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> If you didn't get 99th percentile the course was refunded or you could take it again

Plenty of other domains have study programs with similar guarantees where the program has little to no effect-- it's a simple economic calculation: Set your rates so you make a good profit even if the program has no effect (even if you allow retaking the course, students won't be willing to waste their time and yours forever).

It would be more informative if you knew the actual before/after performance for the program. Elsewhere this has been studied (see links in the thread) and the improvement wasn't that substantial.

> You can't retroactively improve your GPA by doing better in the past.

Indeed, which means that people who's families have been carefully shepherding their education since they were much younger have an _insurmountable_ advantage in the GPA game. For people people who don't come from highly educated families, they only learn about the GPA boosting games as they start thinking about college years to late to take full advantage of them.
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> Change nature to be a false/artificial paradise?

Who’s asking to change other animals? It’s about humans changing their behavior. In nature, forced sex is very common among many animals. But in human societies we have deemed it a criminal activity. That’s just one example to show that humans, especially in our times, have improved ethics and the agency to commit to better ethics compared to our ancestors in the distant past.
Firefox stems from mozilla back in 1998 only 5 years after Mosiac and 3 years after the original IE. It seems exceptionally likely that Firefox will continue in some form for the foreseeable future.
It's important to keep in mind that the context here is the SAT/ACT versus the currently available alternatives. They're not saying that the SAT/ACT is good, but simply that it's better than other options. Some of those options, like alternative standard tests, may be significantly better, but in the world as it is today, it doesn't matter if they are, because lower-income candidates don't have access to them.
That's not true. Think about it. In reality there's 10^82348733 or some other ridiculously huge number of things you can do. If you get it right, you know how to make it work, and there may be some obvious routes to improve. That's a LOT of information because you can effectively exclude 99% of possibilities.

If you can't make it work, you know that 1 out of 10^82348733 things don't work. Great. You can excluse 1% of possible solutions.

Success has WAY more information than failure.
When I went to $(fancy school not quite Yale but like Yale), they were even more blatant - the admissions people just flat out stated they have a quota for legacies and they have different standards.
Space-Filling Curve
Interesting. I didn't feel that way about Papers Please, because it has a story and it's more like a short puzzle.

It's not endless. It's basically a sequence of puzzles (with a story and some choices thrown in), where each stage introduces a variation on the puzzle. There is a very limited number of stages, after which the game ends.

Compare this to something like Factorio, which is essentially endless (and you're programming, so basically it's job #2).
> I do find it interesting that I have yet to have anyone bring up the Ukraine situation.

Speaking of "weekly" discussions, the Ukraine situation has been brought up in my weekly Church prayers since it started.

Generally speaking, if it a current event that the Priests make 2 or 3 "intentions" for (in the Catholic mass, the prayers that occur after the Homily but before the preparations), its an incredible event. In many situations, the words are vague so that it applies to as broadly as possible (ex: there usually is something about wars and disasters), but Ukraine specifically is brought up in those prayers in my experience.

Which makes sense, the suffering and pains of that country are the greatest seen in many decades.

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Generally speaking, the intentions are specific to the parish community (pray for X who died last week) and local. Sometimes, a "sister parish" from another side of the world get their intentions emailed to our Church (ex: a hurricane that affects Haiti will be brought up, because our "sister-Parish" is in Haiti, so their "local" issues are brought up in our prayers as well. My current Parish doesn't have a sister-parish, but my last one had one in Haiti). For a global event to be brought up in specific terms (more so than just "prayer to end wars". But a specific "prayer to help the people of Ukraine") is pretty rare.
I tried Factorio a few months ago and after my initial shock with the quality of the game being so high, I found myself falling into optimization mode.

And then it quickly turned into a second job. I had to decided whether I wanted to devote time to Factorio optimization problems, or ...anything else in life.

I chose life :)
At least with Satisfactory - there is absolute no rush. No time pressure for any part of the game that I'm aware of.

Now there's always something I want to be doing, but that's another problem.
> "A farmer friend told me the same thing is happening in the UK. The cost of fertilizer has gone up so much due to the Ukraine War that some farmers are not even planting."

Actually, fertilizer shortages were already a thing before the war started. As I understand it, it's related to high costs of natural gas (which is used to make some types of fertilizer). Also, Russia is a major exporter of fertilizer and they've been restricting exports for awhile (possibly to secure their own food supply).

The war in Ukraine certainly doesn't help the food situation though. Ukraine is a major food producer. It seems like the world on track for some expensive food for the next year or so, which will disproportionately affect people from poorer countries.
My experience with Kindles is that the battery drain is all about wifi - if you keep it in 'airplane mode' most of the time (except to send new content to it / return library books early etc.) it can last for months on a charge.
That's too reductionist. There's value in having a media-player-like app of limited complexity and purpose, with a wealth of server-side platforms to deliver content.
> The MIT article literally says "diversity" is one of their goals. Seems like you're arguing against yourself.

Except no one goes to MIT because it's "diverse", whatever that even means anymore. They go there because it is one of the best schools in the world.
In case anyone else wants to read about that last comment, since it piqued my interest

https://api.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/mar/24/blog-posti...
Do you honestly believe that if you were from a very poor town, poor by the standards of african american neighborhoods in Detroit, that giving your child a $35 practice book would have a similar outcome?
Pumped storage can be constructed out of concrete. It's not necessary for there to be a preexisting basin. This isn't often done because there's not much demand for it and it's very expensive compared to fossil fuels (which pretty much everything is), but it is entirely industrially feasible and is still generally cheaper than any other kind of battery. I realize you are arguing that extracting uranium from seawater is in the same category, but it's not: there are no industrial scale mining operations extracting uranium from seawater, and there is no evidence that existing prototypes would scale up to global power requirements (in addition to the other issues mentioned by the neighboring comment).
Does anyone know if Hacker News comments are being used as training data? I wonder this about Gmail, Skype, Voice Conversations on Xbox Live, etc. Mostly too afraid to ask because it sounds like paranoia.
Our food system is a mess. We need to transition our agricultural systems to use biology rather than chemistry to nourish our food crops. The technology is there, we just haven't figured out how to industrialize it at scale. I personally think robotics will fill this gap - as the main prohibitive factor now is labor availability.

Check out permaculture techniques like: composting, chop and drop, wood chip mulching, no till, Korean natural farming techniques using indigenous microorganisms.

Collapse has been inevitable. Wiping farmland clean, trying to sterilize it, and restarting the next year is incredibly wasteful and has only been feasible because of heavy subsidies at several levels in the upstream supply chain.
You don't put out fires by disabling smoke alarms. And you don't solve socioeconomic / class-related barriers by disabling their indicators.
I think that is great. Once you get past a certain threshold, the test loses prediction value. Giving the kids in the top 5% a way to differentiate is great.
Quite surprising that they went back on their policy, but it's a welcome change. Removing standardized tests and replacing them with more subjective methods necessarily reduces outcomes surrounding academic excellence, and almost always exacerbates socioeconomic/racial inequity (with a strong anti-Asian bias, as shown in almost all studies when test scores are blinded/dropped).
I recently failed a CS coding test. I was asked to solve a problem in 10m. I solved it in 20m and was rejected. I came up with a solution and communicate it right from the start. My solution was totally clear and readable. I just needed time to warm up and attentive to my code. I love CS. I love solving problems and reading books about Algorithm and Data Structure. I implemented them from scratch as a hobby. But the interviewer guy is not caring about that and said process is process. I felt disappointed at first but felt lucky after that since I wouldn't want to work with those people in the future.
Having kids enhances his analogy, as it increases the need for your "company" to make good decisions. Ultimately the GP's message is an empowering one. You have value, you have agency, you can leverage these things to improve your situation (and by extension your family's situation). People are getting stuck on taking the post literally.
Non-adults are capable of getting alcohol, without buying directly from a store.

Typically they know somebody who knows an adult that will to the transaction with the store and provide the id.

Otherwise, some stores accept good fake ids, or squint to believe that the person buying actually matches the picture on the card
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> “Many of our buildings are migrating to recycled water systems which cannot support bidets,” he wrote.

This is the main issue. Recycled water is not potable so humans should not be exposed to it.
I would rather it be lower resolution and let my imagination fill in the gaps than have the gaps sloppily filled in by a neural net.
The argument is that keeping the price low requires inhumane practices, but providing human practices doesn't command a price that would offset the overhead of being more human? That doesn't make sense.
You have a very different definition of freeloading. The slave situation is totally incomparable on account of how the slave cannot quit aside from by dying.

> It is freeloading in every sense of the word.

Every sense, except the dictionary definition, is what you meant, I take it? "Freeload - take advantage of other people's generosity without giving anything in return." Giving ten cents is not the same thing as not giving anything. And if an employer gave me ten cents for a day of work, I would quit and go elsewhere as would every other free person in America.

As for capitalism being unfair, that's basically the point of capitalism, in the essence that "unfair" means "not everyone is compensated the same."
Outsourcing task estimation to the team still doesn't solve the estimates are broken issue. I've not seen estimates get meaningfully better in an environment where the team collaborates on establishing the expected time for a task.
> I'm a law student now. In law school, your entire grade usually comes from one 3-4 hour essay exam. Much depends on luck, how well you slept the night before, and how frantically you can type. It's absurd. It's been that way for some 100 years.

Well, not quite that way for 100 years. When I was in law school 30 years ago (University of Washington) it would for most people be "how frantically you can handwrite" rather than "how frantically you can type".

There was a room set aside for people who wanted to bring and use typewriters but it was fairly hard to actually find a typewriter that they would allow. By the early '90s even low end typewriters often had several lines of buffer memory and an LCD display so that you could store and edit text before printing it, and higher end models were essentially specialized laptops that only ran a word processor and a printer driver. At my school if it had two or more lines of text storage it was considered to be a word processor or computer and not allowed.

I had to drive all over Seattle before finding a place that still sold typewriters plain enough to be allowed.
Hybrid workplaces for offices aren't working
Estimated death toll from the Banqiao Dam failure ranges from 26,000 to 240,000.
There's also a lot of room to disagree as to whether playing sports counts as a meaningful accomplishment. Professional sports are pure entertainment, and succeeding even at that is extremely rare. The best argument for caring about it is that it's better than nothing, and it's something that ensures more average people have a chance to get to MIT too, even if they aren't all that intellectually minded.
Replace and unify android, chromeos, their various iot devices. Eventually it becomes the base image for faas, app engine. Complete domination.

Now if they have Microsoft/apple level os penetration you can be damn sure it's gonna be only serving google search. Just to ensure/build more moat aroing Google search can justify infinite cost
Hum... What the thread describes sounds exactly like a shortage caused by price fixing. Except that the price fixing didn't even happen yet, so people are beforehand betting either on it or on there being enough stockpiling to absorb the full shock.

And who knows? The war isn't a month old yet, and I have no idea how long it takes to put some basic fertilizer manufacturing online. Also, most land can produce a crop or two without extra fertilizer with very little impact.
People make the same argument for why women can’t chose what happens to their own bodies (eg rape victims opting for abortion). And some people make the same arguments against contraception too.

In all cases, yours and the above, I find the argument less than compelling because life isn’t something that exists prior to birth; you’re not denying a soul from physical form because you happen to farm fewer chickens.

Arguing that the absence of life is the same as death is really just a clever way of justifying selfish ideals.
The surprising dark side of empathy
Sure, I think it should be voluntary to enter in to adulthood at 18 and allow your adolescence extended to 24. With that choice should come the caveats that you continue to remain with reduced choices and freedoms during that window.

For example you should not be good given the right to vote if you choose to remain a child after 18. You should have curtailed and or limited driving privileges and or curfews associated with that status of also choosing to remain in that status. You should not be granted the ability to drink or smoke legally (which I think should correspond with a reduction to 18 for those choosing adulthood). If you choose to remain in this adolescent State you should also not legally be able to enter into a contract.

This is not meant to be an exhaustive list but a set of ideas. If you want to choose to remain a child well into your twenties I think that should be a choice that's allowed to be made. I think if your parents no longer want you to be their child at that age you should also become a ward of the state.

The fact that someone is even disgusting this instead of lowering the age of majority means that we've been relying on too small of a carrot to get people to move into adulthood and perhaps need a little bit of stick behind it.
Good passwords are usually not insecure. But if you give your password to a host that you don't 100% trust (i.e. that you didn't setup yourself locally) you have potentially shared that password and if you've reused it anywhere the other wheres are potentially compromised.

If you give you public key to be installed to allow access, even if the host (or any system you are using to build/interact with it) is compromised your private key and any other hosts that accept authentication that way are fine.

How much difference this makes to you depends upon your threat model and how much extra threat you are willing to accept for a little convenience, of course, but key based auth is demonstrably more secure than passwords for some circumstances and no less secure in others.

Then again given that very few people bother actually checking host fingerprints on first connection, then proceed to send important data to that unverified host, is the password/key issue the first thing we need to fix?
Yeah but that's not what my comment was, was it? If anything, I might have been reading inferences that weren't intended by the author.

Why do you feel the need to be so condescending? Someone disagrees with your perspective and its because they are the least intelligent person in the room?
browser-based web UI for a network device, like a (better) UI for a wifi router for example.
Factorio feels definitely like this to me.

It's an amazing game. It felt very stimulating the first few hours. Then it became work, and now I don't think I will ever start it anymore.
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As I mentioned in my post, people are very quick to bring up breeder reactors, despite the fact that no commercial prototypes that can recycle fuel to that degree actually exist. I have nothing against nuclear power as a short-term stopgap to deal with climate change, but we should stick to technology that actually exists if we're talking about using it as a primary power source into the indefinite future.
Battery storage is still hugely impractical on the scale required to keep a grid stable, even if we assume ( huge assumptions) that battery building capacity can keep up and be affordable. Also, batteries need to be changed due do depletion much more frequently than a nuclear reactor.
I played with AnyLogic and its fantastic

But AFAIK, it is not a full CAD program. But looking again at this demo [1], I realize you can go a long long way with it.

[1] https://youtu.be/Snx1R42JnBE?t=95
Yeah, they always include the full supply chain for nuclear to make it appear believable but they don't do the same thing for anything else. Heck, some people include the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the numbers too just to make the comparison more "fair" to every other power source in the world. By the way, that barely moves the numbers for nuclear. We don't do that for any other power source. The closest we get is installation deaths for solar and wind. But we still ignore all of the supply chain deaths for both.

All that said, literally anything is better and safer than burning dinosaurs or biomatter. And the future really does need to be a mix of nuclear and geothermal (where available) for baseload demand with wind and solar combined with non-battery storage for peak demand smoothing.
I've done it from work computers where the USB ports are disabled but I want to hit my personal dev machine at home to get at my notes and calendar.

I've established impromptu SSH tunnels from other people's machines to my local network so that I could watch my media on their TV.

If you dropped me naked on the other side of the planet I could get a copy of my identity documentation and access my email, bank accounts, etc from any internet connected machine I find.
I agree, but MIT doesn't care about legacy admissions. They're one of the few schools that doesn't.
> This is so sad, really. We are NOT companies

That's true, although, in a way, I think it's reasonable for the parent commentor to want to identify as a corporation if that's what they feel like.

Are there preferred pronouns for corporate identities? Perhaps people would display a personal stock ticker symbol instead?
Do you have examples of that from actual current university course materials?
> If anything, I would say that my views are the opposite -- homogenization creates a lack of differentiation around skill and aptitude based on questionable science

If that were true, you'd expect countries like South Korea, Japan, and German to perform poorly in science and engineering, among other things.

Diversity may be a worthy goal for societal reasons, but it certainly is not a perquisite for excellence, seeing as there are many highly successful countries that are very homogeneous.
The parent comment is probably talking about JUST brand eggs, which is made primarily from mung bean. I scrambled some up this past weekend with kimchi for a great breakfast!

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In the US a free range chicken gets a couple square feet of space to move around it.

If you want a chicken that can actually walk around and go outside you want a pasture raised egg.
Why do you say rich kids have more time? I grew up in an underprivileged area and I very much disagree that poorer kids are getting their free time hammered.
More "select few" the better, enough echo chambers and you are just hearing yourself. Facebook is in the hands of Zuck.

The WWW exists, that allows "select few" to publish and irc/bbs/group chat are echo chambers, but these techa have not done the damage that social media has. They are doing something wrong.
Nintendo is most certainly Disney, not quirky. The Zelda series might be an exception but the rest of Nintendo's IP is very Disney-eqsue.
SpaceX, which has been used to launch military hardware, uses "dual-core x86" chips. And, obviously, they use a boatload of microprocessors, some of which are PowerPC chips, all over the rocket. All of this is connected over triple-redundant Ethernet.

And as for software: It's C++. Including a version of chrome, with UI components at least partially (but maybe entirely) in Javascript.

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/2y14y4/engineer_the...
> More than a million containers due to travel to Europe from China by train—on a route that goes through Russia—must now make their journey by sea as sanctions bite

That is so simple! People just should not trust unreliable partners, like Russia.

And the truth is that Russia constantly shows its unreliability at least from 2008 (Georgia invasion), than where multiple local cases, than hybrid war in Ukraine in 2014, but nobody care.

In software development exists term - technical dept - that's is - dept accumulated at least from 2008.
Dept for more than 10 years! Sure it will not be easy to resolve.
> “Many of our buildings are migrating to recycled water systems which cannot support bidets,” he wrote.

Yeah, no. I wouldn't want unsanitized water sprayed on my ass.
Because they're largely accurate in the aggregate and project outcomes quite well, and no one likes this.
Certainly. Sad thing is how many won't make the switch. I'm not judging, I'd do the same prolly due to pressures(ease of use, bandwagon, specific pain point fixes vs Linux)
Teachers union partners with Airbnb “to help teachers supplement income”
Tagged unions were (are?) frequently used in C, albeit without safety. This seems to have been mostly forgotten now when sum types are discussed.
There was a viral social media recipe going around that used baking powder and yogurt to make decent pizza dough without yeast and without proving. Food Wishes did a version of it:

https://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2022/03/flash-pizza-too-good...
South Australia gets rather more sunshine than the regions of the world where people actually live.