skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why does the student body need to replace part of its Whites and Asians with minorities to be "rich and diverse"?

Hey, so there are two parts to your question, the "rich" part and the "diverse" part. I'll start with diverse because it's the most obvious.

In order to have a "diverse" student body, it should be represent a plurality of points of view. If everyone was White/Asian then the student body wouldn't be diverse, because, by definition, there would just be people from those backgrounds. Obviously there's more to diversity than just race, and I'm not not trying to argue there isn't. I am trying to keep this response short though, so forgive me from enumerating on other things when you asked specifically about race.

Ok so now the "rich" part of the question. College is an important time in one's life where many people get the opportunity to experience freedom for the first time, while they pursue a challenging, serious education. However homework and lecture is not the only place where our education happens. Being exposed to a lot of ideas, people, and experiences is also critical to the college education. By this line of reasoning being around people of all sorts of different backgrounds is part of that aspect of education.

I grew up in a suburb of Texas. There were not a lot African Americans. I actually can't remember there being any. My family wasn't wealthy though, and my parents are immigrants (just to give you some context and to keep my story honest). I truly think that if my university hadn't had its affirmative action program, there's a good chance I would have made it to adulthood without having ever been around non-white people in a meaningful sense. When would I have? I didn't choose what family, city, state, or country I was born in. All of those things happened outside of my control, and, frankly, from the perspective of someone who was from a city like New York or London I would have seemed pretty ignorant.

It's sort of like traveling, you know? Having the opportunity to travel gives you a baseline level of experience in the world that there really is no substitute for. I think having an ethnically diverse student body is similar, and that is why I said society is the primary beneficiary of affirmative action. That's my best way to answer the question without there being an actual person in front of me and being able to have a face to face discussion, so I hope you take my answer as one given sincerely, even if you don't agree with it.

> Also, aren't you worried about how getting denied admission to a college because of your race will have a very negative effect for "society"?

I am Italian. My "race" invented pizza, so no.

Edit: Also, kidding aside, give me a break. I don't even know how to answer that. You're acting like you're the victim of some kind of race war, and it's cringe. I hate to say it, and I don't mean to be disrespectful, but it's true. You sound like one of my parents when they pretend like "you can't joke about anything anymore" or that everything is "so complicated with all the political correctness". Madonna.
I might join this. I've been pretty invested in trying out various federated websites.
May as well consider buying Berkshire Hathaway, you get exposure to Apple that expires when they no longer think it’s a good place to park your money, which will likely be the point that you want to exit at, too.
And there was me thinking I opposed the death penalty.
> Pretty sure based on what you're writing that the reality I'm perceiving is quite different from yours. The only thing the Wagner event demonstrated is the lightning-quick reflexes of the Russian decisionmakers and their absolute stranglehold on power.

The days Wagner marched on Moscow were literally the worst day for the Russian airforce in something like 50 years.

They lost something like 6 aircraft in a single day, with something along the lines of 12 airmen.

> Things are looking ever more grim for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people (who at the end of the day are really those that suffer/will suffer the most).

I don't see how things look even more grim for Ukraine? theres fights going on in the Russian MoD, top generals are missing rumoured to be under house arrest.

A PMC took over a town and got 200km from Moscow with only something like 8k troops.

It makes it look like Russia is entirely unable to defend its own borders, and like Putin has partially lost control.
Huh, didn't expect to see TSMC in that headline.
Not making any statement regarding the mentioned workflow issues (I mostly agree with them), I really like iSH [1] for this sort thing.

It’s a “good enough” solution for the “I just quickly need to do something in a terminal” problems.

And because it’s an x86 Alpine Linux it can even run simple binaries if needed.

But for me it still couldn’t replace a dedicated laptop for proper tasks.

[1]: https://github.com/ish-app/ish
> if customers keep showing up?

Presumably this is the qualifier that answers the question? That's a fairly large "if".
To clarify for readers: China has never shot down someone else's satellite. They've only destroyed one satellite ever and it was their own.
I viscerally dislike McMansion Hell. It's so mean-spirited and snobbish. People build themselves homes in the suburbs for their families to live comfortably and safely, and some jerks on the internet act all superior about how they have better taste. It sucks.
The problem with the headcount is that they've had an excessive number of funding rounds and ramping up staff is how to show you're doing something "productive" with the money.

It's insane that they couldn't turn a profit ten years ago. They have a small moat and a well segmented user base. Advertisers should have been coming in droves even before the enshitification of the site.
Ironic that nearly all the problems listed in the article are due to there being literally too much money in the system. That's what 3 rounds of massive stimulus, absurdly low interest rates, unnaturally low upper income tax rates, and persistent deficit spending will get you. One generation absolutely hammering the next with debt and no onramp to prosperity.
I think a useful fact to contextualize how much more intense we're hoping to make fusion, is that the volumetric power density (watts per cubic meter) of sol's core (276 watts/m^3) is on the scale of a well run compost pile (50~200)[0]. Since we don't want to make an object as big as the sun's core, we need to make something far, far, far more intense than the sun's core, which is understandably quite hard.

[0]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266701002...
You don't have to sit there and wait! You can go grab a coffee or have a smoke!
I mean I'd like to find a way to discover other people's websites who also just do it for fun rather than websites that seem to solely exist to scrape pennies and/or data from people.
I can confirm. Not working since this morning; it's 15:16 now.
So where are the other laptops that have a 14 hour battery life, run cool, and have the speed of an ARM MacBook Pro?

No one is “forgetting” about the i9. It sucked like every other x86 laptop sucks.

But this is 2023 not 2020.
less than 10% of the time? Different pins and a very short pattern maybe could achieve that, but I strongly disagree.

I think that would decrease even further the popularity of bowling as a spectator sport. It would just be confusing to a casual player why the pros are getting similar scores to a player who bowls once a year.

However, if you think you’d like that, maybe look into candlepin bowling. I think their strike rate is above that, but not far above it. An interesting game, id like to try it. I’ve got a few duckpin lanes near me, but candlepin seems like it is specific to a few locations.
Given that we're already at the limit with regards to housing supply, I'm not sure that demand-side changes will make housing affordable unless the population very actively shrinks. Even in Latvia, a country with one of the fastest declining populations in the world, housing is getting more expensive, and has been getting more expensive basically every year since 2009. Consider also how strong immigration to the US is. How is it not just cope, to have confidence that there will simply be enough housing one day due to only demographic concerns and no other action?
The nudity was tolerated as long as the subjects were natives. No naked "regular people" appeared in the pages of National Geographic. Which does point to one of the causes for people complaining that it's gone down hill and isn't what it used to be, and other code language.
You don't need prices to fall for inflation to slow (that's deflation). You need the rate that prices are rising to decrease
Only plants and, IIRC, deep-sea vent equivalent chemovores don't depend on other creatures for food.

All sexual reproduction depends on others.

I assume that if you magically took Darwin to the present age, after you explained what a computer was and what AI was, he'd probably say "huh, I have no idea, this is all so far beyond everything I did in the mid 1800s that I have no idea if the analogy holds or not… by the way, have any of you figured out the mechanism nature uses for storing the information passed on via inheritance? Only we didn't have much of a clue in my time."
Study finds ear shape is as accurate as fingerprints for identification
Is this not "The Secret" all over again with a new generation ?
So many of these pics are in Britain and for good reason too, we have some of the dodgiest and shoddiest housing stock in the developed world.
Do you also know singleplayer games that are examples of truly good games that don't sell? I can totally understand that it's hard to get the ball running with a multiplayer game where it's necessary that enough other players are online at the same time.

I'm sceptical of the assumption that "you can make a truly good game and there's a good chance that it won't sell at all" that can be found in online discussions. Instead, Ryan Clark's approach to consistently make profitable indie games seems very plausible to me.

So I would add a few caveats to the hypothesis that "a truly good game will sell", such as the importance of selecting a viable genre and ensuring that development costs are not overly high, but otherwise I still believe in it...
'highly collectible'

Thanks for the laugh.
Creativity is tying one hand behind your back and assembling IKEA furniture. Or making a brand new film that's nothing like the old films, that says something new, tells a new story. Rewriting an old story with new words, using the same old tropes, will sell. But it isn't creative.
Weird signup captcha, it requires you to open devtools and remove `onpaste="return false;"` from their email field (either that or enter your email manually, typos and all)
Strictly speaking they said “a lot”, not “all”.
I only use it to see if/where a book belongs to/in a series. No other aggregate-type website seems to provide this information in any usable fashion.

Used to use it for book release notifications too, but that broke some years ago for me and I've yet to receive a response to my support request from like 4 years ago.
As a geriatric millennial (born '83) I find the hustle absolutely exhausting, especially when you feel like you have to run just to stay in place.
You seem to be disagreeing but the content of your reply agrees - there exist some books which should be banned from schools. Therefor banning books is not a bad thing in and of itself.
Ideally you would only reference NBER economic reports, however those come out years after the fact.
There have been ransomware attacks against vulnerable NAS devices, but yes it's mostly Windows.

The biggest reason it's mostly Windows is not just worse security posture due to complexity but also that Windows is so popular in business, causing it to be the most aggressively attacked platform.
>LockBit targeted TSMC through one of its suppliers, Kinmax Technologies, an IT services provider specializing in networking, cloud computing, storage, security, and database management.

The bit about security is ironic.
Or clumsy. Or a small child. Clumsy people and small children still need to eat, though.
Are many prices really falling, other than some very specific goods that had supply issues? I thought the slow regression towards low inflation was just most prices stabilizing at a new (much higher) level?
Sony makes several very nice high-end Xperia phones and all of their stuff is stock Android.
that event is literally the "punchline" of the researcher in the article
New word: Intracriticnescient

Definition: A person who criticizes the group they are in, without realizing that they are also implicating themselves in the criticism.
I'm the same, find the prevalence of non-stick bizarre, they still need to be washed and are basically degrading the moment you use high heat. You can't use metal or do stirfrys making them half as useful.

Would also include plastic utensils in that. So many people I know have half melted plastic spatulas etc. Wooden and metal utensils work fine and barely cost any more. I have a nice old teak ladle that's lasted me for a decade while friends are throwing out their bubbled horror show plastic after 12 months.
The idea presented in the article conveys to people that being cool is important and good. Cool is also code for Democrat or, at least, absolutely not Republican.
Games are more interesting for everyone when they’re driven by noteworthy good plays vs noteworthy bad plays. A low performance ceiling isn’t very fun.
Have any law suits from say the FSF or others been filed against Redhat for this action?
Some containers are. I have bought reusable silicone sandwich bags that you can freeze or put in the oven(up to 450 degrees F) if you leave the bag unsealed.
Inflation is still happening, it is just that based on this report the rate of price increases is less than it was last month and year over year.
Those stopped working for me last night.
What do people here on HN think of Dashlane compared to Bitwarden? I'm torn on whether I should stick with BW or try Dashlane out.
Print is needed, more than ever. Anything that's online can vanish in a heartbeat.
It's not a new rule, really. Google's primary product are ads and data about those who consume those ads. Everything else is a fun project for them until it's not anymore.
If your institution hasn't got protocols for this, and you got sensitive documents and your laptop, it's their problem. For the one goverment issued laptop I worked with in my life (a german SINA type system which was qualified up to the german VS-NfD (the lowest goverment security standard equal to US restricted)) getting it into a secure state was as simple as removing a smartcard
Predators and herbivores kill and eat, fungi decompose. Even plants grow towards sunlight. The LLM sits and hopes someone is paying for the lights to stay on.
So you should not go outside anymore as car tires are the largest emitter of microplastics?
The causality and health implications are laughable here that it has anything to do with the bottle. This seems like a new thing to outrage imo.
The web really needs a web site where you can make a good landing page for any book you want to refer people to.
I honestly tend to agree. At that time, an hour each day of personally selected music probably made me happier than holding on to some stock whose real upside started many years later. (There was plenty of time for me to buy AAPL again later but I mostly didn't.)
That can be solved with better tiering and categories.

I like low budget horror. I like how rookie filmmakers are capable of bringing brand new ideas out of the aether without even realizing it. I like it when a cheap actor has a single moment of greatness for no discernable reason.

I'm not stupid enough to think that any of them stack up with The Greats but I still like the films and personally rate them highly. Most film nerds would probably not appreciate my toplist, but it's not my fault everyone sorts by All.
> thinking as a service oriented business (say a salon or restaurant), why would I ever want to lower my prices

“Prices for goods decreased 0.1 percent and prices for services increased 0.3 percent” in May.
NFTs with ERC-6551: Ethereum's Groundbreaking Standard
An increase in supply and/or a decrease in demand can cause prices to fall. However, falling inflation does not mean falling prices. If inflation is falling but still positive, then prices are still increasing, on average.
Yup, deleted my account, found an alternative for the one community I participated in, and try not click on links to reddit. It was easy as my primary way of interacting with reddit was apollo...
Why their doomerism over their peer's optimism. There are top tier AI researchers who think differently. How do you choose which to listen too?
Specifically, the commonly cited "accelerating inflation" refers to the third derivative of price with respect to time. Interestingly, more physicists seem to understand this than economists: https://www.coppolacomment.com/2021/05/calculus-for-economis...
Truth. Lastpass is a clusterfuck wrapped inside a dumpster fire.
> Why is it my team can, with great mediocrity, write a shell script, but cannot write a terraform or ansible to do the same?

They could. They just don't want to, because it's not as sexy as writing code. If you can't do it in Python, from scratch (lol with a lot of modules and very little exception handling), it's clearly inferior and a waste of time to learn. Their intent is to write code, not get things done!

They don't learn how to write shell scripts either. I'm sure they will go their entire lives without ever reading the man page. But will read a million bad blog posts about Python and take from them the worst conventions from mediocre programmers trying to get eyeballs on ads.
How to Choose Between REST vs. GraphQL vs. gRPC vs. SOAP
I'm born 84. Still haven't given up! Maybe one day I will throw in the towel (Would rather have some millions in the bank by then)
Thanks for sharing this link -- Lots of great Japanese language learning insight on that domain!
Open network tools in your browser and go to Reddit, count total traffic. Now compare it with a typical SSH session, even with 'tail -f' some logs.
One easy fix: wealth tax && unused property/land tax
Just woke up to this. Florida.

Does not work over SMTP or FastMail iOS app, but I can open FastMail over the web from the browser. And it seems like I got some new mail, so not sure if some other mail was bounced.

I have been using FastMail close to 10 years now (based on my blog post I wrote in may of 2014 about moving from Gmail to FastMail). I don't remember that big and long outage for those years. Which raises a concern for me:

- I don't like how they handled it, the latest update is 4 hours ago https://twitter.com/fastmail, they mentioned "We're in close communication with our provider", which probably means it is not their fault, but the ISP.

- Are they just too small, and it is just more likely to happen to them, comparing to GSuite or Outlook? For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_services_outages At this point FastMail is down for more than 7 hours.

- I feel like a lot of companies might move to other providers after this. As I see a lot of people complain on twitter, and don't see any responses from Fastmail team. I am sure people will be unhappy.

Kind of worries me. I am not ready to move away from FastMail. But if I will have to, the only option I see right now is Apple Mail with custom domains. But I feel like I am using so many mail customizations, and not sure if Apple Mail can even support all of them.
You misunderstand my point. If some books should be banned then banning books isnt an inherently bad thing. So we should stop saying “they are banning books!” to suggest something wrong is happening. Its a weak argument that should die. We have banned books from children’s libraries for a long time and should continue to do so.
Reminds me of Pigeon Sim, using a Kinect and the Google Earth browser plugin (which is sadly now discontinued).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ye9dfeu7c

https://github.com/jawj/pigeonsim
> Zero bloatware, adware OS that works out of the box and doesn’t change every year.

Now that’s just blatantly bullshit. The OS takes up at least 9GB. There are many Linux distros that take half of that. Not to mention the OS is preloaded with a lot of Apple’s proprietary apps, most of which are designed to pull you into some kind of sales pitch. Fitness+, Apple Music, iCloud, the entire OS is an ad designed to sell you on their ecosystem.

The most egregious statement, however, is that the OS “doesn’t change every year”. You say this right after the iOS 16 update completely changed a large portion of the OS, and in some very user unintuitive ways.

Not to mention iOS is a glitchy mess even on the latest hardware. Frequently the OS stalls on wakeup, stalls when trying to swap apps, randomly drops wifi when my laptop doesn’t, the keyboard will get stuck on screen, it’ll even skip inputs entirely and freeze for a few seconds.
And yet youth perpetually don’t show up to vote. I am frustrated by millennial and Gen-Z’s willingness to roll over without putting up a fight. We’ll turn out to protest against police brutality or for #MeToo but any form of protest related to the economy ceased with Occupy Wall Street, which was pretty tepid.
> He was correct about where things were headed in his 2015 lecture.[1]

Doesn't that lecture also say that he doesn't think Putin would try and capture all of Ukraine?, thats exactly what he's trying to do right now.
The exact reverse engineered algorithm of the GFW is on page 4. It looks very reasonable (given what they are trying to achieve with it).

The easiest bypass I can think of would be to tunnel your connections via TLS. For example socks server tunneled via SSH which in turn is tuneled via TLS to your gateway.

Or perhaps you can somehow get your SSH client to transmit "GET " at the beginning of the connection, have the server ignore those 4 bytes, then proceed as usual.
This is a great point. There’s a lot of wooly thinking about what it means for a system to be intelligent, particularly “super” intelligent. People seem to think we’ll create a machine that is almost literally infallible — able to predict both physical systems and human behavior with perfect foresight many steps in advance. I’m not sure that’s even possible, let alone likely.
MEGA65R4 Bring-Up
Don’t forget aging demographics increasing demand while reducing supply of able bodies, with the added bonus of driving unemployment down

It really is a Rorschach isn’t it? :)
You missed Biden.
Asset prices (house prices, stocks, etc. ) are not calculated into inflation, nor they should be. Only rents, and costs of maintaining houses are a part general level of prices for goods and services.
My mother is a part-time real estate agent (mostly for friends and family type work). She's got one house on the market now and having a hard time selling. If they don't get an offer in the next week or two, they'll be lowering the asking price.

Just one datapoint/anecdote, but it's a far cry from the last few years in my experience.
I expect that to change over time. I personally expect man-in-the-browser attacks to start targeting SaaS application data.

I suspect a secondary reason is that the way windows credentials and file shares are set up, you can really build one-size-fits-all malware that goes after creds and hashes in a fairly generic way.