skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The realm of anti-enlightenment inquiry I am interested in right now is not the "tragic mistake" but rather the shift to a mercantalist view of the world. The later medieval period in Europe saw major scientific discoveries, and an argument sometimes made of the capital-R Renaissance was that it was more flashy than productive.

But the mercantalism, I think, was precipitated by the plague years and the resulting labor shortages. These are often seen as a good since they produced wage increases. But they also motivated development of stronger controls over the person - the nation is tied to the individual via legible identity as a wage earner, rather than as a member of the village, and slavery thus reemerges as a way of shifting around the accounting by denying identity. And so by the 1600's, you have press gangs kidnapping people, and debtors becoming indentured servants, as well as the slave trade.

In this light, this whole thing of civilization has been a seesaw of problems since antiquity.
Good catch. The next question is what percentage of kids contract MIS-C as a result of COVID? Based on the <18 death toll reported so far, it seems like it must be a small percentage.

Edit: Answering my own question with a quick reading of [1]. 186 patients identified total, if I'm reading correctly. This is a tiny number. 2% of that would be 4 kids.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2021680
Yes, you have to learn the idiosyncrasies of the tools involved. My point was, these are standard tools that are there for more than 20 years, and they work just fine. People should just RTFM and learn by experience instead of inventing something new which looks shiny on surface but most certainly will have unhandled hidden edge cases and serious limitations.
I think some on here did after the Mr. Robot fiasco.
I'm still pissed that Mozilla handled the Firefox Fenix transition so badly. I had a perfectly working Redirect AMP to HTML [1] addon on mobile, and now you can only install a set of whitelisted addon for the moment. Until then, the Firefox experience is significantly degraded on Android.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/amp2html/
As far as I can tell it is possible to homomorphically compute a UTM. Since it's possible for a homomorphic circuit to decrypt and reencrypt its own ciphertexts as part of the bootstrapping principle it should also be possible for a circuit to fully decrypt certain values (outputs). Basically, if V = E_K(V') is the homomorphic ciphertext of V' under the primary key, K, and O is an output key, the primary circuit can compute V* = E_O(D_K(V)). An output circuit D_O(X) decrypts values encrypted with the output key, e.g. V' = D_O(V*).

A UTM is an unbounded tape T of encrypted bits, an encrypted state S, a circuit U(S, B) = (S', B', V') representing the state machine of the TM with V' as an output to control the next step, and the circuit for D_O(X). After each evaluation of U the state S is replaced by S', the bit at the current position on the tape is replaced with B', and if V = D_O(V') is 0, move the position on the tape left, if it's 1 move right, and if it's 2 then halt.

A bounded-length Turing Machine can be represented as a finite state machine (with the computing power of a standard physical computer) without leaking any information about changes to the tape by (T', S', V') = FSM(T, S) where the entire tape T is replaced by the output of the circuit at each step and D_O(V') is 1 for continue or 0 for halt.
No. That's Newton's theory of cooling. The phenomenon is hot water freezing earlier than cool water.
The modern web where less than 10% will use it? How is that “the core”?

That’s like saying that working at Apple and being on the macOS team you will be part of the core of PC operating systems.
This is a common issue for more people than you may imagine. Having to scroll through stories and ads is beyond deplorable. My wife and I have gone back to books as they are timeless curated sources of information.
You can quantify a lot of these things, and those things that cannot be quantified can be hashed with a pre-existing mapping that captures the relevant information in a way that doesn't reveal irrelevant genetic traits.

For example, high schools nationwide are constantly ranked and compared. If you have an identifier that simply says "rural tier 3 high school," it's unclear what the race of the applicant is.

A parent's income can be shown based on decile of Americans, without revealing the race of the applicant.

Geography can be given in a way that is nonspecific enough to prevent educated guesses about the applicant's heritage.

I contend that race doesn't tell you much more about how hard a person had to work, if you already have all of the preceding factors evaluated.
> It's obviously impossible to enact affirmative action without the corresponding penalty on outgroup members.

Not true. There is a third way. This is a problem of artificially induced scarcity. Instead of recognizing the problem for what it is, we are creating a false dichotomy of choice between merit and justice. We sacrifice one for the other, blind to the possibility that we can have both.

I will use a metaphor comparing seats at great universities to slices of pie:

When a bakery finds that customers are routinely fighting to buy the last few pieces of pie, it should simply bake more pie. The U.S. government isn't just one of the biggest pie bakeries around, it also subsidizes all the other bakers and loans money to their customers. No one has more leverage than them. If they say "you must make more pie," the other bakers must fall in line, or else they stand to lose a lot of money and decline relative to their peers.

If X # of university applicants are admitted due to affirmative action, the government should mandate that the university expand its capacity by X students. Otherwise, the government should threaten to remove all subsidies (including loans to students pursuing an education at that institution).

For its part, the government should also fund an increase in capacity at the best public universities. Perhaps it should even create new universities to help solve this problem. While people deserve the best education they can get, private universities do not deserve public monies if they refuse to increase positive externalities at the perceived expense of their prestige.
What is most galling about this is that even if we assume that culture X yields candidates with personality characteristics undervalued by culture Y, _racial background doesn't indicate culture_. How should a second-generation Taiwanese American raised predominantly in American culture answer the race question on their application?
I wish Windows 10 were that nice. First you need a nice race condition to break the updater's updater's unauthorized change prevention service....
+1 for DDG.

If you're still using Google and prefer a more technical approach to your inquiries, maybe it's time for to consider a more refined tool?
Very intriguing! Thanks for putting these ideas in such neat words. I somehow felt enlightened reading them. It is as if what you are describing is not just economy but the whole notion of "cost structure" in the philosophical sense and how the universe and all living things come to be. Wow.
This isn't it. They just package a version of ripgrep that does compile with their toolchain. ripgrep has been around for almost four years now, and I think the first release was around Rust 1.9 or so. So even Debian will have a new enough version to compile some version of ripgrep.

I used to include installation instructions for Ubuntu Snap, but they were so mis-managed (both from the perspective the maintainer of the snap and of the entire snap ecosystem itself) that they were causing giant headaches. It became such a problem that I specifically put a call-out to it in my bug report template: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/.github/IS...

Snap has been hugely annoying on multiple axis since day 1.
While I haven't listened to this particular one, I just wanted to say that their podcasts are usually quite interesting if you're interested in new technology/science.
John Deere saying you can’t work on your own tractor? 50 years ago this would have been an insane proposition.

I know it’s not the same but something feels similar to me.
I agree that the Roku is arguably not a general purpose device but I don't really see the point about the phone unless you're trying to be intentionally facetious. Of course if you were only using the smartphone like a 50 year old analog phone yes you can make the case that it's actually not a general purpose device, however today virtually the entirely value (and usertime spent) on a phone is in countless of end-user applications it runs. (and that is what proposed regulation would address when it comes to platform obligations).

If I had to guess a sizeable number of people doesn't even do calls any more.
Oh how the turntables have turned...
They say that, but this removal has exactly nil to do with security. Apple was getting $300m / year in revenue from this one app. Does it really cost that much to check this app for viruses? I don't think they'll be winning in court with this argument.
On iOS a user would have to jailbreak their device, voiding their warrantee. Only other way I can think of would be a 100% web app, not an installable app, if you want to avoid the Apple App store.

On Android you can distribute your app via the f-droid app store (if its libre/free/open source), or other 3rd party stores like Amazon's app store. You can also allow users to directly download you .apk file from your own website.
I have DDG as my search portal, and pretty much every single search is followed by another with !g on it. The results are terrible. So please recommend something better.
The problem isn't with the integer indices being by-value, but rather that they are subject to manual memory management. A descriptor can be closed and then replaced by a different object at the same integer value. (Or both can happen atomically with dup2.)

> "I wrapped all the socket calls to only accept pointers to an opaque struct with a single integer and made sure the int was set to a guardian value to indicate invalidation after an error."

This worked because after destroying the descriptor and storing the sentinel value, you didn't destroy the structure.

In production code, that would be a problem. You wouldn't want to leak these wrapper structures, so at some point they would have to be deleted.

And then you're back to the same problem: a structure containing a guardian int is freed while still in use, then the memory is re-allocated to some other purpose, and now the guardian checks are inappropriately testing memory they no longer own.

What works is garbage-collected handles: pointers to objects that wrap a manually-managed resource, but which themselves do not go away while they are referenced.

By the way, POSIX file descriptors could provide a sort of garbage-collected discipline, because they support reference counting. So that is to say, instead of passing around an integer descriptor, you can enforce that dup() must be used by anyone wanting to share the underlying object: everyone must share through their own integer descriptor, not by sharing the integer. Then if five objects or threads or whatever are sharing the same open file, they have five different integers. The object goes away when all five of those contexts separately issue a close on their integer. Nobody closes an integer that they got from somewhere else, always their own dup.

POSIX descriptors also lack the feature described in the article: tag bits. So that is to say, imagine a parallel universe with POSIX descriptors that are not simply non-negative integers clumped close to zero, but have two parts: the integer clumped close to zero, and some bits indicating a generation. For instance suppose descriptor 0x01FC means "generation 0, index 1FC". Then suppose you close(0x01FC) such that the 1FC slot is the lowest available position. Something opens a new descriptor. That results in 0x11FC, not 0x01FC. The generation has incremented. Now suppose a double close happens: another close(0x01FC). The kernel extracts the generation 0, and looks at object 1FC. It sees, hey that thing is generation 1! This is a stale handle! and returns an error.
If you depend on SEO for traffic you will go extinct one way or another.

Yes. Also, Google is cracking down on off-brand sites pushing medical advice.
Android's let's you download the app from any website. No questions asked. And the app can charge you without giving Google a single dime.

For example I can go to itch.io and download this game directly to my phone: https://majorariatto.itch.io/pureya
I guess I meant that even ignoring breaks entirely, there must be some wear ("dust") inside of a generator resulting from the rub of physical parts, but I take it to be a very tiny amount.
Pandora, Spotify, Tidal, and Amazon music are
all available on the App Store - they are not muscling any competitors out. If they were those apps would simply not be available.
The far left wants power, not equality.
It reminds you of the Soviet Union because the underlying philosophy is the same. Equality at all costs.
> Microsoft already does exactly this on console.

I never thought about it like this. It could be viewed differently because the Xbox is a game console and the iphone is a general handheld computer, but perhaps it should be illegal to restrict users installing software on your device by any means they choose, though there's no reason for you to support those means.
>I realize places like Yale try to be like old, exclusive country clubs. But if that’s the case then they should be taxed on that money.

How would this be enforced? That private universities can't get tax exempt status if they don't spend a certain % of their net assets each year? Doesn't this effectively penalize organizations operating on an endowment funding model?
Plug for open-source air quality monitoring:
https://sensor.community/en/

Build your own sensor for about 50-60 dollars. The community has a DIY guide. There used to be a guide that didn't require soldering, but the current guide still isn't very complex.
If you can't find the answer with a search engine and your question is too specific for a Q&A site, dive into the source code.
Yes! For example, in the GSS-API the various complex, opaque objects in the C bindings are specified in the RFC (2744) as:

typedef <platform-specific> gss_ctx_id_t;
typedef <platform-specific> gss_cred_id_t;
typedef <platform-specific> gss_name_t;

Sadly this is always a pointer in actual implementations, but should have been a handle, where a handle is a structure containing two fields: an index or pointer-like value, and a verifier that can be used to check that the handle is [still] valid. Using a handle would have made it possible to get much better memory safety.
The principle of race blindness has consequences. If you ignore those consequences this isn't a tough call, making decisions based on race is bad. If you are willing to take into account things like history, socioeconomic reality, and the motives of people supporting one side or another then this gets much more complicated. Personally I'd be in favor of stating that intentional discrimination against historically privileged or over represented classes is a good thing. Of course, I don't assert that to be an unarguable truth.
You are not forced to buy an iPhone - in fact 85% of the world doesn’t.

In every day life, the number of people who think “App Stores suck” is infinitesimal.
For my money, the year of the Linux Desktop was 2008. It's just that nobody noticed.

Since 2008, Linux has had the best combination of performance and hardware support on older machines, and the advantage has only grown since then. Windows and MacOS keep falling further behind in usability on machines older than four years, and that's the only hardware I would purchase for personal use. Why throw your money away on planned obsolescence, on an OS that keeps getting worse and worse, when you could use Linux on an older machine and have things keep getting better and better?
Or double layered: Transparent black LED behind transparent OLED

The black LED pixels can supplement the dark/opaque colors, while simultaneously supporting transparent colors with OLED pixels (i.e. like the png format).
Interesting. If that's correct, Epic is in an even stronger position. They can claim that Apple retaliated against them for a competitive move which had no bearing on the activities taking place in the arena Apple claims to control.
Ah, but that pointer doesn't get re-used on you until you free it, and for that there are strategies like refcounting and GC.

Integers in a small array will get re-used; they have to.
Not only that, but it becomes impossible to tell whether someone in a group benefited by AA is in a given position because of AA, or because of their merit. This is harmful to people in those groups.
> This is just three big corporations fighting over their respective slices of the pie

Yes, this is how capitalism works. The companies can be started by virtuous, far-sighted dreamers, like Steve Wozniak, Larry Page and John Lennon, but then they get infused by money from venture capitalists and investors who just want ROI.

Once they hire more than 5000 people, the edges of the company are not controlled by dreamers - worker bees are employed to make money by leveraging whatever is there to be leveraged. And so the mission drifts.

Or else, the company fails or disappears, which is what happened to John Lennon's company, Apple Music.

We need to rethink capitalism, so companies can grow to medium size, and stay there, providing good things to their customers in a virtuous, mutually beneficial way.
If you put your webcam behind your video chat window, you can achieve better eye contact with your remote participants. I wonder how well a webcam can see through these screens and/or how much of a hole would be required in the rendered image to avoid obstructing the camera.
No need to hide, same thought occurred to me reading the article too.
I used to love 20-minutes showers. But back then I lived in a cold climate and the 20 minutes was pure blissful procrastination before the shock of cold air on a warm wet body.

Since I moved to the tropics, it's been 2-3 minutes showers with a pleasant cooling effect when I step out.
well I am not nearly expert enough to debate your points about the DOJ's history. What I _can_ say with confidence is that from my POV that this is a hot button issue for my parents, many in their circles, and I imagine asian families nationwide. Given the other actions of this administration I can't shake the feeling that a strong motive for this is to curry favor with that demographic. It strikes me as an awfully convenient time to start making noise here.
Google's robots.txt does not tell the full story.

For example, if you include a User-Agent header and put certain strings in it, e.g., "curl/7.47", you will be blocked.

echo -e 'GET /search?q=robots.txt HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.google.com\r\nUser-Agent: curl/7.47\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n' |socat -,ignoreeof ssl:www.google.com,verify=0

The problem with the robots.txt "standard", e.g., ones like Google's with no "crawl-delay" directives, is that it does not define what is a "robot". The query above is obviously not a "robot", but Google, with all it resources, still treats as such.

Google probably does more (abusive) scraping than any other entity. Web scraping is in their DNA. It is in their web pages, too.

curl https://www.google.com/search/static/gs/animal/m05py0.html|grep scrape
I happen to agree: the worst penalty is in schooling, and the most bang-for-interventionary-buck is also in schooling.

It's also not visible to peers in adulthood, and thus not a source of jealousy or mistreatment or suspicion, as many AA recipients detail experiencing.

It's also the most moral way to address something which - IMO - deserves addressing, but which currently is addressed quite immorally.

See: the OP article.
I thought that was implied by the statement I made about C without dependencies being more portable.

In any case. You’re not wrong. We can caveat everything about Rust as “for the platforms it supports”, and in this context it is more enjoyable to work with across those platforms. And for all of my development needs, it targets everything I work with.

C is more portable as a language, but that's never been up for debate.
Yep, I am somewhere else in the world but benefited (although somewhat indirectly) from a similar kind of process and it is ludicrously unfair, arbitrary, and there is almost no oversight of how decisions are actually being made.

The only effective system is one that is fair to all. You can't make up for socioeconomic differences this way. College isn't a magic pill if you are disadvantaged. And I would be genuinely surprised if it actually helped the people it is aimed to help because unfair systems are always co-opted by the people who have advantages.

Also, I went to school in the West with many students from Asia. They worked harder. That is it. It wasn't a fair sample, the school attracted kids who wanted to work and attend university in my country. But they out worked everyone else bar one or two people. I am not sure exactly what the allegation is here: that working harder is cheating?
For those who are arguing that Apple should allow third party developers to have their own marketplace without Apple taking a cut, should:

- Ebay allow for a third party marketplace to exist without them getting a cut?

-PayPal, chase, stripe allow third party developers to offer up their own payment services without the respective companies take a cut?

Also by the same token, Amazon is a monopoly by taking a percentage fee and should allow competitors to sell on their platform without taking a listing fee. Is this not the same thing?
Because it isn’t fair.
Have you tried running an unsigned app from the internet? There is no "allow" button. You have to go through security menus and whitelist the app. Who knows if that will still be possible in the future.
COVID deaths are trending up, with 1,499 deaths reported for August 12. We're at 166,023 deaths total. Schools forced to open. Terrible quarterly GDP. COVID relief going to Trump's friends. A looming housing market collapse with evictions on the way. Massive unemployment. Probably a second quarantine in the fall due to the awful way that the response has been handled by the federal government. USPS fiasco by trump and his buddy having a conflict of interest with being a post master for the USPS and his investments + ties to XPO. trump's tweet that suggests postponing the election. trump and co's promotion of goya. trump's "It is what it is" response to 160,000 American deaths from COVID. trump's attacks on protesters and response with federal agents in Portland.

I can literally go on and on. This is just what I had the effort to type out. How are these things pretty damn great? Just one or two of these should have a massive negative impact on any politician.
AIUI: As I understand it
SES: Socioeconomic status/situation
Yale discriminates in favor of Whites. If admissions were based purely on merit as they are at Caltech or Berkeley, you would have far more Asians and far fewer Caucasians. This was also true when they discriminated against Jews (using the same techniques) at a time when Jews were not considered White.
I think you're being downvoted because you draw a false equivalency.

Fountain rules in the Jim Crow era were uniformly applied to all African Americans. The university question is whether or not race should be included in admission consideration given that some races have been historically disadvantaged relative to others.

When a purely rank-ordered 'merit' based approach would yield a heavily homogeneous outcome does it make sense to try use an approach that gets closer to a representative sample of the country?