skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, the people obsessed with diversity are the real racists, except they've "changed" the meaning of the term "racism" to mean being born into privilege, and they've defined the most privileged people as having a white skin color.

According to these people, people are literally born racist.

Not only that, but racism has nothing to do with skin color to them, it's all about power. They've removed the race from racism to justify their authoritarian agenda and to make discrimination based on skin color "non-racist".

Guess what guys, discrimination based on skin color is the real definition of racism, not your bs power and privilege crap.

Elitism != racism

But elitism is a real problem, especially in STEM. Too bad we'll do nothing to solve the problem because we focus on helping privileged non-whites instead of targeting people equally based on socio-economic status (and yes, using ones race as the sole basis to guess their socio-economic status makes you a racist piece of shit.)
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Let's pick some intuitive false facts:

* The lack of inertia is very intuitive. Once you stop pushing something it will get to rest soon. This is extremely intuitive. (Unless you live nearby a frozen lake???)

* The spontaneous generation of small creatures like worms and flies is intuitive. You put some crap and wait a while, and you'll get a few small animals. (Did someone ever believe that elephants were generated spontaneously?)

* Leeches are good for your health. I'm not even sure that this was intuitive, or that it was even a popular cure, but it was used in traditional western medicine. Modern medicine use penicillin, I don't think that using an extract from a mold is intuitively good.
companies have billions of dollars in cash often because they are waiting for a tax holiday before they move it from where it is to where they want to use it
To clarify: I've been a Guardian reader for years (as well as other moderate outlets) and used to share a few of its stances, until 2 ~ 3 years ago. Now white people, especially men, have become the modern enemy KirinDave was talking about. From silly to major issues of society, they are the convenient culprit to win over voters. Yet, such racial discrimination is accepted and normalized. The leftist youth of US is growing intolerant, righteous and prone to violence. My overseas friends' feeds were filled with academic excuses for blurting antiwhite racism and subtle calls for violence.
I can only share a narrow/biased point of view. Data over time will eventually confirm/deny my impressions.
I suspected you'd know, but I thought it was good to clarify who Moshe Arens was for other people reading. ;)

The article you link is interesting, and it mentions a special tax that would be levied on the populace to continue funding the project. Which gives you a hint about how expensive it was! It also mentions that the US didn't like the project. But if US pressure was factor, then why was the project started in the first place? Recall that in 1987 the project was over 10 years old.

Fact is that Israel does a lot of things that the US does not like, like building settlements, but it has never used the military aid as a means to put pressure on Israel. So sure, the US could theoretically exert influence by threatening to stop the aid, but it hasn't done so and probably won't. It would be too much like slaughtering a holy cow for them.

The Lavi story isn't unique. Half a dozen countries have tried to build fighter planes but then cancelled the programs because they were too expensive. I believe the only countries currently producing modern fighter jets are USA, Russia, France, EU, China and Sweden. And I can tell you that the Swedish fighter jet program has been incredibly close to being cancelled numerous times over the last decades.
I'm rural and I just use Amazon Prime rather than ever stepping foot in a Walmart.
But that does seem like the first step to answering the question.
That's not actually how things operate.

Now, it is best to set aside a relevant machine or HDD etc. But, for example if you buy a new phone and then brows the web on it, then as a basic fact of browsing the web cache files get deleted.

So, if you get such an order. Box up your current machine. Buy a new one, wipe it clean, reinstall from version control that's in no way suspicious. Assuming such things where documented and normal procedure.

PS: I would add, the court of public option may ignore such things. But, the court of law is actually far from stupid.
> You can post snarky comics and point and laugh, but that's not exactly helping the resistance.

One of the things that would do the most good--and I say this from Texas, which is boneheaded by every measure when it comes to women's rights--is to actually help defray the expenses of folks who need access to abortion. In states like mine where you have to travel sometimes multiple hours to see a physician, and then cough up multiple thousands of dollars to cover the procedure, there is no replacement for cold, hard cash and support for the people who can't afford the procedure.

Also, please reconsider hyperbolic terms like "the resistance". That sort of rhetoric makes people that are serious about resistance annoyed, makes people that are on the fence about your cause take you less seriously, and makes people that are looking for an excuse to make our side look bad have an easier time of it.
That's actually pretty neat! So how come other voices don't match this? Is it the fact that intonation in a single domain (weather) is easier to predict than if the voice needs to handle general (broad) topics of conversation?
Regarding the drive-wiping, which does not seem to have been an issue the jury had to rule on (merely an relevant piece of evidence to other issues in this suit), reading between the lines, perhaps Carmack didn't wipe his drive but somebody else did? Both parties' statements would be true in that case.
With enough power and political will, fighting other types leads to genocide. I am truly sorry you live in a difficult place. Your best bets would be to immigrate to a place that does have institutions (US, Germany), or to work hard to build them in your country. You can be the place where change starts. I wish you the best.
You're addicted, you just don't know it yet.
Because some things are a choice, and some things are not. Some things can be turned off and some things cannot.

Gender (and gender identity), along with race, are things that cannot be unshed.

The language you choose to speak, what music you listen to, and whether you choose to share your sexuality, while they are differences, they cannot be instantly detected.

The natural heuristic we use drawing upon our experiences in an American society have a unique relationship with gender and race. It is especially because those things are non-choices and instantaneously recognizable, that they are the most important to address first.
If you work on your own estonian company, but don't pay yourself money (all money are keeps on company's account)
Is it a way?
Also, consider using Celery [0] and distribute the computation across different hosts as well.

[0] http://www.celeryproject.org/
edit: ha! your edit nails it.

You share a feature with the author in that neither of you are economists! ;-)

I skimmed the writing to create a skeleton of the argument. The claims and solutions are wild.

No, AMZN doesn't have a "free pass to grow without any pressure to show profits." This is evidenced by investor reactions to their Q4 earnings call. Her solution is a solution in search of a problem:

More specifically, restoring traditional antitrust principles to create a
presumption of predation and to ban vertical integration by dominant platforms
could help maintain competition in these markets. If, instead, we accept
dominant online platforms as natural monopolies or oligopolies, then applying
elements of a public utility regime or essential facilities obligations would
maintain the benefits of scale while limiting the ability of dominant
platforms to abuse the power that comes with it.
NASA's had a robotic presence on Mars since 2003. Spirit operated from 2003-2010, Opportunity from 2003-present, Curiosity from 2012-present. All of these have been fairly widely reported in pop culture, and NASA continues to actively make & publicize discoveries from them:

http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/home/
Alibaba garbage exists because the modern manufacturing and logistics economy makes it easy to deploy that stuff, and it overwhelms very similar looking quality stuff.

You can shop sold-by-Amazon.com only if you only want highly reputatable stuff
Wow, the bar for "uncivil" seems to be really low only for conservative posters on HN.
I started making a bot last night but it keep getting disconnected in the first 10ish rounds. Anyone else see this and resolve it?
We use ansible to generate small inremental updates of docker images. The ansible takes any base image and put it into desired state. We feed it a milestone image to generate a small layer over it.

http://engineering.opensooq.com/manage-your-docker-image-lay...
Tim Ferriss on the Liberal/Progressive Groupthink in Silicon Valley
Leaked all the names and specs of the CPU's AMD Ryzen
Mods will occasionally detach subthreads, and have even been known to remove them from a story.

As one might imagine, a subthread without even a story parent is basically inaccessible unless you know its precise ID.
I stopped setting alarms on alexa, since it does not stop when I ask it to stop. I had to unplug it once which was really annoying.
This is pretty cool. I've written a couple of toy ray tracers, but always in a language that runs on a CPU, so it's interesting to see how you would do it on a GPU. And I noticed that this is from the Ken Perlin, which is cool - I'm mostly just used to seeing his name as the "Perlin" in Perlin noise.

There's one thing I'm curious about - does anyone know why he's taking the square root of the color to produce the final pixel color?
I wish I could see examples of art from around the world at the same time period. I'd love to do a comparison of pottery styles and techniques in China and the Americas. There's often surprising commonalities, though the civilizations grew separately.

Further, I'd also love to see connections and influences between regions. How did Koran manuscripts influence those of the Bible, and vice versa? How did Chinese ceramic motifs influence those in Persian ceramics? What are the flows of currency in the ancient world?
But you also need the technology and culture of birth control or else you run up against the ability of your methods of food production to prevent starvation.
What's the insane amount of $ ? (For the Cobol development.)
>I had a period of about 3 months where Amazon just couldn't deliver to my house.

And Amazon can also ban you forever from their service, for example if you return too many things in a short period.

Imagine if that meant you couldn't buy anything at all because there aren't any competitors.
Could you give us some details on this? Like which web socket library you used, the technology you used, etc?

If you copy & paste the example bot verbatim, does that work for over 10 rounds? As far as I know we've got tens of bots working at the moment and I haven't heard this strange problem from anyone else.
Because (taking the comment in its context) you need to get a first job so you haven't so many options and you have nothing to lose. If you're some genius maybe Google had already recruited you right from uni.
You make very valid points, but how do you expect someone to pay you 300k if they are not making more money off of you?

The market is willing to pay machine learning experts 250k + because they bring in multiple of 250k in value. If not, no one would be paying such an amount just because machine learning is hard. If that is the case, astro physicists should be among the highest earners in the world. Much more than your NFL stars.
ZeniMax vs. Oculus verdict excerpts, link to full 90-page ruling
Cooking foods actually decreases the bioavailability of a lot of minerals, copper included.

Another reason oysters are great is because of their zinc content, which helps ensure your copper-zinc ratio is in balance and you don't overdo it on copper.
To be clear: Google does not have a 'diversity problem'.

They are very diverse, and minorities are well represented as a block.

What they have is a 'not enough Blacks and Latinos' problem.

And - 'not enough Females in management positions' problem, possibly.

The underlying issue which some fail to address is the fact that if you only have 15% of tech grads female, and 0.1% African American - it's really difficult to have '50% female coders' or '10% African American coders'. Actually, I'd argue it's impossible.

A really interesting survey I read saw that Males in the Valley tend to think that the 'talent pool' is the issue (i.e. as I stated above), but Females tend to think the big issue is a 'lack of role models'.

Maybe I'm biased being a guy, but I do think that it's primarily the talent pool issue, but I do concede that 'lack of role models' is probably a concern.

I think that this is a concern, but a soft one, and that if a company like Google - which is very open minded and progressive struggles with it, well, it's a tough one to crack. As long as they are trying to make inroads there, then that's good.

I don't think that we should hold them to any specific standard or shame them.
Why not try and continue to let the site be broken for people using adblock? It's their choice to break the user agent. If enough sites are broken with adblock enabled and the content is compelling enough - you would assume they would disable adblock?
I'm not sure if I'm interpreting you correctly.

Do you mean "Most people aren't paranoid enough to be afraid to search for 'secure wipe' after being sued for an unrelated matter"?

Or do you mean "Upon being sued, most peoples immediate reaction would be to search the web about how to destroy evidence"?

My guess would that most people who believe they are innocent would have no interest in destroying evidence, and that most people who considered themselves guilty would have already taken care of hiding the evidence before being sued.

probability theory says this is a tiny piece of evidence.

In which direction? Slightly more likely to be guilty, because why else would the person be searching? Or slightly more likely to be innocent, because any guilty person would know not to search?
Facebook is good for one thing only: organizing political protests.
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I am not saying either one should get a leash. Almost everyone who is against capitalism point to the real world problems with it but talk about an "ideal communist society" as an alternative.

If comparisons are being made, they should be done so between "ideal capitalist society" and its alternatives.
"The employment anti-discrimination laws was originally designed for manual labor and similar jobs. "

Google is not being discriminatory in any way - so I don't think this is the issue here.
Openness to immigration drives economic success
reposting a comment I made a while ago @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11327157

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Very relevant PubMed article many of you will undoubtedly find interesting: "Partial sleep in the context of augmentation of brain function."

Abstract: Inability to solve complex problems or errors in decision making is often attributed to poor brain processing, and raises the issue of brain augmentation. Investigation of neuronal activity in the cerebral cortex in the sleep-wake cycle offers insights into the mechanisms underlying the reduction in mental abilities for complex problem solving. Some cortical areas may transit into a sleep state while an organism is still awake. Such local sleep would reduce behavioral ability in the tasks for which the sleeping areas are crucial. The studies of this phenomenon have indicated that local sleep develops in high order cortical areas. This is why complex problem solving is mostly affected by local sleep, and prevention of local sleep might be a potential way of augmentation of brain function. For this approach to brain augmentation not to entail negative consequences for the organism, it is necessary to understand the functional role of sleep. Our studies have given an unexpected answer to this question. It was shown that cortical areas that process signals from extero- and proprioreceptors during wakefulness, switch to the processing of interoceptive information during sleep. It became clear that during sleep all "computational power" of the brain is directed to the restoration of the vital functions of internal organs. These results explain the logic behind the initiation of total and local sleep. Indeed, a mismatch between the current parameters of any visceral system and the genetically determined normal range would provide the feeling of tiredness, or sleep pressure. If an environmental situation allows falling asleep, the organism would transit to a normal total sleep in all cortical areas. However, if it is impossible to go to sleep immediately, partial sleep may develop in some cortical areas in the still behaviorally awake organism. This local sleep may reduce both the "intellectual power" and the restorative function of sleep for visceral organs.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24822040
I'm sorry if this is just really dry satire, but that's absurd.

> "Hire California Latino workers or we will tax your ass out of existence!!!"

Speaking as someone that's been involved with a lot of hiring decisions, it ultimately comes down to who is in the pipeline when you're hiring for positions that require expertise.

If you think companies should be forced to hire based on race, openly stating that people will be judged differently based on physical attributes, I welcome you to create a business and try this for yourself.
That one is highly unlikely, as I work remotely
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> You all are more than welcome in my country!

Mostly... I recently looked into Uruguay and although not particularly problematic for me they do have vetting requirements:

1. Must meet minimum continuous income requirement

2. Have no criminal record

3. Have acceptable health

4. Naturalisation officials apply subjective criteria for granting citizenship even after meeting the in-country residency requirements.
Your meaning of everywhere is by having 3rd party non official repos that ship small copy of ubuntu core.

Remind me why do steam do have to ship ubuntu's version of heavily patched libraries instead of using system upstrean version shipped by archlinux for example?

If snap is not a vendor lockin trap what is the vendor lockin trap?
I appreciate a good ol' logistic regression model. I know deep learning is hot shit right now, but this right here is probably the best way to solve most real world ML problems. Just good data, insightful features, and a simple classifier.
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If you leave out the unpleasant first sentence, I think the post is fine:

Once a language becomes popular enough, huge hordes of fad-oriented programmers move in and overcomplicate everything to hell and back. See JEE, IoC frameworks, AOP, runtime bytecode modification, patterns out the wazoo, OOP hierarchies, etc. I think Go was deliberately designed to sabotage some of these attempts, and thus far it's been successful at staying uncomplicated. I hope it has managed to build enough of the immune system for fads to not get much traction. Stay boring and simple, Go. I like my tools boring and simple.

Most languages are designed with technical power/semantic guarantees while writing code as the primary goal. However, programmer-oriented HID accounting proportionally for all parts of the edit-test-debug cycle and production/maintenance should really be the first priority. I think that all successful languages that get pooh-poohed for being boring, being Blub, or being technically inferior must be doing something right when it comes to the above.

Think about it. Do we know of any other products where people have a misguided narrow focus on "specs," but which can be improved tremendously by thinking about the overall experience? Laptops, cars, and apps come to mind. Why shouldn't such a principle also apply to development stacks?
The mobile app's contacts seems very likely. I didn't realize it would spy on those, but not surprising.
That sounds a lot like a hackerspace.

It might not be your cup of tea, but religious organizations like churches are one of the most accessible sources of socializing in many communities. In my experience, that's a primary reason that many people actually attend them.
does anyone know why he's taking the square root of the color to produce the final pixel color?

Probably to approximate gamma correction without getting too involved.
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