skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the even more powerful pitfall of that web scenario would be plain and simple lack of truthfulness. Machine readable lies.

If you are old enough then you will remember a time when SEO wasn't given a name yet, and mostly consisted of spamming the head tag with untrue META tags. The entire idea of the semantic web is basically a hypothetical extrapolation of the assumption "what if META didn't fell victim to lies?"

But that idea quickly evolved away from that web use case full of deliberate deception and evolved into technology for interoperable knowledge representation. The "web" use case quickly turned into the science funding equivalent of spamming META tags: systems (decision-makers) that were still falling for it where considered so far behind that influencing them with that method did not even feel like lying.

Interoperable knowledge representation isn't valuable because you might want to plug together random knowledge bases (you wouldn't), but because it would be an enabling technology to build one knowledge base on top of another (or on top of multiple others). This would be particularly valuable when modeling is done in short-lived iterative steps with changing teams, organisations and goals, like the quick iterations of student generations that each push ahead their niche of science with some miniscule contribution to progress. With sem-web tech, one generation of knowledge modelers would be able to do their work on top of the work of those who came before them, without being restricted to the technology of those earlier generations. Think of the "web" in "semantic web" as a big spelling error of "stack".

(source: did my diploma during peak semantic web, shoveling OWL from a Java DOM into a Lisp server to brute force maximal consistent subsets of an inconsistent superset in fantastically un-scalable ways)
Good point. Future technology also has too many security holes.
Oracle is happy to throw sand in the gears of the entire global software ecosystem if it adds a percentage point to their profits for the year.
Critical Race Theory - otherwise known as "Racial Sensitivity Training" by the media and Chris Wallace - is garbage... University's are rife with this dogmatic steaming pile or excrement.
The idea that you'd walk around the campus of Yale and conclude "whites and asians" to be "racially disfavored" is ludicrous.
Discrimination based on academic record, aptitude testing, extracurricular activities, personal recommendations, athletic record, etc. is presumably acceptable.
Thomas Sowell argues something along the lines of:

"Admitting people into college when they do not have the academic merit to be accepted harms them because they end up failing out of their class, even if they could have been wildly successful at a less rigorous university."

Perhaps they're referring to this line of argument?
trivially, i’m happy to discriminate in favor of, e. g. , people who are fluent in french and english if i want to hire a french and english translator.

Or in the context of say, admissions, i would expect to see discrimination on academic merit in the field of study for a program you’re applying to. If you were an outstanding undergraduate who majored in like, the archaeology of medieval germany, you should expect to have a very hard time getting into a graduate program in high energy physics.

(tangentially i happen to know a MD/PhD whose undergrad was performance ballet, but she double-majored as a physical chemistry major and did piles of lab work too, and thus didn’t have any troubles)
That's comparing street prices for a CPU at the end of its sales cycle, with the MSRP for a next-gen CPU. Yes AMD raised prices, but the difference is $50 if you compare like for like (the MSRP for the 3600X when it launched was $250).
I'm curious how big the Purism team is? I see 11-50 on Crunchbase. If so, that's pretty impressive!
When did you go through this process? I imagine they get a lot more applications nowadays
Agree. I think that’s a very glaring omission in the original argument and one can interpret that as a simple misunderstanding or purposeful omission to misrepresent the totality of what comprises the cost to present a biased argument for more favorable terms.
Yes, for the last decade or more commercial companies have been polluting the term "Open Source" to mean "this software takes away all your freedoms, but at least you can read our source code."

This is why the FOSS licenses enshrine Compilation, modification and redistribution also.
'Utensils' seems accurate, although imprecise.
You might be right. It seems like Google's most realistic path to victory here will be based on arguing over the legal technicalities related to the standard of review.

I wonder if they win on that front if the Court will be able to dodge the question of API copyrightability in general.
I did. The point is that they’re only targeting the “reverse discrimination” that helps Black applicants, while omitting any mention of their “normal” discrimination — legacy admissions — that helps white ones.
I think WebAssembly will (eventually) be that language. Write in any language, but compile to one target that runs on any device.

The bigger challenge is the integration with the host OS - we need a common set of OS calls that can be made available to applications running in WebAssembly (eg, WASI).
photo editing software keeps getting better, Photoshop, capture one, etc.
Isn't it already run on electron? Certainly feels like it.
The spike is reported in Japan as suicide is recognized there as social problem. I got the impression that in the USA people tend to be in denial and often see suicide in the circle of friends and family as stigma (I guess, very orthodox Christians see it even as sin). Often I find the cause of death reported only as the technical detail, e.g. fatal gun-shot wound leaving out that the victim pointed his/her own gun at herself with no one else involved.

Without this denial, there might be better statistics which could lead to better policy. I fully expect the lock-down and economic crisis in the USA to have caused a spike in suicides here too, but it's difficult to get hard numbers.
Your comment makes sense only if you're conflating "racism" with "racial discrimination". Per the APA:

Individual racism is a personal belief in the superiority of one’s race over another. It is linked to racial prejudice and discriminatory behaviors, which can be an expression of implicit and explicit bias.

Institutionalized racism is a system of assigning value and allocating opportunity based on skin color. It unfairly privileges some individuals and groups over others and influences social institutions in our legal, educational, and governmental systems. It is reflected in disparities in, but not limited to, wealth, income, justice, employment, housing, medicine, education, and voting. It can be expressed implicitly or explicitly and occurs when a certain group is targeted and discriminated against based on race.

https://www.apa.org/topics/racism-bias-discrimination
Fighting racism with racism is difficult because racism isn't just a number. If you reject the idea of fighting racism by stomping it out where you find it and instead try to use counter-racism, suddenly you're in the business of determining precisely, exactly the opposite direction of the existing racism. If you screw it up you just add to the problem. See: video-game speedrunners blasting through levels at enormous speed because devs thought that "pushing in the opposite direction" was conceptually easy, but it turned out not to be -- and that's just 3 dimensions! Here we're talking about people's lives, with hundreds of dimensions. There's no way that's going to end well, it's just tossing gasoline onto racial tensions. Sure, the gasoline might extinguish the fire. It's not impossible. I'd place a lot of money on the opposite, though.
With the recipe analogy, I would say that the API would be the books table of contents. The recipes themselves are the implementation. So the question is, should the book’s toc be copyrightable? That is, is it lawful to write another book with the exact same toc, but with different recipes/implementations...
How interesting are Asian American voters to the GOP in national politics? They're a small minority generally concentrated in a few big cities or solidly democratic states. Asian Americans generally value policies that value college, such as loan forgiveness.

There's also the matter of the China virus.
There was still a punch card reader in the terminal room of Math/Sci, but I had never seen someone use it.

When I visited ISU a couple years previously, they were still using paper tape for storage on one of their PDP-11s. So I just missed that era too, we were using 9-track for file backups.
Not sure why this is being downvoted, Apple’s hardware reliability has become horrible.

Every Apple device I’ve purchased in the past few years has suffered from a defect: AirPods Pro, iPhone X, 2019 MacBook Pro, iPad. And this doesn’t include Batterygate.
Also known as Merit.
> those photons hit infinity

What does that mean "hit infinity"? I would think that could only happen after an infinite amount of time, in other words never.
Sadly Julia's Flux.jl have fallen behind to the point that I am switching to using pytorch. It's just faster.
This also opens a tricky can of worms as it comes to free speech and movements like BDS, which the Trump administration has sanctioned government contractors from participating in (if memory serves me).
As a South Asian American, it is so disappointing when these controversies pit two minority groups against one another.
Idk about Google... But they're biased for more reasons than that.

But they are still an excellent source, and are about as good as it gets compared to most (supposed) non-partisan media these days.

Fwiw, I also believe their bias to be almost entirely unintentional, which is way more than can be said for most sites. For topical seminars, where authors might actually argue for a side, they do a decent job of getting various opinions from multiple sources, even if it's not always exactly balanced 50/50.

And they disclose all cases in which someone might be involved.

Like anything else, you still need to consider the source when reading it.
I am also very curious about this. I've been keeping track of knowledge mgmt tooling (esp. plain text) and approaches (e.g. ADR) for a couple years. Grand Unified Theory forthcoming :)
Reading this line from the article:

> All persons who apply for admission to colleges and universities should expect and know that they will be judged by their character, talents, and achievements and not the color of their skin.

If I achieve better grades and have broader extracurriculars versus somebody who was in a substantially less advantaged position than me, how much of that comes down to my 'talent' and 'character', and how much comes down to my wealthy parents?

Yale could attempt to make an argument that a proper comparison of character, talent and achievement across a diverse, heterogenous population requires interpreting these elements in their context (the bar should be higher for those with more opportunity). Then they just need to establish that their equity programs are well substantiated by educational barriers which are inescapably racialized.

Basically the argument is that since race in America is unavoidably intertwined with educational opportunity, it is not possible to have an admissions procedure which is 'neutral' with respect to race; that in fact equity programs aim to strike the best balance in this conundrum, and are therefore the least discriminatory policy available in the overall context of the program.
Political affiliation has become some sort of a new religion. This is step in the right direction. We need more secular workplaces.
Apple will waive the rainbow flag and for the privileged SV codebros it's good enough
Yeah this is not what I meant at all. I'm looking for something that me, a normal boring non-tech end user can use.
Post-mortem: git.sr.ht's almost-outage today
How about this: colleges are seen as places of socioeconomic mobility rather than means of protecting existing stature?

Eliminate legacy admissions and make everything race blind but incorporate a generational wealth score. The result for certain groups will likely be the same but the explanation becomes clearer.

We can't talk about this issue without looking at the disparity between Asian Americans and African Americans with the former making almost 2x as much as the latter [0] on median in 2010. If we focus on generational wealth groups of students with large real estate, business, and financial holdings would be penalized and a rich African American or poor Asian Americans wont slip through the cracks due to their race.

We're past the point where admission can be based solely on merit because if they let in everyone with enough merit the school couldn't handle it. So we have to start looking into the circumstances under which that merit was accomplished, e.g. were they affluent and with greater resources than their impoverished counterparts?

[0] https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/06/19/the-rise-of-asian...
How do we push back in exactly, precisely the opposite direction?
"For the great majority of applicants, Asian Americans and Whites have only one-eighth to one-fourth of the likelihood of admission as African American applicants with comparable academic credentials."

This might be a dumb question, isn't this very common among medical schools, where the numbers are just as bad? Are they also target of potential lawsuits?

https://global-uploads.webflow.com/5f035f109555c1787ed64988/...

Interestingly, Texas tech medical school abandoned affirmative action recently.
https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l1789
Shocked me when I first heard of it! Liberals and racists agree on a fair number of policies regarding race these days.

Relevant (satirical) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev373c7wSRg
That is a strong statement.

The ideal for college admissions should be to get a set of students that have the best possible chance to succeed. Unfortunately, a high school student doesn't have much experience with which to base that determination.

Extracurriculars are supposed to show that the student is well-rounded and driven - attributes that have been shown to be positively correlated with success in college and careers.

How would you want colleges to try to determine if a given student will be successful? Because straight academic scores are not the full picture of a person.
Some of the greatest works of creative art in human history were created with no copyright. I respect that copyright makes it possible for creators to get paid, but that's not the same as "creative endeavor would vanish without copyright".
> it appears to be exactly analogous to saying that if the federal government engages private contractors to repair damage to the White House

It could be considered the same. So lets consider that hypothetical.

Would people have a problem with a law that said that the government is not allowed to hire a private contractor repair company, that discriminates in hiring, based on race?

On its face, I would not find such a law to be unusual or outlandish, to say that the government can't hire a repair company that refuses to employ people of a certain race group, for example.
Jake do you care to show me exactly where that is?
> Species is a much more fluid term than I think you realize.

I am aware it sometimes tells you nothing at all.

> We're only beginning to understand long term affects of even mild cases. Please don't spread misinformation.

Asymptomatic cases are not the same as mild cases.

Besides, always assuming the worst-case scenario, especially when all previous experience tells us to be optimistic, is not a workable strategy.
"Only show me quality comments with which I'm likely to disagree"? Just enable the bubble-buster policy plugin and check the antiself option?

As one grows, one's taste in say book selections changes, so why not in filter patterns and associated readings?
No, in fact they publicly state their admissions are "need blind". However, certainly a slice of wealthy and legacy students get favored admission. Those two things are not necessarily in conflict.
I usually just respond with "Hmmm, let me dig into that". That gives me time to do my research and get back to them. It also shows them that I'm actually looking into it, rather than that I forgot about the message.

When I have an issue that's blocking me, if I don't get a response from someone within 10 minutes I'll start reaching out to other people. If I know the first person is already looking into the issue I won't waste other peoples' time.
> While such situations are rare, they do exist, and they demonstrate the length at which we have to go to keep civic order - and very legitimately so.

No, they don't. Such situations are so rare that society can tolerate their once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.

A rule that applies 100% of the time is much more than 1% better than a rule that applies 99% of the time. Don't open the door even a crack, because someone will get their foot in and add more exceptions, exemptions, and caveats. And as I've said before, exceptions are a leading indicator of corruption.

(Also as other comments point out, there exist plenty of effective policing techniques to solve even these hypothetically dire situations without requiring mass surveillance.)
Except maybe for current comment (not really, HN just has more replies on anything these days), nothing actually turned into flamewars, most out of his few "flamewar" comments over many months barely had any replies at all and were just flagged. It seems you are labeling them as flamewar just so you could justify banning him. Possibly because he expressed opinions you consider "politically incorrect" today and you want to suppress such opinions on HN.

Also you can't claim he ignored your many requests to stop, because you never made a single request to stop what can be interpreted the same way by both of you, he probably thought he followed them. Again, you were using this as manufactured justification to ban him.
First-ever foot-operated vending machine appears in Japan
> Especially if you're talking about not just one function, but some enormous number of methods in some large number of classes across 37 different packages.

See my other reply down thread, but my own reading of Baker seems to indicate this specifically is not a factor. 37 packages vs 1 method should make no difference. Copying one ledger template or copying hundreds is not a violation of copyright in the same way, because copyrights don't extend to methods of practice.

I'll have to read up on the SSO stuff as it appears there are more relevant & recent precedent cases there.
You don't. That's my point: it's nearly impossible to do a good job of fighting racism with racism and very, very easy to screw it up catastrophically. Just look at what's already happened with Asians becoming collateral damage.

Instead, you fight racism by A) stomping it out where you see it, B) instituting policies that help poor and disadvantaged people in general. Strategies like that are much more foolproof than trying to fight racism with racism. Also much more expensive, which is why there's a temptation to kid ourselves that fighting racism with racism could possibly work.
Offensive? If the point of a catholic school isn't to be more strict, adhering to religious rules and such then what is?
OR-Tools, https://developers.google.com/optimization/routing/tsp
Funny enough, a lot of the complaints I heard were about how Android has made their slightly older phones unusable, taking up a lot more storage space while delivering no perceived benefits.
> I'm not going to argue whether I think APIs should be copyrightable, but I believe creating a good API is a work of creative design, and is artistic

But that's not what it's about. Lots of things are a work of creative design but not copyrightable. Like a recipe for chocolate chip cookies.
The short version is that there is a global ring of powerful pedophiles that Trump is the only one capable of stopping who also happen to be anyone the far right hates... and also jews.
I'm really sick of that.
Under what legal basis?
I'm just amazed that companies have been allowed to hire foreigners at the expense of Americans so much for so long... while inexplicably so many people are complaining about illegal immigrants instead "TAKIN ER JAHBS"
Hello, I'm new here can you please explain me, why this was flagged and taken off from main page? How does this works?
That is precisely the question, is a clean room reimplementation copyright infringement? And of course, this is Google doing a clean room implementation of the famously litigious Oracle's code, so we get basically laboratory conditions.
What would the 'first' of a species be, in an objective sense? As I understand it, speciation is a gradual process. Trying to pin down exactly where the change occurs is like trying to pin down precisely where a rainbow gradient shifts from green to yellow. You can pick a point and declare that to be the demarcation line, but discrete categorization in this way seems inherently arbitrary.

Even seeming straight forward metrics like "can they produce viable offspring" isn't so black and white, since between 'yes' and 'no' exists a continuum of 'maybe's. In very rare cases even horses and donkeys can have fertile offspring, e.g. mules that aren't mules (the typical infertility of mules has lead to the occasional use of the term to describe any infertile hybrid.)
Sure. But back then there was no "cloud" either. AWS alone is ramping up on AMD offerings. There's an AMD counterpart for almost every instance type today (suffixed by "a"). I think the world is a lot more ready to leverage multi-core and multi-threaded chips today than ever before.
I see. But so was there any technical necessity for Concorde go supersonic already over the land, rather than say 50 miles off the cost?

Or was that only an economic necessity?