skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't find that data easily, if I'm bored tomorrow I might try to do the research myself - all the data is available but raw not top level overview at https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/downlo...

It's only been a couple of days, we'll get more data journalists breaking it down better soon.

You know what would be really helpful? If the algorithm was released to be publicly reviewed. Oh, but the government is refusing to do that, and Ofqual made anyone consulting on this project sign a 5 year NDA or they couldn't get involved. Hmm.

Edit: and while I'm pretty sure the data will show schools weren't on track for that inflation, actually no I disagree with you that it would be fair to extrapolate previous cohort improvements to this year's anyway.
Presumably it'd be very difficult to set such an exam because pupils will have missed so much of the normal curriculum.
In America? In the UK it's not played professionally at all during summer, the professional teams play it August to May.
Either like the HAP bit, or less — only disabling its visibility to the OS on the PCIe bus.
I partially agree but this point of view has become very polarizing and controversial and I get the other side of it too. People who have spent ages getting better at their craft feel undervalued. However the two need not be mutually exclusive. One needs to learn to do their job while also navigating the system. That is part of the job just like selling your work is also work.

But having worked at both FANG and non FANG you can see the rigor of the interview process reflected in the quality of your colleagues. That’s something that is hard to deny having experienced it.
It indirectly does though. Because property tax in california is always taxed at the amount you purchased your house at (as opposed to what your house is currently worth at), it incentivizes immobility.

If you bought your house a decade ago it's going to be worth WAY more now than it is now. In a healthy market you might then either try to roll that extra equity into another place by either upsizing to get something that more fits your needs, or downsizing if that makes sense.

However, because of the property tax mechanisms if you move from a $1m house to another $1m house your property taxes will go up substantially even if it is a side grade. That means that you are less likely to move (in fact you may not be able to afford even a side grade depending on your circumstances).

This keeps housing inventory low, which keeps prices rising.
I think it’s weird that all articles by scientists seem to say we should be worried about an average increase of 0.5C, which seems fine.

But what is really happening is these ridiculous weather patterns becoming so much more common the last few years that it’s noticeable to pretty much anyone.
>"The first in a series of posts for researchers on how to emulate, debug and fuzz UEFI modules, we begin with a refresher on how to dump SPI flash memory."

[...]

>"Because of the low-level nature of the infection, LoJax had a rather unique degree of persistence: it could survive OS reinstallation, hard-drive replacement, and most other techniques IT personnel typically use to clean infected machines.

To be able to perform the infection, LoJax first had to dump the contents of the UEFI firmware, patch it with its malicious payload, and then flash it back. Based on this description, it is quite clear that

we can acquire our own firmware simply by following the path LoJax delineated for us.

(PDS: And clean it, if it is present...)

Below is the relevant excerpt from section 4 of the whitepaper, outlining the process:

“The tool’s … task is to retrieve the BIOS region base address on the SPI flash memory as well as its size. This information is contained in the SPI Host Interface register “BIOS Flash Primary Region”. All SPI Host Interface registers are memory-mapped in the Root Complex Register Block (RCRB) whose base address can be retrieved by reading the correct PCI Configuration Register. ReWriter_read obtains this address by using RwDrv IOCTL 0x22840 and reading the correct offset (0xF0 in our case). Once the BIOS region base address and size are known, the dump tool reads the relevant content of the SPI flash memory and writes it to a file on disk.”"
> Personally, I've never met anyone who was good at Leetcode yet produced bad code in production.

I competed with this guy in competitive programming competitions and while he was fantastic at it, he wrote the worst code I've ever seen.

I've also worked with many people who've never even heard of Leetcode or similar and they were fantastic developers.

In my opinion there's no correlation here and it's purely a distraction.
This was so foreseeable when they anounced the plans.

One possible solution could have been if they do the same statistical estimation game and then offer a choice to each student: you can take your estimated grades or go for an exam. If you take the exam you get what you het there. It might go lower or higher than the estimate. This would have incentivised that only those who are certain of themselves and their estimated grades are insuficient towards their goals will go for the tests. And since these are outliers already there will be a lot less of them than the general population, thus it is easier to organise socially distanced exams for them.

Of course nothing is easy at scale and many details need to be ironed out but thats what we keep the Miniszry of Education for.
I didn't know this was even possible but now I'll be looking into it. Thanks.
Well as a point of fact, they didnt. Their requested, "accurate" grades represent a 20% increase in general attainment. That has never happened in the history of modern education, and occurs only when, eg., civil wars end.

As a comparative reference, we'd expect an at-most, 3% increase in IQ in the general population.
About half of the young-ish employees at my company left SF (temporarily) to move back in with family. The company has also offered to make people permanently remote, but very few (less than 10 out of many hundreds) have taken up that offer so far.

IMO it is too early to judge the permanent impact of this to the city.
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That doesn’t happen anywhere in the USA that I’m aware of. Your 3 story townhome is racked a lot less than the 33 story apartment story that could have been built on its land instead.

Private capital will chase the best money making opportunities regardless. They will just avoid buying property if they don’t think they can make enough money on it. Property tax rates definitely play a role in that.
Well please propose a solution. I see all kind of complaints, but never any solutions proposed other than nonsense like "we can form anarchy enclaves!" Enjoy your 2 or 3 years of existence before a much bigger despotic army rolls in and takes you over, good luck with research on fixing things like covid, ebola, and polio. We need to work in the system we have, we need protests and activistic populace who act to the benefit of the whole rather than "I got mine"
not OP but I imagine from something like this https://www.imsdb.com
Also the fact that libxml2 has had frequent vulnerabilities over the years.
> Neither of your two sources talk about crypto here at all.

I was quoting the xkcd title text.
Given the extent of some candidates differences and the impact to their life (denied entrance to offered Uni courses for that year) there’s some very serious outrage. If you were part of good class in a school with a poor record, then you’re stuffed. It’s a unprecedented situation and the only guide that you have are teacher grades.
Author here. Happy to answer any questions!
My experience of FAANG interviews outside the US is that the salaries they offer are really disappointing compared to the US. Other industries like finance were a better deal compared those companies. If I can get paid £90-110k in the City why bother working for Facebook were they were offering less than £90k? Note, I don't consider bonuses or equity to part of salary.
what if I'm trying to save 75% of my income? $20k is very significant when I'm working with 62.5k a year.
From like 95-97 I had my SE/30 (whose slot was tied up with a color graphics card) accessing the internet through my PC running slackware. The whole thing was going through a dialup connection! PPP between the two and and between the linux box and the ISP. I don't have the SE/30 anymore though.
Appocalypse (WWDC 2017)
Seattle, I don't think as much, or even at all. Home and rent prices at least in Seattle seem stable or even increasing (for buying homes). Not clear why, maybe we're just behind the curve, or maybe it's because Seattle doesn't suffer from as serious of quality of life issues as SF area does.
Well, guess Newegg is losing a long term customer. The entire purpose of places like Newegg and B&H is to offer a slightly higher price in exchange for superior service and selection. If they're comingling inventory, there is no point to go with Newegg over Amazon.
Wow, what an obnoxious reply.
Your computer could run Linux or Doom even while it's off!
Because monopolies stifle progress and technology. They choke out the competitors that were driving that and when they're on top they're the only game in town and dictate unfair conditions and bribe politicians (at even higher rate) and generally become a cancer on society rather than a plus. Standard oil, railroads killing unionists, and on and on. People in power begin to crave power and will do absolutely anything to get more of it and eliminate any competitors.
Simple supply and demand is a one-time game model. Property is a repeated, long term subgame component of the much larger repeated long term game that is the financial system. Dynamics are completely different.

One example, it makes more sense to give someone 3-6 months free at price $X than to get them in at .5 or .75 $X.
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Yeah, I'm a little confused as to why they'd bother implementing and deploying this feature without even a cursory explanation of what it does...
I've found one benefit to reading the bulletins is they give context to how they are generating weather probabilities. They may say there's a 50% change of rain 5 days from now, but then you learn this is because computer model "A" says 100% chance of rain, while computer model "B" says 0% chance, so they split the difference. Or maybe they say chance of rain is 80%, because model "B" is often off in this specific weather scenario.

It's also fun when some major storm is coming in and they are like "PWAT values are over 2 inches... this is historic!"
I agree. It should be published.

However more important than the algorithm is just the media reporting on what ofqual actually say. I've barely read any of their actual analysis in news on the issue.

Key facts: students are always ranked and graded on a curve. Student populations have a fixed number of grades awarded every year, etc.

The system is specifically designed in recognition that grades are positional goods, ie., they are valuable only to the degree that other people do not have them.

That's the view of the education system every year. And its the basic assumption of this process. They will never over-award A grades specifically because they want universities/business/etc. to index them to a percentile performance in the population.
Yea, exactly, this. I see all sorts of people making build systems and tools and they say you just do "my_command build my_target && docker-compose up -d" and I can't help but wonder: are these people ONLY developing 1 service? For me, that would be multiplied by 20x and we're not even at the number of services we're expecting.

We do a lot of integration with third parties which is essentially pull down some data and write it into a microservice responsible for keeping that data. Each of these integrations is owned by a separate engineer because it takes up a lot of time to deal with integration calls, planning, etc and we need to be language flexible (some people only give you a .dll or .jar, no choices).

I'm assuming people building these tools don't use a local development workflow because: their systems are too big to run on a single machine (Googlers) or don't work on large projects (open source side projects).

The clostest thing to what you and I are looking for, though, is skaffold and tilt.dev.
Most people are fine with gray market if:

1. It's explicit
2. There is a discount

The worst possible outcome is paying legitimate prices and receiving a gray market item.
I said let’s think it out. That’s an invitation to consider possibilities that might work, not a declaration that I’ve found the perfect example. Brainstorm, not argue.

But hey, argue gets your rocks off, go right ahead. Feel smarter pointing out that something very hard probably won’t work? We knew that already.
No. This is not the whole song, the whole song is longer than that.
> I’m not sure I agree with those dictionary company lexicographers abdicating responsibility. If they argue they’re not taking a dump in language, then they’re gold-plating someone else’s dump.

I don’t understand what you mean or why you think they’re “taking a dump”. I’m getting the feeling that 1- you didn’t finish reading that article I linked to, and 2- you might not fully understand what lexicographers actually do. Their goal and their job is to understand how people actually use language, not to define it. Their job is not to establish any rules, nor to be enforcers or make sure people follow any such rules. They are documentarians, and as such their sole responsibility is to show how the word “literally” has been used in the past. The dictionary isn’t a set of unchangeable language axioms, it’s more like legal case law, it’s just a reference of some stuff people said.
Just before the bubble bursts?
I'm in Europe and we generally pay between 33% to 50% of our income in tax.

So, yeah, i can't really imagine being angry that you're being asked to contribute back to the society. Especially when you make 250k.
Tracking. Chrome has so many more niche features than FireFox and Safari. For example, using WebUSB sounds really awesome, what could be wrong with lots of new features? These unique features, and people's use of them, provides so many more "fingerprint" elements to uniquely identify people as they move around the web.
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics was really the 1920s as well: Bohr’s Copenhagen Interpretation, Heisenberg’s matrix mechanics, and the Schrodinger Equation are all from around 1925. Dirac Equation (relativistic QM) is from 1928. The parallels with work in the foundations of computing are certainly there, and interesting, but the initial breakthroughs were happening in different decades. :)
I would go with uLisp because Lisp for me [1]. And for IOT and small distributed things Nerves [2]. I started with Basic Stamp in 1997 way before Arduinos were born, and I then went on to PIC chips with C and asm.

[1] http://www.ulisp.com/

[2] https://www.nerves-project.org/
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What's becoming increasingly clear is that the submarkets of urban condos, urban SFH, suburban condos, and suburban SFH are dissociating and exhibiting their own dynamics.

Suburban SFH is performing very well.
No, this is more akin to having a flimsy plywood door with a plastic lock right next to your real one but acting like you've solved the issue by taping a "please don't use" sign over it.

Intel ME is still there. It is still potentially remotely configurable and remotely updateable. That those features are not advertised is irrelevant, they can be assumed to be there or easily added.
Please show me these "once in a generation housing discounts".
It certainly hasn't remained exactly the same, but there could be quite a bit of similarity left:

It is generally agreed that the invasions that followed for centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire did not significantly alter the local gene pool, because of the relatively small number of Germanics, or other migrants, compared to the large population of what constituted Roman Italy.

In 2008, Dutch geneticists determined that Italy is one of the last two remaining genetic islands in Europe, the other being Finland. This is due in part to the presence of the Alpine mountain chain which, over the centuries, has prevented large migration flows aimed at colonizing the Italian lands[1]

The migrants comprised war bands or tribes of 10,000 to 20,000 people,[5] but in the course of 100 years they numbered not more than 750,000 in total,[citation needed] compared to an average 40 million population of the Roman Empire at that time.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_history_of_Italy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Period
What doesn't quite make sense, is the fact that these students sat 'mock' examinations earlier in the year. Presumably, these 'mock' exams are based on an empirical standard, similar to the one used for the 'final' exam. So the first question is, why weren't these 'mock' results the main anchor for these derived results?
Zinnia is entitled to her opinion, and at no point was anything in her article implied to adhere to scientific standards. It's a discussion piece, and a piece that might be helpful for those that are considering transition. Usually HN is not so hot on theoretical harm that speech can cause. It also has nothing to do with the content of the article, so I'd appreciate if you didn't try to disregard her speech with unrelated information, so to speak cancel her. I don't believe in cancel culture being real, but the last time someone on HR pointed out someone was a TERF they got dead-flagged, so better not go there.

Anyway, if you just wanted more studies, you could've just let me known. I was not expecting to be attacked on the impact factor or size of the citation pool - I was aiming to provide a study with an easy to read abstract, but have a few studies that are strong in at least one of those factors.

Neurology:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2754583/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00223...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00223...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4585501/

And the "transition is beneficial" master list:

https://whatweknow.inequality.cornell.edu/topics/lgbt-equali...
Run for your lives, the sky is falling.

That's nothing but a common weekend in Florida.
Sure. It makes sense.

I don't believe in the media conspiracy that the Tories created an algorithm that systematically awards higher grades to rich kids because of inherent classism or even by accident.

But I do really disagree with the insistence that all teachers in comprehensive schools were conspiring to give their kids higher grades than they deserved -- this view was frequently repeated on social media. Even if there were some that were doing this and it was apparent from the statistics, teachers are not a homogenous group and there are many teachers that take fair grading very seriously and even take enjoyment in being tough markers.

I don't know the data but my own worry is that this will have hurt the high variance or lazy kids that won't normally get high grades but would normally settle down and revise hard for such an important exam. I hope that these kids will be given the opportunity to resit the exam for free, since I doubt an algorithm could capture the variance that exists every year.
Why would equity or bonuses not be part of the salary ? You are almost certain to receive it and the stocks perform quite well on average.

They still pay better than finance all things taken together or am I wrong ?
The trick is to cool the house down as much as possible while the sun is up and generating power. It'll take the house a while to warm back up once the sun goes down. I.e. take advantage of thermal mass.

I know it takes my house hours to move 10 degrees if the HVAC is off and the windows closed.
Why is it 'public policy' that decides if people can attend the theater?

People are out of control in this country thinking they have a right to tell everyone else how to live.

Such beliefs are depositic and evil.
You're not paying rent to the forest or the scenery but it's not like those are so unique to SF to justify the prices.

Browse https://www.reddit.com/r/CityPorn a bit and you'll see plenty of beautifully located cities with comparable size to SF.
Past Wednesday, while Skyping with my parents in Europe, I told them that this year's Bay Area summer had been unusually mild so far.

2 days later and we had the start of a record breaking heat wave.
To add to this, player dynamics are quite different between big corporate landlords and small landlords.
No worries, I think in NYC they happen to be more ethnic. Only since poor white communities generally reside in NJ or surrounding states.

I've only lived here for six months though, so I don't really consider myself in a position to comment on either of their observations.
It is actually harder to get to if you are in SF, getting in/out/through SF is the most difficult part of bay area travel. South SF/Marin if you want to be close to the coast, or east bay if you want to be closer to the Sierras.
I found the science exams results interesting and skimmed the paper [1]. They report an accuracy of >90% on the questions. What I found puzzling was that they have a section in the experimental results part where they test the robustness of the results using adverserial answer options, more specifically they used some simple heuristic to choose 4 additional answer options from the set of other questions which maximized 'confusion' for the model. This resulted in a drop of more than 40 percentage points in the accuracy of the model. I find this extremely puzzling, what do these models actually learn? Clearly they don't actually learn any scientific principles.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.01958.pdf
SQLite is great because I don't want to run a database server if I don't need to and whenever it seems like I might have to give up and run a database server instead I find a configuration option in SQLite that solves my scaling problem or performance problem or concurrency problem. I don't like to recompile SQLite to set compile time options but I'm perfectly capable of doing it though.

I wish WAL mode were the default. I wish read only WAL mode were easier to do without putting the database file in a sticky directory. Oh well.
Hmm. I must have slept through the 2012 event. This one definitely woke me up.

I do remember a glorious ~2004-ish thunderstorm, right at dusk, rolling over the Santa Cruz mountains. So maybe a little more than once a decade or so for the big lightning events?
> we are all craving a return to normality

Not all. I'm not. I'm missing a couple of things, but I'm not looking forward to "normality". Not wasting my life on commuting has made a huge difference in my life. I tend to get several colds per year, even in the summer, which has added up to a moderate benefit. I hope that our increased awareness of disease prevention will be enduring.
optimistically i hope this whole thing will serve as a highly aggressive market correction that will help to make cities livable again. it will be interesting to see just how much of a driver culture and food really are when you don't need to live within the same 15 miles as 8 million other people in order to become wealthy or build a career. but for the love of god new yorkers, please go back to nyc none of you know how to drive. also please take the californians with you.
Choosing java as the runtime for the framework is laughable when you want people not to care about the technology that the binary is running on. It requires you to install the java runtime, or run a bloated container, just to run the api testing.
If you want the runtime to be invisible, don't ask me to install a runtime.
> Note, I don't consider bonuses or equity to part of salary.

Tell that to the tax man
> flee and rents fall

But I was assured rents are not affected by supply & demand :-)