skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What states are those? No schools that I know of locally have SAT prep as a school course or use the SAT as their standardized tests. It is good that some schools are already moving this way. I think it makes sense to have just one standardized test that can be used for admission and also tracking progress of schools and states.
Breached elasticsearch servers leks millions of records (fresh report)
Report includes:
1. companies that exposes data
2. types of data
3. methods of finding such databases
> Two wrongs do not make a right, and mass murder of innocent civilians is always wrong.

Fully agreed. It's hard to see the two events as similar, though. The scale (and intent) alone is mind-boggingly different. The Germans intended to wipe out Slavs (and other undesirables), and you couldn't opt out of this by swallowing the party line or swearing allegiance to Germany (just as you couldn't opt out of being a Jew -- Nazis didn't care about your religious beliefs, if any; they considered Jewishness a "race" to be exterminated). At best you could hope for their bullshit racial policies to deem you "Germanic", if you looked white enough and weren't Jewish.

Compare this with Germans under the Soviet sphere of influence. Puppets, maybe, but alive as long as they cooperated with the ruling ideology. There was no plan to ethnically cleanse them to make room for Soviet citizens in German land.
I was just looking up "pnuematic computer" a couple of days ago. There was an ad from Target telling me they had pnuematic computers.
Wow — not just passwords but phone numbers, full names and physical addresses all breached. And it happened in April 2016. Surely this should've been reported much earlier due to GDPR requirements?
Regulating Amazon.com could be a starting point for redemption.

Amazon can use your seller data, wipe you out and slaps you with a automatic reply that you have now to deal with stranded inventory they no longer want in their warehouses.

Not to mention the classic demanding proof of oficial supplier, just so you do the work for them and tell Amazon who the supplier is, and cut you as a middle man.

They don't even abide by their own guidelines regarding product listings.
There's currently a full-size Arrow replica on display in Toronto, at the Canadian Air and Space Museum. I haven't gotten a chance to go there yet, but the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa currently has an original nose section on display, which I believe is the largest surviving piece. I can attest to the later being a very good aviation museum all around; I recommend it to anybody who's interested in that sort of thing. The nearby Diefenbunker museum is also very cool if you're interested in cold war stuff.
> The story goes the first processor was tested without a proper power connection and ran on the IO-pins.

That's real common actually. The current from the diodes on the I/O pins has to go somewhere.
Ha!!, man, the end of that sentence made me laugh so hard...

"Intel, by integrating design and manufacturing, earned very large profit margins on its chips; Apple could leverage TSMC for manufacturing and keep that margin for itself and its customers."
I haven't been able to find a "final" solution. Most recently I've been writing things down with pen and paper to keep me on task. To make the ethereal physical and break it down into steps and checklists.

Again totally recommend this video on the wall of awful for ADHD procrastination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo08uS904Rg
"This is an IP traffic related issue that has created significant capacity issues in the network core throughout the day" Uh, what?
The first thing that pops into my head was "Jet fuel can't melt steel brains", which may indicate that I've spent too long on the internet.
Online social events just don't do it for me. The time delay is a small factor, but reducing social interactions to what I can take in to only two senses while everyone sits in a chair is just not what social events are.

Real life interactions involve every possible kind of stimuli -- we're just usually only conscious of a few of them. I must need to receive subtle scent cues, micro-gestures, voice interactions with the room tone around us, whatever else we don't know yet that influences us in order to enjoy video chat bullshit that is more than transferring work details. Video chat works worse for me, socially, than talking on phones ever did, though I don't know if the extra video information is 'blocking' what my imagination filled in while having a phone chat.
Ha. Maybe you guys should use the French Canadian search engine!
> since you’ve been cramming for 4 years.

You could say the same for pretty much every educated person who has done an undergraduate or postgraduate degree. Seems like a lot of human progress has been made as the result of people that have been "cramming for 4 years"
To me I sometimes get too obsesded with types and try to wrire clever ergonomic type inference. Usally I stop when I realize the types are double loc comparing to the actual implementation or what I was trying to do was impossible. It can be a drain on productivity if you're like me.
Thanks, that's kind of what I thought. I recently, finally, took it off of my book shelf and stuffed it into a box in the garage, but it's been in the back of my mind a few times as I've been going through other resources. It's good for the historical understanding but I couldn't see it being terribly relevant today.
and how the FBI doesn't waste the NSA's jewels for normal crimes
Facebook rejects call to share revenue with Australian media
I only knew of Dexamethasone as cancer treatment. Which intuitively makes me wanna question how good of an idea this is. That said, my knowledge on medicine outside the sheer basics is practically none... I mean correct me if I'm wrong here but aren't cancer treatment drugs prone to cause severe side effects in general?
No, what I was saying is "I wonder if this will be yet another miss for them."

>they should have known that before the study was performed

I don't even think that's necessarily true given how common the use of corticosteroids both with COVID and in comparable situations.

It was just something that amused me and now I regret including it in my comment as it seems to distract from the main bit of information I was conveying.
Not to be over-speculative, but I think OP is probably referring to the rebound effects of corticosteroids which have been documented recently as related to skin conditions [1].

[1] https://www.jaad.org/article/S0190-9622(17)32533-1/pdf
I agree completely. I see it as entertainment and a way to recruit people out of college.
Good point, streaming games would continue to work.
Not just first "woman" PhD, but tied for first Computer Science PhD (in the U.S.).
No. Empirically, they're as predictive as or more predictive of future educational performance (usually first-year college GPA) than test scores, despite grade inflation (which isn't as extreme as some would have you think).

The advantage of GPA is it's an average over a long time period, unlike a test, which is a slice at a very brief moment. The disadvantage of GPA is variability in course difficulty and grading standards.

What's interesting to think about is how variable grades and courses really are across institutions. For example, colleges do try to coordinate content a bit because of transfer issues etc.
Or it’s because it’s politically popular to raise speed limits since they usually raise them to the speed that is almost, but still below, the speed that everybody is already driving at currently.
Fair enough, as a non-American I presumed the withdrawal of approval meant something stronger than a recommendation.

Regardless, the point stands, evidence of efficacy is lacking, evidence of lack of efficacy appears to be coming in, this whole thing has turned into a political canard and is likely distracting from real progress.
A lot of folks seem to want it now, though...
Well now that GitHub denied their request I hope that they will leave the company.

They wouldn't want to be complicit right?

I wouldn't bet on this happening though.
South Korea: The ‘fantasy’ of returning to normal life
As an Asian who went to an Ivy, I welcome this change.

Yes, it will mask a policy of keeping the proportion of Asians lower than a race neutral policy.

Yes, it's racially discriminatory.

Yes, it's somewhat unfair to Asians who are trying to get in.

But no, being fair isn't the point of these schools. Nor is having the most academically excellent student population. If you want that, go to Berkeley or CalTech.

The point is to provide an exclusive and desirable brand name. If the school ended up being 50% Asian like Californian colleges, it would be less diverse, less interesting place to go to school, and lose a lot of the cachet. I wouldn't want to go to a college that is 50% Asian and 1% black over a college that reflected the demographics of the country.

Asians parents need to learn that life isn't just about testing better and having a better resume. Their kids will learn that lesson later on in life but time they learned it earlier.
Interesting. Any source?

Personally I only used bootcamp for gaming a couple of years ago but then I just ended up building a desktop PC. It's just the better option as it will probably outlive all my Macs and I can upgrade parts as needed.
For Windows, Thornsoft Clipmate is very powerful and one of my must-have utilities, despite its lack of recent updates.
http://thornsoft.com/
Boston Dynamics' Spot Robot Dog Available for $74,500
No, we end users and the general public can complain all we want (and preferably also vote with our wallets).

But asshole companies complaining that other companies are assholes is very hypocritical IMHO.
That sounds bad if you're a white non-rich kid.
There aren't any modern planes still using turbojets. I think the Concorde might have been the last (ceased operation in 2003.)

Combat jets often have very low-bypass ratio turbofan engines though. A true turbojet has a 0 bypass-ratio; a lot of turbofan fighter jets have bypass-ratios under 1, while the engines on a 787 have a bypass-ratio of 10.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_ratio#Engine_bypass_rat...
Cytokine storm syndrome

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200513081810.h...
Most of Caltech's revenue is from government and private research grants, not tuition. They only raised it because they don't have economies of scale for their undergrad program and admissions wanted to keep up with the Joneses at Stanford and Princeton,
Oh I see - the natural shape for a pressure vessel is a sphere, after all, so a dome will be constantly trying to make itself spherical.

That does suggest that on Mars we should just make them spherical in the first place...
To be even more precise, ineffective in hospitalized patients. UMN has done another study for "outpatient" (that is, not hospitalized) treatment and sent the results for review.

I'm not expecting any different results than from this one, but we'll know soon enough.

The RECOVERY study is also studying azithromycin, a drug commonly administered with HCQ when used against this disease. It would be ironic if that one proves to be effective (study is still ongoing).
What haunts Canadians is that we developed world-leading aerospace capability, which was discarded in an instant.

These engineers and technicians scattered to the wind, becoming leaders in dozens of successful aerospace projects, worldwide.

Canada returned to being hewers of wood an drawers of water. The specific details and capabilities/problems of the Avro Arrow are secondary.
I've been in power/battery-constrained situations and it's crazy how much Chrome drains my battery compared to Safari. I still use it when I'm sure I'll be able to charge soon, but I've gone as far as converting some of my home-made extensions to Safari for situations where I need to conserve what I can.
Tips TO hack together your MVP in days
I heard we hunted mammoths by moonlight, so mania (which also has a lunar etymology) ie. high energy, adventurousness, aggression are associated with moonlight.

I can't remember the details but apparently they found some engraved mammoth bones which indicated this.
Title sucks, but I did enjoy reading the review.

I'm a Dropbox user since 2009 who recently switched to iCloud Drive. I miss the old Dropbox that just worked and stayed out of the way. Once Dropbox rebranded (2017?) I knew it was the beginning of the end. I cancelled my subscription a couple of years ago and just kept it around for syncing preferences, which I ditched a couple of months ago.

iCloud Drive works well enough, but it doesn't indicate whether files are synced (with a checkmark like Dropbox used to do). I typically avoid Apple software because in trying to simplify it they end up making it vastly overcomplicated.

I've heard good things about NextCloud but didn't want to self-host. I've tried SpiderOak and Google Drive before and both were just too slow (and Google Drive was very flakey).
Over+Free+Software+Foundation+Europe
Even colloquially x on steroids would work too.

I think you’re right it is a mixed metaphor with mixed attitudes.
I often wonder how someone like Dan Abramov manages to square his obviously strong social conscience with working for Facebook.
Well, any student who's interested in playing sports at school will likely be interested in that sort of thing.

I think more generally it adds to the general culture of the school - people will pick up on the fact that some athlete they know went there and think that's cool, even if it doesnt impact their academics at all.

More cynically, lots of students love to associate their school's legacy with their own ego
Further, sufficiently seeded cryptographically secure RNGs are indistinguishable from true random white noise, so from a practical perspective, there is no point to require "true random".
Same.

My interpretation is a little different, though: I think that a lot of my emotional struggle with procrastination is some fear of creating something less than perfect (or, for that matter, at least less than what I'm capable of). When exhaustion and/or stress over a very near deadline override that, I end up tossing something together.. and in the clear light of the next day, I usually find what whatever I did is at least a good start at whatever I need to do.

As a side note, I've also found that setting a next action helps - I usually take it a step further and make sure it's a simple and/or easy action, though. Very often, without intentionally making sure to save something easy, I'll knock out anything simple that's in line with what I've been doing. If something is complex enough to think "well, that will take a long time, this is a good stopping point" it's also a task that will be harder to get started whenever I come back to what I'm doing.
This is a good point. I don't know if it's the absence of Steve jobs, or what, but Apple does seem to be consistently botching important details whenever they try to make an significant change lately.

The biggest win around their 2020 lineup of macs is that they walked back the keyboard design and are offering a new version of the air that doesn't have the touchbar.
We never got confirmation that it was effective.

All the early studies that indicated some effectiveness were basically garbage. The french study that caused most hype was flawed in multiple ways. The fact that a study showing its ineffectiveness was retracted is not evidence of the opposite.
I had the same high school - college experience as you. HS was easy to pull off with no work and last minute efforts. Then it caught up with me in college. Instead of the Marines, I did a restart at a lesser college, and ended up becoming friends with a group of dudes who had had the same exact experience. I think part of it is related to the growth/fixed mindset theory.
It looks like a lot of the slowness from the slow extensions is from parsing and executing JavaScript. Are there opportunities from the browser side to make extensions faster? It seems like re-parsing the same JS on every pageload is an opportunity for gains from caching, but I'm also wondering about different delivery mechanisms like wasm. Are there security considerations here?
I'm largely self-taught in programming, so it wasn't until much later in my career that I really groked the value of foundational Computer Science. One day, I stumbled across this book:

http://elementsofprogramming.com

... and it was maybe the first time I understood that you very much can explicitly define the constraints, inputs, outputs, etc, of a program. For something like a NASA shuttle, it makes absolute sense that they would have an insanely granular definition of the domain / limits under which their code must operate.

Most of us deal in our day-to-day on top of a mountain of abstraction. But there are absolutely scenarios in which a formal, complete spec, is a life-or-death requirement.
These are all excellent points! But, I think this is the discussion we should be having. I doubt we can get the data, but universities have data on both the performance of students they have admitted (along with their schools) as well as their performance at the university. It seems like they could do their own analysis.

You mentioned the question of what the A means. I wonder if just the act of working to get the A tells us something and that something may be more predictive of college success than the SAT/ACT.

Or, another thing to imagine looking at would be say AP exam scores. I am biased, but I would imagine these would be more predictive than SAT/ACT and probably more informative than GPA.

The question of change in major is interesting--but I think even the coarse question of say graduates/doesn't graduate would be interesting to see how it correlates with high school GPA (as compared to SAT/ACT) before delving into the more difficult cases that you rase.
I just right the write stuff, myself.
Better article explaining she is actually first PhD in the U.S. for Computer Science. Not just first woman. https://www.cs.wisc.edu/2019/03/18/2759/
I live in SF, i grew up in the bay.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Demographics_of_San_Francisco#:~....
I've seen many videos about migrant workers in Middle East, and I highly doubt that they have money to spend in malls or have proper living conditions. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0EsOFDA6uM#t=3m24s (though this video is from Qatar, there are similar from Dubai)
Explainable AI for the enterprise is about who owns AI projects in your company
So here is my approach to procrastination. Let yourself work on something for 15 minutes and stop if you don't want to continue after that. If you do, set a hard limit on how much time you spend doing that thing.

For instance, cleaning the house. Spend 15 minutes doing it but no more than 2 hours. See how long you can go. This simple rule gets me to the gym and for runs in the morning, doing my taxes, etc.
> A quick lesson about tone and documentation.

Seems more of a lesson of missing the forest for the trees, because a couple of trees at the edge of the forest gave a dirty look.
Using AI to Understand Social Sentiments Toward the Clean Energy Transition
Random aside - I wish I had a tough love doctor that would tell it to me like it is, and pay close enough attention to refuse to let me do things.

I don’t even really use the term “my doctor”, I just see a doctor when I need to. I’m 30 and live in a large city, and I’ve rarely seen the same doctor more than a couple times in a row. I go in for a physical roughly once a year, and the doctor will sit and talk with me for 10 minutes or so. But otherwise if I need something checked out in between I often get seen by a PA or whatever doctor in the practice is free. I’ve never really felt encouraged by the same doctor to see them repeatedly, or to email them personally if I have a medical question like I know some people do. So when I move to a different neighborhood or something, I just end up seeing a different doctor next time.

Am I just getting bad doctors? How do you find this type of buddy doctor that becomes a long term relationship and really cares about you personally, like I hear about other people seeming to have.
> Because they've made multiple avoidable bad calls.

Could you say more about this ?
Great comment. What's not appreciated is that Asians in the US have the greatest Gini coefficient of any racial group in the US:
https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/07/12/income-inequality...

John McWhorter made a comment in a Reason interview that affirmative action really should be about socioeconomic status and not race. Back in the day race would have been a highly correlative proxy for income and wealth, but that it is becoming increasingly less predictive and advantaging middle and upper class minorities when today they almost no meaningful disadvantages relative to their white and asian peers of the same socioeconomic class.
Ok, so you think that say some state schools it might work ok, but not at say Stanford or Harvard. What about say folding in AP exam scores?
Ignoring the results of a test seems like the wrong solution to this problem. Why not make the test harder instead, so that a perfect score could be a ticket to the school of your choice?
Slightly off-topic: any not-made-in-china router recommendations?
Steroids are extremely double edged. If it actually is a miracle cure, it’s definitely going to be something that should be administered by doctors, not random patients.
Tesla is taking design submissions for its Chinese-made small electric car
Just a little background from a German perspective: Weizsäcker here is not the physicist but Richard von Weizsäcker, his brother.

Richard von Weizsäcker was President of Germany from mid 80s to mid 90s. The President of Germany is, simply put, like British Monarchy. In practice he has mostly a representative role. As a president Weizsäcker was well popular in Germany and neither was reclusive nor caused any scandals, which cannot be said about later presidents.
My rule of thumb is that if it's a plot to dishonestly deceive the customer, it's probably collusion. If instead it's an honest plan made with the understanding of the customer, it's a collaboration ;)
That statement is not correct because it does not take into account the pharmacokinetics of the drug.

See the discussion here[1] (from the person who wrote the open letter to Lancet on the now-retracted HCQ study).

[1] https://twitter.com/jwato_watson/status/1272734274823663616
It is distinctively not the same as "high school drop out". These are people who do go to school, finish it and get a degree. These are people "within the education system" who were taught to do specific thing.

High school drop out did not finished the school he intended to and does not have degree. This is person who is "out of the education system" who are not assumed to know anything.
Immigration from a lot of Asian countries is also very targeted, like I'm Taiwanese and the weekend Chinese language school literally only had kids who had parents with advanced degrees in STEM. I don't think it should be a surprise that the children of a bunch of phds are doing well academically.
And with Apple moving to ARM, any hope of serious gaming on a Mac will be gone.
Dexamethasone is not cancer specific. It is used in cancer treatment but mostly to reduce swelling and the effects of tumors. It doesn't have the side effects of chemo. It has its own set of problems it brings with the benefits.