skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's called holistic for a reason. Overcoming hardships and excelling despite social pressures is probably one of many good markers of potential.
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I use DNS over TLS via multiple resolvers, so not my case.

Privacy is a fragile thing. Is it better putting all my lookups in one basket (CF)? For hiding from ISP, nothing beats VPN, and in this case no need for ESNI. My point is its not up to Mozilla to turn my data to third party.

And, frankly, if choosing between ISP and CF (or Google), leaks to ISP impact your privacy much less. ISP have no global data to ML your history, no analytics cookies, no clear text traffic access.
I haven't tried it myself but there is a version for macOS now. The newest version was released on Sep 27th 2018:

https://www.foobar2000.org/mac
"unlike Google Percolator, FoundationDB, or similar systems, FaunaDB places no constraints on replica distance and is practical to deploy at global internet latencies"

"For each batch of parallel transactions, they are inserted into a distributed, write-ahead transaction log"

"Replicas must achieve consensus for how to insert new transactions into the log. FaunaDB uses an optimized Raft implementation to achieve consensus."

There are constrains on running consensus across the world (Raft), it adds at least 200 ms to serialize txs. Also higher latency means longer interval between hearbeats and hence longer downtime if leader is isolated - known issue of leader based consensus protocols (see "There Is More Consensus in Egalitarian Parliaments" paper[1] or "In search of a simple consensus algorithm" post[2])

Google's Percolator doesn't depend on global consensus but just on global TSO (timestamp oracle) which is possible to implement in a way:

- it doesn't suffer from leader isolation (no leader)

- doesn't have bottleneck (each node handles requests)

- doesn't touch disk on each request

details in the "Quorum clock: leaderless distributed clock" post[3].

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/epaxos-sosp2013.pdf

[2] http://rystsov.info/2017/02/15/simple-consensus.html

[3] http://rystsov.info/2018/10/01/tso.html
> If homelessness was just a question of money, this issue would already be solved. While cities report inconsistently, San Francisco currently spends around $430 per city resident per year on services and programs for the homeless, compared to $260 in New York and $110 in Los Angeles. Yet the problem in our city is worse, and despite increases in spending, has continued to worsen.

Can somebody please explain how spending per resident is a fair measure of this? Isn't spending per homeless resident the relevant measure?

(SF has a much higher homeless rate and we actually spend less per homeless resident than NYC!)
Why?

What actual benefits did you receive?
Hmm no, that type there has Copy implemented, so I don't get the author's point after all.
Use the great American resource of paranoia…

He got that right.
Yea, it does seem like an excuse for the money raised by the church to make it into the local politicians hands.

However, this can be a legitimate issue. For example, New Haven, Connecticut, the site of Yale University, has become a notoriously crime-ridden area. It's not a very big place and something like half the property in the city is owned by non-profits (a few universities, a few large hospitals). Therefore the city's tax base is cut in half (US city revenues are largely from property taxes), but it still needs to provide infrastructure, police, public transportation, etc for everyone.

But it makes it seem more suspicious doing it like this instead of passing a new law that formalizes payments for services.
I expect social media trying to drive "engagement" has had a major effect. It appears that in both social media, and in politics, making sure people are as pissed off as possible about the other side drives engagement, and that also means turnout. This coming election in November is going to be very interesting.
INTERESTING ARTICLE, THANKS FOR POSTING IT
I meant Apple, but the broader implication is that we can't trust either party with the information we have now.
I'm in the same spot as you and am eyeing Elementary OS.
Sure, his rebuttal wasn’t either :)
> Harvard has testified that race, when considered in admissions, can only help, not hurt, a student’s chances of getting in.

So if your race matches their preference they improve your odds of admittance. Since the number of admissions is fixed this reduces the odds of those who have a race that doesn’t match their preference.

IANAL but it sounds like Harvard just admitted that they were guilty.
What damages the company more is leadership that lies about or covers up hard truths they are ethically and legally obligated to share. That would be more damning than a breach.
Huge problem in the US is we allowed important parts of the country to deteriorate in various ways.
Installing unbound, which supports DoT and multiple resolvers on your home router, for example
The number of possible things you can do is a Large Number, so I doubt how possible this would be. Even if it were - it would absolutely murder battery life. Civilization runs on laptops, and now iOS too.
No that's the topic of the article.
> I still don't really understand why this happened

Reagan and his failed economic policy.

> or how the resulting issues haven't been addressed.

The ongoing personality cult around Reagan and his failed economic policy.
> they never mentioned "quotas"

There isn't a quota in the sense that there is a permanent fixed number, it's all just politics. So you've got situations like someone who donated $100 million to the school had the kid they wrote a recommendation for rejected last year, and now they're pissed so the development office wants to make sure whoever they recommend this year gets in. But then the rowing coach is considering going to another school where they're promised 12 recruits instead of 8, so now you have the AD and the head of development both lobbying the head of admissions to get more slots for their department. And exactly how many each actually gets each year is going to depend partly on how the admissions process is structured, but also on the facts of the situation, who owes who favors, where different people are in their careers and how much they've been contributing to the overall mission and prestige of the university, etc. As well as what the admitted class looks like so far, which can be vastly different a few days or even hours apart.
What if their major is gender studies?
If it was up to me, for university admissions there would be a public clear and objective scoring system, based for example only on grades and then use a lottery system weighted inversely by income. No more essays and subjective values, silly extracurriculars or race involved (it's already somehow accounted for in the income).
Does this article defend Harvard?
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That's really fun! Funny enough, we put up a tutorial last week on looking at the silk road bitcoin / rogue DEA incident with Neo4j<>Graphistry (we do GPU viz): https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1TwYTDaBcMFxL6g5xLQz...

Would love to see if we can do even cleaner as GraphSense<>Graphistry!
On macOS? You totally can. You can also do the same on iOS, but in a much more limited way.
There are still plenty of truths that make sweepy GC a terrible basis for a general purpose programming language.

RC -- reference-counting -- is, of course, a kind of GC, and thus another thing to avoid, most of the time, in performant programs. That is a reason "shared_ptr" in C++, and its analog in Rust, are used sparingly, particularly in libraries that might need to be used nobody-knows-where. (Shared_ptr-happy coding is a marker of the reluctant Java convert.) Another reason is that it tends to serialize otherwise parallel programs.

Libraries are at the core of the GC problem. When you control the main program, you can take all kinds of liberties. But a language that doesn't support using the full power of the language to write universally-usable libraries will always remain in whichever ghetto birthed it.

Another problem not noted in the article is the often very poor cache locality behavior of GC-dependent languages. This can often be mitigated by trading off some other desirable quality. Again, such tradeoffs are easy in a main program, and near impossible in a library. Manipulating this tradeoff is characteristic of misleading benchmarks showing GC languages as "nearly as fast as", usually, C. (C++ and Rust are substantially faster than C, in real programs, so are less popular comparison targets.)

Another problem with programs in GC-dependent languages, not mentioned, is what might be called poor citizenship. A GC program might run well when it (a benchmark?) is the only program running, but run several and things may change. This is a consequence of two facts. First, letting garbage accumulate is more efficient for any single program, but may interfere with other programs that would like to do the same. Second, on typical platforms, it is hard to know how much garbage is too much. Memory is cheaper than it once was, most places, but cache is still dear, and an increasing ratio still has baleful consequences.

Many, perhaps most programs need to manage resources other than memory, or even manage more than one kind of memory. Once you have facilities in place to manage any resource, memory is just one of them, and may be managed the same way. When you are blessed with destructors (or a Drop trait), the appeal of GC, or any second system, and its interactions with the first, evaporates.

GC-dependent languages suffer from other problems, but this comment is growing long, and these are enough for me. Not all programs need to be fast, or constructible from mature, widely usable and widely sourced libraries, or play well with others, or manage non-memory resources, but many do. The rest can be coded in GC-dependent languages without shame.
Inaccurate, the misreported metrics didn't impact billing[0].

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-exaggerating-view-c...
I wish we would start differentiating Paid-Government 'Trolls', with the usual, ubiquitus, and often as disruptive kind. I fear the overlap is huge, and the lack of nuance keeps us from actually addressing many of the issues behind both. Is there a good set of words to distinguish intent? Is it not trolls but state psyops actors perhaps?

P.s.
Can we kill the title caps if this gets to front?
Perhaps the answer is that Bloomberg were mislead, either by intentional state agents* or by a reporter who recklessly mis-understood and/or cherry-picked sources?

* not necessarily from the US.
What a bunch of double-speak. You have a city with conditions on the streets compared to those of the world's poorest slums. Clearly, a dramatic increase in resources needs to be brought to bear on the problem. Any plan Mayor Breed might have will only be aided by additional funding. Patrick Collision's plea for subtlety is a thin disguise for his apathy.

Tech companies like his--btw Stripe benefited from San Francisco tax breaks and the change from an income tax to a gross receipt tax in the mid-aughts--need to step up and give back to the cities that enabled them to become what they are today. And they should be more willing to take responsibility for the consequences good and bad of the tech boom.
Apple was very clear that the notarization process is not an App Store review. It could be, at some point, but as it stands currently there are so many apps that don't fit into the sandbox model that they'd just be shooting themselves in the foot.
Ugg, you are describing the problem of the century.

Unfortunately I don't have an answer to that. It is apparently quite easy for people to convince themselves that they are "protecting the character of the neighborhood" while also hurting other people, while not realizing it.

I think that the only solution is to get together a voting cohort of renters, that will fight and vote for their own benefit.

But this is hard work and there are no easy solutions.
Of course it could. Almost anything "could". But it doesn't, as of right now.

This exact discussion first happened when the original iPhone came out. It's been a decade+ now, and nothing has happened to your ability to run whatever you want on a Mac.

If this really happens to be some sort of frog-boiling conspiracy, it's progress must be glacial. Which doesn't square very well with the other usual criticisms, namely that Apple doesn't care about the Mac, and that they suffer from short-termism.
Brand awareness campaigns are measured (and billed) by impressions, not by "average length of video viewed," which was the metric that Facebook lied about.
> IANAL but it sounds like Harvard just admitted that they were guilty.

I don't like what they seem to be doing, but Harvard is a private university - they should be able to recruit who they want to based on their own criteria. Of course, it's not a binary thing: universities in the US receive lots of subsidies from local states, so there is a certain expectation of fairness.

Maybe the right thing to do would be to completely cut subsidies if they decide to have a non-public selection process.
If you die, your estate will be tapped to pay what it can, assuming you die with assets.
I opened it with a special screwdriver and it’s fine and flat.

There’s no where for the metal to go when it expands and contracts during temp changes, so it bowed out, in its little creviced area it fits in. Nobody told Apple to surround metal with metal or how apparently.

It gets down to freezing sometimes, always shut off and I warm it up to room temp before turning it on, 8 or so hours.

How does your MacBook Pro work after being repeatedly frozen? Or sitting in a hot car? If you don’t do this, you wouldn’t know.
I use the system and while yes you can do what you describe it is usually not really worth it. There is a limit on it that is not that high and it is more fun to just grab different fun things. I ended up using it for lots of high grade meat, sake
Amazing. Right click on Milkdrop window, full-screen... I'm amazed this is a web app
* Assuming Apple never decides to flip certain switches, after the OS infrastructure and hardware support are in place
Neat article, and thanks for sharing. My thoughs as follows:

1) I don't want to pay in perpetuity for the software you have built. It's unfair. (yes, even if you're a single developer and probably a very nice guy).

2) I'm ok to pay for cloud storage, but I want to be able to opt-in and opt-out whenever I want.

Almost all software is a subscription now, and this is ruining a lot of things IMHO.
> can only help, not hurt, a student’s chances of getting in.

Ok, can someone explain to me if this distinction even matters effectively? If every group is getting a bonus and one group is not doesn't that effectively mean that one group is being penalized?
Weren't most developers already generating a certificate with Apple for the second category? I was paying apple 99/yr when I was actively developing a non-app-store app largely just so I could get the app signed with my developer id. I tried reading into alternatives it seemed like a risky process. Ideally I'd like to pay a bit less if I'm not using the benefits of app-review, but the notarization process seems like a decent compromise.

Even on windows my experience is that signed-non-windows-store apps can get flagged as malicious upon download if they're fairly niche/aren't used by many people, supposedly using an EV Cert helps with that. The user experience is actually worse from my experience (windows will show something red, then you have to click some non-obvious buttons to successfully run the app).
No, they were still incorrect for "people watching videos for 3 seconds or more." For that to be correct, the total view time (numerator in the figure in the article) would have to be view time only for those users who watched >3 seconds.
Why should anyone care what Harvard does? Isn’t it a private university, and shouldn’t they be able to choose who they want?

The whole thing strikes me as presumptuous and entitled.
That's why it's not up to you and Harvard has a $40B endowment ;)

But more seriously, grades do not correlate across schools in the slightest. The rigor of a public school in rural Kansas vs. a private school in NY could be wildly different. AP scores and SATs correlate well (same test for everyone that takes it), but normal grades do not

And good grades are already a prerequisite for admission, you generally need to averaging an A- average GPA to be competitive. schools want to see that you can balance a ton of things on your plate well (or your parents can afford to send you to classes/camps) rather than just optimize for a 5.0 GPA
Also after listening to "history of Rome" podcast and then re reading asterix it quite amazing how the authors have maintained historical accuracy in a children's comic
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Good video can be better. Most video is crap. The problem is that crap video is much harder to correct than crap text. You can skim a slow article. Much harder to skim a video. Even AI can extract the most important information from a news article. Much more difficult for video.
The reports I remember from years ago (circa 2010 or 2012, forget the exact year) were that the city wants to build Treasure Island up to support about 30K people, give or take. The renderings were pretty cool, till you consider the stability of the ground in an earthquake, the radioactive waste and rising sea levels.

This was shortly after the plans for what would become the Transbay Transit Center[1], the Salesforce Tower and the Millennium Tower were approved.

Make your case though, why ditch earthquake restrictions?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/17/us/san-franci...
Not sure you want that, because then you end up with something like the Iowa system. (Basically, everyone is admitted, because every school optimizes for getting the required score. It's nigh impossible to graduate high school in Iowa WITHOUT the required 245 points for the Iowa schools.)

Giving an explicit formula for scoring, along with a required score, has historically been the same as letting everyone in, because schools, over time, will always "teach to the test" so to speak.
I agree in a way. Changing laws doesn't make people free. Changing culture does. Sometimes (often?) changing laws has an impact on culture for sure, but how much? It is indirect.
I mean, newsflash that we're still stomping on rights in a lot of places in the US.

There's a huge culture problem in the US.
Sure, certain things will no longer be feasible. My doubt was that these less-than-the-cost-of-shipping items were the bulk of the current direct-from-China Ebay orders, and even if they were, I was doubting that there was not a market for slightly more expensive items.

For the US cost, a "Priority Mail Small Flat Rate Box" is $7.20 between any two US addresses, and a "Priority Mail Flat Rate Envelope" is $6.70. If you don't use one of these, the postage will likely will be slightly more.
> Renaming a file in Gluster can cause it to move between hosts.

No. It does not. Within a volume, files will always be renamed in place on the replicas where they currently reside. There are other problems with rename in Gluster, having to do with how the locations of files are tracked when they're not where they're "supposed" to be according to the hashing scheme, but movement of data as part of rename is not one of those problems.

"Across volumes" is not an interesting or relevant case, because the whole point of separate volumes in Gluster (and most other distributed filesystems) is to provide complete isolation. You seem to have this idea that users would want to have lots of volumes and still move data around between them. Is there something weird about your architecture that forces them to do that? Small volumes are operationally complex and stand resources. Generally, you'd have just one volume. Access control, quota, etc. could still be applied at the namespace or directory level, below volumes. It worked rather well at the world's largest Gluster installation, which I helped run for a year and a half, and I believe most other installations are similar.

Please try to learn about other systems before you make wild claims about them, lest your audience perceive them as deliberate lies to benefit your business. I don't think your claims about Ceph are anywhere near accurate either, but I'll leave those for one of my Ceph friends to address.
Nobody is mentioning video ads. I would gladly consume more video on my phone if there wasn't an adroll.

I can use adblock on my computer, but it's more difficult on the phone (DNS66, etc) so less likely I will have adblocking on the phone.

As publishers moved more to video to capitalize on video plays, so did ads come with them, thus video became less appealing for me.

That's how it played out for me the past 2 years, and probably you too.
The software is sent to Apple when it is notarized. When a user downloads and runs it, it is not sent to Apple. It just uses the hash. It would be pretty crazy for Mac OS to send the whole package to Apple to do a security scan, but a naive reader might think that.
"I don't like what they seem to be doing, but Harvard is a private university - they should be able to recruit who they want to based on their own criteria"

How is this argument different than supporting a private restaurant not serving e.g. Chinese people since they "are a private company that should be able to serve whom they want based on their own criteria?"
Otto Warmbier: what happened in the North Korean jail that led to his death?
Great point. And it's no mystery why Seattle and San Francisco are seeing homelessness become more and more of a problem. It's a direct result of the rise of a wildly profitable tech industry in those cities. It's maddening to see companies like Amazon and Stripe oppose initiatives to address these issues in their hometowns.
Although I'd support this, cutting subsidies is going to be incredibly painful. A lot of University income is tied up as overhead on top of research grants.
Most people would like to retire some day, I think.

The good news is we cured your cancer! The bad news is that you will now have to work until you die.
What is the size of one "lump"?
We might have some common ground here. I don't drive and I don't want to pay for it either.

For me the bigger negative externality is in foreign policy. I don't want any part of overseas adventures for oil. The financial costs alone are astronomical.

At the same time, I do benefit from transportation infrastructure in terms of shipping and purchasing goods which are transported. But if it were my decision I'd say just privatize the whole thing.

If a private road pollutes or otherwise harms anyone, then they should be liable. Problem solved. Lawyers have every incentive to claim damages.

About the abject terror, just build your way up. You can do it. Once you try it you'll see that it truly is as easy as riding a bike.

Back to your main point - it is not selfish to not want to ban petrol/diesel vehicles. I am ready to share the road with anyone.
Affirmative action has been a big issue, but I don't think it makes you guilty.
You're mistaking corporatocracy for capitalism. One can believe in the ratchet of the market and trade to elevate the human condition while disbelieving in the merits of governance by private interest.

Capitalism means I should be able to trade freely without restraint, provided I pay the costs. It does not mean I'm free to regulate my competition out of business.
I just bought 5 lbs. on Amazon, but they are recently discontinued, so once they're gone, they're gone.
It's not any different to today, you have to disable gatekeeper to run a non signed app.
Is it really a retroactive fine? It’s still under construction.
Yo. Let’s chat about this. I’ve built something very related!