skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"As I found while writing my 2019 book Superior: The Return of Race Science, geneticists today rightly treat eugenics as a laughable proposition, and the concept of biological race — the belief that humans can be subdivided into distinct groups with meaningful differences between them — as easily debunked nonsens"

Many studies cluster people with different genetic histories into groups with meaningful differences. This is important (for example) when treating people with different genetic histories for disease. AFAICT the article's author gets genetic history and social race mixed up, which does nothing to help their article's point.
> If there is no refund being offered for the content shifting online from in-person, why have in-person at all?

Most MIT undergrads pay no tuition, even though tuition is something like $70,000 a year there. They have a massive endowment and are thus on average one of the lowest cost colleges in the US, though not as low cost as Princeton. What refunds could they give?

> Is room and board going to be refunded?

Undoubtedly.

> If courses being taught online is an acceptable substitute, why have caps on admission at all?

Most of MIT's undergraduate course work is on line and free for anyone to take. Many take advantage of that. They also have a Masters program, the first year of which anyone who wants to can take it for free. Those who do well are admitted to the second year.

MIT's way ahead of other universities on online education and does extremely well with it. The main "problem" is that MIT is in the top two engineering schools in the world, their classes are extremely rigorous and it simply is not for everyone. 99% of the world population, to be blunt, are not intelligent enough to do well there. And MIT has no intention of dumbing it down to be more "fair and equal" in accordance with the democratic ideal of minimal expectations.

But yes, there are effectively no caps on admission if you want to take online classes there. You won't get an MIT diploma, but you will learn the material and what you do with it is up to you.
They’re providing packing materials and helping with the move.

Financially, they say:

> We understand that being asked to leave campus may pose a serious financial hardship for certain individuals. Students will receive a follow up communication on this matter.

It’s unclear what their solution is, but they seem to have thought about it...
Speaking of the underprivileged kids. Here in S.F where we have some really high rents, I heard a story from a friend that there was a student who was living in a van and spent most of his time in the lobby of the student center. I wonder if the MIT gang will start living in their cars. This could be the beginning of a new hyper mobile tech road warrior culture... Like all the MIT kids will meet up in random spots around the country and somebody will drive up a box truck with whatever laser or experiment they're working on. Total Bruce Sterling novel in the making here...
Agreed.

Not to excuse but explain: but being recently deprived of a hardware keyboard and having to use onscreen soft keyboards is a major handicap to clear writing. It's a 50% cut in intelligence.
And of course you can harness this all to shrink coins [1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCh8UoLY-ow
All that is left is removing their names from code and projects they contributed so they do not exist. Don't that some won't try this and worse many will cheer it on.

of course once that bridge is crossed they can attribute the work to someone currently approved of and more deserving
I thought about it and its actually funny!

Founding shit like this took a special kind of dinosaur, the kind who criticizes everything. The self critique being the most important kind. In an ideal world you can never have enough of that. Sadly for other people, if you have a lot of it, it is hard not to project it outwards as well. It takes a great struggle to not subject others to the same standard one holds himself to. It can be done... until codez of conduct are coined then such person just explodes - which is funny. Fuzzy little creatures then make a home in the hard shell they leave behind.
Sensible precautions. Multiple cases of people arriving from the USA to Australia with COVID19 suggest the virus is much more widespread than admitted by the government[1]. Large gatherings of any sort should be curtailed to prevent a similar crisis to what is occurring in Italy.

[1]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-11/coronavirus-infection...
I don't get it either. It was especially irritating at my university because the dorms were several thousand dollars a semester more expensive than larger, better apartments nearby, but they were the worst landlords I ever had. They would kick me out all the time, while still charging me rent. During finals week you had to be gone within 24 hours of taking your last final or be fined. If schools in the US aren't going to be free, they should at least be held to the same laws that other institutions that provide the same services are.
How Google does certificate lifecycle management
On the plus side, they did get a bunch of funding recently so hopefully they'll be able to devote some resources to it. They definitely seem like an organization that is pretty devoted to quality products.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - Evelyn Beatrice Hall, on Voltaire's principles
Start small. 1000 uf and work your way up from there. Stay away from anything that looks like it is mechanically reinforced to make the housing stronger for mounting purposes or mechanical stability. Those are bombs. Don't come crying ;)
Translation of latest Korea's report on covid19
Can someone give a rough translation of what is said (and the data) in the latest Korea's report on covid19?

https://github.com/parksw3/COVID19-Korea/blob/master/government_reports/Seoul-2020-03-08.pdf
Ok, as mentioned by another commenter, they seem to have thought about these issues. Quoting here

- International students who have concerns that they would not be allowed to return to MIT due to visa issues.

- International students who will have difficulty returning to their home country if it has been hard-hit by COVID-19.

- Students who do not have a home to go to, or for whom going home would be unsafe given the circumstances of their home country or homelife.
Evert time I see a techcrunch link on HN I automatically skip it. The site's cookie pop-up has all the dark patterns.

If I go to techcrunch.com, the cookie pop-up has a long piece of text, containing a few inline links tot e.g. a "Privacy center", and the two buttons, "Accept" and "More information". Clicking "more information" shows a button "Manage partners " and "Accept". Clicking "Manage partners" shows a blob of text and links to all the partner websites. Clicking "back" and then the aformentioned "Privacy center" leads to a different website all together. I still haven't been able to find the cookie settings, if they're available at all! And all the while, clicking "Accept" is only a single button away.
> I find the overly politically correct "safe spaces" much less welcoming and counter to the spirit of the internet.

I grew up in a rather hard-core religious environment where shaming was a common tactic to enforce conformance. I have no desire whatsoever to return to that.
Next up: The penis, just a flexible pipe with a valve. Nothing to see here, move along.
AWS Bottlerocket: Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containers
I have a hard time believing this is legal. Like 50% of MIT guys live in fraternities. At least my fraternity was owned by the alumni board so I don't know how they can force people out. Especially for the Boston-side fraternities, I can't imagine them enforcing this.
So MessagePack lets you skip the CPU and memory usage needed to compress the JSON yet get similarly sized messages to compression JSON. The compression of the JSON Is a non-trivial extra load on a busy server.
Project is up on GitHub along with its other components! https://github.com/bottlerocket-os
For one thing, profs often teach some classes repeatedly, which means they dont have to put substantial effort into planning for subsequent offerings. If the planned content is somehow unsuitable for a different medium of delivery, this would take some planning that they weren't expecting at the beginning of the semester.
It took quite a long time for Central and Eastern European countries to escape the obviously dysfunctional socialist regime. Many people perished waiting for the collapse.

I'm too not hopeful this time.

To paraphrase, "revolutionaries" can remain irrational longer than the you can remain alive and willing to contribute.
> If courses being taught online is an acceptable substitute, why have caps on admission at all?

Mit was probably the first offering serious online courses with recognised certification. You can do their micromaster if you want:

https://micromasters.mit.edu/

So it's not like they don't offer the option. They also published opencourseware if you don't need the paper itself.

I'm not saying they don't provide value locally, but they do push for online education themselves and literally provide you resources for free.
The OSI is a political activist organization.
Being a headless table utility, any screenshot of the table UI would either be over or under selling the potential UI that users will implement with the library. If you noticed the exmamples are very bare bones styles so as to highlight the functionality of the library. These examples would be "ugly" as marketing material. If another example was super dressed up and looked amazing and used as marketing material, users may be disappointed when they realize they are in charge of their own styles. It's 6's I believe, so I went with what I thought was the safest option, exclusion of screenshots.
In my experience, a lot of these people say they want tolerance, but what they really mean is tolerance of the ideas (and people) they agree with.
Many universities are either municipalities in their own right, or have delegated municipal powers from the city government.

Universities are their own small towns - they provide food, housing, have police forces, a large staff, etc.

Put it the other way around, does it make more sense for a city official to be calling the shots, when campuses have their own special context?
Most of the value of an elite education is signaling: it proves the student had what it takes both to get into MIT, and to graduate.

If MIT switched to an online-only format, that would erode the value of the latter (which, remember, is social proof, not something which is notoriously rational), while open enrollment would obliterate the former.

A semester of remote teaching won't damage the brand.
I side with ESR, this is silly.

What I think the moderators should have done in this circumstance is actually moderate. In cases like this where things are getting heated and you're obviously in an un-usual circumstance, schedule a real conversation to diffuse the situation. Slack, Zoom, Hangouts, phone call, whatever. Anything where tone and emotion can be effectively communicated.

Can you do this always? No. Should you do it when you're founding member is at risk of being banned from the mailing list? Obviously, yes.

This is what happens when people rely too much on email.
Because nothing is set up for it yet.

There is a reserved scheduled class room for the class, but there is no organized zoom meeting yet (or maybe not use zoom after all?).

There is a mail box to drop of home work assignments, but nobody has figured out where students should email things for grading (the prof, the TA or a function account?).

The prof has a set of notes that (s)he writes onto the white board, but not a set of slides to be emailed out. Or might have electronic slides, but they contain annotation that should not be sent out to students.

Everybody has to figure out how to make sure that 200 students can join the zoom session, but have their mic muted. And know how to unmute when they want to ask a question.

Exams for the mid terms might be printed but now need to be (e)mailed. And how do you prevent cheating in an exam that was meant to be taken under supervision with pen(cil) and paper only. Of course you can create an open-book exam where google doesn't help, but that is extra effort. And does not prevent collusion between students.

Somebody need to figure out how to replace lab courses.

And the list goes on. All of that can be fixed. And after a couple of semesters an online class might be no more (or possibly even less, but that is not proven) work than the current offline course. But switching in the middle of a semester with ideally no downtime IS a lot of extra effort.
I just did this last weekend, except I have 2 local servers that can hold all my data in a pinch.

I tried to directly import the Linux created pools into freenas, but they are read only due to a feature property that’s only supported by ZoL.

In read only mode I sent everything to the backup Linux server, destroyed the main pool and sent the whole thing back to the Freenas setup.
How to Securely Implement OAuth in React
This is quite wrong[0]. ESR has credited "normalizing homosexuality" (which as a social movement only began in the late 19th century) with pushing MSM away from predatory sexuality/pederasty (the Graeco-Roman/Mediterranean model, albeit not exclusive to that milieu), and towards egalitarian, affectionate relationships. He pleads with well-meaning, egalitarian gays to remain vigilant against attempts within the LGBT movement to normalize predatory sex (including pederasty) in the future. This is probably feasible, because we managed to do it starting from the late 19th c. in the developed West.

[0] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1063
I had to deal with that two weeks ago. Cringe.
And it better not. Timezone information has nothing to do in a timestamp.

A timestamp is a point in time, whatever the time is in Paris or Tokyo. It is an abstract value and it is way better this way.

A timezone is a filter through which you display your timestamp, and it tells you what your local time was when that timestamp occurred.

So yeah, always store and exchange time information as timestamps. Timezone is extra styling information, just like CSS.
I've added "for the rest of the semester", which is explicit about being temporary and I suppose implies enough about covid-19.

(Submitted title was "MIT moves all classes online, requires undergraduates to leave campus".)
That; and who on balance has the most benefit from being saved to begin with. There is a definite negative weight assigned to age, they would rather save a teenager than someone who is 95. (presented without any kind of bias towards whether this practice is good or bad)
we do not have to be kind. code is king. go fuck yourself and have a nice day.
Isn't this what ultimately happens anyway? If the CoC moderators go against the will of the contributors, they can always fork the project.
Researched in a book by L Sprague de Camp! That explains some things in his fiction.

Though strangely the origin of modern project finance seems to have evaded the author: seems to have evolved in New England where groups would band together to fund whaling and slaving missions (yes, abolitionist Massachusetts made a huge part of its wealth on slave missions and slave mortgages).

These bands were themselves evolved from a European model, in particular England (later Great Britain), Portugal, and Spain.
> Then I see Eric write this

You are taking what he wrote out of context and interpreting it to mean something very different than what he intended.

Eric is not arguing that insults are preferable to dispassionate feedback. (As I noted in another comment upthread, I have worked with him on a small part of one of his coding projects, and in that context he is all dispassionate feedback and no insults whatever. So in actual work he does not exhibit the bad behavior you describe at all.) He is looking at what is being done to OSI, and what is being done to open source projects around the world, in the name of "social justice", and he sees the same game being played that has been played by the Left for centuries to gain control of institutions and then completely subvert them from their original purpose. If you don't understand that historical context, of course you're not going to understand why he is being so forceful about this. He is not trying to stop people from being constructive and non-insulting about actually writing good code. He is trying to stop people whose ultimate agenda has nothing to do with writing good code from taking over open source projects and ruining them, making us all much worse off in the process.
Does their paid tier include free options trading? That’s what’s attractive about Robinhood, but they cost me $7k on Monday so I’m dumping them.
Its a gamble, but once the bodys drop, you can return that gamble investment into political currency.
Generally, some decent engineering levels hierarchy makes sense. Where it gets super crazy, however, is the financial services industry, where many mid-level (and, sometimes, even lower-level) engineering titles, such as quantitative analyst and software developer, include a VP designation. It is IMO the ultimate title inflation and purely a lack of common sense.
I implemented this in Swift w/o using the Foundation library a few years back if anyone wants it: https://github.com/wittedhaddock/bytepress
what use cases do you image for this?
It's because normalization of "cloud" brought into clear focus you're running your business critical code on other people's computers, along with other customers' code.

And now that code can adversarial effect you?

That's why it became such a hot topic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfucking
They won't be the last. There will be plenty of companies going under due to this.
> Maybe, but there's only one group you're allowed to attack in every modern newspaper, and are not allowed to acknowledge positively in any political campaign.

Oh, I'm not the only one to notice the rampant transphobia in UK media and the labour party, nice.

See how easy I proved your premise wrong?
Scroll down, there's more to Ms. Nesmith-Graham than "my kid was one of the Monkees; and, yeah, I invented Liquid Paper". She also did some ground-breaking stuff in the way she ran her business. Worth a skim, or perhaps even an in-depth read.
This is interesting data I hadn't seen, thanks. Intuitively its a little bewildering to see the Median family income of someone from MIT be around the same as someone from UNC (a school I got into) - I wonder how the median incomes of international admits factor in.

The bottom 20% of US incomes is between $0 to $25k a year for a household - call me a skeptic but I think its unlikely ~58 (938 x 6.2%) people came from backgrounds like that in America,
https://www.meshtastic.org/
Yeah, this sounds like a local optimization that is going to make things worse overall. Even if international students get to stay, you're still giving people a lot of reason to travel. Twice. A lot of people are going to go home and stay with Mom and Dad, I would expect.
I've been very happy with Betterment (one of the first "robo-advisors", as far as I know). I'm not aware of any options for manually trading through it (not that I really want to mess with that anyway), but for automatic-management the feature set/apps/fees all seem really good.
I do use Redux Toolkit, but it really can't compare to Svelte. There are so many moving parts in a Redux app that there's only so far it can be simplified
This sounds pretty silly. There's bound to be a way to make online (or semi-online) learning agile too. Distance learning is basically a solved problem and has been done for hundreds of years.

How about recorded lectures and in-person small group recitations? Or longer office hours? Obviously you have to change the methodology of learning a bit, but I'm sure it can be figured out.

In any case undergrad level science lectures are basically a one-sided info dump where the lecturer is lucky to get so much as an ACK that someone is listening.
I know exactly who ESR is, have read his blog off and on over the years, and agree with him on many political points.

However, that's still a ridiculous email, and inappropriate for any context where grownups are trying to have a serious conversation about adult matters.

First off, it's unprofessional. But even beyond that, the email is either intended to persuade through facts and reasoned argument, or bully though shouting. It's clearly not written to persuade (there are no facts or reasoned arguments), ergo its intended to bully.

> Its originator is a toxic loonytoon who believes "show me the code" meritocracy is at best outmoded and in general a sinister supremacist plot by straight white cisgender males.

"Show me the code" is a good principle, and not just in programming. Hard data is much better than ad hominems or making arguments from authority. It is, therefore, sadly ironic that ESRs linked email is purely comprised of ad hominems, and the best his defenders can do is to make arguments from authority. Your code isn't automatically right because you're the CTO, and your arguments aren't automatically right because you're the co-founder, and the more heated and inflated your claims get, with no citations or links or proof, the less time I have for you.

ESR remains correct on the principles he has spent his life advocating for. His email is still garbage, and I fully support the removal of anyone who authors emails like that from a mailing list until they apologise and commit to behaving better in the future.
Do you mind expanding on that?

I was thinking the same thing at first, why have this monstrous global state which is against every good practice you have ever heard of.

But then, if you want to keep state when switching between pages, you need to hoist up that state to the parent component.
At some point, there's going to be a component near the root that keeps a lot of state for its children, that then has to be trickled down the component tree.

If you don't need to reuse those components in a different setting, then the redux solution feels quite ergonomic.

Now, this is coming from an embedded C programmer point of view, and this is my first foray into react/redux, so I'm obviously lacking context.
But we're writing a front end for our embedded device, and I have to say I am pleasantly surprised with the experience.
I've never fully understood this viewpoint, which comes up a lot in relation to React and JSX specifically.

The templating in Svelte and Vue is (almost) html with some magic sprinkled here and there, so much closer to the end result. Using JS for everything is moving further away from the metal.

What is it about writing views the React way that appeals to you more?
Coraline is pox on the community that uses their 'marginalized' status as a hammer against reasonable people across multiple projects. You want toxicity, there it is - stirring up drama where there was none in the name of the culture war.
They might still get quarantined. Given the state of testing in the US, who knows if few days from now they won't discover there was a carrier on the campus.