skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compare the proportion of MLB players that came from the university system, and the proportion of NFL players that did. Most MLB players come from minor leagues operating independantly from the university system.

I'm not suggesting that universities ban sports clubs. I object to university systems become the primary feeder for corporate professional leagues. American Football and Basketball do it. Baseball and normal Football do not.
Congratulations! What was your framework for prioritizing which changes to tacke first, and implementing these changes?
Also, the Economist and the Financial Times are heavily paywalled. Sometimes, articles are not. I'm curious how rules work with respect to which pieces to "give for free"?
Grapevine is also open source if anyone wants to look under the hood at all that elixir! https://github.com/oestrich/grapevine
As someone who works in the Advancement (fundraising) space for a university (not in the US), Harvards behaviour is IMHO quite ethical.

Whilst institutions will do due diligence on major donors they are not geared to be investigative units. So unknowingly accepting donations from a tainted donor is not something I would hold against them nor would I expect them to return the money or donate it elsewhere.

The key takeaway is that they refused donations from Epstein once his activities were known. Absolutely the right course of action.
I would have commended Harvard and MIT for not taking Epstein's money, with the reasoning that he was a scientific lightweight trying to buy academic clout. As of now, it just sounds like damage control. It takes zero courage to join the herd in saying that sex crimes are horrific.

The justice system means that -- after you committed a crime and done your time -- you are supposed to rehabilitate and rejoin society. I feel the horrific crimes cloud our judgment in this regard: Epstein paid the fine, did the time, and came out on the other end. Again, I am not saying it is wrong to forever brand someone as a persona-non-grata, but it is the easy and predictable way out, distancing yourself to save face. Epstein was sick, paid his debt to society, but we deem his crimes unforgivable, and in shutting down society to rehabilitated criminals, we make sure they also do not get a chance to turn their life around for good.
Work: I just completed a big project, moving platform and host for one of our e-commerce stores, without messing up. I consider this a major win because I had to do everything on my own, from re-building the old system on the new framework to converting all the data.

Self: I just completed my third year of walking 7 miles every day. I feel strong, sleep well and I'm way more productive both at home and at work.
EM is about rotating fields. Phase is very fundamentally connected with rotation. These are where complex numbers show up.
Is there a project for being the SSH CA that also includes RBAC for users without costing $hundreds/$thousand per month?

I've seen projects that'll do the SSH CA part, but unless I overlooked it I didn't see any RBAC or mapping ability to restrict users to specific servers.
I can recommend you to start with 5 minutes (set a timer), increase to 10. After some practice you can omit the timer, but it really helps you getting started.
You've completely changed your argument. First it was "sports have nothing to do with receiving a basic education." Now you concede that participating in sports can be a big positive, but in some cases a positive only available to the children of richer students.

To that I say:

1) Plenty of poor kids do find ways to participate in school sports. Let's not throw that baby out with the bathwater.

2) Where this is not possible, it would be better to find ways to make it possible than to get rid of something good for everyone.
Very cool! I'm working on a browser game using threejs and websockets. Its progenitor was a MUD that I wrote that I never felt was good enough to publish. Joined the discord and all else. :)

(Side note, maybe this will hit google for some poor sap in the future. Blender 2.8's GLTF/GLB exporter doesn't respect the armature modifier. Bake your weights if you want your ground tentacle to wiggle in your browser. :( )
I think the article discusses the fact that shuffling the entire initial set takes up way too much memory.
> I think we will look back on this period of American universities as a great aberration.

I hope so. Athletics are only the tip of the iceberg.

Tuition at universities like Harvard, Princeton, etc. runs around $45,000 a year. Even at public universities, it tends to be over $10,000 a year. This is tuition, mind you, not counting room and board. These figures are vastly higher than a generation ago, and are continuing to skyrocket. Needless to say, this is inflicting crippling debt on huge numbers of college students.

Meanwhile, universities are hiring fewer and fewer tenure-track professors; increasingly, the teaching is being done by people working under terrible job conditions. See, for example, this as an example:

https://pankisseskafka.com/2017/07/16/rate-my-jil-2018-this-...

I am an insider -- a college professor at an American university. The current system is thoroughly screwed. We need a big reset.
I have never seen WeWork compared to Flexport before. You don't consider Flexport to be a tech company?
you can disable it in the developer console. its mildly inconvenient but works fine
> I hear drugs is a big problem with applicants

Possible legalisation of drugs and stuff around that is a matter of interest for me, so if you can elaborate on that I'd appreciate it.
Well, she didn’t save CO2 in the end. And the world already knows that flying isn’t climate friendly.

She demands that people fly less, and people don’t like hypocrisy, so they’re annoyed.
It is more of the effect of not eating or drinking for ~8 hours. 1 pint of water weighs around 500g. Also the average human exhales 1kg of CO2 a day which about a quarter of that is carbon weight. You will lose weight if you do not drink or eat for 8 hours awake. "Morning weight" == fasted and somewhat dehydrated weight.
If one simply takes the behavior of the vast majority of universities in the US at face value it should be quite clear.

Their priority is not education, it is profit.

That's really it.

Believing otherwise is like believing the priority of health insurance companies is public health or the priority of for-profit prisons is rehabilitation.
How do you feel after cutting out alcohol and weed? Have you noticed any benefits?
> they encourage more strong high school students to apply for admission

By encouraging more students to apply, they have the opportunity to turn down more applicants and appear more selective, boosting their position in college rankings.

The whole thing is ridiculous. We are supposed to be educating students, not giving them brain damage.
> They should face the music for their role in what happened

Harvard and MIT didn't play a role in Epstein's non-donation related activities. They have nothing to answer for.

Next you're going to tell me anyone that takes any Bill and Melinda Gates foundation money has to answer for Microsoft's monopolistic practices in the 90's.

This witch-hunt stuff needs to stop.
Isn't this just the Qualcomm tax, with a sprinkling of worry about state power without judicial checks?
Haven't even read it yet and thought the same based on the title alone.
Is it really still profitable in e.g. that case of Dabo Swinney landing a 93 million dollar contract?
I've noticed that people who write posts like this like to quote their subject, and then go, oh my, how shocking! what an appalling thing to say! without addressing the thing that was said, which in this case was (among other things):

“I think it is morally absurd to define “rape” in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.”

He was responding to a student, who said "Giuffre was 17 at the time, this makes it rape in the Virgin Islands." He was addressing her specific point. He brought up the 17-18 thing because the student herself specified Giuffre's age as the condition of her being raped.

Like, if the student had said "Giuffre was raped because she was coerced against her will," that'd be different. But you can't yourself bring up the technical definition of rape to make your point, then get mad when other people point out that the technical definition makes no sense. If what you really want say is that rape is wrong because it's wrong, just say that!

Of course, the author cares about none of this, because what Stallman said was "problematic." What does that even mean, by the way? This whole post consists of the author repeatedly asserting that various things Stallman said were problematic without explaining why.

This brings me to my next point. Here's an article about "tact filters," a term describing how different people deal with the issue of tact:

http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/tact.html

People like Stallman don't get offended, so they assume other people won't either. People who do get offended try hard not to offend others, and expect the same courtesy. These two groups of people have difficulty getting along.

Neither point of view is invalid, in the sense that both sides get along extremely well with other people who are like them. But people with outward tact filters happen to be the majority, so Stallman gets seen as the bad guy. But I could imagine an alternative universe where inward-tact-filter nerds were the majority, and people like this author were expected to e.g. have the mental resilience to not let other people's words hijack her emotions.

So I guess I'm offended that people like Stallman are made to feel bad for being who they are, just because they're a minority.
It's racist.

Those attempts at denying that because a country or a people are not "a race" is ludicrous.

If I say that I don't like Mexicans that's racist, for example. If I try to deny it because that's not "a race" I will only ridiculise myself even more.
> By 2014, the FDA had closed its offices in Shanghai and Guangzhou, leaving only the Beijing office with inspectors who could visit Chinese factories on short notice.

> The FDA checks less than 1% of drugs for impurities or potency before letting them into the country.

For a regulator body who's job it is to make sure medical products are safe and available. These comments, if true, lend credability that the FDA is more regulatory capture than actual useful regulation.

> The FDA’s relationship with manufacturers like Huahai, on the other hand, isn’t simple at all. If Huahai wants to make its own version of a generic drug and export it to the U.S., it needs FDA approval. But if Huahai supplies the main ingredient to a company that finishes the drug and sells it in the U.S., it’s required only to keep the FDA informed of any changes to the manufacturing process.

Good, now you have a US company you can actually prosecute severely. The $/mass of phamacuticals means testing a small sample of each batch is super easy and if you know the manufacture process it's not hard to know what secondary products/contaiminents you need to test for. This is pure negligence on the FDA's and the US importers part.

> “The only element who cares in this whole global supply chain is patients”

Not if you actually fine the American importers into the ground. And ban the at fault over seas companies.
Thanks for this perspective, it is helpful. In our industry not reacting to developments of the day is often the most courageous choice one can make.
In better-run countries, poor kids don't need to be picked up by parents, or take a bus home; instead, they just walk home.
Highly recommend watching Powaqqatsi, sequel to Koyaanisqatsi. The opening scene is filmed in Serra Pelada. Does a much better job of capturing the atmosphere than these photos.
There was push-back a while ago to where the schools were using the student's identity for college based video games and profiting off the student's names, and the students never saw anything from it.

There was a suit and the college kids won!

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/18/sports/ncaa-video-game-la...
Use Firefox then prepend `about:reader?url=` to the link
It's less about the metric but the choice of space/time decomposition.
I really like your definition, I think it is much closer to where it should be.
He notoriously did not do his time for his crime. He got such a blatantly corrupt sweetheart deal that Acosta had to resign due to it. The lawyer that got him that deal? Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz. Also accused of sexually abusing young girls with Epstein.
Once I saw that the rebuttal is "quantum communications" I just laughed.
Ask HN: How iOS prevents attackers with root-right from sticking beyond reboot?
It's odd that the 'billion device iPhone hack' attackers got root-right but couldn't survive reboot.

Event if the boot sequence is outside the root-scope, shouldn't it be able to modify other bins? E.g. what about planting malicious JS in the Browser Cache?

So if root is very limited (ie read-all/write nothing to disk) - what's the purpose in keeping it at all?

Beyond that: Could the attacker prevent and pretend a reboot?

Simple answers are very appreciated - I gave up on the google blog 8/

Thank you!
Im a big fan of this article defining what is and isnt a tech company: https://stratechery.com/2019/what-is-a-tech-company/
> Complex numbers are about rotation.

Why?

(I'm not denying that it is, just pointing out that like the person I first replied to, you are jumping over the interesting part here and stating interesting conclusions like they are definitions.)
Probably not. Chocolate would cause seizures and cardiac symptoms, vomit and tremors, but not massive gut tissue destruction. And I don't remember any parasite doing this. Clostridum will cause diarrhea, not bleeding.

Is probably a poison, but not chocolate (And I'm including radiation under the "poison label" also. There aren't many things that can wipe the intestinal flora from an animal and replacing it by species that create ultra-resistent spores).

Other option would be food contaminated by spores of Clostridum, pesticides or whatever, but I guess that would be easy to spot the coincidence of a particular brand and batch of dog food in all affected animals.
Kafka Rebalance Protocol for the Cloud: Static Membership
Next step is tracking students' locations to penalizing them for not attending the games at all. I attended a Division 1 school and in the six years I was there (bachelors and masters) I never attended a sports event. It seemed (and still seems) like an incredible waste of time and money to me.
I run my own servers, so no, no connection to Microsoft except for updates.

Google is not involved, my DNS is my own server with the base servers as their lookups, not Google DNS. My PDA only connects over WiFi, since there is no SIM.

So unless Google is purposely getting involved with a WiFi connection to a local, private server, they are not involved, either.

I stripped off all of the other apps as well.
If investing in the sports really brought the university more revenue than otherwise, I wouldn't mind, so long as that money went to things like research and lowered tuition, which I know it unfortunately likely wouldn't.
Given the increasing public backlash to football-related injuries, specifically brain injuries, this is likely a problem that will solve itself over time. There's an increasingly small pool of parents who are willing to let their children play a sport where there's a very slim chance of professional success but a pretty high chance of permanent brain damage.
typo in the title : "was it was"
Exactly. Hanging around and drinking a lot, and being around a bunch of noisy, drunk people, is something that most Americans greatly enjoy.
I am concerned primarily by the involvement of public schools. I think private schools doing it is also dumb, but perhaps it's their prerogative to be dumb in ways that shouldn't be tolerated from public schools.
Storytelling and theatrics are central to human progress and always have been. If the level of international collaboration needed to solve the climate crisis can be achieved, then it will be achieved in part by changing hearts and minds on an unprecedented scale, including through stories of iconic events and individuals, consumed by billions of people through social media. There is no point being cynical about this.
Politics is the decision making around how to divide and use our shared resources. Addressing climate change in a meaningful way requires rethinking our current approach. It's a fundamentally political issue.
Yes, "with cheese" is part of the sandwich name, but because they don't have one that doesn't have cheese on the regular menu, when you ask for "plain" it often means they'll take the cheese off too. Also, there is only 1 bun, it's split in half with the burger in the middle and I don't want it at all.

Again, you'd be surprised how well orders can come out wrong and the way I do order it reduces that chance as much as possible. It's also less expensive to order as a meal with the side salad as a sub for fries, but that means more risk of the order being wrong in the end.

If I could order "Two quarter patties with cheese, ..." then I would do just that.
Your question seems to indicate that you aren't from the United States.

College football is just one sport among many popular college sports in the U.S.

It began as a club-type extra curricular activity but as it became more popular universities likely saw it as a way to market their school and attract customers (students).

The top 30-40 programs produce $100 million in revenue which is usually enough to be self-sustaining and help pay for all the other sports teams on campus.

College basketball, baseball, football, track and field, and even hockey in some places are de facto minor leagues. The power and influence of the NFL is probably more to blame for the lack of a proper minor league in football.
Fair enough, I guess, if you also want to give more representation to far right organizations. The organizations OP mentioned are not far right. They are mainstream right. With the possible exception of RT, which I'm not actually all that familiar with.
Saban could fire off pistols like Yosemite Sam down the main street of Tuscalosa while hammered drunk and the university would just smile and say "He just better beat Auburn". Why would anyone think he shouldn't get away with a little violation of privacy?
> that even hackernews

Why do you think this place is above what happens on Reddit/Twitter? If anything, the concentration of groupthink and demographic is stronger here than anywhere else.
I would love to see this as well. That's more than 2x what most people burn running a marathon. Hard to believe but would be really interesting if that's true.
Judging by the interface you get with Uber Eats, I doubt it would be any better.
This article seems to make some pretty big, unsubstantiated claims.

ie "America’s spies hijacked the Trump Administration’s trade agenda and turned into a global campaign against Huawei. This has been a humiliating failure."

They also mention Huawei's founder's interview with the economist: "...in an interview with The Economist:"
However The Economist link routes to another asia times article that does not mention The Economist anywhere.

My limited understanding is that quantum cryptography is still a relatively nascent field, and unlikely to be production ready for the roll out of 5G networks (though, admittedly, I could be wrong about this).

In one of the linked to articles (https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/07/article/us-china-tech-war-...) they say "The ultimate form of data security is quantum communications, an application of physics that China has pioneered." and link to https://www.insidescience.org/news/china-leader-quantum-comm... which describes a set of events that don't seem to be corroborated by any reputable publication, and don't appear in the wikipedias or publications of the scientists mentioned (despite descriptions of similar, more experimental demonstrations)

I'm not familiar with the Asia Times but this article (and others they link to), at least, seem propaganda-y?
>American Football and Basketball do it. Baseball and normal Football do not.

It would be so much easier if they just called American Football "handegg".
They are in a unique position that they aren’t actually locked into their long term leases but once they start breaking them they won’t be able to get more leases on those terms so it’s in their best interest to get as many as possible then use the option to wipe away the bad ones
Clemson pulls in about $50M / year from football alone, not counting any tangentially related revenue it may generate.
The vast majority of universities in the US are non-profit institutions.
It could be accomplished by a Server-Side-Rendered version of the plugin: the server could populate a `<noscript>` tag with a simple file input which would get displayed for clients without JS enabled.
You can use rclone to easily backup to multiple popular services.
The NESDev wiki says[1]:

> Unlike many other game consoles, the NES does not generate RGB or YUV and then encode that to composite. Instead, it generates NTSC video directly in the composite domain, which leads to interesting artifacts.

So far as NES software is concerned, it just tells the NES to use particular palette entries, and the NES hardware is responsible for coming up with an NTSC signal to send to the television. Because NES software doesn't care about specific RGB values, and because converting NTSC-to-RGB is hard, most emulators use an RGB palette for output, but fans have created a lot of alternative palettes over the years[2], and none of them are "correct".

[1]: https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/NTSC_video

[2]: http://firebrandx.com/nespalette.html
You were probably forgetting to drink enough. Okkam’s razor.
I wouldn't say I'm jealous, just highly annoyed to whom the public is paying attention to. It's the same environmental activism theatrics that Greenpeace and WWF have been doing for all of their existence.

As a counterpoint take John Baez for example: He decided started beginning in 2010 to try to organise engineers, physicists and mathematicians around the global ecological crisis
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/this-weeks-f.... Was he interviewed or reported on by CNN? Of course not. How often has David MacKay (https://withouthotair.com) been given the chance to speak to the public?
Thank you very much for posting it, this is an important piece of information I was unaware of, but note your links are broken.
Sean Connery undoubtedly.
I mean. He wanted to rebuild a forest. That's pretty ambitious but he needed money. Some evil company gave him money. Why should he refuse?

Do you think that, in order to avoid giving Vale some PR, it would be better to refuse the money? And presumably have trouble rebuilding the forest.
Ask HN: How big should an AWS Lambda be?
By big, I'm not referring to the size in bytes of the deployed archive. I'm asking how much functionality should it encompass. How long, on average, should it run? How man external systems should it communicate with? Is it a good idea for a Lambda to spawn multiple threads to communicate with external systems? Should a single Lambda encompass enough scope to essentially serve as web service API in FaaS environment?
It's still algorithm-first. It's not "learning data" in the sense that human ratings are used to train the algorithm.

It's more of a check step. So, for example, if humans think one website is vastly more (or less) authoritative than human raters, the engineers might dig in to see which aspects are causing the algorithm to evaluate it differently and, potentially, test tweaking the algorithm accordingly.
This story is amazing. As a professional cryptographer I urge HN to vote it to the top of the front page.