skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Likely the missing word is Year - ie: he get three years probation after release.
As a black person, standardized tests saved me from racism/prejudice.

At my blue blood private school, I had a math teacher who explicitly told my dad that he gave me a bad letter of rec on an MIT summer camp application, because as a black person affirmative action would make life too easy for me.

I'm happy it was only a summer camp and not my real college admissions the following year.

Even though I was a top five math student in my class across the entire private school, he and the dean of the math department gave me lower grades for the same work. They also didn't let me test out of classes (wouldn't show me test results), etc.

Thank God for SAT II's and AP exams.

I destroyed those tests. 5's and 790's.

Highest marks in the class for Math SAT II's.

But it didn't help my GPA from those biased teachers.

I did get into MIT for real the next year.

Standardized tests helped protect me from teacher bias.

Ultimately, the world is just a mess.

Now, I just focus on teaching people that the only fix for our problems will not come from mankind (to see what I'm talking about, take a look at: https://jw.org).

Humans are a mess.
There are still bits of the original web around if you know where to look. That's why I used the terms "last vestiges" and "existential struggle". Web3 would be the stake through the heart.
People also confuse a just society with an equal society.

There is no particular reason to want everyone to be equal, and there are plenty of reasons you do not want this -- when everyone is equal, people are constantly fighting for who is best because if anyone just slightly increases their wealth/power, they will be the highest of all. People are fundamentally competitive, competing over social prestige, mates, etc. So creating a situation in which anyone can be king is a recipe for constant war. Thus the equal society is the most unjust society, because it is the society in which violence and conflict are maximized.

Moreover, it's better to maximize well-being rather than worrying about whether you think it is "fair" that talent is not distributed equally. What you can do is tax those who earn more and use that to provide social benefits to others. That is, set up a society in which everyone benefits from the outperformance of the elite, rather than trying to pretend that everyone can be elite, or that there is no elite at all.
Mini-rant: people on hacker news frequently undervalue their knowledge and don't consider the things they know to be of much worth. A classic example of this is the "I can't see why dropbox is a thing, simply build a cloud file sync service - easy" post. This poster is running their own semi-professional router (pfsense) on whitebox hardware. I would not want to do that unless I already knew what I was doing or wanted to spend some time learning.

The type of network segmentation being discussed is not rocket science, but it's not trivial either. VLAN segmentation can have tricky edge cases that cause things to break in a non-obvious way, nothing that can't be worked around but for someone who "isn't well versed in networking" would probably be more than you're up for. Also keep in mind that you can't do this with most consumer networking gear becasue it's too complicated to setup and support without some experience and knowledge.

I'd not recommend VLAN segmentation unless you want to become someone who is more versed, which I don't oppose, but it's not a switch you can flip in 5 seconds and never think about it again.
Well, there's something to be said for lightening up, and unless assaulted, we choose to be offended. I suppose, similarly, most really can't stand Jerry nor find his behavior humorous; he's such a jerk to Tom.

The art of parody can be low or high brow. I suppose there is some low brow parody I do not appreciate (e.g. Jim Carrey's Fire Marshal Bill Burns I find disturbing), but BOFH hits too close to home for me to criticize (beyond literary). Some users can be demanding, needy, ungrateful pieces of work, and fantasizing about retaliation without consequences relieves pressure.

Contrast BOFH to dissident heating engineer Harry Tuttle, not opposites, but somewhat complimentary. BOFH is probably more believable, but Harry wins the absurdity contest. Also compare both to Dr. Gregory House and the characters on Seinfeld. I will not explain why we sometimes like horrible people, but I think it is intersting that Tuttle stands out conspicuously gallant and heroic among them.

We even like antiheroes in work that is not parody, such as Clint Eastwood's unnamed characters, Han Solo, Michael Corleone and Rambo. There are other crossovers like BOFH, such as Captain Jack Sparrow, a character that is similarly both a parody and an antihero, or Alex DeLarge, a satiric antihero. Also notable is Mr. Robot's Elliot Alderson, perhaps a closely-related descendent of BOFH.
I like the design of the website, too bad the content is so dumb. How are you not tired of regurgitating the same FUD for 10 years? If you don't like crypto that's ok, its not for you, just don't buy in and leave us alone.
Tyranny doesn’t happen by force. Tyranny doesn’t look like a burglar breaking into your house, and defeating tyranny doesn’t look like you gunning them down.

Tyranny is invited. It happens when you willingly open the door to someone who says they are going to solve all your problems, yet they never do.

They will always blame someone else when the problems aren’t solved, and you will believe them because you believed them once before. You won’t even recognize this as tyranny because you will be so outraged at the people the tyrant tells you are to blame for your problems. Slowly these people disappear, yet the problems remain.

Until one day the tyrant blames you for the problems of the world. And suddenly you recognize the tyranny for what it is. You reach for your gun but it does you no good. At this point the tyrant has turned everyone against you, just as he had turned you against others.

The process continues until there’s no one left to blame, and the tyrant at this point usually ends up hanging from a tree, or hiding in a hole in the ground.

But at no point in this process is a gun useful for preventing tyranny, unless you’re willing to actually be a martyr and kill the tyrant before anyone recognizes him as such. You’ll be labeled a murderer and sentenced to life in prison, but you will have prevented tyranny.
I'm 99% certain that should say "three-year term."
I don't believe you need to demonstrate specific damages for a copyright infringement case in the US. You only need to demonstrate two facts: that you are the legitimate holder of the copyright, and that the other party did in fact infringe.
It has been many years since After The Gold Rush was published and we are no closer today than we were then. At some point software engineering will be a real profession but I doubt anyone will take action before some huge catastrophe pushes the issue.
Was it deleted or unshared?
Could Hooks be construed as Facebook Engineering's attempt at modeling React as an Effect monad?
I agree with your main point, and it definitely adds some pessimism to my world view.

Regarding the Dixie Chicks, I'm not sure that's a good exemplar to support your main point. (See sibling comment that suggests they did quite well.)
Ironically, craping the web can result in termination of your account:

“we reasonably believe that your conduct causes harm or liability to a user, third party, or Google — for example, by hacking, phishing, harassing, spamming, misleading others, or scraping content that doesn’t belong to you”
I think this is a good idea. Trackers that have things in green, yellow, orange, red - kind of like how we track covid rates in areas. The story IS the current data. There's no reason to go to CNN for the latest covid numbers I can get it in many places that share this data now.

This idea can be applied to home pricing, homelessness, food and gas prices, crime stats. We can set up breaking points and literally watch the numbers break through something.

I mean what if we applied names to the red color like: Crime is now red in this part of SF which means this area is basically Venezuela right now.

Live stats (trackers) coupled with zones of terribleness so we can literally watch the world fall apart in the form of a tracker.
I like functional programming, but the way Haskell or Ocaml are built makes it really hard to consider them seriously for anything but research and/or fooling around.
Building a simple room-based chat application in Nim (using HTMX)
> and potentially many millions of dead Americans one one hand right now,

Millions? Where does that number come from?
How to Revitalize the Internet
Since it makes immediate physical repercussion, like detention or torture, by the Chinese state less feasible, it is remarkable.
Citations are irrelevant, it's the preponderance of evidence.

You can deploy as many non-sequiturs and specious arguments in service of the view you cling to, but the evidence remains the same.
Also: MMS, "cleanses", crystals, sonic pest defenders, fuel efficiency devices, zero point energy generators, perpetual motion machines, and magic laundry balls. <-- That's the abbreviated list.
They aren't doing it right now.

China, on the other hand, just bashed Hong Kong liberties, and to my horror, media already forgot about that.

And when you get to name a country that doesn't respect human rights, that still doesn't justify you to do the same
Tiananmen Square certainly had foreign involvement. Extent is unclear, just like extent of US ICs role in 9/11 is unclear (e.g. to what extent were the hijackers protected by the IC?).
Maybe, but again a university is not bound by due process requirements. I do agree that it might be good practice to not violate them. Let’s see if Purdue does eventually act.
IANAL, but in general: yes. Someone should be on the hook for paying bribes as well as for receiving them. At least, that's what every training on corporate bribery I've ever seen asserts.
That's refreshing to see. In a lot of startups he would've been promoted to some high level position, hired dozens of engineers to maintain the new monster and then invited to an AWS conference to brag about how they solve their (self-inflicted) problems, all while the business is bleeding money in cloud bills and engineer salaries.
Let me get this straight. If I'm getting paid less per hour, this is good for me because it means I'm selling the stuff I produce at a more competitive price?
I'd love some data journalism on the facts that are being reversed this way and that :-)
This could be a generic claim, but some devices are detectible in low power mode via BTLE / Wifi emissions. I would generalize though that this is more a scare comment for people not to leave valuables in the car.
Enough money to sue the CCP.
I didn't claim there is a linear relationship. It's enough for me that there is a relationship. The OP asked "what's the use case" and I gave him several that ring true to me.

Whenever I write Python , I wish I was writing Haskell. No need to ask about artificial examples of linear algebra; just my boring day to day code in Python would benefit from having Haskell's type system. And yes, I do know about static typing for Python -- I find it's worse, tooling and effectiveness wise, than an actual static type system.
If the link is "trash", it won't get many upvotes. That's the premise of HN.

Twitter threads can be insightful an informative.
Engineer is a legal term in some place where a degree is required in engineering.

The term developer doesn't require a license neither does CEO or board member or president of the US.
Kind of, but he only got in trouble because he messed with other rich people's money.
Yes, I honestly think Washington doesn't exercise similar influence over Google or other American companies.

CNN likes to pop up a PIP view of what's being broadcast in China when they talk about things that embarrass the Chinese government. When they start talking about Peng Shuai it takes about two seconds before the Chinese broadcast becomes a test pattern.

When's the last time you saw a test pattern when watching a foreign news channel?
Also in the guidelines

> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.
AlphaZero-like AI for playing Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe in the browser
Long Hair Don't Care
We wanted to put an end to the unjustifiable pink tax that leads to so many products with low quality and high prices as the status quo.
> social consensus that most college students are kids. Their brains haven't fully developed

If they are mature enough for the Chinese government to shoot them in the head for peaceful protesting, then they are mature enough to understand that some democratic cultures have strong objections against the CCP and those who do their bidding.

It's one of those things where the real world is too dangerous to allow kids to be kids: you must tell 5 year olds that magic capes can't help them fly, and that they should run away from strange men who wish to touch their peepee, even if, for an ideally happy childhood, you shouldn't have to.
All this talk about Web3 and I still don't know what it is. Show me some normal, non-tech people who use this fancy web3 tech? Show me some critical human need, like food, energy, or housing that is powered by this fairy tale? What capability does it enable? What can I do, as a normal human being who needs food, air and shelter, that I couldn't do without web3? Whose grandfather or grandmother uses some web3 app without realizing it?

People compare the Internet to web3, but it is a false comparison. All of the above questions could be answered by the Internet -- everyone and their grandmother relies on the Internet in some way, directly or indirectly, to power their basic human needs. When my grandmother goes to the grocery store to buy milk, she uses the Internet without realizing it. And this was true from the very early days of the Internet. Not so for this mysterious "web3".
well for one, i am also a skeptic. i just like to be proven wrong by foundational cracks and there are plenty of extremely smart people in the space. i'm certainly not arguing with you around blockchains being a useful tool today. however, i have an imagination and can foresee some usecases where the blockchain would truly change some of the way we do things. will it free us from our so called "shackles?" that a lot of the hypers like to say? probably not. or maybe? who knows. i'll tell you one thing -- there are many successful people investing in the space and generally, success follows success, so i'm optimistic from that viewpoint alone.

my main argument with your arguments is that close mindedness and flippancy doesn't get us anywhere.
One can also pay through ACH, so it's not like they're completely cut off from the traditional financial systems.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of their users use each payment method.
This specific issue makes the "PHP way" (just to mention a notable example) of having an interpreter created to serve a page and then destroyed at the end, much more convenient, even if more resource intensive. Assuming the problem is not in the Javascript side of a single page application, of course.
I'm sure there were some bad comments, but IMO this is a marketing ploy. Remember Ghostbusters 2016? The film-makers made a huge deal about the trailer being downvoted heavily, claiming it was all about sexism. When in reality the trailer and the movie were pretty mediocre. Seems like the same thing with Santa Inc. Have you watched the trailer? It looks terrible.
In the web3/blockchain space, HN is known as a prime example of a place you should go to ground yourself, because HN hates it with passion.
HN should really increase the max title length, there's plenty of space and the current limit often requires important details to be cut out
>Even the reliability of AP has completely evaporated for me. Not just influence from money, but also from intelligence agencies that make journalists feel important.

+1, it's grotesque how certain outlets have become CIA mouthpieces since 2016.
Exactly. I don't have a horse in the race, but every time Bitcoin was down, it seemed to somehow emerge stronger later on.
> Legally adults, perhaps, but I think we have a social consensus that most college students are kids. Their brains haven't fully developed. If they're coming out of a brainwashed environment, they may never have been explicitly told that this is wrong; they deserve a second chance.

I really don't think we do have such a consensus. The post-high school (for those who graduated) 18-year-olds from my old neighborhood who committed offenses didn't get this consideration. They went to jail. Knowing their home lives growing up, it was no surprise to anyone that they committed the offenses they committed. It's difficult to see how they could have done otherwise. They weren't explicitly brainwashed, but they grew up in an environment that warped their world view as thoroughly as any Chinese propaganda could have done.

In the United States, we've also tried children as young as 11 years old as adults.

I think there is a social consensus to give college students a pass.
North Korea bans laughing for 11 days
I think most people who game use the WASD keys in combination with a mouse, but I suppose it depends on the type of games.

I guess the All Other Vendors laptops are more geared towards accountants, and the Apple line is targeted at developers.
Monitor your network for log4shell with Elasticsearch and Rust
>I guess the people in the US ignore it completely, we just weigh it wrong :-)

uhh what? It's the same situation in the US. "houses" aren't a component of inflation, but "housing" is. According to the BLS, the "Shelter" component makes up 33.3% of the CPI.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2020.htm
Doesn't the public key have twice the size of the private key that it's derived from? (I remember something about that, but I'm not sure.) If so, yes, most byte series will never appear.
I just lost $5,000 this week and it’s pissing me off, so I can empathize.
Not only is that a rather cynical point of view, the actual dangers of this kind of radioactivity are rather trivial so that’s not going to happen.
That makes sense. I just figured that an official release from a government site (I checked the URL after I stumbled on this sentence a couple times to make sure it wasn't some random law blog, but an official .gov site) would be a bit better proof-read, so didn't want to assume. Also, I probably still need another 30 minutes for the coffee this morning to fully suffuse into my being so I can function like a normal person.
If you want to uncritically believe everything US establishment media says about enemies of the US establishment, that is your problem.
What is Rust and why is it so popular? (2020)
They used data-src instead of just a src attribute on the image. So Safari parses it as:

<img />
Until the crime stats show inconvenient facts and they take them down.
What is this substantial evidence? A one of the protestors moving to the US isn’t terribly convincing.
The poor kid will have more motivation than "Tim nice but dim" who would need pushing by his parents.
Encrypted at rest and transfer just means that if an unauthorized someone gets ahold of their backend systems, they can't read the file. It doesn't mean that Google can't maintain the key and use it to process and inspect the files. If they didn't have and use the key, they would never be able to create previews for files they keep, nor would they be able to offer a search function.
> idk what's more organic than creating the Second Amendment which was created long before there were gun lobbyists.

I think the whole debate over gun control is not as important as people make it out to be, so I don't have a huge dog in this fight.

That said, 2A was not interpreted (at least by the courts, but also it seems from historical research, in public discourse) the way it has been until the late 90s and early 21st century, particularly in DC v. Heller.

Historically, there was generally broad latitude given to cities to have arms restrictions going back to the 19th century. My guess is that the crack epidemic and associated things in the late 80s and 90s is what shifted attitudes here.
I think it gives Harvard a lot of cover for their admissions decisions. As you noted, Harvard has come under fire for rejecting a lot of Asian American applicants while also coming under fire for letting in less-qualified legacy applicants. While standardized tests have biases that are problematic, this move allows them to be more or less biased as they choose.

It's possible that they will become less biased in their admissions, but it's also possible they'll become more biased.

The University of California has also announced that they won't be considering SAT/ACT scores for admission. California forbids affirmative action in their state schools and while the SAT/ACT aren't objective tests, people often treat them as such and it provides a number for people to compare (whereas you can't really compare "really good at guitar" with "volunteers planting trees"). It's led to Berkeley being 2% Black and UCLA being 3% Black while Stanford is 7% Black and USC is 5% Black. Also notable, Berkeley is 24% White and UCLA is 26% White while Stanford is 32% White and USC is 37% White; Berkeley/UCLA are 36%/28% Asian vs 23%/21% for Stanford/USC. The University of California system is certainly having its admissions decisions impacted by California laws against affirmative action in their public universities.

I don't expect Harvard's admissions makeup to change significantly. I just expect it to be harder for third-parties (who might want to sue) to compare data. If you're qualitatively comparing applications that take a lot of time to review, it makes a lawsuit very difficult. If you're able to compare a numeric score, it makes it less time-consuming (even if the numeric score is biased/inaccurate, people often treat it as unbiased/accurate). It's easier to argue qualitative differences in judgement too and means that you have to start challenging things individually rather than as a class (which basically makes it impossible).

With the University of California, it will be interesting to see if they start coming closer to peer institutions in their student body.
I can only speak for myself but having a fun (but non-trivial) hacks side project helps me to actually prevent burn out.
Mind-controlled robots now one step closer
I've been a Google Fi customer for 6 or 7 years now and what constantly scares the hell out of me is the subreddit where about every 3-6 months you see someone saying:

"Google Fi did me wrong, so I reversed the charges on CC - now my entire Google account is locked / all photos / all files in drive"

This seems... like it's going to get regulated soon. Just going to take blocking the wrong account some day and boom, here we go, legislation.
Even if you had a degree, working in this field should teach you it's not a requirement.