skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The group, Students for Fair Admissions, alleges that Asian-American applicants have been illegally targeted by Harvard and rejected at a disproportionately higher rate in violation of Supreme Court precedent and the students' constitutional rights.

> Two lower federal courts have rejected those claims.

To clarify what I am confident is deliberate vagueness, the courts agreed with the claim that they are "rejected at a disproportionately higher rate", which was a simple matter of fact to prove, showing they needed higher SAT scores to gain admittance.

The courts have only rejected the claim that this discrimination was illegal, not that it took place.

Under questioning from SFFA lawyer John Hughes, [Dean of Admissions William Fitzsimmons] detailed some of the recruitment efforts that begin the selection process. Harvard mails recruitment letters to black and Hispanic high schoolers with middle-range SAT scores, Fitzsimmons acknowledged, yet only sends such letters to Asian Americans if they have scored more than 200 points higher. - https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/15/politics/harvard-affirmat...
> Yet today, the overpriced, chronic cost-overruning F-15 sits at an impressive 109:0 kill to loss ratio, making it the best performing aircraft in the United State's history.

Not to mention Israeli history.
"When it comes to the food people want to eat, each [4] of these regions more than pull their own weight [6]."

I don't have a problem with moving water to support agriculture in those State. That's something that was fairly well solved in the San Joaquin Valley long ago.

But that is not what this opinion piece purposes. They summed that up with "Los Angeles couldn’t exist without the California Aqueduct. Phoenix and other cities in the Southwest are in the same boat. Their future survival depends upon finding large amounts of new water."

That is an entirely different issue. In all of Arizona there are approximately 138,000 people that work in agriculture. That's not even in the top 10 industries in Phoenix. About 40% of the water used in Phoenix is used for farming. Phoenix-area residents use over 50% of the water they get from city water supplies for watering lawns and maintaining swimming pools. [1]

When you look at the growth of metro areas there it seems pretty clear to me that growth is not sustainable.

1: https://askabiologist.asu.edu/questions/how-much-water-are-w...
My “anti shampoo aisle” strategy (that drives my wife mad) is to stop at the first item that satisfies my requirements.

“You didn’t even look at the back of the menu!!”

“Good point. I’ll start reading menus from random locations each time.”
You think guys like Bill Gates think about what they are having for dinner? They don't debate it with their wives. Food just appears. The cook knows what they like and they probably stick to that.

I would consider myself "filthy rich" when food just appeared for me.
it is because they are not afraid to drop to native when it makes sense, see:

https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-sticking-with-react-...

react-native is NOT a total replacement for native code, you still need native devs. It is more like instead of 5 ios and 5 android devs you need 4 JS, 1 android and 1 ios devs (but the ios and android persons also need to know JS)
if news were what it should be, then yes. But given that news is what's being presented as news today, it does more harm than good.
> I mean, it's some progress, I guess.

Ever wondered why the majority of ICOs in the US have been stamped out since 2017/2018?

> How long until the US Gov goes after all the folks who keep doing pump & dump/"rug pull" b.s with new coins? There seems to be a never-ending trail of those.

Until regulations are much clearer and those people who create such coins have to be registered and fully doxxed and exposed first perhaps.

But either way, it is never going to fully go away, so some of them will slip through the net.
I use a mix of leaving multiple windows with 1-20 tabs in each and Toby to organise them after a while.

My "workflow" usually consists of: open new window for the topic/theme (whatever it may be, research, study, reading news) and go opening tabs, searches, articles. When I get to a point where a window hasn't been active for a few days I close the useless/uninteresting tabs and save the rest as a collection in Toby.

It's been extremely helpful to manage my fear of missing knowledge or closing something I could get interested, the curation after a few days really helps.
> CADPAT works terrifyingly well in the temperate forests of Canada during spring/summer. I had a chance to go try and to spot people wearing CADPAT in the early 2000's and it was a royal pain to try and see them compared to the olive drab or even the US woodland patterns.

That reminds me of a story I heard about the "chocolate chip" US desert camo used in Desert Storm in 1991. Basically, the US designed their "desert camo to be effective in the desert of the American Southwest. But we ended up actually fighting in the Iraq/Saudi/Kuwaiti border region instead of the American Southwest, and it turns out that the deserts are different enough that the camo was not particularly effective.
That second link is just insane, the way that thing gets going and maintains speed through the corners is out of this world. I wonder what the disturbance in the air behind the middle of the car is, probably dust but it looks a bit strange for that. Or is it sucking itself to the ground (if so then that makes the run a lot less impressive, F1 outlawed that long ago).
If I didn’t ask for it, it’s spam. On the first instance.

And I’m not even very concerned with personally unsubscribing. Foremost I want to close the feedback loop to disempower a bad actor.
Wirecutter[0] cites at least two others, from Kansas State University[1] and the University of Delaware[2].

They have so many hyperlinks in the article that I don't want to check if any go to other studies. Certainly a lot of the links are to statements by professors and organizations rather than papers. But this passage seemed at least noteworthy:

"""We found similar statements from the Harvard Medical School (“Don’t buy a bug zapper”), Iowa State University (“Bug Zappers are Harmful, not Helpful”), the Texas Tech University Infant Risk Center (“Don’t use bug zappers”), and the US Department of Agriculture (PDF) """

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/do-bug-zappers-work/

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s002840010132

[2] https://archive.org/stream/cbarchive_110397_densityanddivers...
Yet there is no shortage of people starting new companies and the trend over time has been toward more of that, not less.
Which is why I enjoy buying things at Costco. They usually have one widget of a particular type. And historically for me at least, they seem to be proficient at choosing good widgets. Thus, my only choice is whether I want it or not, not then another choice of which one do I want.
Were we at the same company?

I joke. I probably wouldn't have called us "large", but otherwise your story matches my experience word-for-word, which says something about the industry...
I always thought of serverless as yet another fad to come and go. In my career it seems like these things come in waves.

1. The single page application wave came and we rewrote our Rails 3 app to Angular.

2. Serverless came along and we were building things with Firebase and other services we didn't control.

3. Chat bots came along and suddenly we had automatic pop ups on our site offering help and sales.

4. Microservices came along so we broke Rails into a bunch of services and languages and frameworks.

5. React came along and we replaced Angular.

None of these things ever last. I focus on the fundamentals and keep my core competency strong. Learn old/boring/proven technology. If it has been around for 15 years it will probably be around in 15 years...
Minor detail: it was 4th largest by surface volume, but 12th by volume.
Thanks for the links (and the flame war).

Another thing that I'm wondering about is how to calculate the length of a function.

What I'm thinking, is that you can treat a function like a piece of string, you take f(x) and generate a pair of functions, one above and one below f(x).

You generate the functions at a fixed (infinitesimal) tangential distance 𝛿t and generate deltas for {x, y}

mul = 𝛿t/((𝛿x)^2 + (𝛿y)^2)^.5
Δx = 𝛿y * mul
Δy = 𝛿x * mul

u(x - Δx) = f(x) + Δy
l(x + Δx) = f(x) - Δy

The idea being that the function length is the area ∫(u(x) - l(x)) divided by the thickness 2 * 𝛿t.

I have no idea how wrong this is, but if you can point me toward any resources that'll help when I (inevitably) get stuck, it would be very much appreciated.
There are varying types of content on TikTok, not all just "record yourself doing this funny dance". Perhaps that's where it all started, but it's grown significantly since then.

The problem with TikTok is that you have little control over what you see. All it takes is for you to stumble across an ADHD related post, engage with it and you're more likely to then see those types of posts again and again.

Anyone can have a voice on TikTok like other social media apps and ADHD in many social media circles seems to be an attention seeking type of content that makes people think "oh maybe I have it too". It's very similar to the classic scenario of people self diagnosing themselves with cancer, because they've googled it and believe they have some of the signs/symptoms.

I'm not saying that ADHD isn't real, but it is a type of diagnosis that is open to ambiguity unless appropriately diagnosed.
The lower conductivity of Al isn't important: you just use larger wires to make up for it and get the same resistivity. Al is so cheap that it's still much cheaper than Cu even with thicker wires. Al also has low density, so even with thicker wires, it isn't as heavy as Cu, which is important with power lines.
Because that is completely different approach. When using TST extension then "tab" is like bookmark + history element and not in your short term memory. One of the advantages over those is that visual overview is almost instant and so much clearer with structured tab trees with long descriptive tab names. It reduces brain strain as I no longer have to relay on blind searches in history and bookmakrs menu, google and notes in documents.

For example when getting into some game then all the guides, tips, videos, maps, mods etc. are open below one master tab and it is very easy to go back there after every month or so, back and forward works on tabs and you are like exactly back in this moment where had to stop that time. One such subject domain can be like 50 or sometimes 100 tabs and if your interests and work over about a year revolve around 30 subjects then few thousand tab-s is quite normal usage. Firefox + TST works with max 7999 tabs so there is quite some room.

I think the easily manageable high tab count is not even the primary advantage for starters, the fixed tab width with vertical tabs is as tab label is always visible and usually horizontal screen space is wasted anyway. Then comes the tree structure advantages and then the paradigm change to tabs as usable history when tab count is high.
Indeed, Chromium was one of the hard ones. Thanks again for your efforts.

What is "ldc"?

I'll keep an eye on https://archriscv.felixc.at/ and try out the current rootfs.
That's the most Swiss surname! Is that a coincidence?
If someone is already handling the functions of the CxO role internally and doing it well, they should be considered as a forerunner for the position.

Anyone hired externally must be expected to meet a substantially higher bar than the existing employees. Bringing in an external CxO who is less qualified than internal candidates will destroy morale and lead to attrition.

However, there’s a lot to be said for bringing in an external CxO who can take the team and the company to the next level.

A CxO role is quite different than a traditional manager role. You can’t expect good managers to automatically be good C-level executives because the work is just too different. It’s the same story as promoting ICs to managers - Different responsibilities and different skill sets.

But internal employees should always at least be considered and given a fair shot.
It is all electric rear wheel drive with two fans that suck it to the ground, and the skirt lasts a long time!
Eeew yeah, that is REALLY bad.
Freely-available roads are socialist. They should all be privately owned and have toll gates.
If, as the U of Delaware study found, only 0.22 percent (not 22%) of what's killed are mosquitoes, it had better be at least 1 / 0.0022 = 454 times worse.

[0] https://archive.org/stream/cbarchive_110397_densityanddivers...
Sounds like the company I work for. It sucks and we would really want to be able to go faster, but BigCorp is full of inefficiencies and sometimes we have to wait. Possible reasons for a delay:

- We want to interview this other candidate before making a decision.

- HR needs to approve something specific (your remote location is non-trivial, sponsoring your Visa application, an offer slightly above the standard pay rate, your abscence of a degree, etc.).

- There is a hiring freeze going on and we need a special approval to send you an offer (but not to interview you).

- The person who will actually make a decision had a 2-week vacation in the middle of the process.

- There is a fire going on and we just forgot about you for a few days.

- Etc.

I wouldn't stress out too much on this.

Edit: formatting.
I just find that it buries the lede.
You were thinking of throwing poison into your neighbors pots because your assumed they could be breeding mosquitoes?
that was true a while ago, but react-native-web works pretty well these days. You do need to write your code react-native first though (ie your code is react-native and react-native-web adapts it to work in the web)

but a lot of things are, not clunky per se, but unsolved for web. Main example is JS-based tooltips, react-native-web doesn't give you one and it doesn't make sense to do it in mobile. So you end up needing a lot of if platform === 'web' do this, way more than just supporting ios+android

updating to new versions is a huge pain, I usually default to making a new project from scratch and re-introducing our custom native code. Having iOS build knowledge helps a lot
Thanks for keeping it civil, I appreciate it! The capped compensation is for the "they're paid too much" angle. Removing autonomy in hiring is for the "they're undeserving/corrupt" angle. That way there's a different process for hiring that isn't corrupted by nepotism/cronyism.

I'm not trying to sound like I'm discrediting your experience or feelings, but I only really have your side of what happened, so of course your experience will sound justified from your perspective. There's a lot of possibilities for why that could have happened, not including ones that nobody could know about except upper management.
Some people are magnets for mosquitos and can somehow managed to get bitten and harassed in places I never ever see mosquitos.
I have a question. What happens if the student group wins? What is the racial composition of Harvard supposed to be? And how many black people would then be admitted?
One point here, when talking about the N = f/D formula to calculate the f-number, D is entrance pupil diameter. That is, it is the apparent diameter of the image of the aperture when viewed from the front of the lens, not the actual aperture diameter.
I would say this is true of almost any position. Ask any manager and they will probably say this is usually how it shakes out. 33 percent of hires are A players, 33 percent are B players, and 33 percent are C/D/F players.

It is grading on the curve. An A player at one company might be a B player at another. If someone is an excellent CxO they are probably a good candidate for a bigger and better company or the CEO job somewhere else and so will leave after some time unless given large incentive to stay or otherwise have reached their career ambitions.
Generally you’d look to learn about OS design and reverse engineering.
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>Show me in the 1974 NYT article where the NBER defines a recession.

You just quoted the fact that the NBER defines when is is a recession: "The bureau considers a recession to have occurred when there has been an extended substantial, and widespread decline in aggregate economic activity—or, duration, depth, and diffusion. The bureau has not specified the breakpoints which distinguish recessions from milder slowdowns. Its experts depend rather on comparisons of current cyclical trends with what happened during previous business cycles, a process that involves some qualitative judgment and interpretation of cyclical trends."

Each economic environment may have specific factors that make it a recession or not, and there is not published any simple rule. There is no way you (or I) would be able to understand the nuance they consider - they even state it's based on each event so they can consider the many, many factors before calling one.

Since there is no rule as simple as the two quarter belief, the NYT article does not state such a simplistic rule. A complex rule would be beyond the readership of the NYT, so they would not write it out anyways.

If you really cared to learn, I suspect there's tons of papers, and likely even past meetings minutes, on how each one was decided. If you learn enough to understand those, then you might understand why there is such nuance.

Are we now in agreement that recessions in the US have not been defined according
to a simple 2 quarter rule now? And that the NBER has historically been the group of experts that makes the determination? Or do you still disagree that is how it have been done for a long time now?

>Upon further research, it seems pretty shady.

Yes, you cannot remove the conspiracies from someone that really wants one. Your 5 minute research surely surpasses the quality of the rest of the entire profession.

> It's telling that you give them such credence.

I find experts more reliable than uneducated internet mobs.
The CDK for Terraform went GA today (https://www.terraform.io/cdktf and https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/cdk-for-terraform-now-general...). It's a framework that extends the capabilities of CDK so that you can use the whole Terraform ecosystem of providers and modules.

Under the hood it means that the `cdktf synth` command ultimately generates Terraform configuration that can be executed like any other Terraform config. It's definitely not a case of Terraform trying to be like CDK. Each has it's strengths, choose whichever makes the most sense for your workflow.
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Of course LTS still makes sense. In a production system you really only want to update the minimum possible in order to keep everything working, and the minimum possible is security and high-priority bugs only. Why would I want to keep churning all the software running all the time?!

Edit: clarifying which of your 2 answers I said yes to.
The other Apple Silicon tidbit today from Linus Torvalds in his Linux 5.19 release notes:

>On a personal note, the most interesting part here is that I did the
release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop. It's something I've
been waiting for for a _loong_ time, and it's finally reality, thanks
to the Asahi team. We've had arm64 hardware around running Linux for a
long time, but none of it has really been usable as a development
platform until now.

Not that I've used it for any real work, I literally have only been
doing test builds and boots and now the actual release tagging. But
I'm trying to make sure that the next time I travel, I can travel with
this as a laptop and finally dogfooding the arm64 side too.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgrz5BBk=rCz7W28Fj_o02s0X...
What crime are the fiat->coin exchanges committing? (Excluding the insider trading of one individual at coinbase)
it is not much different from using python with QT on linux for example
We watch every single F1 race, qualifying and sometimes practice. I have not been able to develop interest in FE.

Racing is a hobby for us, not just something we watch on TV. Every single one of my kids has gone through at least one SCCA driving course (multiple instructor-led days on track at Willow Springs Streets and Big Willow). We are into it, but FE just doesn’t click for some reason. Neither does NASCAR, BTW. At the risk of offending people, turning left for a million laps is just plain stupid. Sorry.
Unless we convert those tracks into 24/7 dedicated track, there’s no way we could deliver the same volume of water by track vs pipe.
Hiring takes time and not having people in roles can be worse than a mediocre performer and sometimes worse than a bad performer who generally gets the job done.
Nice try being cheeky.
I like to flip a coin when the decision is difficult. If the answer is satisfying, then either I had an unarticulated preference or it didn’t matter. If the answer is unsatisfying, then I had an unarticulated preference and I can just choose the (apparently preferable) alternative.
Yeap, beating the previous record by 16 seconds, 7:57.148 vs 8:13.378 [1]. The previous record holder being a Peugeot 208 [2], with the aerodynamics of a brick, but with 875hp and weighing 325kg less than the ID.R. ID.R has 671hp at ~1200kg.

It's also the second fastest at Nurburgring, behind by 45 seconds, 6:05.336 vs 5:19.546 [3].

It's an incredible car!

1. https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/21731/volkswagen-i-d-r-...

2. https://www.supercars.net/blog/2013-peugeot-208-t16-pikes-pe...

3. https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-cars/a2140371/volkswagen...
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