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These schools receive a far greater number of qualified candidates than they can or wish to accept. Much like hiring practices at big tech companies, they project the image that with such a large applicant pool they only accept the “best” applicants. As many of us know in the context of tech hiring, “best” often can’t be measured precisely beyond a certain level of competence, and you reach a point where you’re arbitrarily ruling out highly qualified people who weren’t lucky enough to succeed at the particular whiteboarding question in their run of the gauntlet. We call this system “meritocracy” when it’s more of a poorly administered lottery, where everything from cramming for the coding interview to the biases of the interviewer will swing the result one way or another far more than the actual merit of the applicant.

I think people want to believe these jobs or college admissions are awarded based on merit, because it feels much more fair to both the applicant or the institution than alternatives of thinning the applicant field such as nepotism, leveraging one’s wealth/class, or flat out discrimination. But the problem with how we’ve implemented our pseudo-meritocracy is that the metric becomes the goal. Our metrics aren’t good enough to actually say student A should be accepted while student B shouldn’t based on some nebulous combo of test scores, grades, extracurriculars, essays, and personal uniqueness compared to the other applicants being considered. It’s much like people working at Google who say “I could never pass the Google interview if I had to take it.” The results are only partly based on actual merit, and partly based on arbitrary criteria that aren’t fair.

So, we have a huge applicant pool, and for the sake of argument let’s say 20% are totally qualified based on the regular college admission factors. The school only admits 5%. The school wants to admit the “best” of the bunch, so the admissions committee invents an arbitrary gauntlet of evaluation that succeeds in ruling out 3/4 of the candidates that passed the initial bar.

Or, the school could admit they can’t actually predict who will succeed the most, and of the 20% who cleared the bar, randomly choose 1/4 of those students in a lottery to admit. This feels less prestigious to Yale et al, so they won’t do it. Consider that back when these universities gained their prestige, admissions were largely based on wealth and class and being the correct gender and race, and you may wonder if the point of an elite school to preserve a signaling mechanism for an elite few rather than output better graduates/research/etc than other institutions.

Personally, I would be happy with a system that rules out the 80% or so that clearly don’t qualify, and of the essentially equally qualified 20% remaining, awards admissions randomly in a lottery but with quotas matching the demographic percentages of the US to try and compensate for the inequities that cause the applicant pipeline to not mirror the demographics of the country. At any rate, by pretending the current unfair system is merit-based and fair, schools like Yale have shot themselves in the foot.
> “ Selecting and arranging recipes requires creativity. I do not believe API design of a math library is in any way the same level, having designed hundreds of APIs and several SDKs myself.”

I have designed hundreds of APIs and SDKs myself as well and I could not disagree with you more.

API design is about deliberately and creatively considering the domain model of your user (whether that domain is Int or Float for a user who is a low level system programmer or the domain is CheckingAccount and SavingsAccount for a user who is a banking application developer, or anything in between or beyond). You creatively set up APIs so that composition of the API primitives allows direct expression of solutions in the user’s domain.

This is exactly like arranging recipes in a recipe book, to organize sections for different styles, meals or amount of prep time, holiday themes, etc. That is exactly software API design to a tee.

This article highlights it for me:

https://blog.keras.io/user-experience-design-for-apis.html
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I don't understand this response at all. Does innovation not count if you're not doing it for charity? For several years I was reading articles about how Moore's Law was totally over and we couldn't expect any more improvements in chips, and then along comes Apple to blow x86 out of the water.

> but it's still an investment not directly tied to product (their core competency)

I don't even agree with this- Apple's core competency is the top-to-bottom customer experience, which they (almost certainly correctly) think they can improve by making their own silicon. But even if it was true, so what? Again, "investment not directly tied to product" doesn't make innovation "not count".
I think for 20 years there was a clear cut formula to get accepted to the Ivies that was an open little secret for affluent people. That formula has stopped working largely because too many people are using it.

To me this is an effort by people who are angry that they can not game the system anymore due to the sheer volume of people that are trying to the exact same way. So they're targeting the people that weren't gaming the system (African Americans by and large) and saying "why are they getting in when I didn't and I did XYZ?" even though the school never said "Do XYZ and you get in."
Actually some plastics are not worth for recycling so some local gov finally firing it. (plastics work for fuel)
It also wouldn't surprise me if "can reproduce with" isn't a transitive property (edit: actually, I'd be very surprised if it always is. genetic stuff is never that simple). So even if you try to collapse species into that strict definition, you'll still have edge cases that don't fit.

Categories are hard.
This is pseudoscientific crap. America had some long periods of deflation prior to the creation of the Fed (e.g. 1870s/1880s) and still experienced higher rates of growth than it does now.

There's basically no empirical evidence that central banking leads to higher economic growth or greater stability, just some simplified pseudo-mathematical models that ignore a bunch of factors.
Haven't people been saying that for a long time?
How is this different to https://www.state-machine.com or dare I say it, Simulink?
I came here to find/make this comment - especially with secrets management, I don't want to rely on an external vendor being up to access/manage my secrets. I want full access.

License the software, let me deploy and manage it.
Google isn't complying with the GPL license, so it doesn't really matter that it's open source.

Also, I forget if openjdk or this infringement happened first, but if the latter was first than it wasn't open source at the time.
Doesn't the DOJ have something better to do than "protect" the rights of a few rich white (and Asian) guys?

I'm not even a fan of Affirmative Action, but this is one of those cases where it sends the absolute wrong message. A lot of states are trying to screw with thousands of people's rights to vote and the DOJ goes after... a few tens of people going to an Ivy League school.
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Has anyone learnt OCaml, just to improve their chances of getting a job at Jane Street?
Intel makes a lot more than x86 CPUs. I think there biggest competitor right now would be ARM. If more laptops and desktops start coming with ARM chips would hurt their market share more than AMD. Once that happens easier to develop for ARM processors in the cloud. Granted most software would just work unless you have x86 assembly in it.
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Hi HN,

[yorgos_kats][1] posted [My Screen Break][2], which looks really nice! People sent me messages about it because it has a lot in common with what I'm working on: [Walden Pond][3] ( https://WaldenPond.press ).

You connect your [Pocket][4] account, and once a month you get a printed magazine. You can subscribe for 1, 2 or 4 hours of reading time. I got my 7th one on [Monday this week][5].

We deliver anywhere in the world, except Antarctica.

It has been a pandemic project to build it as a "real" product, but I've been making these zines for my friends for a bit over 2 years now. This means that I've come across and fixed an amazing number of edge cases!

I initially started building it because I couldn't find anything that did the job. I've since turned up [Quarto][6] by [Elan Kiderman][7], which is similar; [newspaperclub.com][8] had a product that did something along these lines but using their presses, and as [jamez][9] noted in the replies to [yorgos_kats][1] post, [Memeoirs][10]; and [pulp][11] by [Outofthebot][12], but that's shut down.

The pagination is done using [Paged.js][13], and their community has been super helpful. It's amazing what can be done with the holy trinity of HTML, CSS & JS.

If you want to see some pictures of the physical thing, take a look at [Instagram][14] and [Twitter][15].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yorgos_kats
[2]: https://myscreenbreak.com
[3]: https://WaldenPond.press
[4]: http://getpocket.com/
[5]: https://twitter.com/notionparallax/status/1313313422499483648?s=20
[6]: https://elankiderman.com/quarto/
[7]: http://elankiderman
[8]: https://newspaperclub.com
[9]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jamez
[10]: https://www.jamez.it/project/memeoirs/
[11]: https://getpulp.io/
[12]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Outofthebot
[13]: https://www.pagedjs.org/
[14]: https://www.instagram.com/waldenpondzine/
[15]: https://twitter.com/WaldenPondZine
If you have a service that does not require an app, but the app is an additional convenience for your customers, why should Apple be entitled to 30% of everything? That is an extremely common scenario.
Your examples aren't really counter-examples at all since the App Store rules specifically exempt content providers as long as Apple can individually review the content. That's the reason why services that do game streaming still aren't allowed. The companies running those refused to give Apple a way to review the content within those platforms which is a requirement of the review for content delivery services.
Do you know for which motherboards this is true? I think ASRock Rack X470D4U should be fine, as they market it as server board.

https://www.servethehome.com/asrock-rack-x470d4u-review-amd-...
For what it's worth .. I have a rather intimate/inside perspective on Serbia and its dealings .. and yes, I can confirm that all of the things you mentioned are indeed true. Plus a whole lot more, which I rather not get into. Long story short: it is indeed complicated. Even to the point where the focus on very legitimate concerns themselves, can also be used for a political (foreign) agenda that might not care much about those concerns themselves (only about how people respond to them). I'm not saying that's the case here (I honestly don't know), but it happens regularly that legitimate criticism is hijacked for another (political) purpose.

Sadly Serbia is (or has become) a perfect target/partner for many foreign investments/endeavors that can't quite stand the light of day, with many eager local accomplices who gladly keep what they know to themselves in exchange for outside guarantees of compensation/support/protection/safety.

It pains me, because the country is dear to my heart. We will see if this current "equilibrium" (of sorts) will eventually tear itself violently apart, or if there's a chance to peacefully transition to a better situation. As it is now, I highly doubt it can remain sustainable for long. There's just too many skeletons in the closet. At some point the (intentional/instigated) squeeze of a single person could trigger a chain reaction that not even the most draconian containment measures could control, let alone stop. The country will be in ruins by then though (if it isn't already).
No, by every political spectrum test I've tried, I'm a democratic centrist / liberal.
> Eliminate legacy admissions and make everything race blind but incorporate a generational wealth score.

You know, that's a really interesting idea. Sounds similar to Kapor Capital's "distance traveled" metric they use when hiring — basically, what were the candidate's circumstances and how hard did they have to work for their accomplishments. https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/02/kapors-2/
Since IBM bought RedHat, the parallels between IBM and Boeing here are too close to comfort. RedHat is potentially as vital to the Linux ecosystem as Boeing is to the (pre-pandemic) civil aviation sector. If IBM falls apart and RedHat vanishes, the impact on the Linux sector could be almost as bad as Boeing collapsing. Since Linux runs everything that's not a desktop computer or an iOS device, IBM-RedHat failing would be a very major problem for everyone.
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I don't see any evidence that they have negatively discriminated against applicants "of color", or will do so. It seems this discrimination chiefly affects Asian Americans, if you define them as "people of color".
>Inflation is neutral as it raises all prices equally.

This is not true if the inflation is a result of currency creation, as in that case the inflation first affects the things purchased by those receiving the newly created money.
> Go's (weak but convenient) universal error interface

Rust has an `Error` trait too, and you can always just use `Box<dyn Error>` as your error type if you're fine with using a heap allocation to avoid caring about the concrete type (which is what's happening in Go when you use the error interface as your return type anyhow). Rust just makes the more efficient (in terms of runtime performance, not necessarily usability) the default and the more expensive option opt-in. This is a common pattern in a lot of the language design choices: performant by default, with the option to opt into a less performant variant to make things easier if you're okay with the cost. I think a lot of newcomers to the language (not saying you are one; I have no idea what your experience level is) don't realize this because the Rust community tends tends to _really_ like doing things the "proper" way. This isn't a problem per se, but I think there would be immense value in having more resources that made all of the options on the performance versus usability spectrum more clear.
Google makes such tinkering difficult with every release. I won't be surprised if they have teams that basically look at this part of making it difficult to alter core Android framework.

There's LineageOS (been around for sometime; even more if you count its earlier avatar) and they are usually one or two version behind Google. OEMs are catching up with Android release schedule now because they usually don't touch the core Google features and services (the privacy nightmare land) and usually just add to it and in some cases (unfortunately at that) tweak the UI (for the worse - Samsung has been at it since the day one).

One problem with Purism/PureOS I see is, it is too small and started alone. I hope I am wrong but it may end up not going anywhere other than remaining a vanity phone - that "other" phone - the "privacy" phone.
How is that different than things people were saying about Jewish people a century ago? https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/harvard-s-jewish-proble...
Going off how any comment questioning their poor behaviour is being downvoted and even intentionally hiding some comments now, this being a ycombinator alumni project, and any meaningful discussion about the project itself being shut down in preference of their own developers' posting meaningless "i luv how perfect you made it and it beats everything"... Yeah, this project has gross all over it now, and really should not be trusted for something as crucial as secret management.

You could have chosen to make a product that could stand on its own two feet.

You could have chosen to respond to criticism over your lack of marketing experience and mistaken choice to misrepresent your competition instead of, you know, compete with them.

You could have learned from this experience, instead of trying to trudge ahead.
Oh, that explains it, thanks.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/harvard-s-jewish-proble...
I don't have data either way. Do you have a citation?
From a technical perspective I have actually a hard time to argue what is an API, and what is 'normal code,' in particular because a lot of code uses internal interfaces and DSLs. However as an open source radical, I would lean in the opposite direction and argue that code shouldn't be copyrightable in the first place.

And actually I think a ruling that APIs are copyrightable would be very good for copy left licenses and languages described in open standards, because they would not leave on at the mercy of a single monopolist.
Interesting! Do you think this BIOS or ECC works also on X370 Crosshair VI Hero? Hard to find info on this...
Super cool hack and great write up. It’s nice to see this go all the way from poking at hardware to decompiling binaries and then some signal processing. Kudos.

You mentioned you were getting distortion/noise when downsampling below 928kHz. Are you lowpass-filtering before you decimate (but after you demodulate)? Otherwise you will get all kinds of aliasing.

Looks like FM radio stations have a bandwidth of 200kHz so you should be able to lowpass with a cutoff of around 50kHz then decimate to 232kHz.
> and how much comes down to my wealthy parents?

Sure. You could argue that judging someone on the basis of extracurriculars is discrimination in favor of people with wealthy parents.

But, there is no current law, on the books, that explicitly says that discrimination in favor of wealthy people is illegal.

Instead, the law prevents discrimination "on the ground of race, color, or national origin".

And furthermore, I do not believe that that there has been significant court ruling saying that discrimination in favor of wealthy people, would be equivalent to discrimination on the grounds of "Race, color, or nation origin", if you are going to make that argument.
As a user of stripe I agree

However the biggest slice of the pie is Visa and MasterCard.

Stripe could release no new features in a year, if they could lower my rate by .1% I would be far happier.
Where do you draw the line on what is political? Is wearing a mask political? What about calling someone by their preferred pronoun, or recognizing gay marriage?
The reason why they ran the benchmarks at 1080p is because they want to ensure they are not GPU bound.
I wonder why that guy isn't an App Store manager anymore - whether he voluntarily left or not - because his statement is a bit misleading. Apple Arcade doesn't violate Apple's policies because their policies only disallow game services that don't allow the content within the service to be reviewed by Apple. The concerns here include, for example, the app itself being registered for all ages but including mature games that are available. Streaming services trying to get on the App Store ran into the same issue when they refused to give Apple some way to review the games that they were going to stream. Since the games themselves aren't running on-device, there's no code or content that can be reviewed within the app. It's exactly why apps like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video can exist on the store. Needless to say, Apple Arcade is literally only games that Apple can review so how does that violate Apple's own policies?
No one would support it if it were against Jews instead of Asians. And in fact, Yale used to have this policy against Jews! Absolutely disgusting.

In 1935 Yale accepted 76 applicants from a pool of 501. About 200 of those applicants were Jewish and only five got in." He notes that Dean Milton Winternitz's instructions were remarkably precise: "Never admit more than five Jews, take only two Italian Catholics, and take no blacks at all."[1]

It's quite bizarre how we realized that quota system was unethical so dismantled it. But later re-established the same system but think totally fine because we changed the numbers?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_quota

[2]https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/04/nyregion/yale-s-limit-on-...
It means they were early employees
My understanding of these journalists is theyre trying to pressure facebook to censor people on FB's platform, usually political opponents. It's wrong that anyone should have their domain ripped like that because a large company willed it, but there is no self awareness they are being given the same treatment they want to impose on others.

And as far as censorship goes, its completely non obvious that Facebook's Oversight Board is completely different than the Real Facebook Oversight Board. As chair of Real Vice Oversight Board, they're ethically in the wrong even if they shouldn't be censored.
I'm not actually convinced that technology is necessarily a barrier. People take ubers today. Heck, people take taxis today.

I think a bigger challenge for Waymo is going to be getting trust and regulatory favor. Everyone keeps clinging on to the "oh, comparing prices, waymo is cheaper than uber because there's no driver!" narrative, but from what I've seen from the few reports so far, the prices aren't all that different from other services.

I can also imagine quite a few other not-so-flattering narratives being relatively realistic:

- "I'll never trust some faceless AI w/ my kids in the car! I'd rather pay a bit more and get a real person behind the wheel. Support the local economy, you know?"

- "Oh, so you want a license to put an entire class of workers out of jobs under MY government term?"

- "I got a trashed waymo car and customer support ignored me when I asked for a refund!"

- "I took a waymo after partying a bit too hard and now I'm locked out of all my google accounts with no recourse!"

- etc

I think people on HN often give way too much weight to the "cool tech" aspect of waymo, and disregard the very real and very significant meat bag aspect.
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History is chock-full of evil. I can't think of a more backwards idea than holding a pity circus where people try to convince authorities that the evil vested upon their ancestors in particular means that they deserve reparations today.

Fortunately, you don't need a pity circus to figure out who needs help today and going forward. IMO that's not only a less incendiary angle from which to approach the problem, it's much easier to correctly implement, much more productive, and much less prone to back-and-forth escalation.
The example description in the OP doesn't say anything about "how", though. It seems completely focused on "what problem this solves". I'd quote you where, but it's the whole thing.
In my opinion it's because 'militia' in the current climate has connotations with right wing groups.

On the contrary, Brandon Caserta appears in several videos with an Anarchist flag behind him saying things like "Trump is not your friend": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnN6ADbUve-hHgGp37oqODg.

Here's his mugshot for comparison: https://twitter.com/CNNNewsource/status/1314316594559025154

This twitter account is showing some of the more interesting clips: https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck
> My company is becoming increasingly political and it's terrible.

IMHO, this is not the problem. The problem are the managers of the work. One doesn't need to micromanage to stop this from happening. Nor does one need to limit free speech to prevent this.

Companies aren't working enough, that's the problem and managers aren't keeping people focused on the actual challenge at hand.

P.S. I feel this is a white-collar problem. These soft skills are paramount but also come from leadership. Restricting speech doesn't really deal with the people that the decision affects. Instead, one needs to become a better manager/leader to get 'buy-in' from the workers and then work!