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> students don't take any standardized exit tests in India

From the article:

> There, pupils in their final year of secondary school sit a leaving exam known as the Senior Secondary School Examination.

(Emphasis mine.)

There is a bit of a mistake here. There isn't any one Senior Secondary School Examination, but many. Some of them are standardized at the state level, and I know of two which are standardized across the country, the largest of which is the CBSE. I assume this mistake is from the Economist, since the abstract of the paper itself says "Admission to the elite public colleges is based on the scores obtained in the Senior Secondary School Examinations" (emphasis mine). Going through the "data" archive linked on the paper's page, I see references to the CBSE, which makes it likely that that was the standardized test the author considered. The CBSE is, by definition, a standardized exit test for secondary school students in India.

> am actually amused this article was based on an research paper published by Universitry of Virginia

The author of this paper is of Indian origin.
There's nothing wrong or unexpected about people circumventing laws in one state by traveling to another state. Interstate travel was already quite common when the Constitution was written so nothing has really changed.
It needs strategic fit FOR THE BUYER, not the seller. Besides, M&A is more driveen ny management hubris than business value anyway.
If Waze couldn't compete against an incumbent Google Maps, why would Google ever have bought it?
Not surprising. Their political goals are not furthered by having the US control TikTok
I wonder how long it will take Apple to offer this as a product for $99 and come up with a clever way to make the makeshift version to stop working.

Not a common enough use case for them to bother, I guess. But if it were we all know they totally would.
You're completely correct but unfortunately, this doesn't matter in practice. It's true that thanks to formats like PDF/UA, PDFs can have decent support for accessibility features. Problem is, no one uses them. Even the barest minimum for accessibility provided by older formats like PDF/A, PDF/A-1a are rarely used. Heck, just something basic like correct meta-data is already asking for too much.

This means getting text out of PDFs requires rather sophisticated computational geometry and machine learning algorithms and is an active area of research. And yet, even after all that, it will always be the case that a fair few words end up mangled because trying to infer words, word order, sentences and paragraphs from glyph locations and size is currently not feasible in general.

Even if better authoring tools were to be released, it would still take a long time for these tools to percolate and then for the bulk of encountered material to have good accessibility.

This recent hn post is relevant: https://umij.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/the-sad-state-of-pdf-a...
> I believe the study shows exactly that

No, the article itself says the exit exam is for Secondary School, i.e. High School.
I did get an update from Google recently that they are implementing automatic clearing of trash after 30 days which may help you.

The exact wording of the relevant section of the mail:

We are writing to let you know that starting October 13, 2020, Google Drive is making a change so that its trash behaves more consistently with the rest of our G Suite services with regards to automatic deletion. This means that any file that is put into Google Drive’s ‘My Drive’ trash will be automatically deleted after 30 days. Items in trash will still continue to consume quota.

Please note that starting October 13, 2020 any files already in a user’s trash will remain there for 30 days. After the 30-day-period files that have been in the trash for longer than 30 days will begin to be automatically deleted.

What does this mean for my organization?

Any file that has been in the trash for longer than 30 days after October 13, 2020 will be automatically deleted. We will be showing in-app messaging in Drive starting September 15, 2020 and in our Editors products (such as Google Docs and Google Forms) starting September 29, 2020.

A few things to note:

* Files in shared drives trash are already automatically deleted after 30 days.
* These changes affect items that are trashed from any device and any platform.
* Files deleted from Drive File Stream will be purged from the system trash after 30 days. There is no impact to Backup and Sync behavior.
* G Suite administrators can still restore items from any emptied trash on behalf of their users for up to 25 days.
* Retention policies set by G Suite administrators in Google Vault are not affected by this change.
* These changes apply to all G Suite editions and end-users.
One thing that fascinates me is the blind spot for political parties.

There were parties in the UK by the time of the revolution. By the 1790s there were warnings being emitted about their potential toxicity in the US. But there's nothing done to formally recognize political parties or manage their risk

I always theorized the two-party system on a national level was less a function of first-past-the-post and more a function of a presidential, rather than prime-ministerial system. You need a political machine capable of running a national campaign, and the ones that are big enough to do that will also likely conquer down-ballot elections.

If you no longer have to run a national campaign, you'd end up with primarily state-level parties. The California Democrats and the Illinois Democrats would have about as much in common as the current US and German Green parties. Each state may have two main parties due to FPTP still, but they'd likely be less coordinated and financially linked, forced to form blocs and consensuses at the federal level.
In this link [0] posted by another user we can see that consumption based CO2 emissions is ~556.5 Mtons (2017). In total it is 940Mtons.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-kingdom?countr...
Elections are run by the states, not the federal government. We have — and would still have, since the electors aren’t even bound until after the election — to have 57 separate elections. It’s this separation that adds a level of security, not the EC.
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The project seems interesting but for me the link doesn't work (Firefox Beta on Android 8).

Also, can you add instructions for installing the server on my own?
It was a few years ago, but I think it was all one column then another.

And it worked ok in some viewers, but not others.
Consumption vs production figures here https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/production-vs-consumption...
People come and go from the ISS, just as they do from labs on earth. Is the ISS really that different?
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It's not as if the school (district) is going to buy the teachers what they need. Why not let the teachers decide by how much they want to subsidise education from their hard-earned wages?

The sensible path of course would be for the school (district) to provide its teachers for job related expenses. A home office budget should be part of that, especially these days.
If you do the maths there is not enough UK woodland area for the power they are producing.

I cannot find the source at the moment but at least in the UK they are basically importing wood chips from US, Canada, Malaysia, etc. just to keep the existing "bio mass" incinerators burning.
The half life of CO2 in the atmosphere is about 30 years (2.5%/yr). We're currently at ~400ppm, whereas before industrialization we were at ~250 (there are other sources). So yes, if we stopped anthropogenic CO2 we would very likely avoid a 1.5C increase.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_wave

Different from gravitational waves.
Honest question: why did you stay so long?
I did see the original cards once, that was pretty cool. :)
Most likely yes - there are a bunch of feedback loops in climate that continue even if the initial source of warming is removed.

The most likely scenario that would result in the "entire developed world suddenly magically disappeared" is a nuclear winter, though. Such an event would drop global temperatures by a lot more than 2 C, nullifying the problem.
I just don't understand having "United" states at that point.

In your vision... which I'm not arguing for or against - I can't fathom a reason in which we don't just break up into countries.

As it stands, the states with the highest levels of education and economic output in the U.S. truly do tend to prop up the states with the lowest levels of education and output. However, the states being propped up also seem to actively disagree and attempt to impose their own preferences onto the very states that prop them up. There's no logical reason to not just be your own country at that point. Maybe even then going on to steamroll over the arguably weaker countries for their natural resources, as humanity has throughout most of history.

I don't care about favoring my idea of good or bad. The education mandated by nearly all states and the fed government has been teaching all students about equality and a standard level of defined human decency that should be seen to ensure a prosperous nation. The imposed curriculum showed us other variants of government that didn't include these basics leading to failed states/failed other forms of government throughout the centuries. However, even though this is what was mandated to be taught to us, we're growing up and being thrown into a system in which we see what we were forcibly taught in the mandated gov education system... simply isn't applied in some places. Whether or not this is "good" or "bad" - they forcibly taught us this... so it think there's a general consensus of surprised pikachu face to be had as to why things are different.

I personally think we're to far accelerated towards great filtering ourselves either way, to be honest. Very pessimistic view point, I know.

Aside from that - the majority of the U.S. population cannot just decide to move elsewhere. Therein lies the issue. If we grow up being taught that we're a United nation, though for some reason something is legal/enforced in one place and not in the other despite being under the same "Unity" - and we don't even have the choice to go to the place we would personally prefer... Where is the incentive to care much about anything? Any when there's no incentive to care much about anything... how well does the prosperity of the nation fare?
Seems like we're burning like half the trees in the us right now and powering nothing, tho.
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That explains my confusion :)
For those understandably cynical about this, and suggesting that it’s solely to do with offshoring emissions to China etc, this BBC economics podcast goes into the detail - a lot of it is actually a real and significant drop caused by the rapid phasing out of coal-fired power stations, which was relatively easy. The next drops are going to be much harder. And, as others have pointed out, it’s still not nearly enough. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0802553
Literally gonna do this for "System Design" interviews
Yes, even if we completely eliminate carbon emissions, our current carbon debt is around 1 trillion tons [1]. We'll need to remove that much carbon from the atmosphere within 50 years or so, given we stop all of our emissions today.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyQvfaW54NU
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Not really, unfortunately it's a lot harder to learn AppKit than UIKit due to the lack of online resources available. Try to find open source mac apps and read the source code and Apple's documentation are the only suggestions I can think of. I've seen a "Hacking with macOS" Udemy course that looks comprehensive although I can't recommend it as I haven't checked it out. With regards to wrapping AppKit views in SwiftUI the process is more or less the same as it is with UIKit.
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There are other second-order effects that continue, eg. reduced albedo as the polar ice melts, methane emissions as the permafrost thaws, increased weathering of carbonates.
Those don't encroach on federal power like the selection of the president would. The Compact Clause is pretty clear and the courts have ruled that congressional approval is required for any compact that encroaches on federal power. The selection of the president is a bright line issue of federal power.
PDF is mostly just a wrapper around Postscript, isn't it?

You could just put the original text in comments or something, wrapped in more tags to say what it is.
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Nvidia being like "Apple did now want to use our tech? Let's just buy ARM!"
I was referring to the exit test scores that is used by the author for comparing students who goto elite vs normal college. See my updated comment above.
Biomass works when there already is a source of biomass around which otherwise needs to be taken care of, e.g. in areas with intense forestry, next to sawmills etc. As soon as you need to import biomass you're lost since a) this entails transports over longer distances and b) you loose the oversight on how that biomass is produced. This leads to insane situations like Stockholm importing biomass from the Americas.
Get it from https://sci-hub.tw/10.1257/app.20140105 :)
I tend to not want to re-vest any power to the states for a couple reasons:

1. The Peter Principle seems to be in action in government-- the guys who are too insane, too openly crooked, to incompetent to get into the federal government, seem to be welcomed into our state houses.

2. It encourages arbitrage and race-to-the-bottom on regulatory and economic issues. I'm sure we have states bidding against each other to attract economic boons, even with their limited current tools. If you denationalized OSHA or minimum-wage standards, the future is obvious.
I doubt Apple's arm license will be affected. But I think they will be getting tougher competition in the sense that Android phones will be getting a fair bit better now - most of them will be using super well integrated Nvidia GPU/ML chips in the future because of this deal.

I think it will also bring Google and Nvidia closer together
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> This is why applaud California's recent decision to halt standardized tests, such as SAT and ACT, as a mandatory placement criteria for entering university. All those tests measure, given the youth and maturity of traditional high school students, is extreme preparation and not performance or potential.

Unless you think that universities should pick their students by lotteries, you must answer how whatever that replaces SAT is not worse. Because whatever replaces it, for example identifying well rounded candidates with extra curricular achievements is even more socio-economic stratifying.

It largely feels like an excuse to lower the competitive bar to manage the demographics, allowing both more legacy hires and more representative demographics. Such actions however will come at the cost of merit.
Soon will be the global day celebrating standards. ISO-standardised to Oct, 14th.

Except for the US, ANSI set it to Oct, 22nd.

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> I think that in time it will run JavaScript apps that depend on browser APIs and/or Rust APIs better than Node

Yes! For example, you get fetch out of the box.
Bounce back up? From where? https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/
Oh right - I think I was thrown by the "Gandhi era" (usually used in reference to the twenties/early thirties)
We live in a mildly corrosive atmosphere, doesn't help with the whole metallurgy venture. Recycling goes a long way, but it will eventually be over.
I guess the main difference would be:

1. burning fossil fuel. Pulling carbon from within the earth and putting the CO2 in the air.
2. biomass burning. Burning Carbon that is above ground and putting in the air.

I think 1+2=bad, 2 by itself I don’t think is bad basically what the Native Americans used to do to maintain forests before Europeans. However, we don’t live in a world where we are just doing #2.
It’s also possible that tests are simply a very poor way to assess knowledge/aptitude. I certainly felt this way when taking the SAT/GRE in the US at least.
One thing that has been crystal clear in the past few years is that just because someone has the competence for high-level work like software engineering doesn't mean they can't be immature and crazy at the same time.

And these people are louder and more common now because it's easy to hide criticism and claim accomplishments with all the politics, buzzwords and general sensitivity these days.
They have exit exams both post high school and post college.

“India is atypical in that its college students have to take standardised exit exams. ”

The first figure has high school entrance exam as the x axis and college exit as the y.

I see lots of complaints in this thread that the article is inaccurate, but this is what it says.
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I have an original deck which was given to me in 1984 by a close friend, a recording engineer who had worked with Brian Eno. He'd had tgem for seversl years before he gave them yo me. I should probably figure out what box in which I have them stored away.
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I don't know about forest cover, but we have the same issues in Sweden. The biological diversity in areas used for forestry is poor compared to untouched forests. The recent dry weather has been very good for a kind of beetle that has destroyed vast amounts of trees. Forests that were untouched, or just mixed kind, did a lot better.

Regulation is slowly catching up though, and some of the larger companies have actually started doing more than is required by law.
is this a question or just sarcasm? The post said clearly "The proposed transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals for the U.K., China, the European Union and the United States. Completion of the transaction is expected to take place in approximately 18 months."
At what point do we just accept the world is coming to an end and do nothing?
Plenty of programmers dream of SAP level salaries.

Do you know that several JVM optimizations have been contributed by them?

I for one, rather work with SAP than dealing with npm ecosystem.
Well rumor circulating in China's VC / startup circle is that this ISN'T true either.
Once there was a nice cartoon at iso.ch: http://web.archive.org/web/20030305043709/http://www.iso.ch/...
If his name doesn't ring a bell with you maybe Silver Apples does?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1xOZyBc2Ck
Still interested in the tool
how limited? The growing season produces a pretty significant dip in global CO2, what if instead of burning it wholly, we pyrolysed it? That seems much better than carbon neutral.
That is not an UNIX.

Having some level of POSIX compliance doesn't turn an OS into UNIX, unless you mean Windows is a UNIX as well.
Apple is making money hand over fist with their current ways of doing business.

There is no incentive for them to open up their operating systems or SDKs short of a court order or law that requires it.
I haven't fully checked that source but whats the filtering criterion for "new business creation"?

I remember someone used to call Sweden an "top innovative country" and when I took a closer look, he based that argument on amount of new business creation (weighted with population)

Taking a closer look, it was evident that they didn't sort the business by size, or how long they stayed, revenue or amount of employer. And as a person who lived there I know a lot of people start businesses just to circumvent the high tax rate, very restrictive hiring laws/taxes, and essentially do consulting (freelance) job. This is a symptom of how the society was made: hiring and income are heavily taxed, but not the same can be said for businesses. The claim that the country was innovative based on number of business creation quickly fell apart.
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Preach. Also, pretty sure that Linux accounts for higher than 0.000001% of developers.
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Of course prices of old houses in need of maintenance, far away from the nearest city, in regions with little to no jobs, next to the border with Eastern European countries, will be cheap.

Nobody wants to live there.

Try looking at homes in the suburbs of desirable cities with jobs and see 10x prices.

If we're just looking for random homes on the internet you can find better deals in villages in southern Europe but there's always at least one catch why cheap homes are cheap.
That’s why I think the iPad pro has so much potential to replace laptops for a lot of people.
But that means it is inherently broken in today's USA. Firstly, federal law is clearly very powerful and applies everywhere regardless of states. Secondly, the difference between a state and it's neighbours is basically nil in today's America.

The president should be elected by the people. The executive branch is too enormous to be elected (in effect) by such a small percentage of votes cast.