skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would we exclude legacies altogether?

Legacy certainly gives you an advantage, but I think people also discount the fact that if you are the child of an Ivy grad, you are perhaps more likely to go to a top-tier school of your own merits as well.

I say that as an obviously biased Harvard legacy, who also got into other Ivies without legacy, had a 1600 SAT, etc. We never donated anything and I never intend to, we were on financial aid, but my dad did happen to go, and I'm sure it did give me an advantage. I am less sure that there is no chance I would have gotten in without it.
Geo-engineering is an extremely flawed way to approach the climate change problem, for a million reasons including this one.
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This is sorta the concern I would see. In situations where people can justify the action in a Robin Hood style method, it can lead to general acceptance of it, even if it is somewhat looked down upon. I know I've been exposed to that in the tech environment with regards to piracy and such.
I went to a middle tier undergrad and a top tier grad school. The difference was night and day in terms of rigor and general academic interest. I don't know that the profs were particularly better or worse at one school, but the student body was very, very different in terms of interest and ability, and that has a huge impact on the way you learn. I took a single writing class in undergrad. Most students were not capable of writing an argument and supporting it with evidence. No hyperbole, the basic reasoning and writing ability of the average student is appalling. I would strongly favor environments that cluster only demonstrated high ability students.
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School counselors (at least those that are good, and care) are in kind of a tough spot. If they are realistic with kids about what they are qualified to do after high school, they catch shit from parents about "crushing dreams" and if they are not they create false hope by encouraging average students to do things like apply to Harvard or Princeton with some kind of message like "you can't get in if you don't apply."
This seems like a massive problem. Instead of going out and getting a story, they let trendy topics on Twitter & Facebook dominate? Well that doesn’t seem like their job to me —- it seems lazy and self-serving.

Not sure what else to expect; they’re human after all.
Because they are not owed any explanation. It's our money, we should be able to spend it on whatever we want. We don't have to prove anything to anyone.

Anything else means the money doesn't actually belong to us, it belongs to the bank or government and they're just generously allowing us access to it. People work hard every day for a living, they shouldn't have to suffer this sort of indignity.
Speaking for myself and not the person you replied to

- It would make me 10x more likely to work on the kernel, just because I enjoy programming in rust more than I enjoy programming in C. (At least given my current employment, any kernel contributions would be on my own time)

- It would give me more faith in the security of other code people are contributing, things like binder in C strike me as pretty scary components of android from a security perspective, I'm much more comfortable running the same thing written in Rust.

- I think it would generally reduce the number of kernel bugs in components written in it. Kernel bugs are rare, but and very frustrating when you encounter them.

- I think it would increase the general productivity in kernel development. A better kernel helps everyone out.

- It acts as validation for rust as a language. Obviously the kernel people shouldn't care about this in the slightest and it's not an argument for including it. However if it is included for other reasons (see above), it does help me argue that "rust would be a good fit for x" in other situations.
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I did make a better Goodreads. But only for my very narrow use case.

Namely, I just wanted to keep track of what I read. I didn't care for the social aspects of it nor the discovery part of it. I did want certain statistics on my reading though, so a plain text file wasn't going to cut it.

Unfortunately, Goodreads was a huge pain to use UX-wise and didn't really provide the statistics I was looking for either. The one positive thing I can say for Goodreads is that the books I read were already there (I'm primarily reading Japanese light novels, so whether the titles are available on the service for tracking purposes or not is a real concern for me), which is probably a bigger problem than you might think for anyone who'd want to build a competitor? The friction to use an alternative service is obviously going to be much higher if you have to get the books you read added to the service first before you can actually track them on your list.

Anyway, with my sufficiently narrow use case, I just built my own book tracking with spreadsheets. I add new lines to a master read sheet and then I have some pivot tables that automatically compile statistics I care about from there.[1]

I'm quite happy with this setup for now and can definitely recommend doing something similar for everyone who just wants to keep track of your reading and doesn't care for the social features.

That said, I wouldn't mind switching to a "real" service again provided that a) it was sufficiently expedient to use when it comes to managing your list (this is especially important considering I'd obviously want to port over my existing hundreds-long read list to this new hypothetical service) b) it already had the books I've read catalogued in the service, because I sure as hell don't want to petition additions to their database for everything I read before I can actually keep track of it.

[1] https://twitter.com/Daiz42/status/1158123020596240391
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Prostitution is legal (or mostly legal) in many parts of the world. I would argue that most progressive leaning folks are in favour of a legal framework for sex workers. Sex work is work, whether it comes with a fancy word like "sex surrogate therapist" or a derogatory one like "hooker". The issue is controversial in many places, to some extent because of real issues of abuse/trafficking, but more so because of moralizing.

I would argue that all sex workers deserve respect, in front of judges or on HN, regardless of whether it's prostitution or surrogation.
"It is totally detectable."

Good application of it is not, no. When we hear obvious autotune vocals, it's a deliberate aesthetic choice.

I believe what you're talking about is how modern production is about producing "perfect" song recordings, and mapping everything to a click track/beat grid. Now that is totally noticeable compared to music made a few decades ago. I do agree that it makes music sound sterile. This is separate to autotune/melodyne being used.

"I bet some time from now, could be as little as a decade, maybe two, we will look back at all this and chuckle."

Maybe the main industry studios will, but music in general isn't determined by what those folks are doing. There are more indie publishers than ever, and so on.
Am I the only one who hates it when headlines use the phrase "X admits Y"? It always frames the story in a certain way regardless of the actually context.
I had a bitcoin wallet application on my PC. Then joined a mining guild to smooth out the BTC income. Then did the math and I was breaking even on it with the cost of electricity and it was equivalent to just stealing electricity from my parents.

So I left it and forgot about it. And later the mining guild ended up closing so I lost the BTC.
What selection mechanism would you recommend for early indicator of ability than high school? I agree that everyone should get opportunities regardless of affordability (ex: international talent)
I remain stunned by the level of incompetence in university administration. The covid epidemic really shined some light on it for me. I have one child still in university, and the school still has no plan for what to do about the foreign study and foreign internship requirements for his degree program. Everyone is just on-hold and unable to graduate. We also continue to run into silly requirements to appear in-person, which requires flying him out and back. Basic stuff that seems obvious to me seems unsolvable to them. And they won't even admit it. The answer for everything is just that they "understand" and "are working on it".
How do you find high quality book reviews? Or, is it the average review that's high quality?
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There are as many Java developers as people in a smaller country. FizzBuzzEnterprise is just a big subset of them, but there are so so many other interesting niches, like robotics, hell real time usage, everything.
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What in my reply suggests I assumed nefarious intent?

Brad is a good person, it's the code we're talking about here.
Can a hiring manager just do an anonymous mock interview with OP over Zoom and offer actionable feedback?
There’s gotta be some limit to how many cities can maintain insane rents. High salaries spread across 10 cities instead of 1 should be a much saner equilibrium unless the tech workforce and salaries multiples in number too
See item #2 on this page: https://neveragainkw.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/5-way-the-medi... (that version has links... here's the text)

2. The Famous “Only Male Mosquitoes” Story

That may be the goal, but it’s not the reality. At best Oxitec can sort out about 99.98% of the females. That sounds terrific until you realize that even the Key Haven test requires releasing over 14 million mosquitoes. The company expects to be able to come 3x a week for 22 months to tend to the breeding containers.

Even the suggestion that the GMO mosquitoes are “bred to mate females” is misleading. In actuality, the GMO mosquito, crippled as it is by artificial DNA, does a poor job of mating. Unsurprisingly, wild type female mosquitoes don’t particularly prefer it. So Oxitec has to overwhelm the natural system with 5-25 times as many artificial mosquitoes as natural ones. The company’s tests in the Cayman Islands showed an effect on population only after massive, repeated GMO mosquito releases. The Oxitec GMO mosquito is its own Neverending Story.
NFTs and the Carbon Footprint Dilemma
Once the gold is extracted how much energy is spent to transport it, turn it into jewellery and store/protect it throughout its lifetime?
There seems to be a trend toward students submitting ever more college applications. It's not uncommon for seniors to apply to a dozen schools or more, of which perhaps 1/3 are unlikely to accept.

So my question is, what is the larger context of applicants this year? Has a year of COVID sequestration altered the numbers? Are elite schools admitting fewer students? Has the total number of applications gone up? Is each student sending out more applications? Are kids applying to more elite schools than in years past?

One bare statistic really doesn't tell a useful story.
Considering that there are legacy admissions, sports admissions, and students that get in because daddy & mommy donated a new wing to the library, etc. does it really matter? There are also students that are smart and capable, but just unmotivated, or going through life issues, etc.

Some people are there to just get a piece of paper that shows they graduated from a top school, regardless if their GPA was a A or a C; and that school name on that piece of paper could still open doors a lesser school might not.

It's kind of like FAANG. You could have an engineer with FAANG on their resume who otherwise did relatively unremarkable work. Another person has only no-name companies but has accomplished a lot. Yet the FAANG alumni is the one who will have recruiters and employers groveling to hire them, not the other guy.
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Just to note for those who don't know, FTPS and SFTP are completely different protocols.

The similarity of the names often causes confusion, but SFTP has nothing to do with the venerable FTP.

SFTP stands for "SSH file transfer protocol" and it's a completely different beast. IMHO, a somewhat unfortunate naming choice, but that's water under the bridge.

(...while FTPS stands for "FTP over SSL", and that actually uses plain old FTP with an additional SSL/TLS layer...)
Great, but you will actually want to write some code, so you have to do this insane IDE setup clickfest.

I am not saying Python's packaging is any good, it sucks. But you can't realistically ignore Java's IDE shitshow.
They don't really prove anything though. For engineering degrees the math section is too easy; for arts degrees it's irrelevant. The English section is all about memorizing a bunch of words you'll never use.

It's not a good test.
The fixed cost is 10's of millions, but the big thing to focus on is that 7% of the length of the ship is a much larger fraction of payload and that there are also two more restaurants included.
Thousands to tens of thousands per car? I think you're off by an order of magnitude.
> Government procurement is so focused on the appearance of fairness and money saving that all other goals, like actually getting something that works, take a back seat.

I worked at a small 2 year college for many years. One time, my Dean I reported to was on vacation, so I had to go talk to the college president, and get him to sign a form for a $7 petty cash reimbursement for some zip ties I had bought to clean up some cabling.

One year, our President had to travel to the capital city (about 250 miles away, over the mountains) almost every other week for some budget discussions with other colleges, legislators, etc. We could have saved the taxpayers THOUSANDS of dollars by renting a modest house to use for him (and some of the other staff members that regularly traveled to the capital). But that "might" look like we were providing them with a second home, so we spent thousands more on hotels.
Politicians operate by building support and making money for their backers. If you are too efficient, and leave no crumbs, you will quickly lose support. Being a messy eater will get you much further. If you piss of enough tech billionaires, look no further than the last election to see what happens.
Speaking of signature sounds -- many local radio stations (including my local NPR station, KUT) seem to be using some new technology. I frequently hear audio artifacts which sound like a ~1.0-1.5s 'skip-back'. It's like what you imagine something might do if it were streaming the audio and hit a gap/buffer underrun.

This all started in the last 1-2 years. It's not extremely infrequent, I hear these during prime driving times and probably around once/week. I know for sure I have heard it on at least one non-NPR FM station. I wonder anyone else has noticed the same in other markets?
Headline is referring to university admissions not factual admissions
ouch! how did you handle it? apologize and move on as if nothing happened??
> I knew some folks that Wired articles were written about etc.

This is a red flag right here. You put this in a list of evidence you’re capable and not delusional? You were near semi-notable people.

A lot of your accomplishments read that way. You were near something cool. You dropped out of a good school. You got a (self described as) low paying job at 18 at IBM. Someone really accomplished there complimented you once. You knew people who had things written about them. You were in a program someone who works at armonk was in. Someone else fixed something quickly after you flagged it. None of this is about you, it’s all about other people.

The very fact that these are what you’re listing as positives (or at least as things relevant to you) is a red flag. Do you have any “I accomplished/completed...” accomplishments? You say you’ve been doing VR since you were 8, have you finished anything worth mentioning in all that time?

I agree with another commenter that your ego and expectations could be a problem. If you got one of the jobs you quit before, would you still quit it?
There is just one model of Dedekind's axioms up to a unique

isomorphism, which is indeed the standard model. However,

Gödel's incompleteness proofs do not work for Dedekind's theory

because there are uncountable axiom instances. (Dedekind's

theory is nevertheless effective because proof checking is

algorithmically decidable.)

Consequently, the first incompleteness result (inferentially

undecidable) has been proved by other means. See the

following for a proof:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021

The above article explains that Gödel's second

incompleteness result is false because the theory can prove

its own consistency.
>- I think it would increase the general productivity in kernel development. A better kernel helps everyone out.

Don't you think the massive increase in compilation time would negate any productivity gains and probably decrease productivity overall?
That's assuming random people are driven to excel in highly competitive environments and that going to university is a mostly academic and self-improvement pursuit and not just a diploma.
Just for contrast its interesting to look at an example of writing a similar kernel in Julia:

https://juliagpu.gitlab.io/CUDA.jl/tutorials/introduction/

I don't think it's possible to achieve something like this in python because of how it's interpreted (but it sounds a bit like what another comment mentioned where the python was compiled to C)
The review page and discussion thread is hideous and painful to navigate. If a site is to be able to recommend $nextbook it has to curate inputs, either as ratings or text reviews. There are huge bookclub memberships but hardly anybody write anything substantial because it's a quagmire to wade through (thus implying few review readers). Lapsed readers like me would love a place to talk books, obscure, trendy or not. r/books is a never-ending loop of "I've just finished Ender's Game and I ..." and "Why we do $something when we read", and similar dross. If there's any space that could use a boost in "user engagement" I wish it could be for readers. But, as we bookish lot aren't terribly argumentative, and unwilling to shiv anyone who opines that they loved DaVinci Code, it's an unknown with what to bait us. I log into Goodreads probably twice a month, avert my eyes and then close tab.
Wordpress. I haven’t been paying attention for a few years, but last I looked wordpress powered over half of public websites. Wordpress was forced upon my team at my last job because non technical users have been exposed to it and training costs were a big deal for my organization. It wasn’t something I would have preferred for technical reasons but it just sort of makes sense in a lot of contexts where a content management system is required.
What I would really like to see is the emulation of telephone network over internet so that we could all continue using our old modems and retro computers and setup real BBSs with real (or simulated) modems. We all want to hear the real modem sounds and see the lights flashing.
Corn is subsidized in the US, hence all the biofuel and HFCS.
From my point of view this is still clear in the shortened sentence.
I disagree with the prevailing sentiment.
This is the billion dollar question, but having the right answer at the outset may not be necessary. In fact, most successful business go through multiple iterations on monetisation opportunities before they strike gold.

It is more important to build a product that solves problems that Goodreads doesn't solve right now, and find a way to acquire customers that doesn't rely on Google SEO.
Why not just outlaw dark patterns in general as deceptive practices?

All this focus on fixing particular companies or government mandating software architecture seems like it just gets the government more and more invovled while not doing anything to prevent the actual abuses.
Doesn't the Declaration of Independence call out that governments are instituted to -secure- rights; specifically, 'the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"? That sounds like a positive right to me, one very specifically saying governments are charged with upholding. And healthcare certainly seems like it falls under 'life', if not all three.

I find this attempt to distinguish between positive and negative rights unhelpful semantic rhetoric. Every positive right can be rephrased into a negative right, and vice versa. The first amendment's "Congress shall make no law..." equates to "You have the right to (speak, gather, etc) free from governmental censorship".

"The right to be safe from harm" itself sounds like a positive right; certainly, without enforcement to ensure it, such a statement is a lie and the right de facto does not exist.
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I have a yeti and XLR mics and lavalier mics. For ease of use without hassle the Yeti is good but you must use the right setting and account for gain. It picks up a decent amount of ambient sound. That extra noise will muddy your vocals. I’ve gone the route of a simple lavalier setup for most of my video calls and presentations.
Maybe we don't all need to read the original Darwin, but I do think there is a serious gap in most peoples' knowledge of how the natural world actually functions, how all the components in an ecosystem are interdependent and necessary. There is a framework of understanding that used to be common knowledge which now only experts and enthusiasts possess. I fear that most people in positions to make decisions that impact our natural environment have insufficient understanding of the potential consequences.

Our failure to keep people educated on these matters to a base level has probably seriously contributed to the ecological catastrophe we are experiencing and digging ourselves ever deeper into. People have been taught to have more faith in industrial and technological solutions to any problems, rather than appreciating a need to be stewards of the life support systems of this world that we depend on.
Any reason why this isn't just done in software rather than hardware? Is it just more setup when it's easier if it's a hardware switch.

The article just said it's not left up to the studio.
What selection criteria would you recommend for early indicator of ability than high school?

I agree that everyone should get opportunities regardless of affordability (ex: international talent), but having non-intelligent agents in control by gaming the system is very dangerous (as seen in politics).

I think ethics matter more in the long run, maybe that should be a factor for university screening. We have too many intelligent people doing harm in the world (ex: ad business)
Ah, that's it, thanks! For some reason I was thinking "this little book" was Darwin book (that it's actually quite small).
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Alt insert generate equals method, select fields, ready.
Or use a record. It is such a minuscule part of the language, that it simply doesn’t matter compared to every other line of code, lib, ecosystem. You may imagine how much more productive you are that this language has sane equals, but it is not even a reasonable constant factor.
Quite relevantly, his NPR tiny desk concert was a fantastic example of his musical range and his vocal talent. He is an excellent musician.
The Telefunken ELA M 251, and the C12 and U47 tube mics come to mind. As does the Brauner VM1S.

And then there are the used vintage mics which can go for $15k+.

At the cheap but well-regarded end of things is the Stellar X2 from TZ TechZone.
I wish more people knew about https://rate.house - it's like all media sites combined into one, just need more people using it.