skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this, and many similar issues, all come down to the need to clarify one's desire for equality of opportunity, or equality of result. If you are in support of equality of opportunity, then this is obviously a good thing. If you're in support of equality of result, then this is obviously a bad thing.

In my opinion, equality if result is not really a tenable position. I suspect even if we were all completely and absolutely genetically identical, we'd still see different groups perform differently. The reason in this case would be emergent cultures. The culture in area like Palm Beach is going to diverge from the culture in e.g. Nome, Alaska. When Nomians then have, perhaps, better results than Palm Beachians does that mean we now need to start making it harder for Nomians to get into schools? It just doesn't make any sense. And of course this is all built on top of a false premise of each and every group starting with genetic equivalence to each and every other group. Ultimately I don't see any realistic way you can achieve equality of result without turning society into a dystopia.
> I've even read security reports by supposedly reputable security consultants also claiming that JWTs are bad but their arguments are hand wavy and make no sense.

https://auth0.com/blog/critical-vulnerabilities-in-json-web-...

https://blogs.adobe.com/security/2017/03/critical-vulnerabil...

These were critical vulnerabilities enabled by an error-prone cryptographic design that broke real systems.

Don't pretend it's hand-wavy.
They may also be uncertain what another driver will do. For example, turning right onto a two lane road may be safe if the right lane is open. However, despite it not being legal, a driver in the left lane may change lanes mid intersection. I'd prefer not to risk it to save myself a few seconds.
Let me turn off Javascript more easily. And back on again easily. I usually need it gone for like 5 seconds, and then I need it back on, each of which is one key and one click in Safari and an entire journey to the moon and back in Firefox.
Just think what could be accomplished if software engineers unionized. If all the SREs at amazon went on strike for 6 hours, the world would descent into chaos. I really don't understand why that group of people don't want to leverage their power to change the world.
There's WebOS and Tizen. I haven't used either, but heard Tizen's codebase is abysmal. WebOS is by LG, Tizen is by Samsung.

MeeGo was a combination of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo. I'm not sure what became of Intel's efforts after MeeGo. Sailfish is the successor of Maemo/MeeGo whereas Mer is an open source mobile Linux OS which Sailfish uses as base. Both utilise libhybris [1] for Android compatibility layer. Backwards compatibility = important; no apps / ecosystem = no users, and that curve is very steep.

Another interesting effort I saw the other day is actually from Google. An effort to easily build an app which is easily ported to Android and iOS. That might directly benefit Android and Google most, but indirectly it could benefit libhybris users. I'm unsure how good Sailfish 3's Android compatibility is these days. It used to be Android 4.4 compatibility for a long time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybris_(software)
It's not zero sum unless the housing supply is fixed - the additional income from Airbnb can be invested in new housing.
We wrote a big-ol blog post about inter-service auth that has a lot of relevant stuff: https://latacora.micro.blog/2018/06/12/a-childs-garden.html

RLS means your database understands what a user is allowed to see and not allowed to see. It is usually much simpler to express authz in a SQL constraint than it is in code. It's also harder to forget, so you don't get an authz failure in like, one endpoint.
It does but only in sufficiently remote jobs. Oil rig commuting and business trips for instance - the standard is from "home base" workplace usually unless it is quicker to say take your work truck home and go directly to the work site some days.
> He suggests going on a news diet by mindfully curating the news content one plans on consuming, and thinking about its relevance to everyday life

I've actually wanted to do this for multiple things too. Ie, I want to spend ~15m a day getting a curated list on various topics that interest me. From tech, programming, etc. I don't want to feel I'm "missing" anything.

My desire stems from not wanting to miss tech related events, and building habits of being on Reddit and HN. If I had a reliable aggregator I hope to reduce my FOMA style addiction. I imagine this would be useful for world news as well.
That is absolutely a great example of bullshit jobs. It gets even worse when each side outsources this function to other companies. If they outsourced to the same company, then maybe some genuine efficiencies could be realized.

When single payer healthcare comes up, free marketeers ask, "Do you want an unelected bureaucrat to decide if you get healthcare?" They must have never been in the situation where someone at the insurance company my employer picked - an unelected bureaucrat with a profit incentive - has denied coverage.
I wanted a link to your solution because I have never heard of it before. Not sure where you are getting the "free work" part of this from, unless you want to be paid per comment. Careful with the free advertising with PASETO there.

Joking on the last two sentences, but that's how you sound when you accuse me of wanting free work. Thanks for the links.
Geezer here: can somebody explain to me the offensiveness of the iceberg tee shirt?
That sounds about right. Anyone have tips for how to improve performance on a pi-hole? I’ve googled but not found anything that looked spot-on.
I genuinely think Social Media is going to get us all killed.

Porn might prevent the next generation from being born, worst case.
I understand this is amazing and totally love my state for doing it, but man seeing 2045 is always a little dismaying as I wish we could be even more aggressive. 2035 for example. I realize I am being too ambitious, but we went to space in a decade why not 100% clean energy in 1.5?
This is obviously incorrect.

Jobs are paid for based on the value they provide to the person paying for the job, not based on the value they create.

A job which takes value from other people and destroys some of it in the process will get paid for just as readily as a job that creates value ex nihilo as long as the person paying for the job ends up with the same amount of value.
I actually had no idea how much of CA's energy came from renewable sources. That is actually astounding. In many ways CA is ahead of the nation.
Legacy-based admissions are one thing, though I can't see how a policy based on race would be the right tool to combat that (and it's not entirely clear to me that it's unjustified for a school to find ways to get alumni funding, though some institutions like Harvard clearly have all the funding they need). As for students that come from schools with or without "proper funding" and such that "prepare them for college" better or worse... Suppose it's true that certain students would be the most meritorious if everyone got an optimal education, but that, due to unfortunate circumstances, some of those students ended up being significantly less prepared than the rest. Do you actually recommend a policy that would force colleges to take these less-prepared students? It seems like a recipe for problems.

(You don't actually say the opposite statement—"we would need affirmative action if some school districts do not receive proper funding". It seems implied, though you also call AA a "symptom", which admits an interpretation like "the situation makes people mad and they'll demand X and probably get it, though I don't necessarily think they're right to do so".)
I could imagine doing it with a real Gameboy with persistent clock in the cartridge too.
I will look into this more and come back with what I figure out later on. Thanks.
The owner is a fascist and will ban you from the site and their associated chat if you say things he doesn't like.
They have already codified a full reversal on that historic position.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-aclu-retreats-from-free-exp...
Love the timezones feature. Could the job title field work as a search field instead of auto-suggesting?
You could view my proposed course of action as affirmative action, and I am sure there are other approaches I haven't thought of without the problems I describe.

The current practice I refer to is biasing decisions based on race.
Elon Musk's Solution for Dodger Stadium Traffic Is Full of Holes
Because none of the things said actually refute any of the points in the Google discussion? At all?

I also definitely don't feel a failure to go off and survey every random library that exists for rust makes a discussion "woefully incomplete" or that it isn't debating rust at it's strongest.
The same treatment is given to all languages, including rust, go, etc.

The discussion is also about language features, and it discusses the language features.
Is nuclear part of the bill? It is clean but I don't see any mention of it either way in the article other than in the graph of current sources.
New York City Is Briefly Labeled ‘Jewtropolis’ on Snapchat and Other Apps
Slowing down does not make an aircraft more fuel efficient. Best efficiency, as in fuel per passenger-mile, occurs with large aircraft at the very high altitude where air resistance is least. And to fly up there you need to move quickly. An a380, almost supersonic at mach 0.85, is more fuel efficient than Cessna at down low at mach 0.2. Even at lower altitudes, there is little advantage in flying slower. You just end up spending more time/energy keeping yourself up rather than moving forwards. A high-lift wing, great for maximizing time aloft, becomes a big draggy airbrake when you want to actually go somewhere.

In the extreme, the most efficient place to fly is in the most cold and dry air. That occurs at the tropopause, which is generally between 35,000 and 50,000 feet (-60*C). You don't get to play around at that altitude without a large complex aircraft.

https://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Atmosphere/tropospher...
At the typical velocities for this kind of impact, probably not. At these speeds, computer analyses ignore the solid properties of the colliding objects, modeling them as liquids, instead. (The shear resistances is just not relevant, and everything liquefies from the heat from the impact. Even that heat loss is negligible in terms of the total energy of the collision.)

Most likely, there would be fragments of the impactor and the hull, mixed together with each other and oxidized with the station air, floating about. I won't risk speculating about the fragment size, other than to say it would be pretty dang small. (I'm leaning toward "powder," but personally wouldn't rule out either "grit" or whatever "finer than powder" is.)
Yes, and that looks like another argument in favor of very detailed procedures for beginners. (Better than typical recipes.)
I'm a big fan of it and already using it :) thought about doing a PR but I'm quite deep in actual job now ;)

I really liked how you avoided doing any JS at all :)

One thing I'd like to propose is making it wider.
Not to argue, but under what branch would you put the carrier fleet?
same. those all work for me now, though, since maybe 1 year ago.
That was a fun read,wonder if any activex controls can be used to download remote executables.
Some of that money is coming back to the UK:

'As the program’s only Level 1 partner, the United Kingdom has garnered tremendous economic benefits from the F-35. British industry will build 15 percent of each of the more than 3,000 planned F-35s, generating significant export revenue and GDP growth. The program is projected to create and support more than 24,000 jobs across every region of the United Kingdom.'

..but still, I do wonder whether we are trying to fight the last war with this plane.
Airbnb is a zero sum game - what tourists win, locals lose.

I think you mean that "zoning is a zero-sum game." Since the 1970s, when zoning became more severe and restrictive, housing costs have increased substantially: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/12/27/why-did-cities-freeze-in-.... We know how to create a positive-sum game: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-14/californi..., but we've made doing so illegal.
Any word on when the Dutch are going to offer him honorary citizenship?
Creating demand for bananas is not creating value for banana companies. It is taking value from companies with competing products.
Even so, I want this to be a country where single parents can thrive and get the help they need. I think all children are entitled to health care, food, and school. I would add shelter, but that is a tougher nut to crack, and that free food (at school) and free health care for kids are themselves low-hanging fruits when it comes to supporting the children and making an environment where they can thrive.
Makes me think of every 1st tier support interaction I’ve ever had where a person can’t answer a single question and just refers you to online resources you’ve already read and couldn’t find the answer to.
Meanwhile, NYC's plan is a measly 80% reduction in carbon emissions in city run operations alone by 2050. We'll be going backwards once Indian Point is decommissioned.
> Official Bugatti Pilot

Clearly, somewhere down the line I picked the wrong career.
A couple of months ago I stopped daily consumption of news content (except technical links on HN ;) and began a physical subscription to The Week [1].
Come Saturday I sit down with a coffee for 45 minutes, catch up on the most important national and global news events (crucially from all types of leaning sources) and then go about my weekend.
Highly recommended to those who enjoy keeping abreast but find themselves been dragged down psychologically on a daily basis.
[1] - http://www.theweek.co.uk/
Edit - turns out there is a US equivalent: https://theweek.com/
I really wish Apple would get their act together over consolidating their ports. There's just a general lack of consistency creating a poor user experience that is not seamless at all.

Example: Have a Macbook Pro with 4 USB-C ports, an iPhone 8 with a Lightning to USB-A cable that can't plug into the Macbook Pro, and Lightning headphones that can't be plugged into the Macbook Pro either.

It's like each product was developed in a silo without much regard for the rollout strategies of the other product lines.
What a terrible precedent. Can't wait to see what other unfunded mandates other companies will start requiring for each new fad benefit. C'mon Apple, Facebook, Google. Let's require all suppliers to offer free tuition to employees. Also free housing especially in Bay Area. And of course free food. And of course salaries won't suffer because companies have unlimited funds.
Microsoft obliquely acknowledges Windows 0-day bug published on Twitter
For certain values of “anonymizes.”

/snark
Proceedures are like a web of safety nets. Companies want to avoid risk, so they focus on making the nets tighter and tighter. Eventually, the nets are so densely woven that the possibility of injury for any tightrope walker dancing on the line becomes nil. You can see while this is only for the best interests of the circus as a whole (they can’t afford to replace tightrope walkers all the time) and for the tightrope walker himself (he won’t get injured) it saps his vocation of any risk, excitement, and thrill, and effectively eradicates everything that made the circus a circus and exciting place to be in the first place.

Such is the field of pencil-pushing work today—except the massive corporations have captive audiences, so in spite of the incredibly flaccid shows they put on, the crowd can’t help but pay for a ticket anyway.
Wouldnt electric planes be stuck to propeller drive? So limited to short haul. Thats why the 2 seater and local turbo prop planes would be the ones replaced. How can you make an electric Jet engine?
That is one definition of racism, but it is not even the most common definition. Individuals can be racist/perform racism. You don't get to change the definition that most people use just because you don't agree with it. Check the dictionary, you will clearly see that "racial prejudice or discrimination" is right there.
You mention it in your footnote, but objects don't necessarily live on the heap - they can also live on the stack, or in registers, or in vector pipelines, or not at all.

Also an interesting aside is that objects are never 'allocated on the stack'. As in you won't find the same layout of memory on the stack as you do on the heap. Instead objects are turned into data edges in the compiler's graph. It's much more abstract than literally doing an alloca.
>I think that much of the problem is not with the particular unit square point distribution but rather with the fact that we are using a mapping (lambert) that has a singularity at each pole.

I agree that the mapping is causing the remaining issue, and that the singularity is emphasizing it, but I think it is any stretching of a mapping that is causing the spiral clustering towards the equator.

>For constant/given n, there is an excellent reference by Saff on mapping points to a sphere. However, if n is not known (ie you need an open sequence of points) I am not aware of any method that is better than simply/naively mapping a low discrepancy sequence from the unit square to S2.

I understand the advantage of your R2 method regarding open sequences, and the quasi-magical property you can use it to just keep appending points to the collection without any need to "remember" the points already added to position the fresh point. This is clearly a desirable property.

>I think that the most ideal situation will work directly on the surface of the sphere and consist of rotations from one point on the surface to the other. Thus, although this is not my area of expertise I wouldn't be surprised if methods such as what you cite may assist someone in finding a better spherical distribution.

It seems you misunderstood me thinking I was proposing an alternative to an R_2 based method. On re-reading my comment I see I should have been clearer on what I was proposinng:

I proposed using R_2 for a sequency of 6-dimensional tuples (or perhaps just 5-dimensional if the first random number should be 1). Each tuple generated by your R_2 would be used to construct the 3 dimensional random rotation matrix as described. Each rotation matrix then rotates the same reference point (0,0,1). I was proposing an alternative to the lambert mapping, but still using your R_2 sequence, so you keep having an open sequence of points.

I believe you have discovered something very fundamental here, and I can identify with the person who asked for the 1x2 rectangle: perhaps by modifying R_2 for enough simple variations on the problem we can generalize to arbitrary shapes, manifolds or metrics. I am unsure what the best approach is: modify the core logic for generating the next 2-dimensional point in 1x2 rectangle such that it remains hyper-uniform or treat the R_2 sequence as the fundamental primitive, and generate higher dimensional tuples for the uniform hyper-cube and then use math to somehow project it to 2 dimensions.

Thanks for sharing your insights!
It's a good thing! Browser makers being more adversarial will limit the ability of tracking and advertising to 'find new ways'
> Have you tried offering other things?

as much as employers don't want to pay you more wages, they seem even _less_ inclined to offer anything that isn't wages.

respect? pfff. sooner get another 4% out of most employers.

install some sound dampening anything to make the working environment nicer? madness, instead the marketing folks will pick some new colors for the walls.

fire the toxic asshole who fucks up all the projects? whoa, that toxic asshole is critical to completing every project going at the moment; they'd sooner let mr polite&courteous go.
> His flawless German, acquired post-college, as an au pair, made Dutch a cinch.

> It just takes time and effort

My uncle (a native English speaker) spoke about a dozen languages. Not one of them was a cinch. Although he loved learning new languages, he acquired them through relentless hard work.

However, he got himself in trouble with German / Dutch. Trying to practice his Dutch in the Netherlands, he ordered an ice cream using Dutch grammar but German words. This was in the late '60s, and the ice cream vendor, who was old enough to remember the occupation, mistook him for German. My uncle made things worse by saying, in German, "we must have misunderstood each other," at which point the ice cream vendor started mock goose-stepping around behind his stand. My uncle did not receive his ice cream.
Over half of all students accepted to Harvard already have test scores in the top 2%
That seems like a symptom of comparing yourself with some ultimate, unrealistic version of what you think you should be.

Kind of like learning guitar in your 30's and getting discouraged when you see talented 16-year-olds on youtube getting famous.

I cope with that by 1) realizing that everyone's journey is different, and 2) realizing that even though I'm not a famous artist or whatever, I have a unique background that can bring value to people in the way I'm comfortable with.

Also as you get older you recognize what's really valuable in life (friends, happiness, etc.), and the things you thought were important when you were younger (getting rich/famous) are actually really shallow.
That does seem to be the case. It seems like men get 2 weeks:

http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2017/04/06/maternity-leav...
I suspect that partial apartment rentals are far less disruptive. It's full apartment rents that are causing issues.

I think this also comes back to over tourism. Travel is the new materialism. It used to be you kept up with the Jones by buying new cars, new jewellery, new houses. Now it's by going away, frequently and to the most exotic places, to prove how open minded and wordly you are. And it's killing the planet and many local communities. There will be a backlash eventually.
I will check it out, thanks.
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