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> Attending an elite university just means you were in the top x% of your age cohort. By definition, the top x% is not a group who's membership you can expand.

This would all be very well if you decided the top x% via an objective and reasonable standardized test.

However, the mention of standardized tests to determine top x% objectively usually sends people running for the hills [1], and they quickly start talking about "holistic criteria" for admission and how they benefit the students.

If the criteria are holistic, i.e. subjective anyway, I don't see why we can't have more elite universities. They will just be holistic along different dimensions.

To some degree you already see this in the Ivy League – Cornell is considered, broadly speaking, nerdier than Harvard. So just create 10 nerdier Cornells and 10 preppier Harvards, problem solved. It will just be harder to automatically rank people based on what school they went to. Good!

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[1] As someone who has seen and felt the downsides of a standardized testing regimen which objectively decides whether you go to a certain college or not, I sympathize with them.
Maybe in the hardest hit areas. We did not lose 2/3 by a long shot but were still out for a week. If we experienced those winds again we'd absolutely have similar devastation. Not to mention, disaster preparedness is about flexibility. Tornados, solar flares, cyber attacks on the grid, regional cascading failures... All of these are nice times to have access to secondary power sources. Plus the one in my Volt is obviously super mobile.
In the case of arithmetic, strong typing is kind of nice, because math is different dependent on what types you are using. 3/2 = 1 for integers, 1.5 for floats, etc... You really don't want to mix those up in mission critical sections of code.
That setting exists, you can show only open source, or only proprietary, or only Linux, etc.
There was a time when Facebook existed primarily on the PC web. Everyone thought Zuckerberg was dumb for pivoting substantial company resources into mobile (initially HTML5, then pivot to native app).

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/21/when-zuckerberg-said-faceboo...
> Current or past generation cars are comparatively "open" with lots of repair and maintenance options, which gives owners the benefit of choice and competition.

Not necessarily. For example BMW and Mercedes will design their vehicles to make them difficult to work on, and often when a specific part breaks you need a proprietary piece from the OEM. Idk if companies like Ford and Toyota use the same tactics.
just make patent renewal fees rise geometrically on an annual basis. choose any base you want, such as e. the initial filing might be $100. the second year, it's $272. third year, $739. by the 11th year, it's $2.2M, so real money. if the patent is still worth it, then patent holders will pay. otherwise, they can relinquish for the benefit of the public at large.

do the same for trademarks and copyrights (perhaps with different starting fees and bases).
Yeah, my little world (med device) is doing just fine.
Every time I put on a VR helmet, I flash back to being a teenage boy and cringe while I wait for one of my “friends” to punch me in the crotch. I can’t really see VR taking off for most people because middle school bullying aside, it’s very claustrophobia inducing to be unable to see your surroundings.
The opportunity absolutely has not passed. Widespread smartphone use is barely 3 election cycles old.
Show HN: Common Lisp running natively over WebAssembly for the first time
A month or so ago, I ported a Common Lisp implementation (npt) to WebAssembly to make a silly blog post, because I was bored and have a lot of time on my hands to waste with things like this (I don't have a job, and because I have next to no experience, these meaningless, silly projects tend to fill what time I do have).

This is significant as it's the first time Common Lisp in particular has ever been hosted on it; wasm has a few poor decisions in its design that make it less-than-conducive to being a target for Common Lisp, and a lot of the more interesting implementations require an implementation to already be on the platform for bootstrapping purposes.

My previous attempts using other implementations haven't gone so well, despite throwing a lot of time at it (as an example, I have a fork of Eclipse Common Lisp, a defunct implementation from the 1990s, sitting on my disk with a few hundred lines of changes that I finally got to successfully compile and run a handful of very basic expressions, but it blows up when you try and define anything). In comparison, I was pleasantly surprised by how little I had to do, even though I did end up scrapping loads of lines of my own changes to npt in the process as I got a handle on how to make it work acceptably.

The Emscripten toolchain and I don't get along, partially because I don't like inlining ECMAScript into my C and vice-versa, so it's little more than a neat little demo right now.

You can load slightly more complex programs into it by hijacking the "imp" ECMAScript function every few hundred milliseconds with strings containing complete forms (this is essentially a batch processor, so there's no interactivity that allows it to wait while you decide what the rest of a form should be). Only one at a time, though. It's not that fancy.

If you mess up at all, even just a little error, it will crash. This is by design; I disabled the debugger. It's a giant hack, and the hack I eventually decided on left it impossible to have a debugging experience, with the benefit of getting to use a closer-to-unmodified npt.

This could be more useful, if I spent more time on it, but it's more fun if it's just a demo. I hope you enjoy the toy I made for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch_processing

If you don't know what forms are in the context of Common Lisp:

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/03_aba...

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/26_glo...
Thanks for clarifying your country! I was under the impression that you were part of Europe was relatively well insulated from the nonsense everywhere else. I was contemplating PhD, but reading the comments, I think it's wise to refrain from it.
>> Especially since all these companies ask for and verify your cell phone number – which is way more static than any email address.

My domain is 27 years old, my oldest phone number is 5 years old (and it's a virtual phone number from textnow). Yes, I still receive spam to email addresses I gave out 20+ years ago. The thing is, I'm avid traveler, and phone numbers do not cross borders very well. Email does.

The biggest hurdle has been "For security purposes, write to us from your original email", which requires me spoofing the FROM line in my email client.
The errors are bad, but understandable in 99% of cases with a little experience (like 2-3 weeks).

And the stuff about the tooling is flat out wrong. The CLJS tooling is light years ahead of JS tooling in my experience. Maybe that was different back in the day, but shadow-cljs is seamless. Vastly superior to working with package.json/babelrc/postcssrc/webpack.config.js/etc/etc/etc
Ask HN: 15Five alternatives with a free/lite plan?
15Five only offers subscription tiers now. They used to provide a free/lite tier with limited seats. Has anyone found a suitable replacement for team/culture management that is free for small groups?
I use the built in weather app on my iPhone. I’ve never seen any ads in it, so I don’t know what “ads and tracking data” you’re referring to. The app does update on a minute-to-minute basis when it’s raining out, though. It looks like this [1] and it doesn’t just scroll left on a local timer. The magnitude of the predictions in the graph change on a minute to minute basis and can disappear entirely, giving a very nice prediction of when the rain will stop so that I can go out and expect not to get wet.

[1] https://iphonesoft.fr/images/2021/02/meteo-14.5-ios.jpg
Looks awesome. I wish it weren’t Windows only.
> The size and longevity of these enormous endowments is a problem

Is it? The largest university endowment in the world is $50B. That's wouldn't even crack the top 100 US companies by market cap. If it's a problem, it's certainly not a big one.
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Phishing bored lawyers?
Ah—no, I hadn't seen the demo.

What isn't clear to me from the demo, however, is what happens if the typist uses backspace or pauses while typing. I wouldn't want those things to get transmitted if they happened within the span of a single transmission.

In other words, it's okay to display letter-by-letter, similar to video game dialog, but they don't need to keep the original timing information.
The US population increased 100 times since 1800s from 5M to 500M. Harvard enrollment increased 4 times since 1800s from 1.5K to 20K.

The number of universities in the US did grew greatly during these 200 years, but the funding distribution to these universities is as skewed as the income inequality in the US. For instance, 60% of NIH funds go to <10 institutes in the country.

The scholarly work at these elite universities might not appear deserving of the preferential treatment from the funding agencies, if we start poking around reproducibility crisis, data hacking etc.

It seems fair to assume doubling elite universities would not be catastrophic to elitism.
This presumes the prestigious schools grow in proportion with the society.
I have mixed feelings.

Hook style API allows us to write the same functionality with less keystrokes. But I found that I interpret how it works object-orientedly. It feels wierd to write them as functions instead of classes.

If there are multiple appearances of the same component, they belong to different "instances". Components get updated by modifying their state, or in other words, their "instance variables".
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I don't think we are finding out that much. Most other countries are experiencing the same inflation we are and not all of them deficit spent a lot during the pandemic. Nor do most even have that power.

Surely some of the inflation and really low unemployment is due to QE. But it's likely a lot more of it is due to an economy growing while the active workforce is shrinking and external factors like the pandemic and war in Ukraine causing supply issues.
This looks like a hint to why this message was accepted with failed dmarc: http://lists.dmarc.org/pipermail/dmarc-discuss/2013-April/00...
Cinema-goers in the UK can now use iPhone to verify age for restricted films
> perhaps that resolves the discrepancy?

No.
An attempt at increasing reputation? Nobody is going to mark that as a spam.
Wait hold on, why are you jumping straight to "what the compiler can infer"? Compilers (and type systems) are written by and for humans, so first tell me the use case for multiplying a float by an int that does not lead to a float and justify why we should optimize for that case.
The reason for this is right in the headers. The message had a valid ARC headers used to preserve DKIM/SPF/DMARC checks when forwarding email.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated_Received_Chain
I’d never considered that, makes sense! Thanks!
Ask HN: How do you get started as a developer in rural Morocco?
I have a friend in rural Morocco who wants to make a living with computers. He’s 30, can read and write English, but doesn’t know anything about software or web development. He wants to learn so that he can make a living. What are his options and what specific free courses should he study? What is the quickest path to being skilled enough to take on UpWork (or similar) projects?
I’ve been tempted to try Brave in the past, as Chromium based browsers are occasionally necessary, but now I’m really glad I didn’t bother. Every time I looked at it something just didn’t sit right with me. It felt like they were trying to hard and it was a trap… maybe I was just paranoid.

I read the details from Reddit about them just mailing based on a zip code, but the whole concept of personalized mailings seems to fly in the face of their mission. They could have just had “Current Resident” if they wanted to blanket a whole zip code. Using a person’s name seems like a needless privacy invading step.

Even without names, direct mail marketing is a huge turn off. I’ve had offers from State Farm follow me to 15 different addresses. I get something from them at least once a month. I have never been a customer and their mailings have cemented that I will never be their customer. Brave’s actions here have had the same effect, and they didn’t even need to mail me directly. There is no bigger turnoff than being the source of my junk mail. They clearly need a new marketing team.
WWIII will not happen the way you think, it's already happening to some extent.

The difference with before is that the EU is largely pacified, the middle east only cares about Allah or not Allah, Russia cant invade its own backyard and is running out of teenagers to butcher.

This leaves the US, India and China as the trifecta of dangerous war machines. China I think will prefer to lead internal struggles against common cold variants to "win" victories and softly annoys the two others to keep them at bay - the party doesnt care about the country, only its own survival, India has only an interest in border conflicts with China and doesnt have the ability to succeed at any serious escalation of violence so will always avoid them, and stay unaligned with the US.

The US, you included as it s mostly americans proposing ideas of "world war" out of nostalgia for their golden past, has lost enough goodwill to be left alone before it can escalate, but is still trying hard to destabilize China - which means they care less about peace than removing the single party which annoys them to no end.

I dont think we'll fall in the american trap, but who knows, the military complex pressure is so high they have to fire all these guns at some points to build new ones. Hope they stay at invading poor countries all around that have no chance to defend themselves.
Something like https://github.com/buma/GPSOverlay might give you some pointers.

Although it's not clear if you want to display your additional data as an overlay (like this example) or keep it as some kind of metadata stream. I'm not sure if the second option is even a thing.
Not going to happen because the rankings racket rates them based on their exclusivity.
On one hand, they aren't special casing their own products, so good on them I guess? On the other hand, if they can't detect this, what point is their spam filtering even?

Public mail services can be surprisingly bad at what they decide not to catch. I love Fastmail but because some existing customers rely on it, the default behavior is not to block inbound emails with the same domain as you've delegated entirely to Fastmail.

One would expect a given provider should, unless instructed explicitly otherwise, block outside emails from domains it controls mail for.
I've never wanted to use Rust less than after encountering this article.
The problem with that lottery is that it still doesn’t solve the problem of artificial scarcity. There is no reason why a “Harvard” level class is restricted to just a room full of people. We totally have the technology and capabilities to scale it to the masses and make education vastly cheaper but we choose not to for some reason. I think part of YC’s philosophy is basically this. Think making startups accessible rather than just some elite institution for wealth preservation.
Dave Smith was also behind the Korg Wavestation (released in 1990), which is an evolution of the Prophet VS.

The Wavestation seems like it's just barely on the older side of a dividing line between digital synthesizers and romplers. Take a look at digital keyboards like the Yamaha DX7, Roland D-50, Casio CZ-101, Kawai K1m, or Ensoniq ESQ-1. They're all synthesizers, you use them to make sounds. You can use them as preset machines (and I'm sure most people did), but they have a ton of possibilities for sound design.

Then came the Korg M1, E-mu Proteus, Yamaha SY85, etc. These machines are more like "a bunch of sounds in a box"--you buy the box, you get access to all of the sounds recorded in ROM. You get a bunch of standard sounds like acoustic and electric pianos, bass guitars, strings, saxophone, etc. These keyboards have no realistic sounds and limited opportunities for sound design, but they are incredibly flexible from a musical perspective. If I show up to a jam session or an open mic with a keyboard, that keyboard had better have a good palette of acoustic & electric sounds.

The Wavestation is a fantastic instrument but what keyboardists wanted in 1990 was, you know, samples of all the acoustic and electric instruments on tap, but the Wavestation had no acoustic piano or drums. The Wavestation was not commercially successful, even though it's a fantastic piece of gear. The revised Wavestation EX got acoustic piano samples and drums but it still focused on synthesizer-like sounds. Ironically, the synthesizer-like sounds are what people like about the Wavestation these days.

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/korg-wavestation-tip...

I have a Wavestation SR at home, and it's really cool, but I can see why it wasn't as commercially successful as its competitors.

The Roland JD-800 (from 1991) basically has the same story--the JD-800 is a digital synth made in an era when people really wanted romplers.

Both the Wavestation and JD-800 got recent rereleases in cute, miniature formats as the Korg Wavestate and Roland JD-08.
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This is done entirely to admit fewer Asians as a form of racial discrimination. See: Lowell High School.
Buying shit filter coffee while being spooked on, and never care about anything, sounds like living the Dream. Dream on.
> When Burger King "bought" Tim Hortons in 2014 ... the whole experience went to pot

I hear a lot of people say this, but I see no difference between BK Tim Hortons and Wendy's Tim Hortons in the years before.
McDonalds is good now. It was always fine in several other countries (UK, Japan, Australia) but it's good in the US now too, even if the ice cream machine keeps breaking.

The black coffee is okay and they have those mango smoothies that are pretty good.
Yes, and have done for years. Plain text, no obstufication, on the front page of a .com I've had for around 20 years.

Around 5 messages per day get through the bulk filters my email provider has, mainly phishing emails from GMail.
Hard G. To use your example, as in golly.
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I have taken care of this particular case and will keep improving. App is redeployed.
Thanks for reporting
Yeah, it's super old? Google searching it before gave a host of good discussions and examples and doesn't much longer.
I was not suggesting pieces of the instrument turn into diamond. Everything vibrates at some frequency. Sympathetic resonance occurs when a passive string or vibratory body responds to external vibrations to which it has a harmonic. What I and others are suggesting is very similar to this phenomenon. The wooden body of the instrument changes over time as it is resonated by its own strings, such that it settles in such a way to be resonant of a fundamental frequency. For an acoustic guitar, depending on how it is played, this may mean the entire back piece of the guitar tunes itself to E, A, D, G, or C, as these are the most common open chords due to how the guitar is tuned.

I'm not an acoustical physicist nor a luthier. Perhaps I've used the wrong terms. But I think maybe you can't see the forest for a tree blocking your view, which you've gotten hung up on.

Here is a bad citation.[1] Your searchfu is probably better than mine. Feel free to find a better citation.

[1] https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/4661/manufacturer-...
They operate a filter to bring in quality people for the benefit of the other legacy students who pay to get in. It’s like how Google shows and gathers organic results… so they can get eyeballs on their paid results. In fact google doesn’t even need to improve their organic results past a certain point as long as it’s good enough to bring eyeballs.

Elite institutions thus only need to get a good enough sample of extraordinary individuals to bolster their status, but they do not live necessarily to bring an exceptional education to those who deserve an exceptional education.
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I'm very happy with Orion's performance on Mac, the built-in content blockers do a great job and don't get in the way. I had some issues getting password autofill to work but just needed to import them from safari.

Updated from 0.99.114 to 0.99.115 and I think they worked out a lot of bugs with the built-in tree-style tabs, so I'm enjoying those again.

The Shift-CMD-F "focus mode" is a nice upgrade from safari too, which doesn't have a proper full screen mode afaict
I'm not really an expert on this, so I don't know why someone is doing this here, but it sounds like a DKIM replay attack: https://proton.me/news/dkim-replay-attack-breakdown
What individuals did the fed give money too? The stimulus payments were paid through the US Treasury like any other congressional spending bill.
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Ok, ok...ok. Hear me out. What about a prequel to Macbeth. Macduff and Macbeth origin stories. Hollywood is where the real money is so we'll skip the stage and go straight to film. Not film. Films. We'll split it into 3 (yes, three!) films since there is so much to be told. But since there isn't that much to be told, we'll import a few characters from other Shakespearian plays ...especially those that don't fit the timeline....Tybalt the thane of East Fife, anyone?
Things were trending towards remote in 2019. We overshot the ideal remote rate because of the lockdowns and it's in correction now.

For one thing there has been a lot of shifting. Some colleagues prefer to live in a remote location close to family, where the living costs are low too. And they'll be forever remote from now on.

And there are those who are more flexible. I like seeing people but I'm not an extrovert. Peak remote work wasn't quite "work from home" but "work from a co-working space". For some reason, many offices are not as cozy and arr too remote compared to a co-working space.