skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like doubling CO2 causes increase in carbs and a decrease in proteins but the difference is only 1.5-14% depending on the plant species, with soy beans being the least affected. Still, a doubling of CO2 can cause certain tree species overall mass to increase by 138%.

If the yields and plant mass overall increase by more than 14%, then perhaps the trade-off is worth it. And this is perhaps why commercial greenhouse growers pump CO2 into them up to 1200PPM.

At any rate it does seem like an interesting question. What sort of species will thrive in a high CO2 environment? I do have faith in plants and their ability to adapt to such conditions, as it was the conditions they thrived under in the Mesozoic and beyond.

At any rate, thank you for the interesting studies.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2486...

https://academic.oup.com/treephys/article-abstract/14/7-8-9/...
Then they added JavaScript and made it Turing complete, completely negating the effort to eliminate the general computability of Postscript.
There's really no such thing as a true private university in the US, at least not with respect to any of the schools in the of the rankings. All top schools receive a ton of government money in the form of research grants and other investments and partnerships. Then you add in all the federal money that comes in via the students from federally subsidized student loans, grants, etc and what you have is effectively a school where the funding is public and the management and accountability is private. Much like with banks in the US, the upside is privatized and the downside is socialized.

Note - this is not a defense or critique of their policy with regard to race and admissions. I don't believe that it's just or reasonable to use race to lower or raise the bar for anyone. In an ideal world, admissions would be merit based and you'd let the chips fall where they may. The fact is that certain groups place higher or lower levels of value on a specific type of educational achievement. There's nothing wrong with that. In some subcultures in the US, the best thing a young person can do in the eyes of their parents and community is join the military. There are other cultures where that is seen as a bad path. We shouldn't be in the business of telling others what is or is not in their best interests. That should be left to individual families and communities.
That is interesting, but IMO what's interesting is that USD coinage doesn't go as high in value as anywhere else I'm aware of.

(Continental) Europe has €2 coins, worth just slightly more than two dollar 'bills', here in the UK we have £2 coins (worth slightly more again) (and commemorative £5s), Canada has 'twonies' too.

The 50¢ top-out seems surprisingly low now that I think about it. Is there any particular reason it's developed that way?
Although that would be admitting that the initial (possibly biased) selection is more important that the actual education.
I saw that Last Week Tonight segment. I agree with your original post.
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So Harvard makes it overly hard for non-athlete/legacy white kids to get in relative to other groups, while also favoring them when they're from those categories?

Speaking as an alum who will never donate or allow his kids to apply there: fuck them.
The barriers i repeatedly hit seem to be due to my lack of competence or inexperience at the tools im using.
In the US it is illegal in many cases for private business to discriminate based on race, despite them being private businesses. This case is about whether that extends to universities.
Wow. That seriously devalues a Harvard diploma in hiring decisions.

Especially since Harvard is easy once you get in. 97.5% graduation rate. It's not like they're flunking out the losers among the legacy admits. UC Berkeley is around 90%.
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I like most of your answer, but didn't like that you silently dropped "newly-made" from the OP's criteria. You're welcome to argue that it doesn't matter, and just as welcome to argue that this is a good thing, but it seems odd to avoid mentioning that there is no legal way for a US citizen to purchase a fully automatic weapon manufactured after 1986 --- and that guns not subject to this ban are in very short supply and thus very expensive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act
only 26 percent of the white athletes, legacies, dean’s listers, and faculty children Harvard admitted between 2009 and 2014 would still make the cut based on, say, their grades.

https://slate.com/business/2019/09/harvard-admissions-affirm...
Oh please there are so many offenders. Even IT vendors that charge a fortune for their product explicitly state they only support Chrome. What a sham, I wish DOJ would at least regulate Chrome so that it does not implement interfaces that give it a unique advantage to further dominate or lock-down users. Clearly anti-competitive.

A lot of times Google is to blame,I can understand how some people simply lack resources to support multiple browsers.
When, in the history of humanity, has income ever been at an acceptable level of equality?

If you/the people who support such a policy can't define an explicit goal then I'd say that's pretty unachievable.
This sinister & pervasive line of thought terrifies me. Too many Americans under 40 share similar thoughts: my vote doesn't count, some mysterious corporate/billionaire $$ controls everything so why bother, antipathy etc.

It's scary that many actually believe this and thus self-fulfill their prophecy because they don't get involved and don't vote.

To further amplify this detrimental affect, there are state-sponsored trolls/propagandists actively driving this wedge and these narratives online to attack our Democracy from within.
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Too lazy to break out the stats, but a fair comparison would be international undergrad and grad as opposed to the aggregate.

Harvard is actually a large graduate school that happens to teach some undergrads. Berkeley's main purpose is undergrad education.
That depends on what "equally qualified" means?

If it means "someone who is equally likely to be successful at Harvard" the answer is likely yes. Like I said there is no shortage of people who fit that definition.

If it means "someone who has quantifiably the exact same quality of resume" the answer is potentially no.

Although if you subscribe to the second definition, you should probably have a bigger complaint against athletes and children of alumni, staff, or donors. Almost half of all white students at Harvard are in one of those groups[1] and yet there are always more complaints about "diversity" than there is about these students.

[1] - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/study-harvard-finds-43-...
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I’m curious, what library do you use to handle the REST requests ?
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The difference is three fold:

1) Speed. The industrial revolution took place relatively slowly, over the course of 60-80 years (2-3 entire generations). Once a tipping point in automation is reached, it will very likely happen extremely quickly in our connected, easy-capital, globally competitive economy.

2) Reach. The industrial revolution primarily impacted manufacturing and to some extent farming. Today's automation is attacking almost every single major industry on the planet at the same time. Farming, manufacturing, finance, construction, food service, you name it. If your warehouse picker job gets automated away it's unlikely you'll be able to go get a job at Burger King because those jobs will be automating at about the same time.

3) New economies. The Industrial Revolution led to the industrial economy, which enabled the service/information economy. It's unclear what new economy is waiting beyond automation for the workers who lose out. Entertainment economy? Personal servant economy? What's left if most of the manual labor jobs and a good chunk of white collar jobs all go away within a generation?
I was just about to point out, but I didn't know if people would take it the wrong way, that the number of blacks who are non-rich and non-athlete is vanishingly small. Not only at Harvard, but I'm pretty sure this is the case at most universities.

The point being that whether you're white or black, being rich or being an athlete is the best way into Harvard. If you're neither, I think you're pretty much screwed. There really are just way too many intelligent students out there these days, you need something more than just a test score.

Just the sad reality nowadays.
from the list, looks like preview.app/skim is the least affected... i wonder if that’s because it’s just lacking dynamic features of the others, or it’s just coded better, or it’s because macOS security defaults...
If you're talking about Zen, AMD's PSP RNG is the same one used by RDRAND. That's not an independent source.
Well, not really, but before Linux 3.17 there was no way other way to be safe: /dev/urandom was the only other option, and that happily returns data even if the entropy pool isn't (yet) initialized and the CSPRNG can't be properly seeded.

Since then there is get_random(2) which does the right thing for most applications.

The man page also has this to say:

> The /dev/random device is a legacy interface which dates back to a time where the cryptographic primitives used in the implementation of /dev/urandom were not widely trusted.

I must admit though, that I still don't understand why blocking on insufficient entropy is a bad thing for generating long-lived keys. I'm going to use the key for years, why wouldn't I just wait a couple of seconds or minutes?
> it needs to work much more closely with the FAA

Some would argue that working too closely with the FAA is the problem.
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Yeah, where are all those articles and opinions about his bad behavior from before the recent debacle? Why are they all being written now?
It is when the courts say as a temporary measure its ok. You have to define temporary or else it just becomes de-facto permanent.
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So do you think DEC was spying on Intel during the Alpha days? Whatever they could’ve learned wouldn’t be worth the effort.
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Stallman's position is pretty clearly that we should use precise language always. It seems a pretty impeccable position to me. The only people I can think of who benefit from conflating coercive and non-coercive crimes under the same term are the ones who profit from the confusion.
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The Duke paper addresses this point directly:

"Our model of admissions shows that roughly three quarters of white ALDC admits would have been rejected if they had been treated as white non-ALDCs."
> I often wonder why there are no such robots in Manhattan now?

It sounds like it only made one pancake at a time? A person stood at a griddle can make a dozen pancakes at once. And we don't know how often that robot broke down. I somehow suspect the novelty was one of the reasons to have such a device, not necessarily the efficiency of the thing.
> I'm not a crypto expert either, but wouldn't it still make sense to use /dev/random when generating long-lived keys (e.g. PGP, SSL CA, ssh keys...)?

No. https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-rando...
You have to wonder why we really need pizza to be round in shape but then they package it into a rectangular cardboard box. Like there is a whole part of the machine that takes the leftover dough after cutting the circular shapes. Seems inefficient.
UK has had a quarter of negative growth. Hard to imagine Brexit is going to boost that. So, yes, recession here almost certain.
I would love to see a lawsuit arguing that any school that takes federal funds can't have legacy admissions.
I've always figured that if you do this, it will be assumed that you are trying to dodge negative discrimination and will be treated the same as a White/Asian person.
Leonardo Federico needs to take a penmanship class.
While you should move on to python3 at this point I still stand by the whole thing was a giant waste of time. 'Better' unicode support was not worth the mess. Everything else could have been done in python2.
Sure, but this is about undergraduate admissions, not graduate.
The residuals of this model look really bad though, and that should tell you that there's insufficient predictive value. I'd at a minimum use a piecewise fir, or simply not fit a model without further predictors.
I apologize if this sounds blunt, it's not imprudent to see more sinister reasons given history,
but my thought would be you're seeing them break out Jewish because from the religion as cultural group perspective, the cultural import of education is anomalous.

I genuinely am not trying to break out the praeteritio, and say I'm not calling it a 'positive' stereotype, but at a certain level you can't have such a cultural focus on education, and then be gobsmacked when it has statistical significance in things like school admissions.

Like, if I told you that Utah had the lowest per capita alcohol consumption in the US, it's not liable to blow anyone's mind.

Heck, one of the reasons Harvard came up with its holistic admissions process in the first place was targeted at Jewish kids applying.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/9/19/admissions-laws...

Also just a lazy google, I'd hazard to guess you're right about catholic representation being higher than expected.
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Haha I did something similar at my company. Our customers are heavy spreadsheet users, so decided to create a generic Angular component that can take semi-arbitrary json and display it in a spreadsheet (handsontable).

The code flattens a deeply nested json object into a bunch of 'rows', similar to Spark's explode or Mongo's unwind.

The objects representing the flattend rows have their getters and setters hooked to the original json object. That way when you edit the spreadsheet the json is automatically updated, with parent values shown as merged cells for array child values.

The code was completely bonkers and I ripped it out later...but must say it was fun to write and see it doing its thing
Shipping a smaller number of humans to be...baby factories is probably cheaper than shipping an entire population though.
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The /dev/random re-blocking behavior, where entropy is "consumed" (after initial entropy seeding), is a result of lack of crypto understanding by Linux shot-callers, and Linus in particular.

You wouldn't blame them for it 20-25 years ago, but we've known better for at least 15 years so it'd be nice if they'd get with the program. And it can be fixed without breaking their userspace ABI that they're usually fanatical about not breaking. Linus wanting to break getrandom's ABI just shows he still doesn't understand how CSPRNGs work.
Seems your understanding is totally out of touch with SJW/Woke wave sweeping across the world. Pointing out statistics may brand you as apologist of racism, perpetuating while privilege etc.
Reading the prize guidelines Wolfram gets the right to publish the proofs but that's it, which seems fair. Big tech companies perhaps have to pay more because they own the work product and it's presumably for some commercial reason?
Why can't you say that? Every decision you make is an individual decision. Whether or not to vaccinate yourself is an individual decision, owning a gun, driving a car, looking both ways. All can have consequences for others besides yourself.
Unfortunately, they are also subject to the bigotry native blacks are subject to - one of the wealthiest majority-black counties in the country, whose population has swelled recently with highly-educated African and West Indian immigrants, still deals with lower housing values and the attendant ills (lower quality public schools, etc.), for example.

It's not just about slavery.
I get that enterprise-y stuff is on a more LTS slow schedule, but:

Python 3 was released a DECADE ago - literally. If you've got mission critical stuff running on Python 2 and are panicking now then it's time re-evaluate your life choices.
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If you want secure boot then you want the BIOS/UEFI to verify a signature on a boot loader which then has to verify the signature on a kernel which then has to verify filesystems' ubberblock checksums (which should be signed in the boot manifest, which signature should be verified too).
Not sure what EU rules you are referring to. All the phones I had were chargeable by standard USB socket and rootable, afaik.

You have things like fairphone where you can exchange and upgrade parts. In general, the magic of capitalism is that if people want something, somebody will eventually make it.

I also wonder how much of companies trying to prevent repairs is actually BECAUSE of regulations. Like they could be liable if something goes wrong. What if somebody tries to repair a phone, does it wrong, and the battery explodes. Who would be liable?

Your final point, with you being able to do a lot of repairs: you are not normal in that respect. Most people could not do that.

And even the hourly rate of most people would probably make it ineffective for them to do it, even if they could.

Since it is inefficient, I question the assumption that repairs are automatically good for the environment. Maybe buying a newer, more energy efficient machine every couple of years is better in some cases, especially if the old machine is recycled properly.

I would be much more in favor of regulations with respect to recycling. This "repairing is better" is mostly ideology and virtue signalling.
And that's the overall number. Berkeley's College of Engineering programs have lower graduation numbers.

P.S. It shouldn't be a good thing to brutally weed out students. Facts are facts though.
> I think it's very possible that the legacy child of two doctors becomes a better doctor than a more academically-talented student

Mom & Dad doing patient diagnosis & surgery at home to bond with the kids...

Sounds more problematic than a software engineer opening up the editor.
I've been looking into Kafka lately, because I have a need for "the thing that Kafka is in practice" (not a message queue per se; rather, an indefinitely-durable event store that supports message-queuing API semantics for consumers.)

And, while Kafka does do this, its infrastructure needs are kind of ridiculous when your producers 1. produce events in clean batches, and 2. could re-produce those events, in the exact same batches, if prompted.

Ideally, rather than having to basically have a whole second DBMS in the form of a Kafka cluster (stateful nodes with big HDDs, carefully backed up, needing repair when any die), what I would love is a Kafka-like "event store with MQ semantics", which is in turn backed by an object store. Basically, like Datomic's segment-storage architecture; or like WAL-E in its use-case as an intermediary for Postgres replication. Unlike either of those, though, MQ log-segments don't need any additional metadata (e.g. checkpoints, indices), so they can just be chucked straight in object storage, and MQ nodes can base their view of the world entirely on what happens to be in the object-storage bucket.

Of course, this kind of system only makes sense if you have no need for durability of new messages (because e.g. the producer still has the data that went into them, and can resend them), only old messages. Which is kind of an unusual requirement, I suppose, so I don't really expect anyone else to go building this sort of thing for me.