skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So the policy was abandoned for a more rounded approach.

This was the exact pretext used by Harvard in the early 20th century to reduce the number of Jews in attendance.

> As the sociologist Jerome Karabel writes in “The Chosen” (Houghton Mifflin; $28), his remarkable history of the admissions process at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, that meritocratic spirit soon led to a crisis. The enrollment of Jews began to rise dramatically. By 1922, they made up more than a fifth of Harvard’s freshman class. The administration and alumni were up in arms. Jews were thought to be sickly and grasping, grade-grubbing and insular. They displaced the sons of wealthy Wasp alumni, which did not bode well for fund-raising. A. Lawrence Lowell, Harvard’s president in the nineteen-twenties, stated flatly that too many Jews would destroy the school: “The summer hotel that is ruined by admitting Jews meets its fate . . . because they drive away the Gentiles, and then after the Gentiles have left, they leave also.”

> The difficult part, however, was coming up with a way of keeping Jews out, because as a group they were academically superior to everyone else. Lowell’s first idea—a quota limiting Jews to fifteen per cent of the student body—was roundly criticized. Lowell tried restricting the number of scholarships given to Jewish students, and made an effort to bring in students from public schools in the West, where there were fewer Jews. Neither strategy worked. Finally, Lowell—and his counterparts at Yale and Princeton—realized that if a definition of merit based on academic prowess was leading to the wrong kind of student, the solution was to change the definition of merit. Karabel argues that it was at this moment that the history and nature of the Ivy League took a significant turn.

> The admissions office at Harvard became much more interested in the details of an applicant’s personal life. Lowell told his admissions officers to elicit information about the “character” of candidates from “persons who know the applicants well,” and so the letter of reference became mandatory. Harvard started asking applicants to provide a photograph. Candidates had to write personal essays, demonstrating their aptitude for leadership, and list their extracurricular activities.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/10/getting-in

https://archive.is/qrLqE#selection-689.0-727.785
Yes, easier to schedule a C-section than deal with natural birth arriving less predictably.
Google is sitting on $158 billion in cash and one of their founders is a resident of New Zealand. Seems a strange time to be that tight fisted with all your developers. Or as an outsider am I not seeing it correctly?
All the same "You should have done XXX ten or twenty years ago" arguments. We know prescribed burns reduce the intensity of natural fires. For an article entitled "California Megafires are solvable" I wanted to see more "here's how to solve the current problems". And I'm not worried about California being the source of so much of my grown food. I think the central valley aquifer will be unusable within 18 years. I have no proof .... just a hunch.
I know I’m an outlier but, in a city I feel generally safer riding on the road in traffic than on dedicated lanes and paths. In traffic with cars, everyone knows the rules, has the opportunity to see and use signals, and has regulated safety standards.

I’ve ridden on separated bike lanes that were so dangerous I opted to use the main road and still felt safer with people trying to run me off the road honking and screaming at me. I’ve ridden on highly regarded bike paths that are so poorly maintained trees are growing out of them, so poorly lighted that collisions are unavoidable, and mixed traffic with pedestrians in a way that makes tangling with cars feel a lot safer.

I know, I’m in the minority on this. But even after serious injuries in a bike accident sharing the road with cars… that still feels safer to me.
Chinese hackers disguised themselves as Iran to target Israel
I'm only asking this because it drastically changes the tone and meaning of your message, but you did mean would literally not wouldn't, right?
Spotify Building with Elixir/Liveview
It's hilarious to me that people somehow think hot is MUCH more dangerous than cold. If you do any homework you will see which end results in more deaths.
If youre stateside, have a look at system76.
You think Apple should take actions that lead to a bunch of people dying, but without ethically being responsible for the result. That's not really how it works. It's a shitty situation but we can still hold people accountable for how they decide to react to it.
Start ratcheting up the property tax to improve utilization. Unaffordable homes are only affordable if the cash flow requirements are low.

If there was an extra 3-6% property tax, it would align interests towards construction and punish speculators.
Predicting Market Crashes with Topological Data Analysis
Mainly because our government is entirely captive to people like Bezos.
>Society is like a cargo net. Every knot that bails out makes it collectively less capable of bearing a total burden.

I'm not sure what you're alluding to with this, but if it's "well if everybody goes FIRE society will collapse", then you're wrong because it will never occur (due to the economic mechanisms discussed earlier).

>but the ones that just want to perma-vacation on society's economic margin are what annoy me

Sounds like you're annoyed if people aren't being productive when they can be. After all, what's the difference between being 100% productive for only 50% of your working years (ie. FIRE), and being 50% productive for 100% of your working years? What's your opinion on people engaging in non-productive activities (eg. watching TV, playing sports, reading books), taking time off, or taking a "easy" profession? Are you against them as well? Or are they fine because they put in a token amount of work?
How did these companies come to literally embody evil?
According to Anatoly Vershik, those problems were given to "undesireables", including of course Jewish candidates (but not just): http://www.3038.org/press/vershik.pdf

Alexander Shen also writes about the discrimination in acceptance to Mekh-mat: http://3038.org/press/shen.pdf
That said, I welcome communities without cars! And I definitely feel like those communities especially need dedicated bike routes to separate cyclists from pedestrians.
As an aside, would you recommend that book?
What's even the point of this? If you know anyone in prison you know that secret cell phone access isn't exactly hard to get on the inside. Making legitimate calls harder is like DRM: it only hurts people following the rules.
People don't become homeless because they run out of resources, they become homeless because they run out of relationships.

What you're proposing is me, in another state, city, neighborhood, paying for your states issue(s). My neighborhood, state and city has no homeless issue. In part because we have functioning churches, family units, etc

In SF, a portion choose to be homeless (have you ever asked them? I have). Many couldn't handle or don't want to handle the public housing (which SF has) requirements.

> Finland and many other countries do this and they have the happiest people in the world.

Finally, some facts -- they are "happy" because they have a functioning, nationalistic and proud culture. Aka their society works. This keeps people from being homeless, lowers drug abuse rates, etc

- 83% of the country has a man and a women with or without children married or co-habitating [1]

- ~100% white, 93% Finn

- 88% Speak Finnish as their first language

- 71% Lutheran

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101541/families-by-type...
When Whites are overrepresented we're told it's systemic racism.

When Jews are overrepresented we're told it's an anti-semitic conspiracy theory.
A fine opinion, but the only nexus to the news story we are commenting on is the exhortation for Bezos to go buy a bunch of houses (which would only push prices even higher and make somebody else homeless).
Sure sounds like it was.
So we take it as a given that a prisoner has no right to privacy?
For reference: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/401776-apple-argued-it...
Microsoft finally puts an end to Windows 10 PrintNightmare vulnerability
I know people say Amanita muscaria is hallucinogenic, but my understanding is that it is pretty poisonous. Liberty Cap (Psilocybe semilanceata), on the other hand, is also common in Europe at least, and of course is well known to be very hallucinogenic and not poisonous. So if you were gonna depict a hallucinogenic mushroom wouldn't you choose Liberty Cap?
When? Always. Good luck finding a popular ethical system where it's moral to have millions of times more than you need while others have nothing and then turn then away: Christianity, Islam, Utilitarianism, Buddhism...
Called this last year. This will become more prevalent in the industry as time goes on. Tell your boss you’re moving to San Francisco and if your employer bases your salary on your zip code then your pay should be going UP
The approach to the cookie jar isn't new in Firefox 91;
that's Total Cookie Protection, added in Firefox 86: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/02/23/total-cookie-pr...
What do you think an eviction moratorium means? If tenants don't want to leave, landlords are powerless to make them, no matter what's in the lease.
Reminds me of a project I heard about yesterday. Decades ago, a bridge for a private railway company was built in such a way that it could also carry an interurban rail and be an automobile highway. After decades, only the railroad portion had ever been used.

I suspect that was the intended outcome, and I suspect that the project was, in part at least, taxpayer-funded. From history, I also suspect that many such projects serve as a way to get public dollars into -the right- private pockets. Sometimes they're sold as 'job creation' programs. Uh-huh.
Nothing magical, because when people age they become less healthy and able to work/contribute - it is only ethical to offer them the last ~10-20 years of their lives as reward for their hard work. The average age of death in the US is 78

And who pays for the benefits the elderly (or as a matter of fact, the whole society) enjoys? Amenities, welfare, health insurance, etc. - taxpayers, exactly the demographic (before 65 - healthy & able-bodied) FIRE is encouraging to stop working, thus avoid paying income taxes.
> Of course, it was a spectacular failure because nobody actually really wants "code is law"... instead all they did was re-invent mob rule and those with the loudest voices decided what to do about the "theft".

IMO Ethereum did something that would be really nice to be able to do in the real world. A chain split, each participant got their resources on each side of the split (except the hacker) and each person got to choose which one to support, or both.

There was no need to bend to the "loudest voices" as to what to do with the theft, but rather to create two parallel chains and let each individual decide.
Teacher quits in front of the school board in protest of CRT policy
Actively Exploited Windows Zero-Day Gets a Patch
are you being serious with that second link?
Jails are also car free.
Not a great screed. The author simultaneously complains about someone spreading hopelessness because they said we are “hopelessly unprepared” (which anyways is not synonymous with spreading hopelessness, if they do not insist that we cannot be prepared...hopelessly is used less as a description and more as an intensifier of the word unprepared here) while immediately after complaining about someone else spreading a positive message because the message was based on PR.

They complain that Sacramento progressives are spreading hopelessness because a Capitol lobbyist (!) claims that nothing can be done.

Really, the article is basically throwing a bunch of random anecdotes that they are not entirely thrilled about and ascribing them to “progressiveness”.
The best kind of a performance improvement, one that only requires an update
`resolutions` is what I wanna see in NPM
When there’s a “handful of employees there” cafeterias aren’t open and you’re lucky to have the staff keeping the coffee pots going. Have you not been to “the office” even once over the last 18 months?
This is irrelevant. SF has very low supply of housing and very high homelessness compared to other places. It could happen to basically anybody. One person in the article physically built her own house and then was kicked out by her ex-boyfriend. That person sounds way more responsible than I am, and I'm not homeless.

https://www.independent.co.uk/extras/lifestyle/silicon-valle...
VBA, VBScript, VB6, VB.NET

Maybe not “old” but most of those are solid legacy.
I don't know these people but I had graduated from one of these departments and get my information from classmates and my own experience (I got 4-5, the reason I could solve such a problem is that I grinded a lot).

PS. These people you mentioned are from the St. Petersburg uni, where I have never been, it could be different there. I can only speak for the Moscow.
Apple is part of this society, and has a responsibility (not to mention a direct interest) in helping to solve, or at the very least to not make worse, its society's problems.

The same goes for you, by the way.
Not my field of expertise, but I think it's also possible to over-estimate the protection this provides.

By the time sites are incorporating Google's own JavaScript code, tracking cookies can be stored as the site itself. Only a single action (look how much data is handed to the site via the URL of a search result, for example) and this site-specific cookie is just part of wider tracking.
There is also no other animal with something like the human capacity for language, despite much effort being made to prove the opposite.
It was in the news yesterday that NASA is working with Boston Dynamics to potentially explore caves on Mars with walking robots: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-human-like-robots-boston-d...
There'll be issues keeping that cool and the air fresh putting enough people into them. Also some of the most endangered places have huge populations that would make sinking enough shelters difficult. Depending on the soil composition that might be a short term solution too. The soil surrounding the London Underground is particularly bad for this and it's estimated that 80% of the heat ever generated in the Underground is still there in the walls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQo6_GkITe0
To run useful software.
The problem here is not the ultra rich, it's the moderately rich that are blocking housing.

There's more than enough money for people to pay for the building and maintenance, it's just that local land owners have said "we don't want to share"

All of Bezos' money isn't going to fix that problem. The problem here is wealth inequality, but it's the inequality of land wealth, not dollar wealth. The problem is excessive greed, not of Bezos, but of local homeowners and politicians. A former mayor literally joked about building a wall around Cupertino. That is the asshole that needs to be backed against a wall to fix this problem.
Oh no!
Not a pet peeve!

I always thought pet peeve meant a hobby, a specific point of interest, not something you dislike!

Sorry for the mistake, I'm glad I've fixed this though! :D
Seems to miss a very important part: comparison to other VPN protocols.

In particular, I wonder why they made all new protocol instead of adding a nice wrapper over Wireguard.
Interesting that Adam appears with no ribs at all then.
Nope. I think the government should take action.
It should build housing for the homeless and move them out of Apples parking lot.

What other solution is there?
There are enough empty houses to house every homeless person in the country: there are ~ 19 million empty houses in the country. (in 2019)
Not practical on any Pacific island sitting just above sea level.
The whole project is rentals.
> I never fully understood why some cultures assume humans must be fundamentally different - it’s not a universal notion.

Well, riddle me this. In this thread people are marveling at animals doing things like using automatic doors and opening bags of chips. Who would be impressed if a human did these things? I don't exactly find myself persuaded by these examples that actually animal intelligence is just like human intelligence.
You can actually visit North Korea if you are not American.

I knew a western family German passport who went over. You cannot wear blue jeans. You have someone with you at all times and you are not allowed to talk to anyone.

But that tells you very little about day to day life. Checkout this 2012 movie. You will find it interesting and believable.

2012 movie
https://www.tvo.org/programs/the-defector-escape-from-north-...

Director interview
https://www.tvo.org/video/behind-the-lens-the-defector
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This is begging the question. They've presupposed that it's bad by using the word "waste", without actually having made the case.

I happen to think that flying overseas for a holiday wastes a lot of energy. I could label this a "massive energy waste". Then as a corollary I could label people taking those trips and people facilitating those trips as "exploitative" actors. But these are mere debating tricks even though it's all vaguely accurate given the words I've chosen and the framing I've picked.

The root problem to all of this is an untaxed externality.
In US prisons, hurting people is the point.
The default limit is usually 25% of total physical memory. Should the default limit be the maximum? I think it's fine to have the default limit where it's at, to force me to think about what the actual requirements are. When you mean "tuning", do you also mean random GC tweaks? Those are generally best avoided these days, in my opinion. The auto tuning works well enough, and manual settings tend to cause more harm than good in the long run.
I would suggest that all industrialized countries have the capability to completely manufacture their own computers - a national security practice.

I was looking at a Linux system advertised as privacy preserving today. There was a more expensive version that was claimed to be entirely sourced and manufactured in the USA.
One thing that’s not obvious to first world country folks is that family commitments is a fairly tight albatross around the neck of many people you suggest “just travel”. They can’t afford to take a holiday, probably because the wages are daily, or vacation policies are just stringent, or maybe simply any vacation has to be spent with family both voluntarily and involuntarily instead. I didn’t intend to personally say you need to check your privilege but I have no other way to put it: even your reply seems to be brimming with privilege. It’s not always liquid money, it’s the lack of burdens and commitments, it’s the assurance you have when you know you can go back home and get a job pronto. It’s the lack of bad decisions in a young age some self inflicted some imposed by society and family that closes in on your freedom significantly. These are things you wouldn’t consider if you didn’t experience yourself.
Well, one can warm up by eatnig lots of food, wearing other critters' skins, and burning stuff; all of which are stone-age (or earlier) technologies. Cooling down requires air conditioning (modern tech) or access to natural cold water (privilege)
Thank you for doing this work. It would be great to have the spreadsheet or code that generates this table available. Would you be willing to share it?
> So a toy OS like Android.

Riiiight, a toy. Forget how it's probably the most run OS in the world from the abundance of cell phones right now.
Of course they are, without society enfircing property rights then anyone could do the same. They also owe (as everyone does) society for even being in a state where they can exist and operate. They depend on society exstentially. It's not like they paid for infrastructure, business ecosyatem, the conditions for consumers to consume, etc. Without societ they'd be nothing at all.
Oh look, a bunch of CGI images of selfie-taking, twenty-something, hipsters. Jump off a bridge while you still can.
I tend to think that these things have to come up more organically. I get Soviet cityblock vibes from this. Maybe it’s unfair of me. I guess If it fails the eventual occupants can translate cul de sac into English to refer to what the place has become.
The simplest setup route:

initdb -D db
pg_ctl -D db start
These are the sort of reasons I’ll never be able to use C or C++ in any real capacity.

Sure I can read it and to a much lesser write it, but there’s way to many crazy things dependent on the compiler/platform that I never run into and only ever see in passing contexts like this. I think I’d trust my self to learn Haskell before I ever trust myself to write production C.
That's not what I inferred
I recommend the book “The Wizard and the Prophet” to the author [1]. It clears up a fundamental confusion in the article that treats Progressives as Wizards when they’re really Prophets.

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/Wizard-Prophet-Remarkable-Scientists-T...
That's a take I would never have considered. I'm not really up to speed on discrimination against Asians.
Public trading.
The presidents of Yale, Pennsylvania, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and Brown are Peter Salovey, Amy Gutmann, Lawrence Bacow, Lee C. Bollinger, Christopher Eisgruber, and Christina Paxson. They are all Jewish (don't take my word for it - check their wikipedia pages).

If you contend they are discriminated against despite holding at least 6 of the 8 presidencies, and despite being by far the most over-represented group, I assume you have some fantastically strong supporting evidence.
Sorry, you mean spying on everyone?
Also, the article is horribly a historic.

Yes, progressives did lead the charge for community based mental health services replacing mental hospitals. And guess what. It works all over the rest of the developed world.

What the rest of the developed world didn’t have was Raegan kicking out millions of mentally ill people, and further massive underspending towards mental services.

Countries which do that don’t have mentally ill homeless wandering on their streets.

The author blames safe injection sites for the explosion of drug addiction, never mind that safe injection sites barely exist in the country, and are anyways very new as a public health measure (the first one that was officially endorsed is probably fewer than a few years old). Safe injection sites don’t just exist to allow people to indulge their addiction. They also exist because they provide an opportunity for addicted people to access official medical services and social services which then provides opportunities to help them manage or eliminate their addictions. It’s something that has been successful in reducing addiction throughout the world.

Safe injection sites are a step towards eliminating addiction, not an acceptance that addiction will happen.
Not a great bit of writing. But sure, it's certainly true that people above the age of 35 who grew up thinking of themselves as liberal/left wing are going to have some discomfort with young progressives and their obsessions with safety and minority issues over phenomena with more bulk impact such as the core feminist battle, which is far from won.
Yes... But the first chapter the OP is talking about is truly horrifying, I honestly wish I hadn't read it. His other book New York 2041 also deals with climate change and is less traumatizing.
Does that assume that no more people will use the frequent (convenient) bus service than were using the infrequent (much less convenient) service?
True, it won't be easy, but better than sending people there. Spend some billions and in 10 years bring some robots, and explore the planet without risking any human life.