skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The doomsayer crowd should be ashamed of themselves for promoting this kind of emotional burnout.

The humanity must go through a few rounds of hysteria and emotional burnout before it realizes that click-driven advertisement and dopamine-driven social media is destructive to it and prevents from clear, rational thinking. It's the way it adopts to a new technological era. Nothing can be done here.

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While IANAL...

There is a difference between general admission and "programs or activities that receive Federal financial assistance". While I'm not saying this is right, it appears to be the current letter of the law. If, for example, race were a determining factor in who works on one of the R&D projects at Harvard that is funded by federal money it would be different than this situation.

Does each student at Harvard get federal financial assistance through Harvard? Not state financial assistance but federal. The different matters to the letter of the law.

It looks like the devil is in the details.
Sure, but I responded to:

> Some people need to be told to stop creating what they create because it's a net negative.

because I thought it was a bad argument, like most arguments here.
What if it sucks up earth!
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> Sounds like the real problem is some part of the system can't be bothered to persist its state.

That's just a special case when you do a reboot. There are many cases where the system starts and there's either no previous state, or the previous state is explicitly killed to prevent sharing.

For example a lot of AWS instances will boot once once in their lifetime, and will do that from a shared AMI. You can't reuse a shared random seed in that case or getting random values from one VM would allow you to predict new values on another.

So persisting the state will help desktop users, but that's addressing only a specific version of this problem, not solving it for everyone.
This tool likely only works for "passwordless" PDF encryption/protection, which restricts some aspect of using the document (printing, exporting single pages etc).

This is the domain of DRM/whitebox cryptography, and leaving aside all discussions about the feasibility of such efforts, PDF's implementation of it can safely be assumed to be broken – the master key used can be found in several open source PDF tools' source code and on Stack Overflow, among other places.

I assume the attacks presented in the paper are about the other type of PDF encryption, which requires a password to even display the protected content, which could definitely be done in a way not vulnerable to the attacks described.
Do the admission statistics also have the representation further broken down by how they were admitted (affirmative-action, scholarship, legacy-admission, normal, etc.)?
> The school was a bit shocked when she arrived to see a 5'1 girl dressed in a way typical of Orthodox Jews.

What "school" inspects every single arriving Freshman? This read like an invented story. Additionally, there is not much overlap between Orthodox Jewish and African-American surnames.
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I don't really accept King John as a counter example. I'd revise my statement above to clarify that only someone with popular support can usurp power - unpopular monarchy can inherit power either because (1) the monarchy as an institution is more regarded than individual monarchs (2) once seizing power a tyrant can usually reduce their popular support and retain that power - the same holds for institutions of power, so the monarchy might not be popular but enough power is gained from and invested in it's continuance that no one wants it to go away[1]. John also may have been a desirable monarch because he was initially a useful idiot and managed to ride luck to transform that initial investiture of some power into a stronger reign.

Lastly, popular support is from the factions, not the people - in medieval europe most of the people had no factional representation politically, all the power had been entirely concentrated in the various estates.

1. See Lord Vetinari in like every discworld book ever.
The states are not the same as the people. You literally notice what you wrote is different in the two sets of quotes you have here, right?
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Surely he must mean implementation in the overall infrastructure. From my time in America is seems that overhauling systems is not popular policy at all. Unfortunately as an African myself there are larger issues than AI that need to be solved before that can even be in the periphery of something near that statement.
Morally it is the same. Legally, I don't know, I am not a lawyer and I don't even live in US, someone else can tell what the law is.
I tried using this today and it's really slick. The API and the ease of implementation on OSx and Ubuntu were surprising.
What if we all die because of planet 9!!!
Reading about things like this I love the way we select people for university in Italy. There is a written test, multiple-choice questions.

Those who score higher, pass. Yes, it sounds like a system that favors test takers, but there are so many seats to take that if you don't score enough you really don't deserve the place (I say this as a person who was never smart not good at tests).

Nobody will consider anything else. Sadly, I've noticed a slight shift towards a more american way of talking about things like race and sex, even in universities, but I hope the legal system is strong enough to keep having neutral admissions.

Our economy is already in a bad place, last thing we need is young people being discriminated for anything but their ability to perform a task, even if arbitrary.
We went through a period where the Democratic Party endorsed the Reagan era Republican theory that consumer prices were the only factor that mattered when considering antitrust action and that it was no longer a goal to protect competition itself.

That period seems to have drawn to a close.
The legal basis behind affirmative action, which is the means by which we "fix" these things, has been challenged many times. This case is simply a reaffirmation of the principle.
I'm literally just making a stupid joke. The curtains are just blue.
The wiki says the UC system has about 40% Asian American students. This suggests race conscious admissions do indeed (as the name suggests) discriminate based on race, at institutions like Harvard.
Judge Burroughs was appointed by Barack Obama. She finished Middlebury College. It is known to be very left: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/middleb.... So let's not pretend this is about law or constitution. It's just politics and nothing more.
I got wedged about six months ago trying to fast iterate on creating a Docker image on Docker for OS X. I exhausted the entropy on the Linux VM and IIRC, one of the package managers started hanging trying to fetch packages over SSL.

Ten years back I had an embedded app that was struggling with this. It's always been my assumption/fear that jitter on an RTOS is not a particularly rich source of entropy. Not to the degree of a Linux kernel sitting on a loud network (maybe switches have worsened this as well?)

Thankfully the system had a few things going for it. First, the flavor of PRNG we were using had a seed function that was cumulative (not all are). Second, useful implementation of system time in nanoseconds (at the time, not a given). And third, the writers had a longish list of bootstrapping tasks to perform prior to making any network calls.

The code that started these tasks was all located in one bootstrapping file. So in addition to whatever crap entropy the libraries could gin up, we pushed another handful of bits of entropy in for each task by taking the nanoseconds and stuffing it into the seed data. doTask1(), seed(nanos()), doTask2(), etc.

This is the same observation made in Linux's RNG, and that is demonstrated in the algorithm for randomness from a biased coin: A high quality mixing algorithm and a large volume biased data can be transformed into a smaller quantity of high quality entropy. Which makes me wonder why Linux doesn't use RDRAND with a low entropy estimate to augment the early sources.
We all know that number should probably be higher if we're actually caring about academic performance.

Affirmative action doesn't actually bother me as much as legacy based admissions. Just absolutely idiotic that it's accepted.
> Second, Kindle and SimpleDB (now Dynamo)

Minor nitpick, these are two separate services. SDB is still independently accessible and probably will be for a while. That being said they definitely don't encourage any new use of SDB and push Dynamo instead.

Kind of a shame because a modern NoSQL store with SQL support would be great for rapid prototyping before a concrete data schema is established.
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ozgune is correct as far as I remember.

The beginnings of AWS, though, were for the retail site. We exposed search and browse and item metadata via an API first for a deal with AOL to provide them with product search and then later we opened it up to everyone. People built stuff like Simple Amazon on top of it, which I thought was pretty nice. I don't think this part of AWS exists anymore (please correct me if I'm wrong).

The first service exposed as what we'd today consider AWS was SQS and at the time it was kind of a head scratcher. Only later did we understand that it was glue for other services.

S3 and EC2 were quite a bit later I think.
RE: Reversing Transactions
- I'd call it a necessity for any currency. Cash works this way.

It's a middleman or escrow who performs this service. Credit Cards and banks act as the middlemen to reverse transactions. No reason cryptos can't have those too. I imagine Uphold or Coinbase or whoever can serve this function.

as far as people being thieved I would agree that it is important to shore up computer security. Physical wallets and stashes of cash also are stolen when security is lax. Again, a middleman might play a role to secure, just as banks do for USD/EUR /etc. Giving money to a bank is essentially delegating the protection of your savings. The alternative being a home safe or under a mattress where the security remains the holder's responsibility.
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I didn't see "non-Jewish" white in the source. Did you add up the rest and subtract from 100?

I think these should be able to add up to more than 100. E.g., someone who is both Hispanic and Black.
This has been true since the 1978 Bakke decision. Judge is only upholding clearly established SCOTUS precedent.
I actually really liked Simple DB as a place for configuration.
The parent is pointing out that they continued the pattern of the setback by denying a candidate the opportunity to learn the skills whose absence resulted in their denial. It's a catch-22 which for them started with their first job out of school.
Can you ask a more specific question? I don't have enough information about what part of the reply chain we have different interpretations of.
I think the opposite is the case here. There seems to be a deep sense of pride from Chinese in particular who are able to "game the system" so to speak. There is indeed a majority of the populace who may just be normal folk working hard, but a non-negligible amount do indeed cheat their way through school at a rate that is not even comparable to anywhere in the west.
They do. The court just ruled that racism is fine.
No. I believe that the sum total effect would be deterrence - sure some would radicalize and may throw themselves suicidally against the regime, but I believe the majority would give way to their desire for self preservation.

Why does the USA order strikes on terrorist targets, knowing full well there will be blowback? Because, on the whole, the strategy works.
To me the obvious thing is to aim to eliminate racial/national/gender bias as much as possible by blinding admission/hiring processes to those things. Then on top of that offer spots for people who have had to deal with exceptional difficulty. Whether that be physical handicap, racial prejudice, economic, etc. There are companies/grants that take an approach like this. Its going to be subjective but perfect is the enemy of good. Then let the percentages land where they may. Having quotas or racial/gender preferences is crazy.
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This is one of the reasons we don't let the drone keep following for very long if the connection is lost to the phone or beacon controlling it. As a person operating the drone, it's your job to know local and national regulations and follow them.
So it's like concern trolling.
> What "school" inspects every single arriving Freshman?

Pretty much every single school that makes freshmen live on campus, which is pretty much every single school.

> Additionally, there is not much overlap between Orthodox Jewish and African-American surnames.

I'm going to make an educated guess you do not happen to live either in any of the urban areas with large Jewish and African-American populations or you at least do not happen to socialize with both groups. I can virtually guarantee you that you would have a very hard time sorting names in Bed-Sty, Flushing, Cheltenham, area around City Line Ave, Norristown, etc.

The policies to prop any group always bite because those policies presume that the other groups won't figure out how to profit off them and those policies typically do not have a way to stop a determined adversary.
I gather you're not a minority.
its also quite common in fixed data logging applications, such as exports from bms.
Last I checked, SSH agent does not work under WSL. Even if that is fixed, though, the OpenSSH port will integrate much cleaner with Windows software; I set it up for use with Git and my IDE.
> Immigrants are absolutely not treated better than I am anywhere in North America, or in Europe where I've been to date but I'll concede in places where white people are a minority that might not always be true.

Again, isn't the consensus that the percentage of white students in elite colleges would go up from something like 66% to 75% if only raw ability were considered? In other words you're getting shafted for being white, in a mostly white country.

> Just because some white people have accomplished something doesn't give you claim or credit for that.

Aren't you gaslighting him? It's called kin selection and it doesn't stop at the parents, it expands outwards further and further with no magical border.
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Of specific guns, namely rifles designed for military use. Shotguns, pistols, and low-capacity rifles are still fine.
What do you think of the Franco-Ottoman Alliance[1], when France and the Ottoman Empire were allies? This occurred when England was trying to "raid and invade" other parts of Europe. [2] It's almost as if an us-them dichotomy simplifies our understanding and obscures the real entropy found in truth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Ottoman_alliance
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_War_of_1542%E2%80%9315...
I think it comes down to the high cost of lifestyle changes. For example, if I am a consultant and needs to fly a lot to make a living, it would be very hard for me to change that.

I agree we need people to be more conscious of waste and to reduce excessive consumption, but at the same time, we need easy solutions for people to contribute.

I like the dual strategy of Project Wren (https://projectwren.com/) that encourages lifestyle changes and buying carbon offsets at the same time.
There are thousands of amazing universities in the US that are not Harvard.
Discrimination based on race for college admission is illegal. There is Title VI (https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/hq43e4.html) which may seem limited, but in general restricting economic activity based on race is illegal unless it is exclusive and unadvertised.

Even if it weren't, it should be obvious something wrong is happening...
> You can't reuse a shared random seed in that case or getting random values from one VM would allow you to predict new values on another.

Why can't AWS seed you with a random number before giving you control? In fact does it not do that already? If it doesn't, either I'm surprised, or I don't understand why it's not possible.
But people in the Black bucket are way behind economically because people in the White bucket have been stealing from them for 100s of years, and the people in the White bucket created the buckets in the first place to do the stealing.

So how do you make that right without continuing to use the buckets? The only way is to either completely dismantle Capitalism, and start over with it or something else again from scratch were everyone starts on even ground again, and it never mattered what bucket people were in. The simpler option is to use the buckets and say that people in the Black bucket get special benefits at the cost of people in the White bucket to right the wrong that happened, and this needs to continue until they're close to even again.

It's like if a friend steals money from you. The only way you're likely ever going to fix that friendship is if the friend at the very least gives the money back and apologizes. Pretending like it never happened isn't going to work.

An additional thing is that you still have people using the buckets for their benefit, or just because they don't know better. In order to counteract the actions of those people, and recognize who's hurt by them, you have to also use the idea of the "buckets".
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I quoted wrong number. Sorry.
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> Bell Labs pulled out of the Multics program in 1969. Multics wasn't going to happen.

Not only did Multics happened, even without the help of Bell Labs, a later DoD security assessment proved that thanks to the fact of Multics being written in PL/I it wasn't susceptible to the security exploits that plague UNIX clones to this day.

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It's not a punishment to not get into Harvard. Most people don't get into Harvard.
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That's not true the way you claim it to be.

I just read the full decision, and there's a pretty decent number of citations of existing case law discussing what does and doesn't count as discriminating by race, specifically within the context of college admissions. It's in the last 1/3 of the document after the findings of fact and discussions of statistical analyses.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mzqBPL57yCRWHZGE7A6U6re3cGX...

You might disagree with the reasoning of the decision, but there's already case law separating education from employment. Past that we get into slippery slope territory that this decision specifically avoids.
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uh huh, besides 1 and 2 what exactly is non-Windows/non-NTFS specific ?
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There was an article about legacy admissions, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21037400

Tables start at page 40.
This might come as a shock to you, but people from outside the US also attend/apply to US universities.