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Harvard doesn't have an admissions problem, they have an image problem that was brought to light by a controversial lawsuit. The institution known as Harvard is basically a massive investment firm that just so happens to run a school -- if Harvard's (and other elite, mega wealthy colleges) stated mission was to promote general education they could open up additional campuses and increase admissions without sacrificing much in the way of educational quality. Even if Harvard was half the school it is today it would still be a fantastic education.

Harvard is trying to have it's cake and eat it too with it's selection process, there are a set amount of priorities they have with each class and need to balance these priorities out, namely: Admit enough legacy / wealthy students to placate the donor class, have a relatively diverse set of kids so that they can claim diversity, grab some kids with "exceptional talent" (maybe a great musician here and there) and pad out the rest with kids that have perfect SAT scores.

I honestly don't think this is a problem that can be solved. Harvard deliberately caps the amount of students they accept and their capacity to accept these students to maintain it's elite reputation, combine that with the fact that their student body needs to reflect the principles they tell the world (diversity more so that absolute quality) and you will have situations like this.
You have got it backwards. These trees were not felled by individuals who were toiling to make a better tomorrow. On the contrary, greedy industralist made them toil and die for their profit. When Queen Victoria and her chronies were filling their pockets by looting the world, London was still a slum. Henry Mayhew documented this in his publication London Labour and the London Poor[1].

Things like 8 hour work week, health benefits etc were achived in blood.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Labour_and_the_London_P...
It's just us millennials who lack meaning. The whole intellectual thing is just arrogance.
Forced arbitration is a violation of human rights. Access to the courts should always be available. These clauses should join “sell yourself into slavery” as examples of obvious things you can’t do in a contract.
Two things that help me a lot when working in paragraphs:

- gj instead of j and gk instead of k to move up and down by visual line instead of line number.

- Just go where I want by using / and then typing the word I want to navigate to. No need to guess how many words in it is.
Trillian and Adium were such killer apps at their time.
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Staying on the other side of a X km wide object is a great radiation shield from the sun. But, distance also helps. If your in a space suit on the surface of Mars you have very little radiation protection. Using buried structures and going out at night seems to be the best option. But, overall it’s likely fairly close between the two.

Gravity might be a larger issue on Mars than outer space as it’s harder to keep something spinning at 1g in a weak atmosphere. It really depends on how well humans adapt to 38% earths gravity. That might be fine over a lifetime, or low enough to be a significant issue.
Recessions are usually triggered by market sentiment...unless a volcano explodes and blocks off the Sun or something like that.
> Is "less code to maintain" really a valid concern? Do they actually have to maintain it after it's been written?

Yes, it really is. And yes, you still have to maintain code that's been written.

See discussion at https://github.com/golang/go/issues/25417

The pure Go code was already faster than the assembly on some CPUs. For the other CPUs where the assembly was faster, we'd rather just fix the compiler to optimize better.
I work with plenty of text in Org-mode using emacs and evil (vim mode for emacs) and I find it just fine. Most of the time, I just use / to search where I want to edit; but maybe you can use something like this: https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion

Also you can research on soft and hard line breaks, so you can move easily within the paragraph VimPencil could help you with that.
When that trust turns out to be misplaced, there is no recourse. If your bitcoin exchange gets hacked, you lose all of your money. If your bitcoin wallet gets hacked, you lose all of your money. If you forget your login credentials, you lose all of your money. If there's a bug in the code of your smart contract, you lose all of your money. If someone successfully hacks the blockchain security, you lose all of your money. In many ways, trusting technology is harder than trusting people. Would you rather trust a human legal system or the details of some computer code you don't have the expertise to audit?

In making the case for human systems over bitcoin, Bruce Schneider echoes the same arguments that eventually led to FDR stealing every US citizen's gold in 1933 to bail out the federal reserve. To me it seems deplorable for someone to advocate placating dishonest institutions founded on a legacy of screwing over people.
Is that the same university that admits more from eight private schools than from 3/4 of the state school system? Yep, sounds like a fair system. Cool story bro.
>So what is that problem? Does it have to do with exclusion? If so, why do not you promote "All Lives Matter", to make sure no one is excluded, then?

On Veteran's Day, do you point out that all jobs matter?
Not only backtracking but also other control flow structures: https://curiosity-driven.org/continuations#flow-structures
ECS doesn't have a top level resource called "PodSecurityPolicy" but we do provide task level configuration options for all the major settings that you would normally put in your pod security policy, including including adding and dropping capabilities, privileged or unprivileged mode, docker security options for controlling SELinux or AppArmor, ulimits, sysctl settings, among others. You can find all these configuration options and more documented here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/...

It is definitely possible to prevent a task running in ECS from getting root access to the host. If there is something missing that you feel we need to add to ECS to better enable this, definitely reach out and let me know!
Based entirely on the headline: doesn’t every crash prevent most future crashes that would have had the same cause?
> It can be tricky, but doesn't depend on the user being an engineer. It mainly requires the right mindset.

A mindset that is suspiciously similar to an engineer's. :P For example, you need the user to memorize the fact that all the configs are in a ".vimrc" file in their home directory. Oh and since it's a dotfile they might not see it immediately. And then if they want to add custom shortcuts they need to learn exactly how the syntax works, the different "modes", the types of remaps, etc. It's a horrible experience for a non-engineer.

> Why is that? Setting up Vim is the easiest task for me, it's literally just a matter of copying some files.

I have a lot of plugins (e.g. syntax highlighting, linting, and autocomplete for different languages), and each of those can have their own dependencies that they require you to install before they'll work.
I reply here because you also commented here:

Normal people who aren't lawyers think of tickets as options not futures; that is, an option to board, not an obligation to board. That's how most people's experience of tickets work, starting out with cinema tickets from a young age, and working up to bus and train tickets later on.

It may be that people need to get legal advice every time they buy a ticket, but that's probably not very efficient.

The internet is decreasing the opacity of differential pricing, but premium airlines rely on differential pricing for their business model. Thus this case trying to move to harder constraints than mere obfuscation. The case will have PR value too, in changing the public's understanding of the nature of a plane ticket.
got me curious about transforming faeces... when https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4998016/

combustion performance of waste..
I'm sympathetic to the idea of that, but you aren't going to get out from under anyone's thumb by setting up a colony in a place that's completely hostile to all known forms of life without billions of dollars worth of infrastructure. If anything, you're even more under the thumb of anyone with money and power. Any disruption to fragile life-support systems equals certain death in minutes. Any disruption to the supply shipments from Earth equals death within months to years probably. Getting enough of a supply chain going on Mars to not be dependent on shipments from Earth will take centuries and trillions of dollars in the most optimistic scenario.
Interesting that nano has low performance overall. It's easy to understand (it's not an advanced editor), but I really didn't expect it.

Also, notepad++ is all over the place.
Question for hosting and db experts- should one go for ssd or HD when hosting? I'd think HD is better because you can anticipate failure using smart. Ssd has the advantage of being faster to load data.

On that note- are database systems now able to make better use of ssd's? Most optimizations centered around contiguous storage in hdd era.
> You could say anything, but as a matter of fact you would be wrong to say that.

Is it not concerned with black people only?
> Begin by writing the job requisition yourself. You know what you want in the “perfect” job candidate. Then work with the recruiter to refine the job listing...

True Hiring managers know -- begin searching for the candidate yourself. Think meetups, conferences, personal network.

Sadly, most HR folks are administrative functionaries who rely on the post & pray method to source potential candidates. Which, seldom yields WHO you need for the job.
It is definitely correct. Good is debatable.
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It's funny you mention printouts. They've been critical for my learning process too. I have a standing desk and as of right now I have 6x sticky notes worth of shortcuts hanging down below my monitor.
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How many events like the one that killed the dinosaurs (mass extinction events) have there been in the history of earth? Five!

GRB or Asteroid are also ELE that the GP did not mention.
This is less about morals than it is about modern Western Civilization, and human rights. Given how Google and Apple are products of modern Western Civilization that benefits from human rights, it's a fair demand to expect these companies to call out blatant violations by powerful Nations on the same.

After all, if Saudi Arabia is unapologetic about Khashogi, or women's rights and defiant enough to break ties with Canada, Google and Apple can be defiant with the current international human rights council head!
Not until the Martian tea party anyway.
Would it be a problem to remove all identity categories (name/legacy/gender/ethnicity/origin/etc) of applicants and simply admit the most qualified students?
A good point, too often forgotten - even the most fantastic predictions by the biggest alarmists don't have the Earth becoming nearly as hostile to life as Mars is now.
What’s the basis for the severity weights? I’d expect the weights to be way more spread out, like 1/10/100/1000. It would definitely not be a good trade off to eliminate nine non-injury crashes at the cost of one additional fatality. But I certainly could be missing something about this sort of evaluation.
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Pffft just another shill for the big banks.

Proof: just look at that gray beard.

This is good for bitcoin.

/s (if it wasn't obvious)
What are your thoughts on code intelligence (intellisense) in a coding interview tool?
The article opens by explaining that the cause of this crash wasn't ever determined- rather, it's the changes in safety regulations that resulted.
> Their giftedness as potential group consisted of 198 members of Mensa. Membership in Mensa is granted to individuals who score at the 98th percentile or higher on recognized standardized measures of intelligence.

And almost exclusively sought by those lacking in other forms of achievement or sense of identity. Doesn't really seem like a sample that would be generalizable in the way the article presents it.
You mean, ios App store and Google play are neutral?
One problem from the fossil fuel industry's perspective is that, while scrubbing doesn't suppress their activity, doing it is essentially an admission that there's a carbon problem. And once you do that, you give up the protection that controversy and doubt affords you, and people might start demanding more extreme measures to curb carbon.

Paying people to spread misinformation that maintains controversy and doubt (e.g. https://cei.org/ , who also helped maintain doubt surrounding the link between smoking and cancer) is far cheaper than the reckoning that could eventually result from admitting that carbon is a problem.
Yeah, I was being sloppy in how I was talking there. But if you know there's going to be a recession you'll immediately stop making investments in capital goods, for instance.
You'll probably reduce other forms of output too and see if you can lay off some of the workers you know you shortly wont' be needing. This will all tend to cause a recession if everybody does it.
Logically centralized but physically decentralized would be a specification, but his statement is correct.
"Centralized" does not have a different meaning in blockchain circles, however it (and especially the inverse "decentralized) has become a weasel word that people use frivolously.
You mean a state sponsored indoctrination of which state approved media sources to trust?

It's funny how if alabama ran a state media indoctrination campaign, some people would be screaming propaganda. But california does it, some people think it is a good thing.

These kids should be thought logic and history of media. Not "how to analyze media". Teaching them logic and history helps them to analyze everything ( religion, media, science, literature, etc ). Not just "media".

What would be your opinion of china or russia running a media "literacy" campaign on their own children?
Direct air capture is already _theoretically_ inefficient due to dilution effects of climate gasses. Just imagine all the natural ressources that will be embodied in just these direct-air-capture machines!

It is important that we think about lowering emissions first and foremost. Thinking "ah well, let's continue as usual, we'll fix it sometime later with <insert unproven technology>" is hella dangerous and most likely won't work:

We're fucking with a planetary climate system powered by the sun after all. The forces and scales at work there easily escape one's imagination...
Can’t people take them to court anyway on the argument that they violated the forced arbitration clause? They would have to prove that they there is a valid reason for them moving slowly in ALL the cases.
Don't worry. If there is a developing country where those institutions don't exist, then you can trust the CIA will forcibly install such institutions, and every public mouthpiece from Wall Street to Capitol Hill will tell you why that's a Good Thing.
Any system is going to be unfair to somebody. It could be argued that evaluating students along all these semi-relevant axes like sportsball skills and robot-building is unfair to the people who busted their asses on academic achievement and got perfect SATs. No matter what solution they choose, some group of people will have a legitimate gripe about its fairness.
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I'm pretty much a jack of all trades.

My professional expertise and where I've spent the majority of my career is in software engineering, systems architecture, devops and test automation. In what little spare time I have I'm co-founder and instructor for an educational organic farm which means I'm often playing carpenter, mechanic and vet as well as being a full time Dad.
I've found that this 'crisis of meaning' is driven by having personal values that are based on extrinsic criteria.

That is, when you value things that are based on things outside your control e.g. social validation, financial success, you will struggle to be happy.

When you value things that are intrinsic e.g. integrity, contribution, creativity, you will have a much better shot at staying happy.

The problem with 'intellectuals' is that they are more often pulled into the rat race where you are chasing extrinsic things. Also, they often value 'intelligence' itself, which makes you feel bad when you realize that the world is filled with smarter people. Also, intelligence deteriorates as you age.
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> no approval or payment required

If you don't have a paid developer license it will silently be uninstalled after 7 days.
> A HUGE problem with developers learning VIM is that they think they have to go from 0 - 100 immediately when you can adopt VIM gradually and still see noticeable efficiency increases.

That iterative process is exactly what I'm talking about. It's taken years to develop my vimrc, because starting with a "prebuilt vimrc" means that you don't really understand what is pure vim, what's custom, and what issues you might run into because of those custom settings conflicting with new plugins.
> Comfort greatly is noticeable if you’re transcripting at high speeds frequently (typing tests) but is otherwise questionable.

When I'm writing something that doesn't require a lot of cognitive overhead (typically chatting online, when I may have a lot to say but it's not particularly intellectually demanding and doesn't require a lot of precision or proofreading) I can reach pretty high WPMs.

I'm not convinced that typing speed is always brain-bound outside of typing tests. If I'm telling you about my day at work I'm pretty sure I can just "stream-of-consciousness" directly through the keyboard with very little overhead, especially if I do it in my native French.
from the article: "By any measure, the safety record since the crash is unprecedented. Out of more than 90 million flight departures on U.S. airlines carrying billions of passengers since then, there has been just the single death: A woman died on April 17 on a Southwest Airlines Co. flight near Philadelphia when an engine failed, sending debris into a window next to where she was sitting."
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The value in elite universities is the network
You are probably right, in the larger picture. On the other hand, this is focused on intellectuals, and further, the study's control group implies that intellectuals feel the problem more.
It isn't about getting the spotlight away from a place it never was; if there had been a meaningful focus on universal equality, the glaring failures that provoked BLM would not have occurred with widespread unconcern outside of the Black community.

As a matter of historical fact, both All Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matters are reactions in defense of status quo inequities from slightly different angles.
Not completely off topic, but not really serious either : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
I agree to a certain degree but for some it’s just a place to play board games with people who are too into board games.
The article mentions what they plan on doing with it:

"What Gebald and Wurzbacher really want to do is to pull vast amounts of CO₂ out of the atmosphere and bury it, forever, deep underground, and sell that service as an offset. Climeworks’s captured CO₂ has already been injected deep into rock formations beneath Iceland..."
Anybody remember Fire for OS X? I used that until iChat came around.
From a statistical perspective, in a fair random lottery, would not the shape of the probability distribution of attributes of winners necessarily match that of the resulting qualified applicants?

If fairness is defined in this approach as a process that does not add information to the system, and in this case actually removes both information (bias) and noise (bias) equally, all it would serve to do is further obfuscate the cause of being admitted.

For an admissions lottery to be considered "fair," you have to assume the participant selection is fair, and that the functioning of the university itself is indifferent to who it gets. Maybe they should A/B test it, where some are admitted at random and their success compared against the traditional admissions process. Arguably, that's even what "legacy," students provide, a sample independent of the admissions process.

That we're having this discussion at all is a greater indicator of the waning of the university system as meaningful process, and how undergraduate education is subject to Goodhart's Law, where it has ceased to be a useful measure of aptitude, competence, or much at all anymore really.
When is an apocalypse not an apocalypse? "...in India, where 30 million died..." "...in the Congo, which so upended local economies that 10 million people died – half the population."

We look at those with wealth, shrug and assume they earned it and continue to let them freely wield the wealth of our entire species; all the while the other eye is trained on those who have been ground into the dust and applaud that things are getting better, faster. Clutching our pearls we hope we don't become them.
It’s not everywhere in China either. I never saw that in newer cities like Shanghai and Shenzhen don’t have that quirk. But it is in Hong Kong and other parts of Southeast Asia.
Would a future Feynman really do enough extra curricular that have nothing to do with their area of expertise to even get into a school like Harvard? Likely not... If anything a lottery would increase their chances compared to the status quo.

Harvard and similar schools have moved beyond just being smart. Everyone who applies is super smart. Now the yard stick is smart++ (meaning they want you to be "well rounded" which is code for having a bunch of self-driven/extra curriculars/special skills/x-factor etc to make you a stand out).
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Here it is in lufthansa:

"> 5.6. A service charge may be payable by any passenger who:

> 5.6.1. fails to arrive for departure at the airport or any other point of departure by the time we have specified (or if no time has actually been specified, with insufficient time to permit completion of official formalities and departure procedures) and, as a consequence, does not use the seat for which a reservation has been made"

Also, the court literally found it to be in the contract.
You'd always want some kind of RAID mirroring with off-site backups, regardless of HDD vs SSD. If you take care of that, you can safely go with SSD. :)
checkout this https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenSeq2Seq - a similar framework but with voice recognition and voice synthesis.
I think the cleaners will have a harder time if the toilet backs up!
...kinda, yeah. Feynman's an interesting choice of example, actually; he wanted to attend Columbia, couldn't get in because of anti-Semitism, and then attended MIT before it was "MIT, Famous Engineering School", when it was still basically seen as a vocational school for middle-class students. I think the whole higher education system would benefit from having people like that scattered throughout it, rather than concentrated at a handful of elite universities.
They don't care about security because they have never been affected by having an Android security patch level too old, and they don't know anybody who has. And they probably won't, honestly.

I find it very concerning that I can't download an update to fix this particular vulnerability without a help from the manufacturer of my device. PNG has nothing to do with drivers, after all.
And yet, I doubt I'm going to get pwned over this one. Mitigations to the rescue.