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> The SATs, particularly the mathematics score, is very much a reflection of your parents' willingness to push you academically.

I scored very high in both. Believe me, as new immigrants we were completely clueless about the heated race to top spots. In my case, credits goes to my makers (mom and dad :) and the fact that Iran had fairly good public schools.

Culture is important. Two relevant shockers for me (as a very young new arrival to US):

- disrespect for teachers.

- practically institutionalized disdain for the smart kids. I am talking cultural products here.

So I honestly think cultural backgrounds that feature things like special social and personal regard for those who teach, and special regard for individuals in STEM professions (for example "mr. engineer"), are more at play here than merely ambitious parents. And guess what is driving those ambitious parents? Culture has a lot to do with it.
Ben Thompson is fairly bullish on Enterprise Metaverses after having used Workrooms: https://stratechery.com/2021/enterprise-metaverses-horizon-w...

> I don’t want to go too far given I’ve only tried Workrooms out once, but this feels like something real. And, just as importantly, there is, thanks to COVID, a real use case. Of course companies will need to be convinced, and hardware will need to be bought, but that’s another reason why the work angle is so compelling: companies are willing to pay for tools that increase productivity to a much greater extent than consumers are.
Here is the reddit post for the same - https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/xw5thu/djangoboiler...
I think it is simply the domain name itself, not anything they did. The domain name he uses (stamhoofd) translates to "head of the tribe/tribal leader". I can imagine that such a word can easily have bad connotations and nobody wants their brand to support any site with a potentially offensive name that can turn into a PR nightmare. Likely it got flagged for this reason.
GitLab team member here, putting my personal hat on - from my experience in using different Git workflows since 2009, a smaller clean unit of work can help with debugging and troubleshooting. It also provides a way to new team members and contributors to understand the thought process and ideation to implement a new architecture, apply performance fixes, add documentation, work with tests, additional fixes, until its final release. Most of this can be tracked within a MR/PR and the history of code reviews, etc. - even after the merge and squash and Git branch delete, not trying to argue with this functionality. :)

From the Git CLI, without any reference to Git* platforms, it is not so obvious when searching for a commit that introduced a bug, e.g. using "git bisect" for binary search. Reading a 10,000 lines git diff can be harder than a smaller commit that also explains the reasoning in the commit message. Speaking from own experience and programming mistakes in a small team, focussing on clean commits and a good history tremendously helped in stressful debug situations. Until you hit a compiler regression bug, but that's a different story then ;)

I'm personally still very fast on the Git CLI, but I also know that there are a variety of CLI and UI tools out there that can help with analysing large Git commits. Potentially in the future also AI assisted that tell us which change a diff caused a performance regression in a release 5 months later. Or we don't need it at all because Observability driven development enabled to see these problems before merging and code reviews, e.g. the memory leak but only when DNS fails. True story from ~2016, more in my KubeCon EU talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkREMg8adaI and project at https://gitlab.com/everyonecancontribute/observability/cpp-d...
So that's why so many Indians move to the US to work as doctors.
Not OP, but I think the purpose of tailscale w/ magicdns is to create a VPN connection directly between the laptop and desktop, regardless of the underlying network locations of either. I believe tailscale uses connection brokering so all connections can be outbound (no firewall policy / port forwarding). MagicDNS is probably just a quality of life improvement here.
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Chem majors are not their target, the majority of orgo Chem victims are potential medical students. They take the class because they don't have a choice and it keeps the department relevant. Been that way for decades now. Imagine gatekeeping software engineering to people who can memorize and regurgitate the Intel CPU menus and implement the X86 standard from memory.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/it-s-time-to...
Frankly there is nothing worse than seeing a legal notice. At best it means thousands of dollars in lawyer fees and added stress/lost time. At worst its the end of a company.
I mean more having learned to be productive in an obscure language as a positive marker regarding your mental capacity, intrinsic motivation, autonomy and initiative. If you then insist on using it for everything, business value be damned, that is a red flag. Choosing an obscure language to tickle your fancy would be negative value to me as a business owner since I need to hire and maintain a team of developers who are all comfortable and proficient in it. However, there are circumstances in which an obscure language might just be the right tool for the job (and overall architecture that can accommodate a small cohesive component written in a different language has its benefits).
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There is no way the SAT is a purely IQ test, when i didn't get a hot score on my first SAT, i practiced for 1 week straight and substantially improved my scores (like 300 points range). The way i liken this to is if a MLB pitcher throws the same pitch at the same velocity and i know this ahead of time, i could practice for a year and when the time comes i could hit that ball. Does that mean i'm a major league level batter? Heck no, it is the same way with the SAT's, Leetcode and other tests, they measure how much you want it more than raw IQ.
Surely if Meta need another company to help them prove something, Meta should have to compensate them. Sure, the government should be able to COMMAND a company to appear, but for one legal entity to COMMAND another legal entity to perform work and make an appearance at a place, in my mind as a Brit, seems entirely wrong.

Time to throw my Quest on eBay, not sure I want to be a part of this.
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Git is in general a terrible tool: I’ve always thought of it as a shining example of where “worse is better” ought to have been applied. Rebasing is one of its worst features. For non-trivial changes, anyway, it is often just a way to add complexity and messiness to what should be a simple workflow. And the benefits aren’t at all as clear as its advocates contend.
Costs don't have anything to do with being sued or not. A subpoena to a person is relatively easy to respond to (unless you need a lawyer to help you negotiate the fifth amendment for reasons), but this will cost time and money, both things that we all know startups have in vast quantities.

If the answer is not Meta pays, then why isn't it?
Virginia lottery around the end of 1991: pick 6 from 1 to 44 giving 7 059 052 possible combinations.

The challengers: International Lotto Fund (ILF), an Australian investor group with 2500 investors.

ILF did't quite manage to cover all 7.1 million combinations. They only managed 5 million. They fell short because they underestimated the time it would take to buy the tickets, which they got from around 8 grocery and convenience store chains.

And no, I'm not some kind of lottery history buff. This is one of those weird bits of trivia one picks up in law school. Specifically in the class I took on transnational tax around 1995, where the taxing of ILF's winnings from this hit some edge cases in US and Australian tax law that were interesting and instructive enough for the case to make the next edition of the textbook.
I didn't actually read the linked article but I see it is from GitLab. GitLab makes it easy to view the diff between versions of an MR even if it includes rebases.
IANAL, but AIUI in theory all major competitors get subpoenaed and then everything they say becomes part of the public record - so everyone sees everyone's cards laid out.
This has been my experience with Citrix also, although I have heard it can be set up to work better. Has anyone had experience with HP Anywhere/Teradaci? I am curious how it would compare.
Really depends on the environment. Almost all developers I know are pretty big on privacy and critical of the negative implications of users sharing too much. If you work at Google or Facebook they will plant different ideas into your brain.

IT security might be slow, but they also found out that it isn't the users that pay them, it is management. Some concerns have validity, but there is also a lot of crap sold as security.
Of course I don't think we should pick out elite based on these things either
A politician visiting a country (even expressing support for a rival politician) doesn't imply backing a coup, and indeed there was no coup--the capital was never occupied (in a military sense) by armed protesters as you claim, the president fled to escape justice (and indeed the supreme court convicted him of treason). Notably, the Yanukovych wasn't pushed out by any military or paramilitary, he was voted out by the (democratically elected) legislature and convicted by the court. That said, I'm sure the protesters were armed, as they were being fired upon by Yanukovych's forces (including snipers trained in Russia) and many protesters were killed. Moreover, McCain was advocating for a peaceful transition of power to stop the violence.

While we're talking about suspicious foreign involvement, let's talk about the $15bn that Putin offered Yanukovych (and which Yanukovych accepted) hours before police were ordered to crack down on protests. Or the documents which showed that Russian officials served as advisers in the crackdown on protesters (operations Wave and Boomerang) including the use of snipers and the planned use of 22,000 security troops in Kyiv alone.
> Optimizing for a pretty looking git history is probably the most foolish thing to focus on

It's not about "pretty"; commits are a form of _communication_. Do we send emails without editing before hitting send? It's a means to optimize for easier reviews through better comprehension of the changes, which also leads to faster reviews. Our colleagues don't want to read a bunch of intermediate commits.

> If you are doing anything that involves rewriting the history you are doing it wrong.

Care to elaborate? What's your general strategy?
It just makes sshing between the machines by name very easy. You can do the same thing by assigning permanent IPs to all machines in the mesh and then updating all your host files across all the machines in the mesh. Life is too short for that.
Direct link to demo: https://webvm.io
When I was an undergrad looking for internships, many of the most desriable had hard GPA cutoffs. I'm pretty sure these were not flexibly adjusted for every single applicant depending on their university and specific course load.
we had an on-prem splunk implementation and it was SOO SLOW.. it was built/managed by splunk and its consultants.

We finally got rid of it a few years later, but for the entire time we had it, it was a constant "round hole square peg" problems. Each time the consultants assured us Splunk could do what we needed, each time it could not.
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I wonder if the lottery companies takes this into consideration when setting the price of their tickets.

If all your players pick the same numbers, you as the lottery seller is in a much better spot, and you could safely lower the prices or increase the pot to draw more people into the game.

However, if you do that and people start picking random sequences you risk losing a lot of money.
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> or don't want to rock the boat too much by not having any.

Why is "not having children" rocking the boat. Intuitively, I would rather argue that (for example because of reasons outlined by the GP) having children means rocking the boat.
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It seems completely reasonable to me that if you pay for an education and the person you're ostensibly paying to teach you is doing a bad job, to be pissed off about it. The student is the customer.
I find it difficult to imagine a situation where such an app could be useful. If you don't want to do anything in particular but just want to spend time together, you could do nothing together - just make sure to put away all phones, apps and other distractions. What's the problem?
That is spot on and indeed a red flag. Imagine hiring people and the spying on them.
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This is something that infuriates me about formal mathematics (and CS, for that matter): they don't just use the words people already know! They have to make up new words, sometimes even entirely new symbols, that often just mean the same thing as something else. And then the literature becomes entirely inaccessible unless you've learned this secret code. The bottleneck becomes translation, instead of understanding.
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HSBC used to use a virtual keyboard but I wouldn't be surprised if they dropped it. (I am no longer a customer.)
MY SO is a professional tutor, and she often has clients for standardized testing prep.

From what I have gathered it seems a lot of students really need a confidence boost. Once they realize they are capable to doing well, they tend to improve their performance.

There is also like tricks and gimmicks, but that is a different discussion.
Why is this extreme "nurture over nature", "blank-slate" mentality not applied to any other disparities in biological expression save for the brain/intellect?

Do we all think that, say, the massive racial disparities in 100m Olympic sprinters, or NBA basketball, is due to "practice" "culture" and "work ethic" primarily rather than genetic/biological factors of physical ability?

Are say a group of 5'8" Asians going to have the same potential ability to play top level basketball compared to a group of 6'8" Blacks? Does practicing change this dominant variable? Is the differentials in height due to "culture" or "biology"?

Is it not common sense that people have a natural range of potential ability for certain things that are biologically constrained, and practice and effort can shift ones ability within this range but not change the biological constraint to where this range lies?

Why does evolution and natural selection stop at the neck? Is the brain not also a part of the body, made up of the same organic material?

And finally, is "work ethic", "culture", "attitude", "affinity for intellectual focus/interests" 0% biological/heritable? Is that not also partially genetic along with the natural potential? Not that this is definitive for one individual to another, but in aggregate group averages bear this out statistically over long periods of time in different locations.

Let's take a step back and just think about the obvious here: how many "hackers" here on hacker news can say they did fairly well on the SAT and standardized tests, above average or well above average, and didn't prepare much at all? Whose parents didn't put much effort at all into pushing them to study for it? I'm sure quite a bit. Is that not an example of natural ability, nature, dominating over nurture? Not that they couldn't have done a bit better if they had, but that their cognitive potential to do well on these tests, to a significant degree was biologically determined? To deny this is similar to the myth that everyone can pull themselves up by the bootstraps. No, often one's inheritance, monetary or biological, have some say in this.
How exactly does that change anything? Meta is a 100000x larger company, they can do much more with that info than the others. And what about foreign competitors? What about not yet founded/stealth competitors? What about competitors only maybe planning to release a product (e.g. Apple)?
I've never taken any chemistry, but everyone seems to have horror stories. It seems like chemistry is uniquely obsessed with memorization. I can't fathom the purpose of memorizing the periodic table - who cares? Why not focus on what the periodic table actually means?
Serious question, was the 911 bug fixed?
Yeah, don't go creating bullshit in response, but anyone who is remotely connected to anything Meta, Google, Apple are involved in should have in their documents details on why they won't be competing with the big names.
> That's a bit unfair, because there is no country (yet) where there is a system similar to what I proposed. If there were, then maybe it would be pretty normal and putting money on the bank that yields interest will just be seen and regulated as investing into stocks nowadays.

You can do this in the USA, look up the ETF ICSH for instance :)
You're still arguing against a point I said explicitly was not mine. I won't presume to speak for you or why you're "not getting the vibe", but I can say with authority that it is the wrong vibe and that you have misunderstood.
> Jews last generation, come from elites from their previous family homeland who successfully migrated to escape bad government or seeking greater opportunity, when it was tactically hard to do so for the average person. It's a natural filter for smart, capable, effective people who can raise children to be same.

The large majority of the US Jewish population came after the 1850s. They were not selected for wealth. Like the Irish immigrants were negatively selected. They were less educated than those who stayed at home, on average. Similarly Italians in the relevant period of mass migration. The middle class were doing well so they were more likely to stay home.

> The effect tends to fade over time (shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves, or docks to docks, in three generations).

This has no basis in evidence. Every psychological trait I’m aware of is strongly heritable, including ones with obvious impacts on earnings like intelligence, conscientiousness and extraversion[1]. Social class is so heritable the only society to make a dent were the Chinese during the cultural revolution[2]. If you want to know more about the extraordinary persistence of social class see Gregory Clark’s work[3].

[1] Genetic Influence on Human
Psychological Traits

https://utahpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/bouchard.0...

[2] Persistence Despite Revolutions

http://davidyyang.com/pdfs/revolutions_draft.pdf

[3] https://faithandheritage.com/2017/06/the-heritability-of-soc...
Some of the worst districts in my state have the most funding and highest teacher pay.

The best teachers still don't want to work there because being called the c-word by 1st graders or having a 3rd grader threaten to stab you (and seem like they really mean it) and not being able to do anything about it because the two fights and one baggie of drugs admin's had referred to them by noon today has them too busy to spend any time on "minor" stuff like that, plus having lockdowns with police patrolling the halls and yelling at anyone who so much as pokes a head out a door without clearing it with them first, due to credible threats of violence, several times per year, makes you want to do literally anything else as a career in a hurry. 15-20% higher pay than the next-best-paying district doesn't make it worth it.

Schools can't fix poverty and ghettos no matter how much money you give them, but trying that is simpler than fixing the real problems that cause very, very "bad" schools, so that's what we do, even though it will never work.
My theory is that chemistry (i.e. organic and biochemistry) are common weed-out courses for pre-med students. The grade-grubbing is intense, and those courses often end up as gauntlets as a result. It's a vicious cycle -- students grub for advantage; professors make the course "harder" to compensate. Also, few professors want to teach huge lecture halls of kids who are only there for the grade, and view the whole exercise as a waste of their time.

(Having taught a few sections of this kind of thing myself, I'm not entirely unsympathetic. It's a long, painful day when you're waiting at hour 5+ of a lab session, watching someone fumble around hopelessly with gel rig or something, knowing that they're never going to make it and that this result is going to make or break their grade for the quarter...)

I had an O-Chem professor who explicitly set a curve and gave incredibly difficult exams, such that only a few people in the 100+ person class could get an A. It was almost like he was transparently trying to reduce the student population.
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Sat scoring was “recentered” in 1996, causing a significant jump in average score.
> The optimal solution is rail, followed by bikes and e-bikes then by busses.

The "optimal solution" to the housing problem would be to have everyone live in dormitories and eat in communal chow halls. For extra efficiency, you could hot-bunk the beds three shifts per day.

But, oddly, no one wants to do that.

There is more to life than "efficiency".
He fixed the issue quickly after I sent an email.
Financial firms and biotech firms tend to have good mentors. Other than that, it really depends on the team.
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In-between Meta’s “to show that we have competition, we would like to show company Foo’s documents on X, Y and Z” and this subpoena is a judge who decides on whether those documents would help them reach a decision in this case, and whether it’s reasonable to ask Foo to do that work.

Also, the data you provide goes to the court, not (directly) to Meta.

I also think you can ask the court to keep (parts of) the data from the public record. That would require an argument as to why making it public would harm you.
Of course it should involve software, that's one line of defense. A problem in software should have a second line - hardware.

Same the other way round, just because the hardware shouldn't allow setting a value to X, doesn't mean the software should request the setting.
Nice one: no arguments, just imply bigotry. What's wrong with the idea that the performance of men has a larger variation?
Another Ivy League uni suspended a professor because he said 那个 in a linguistics class, the Chinese equivalent of “ehm” (is it “ehm” in English?). Nothing surprises me anymore.
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Bullshit. If you've already decided that they're guilty and have already decided their fate, you don't really want them to have a trial. Not a fair one at least.
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