skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the point. UC wants to implement affirmative action but can't because voters rejected Prop 16. So they do this to make it easier to justify that their target demographics are "qualified" because now there's no objective measurement metric to judge people by.
University of California ditches any tests for undergraduate admissions
I feel like a good middle ground would be to use the SAT or alternative as a threshold for consideration, but not for ranking. I could believe that there could be a good evidence based cut off (perhaps with other quantitative measures) to answer "does this student meet the basic requirements" much more so then "will a student who scored 50 points higher do well after 4 years of study"
Even better the true decentralization of the internet is paramount, welcome to SIA / SC
What is the name of the bank?
This is an unscientific point. One, test prep doesn’t help that much. Two, it’s not that expensive: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/06/21/...

> For them, Jiechu's price – $650 for a seven-week summer course, four hours a day, Monday to Friday – is a doable stretch. That comes to a bit less than $5 an hour, which is not exactly the “thousands of dollars in test prep” that Mr. Carranza cited.
> It’s a 64bit random number so it’ll never have unintentional collisions.

It'll have unintentional collisions if you ever generate more than 4 billion of these random numbers. That's not inconceivable.
Less glibly, can you explain or point to references explaining how to solve this problem without relying on external identity verification services to confirm that a registrant is in fact that property owner? It seems like, if you have to do that, your records are more efficiently stored as a database with whatever authority is doing that verification.
You talking about the guy who moves the large stones by balancing them and pushing them around like that? I think I know what you're talking about.
Like developing AI for hospitals that is saving lives. Like working on an interesting language like Cuelang.

The selling point is made by every tech recruiter I have spoken with who is trying to get me to work for them.

Blockchain is incremental tech, not world changing. The same power structures remain and shall. You Gail to understand that social structures are more important than tech
Right I was about to suggest exactly the same thing. You could even agree with a friend (invite a friend) to have a thread checked, say, once every two months. So there'd be a bit of guilt if you didn't leave anything, but that potential for guilt is the cost the two of you would pay for keeping in touch.
Thank you so much for those links, I’ve casually been following space travel for some time and this is the first time I’ve heard about optimal exhaust velocity. I’m about 20 minutes into that presentation and it’s great!
https://mobile.twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404...

Could this be related?
I'll be working on the reference implementation [1] of Concise Encoding [2], which is a secure data format for the modern world. My aim is to replace insecure and clunky formats like JSON and XML and the various binary formats that do similar things less conveniently.

In a nutshell:

- Existing ad-hoc formats are too loosely defined to be secure, and that's becoming a huge problem as the bad guys become more sophisticated. CE is tightly specified and designed to mitigate exploitation of codecs.

- CE is a twin text and binary format. Humans view and edit in text, and machines send it in binary, so you get the convenience of text and the efficiency of binary for free.

- CE supports the fundamental types natively. Stringifying is buggy, causes incompatibilities, and opens security holes. And it's completely unnecessary with a properly designed data format.

[1] https://github.com/kstenerud/go-concise-encoding

[2] https://concise-encoding.org/

[3] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding
OT but keyboard latency can and often is far below 50ms, more like 1ms. It seems to be a common misconception that denouncing mandates increased lag.
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There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
Fortitude and grit.
Developing and motivating people is just 1 aspect of a manager’s role, there are many other hats like project manager, vision, drive incentivising
Arguably not many managers have it

I have no idea if those people were great manager or great despots there maybe a relation with how hard working they were
A great story, no regrets, but I also feel a little click-baited. "Hiking... longest trails..." That sounds rough. "What could go wrong?" Well, that it was indeed rough, apparently...
I’m ESL and no they don’t. They privilege people who read a lot.
Global government is a monoculture and like all monocultures its lack of diversity leads to high susceptibility to disease and low resiliency to environmental change.
Started with my first pixel art project, Factorio game has piqued my interest in pixel art. I've been lurking on the Pixel Art subreddit[1] for a while now and I've finally indulged myself this weekend.

Couple of tutorials on YT to start if anyone is interested:

Getting started with Aesprite[2].

Choosing the canvas size[3].

Do's and Don't s with Pixel Art[4].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFsETEP01k8

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8earctNBxg

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZXg7rexa2k
The 2FA messages I get from my bank are already something like "Your security code is 0123456. Do not share with anyone. We will never call to ask for this code." But it wouldn't surprise me if victims are too scared to read it properly, so some improvement could be helpful. It doesn't help that other banks regularly ask for SMS codes over the phone, entraining into people to do it without thinking.

I would personally feel a lot better if every bank had the ability to only allow 2FA via OTP, or only physical key, or even email. My bank uses a "Security Word" which is crazy to me.
Me too. Morning work time is much too valuable for noisy inefficient stuff like emails and meetings.
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> The human brain has only approximately 7 registers

Where did you get this idea? Or did you come up with it?

Ayn Rand had the same idea. She called it the "crow epistemology," rather than using an analogy to registers.
I did watch it. I don't know what you mean about scrubbing it - I didn't mention that.

> you can see that it's a simple system

It looks simple to operate, but if you mean it's simple to design or construct, what do you see?
Genuine question: Is there any naming issue with this project considering that there exists an emulator called Bochs which could be used to run x86_64 programs on non-x86_64 systems (albeit via the route of actually emulating a full machine)?
I worked on research in electronically herding cows for a while:

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/animals_robots/cow_herding/...

The collar you see there had a Zaurus PDA which ran the herding algorithm and managed the ad-hoc peer-to-peer wireless network between the cows. Each collar also had a GPS unit and a tiny guitar amplifier/speaker was used to amplify the sounds (WAV files played by the Zaurus).
We had only minor success in using sounds to herd them, mostly they would ignore the sounds after a while. CSIRO in Australia and a USDA researcher who patented the idea 20+ years ago extended the work further eventually using electric shocks from an ear tag to train the cattle to associate a sound with a shock, then later using just the sound to manage the cattle. They got very good results with this while minimizing the stress on the cattle due to shocks. So I'm somewhat dubious that this company has had much success with just a buzzing sound. Even shocks won't stop a cow if it is determined. They are herd animals however and feel uncomfortable if away from the herd, so if most of the herd obeys eventually the stragglers will come round.

We stopped working on it when we started getting inquiries from companies wanting to use the technology on prisoners. Herding people electronically is just wrong.

We also talked with an animal ethics researcher who was concerned that the cattle would not be visited by the ranchers as often and would suffer because of it. For example, sensors can tell you if a cow has a fever but not if it has a stone in its hoof. If you trust the sensors too much and don't visit the animals as much the animals can be harmed.
That’s basically how law school admissions is done in the US. It’s 95% an index score combining LSAT and GPA. It works fine. I think people attribute the desperation and intensity of the Indian system to the tests, but it’s more the limited number opportunities compared to the population.
Perhaps you are thinking of Wally Wallington? A retired carpenter who produced some videos on moving Stonehenge sized blocks?

https://web.archive.org/web/20160302003628/http://www.thefor...
Barbed wire fence is cheaper and easier to build than e.g. chain-link fence or welded pipe fence.

It doesn't injure cattle. I have seen horses injured by barbed wire, but horses are sort of a special case.
Sometimes names, surnames and neighborhood are sufficient in some cases, I'd imagine.
I found what is funny / pathetic about this is that there are tons of psychology / education / especially educational measurement top experts in the UC system, and they know how wrong it is, while they just keep mouth shut.

The whole anti-standard-testing movement is pushed by ideology leftists and corrupted bureaucrats, but the supposed experts just quietly watch the world burn. Lol.

Update: I found experts in the UCLA were tasked to make the suggestion. They suggested a new admission assessment. So the bureaucrats just totally disregarded their recommendation . See https://50.cresst.org/2020/05/20/cresst-recommendation-for-n...

Also quote: The Task Force in its review found—to some surprise—that tests such as the SAT provide a useful tool to support admissions leading to a more diverse pool of admitted students than UC otherwise would have had. The Task Force found that approximately 25% of low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented minor students earned their guaranteed admission into UC because of test scores. The Task Force’s report showed that test scores are better predictors of success for underrepresented minority students, first-generation students, and those whose families are low- income. Using recent UC-specific data, the Task Force found that test scores remain predictive of success even after student demographics are taken into account. That is especially true when compared to high school grades, whose predictive power has gone down due, in part, to grade inflation. These findings tell us that there is value in the evidence that educational assessments provide, but they can be improved—and so can the UC admissions process as a result. In a vote of confidence in its veracity, the Task Force report was unanimously endorsed by faculty members of the UC’s Academic Senate, 51–0.
Programmable quantum simulators based on Rydberg atom arrays – Mikhail Lukin
If the cert doesn't exist (cert equivalent to a decade+ of experience in robotics) then how can a company care about it?
He would likely base that comment on the fact that no pre-2020 RCT studies of masks (over decades) showed any significant protective effect against aerosol-spread respiratory viruses.

Covid epidemic curves globally similarly showed no change as a result of mask mandates.

And a massive outbreak of influenza was not deterred by a fully masked U. Mich campus.

They seem to provide a psychological benefit to some though.
Your Mom would be surprisingly accepting of the idea, but yeah, you’re right about your Dad.
Show me how many GED students who had to fight certificate bias with get hired out of sheer skill.
Why won't people just die of COVID as god intended
Great New Operating System in the Sky (GNOSIS)
Real World Asset Financing as being explored by Centrifuge and MakerDAO is pretty interesting. Tapping into the yields and capital availability of DeFi to provide rates for trade financing (Harbor Trade), Revenue Based Financing (Fortunafi), etc.

SocGen, the 3rd oldest French bank recently put up a loan request on the Maker forums for 20 mil backed by bonds iirc.

exciting times!
According to the College Board, which administes the SAT, the basic requirements cutoff is 530 for math, and 480 for English, i.e. total SAT score of 1010 out of 1600.

The mean score for people attending UC Berkeley is 1415 out of 1600.

If the UC admissions office were to use a threshold, it would have to be low enough that they don't get more Asians than they want. That threshold might end up being as low as 1010.
No, a sibling notes that this is still way less dense than regular old solid lithium
MD5 is safe against unintentional collisions.
"Everyone" doesn't vote all-red or all-blue. 30% vote all red, 30% all blue, and 40% stay home because there is never a sensible centrist candidate. Each of the 30% active voters then get mistaken for 50% of citizens.
Asians are considered white now? Because apparently they consistently come out on top in maths testing.

China must be laughing like crazy while the US slowly destroys itself in a blaze of wokeism.
When you reach the 4 billionth version of your protocol?
I hear you — taking some time off can definitely help.

The one other idea I’d offer is that the way you’re talking about drinking is a sort of “dead person goal.” In behavioral psych we define this as a goal that a dead person can accomplish better than an alive person.

A dead person will be really good at not drinking.

To turn it into an “alive person goal,” all you need to do is make it positive — ask yourself, what am I moving towards that I care about by not drinking?

Maybe this is a better relationship with work, connection to family, health, or even something like making space for healing. Whatever it is, the more you can focus on what you do want to move towards rather than what you want to move away from, the greater chance you’ll have at tapping into vitality and engagement in your day to day.

All that being said, this can be easier said than done. Especially if you’re burnt out, taking time off and getting back in touch with doing things for the intrinsic rewards can go a long way towards rekindling the spirit.
Wait till he hears about the small horse!
Your choices: 1)keep whining, 2) do something about it.
> his one dogmatic truth, created by whites

You mean Arabs. Arabic numerals are the basis for these numbers we see today.
I think that has changed to speculation in unregulated securities on unregulated exchanges.
So... much better for humans than despotism then.
Such a good blog post, from start to finish.

There aren’t a lot of expertly-written in-the-weeds-tech blog posts, but this one was crafted so well. I guess that’s why Julia Evans’ name is so recognizable.
I have a friend that’s a CSU faculty member in science/engineering. The amount of ideological crap coming down the pipeline is shocking to him… and he’s a pretty liberal guy. But he has a mortgage to pay and dealing with protesting students doesn’t really interest him. He became a professor because he liked teaching, not to become a target.
Why the avoidance of using the name? (I also notice "TP" is only ever used, never "Thinkpad").
Strange. I have American Express and they clearly say: American Express will never call you to ask for your information.

Even if some transactions is suspicious they tell me to call them.
$500 is way too much money for a keyboard.
Even when they don't have such a ledger, it's not clear that blockchains do much to solve that problem either. The hard part is not the ledger, but the agreement on who owns what, with detailed surveys that are agreed to demarcate "ownership" and therefore enforced by law.

For example: Greece is still in the process of trying to centrally account for ownership of land [1]. There are certain regions where that was accomplished many years ago (e.g. some of the former Italian possessions in the Ionian, where the Italian-era surveys were accepted by the modern Greek state). But in many regions, property boundaries are still informally demarcated and based on oral tradition, which not everyone agrees on. The difficult part is that aspect of it: agreeing on who owns what, and precisely where the boundaries are. Once everyone agrees on the results of surveys and demarcations, actually tracking the result in a ledger is comparatively easy, as evidenced by the fact that nobody has trouble retrieving 19th-century Italian property ledgers.

[1] https://int.ert.gr/greek-land-cadastre-will-be-complete-by-f...
> If you want GOOD employees, you never want to hire from UCB, Stanford, Cal Tech, etc.

HAhahahahahaaaa (Caltech grad here. BTW, anyone who spells it Cal Tech knows next to nothing about Caltech.)
After going to the Keeb Life (2x Ergodox + Iris + Mistel Borocco) for ergonomic reasons, i have some thoughts.

If using a mechanical keyboard caused the need for contortions, it was a bad fit for you. Full stop. Whatever layout you ended up with was built for the needs of someone else.

I generally tell people who're interested in the Keeb Life to grab something random off Amazon. If they want something known, I point them at the Code keyboard, which is 90% a basic keyboard, 10% swag. Nothing weird except some clever use of the function keys and some entirely optional helpful things for programmers in the layout.

IANAMD, but I'd bring up this with one. The relaxed "floating hands while typing" posture is one that a lot of people end up passing through. It works for some but not others and comfortable typing should be regardless of the keyboard.
I've been called by Chase and at least one other for fraud alerts. If I recall correctly, the Chase message instructed me to call back using the number on my credit card.

It is not correct that banks will never call you in the US.
+1 for crypto logins.

No way a fake banker can get you to sign a nonce for them using your private key.
Those are called micro deposits and are only used to verify ownership of an account you own. Your friend was incorrectly setting up an external transfer account via ACH. Next time they should use a check, zelle, etc etc.
Snowden didn't have a degree and worked in DC beltway :P Anyway, most of the jobs that showed up when I googled "senior robotics engineer Virginia" don't mention a cert or degree (they ask for X-years of professional experience) or only mention a degree within a list of many desired qualifications ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=+Senior+Robotics+Engineer+vi...
Shape-morphing microrobots deliver drugs to cancer cells
USAA calls me frequently. This broad statement is just wrong.
Considering that trades are now free at major brokerages, this doesn’t seem very interesting? (Meanwhile, trades on blockchains are often expensive.)
As someone who is trying to reduce time spent on junk internet browsing and improve productivity, this seems like a great tool to log my time spent in front of the computer and reflect on it in future!

A question - does all data like the video recording and task list/comment stay on the system and nothing is sent to the cloud?
This is how it’s taught in intro mountaineering courses. In the real world experienced alpinists carry a lightweight ascender, like a Micro Traction or similar, that can also be used for other tasks like hauling or fall protection for simul-leading.
Doesn't this make the admissions process less fair, more arbitrary, and more susceptible to biases?
Then what do you measure it by and how is the Soviet Union not near the top of those rankings?
All things aren’t equal either. Key aspect of the idea is barring any other meaningful difference.

I should expand in these points but this one thing is not the only thing that matters to make positive change. Our voting system using ranked choice voting and having more parliamentary style elect would help tremendously too
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It’s worth pointing out that if you are not the one initiating the call, then this is a legitimate attack vector, and not just via SMS text message or email two factor but also any type of OTP. The attack goes like this: (1) given that the whole point of two-factor auth is to prevent access to your account in the event that your primary authentication tokens (usually a username and password) are compromised, let’s assume for this attack that a bad actor already knows your username and password. (2) the attacker calls you up and says “this is <your bank>”, then (3) the attacker logs into your account with the username and password they already know (4) this either triggers an email or text message with the second factor, or if you use a hardware token or an app then the code is available there. Either way, the attacker requests you to read back the code over the phone (5) the attacker uses this secondary code to gain access to your account, and can then take any action including changing your password and 2nd factor setup. I think this is the reason security teams set up these messages to say things like “NEVER share this code!” and the like.
I literally just said that you cannot label the cultural contributions of a group of people with the same skin color as a single unit and you go ahead and dismiss all that because you've "lived and traveled in many parts of Asia".

> stark economic correlation

This is completely unrelated to peoples' culture, which you claimed would become a monoculture if schools were majority Asian. If you want to be "conscious of the way that race is viewed and handled within a society" why don't you take a look at the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese WW2 concentration camps? If you take the stance that reparations should be made for systemic injustices, then you should be _preferencing_ Asians.

> would result in very similar outcomes due to the economic correlation between racial groups

I suggest you take a look at UC and UW admissions data and rethink your position. All the available evidence of unbiased admissions used in practice show substantial Asian overrepresentation even adjusted for income.

You need to take a serious look at the peoples' preferences you're ignoring when you decide to preach about the "importance" of race in society. California, where Democrats literally have a supermajority, voted down Prop 16 by a 20 point margin.

And maybe while you're at it, take a look at how racist your statements are. Implying that schools will evolve a monoculture if Asians become the majority is blatantly racist. Everything you've said thus far matches up to a tee the picture of a white liberal who thinks he knows everything and wants to dictate how people should view society. This [1] article literally exactly represents what you believe. People like you ARE the problem.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/blame-t...
Maybe the GP is talking about this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus...