skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I totally agree that Harvard has (and should have) a right to do whatever they want with their institution and admit whoever they see fit.

From the article:

"Some people say Harvard is a private institution and it can do what it wants. These people are wrong."

"private universities are non-profits."

"When John Paulson donated $400 million to Harvard, that was tax-deductible. If we assume his marginal tax rate was 25%, that’s equivalent to him donating $300 million of after-tax money, and then having the government kick in an extra $100 million. Ivy-league universities also earn insane profits on endowments tax-free and are exempt from local property taxes."
Similar reason why many telescope mirrors are exactly 8m across.
The first 6 months are incredibly difficult, as there's nothing to do but cry and feed. It will never be perfect, but it gets better.
I would like what you envision to exist but to be remotely effective the game has to be played before college.

Otherwise the results will be similar to if any 18 year-old could “win” a place in the NFL. Either they have a rough time and get spit out or the system is forced to change to accommodate them.
Better Title: Microgrids Are Giving Power to Rich People
I hear GNU Hurd will hit 1.0 any day now[1] :) /s

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37036851
> Degrees aren't amazing proxies for productivity, but they are decent proxies.

They are very decent proxies to evade anti-discrimination laws, as well. Just look how many jobs these days require higher education credentials for paper pusher jobs. Sounds innocent on paper - but the reality is that wide swaths of society can now be perfectly legally discriminated against.

Poor people or people of color? No way. People with disabilities of all kind? No way. People who have to raise children they got at a young age? No way.

All of these people simply (virtually) filtered out from a lot of employment opportunities, simply because their classes are highly likely to never reach higher education.
As an employer you don’t want to give bathroom breaks or pay a living wage either. I’m saying these are part of employing humans. Let’s find a way to make it work
Scientific wikipedia need only summarize scientific consensus. A thermostat on the public mood should be more like a live dashboard over data streams.
Even in the history of epistemology we learn that paradigms are sometimes overcome with old age and new generations.

But in the case of AI there is a paradox: if we did not benefit from tools, if tools were not sought, there would be little interest in the matter.
> I no longer define myself purely in terms of my career.

I've been struggling with this. Any tips?
It's mildly ironic that one of the drivers of solar, battery and EV uptake in the US is private individuals responding to the fallability of the grid and planning for when their connection fails.
Mentioning μ/log and no mention of timbre (https://github.com/taoensso/timbre), that is an odd omission. Malli is a great mention, but there ought to be a mention of clojure.spec (https://github.com/clojure/spec.alpha) which has much more mindshare.
> There’s definitely a Marxist undertone to the whole thing

Because it argues for meritocratic rewards in society? Because it pointed out that capital is a gatekeeper? What makes it seem "Marxist" to you?

> Why not build more “Ivy+” and attempt to lift others up rather than flip the table?

I think the argument against subsidizing anti-meritocratic institutions such as Harvard is exactly this. The money is better spent on lifting up people regardless of their ability to get into Harvard.

I find the ending ambiguous, less "Harvard should be burned to the ground" and more "Harvard shouldn't get subsidies."

I think Harvard would survive just fine without subsidies. It's Harvard.
The most galling part about these institutions is that they have the capacity to teach many, many more students, and they don’t. They can’t expect me to keep a straight face when they prattle on about their "genuine educational mission", while their class sizes are artificially tiny so they can preserve The Brand and make sure The Club doesn’t get so big as to be unwieldy.
Seems like your off. The first universities were the Acadamy of Plato and the rehtorical schools of the ancient Greeks.

During the middle ages the universities were associated with the monastaries because those were the few places where literate people congregated.

Plus there were only 5 areas of study in the early university.

- Theology

- Law

- Medicine

- Natural Scene

- And mathematics (I think)

So you're wrong, like really wrong, like wrong wrong, can't be more wrong. But hey I'm sure if you go back to /r/athiesm you'll get some more good talking points.
Whenever I create a filename that is long or has spaces, I still pause and worry "okay, what might break if I do this", even though such concerns probably died a couple decades ago.

Actually scripts breaking if files or paths have a space in them seems to be a thorn in the side of dev/ops/it folks that never goes away, does it?
maybe anecdotal but in my experience there is no saturation in devs who are doing things properly.

im in a multinational company in a billion dollar industry yet our frontend code is reactjs without typescript, eslint misconfigured, stylelint not used, bad practices on use of react hooks, and many more.

there are teams and devs that are out of touch on maximizing what tools are available out there. im not even saying they are incompetent, what i mean is most are just unable to keep up.
Honestly, leading with Harvard is probably a distraction. There are quite a few good schools that don't have the same level of baggage but are pretty competitive with respect to admissions standards. (Of course, the details likely matter depending on the field in question to at least some degree.)

Certainly undergrad school is far from a perfect filter but I agree that if that were really all you had to go on, there is signal there whether one likes that fact or not. (And how could there not be? A lot of people who get into top schools could, shall we say, not super-concentrate on academics as undergrads and many will still do pretty well--although others will flame out.)
vim often ships with the base image, so you'd be comparing installing neovim on top of that to installing nothing.
I was going to ask the same question. Those are some great visualizations
It costs around 70 USD per month. Pretty expensive considered it’s not even gigabit speeds. But as others pointed out I may have better options to consider.
Power companies should be the ones proposing, subsidising and installing these to replace traditional power grids.

Of course it will never happen because "iT hURtS tHe boTToM lInE" and "fIDuCiaRy oBlIGatION" but this is the way.
Corporate management has more effect on most people than local laws. It’s where we are employed, and where the primary economic decisions are made. And Ivys are over-represented in corporate management.

Really, it’s an argument about whether you agree in meritocracy or elitism.
Better that fixing a kubernates yaml configuration for sure.
Always wondered if he has this scripted or if it was ad lib’ed? How does one lecture like that for that duration and with that level of eloquence without a prompt or notes?
It's not just your job though, it creeps into everything you do and it affects you more than people without it realize.

Even if you want to get something done (house project, cleaning, making appointments) it's very difficult to complete these tasks due to the distractions you meet along the way.

It's like if you had a spotify playlist of 400 songs you really want to listen to, but by the time you hear the first 5 seconds of the intro, the song skips to the next one, ad nauseam, all day long, every day of your life.
The ones I was specifically thinking about were the Puebloans of the American Southwest. There's a famous old paper whose title summarizes the situation pretty well:

"Although they have petty captains, they obey them badly"
I have a gigabyte fiber connection @ home (Technically 10G EPON which has an effective top speed of 8Gb), so there's no way of knowing if it was a mistake or not. (you're probably downvoted because of the dismissive tone though)
How does column exclusion work? We would like to prevent PII columns from being replicated into BigQuery.
Grid fragility leads to distributed resilience while driving down the cost of the tech you mentioned as volume ramps. Innovation cannibalism. Systems working as intended.
You want the ENTIRE company to be auto added to more than 25 teams?
I fiddled with it for half a day 5 years ago to get it working and have reaped the benefits for 5 years.
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> Vim9 Script as a "better VimScript" instead. That's a stark difference in the direction for the project

Great point. I wasn't following vim much, so didn't know the context around the language changes.

That does seem like a core philosophical difference. I'm interested to see what the future holds.
It really is. Leftists want people to live on top of each other, de-fund police, de-enforce safety and criminal laws, and take away your ability to defend yourself, and prosecuting anyone who does so, while parroting how dangerous school and workplace shootings are so we all need gun control.

It really is a weird reality we live in. You can't have all of the above and not be subjecting innocent people to violent criminals.

EDIT: In other words, you want dense cities? Then you need exemplary policing (both in terms of respecting citizens and keeping them safe).

You don't want police? Then people need to defend themselves and protect themselves.

You don't want people defending themselves in urban areas? Then you either have to have exemplary policing or less urban areas.

Don't want endless rural/suburban sprawl of people trying to escape crime? Then let people defend themselves or guarantee their safety through exemplary policing.

You can't have it all.
I can run generative AI (text and images) on my measly laptop. It's not the fastest thing I've ever seen, but it's a lot of fun. Desperately hoping for a "Stable Diffusion for audio" that you can run locally in the near future.
The flipside of course being, that in a rather not uncommon set of circumstances we get:

- Destruction of the current human civilization

Although I agree that it is nice that we scrapped some benefits out of it along the way
I don't think there was bad blood with Bram. Rather, vim was always Bram's baby, even with contributions from the community, and he was very opinionated about how things should be implemented. IIRC, he found the new features of neovim interesting enough to want to implement them his own way, and a couple times commented that he thought that neovim's approach to certain features was "wrong," to his way of thinking.

His choices were always a bit idiosyncratic, but the success of vim justified them, so it was never a problem... until he died, and now there are two projects, one of which is very modern, both in terms of the codebase and how the project is managed, and the other is likely to become something of a legacy project unless someone as dedicated as Bram is found to take over.
Given the argument that the wait-list students that didn't get to actually attend did worse in life than wait-list students that did get to attend, how does your implication that the "students were already good and that's why they did well in life" hold up?
>It's true that getting a degree is simple once you're in

Historically, that was at least somewhat true of undergrads in general. But wasn't necessarily the case for the top law schools and Big Law still, as far as I know, has something up an up or out career ladder.
- 2019

- 2010s? Hard to tell what you are referencing

- Not a real example (subcontracting is not the same as selling off state properties).

So yes, 2-3 examples from the UK over the past 2 decades is not really compelling.
Dad had 6-8 boats of various descriptions, but one part of the description of each was, "unusable." He also collected outboard motors, which sat on stands in the musty cottage basement. Never thought to combine the two, I guess.
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I think the beauty of this is not the messaging itself, but the abuse of a low level network protocol to jump outside client isolation etc.
I found that crazy, too. Perhaps digesting lignin is the hard part and the jump to plastic is not as hard?
I know that when I download a large file, it usually hits the advertised speed. So I'm confident that I can saturate my broadband with normal use.

Cloudflare doesn't even get close.
It is called the Slashdot effect :)
Sponsorblock is great for cleaning this crap up. Besides skipping sponsor segments, I have it set to autoskip unpaid/self promotion, interaction reminders, intermissions/intros, endcards/credits, and filler tangent/jokes set to manual skip.
For my use case of simple editing, vi was feature complete like 30 years ago. I don't have any preference at all what open source project build implements those features.
that is not how it works at all, lol.
Sometimes, I wish other software products took compatibility as seriously as Microsoft does.
I think once a schools endowment goes over a certain amount they should simply be required to educate more students -- I think Harvard should just admit 10x the number of students that they currently admit.
I had the opposite experience. I thought I would easily survive a layoff, but now it looks not so likely.
Down on your luck? Are you sleeping on a subway grate and your kids eating ramen noodles 3 meals a day? No?

People make bad career choices like this every day. I started reading this thinking you took a dump in your boss' wastebasket or something equally outrageous. Imagine my disappointment.

I am having difficulty empathizing with this story.

A mere bump in the road. Have another cup of coffee and move on.
The issue is that American academic institutions have adopted the inherited-wealth / social-class-based model that was so prevalent in Britain in the early 20th century. Elite schools are not centers of education so much as they are centers of networking for feeding the anoited few into positions in government and business, regardless of what actual skills and talents and abilities they possess.

Eliminating legacy admissions and ensuring that K-12 schools across the country are of uniform high quality (in particular in the STEAM fields, yes that includes Art) would do much to reverse this trend, along with reducing college tuition costs.

It's like wild salmon vs. farmed salmon - pampered students who never have to swim upstream don't develop the best qualities.
No, they won’t, because I’m nobody to them.

If you’re some kind of public enemy of Russia, maybe don’t use Russian services of any variety.
Likely trite, but: I learned that I'm continuously learning far more than I realize— but that if I don't log what I learn somehow (journal, notes, essays), I'm left with a far fainter sense of accumulation & a far weaker understanding overall.

Practically, I learned how to fully clean stainless steel pans (boil vinegar after cooking; baking soda scrub if really filthy).
> What would happen in schools if we lived in a magical dreamworld? I think the answer is: Each kid gets whatever experiences maximize their potential.

That answer sure does sound like the stuff of magical dreamworlds.

Whatever experiences maximize their potential is the province of families, not the stuff of society-paid education. It's not that it couldn't be provided by the latter, but the daunting expense means that it will never be funded to a level that maximizes on an individualized basis.

What would that require? One teacher for every 4 kids, maybe you could stretch it to 6 or 8. On top of that, a multitude of specialists to ensure that any special needs are addressed in an individually customized fashion to maximize the potential of every kid. In many districts, we can't get agreement that we should feed every kid, let alone agreement that there should be roughly one professional adult in total for every 2-3 kids.

> In dreamworld, every kid would follow their own path. There would be no “advanced classes” or “tracks” because those concepts wouldn’t exist.

Those concepts would absolutely exist, just under a different label (and maybe not even that), because kids at the very top of the range would be taking something that would be readily recognizable as the close equivalent of today's advanced classes.
Do you care about your employees? If not, they won't care about you. It’s easy to hire people, but how easy is it to retain them?
Let's find out:
Downvotes notwithstanding, if you make $45k but you can afford an actual house, you're pretty much a unicorn at this point in time in the western world (US, Europe, doesn't matter, everywhere's pretty much unaffordable now). Or you gave up on civilization and you bought a property out in the sticks of course.

Either way, you're not going to get 10 millionaires just moving into an area with houses that are so cheap they ignore them as "too cheap" on a realty listing. Even if you're talking about an investment purchase and then they don't move in, themselves. You might have a property developer though, looking to create the next HOA hellscape.

This really isn't a good hypothetical.
I'm from a non US country, so the concept of a Harvard is foreign to me as well. And yes, I've also worked for selective employers where maths degrees mattered a lot. It never bothered me.

Not sure what you're trying to say. Hiring people based on individual merit and skills is not the same thing as hiring people based on an exclusive network. The Harvard employer favored Harvard folks over others who otherwise had the same (or better) skills.
The Oregon Resilience Plan (2013) [pdf]
A few years before dad died, I flew up to help him "clean up some stuff." I did make some progress against the poison ivy in the back yard, but he wouldn't let me in the house and, in the end, we took two phone books to the recycling center.
> Imagine you live in a community of 1000 middle class people … Suddenly, 10 millionaires move in.

I’m not an economist and there are countless reasons for that, but I can’t imagine that 10 millionaires in a community of 1,000 people would materially change life for the other 990 in the way that you’re suggesting.

Gentrification and unbalanced income strata are real things and real problems, but the 1% aren’t causing them simply by existing.
I recently learned about the (Linux) sockets. Wrote two simple "echo client" and "echo server". Then monitored the traffic over Wireshark and witness the 3 way TCP handshake.
Then make the server to use "selectors" and learned a bit more about the names I have been hearing for a while: 'select', 'poll', 'epoll'.

This is when things start to "click" for me.

Nothing astounding but these little things got me excited!

PS: Too excited that I even made a presentation to share with people from work.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LAdJ4iK-RJVxuIo61RLU...
And that excuses war, rape and pillaging how?
It was async that Justin and Thiago tried to add to vim, and spent several months wrestling with Bram to get their patch included. At the end, they concluded that they weren't going to get it in and that a fork was necessary. Including the terminal followed quickly after neovim was set up and organized.
Would it be more HN appropriate had he said "your writing helped me grok your mom's disorder?"
I have too - It’s pretty great.

I’m have recently discovered proofing in a cold environment, the kitchen in winter or even the fridge. It looks like nothing has happened, but shape the dough and cook it and you get spectacular oven rise.
> how could data off the chain be replaced if it is signed?

It's very simple. You ignore the chain. The chain isn't magic, if it has any authority it's only because something else decides to consult the chain and to care about what can be found there.

Any actual usefulness of the blockchain is limited to things that reside exclusively in the blockchain.

Anything external, like some service that determines ownership of movies (not sure what scheme you're envisioning exactly) can arbitrarily decide to stop caring about the chain at any time, or to even selectively stop caring about parts of it.
I think there's never been a better time to be a JS developer. JS is now everywhere. It runs on browsers, it runs on servers, it runs on mobile devices. You can use it as a scripting language if you really hate python and ruby. You can compile it to webassembly. There's game engines that use JS. Typescript is great as JS projects grow larger and more complex (if you can get over the fact that reading complex types is stupid)

So the more and more JS devs are coming in, the more we need JS experts who really understand how stuff works at lower levels. Like for example the browser event loop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOL7MC4Pl0

Being an expert that deeply understands a tech stack will never go out of style
That poor fella doesn't stand a chance.
Of course we are focusing on the Russian part. Russia has made themselves the enemy of the west, so their spying is several factors more serious case than just a simple violation of privacy.
When viewing this problem through an evolutionary history lens, I generally arrive at something like: "Well of course hoarding is a problem, people didn't evolve confined to cages where possessions accumulate. We'd just be nomadic and leave a trail of compostable waste in our wake of unkempt stashes and habitats."
That sounds like Capitalism minus all the propaganda about merit and capitalist-class productivity. So just Capitalism.
I think “reject” is too strong. They don’t accept it. There are polemics by individual Orthodox who reject it. But I am not aware of any dogmatic rejections, especially since they haven’t had an ecumenical council at which to reject things.
I sort of get most of these - they're internal to various bits of Microsoft technology. 'CON' plus the ones ending in $ are internal device names dating back to MS-DOS, 'desktop.ini' is a magic file that Explorer uses, '_vti_' is something I've seen but can't remember what it was from.

But 'forms'? Why is 'forms' a bad word?
Phase in Acoustics
Hello from Google! I work for our search ranking team. Sadly, we can't control publishers who do things that we do not advise and do not recommend.

We have no guidance telling publishers to get rid of "old" content. That's not something we've said. I shared this week that it is not something we recommend:
https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1689018769782476800

This also documents the many times over the years we've also pushed back on this myth:
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-dont-delete-older-helpfu...
Why would Ivy schools pass your children over?
None of those other jobs not being filled would have literally kept me from existing, so the comparison seems strange to me. Yes I'm glad someone became a school teacher to teach me, but my not having the same interest doesn't make universal education of young children impossible, only a small percentage of the population needs to teach to enable that. Same for local government and most other jobs.

My parents forgoing having children, however, literally makes my existence impossible. And practiced on a society-wide level it ultimately leads to the extinction of the human race. Anyone who thinks that humans are better off pursuing their own fulfillment and enjoyment out of life instead of bearing and raising children is some combination of hedonist, nihilist, and misanthrope. And anyone who promotes such views should be shamed for what they are.
In the US, good bread must be actively sought out. It is not available everywhere.
Well, I’m glad I don’t work for you. I work for a Fortune 100 company with nearly 100,000 employees and we all have admin/root access to our company provided hardware. I’ve worked here for decades and have never heard anything through the IT grapevine of issues arising from this.