skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Really changed my perspectives on how much racial affirmative action actually impacts Asian Americans like me.

Do you think that you have a right to an MIT education based solely on merit or intelligence? That's not how prestigious universities have accepted students for like 100 years.

Prestigious universities typically want, in part, a diverse student body, represented by both sexes and multiple races and cultures.

Let's grant for the sake of argument that Asians are just smarter than everyone else. The consequence of this is that all the best universities would be 100% Asian if they accepted students based purely on aptitude.

But the goal of prestigious universities is not to be such a pure meritocracy that this would ever be the case. Not for Asians, nor any other race or culture.

I made it into MIT, but at the time I was at something of a disadvantage demographically. I was a White male in 1980 from an economically advantaged city and area of the country. If I'd been female, or non-White (and maybe non-Asian), or from an underrepresented part of the country, my chances of getting into MIT would have been much greater. I knew this when I applied and planned my backup applications accordingly.

As for SAT scores, at least when I applied, MIT claimed that SAT scores were way down on the list of what they considered to be most important for successful applicants. (Though I'm sure that SAT scores were not ignored.)

I had an SAT score of 1500, which at the time was very high. I.e., it's equivalent to an IQ of 155 or so. (According to the people who do such correlations.) I also had, litterally, straight A's in high school. Not a single B in four years. I had a perfect score on my Chemistry achievement test. And yet I was not accepted via "Early Action".

Just how high does your IQ have to be to get in via Early Action? Well, there is no answer to that question, because that's just one of many things that MIT is considering when they admit students.
Unused brain regions can be repurposed via neuroplasticity
For companies the size of Google, it's trivial. For startup companies, it isn't. Translating the interface is comparatively easy but if a large component of your bug reports is in a language you can't understand you have a problem, the same problem that translation startups are trying to fix :).
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Agreed, but people buy safety/prep things (like guns) for phenomenally less likely scenarios.

I used to have an Apple Watch, and now have a Garmin that has similar features. Nice to know they're there, but I wouldn't buy the device just for it.

That said, if I had been the son in the story, yeah, i probably would have run out and bought my own the very next day! The power of a personal connection to a story.
I would love to read the original publication. I'm curious if/how they factored in the use of high fructose corn syrup which is known to suppress satiation response and is common is processed foods.
Allas; the original paper is paywalled behind elsevier: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31269427 You'd think that since it was publicly funded the public should be able to read it..

Edit: previous link was an erratum. Original:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31105044
Love Warp, I was lucky enough to get into their Beta program via Testflight and it's been great and stable. many times I disabled it thinking my internet is broken because of Warp VPN and turns out to be my provider or wifi that is just down.

I wish they provided a desktop version, or at least to change all the traffic from my central MikroTik router to use Warp.
Needs a lot of work from a prototype I've built in the past using HTML + JS.

Some criticism:
Start menu doesn't open when clicked.
Can't drag + drop icons.
No file menus.
Menu bar is missing application icon when app is open.

Closing txt window and reopening didn't preserve text. Cannot resize windows.
IPCC Special Report on the Oceans [pdf]
He’s forgetting that Uber’s goal is to be a driverless platform in which case they’d capture significant portions of the drivers margin. Now a software company.

On Vision Fund, he seems to think that there is only one viable VC model. I happen to disagree. Warren Buffet made a lot of money investing in boring companies, and now technology is spilling into ancient markets to transform them. Seems like those companies could be just as big if not sufficiently bigger than the incumbent.
Am I the only one who remembers "Cloudbleed"? I can't understand why people are so eager to trust Cloudflare with more and more of their HTTPS traffic.
Yeah... "selling their products directly" is not appropriate phrasing for referring to a sales pitch to a group of individuals.

Even if it's still a very bad thing.
So you're saying the EPA and CDC are making it up?
So you’re sending your traffic to some other cloud host or your ISP, his question still stands
Is intercepting Android traffic planned?
I don't understand why software patents are allowed to exist. There's nothing novel about software. Every software patent I've ever read is "a system for X" where X is something generic like "taking photos with multiple cameras and sharing them over the internet." You haven't made anything novel there, you've taken a logical product of interoperable building blocks and put an artificial legal barricade around it.

It would be like Target patenting "a system for selling goods to consumers" and suing any other retailer with a checkout.
I don't believe this is the case, do you have any sources to back it up?
After feeling burnout set in at my current web development job about four years ago i think blowing my brains out becomes a more realistic option every day. I fucking hate web development.
Plant the idea in their head, even if they don't like you as an authority, and you might end up with a customer for life once those kids forget you and go looking for a vice.

$10k per room of kids is probably a low cost of customer acquisition for a potential lifetime addiction.
Lab animals are getting fatter too, even though they're on a very controlled diet[1]. I think there is some factor we don't understand yet.

[1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.201...
merci pour tout jbk!!!
Software, and the ease of getting one. If I want a taxi, I have to google for local taxis, call and hope they pick up, talk to someone who seemingly is always pissed about answering the phone, be lucky enough to speak to someone who I can understand, hope they actually show up, THEN deal with payment that is never available in the cab, and wait while they call in your credit card number to home base. It's a terrible experience.
> The subprime crisis is completely unrelated! And if anything it was proof that money-making assets should be scrutinized more.

I think the connection here is that the assets themselves were money losing but they passed them off as safe assets despite knowing they weren't safe. If I make money by producing counterfeit bills and circulating them then it makes money. It's still counterfeiting. The underlying assumption that makes capitalism desirable is that you are (supposed to be) rewarded based on the value you put into the system. If there are ways to reliably create and dump value inflated assets and those ways are easier than actually producing value, then we shouldn't be surprised when that becomes a competitive business.

Arguably this is what WeWork was trying to do by going public. I don't think anyone here who has followed WeWork over the past few years was itching to jump into day-1 buying even before the current iteration of the Neumann freak show began. Would any engineer here really have taken a stock heavy WeWork comp package in the past two years? On the other hand if you're a rando investor who just sees "oh Uber for office space!" you might line up to get fleeced.
I'm amazed that the focus is on the author calling a t-shirt "ill-fitting" instead of calling Neumann a liar and a thief.

Apparently, Neumann's fashion sense is more defensible than his personal integrity.
And most of those are legacy companies that are in their sunset.
Fructose. That's what's missing.

It's much healthier when it's bound up in a lot of fiber, as you find it in unprocessed fruit. The soluble and insoluble fiber form a protective barrier that reduces the total amount and rate at which it is absorbed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yda8RtOcVFU
If Mozilla cares about privacy and consent, it'd be nice they would have also implemented DNS-over-TLS and let people choose what to use.

Also, their idea of "use-application-dns.net" is half-baked: it breaks DNSSEC because one has to override the responses from the .net folks--which are signed. One suggest I head (by the author of the linked article) was to use something like "use.application-dns.net" instead. So you are overriding the responses of a particular domain instead of a TLD.

Further, once you have 'access' to ".applicaiton-dns.net" there are other things that can be done:

* check for use-doh for DNS-over-HTTPS desirability

* check for use-dot for DNS-over-TLS desirability

It seems to me that Mozilla didn't bother talking to any DNS experts (e.g., DNS-OARC), and now everyone is scrambling.

Most people aren't against encrypted DNS, but it just needs to be implemented properly.
Yes, definitely! You can follow progress by subscribing to this GH issue: https://github.com/httptoolkit/feedback/issues/10 (or signing up to the general HTTP Toolkit mailing list ofc).

In the meantime, it's quite possible to intercept Android traffic, it's just that you'll have to do the proxy & certificate setup yourself.
Hehehehehe:)
It also makes sense why stringent reading caloric information and then calorie counting (not just guessing, but weight scale & knowing the calories) would lead to weight loss as well - if you are cognizant of the hyper palatable foods it'll be harder (you'll want to), but it's not due to the food being magic, it's due to the disconnect between sensation and calories.
Well, let's put it this way. Being a Polish-Jew in a rural, and very southern high school in Florida, one where I was considered a minority because there were no other minorities, wasn't all roses. Then when it came to being a white male applying for scholarships. More than half of those scholarship books pretty much told me that I need not apply. My post high school education is quite lacking because of it.

It took me a while in my 20s to realize how much of a benefit all of that was. And to quit being angry. Compared to all my peers from high school, I have a pretty damn good amount of resiliency. There's already a few known suicides in my graduating class, post-graduating. Plenty of drug addiction. Only a few folks really escaped like I did. But even them, when I touched based with them, it's all doom and gloom. In my early 20s, I faced an eviction, plenty of debt, debt collectors and lots of other problems that, well, never crushed me. Honestly, a lot of problems I shrugged off and found solutions. I think the worst thing that's ever affected me was my cats dying a few months ago. That, honestly, was the worst thing that happened to me, even though I was homeless for a while, couldn't find work, scrapped to pay for food. I could do all that again if I have to. Losing a pet... that hurts.

But that brings me to the next, and I think biggest benefit from all those problems from school. I have a "sixth sense" on people's intentions. Just a gut reaction that's been correct every time. You have no idea how beneficial this has been since I went into business for myself.

It also means, I have zero tolerance for assholes and incompetence. The time I save from wasting time on assholes, I spend on my real friends. I value my real friends and have tight relationships with them. Something my generation really doesn't have. Now, I am abrasive to people the moment I realize someone is underhanded, a user, asshole, etc. Even if they're mostly strangers and it's only been 5 minutes since I met them. But my friends are fully aware that I'm loyal, without end, to them. And thus far, every time I ignored that gut feeling on someone being bad, it always bit me in the ass. If I listened, I would find out from someone else a few months later on what bullet I just dodged.

At the end, the world truly owes you nothing. Having a rough life is actually a blessing. It builds resilience and teaches you to greater appreciate the good and not focus on the toxic. Without experiencing hate, you can't truly love.

Plus, you can't blame the entire world population over what a group of teenagers did. The older you get, the more you realize all teens, all over the world, are an equal amount of stupid.
The article paints a picture of how this model of funding businesses is growing and will taker over all capital markets. But then points out that mandatory disclosures and a sane public market actually stopped things in its tracks for WeWork.

Burning many billions of dollars before the market takes a step back and says "WTF?" is hardly a model of market efficiency, but if the market is now waking up to the problems of this sort of investment then, yes, however imperfectly the market is correcting this bad behavior. I suppose the question then is whether WeWork represents a turning point in this trend, or merely an outlier.
Fast work indeed, the meat of it:

(registering a `wg` generated public key with CF)

api=https://api.cloudflareclient.com/v0i1909051800
ins() { vrb=$1; shift; curl -s -H 'user-agent:' -H 'content-type: application/json' -X "${vrb}" "${api}/$@"; }
sec() { ins "$@" -H 'authorization: Bearer '"${reg[1]}"''; }

cfg=($(if [[ -e "${usr}" ]]; then
reg=($(cat "${usr}"))
test "${#reg[@]}" -eq 2
sec GET "reg/${reg[0]}"
else
reg=($(ins POST "reg" -d '{"install_id":"","tos":"'"$(date -u +%FT%T.000Z)"'","key":"'"${pub}"'","fcm_token":"","type":"ios","locale":"en_US"}' |
jq -r '.result|.id+" "+.token'))
test "${#reg[@]}" -eq 2
echo "${reg[@]}" >"${usr}"
sec PATCH "reg/${reg[0]}" -d '{"warp_enabled":true}'
fi | jq -r '.result.config|(.peers[0]|.public_key+" "+.endpoint.v4)+" "+.interface.addresses.v4'))
test "${#cfg[@]}" -eq 3
Can you explain why you hold that opinion? I’m curious as two people have mentioned it in the comments so far.
Too late to edit my post, but:

Apparently ZeroTier is no longer under an open source license, as of a month ago. Another comment has the details. That’s a real shame… I think I will stop using it. :(
I drink a decent amount of tea, and I feel like this is largely confined to the mid-grade teas that are fancier than your basic Lipton or Twinings, but not-so-fancy as to be loose-leaf.

I'm thinking specifically of stuff like Harney and Sons, that you often see for sale at your nearest B&N or Starbucks:
https://www.amazon.com/Harney-Sons-Hot-Cinnamon-Spice/dp/B00...

I also see grocery-store versions at Target and such. Those appear to be the ones that employee the plastic triangle satchet. The cheaper stuff, from what I can tell, is still using paper.
This might be interesting to you for running on desktop (its for Mac, but probably can do something similar for Windows?): https://twitter.com/saurik/status/1176893448445558784
Warp doesn't provide anonymity, however, for some reason Netflix in my phone can stream US TV shows with Warp on while my non warped devices can not even list the show. Weird.
This is less time than many people get from a simple pot posession charge. Wtf.
There was a server that we socat'ed into. (I made some minor contributions to solving this problem on PPP)
I want a mobile workstation, not this weird obsession with making it thinner, lighter, etc. It's cool that it's thin and light, but function needs to come over form. The keyboard is trash (literally causes me knuckle pain compared to the old chiclet keyboards), the loss of magsafe has caused some pretty severe damage to my last macbook (somebody wasn't looking where they were going in a coffee shop and tripped over the cable -- took the entire laptop with it, dented the case where it hit the ground, and screwed up the USB C port), and the touchbar gets _hot_.

Give me a 2016 Macbook Pro with a retina display with an upgraded proc + ram + user servicable parts. Or even better, open up macOS to other hardware so that I can choose the system that works the best for me.

I don't need an appliance, but damn, I miss macOS.
Information sharing is like entropy - it will only increase over time. We're moving towards a future where privacy is becoming an archaic concept.
> Something changed recently, making the US "first to file". Did that totally eliminate the concept of prior art?

No, it just removes the question of when an invention happened. Under first to invent, if two similar patents are filed, there is some effort required to determine which was invented first, and gets priority. Under first to file, it's much simpler to determine.

Prior art is still a reason to deny a patent, and patent examiners are still likely to miss it.
...by not letting children make their own choices weather or not to imbibe. We don't allow kids to buy weed or alcohol either. They don't make informed decisions because they are literally incapable of it. They do not have adult brains yet.
I did not read that as a criticism of Neumann, I read it as, same shit different day. As in, don't matter how you dress up their CEO the company is still shit
Would be interesting to see if these animals were located only in the US or if this is a worldwide phenomena
Anyone absolutely can "Yell fire in a theater" in the US, this canard has an interesting history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...

You can also go on the radio and accuse your boss of whatever you like in the US as well. You might get sued by your boss in civil court, but the police will not come after you.

You can also deny the Holocaust, that the earth is round, that people have landed on the moon, or anything else. An unfortunate side effect of freedom is that other people will be allowed to say things that you dislike.
Fair question. Some rough maths incoming..

There are 174 turbines in an area of about 300 sq km. If they were laid out on a grid the grid size would be about 1.3 km. The blades have a diameter of about 24 m.

Feels to me like that's far enough apart to not massively affect the wind.
I hadn't heard about that yet. Will have to look into it.
How to Find Cheap Train Tickets
Even a cursory glance tells me the scope of this projects plans outstrip a pub sub protocol implementation. Maybe that's why?
What does that have to do with language?

Now, if you're an early stage startup you have your hands full already, you can wait until next year to spread across the EU in different languages. That does not impede anything

For support, it's quite easy to hire people who speak different languages and the total cost will be the same.
Snowden is in a situation where it would be a PR nightmare for the US if they were to touch him. That's not the same as being out of reach.
If anyone from the Gnome team is listening, if you guys started a GoFundMe or something to help with legal fees to challenge this, I would throw twenty bucks your way.

I'd be happy if someone held me to that.
They pointed out also artificial sweeteners causing confusion in the response. It's not one smoking gun, it's a ton that end up all counting as "ultraprocessed food". I'm sure if we dumped out HFCS something else in there would end up performing the same function.
You can't neglect reversion to the mean here. People with below-average diet end up with below-average results. If you stop eating your below-average diet and replace most foods in it with anything else, it'll probably be a closer-to-average diet and give you better results.
Agree. IMHO, I think it's very important here to examine historical and other-cultural attitudes toward euthanasia and it's analogues. eg., ritual suicide in feudal Japan. These attitudes seem likely to echo forward from their common-practice eras ...
Andreas Antonopoulos: Bitcoin will destroy the “golden cage” of banking
Getting Started with the Sorbet Type Checker in Rails
Tea bag tea is much finer dust compared to loose leaf of the same brand. So it brews faster (and worse). They change the blend to try and compensate.

Tried Liptons once. On our very first trip to the USA, we needed a decent cup of tea. Visited Walmart, bought really expensive pack of Liptons which I think was one of just a very few teas among millions of coffees. Made tea, instantly regretted it. Surprising considering it's from Unilever who make the UK's best seller: PG, which is OK but a bit weak.

The place we stayed that leg got most of a pack of free tea bags, and we found somewhere that could make tea - without ice or lemon. :)

Thankfully plastic tea bags don't seem to have become popular here. Asda (Walmart) did them for a while, so we switched brands.
Patents are supposedly designed to protect inventors with limited resources. Dont rail against patents rather than the abusers
I remember it very well and I've written and spoken about it extensively.
The links in the article (near the top, 3rd paragraph?) address the concern you raise about identifying frequently targeted behaviors and learning how to change them. It's a good question to ask! The answers I saw in those links accord with my experience, for whatever that's worth.

Speaking from that same experience, you're right that the border between assertiveness and assholishness is not clearly marked, not least because all people and situations are to at least some extent unique. I can recommend only cautious experiment as a means of developing an understanding of how to be assertive without being a dick.
It seems to not be hiding IP, but it does inadvertently(?) do so for some site's detection methods I think. When I did an IP lookup, some sites reported correct while others reported one I didn't recognize (assumed its the one from WARP).
I've been using these tea balls in office environments: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51mTZ1eURrL...

In terms of convenience I don't think it's significantly worse than sachets. But yeah, I do buy my own tea and store it in my drawer.
Isn't KDE maintained by RedHat? There was news a while back about them killing off KDE in the near future
I have never felt the wind reduce around a wind farm before. Each wind turbine is like needle in a haystack of wind, I can’t imagine anything actually measurable.
I don't have a horse in this race, but observing this back and forth is reminding me of Nietzsche:

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
I remember a local guide in Uzbekistan (I was on vacation there years ago) "The good tea, we keep it. The average one, we sell it. The bad one we send it to Europe to make tea bags."

Luckily I had been using leaves to make my tea at home. Probably the average quality one.
No, I'm saying it's well known that carcinogenic compounds like tar are what causes the lung cancer. It's not radioactivity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(tobacco_residue)
Meat only diets are exceptionally good at weight loss, because your body gets into ketosis (it takes anywhere from 1-2 days to weeks, usually with hangover-like symptoms to adapt fully, but it takes no time to snap out of it), and naturally you cut out most of the calorie sources from your diet.
Author makes some good points but also comes across as quite aggressive himself. The entire article is just throwing shade on everyone in sight from their choice of clothing to their timing on the fraud boat...