skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many servers already have embedded devices in them that you can't audit. How is this anything new? (I'm thinking of remote management, like HP iLO, Intel AMT, etc.)
Strong aPAKES can allow passwords to not be shared secrets.

Of course they're super niche now and none of them are standardized so they're basically impossible to use, and SSH doesn't support them, so this is a pedantic nitpick instead of some sort of insightful observation.
The World Is Splitting in Two
Really? Google is a product of luck and not centuries of the willfully successful extensions of men, e.g. Leland Stanford, on this continent?

What, in your estimation, can be controlled then?
It was interesting to see that Schmidt is bankrolling the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). I have long been a fan of FAS due to their top-tier reporting of national security and technology - specifically, these folks are great at using FOIA requests to get a picture of what is going on in the NatSec world.
BBC issued a correction:

>representative of Roman Abramovich did not comment on the situation with the poisoning.

https://t.me/bbcrussian/25754
They might be the least gameable, but this is kind of a “bare minimum” for diversity/equity practices. It is the cheapest way to get little bit of reliable signal.

Because let's be clear about the standardized test situation. Test takers had time to take the test, they weren't doing work on the side for their parents instead to make ends meet. They had transportation to the test location, they were able to pay the fees, and they were not being discouraged from college as “we can never afford that, I’m sorry.”

Standardized tests themselves have mostly tested not IQ or domain knowledge, but how anxious you are taking tests. This does predict later academic performance, sure, but to say that this anxiety is disconnected from demographics sounds like a rather strong claim. Instead you have that it is more disconnected than GPA and essays and extracurriculars which is not saying much.

If you want to be serious about diversity and equity, you invest some actual cash into it... The easiest way is talent scouting, you send people (trained, you can reduce bias) to underrepresented communities and allow folks there to interview with them. My wife worked at place that did this, it sounds financially intractable at first but it scales to whatever budget you want to put into it... Her place would send folks out to like Singapore as well as to inner city schools. But the point is that you have to leave the door open to the people who can come to you, but you also go to the people who cannot.

(This is also a startup idea... The reason the schools don't send out their best is that there are too many colleges, the reason the colleges don't canvas the schools that there are too many schools, these are obviously inverse problems that could cancel each other out in the appropriate sort of network, the recruiters just need to be common to both. The problem is getting people to pay for it—the schools who you want most are precisely the underfunded ones that cannot pay you, the colleges meanwhile are less willing to go in on these sorts of weird experiments, they, they have an admissions department already. So the idea has a dangerous scope creep where you want to also start a college so that you can dogfood... Not a degree-granting educational institution in itself, maybe, but just a “first year at college” school which sells its students to other top colleges. Obviously that's a much riskier investment for VCs.)
> Removing admission tests was a huge slap in the face to social mobility out of the middle class.

I agree, but arguably the benefits of the SAT with regard to class mobility is less than it was when it was introduced.

The heritability of IQ, combined with assortative mating, means that increasingly class divides are forming around differences in IQ. I think many people are rightly concerned that this will eventually result in simply a different entrenched class hierarchy.

I still think MIT should use the SAT, but the problem of maintaining class mobility is one we should continue to assess.
Microsoft Todo was started by the Wunderlist team. It was a ground up rewrite for whatever reasons made sense to that team at the time, but Todo didn't exist until after the Wunderlist acquisition.
That's not the political argument being made against them though.
That site is a mess. Shows a chart where the average IQ is 82, links to a page saying the average IQ is 100 (which is the original design). Also cites a eugenicist and thinks that worthy of a passing footnote. Frankly, I wouldn't trust anything I read there.
Now I'm curious, just how is science actually "cheating God"?

Of course there's a huge body of literature on the subject of God and science, including contributions by some of the most important theoretical physicists.
While I spend 99% of my time doing pure "software engineering", I'm pretty grateful to have the advanced probability / graph theory / combinatorics etc. background because it helps me envision possibilities I wouldn't otherwise be able to.

That being said, there are probably lighter ways of teaching that instinct than full-depth classes. I try to listen to podcasts these days as a way of expanding my horizons.
I have no involvement in this industry, neither academically or by investment. Just on a learning journey, like many here. Disingenuous? It does me no good to deny that accusation, but I think the discourse level here is higher if we dispute each other's facts over disputing each other's motives. You appear to have a much more deeply rooted interest than I on this subject, and I have no reason to dispute your facts, but as for your opinion that "it doesn't pass the [ocular] smell test," a web search turns up, "the reason is that far-UVC light has a range in biological materials of less than a few micrometers, and thus it cannot reach living human cells in the skin or eyes, being absorbed in the skin stratum corneum or the ocular tear layer."[0]

You're undoubtedly already familiar with that so I'm sure there's some reason you have for finding it less than conclusive. In any event, I totally agree with you that the safety of this needs to be firmly established before releasing 222nm lamps for general home use, although I think a more limited use might be acceptable (for example, placing the bulb in a UV-opaque enclosure and circulating the room air through that unit).

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67211-2
If the Ukrainian army uses GPS signals in military operations, does this constitute direct assistance by the US?
Thank you. You absolutely validate my own observations.

I went to college. My parents did, as did my extended family on one side. I saw both sides and chose this one.

I picked a town where my children would be surrounded by an environment where cool was defined as “good at school”. I didn’t want external influences contradicting my influence.

My child is dedicated, but I taught that dedication.

A parent doesn’t have to be rich to understand the importance of a good education. My mother came from a dirt poor background.

People never say it’s an advantage to have parents that care about education. They always put the blame somewhere else. The parents worked too hard, whatever. For different traits, some parents are just better than others. Academics is just one trait. Is the most important? No, but it’s one that’s easy to measure.
Last paragraph makes a lot of sense:

"But companies also need to be smarter about how to make hybrid scheduling work. Just telling people to come in two days a week doesn’t facilitate collaboration. A more thoughtful approach would be for teams to map out what they truly need to collaborate on, with whom, and when, and then plan schedules accordingly (and acknowledge that some weeks there may be no need to come in at all). Instead, though, too many companies have simply ordered people back on site without doing enough to ensure in-person work is working again … and without devising concrete plans to ensure there’s a payoff to
all those long commutes"
Another way to fight propaganda is to fight those who spread false narratives and lies. Ideally by giving them a fair trial, then attaching them to a chair and forcing them to watch their creations till the end of the days. Think Orange Clockwork. Though better it would be to let them work in rebuilding the cities that their propaganda destroyed. Unfortunately these people are uncapable of creation so it's a vain idea.
Anton always presents great videos, but my guess is that it could also be bubbles from the breath of Great A'Tuin, the celestial turtle, as it swims through the cosmic ocean. /s
We're talking about the school's goals in forming a class, not the applicants' goals. Most schools that are among the "best in the world" find they can weigh multiple factors to decide who to admit, and there's no single magic number that does that job for them.
Decorators reach ECMAScript Stage 3
Unpopular opinion: SAT/ACT correlates with X where X = IQ × work ethic
This attitude discourages question-asking.

Edit: To be more clear, I mean the implication (no matter how qualified) that it is remarkable to even ask a question based on how likely it is that experts have already answered the question. That premise doesn't seem to make any sense: First, non-experts have no context for knowing what experts have likely ruled out and what they haven't, by definition. Second, if experts have ruled it out, the answer to the question is still valuable (how/why did they rule it out).
Foreign-born size and share of US population, 1900 to 2018
You should have a discussion with boss or HR. Also talk with others to see their experience.

I have worked at one company that gave annual bonuses, depending on company performance.

Your bonus might be automatic after X months, because they do not want you to take a bonus and bounce immediately. It may be a company annual event. Need to discuss this with people.

Place I work now had a very strict rule of, if it is not in the offer letter, you will not get it. Are you willing to leave over it? Because if they did this to you, how much can you trust them?

I wish you the best. Was the bonus a key reason you took the job?
The things you mentioned are directionally in line with the movement called "Effective Altruism".

They concern themselves with finding things that empirically would have the biggest impact, or if we don't do it, we have the biggest consequences.

https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/
Primary and secondary ejection systems failed and then his main parachute didn’t deploy.

Whoever was maintaining that gear failed miserably.
I had to think of exactly this post as well and I started to wonder, whether Caddy-SSH couldn't even handle this using Caddy's built-in ACME support?
> Harvard considers roughly 4 in 5 applicants to be academically capable of doing the work at Harvard

I have no doubt that this is true of Harvard. I mean, after all, you can pick your own classes! That said, I think there is a difference between admitting just those capable of doing the work vs. a set of some of the best of the best, in that that second group will be the one filling the advanced physics classes for first years or whatever.
Concrete ideas to make quality a team effort
I've never seen somebody who opposes meritocracy actual suggest taking starting points into consideration - instead, they demand that easily observable, intrinsic physical characteristics be used as a proxy for "starting point".
Either I am not getting the punchline behind the punchline, the prostitute is not very successful, or she has serious bowel problems.
if you are in the position of knowing secret data of a publicly traded company, and you are uncomfortable with the position of possibly losing money because you can not act on the secret data, I would suggest you not hold stock for companies you know secret data about

No insider trading should not be legal
Is there a good explanation as to why this paradox isn't explained by universal expansion? From wikipedia: "To any observer in the universe, it appears that all of space is expanding, and that all but the nearest galaxies (which are bound by gravity) recede at speeds that are proportional to their distance from the observer.";

Wouldn't this imply that, there was probably a time in the distant past when the night sky was saturated brilliantly with light, but as things expand apart, we simply see less-and-less because those infinitely distant galaxies are so far away that their light cannot ever reach us?

Additionally, and maybe related; we can only see 13 odd billion or so lightyears away. The universe could be infinite; there could be a point of light at every "pixel" of the night sky, twenty billion light years away; we simply cannot see that far, as their light cannot travel faster than the rate they're expanding away from us. Is that accurate?

Additionally; space is pretty empty, but not empty. Even ignoring all this, its not unreasonable to think that, over truly universal distances, this matters. We look at the night sky and see nothing; we point a powerful telescope at that same place and see millions of objects, but still darkness between them. Is there an argument against the notion that, maybe, the light from objects even further away was just absorbed naturally before it could get here? Or maybe our telescopes are not sensitive enough?

Additionally; the paradox makes an assumption that space is uniform, but even our naïve observations of the universe prove this to be inaccurate. Its tremendously non uniform; mostly thanks to gravity. Stellar matter is not distributed uniformly; it coalesces into galaxies. Galaxies are not distributed uniformly; they coalesce into galactic neighborhoods, fibers which stretch across the cosmos. There are many regions like the Bootes Void, which contain magnitudes fewer galaxies as we'd expect. There's the Great Attractor, an abnormally massive area which affects the placement of galaxies around it. Maybe on an absolutely, truly, insanely large scale, trillions of lightyears, infinite lightyears, that non-uniformity averages out, but again it comes down to; the universe may be infinitely large, but it doesn't seem to be infinitely old.
Well I didn't make the robot comment, but I think it's valid to say that promoting people trying to operate rationally in the market can be pretty robotic if that's your primary motivation. However, given I withdrew that contention, having realised the OP was not talking about making market optimisation and profiteering your primary goal but just talking about how the labour market works, of course the robot thing isn't relevant anymore either.
Yes, I'm aware. That's why I'm giving a different perspective.
Yes they are:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6963451/
Don't want to go too much into this, but thanks for the thoughtful response.

> A couple leetcode questions is hardly a difficult task

I don't have a problem with data structures and the like. I've been building software for >20 years. I can do pretty much anything I want with a computer. However, and I can't articulate this well, but where I come from "high pressure" things mean people are getting killed - it's not fun. I don't do hackathons either for the same reason. The whole argumentative style of communication doesn't work so I just stop answering. Like I said, they are filtering out people like me on purpose, and it's fine.

> Did you try going to community college and transferring?

That is not something I could do at this stage. I tried to get into a few online degrees which have a more flexible schedule.

Several years ago, I did try to go to a community college, but none of my current bachelors credits would transfer (they are from an online school which no institution apparently counts as valid). So I'd have to start over from scratch.

This is turning into a life story here. I have indeed tried - for a very, very long time. I've given up on the idea of going to school or working at some hip company now, and I've made peace with it.

Anyway, thanks for asking.
Oh god, I forgot about how awful that Tokyo map was. I enjoyed the wide slightly sloped wasteland though.
I believe the answer rests in offering a solution to a problem that is worth more time than money to solve on one's own, or a new solution that creates more opportunities for a customer to grow their profitability.
Hugging Face Model Comparator Space Builder
You can now build a space comparing Hugging Face Models and Spaces or create clones of them with Model Comparator Space Builder :=)
I wonder how it's possible for people to read a comment so differently. Like others have said, I read the comment as more of a "Why is this wrong?" than "Why are they idiots and didn't think of this?" which isn't an interpretation that would have occurred to me.

I could parrot your own comment back to you and say, do you really assume that the person didn't realise that only experts use giant telescopes and know what they're doing? Maybe they're hoping one of those experts will somehow come up with a good explanation and maybe some links to further reading.

Sometimes people read an aggressive or condescending tone into perfectly neutral comments and it really confuses me.
The premise doesn't make a lot of sense.

> monetary sanctions because they are in EUR or USD

Yes, because that's what the contracts specified as a currency. Russia uses the ruble as a currency, which is not censored, it's just not 'in demand'. Adopting BTC how? Do you think Germany et al would be willing to pay for oil/gas in bitcoin when the contracts already specify a currency? Or adopt BTC internally? Like all the babushkas fighting in line for sugar would need to have crypto wallets now?

Also, wallets of Russians could be denied transactions.

Also, BTC is small enough to be manipulable by an alliance of state actors if push comes to shove.
Maybe he should try to sell the service as an API to search engines. E.g. I just tried the question "what's the best headache medicine" on the front show hn article: Andi https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30832589 and the result was "the best medicine is what your doctor subscribes you"
Fun fact, was observing periodic latency peaks on some customer network. TCP analysis would show a resend after an icmp 'too big' packet from a middlebox. Fine. Once at connection establishment or rather at the first PSH over the default MTU, right? But why periodically? Well Linux re-raises the path mtu periodically, iirc in case of icmp spoofing...

Is it different here for mss-based discovery? You say permanently?
Don't know much else about your situation but I would ask who that slide deck was intended for. It's possible that it was only meant for sales/client facing people. In my experience bonuses tend to be a lot more common on that side of the house. If not, you could always walk and just leave it off your resume, but it's obviously a hard decision
lol well yeah.

but the SEC literally has to run one query that shows someone with a big gain buying stock and options before earnings and work at said company which i’m pretty sure you’re not supposed to be doing in the first place whether you had special info or not
> if your website needs javascript to work, it is not static per se!

That's one way to look at it. Then again, if I can serve my app using a static file server, how can it be considered anything other than static files?
I once bought a windows ultrabook for on the road, with a 128gb ssd. When I unpacked the computer 90% was used by the operating system. It was basically useless. I installed Linux and only 6gb was used. I had no battery issues. I could use apt install. Life was beautiful.
not being POSIX compliant is actually needed for a modern OS. with POSIX you'll never get to safe concurrency, so you'll hardly can make use of all the CPU kernels.

it must be a microkernel, supporting only safe languages. certainly not rust.

Genode is close, pony was close, Fuchsia is getting there, singularity was there already. concurrent pascal also.
Cool, almost the same chip is used in the microbit v2. https://support.microbit.org/support/solutions/articles/1900...
But there are a number of studies demonstrating how race & class impact things (when controlled for other factors) like teacher perception, grading, letters of recommendation, not to mention just the fact that if you are growing up in a black (or white) household that has $5 in wealth, you'll have less access to educational opportunity than the white (or black, albeit far more rarely) household with $200,000 in wealth.

We shouldn't seek to control for these factors?
What a lame way to insider trade. I thought that instance of the Capital One analysts using internal database queries to understand which retailers were having good quarters was far more interesting and insidious. Similarly you could imagine a lot more subtle ways to leverage insider Twilio information (count of verification texts sent by client?) to make far more obscure bets. The SEC definitely takes a look at anyone who goes from zero trading -> making improbably great trades worth millions though, so better have a good patsy lined up!

Edit: Context for the traders I was talking about. What they did was much cooler and honestly kind of impressive: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-01-23/capital-o...
If you don't know what you are doing you shouldn't trade options. If you think you know what you are doing you still shouldn't trade options. The more I learn about investing the more I think it is a terrible idea for even the most well informed retail investor.

I don't hate Robinhood like a lot of people, I actually think they have a nice UX, but they probably are acting a bit irresponsibly in allowing option trading to be so easily enabled.

If you want to get into individual stock investing read up on the topic and then start with a little bit of money that you are willing to lose. You will make mistakes, but that is part of the learning process.
Were the operational costs very high? Why not just keep it going until someone buys the tech from you (like WebMD perhaps)? It seems like a good idea in any case.
wrong nuclear is actually the cheapest by a mile but is crippled by financing
100% hard agree.

One thing that I'd like to add as well. If you're an employee, getting 120% of the same job done will 99% of the time NOT get you promoted faster.

The folks who get promoted typically do because they're visible in several places.

Do 100% of your job, and then do 20% of something else. Blog, Mentor, do POCs, network, .... Find your own way.

It's maybe unfair, I know, but I've seen so many frustrated folks seeing other get promoted while "they were the ones going the extra mile for their project".

Plus, if you do things visible outside, you can sell that much easier to whoever employer comes next than "I've pushed out more features than my colleagues".