jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This sets up a false dichotomy, I think. There's no need to believe that only one of the two extremes is possible, nor to decide on and commit to a specific belief/worldview about a person. I think there's evidence that her research is great (and not every paper by brilliant people is expected to be brilliant), and also evidence that people who disagreed with her viewpoints were placed under pressure because of it (maybe not directly by her). Also, her research and her general viewpoints on social media might not all be about the same things.
The part where Aditya explains their 3 moto and in particular, moving fast / not being afraid to break the site - bring it down, may account for the recent chain of privacy fiasco.

Breaking a site is not just about down time, it may also have privacy and security implications.

I bet that slide will be gone by next talk.
I'm not sure I'd trust the guy who wrote "The reality is that women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently" on gender issues.
I am so excited to try out f.lux, I have been working towards a wake up time of 5am PST (that way I am awake as business gets started on the East Coast) but have hit a roadblock at getting up before 7am.

I currently get a ton of natural light in the morning, plus I have a light box I turn on for 30 minutes while I drink my coffee and do my first work of the day. By 9amm, I'm usually out he door for my walk to work in the sunshine - which is when I think my body really wakes up. I bet if I went for a walk to get a cup of coffee at 7am instead I'd get the benefit and reset my circadian rhythm earlier.

But falling asleep is the main problem for me actually, I try to go to bed by 11:30pm but I find I am still not able to dose off until around 1am (which used to be my normal bed time), so what ends up happening is that over the course of the week I become mildly sleep deprived. I notice this less of an issue on the weekends, and after reading this post I think this is probably because I don't end my day with my laptop/iPad in bed.

Anyone know if there is something like f.lux for the iPad? Guessing not, since it would need to run in the background...

Thanks for the useful post
It's not necessarily evidence, but I imagine the correlation is quite strong. I can't think of a single counter example, where a profession is dominated not as the result of bias.
Imagining games to have a "skill component" and a "luck component" is the wrong way to conceptualize games which involve randomness. A much better way conceptualize these games is to consider how many "units" (games, matches, hands, tournaments, whatever) must be played before the distribution of players by (score/place/points) becomes indistinguishable from that expected based on the players' ability levels.

For instance, if a GM rated 2800 plays a GM rated 2700, he may lose. In fact, he may lose several games in a row. However, if the two play a 30-game match, the probability that the 2700-rated player will win is very low.

Now, if you take the best heads up no limit hold em player in the world and have him play a series of hands against the hundredth-best heads up no limit hold em player in the world, he may very well lose the first hand. He may very well be down after the first thousand hands. But if they play, say, 1,000,000 hands, the probability that the weaker player will be up on the stronger player is as low as, if not lower than, the probability that the 2700 will beat the 2800 in their match.

It's not about "skill" versus "luck"--the question is simply, "How many (hands/games/matches/etc.) must be played before the probability that the weaker player (has won/is ahead/etc.) becomes sufficiently small?
At the same time, we should avoid using specific cases as proof that there is institutional bias

Which isn't what the OP did. I don't know that statistical evidence is all we have - we (hopefully) have the experiences and opinions of the women we work with, know or are related to. Listening to them would be a positive thing to do.
should I insert "zzzzZZZzzz" here? lol
How are these necessarily mutually exclusive? Also, 500 DKK or any possession could mean way more than a dumb threat.
I don't want to liberate the smalltalk, I want to punch it down like a sore thumb.
Clojure was my first programming language. I've been playing around with a language with pointers recently, and I wonder if you could explain to me what you mean about "symbols which are natural pointers."

More generally, I don't think I understand yet why someone would use pointers instead of a variable.

Thanks for your comment about Lisp.
"Lisp wasn't invented, it was discovered."

(Looking for the source of this observation.)
You can spend money on performance or on features.

Google has historically been good at high performance computing, and chose to spend enough money to get and fund a team of experts on building high performance VMs.

Microsoft has historically been good at adding backwards compatible feature sets, and chose to spend enough money to get and fund a team of experts on tasteful design and evolution of programming languages.
I agree. Lighter black seems to do the trick. Page corrected.

text-shadow: 0 0 5px rgba(100,100,100,0.5);
Well, Rust is now at 1.0.0 alpha, which means that the language has almost all of the planned breaking changes implemented (there are still a few corners where there are a few breaking changes planned, but in things that are minor enough to be unlikely to break much code).

The standard library is still in rapid iteration mode in the preparation for 1.0.0 beta, and thus large portions of it are marked unstable and so only available if you opt-in via a feature gate, but the plan is to stabilize that through the alpha and beta period and have a usable, stable standard library at 1.0.0, which is planned to come out within a few 6-week release cycles from now. And things which are not ready, or not really appropriate for a core standard library, are being moved out into separate Cargo crates that can iterate independently from the core language.

So yes, Rust has been iterating rapidly on the road to 1.0, which makes keeping up with the treadmill painful, but it's finally settling down; very soon you should be able to use it without constant breaking changes.
The Pebble watch can control Plex, VLC, XBMC and the WDTV over WiFi:

https://github.com/Skipstone/Skipstone
The other problem of course for @Home was that for the cable companies, bankruptcy was a better outcome since they could buy the equipment cheap.

The buyout/merger/etc led to an inaccurate version of their theme jingle in my head too: "I don't wanna grow, I wanna buy a crappy web portal..."
Anyone know what parts specifically of the KMT’s story are “left out” in the version of history promulgated by the PRC, such that a full accounting would be risky?

My first guess: the strong affiliation between Sun Yat-sen and the party, since the CCP still seems to respect Sun and his Three Principles and use (their interpretations of) them to justify CCP tentpoles.
“Only 300,000”

You’re minimizing exposing information of enough people to populate most of Cincinnati, Ohio (301k)?

Casting that as “only 300,000” is sickening.
That's exactly my point earlier. It actually costs relatively more today to get a similar sized building as that high quality art deco building of yesteryear, while the quality has simultaneously declined. Buildings like that aren't built of stone today, rather twigs by comparison.

Prices have gone up and quality down.

It's not just the wealth gap that is increasing but the value gap even more so.
I'm just glad Mac OS X 10.13 High Sierra and above are still fully supported since I have a computer which is stuck on that release (incompatible with 10.14).
So the websites you visit use their service then?
You can register with eternal-september.org for a free usenet account.

Then you can set up Thunderbird, Claws Mail or another email app (even slrn or alpine on the linux command line) to read and respond to newsgroups.
Ha, thanks!

Some choices are hard because of uncertainty and fear of the unknonwn. People live through terrible relationships, suffer terrible commutes, work in soul-sucking places etc and are yet unable to quit because the alterntives are less defined.

While I have enough finances to be comfortable (and reduce uncertainty), I don't know of anyone personally who has made the choices I have, even though many are vastly richer than I. They continue to grumble about expenses and commutes and health issues. Middle class people vastly overestimate how much they really need, and peg their lifestyles to that bar, often at the cost of everything dear.

I have a very simple approach. I ask "What's the worst that can happen? Will this affect me next year?". I find that once I quantify it, most fears just melt away. Say my laptop gets stolen and everything in it is irretrievable. No backup, say. What's the worst? It would be a royal pain to get back my life, but by this time next year, I'd be just fine. Moving to a different country to do a PhD? What's the worst? I'll perform badly and get chucked out, and I will return and get another job. Five years from now it would be a fine story to regale my friends with.

Sorry. I'm getting wordier as I grow older!
No, the events in that article happened because Riverside decided it didn't want to pay for the courtrooms it needed for the volume of cases its court system was dealing with.

However, the experiences of the defense bar during that time did inspire the subsequent events to which I was referring, which was in late 2009 or early 2010.

It's hard to find articles about it online since it was an esoteric maneuver that AFAIK was only covered by local (now defunct) papers.
I believe they're suggesting that these systems are designed to be cruel, and that there are people who desire that.

I was astonished while I was working on COVID-19 in jails that the statement "Someone shouldn't die of COVID because they can't afford bail" as something that got active pushback by some people.
Long time lurker, had to create an account to post about this though. Hey folks!

"Budgie is based on GTK and the GNOME Shell."

To clarify, Budgie is NOT based on GNOME Shell. Budgie uses gnome-settings-daemon, GTK, and Mutter. It's written with GTK, C, and Vala, whereas GNOME Shell is written in C, St, and JavaScript. Budgie 11 isn't going to use any GNOME applications, its settings daemon, or Mutter. May not even use GTK (but rather EFL).

"originally developed for the distro called Solus"

It is still developed for Solus primarily.

"Another nice feature is the extensions that are baked into the Budgie Extras app, shipped together with the desktop."

This is part of the Ubuntu Budgie experience, not Budgie itself.

"These extensions are all developed by the maintainers of the desktop environment, so breakage is not really expected."

As the developer of Budgie, no these are not all developed by the maintainers. Many of them are developed by Ubuntu Budgie, whereas I use and develop on Solus. Breakage is to be expected and has occurred in the past, leading me to have to triage these issues filed against proper upstream rather than Ubuntu Budgie's extras repo.

"One of these extensions is a global menu that works wonderfully, and supports all my applications"

This is not one which is developed by us (Solus).

"The print screen keyboard shortcuts known from GNOME don't work by default"

Works under Solus.
But then you’ve just swapped one set of trade offs for another. It seems like a weak solution. IIRC semicolons were added to the languages of old to avoid the need for line continuation marks.
Part of the reason is because tax software companies pay legislators to make and keep taxes complicated. There is no reason, with the advent of internet and databases, that 90% of people’s taxes can’t be completely automated.

Part of the reason is because more tax rules means more loopholes to take advantage of.
> But it's understandable given how little our culture can even acknowledge the value of honorable and confident submission.

That's because outside of very specific contexts, "honorable and confident submission" doesn't exist.

Yes, respectful power differences in otherwise mutually beneficial relationships naturally exist, whether those relationships are platonic, professional, romantic, or very concretely in the context of activities like BDSM. These are, however, characterized by clear limits and boundaries, and a mutual agreement about the benefit of the relationship, including the power difference.

But social subjugation is not the same thing. It's about being disempowered in situations where there is no trust relationship that puts boundaries on the exercise of that power against the disempowered. For example, it's a job interview where someone's abilities are cast in doubt because their interviewer perceives their "princess" appearance or mannerisms.

That people conflate the two very distinct scenarios is baffling. The difference between them is quite simply a huge gulf of trust.
Wasn't it owned by Disney previously? I think that more accurately explains the tracking obsession.
Bit further down the thread:

> Some speculation that the user spun up a @ubuntu image from a marketplace equivalent.

> If you spun up my CoreyOS marketplace image and I did outreach like that, @awscloud would give me the choice of never saying that again, or being booted off of the marketplace. Trust matters.

He's right. Then again, MS and Canonical both put ads into core OS components.
I just would have figured a hardware company would be focusing on the hardware personnel.

After all, there are plenty of places that don't pay FAANG level salaries for software developers. I still regularly see < $60K software jobs advertised from smaller companies.
You can also use pod files for this, which is nice in that it's easy to migrate to k8s.
Having lived through my parents being audited multiple times I am definitely afraid of the IRS boogey man.

Merely dealing with an audit (even if everything you id was correct and above board) can be extremely stressful and time consuming.

My parents also thought their CPA was really good an knew what they were doing. Turns out that even CPAs screw up sometimes. :-)
> One thing I particularly appreciate about our Dyson corded vacuum is that I can take the whole damned air path apart if needed, without tools.

the first time i went to clean the filter in ours, i kept seeing that i could easily take off/remove one more thing, so i did. next thing i knew i had completely dismantled and washed it.

then it went back together just as easily. hardest part was waiting for things to dry out.
The git manuals aren't fun because the git porcelain isn't fun. A better command-line interface would be simpler to explain.
`defn' is a mnemonic for "define function".
`cons' is a mnemonic for "construct".

`car', and `cdr' and replaced in clojure with `first' and `rest'.

Once you've spent ten minutes with the language, these names aren't going to trip you up.
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Though I've noticed only pages up to 200 work when going back through history.. this only gets you a few days back on the most popular tags.
I went to uni, and got a decent Computer Studies BSc degree. It never stood me one damned bit of good, because before, during and after my studies, companies are still holding to the mantra "We need two years' experience in [name the technology]." I have seen employers asking blithely for "two years' experience" in technologies invented six months ago, so "experience" is not the issue.

I have come to the conclusion that, like desperate people in their forties still holding out for their One True Love and still staying single, employers are looking for someone who will come on like Neo from The Matrix, yet look, speak, think and get paid like Wally from the Dilbert strip.

I think the degree puts the "hard working, white collar, self-made man, bucked my own goat, got myself to where I am from nothing, Essex barrow boy, yadda yadda" interviewers off their stride. Some misplaced sense of snobbery, perhaps. I have seen them snap at me, yet treat a candidate with only a minor diploma with kid gloves.

And as for what I've done with myself since I got my degree ... applied for, literally, more than a thousand jobs, attended countless business breakfasts, attended VIP private viewings of art exhibits, appeared in front of and behind a TV camera, done a stint on a radio show as a presenter, given classes, studied languages, mathematics, poetry and art, seen my writings published in a number of different places, and taught my nephew stick fighting for his drama class.

Plus, I had the time somewhere to fit in some coding.

Unemployable? Lacking in initiative? Hardly.
Another one to add to the list, when working in the shell, is ctrl-u. This sort of does the opposite of ctrl-k and clears everything from your cursor to the start of the line. I use it when I recursive-search then change my mind, or when I screw up a password when ssh'ing.
You left a layer of the joke: in order to be sure that the explanation is nonsense, you have to understand mathematical concepts that are much more complicated than git's architecture.
Did you really just make me sign up only to tell me you're going to send me an invite sometime in the mysterious future? Ugh.
If your expected response time is of the order of 5 minutes, then you are not "on-call", you are working 12 hour days and your compensation and time off arrangements should reflect that.

I suspect that if the company is currently getting that amount of extra work (over and above a normal length working day) for free, then you're unlikely to be able to get them to change that. If it was me, I'd be looking for a role in another team or company that has a more realistic approach to on-call.

Any potential extra impact on your current colleagues that you leaving might cause is the responsibility of your management and up to them to mitigate. How your current colleagues decide to react to the on-call situation should be up to them.

Good luck resolving this, I've been in work situations that had unreasonable expectations myself and I appreciate how stressful it can be.
If I've just done my maths right then an AA battery is enough to lift 360 metric tons up 1m.

Edit: out by a large factor. Should be that many kg, not tons.

So lifting trains into the air is going to have its work cut out to match plain old battery technology.
This one uses JupyterLab as a frontend for CadQueury, a porcedural CAD system.

https://github.com/bernhard-42/jupyter-cadquery
If you haven't seen it, there's a great companion book "Lexicon Urthus" [1] that provides a definition for all of the unusual English words used, as well as character references and in-book lore. I re-read BOTNS with the Lexicon, and really expanded my appreciation of the use of language in the books.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Lexicon-Urthus-Dictionary-Urth-Cycle/...
This is really promising, but I do think scepticism is warranted - Apple loves their walled gardens.
Yes, they are most likely addicted to the reversible monoamine oxidase inhibitors present in the brew (coffee/tea, decaf too).

It is amazing how people don’t know about these substances even though they consume them ritually. Most people attribute their effects to caffeine/nicotine, because those are all that gets talked about.
Where's the petition to save Cantonese in Hong Kong?
Because the trial sizes would need to be similar, so now you’re trialing you recruit 120,000 people across 4 trials.

How long would that delay trial results you think?
Thank you, this makes more sense. Initially I thought that macOS was making some sort of unturnoffable keyboard clack sounds through the speakers.
This is far more reasonable than my first impression of the article title.
Looks like you, along with many other hawks, were wrong

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/05/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-is-l...
I'm obviously pretty biased having come from 10 years of doing infrastructure in the ROS world, but having spent a lot of time integrating this or that random library into a singular product-versioned build, I do quite like the approach of colcon:

https://github.com/colcon

Basically it has plugins to discover/build various package types (autotools, cmake, bazel, setuptools, cargo), and the "interface" between packages is just the output of whatever the standard install target is for a given package. This makes it totally transparent whether your dependency is built-from-source in your workspace, coming from /usr/local via a sudo-make-install workflow, or coming from /usr via a system package.

Under this model, you never pull a dependency as a "subproject" with invocations like include or add_subdirectory; it's always using a standard find_package invocation, where basically the only requirement on participating packages is that they cooperate with long-existing standards like CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH and CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX. Vendoring a library is then not making a copy of it in your project tree, but rather as sibling project within the shared workspace that colcon builds.
I don't get it. They are wireless, noise-canceling headphones, not communication headsets. They are super expensive and I'm sure excellent for music/listening, but have no boom and are in no way meant to be used for serious/frequent calls. Heck, their tagline is "only music; nothing else". If THAT's not a hint, I don't know what is...

It's depressing to think that a $20 headset may have been a better investment than the $300 headphones :<