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> I feel that the overall university admission process is broken.

I agree and think the brokenness is in the limited number of opportunities. Why are Harvard and other Ivies the only ones that matter on your resume? Once a society limits the number of opportunities to reach the upper echelons, it is bound to set off scramble among all the parents, since everyone wants the best for their children.

For some reasons, this is not only an American thing. I believe elite institutions in other countries as equally (or even more) selective.
It would look nicer.
Elite institutions want to admit who they think will be the future elite, because they will be writing the alumni checks, serving as trustees, and providing a prestigious halo around the institution.

As someone who attended an Ivy, it is simply untrue that it's mostly blue-blood old money hobnobbing around.

First, there's not enough of them to fill the classes every year. Second, wealthy people themselves want their children to be educated with other smart kids.
How is it not how an average works? They haven't exactly demonstrated that the average is lowered by significantly less talent on the low end, so I'm here assuming they mean everyone at Amazon is just slightly less talented. Any other view is just charity.

It's insulting, and I'm glad they were downvoted for it.
Can you install Linux on the Surface Pro X?
No one needs to pay that much to have a home. They need to pay that much to have an apartment in the most expensive housing market in the nation.

This may come as a shock, but no one has a right to live in Monaco, or the Upper East Side, or Nob Hill, etc. You live where you can afford to live. Housing is quite affordable in the US, but it is not affordable in the most expensive areas, which are very few.

Some areas are more expensive to live in than others, because if prices were lower there would be shortages -- more people would want to live in those areas than are available units. Thus prices increase until the number of people wanting to rent an apartment are equal to the number of apartments available.
Musician's Friend is owned by Guitar Center.
I know a Swiss startup that's working on something similar!

I'd be curious to see how it distinguishes mashed potato with and without a metric buttload of butter though. On pure reflectance alone?

And if you make scrambled eggs like a French chef (use the eggs as a delivery vehicle for butter), the calorie range might also vary by something like 400%.
Maybe they over leveraged?
Minimum Advertised Price. The FTC has a good primer on it and why it is sometimes acceptable. https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
Why farmers only get 7.8 cents of every dollar Americans spend on food(2018)
> ” Would he have pursued a career in chemistry, focused on agriculture, and discovered nitrogen-based fertilizer if it weren’t for Mt. Tambora’s eruption 7,000 miles away that caused a German famine?

Probably not.

Which is wild.”

I would say “maybe”, but that isn’t “wild”. What’s the base of this assumption? Also, I would say that probably other person would have discovered it. It’s not like that weren’t incentives to improve agriculture before the famine. The author just glossed over of the essential research of synthesizing ammonia not made by Liebig. Who are all those people? Were they all motivated by the famine?
And I for one think it is very good that Apple does not require them to break Roblox up into multiple games. It is nice having one game that I generally know what its content is like and mechanics are versus the crap that my kids want to download from the App Store.
That sounds like it would work well if you owned a set of studio monitors or headphones with a flat response. Otherwise, it's still not really going to be the same as listening to the speakers or headphones themselves.

Whatever headphones or speakers you use to listen to the samples will add their own dynamics to the sounds. It still won't really give an accurate representation.
Minimum Advertised Price. While it is possible in some cases to negotiate with a store, most of the time they ask you to get a price in writing that is lower so that they can match it. A few problems with that- 1) MAP is the minimum Advertise-able price so you wont find that anywhere online searching, and stores aren't exactly excited to quote you lower just so that you can take it down the road to get a discount...

Edit: Also Ive tried getting a lower price on gear in the US by showing the all in Thomann price, and the response I get:We do not honor non US pricing.
On that specific subject I agree. I still remember him "promoting" the Chrome books, it was bizarre...
Bootcamp only really worked because Apple did the work. I'm sure they could do the same for Linux, but it would be harder because there's less commoditized hardware and possibly less demand because fewer people run Linux on their laptops than Windows.
Party on, HN.
> I don't understand how such big heads cannot understand such a simply basic human situation, and instead they produce videos talking about the scientific method, as if Mr. average Joe is going to go download some papers and datasets and spend thousands of hours reproducing the results.

What specifically are you referencing here?

I completely agree with you that we need a lot more science explainers. There are already a lot of good content on eg YT, but no doubt it’s not something that gets surfaced to most viewers.

In school, nobody really taught me what the scientific method was. I was never told that Science isn’t just “gospel truths” like scriptures but instead (essentially) this growing body of peer reviewed papers that are used to form a shared understanding of the principles by which we believe the world works.

Meanwhile YT is swarmed with conspiracy theories almost daily, because it’s so fucking easy to make a stupid shocking conspiracy video.

The depressing thing is that people really do genuinely believe this nonsense, and it is the source of much despair in their lives.

Not being a religious person, I classify religious beliefs on the same level as conspiracy theories. Except that, most of the older ones have been refined by religious scholars over centuries to at least be interpreted in socially advantageous ways.
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About 8.5 minutes of full load it starts to throttle. At about 30 minutes the throttling peaks.

Although, even when throttling it's only at 80% power. For native apps that's still faster than the mobile i9 in the 16in mbp.
I wonder if we have confirmation from an M1 owner (that is familiar with Apple stuff) that there's no way of booting from external media from the "bios"

Of course, then you would need to get on the whole trouble of initializing video/T2/etc but it could be doable
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For most photographers, that's the equivalent of "I'd rather have ugly photos than use Gimp."

If Krita does what you need, that's fine. But for even basic "serious" photoediting, it's lacking. Krita, as they themselves point out, is a drawing program, not a photo editor.
Well what they do is move people from the 96th to the 98th percentile without a meaningful increase in skill or attitude. The bigger issue is that schools have their heads up their asses when they insist on only selecting from the 99th percentile, when slumming it in and going down to the 93rd would be more meritorious and not negligible to their graduation rates.
In theory? Yes. In practice? Rarely, if ever at scale.

Retroactively misattributing human action to fulfill a moral narrative produces a distorted view of the world, conducive to making dangerously naive mistakes.

That the space program was a friendly front for a highly visible ICBM program doesn't negate the glorious achievement of reaching the moon.

Not everyone working on the space program particularly cared about missiles. I'm certain most of them probably just wanted to reach the moon in the spirit of patriotism and scientific advancement. Their victory was pure. We just shouldn't pretend that their project was only facilitated due to a confluence of circumstances that made it a political necessity.
> "do the needful"

In my place, "do the needful" could mean you need to pay a bribe before they can do their job. Another way it's phrased is, "you know what to do."
Unfortunately, in popular culture, "science" is primarily another form of entertainment. Thus it's not especially surprising that it's also seemingly* a political issue today.

I am not suggesting everyone need learn quantum mechanics, but a basic, qualitative understanding of "science" (uncertainty, experimentation, theory) would help understanding and decision making. In the case of COVID-19: when I read the breathless reports on vaccine announcements, potential treatments and mitigation techniques, most of the popular discussion is profoundly confused. Likewise on climate change. In both cases, as with so many, the need to describe the story 1 - as a clash or people, or as originating in a person whose backstory must take up most of the article and 2 - the need to push the point of the article close to one pole or another (sometimes made up by the author) completely obscures the point.

This is no way to make policy, or, for that matter, live life.

* I think the degree to which this meme is developed (e.g. "democrats are the party of science") is grossly overplayed, even when there are a couple of convenient examples to point it at.
Why wouldn't we?
absolutely- and I never do. Was mostly stating that there are legitimate reasons to not upgrade and that some software doesnt work with the latest OS that isnt necessarily related to M1.
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The issue is that you really start feel the performance limitations of a cheap ARM SoC. Especially if you do a bunch of C compiling like Torvalds would.
I doubt if you're going to get that much if you haven't got a decade plus of experience with COBOL systems.
Well I'm not joking.

Religious methodology in building a belief generating technology was more organic than we like to think of science today, however it followed the same format as all scientific methodology: observation, question, hypothesis, experiment, modification and repeat. It also was recorded, often in aural memory but also in text, which I would say is the critical feature that differentiates modern science from more traditional scientific practices which we tend to dismiss as not science but which meet the criteria in strict methodological terms.

I don't think I'll be capable of convincing you or anyone who has built their idea of science on the rejection of mythology, however it's worth considering that religious believers made the same assumption about previous cultural realities: theirs was the only right reality.
I'm kind of curious how you expect science to be applied without its discovery phase being performed first.
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> I'm not convinced that's actual totalitarianism either, but it takes an incredible amount of cognitive dissonance to argue that flourishing of alternative sexualities is the real alarming new development towards totalitarianism...

That’s not what’s being argued.
> a 9 year old kid (wolf gupta, yes that is apparently his real name) got a job at Google

Is n’t 18 the legal age to be employed in the corporate world?
Smoking wasn't particularly dangerous before scientists invented cigarettes, and science is also what makes Facebook similarly addictive. Maybe the danger comes from not enough science denial.
You don’t need aid!

It is incredible any family says no to a top tier college program for any reason. It’s like winning the lottery. Taking out federal loans to pay to go to Cornell is still a fantastic deal, as long as you study the right things, even considering the loans are mispriced due to all the people who do not pay them back.

It’s just basic arithmetic, so I cannot believe that the obstacle for families is knowledge of how the system works. Something else is always at play when people make completely drop dead stupid financial decisions, things that are usually personal and ancestral, deep problems that cannot be solved by arithmetic. On the financial flip side it’s also why people go into dentistry - the arithmetic is terrible considering how much dental school costs, but something about the relationship between the family and the kids is coercing kids into dental school anyway. This is not an unorthodox opinion.
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The bootloader isn't a problem, Apple even gave instructions on how to do it.

Drivers are a problem. Somehow doubt Apple is going to document those.
Bootcamp required special Apple-written drivers for Windows to work on Mac hardware. Apple has said that they will not support other OSes on their hardware outside of virtualization, so no Bootcamp.
That’s a good suggestion, thanks.
Ads are not evil per se, overdoing them is.

Do you think youtube algorithms optimize for you learning and becoming a better human or to maximize ad revenue? Based on the answer the knowledge you gained is on average either deep and meaningful or shallow, bordering entertainment value.

That is not to say you can’t find deep structured knowledge on youtube, but the proper way to support its creation is to directly pay for it. Next best thing is paying for youtube premium.

Imagine two youtubes, one ran by ads only and one exclusively for paid subscribers. Which one of these is more likely to have funny cat videos and which one deep, meaningful knowledge and why? In which case the interest of the platform is aligned with the interest of the user?

When overdone, ad business models incentivize mass creation of low quality entertainment which is what most of internet including news has become. In no way ads help democratize the access to valuable information.
Do ketogenic/low inflammatory diet + Ayahuasca ceremonies to open up heart/mind.
This meaningful whitespace thing in python is dreck. Hate it. I am not a python hater; this is from experience on projects (though this is now less of a problem because of IDE help). I like python and I choose it for my personal projects. I will probably use this.
There seem to be people working on it at least:

https://github.com/Sonicadvance1/linux/issues/27
As a guitar player i admit that guitar is totally under represented in the pop scene of the last 10 years, gigs and studio work dropped also for us unknown musicians. Just for the record, very few top 20 songs on Spotify from the last years feature real guitars at all. Every period has its instruments.
there are several solutions that work at the device level!
First mover advantage is one rationale. It's a household name around the world, far moreso than any other crypto. My 80 year old grandpa who doesn't even know how to use a mouse or send an email is aware of the hype around Bitcoin.

There are also some advantages to being "simple". Competitors (like Ethereum) have more sophisticated features (such as smart contracts) and may scale better. But none are as battle hardened. Andreas Antonopoulos did a great talk "Bitcoin Security: Bubble Boy and the Sewer Rat"[1] describing how the platform has survived what's now ten straight years in the wild, exposed to the continuous pressure of hostile attacks. It's scarred and ugly as a result (with amputated opcodes and inelegant hacks) but he argues those are symptoms of resilience. And it is still being improved upon to adopt new ideas emerging from the space (eg. Lightning, Schnorr signatures) just at a slow and very cautious pace.

I can run (and sync) a full node on regular hardware, which isn't easy for more I/O intensive coins that have accreted a magnitude of order larger blockchain history. The HN crowd might appreciate the more traditional, native-looking UI of its client software over some of the Electron-like alternatives from other coins (which sometimes lack basic features like viewing history). It focuses on doing a few things well, namely being a wallet and sending and receiving units. That will always be a use case for transacting or storing wealth, and if that's all I'm doing, then I'd rather not have any other cruft.

You asked a really good question, and I personally suspect Bitcoin will eventually get supplanted by something else over the long term (as happens with any tech!). At some point the advantages gained from a clean, ground-up rewrite will surpass the stickiness of its global adoption. But I've come to believe that will take a lot longer than I initially anticipated.

We're already seeing vastly improved power efficiency out of alternative consensus mechanisms like Proof of Stake, and its still very early days for this industry and its technology.

While most of my comparisons above contrast Bitcoin to Ethereum (its biggest competitor) you are correct there are oodles of alternatives to pick from. Some purport cleaner tech stacks and demonstrate superior transaction volume scalability (like EOS).

Analysts have said crypto today is reminiscent of the plethora of startups seen during the dot-com bubble. The survivors were companies that hadn't even been invented yet (like Twitter, Netflix, Google depending when is your cutoff) and the boring but steadfast ones (like Amazon, eBay, Yahoo). So if you accept Bitcoin as falling in the latter camp there's some comfort in placing your bets there compared to newer, more "unknown" options.

[1] https://youtu.be/810aKcfM__Q
I don’t agree the prosperity was false. Federal minimum wage was quite decent. Labor unions were stronger. Income inequality was lower and so was partisanship in politics.

Both socially and economically, the average American was doing ok then compared to today.

Although it must also be said: norms and laws around same sex marriage and Drugs were different too, so this analysis certainly leaves out those parts of American society affected by them.
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I own a book with that exact topic. Unfortunately it's only available in German probably because it's a very niche interest. It's called "Das Maß im Kochen", roughly translated as "The measure in cooking" or "Measurement in cooking" by Renate Breuss.

For instance it contains a chapter about time durations that have historically been measured or compared to the time you needed walking a known length. Presumably in a time where not everyone owned a watch.
It seems it only supports CDC and some JTAG mode. For keyboards and such, the USB stack should support HID which doesn't seem to be the case here. In other words, they've implemented a USB 1.1 FS stack just so far to make intermediary USB2UART chips like FTDI and CP2102 redundant.
You are seeing economies of scale (and cheap labour) in action.
Need-blind admissions only exists for a very small fraction of schools -- those that are in maybe the top 20? (I don't know the exact number). Also, it often leaves out middle class students, whose parents make too much to get substantial amount of aid, but don't make enough to pay the tuition out right without being buried in loans.

Because of this, high achieving, middle class students often go to state schools, which often give merit scholarships (top-20 schools don't), and have much lower tuition.
My daughters school gives her a chrome book so she is growing up using Linux. Her fire tablet also uses linux.
Finding someone interested in helping me at a guitar center is extremely rare in my experience - so if they fold good riddance IMO.

The independent music shops are so much more welcoming and helpful.
Interesting milestone, worth reflecting on the broader failures of OSS.

Open source user-facing software like Gimp, Openoffice & inkscape were supposed to be the wave of the future that would eclipse their commercial counterparts over the next decade.

But OSS developers turned out to be daft to UI/UX concerns and lacked user-centric empathy to make software that would ever really matter in the marketplace.

Meanwhile the OSS marketplace that did takeoff in stunning ways were developer frameworks, libraries and building blocks (ie. everything on Github). Which developers then used to build the far more insidious world of SaaS. Where couldn't even own the software at any price, and more dastardly... you can't own your data.
Yes, exactly.

It only comes up if there's a dispute over whether the document was signed. Because the signature itself is so easily forged, the entire legal process relies on people not perjuring themselves if asked if they signed a document or not.
I am an outsider to that whole system, but when the SAT is not coachable, then what is the purpose of schools?
I don't own an M1 device, but it's been confirmed that boot security can be disabled entirely. I'm pretty sure that booting from external devices works fine once security has been disabled.

It's a bit different from Intel based Macs though. It used to be you'd hold Option while booting to be presented with an EFI boot disk picker, but now you hold down the power button to be greeted by a micro-macOS boot options menu.
I was simply trying to convey how much money is in America. I probably did a bad job. Was trying to relate it to someone we don’t even think about.

As a country we could fund a lot more research, if we could figure out how to tap into it.
Yes; and from what I've seen in Apple's support documentation, you can install linux on the new M1 machines.

I think the broader point is that the support isn't very good. Its not specifically disallowed by Apple or Microsoft, but the manufacturers, tertiary driver providers, and community just haven't put a lot of time into making it great. I expect the situation will improve, but its unlikely we'll see any support from Apple or Microsoft, which absolutely should be a concern when picking these devices for Linux.
> Honestly, I don't think anyone is holding their breath for the day that corporations like Apple and Microsoft give the world the Linux that they deserve.

I don’t understand this comment. What are you expecting Apple, Microsoft to do? They’re not charities, they make competing OS’s for profit. Why would anyone be waiting for them to bring Linux?
I appreciate the effort and love that people still invest time in RSS. I think that the hassle of manually defining and patching rules is n unnecessary burden. I tried to automate this task [0]. Sure the manual way might give you better feed entries, initially, but the maintenance is huge and ongoing. IMHO we should try to solve this problem in a more general way and by automation. With a post processing step, to generate a full feed, this solution would be unbeatable and with zero manual maintenance.

[1] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy
>stm

gd32v is a stm32 (peripherals, memory map) clone, except using risc-v rather than arm.
I don't understand. You consider the alleged mistakes public health officials who provided guidance about pandemic response to signal the end of basic science, but the successes of vaccine production are exempt from that analysis because it is applied?

How are those public health recommendations less applied than vaccine creation (especially mRNA vaccines, which are only possible today due to a ton of basic research in the last 2 decades)?
Well, for one he created Linux and Git, two softwares which have been something I(and I am guessing most on HN) have loved since I first used them and earn my livelihood from.

The other thing being, he is pretty blunt on issues and provides a very good perspective. Considering the fact that he has headed a project which is so influential(servers, Android etc), I would want to know his opinion on this topic at least as it concerns future of OSs.
Someone needs to tell software companies then, because no-one appears to be following any standard.
>>Every 5 years or so, linux distributions will pick up the latest kernel version and ship it. To upgrade you have to reformat and reinstall your computer, there's no continuity of service, there's no upgrade path.

What in the world are you talking about? Distros are constantly pulling versions of Linux kernel from "master" tweaking it a little bit for their system and shipping it. Most at least a few times a year.