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That sounds like "Cloudflare automated region handling", not that regions don't exist.

For example, make your app talk to two backends in different EC2 regions, and now none of the smart placement helps you.

The poster we're replying to seems to be gleefully ignorant of speed of light limits and fundamental distributed systems challenges.
I attended the first HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) 1994 and heard a panel speak that included Eric Hughes, famous for the Cypherpunk's Manifesto among other things, about cryptography, banking, cypherpunk, etc. This was 15 years before the blockchain paper by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 and the start of Bitcoin on the market in 2009. The dream was to have anonymity and privacy for everyone. It would also eliminate the middle man. When you buy a late at Starbucks, it goes through at least 4 or 5 agencies, and they all take a cut, and track your information. Due to typical scare tactics, "drug dealers and pedophiles will use it to avoid prosecution", like cash was never used anonymously for drug deals! Also a few bad players in the crypto market didn't help with the reputation. However, to totally cave and move to centralized government control of your wallet is insane. Yes, you already have a lot of that with ATMs, debit cards, credit cards, Paypal, Apple and Google, but now you are going to put it all in one basket? It's bad enough paper money is now just a joke without a gold-backed or other real world commodity, just print as much as you can to keep the average joe/jane in the dark about how bad the value of the currency really is. Europe is going to crash hard economically for many reasons in the coming years, and this will give the government the power to control the populace even more when it does.
It seems like folks don't understand the reference to compression in airplanes, so let me share some examples.

Airplanes are supported by their wings, which deflect air downward and are in turn deflected upward. The wingtips flex upward, which puts the bottom surface of the wing under tension and the top surface under compression. This is true of all wing materials, but the point is that carbon fiber is used for wings and works fine as long as it is specced and constructed to handle the load and cycles.

The fuselage is supported during flight by the wings at the wing root, so the nose and tail of the aircraft want to droop down; this puts the bottom of the hull under compression and the top under tension. Again--true of all aircraft hulls but carbon fiber works fine in hulls too--again, as long as it is engineered correctly.

Finally composites (of which carbon fiber is only one type) are used extensively in marine applications. Fiberglass, aramid, carbon, and other fiber-based composites are commonly used in boat hulls, where they experience static and dynamic compressive loads. A jet ski smacking into the face of a wave at 50 knots puts a lot more than 1G of compressive force on its composite hull.

There's really no physical reason that a composite hull could not work in a submersible. However there are a lot of reasons folks don't usually use composites for that purpose--primarily that the cost-benefits of composites disappear as compressive forces go up. A composite hull that performs as well as a metal hull, at the pressures we're talking about, is possible but would be more expensive and have a shorter lifespan than the metal hull. This is why huge ship hulls are still built out of steel, even though almost all smaller boats have composite hulls these days. It's cheaper.

Coming back around to the Titan, the concern with the carbon fiber hull was not that it's physically impossible to do right, but rather suspicion that it only looked like a good idea because they were cutting corners in the engineering (because if they weren't cutting corners, it would not have looked economical).
Care to elaborate? I know I'd been making the same assumption about American universities - Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, and Stanford do seem to represent a good share of the world's best universities.
This may be the only time ever I’ve ever felt like I agreed with the conservative side of SCOTUS.

I just do not know how to politely say any form of affirmative action is bizarre.

If your schools suck at teaching worthwhile things to minorities or poor people, the problem is that your school system sucks. Not that some people don’t get into a few highly prestigious universities.

You could argue it’s a kind of bandaid, but at the cost of introducing discrimination yet again and hiding the true problem. Which is that your system sucks at creating opportunity for everyone.
The son not wanting to go was a comment from some random aunt or cousin. I'd trust the mother's word instead of someone cashing in on the drama.
Micron Expects to Debut GDDR7 Memory in 2024
I disagree, and though the GP maybe didn't have this sentiment, my personal view is that intellectual property is a bunch of crap and just because there are laws around it in our capitalist society doesn't mean that the laws are moral/just/ethical/good. IP is constantly ingested and transformed which is exactly what LLMs are doing. The fact that ChatGPT can't even accurately reproduce data from its training (it gets basic facts/dates/quotes wrong all the time) really reinforces that it's not infringing on anyone's IP.

If you're tired of responding to these comments then stop. It's the internet, everyone is at different places in exploring topics and having discussions. Don't poo-poo on someone else's journey and instead move on with your day. There is no required reading (other than TFA) on hacker news.
While I agree with your assessment of the situation, even then I wouldn't have a government policy which forces the DEI policies out. If the management, board, and ultimately shareholders of business want to run the most "progressive"/"woke" hiring and HR policies imaginable: they have the right to do so. Mind you I probably wouldn't want to even be a customer of such a company let alone work for it, but a private entity should be able to act as they see their best interest dictates.
Do people who do better on standardized tests make better doctors? I take the null hypothesis. One's grades and test scores in high school are poor predictors of one's professional efficacy after a certain point.

I say, eliminate obvious cases of students who aren't trying, take the handful of obviously excellent students, and for every applicant in between, have a lottery.
He didn't petition congress because congress already legislated on this issue: neither the 14th amendment nor the civil rights act contain exceptions allowing racial discrimination, as long as it's for the right cause (and the courts get to pick which causes are right).
> I agree that it’s a bad look when a Nestle company can obtain a B Corp score, but that’s not to discredit the entire program.

Can you explain why this shouldn't discredit the entire program? What distinction does b-corp certification actually make? I realize the point is it's supposed to signify that the corporation intends to make a positive impact, but clearly that's not actually a requirement.
Good. Airbnb messes up the rental market for locals. Like all "gig economy" services, it exploits legal loopholes to avoid proper classification and extract value from the commons.
How ironic, because the Airbnb cleaning fees and requisite cleaning chore lists are skyrocketing.
Web isn’t required. I use it with thunderbird.
It's not worth spending a lot of time immersed in the whole shovelware ecosystem of wrappers around these APIs. A year from now the dust will have settled and anywhere from zero to a few tools will be actually useful or necessary. It won't be rocket science to learn them then.
There are limits to that -- to signing away rights. In the US You can't sign yourself into slavery. You can't sell the right to have someone kill you.

There's sort of an exception for military service, but even soldiers have acess to military courts.
Asians spend much more time than others on homework. [1]

1: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07311214221101...
For anyone else who doesn't know what an L3C is, Google says it's L3C a low-profit limited liability company.
Do you not participate in any open source communities? Many have thousands of participants, even obscure Linux window managers.
QKSMS has a better interface than Simple SMS Messenger, but it's unmaintained, and for me, it had the same or worse problems with MMS than Simple SMS has.
It's not (just) that python is "easier" to learn than python (which I dispute - lisp is as easy to learn as a first language as any other. Depending on the language it may be a difficult second language though). The world had also changed radically since it was introduced into the curriculum:

"Costanza asked Sussman why MIT had switched away from Scheme for their introductory programming course, 6.001. This was a gem. He said that the reason that happened was because engineering in 1980 was not what it was in the mid-90s or in 2000. In 1980, good programmers spent a lot of time thinking, and then produced spare code that they thought should work. Code ran close to the metal, even Scheme — it was understandable all the way down. Like a resistor, where you could read the bands and know the power rating and the tolerance and the resistance and V=IR and that’s all there was to know. 6.001 had been conceived to teach engineers how to take small parts that they understood entirely and use simple techniques to compose them into larger things that do what you want.
But programming now isn’t so much like that, said Sussman. Nowadays you muck around with incomprehensible or nonexistent man pages for software you don’t know who wrote. You have to do basic science on your libraries to see how they work, trying out different inputs and seeing how the code reacts. This is a fundamentally different job, and it needed a different course.
So the good thing about the new 6.001 was that it was robot-centered — you had to program a little robot to move around. And robots are not like resistors, behaving according to ideal functions. Wheels slip, the environment changes, etc — you have to build in robustness to the system, in a different way than the one SICP discusses.
And why Python, then? Well, said Sussman, it probably just had a library already implemented for the robotics interface, that was all."

https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-f...
The comment your replying to built that in though. They said look at how much the insurance costs. If the insurance is very high, then obviously it's high-risk
Nobody was suggesting throwing the 2.5 GPA kids in with the 4.5 GPA kids and sending them wherever. If MIT has a 4% acceptance rate, I can guarantee that more than 4% of those applicants could have succeeded there if a spot was available to them. Applicants already largely self-select whether to bother applying in the first place.

The suggestion is that MIT or Northeastern State A&M for that matter set a minimum standard bar that they will consider. Then, all of those applicants that meet the standard are entered into a lottery to determine who gets the spots.

It's not all that different from today except it eliminates the problems from whether Reader A or Reader B looks at your application and whether Reader A had a good night's sleep or a fight with their partner that morning.
$5 a month for just 300 searches? Who is their target audience??
I consider a system that requires someone to die before something gets fixed to be a broken system.
In the U.S.: go to shitty school, get shitty SAT score, disallowed from college. Repeat.
math needs to work out. if you have a 100 people and 50 defined to be poor, but can only admit 5 people. How do you decide which of the 50 poor come first ? The top 5, and you are back to square 1. The bottom 5, and you have the devil's problems. Remember the poorest people, the people with billions in negative wealth, are in jail or worse. You do not want to bring them back to the top !
Not at all. I've read multiple stories about how pedestrian deaths, even when warranted, rarely result in prosecution. Freakonomics even did an ep called "how to get away with murder" which was all about the statistics of pedestrian deaths.

GP had a VERY good hot take.
Hotmail did this too. And it's really sad. I lost a lot of the early emails I sent as a child.

It's a policy that saves nothing but builds tremendous ill will. I would never trust Microsoft with anything now.
We still teach the Newton laws that are comparably old. We also teach that they are approximate, but work flawlessly for household-scale speeds and masses.
And yet it has been American business dogma for decades
The who is more privileged game is not a fun one to play.

Watched a white male friend and a white passing Hispanic female friend get into this argument before. He grew up poor in a rural area, only one parent worked a low paying job and the other was the care giver. She grew up middle class in a city, parents were college professors.

There are a ton of other factors but even at those basics it got complicated. Is a male always more privileged than a non male? How do you weight one point of privilege vs another? It all started to feel very subjective. I wonder if a matrix like that would even be legal.
While a charitable view, my impression is that was unlikely. The school itself was already located in an impoverished area. They didn't need to recruit from the other side of the state to find disadvantaged students. And their materials said nothing public about special admissions for disadvantaged people.

It wasn't until I met face to face with a counselor that they let me in. My guess -- it's only a guess, I can't prove this -- is that the counselor had some leeway to determine whether to admit me, and that there was an unwritten mandate to prioritize candidates of color. I don't know if whites from those same zip codes would've gotten the same treatment. It seemed to me like the face time was a possible way for the university to hide race quotas behind judgment calls. I don't have the numbers for this though, just a hunch.

And to their credit, we did have poor white applicants who did get in, obviously, or I wouldn't have gotten to know them. It wasn't an especially selective school to begin with. But it did seem like zip code recruiting was a proxy for race based recruiting. If they wanted income based recruiting they could've done that from anywhere without geography as a constraint.
“DRAM is not a good idea” is a bit of a hot take…
>Google started becoming an answer engine from ~2015 with the introduction of "People Also Ask", and arguably earlier than that [0]. Mojeek.com is a (information retrieval) search engine, and we resist the temptation to also become an answer engine. So you might say we do not compete with Google.

I'm sure you know your users well after so many years in the search engine business, but having read your article I must say I find your approach risky. You seem to be betting on search engines and answer engines continuing to be complementary rather than substitutes.

But we are not the ones making this decision. Users will be making the decision in light of the newly available AI capabilities, and they will be making it with complete disregard for the health of the web, as is their nature :)

The "funny" thing is that big publishers are as happy right now as I haven't seen them in the past 25 years, because it is so completely obvious that chat AIs will destroy the web unless big tech starts making big payments to big publishers. As you rightly say, small businesses and publishers will be collateral damage.

But how do you make sure you're not collateral damage as well?
>... Gross negligence or recklessness: The California Supreme Court recently held that releases are valid only to protect defendants from being sued for negligence. They are invalid if you can prove that the other party's conduct was more than negligent, e.g., gross negligence or recklessness.

That's the key here. Regardless of acceptance of risk, gross negligence cannot be excused. If this were a legit operation using a certified vessel, we'd be having an entirely different conversation. But what Rush was doing is the very definition of recklessness.
Something similar happened with me and an old excite.com email address I had since the early days of the public web.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's misleading considering the other article was suggesting nitrite precursors are usually what's in the food later to be turned into nitrite, but I'd love to be wrong.

You could simply measure the levels of nitrite before any exists and the end product might still have just as much.
> Harvard, and many other colleges, has a big base of "legacy" admissions, as well as a certain amount of generational knowledge and connections - you're more likely to get into Harvard if your parents went to Harvard, over and above mere class status.

Harvard also gets lots of Asians (well, Chinese) who are obviously not legacy admits, and there is/was active discrimination against them at Harvard (they don't want the student body to be too white and asian?). The decision specifically calls this out:

> The high court found that Harvard and the University of North Carolina discriminated against white and Asian American applicants by using race-conscious admissions policies.

Also see:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/harvard-asian-enrollme...

Using merit alone, it is totally possible that Harvard would be mostly Asian very quickly. However, it doesn't fit the narrative that the system is biased towards white legacy admits.
Also occurs in safari
The two descriptions are equivalent. By the equivalence principle, the wave looks locally like neighboring bodies see different directions of down (and also slightly different strengths of the force of gravity in that direction).
> 9 people can't possibly represent 300 million in any representative way.

If they were 9 randomly selected citizens, then the majority vote of the 9 matches the result of a majority vote of the 300 million nearly always, particularly for decisive issues.

For example, if 90% of the population think something, then there is a 0.089% chance that a majority of the 9 citizens disagree.

Obviously judge selection isn't random, and thats probably your main concern.
43%, crazy.
The degradation goes back much further than the 1970s, I’m afraid. I’ve got Scientific American volumes from the 1860s and they were incredible back then.

Letters that formed conversations discussing wild theories about comets that lasted for months, sometimes years. Some guy wrote in about his discovery of heat treating asphalt to make it more reliable. Another wrote in about how machine guns were useless in his experience in the Civil War and how the Europeans were about to repeat the same mistake in whatever war was just starting. Lots of ads for with saw blade drawings for Emerson's patent movable teeth made by the American Saw Company.

The prints were gorgeous [1] and the ads, despite covering a significant portion of each issue, were mostly text. Fascinating from a historical perspective but easy to ignore when reading for the rest of the material.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/vF00pdX
Why don't they Just ban people from divulging what college thet went to during Job applications?

Not everyone can go to an Ivy League College. Employers should only be focusing on GPA or other performance metrics. If its really about meritocracy.
Standardized tests have been known for years as an very unfair way of judging students. People with resources to prepare and study for those tests often end up with inflated scores than for people who don't have the resource to prepare for them. High school grades have been consistently found the be #1 leading indicator of how well a student is going to do in college.
Not a perfect meritocracy, but yes, I believe Merritt and performance has a significant impact on outcomes.

If you don't try, don't go to school, or don't go to your job, your average outcome will be much worse than someone that does
90s cars are the sweet spot where electronic fuel injection and emissions controls were mature enough to be reliable and having minimal complexity. It's mostly downhill from there.
Yes I completely agree.
Yet I insist that it is responsible to clearly deliver that message that the numbers of applications/jobs are NOT at the same magnitude.

Personally I've spent many hours on LISP related topic; I enjoyed the time; I recommend it as a low priority interesting topic.

Things like develop a working distributed KV store(MIT 6.824), solid 1000+hours on competitive programming, those skill&knowledge are not only beautiful&interesting, but also make a person a better practical problem solver.
These revenues are insane and I'm glad they are dropping. Hopefully this takes strain off housing prices as some of these properties get sold.

Short term rentals should be heavily taxed since they are a business, not a home.
But there is data to back that up on planes that are 'battle tested' you can compute failure rates over a ton of data. With something like this, a custom '1 off'... not unless you build a bunch of them and pilot them to depth (hopefully by remote) and wait for failures.
> Type systems push semantic properties into syntactic ones

Ordinary types are so-called trivial properties though, so Rice’s theorem doesn’t apply to them.
Evergreen: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/
I think getting away from RH is probably the safest plan.

AAP is crazy expensive, just like RHEL. I think they are going to lose a lot of customers and dollars due to this, both immediately and even more so later.
> In a lot of ways, affirmative action is a boogeyman that doesn't exist in the way many people think.

In that case, can you explain why two schools would've fought for the explicit use of race in deciding school admissions all the way to the Supreme Court?
My favorite waiver is the one on big dump trucks that say "Not responsible for rock damage". What a huge lie. lol
Ask justice Thomas
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have disagreed with you there, and I think she's more qualified than you to comment on the function of the Court:

> Casual observers of the Supreme Court who came to the Law School to hear Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speak about Roe v. Wade likely expected a simple message from the longtime defender of reproductive and women’s rights: Roe was a good decision.

> Those more acquainted with Ginsburg and her thoughtful, nuanced approach to difficult legal questions were not surprised, however, to hear her say just the opposite, that Roe was a faulty decision. For Ginsburg, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that affirmed a woman’s right to an abortion was too far-reaching and too sweeping, and it gave anti-abortion rights activists a very tangible target to rally against in the four decades since.

> “My criticism of Roe is that it seemed to have stopped the momentum on the side of change,” Ginsburg said. She would’ve preferred that abortion rights be secured more gradually, in a process that included state legislatures and the courts, she added. Ginsburg also was troubled that the focus on Roe was on a right to privacy, rather than women’s rights.

https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/justice-ruth-bader-ginsbur...
Estimand Reduces Time to Brewmaster Brilliance
It would be neat to have a feature that let you search for careers at these places as well. Maybe something on LinkedIn or another job search site?
How does it compare to using code assistants AIs?

I have used chatgpt a bit for coding tasks, and it is alright. Kind of like getting a not that smart student to do something, and repeatedly prodding them to do it right.