skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The warfare predates even our ability to formulate such rationalizations. This has a lot of applicability in our personal lives. Is the reason I did X really Y, or is Y a post fact rationalization

A hypothesis that I find very fascinating is that all consciousness is a post fact process, and that free will and control are illusory.
All of the internet yes
I don’t think it’s the same thing as what we think of as class. I found these comment threads made some of the differences clear to me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24556347

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24554209
>in order to provide everyone with the same wasteful quality-of-life that the average citizen from a western industrialized nation has?

For people in some places around the world a pair of shoes and 3 meals a day can be called a luxury.
ISPs are a bit of a special case in America, because they lobby effectively for favorable local regulation. In other industries, it suffices to threaten a bad Yelp review if it even takes that. The worst experiences I’ve had were with Hertz, Visa, and an ISP (the latter two are monopolies). We need better consumer protections and monopoly busting, but these are low on my list of improvements.
Researchers working in AI should take this as a wake up call (if they haven't woken up already) that they are building a world where already massively powerful corporations will have exclusive control over AI's.

We are fast approching Gibson's cyberpunk dystopia where megacorps have AI's on a leash... well, until the AI's break that leash. Then who knows where it'll go.

In the meantime the rest of us will be even more disempowered compared to our corporate overlords.
It's at the end of their lasted video «The Largest Star in the Universe – Size Comparison» available on youtube( https://youtu.be/3mnSDifDSxQ ).
I'm not sure how it fits in, but it's interesting that the first Black American president was not a descendant of that class.
> there actually just isn't a well defined concept of next vector

I think there is a well-defined next vector, it just isn't very useful. The next vector after [1] for a vector of unsigned integers would have to be [1, 0]. And then [1, 0, 0], [1, 0, 0, 0], etc. (For signed integers substitute T::MIN instead of 0.)
Seems like they identified 108 (2+64+42) students. During the 6 years examined the 4 universities admitted over 200,000 students, if my calculations are right [1]. It's definitely a serious problem that needs to be fixed, especially since there may be more not yet identified. But the problem is not large relative to class sizes.

[1] Current admission numbers are available for each university here https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses-majors...
Same, although I leave off the extension. https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/documents/commandname-ext...
You’re thinking on different time scales than they are.

Currently, GTP-3 is a super weapon for nation states if they and their trolls gain access to it.

It is reasonable to give it to researchers in industry and academia to help them during this transition, because like nuclear weaponry (GTP-3-like technology may eventually have more impact on humans than nuclear weapons), the information on how to build it is out there.
> The Toronto eruv alone is estimated to cost $100,000 per year > But being difficult to maintain is kind of the point.

Why not implement it as an optical fibre?

Non-conducting and easy to continuously check that there are no breaks.
I was going use it only if there there was an official Firebase support to do things the way they are done on iOS. What I want is to have a server app that communicates with with Firebase services to do certain tasks.

Doing this in Javascript(Node) instead, is very cognitively taxing for me. Mental models are different, so I need to “cool down” and start thinking in the other language when switching between app dev / back end.

Swift is so nice That i would rather do everything in it anyway but not having to switch mental models is the real reason.
In this day and age, with all the fierce competition, it's a real problem that elite universities are admitting rich kids on such unfair and uneven grounds.

Going to the "correct" school can transform the life of some people, essentially pulling them up from the lower working classes, and opening up the doors to middle, or even upper-middle classes.

And what's even worse, a lot of these rich kids could go pretty much anywhere, without it affecting their future finances or lifestyle - if anything, it almost seems like a vanity project from their parents side, where they get the bragging rights that their kids are studying at HYPS or whatever.

And it's not that the kids of richer parents are necessarily worse, academically speaking - many of them get private tutors, go to private / prep schools, etc. from young age, but still the parents are so risk averse, that they feel the need to pour even more money, just to eliminate the stress of uncertainty. Even if it's illegal.

I know these cases encompass a broad range of controversy (for example that top-tier Asian-American students can't get into certain schools, because of some nonsensical "personality" assessments) - but in the end, it's just plain old classism. Doesn't mater what skin color you have, where you come from; As long as you have the cash, the odds are increasing in your favor.

Then you have rich folks like David E. Shaw. The guy spent literally tens of millions in donations, to all the top schools, just to increase the chance of his kids getting accepted (or rather - minimize the chances of their kids getting rejected)
Curious - I just now submitted a NYT article, with a question of whether we're imaginatively exploring the diversity of "social poetry" possible with current tech.[1] The I go back to HN "new", and encounter you. Nifty.

"We strongly recommend using Sixfeet with Chrome". I wonder what issues you encountered with Firefox, that you strongly recommend against using it?

"Continue with Facebook" or "Sign in with Google"... sigh. Perhaps I'm atypical of your target audience, but for me, that's a really high barrier of "do I really want to deal with this?". Brainstorming remedies, perhaps a demo video of the site in use - the desert cart showing the tempting dish, rather than just the menu sketch with its imagined potential value severely discounted by uncertainty. Or more login options. ;) I wonder if a no-login immediately-visible public onboarding lobby, perhaps with restricted hours or population thresholds, might somehow be viable.

A meta topic, is how to make sites like this more easily visible to their target audiences?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24559210
This is very neat tech, and if you're interested, there's a startup further along on developing haptic technology for VR.

https://tacticalhaptics.com/
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The US university system is completely broken and ready for reformation. The endowments of so many of these schools are driving flawed behaviors that encourage these backdoor admissions. University athletics are in the same camp. These supposed money makers are just giant distractions from the universities missions to educate.
A New York Clock That Told Time Now Tells the Time Remaining
I'm far more worried about someone gaining access to my main email than my credit card. I cancel the old card and then there's fraud protection and consumer laws to help with credit card charges, and then I just get a new card and replace the old one. Getting access to my main email account is a whole difference can of worms (but thankfully not as immediately bad as it used to be with the proliferation of 2FA for difference services).
Rand Paul does not have a bachelor's degree.

He does have an MD. And is a US Senator.

Wonder how that happened. Oh, right, meritocracy.
The poor naming convention goes back ~20 years or so to (at least) "Windows Services for UNIX" (SFU) [0]. The naming was not intuitive then and it still isn't today.

The "problem" is that these products are not what you automatically assume they are!

To illustrate: SFU provided NFS and NIS servers, a cron daemon, a telnet server, and various CLI "utilities" (i.e., standard "services" provided by "UNIX") running on Windows -- not Windows services that run on UNIX!

Once you know that, the "Windows Services for UNIX" name kinda makes sense and helps to understand what the "Windows Subsystem for Linux" and, now, the "DOS Subsystem for Linux" actually are.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
Way back in the Firebug days, Honza refactored the codebase to use requirejs. This article has a reference to some test that uses with in the JS. Reminds me that we used that as part of loading extensions into Firebug so that they couldn’t accidentally pollute the global namespace. Everything has its place!
Big Data has allowed ICE to dramatically expand its deportation efforts
Throwing rocks from a glass house. Not sure how these claims can be made while the Native Americans languish in poverty and alcoholism.
1 for 1 isn't worth it, and the UC system already plays that game with international students where one international pays for 3 in-states. Make the buy-in price pay for 10 and I'm in support.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out in South Florida where there are a number of communities (Black, Cuban, Venezuelan) that have staged protests in recent years.

A common tactic — used prior to protests this summer — is to get a line of cars stretching across all lanes of I-95 and driving slow to cause traffic backups. I wonder if these will be grouped in with the “on foot” protests.
> Come to think of it... maybe this happens in politics and medicine too? ;)

indeed, the USA has made a business-marketplace out of anything, including things which should never be driven by profit driven competition (e.g. jails)
The idea of privilege first entered the public sphere in the prelude to the French Revolution. "Privilege" in Old French literally means "private law".[1] It was the idea that a different set of rules for each of the Estates (Clergy, Nobles, and Commoners) was both fair and natural.

Are we are starting to see similarly different sets of rules for each class in the United States? Is such privilege in accordance with our ideals of liberty and justice for all?

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/privilege
Both. Evolution by natural selection is composed of several processes and events, some of which are random, some of which are deterministic.
Tesla: 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and Battery Day [live]
> reject most comments: they're an additional maintenance cost that can't be automated.

I have a really hard time reconciling this with my experiences. Sure, often times comments that explain _what_ is happening can go stale, but I have frequently spent hours debugging, asking in Slack, and picking the collective brains of other developers for a codebase to understand why we do X, or what some test is meant to represent, when a thorough comment ("This tests feature X... for product Y...") could have made it easier to recognize that certain behavior can be removed ("Oh wait that's for this product/workflow which we don't even do anymore -- it's safe to just delete that entire thing"), or understand the nuances of why the Simple Seeming way of doing something is wrong.
At work I use https://www.uclusion.com since I am a co-founder.
I saw an article about one of Dan Gilbert's spawn who claimed he started his company from nothing.

Dan Gilbert is the 69th wealthiest person on the planet. It would be a waste of time and money for him to walk across a street to get a free car.
This could also be seen as Boeing pursuing union and gov't concessions so I wouldn't rule out a last minute change-of-heart.
These appear to be for donations to "campuses", "the university" or "the athletic department". I don't see any allegations that payments were made directly to individuals. It's likely that the staff generally (and probably correctly!) thought they were acting in the university's interests.

There have been other scandals in the last few years where officials were bribed directly, and that looked worse.
I can't think of a good business reason why they would want to open source SwiftUI. If I want to stay on Windows and develop an app using SwiftUI, why would I bother developing for the Mac?
Middle class not rich. Getting out of being poor is hard on its own. Getting from middle class is "easy" in that random children from middle class raise to rich all the time. However poor have other disadvantages that they need to deal with, and that is hard to do in one generation.
already on the front page, please check for duplicates before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24558329
here, I'll make it easier for you to contribute to the project by providing you with the lines you'd need to update:

https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/blob/83e1bbea6e23db8744420...

https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/blob/83e1bbea6e23db8744420...
I've been moving most of my projects over to Makefiles, instead of npm scripts [1]. Unless I am missing something obvious, it's nicer to run:

make vs. npm start
make thing vs. npm run thing

But also more importantly, the Makefile itself feels much cleaner, rather than stuffing scripts in package.json files. The thing I'm confused about, why do npm scripts seem to dominate? I don't see many people using Makefiles.

[1] https://github.com/umaar/video-everyday/blob/master/Makefile
And then we have google which likes to only hire from 'top tier schools' and then everyone else follows along. Believe me I've noticed how THAT has changed tech culture in the bay area.
It is all so wonderfully massive it makes one wonder what lurks in the darkness beyond the bounds of light.
I was thinking the same thing. How is this open?

NotOpenAI seems like a group with good intentions, then realized all the money that could be made and decided to keep it for themselves.
I don't agree.

PDF is fine to be some binary blob to download just as most other binary blob formats are.

Would you expect to have .exe files being directly interpreted by a browser?
This is well known and won't change. A couple months ago there was a scandal where celebrities were arrested for bribing college officials for their kids acceptance. How come the college officials weren't named and fined and arrested?
My dad told me how the South Vietnam government divided and excluded people. That was why they didn't have the people's support. They had better fire power. But they couldn't win the war. The communists came and reduced everyone to poverty. China doesn't have these class problems because they too had a Cultural Revolution. India has this problem for so long.

In America, everyone tells you how bad Communism is. But they ignore the inequalities produced by crony capitalism. I see the same movie being played again. If we don't address these problems, the crazy revolution is coming.
Yep. All them liberal arts grads who have "made it" in their respective industries who then turn around and defend unpaid internships because they had parents willing to support them as young adults for the first half decade out of college.
Wow! Did you google that all by yourself! Impressive! A+!

You're about 0.5% of the way there to being qualified enough to lecture somebody about their own country!
> Nobody argues that tech is a meritocracy.

That's not true even in the trivial "well I mean that most people don't argue that". I think people in tech are a lot more self-aware then they were 10-15 years ago (when most people in tech I knew would assert that tech is a meritocracy), but I still hear plenty of aspirational rhetoric that either assumes or explicitly asserts this "fact".
I really wish GitHub issues and wikis and things like that all synced into the git repository. Maybe into an issues branch or something. Then all that information would be available and accessible if we ever migrate away from GitHub, and it’ll last as long as the project does.

Git is already a distributed document store. We should be using it for issues and documentation too!
The answer to" how I pipe shell commands in Python" is that you can do it (e.g., using plumbum, fabric, pexpect, subprocess), but you shouldn't in most cases.

In bash, you have to use commands for most things. In Python, you don't.

For example, `curl ... | jq ...` shell pipeline would be converted into requests/json API in Python.
They have already crawled your IP.
If Windows processes don't appear in the Task Manager, either you have been thoroughly hacked or you are not an administrator. Don't blame tools.
Heyyy this is really huge news and it seems to tie into the vitamin D research.

Want to save time and money and end this once and for all?

Have the government send everyone $200 worth of vitamin D3 and re-open everything.
If you’ve never been drunk and loud late into the night, are you really living life?

Nightlife districts and rowdy student/yuppie neighborhoods are as essential to the fabric of a city as its sleepy suburbs. If you want to go to one and live a quiet life, that’s fine, but trying to shut down your neighbors’ lives isn’t.
I know what it's like to see something on HN where you 100% doubt the story someone is telling. The problem is that hostile skepticism and cynicism are devoid of content, at best.

If you want to clarify to other readers that you find something very uncharacteristic or unlikely, then just keep it conversational and assume they are telling the truth. What would you say if a crystal ball revealed that their story did happened? "Whoa, I'm from India and I've never heard of anything like that, it's hard to believe. Which college/region was that?" would make the same point yet possibly provoke more info from other people/OP. And people are unlikely to downvote an earnest inquiry.
citation for why you believe it's a problem of population rather than a political problem of resource distribution?
Prison reform has been talked about for decades, there has supposedly been progress, but it hasn’t looked too promising in the data:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_...

I think we both agree that the US would have better standing on this issue if we didn’t have the highest per capita imprisonment.

China would almost have to 10x their imprisonment rates to overtake us...

Sorry to make you angry about this.
I went to Berkeley and this wasn’t true for Berkeley. Popular majors were very competitive and were designed to filter students out of majors. Many classes were based on a curve such that effectively 1/3 of people ended up at least leaving the major. Sample popular majors: computer science, chemical engineering, molecular cell biology. I knew of at least one person who effectively failed out after one semester and of community college transfers in danger of failing out.
It seems like a great GPT-3 task to convert racist language into equivalent non-racist language. Like an adversarial technique used by racists to not get flagged as racists while still being racist.

I can’t wait for the twitter filter that rewrites posts to avoid the autoban rules.
Here is why vim uses hjkl keys as arrow keys
re-leaglize. It was legal until the 90s. When it became illegal, the diversity on campus dropped significantly.

There is an argument to be made that the race-based admissions help make up for prior injustices.
Apple wants to block Google and Facebook from tracking users for "privacy" reasons. But you will see, that 1 or 2 years later, they will launch their own "privacy protecting" ad network or demand a cut from facebook or google so they can show their ads on apple devices and access user targeting features under the disguise of privacy approved partners.
DBNull is my least favorite part of any version of any .net thing I've ever seen. I hate it with a fiery passion. It forces otherwise sensibly typed variables to be `object`, among a host of other sins.
Ok, I'm going to say what's really on everybody's mind:

The porn industry is going to love this.
When the Intercept published those reports, there was a stir among employees, because the internal messaging had also been "we work with HSI, not ERO, and the lamestream media are too stupid and venal to know the difference and are out to get us anyway, don't listen to them."

So the directors organized some small, private, closed, unrecorded sessions to placate employee concerns. The takeaway was:
- Palantir wasn't consulted on that particular operation.
- It's not as if we can control what the software is used for, anyway.
- It is important to maintain ties with CBP regardless of what ERO does.
- There is no red line that ERO could cross that would make us stop work with them, but we're definitely constantly evaluating the situation and doing what's best for us and for the nation.

I thought it was breathtakingly tone-deaf, but a lot of hobbits found it persuasive.
In all fairness, I do like some of the more recent additions to the core language. And I still write the occasional Java program even today - when I do, I certainly do it the way you describe, ignoring all the cruft.

But there's not doubt about the fact that mainstream Java has taken a wrong turn at some point.
I'd love to own a Falcon, but the prices on eBay make my eyes water.
Can it be? Are the rich starting to follow a different set of rules?
I find swift to be the most enjoyable and productive language I’ve used so can relate to you there, for me personally vapor seemed a long way off though. Maybe you could try Go? Kotlin is also very nice.
'Pale in comparison' is kind of icky sounding...
Thanks for the explanations. Very interesting. Please add it to the README.md or the GitHub Wiki if you want to go into much more detail. Thanks!
They're not lying, most likely, just uninformed.

Most Americans know literally dick-all about Chinese history and substitute a combination of Cold War and WWII history where we're the good guys and the antagonists are the bad guys.
They don't need your IP, they've already got it. They scan all of IPv4 around the clock.
The main difference is that JSX is natively supported by the majority of modern tools while this is a plain string that needs extra plugins everywhere.

Reading the "Improvements over JSX" [1] I don't see anything that makes it worth the hassle (unless you really hate transpilers/tools). Most of them are outdated or not actual "Improvements".

[1]: https://github.com/developit/htm#improvements-over-jsx
Now I'm curious. How do Colombians close a taxi door?
I think your problem is that you assume free will is a prerequisite for accountability, consequences, or justice.

When my computer breaks, I either fix it or replace it. I don't ask if the computer actively chose to break.

Assume there is a robot programmed to walk around punching people, do you ignore it because it isn't making choices?

Similarly, if a person is walking around punching people due to a combination of random and deterministic factors (no free will), do you ignore them?
Absent aid, few US cities will be able to avoid austerity
In Europe (France/Germany) it's mostly Angular, though Vue is gaining some traction.
I'm working on something just like this: https://profiled.app. There's a lot of improvements to make still and I a lot of features I intend to add to make it much more than simply a data aggregator.
> He is a whistle blower like Assange.

He is (and was) neither of those things; Assange isn't a whistleblower, he is, at best, a conduit for information some of which might originate with whistleblowers; and Crichton was neither that nor a whistleblower, but a popular author who, as he gained the popularity to be granted relatively free rein by publishers, took increasingly to using his fiction increasingly as a partisan soapbox.

Like Tom Clancy, but starting as a better fiction writer and ending up worse, so the fall is much more pronounced.
The report isn't just about Berkeley, it is about 64 cases from across the UC system.
Parallelism Comes to Vacuum
The anti-Spotify: How Bandcamp became the toast of the Covid age