptop with the xf86-input-synaptics driver. It's so good that I literally had to test it just now to see if it was possible to fool it at all. Even very light touches with the edge of my palm are unable to convince the driver to click. I can't move the cursor at all. At least in my case, it works perfectly... maybe I'm just lucky. (Or maybe the new libinput driver is still not up to snuff.)
And it's similar for big cities - local purchasing power in London is lower than New York, San Francisco and LA.
Sorry if I came across as lazy. It’s a sporadic issue that’s more easily fixed with a service restart. Did not mean to come off as entitled. My intent was just to ask for some help from the community.
And yet, if anything, I see an inverse correlation between software quality and invasive telemetry.

Maybe there's a correlation between invasive telemetry and not caring about your users.
My experience was much like your own except I never took the tests, which I'm sure I'd have done horribly at given my high school experience. I'm now getting a PhD in a really nice program so I feel good about the transfer route.

High school and college are so different, I've often wondered if transfering wouldn't be the best for most people. Then you can prove that you can succeed in college by going to college and learning what that means. I meet so many people that went straight from their high school to a competitive undergraduate institution and then came out the other end of it feeling like they never knew why they did what they did. In fact, many make it all the way through their PhD, only to think afterwards whether it was what they really wanted. They never worked at normal jobs or really left the citadel. 18 is so young to commit to all of this. I think the transfer route allows for more reflection and a far more realistic "model" for institutions to base projections of later success in a BA or BS program on.

Going to a community college and being in class with people who are middle aged and seeking new directions, refugees, people who made mistakes, and other young people who knew they wanted to do something but not what yet, was an invaluable part of my life and formed my understanding of what it means to seek out education. It is an insight many of my colleagues lack.

Though it doesn't really seem to be the point of the debate on exams, what really could stand to be improved is the extent to which undergraduates have the best long term life outcomes based on their educational experience and how the admissions process functions relative to this question.
Only native apps that explicitly opt-in to HEIC support.
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For drag-and-drop I usually press down with my index and hold, than drag with the middle finger. This has been working flawlessly on Macs since forever. It also works on a T480s with Ubuntu right now. But I remember being frustrated with my touchpad before, so it probably didn't work on Ubuntu at one point.
Nobody said shutting down will not have its own casualties. There was never a bloodless option on the table.

It's like a choice whether to evacuate a city that's threatened by an active volcano. The volcano may or may not erupt. It either kills everyone, or nothing happens. But announcing the evacuation is sentencing some people to death: think of all the people in emergency rooms, on life support, etc., many of whom will not survive being moved. And then you'll have "death by economics" among the evacuated, as they fail to adjust to their new reality in emergency housing, with no jobs, living among strangers not too happy about the sudden population increase in their area.

It's a tough choice, but it's a game of numbers. To a first approximation, even if lockdown is going to kill 0.01% of people one way or another, if it prevents 0.1% of people from dying, it's worth it and it's the right choice. In reality, there's uncertainty around these estimates that need to be taken into account, but the idea is the same.

(Tangent: I hate point estimates with a passion; I wish there was an easy and standardized way to express distributions in plain text.)
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Same here. I use different Chrome and Firefox profiles for different tasks. One for work, one for banking, one for news+HN,..., and last but not least one for fully automated tasks with the kantu browser macro extension.
In between. They're run by not-for-profits.
Is this the perpetual meme that will never die?

https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
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Sounds like a horrible idea if your application ever needs to receive an update. Which is basically 100% of applications that aren't abandoned.
I am still using total commander which has proven as by far best gui replacement while I have never found any text based even close (any suggestion is welcome but mc is not it) as far it goes regarding tc tooling and integration of plugins. Or search (and replace) for files etc. I never really understood why something like explorer copies are used on all systems.

Anyway if someone wants to try, https://www.ghisler.com/ while here are 3rd party plugins: https://totalcmd.net/ There is more than meets the first glance and one huge benefit is that you dont need to use mouse. At all.
Naive q: does RISC-V potentially impact any of this?
yes, it's not proper CRTP but I did not want to spend too much time on that... just show that multiple inheritance has its uses even in fairly generic, non-OOP code :-)
Here’s small scale examples of $100k making a massive difference:

https://www.businessinsider.com/where-are-they-now-peter-thi...

That said, $100k is not a salary and if someone needs $100k+ salary to do a startup for a year, startups are the wrong choice.
This sounds like some marketing drivel to sell enterprise execs who are clueless on some big consulting projects...
Tangerine computers too, back in the day, Acorn (technically a fruit)...
Multi billion dollar not-for-profits? :)
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I immediately know two things about you:

1. You don’t live alone.

2. You have a job.

I think we’re all a little short on empathy these days.
Ironically the APPLE ][ used to have this some keywords where changed between UK and US version - or at least that's what my aging memory tells me
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On Windows FreeCommander is a good free Commander.
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Exhaustive enumeration is a proof even if it's not very satisfying :-). For example, a big part of the Four colour theorem is a big enumeration of all configurations.
The SAT is intended as a metric for someone's future ability to achieve the things that constitute wealth, so it's good to hear they correlate. That's the entire purpose of it.
Having a PhD on a field does not automatically imply you can produce good results, specially if targeted for widespread consumption. It is actually very rare when that happens.

I am not saying that is the case here one way or the other, though.
It must be emphasised that, despite the name, ZeroMQ is not a message queue. It is a networking library. The current blurb says:

> ZeroMQ (also known as ØMQ, 0MQ, or zmq) looks like an embeddable networking library but acts like a concurrency framework.

And the old meme was "ZeroMQ is a replacement for Berkeley sockets".

It's a pretty cool networking library. But it makes no sense to think of it in the same slot as RabbitMQ, or even Redis.

That the GP mentioned it does make me wonder if they don't really understand what they're doing.

EDIT I love that the official guide actually has this diagram in! Pieter Hintjens's death was a sad loss. http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#How-It-Began
I noted with some interest (now about 20 years ago) that Directory Opus had gotten a Windows version. It still seems to be alive and kicking, which is good to see!
Yes. This is my understanding too. What's funny is the government's legal opinion is from a UK lawyer about a Chinese interpretation of a HK LegCo rule. What's even crazier: the LegCo "security team" only attack/restrain the Pro-Democracy legislators. There's no hiding their "affiliation".
Wealth can be used to boost anything. The ability to boost things you want is what makes wealth wealth.
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Everyone has FAQ on their websites. How about some Rarely Asked Questions?
None of those things are "encouraged." There are non-stop radio spots telling people to stay home. You've got cheeky stuff like Randy Newman singing lyrics like "get away from me" to the frankly dystopian line from George Takei saying, "Stay in splendid isolation."

The are otherwise normal people that are still terrified. Anecdotally, I know people who have had the thing and still won't participate in society because they are convinced that they could die. We've really done a good job of disturbing people, and we're going to see weird fallout from it.
Clearly coronavirus is a great excuse to let workers go. I doubt there’s going to be much hiring going on once this plays out, at least not with current wagee
Norton Commander was in the autoexec.bat of virtually every computer I saw between ~1992 and 1998. Dos Navigator replaced it for a while, then Windows Commander, later renamed to Total Commander. I still have Total Commander pinned to the taskbar of every computer I use, I bought a few dozen licenses back in ~ 2008-2009.

In ~ 1994 I wrote a limited feature clone of NC in FoxPro just to show some colleagues in college that it can be done fast and easy. It motivated them to learn FoxPro and a few become developers using it for the next 5-10 years.
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Having worked with Peter, he indeed has a room full of laptops (Red Hat mails them to him every time they run into a customer issue!), but it's still a lot of work to test all of them and new laptop models get cranked out every day. It's a very difficult task for a single person.
>>> this trait being a consequence of static typing,

This is kind of my point. The goal is to build the right thing, right. Languages aren't the point, the advantage is techniques/ capabilities that come with it. 20 years ago memory management was a huge advantage in building the right thing right. And it had to be built into the language. but 20 years ago I had what I would now call a CD system, built around pxe-boot and bash. It made building the right thing right much easier, and had nothing to do with language choice. As does all the good things we consider - from engaged business teams to unit testing and pager duty. Our language choice impacts some of that, more often our organisational maturity matters more.

Yes some languages are "better" than others - but if the goal is to have an organisation doing something, then tools to build the organisation matter more. Software will of course be at the heart of that, but the language choice won't (much).
>Facebook already has R&D centers around the world, you're talking as if this hasn't already happened.

Developed at a time where they could feasibly say there just wasn't the volume of talent in the US to support their ambitions. With all the startups going bust, big companies laying people off, etc. the same argument won't be feasible. In my eyes at least.

>Exactly. That's why I don't think the average American is going to care about 250K a year jobs in Silicon Valley moving somewhere else. I don't see a lot of empathy to the millionaire class in the U.S

That's one way of looking at it. Another is that FB and others moving the work away will directly impact the large swathes of people who work for these companies not in tech roles, and also decimate the local economy around their offices by dropping demand for local goods, services and by extension the jobs that exist to provide and fulfill the same.

All it takes is a couple of Democratic figureheads to get on TV and say that Zuckerberg et al's actions will dis-proportionally throttle the lives of minorities and the socially disadvantaged, which is true, and presto, you further the ire toward them at a time when they can least afford it.
I wonder how novel the attack vector of Covid-19 is, in comparison to other viruses.

HIV slowly kills you, by infecting your blood. But it requires blood contact.

Ebola quickly kills you by liquefying your internal organs, and you die in a hemorrhagic fever. It requires fluidic contact, or maybe via droplets too.

SARS-1 was transmitted via airborne and aerosols.

Covid-19 is airborne, even though they keep saying it’s via droplets.

So, the transmission is very contagious by being airborne. And it hides itself better, meaning not everyone infected will show symptoms, so there can easily be silent spreaders. And for those infected, it won’t show up for a few days, and you can transmit it without know you’re actually infected.

Then, it kills you by slowly wearing you down, until your other organs fail, and you technically die of organ failure.
Double Commander is another alternative. Open source, cross platform, actively developed (in Free Pascal and Lazarus) https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/
From someone who has been interested in Rust for a long time but is only now really getting into it due to time constraints, why do you consider Rust too complicated to replace C?

From what cursory knowledge I have, Rust maintains both a bare bones standard library suitable for embedded work as well as a more fully featured standard library that is built on top of that minimal library.

What features would keep Rust from becoming a new C other than possibly some issues with ABI stability that from my understanding people are working to resolve?
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The most important benefit of a university degree is the credential itself, indicating personal characteristics of the graduate. Lowering standards directly hurts the value of said credential. Learning is a side-effect of the process.
I can confirm that unlike most other companies' "mission" the Leadership Principles are a real thing(tm) that even those of us who are skeptical about corporate yadda yadda were caught up using and being influenced by.

Two things about it: it's not feel-good bullshit like the parent said. That makes it real. And another: so many principles are at direct odds. Do you "Insist on the highest standards" and delay the launch or do you "Deliver results" now? How do you "Think Big" while also obeying the mandate for "Frugality"? There is a lot of tension in the principles which matches real-world choices. It's not the shallow corporatese of most mission statements.
I know someone who still uses ZTreeWin (a clone, for Windows) all the time. It looks incredibly quick, with lots of useful shortcuts.
While true for the more trivial cases there are examples that show the opposite e.g. Whatsapp's choice of Erlang allowed it to scale up easier with less engineers - https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us...
Maybe we overreacted just a little bit. Some of these people might’ve just needed a friend.
> Any episodic context, like 99 percent of the media we consume.

But you're suggesting a single "timeline" for all content. So you get one stream of every show on every channel in order. That's not the usual way we watch episodic content. Hell since the invention of the VCR, we mostly just watch the specific stuff we want, not everything in I ur bundle.

You seem to be conflicting the content made by a single entity with the aggregator. For an aggregator, why does time name more sense than any other view (like say clustered by creator, or as is common today ordered based on presumed interest)?
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"get away from me" and "Stay in splendid isolation" don't exclude sport or going outside.
unless you are being surveilled with a camera or sth, you can use anything to communicate (which you normally can't do in an office). And having more work opportunities readily available makes it easier to call-out and quit , no? You also don't need to conform to a physically concentrated groupthink. In many ways, remote work is better in all those terms
I don't like Gove, so it feels strange for me to "defend" him, but this is an interesting quote that keeps coming up.

In a later interview [1] he said this:

"When I was being interviewed on Sky by Faisal Islam, he put it to me that there were a number of economists and organizations of economic prestige that questioned the arguments for leaving the European Union and said that it would be a mistake if we did. I countered it by saying people have had enough of experts from organizations with acronyms that have got things so wrong in the past. And Faisal Islam, as a skilled interrogator, cut me off half way, so while I completed my sentence he took the first half and said ‘people have had enough experts?’ and used that as a fencing posture in the interview itself."

[1] https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/michael-gove-tro...
If you're going to claim with a straight face that the majority of goods on g2a are stolen, which is what you're implying, you're going to have to provide sources.
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I got laid off on my fortieth birthday. It hasn’t bothered me at all. Been working on building my own SaaS. I refuse to take algo interviews. Recruiter is hitting me up to work at same place as before for more money. Get your hustle on and get your last laugh.
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For anyone wanting to learn more about this, I highly recommend Advanced Calculus: A Differential Forms Approach by Harold Edwards and An Introduction to Manifolds by Loring Tu. The former reads almost like a novel and is a real treat of mathematical exposition. It's also a little quirky which is always nice. Tu's book is simply the gold standard of an introduction to the mathematics of manifolds and differential forms. It is the most concise and straightforward introduction to the full theory. It is also a wonderful book.
I would like to see some numbers on that, in general people that are mentally strong are less likely to succumb to suicide when isolation hits, and would explain why other countries such as Netherlands and Japan are seeing a _decline_ of suicide rates, decades of being unable to afford mental health are probably a factor in that; I admid there is a good chance it's not as big of a factor like I imagine, and accumulated stress factors seen only in America are to blame.
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Checkout Daptin https://github.com/daptin/daptin

I have build a lot of crud apps with daptin as the backend. I have been building daptin since about 2 years now.

Daptin will be able to give you much more than just CRUD. Things like authentication/authorization/user management. Maybe you would want OTP based login in future, maybe not. There are a lot of features like that.

It's written in golang so you can get a single independent binary which can run anywhere. There is a docker image as well if you prefer that.
Or, it would just be safer to put up the cookie banner to avoid confrontation with others without such a nuianced understanding of the cookie law.

I could imagine cookies being implemented by the browser in the same way that webcam permission is requested. Something along the lines of "this website is requesting to store cookie "domain;X with purposes Y". This would make setting millions of cookies a UX sin, and cookies would only be set on predictable user interactions such as logging in. Unfortunately the definitions of "purpose" will still need to be defined by regulation to be enforceable. Once you can identify a user, there's no technical limitation that can prevent tracking.
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Maybe Britain wouldn’t lift a finger but Trump would lift a pen.

Gives legal pretext for any tariffs or sanctions you want, meaning we are at the beginning of these issues not the end...
When this subject comes up I always tell the same story.

When I entered university, the head of admissions had been forced to accept the job. He didn't want to be head of admissions (for physics, our subject).

He used the opportunity to do an experiment. Normally you need advanced Maths with a decent grade to get onto a physics degree. He abandoned that and admitted about 20 people without that. He also admitted people with lower grades than usual. Hs basically made offers to everyone who applied. So our first year class was almost twice the size it was meant to be.

He was my personal tutor and asked me to help host admissions lunches for prospective students, so the subject of admissions came up.

He laughed and said he admitted everyone because as far as he was concerned, if you were too dB to pass first year you'd be kicked out then and if not you deserved to be in second year whether you're grades at 18 were good or not.

Of the 20 people without maths, at least 15 failed or transfered to other subjects in year 1. But a few graduated.

So he gave them a chance and they took it.

I know the logistics make it impossible. But I actually think letting everyone who applies in and letting the end of term/semester/year exams decide who stays is much fairer than single tests or one off interviews of lists of (parentally supported) extra circular projects. Imagine if MIT or Harvard said "Everyone is welcome but only 10% of people pass the first year".
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