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> That is, if you scored this in a rubric, some kid whose parents went to Harvard would score 20 and I would score 0. That is wrong on a fundamental level.

Is it? Why?

I think it depends on the amount of government funding they get. For a completely private university, is it wrong? I think it's wrong for a university that gets a majority of its funding from the state to act this way, but for universities that have giant billion dollar endowments? Sure, let them manage at least some of the admissions somewhat as they would as if private.

> It's a bit like anti-affirmative action.

It's exactly like affirmative action, except to benefit the university. I think being able to apply this on some small percentage of the students, maybe five percent, is acceptable.

It's going to happen, why not account for it and control it rather than make everyone involved act like it isn't happening and then we just have a vague sense that it happens but little info and control over it?
I'm lost too. Kafka auto creates topics by default. Maybe you're referring to being able to create more topics? But that seems to be unproven. Kafka's limit is metadata and Pulsar is more metadata dependent than Kafka.
And ten years ago the answer to that would have been: "Identifying as a gender you aren't is a mental health issue. And mental health issues often lead to suicide and other bad outcomes."

No matter how you feel about transgender issues, there is no denying that they currently have an outsized influence on the media narrative.
I wouldn't hold out hope considering the other key cities Uber operates in (SF and LA in California, NYC in New York, New Jersey, and London [1], which account for 1/4 of their bookings) have made similar determinations. São Paulo was the holdout.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23713582
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But they got 11% of millions more people, and have subsequently signed up tens of millions more
If any other medical procedure increased the risk of suicide by about 2000%, it wouldn’t be controversial to suggest that it might be a bad treatment.
> The burden of proof is always on a positive claim.

The positive claim here is "demonstrable, long documented racist discrimination in the banking system does not affect the PPP program within it".
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By “we” he means the United States Government. Unlike the father in your example, the USG is still around and still responsible for its actions. As such, I see no moral issue with requiring it to make restitution. If we don’t want to raise additional taxes to do so we can always make some small cuts to military spending or some other bloated program to pay for it.
I disagree. While, yes, Facebook needs to test their SDK, app developers need to build resiliency into their apps to ensure third party dependencies don’t break their app. The developer adopted it into their app; it’s their responsibility to do the proper checks in cases like these where Facebook broke things on their end.
Quibi always sort of seemed like it was going to fail hard.
I'm not following your logic
> but there's a reason the international community reacted one way to Syria and one way to the US invasion of Afghanistan.

Yes, Syria has no nukes and no military power. That's the extent of the why. Russia, for examples, has nukes and military power, and look at what happened in Grosny and the international community.

But all of that is besides the point, of course. It's allegedly about human rights, not about only killing & torturing people as long as they're not citizens of your country, the secret law of civilized society.
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> GoG does not offer refunds, no-questions-asked.

I thought they actually started offering them as of recently?

But regardless, you can see why refunds are much harder for GoG—it goes part-in-parcel with being DRM-Free. Valve can remove games from your account and render (most of) them impossible to play. GoG, by contrast, can't really "take back" a DRM-Free executable once you've downloaded it.

Even before Steam allowed refunds, GoG had a 30-day no-questions-asked exchange policy for any game you'd purchased but hadn't actually downloaded. Sadly, this isn't particularly useful, but it's also the one situation where GoG can actually "reclaim" the returned item.
I gather than an operating system written in Rust would be safer, but would it be as fast as one written in C?
And then FB will ban your app.
The Treaty of Paris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1783)) ending the Revolutionary War, and Jay Treaty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Treaty) together settled all such outstanding debts.
I don't truly own my phone number. I barely control it. I can move it from provider to provider, kind of, but it's still not _my_ number – the number is a side effect of having cell service. In particular, if I move to a new country, what happens to my phone number? (Having recently done so, I still don't know: for now, I'm paying two cellphone bills, but that's obviously not a long-term solution, and I don't know what is. Port it to Twilio, I guess.)

You can make the argument that I don't truly “owns” the domain name off of which my e-mail address hangs, either, but it's a much better situation than phone number ownership. There, at least, the constraints of ownership (rental) are clearly defined, as is my ability to move it between registrars.
Also, a principal engineer is more likely to be older and have a family and other commitments outside of work. They're therefore less likely to be able to spend all their free time working on side projects or contributing to open source. If you have a robust github profile with lots of contributions that's great, especially for a junior, but I dislike this expectation that candidates should be judged on whether or not they spend their free time coding outside of work. When I get home I want to log off and spend time with my friends and family, get outdoors, exercise, cook, read, participate in other hobbies etc etc. Not all of us are 22-year-old startup kids whose lifestyle consists of work-party-code 24/7 - and that's okay (no shade to those kids, I used to be one but I'm old and boring now...and a much better engineer). Nobody judges lawyers on how many case briefs they read in their free time or asks doctors to spend the weekends treating their friends and family for minor ailments. It's silly.
Probably off topic but Patrick McGoohan was in a couple of good series for those at home at the moment, apart from The Prisoner, Danger Man was another (A bond like spy), and he also turns up in a few episodes of Columbo. If you like those then try the Avengers - the one with Patrick McNee and Emma peel, there are other series but the Emma Peel one is recognised as the best. Surrealist Spy dramas were at their height in that era, if you want to go further 'The Champions' is another - three spies crash land in Tibet and monks teach them some powers.
You don't need a CS degree or Martin Kleppmann's book to work out it's a GPITA.
> but it was becoming less of a problem as society became more educated and secular

The last generation of control freaks had figured out how to use religion as a medium for their desires. They were caught flat-footed by new internet media like everyone else.

The next generation have now learned how to use twitter. The basic tactics probably haven't changed that much but the details of the message are new. I doubt education was a driving issue as this is more an issue of personality types.
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Anecdotally (I don't work at Google, and this might not apply there because it's such a large company): At the monorepo companies I've worked at, of the 2% passionate I mentioned, maybe half have naturally gravitated towards working FT on the infra teams, the other half make very occasional but astronomical contributions, while working full-time on an actual product.

What I mean to say is that with a monorepo, you leave the door open to essentially passion-driven contributions made by the other half of that 2%. In non-monorepo environments, the barrier to uniform adoption is too high for someone that isn't full-time assigned to the task to justify.

Some people are genuinely passionate about this stuff, and want to take on the task of migrating the entire code base, because it's a fun challenge and it'll improve their day-to-day work every day for the remainder of their employment. They're very rare, but they do exist, and with a monorepo those people are better-equipped to drag the company forward.
My half-baked theory has been that nobody wears hats on TV because you wouldn't be able to see their faces as well, and people started imitating that.
That makes a lot more sense. And really just feels like Microsoft's current trend continuing: Dropping human-curated in-house QA and assistance in favor of automation and community contribution.
For anyone in tech visiting Seattle, this was always my first recommendation.

The hardest part about history is that human minds are unwilling to grasp the 'realness' of it. Being able to directly touch and play with the past reality really makes you appreciate how we arrived at modern computers.
Are you complaining about dogma while referring to the Bible as a source of truth in your previous post?
Very fun. Now for the next step, replace the cans with quantum entangled objects ;)
Please give an example of speech taking someone's life.
I don't see how an excess death caused indirectly by the virus is different to one caused directly, when measuring broadly (ie not for epidemiological purposes).

Those people died because of the virus, and the cost of the virus in lives should be measured that way.
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I've installed dozens of life-safety-critical services and none of them had ads or the Facebook SDK for very good reasons. AMA.
Phone numbers are an awful identifier.
Ban it from where? Using their API?
Ah yes.

If hacker news goes down while you are writing this comment, it is your responsibility to ensure you can still post your comment despite the service breakage.
This struck me as a ridiculous statement, so I just checked the front page and not a single thing I saw could be classified as anti-white by any reasonable standard.
This will sound wired. But the days I wake up early I usually have more energy (ofc I need to get enough sleep).
This is incorrect. When creating an Azure App Service with PHP, you can choose either Linux or Windows. You would likely choose Windows if you needed to do things like execute Windows binaries as WebJobs.
You're using the same word -- Justice -- to mean two things.

The court means justice as a violation of the law.

You mean it as a violation of your opinion of what is right and wrong.

Whether your like it or not, Roe v Wade, and Doe v Bolton are the settled court cases, and legal justice is what flows from that. Calling what is legal "unjust" because you disagree with it further reinforces the need for this decision.
> Doing currency manipulation using with i32 as an example for developers of a language that only supports float. What can go wrong?

Using i32 for currency calculations is probably a bad idea (although there are situations where it would be OK), but this has absolutely nothing to do with javascript - it's no worse in js than it is in rust, since javascript fully supports all i32 numbers. In fact, it has a number of bitwise operators that operate on i32 numbers, and a bitwise operator that even works on u32 numbers.
Shit, man, I'm just waiting for the Romper to cross over from women's fashion. Loose-fitting, linen combination shorts / tank? Yes, please!

I'd even settle for denim if we must play at working on cars for women to accept it as fashionable. Maybe then I can finally have my cargo pockets back!
> Considering CS:GO has 500,000 to 800,000 concurrent players at any time, I find it difficult for the system to create such unbalanced and flawed games.

Do you know of any other game at that magnitude that doesn't have cheaters? I'll wait.
1. Server-side APIs can be versioned. If an old version is somehow changed, I would call it plain malpractice and in some other industries your license to practice could be stripped.

2. Client-side SDKs can be designed in a way that even if the server-side changes (which it shouldn't), it does not cause the whole application to crash. This can of course be hard depending at which level the SDK operates and how integrated it is into the app.

3. Are there no contracts between Google/Spotify/etc and Facebook? If I were FB and there were contracts on the line, I would make sure that there is no way something like this can slip through (automated testing).
Hmm, I would have said the briefcase was essentially already dead. When's the last time you actually saw someone carrying one?
I'm not a hateful person nor a supporter of them, and I haven't read the article.

But can you explain why you think someone saying hateful things to someone else "denies their fundamental right to exist"?

This is a core argument that keeps getting spouted, and it's irrational nonsense.

If I said, "all programmers are terrible, lazy people and they can all go to hell", that's a terrible thing to say. But it in no way affects your right to _exist_, let alone any other right.

The burden is on you to give evidence, because it's total nonsense.
It's kinda remarkable to watch people respond to "All people groupthink" with "Yeah, all those other people out there groupthink".
There is a reason I said 200 years not 250 years. Are there any examples after the 2A where the government took away guns?
and only one of those examples is before the publishing year
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Pandemics, historically, have never been fun.
Where does this us-vs-them, "descend into general chaos" interpretation come from aside from petty identity politics (which I give HN users the benefit of the doubt about)? To be clear: I mean as opposed to giving people the benefit of the doubt - that people are, in general, acting on best information and that any urgency you perceive is an understandable result of it being a life and death situation. "Descending" into "chaos" is such a common attack on - what? People buying too much toilet paper? Orders to wear masks? It seems so unnecessarily hyperdramatic and divisive.

Edit: For context, I admit the devastation to life from both "sides". But I have no strong conclusion either way - I can't figure out if we're erring on too much lockdown or too little lockdown so far.
The ribbon changed again in office 365.
IMHO, the easiest way to evaluate if a candidate can do a job is to give them tasks that they would do on the job. In your case, it looks like you should have them generate a report and try to find a bug in some business logic starting with an ambiguous problem statement.
Being transgender isn't a medical procedure.
So how could the app developers have prevented this, other then not using the SDK? (I'm not advocating for using the SDK.)
Don't confuse spending time or effort with achieving results.
If I had to run a PHP app at work today, it'd be on Windows. Why? Because no one app justifies the amount of additional maintenance overhead of supporting an additional operating system. If your entire IT workflow is built on Windows, it's really the only sane choice.

And no, it probably wouldn't be WSL, it'd be using this. Because not everyone I work with is comfortable with Linux tooling and who knows if our management tools can see what's going on with it.
What kind of (lower level) surrogate metrics would you be interested in that could translate to '3am phone calls' when comparing messaging systems?
Wikipedia has this:

In June 2020, King tweeted that statues, murals, and stained glass windows depicting a white Jesus should be removed. "Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down," he tweeted. "They are a form of white supremacy. Always have been.

Are you hurt by that assertion? Please show citations where actual "anti-white" comments are made. N.B. calling white people out on their shit is not "anti-white".
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surely someone with such a strong opinion would be able to cite an example... ?
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"Equating the BLM movement with groupthink is actually groupthink."

No, BLM one of the best examples of groupthink.

I support BLM, specifically with respect to the notion of police violence against, specifically, Black people.

But the BLM institution itself, is founded and driven by some ideologues with whom I disagree quite a lot.

There are many public events and actions 'in the name of BLM' with which I disagree.

The reason it's 'groupthink' and possibly oppressive, is because I'm not allowed to disagree with any of, without facing social consquence.

To disagree with 'some' BLM issue, is to disagree with the the very notion of 'Black Lives Matter'.

BLM is one of the most incidentally brilliant bits of communication in modern history - take a nominal, unassailable factual truth, like 'Black Lives Matter' - that nobody, but nobody can reasonably disagree with ... and then take that and do whatever you want 'in the name of BLM' - and you can pursue your agenda with vigour and aggression, knowing that you can smackdown anyone who disagrees with you with the moniker of 'racist'.

The F1 had a race in which the drivers and teams 'knelt' before the start, but the CNN article was not in the affirmative 'some drivers support BLM' - no, it was in the negative: "Formula One drivers divided as several choose not to kneel in support of Black Lives Matter movement" [1].

No longer is this a movement which you get to support, but rather, if you do not support the movement, your actions will be made public and you will have to answer to them.

This headline is pretty much on-point with respect to the nature of the article about 'The Prisoner' - though I should add, as having seen every episode in the original series, I disagree with the author's claim that it's about 'one kind of authority', I think the message is broader than that.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/motorsport/f1-austrian-grand-....
This sounds frighteningly like a family member threatening suicide to manipulate others. Because they disagree they are murderers?
I'm not just talking about cheaters. I'm talking about the system not being able to find 10 players of a similar rank to begin a game.
This is a native SDK that is crashing the process. There is nothing an app developer can responsibly do to prevent or recover from this crash.

Other than remove the SDK, of course.
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They were also making things like fake memorabilia. For say a baseball bat with a Babe Ruth signature it is pretty obviously the authenticity of the signature which makes it worth something, not the "intrinsic value" of a bat with some ink on.

There is this attitude that it is somehow wrong to value authenticity when it comes to art, but I don't really get it. Surely an authentic historical artifact is more interesting than a fake.
Even though he was talking about minimum wage, Walter Williams line is apropos: "People think minimum wage is an anti-poverty measure, but this doesn't pass the smell test. If it did, our state department could stop all foreign aid, they could instead say to all those countries, if you want to be as rich as us, simply set a minimum wage for all your workers!"

Edit: He repeated this line in a documentary about him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZGvQcxoAPg
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I really like the idea of scaling basic-income through a series of stages, starting with negative income tax (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax) and moving to more encompassing strategies like guaranteed income or a social dividend as automation makes up a larger portion of economic output.

Negative income tax has a couple advantages, namely:

* It benefits those who actually need the help the most
* Shortfall checks will come from tax agencies. People who need real help can save their dignity, they're just getting a tax refund.
What about the Matrix platform? I personally prefer something that doesn't require a phone number as an ID.

There are some good-looking and user-friendly clients

https://matrix.org/clients/
I can see why would you care about texting and driving (and why there are laws against it). Why would you care about selfies?
I'm sorry, but if someone is building a life-critical app and using Facebook, just, why? Do they want to tell FB about all your critical conditions too?
Non-Muslim Uyghurs who make themselves useful for the government don't seem to be doing so bad for themselves, from Shohrat Zakir, the chairman of Xinjiang, down to Uyghur prison guards who have been called out by some Kazakh victims as especially brutal. (Why do people forget about Kazakh and Kyrgyz Muslims in Xinjiang so often?)

And the "anti-extremism" push certainly applies to Hui Muslims as well, who had their mosques "renovated" to look less like mosques: https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=763356996
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> Businesses using the same concepts and business models outside of this scope have potentially less competition, higher available market, and higher upside purchase exit.

What type of businesses are you talking about here? Non-software or just non SaaS?
People kill themselves for a number of reasons. Do you have any evidence to claim that mere disagreement is the key, number one root cause that leads to them ending their lives?
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Have you ever had a conversation with someone who is trans and what their lived experience is?

Or did you just decide from your all knowing seat that you're the single arbiter of their lives and that you have the single claim on reality despite early scientific indicators saying that the situation is much more complex?
I really appreciate posts like these that chronicle the challenges of pre-PMF life. Thanks for writing it.
I assume Quibi signups were people much more interested and motivated in what the platform offers, versus Disney+ where millions signed up just to see what this Netflix competitor was about.

But sure there is a narrative of failure around Quibi because it seems inevitable that it will fail short of some remarkable niche success. That remarkable niche success hasn't come.
I got a year of Apple TV+ just for getting a new Apple device. If you cancel early, you cancel for good. I put a reminder on my calendar to cancel at the end of a trial. I have yet to even attempt to watch anything because of poor reviews and klout.
I remember during the Apple TV+ announcement that Tim Cook was using phrases like "the best stories" and "the best content". I thought it was so arrogant.
Would disabling SDK autoinit have fixed this? That was a suggestion raised back in March. Seems like a net win to avoid static initializers in the first place.

(Am not a mobile dev, but it wasn't exactly hard to find that, either).