skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Legacy admissions is a different issue (though that's a problem too).

It is not a well publicized fact that 'people who donate get even higher preference', even calling it 'preference' is a euphemistic way to obscure the bribery.

It isn't preference, there's some hidden price and people are paying it for a slot.

Nobody is paying for a building and finding out their kid is not accepted.

Show me where on any top university website it says 'as an alternative to our standard merit-based admissions process you can contact this number to discuss payment for admission'.

They can't say that, both because it would reduce their leverage in negotiating the bribe value, and because what people are paying for (in large part) is the social status of having been accepted to an exclusive institution on merit.

Universities know this, it's why they spend effort encouraging applicants they know they will never accept in an effort to drive down the acceptance percentage and drive up their exclusivity.

If it's public that your rich parent bought your slot then suddenly a lot of that status evaporates.

Since the social status is more the product in question than the actual education people paying for it don't want this to happen.

This being public is bad for the school's brand too since knowledge that a lot of students can buy their way in would reduce the status that they're selling in the first place.
Well, as others have mentioned, the current version is called "missiles". They require a platform to launch from.
This ignores the useful industrial applications of gold and understates the probable black market that would develop.
It's fine to think like this, but it's not fine to use donations for it if those donations were not made for that cause.

This is why people don't donate to mozilla.
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1. What is the purpose of rating legislators? A minority necessarily opposes each legislator, since they voted against them. A Republican likely won’t be happy with a Democrat, and vice-versa. Ratings don’t track voting, do they? An example is Nancy Pelosi, where she is consistently elected with a large district majority yet her rating is low. But if ratings did track voting, they would just reflect the party majority of a district (a legislator from 90% Democrat district would have better rating than one from 60% Democrat district).

2. How do you verify the rating is from someone in the correct district?

3. What API are you using for data?

4. You may already be aware, but zip codes don’t map 1-to-1 with districts. IIRC about 10% of zip codes match more than one district, so a full street address is needed to match the correct district.
Nope, I have every right to express my beliefs with any bit of snarkiness I add.

>Could please review them and take the spirit of this site more to heart?

I'm impressed you managed to type that without spilling your kombucha.
Do people actually run LFS systems as a daily driver (desktop or server or whatever)? I always thought it was a great way to see what it takes to put together a functioning distribution, but the LFS book's take on updates is basically that it's on you to follow mailing lists for security advisories for literally everything on your system, and update as needed. That sounds like it would take up way too much time and effort to be practical.
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My understanding is that MOND is essentially dead at this point and that there aren't any other promising alternative theories left on the table.

I enjoyed a podcast on the topic by the highly respected physicist Sean Carroll (along with his guest, MIT physicist Lina Necib). It was very interesting and insightful. They cover in-depth why we are so confident that dark matter is a thing that exists.

Here's a link to it: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/05/11/96-l...
Yes, and they were also being exploited under feudal lords. I would hope we can make some kind of progress as a society beyond fuedal times.
Would you rather have:

1. $10,000

2. Half a million dollars with a 50/50 chance of spending significant time in federal prison

I wouldn't even attempt to hack American companies in a country with an extradition agreement. It's a different situation, but Ross Ulbricht got 2 life sentences.
Apple has so many patents that it’s impossible to design a good, or even decent trackpad?
I don't particularly like Apollo, but the reasoning is that if you fetch data with Apollo on the client-side, then that data is already available in their cache. If you were to use Redux, you'd have to copy that same data in your store.. so might as well use their cache instead. However, this is only for fetched data, not all client-side state management.

Personally, I don't like the "write client-side resolvers mimicking the server resolvers" approach. I'd much rather have a database that is synched with the server and listens for new changes. Once you have your "offline-synched-db", you get offline, optimistic-UI & real-time for free.
Anyone else misread that as new Patrick Collison math?
> That would forbid criticism of any violent decentralized movement.

Establish a pattern of behavior?

> There's no widespread looting and assault from the center or the right here.

I know it's low hanging fruit but do you find this compelling?: https://www.businessinsider.com/right-wing-extremists-kill-3...

> and have handbooks re: playing to the invisible audience, goading people into fight responses, etc.

Who is antifa??? More FUD. This is, in my opinion, a very lazy and poorly researched argument against the anti-fascist movement. Especially in a country where crime reporting is run through an institution with ties to white supremacy and roots in crushing strikes and capturing escaped slaves. Show me the data. Show me the pattern of left wing terror.

> And that you're doing that it now.

Not even touching this..

Oh also, are you sure you've been seeing literature from the "real" "antifa"? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-fake-antifa-acount-whit...
I worked through this in 2001(?); I printed it all out -- on paper! --into a huge binder. Back then, monitors were small.

Was a fantastic way to learn how to grow a system. Horrible gateway drug to Gentoo Linux, of course.
> but the fact that Facebook, Apple, and Google are all dumping tons of money to develop some form of it makes me convinced that its an upcoming market that has the potential to hit big time.

Eh, I'd be cautious. Remember the late 90s, when the day when you'd primarily control your computer by talking to it was imminent? Or (also in the late 90s) when PDAs were going to take over the world? Or that thing where you'd have documents embedded in other documents and no applications as such? Or... tech has a lot of fads, is all I'm saying, and often significant resources are spent on them. Some of them go somewhere. Some eventually emerge in a massively different form (PDA -> smartphone). Some just die, though.
Chill on the allcaps, and there's quite a lot of precedent that anything visible by the public is fair game. For example, evidence you throw into the trash becomes public property once you put it out on the curb
This was a major part of the worldbuilding behind in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, which came out back in 2011.

Now I'm curious what papers Eidos Montreal's writers were working from when they wrote it...
The mapping seems pretty straight forward, I don't see why it couldn't be manually done.
They do so implicit, then moment is visible to the user that they can buy thinking cheaper elsewhere Apple will cause trouble.

I.e. you are not allowed to be transparent with pricing.
> If someone made a non-VR console with VR-style controllers

Sony did with PS Move, many years before PSVR. I guess you could consider the Wii a prototype in that direction as well.
I can't help but think of government (or management).
I’m aware that it’s not new but Virgin Galactic’s SPAC ushered in a new era of blank check companies being spun up, which is why I’m bringing it up.

Look at the recent S-1 filings...there are already 64 “acquisiton” firms that have filed in August alone https://sec.report/Form/S-1

Is this a short term SPAC bubble? Very possible. But SPAC investors and founders are much wiser now, and if done right it’s entirely possible to completely side step traditional VC if the “good ones” prove to be successful.
If a police union demands too much, they don't threaten their employer with going out of business the way private sector unions do. The private sector union is naturally constrained to saying, "We want to help you build a reliable business for the long term; treat us fairly and we will do good work." Sometimes, of course, they do better at this than other times, but it is never in a union's interest to impair the business to the point where the jobs no longer exist. There is no such pressure on the police union. No demand for higher pay will cause their employer to shut down - it will at most go deeper into debt. No demand to put up with worse work (be it worse quality or simply more illegal) will cause the market to find a different supplier - there is no market. No overreach by the old guard will risk losing newer folks to an un-unionized competitor - there are no competitors. And so forth.

So I don't think this is even hypocrisy - effective police union leaders have very different approaches from effective private sector union leaders.
And he got a tax deduction for it.
> Example: I usually want to use the python:3-slim image, but this doesn't have the tools to compile certain python libraries with C extensions. Generally I will use the python:3 image for my build stage to do my "pip install -r requirements.txt" and then copy the libraries over to my final stage based on the python:3-slim image

Example on how to do that, please.
Police have existed long before democracy (and socialism). Also I don't follow on how democracy implies socialism.
>Deliberate obfuscation by main actors who want to protect their jobs

Sure. There is mal-adaptive behavior, and it's not consequence free.

>rarely captures the truth accurately

Accurately? There's nothing going on in your reply to suggest you have distinguished insight to anything. Throwing out three more modalities of problems amounts to what-aboutism. You have attempted to re-contextualize the original write-up as disingenuous something we see a lot of pointless political wrangling.

The salient question is what we can agree on as to common failure modes, rather than that argue without intersection. No accounting can be complete, and beyond some level of specificity more detail is useless. We're looking for 20% of the causes that explain 80% of the bad outcomes. Think Chaos Report that had a good run in the 1990s.
SkyCop cameras are anything but covert. They are meant to present an obvious police presence.

https://www.skycopinc.com/

https://www.google.com/search?q=skycop+camera&source=lnms&tb...
who knows, but I run openwrt on my mikrotik rb2011* switches.
Go on, how?

I'm getting into boat-sailing, and I'm saddened by the nausea it causes. I'm looking into ways to reduce this, and I'm thinking ways to deal with motion sickness incurred in VR-games is probably applicable to me.
We were not hacked, a clever criminal convinced us to give him our data
If you intent to purchase a phone for the purpose of installing custom rom on it, you might want to get a phone with a snapdragon chip. Other chips such as mediatek often has increased risk of bricking when you mess something up, and thus not many rom developers are willing to tinker with those phones, which means less variety of custom roms available for those phone models.
Or "A visualization of the modern health systems in the world".
It's not visible for the iOS user that they pay more without explicitly looking it up. And the difference is small.

Just add a transparent reporting about how your prices came to be and they will not let you do so.
Aren't police unions similar to other government unions, like teachers unions then?
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Not Democratic as in the party, democratic as in the members vote on what the union does.
> You can sideload on Android [...] Where are the successful third party app stores for Android? [...] Why did Epic decide to relent and make their game available on Google Play?

Epic is actively suing Google for using anti-competitive practices to force phone makers not to include 3rd-party app stores on their phones[0].

One example they bring up:

> Epic struck a deal with OnePlus to make Epic games available on its phones through an Epic Games app. The Epic Games app would have allowed users to seamlessly install and update Epic games, including Fortnite, without obstacles imposed by Google’s Android OS. But Google forced OnePlus to renege on the deal, citing Google’s “particular[] concern” about Epic having the ability to install and update mobile games while “bypassing the Google Play Store”.

If you want to show that sideloading doesn't make a difference for storefront fees, you should pick a company not currently being sued for antitrust to demonstrate it.

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> You have a choice of three consoles - why aren’t developers side loading there?

You can't sideload on a console, I don't know what you're getting at.

In regards to price fixing on consoles: you're right, the console situation is also bad. We effectively have only 3 major consoles, and a reasonably high barrier of entry into the space for similar reasons as mobile phones. Of course, the console space is better (in no small part because the PC market exists), and console manufacturers do compete more for developers than Apple and Google do. But it's not perfect, and as a result, you still see some issues around competition.

It took direct action from developers like Epic to even force the issue on cross-play, which is a decent sign that console manufactures really didn't feel like they needed to compete with each other in that area.

However, it is generally ill-advised to sue every single major games distributor at the same time, so it is perfectly reasonable for Epic to target what they see as the biggest problem-areas first.

The whataboutism doesn't really work here. Yes, console sideloading would probably be good for the market, it's just not as big and immediate of a problem as Apple is -- in part because more people own iPhones than an Xbox, in part because the barriers of entry to console competition are slightly lower, and in part because the PC games market provides somewhat of an escape hatch for console games, and that escape hatch isn't applicable to the mobile app market.

[0]: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/21759099/f...
Unions often don't represent the beliefs of their members, they usually represent the beliefs and goals of the highest ranking members (and sometimes the people that pay them off, unions are not exempt from corruption). Sometimes the goals of the leaders line up with the goals of the majority, sometimes not. When I was in a union, many items were decided without a vote and no effort was put in to informing new members on how to be represented within the union.

I should also add I don't think unions should not be involved in politics; I think they are used as crutch for democratic representation. The real solution is removing corporate lobbying.
There is a World Gold Council that puts out stats on use of gold each year and by far the biggest use is for investment. Jewelry and industrial uses have been on the decline for decades.
Controllers were quite different 30 years ago. Dual stick didn’t become the norm until 20 years ago, though arguably Xbox and PlayStation controllers haven’t changed their layouts much since 2000.
Report it after ten years of human trials........
I strongly agree with this, for one the demographic shift alone. Or even people introduced to gaming in their twilight years are coming online.

Like with social media, the psychological implications are not clear.
As discussed above, police unions are a different beast.

And an explicitly partisan union would be a shot in the foot of the organizers. That's not exactly how you build solidarity.
Strongly disagree but upvoted for the conviction of your delivery. :)

Writing robust programs relies on unquestionable understanding of the logic. The specific variable and argument names are neither here nor there.

It's almost impossible to understand program flow when code is extremely verbose and heavily abstracted. Little comments like "add 1 to x!!" are not only useless in practice but they are toxic to code understanding.

The code already tells you what it does. As a maintainer, I need to understand why, and to what ultimate purpose. "tmp2 -> temporaryFailedCustomerRecordsCounter" wastes precious space making the obvious infantalizing.

It's ok to expect people working on your complex, important software to be knowledgeable about the domain and its' standard terminology. I expect my Lyft driver to have a drivers license.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ships with Wireguard.
This is disappointing, but not surprising: there seems to be very little interest these days in funding the sort of work that created computers, the major operating systems and the internet. Software and tech is basically treated as a cost by everyone.
By memorizing it as a passphrase, or writing it down, or printing it as a QR code, or saving it to a flash drive, or (best) saving it in the tamper-resistant memory of a security token protected by a PIN or biometric? Unprompted, I don't believe many people asked for the most practical way to securely store 192 bits would answer "the orientations of twenty-five cubical dice in a plastic box".
I definitely shot myself in the foot with mithril in terms of performance, and I somewhat assumed that I must've made some sort of architecture mistake somewhere along the way.

By the way did you ever look at http://meiosis.js.org for managing state?
Who knows. And there are tons of such effects that bias the result in every possible direction.

That's why I called upon people to use heir own judgement.
> The efficiency of an estimator is a different from its bias.

I think the comment is drawing a parallel to variance (better efficiency = lower variance). Still not exactly the same, I think, but pretty damn similar.
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I know this question has been asked before, but that was in 2017 and thought there might be some updated resources. I have been in management positions in Series-B size startups, and have applied to some FAANG companies.

I've done tons of prep on algorithms as well as system design. I've taken several different people-management seminars / books, but nothing specifically "engineering management".

Are there any good resources out there for this type of prep (or generally how to be a good engineering manager?)
You can eliminate all Google concerns by installing a Free ROM (eg LineageOS) with F-Droid instead of GApps.

I'm not saying that this is what most people are going to do, and I'm certainly not trying to openwash Android-as-marketed-by-Google. Just pointing out the path exists if you'd like to go down it. It helps to have an extra device, to be less tempted to compromise [with] your main one.
> The CCP controls China. Maybe not down to the most local level, but almost.

The CCP controls China to the extent that China doesn't even have its own military, the party does.
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As someone who was born in the UK and lived until the age of nearly 30 in Australia, I'd be entirely inclined to agree with you.
I think inflammation is something we understand at a much deeper level due to western medicine. Chinese medicine has a number of herbs that are thought to reduce inflammation, without necessarily having an understanding of what is happening at a cellular or chemical level understood by western medicine. Western medicine would describe inflammation in terms of immune or hormonal response, down to a cellular, or even sub-cellular level.
No, Firefox is developed by Mozilla Corporation, which is a for-profit company owned by Mozilla foundation. As I understand it, this opens up the possibility of revenue sources not available to a non-profit for Firefox, but otoh, means you can't donate to support Firefox.
We have been waiting for years for UDP OpenVPN, but we get WireGaurd before most major distros. That's something
I also don't think they're empathizing with what it would actually be like to sell a zero day.

Taking the certain $10k is the better deal over hunting for a shady buyer on shady sites who might send you some bitcoin if the deal even pans out or if they even pay. That's a lot more work and uncertainty while they act like it's just the choice between which lever to pull. A bird in the hand…
Maybe they are all the same problem, screens are more compelling than life and this statement is only becoming more true each day.
I'm not sure Bloomberg failed. He stepped in because he was afraid that Sanders or Warren would win, which would be bad for him personally. He's fine with Biden. Seems like a pretty effective return on investment to me.

The point of politics is to get what you want done done. You don't have to win to do that. In fact, if you can achieve your goals without spending four years of your life being president of the US, that sounds so much less stressful.
Apologies, surveillance-state apologists get me worked up. Things done in public or in other locations without "an expectation of privacy" are legally fair game for evidence gathering. Pointing a camera toward a home which may have open windows, etc. is not unless there is a warrant for that kind of surveillance.
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> I think this article is missing something.

The first word of the essay is "we," and it goes downhill from there.
> This may result in a situation that strongly favors the defender. If it takes ten drones to shoot down a fighter but they're only 1% the cost, countries that otherwise can't project air power internationally may become capable of defending themselves at home.

This exists already. Those "drones" are more commonly called surface-to-air missiles.

The limited factor is targeting: as has been well publicized, modern aircraft have been engineered with stealth in mind, which means they need to be quite close to radars before they can be detected.

The solution, which was discovered in Yugoslavia, is to use low frequency radar to detect the stealth aircraft, and wait until they get close enough (defense in depth is necessary here!) before turning on your target grade radar at the last moment.

As you might imagine, this is a difficult and dangerous process, and so has only been successfully accomplished once.
Thats usually who I try to be but I have been burned by it cause I didnt mention why I was falling behind at two former jobs. It did cost me a job cause of that plus the fact they were over engineering what would of been a few months into a few years effort just to be bleeding edge.

It sucks how some environments are worse than others. I think the biggest quality for software developers is humility. Without humility you could end up with some nasty devs. I have worked with people who get personallu attached to their code being quality but they dont follow project protocol or write hacky code.
Sorry, I was going by the GP's mentioning light years. I see now that the article doesn't say that at the top, just "near the sun" which I agree is weird and confusing.
This seems more a proxy on how much of humanity is connected by smart phones now. The implication is similarly staggering.