skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really.

If you take Albert Einstein and put him in University of Michigan or Harvard, he's still going to be Albert Einstein, and some rich kid from Hingham is still going to be just another rich kid from Hingham - not Albert Einstein.

On some objective level, Harvard is awesome. But it really doesn't matter that much.

Geniuses are going to be geniuses. And no matter how much resources you pour on some mediocre person, they're still going to be mediocre.

Where it does matter is that a person of equal skills from Harvard is going to get more/better jobs than the person from Michigan.

This is why I think it's fair to say it's "mostly a brand".

The value is not in the education you're getting. Harvard isn't going to make the same person meaningfully more skilled or educated than Michigan.

The value is in the rubber stamp, mainly.
Interesting angle, but feels like post-hoc rationalization more than anything.

Events where students can meet alumni seem far more productive, if slightly harder to organize. I'm sure Harvard can incentivize their alums well enough to attend, considering their sizeable endowment.
> Did you have to schedule a visit 2 weeks out just to get some medicine for a minor sinus infection?

I've definitely had to wait 2 weeks to schedule an appointment with a specialist in the US.

The "best" healthcare in the world, according to some talking heads.
100% except for one minor correction - Harvard is a brand for prestige. Wealth is just one factor. They will continue to admit student cohorts that will maximize that prestige. That will include wealthy alumni, athletes, smart kids, and minorities.

The impact of these schools on the education and social outcomes of disadvantaged groups in this country is miniscule. I'm speaking as someone who went to an Ivy. If the US really wants to change outcomes for minorities, it needs to start at childcare and K-12. If the Supreme Court REALLY wanted to change shit up, it would limit public school districts to state level funding sources only and give vouchers to everyone.
I had a VCR that auto-skipped commercials 20 years ago.
Google is in bed with JetBrains in what concerns Android.
It is indeed pretty weird that public.duke.edu has an expired cert
> A dozen or so years back there was an effort by many universities, including Harvard, to keep military recruiters off campus.

I’m surprised to hear that. I know objection to it went back to the Vietnam war, but didn’t realize there might have been a recent episode.

Walt Rostow notoriously set troop levels from his office at MIT when he was “on leave” to work in the White House. That ended up causing the complete banishment of military research from MIT. Absolutely no exceptions, I mean, except that overtly military work can be done by MITRE and Lincoln labs (cough completely owned by MIT), ICBM navigation at Draper, the AI Lab and LCS sharing a building with the CIA for a long time, DARPA funding all over the place, whole departments essentially entirely funded by the Navy and the Air Force, and a continual revolving door between the pentagon and some departments.

Harvard still has ROTC students…but they have to get up even earlier and drag themselves over to MIT for early morning drills. I didn’t feel sorry for them; Harvard students don’t have to pull all nighters every week.
It's because the guillotine has transitioned from "something my aristocrat grandparents were afraid of" to "ancient history".
I don't think it's an unreasonable idea - we should rethink the role of higher education in society and/or provide aid to people that got tricked into taking out loans.

But this is a constitutional issue. It needs to be run by Congress.
Its possible in the US. The whole FIRE movement.
The right solution in my opinion would be to nationalize the universities and end this predatory nonsense.
Is everyone just gonna skip over the Networking aspect like it isn't The most valuable part of the whole deal?

As the saying goes: it's not What you know, it's Who you know.
I don't care, this is the first time I've heard of it being down in years, and I didn't even notice. They've been so great, that they can have a lot more downtime than this before I'll even be annoyed.
Thank you for the response. A list of prospective books to read is something I believe everyone should have.

It was the list of books already read that didn't make sense. I hadn't considered it as a motivator to pick back up the habit.
You are thinking the oil has more of an effect than it actually does.

Even on an easy house shot you're not automatically have a 200 average. You still need to have a good spare game. I guarantee throwing that one 250 game was more luck than it was the oil pattern especially if you were using a house ball. Going from an easy house shot to a pro sport shot is usually a 20 pin drop on your average if you don't know how to bowl the sport pattern which is only about 1 or 2 extra open frames in a game than normal.

I get that feeling that everything is going right and I can't miss strikes the odd time too but it's always because I'm better focused and not missing my spot. Bowling is more dependent on repetitions and throwing the ball the same way every time before you can even think about averaging 200+.

> Bowlers equate how good a place is with how good they bowl! They get angry and superstitious about everything.

This isn't true and it's not always superstition. Some houses score higher and that's true, but there's factors that go into that like the pins, how well they ricochet, the oil pattern, how well the pattern sticks, etc. there's a million reasons a shot plays different. Even humidity and ambient temperature affects the oil and you have to bowl different in the summer vs winter!

Casual bowlers will 100% rather bowl at a place with a higher score, but sometimes a house is just way too hard. It's frustrating as a bowler if you have a 195 average and another house you can barely carry 180 because it has a harder pattern. It's even more frustrating when they have a harder pattern and don't tell anyone. The pros usually know what pattern they're bowling on and can analyze it beforehand. I quit bowling at a house because my average was consistently 15 pins lower, and I needed a separate set of balls to bowl there to have any chance because they put too flat of a pattern on. It's not fun or helpful to bowl on conditions you won't encounter anywhere else because there's no room to improve. It's like learning custom made in-house programming languages and tools that don't exist outside of your company.
They do have extra 2 years of partial "transitional" support, if I'm not mistaken. But yes, even they will not support them forever as it's not financially feasible without help in the form of first-party updates.
If you're born into wealth, you learn pretty quickly how to cosplay smart. Doesn't hurt that a large segment of society correlates intelligence with wealth.
> AI improves over time. That's all it does, and barring some civilizational catastrophe, that's what it will continue to do.

Why? Why might it not stop improving, like lots of things, burning paraffin for heat to pluck one example out of the air?
> They're called cults

It doesn't matter what you call them, it just matters whether the Supreme Court protects them.

> do not represent Christianity in any way

Hence the phrase "a new religion".
I immensely enjoy McMansion Hell!

Kate Wagner does a fanastic job of distilling the history and language and sensibilities of architecture down into something that anybody can appreciate.

And quite the opposite of snobbish, she presents her critiques in a raw, geeky, low-brow format that would probably feel at home on 4chan or SomethingAwful.

She is not knocking down regular suburban homes and families -- she critiques the top few percent who live in ostentatiously monstrous homes.

Kate is a treasure and her site is a pleasure.
LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
If anything, Google's unaccountable "safe" browsing list is an example of why this a really bad idea even in principle.
While that's an interesting question, legacy students likely also have access to better resources outside of the classroom and office hours.
The blocker for every major university expanding its enrollment is student housing. There's no space to build more dorms, and housing policies in all such cities actively blocks such efforts (look up Berkeley for a recent example of this).

They all want to accept more students. There's simply no space to keep them.
"Grosse Pointe Blank" is one of my favorites because of Alan Arkin.
https://terriblerealestateagentphotos.com/post/7073623358404...

For anyone else who wanted to see that one specifically.
I seem to recall that this affects something like 20 million student voters. And lots of them have swayable parent and sibling voters. If I were the Democrats, I'd definitely be leveraging the heck out of this decision next election.

Personally, I don't think forgiveness is worth much without structural changes behind it. It's just a one-off bailing effort while ignoring the gaping hole in the hull. Roll tuition back to 1980 levels (inflation adjusted), as well.
Stock debian is 5 years with their LTS project, but they have a paid "ELTS" project that adds an additional 5 years. So 5 years for free, 10 total years as a paid support option.
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases
All I see is very vague wording and metaphors which are very far from a very specific *military* objective that is conquering the entirety of Ukraine.

They might mean that or might not, but it's not explicitly stated. You are choosing one possible interpretation and sticking to it like it's the only one.
No. As long we have gcc/clang and SDL/GL/Vulkan, games will be portable to anything.
No it might make it harder for everyone getting into Harvard b/c slots are filled up by children of Harvard staff.

If you think this is about skin color, they have already won.
Inevitable with the data scraping for AI issue
We have not yet heard anything from Oracle, which hopefully implies that these changes are not a problem.

Alma had previously stated that Oracle would be an upstream source.

"In the immediate term, our plan is to pull from CentOS Stream updates and Oracle Linux updates to ensure security patches continue to be released."

https://almalinux.org/blog/impact-of-rhel-changes/

Rocky has said that they have found "a path forward," but have not divulged it.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/28/rocky_linux_rhel_ripp...
Aren't the legacy students the real benefit of going to Harvard? AFAICT the social network you get from Harvard is the real benefit.

It's not really the education there that makes the name stand out: https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/harvard-university-2155... doesn't show any trends of it being particularly good at any subjects. Maybe CS theory, but that's not exactly a competitive area for universities.
Except Google, who would presumably lose advertisers by increasing prices, and the advertisers themselves who now have to pay more.
I believe that currently RH send a patch to the upstream project, then apply/backport it to CentOS Stream, then if they consider it appropriate apply/backport that to RHEL, and it's the first step there being their first step that's the 'upstream first' part.

The additional hassle Rocky are having is that since Stream is ahead of RHEL divining whether the third step was taken and if so with what, if any, backporting tweaks required, is rather trickier so to recreate the end result of all such third steps to get an identical (bar debranding) set of SRPMs to the ones used by RHEL your best approach has become to source the various bits of information you need to do that from multiple places.

Also I -suspect- the 'pristine upstream packages' thing is referring to the fact that most package formats, rpm definitely included, prefer to have an untouched copy of the upstream sources plus a stack of patches in their source packages and combine them during package build for both clarity and debuggability reasons.
The Vatican's wealth is made of all the churches they own. Like McDonald's, its primarily a real estate business.
I remember laughing (from the Reed College library) at a radio interview about attempts to reduce grade inflation in the Ivies, because a student was interviewed complaining, "We have to study so hard, some weekends I don't even go out!"

No one in my cohort had to study, we wanted to.
There is still racism, now just the usual kind.
Exactly! The problem here is the predatory nature of student loans. A bit of forgiveness to them is a band aid that will do nothing to prevent the problem from just happening again.

Personally, I think the cost of college should be capped, and in addition all forms of student loans should be outright banned, which should force the education industry to cut itself back to a reasonable amount of spending.
It might help if you thought of affirmative action as not only righting a wrong, but also partial compensation for stealing the lives and labor of enslaved people for profit. That theft has never been repaid. Furthermore, Jim Crow, segregation, and myriad other racist policies and practices prevented black Americans from being able to meaningfully advance, while white America thrived on the wealth created by stolen labor.

Republicans like to think that affirmative action is about collective guilt. It’s not. As a white person, I don’t feel guilty about slavery. But, I do recognize a monumental theft which the victims were never compensated for, and which continues to shape our society.

Edit: changed “in contrast” to “furthermore”
How is this view "fuck you I got mine". I took out loans, and I paid them. If this passed I would get money back. I don't think that is fair for people who paid off their loans before, or those who come after.
I use lowendbox.com when I want a cheap VPS. Not necessarily the most performant, but you can usually find pretty good deals on lower specced servers.
The usual reason is people who are willing to pay to avoid ads are also the most valuable people for advertisers to advertise to. That decreases the value of their advertising business, which means they have to push the subscription prices up even further, which may make the business unviable. Especially because they have to compete with other businesses that will happily copy their content and put ads on it with no paywall.
The difference is PPP loan forgiveness was approved by Congress.

Not saying it wasn’t poorly designed and implemented, and subject to massive levels of fraud - but forgiveness was clearly embedded into the law from the beginning.
> So they use software limitations to avoid canibalising sells of one with the other

I'm not sure that's the case—Apple has generally not been afraid to cannibalize sales of their devices by their own devices.
It's not that simple.

"Gen Zers are tracking ahead of their parents’ homeownership rate: 30% of 25-year olds owned their home in 2022, higher than the 27% rate for Gen Xers when they were the same age. But the Gen Zers who didn’t take advantage of the pandemic-era’s low mortgage rates could be left behind."[0]

[0]https://www.redfin.com/news/gen-z-millennial-homeownership-r...
You're about a month and a half too late. The request for comments ended on May 18.
As mentioned in my post, the 14th amendment does not cover wealth, property or familial relationship as protected classes. This is not an issue for the courts. It would require a separate law.
Who would even be able to make such comments? You go to one uni or another.

FWIW I don't think the content changes much between institutions. Certainly I don't see what an Oxford grad learned that some other engineering student at say Imperial or MIT didn't do.
How to set up event-based ingestion of files in S3 for free
Now let's do PPP loans.
Inventor Leonardo Torres Quevedo aspired to build machines that think
How to Embrace Fish Farming
It was pushed by Android team, the same folks that came up with Jetpack stuff.

Additionally JetBrains has their fingers all over the place in Android.

Kotlin, Android Studio a mix of InteliJ and Clion, Compose,...
Student debt cancellation was a cheap scheme to buy votes from some of the nation's dumbest. Most of the people underwater on student debt were seeking useless degrees in the first place, with no practical plan to pay back the debt from day one. It's similar to expecting the government to pay off your credit card bill after buying that jet ski.
> 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.

If the Supreme Court interpreted the statutory language banning racial discrimination in federally-fund education the same way it interpreted the same language in employment, it would already be banned as disparate impact discrimination.

Also, I disagree that it is clearly beyond the scope of the 14th Amendment: yes, I’d agree superficially, but then if you took the main opinion in the recent cases at its word when it claps back at the dissent suggestion that universities could move to other bases which are not, but correlate with, race about the ruling banning racially-discriminatory treatment regardless of how it is framed, the current court would absolutely strike down legacies if they were properly before it.

(I predict that if such a challenge comes, in a case where they’d have to hear it to preserve legacies, they will tie themselves in knots to do so rather than act consistently, but that's another issue.)
It'll be a wild ride for lots of us, that's for sure. It's gonna be interesting to see how we're gonna deal with all of this as a species. The frequency and amplitude of events will be like we've never seen before.
On the flip side, too much of the lending was taking on risk that shouldn't be taken. Not hard to argue that a large part of the reason there is so much lending here is regulatory capture that makes it hard to discharge these debts. Which... quite frankly, feels very non-US.
Another opinion, along with EPA v West Virginia, that will be used to undercut SEC/CFTC regulation of Bitcoin.
The city's name is Kansas City, not Kcmo. There may be any number of stations like that, but there's only one Waco.
Watching live TV is outright painful with the sheer amount of time spent on ads.

I mean, just watching a show on whatever streaming source...a "30 minute" show is typically more like 21:30 to 22:30 long. That means 7:30 to 8:30 of the time is ads. At least 25% of the time.

6 minutes of content, 2 minutes of ads. It's awful, and it feels so much worse when watching a movie. Movies are all about building tension for an hour or more, and that feeling of build-up is just destroyed by ad breaks.

How anybody can stand that is beyond me.
What would Harvard look like without the contributions from the people who make these students legacies? Serious question.

Seems like it's just part of the cost of accepting the money from donors.

Everyone wants the brand of Harvard without donating a couple million. There is your avenue to compete for admission. It's their place, why do people feel entitled to make their own rules to get in?

Seriously, just go somewhere else. Harvard is status without necessarily having substance. Clamoring to get in only lends to the status.
> Traditional media has become replaced by Social media

But there is nothing that I've seen that fills the niche that NG filled at all. If you just want a shallow look at another place, then yes, there is plenty of that online. But that wasn't NG's thing.

It's not just NG. We have lost quite a lot of really valuable things, never to be replaced with anything comparable.
I don’t understand why this is top comment. Ads on youtube are skippable after a few seconds and you can pay to not watch them. It’s weird to conflate that with some adspam website, which may have a ton of flashy ads and a video.

However, more importantly, there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Ads enable content creators to get paid. Frankly, youtube barely eeks out a profit. When you block ads instead of paying to remove them, you’re making it harder for Youtube to justify its existence.

Personally, I think it’s fine to block ads if you’re actually quite poor or if it makes the web unusable. But if you’re just doing it because “web advertisers deserve it” or some other kind of hare brained rationalization, then you should reconsider your position. It’s not rebellious or brave to use an adblocker when there are affordable paid ad free experiences, it’s simply theft.
Good that's the only way they'll learn not to be a jerk.
If you can't afford to host the services, don't host the services. If users can't afford to provide you with free content, users shouldn't provide you with free content.

It is immoral to fund an ostensibly free service that you cannot afford to host for free by forcing users to do something they don't want to do.

Granted, Google abandoned "don't be evil" a long time ago
Without legacy admissions these people would distribute themselves over more schools, meaning more people would have access to them. The more they are bunched up, the fewer people have access.
What are the Mastodon bridges? Lua.party went dark for us a month or two ago. Thanks!
Standing was more blatantly ignored in the web designer case. Nothing had actually happened. It was a hypothetical case.
The government is constantly forgiving debts. What are you talking about?
The only trick I know of is to use a VPN provider to connect to Argentina or Turkey and buy YouTube Premium from there. Works with your normal account. Showed this trick to my dad and he now pays $2 per month instead of $16. In India you can buy a whole year for $16, but our credit cards didn't work.

I'm happy with uBlock Origin :D
If we make capable general goal-seeking AIs, then for many goals we might build them with, they will correctly reason that staying alive/operating will help the goal be achieved, so they will have self-preservation as an instrumental goal. AI Alignment researchers believe it's a difficult open problem to correctly specify a useful goal that wouldn't lead a capable goal-seeking AI to doing this against the wishes of its operators.
> getting a mortgage down payment without exposing themselves to risk.

You can't live life without risk. Your parents try to make your life relatively risk free until you are 18, but then hopefully you've learned enough life lessons to be able to see which risks are worth taking and which ones aren't.

But there's never going to be a risk-free or tradeoff-free way to live through 60+ years of your adult life, including something like getting a mortgage. It's amazing how many Gen Zs and Millenials are struggling with this concept.

> A sane society would have inflation low enough that people wouldn’t feel like idiots for saving money

We already do.
On the off chance that this is a genuine question, try asking GPT4.
On a long enough timeline every company becomes and ads company.
Don't get me wrong, I think what they're doing is very cool, but how exactly has SpaceX created a public good?
They charge monthly. You can cancel.
That doesn't help the people who are already hurting by this though.

It's the same idea as the PPP loans -- for people who are struggling to make payments, this would have been incredibly helpful.

It's two separate issues.
I don't know, it seems genuine to me. I switch to Fastmail years ago and haven't looked back, I get annoyed when I have to use Gmail for work. I can understand that others might have similar feelings.

Maybe you should try Fastmail out for a month and see how you feel.
They're not working for the seller either, they're working for themselves. They are not a fiduciary to any party. You can get screwed by an agent regardless of who hired them.