skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the law is "once you're past 18 you can't be discriminated on the basis of what you said before turning 18", then it wouldn't have helped much for most of the students, since they were probably didn't turn 18 in between them saying the racist thing and the college discovering it. I guess you can reapply a year later, but that's already a year of your life wasted. Not to mention that there's nothing preventing the college from publicly rescinding the offer (unless that's also outlawed), and letting other colleges make some inferences. If the law is "you can't be discriminated on the basis of what you said under 18, including when you're under 18", then it would effectively outlaw admissions essays, which are literally designed to discriminate people on the basis of their speech. It'd also mean that you can be a racist all the way up to 18 with zero consequences, although you might we up for a rude awakening once you turned 18. This is as opposed to the juvie system, where you'd still get punished, but there's no records of it once you turned 18.
Could you link to what you’re talking about?
I think the flag (but not the checkbox) will be enabled by default at some point... this option is the best thing to happen to the URL bar since they broke it by removing http:// and WontFix'ing the resulting complaints a decade ago.

Really, I couldn't care less about stuff getting pruned from the URL bar, as long as there's an easy and permanent way to show everything.
And oftentimes, children learn the best from the consequences of their mistakes.
Isn't this basically like a CDN or a PoP cache?
No, I'm tired of playing your stupid games. You've failed to post a link that supports any of your claims. The only link you posted directly contradicts your claim. Clearly, there's no point in me posting any links if you're going to misrepresent what they say. Cochrane have a bunch of research on masks and handwashing.
A bunch of folks came out looking like idiots at Evergreen.

A bunch of people have died under police brutality.

And the list of grievances goes on..

People are sensitive to different things. But there is some irony in all the outrage about outrage culture.

I'd be more upset at the folks in power that make the decisions than the folks on Twitter pressuring them.
So: A terminal interface for Stack Overflow
I heard a bunch of students complain about how tough the text for our Real Analysis class was, so I was surprised to find it felt pretty readable to me. Turns out it was a new prof that semester who decided to go with "Mathematical Analysis, Second Edition by Tom Apostol" instead of Baby Rudin.

Point being, there may be a better analysis text for this student to start with right now- depends highly on their background/situation, but personally I am glad I didn't have to read Rudin for my first "real" math course.
Nope. Hackernews is an leftist ideological echo chamber and I love it.
Ask HN: What are the benefits of using Rust async HTTP clients?
Generally it seems like async only has a real benefit when there are many connections.

Is there a scenario where using an HTTP client implemented with Rust's async features gives a substantive performance benefit?
Yeah, it might be regional. Although even the ones I've seen have been fairly rare.

Here's an anchor store Walmart that is close to where I used to live a long time ago: https://goo.gl/maps/G6xuLEHu4MMn1gBS9

You can't get into this Walmart from inside the mall.
> It’s entirely possible the China we know today will be completely different once it’s a superpower.

Yes, because everything that undermines its national unity will have been obliterated!

In honor of Independence Day, here is some foreshadowing from the US Declaration of Independence and precursor to global hegemony after domestic stability following genocide

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

There is no history supporting a tendency for multicultural superpower status. There is one amorphous culture that rules with an iron fist until the other cultures conform to it or stop existing. We can try to make other countries act more enlightened in the 21st century, but it is only hypocritical and fails to consider the tolerances those places have maintained thus far.
Here in NZ, masks were never required. The rationale is that when people wear masks no matter how you explain it they believe they themselves are safe, which makes them get closer to other people (I can't give them the disease) and be less cautious in general (I'm protected).
Take the mask away and the only things they have is social distancing and being obsessive about touching surfaces. Which in my experience works very well and it's what the community here focused on.

In the meantime my folks in Maine wear masks and gloves and think now everything is fine we can do anything and go anywhere.
> College is not the place to teach racists to become humanists. If they didn't learn that at home or at school, they certainly aren't going to learn that in college.

If they have a racist home life where all their influencers are racist, this is impossible, or close enough to it you can't rely on it happening. Denying them the ability to move on with their lives by "proving" to them that the outside world will always hate them for saying the things they were raised to say is the absolute most perfect way to make sure they never want to change.
Facebook, Twitter, Google Face Free-Speech Test in Hong Kong
No paywall version of the article: http://archive.is/gj0Mh#selection-2013.5-2013.65
Then is speech the same as action? And do actions balance out to a net positive or negative, or do you expect no negative at all?
Show HN: Make Python Simple Again (ok, it's just some lint rules)
The Monster Group in Python
The beta of Firefox on Android still hasn't allowed any add-ons to auto-redirect away from AMP-enabled sites. I was excited to see Privacy Badger enabled 2 releases ago, but even its tracking-token-stripping capabilities seems missing on mobile.
Thanks! Still flagged the article for being behind a paywall.
I object to hypocrisy. Those pushing speech limits are the same who pushed for freedom. Why was did gay rights win the day? It was due to a cogent argument that freedom is better than hiding in the shadows. Rather than suppressing gay speech, people said they had a right to make their case. Now there is a wing that attacks as immoral anyone who doesn’t agree with them. They have become the thing they fought: fundamentalist.
Presumably Americorps is still functioning. Be a contact tracer in your gap year.
Maybe they could teach their children to not be racist?

But seriously, that’s why social networks like Snapchat took off. Not leaving a permanent trail online is very valuable especially to young people who are still making stupid mistakes for the first time. I certainly said a lot of stupid stuff in my youth that I am glad is not on my “permanent record”.
I bought a toaster recently.

It's hard to relate exactly how I felt when I used it the first time and it beeped at me.
Canada's biggest banks join boycott of Facebook platforms
It's almost like being on the giving vs. receiving end of hundreds of years of enforced racial and economic disparities are two totally separate concepts. Weird indeed.
It's a solution in search of a problem.
Heat is energy, so hot quinoa has more energy, which means more mass. All internal energy of a system contributes to its rest mass.
> American businesses could have helped outlawed slavery in America. They could have forced the issue onto their politicians. Did they do it?

They were instrumental in ending slavery! In the first half of the 19th century, politics was dominated by conflict over the status of slavery in the new territories that were being added to the US. The Missouri Compromise in 1820 held off the civil war for a bit, outlawing slavery in states above the 36th parallel. Over the next 40 years, after the federalists disappeared, business interests in the north mostly belonged to the Whig party. (They had little to no power in the south, which was an agrarian economy where political power rested with landowners, not people whose wealth was built on commerce, finance, or industry.) Whig Presidents compromised with Democrats to maintain the status quo. During that time, Northern industrialists resented the political power of the slave states. On policy issues like tariffs, federal investment in railroads, central banking, etc., northern commercial interests were fundamentally at odds with southern plantation interests.

In 1854, Democrats, under President Franklin Pierce, pushed through the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise by leaving it to states to decide whether to have slavery. This led to the anti-Nebraska anti-slavery movement, and violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery interests in Kansas. The Republican Party was created out of the anti-Nebraska movement. The Republican Party was built on two principles: anti-slavery, and economic modernization.

In 1856, Republicans lost the election against James Buchanan. They ran Abraham Lincoln in 1860, on a platform of opposing the expansion of slavery, building a pacific railroad, tariffs, and improving the channels of commerce (harbors, rivers). See: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-party-p.... While Lincoln said he wasn’t going to ban slavery in the southern states—the south feared he would. (Rightfully so, given that the platform called the slave trade “a crime against humanity and a burning shame to our country and age.”) Lincoln’s election precipitated the southern states to secede.

Then, of course, there was the civil war. During the civil war, Republicans worked closely with business and financial interests to modernize the economy: https://www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com/the-economics-of.... That paid for the massive military superiority that crushed the south.
Parent's insightful comments about the risk for expressing even centrist views. He implies he was shunned. 'Conservatives' risk physical harm for revealing their political leanings:

>I had pretty unpleasant pushbacks during lunch breaks and then I stopped discussing things all together.
I feel bad for anyone who can’t handle diversity of opinion and the destruction it always causes.
That no damage was done since they refunded the charges (or rather, that they have already granted the relief that would be sought in a hypothetical lawsuit case).

They can do that do this because it doesn't actually cost them anything to provide the digital "goods" that are being purchased; and not every parent notices. Their defense in the cases where the parent doesn't notice is that the plaintiff must be be aware they were wronged in order to file suit.
Why is this not made anymore? I would buy it in a heartbeat!
> A college education is exactly what they need.

I'm sure they can get that out of community college.
Please finish this series! Especially the networking and consensus models it's an interesting read, really like that it's in Rust as I'm also learning Rust so it's nice to see the concepts in that language :)
Debate team?

The question really is what is redeemable vs what is not? You can decide for yourself. What instantly disqualifies a child vs what does not?

IMHO, educational institutions at all levels should be more generous and more forgiving because they are in the business of producing educated healthy adults.

If anything, we should focus more resources towards kids that are saying racist things. They are still kids. We can show them a better way.

Forgiveness is divine.
Also only ~4% in the US, and virtually absent in Africa.
Language can be fun. Reminds me of "I never said she stole my money". which has a bunch of different meanings depending on which word is emphasized.
I believe they're specifically talking about data science and fields related?

I'm a prior software development manager and degrees in general in this kind of field don't carry much weight outside of academic hires and very select companies.

While some companies or hiring managers might frown upon this it doesn't matter if there is an active hiring group that doesn't put any weight on them.

I guess one could argue that the ones who frown upon the degree pay more competitive but I've only found the opposite to be true with my experience.

(I'm ignoring FAANG because they're so unique that they're an exception to everything in the "real world")
This is, ultimately, just another form of rich privilege: Being non-racist (or being accepted as non-racist) tracks with education[0], which tracks with family wealth. If you're from a poor family, you're more likely to trip the "racist alert" in some college's admissions process, denying you the ability to gain more education.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3883053/

(A part of me wonders how sensitive these alerts are to dogwhistles. For example, if someone expressed a desire to see more stable two-parent families, will that be seen as playing into nasty racist stereotypes? How about if someone castigated a place for not being diverse enough?)
I had a stand-alone electric kettle on my countertop for years because I drink a lot of tea, and it's so much faster than heating water on the stove or in the microwave. If I'm cooking pasta or hard-boiling eggs, I'll start by boiling water in the kettle to make the whole process faster, then pour it into a pot on the stove.

I'm passionate enough about having nearly-boiling water available at all times, that when I remodeled my kitchen, I put in tea spigot: a tiny water heater under my sink that keeps water nearly-boiling and ready to dispense at all times, with a little dedicated spigot built into the sink. So now I don't have a kettle on the counter, but only because it's built into the sink.

If I had to guess, it probably gets used 5+ times a day.
remains me to: Martin Kleppmann | Kafka Summit London 2019 Keynote | Is Kafka a Database? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuE6JvQE_CY
From the article: "His book, a finalist for the Pulitzer that year, was dismissed by many, including me. Ten years on, I regret that dismissal. Reading it now, The Shallows is outrageously prescient, offering a framework and language for ideas and experiences I’ve been struggling to define for a decade."
> As best I can tell the distinguishing characteristic between people who believe in the existence of white/male privilege and those who do not is political affiliation.

The people who are not white, not cis-male, or not straight are the people who have encountered consistent barriers as a result of these negations.

These are all immutable parameters, not political affiliations. No one chooses to be white (or not). No one chooses to be male (or not). No one chooses to be straight (or not).

Women? Barriers.

Trans? Barriers.

Black? Barriers.

Middle Eastern? Even though we're classified as white by tax code? Barriers.

Gay? Barriers.

Jewish? Muslim? Even Catholic? (Considering the mental trauma that often arises with rapid disillusionment from religion, this is largely considered immutable) Barriers.

Hispanic? Asian? Aboriginal? Native American? Barriers.

I get that it's uncomfortable to hackernews because we like to think that every startup operates in a meritocratic manner, but that's been consistently proven false just with the sheer volume of white straight cis-men managing and leading companies in the US, Australia, the EU, wherever you look.

tl;dr: it's not political because the people who understand that it's an issue overwhelmingly tend to be the victims, and the people who don't understand that it's an issue mostly tend not to be victims, and the victims tend to be victimized because of immutable traits rather than ideologies.
What I like about this pandemic is exposing inequalities that have been commonplace.

Colorado to Sardinia in a private jet? That's a wild flight! How big would it have been?

A typical European summer option for some, and to think it wouldn't have been news if it wasn't rejected at customs.
For real. For the most part I love all things Google, but AMP makes my blood boil. How does it save me any time when I have to tap that little ‘i’ to get to the original website through all that janky scrolling? Ugh, infuriating. I feel like a walrus on a tar floor maneuvering through AMP pages. What an awful piece of technology.

/rant
I've lost count of how many times I've done:

$ ping http://whatever.com [furious line editing ensues]

But thankfully it's fixed now, with the "Always show full URLs" option.
Getting into a Causal Flow: An Introduction to Causal Inference
I love my OXO kettle for this very reason:

https://www.oxo.com/categories/coffee-tea/brew/tea/adjustabl...

Fast, reliable, not flashy... exactly what you are looking for.
Have a look at this:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-amp-real-url/

Cloudflare allow using of same domain to use AMP. In this case, content is served from Cloudflare CDN.
Fighting historic racism with some kind of new age racism that goes in the opposite direction isn't the answer. It's what creates a cycle of hate.
Racial discrimination is discrimination, regardless of which race is targeted.
So are you saying that anybody paid minimum wage in the USA, no matter where they live, can afford food, housing, a car to drive to work etc.? Are you sure you are not talking about a European country and not the USA?
You are making an argument of CLO’s having more risk than CDOs by using the following from Fartnoy:

> Later this summer, leveraged-loan defaults will increase significantly as the economic effects of the pandemic fully register. Bankruptcy courts will very likely buckle under the weight of new filings. (During a two-week period in May, J.Crew, Neiman Marcus, and J. C. Penney all filed for bankruptcy.)

1. We have hit 2014 highs, but we are reopening, and the Fed keeps buying bonds allowing the companies to incur on new debt while keeping their dues with banks.

> We already know that a significant majority of the loans in CLOs have weak covenants that offer investors only minimal legal protection; in industry parlance, they are “cov lite.” The holders of leveraged loans will thus be fortunate to get pennies on the dollar as companies default—nothing close to the 70 cents that has been standard in the past.

2. I don’t see him even throwing a percentage of the number of CLO’s that would have to default for this to be a problem. It would be nice to understand where we were, where we are, and what are the possible outcomes. Moreover, the assumption that companies will go down to zero net worth that returns pennies on the dollar implies that the market for companies is inefficient, the risks and pros are not assessed properly. If that was the case we wouldn’t be seeing so many mergers. Companies that will rather be acquired by other companies on pure stock transaction rather than going down to zero, and the leader in the space absorbs the debt. These mergers are driven for a hunger of client expansion and space specific technology acquisition. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-masmovil-m-a-loans/masmov...

After that, you continue making analogies between them by assuming there is more shadow banking and a short market exists, without proof. You also go into a layer structure comparison while ignoring the fact that the CDO’s risk was being assumed recursively while sold linearly. There is also no comment on the fact that the debt on non financial organizations, consumers of CLOs is 23% less than that in 2008 without even adjusting for inflation.

I understand your argument, but it seems you have convinced yourself already of a worst case scenario that is not occurring so far because the Fed is bailing the banks out by buying bonds.
The embodiment AI folks seem prescient, here.

How can chatbots ever mimic human interaction, without experiencing human-ness?

We parse incredibly complex dailog exceptions every day because "we made that mistake yesterday" (or "... when we were 5").
Completely agree. All of the above examples have pretty severe consequences in many cases. No reason why "experimenting" with racist language should be any different.
I read both Suetonius and Tacitus before I was twenty (Penguin classics, might have been excerpts). I don't remember them well, but I remember Suetonius better.

What I have read elsewhere is that the family violence of the first twelve caesars was really very restrited, and they otherwise governed reasonably well. There might be exceptions (Caligula) but there were enough in the twelve that were reasonable rulers despite personal perversions.

Caligula might have opened a brothel with senators' wives, and Messalina might have challenged the greatest prostitute in Rome for her title, but the grain and money flowed where and when it was needed.
> A college education is exactly what they need.

Avowed anti-Semite and white supremacist Richard Spencer has a BA from the University of Virginia, a Masters from the University of Chicago, and would have earned a PhD from Duke University if he hadn't dropped out on his own.

Your argument does not hold water.
> This is the exact opposite of work vs remote work: if WFH becomes the default, I would expect wages to rise, as the most "experience" provided in the workplace (with nice offices, nice chairs, window view, in a nice campus with amenities like catering etc) will be footed by the employee in a WFH setting

Pocket lint compared to the unavoidable costs of employing someone in terms of monetary and in kind compensation and taxes. Knowledge workers are a lot more expensive to employ than the ancillary capital that goes along with getting the benefit of their Labour.
It's expensive probably.
>Thoughtcrime is real.

The implication with "thoughtcrime" is that the state is using its monopoly on violence to punish you for thinking the wrong way. I don't see how that's anywhere close to people refusing to associate with you based on your beliefs. eg. a die-hard libertarian getting kicked out of the campus communist association.
I was playing with the version of QBASIC that comes with MS-DOS 5 last weekend, and it was a lot of fun. Part of the reason may have been nostalgia. (I deliberately choose that version since that it what my first IBM compatible had.) I think a more important reason was the simplicity.

Take graphics. You aren't searching for a library to handle graphics since it is built into the language. Initializing graphics takes one line, so you aren't creating a separate function to handle an over-complicated process. Heck, there's less documenting of what you're doing since the language's documentation usually does that better than you can. You simply dive into the next task, which is always doing something more interesting than over-engineering a project that you originally set out on to have some fun.

I understand why complexity has grown in modern development tools and how much of a hindrance simplicity would be for professional software development, but it would be nice if there were more modern options out there to facilitate programming for pleasure. (I don't really count languages designed for education, since they're usually designed to deliver a curriculum. Something like Arduino would be a good example, since it is designed to facilitate creative projects.)
Top colleges are incredibly competitive. Plenty of valedictorians and budding star athletes, artists, scientists, inventors are not admitted. To admit someone who's said racist remarks is to spit on the talented and hard-working "just missed it" applicants who presumably have the judgement not to hold (or at the very least say) such awful things.
Hoaxdown and Plandemic is still going on globally

Maybe invest in SHTF/prepping/farming
and not attempt to "illegally" travel overseas