skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bay area is unique in that it has two major research universities where a lot of computer science was developed.

Berkeley and Stanford will continue to drive innovation.
The article that says it was banned, links to it, LOL.
Yes, I was wondering why a recently completed photo upload feature for a web app didn't have this problem -- it's because we specified image/jpeg on the file input, so iPhone auto-converts. Likely a failure within the college board's software engineering processes for not testing this use case and then finding and deploying this fix?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
I never created my Facebook. My Gmail address is a common 6 character nickname and people use it as a throw away address all the time.

Sometimes they use it to sign up for things that don't verify email. Any major service I've ignored and go to try usually has my email registered.

I deleted Facebook 3 times before giving up. I believe people were trying to reset the password and Facebook recreated the account. I have left it since before GDPR came in, but I would put money on it being an attempt to re-enable the account.
Meanwhile, my Facebook account was disabled in the middle of last year without explanation, and with no response to use of the only available appeals option.
I suspect as with anything relating to human cultures, there's plenty of examples and counterexamples to go either way. For instance in many places people live in a single room, parents and kids [1]. In others I'm sure people live very segregated lives.

https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/sleep/bed-sharing-co...
> Everyone will be running it, because it spreads so aggressively, and anyone who wants can use it, without leaving any traces.

This reminds me of 90s era cypherpunk optimism. If recent history teaches us anything, it is that surveillance wins the cat and mouse game.

There is no technical solution. We have to work through the legislature. That means convincing people that this apparatus is a threat to middle class professionals, not just "information activists" or whatever.

The abundance of throwaway accounts on this thread is a testament to the chilling effect these policies have.

Privacy is a losing frame. We need new ideas.
I work remote from a quiet neighborhood with dedicated office. I’m still distracted half the time with other things and often get bored sitting in my office by myself. I wander around the house a lot — which is full right now with kids remote learning.
cheap access to energy is merely a lever for allowing people to be even more economically useful. By itself, cheap access to energy is worth nothing.
Don't general purpose CPU's and μC's use replaceable microcode as part of the chip implementation? Shouldn't that boil down to the same thing?
I suppose I should have qualified that with "don't pay much income tax?"

Depending on your rank and what your active duty is like, much can be excluded.[1]

> Combat pay: Compensation for active service while in a combat zone

Combat zones: much of the middle east, including relatively stable countries that aren't Afghanistan or Iraq, as well as the Balkans.[2]

> Enlisted member, warrant officer, or commissioned warrant officer. If you are an enlisted member, warrant officer, or commissioned warrant officer, none of your combat pay is included in your income for tax purposes.

For officers, the exclusion has a threshold. That threshold is:

> For 2019, the applicable amount is $8,803.50 per month

Or $105,600/yr income not subject to taxes.

In addition to BAH being excluded as you mentioned, there's also BAS, BAS, OHA, other housing benefits, moving and travel, healthcare, all not subject to income taxes.

These are all sources of income (in an accounting, not IRS sense) civilians would need to pay taxes on. As a result, active military pay a much lower tax rate on their income than civilians with the same pre-tax income.

[1]: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p3#en_US_2018_publink100017...

[2]: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/combat-zones
CloudFlare is under no obligation to follow a policy you find logical. If you dislike their business practices or find them problematic you might contact your local elected officials and request regulation. Otherwise you’ll have to wait and see if the magic of the free market changes anything.
Are you African-American? (Assuming you mean Southern US)
In the US at least that isn't how physician credentialing works. Doctors are licensed by state medical boards. In addition, some go on to earn certification from specialty medical boards but those certifications are not legal licenses.

In general we shouldn't blindly trust any single doctor about an important or risky topic, even within their own specialty. Always get a second or even third opinion if practical. (I agree that most celebrity doctors are little more than quacks.)
Quick tip:

Have a person that has call with the new intern every day for the first 1-2 weeks.

Blocked to be 30mins, meant to be 15mins.

It allows to "bring stupid questions / blockers" to the next day's meeting. It create bonding and team culture understanding.
Not really a fair comparison because in order to get the unemployment you have to stop working.
That does not make a lot of sense to me. Google did not open a Seattle office because it enhanced their "global image", but because the presence of Microsoft, UW, Amazon, and a generally thriving tech scene meant that they would gain access to lots of experienced engineers who might be unwilling to move to California. Now they employ thousands of people up here. Facebook did the same thing; they also have a large Seattle office, right down the street from Amazon. Apple has a Seattle office too, focusing on machine learning. Not quite up to a thousand people yet, last I heard, but they have plans to grow. Lots of ML going on in Seattle.

When Intel acquired the AI startup I worked for a couple years ago, they built us a downtown office, much bigger than our team currently needed. Why? Because there are lots of AI people in Seattle who will not move to California, and Intel wants a chance to hire them. But it's still a very small office compared to Intel's global footprint; it does not affect their "image" at all. It's just a practical way of gaining access to Seattle's engineering talent.

It is a simple virtuous cycle. The presence of good jobs draws people who want to work in the field, and the presence of people with experience draws the companies who want to hire them. Geographic concentration is efficient.
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> Once it was determined that gopher could neither be monetized nor weaponized, it was doomed to obscurity.

This is a cynical rewriting of history. More likely, Gopher lost to HTTP due to a combination of random chance, network effects, and simply not being as user friendly to e.g. set up a server. HTTP was also an "open academic tool" for "open academic purposes". Only later, due to HTTP's success, was it monetized and "weaponized".
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misinformation, n.: information you disagree with and don't think should exist.
I think that's a completely fair reason to avoid wayland, there are many of them. Complexity just doesn't seem like one of them.
> Pleased that Youtube has reinstated my interview. I appreciate all of the support. Nobody knows what's going to happen with this pandemic - debate is always a good thing! I think preparing for the worst, but hoping for the best is a sensible strategy.

https://twitter.com/ProfKarolSikora/status/12635183523471482...
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Are exam proctors really auditing this to that level? I've been out of school for a while, but I think I only remember the honor system being used.
Well for my humble needs, the first layers of a pretrained VGG16 were already good enough, so I have little use for yet another even more resource hungry visual encoder.
I know some people protest measures that are considered more "objective" over measures that are more "holistic", whether this is in school admittance, performance evaluation, promotion consideration, interviewing, determining welfare benefits, choosing who makes the rules and governs.

However it has been my experience that whenever an explicit test or hierarchy is removed another shadow one builds up that is more subjective, more biased, and more subject to abuse.

Sure the SAT/ACT does favor students whose parents had enough money to afford private tutors, but it also meant that if I didn't have a private tutor if I could get a perfect score my chances increase. Now it changes to the whims of the interviewer, the committee that ranks my "holistic" experience, etc.
Don't want to duplicate my comment but trying to prevent wrong conclusions. He tweeted few hours ago that YouTube has reinstated his video:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23266336
Bob is somebody who enjoys his job, or creating value, or material things, more than surfing and playing video games.

The thought is that we have enough Bobs in the world now, and enough technology and infrastructure, that allowing the Bobs to be Bobs and the Freds to be Freds will still work out fine.

(And I agree.)
That really doesn’t sound like much of an edge case to me. I’m willing to bet it’s a pretty typical workflow that people have if they own Apple devices.
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Your definition would seem to insist that a nuclear warhead is not a "lethal" weapon, since no one has died to one in three quarters of a century. I guess "reasonable" is an opinion thing, but I think it's pretty clear that the usage in that headline is conventional and correct.
Whistleblower slams Apple for 'wiretapping entire populations'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23266336
I would argue that it is not limited at all, as it gives you full arbitrary code execution.
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Bob needs to work because Bob wants to buy nicer things and lead a fuller life than sitting around playing video games in a dirty shack like Fred.

Bob's work isn't subsidizing Fred's lifestyle unfairly (at least under Yang's proposal) because the UBI is paid for by a tax on consumption (the VAT)
"wage slavery" is such a disingenuous weasel word term. There's no slavery involved at all. Involvement is purely voluntary and you're free to leave at any time.
Yay, another chance for schools to curate incoming classes based on what they want on a brochure rather than on merit.
> I mean in the sense that being customer obsessed should mean you do not evil

I think there is a real tension between customer obsession and 'do no evil'. Serving the individual needs of consumers can come at the expense of the public good. I think example of that are the amount of waste that Amazon packages generate by shipping as fast as possible and the amount of environmental damage AWS can quietly cause via their datacenters.
> That's one of the reasons he ran for president, was so he could do that.

That requires an act of congress. Literally the only thing the president would have to do with it is signing a piece of paper.

Running for president gave the idea a bit of a platform, and just cemented the idea as so far out there that no-one need ever take it seriously.
> If I may restate your position: "If a student uploads an image in the wrong format then it is acceptable for their entire test to be invalid and they can retake the entire exam."

Yes, being able to understand the conditions should maybe be part of passing the test. Like I said, could the upload form have handled this better? Sure, although I have not read enough to understand if this was actually the upload form failing. The OP article claims "Spencer ... tried to convert it by renaming the HEIC file to PNG" which is not how you convert files. Maybe students learning that early on is not a bad thing?
> Water, for example, is critical for life, but is basically free in most civilized areas in the first world because it is abundant.

I largely agree with your comment, but I disagree with this sentence. Water is almost free in most civilized areas because it's not subject to free market economics (for good reason). Basic water supply is usually provided by the local government (and this applies to places where it is scarce). If water were treated the same way health is in the US, its price wouldn't be anywhere close to free.
The SpaceX simulation is simplistic enough and gives you enough data that you really don't need a PID controller to hit the target numbers.
Because we're human?
I'd hardly call rich parents paying for SAT prep classes a better solution.
No issues, so long as you can still amuse your friends by typing: 6006135
Paywall. What is the proposed solution to replace it?
Totally correct. The default modes of communication should be asynchronous, or if a real-time meeting is required then everyone should be on video in separate places, even if most are in the office. This prevents situations where the remote workers are at a disadvantage because of a bad audio or video setup. If the audio sucks for everyone, they'll find a way to fix it (plus it's way easier to capture individual audio than a room full of people).

The benefits are also there for people who go to the office since there ends up being less tribal knowledge and more written down or documented somewhere.
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Worked with FPGAs at a past gig, and that is correct. There is heavy markup due to the accessibility of the parts.
That's awesome! I really wish I had teachers like that. In high school, I had a fancy TI Nspire which had an incredibly hobbled language that vaguely resembled the classic TI-BASIC. It was missing a TON of important programming features but it had symbolic manipulation which I loved to abuse.

I wrote a program to balance arbitrary chemical equations using a series of ridiculous hacks. First, I parsed chemical compounds (like CO2 and H2(CO2)3, notice the nesting) by running through them char-by-char and translating them into expressions and then "eval"ing them: "CO2" -> e.C + 2 e.O (where e.C and e.O are free symbols). Then, I used the feature where you can type "X + Y | X=3, Y=5" to get 8 to extract the coefficients from the expression which I then shoved into a matrix and solved the system of equations. If you look at the code, you'd vomit, but it was a night of furiously typing on the abcdef keyboard that I will never forget.

I never actually used it in class because during this process I became so quick at balancing the simple equations they would give us that it took longer to type them in than simply doing it in my head.
This. So important. The best I remember seeing was a Nordic country that trained its citizens to be able to identify fake news. Anyone know of any education programs like this, might have a few facebook friends I’d like to send it on to :P
If you're only being offered 1.5x your salary to move to London, then assuming you're in Poland, your current salary is very high for your region.
Adobe killed off it's non-cloud version of Acrobat, by breaking a remote server endpoint that is checked on startup.

It makes you wonder how much control you have over your PC.
The downvote/upvote count thing should be informative, and the display preferences based on user's choice. I find the HN practice of dimming downvoted comments downright Orwellian.
Another strike against genuine education. Now prep schools that have 17 valedictorians will help their students pad their applications with nonsense extra-curricular activities and experiences. However it's likely much easier to create the same pastiche of fluff in poorly-performing schools than it is to actually raise test scores.

Now more than ever, college signals nothing other than the ability to follow rules and jump through hoops. Such a tragedy.
I expected a commandline interface :-)
Watching their kids at their house is being a nanny. You only mentioned people need childcare. Having kids dropped off at your house requires at least registration in Texas, and if it's 4-6, requires certification.
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Thank you for sharing. I can hear a shy cry for help. I think it's fine to spend a lot of time with computer, in general, I do it myself. There is so much to do, learn and help others. On the other hand, I think it is good to realize when it eventually becomes a replacement activity for lack of motivation/opportunities to do something harder. Then try to break that, take a challenge, do something new, either with computer (a personal project to make something cool?) or better, without it - for example, try some manual work with wood, do some science project with a friend, or get a pet and teach him tricks or something. Just don't spend yourself fully on the online/academic life, that sounds too ephemeral and can be a bit disappointing later on. I for sure regret spending so much time in academia.
I'm still following the account and never had to refollow. It's probably a bug.
They're creating their own test.

> The unanimous 23-to-0 vote ratified a proposal put forward last month by UC President Janet Napolitano to phase out the exams over the next five years until the sprawling UC system can develop its own test.
The pricing ($12/mo) is rather steep compared to other productivity/planning/todo apps on the market (Trello @ $0, TickTick @ $2.79, Any.do & Todoist @ ~$3, etc.).

While this product looks great and I'd generally think it would be worth a try, that price sets it as a non-starter for me as I don't get the impression that the advantage would be so large compared to other task management tools.
I took the SAT in high school and my scores discouraged me so much that I ended up not applying to any colleges. Worked out in the end because I went to a community college then transferred to Berkeley (which thankfully didn't require an SAT score)
Browsers don't provide simple tools to audit permission needs.
I think it's RSA 2048, in which case even if you ran all the computers until the the sun supernovas, you wouldn't be able to factor it probably.
> See the UK and other Northern Euro nations. You just have to fake an autism diagnosis to get $3k euros a month in cash alone (not counting all the other programs).

In the UK we have a variety of disability benefits. Someone starting a claim today is probably going to apply for New Style ESA. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/new-style-employment-and-support...

> If you have been found to have limited capability for work, you will move onto the ‘main phase’ for New Style ESA and you will get the basic allowance, plus a ‘support component’ if you are put in the support group.

> basic allowance (standard rate) – up to £74.35 (per week)

> support component – £39.20 (per week)

((74.35 + 39.20) * 52) / 12 = £492.05 per calendar month. That's €550 per month.

To qualify for this with autism you'll need to persuade your GP to give you a referral to local MH services, and persuade them to give you a referral to an autism assessment service, and then you'd need to persuade two specialist healthcare professionals that you have autism. That will give you the diagnosis. However, the Department for Work and Pensions will use their own independent healthcare professionals and you'll need to pass that assessment. That's not seeing if you're autistic or not, that's seeing if you have impairments in your day to day life that interfere with your ability to work. These functional assessments are carried out every 3 years.
> At least he does not promote drinking bleach

Lets not resolve to flame wars using factually false info which nobody ever said.
SAT prep classes have a small effect size.
That's certainly true at my parent company (Accenture) - we're (in a completely neutral way) a completely different animal than "Silicon Valley unicorn", but we still have a huge gleaming building in SF because it projects a particular image.
Likely not:

> Ms. Napolitano’s proposal allows four years for the UC system to develop a new exam. If it fails to create or adopt one, then it likely would cease to use any exam, said Robert Schaeffer, public education director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, known as FairTest, which has fought against standardized testing for 30 years. Mr. Schaeffer said he doesn’t believe a new exam will be implemented.

“It appears very unlikely that they will be able to design an instrument that is more accurate and fairer than relying on applicants’ high school records,” Mr. Schaeffer said. “And, if a new test somehow meets those goals promoters would face massive adoption barriers, including persuading UC and the rest of the admissions world that a third test is truly needed or useful.”
>These types of censorship patterns are identical to that employed by China in intent.

At the end of the day, Youtube's intent is to make as much money as possible. If Youtube didn't censor a lot of misinformation videos, people would get mad and demand advertisers to stop advertising on Youtube.
React admin is a pretty good framework I've worked with. It's mature and very pleasant to deal with. It's also got data providers for many different databases.

https://github.com/marmelab/react-admin
UBI can have a place if the payout is controlled by the federal reserve as a means to enact inflation.

Taking it from other people's earnings and spending it through a committee of politicians sounds pretty dystopian to me though.
No other entity other than The College Board receives the raw test. Everyone else only receives the results. The College Board also charges around $100 for each of these tests, so even if they had to support the format (they don’t) they really should easily be able to do so.
It was reinstated:

https://twitter.com/ProfKarolSikora/status/12635183523471482...
that's a deeply cynical and paternalistic mindset
Is the total system complexity less with Wayland? It seems to push a lot of functionality out to the edges. X isn't really all that complicated, just crufty...
It's weird that the development of our educational system is being driven by what basically boils down to free market competition where UCs reject the value proposition of those standardized tests and impact the market for educational testing services. It's also interesting to see, if you view this as the market becoming more efficient, it's interesting to see how long it took for any significant move towards efficiency to happen by rejecting standardized tests. I wonder if market skeptics are right and that these evaluations and decisions would have been made a lot faster and better with regulation and centralization, or if market advocates are right and this was the best/fastest way to have educational institutions realize the impact subpar admissions selection based on flawed tests has and course correct, which they might only do because UC is competing against other institutions (unlike universities in other countries), and which opens up the market for better evaluation methods that will, because of a profit motive, lead to new, less biased standardized evaluations being developed rapidly to increase equity and equality of opportunity in society.