skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me preface by saying I disagree with everything you say, but I still think you have the right to say it.

Universities are meant to be institutions of learning. Learning isn’t always comfortable. Some long held truths turn out to be wrong at some point. What we all think is true or right right now could completely reverse in a decade. Letting people speak especially when it’s against your morals is important for learning and understanding. Even if it’s bizarre and incoherent, if somebody believes it, we should try to understand why so that we can better educate those who were persuaded.

As an example of the rapid change in public thought and what’s acceptable, almost nobody publicly supported gay marriage a little over a decade ago. Saying you did would result in mockery, people questioning your sexual identity, people bringing up the religious history of America, etc. Now publicly opposing it is career suicide.
Have you ever met someone who navigaed to medium.com to fin articles, or is this a matter of faith?
> I am and I suspect will continue to be upset that the harder I work, the less benefit I receive .

It seems logical and reasonable to give more help to those who need it more. And realistically, you're always going to be way better off by maximizing your own success (even if it means you might get less help) than by minimizing your own success and maximally relying on help. A life lived solely on assistance isn't really a pleasant one.
> Some people don't even consider applicants from BYU, and other heavily religious universities because they don't want to reward such institutions.

That's just religious discrimination cloaked in something less intolerable: academic elitism. HBCUs probably face a similar problem: should we abolish or enforce strict racial quotes on them because there are racists who will toss a resume with Howard University on it?

> For public universities, the First Amendment legally obligates them otherwise.

This is absolutely true. But to your broader point, that freedom of expression yields greater institutional cache: how do you explain the strong performance (and reputation) of private institutions vs. "state schools"?
there are many more mysteries of the past we have yet to uncover.
> So, you're saying that people who have the misfortune to have parents who can't do those things for them should suffer a handicap, right?

Yes, for the reasons that I outlined. If you don't reward kids for their parents investment, their parents won't invest, and that will be worse for everyone.

If you spending 1 hour or 10 hours teaching your kids at night makes no difference to their life outcomes, which will you choose?
Before 2013, data sent between Google data-centers were in plaintext (!!!) because Google incorrectly assumed that the their private fiber network was actually private[0].

So if you used Gmail or communicated with people who used Gmail before 2013, then a copy of your communications are backuped up in Utah[1] right now.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2013/10/nsa-hacked-yahoo-google-cables

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
The attack surface of a browser makes it a perfect target - I would not advise storing any critical passwords with the browser or in close reach to the browser.
Didn’t Google say something about using AI for this kind of game state prediction at Stadia presentation?
Asking about the choice of browser platform out of curiosity, might be a perfectly valid question.

Questioning the choice (that is, implying it's wrong), asking for whether the reason is "good" as a value judgement, stating outright that "we have to do better", is not perfectly valid. It's rude.
Just to get this right - to get a better SAT adversity score for their children, parents should ideally quit their job, survive on tax-payer welfare and live in a high-crime area ? This is now fully incentivized right ?
This is an entitled view. Pursuing a PhD is a choice; privilege even. How we value (or should value) pushing the frontiers of knowledge is a separate debate. Ideally, nothing should be detrimental to your health.
Why am I not surprised?

They just provide plausible deniability to clients, who may not be able to pay the ransom for legal reasons.
My brother's last dying wish: to play Total War Three Kingdoms
Definitely not true.
The first amendment specifically applies to the government bodies, and laws passed by them.

It very deliberately excludes private parties - otherwise and random wacko could force the nyt or fox to publish whatever they wanted.
Through the college admissions essay
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From first hand experience, you're wrong.

I had a real littering problem around an area I used to live in, council installed a recycling station that people could bring bottles to for a cash reward (10c a bottle).

It worked. Not only did people stop throwing the bottles on the ground as much, we had people driving around the area trying to find discarded plastic bottles, and there was a noticeable improvement on the amount of discarded bottles around the area within months.

The only real problem was people rifling through recycling bins trying to make a buck.
So, some kids from crappy schools and neighborhoods will get into college, when they might not otherwise, presumably taking the place of you/your children, who have “made solid decisions” and “worked my ass off for 30 years” who deserve it more? Because you/they worked harder?

Ok. Cool. Just want to make sure I understand.
Somewhat relatedly, does anyone else need to adblock/disable medium.com JS in order to scroll through articles?
TL;DR: This game is coming out in about a week. A young man with Leukemia would like to play it as his last wish, but fears that he won't make it to the launch date.

His brother sends a request for help on Reddit; hours later he's granted a game key to unlock the game in advance.

One of the best stories on the internet today (despite the sad reality of the young man's disease).
Because it appears that no news outlet wants to link to the actual dashboard:

https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/pr...

Looks like they try to account for neighborhood environment, family environment, and high school environment. Seems a bit fairer than I expected, assuming family environment is given the weight it deserves. Otherwise it may penalize people who try to go to a better school or a better neighborhood.

Also looks like a play to sell a dashboard. Maybe related to the regulatory environment of colleges - they can prove they're selecting across a broad enough socioeconomic stratus, similar to how banks like to prove they're meeting HUD requirements for lending.
TikTok is pretty popular these days, for one.
To be clear then, you're not actually talking about quality of education (tutoring, robotics teams, mock trial, great teachers, enrichment activities, science museum trips, history competitions). As you say, it's "ability to prioritize what income they do have to make sure you're in a good neighborhood". Your primary problem with this, then,is that it devalues the ability to move into rich neighborhoods.

How does the ability to move into a rich neighborhood correlate with college success? I teach math, so that would be a great place to give an example.
Half of Americans are just one paycheck away from financial disaster
i don't watch tv anymore due to the excessive 'spin' and sometimes straight out lies. usually they start off by saying "allegedly" and by the time they're done you'd think it's one of Newton's laws of motion
Money. Private schools can be $40K or more (after taxes) per child per year. You can get a lot of real estate for that money instead in a lot of markets.
Use Click to built a command line tool for complex applications
Please forgive me if I'm wrong but this sounds like a sparse jacobian problem? There are solvers that seem to support this (esp. Julia) using GPUs. I believe Boost odeint also supports this.
Is coral gardening the front line in the fight against climate change?
Player Piano seems like a better forecast for how society is progressing, actually
'Discipline and Punish' is a masterwork and a great read. Foucault's influence is huge. If you're capable of reading him and choose not to, you may be cutting your nose off to spite your face.

I say this as someone who read Russell's chapter on Nietzsche and avoided reading his work, then read it.

Critiques should be accompanied with salt.
There needs to be more accountability for Bitcoin, solve btc and you solve a lot of these hacks...
An example is the federal contracting rules that specifically require that some contracts be awarded to companies that are not run by white males.

This of course is gamed. The common case for a small contractor is that a woman is officially running the business but her husband is really doing it. Large contractors subcontract out to these small contractors for no reason other than to fill quotas. It is often make-work nonsense, paying them even though there is no reason other than the quota to have them working on the project. In other words, it is government waste.

There are people who make a career out of filling these quotas.
Uber Quiet Mode: Not Chatting with Your Driver Is Now an Option
What is SWIM?
What I know from friends at Facebook is that there is a mass exodus at the moment, at the same time mass hiring to compensate. Overall pretty uncomfortable so most of them consider leaving to other places.
> my opinion is that it should be paid labor.

Every job I've ever had required me to get advance permission to do paid outside work, so such a rule would eliminate most people who are both ethical and employed.
Yeah the HN marketing worked on me and I almost never by non-fiction books.
Medicare the system with an unfunded liability of $37 trillion?
I should really just build an alarm app for this.

Basically I just look up when sunrise is the night before, and move my alarm back 1-2 minutes for it. In the summer I'll go to bed a few minutes later each night until the solstice, then reverse. All I'm doing is chasing the sunrise and sunset (with an offset for sunset).
Even from their announcement blog post, they're intentionally mixing words - https://www.confluent.io/blog/exactly-once-semantics-are-pos...

They may never describe Kafka itself without the word "semantics", but here are some other snippets:

- "I know what some of you are thinking. Exactly once delivery is impossible"
- "While some have outright said that exactly once delivery is probably impossible!"

They mix their phrasing depending on what they're talking about, and whether they are referring to Kafka directly or indirectly.
Who's to say that their lower-income status doesn't out-weigh the other factors you're describing?
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Um, accept the gop has stated that’s their definition - an employer can require employees to act according to the employers religion.

Also in plenty of small towns that is already the case - people in coal country get ruined if they complain about coal, or the mining companies. Which is considered legal.

But let’s put up a very simple example: if I rent out a billboard on a building I own, should I be required to post advertisements from a political candidate I disagree with? Your interpretation of free speech says yes I should have no choice, likewise if I get a pro-hitler or pro Stalin, pro genocide, or pornography, I have no choice I just display it.

Actually here’s a very American example: during elections people stick the little plastic political boards in their front yard, in doing so they’ve declared that their front yard is a space for political ads - should Someone then be allowed to put opposition ads there as well?

This is your definition of free speech: if you publish any speech, you are required to publish all
Do you live in the Bay Area?
So I'm curious, do you believe we should switch to a communist economic model as well? Allocate resources based off who "needs it more" seems to be flirting with that ideology. A life lived solely on assistance is better than a life toiled for no gain it would seem.
There's a group out of the University of Warwick that's trying to commercialize a similar idea.

https://www.hubofallthings.com/main/what-is-the-hat
Firefox is not their primary product and they have no competition. /S
> the stuff you sync to Google is encrypted with your Google password

Your Google Password is also available to Google. (At least every time you log in, even if they properly hash and discarded it after authenticating you and just use a token from there.)
Should we increase the score for people who are less intelligent and have worse grades on average? They would need it more.
I'm glad it was a 'minor' breach. But where is the blog post from the clever and witty founder, about not trying to hire the top 5% of security engineers because everyone is?
"Someone Who Isn't Me"
For many Asian-American's their children's education is a dream that they plan out and sacrifice for so that their kin can have better opportunity than what they managed for themselves. Many are tightly knit families where children look after parents or other close family members later in life. To penalise and denigrate the efforts of such families as "privilege" is awful.
Well, on Windows Chrome does use the system crypto API and encrypts, I believe, your whole profile, but only if you have a password set on your system account.
Also "Some level of production access" could easily include the ability for the attacker to intercept and exfiltrate passwords as users log in.
Fair enough, my comment was a bit snarky, but I feel that pointing out the author failed to back up his arguments is a legitimate criticism.
> That's just religious discrimination cloaked in something less intolerable: academic elitism.

I don't necessarily agree with tossing such resumes in the garbage, but it is evidence that universities that enforce religious dogma on their students do suffer a hit to their reputation because of that.

> how do you explain the strong performance (and reputation) of private institutions vs. "state schools"?

Not every private school is Stanford, MIT, etc. Plenty of private schools are shitty for-profit enterprises (especially online universities) that essentially scam customers out of their money. Purely on the basis of return on investment many studies also conclude that public university is better than private universities.

Also most reputable private university do respect freedom of speech and expression to a similar degree as public universities. If you factor in the reactions of students, perhaps even better. When Berkeley hosted Milo Y students rioted, smashed up cars, etc. When Stanford hosted Dinesh D'Souza it was very tame with protesters being non-disruptive. Public universities aren't immune from going off the deep end regardless of constitutional protection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cMYfxOFBBM

Again, the private schools with good reputations do behave almost as if the First Amendment applied to them. The ones that don't generally aren't reputable. So your question is based on false premise.
The kid who gets a better education is still better off. High school isn't just a means to an end of going to college; you're learning lots of valuable things while you go there, that will help you for the rest of your life. And you're also being set up for better success in college because of that foundation.
Yep, the Jacobian is sparse. I'm using Julia a bit for work and play, but don't own a GPU to test out their GPU support quality.

Does anyone (I assume the poster I originally replied to) know which situations are even worth it to is solve the Jacobian on a GPU?

One of the questions I have about the Julia diffeq module is how many simultaneous equations can it take? Is it thousands?
Wow did we work on the same startup? We ended up with a ZoL cluster with better but not great stability instead with less than half the performance for latency critical loads. But at least it was correct.
The authors complaints are valid, but fails to acknowledge that besides Medium, so many great(and not so great) conversations happen on platforms that are now locked behind login gardens. It was fine back in the day to just create a throwaway FaceTwit account but now they demand mobile numbers too.

Pre social media, how did people discover great content? You can go as far back to the 90s or very early 00s as a time reference
Mostly, Troy Hunt e-mailing clueless companies saying "Hey, this data breach I got sent seems to check out as real, at least a few of the users in it have validated that's currently or recently been their $company website credential to me."

(Only mostly joking...)
I can't imagine why Taiwan would be suspicious of any of the kingdoms of the Heptarchy, or indeed of any polity that hasn't existed in over a millennium.

If you have a good reason to suspect that state-level attackers could be in your supply chain, that reason doesn't go away just because the semiconductors were actually manufactured in Taiwan. Do we imagine that China's spooks don't have access to Taiwan fabs? Do we imagine that USA's spooks don't? If this is an actual threat to you, you need a lot more assurance than a "Made in Taiwan" label.
“Someone who isn’t me”, a term used when discussing something (usually illegal) the poster did or has experience with, but is using this term to hide that fact.
Ask HN: What loggers are you using for your application
I am trying to find good loggers using which I can search/analyse my server logs.
Should I use any readymade solutions like loggly(which seems a bit expensive) or I start storing that in another server

and use something like elasticsearch to analyse them?
> Haha you now know how they maintain their SEO -- by purging the politically incorrect stuff.

Curious, how do you know this as a fact?

Also, curious about your nickname - any story behind it?
> Meanwhile in the US we spend nearly 700 billion annually on the military (roughly 75% of the Japanese government's entire budget). Get what you pay for (in our case, missiles).

That’s an ironic comparison. Japan is not allowed to have a military, just a small self defense force. Japan is okay with that state of affairs because the United States has tacitly committed to defend Japan from its belligerent neighbors. Your example illustrates in the same breath why US military spending is so high while it is so low in other countries.

Also, the new bullet train lines mostly are built with private money so there is that too.
I can’t help but feel the GOP wouldn’t be running into this if they didn’t keep posting attacks on minorities.

If you are saying some set of people don’t deserve the same basic rights as other people, simply because they exist, and are different, it’s hate speech. And if your platform is deliberately based on intolerance then there is not requirement for others to tolerate you. This isn’t a paradox - bigots love trying to say it is, but it’s not.
If colleges are doing this anyway, then this is just a standardized way to do the scoring. This is basically a service the college board is providing to colleges.

This could be seen as a good thing, even if you don’t like affirmative action. Instead of relying on crude metrics like zip code, race and income, this will allow for a more granular approach. If we are going to give a leg up to the disadvantaged (and therefore a push down for the advantages) we might as well do as good of a job as possible.
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Drones are cool
You're not showing anything by telling me to look for attempted attacks. I realize they will be there, I don't even need to check. But if attack attempts are how you measure risk then I'd bet you whatever attack you can think of, Google et al. will have orders of magnitude more of them than I would.

You gotta realize, it's not like I'm arguing you should set up a server with 1234 as the root password. I'm assuming you're reasonably competent in security, just mostly lacking in the bandwidth needed to e.g. keep your server constantly checked and updated on a daily/weekly basis. With those assumptions I have no reason to think the slightly increased risk of getting hit by a brand-new attack through an IP scan or something is going to outweigh all the entire classes of risks that you do away with as a result of not being part of a massive corporate attack target.

Although, heck, if you're absolutely paranoid about random IP scans, you could just move your stuff to some obscure port, which I'm sure you realize already. There you go, you're not going to be found through random mass scans anymore.
Apparently many or all of the current self driving cars don't do well when running into fixed (ie stopped) physical objects. It must mean somehow in the way that they detect things, they must have to discount stopped objects, and 'moving objects', like cars are detected in a different way. I'd love to hear more background about why this is the way it is.

I agree that when you can't handle this kind of situation in a tesla it really challenges the idea that we'll have total self driving in a year. There must be a lot of software that is under testing that could be more reliable than what they have today, yet the issue is still there. The last part (5 or 10%) of regular software dev is really hard, and it should be even harder for self-driving, never yet approved or safe enough self driving software.
Oh... I consider Mozilla methodology a good methodology. Staffs probably can do both well and ill defined works better than volunteers, but they do have comparative advantage in ill defined works. A problem with methodology is that well defined works can be delayed, but Mozilla do have massive contributor pool so that it is not usually a problem.
For some while (maybe still), there was a common belief that talking about your drug experiences online couldn't be used against you in court if you pretended it was someone else. This could be done semi-convincingly if you talked about, say, your "roommate" using drugs, but pretty quickly people started saying shit like "my cat" or "someone who isn't me" and, finally, abbreviated that to "SWIM." Like, "SWIM wants to know where to buy LSD in Seattle." Yeah.

At least some forums are discouraging that now because it obviously won't hold up in court and provides a false sense of security, but I imagine some people are still attached to it.
Security through obscurity is undervalued.
Pre modern climbers wouldn’t have been climbing for recreation, but for survival. For example these guys are definitely not nobles with too much time on their hands:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/07/honey-hu...
Why is this illegal to begin with? I grew up in Michigan and it was very common to call a charity to collect the meat after hitting a deer.
> innovation comes from graduate students

This is such a sweeping statement it's just false

> everyone building out a new technology borrowed ideas freely without compensating the real innovators (of course, implementation can be the more difficult piece)

Implementation is innovation too

> As long as governments subsidize public universities and research departments, there will exist a font of innovation

We need both
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Or it will just drive up rents in low-income areas, as wealthy parents rent (but do not live in) apartments in order to game this system.