skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last time I got a phone, which is a few years ago now, I looked up the cheapest shit flip phone walmart sells and went to the store with the model number. The guy I asked it for didn't even know they sold it but it was down in some closed stock case, it was model A117 I believe or something else really close to it and it was like $20. I must admit though, it is a step down in quality from my previous flip phone that finally died after it got ran over twice busting a corner and exposing a ribbon cable which eventually failed and killed the screen (likely from me fucking with it).

The downside is maps would be useful sometimes, especially once google cancelled their free text-for-directions service. On the upside, I don't have to charge it but once every few days and if I still got a good 12 hours of battery once it gets to the low mark.

My next phone I will probably do the same, and because im only spending 10-20 bucks, I figure if I don't like it enough I can easily get a new one. The one thing I would make sure is that you can use a microsd card to put a different ringtone, all the default tones are like the screeching of satan's dirty asshole.
Here's a video of all the shaders:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMpx3pupMKg

My reaction was, that is really cute, seriously. Let me feel happy to see this:)
> Because of quotas, there is more diversity in tech

Did you read the article? Aline claims that a completely blind application process lands more diversity in tech.
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Romans left a lot of writings so you get a detailed history of some periods where other population like the Dacian that did not have writing we get just a few details about them and some of those details are from Roman or Greek writings.
"Diversity" is just overrated completely, as a concept. The highest-performing company in America, Apple, has close to zero race or gender diversity, and if you peel back one layer, it has very little diversity of thought" as well. Why? Because the company was built to execute Steve Jobs' ideas. The more that any given executive could run an emulator of Steve Jobs' brain, the less of Jobs' time he required. "Ideas are cheap, execution is everything" we have all heard. Well, if you don't need a lot of ideas, but you need a streamlined execution organization, diversity is a huge weakness!

For every fun example of "Oh, only a tattoo wearer would recognize that this product wouldn't work for people with tattoos! Diversity would have halped!" there are the Silicon Valley giants, achieving ridiculous financial results with highly non-diverse teams.
Why do people care so much about what others look like in a field instead of doing what they're interested in? Perhaps that's the real issue at the root of all this.
The problem is that institutional bias and discrimination are unmeasurable. So dropping the quotas never seems like a reality.

Quotas are inherently unfair and take opportunity away from others.

Isn't it better to treat people as individuals?
Why do you think there should be high estate tax.

The focus should be on making poor people rich, not making rich people poor.
Recently i got myself xaiomi m1a1 and flashed lineageos. I didnt install google play services instead i just use few things from fdroid.

Suprisingly i probably doubled battery life when i rooted phone and added some battery managment apps like greenify. Also with firewall you are pretty good blocking all outgoing stuff.
a bit smaller:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgNDao7m41M
I was slightly flabbergasted when he said it was going to be a to-do app for comparison.
It's on the third page of Google results for "compare javascript frameworks", but I'm sure it was higher about a year ago when I had that question.
> the solution to people's fears about commercialism interfering with the real world

That's just a completely arbitrary rephrasing to fit your supposed punch line, but describes nobody and nothing real.

> rather than use some self control

Oh. This one, again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17624459
In terms of scanners, are there models that can handle odd-sized books and ledgers, many in fragile condition? This is where many old vital records and documents reside.

Another issue for indexing: 18th, 19th and early 20th century handwriting styles. Many clerks had good handwriting, but with lots of variation in style, written over printed templates (marriage certificates, property and tax records, etc). How good are modern OCR technologies recognizing variations in handwriting?
This is terrible to read about from a European perspective.

- It seems getting into America's most prestigious institution on merit is incredibly unlikely, compared to if you happened to have rich relatives. If 50 or 60 rich kids a year out of a pool of what? A few hundred people rich enough to be z-listed? Maybe not even that. Versus the busload of ordinary kids who need to slip through the eye of the needle.

- Athletes I guess are a special American thing where universities are involved. Maybe not Harvard, but some of the others will let people attend for free. Which isn't even then terribly fair, because they make a lot of money off those kids, possibly a lot more per person than a comparable athlete would get in the free market. That's if their sport is one of the popular ones.

- You can't work your way out of poverty over two generations. If anything is the American Dream (arguably there's more people outside of America who have one of these, but I digress), it's being able to see your kids succeed. But they want 1st gen immigrants according to the article.

At the end of this, I still don't quite understand how you communicate all this stuff in your admissions form. Do they have a drop-down for ethnicity? If they did, I would game it, knowing that they seem to like Vietnamese people more than Chinese. And where do you say "my name is Smith, but please check the donation register for ...". I've got a hard luck story as well, is that what the essay is for?
This guy digitizes over 50M pages for the greater good and you're calling him a failure?
It was "recentered" in 1995. The right side of the distribution was essentially truncated. A 1600 on the pre-1995 SAT was quite an accomplishment (I don't have data at my fingertips, but in most years, fewer than 10 students achieved a perfect score of 1600 and only a few dozen scored 1550+). By contrast, several hundred students a year scored 1600 on the recentered test.

The scoring system has been changed several times since 1995 and I have no idea how the current system compares to the pre-1995 system or the recentered test given for some years afterward.

Many, including myself, suspect that one of the motivations for the recentering was to give colleges cover for their admissions decisions. It is pretty hard to turn down students who get 1600s when only 7 or 8 students a year do so. It is easier to "shape" a class without provoking criticism when a large percentage of students score 1500+.
Although employees don't get those protections if they've been working for the company for less than 2 years (unless the firing is discriminatory as defined in the Equality Act), and bringing a case to Employment Tribunal is fantastically expensive and thus not common.
This is patently false, eliminating all agricultural animals from the US would drop total greenhouse emissions by around 3%.
Factoring in transport of said animal goods would only be made worse by a need to ship the bulkier alternative (vegetables)
If it's Marx's thought that's being referred to as "popular culture", that's a pretty inaccurate characterisation. It's bona fide political philosophy and/or political economy.

Even a soft, humanities subject like political philosophy, can, unexpectedly, be a topic for mathematical study, e.g. Arrow's theorem.

You're right not to believe in policing disciplinary boundaries.

I think the problem here is more that you haven't demonstrated just how Marx's thought resembles linear logic, so the idea might seem a little crazy, maybe a product of an idée fixe. If it's not something mathematicians would be impressed by (in terms of rigour or depth), and not something Marxists care about (in terms of philosophical implications) it's not going to lead anywhere.
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> Diversity quotas are by their very nature institutional discrimination.

Sure, they are institutional discrimination in the sense that institutions recognize the differences between gender/races and the differences in the treatment they receive, which is often based on negative prejudice (the other meaning of "discrimination" [1]). Discrimination is not negative per se, as long as it's the "neutral" meaning of the word (e.g., having different toilets is also discrimination).

[1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/discrimination
Of course it's not simple or easy. It's not completely possible either, as life itself isn't fair. That's just the reality we live in.

But that's why we should do the best we can, to make it as fair as possible, and while there is much progress to be made around the world, there are also some clearly wrong ways to go about it and diversity quotas are about as worse as it gets.
Why not block hacker news? Not as addicting as the others?

Edit: oops didn't see your list wasn't exhaustive.
Maybe in case of Iran due to Islamic fundamentalism people are unwilling to look far back into the history, but the history of India, China, Central Asia, Russia etc. remain woefully unexplored as compared to Roman history.
Thanks for linking HijackGL - I was trying to find that a few months back, but was searching for "GLHijack" to no avail.

I used to play the Jedi Knight games with a pencil-drawn shader, was feeling nostalgic
But that is already a civil wrong, and would be covered by defamation law.
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Where's the secret back door in that list?

A list of easter eggs wouldn't appear to tell us anything about how easy or hard it would be get a secret back door in.
My brother lived in Australia for a while. He has olive skin but he's of European descent and can't shave closely, he gets a mild rash on his face. Every time he flew back to New Zealand, he was pulled up for what was claimed to be a random search by New Zealand the security staff.
It's mostly Wikipedia - the history is a bit scattered. Probably better sources out there.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteris...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCR-270

[2] https://archive.org/stream/Vol1PlansAndEarlyOperations#page/...
If you want the best candidates you want to make your company look as desirable as possible. A 50% M/F workforce isn't scaring any good candidates away and might even attract a superstar who prefers a great culture over a bigger paycheque. It's just playing up a company's strengths.
It's not an argument per se, it's a value system. A rewrite may be warranted if it allows you to deliver more features and improvements to customers afterwards. It's not warranted if it means you'll just stop delivering features and improvements for a year without accelerating the rate of improvements after the rewrite.
Is that the bar we're setting?
We all think the claim that just policies result in just consequences, is logically true. Empirically, as this case demonstrates, that is not true.
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Are you talking about vlogging?
He's expecting something in return though, money from ad revenue.
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1st sentence: “This past week I was at a ¿conference?...”

(Stories about the mystery conference)

2nd sentence of 2nd paragraph: “I was at ICCS2018, a complex systems conference.“

Why is this normal now? It’s ruining the internet. Everything I read lately is wound up into a desperate suspense-arc.

I understand not everybody has liberal arts degrees (and definitely not this person) but that might be all the more reason to not make such an attempt.

Introductions come first. It’s a lot like meeting a person for the first time. Creativity is not a bad thing, but if you’re sacrificing respect in the process, you’re blowing it.
No. If one was raped it should be reported and the perpetrator should be prosecuted. You cannot let these people go unpunished and potentially rape others.
Getting to $200k ARR is an amazing achievement, particularly in just one year and without funding.

I can't advise you on pursuing an acquisition, but I'm in the same boat as you - I run a one-person company making $65k ARR after 16 months of hard labour. I know how tough it is doing it on your own, and how easy it is to question yourself when you don't have the external validation of an employer, investors, etc.

Are you sure you wouldn't be better sticking with it? After a year of working on something on your own all of your biases will be towards selling - if you're not sure then it's almost certainly the wrong choice. Have you looked at doing something like YC / Startup School, even if you don't want to take investment? Having any kind of external validation will help. You should also almost certainly take a few days off and recharge, if you haven't already - I find it hard to do that but whenever I do it helps.
It's sad but cost of human life in India is quite low. I Don't think that their government will look after these 'casualties'.
Picking candidates of your preferred gender/ethnicity over candidates of your non-preferred gender/ethnicity is the canonical definition of institutional discrimination. It takes a huge amount of double-think to arrive at the conclusion that this is the same as having gendered bathrooms. Any institution that prefers candidates of a particular gender/ethnicity is prejudicially discriminating against all other candidates on the basis of gender/ethnicity.
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I was going to write this as a throwaway but you know f it. I stand by my stories.

> As such I believe quotas are a good thing

You don't address the article's claim that quotas make stereotype threat worse.

This is a real, lived experience. In high school, I (an overrepresented minority) failed to get in to MIT, and my best friend (an underrepresented minority) got in, despite me looking better 'on paper'[0]. He chose not to go even though I pled with him that it would be a better life choice. Not going to MIT was disastrous because his college experience was bad, including an unjustified arrest, and dropping out. Don't worry, it all worked out - he's the CEO of a startup that's doing well now. I can't claim to know what was in his mind in high school but a part of me thinks there was real stereotype threat in play.

Second issue with quotas: In the case of Harvard with their overrepresented minority, they usually reject based on soft qualities like "no leadership potential". This really irks me, as my father in his government job was denied promotion several times because of that exact phrase, "no leadership potential". This is considerably ironic since for a brief stint he took a sabbatical and went full-time with his job in the navy, as an O-6 (captain, as in Picard, not America). During this year, the team he commanded completed the US Navy's first ever fully databased inventory system, on time and under budget, saving the navy billions of dollars. "no leadership potential" and phrases of its ilk are basically cover for discrimination, as they can be so easily issued even in the face of blatant evidence to the contrary.

[0] for example I had great scores in the AP sciences and a high-performing science fair project that placed at the international level - which are relevant skills for MIT.
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If you like Faloodeh you might like Firnee:

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Agree. The woman has shown more consistency and is a better candidate. But if we swapped male for female in this example, I think it would change a lot of people's thinking, and they would lean towards the female dropout.

This is the problem we have today.
> What made the project unique was that we worked to define the needs of the people using the space first and then looked for technical solutions

Designing to requirements isn't novel, it's basic engineering.
This is a delicate issue so I'm afraid your fantastic post won't receive a response from anyone who didn't agree with you 100%.

I felt I should chime in. Why that last step is a little different for some of us.

Truthfully, I don't know. 'Structural Racism' feels different that regular direct explicit racism. I don't feel as confident making blanket statements about it at least.

I can certainly think of structurally racist scenarios that feel totally and completely wrong. Casting in movies and entertainment for instance.

But other times it's less clear. At the very least there's a point where a desire to be charitable and give someone the benefit of the doubt starts to fade into the picture.

I don't wish to speak to the exact matter at hand. I'm catching up on the story still.
It makes me sad that you think diversity is overrated because there are corporations who get "great financial results" without it. Diversity is good because it is designed such that, as best we can, everyone has equal opportunities. While, as a white man the fact that I may have been overlooked in graduate programs because many engineering firms have quotas sucks, but it is one small impediment in a world which was built for me to succeed more easily than others.

Frankly, while it has its flaws, affirmative action is the best we have. A truly blind hiring process is very uncommon (I have never heard of it before this article), and everyone knows that the best way to get a job is through a friend, reinforcing the culture which already exists at a company.
I remember Bangalore in the 70's: mild temperatures, light drizzle, uncrowded roads (I one could walk across MG Road with a kid on either side), laid back, and generally a comfortable place. What will the next 20 years bring?
My 486DX had one. It actually connected to the MB, and controlled the CPU speed. Some games like Prehistorik 1/2 had slowed down considerably when I toggled the button.

The button was also wired handsomely. When untoggled (out position), the Turbo LED was lit and system was fast. When pressed, LED is turned off and system was slow. Since all buttons (Power, Turbo and Reset) were flush, it was aesthetically pleasing too.
Just tried it -- this is a great idea. Unfortunately, I can't use it because Workona spaces don't "containerize" accounts I'm logged into.

For example, I need multiple spaces where each space is "dedicated" to a single Google account -- it has multiple tabs open that are logged into that particular Google account.

I tried to create that setup, but the accounts "leak" between spaces: logging into a Google account in one space doesn't allow tabs in other spaces to be logged into a different Google account.

If you ever implement proper account isolation per space, please notify me: I'd like to be a beta tester.
Telstra isn’t surviving. It’s being attacked on every front and it’s product is junk. Share price is down considerably and their dominant position pricing on both mobile and landline is nearing an end.
You're right, "ignore misconduct because it might help 'the enemy' make us look bad" has its own downsides, but the answer isn't "who cares who it hurts".

There are many ways to deal with misconduct - letting adversaries weaponize information against your own at a time they choose with no care for the implications is probably not the best way.
India had hot summers, but the point this article is trying to make is that it is getting hotter, to an extent it may become unbearable. I hope you are not debating global warming and climate change. Mango juice or any traditional/non-traditional drink, however effective they may be today, isn't a solution to make those future unusually hot days bearable.
So where is the part about the “best choice”?

Two player games to me are all about quantifiers. If the opponent plays, it means we have to prove a “for all”. (This includes all worst case scenarios obviously.) And own plays are “exist” (just the best option at that time). No axiom of choice involved, just FO logic.
> Or even if you say "Travancore" to them

Why would people learn about some random kingdom which was a vassal under British rule?
The irony is that all this air conditioning uses enormous amounts of energy, accelerating climate change even further.
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Most of us just use the mouse and click around the cockpit (Along with a HOTAS Joystick / Throttle setup).

When it comes to keyboard shortcuts I think the only one I use is the G key to raise / lower the landing gear.

There are simple aircraft (Known as FC3) that don't have clickable cockpits and can be started up with like 5 keyboard buttons.

I would still say you need a Joystick and Throttle though.
This made me burst in laughter. I am indeed using Java and Elasticsearch, and no PyTorch, but Spark for an app I am working on. Way more complex than it should be.
And of course "Take On Me" is playing in the background ;-)
Because people who look different from people who are currently in the field they're interested in feel like they aren't welcome and won't pursue it.

It's not about this generation; it's the next.
Related: Nicky Case (whose website you really should check out) is currently organizing an Explorables Jam until the nineteenth of August[0][1].

[0] https://explorabl.es/jam/

[1] https://ncase.me/
I would agree with you if we werent starting from a place of decades of systematic bias. We have been "forcing outcomes" against many groups for long time.

It is not clear the system will automatically balance itself, and if it does it will probably take multtiple generations.
'Yet another was “bright & busy” but it was “a bit difficult to see what would hold him in during a lop.”'

'admissions officers then fine-tune the final class using a form that lists five pieces of information about the applicant; they give an example of a form that has spaces for the applicant’s name, LIN (lineage), ETH (ethnicity), ATH (athlete), and HFAI (financial aid).'

It's undeniably racism.

I wonder what the outcome would be if one or two Ivies stick their necks out and institute race blind, legacy blind admissions.
Interesting, how apparently many females do not want to inform their children about the truth. This is very sad to read. Even after so many years, adults prefer a web of lies over finally letting their children know what really happened. Lying chickens.
See my previous post.

Employer-employee disbalance is already an issue, and it is worth asking if it wasn't present, if this situation would happen at all. This is not the first and the last problem caused by that disbalance, and for anyone observing, stuff like this is old news. There were the teenagers with drunk selfies, no mob required. Lots of very random stuff can get you fired that does not involve Twitter mobs and it all comes back down to the same thing. Note that the title of the thread is "inducing employers to fire them", and explain to me how that statement makes any sense outside of a very imbalanced relationships.

You might disagree with this statement overall, but it is the one I am making.