skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Ivies are about reproducing their own power and influence, not about "merit". Merit plays a role in that, but accepting rich kids with influential parents, even if the kid is a dumbass, still advances their goals by creating network effects with the parent.

This is why they do bullshit like reject Chelsea Manning for a fellowship and accept Sean Spicer instead. They are laser focused on being a hub of establishment influence, not about being "right".

This is why Brown just appointed Ashish Jha as their Dean of Public Health when he has demonstrably contributed to the deaths of many many people without resolving the pandemic. Why would you appoint a loser? Because he has an in with establishment power and did what they wanted.
I panicked a little when I realized the same company doing this controls my Gmail. I'd rather have my bank credentials stolen than lose my email address, at least I can get customer service from the bank, this has gotten out of hand. This is partly my fault, but also, we need more anti-trust breakups of these companies.
I dunno. A out of people were upset when they were forced to serve black people too, but I’m pretty sure that was a good idea.
Ask HN: How do you organise your Obsidian?
Do you do one large one for everything? One for each project? What plugins do you use?

I’m interested because I’m not sure I’m using mine in the best way. It’s basically laid out like a site map.

Keen to hear your experiences. Thanks!
I think I would look at it, and think about it, and touch it pretty often, and that's before guests to my house would do the same and re-ignite my interest in it. Same reason I own a few pieces of art, I think? No particular interest in guns, but this thing is weird and cool
Where was this news? I’d like to read this.
https://netzpolitik.org/2014/hackertools-im-it-sicherheitsge...

https://netzpolitik.org/2013/angriffe-auf-informationssystem...

(Also the links there.)

Or a more "official" statement (as the German Wikipedia is mostly in the hands of state authorities), with some groundless relativization:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbereiten_des_Aussp%C3%A4hen...

All "dual use" tools (like a simple port scanner!) can bring you into jail. That's a fact. The law doesn't have any exceptions for "friendly use"… (No matter what some "experts" cited on Wikipedia may say. That's just the usual German Wikipedia blow smoke…)
Same in the US, and for a separate set of fees on top of the realtors 5-6%.
> impossible to watch without ads

https://www.youtube.com/premium

> Enjoy watching YouTube uninterrupted by ads whenever you sign in - on your mobile device, desktop, or enabled TV.
> More legislating from the bench.

This is why the USA needs term limits for the house and senate. Those politicians are too lazy to make any laws or not willing to hurt their re-election potential that they are passing legislation to the judicial branch.

This makes the Supreme Court the ultimate arbiter on matters, which causes the president and Senate to pack the court with biased judges.
And so, if all you did was put the original tarballs on a CD-ROM or floppies in a simple form, with your patches and build steps on the side, you'd just be a middle man helping some people make their own distro.
Harvard has a $53 billion endowment, I doubt they care about federal funding.
They say UDP is never blocked, so would Wireguard work?
> Even Uber is becoming an ads company...

Yeah, with youtube it kind of makes sense that the ads would be there. Uber (TIL), Windows 11, and non-media experiences/services/goods in general looking for ways to sell ads makes my skin crawl.

Just wait until doorbells play you an ad when you press the button.

If given a single magical wish, I wonder how much havoc I could wreck by wishing that immediately before someone intends to purchase ad time or join an ad network or whatever they mystically gain an understanding of exactly what the ROI is going to be for them. My conceit is that 99% of entities that purchase ad time have a significantly negative ROI because at the end of the day the only thing that an advertiser has to be good at selling to exist is their own services.
Max Tegmark seems most worried about iterative self improvement by the systems. But is that possible? And just how far could they improve themselves? Enough to achieve self awareness or just enough to make themselves a lot faster?
Could equally be a move to minimise how much of the discussion that springs up around this blog post gets derailed and eaten alive by arguments and/or misunderstandings around said distinction.

Though I suspect we'll both end up less wrong by filing our theories under 'guesswork' and seeing what the actual state of play is six months from now.
> Hacker News consists primarily of these two social news websites, computer science, and entrepreneurship.

Hmm. It's not obvious they've actually visited.
Yes that's seems incredibly hypocritical
I'm chuffed to be praised with such faint critique.
I am amazed that multiple OSS lawyers gave you the same answer and you still don't believe them.

> (what Fortune 500 company would like to have their Red Hat servers all go dead because some employee downloaded sources and uploaded them somewhere?)

What does this mean? Are you implying that RHEL has some sort of kill switch per customer embedded in it's source code that someone could exploit? I am not following this train of thought at all.
legacy student preference is obviously an issue, but my question is why haven't any billionaires started their own universities to compete with the established Ivy league schools that are rejecting talent?

Almost all of these elite private universities were started by random rich people and gained prestige over time. Modern rich people seem unambitious compared to people in the past. People forget that Harvard and Stanford are named after people, they weren't always these giant institutions
>3. Google made nearly $70 billion in Q1; they're not hurting at all, especially their executives.

The CEO of YouTube is probably sweating as their performance is tied to YouTube net profit. YouTube is one of many revenue streams that Alphabet will be tightening over the years. I expect the Android division to also start bringing in revenue that is not connected to Google Play.
Harvard has over $50 Billion in its endowment. If it wanted to expand its exceptional educational access across America, it very well could.

Harvard is primarily a brand for wealthy people, and they need the non-wealthy cohort to justify the legitimacy of their degree. Harvard does have world class institutions, but that’s primarily to reinforce the brand they’re selling to wealthy alumni and donors who wants their kids to enter the exclusive club.
Thanks for your comment ! Current focus of optimizations is for Nvidia GPUs but others are in the works. Hidet comes with Hidet.Script which abstracts some of the CUDA struggles and may make the ML optimizations efforts easier to implement. It is still evolving so documentation is limited but here are some examples: https://github.com/hidet-org/hidet/tree/main/python/hidet/gr...
Very happy Kagi customer here. If you're not paying then you're the product, not the customer. Having my primary interface with the internet be with a company that serves my interests is wonderful.

Congrats and good luck to the team!
This article had an extremely positive tone, compared to what I expected from the URL. It's refreshing to hear the author's excitement about filesystems, and I learned a couple of things. Thanks.
Thank God the Supreme Court ruled against the systemic racism at Harvard and elsewhere at least.
Could you perhaps give an example.
Oh man, I remember my cousin telling me that his dad had nude NatGeos in his basement. :-)

Kids today would see more graphic stuff just by googling for their favorite cartoon character. :-O
I am surprised the number isn't higher
Same here! I only drink from stainless steel food safe bottles and store/heat food in glass containers. The Aeropress is the only food-related plastic thing I can't get rid of, until now.

I'll take the risk.
ChatGPT: Welsh politician uses AI chatbot to write speech
Very intelligent humans have more persuasive power over less intelligent humans than they do over most animals. Even then it's very inconsistent and it's not at all clear that intelligence helps win over humans all that much.

I will worry about hyperpersuasive AI when someone manages to come up with one that can talk flat earthers out of it...
No need. Offer them a free browser + free email + free maps + free mobile OS and you have all the tracking you could wish for.
Community expectations aren't necessarily correct and probably won't help paying the salary of thousands of engineers.
One time a guy said disabled people should kill themselves for the good of the gene pool so I told him eugenicists should be publicly flogged and I got banned for inciting violence, and then I got IP banned when I told the moderator there's no point banning me because it's trivial for me to just use another account (in more colorful language). I'm also pretty homophobic & transphobic so I've caught a number of bans for that sort of thing before. My current account is on 1 warning atm cus I said something about feminism, I don't recall what it was.

I'm not sure why you would think being banned should prompt self-reflection? It's not like any of my reasons for believing the things I do has changed, and it's not like being banned from Reddit really has any negative consequences for me.
While I also think YouTube has great content, their war on adblockers annoys me very much.

Also, YouTube Short was not a great addition. It entices garbage content in my opinion. There is a reason I’m on YouTube and not on TikTok.
On the contrary, I use youtube exclusively without account. I use a Firefox container to ensure cookies don't stick. I follow a bunch of channels via RSS.
the best type of ads is the sponsorships that youtubers already do. Why doesnt youtube take advantage of them and create a platform for them? the ads they run are disruptive, annoying as F , loud, they last unpredictably long etc etc.
Oh that is awful! Total tangent but I started doing group rides again recently and am surprised by how few people wear gloves. After my first fall tearing up my hands I decided I would not let that happen again. And since then, it's really nice when going down not having to plan for where/how the hands land! This past ride someone went down on some really awful shoulder debris and luckily her hands were fine but man gloves are like $20...
I’m willing to bet that we’re not far off from YouTube including ads even if you pay. We’ve already seen other streaming services start to do this. I think the streaming services will become more interested in ad revenue than they are in paying subscribers.
Maybe your iPod purchase was the trigger for the butterfly-effect that made Apple to be a $3T company. Would you have not bought that iPod, possibly you would sit on some worthless Apple penny stocks (and you'd have no iPod).
Why do you think this?

Darwinian evolution is the process of selection of the fittest over multiple generations where there is some process inducing variations.

The idea and terminology may have originated in biology, but that specific mechanism is one of the standard ways to train the weights and biases in an AI.

They're called, conveniently, evolutionary algorithms.

Dead easy to write, I did one in 30 minutes a decade an a half ago after being annoyed by a young-Earth Baptist creationist preacher in Cambridge city center.

And of course, this is trivially something which ChatGPT can spit out the code for — try it out, see how it works. :)

> Even simple malware has not become independent of coders needing to write new viruses.

They've been doing that for at least long enough for humans born at the same time to be allowed to drink in Texas.
"[...] recruited athletes, legacies, those on the dean’s interest list, and children of faculty and staff (ALDCs). Among white admits, over 43% are ALDC."

Nearly half of white students get (got) a VIP lane into Harvard.
Is it any good for actual games though?

I have one kid using scratch now, and one older graduated to godot, roblox/lua, some javascript/web.

I would love to get them into lisp (already done a bit of Janet along with me), but it really needs to be something they can write their game ideas in, and share/show-off to friends.
Sure sure. XML is dead but its tradition of piggybacking on HTML success lives as I see.
That would require mimicking an existing protocol, and as per the paper that's non-trivial

>Houmansadr et al. [39] conclude that mimicking a protocol is fundamentally flawed and suggest that tunneling through allowed protocols be a more censorship-resistant approach. Frolov and Wustrow [35] demonstrate that even when a tunneling approach is used, it still requires effort to perfectly align protocol fingerprints with popular implementations, in order to avoid blocking by protocol fingerprints. For instance, in 2012, China and Ethiopia deployed deep packet inspection to detect Tor traffic by its uncommon ciphersuits [44, 55, 67]. Censorship middlebox vendors have previously identified and blocked meek [29] traffic based on its TLS fingerprint and SNI value [28].
Thanks for explaining.

I never really used Tumblr, I just know it's the site Yahoo bought many years ago instead of Netflix.

The website in this submission is probably just a low technical effort site. This would explain its flaws.
> I tried to read the article using Google Translate but I found no evidence of this statement (capturing all of Ukraine). Could you point me to the relevant passage?

>> Ukraine gained independence in 1991 as the Soviet Union dissolved (this is just for reference).

>> Russia is restoring its unity - the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe of our history, its unnatural dislocation, have been overcome. Yes, at a high price, yes, through the tragic events of the virtual civil war, because now brothers separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies are still shooting at each other - but Ukraine will no longer be anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness by gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together - in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, allowed temporary division to gain a foothold for centuries, we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants - for allowing the collapse of the Russian land.

>> Now there is no problem - Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be eliminated, but it will be rebuilt, re-esturbished and returned to its natural state of part of the Russian world.

Did you even read it?.
There's also a correlation between increasing levels of obesity and decreasing levels of testosterone. And a likely explanation, in that fat cells metabolize testosterone to oestrogen, plus, obesity is linked to lower levels of SHBG which binds to and carries testosterone in the blood. So it's probably that too.

Also from what I've read, I think ROGD mostly affects young women and girls? It's not so much a male phenomenon. I don't think any of the research so far has linked it to plastics consumption, seems more to be a socially contagious, culture-bound syndrome, like anorexia is.
Maybe open a couple extra accounts that you don't use so you can pay more. As much as I like Fastmail (been using them for a long time) there's only so much I'll pay for a service I can get for free elsewhere. If they're not making a healthy profit at the current prices, they're doing something wrong. I don't think I've ever experienced an outage, either, including today.
I was expecting an ipad as a working power house many years ago but that changed when m1 MBA come out.

It seemed apple doesn't intend to improve ipad to be on par with Mac os. Arm MBA is the one that I'm looking for without the touchscreen. That's good enough for me.

This still holds true today. Apple doesn't care about the ipados for professionals.
I want to be very clear about my prospective here.

If I walk into your restaurant and you refuse to serve me for lunch because I was gay. That is no ok. Me being gay has nothing to do with you serving me lunch. I don't care about your beliefs.

If I were to ask you to cater my wedding, thats a different story since you are actively partaking in something. I am fine with that.

I just really want to make sure that this is not misconstrued.
I'm not sure that's true at all. Having done a bit of packaging myself, I'm well aware that it's hard, tedious, frustrating work. Doing it twice, once for their own users and again for the benefit of those whose only practical effect is to fragment the ecosystem, is a substantial burden.
Escaping Macrophages
SSDs, even nvme, are indeed about 1000x more latency tham RAM

normal RAM only has like 10x the bandwidth of a high end SSD, though
Curious if you are their customer. I mean in the early comment I included a thought about moving away from FastMail. But later start to think about it:

1. Support. You talk to humans. I do not know much about email configurations (probably more than average user), but not ninja in DKIM/SPF. Once I have received an email from "some hacker" about email configurations, easily forwarded to FastMail support, and they verified all my configurations and confirmed that everything is configured correctly.

2. Seriously, those 10 years of using their service is unnoticeable. I mean, on the same level of Google Mail, just with way more trust from my side. I have seen some mentioning of outages in other FastMail services, but this is the first time I am affected by Mail.
"The Darwinian evolution of tools" is a statement that makes little sense because Darwin working with things that were alive - undesigned and capable of reproduction. There may be some similarities, but the processes behind each thing are separate enough to produce very different outcomes.
As it happens I reheard the lecture today.

He said that some claim that Putin would try to conquer all of Ukraine. All of it.[1] He said that that would be a mistake and that Putin is “too smart” to do that. And what does Russia care about Western Ukraine?

He also said that it would be a mistake for Russia to get bogged down in Ukraine for a long time. So then it depends on whether you think Russia is already “bogged down”; then either Mearsheimer changed his mind or else he’s contradicting himself.

[1] There was also the outlandish “try to re-establish Greater Russia” which is a bit absurd since Russia doesn’t have the capacity to do that even if it wanted to (2015 Mearsheimer said either that Putin does want that or that he may want that).
I guess for the same reason that few of them are building architectural wonders, museums, or really doing anything that isn't totally focused on themselves and their wealth. The closest you get is the "give away half of your wealth to foundations you control, as charity" move that's become very popular.

Actually building something for the future, not because it will make you even richer, seems to have fallen out of favor.
Except that there was never a Biblical reason as to not serve other races, which was the beauty of MLK's whole point.
Calling the behaviour of GPT in these scenarios "an effort" implies a model of how it works that I don't think everybody shares.
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
For an AI to wreak havoc it doesn't have to be smart. It just has to be capable. Industrious but stupid is the theme of half of speculative fiction on intelligent machines. Grey goo and paperclips are examples.

Tangentially, I love that Murderbot thinks that killing all humans would be stupid, because who would make TV shows for it to watch if the humans are dead?
Just use a separate audio recorder app, since it doesn't have to be hifi for phone sound.
Yeah, Hearst castle is one of the most ugly and uncomfortable buildings I've ever been in. It's like the ultimate example of absolutely no restraint or constraints, without thought for actual usability.
I actually want to explore this further sometime. It's not like it's a secret that buffers are everywhere in computers, but I am still surprised at how many buffers one comes across.

Like, let's say you are doing some writing using the C standard library...

* the library itself will buffer your writes, to reduce the number of syscalls

* I think your bio objects might get buffered, via plugging, to reduce the number of block requests

* your block requests will get buffered, so that they can be canceled or merged (I'm actually not sure if this happens in the "software staging queue" part of blk-mq, or prior...)

* as you mentioned, the disk controller may very well buffer the actual write operations
Every time there's a discussion about language X, Rusties jump in. Stop it.

One of the biggest turn offs about Rust is the community.
Yeah most don't know they have far more wealth than the Vatican.
I hate ads so much that I'm actually paying for Youtube premium. I work in IT, I build systems, I know there are various solutions, but none of them guarantee that I can travel freely with my cellphone and connect it to any smart TV and get an AD-free experience.

So I'll gladly pay for that freedom.

Freedom is very important to me, not just that it's open source, or that I have power over ads, but also freedom of time and leisure. Ads take away freedom from me, it's a powerless feeling when an ad comes on. Real 1stworldproblem here but since we're on the topic...
Just tragic. Hard to imagine living in such a backwards place
Yes, they care more about legacy admits than federal funding. And probably only legacy admits for the whales. How many "rich" people brag about giving $1MM to their college, but for the elite colleges even such a big number is an immeasurably small amount.
That's sort of what I was saying? Bowling would be a lot more interesting to watch if it were possible to actually see and appreciate the changing conditions of the alley, as a spectator.
Yes. As much as the idea of legacy admissions offends my personal sensibilities, they do in fact provide a good deal of value to the institutions and even some to the other students.

Part of the reason Harvard is appealing is that you can rub shoulders with the establishment. For that to work, the children of the establishment have to be admitted.

I don't like it, but it does make sense and add value that many are looking for.
I really wish there were more options than the Pixel. Ever since they removed the headphone jack it became obvious that there needs to be more device diversity in the longer-supported space.
They are, off the top of my head Trump started one and Elon made one for all his kids (and some others have joined).
This actually pisses me off because for some reason governments, scientists, researchers, and developers all use twitter way too much and i often have check their twitter for info that should be on their own site. Now I cant even do that ?
There are too many perverse incentives linked to the advertisement business model. Perhaps we should just ban it.
While this issue this is clearly beyond the scope of the 14th ammendment, I suspect most Americans would strongly support legislation to ban the use of family relations in university admission decisions where public funds are in play.
> These discussions have never been about fairness, it’s about special interest groups getting what they want.

Ascribing intentions to everyone who takes your opposite point isn't an honest way to discuss things. There are many, many people who care about fairness, not about special interest groups getting what they want.
The one with the all the white / biege colour books, I'd actually love to have all my books on my bookshelves with the same colour. I like all my books, but I think it's quite ugly with how different all the colours are.

Obviously I'd still want to have the name of the book on the spine though. Or to be able to have it colour coded by genre or something, just something more aesthetically pleasing really.