skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what we're aiming to do at https://matrix.ai
Mathematically its hard to select a higher percentage of anything than the population of applicants without picking inferior players.

I know its challenging to rank people in real world jobs compared to say scores on a test but humor me here. Say you score people on an objective metric from 100 to 0 and you have 5 times more applicants than jobs. One logical way to hire than is to hire the top 20% of the population.

If the overall population is 20% female than all things being equal 20% of the top 20% will also be female.

How then do you arrive at 50% female while still trying to maintain quality. You have to remove the lowest ranking male and replace him with a female from the applicant pool. All the woman above this man are logically all in the to hire pool already. The only applicants available are those ranked below him so you must be logic replace a more qualified man with a less qualified woman.

As you travel from 20% to 50% you must pick increasingly less qualified individuals to hire in order to reach your goals. Presumably your last hire would be from the 35% percentile instead of the 20th?

The real world is multidimensional, complicated, and much harder to rank but bias logically has to reduce overall fitness on the larger scale.
I did have a joystick and throttle at the time from playing FSX, MS Combat Flight Simulator, and Battlefield 3. I just found it a bit overwhelming to try and fly and click on all the cockpit buttons at the same time.
> diversity is overrated because there are corporations who get "great financial results" without it.

in a competitive market, the company that performs well would be the one that's diverse, if the theory is to be believed. I have not yet seen much evidence for or against though.
According to article, the absolute catastrophe is still ~80 years away, i.e., reaching wet bulb temperature[1]. This would be the time when humans won't be able to survive summers in south asia without technology. I suspect the next big migration crises will start much before that - probably in next 20-50 years - when large swaths of population have no choice but to move up north. The preview of this migration crises may consist slower GDP growth, destroyed farming, food crises, water shortage and so on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
Here's a great talk by Simon Peyton Jones on integrating linear types into Haskell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0mhvd3-60Y
I agree. Every time this subject came up, there were many comments about self-control, many of them also mentioned they are from the older generation. Like they don't have vices.
I've written a jupiter notebook kernel for Guile Scheme https://github.com/jerry40/guile-kernel , I wonder if it is possible to set up a dedicated server using Jupyterhub and made it public in order to make articles about Guile more 'live' and perhaps put SICP examples there but I have no experience in this matter. If anyone give a piece of advice to me, I will be grateful.
I talked to a museum archivist about this once. She was obsessed with getting the best scans possible with the best equipment and budget. So no scans at all were done.
No problem!

Though "they" was used as a gender neutral pronoun -- not to change the subject from "one" to some group. E.g. as in: "if one drinks milk, their bones would benefit".
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Might be a Blizzard thing, I remember the original WoW box (the 5 CDs version) came with a small-book sized manual (200 pages or so, IIRC) with lore and explanations for the various classes, races, skills.

The battle chests (base game + expansion pack) also came with a detailed guide to all the new content, with leveling guides for the new areas, raid guides for the new bosses etc - though I don't think those were made by Blizzard, they just bundled them in the box.
You are correct that the article is shallow in content and more of fear mongering. But at the same time, it is true that the heat is getting worse with each passing year (in the last 4-5 years at least, you can check the temperature data), so it is very likely that heat related deaths and ailments are increasing. So the article is trying to highlight an important issue, although not in the best way, and in fact might even be harmful because a single wrong fact can ruin the credibility of the entire article.
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Really interesting bit of history. Thanks for sharing. (I remember Pirates! — what a great game that was. Vividly remember the opening graphics on my friend’s new 486 with a 16-bit VGA card. It looked stunning.)
Well, my point was exactly that discriminating is fine, if it means recognizing differences and providing equal opportunities (sure, that's not exactly what quotas do all the times, but it's what they are trying to do).

You don't have to agree, of course. I wonder if you think that there is prejudice/discrimination that quotas are trying to fix (in a deeply flawed way, according to your view; in an imperfect but still better-than-nothing way according to mine), or if the whole starting point is wrong.
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Depends on your chipset. Last project I worked on was for the Z80 (only a few months ago, strangely). Like buttah.
This structure is impressive but I'm surprised the longest wall in the world is not even mentioned in western education

The walls of Benin were 4 times longer than the wall of China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walls_of_Benin

The ignorance of this structure is partially due to the racism of the time and Britain's determination to erase Benin from history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin_Expedition_of_1897
They ship to France: https://eu.customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/204712...
Iranians are well aware of the length and depth of their history. They’re also very proud of their literary and especially their poetic tradition. The high culture of the Mslim world was Persian speaking for an extremely long time. Urdu, the Muslim register of Hindustani takes its scientific, governmental and administrative vocabulary from Persian. Ottoman “Turkish” is unintelligible to speakers of modern Turkish because of the massive amount of Persian and Arabic vocabulary that was removed under the Young Turks’ language reforms. The language of high culture from Delhi to Baghdad to Konstantiniyye (Constantinople) was Persian. Persian was at least as much the language of the Islamic Golden Age as Arabic.
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It would be a symptom of it, but not necessarily a cause. It is reasonable to claim that without mutually assured destruction, the Cold War could have been a warm one.

Of course, in a peaceful world, who needs nukes. But is this world peaceful yet?
Wants me to install something called flash, no thanks
Link to video in Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/195694156
> This may help correct existing prejudice and discrimination, but it is also unfair to the other demographics.

Correcting prejudice by introducing more prejudice doesn't see like the best way to go about it.
In large software you'll not do go get -u for all packages, you'll upgrade each package separately, at the maximum version or at a specified one. It's just that it's you the user of the modules will choose what and when you upgrade, not the(this) tools automagicaly.
Obviously I’m a women’s rights maximalist, but I’d like to point out something else fundamentally wrong with the thrust of these policies: they’re aimed at producing more unwanted children. It doesn’t take a genius to see what happens if they’re successful at scale.
Brian Hackett... His name rings a bell. Was he the one who bring up all the Javascript Monkeys? I cant even remember those Javascript Monkey names, they were at least a few of them in early 2010s. I used to follow the Firefox performance work, I think he started way before MemShrink has happen and when everyone though JS performance was the holy grail of all things web page and Firefox Performance. ( Which turns out to be not true )

Good thing Mozilla manage to kept him around.
Don't get me wrong, Verilator and Icarus are very impressive in their own right, but neither support the full standard of SV 2005 - either choosing to support most of Verilog (pre SV) or only the synthesizable sub-set. Unfortunately this is a far cry from where the commercial tools are these days, and the standard has moved on also.

Similarly for FPGA tools, one fpga seems to have been cracked (ICE) so there is the yosys tool for it, and again while very impressive for what it does, it's a long way from any commercial offering in terms of usability and capability. So while everyone calls for open source EDA to solve all the 'vendor issues', we must ask why for the cases it does exist has it not beat to commercial offerings?
This is refereed to as Stylized Rendering is well supported by modern engines quite easily. Usually you just drop in plugin and you get stylized version of the game:

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Resources/Showcases/Styl...
> 2nd paragraph

> suspense arc

Kids these days don't have any attention span. /s
Maybe we come at it from a different side: what/which manmade things can cause end of the world? (I know only 2: climate change and nukes)
Do you have a source for this (indeed peculiar) definition?

In France the information was that he had consensual sex first, then during the night he had sex without a condom unknowingly to her and/or when his partner was asleep (I cannot remember exactly) and it was this second case which he was accused of (which fits the description of rape)
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Thanks for saving me a click.
Well thanks for being honest I guess...

But you won’t convince me that institutional racism and sexism are justifiable, no matter how much you think some group deserves it.

I also find it hilarious that you have come to the defence of institutional racism and sexism on the basis of equal opportunity...
286 expansion cards were indeed a thing. Here's some discussion of them:

http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?43553-286-processo...
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Here's a GDC 2018 talk by a Unity compiler engineer about their new Boost C# compiler:

https://youtu.be/NF6kcNS6U80
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Julias big draw is performance, in my eyes. Ease of use is good too, Python syntax + types + macros is great, but the speed is absolutely killer once you get it tuned up.

Yes I’ve heard that but the counter-argument is just use Numba and leverage your existing Python/NumPy code onto GPU. Everyone always forgets that the Python community is very comfortable with offloading heavy lifting to other languages.
You might find this[1] interesting.

[1]] https://medium.com/@CodeKingdoms/why-did-women-stop-coding-1...
Slightly off topic, but after reading a couple of pages from the pamphlet I don't think I'm going to change to a lisp like language anytime soon. My choice of language is between Python and R.

I'm in a position where I can freely choose my own language for my analysis and modeling work, and use Python and R in my day to day.

The thing that really put me off R is the opaqueness of the language. In python I like to think I have a rudimentary understanding of how the language is structured , and I can actually read error messages. But in R, if something fails all bets are off, and you just have iteratively comment out code to find the error.
Rstudio is usually given as a really great IDE for analysis, but it just crashes too often, and is slow to a point where you just have to wait minutes on end if you click the wrong variable.
Pycharm (professional) does the same as Rstudio, and more: I can plot, I can see variables, I have a working debugger and code completion is to my opinion as good as it gets.

Two things in python are not up to snuff: Plotting (ggplot2 is really good) and some statistical models. That's the reason why I still sometimes have to fire up Rstudio. I hope I can phase out R in my work as much as possible though.
> landing on an aircraft carrier

Sometime in the early 00's I got to see an aircraft carrier from a light aircraft, at about a circuit height and distance. I never, ever, want to try landing on a real carrier. They're so tiny!
Great video that showcases the Pilot Wave idea: https://youtu.be/WIyTZDHuarQ

I really do hope that we can find a way to make sense of everything in Physics, but Bohm's description of the infinite in the article is rather fascinating. Maybe there's no way out after all
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The article supposes that the paints were adapted and improved over time, so the paint on the airframes at retirement could be a decade more advanced, and that on current airframes could be two decades ahead, of that on the aircraft shot down.
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+1 for text only information. I investigated this a few years ago with the intention of auto-generating a news podcast for my train commute. The audio part never happened but I auto-created a text document and synced that to my phone every morning and read it on the train.

I used RSS and a simple home brew page scraper to fetch the data and compile the document. However this was a pain to update and I found that news sites didn't always manage their feeds very well.

I wouldn't mind resurrecting this project so are there any recommendations for open source web scraping software that I could try, rather than rolling my own?
This is an obvious false correlation. You have no evidence that Apple would not be even more successful were the engineering team more diverse.
Some not necessarily cohesive thoughts from my experience, 8 years after graduating:

College is probably more useful for tackling topics that you find more challenging - personally I am trying to brush up on my Math after taking an interest in Machine Learning and it's definitely a bit of a slog going through textbooks by myself.

If you can get accepted to a top college you will find it more challenging and rewarding than an average school. They will also usually have needs-based financial aid. No one I know who went to MIT regrets it. These degrees open doors in a way that they probably shouldn't. I really would say that if you can get accepted to a top program, you should take it.

I am currently not using much of my degree since I was very interested in Systems work while I was doing my degree and have gotten less interested in it over time, but I do not regret learning the things I did, they were useful at the start of my career.

A big part of the cost of college in the US is actually just living expenses for 4 years - If you can live at home or find a part time job as a developer, you can significantly defray the costs.

You will probably get paid less without a degree than with a degree, making the benefit of working straight away smaller.

A college degree is basically necessary is you want to work overseas.

You will make more friends at college than at work.

The world expects people to go to college, even if it isn't strictly necessary, and as more people graduate with CS degrees (enrollments are way up since I graduated), it will be a reason to reject you out of hand.

I personally rail against the stupidity of funneling everyone through college, but I don't think you are making it easy on yourself by skipping one.
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He is correct, though, I have never heard of them, and that was only 70 years ago.
Yeah, definitely. The vlogs are cool. Check out the amount of hard drives he ends up using https://youtu.be/Zlu5tkeTg9Y?t=4m54s
Ask HN: How did you come to grips with your own mediocrity?
I’ve been trying to come to grips with how mediocre I am recently after seeing many former coworkers go on to better pay and more prestige - have any of you come to peace with it? The only thing it has lead me so far is crippling depression and insomnia.
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Dumb phones have a real edge when it comes to battery life, privacy and ease of use.
"Axis of devil" is just a marketing term in any case.
Fake news 'crowding out' real news, MPs say
If you're still really into this stuff. And want to relive the feeling of this module or Jane's F-18, another great simulator from the 90s. Definitely check out Digital Combat Simulator and it's awesome high fidelity modules. Expect 600 page flight manuals to dig through. It's a rush!
"... in one respect"
Malvid can display anything a browser can display. It should also work fine with React, Angular, and Vue components when you can create a preview HTML for each component (the preview HTML is required for the preview on the top right). This might be the tricky part, but you can use any tool you want to generate it.
There's right and wrong ways to do stuff in every other ecosystem too. The difference is some of the wrong ways get baked into 'best practices' and you can't engineer a clean code base even if you want to.
Probably In RTFA territory but - does the official API not work anymore for this to be necessary?
Using randomness to evaluate students is an admission that it's impossible to evaluate them with any objective or subjective criteria. While it would be fair, it's a dereliction of responsibility on the part of admissions officers.
"The page was reloaded do to blah, blah, blah.""

And I will avoid thedsilybeast.com due to being greedy with lousy built ads.

And no--it's on a new iPad.

Maybe the company responsible for more deaths to to fatty processed food sound just not gamble?

There's larceny and deceit in everyone. The one's who deny it are usually the worst offenders.

In my warped world, this is the only thing that suprised me, besides seemingly bored FBI stooges;

Jacobson claimed he was ordered to ensure that no high-level prizes ever reached the Great White North. “I knew what we were doing in Canada was wrong,” Jacobson recalled. “Sooner or later somebody was going to be asking questions about why there were no winners in Canada.” Believing the game was rigged, he decided to cash in too.

Why not give some love to Canada? They are obese too? At least the gave health insurance?
Agreed - great comment
The Devtools in Firefox have this built in (a slow network simulator).
It's very hard to break that cycle when the only way to become a legitimate world power is to obtain nuclear weapons. There are many examples: Pakistan vs Iran, Israel, North Korea, they all prove how obtaining nuclear weapons is the right strategic choice if you want to matter in the international arena.

There is zero commitment from the major nuclear powers for an eventual complete denuclearization, the only thing they agree about is that they should be the only ones having nuclear weapons. As long as this hypocritical game goes on, the world will gain more, not less, nuclear states.

And we'll keep hearing this tune: "The world is too dangerous to aim for complete denuclearization, look, country X just became nuclear illegally by breaking [bullshit nuclear treaty we designed to keep our geopolitical edge]".
Why do 99% candidates fail in technical interviews?
The video of a Hercules landing and taking off on the USS Forrestal without no arrestor or catapult might interest you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar-poc38C84
presumably for time to detect and prevent fraud or illegal transactions.
Although this article is very interesting, the author seems to have very little knowledge of Middle Eastern history.
Sounds like a problem those people need to get over then and realize that "feeling welcome" isn't about what you or others look like. If it was then wouldn't homogenous groups be the most welcoming anyway? So these people should actually want complete segregation between race and gender?

If this was really a problem, then every field that was slightly skewed would only trend towards the extremes but that hasn't happened. This constant need to balance groups without any understanding that people are different just comes across as nonsense.
If their only aim was to favor "the traits of the current USA leaders and executives", then that would indeed to a preference of white males, but they have other goals as well, and when taken together, do fall in line with expectations.
It’s because the people pushing the lawsuit don’t care about the issues, rather they just want to divide 2 minority groups and pit them against one another.
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Yes, it does. I mean, that's a lot of material. You prepare for the interview, thus showing them how dedicated you are. No matter how "smart" you are, time passes, you don't use 95% of that stuff during day to day work so naturally you forget most of it. So for the next endeavor you have to rinse and repeat. Everyone agrees that it's a game. I think the companies like it because it discourages employees to switch jobs often and easily.
You work at a company where minorities get praised for not having any deliverable in 6 months? Which company?

If this does happen at your company, there's no need to use a throwaway account.