skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Students for Fair Admissions is a front organization designed to find cases that will hopefully reach the Supreme Court and make affirmative action unconstitutional. Their president, Edward Blum, has stated so on multiple occasions.

The Asian community has a legitimate beef if some of the details regarding Harvard's admissions are true. I would hope that the judge is taking this case with full context and knowledge of SFFA's role, and if they choose to rule in the favor of SFFA, do so narrowly.

American's need to become more aware of organizations like SFFA and The Federalist Society and how they are shaping the court. If you thought the courts were supposed to be a neutral arbiter of law you thought wrong due to how these organizations operate. When you can easily tell how the Supreme Court will vote on major issues simply by knowing the party of the president that appointmented them something is wrong.
A spam company. Not a terrible analysis. But perhaps what he missed is that the company that figures out how to send email well despite having horrible spammers as customers will make millions.
Because Tech is a "profession" and if you think we are you obviously haven't seen how other professions Architects for example and Journalists have a very high opinion of them selves.
That seems to be what the article is implying should happen, just like doctors of the past should have embraced expensive and inconvenient thermometers sooner, it seems that the article is implying that modern doctors should embrace modern diagnostic tools:

Modern CT scans, for example, perform better than even the best surgeons’ palpation of a painful abdomen in detecting appendicitis. As CT scans become cheaper, faster, and dose less radiation, they will become even more accurate.

Though Defensive Medicine is definitely happens in the USA and probably other countries as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_medicine
"Now now, it can be hardly called insider trading when it's done from a public office!"
That the environment could slowly transition its chemistry into a state which is not suitable for life is one of my biggest fears. It would be a silent killer.
Source A) I looked up the real cost decline of airfare over two decades, correlated it to infatuation, tracked the entire industry through multiple bankruptcies and re-capitalization stages. The numbers show that airfare has decreased by half over the last two years.

Source B) Airfare is now more expensive then it ever has been!

Both of these statements were literally published. The first was published by AEI. The second by the Denver Post. One was objectively true. It was not the Denver Post.

There is a reason anyone who follows aviation rolls their eyes before reading any newspaper ever on the airline business.
That is a reminder - no matter how rich you are, you have exactly the same hours in the day as the guy sleeping under the bridge.
So Sad. You will be missed Paul. Thank you for all your hard work in computers.
SendGrid (and I assume the other similar services) charges a premium to pay for the work that your emails don't get blacklisted anywhere enroute -- that's worth 1/20th of a penny to most business emails (since it increases open rates), but it may not be worth it for every use case.
Robert Morris[1] is VERY (!VERY!) technical and he commented on my YC application many many many years ago somewhat along the same lines. I am not trying to be negative, but sometimes VERY technical people "poopoo" ultimately successful businesses because they seem trivial or technically not interesting to the engineer inside them (see "Show HN: Dropbox" comments).

In contrasts perhaps they fall in love with deeply technical ideas that pleases the engineer inside them, but ultimately will fail to become a successful business.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris
That's how they should be, or how they used to be. It seems that has has reversed (in the 80's?) where stock markets now facilitate gambling with investment in real ventures that provide goods and services to customers as the side effect.
> A year in the making, Freetrade has built a bona-fide “challenger broker,” including obtaining the required license from the FCA (the U.K. regulator), rather than simply partnering with an established broker as it is understood Revolut initially plans to do. This, Dodds explained on a call, has enabled the startup to plug directly into the capital markets “piping,” with as few intermediaries as possible. It means Freetrade can execute trades on its own behalf and ultimately be much more in control of its own destiny. It should also help the startup maintain a lower cost-base as the app scales.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/02/freetrade/
IMO, any intelligence smart enough to interpret the three laws is smart enough to have have an interpretation in a way you didn't expect.

The three laws are an interesting thought experiment, but not an interesting solution.
He was also the person responsible for UoW's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science, in total he donated around $50m (with another $10m in match from Microsoft) for the school's foundation.
I guess killing the patients as soon as the cut them open would be easier for the doctor :), but their job us to heal patients. Anything that improves on outcomes is good. The OP might have suggested that instead of new tools, just use the old checklist system.
Why should diversity of race matter? And if it does matter, shouldnt we be sending talent scouts around the world and country to find representations of unexpressed races? (Eskimos, Sherpas, gypsies, etc) if there are superior races, then it's fairly unequivocally a bigoted process no?
I don't go that far. I tend to look at a few things:

* what is the source? do they have a reputable history?

* do they have conflicts of interest?

* do they have a history of faithfully printing retractions and admitting mistakes, or a history of exaggerating facts?

* do they have a history of writing accurately about subjects I am an expert about? (e.g. subfields of computer science)

If they score pretty well, I tend to believe in the facts (and evaluate the interpretation) they espouse until I come across something that contradicts it. So far the only source I regularly trust is the Economist, but I haven't researched the history of many news organizations. It's just a starting point for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking
Does anyone here know the legality of selling an Instagram handle that is also the name of a company? I have a 4 letter (with the same repeating vowel) Instagram account from 2010. There are multiple companies that have that name in different fields. Can I approach those companies to see if they want to buy my account or will they sue me to oblivion ?

It’s alwyas been a personal account and is my nickname since I was a child.

On a side note, someone has tried to reset my account dozens of times throughout the years.
> You wouldn't ask someone if they wanted to shag at a funeral, would you?

https://observer.com/2015/08/better-bed-than-dead-why-mouner...
Whoops, you're right, I completely misinterpreted that post. Thanks for pointing it out.
There's in-game insurance, everyone and anyone can get it for any ship.

Some of the pledges have it as a bonus so you get it for free for that ship or for a few months. If you get destroy you can get everything back for basically nothing and faster.

Insurance isn't that big of a bonus but it solidifies your pledge. You tend to see lifetime attached to higher priced or rare packages/pledges. Which is a good message to send to backers that are willing to hand over 500+
An ability to trace the sources of the posts might be interesting. And connecting that to discourse about the typical accuracy of those sources.

"This content paid for by... here's the other content they paid for/posted, the trend of topics they discuss, and a weighted bullshit meter"

But Facebook plainly wants to moderate the narratives for themselves; until recently their entire news feed was human curated. Now they're just going to keep it behind the scenes, use some algorithms, and offer pay to play, so yeah, they'll get right on doing something that offers visibility.
Paul Allen has died. It's sad. I remember him from the very early days when the Altair was new and Microsoft BASIC was the language of choice and the People's Computer Company was publishing computer games. Paul exuded a quiet confidence in those days punctuated by droll humor. Better, he put his money where his imagination went and has left the world a better place. For greybeards, the Living Computer Museum is a joy to behold.
Most of the changes are removals of architectures other than x86_64. What a joke.
> This is why it makes me nervous when people suggest we should be able to prosecute members of Congress for insider trading.

This thing that you fear may happen in the future happened in 2012 (STOCK Act, clarifies that insider trading is banned for Congress). You are six years behind.

So how has your prediction panned out? Have malicious Presidents used it to go after Congress? No. There have been no prosecutions whatsoever.
One of my heroes. You'll be missed!
Can we get a cure for cancer?!
Great, Facebook as the ministry of truth.
"Be afraid of something" is a very loaded sentence that covers quite different things.

I'd want to draw a line between fear (as a very specific emotion) and aversion/dislike/anti-preference, as those are quite different things but both can be referred to as "being afraid of X". There are many unpleasant, unwanted things that I don't prefer at all and would actively work to avoid or prevent them, but I'm not afraid of them in the emotional sense. And there are a bunch of trivial things that I am afraid of (i.e. I experience that emotion when thinking about them) but that are actually good for me and I'm going to intentionally do them despite the fear.

There is a natural aversion to death, however, I'd argue that a great many people (though probably not a majority) don't experience any significant active emotion (including but not limited to fear) when contemplating their death, and that includes "anyone who has given the matter some thought and introspection", especially among people who have had lots of exposure to actual death. Experiencing fear and all the physiological effects of fear when being in clear immediate threat of death is a natural reflex, but that doesn't necessarily happen in rational contemplation about the end of ones existence. There is such a thing as acceptance.
I saw that, but that just says they have (in some circumstances) the option to place their orders. I'm unclear why that would necessarily be a good thing, but either way: have they made a clear statement that they're not farming retail orders out to other firms? If they are, they're going to get paid for them.
In this hypothetical, 25% of people advance. If you have to start 10 seconds late, you almost certainly finish outside the top 25% no matter where you were going to finish otherwise. But if a few people get to start 10 seconds early, you'll probably still finish in the top 25% unless you were going to be marginal to begin with.
See here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18224227
I think that leaving information up on the website, but make plainly visible the sponsor (and a list of other items sponsored), would be a decent feature that Facebook would absolutely never implement.
With transition packs less is best
I'm 100% certain he did more good for this world with his wealth than someone like you can even begin to dream of. He helped to build a successful computer company, intelligently navigated the exit to make significant wealth, and then donated 2 billion to various causes.

Tell me, what the hell have you done for anyone?
I really think they have better things to worry about. Maybe fixing their news feed so that I don't see the same four pieces of content day after day after day. With a few hundred contacts on Facebook that aren't unfollowed, I should be seeing something, but it's not surfacing at all. Even if I turn on notifications for particular people that I really care about seeing content from, about half the time I don't see things. Really makes it pointless to bother with Facebook very much.
That is terribly inefficient.
I am. Are you?
Agreed. Critical thinking is becoming a lost art that we should not use "workarounds".

Also, who gets to decide what is true? Silicon Valley tech employees lean overwhelming to the left. How do you remove this bias?

But really, this is a problem of society in general, not a tech problem. People are trained to take what they here with a grain of salt. Having official fact checkers lends authority to what is on Facebook which may or may not be true based solely on whether it was flagged / censored.
My favorite features:

1. SAAS web app to manage the service with logs, and configuration as well as multi-user management with various roles.
2. HTTP Rest-like api for sending mail from your app
3. API keys for authentication, managed through web app
4. They do monitor black-lists and removals from blacklists. They also manage the warm-up time for your IP to make sure it is ready to send the volume of email you are sending, and can queue emails to avoid sending too many at once to the same destination mail service.
5. Spam control, in case you use the key in an app that turns out to have a relay vulnerability.
6. Return-path management to catch blocks and smtp errors.

I've managed my own SMTP services with PostFix and SendMail, and I will never go back to doing that myself again. It would take a lot more than 1M emails/month to make that worthwhile.
> I am fundamentally opposed to the implication of this suit - the acknowledgement that literally any outcome outside of getting into Harvard is a net detriment to life outcomes significant enough to warrant a lawsuit.

I don't think that's the implication. I think the point of the plaintiffs is that the admissions process is racist against asians of equal capability to other races. Now no doubt some of them might be motivated by a personal vendetta against Harvard for being rejected, but I don't think they're asking to be personally admitted to Harvard if their case succeeds.

I'm not american but this is literally institutional racism, and it's bizarre to me how people, and especially asians, seem okay with it.
I've second hand experience with this. Though not a lethal situation (thank the heavens!) the mindset was dead on. A grad student in the BioEng lab was doing her PhD on a fall detection sensor for the elderly. Kinda like what the new Apple watch is supposed to do, but, you know, something that actually works. The lab was working with a device manufacturer that was looking to branch into medical devices as a new market and was partnered with the lab to do the initial PoC. Well, one day she came into the lab to discover that the company had shut down and remote bricked the devices overnight. They were still in early testing, so no people were harmed, which was really lucky. But if they had been under clinical trial already, there was a real possibility that real people out there would have been harmed severely (a 'bad' geriatric fall can become lethal).

All emails to the company were unanswered. All phone calls went to voicemail. Nothing could be done. She was 5 years into her PhD on this and had to restart the whole project (she wasn't much of a coder, more a clinical trials person).

In medicine, the SV mindset of 'move fast, break things' means that granny is breaking her hip and isn't going to last much longer. You CANNOT 'break things' in medicine. However, if you do get though clinical trials, hoooo baby! You essentially have a monopoly and will be rolling in it. MedTech investing is a lot like SV's VC investing, just a lot more careful.
Honestly, the much harder problem is convincing people that fact checkers are right, if they already disagree with the fact checker.
And they are much more numerous than those who already happened to agree with the fact checker.
> That's a good thing.

Maybe, maybe not, but luckily that question's not very important. Here's what is:

Where is the cleverness and beauty in Yet Another Boring LLVM Frontend(tm)? Zig and Rust are more than that, I'll readily grant - but that description does fall under the umbrella of "implementing a language".
They'll most likely filter out anything conservative.
To be fair, people having unhealthy lifestyle - especially those drinking are feeling terrible all the time - may just think this is how healthy person should feel and miss any symptoms of the potential disease.
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Does coal ash concentrate valuable metals found in coal? If so the ash could be a valuable source of radioisotopes... Presumably it's not profitable though, cause its not a very original idea
That is very effective.
It was clear the internet was full of lies long before the aol dial up days. If the message hasn’t sunk in by now I think people aren’t going to get it, ever. I’m not sure there’s even a positive way out of this for Facebook.
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Hmm what do you mean by English language? I cannot think of a language that wouldn't let this (maybe a very analytic language, like Mandarin?). This is probably a universal property of human languages.
Agreed. The Order of the Engineer is a good place to start and bringing that tradition down into comp-eng/sci would be a nice start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Engineer
The Supreme Court either has jurisdiction or it does not; whether it figures out the correct answer to that question is a separate issue.
ALL of the other OEMs are building autonomous cars using LIDAR so cost isn't a factor.

And relating it to technical debt makes no sense as you have to design with LIDAR in the beginning.
> These middle-management positions are so unmeasurable that I think they may be greatest source of bullshit jobs in tech. So if it's true that their success is largely unmeasureable, I wonder how you've come to that conclusion?

But, product improvements shouldn't be immeasurable. Through analysis of engagement metrics, talking with users, etc. one can measure improvements. Sure, it isn't a direct measurement, but pure unmeasurable intuition is not how good PMs function
Why do you think that might be?
Indeed.

Meant to write "Go allows safe concurrent access but doesn't stop unsafe concurrent access to shared data structures"

Thanks & sorry for the confusion.
Are you willing to contribute to the port? Don't rubbish other peoples' work unless you've got something better to replace it with.
The Soviets tried and failed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_crewed_lunar_programs
Oh I am looking forward to the days when the business people are pushing for less bloat
The information from people that explicitly opt-in would have given them the same insight.

> That's why I personally choose to leave telemetry on in applications that I trust

The problem is that when I have to "leave it on" rather than explicitly enable it then it's no longer an application I trust.
All idealists have an high opinion of themselves.
How does this compare to Reagents? If I understand correctly, Reagents are the successor of Concurrent ML.

http://kcsrk.info/ocaml/multicore/2016/06/11/lock-free/
That makes sense, my FAANG offer wouldn't budge an inch until I sent them a screenshot of my competing offer. Immediately got another 20% after that.
Can you provide a citation to an OEM that is putting LIDAR in vehicles being sold to customers today?
Feel free to look at the list of fact-checkers that Facebook uses for any particular country, if you're so inclined:

https://www.facebook.com/help/publisher/182222309230722
It's back to $0.98, so much for this article...
For those confused by this subthread (like I was): https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/press-f-to-pay-respects
I down voted you because I believe this post in is incredibly poor taste. Nobody is perfect and calling out perceived flaws is a pretty shitty thing to do right when someone dies. Especially true given that several people who have posted here knew the guy on a personal level.
What does it matter how marginal I was? Either I earned it, or I didn’t. Does a team only get a Super Bowl parade if they win by 14 points?
In this state, it's very hard to keep even employees who just stop showing up from drawing unemployment, if they go through the process of signing up for it. There are state employees whose job it is to bludgeon employers into acquiescing on this issue. If the employee got fired and wasn't arrested for crimes committed at the workplace, there's no way she's not getting unemployment.
Generally if you run your own server at any reasonable volume, you will be blocked by anti-spam algorithms and once your domain makes a blacklist, it's very difficult to get it reinstated.
It seems like a perfect fit for Twilio, if they were expanding into something well outside their core offering that would be concerning. If you're a customer of Twilio there's a good chance you'll also find Sendgrid useful and vice versa.
Enterprise value is not the same as synergy value
Very few modern insurance plans pay per procedure and that will be done away with entirely as time goes on. Typically physicians are paid a flat rate per patient or a flat rate per diagnosis with a complexity multiplier. This creates an incentive to NOT perform imaging unless it's necessary.
That is a reason against facebooks business model.
Something I really love about the Fallout universe is that it poses a fundamental question: What if the transistor was never invented, what would that world look like in its future?

It's not necessarily an anachronism if it's on a different timeline.
Most comments here seem to be remembering him for his philanthropy and contributions to science and humanity, rather than for being a co-founder of Microsoft.

It's an interesting contrast to the thread from 7 years ago about the death of Steve Jobs [1]. Steve Jobs was a visionary, but he wasn't a philanthropist. His legacy is Apple, Allen's legacy is his contributions to charity. Gates will be the same, he will be remembered as the man who tried to eradicate malaria, not the man who made Microsoft Windows.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078107
lolololololololololololol - people have been panicking for 26 years at the thought of Hillary Clinton being president.
Except a lot of the "ideas" aren't subjective.

The most obvious case would be climate change. Regularly, climate skeptics are given the same amount of airtime as climate scientists, despite the fact that the evidence and opinion is overwhelmingly in support of climate change being a real problem.

A realistic panel would be 98 climate scientists on one side, and two climate skeptics on the other.

By giving someone with far less evidence equal airtime and respect, it lends credence to that point of view despite it being so poorly supported by facts.

This is most definitely not a good thing.
I have a new BS rule when its a crypto currency headline just replace with Pharm Industry..you get the same exact meaning