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I ignored Green Day when I first got into punk because they seemed like radio-rock music. But years later, when I was in grad school and stopped caring so much about how I classified bands, I was blown away by "American Idiot." That album was brilliant.

I listened to Offspring's album "Smash" a bunch in middle school, which made for an interesting revelation when I devoured Bad Religion's entire catalogue in high school.
What if I'm working for a global company based in Malaysia?

Would I be happy to be paid the regular rate of a Malaysian developer while I live in Silicon Valley? Or would I demand a higher pay? Does that mean everyone in the Malaysian office gets paid more? Does the company go under?

GitLab is in a weird position because they have workers in both. We don't chastise a local Malaysian company for paying the local rates, but we do for GitLab?

It's an unfair reality, but not an unlivable one. A cheaper lifestyle isn't necessarily a degraded one.

That still doesn't make it fair. I personally believe these global companies could step up and try to change that. But that's if it weren't about profits - which is is.
Isn't that all the government does?
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. Going down that road always leads to worse discussion and damages the container here.

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Curious, what exactly do you think would be different in a world without Stallman?
Ask HN: Is the Cloudflare dashboard down for anyone else?
I'm getting a 503 API error whenever I try to access my dashboard, but their status page says everything is fine.

Is this happening to anyone else?
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Is it possible that jews, asian-americans, and academic faculty and donors place a greater emphasis on adademic education than other demographics, and raise their children in a way that makes them more likely to be successful in academic settings?
It sounds as if inequality in the gilded age was mostly caused by masses of immigrants entering the country, hoping for a share of the high wages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age

If that is the case, it seems unwarranted to present it as an example of failure. Poor people were attracted by the success, and accommodating them was not seamless. But how could it be - no system can be prepared for that.
I see how the issues could be a "no deal" for the post writer. However, I have the impression that software engineers forgot that we are exchanging labor for money and it is normal to put our heads down sometimes. Let's stop with the "drama" when every single of our requests are not attended.
I find it quite funny that the judge donated to Elizabeth Warren in 2012, a candidate who infamously listed herself as Native American on her Harvard affirmative action forms. The solution is clear. Just lie about your race.
This is a fantastic idea. Economists love it too [1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-16/rural-...
It's less "dumb", more "trained." Ezra Klein had an excellent podcast with Daniel Markovits a couple weeks ago that touched on this--being optimized (by parents and the local culture around you) to succeed at getting to Harvard (or Yale or whatever) doesn't mean that it's the best thing for you or for society to be afforded the significant benefits that we, both consciously and unconsciously, assign to that.
It's not about weeding anyone out. Or at least not trying to.

An Engineering degree that really teaches stuff will be difficult. And some students will find it is not for them and leave. Preferably early before they have invested too much in it.
Probably because its math (intellectual) instead of work (advertisement). I think people have an innate disdain towards advertisement, which is why its usually so covert.
the fact they are using the legacy backdoor to get in, instead of the great academics route... kinda would dictate they aren't on the same level of "smarts".

People only use the backdoor when the front one wont work.
Well, it's Rust! That means it will never crash, leak memory, or be susceptible to buffer overflow exploits. Plus it's fast! You can listen to a 2-minute song in 1 minute 50 seconds!
Children of alumni.
With the number of Ford F-150s in the US (or Toyota Tacomas in the Mid-East), it scales reasonably well when either used for targeted assassination of High Value Targets, or as the opening barrage of a combined-arms attack. Considering total costs of employment (vehicle modifications, including explosives), it's cheaper than air support and more accurate than traditional tube artillery.
> Given the fact that the economy is at full employment

The economy might be at full employment, but people are often underemployed, getting few hours, and shit wages. Most people are employed but many don't make enough to support even just themselves on their earnings let alone a family. Real wages have barely increased since the 1970s while costs have risen. We've had the first generations of Americans who are worse off than their parents. I wouldn't say our current situation was at all encouraging.
You're not wrong. The assumption was that UCB is broadly representative. Looking at the full system data: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/fall-enrol...

Given my own knowledge of the UC system, berkeley seems the most international, which is why I thought simply citing berkeley would be enough. But, point taken. Let's look into the system data.

The total UC enrollment is 286271. Of this, there are 40219 Non-resident international students, which means there are 14% international students in the UC system as a whole. Thus, my using just berkeley actually shifted the data in my opponent's favor, since -- as I hypothesized -- Berkeley does indeed have more international students as a percentage of enrollment.
Depends on the place I suppose. In Portugal it was primarily because of religion (many time out of fear that they had secretly kept their Jewish religion, rather than actually converting to christianity).

It doesn't really make sense to talk about the expulsions in the 1500s as being motivated by race, given that there was no meaningful difference in race between the Jewish and Christian populations in the area, and they had widely intermingled.

While I have read plenty of accounts of riots and expulsions that either explicitly or implicitly state their reasons as being motivated by fears of new Christians still Secretly practicing Judaism, I haven't seen a single account naming race or some ethnic distinction as the cause.
Interestingly enough I see a parallel to this in my family.

I'm the one with the high end financial education so they ask me for advice (fair enough). Yet circumstances differ so it's invariable a case of "do as I say, not as I do". No sister...leveraged derivatives with short DTEs aren't for you.

...weird parallel in a microcosm sense.
Investing is a "loser's game". By comparing it to tennis: a "winner's game" is a tennis game in which you try to play the ball so well that your opponent can't handle it, and you score a point. This is how professionals play tennis, they win by superior play. An amateur is playing a "loser's game" - focused on just bouncing the ball 20 times and hoping that his opponent bounces the ball only 19 times. Similarly in investing the whole point is to avoid trouble, stay in the game for a long time and maybe eventually score a nice win on the way. This implies insistence on low prices (buy low sell high / margin of safety), not chasing crazy returns (because crazy high returns are often surrounded by crazy bad losses) and diversification (accepting the fact that one's judgement is probably poor and that there is inherent randomness in the world).
Boeing has a new safety scandal: https://komonews.com/news/local/exclusive-unexpected-crackin...

The US is accusing the EU of illegally subsidising Airbus, while the EU is accusing the US of illegally subsidising Boeing. The conflict has reached the WTO. Now the US is threatening "to impose tariffs of up to 100% on European exports" - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/27/huge-trade-tariffs-on-europe...

Tell me again how the first suspect that comes to mind in a case of systematic attacks on Airbus suppliers is... China.
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> Try creating a shortcut in the Shortcuts app to play something in Spotify

how ?
This article could have just as easily been titled "If You Want to Go For Broke, Listen to a Billionaire"

Not all startups are VC-backable; not all entrepreneurs are trying to build massive companies. Entrepreneurs, as a microcosm of all people, have a wide variety of values and goals.

So when the author says:

> A Better Formula For Regular Entrepreneurs

What's "better"? What's a "regular entrepreneur"? More precise language might be something like "A formula with a higher chance of success for entrepreneurs who value a likely moderately-positive outcome over an unlikely massively-positive outcome."

Personally, I'm going for broke. I want to create the largest possible positive impact that I can for humanity. VC incentives to seek unicorns may not be aligned with all entrepreneurs, especially the "regular entrepreneurs" above. But I think for some, the incentives and economics are aligned.
>Sure, the kid was swinging at the officer, and I suppose that warrants the officer acting in self-defense. But another question is, what are the protesters supposed to do?

That's not how it works in several western countries. People can swing, throw rocks, even molotov cocktails at the SWAT teams, and they still don't shoot live rounds back - and it would be a huge political issue if they did...
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< The study, published on Sept. 11, concluded that only one-quarter of these students would have received admission had it not been for their advantageous circumstances.

I can see legacy status being referred to as an "advantageous circumstance." But being a D1 recruited athlete takes years of dedication and hard work. It isn't some circumstance that someone finds him/herself in.
Hey, another co-founder of Streamlit here. Let us know how this works out for your team!

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Though he does commute to his million dollar beach house in his private jet I believe.
For some context, Wolfram published a book of collected papers called "Cellular Automata and Complexity" [1] where he classified Cellular Automata (CA) into four broad categories:

I. Convergent uniform final state
II. Convergent simple pattern final state
III. "Random"
IV. "Complexity"

Where "Complexity" essentially means Turing Machine Equivalent [2]. See also [3].

Later, Wolfram self-published "A New Kind of Science" (ANKoS). ANKoS is abysmal and barely readable but, from what I can understand from what little I read of it, Wolfram updated his understanding and instead basically classified CA into two categories, either 'simple' or 'complex', where, again, 'complex' means Turing Machine Equivalent.

If I remember correctly, I think Wolfram even used Rule 30 as a basis for random number generators somewhere (Mathematica?).

Considering the tenor of the problems, maybe Wolfram is still essentially classifying CA into his four initial categories as it looks like he's pushing for the idea that "Rule 30 == 'random'".

My personal take on this is that the idea that there are basically "two" classifications of CA, either 'simple' (non-Turing Machine equivalent) and 'complex' (Turing Machine equivalent) is correct. Though it might be the case where the more 'random' a CA looks, the harder it is to do the reduction to TME, maybe even going so far as having a diverging reduction cost.

Regardless, this is why these questions might be interesting. Is Rule 30 TME? If so, then that answers question 3 (O(n) simulation is essentially saying there's no "shortcut" and you're basically doing full computation). Questions 1 and 2 are, in my opinion, shades of the same TME question, where non-periodic is another way of saying there's no short-circuit computation and calculating the average is getting at the unpredictability (read 'required computability') of the cells.

If Rule 30 isn't TME but still requires O(n) cost to predict, that's also pretty interesting as it requires as much computing power to predict it but isn't as powerful as a Turing Machine. From a broader perspective, this gets at the whole "randomness vs. determinism" idea, as this is a deterministic system that, for many purposes, behaves randomly. This idea is probably old news to this crowd but there's a close link to TME and randomness that is still not completely understood and investigations into CA of this sort are another way to tackle this idea.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Cellular-Automata-Complexity-Collecte...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine_equivalents

[3] https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p231--four-classes-of-beh...
And this mentality is why we've gone to war almost every decade for a century.
How do we properly break down our HONKs into subHONKs so they're finished within a WOMP?
Not that I'm against python 3 but please, this dismissive arrogant attitude says more about your experience with python than of people who took their time. Python until at least 3.4 was changing way too fast to be considered as a stable platform to port to. The actual window for migration has been more like 3-5 years. Yes this has been sufficient but not so long that people need to question their life choices for being cautions.
Protocol buffers are both serialized data objects and service API's.

https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto#se...
I hope you don't mind if I respond to your conservapedia link with a wikipedia link. This is the list of mass shootings in the US in 2019 (9 months):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_...

According to it 385 people were killed and 1338 injured so far. 8 of the mass shootings were in schools. Now you're saying that if faced with the choice of having fewer or no mass shootings, and being able to stop a small fraction of them (or worse, stop a large fraction but even the small one still causes thousands of victims) while the rest cause hundreds of deaths and thousands injured you'd pick the second?

As for the coups, I never said they don't work so please don't move the goalposts. I said that the dictator rarely gave up just because his opponents had guns or even the backing of the US military. When I replied to OP's comment it said dictators would back off if faced with armed population.

But if the point you're (contrivedly) trying to make is that guns are not the problem I can only strongly agree. Guns, games, etc. seem to not be a problem in the rest of the western world. So the problem must be something or somewhere else.
With regards to public policy: there's not much of a problem (except to the extend that public policy props up private schools).

But should it not cause us to re-evaluate how much we respect the university and it's degrees?
Also AFAIK: (1) There is a mandatory pilot Airbus training facility in Zhongshan, I believe for China Southern. (2) There is a Rolls Royce engine repair facility in Zhuhai. (3) Cirrus was bought by China and are establishing production in Zhuhai.

... and that's just airline related tech stuff I have passively become aware of within 50km of my office in the last 12 months.
My kid is also, unfortunately, he probably isn’t going to get many advantages from either white or asian.
Exactly.

Mathematically we're living in different universes. Moves that are rational for someone who has a few billion dollars under management don't work for the rest of us, because we're unable to diversify risk to the same extent.

Along the same lines, however, our "hurdle rate" for a life impacting investment is substantially lower....
What is the protestors' end game here? Hasn't the extradition bill been killed? What do they need to end the protests and return to normal? I am genuinely curious.
Plot twist, their real job is to be a human air filter /s
The descendants of alumni: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_preferences
ITs a great idea but if you want people to populate a new town or city you've first got to move some companies and jobs there. Once jobs are there, the people will always follow. How to get companies to move there? Provide tax incentives: companies will do almost anything to get a tax incentive.
Legacy admissions (i.e. institutionalized nepotism) and institutional advancement (i.e. institutionalized bribery) are anachronistic. Given universities are tax exempt, it seems reasonable to require those wanting to keep these programs pay taxes on their businesses and endowments.
HNers are so anal, don't you see the correlation with OP's title?
Because Harvard admits on legacy status.
It's the worst part of the Internet: there is really no real listening to the other side. Everybody gets an opinion and the most important thing for him on something not really in his field(s) is, get his opinion out!

I think the HN's algorithm also contribute to the problem: the fastest and most upvoted response leads the discussion, and normally not the most valuable.
A grades and SAT admission model creates a class that is ~70% Asian. America’s future leadership class is categorically not 70% Asian.
In fairness to those developers (of which I was one): Python 3 was released a decade ago, and support for Python 3 in commonly used libraries was released, depending on the library, some time between a decade ago and "not yet".

This has required a lot of engineering work to make libraries function with Python 2 and Python 3 (e.g. pandas, numpy, scipy), to make frameworks work properly on both (e.g. django), and to ensure that the libraries that everything relies on (e.g. mysqldb) get updated, forked, or replaced with rewritten alternatives.

Sure, I as a developer "should have" been writing Python 3 for the last ten years, but for most of those years it would have required rewriting large libraries that I, and other developers, rely on to be productive.

Unfortunately this has meant that instead of starting Python 3 projects over the last ten years, people have been starting Python 2 projects so that they could get their work done in those intervening years.
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As tharne mentioned in another comment, this isn't really true. Harvard (like all private universities) gets tons of government funding: directly via grants and indirectly via the federal loans that a lot of its students get. Society therefore arguably gets to have some say in how Harvard does business; if Harvard doesn't like that, it can stop taking federal grant money.
If you don't want pollution, regulate pollution. But this "everything should be repaired and the world would be better" is pure ideology. They think they can achieve less pollution by enforcing repairs. They are not businessmen. They don't know the actual problems with production and repairs. They should let businesses figure out how to reduce waste and pollution, not tell them what to do.
Ah yes, if Chinese police did it, its barbaric. US cops do far worse on a daily basis and are worshiped as heroes and literally get away with murder without so much as a charge.
That vending machine pizza maker doesn't get it right either. It mixes the dough "fresh"... but that's actually not ideal. The dough needs time to absorb all the water and time to sit out and be proofed before made into pizza.

Pizza seems simple... until you want something that tastes really good...
That's only if you are dealing with an US English userbase who never copy/paste from Microsoft Word. Anything else, and the better unicode support is a godsend. Better have them pop up as type errors during development than as uncaught exceptions whenever a user happens to first put unicode somewhere you don't expect.
G-Dragon, maybe?
How about a balanced culture that can appreciate eduction, sports AND drama? We don't need a culture where everyone strives for excellence in one dimension. That's a very boring world and implicitly creates a pyramid/caste system where the high academic achievers get the lion's share of attention and praise. There's a reason National Exams in Asian countries are sometimes viewed negatively.
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