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What's next, restaurants refusing patrons for being hungry? A college education is exactly what they need. Not only to get some history and some different perspectives, but also to potentially have a brown person as a prof, a roommate or better yet a project teammate, and have their grade depend on working with them. Maybe even experience having that person carry them on the project for the super mindblow.

Sending them back to their childhood bedroom and shitty hometown retail job, notsomuch.
I think this might be something slightly different than you suggest.

I think all of it is (intentionally) confusing and people are always on the verge of being overwhelmed and say ok fine ok accept it's only 99 cents, etc

Somewhere I read something like "californians are ok with paying all the taxes" but it's not that they're fine with it.
You'd think so, but a surprising amount of students are still attending. What else would they do? Most can't get a job. They can't join a program like the Peace Corps. Anything beyond those two options requires a degree of self confidence and financial independence that most students don't have. Colleges are offering a pretty mediocre proposition but there aren't many other options.
There's a big community of ambient/electronic musicians that are still using these things. They are popular for recording/playing tape loops and making tape delays. I bought some recently to convert into a makeshift mellotron (they still run ~$15 on ebay!). [1] Also there seems to still be enough demand to fund kickstarters for new fancy cassette players. [2]

[1]: https://schollz.com/blog/tape-synth/

[2]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wearerewind/we-are-rewi...
The people I’ve seen who have a problem with masks are just mad that they are being told to do it. They even acknowledge that there is a good reason but won’t do it because authority figures are telling them to wear them. Total eight-year-old mentality in an adult.
I was doing the whole college application process almost 10 years ago (wow, yikes). This happened back then, too.

My middle/high school years spanned the decline of MySpace and the rise of Facebook. Plenty of kids got wrist-slaps for having things like pot leaf gifs on their MySpace pages, and by the time we were nearing the end of high school most people understood that the things you publicly say online don't disappear.

Colleges even warned us about it in admission seminars: "be careful what pictures and statements you put online, because we'll be watching..."

That was a decade ago, but I guess high-quality video cameras are in everyone's pockets these days. At the time, most kids seemed to see it as just another selection criteria: "can you avoid sticking your foot in your own mouth so badly that it could get you fired from the sort of job that you hope to hold one day?"

It might be harder when you're a teenager and every word you say ends up on Snapchat/TikTok/Instagram, but this is nothing new.
> nonetheless there is more tangible pollution by nuclear power plants

I'm struggling to see this. Do you mean uranium mining?

The pollution associated with the rare Earth metals to build a turbine is a magnitude greater.
Moon used to be famous among hackers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Moon ("One day a student came to Moon and said: “I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons.” Moon patiently told the student the following story: “One day a student came to Moon and said: ‘I understand how to make a better garbage collector...")
Admission is a privilege. It's not punishment to withdraw a privilege from people who do harmful things.

Racist speech and actions are harmful and hurtful, and preventing people who have demonstrated such extreme disregard for others from attending a college serves to protect people attending and working at the school. There is a legal, and I would argue a moral, obligation that schools have to prevent racial harassment of their students and staff. There's also their own reputation to consider.

I wish people here were more sensitive and sympathetic to the folks who are genuinely hurting, and less worried about the loss of privilege that people face for their own bad choices.

Black people see family members, friends and members of their community denigrated, insulted, harassed, oppressed and even killed by racists and racist systems. Having Black people I'm close to in my life, I can honestly say that many White people have no concept of how horrible things are, and quite a lot don't want to know.

One thing I've always appreciated about my fellow hackers is a sense of fairness, an ideal of justice, a desire for truth and a willingness to face criticism and learn from mistakes. We need to be fair to the people who haven't done anything wrong except be born with the wrong skin tone.
Thank you for helping out and making that so easy to do. Much appreciated
They're also being admitted for their actions as children. By the logic of "they're just kids", you shouldn't have a college admissions process at all!
And the rest of the world will look the other way because there's a lot of money to be made doing business with China.
Yes this is the idea. Cost in nuclear is completely coupled to safety. The hypothesis of triso is to reduce costs by improving safety.

Also, triso allows temperatures that allow nuclear heat to be used directly in industrial processes and thermal energy storage. These can also improve economics.
Collision could have looked at it very mathematically. It’s unlikely they would ultimately succeed in China, but if they take a stand, I’m willing to bet they win over more customers and employers. Call this a cynical view but if the majority of their revenue was from China I don’t think we would have seen that comment.
I truly hope whoever keeps pushing AMP such as it is has to birth a hedgehog backwards. I mean, at least add some way to opt out of this shit. This is why I don’t use Google as my mobile search engine. I honestly still would if my browser allowed me to disable or bypass it, but nope. No extensions for me because Apple won’t allow for anything like that.

/rant
Students in American and European universities are definitely not facing different and conflicting ideas. More often than not, expressing different and conflicting ideas will make you a social pariah, or even get you fired if you’re the instructor trying to truly make your students well rounded. In fact it is often those very same students that file petitions and participate in protests to get professors fired when they face an idea that they don’t agree with.

There is only one set of ideas that truly experiences freedom of thought and inquiry in the humanities in Western universities, and that’s the progressive far left worldview. This cultural bias skews the humanities far more than it does STEM. You can see it institutionalized in the *-studies majors (e.g. ethnic studies), which have relatively little academic rigor. And because the humanities are so often skewed, I disagree with the notion that it makes students well rounded.

Without room for conflicting views, critical inquiry, and freedom of thought, the humanities seem to have devolved into a propaganda machine that teaches just this worldview. It is a ubiquitous enough problem that entire news outlets have been created to track the disturbing saga of college monoculture in America: https://www.thecollegefix.com/
Going to also spawn a whole new class of semi-persistent malicious pages (say created via XSS) that once signed and captured can be continuously replayed to clients until expiration.
I will explain. Hackernews is a leftist ideological echo chamber. If you scroll through this thread you’ll notice downvoted posts don’t even get a good reply as to why they’re wrong.

The down-voters are hurt and clueless.
I feel like this answer is "no, there is no reason for that to be the sequence you are seeing: it is an accident, as you can see from this careful analysis which demonstrates exactly why it is that sequence"... it is like saying "I noticed a bunch of random processes fall into a normal curve, is there a mathematical reason for that?" and saying "oh no, that is entirely on accident; here, let me show you the math for how a particular kind of random selection causes that exact distribution you are seeing, along with the equations that characterize if... as you can see, no math is involved here: this was just an accident" :/.
Remember when Google's mantra was "Don't be evil" ???
The whole AMP thing seems anti-competitive and hostile to the open web.

It's a really bad look on Google's part to be pushing this.
They're not responsible enough that we consider them adults, or let them vote, or let them join the military without parental consent.

And if a high school kid can't grow out of racist tendencies, what is the point of all the marching and speeches and protesting and educating then? By that logic, not one mind can ever possibly change because racism is hereditary and permanent.
I don't understand the concept of a kettle with a dial on it, although I've gathered it is common in some places other than the US. Is this mainly for people who don't have an electric burner? I think I've encountered claims it is faster, but heating water on the stove seems very quick to me and I don't quite understand how the heat transfer could be much greater.
Indirectly related - you can try https://web.hypothes.is.
You can annotate web pages (public, private, group) and have page notes.
Too-narrow columns and margins are what made newspaper layout fun.
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Say aren't college admissions boards the same people that take race into account when choosing who to admit in the first place? Weird.
Just notice that this particular article managed to say nothing in so many words.
A that feature? Is that a typo?
As a centrist saying. Irving particularly offensive your post was downvoted. I feel my days on HN are numbered. One used to be able to have an intellectually honest discussion. Now step out of line and it’s downvotes. This kind of monoculture isn’t healthy.
Did Mexico just make it *illegal* to install Linux?
No, and this is a great reminder that any home cook who claims they cook by weight for precision and repeatability is full of it. It turns out that not all eggs are the same, not all flour had the same moisture, not all butter has the same amount of flavor, not all kitchens are at the same temperature.

I don’t know how many times I’ve seen someone in a video boast about measuring the flour by weight for their bread, only to add a completely unmeasured amount when flouring the working surface or their hands.

And there’s a reason most recipes use values that are straight conversions from volume rounded to a whole number. There’s a reason nobody says “the real trick to this recipe is the extra 10 grams of sugar”. Indeed, food preferences are largely based on our upbringings, so it’s no surprise that American tastes are built on recipes that can be measured in cups, tablespoons, etc.
I did not read the sentence you are responding to as implying it was changed after final network launch, only that it was changed.
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> Can you provide your reasoning?

Susceptibility varies widely between individuals, with four grades of antibody response, as well as at least one form of T-Cell-mediated response, already documented in the literature. There is enough evidence to suggest that this virus is airborne, and if everyone were completely susceptible the "true" R0 (this model parameter is a convenient fiction, of course) would be close to that of measles. Therefore it has already spread very far in any dense population that was susceptible, and we are basically already at herd immunity in NYC and many other places.

> Ok, I see you are the one with polemic blog post.

Yay, I'm a niche HN celebrity!

> I see that you seem to think it is "just a cold" because it is a coronavirus.

You are skipping over a critical detail, which is that any virus can be much more virulent after it jumps between species. But yes this one is basically a new cold, and in time it will present much like all the others (if it becomes endemic).

> So far more people have died than WWII.

What the fuck???

> I see you are interested in other folks admitting they are wrong--will you?

If half a million Americans die from this thing (not merely with it, and before it becomes just another cold, not over the next 20 years), you can count on it. This will not happen.
Meanwhile google spent ten years making sure I have to jump through a certificate authority's hoops because running a website without tls gives users the wrong idea about domain validation even when encryption is unneeded, which as we heard from PR dweebs on this very website all day every day, is just completely unacceptable for a whole litany of reasons.
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Why has no Chinese company made a clone? All the patents are expired.
There are many more people who would buy a Princeton diploma without a Princeton education than the reverse. Universities put a lot of effort into stopping people fraudulently claiming to be graduates but ~no effort into stopping people from attending classes without paying for them.

Universities are about a combination of education and certification but the certification is overwhelmingly what people pay for.
A: You are on Google. There's no confusion.
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A liberal education, by definition, includes the humanities.

What's the point of using a forum for discussion if you're just going to make vague assertions and never bother to back them up? You talk of fear and loathing, yet seemingly operate on visceral reaction given that you continually refuse/are unable to list your grievances.
What? The signing allows the content to be mirrored in other locations with guarantees about consistency. It doesn't imply anything more about the content than SSL does.
Always. Main reason I cut something is I want to paste the hostname into a terminal so it can be an argument of whois or dig or traceroute or whatever, in no case have I ever been glad of the scheme prefix.
It's not like that sort of thing is some new social media/tech innovation. I remember being hearing or reading if you're turned down for SSDI, you've got to keep appealing, because there are metrics being used where they can't approve more than a certain percentage initially.
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. They need to do some soul searching, which can be done from home. Plus I don't it's fair to minority students, who already face their own challenges on college campuses, to be forced to interact and cohabit with known racists.
thanks for posting the article, which is fascinating and presents a complex and interesting picture of how archaeologists and anthropologists are reacting to advances in genetics -- much more interesting than your summary suggests.
I'm wondering about this as well? Who was it?

I'm pretty sure there were many internal discussions as to why/how to push this change.
I'm surprised that those haven't been leaked.
Because of erasure, there is only one copy of List#get(int), and it returns Object (because there's no other upper bound). The source might say

List<String> l = ...
String s = l.get(0);

which looks typesafe, but to pass the verifier and load, the bytecode has to accept an Object and cast it to String before using it, just like Java programmers had to write by hand before generics (this really sucked).

There's not even anything stopping you from putting non-Strings in that List instance via reflection or generic casts (if you ignore the warning) or using a really old javac. You could use a checked collection but that just adds a runtime check during writes that ensures the runtime check during reads will never fail (but the bytecode verifier still won't let you remove it!)
Well, it's the going opinion of HN for years that the main problem with AMP is it shows the actual origin instead of the proxied origin. Lying about the URL is something hundreds of HN comments have angrily demanded.
Standalone kettles are usually induction plates. They’re more efficient and less dangerous than a typical stove.
I don't get the point of article.

I know Google wants browsers to lie to the user about the website they're visiting. But the article screenshot is a case where that's not happening, it's displaying the real URL.
Yeah, it would be nice to learn Latin and read the originals.
I don't see how this tech would further help to make malicious pages created with XSS, any thoughts? It sounds like it's the same issue with or without signed exchanges.
> I also pay attention to downvotes. If a post I make gets a couple of rapid downvotes, I nuke it. Sometimes, I understand why; sometimes, not. It's just not worth it to me.

I almost wish downvotes meant enough here I could do that in good conscience. As it is, I have absolutely no idea why I get the downvotes I get, when I get downvotes, so they're not a learning process for me. They might as well be handed out at random. (I hesitate to make accusations.)
This is the con of universities. The only way to justify the tuition is face-to-face teaching and to have access to all those amenities.

Once you remove those students would be asking for price reduction.
loved it. played until about level 11 or 12 and it froze on my Asus Rog 2, but it was a blast

reminds me of Wordament or even Highrise Heroes (Android/switch)

if you added a few more modes or challenges in there, and made it a stand alone app. I could see myself playing this alot.
Ask HN: What are the best sites in 2020 to post articles about programming?
What are the best sites in 2020 to post articles about programming, math, etc. I want to grow a community but I don't know where to start.
I already know about dev.to and lobste.rs
I really appreciate any help you can give.
the problem is that it can be abused too easily
Those articles are more interesting than OP's article.

When I research a lot of wealthy families I frequently find their level of comfort not possible to replicate because it is something considered impropriety today. Taking advantage of an imbalance in the socioeconomic order that was promptly fixed as soon as anybody noticed.
1) "The Science of Programming", by David Gries, is an excellent book dealing with mathematical proof based approach to programming.

2) "The Book of Numbers", by John H. Conway and Richard Guy is a beautiful book which discusses about figurative numbers amoung several other beautiful topics.

3) "Stories About Maxima and Minima", V. M. Tikhomirov has some beautiful anecdotes and interesting applications of calculus.

4) "Contemporary Abstract Algebra", by Joseph Gallian is an algebra textbook that goes beyond just teaching material. It has quotations, biographies, puzzles and interesting applications of algebra.
That‘s nonsense. Those parents have exactly the same access to public schools as the rest of the public. If they decide to pay for another school, that’s their choice. I shouldn’t expect them to pay for my luxury services.
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people that are saying they're 17/18 year kids. do you know that 15 year old black kids, are usually tried as adults by the criminal system. most of these kids end up going in and out of prison their whole lives. yet nah, white kids should get a slap on the wrist for hateful speech ? we should stem out racism and also have a justice system that reintegrates troublesome black kids. but nah, america has to run a private prison system i.e slavery.
Fair enough on burdening minority students further. But, counterpoint, they're the most qualified to educate white people about it, and maybe it's never too early to put them in a leadership position where they can do that.

Definitely have to take exception to the first sentence though, since a college literally has a department called the Humanities!
Why do you say that? I don’t think people want it to show the “proxied origin”, they want AMP to get out of the way and google to link to the real website.
https://medium.com/p/4ef05aa357c5?source=linkShare-72308c464...
> Admission is a privilege.

Can someone say this to my friends? They tend to see it as a right.

"Look at all my achievements that I worked so hard for. I must be admitted."
No. I’m saying in tech, whether you or I agree with algorithm type interviews. They are the great equalizer.

If you are applying for your standard CRUD jobs where you go to school isn’t going to matter. They are in my experience going to ask you techno trivia and may have you doing coding problems slightly above FizzBuzz level of complexity and are going to pay you the same regardless. The interview is the equalizer.

If you are applying for a company that wants “smart people” (tm) like the Big Tech companies and the big tech wannabes, algorithms are going to be the great equalizer.

We are on a tech site with plenty of people who work or have worked for BigTech. Almost all of the people here know how interviews and hiring works at Big Tech. Many know how hiring works at your standard CRUD jobs.

I have experience with both.
Nothing Trump has done has come close to the massive gift Trump gave China by killing the TPP.

This idea that Trump is somehow harder on China is laughable.

Trump has been screaming China loudly, but his actions amount to barely a whimper, and the cost has been paid overwhelmingly by Americans.

TPP on the other hand would have actually been effective by giving American companies 4-5 alternative countries they could relocate their operations too, with the added incentive that the TPP requirements would have protected their IP from being stolen like it is in China. And it would have cost the US nothing, because the relocated businesses were not in the US anyways, but were in China.

In fact, the added diversity of countries to manufacture would have probably made it even more of a win for the US.

The idea that Trump has been anything but a massive gift for China is ridiculous. There’s a reason China has ramped up its aggressiveness worldwide towards the end of the Trump admin (although they are probably clearly overreaching, but they realize this might be their last chance to make hay without the US doing anything).
Here's an interesting review:

https://journal.infinitenegativeutility.com/why-i-dont-love-...

It's a negative review, and I agree with all its points. In addition, I don't like Hofstadter's proof of Gödel's theorem - it's so LONG that it's hard to keep track of the parts. (The best proof of Gödel's theorem I've come across was given verbally by John Conway, and he had the opposite strategy - make the proof as brief as possible so that you can easily see an overview of it.)

But despite these criticisms, I think it's a wonderful book, and I agree with the idea of giving it to a teenager as an introduction to mathematics.

I first read it when I was 14 and went on to do a lot of mathematics and philosophy of mathematics.
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