skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're falling a lot you should think about some bike handling exercises. Low speed maneuvers will likely help. And when you hit rough ground, relax. Twitching the bike while in gravel will just make you go down faster. Just relax, hold on and pray for traction to improve before you reach the point of no return. I've avoided my worst accidents that way. One in particular flummoxed the guy I was riding with. He didn't say anything for a full minute after. That was, uh, quite a recovery (If I'd gone down it would have been a five man pile-up, probably with him at the front of it).

I haven't ridden seriously for years but my partner thinks I'm crazy for driving one handed. I had lots of practice doing low-speed maneuvers one-handed (end of the ride, it's hot, I'm thirsty). I could emergency brake one handed (once dual pivot brakes existed) For a brief moment I could do a track stand one handed. Driving one handed I'm more stable than most people are with two (also, grew up driving stick, so one-handed is de facto if not de rigeur).

I don't know if they still do this, but pros used to wear silk shirts under their jerseys to reduce road rash (source: Phil Liggett). I suspect any current gen synthetic sports undershirt (under armor, Kuhl, DSG, etc) would do. Two smooth layers of clothing will spin past each other instead of gouging you.
>Among white admits, over 43% are ALDC. Among admits who are African American, Asian American, and Hispanic, the share is less than 16% each.

Yeah, not so much. They're just back to the old (or old boy) kind.
They're likely referring to creator ads spliced into their content.
75% of all students would be rejected if you took away one selling point.

- Johnny got in b/c he was all-state lacrosse. Probably would not have got in if just all-county.

- Sally got in because she was an underreprestent minority--probably would not have gotten in if she were Asian.

- Jean-Luc got in b/c something thinks he's the next Jonathan Safran Foer. His math scores indicate he'd be a good candiate for Lehigh, though.
> How else should Youtube make money from those users? They must literally lose money on those users.

For example, YouTube could increase the price of advertising on their platform to make up for the fact that a certain fraction of users never see the ads, thus keeping everyone who matters happy.
That’s with 1.1C global temperature increase. Current trends point to >2C by the end of the century.
Do you mean Alan Alda? In any case, the answer is no, which you could have easily discovered by googling.
> because real and imaginary are interleaved.

And so it is in life
Likewise, 20 years here. I vaguely recall some downtime in the past, so for me this might be the second time I've noticed it.
Newspapers were never free of ads even with subscripts. Ads subsidized your subscription. $0.25 for a full news paper and $1.50 for the bigger sunday addition is never going to pay for everything on its own (assuming a subscription actually lowered the full rate).

The only thing that I recall that was ever advertised as free from ads with a subscription was premium cable like HBO. Even magazines were full of ads. Hell, certain magazines were bought more for the ads than the content (thinking fashion mags).
In ye olde unixe days, I learned a habit.

That habit was;

# sync

# sync

# sync

# halt

When powering down ye olde unixe maschine. It was so far back I just vaguely remember I'd read that somewhere; possibly in a ye olde unixe manual, but I can't remember exactly. I think back then it made sense, due to older spinning rust technology and there might have been some possibility of the OS not flushing any waiting cache to disk before powering down.

Even though it's probably not needed today, I still do throw a sync command in when powering down, say, my NAS with spinning rust drives, and my PCs/laptop with SSDs.

There is one thing where I 100% perform a couple of sync commands, and that's right before unmounting a USB memory stick - I usually witness linux Very Quickly Copying a file from PC to USB stick. "Aha! No, you're just caching that operation you sly dog you!" - the sync command on a CLI tells me when linux has finally actually copied the file onto the stick.
I agree with you. I think that you'll find most Christian business owners will not turn away any customer based on their features or lifestyle until they are put into the position of active participation. By forcing someone to bake a cake for a gay wedding then you're asking them to participate (some may even call this "support") in a lifestyle of which they disagree. Also not okay.
To me they are just examples for demonstration - not absolute fact.
I always find these critiques so out of place. Yes, many large houses have weird architectural elements that basically consist of "we copied bits and pieces of historically significant works of architecture". But I've also seen numerous houses that didn't do this, which I often describe as the "assembly hall". It is a house that has no distinguishing features at all. It looks like where you would go to a city council meeting and sit in benches. That's it.

I live in a tiny ~1000 sq. ft. home. Per sq. ft. it includes as many of these out of place design elements than a McMansion. Pointless columns, rooflines that come out of nowhere, trim that looks like someone took a set of prison bars for inspiration. Randomly added brick because the developer thought it would increase home value. Vents that are purely aesthetic. A window over the front door, so if you're 9 ft tall you can see the people outside without opening the door.
Quantum Dots Are the Key for Creating Red MicroLEDs
If legacies go away, their endowments might too.
You're only thinking of the technical part.
Not yet. See Netflix. They will push ads on paying customers and then add a higher tier that is ad free (saying nothing about you, you might just pay more to stay add free, no judgment about you here)
Congress is completely dysfunctional and can no longer pass transformative laws of any kind.
Coding Adventure: Making a Stronger Chess Engine [video]
It's never brought to the courts because there's no law about it. Complain to Congress; it's their job.
> The market has largely failed to address the needs of developers

I'm a developer, and small arrow keys are perfectly usable to me.
A respected hacker flags up the toxicity endemic to hacker culture, which has caused real harm to himself and more importantly others in the community, and suggests what to do about it in a blog post.

Hackernews quickly flags the story; what little commentary there is mainly involves bikeshedding the meaning of "victim" so that rapists, pedophiles, other sex pests, and bigots can continue their depredation undisturbed.

Stay classy, Hackernews. Now you know why Alyssa Rosenzweig, a better hacker than most of y'all before she graduated high school, is blocking your asses.
I would argue that recruited athletes maybe get a pass on being a “VIP lane.”

Sure, college is about academics, but someone who spends a lot of time mastering a sport (and is gifted at it) isn’t that different from someone gifted at math and working at it.

I feel like HN may disagree, but not all athletes are 2.0 GPA students who relied purely on height to get in somewhere and have never worked hard.
Right because I'm sure other platforms would love to have users who don't want to pay or watch ads.
Some parts of Harvard are world class, while others are riding on brand recognition. I've been at Harvard and several other schools, and Harvard had the highest ratio of brand to substance and in many cases was strictly inferior to the good state schools.
Part of it is justifying the ad load by comparison with American broadcast TV (up to 18 minutes of every hour), while not recognizing that that level of ad load is not well known in Europe, for one thing.
I started using Fastmail a couple of years ago because it's so loved on HN, so I think it's just genuine (I'm a happy customer myself)
The idea Kotlin wouldn't be successful without Android isn't right. It was taking off in a big way even before Android did anything with it officially. Google's stated rationale for adopting it was because developers were already migrating to it regardless of what Google wanted.
I would argue that athletes are deserving in this framing. They were outstanding enough in a particular way to earn a spot at the most prestigious school in the country.
They're called cults and do not represent Christianity in any way.
I mean, if you're going to do things like remote access with Windows, you'll need to either get a pencil or get a trackpad case. It definitely would be painful with JUST the device, but I don't see this as a problem.

I definitely AM more comfortable with a traditional OS -- I mean, I've been using computers since the 80s -- and prefer MacOS by a wide margin. Working in iOS is different, so there definitely IS a cognitive load there. But in terms of portability and usability on the go, a beefy iPad has SO MUCH going for it that I'm willing to adapt.

I definitely also hear you about how a certain set of people are entirely supportive of the argument "you just have to get used to it; you can be productive" if the subject is vim or emacs, and then 100% reverse themselves when the subject is an iPad. Weird, right?
I didn’t go to Harvard but lived in Cambridge and had a bunch of friends there. Everyone I met was pretty fucking smart, but I guess that could be selection bias.
I'm learning now that this is even something that people keep track of.

This next section isn't meant to be shitty: but what's the purpose of even keeping track of that? I've read hundreds, maybe thousands of books over my life and don't have a list of them anywhere, nor can I see a use for that.
well, either the 2nd photo is fake bookshelves (stock image, white-label), or it's a painting/decorating job gone horribly wrong lol
> Ah so I suspect Wikileaks has started publishing Russian leaks once Russia showed itself to be an imperialist beast then right?.

Have you sent them documents of Russian leaks that they then chose not to publish?
Exactly. They are designed to do exactly that. I remember ads for companies that no longer exist. I remember ad campaigns that the companies abandoned decades ago. That was designed to be in my brain. To be the 'first choice' on products when equivalents exist. Some of this stuff was so effective it literally changed the way people buy things and why they buy them (mmmm bacon).
What do you mean "undeserving"? What's bad or morally wrong about being a person born into money vs a "successful" one who, as it almost always the case, scammed his way into it?

From the group of wealthy people i know, heirs are the best ones from a moral side. Next on are the group of crypto con artists. Then all the rest...
In all seriousness, HTML started out as a markup language for documents. That is why tags like <p> for paragraphs and <b> for boldness etc. are so prominent.

If you aren't trying to build a SPA or something like that and you just want to mark up some text for formatted output ... HTML is kinda made for that task.

That being said, I tend to stick with Markdown since I find angle bracket tags to be noisy and distracting when I view documents in plain text.
You could avoid living in a place likely to flood during a 100 year flood
Yes indeed. Like would you like the heated pan or the actual fire? /s
I think the Loan Forgiveness Plan as planned was just a very expensive stunt that fixed nothing. Instead they should work on reducing education cost (or at least limiting future growth). Otherwise it's just a straight subsidy for schools that will keep raising tuition. Same for health care. The government shouldn't run even bigger deficits to subsidize schools and hospitals without controlling their cost.
Ok so next you're going to go after PPP loan forgiveness, right? I'll wait.
Kotlin wasn't created by Google and wasn't pushed by them. It's more like they accepted it because the Android developer base was adopting it organically en-masse anyway. That's also the case for many other places where Java is used.
Opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-506_nmip.pdf
I can't tell for certain but I'm pretty sure that's a book-shelf wallpaper pattern.
Apple is a $3T company – again
Weird. I copy cardfulls of photos into Lightroom on the regular when I'm traveling, and it's fine. You DO have to leave LR running to do it, but I mostly do this overnight anyway.
> I really don't enjoy the discourse regarding "code cleanliness". A lot of the time it's just about "I prefer writing things this way" rather than the code actually being slower/harder to read/maintain/whatever.

Agreed, that's why I think there's arguments that can be made in favor of both DRY/WET, as well as SOLID/CUPID/whatever, even when those are in contradiction with one another, as well as more freeform approaches and KISS/YAGNI. Whatever works for each team and project.

> There's a billion ways to write something and none of them are outright wrong!

However, when your app is doing 2000 DB calls to render a list with some data because of the N+1 problem, I'd say that the code is definitely written wrong. When you need to jump around 20 different files across 6 layers of abstraction that could have easily fit into half of that, then the code might definitely be wrong and unmaintainable.
> I did go to ivy btw

One of the lower ones, not the one you wanted, if your comments are representative of your thought processes.

> Your baseless claim that my argument is incomplete is itself without ground.

All policies are evaluated based on net benefit to society. I explained why your argument didn't meet that standard. If you didn't understand it, I can't help you. There is no simpler way to state it.
Now do marijuana legalization!
About “pandering to authority”, I keep seeing this move in debates:

- people with safety concerns just don’t understand the tech.
- “here’s a list of people with safety concerns who demonstrably do understand the tech very well”
- you’re pandering to authority.

A related move:

- greater intelligence leads to greater concern for universal values.
- “here’s a list of very intelligent people who disagree”
- there are a lot of very intelligent people in cults too, you know.

I don’t think I’m a doomer but they do seem more coherent than the people saying there’s no cause for concern.
They should have used an M.C. Escher drawing rather than Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade for that kitchen picture. I stared at it for a good 5 minutes and still can’t tell what is going on.
> Atom vs RSS is a great example of how technical correctness is trumped by social factors

Or perhaps having at six year head start (RSS 0.90, 1999; Atom, 2005) and having it compound.

This includes podcasting, as the term was coined in 2004, but which was happening even before that (and before Atom was finalized):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast#Etymology

First mover advantage, leading to network effects, can be a thing.
Though I personally disagree with their opinion then private schools are free to do as they like. Wellesley college for example does not take men at all, half the population.
I do think this:

Youtube has excellent content form people who put a lot of effort into it, but do not have a lot of subscribers, don't earn a lot and don't produce a lot of traffic.

Then there are millions of low effort videos that produce millions of clicks.

Youtube should have a model that adapts to this.
They paid 11.4 Billion in 2022 and 14.7 Billion in 2021.
I would lean more towards "just a brand" IMO; would love to hear from grads though on if the actual education itself has prepared them for life in ways few other schools could.

I imagine it's of some quality, if for no other reason than the brand attracts talent and the money buys everything the talent needs. That said, what even is educational talent? Is that where the incentives are aligned for the institution, to get the best teaching talent?
Take half if a sunday organising it however you like - it's worth it!
That definitely should be done. But neither party will go after those people. They are donors after all.
Private education is a failure. It should be a public good. Admissions processes shouldn't need to turn away applicants who otherwise meet some minimum requirement (e.g. completed highschool). If they are, its a sign that demand exceeds supply and more schools should be built and/or existing ones should be expanded.
Ivys get a stupid amount of money from the feds, most Harvard PHD students are funded by federal money, and the university gets ~20-50k a year for each one of them. Just look at https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do;jsessionid=DA66... for a (small) exemple.
Even if what you said was true -- that an iPad + keyboard is heavier and more expensive -- an Air is less flexible, has only one usable form factor, and has drastically less battery life than the iPad solution.
What’s the problem with Ashish Jha? I’ve never heard of him (I’m Canadian), but just searched his named and found almost entirely people praising him (ex. this article from a week ago https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/21/ashish-jh...)
Do you have any other references on this?

It seems that it all hinges on what a "modified version" of Ubuntu is. Is redistributing their packages outside of a full disk image a modified version?
Which does describe one aspect of the lever. A group can have all sorts of hedges including a world class institution.
I think that's fair so long as you exclude e.g. sailing "athletes."
I know everyone has been conflating judicial review with legislation but come on. There's no law against it, go call your congressperson.
> Goodreads Cares about Engagement

It's not working for me. I have two books of my own, and still, I never go there.

AFAIK Amazon acquisition didn't ruin Zappos. IMDb is more garbage than it was before, but I still use it. But Goodreads: nope, it was too close to what they already did on book selling, so they killed it. Slowly.
The days of community and cooperation are coming to an end. Reddit ditches the relationship it had with it's users, and now Red Hat is turning into more of a proprietary software company. Did we take the spirit of the old internet for granted? Who's next I wonder.
There's a lot of small prints for Youtube Premium.
Can they instead reduce the interest rate?
> Facebook was better when it was more profile and people focused instead of turning the newsfeed into a twitter copy and optimizing for engagement bait content.

Which is why I tell everyone to block every single group. If someone shares something (that is it isn't a photo they personally took, or a thought they personally wrote) hit the "block all from [whatever group it was shared from]" button. Leave all groups and market place. I did that almost a year ago and Facebook became a useful place again!
For serious stuff you have services like ThousandEyes ( disclaimer: No affiliation of any kind with the company ).
They did this before with at least Aldus and Macromedia.
You may cheer for affirmative action's demise, but it will result in less opportunity for minorities, and less diversity in post-secondary institutions (which means less diversity in fields requiring advanced degrees) so consider that before you dance.
Anatomy of a Storm Shadow [stealth cruise missile] Intercept
Agreed, but we still need to envision what good legislation would look like and it does occasionally happen.
It might bite some influential people, but this is a generally popular move. I have never met anyone defend this use of my tax dollars. Would you care to be the first to explain why I am paying for the children of well connected parents to get a leg up in university admission?
Please tell me this means that Twitter links will be banned from HN.
> What does a real estate agent do? They unlock doors.

> Who are real estate agents? We can all think of a few real estate agents, none of them are top performers. They are usually on their ~4th career before the age of 30. They are the type of person to wear a suit in public to pretend that it makes them important.

Let's not pretend the software engineering world isn't full of hubris. Even the title itself is illegal in parts of the world because our career isn't a real engineering field.
You have to admit, dressing up a giant pile of money to schools this way was an incredibly shrewd political move. Even now that the plan has been blocked, that won't reflect badly on the administration which made the plan, it will just focus anger towards conservatives and the SCOTUS.

This was something with no political downside.
Something of a hot take, but I'd contend the Legacy admissions are there to the benefit of the people who earned their place!

As someone who got into an "elite" university despite not coming from an "elite" background - the Legacy admissions are the reason people like me got the opportunity to integrate with people who otherwise wouldn't have given me a second glance. Being in a study group with a prince, going to a club with an heiress, or sculling with a billionaires' kid is not an opportunity most parents can give their children outside of sending them to a place like Harvard.

It's horrible that the world is so fixated on status, but you don't get to choose what game you play always - just how you play it. Ingratiating yourself with a Fortune 100 CEO's son can reap many orders of magnitude more benefit than being surrounded by randos who are better than him at calculus.

The value prop of a place like Harvard isn't that they're particularly good at teaching, it's the idea that, as a sufficiently smart and lucky regular person, you might have a shot at getting into an otherwise exclusive circle. No guarantees, and may people can't crack it (or choose not to, because it feels so slimy) even when given the opportunity - but Legacies are part of Harvard's value proposition.
If you don't think Harvard cares about federal funding, you don't know how money in higher education works.

Nearly all of that endowment is tied up in long-term investments and funds. It's not liquid.

Their cash flows and run rate are made up of a HUGE percentage of federal funds. Government grants and loans, research grants, and special programs. A large percentage of professors spend a large percentage of their time applying for federal money. That's where their operating budgets come from.
Starting universities was just faddish social posturing - "look how much money I have!", combined with the fact that there wasn't a whole lot you could do with excess money in the 19th century beyond building buildings. How many horses can one man have? Today the fads are space flight, or taking over a social media site, or launching a vanity startup, or buying a sports team.
>"They are the Apple of Android, big marketing budget, little care about performance or security."

What are you on about? Every version of iOS I've used the past 11 years, on every iPhone I've used, has been a buttery smooth experience compared to most (not all; most) things Android, and on top of that I've gotten over 5 years of OS/security updates for each model which is practically unheard of with Android OEMs.
MIT grant overhead is definitely less than north of 70%. https://ras.mit.edu/facilities-and-administrative-fa-rates says 59%.
Sorry to hear about your attack.

It reminded me of Cory from Strangeparts, he had a concussion and seems to be handling it quite well, even recovering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs790JOeN3Y. Hope it can help you somehow.

Hope you best of luck with whatever you decide to pursue.