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> describe them as complete scumbags

Look, I appreciate the current political situation, but I DID NOT describe them in that fashion. That was a value judgement that you imposed on a couple of gentlemen that I went to school with, in 1981. You did not meet them or interact with them; I did. They were insular, and I cannot call them "friends." That's fairly typical for police, but they were incredibly polite, and everyone in the class liked and respected them (it was an extremely mixed class, in a very tough town).

The people that engineered that scenario (and are probably still engineering it, to this day), were the state legislature. The officers that commanded that barracks were the ones that established the model for their officers.

These were two electronic technicians. They happened to be trained and uniformed officers, but were not particularly interested in the "pithier" aspects of their field. In fact, they had volunteered to spend their careers in a basement, fixing radios.

In that particular state, there is a giant world of difference between the State Police, and the various county and municipality cops. The State Police held themselves, and were held to, a much higher standard than regular cops. I know of at least one county in that state, where the cops were renown for rather gratuitous violence; especially against minorities. The State Police had nothing to do with that.

As for me, and my views...seriously, dude, you have no idea. If you thought that you learned something untoward about me, you are wrong. Dead wrong.

This world is missing something fundamental: basic, human respect. That goes for people in authority, that abuse that authority; whether for personal gain, animus, or to be a "team player." It also goes for people that have appointed themselves "Guardians of 'The Truth'" (Whatever happens to be the flavor of the day).

We might want to consider that not everyone in the world is an evil person.

Just a thought.
I personally don’t care about affirmative action, but if you truly care, shouldn’t you be focused on income diversity over skin diversity? We know a lot of very well-off minorities (my wife for starters) and advantaging their children because of skin color doesn’t make any sense to me. An upper middle class black family and an upper middle class white family have way, WAY more in common then they do with a poor family of any race.
Asians are also 73% of Stuyvesant, rather like TJHS. Any purely merit-based educational institution in the US invariably skews in that direction. And, because Asians don't have the same political agency that Jews achieved many decades ago, very little is being done in their defense.

But Jews had a much easier time than Asians ever will because they could mostly blend in with White people. They now get counted as "White" in the statistics. This is the uncomfortable truth of the new racism. This country is hellbent on disenfranchising high-achieving Asians, who have the misfortune of looking too "Other" and get marked as such in racial composition stats.

Stop using skin color and race. Just stop. The only consideration that's remotely permissible, beyond merit, is financial posture.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

EDIT: Removed the use of caps, as requested by @dang. However, he seems to have ignored my appeal to restore this comment to where it was prior to moderation (it was at the top and quite popular). See @dang's auto-collapsed reply to this comment for more details.
> transformative experiences are unlikely to happen which from personal experience I can say is false. The impact of a breakthrough psychedelic experience can be profoundly positive especially for those starting from a less enlightened place.

I don’t think they are downplaying the transformative potential, but saying that you don’t get to choose what you transform to. Increase in neuroticism is also a type of transformation that occurs with psychedelics that seems to be downplayed or exclusively attributed to set and setting.

Anything that gets you out of your default mode network and amplifies your brain activity non-selectively will indeed be that “more of you” as OP claims, and where you land or how much of that experience you can integrate heavily depends on your original psychological organization.
Individuals can be. Systems with bad rewards for doing so rarely are.

For a tech example, see how reliably Google rewards teams for making new stuff and not for keeping it running.
I don't really agree with this, but accepting it for the sake of argument, then it suggests to me that remote work needs to take up less time so that people have more time to make friends outside of work, since they're going to have fewer friends at work.
But the relatively weak performance of for example French universities (split between teaching and research) compared to British, American or Swiss universities (unified) suggests that the outcome is not as you think.
What ISPs are doing in the USA is beyond me - how on Earth people can tolerate inserting or messing with the traffic in similar ways?

As for coffee shops and other public access points, people really need to understand the consequences of what are doing when connecting to any of these. Using HSTS is just an antidote to one particular problem. But when you connect to a hostile AP, many worse things can happen.
I always use f*ck@you.too
no OP is right, that's actually what Scott says

"In a world-historic irony, the main effect of this “solution” will be to drastically limit the number of Asian students, while drastically increasing (!!!) the number of White students. The proportion of Black and Hispanic students is projected to increase a bit but remain small. Let me say that one more time: in practice, TJHS’s move from a standardized test to a lottery will be overwhelmingly pro-White, anti-Asian, and anti-immigrant; only as a much smaller effect will it be pro-underrepresented-minority."
Website down! HN effect?
I'm mildly appalled by this blog post. The author seems to prefer the "affirmative action" solution which would result in increased uptake of Black & Hispanic kids, over the proposed "lottery" solution that would result in increased uptake of White kids. I guess this is quite in vogue nowadays, but personally I still oppose racism on principle, even the pro-Black, anti-White (and often anti-Asian) racism.
Did they start charging more for the recliners?

The cinemas in Singapore have both fold-down seats and recliners, and the premium halls with recliners cost 3x more.
It could also be more indirect issues not necessary related to performance or rendering. Here are a couple commits for fixed issues in Firefox:

https://github.com/tobspr/shapez.io/commit/d2903f5606d285678...

https://github.com/tobspr/shapez.io/commit/bf8b3253b97fb5d10...
First do no spam.
The author touches on a really important shift in how diversity advocates have approached their goals in recent years: the relative abandonment of meritocracy as a desirable thing. Whereas before, they advocated affirmative action and similar solutions as ways to slightly tweak merit-based systems to benefit historically disadvantaged populations, there seems to now be a more widespread rejection of those systems as inherently discriminatory. The only transformative net effect, it seems, will be to significantly reduce the proportion of Asians across elite institutions.
Show HN: VB script that copies contents of USB in Windows
That's a really good point.

Both are true.

Beauty in the world really matters. Both people and things.

But expectations being set to high on oneself is bad.

Can you have one without the other and how much are each weighted.

You can also throw in beauty is a service industry that creates jobs and personal satisfaction. Which every UBI talk says is what we will be doing when we can't work.
Silly question, but could that explain bad health? People who don’t enough sports don’t shake their cells enough, so they aren’t as functional? I know the usual explanation is blood circulation and organ maintenance, but did we think of looking intra-cell?
>> This might seem like seem like nit-picking, but I can take your GPL project, work on it and sell it to a dozen companies, and you have no right to my modifications. The companies I've sold to could give you a copy if they wanted. But your rights aren't omnipresent.

It's even worse than that. You can sell the software without distribution modifications to the client. You only need to give modifications if the client ask for them.

There is no interest for the client to request unless they want to break off from the software contract. If you're found to violate the GPL, the client will be unable to use the software, they have more to loose than you.
> That will of course never happen, but it would make sense to have a language that doesn’t advantage one country member over others given that we all have English as our secondary language.

Don't forget that English is indeed a secondary language in the Republic of Ireland - their first official language is Irish. So what they said still holds true including the Republic of Ireland.
I can see how my comment could be interpreted to mean no advertising at all but that wasn't my intent. I was more thinking about how apps surreptitiously manipulate your engagement (frequency + duration) with them.

On the point of advertising though, if advertising focused entirely on factual information around features and benefits, I'd consider that a win. Kind of like how it used to be before Edward Bernays and similar thinkers came along.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
I reach for LXC if I need to contain something inside it’s own OS, on the condition that the contained OS is running the same kernel as the host.

As I understand it, Xen would allow me to contain OSs that aren’t even Linux. What is available for Raspberry pi’s hardware, that I should try?

Is there a compelling advantage to using Xen for a container Linux, versus LXC?
The NSA was not allowed to spy on US citizens.

>U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said that the U.S. surveillance of phone records was indeed illegal.

The U.S. surveillance
Hopefully, that keeps after traversing several repeaters.
Unless the text of the law is "the company shall try very hard (but if they miss a weird edge case they shall be merely sent a warning letter)", the GDPR allows selective enforcement. You note that it's already one rule for FB and Google, another for smaller companies. To what extent do you trust the courts to selectively apply the law in a sensible way, vs selectively applying the law in a harmful but legal way?
I found it surprisingly accessible. there are a ton of great resources on YouTube, reddit is excellent for advice on tuning and troubleshooting. Thingiverse has too many great models, often with detailed advice and specs for printing.

Tinkercad is a very beginner friendly design app. As someone rolling with a -2 to visual acuity I still managed to work it out.

Heaps of fun to work with your kids, my favourite project has been this clothes rack and hangers for my daughter's Sylvania families https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3345575
What do you mean by "native English speakers"? Native speakers of US English and British English rountinley have difficulty communicating.

English has become the global language, so there will always be local forms. You can't elevate one form above all others and claim it's the one true English. British English is not special in that respect, it's just a historical form.
> Deficits are abound even in good times.

I can't wait to hear from "conservatives" who "care deeply" about deficits to come out of the wood works and teach us the virtue of "not spending money we don't have" now that we have given our tax breaks (again) to all the corporations from Amazon to Walmart.

Nobody gets to whine about deficits until we raise our tax rates up and stable for at least a decade[0]. I don't see anyone campaigning for higher property taxes (my recommendation is an annual tax of 7 to 9 percent[1] of the property value with a housing allowance to all residents physically present in the US) similar to the carbon tax in Canada.

[0] My off-hand recommendation for income above 50 x 2000 x minimum wage (for example, at a minimum wage of USD 15, it is USD 50 * 2000 * 15 = USD 1.5M), the progressive tax rate should be at least 90%.

[1] The idea being not paying this tax for roughly ten years ought to be enough to get you evicted with minimum fuss so we can "sell" the property to someone who will pay the property tax. No exceptions. No homesteads. No charitable work exception. Applicable nationwide.
"FORTRAN: Unlikely to influence anything in the future due to remarkably poor design"
I guess the author of this sentence likely does not know anything about Fortran. They do not even know that the language has NOT been called FORTRAN for more than 3 decades. They do not even know about the latest release of Fortran in 2018. They are at best showcasing your ignorance and bias, by not providing any arguments as to why people should take their comments and advice seriously.
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Retouching is Women's magazines' stock in trade.

They actively seek to make women insecure about their appearance, and collect advertising from outfits that promise to correct it.

One of the promoted tropes is that overspending on a putative remedy is giving yourself a treat, rather than giving the vendor a treat.
It sounds like this might have been a bug: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/23/18011814/iphone-xs-beaut...

> Essentially, Smart HDR was choosing the wrong base frame for HDR processing when you took a selfie. Instead of choosing a frame with a short shutter speed to freeze motion and preserve detail, it would sometimes choose a frame with longer shutter speed. The front camera also does not have optical image stabilization, so it takes blurrier shots at the same shutter speed as the rear, stabilized camera. The result is a loss of detail that looks like smoothing on the front camera.
It doesn't have any studies listed. I am more curious about any wide scale studies.

I have seen some stuff on impact of social media standards and how it affects people but is there anything separate? A study that removes social media and then test out filter applied pictures?

Original post: https://www.sheknows.com/health-and-wellness/articles/113866...
New ransomware vaccine kills programs wiping Windows shadow volumes
Yeah that’s the thing I’m looking for too
This is one of the reasons I can’t get fully behind public education because in a democracy, everything government operated must eventually revert to the mean. Excellence is not prized in government.
The value Aaronson sees in the affirmative action solution isn't the precise racial balance, which you and I and I'm sure he all agree doesn't matter. It's that it might be able to preserve the school's character as a place that values and demands academic excellence, whereas a lottery of 3.5 GPA students almost surely won't.
> intelligent design was proven to be possible (we humans created live viruses in a lab from raw materials as one example, almost 20 years ago).

At that point you’re just kicking the can down the road; where’d the designer come from?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24663718

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24680870
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RNA is a less stable molecule than DNA — it can be single-stranded, form double strands, self-pair (form loops), react readily with proteins... just difficult to deal with. On top of that, as mentioned, RNAses (enzymes that destroy RNA) are everywhere. Your skin secretes them as an anti-pathogen defense against viral RNA [0]. So do a plethora of other living organisms including single-celled bacteria ubiquitous in the atmosphere and on surfaces.

I haven’t heard of any recent developments — it’s been a decade since I was in grad school and now I build software — but I briefly studied a subcategory of ribozyme called self-splicing group I introns which is where my interest comes from.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribonuclease

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_I_catalytic_intron
The gist of this article seems to be that it is bad that this high school changed its entrance criteria from being based on exams to GPA and that this will ruin the school. GPA based entrance (w/ a lottery if there are to many applications) doesn't sound terrible to me. Seems like eliminating exam bias would make this a net gain, but the author obviously disagrees.
I am an Asian American with kids in school. I am a fierce opponent of race based affirmative action but a huge supporter of income/wealth based affirmative action even knowing that it will make life tougher for my kids. The way I figure — my wealth has given my kids an unfair advantage over their peers. A poor kid is reading about polar bears in a 1985 World Book encyclopedia while I take my kids to Churchill Manitoba to see them in person. So the wealth based affirmative action will help drive home for them that because the road was smoothed for them, they will he expected to run farther on it.
Oh, and other advice is just buy a big roll of filament and experiment - I ran lots of test cubes with different settings to zone in on what worked and understand the relationship between different attributes.
What's the age/sex demographic of most of these suicides?
I think a good faith interpretation of this section requires the context:

>the Fairfax County School Board is “embarrassed” to have a school that, despite all its outreach attempts, remains only 5% Black and Latino—even though, crucially, the school also happens to be only 19% White (it’s now ~75% Asian).

The initial motivation in changing the school was (at least partially) to increase specific nonwhite minority student representation. Aaronson is pointing out that removing the entrance exams will likely not achieve these goals, though it will remove any negative attention from the school. I don't think Aaronson is advocating that good schools should all have smaller white student populations, instead he is criticizing methods that don't achieve their goals and have significant negative effects.
This is really upsetting. I didn't go to TJHS, but the sense I got from the three people I know who did was that it had that critical mass of nerdy science-and-tech-obsessed teenagers.

At least in Canada, it's more common to have smaller programs operating within a larger high school - my program was 30 people, mostly humanities kids with maybe 8-10 STEM kids. There wasn't anything approaching that sort of critical mass. Plus, as a subset of a smaller school, you still had to play politics with everyone else. TJHS always sounded like one of the only places that, somehow, did have that critical mass and managed to maintain it for decades.

Maybe this sort of public school is just politically infeasible now - which is a pity, since locating and nurturing the talents of disadvantaged youth benefits all of us.
I disagree with the way the article frames the issue.

It would help America more to have universally "pretty good" schools, than a few great schools in a sea of "pretty bad" schools.

So, like many other American issues, the argument reminds me of two people in a tiny parking lot squabbling angrily over who is at fault for boxing the other in. If the business that designed and painted the lot allocated insufficient space, neither driver should blame the other.

The premise that there are groups in America who need saving from poverty and lousy schools is true, but why save only a few of them by sending them to a school for gifted students? Deal with the inequality of income and of the school system. Last time I checked, Finland does pretty well with that strategy.
You're assuming that those pushing for affirmative action do truly care about helping disadvantaged people. Attempts have been made to do affirmative action by income, but were halted because they were helping poor southeast Asians and eastern Europeans, not Blacks and Hispanics. Affirmative action is pretty nakedly a system of racial spoils.
"FORTRAN: Unlikely to influence anything in the future due to remarkably poor design" I guess the author of this sentence likely does not know anything about Fortran. They do not even know that the language has NOT been called FORTRAN for more than 3 decades. They do not even know about the latest release of Fortran in 2018. They are at best showcasing your ignorance and bias, by not providing any arguments as to why people should take their comments and advice seriously.
It's the only way to ensure that the school system continues to function. Otherwise you'd have great schools for the rich and terrible schools for the not-so-rich and horrible schools for the poor (assuming they'd have an education at all). As it is there is still lots of skewing but by having the rich kids go to the same schools as the poor ones at least the divide is a smaller one (of course, neighborhood and town/city still leave plenty of room for differences, as does the existence of home tutoring for wealthy people's kids).
Which goes to show how ineffective these attempts are for the stated goal. If anything, keeping logs of the mapping of ip to MAC addresses would be enough for the case where they want to connect a suspect they have on custody to their navigation history on a given place and would be way more effective than trying to connect their identity to catchme@ifyou.can.
Why would you give a speaker your email address? I would return it the second I was faced with that.
Yes... you are correct. My mistake.
Additionally John Gruber acknowledges Aaron’s significant contribution to the creation of Markdown.

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
> STOP USING SKIN COLOR AND RACE. STOP. The only consideration that's remotely permissible, beyond merit, is financial posture.

This is my stance as well, since it represents a sustainable solution to the fact that race is correlated with poverty in America.

Being poor sucks, regardless of whether systemic racism put you there or not. Being poor deprives all children of opportunities, regardless of skin color. (due to constraints on time, budget, and education of the parents)

Race-based affirmative action only solves the immediate problem that minority races are poorer on average. Financial-need-based affirmative action solves the immediate problem, in addition to guaranteeing that, if demographics shift, we are still helping the groups most in need.
Tj was absolutely amazing when I went. (‘90) It is, in my experience, the existence proof that public education can be effective. I’m not sure what was the key component, but one of them was that every single person was there by choice.

I don’t pretend to know what would be the maximally fair distribution of places, but I am disappointed that that there one seem to be a spawning/cloning of the concept so that the experience can be spread to more students. We learned things, there were special people there, but its not something that’s unique to that building, staff and students.
> soon to realize that I need to register with my email just to set up the device on my network

If they want to do stupid value-added convenience crap then fine. But does the speaker work without the account? (No.)

There are many possible paths they could take for allowing the device to connect to various services and other devices, and Sonos happened to choose the cheap way. These smart devices should not require a cloud connection just to operate when there are plenty of ways of interfacing with them that are completely local.

My Windows computer does not require a Microsoft account to be able to use Spotify or Netflix or whatever. These things can all run independently and be setup through a local connection or a digital display. Why should a speaker?