skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am not sure if you quoted this wrong, but it would suggest that a more diverse workforce is cheaper if the bottom line is what was improved.

Not quoting it wrong - it doesn't suggest that inherently, bottom line comes after top line, and thus it makes no judgement on whether it was increased by reducing costs or increasing sales. I meant the latter, but my statement didn't exclude it.

> pro meritocracy

In an ideal world, that's the ideal state. We just need to get there, that's the issue here.

> Maybe, but I have seen the impact first hand in many cases.

You've made an impassioned argument about positive action as a concept there, and I actually work in a marketing space around inequality from a parental income perspective so 100% appreciate the points you raise.
I also went to a poor school where my teachers didn't have batteries for the clocks, and could only photocopy the exam marking scheme on one side, meaning the greatest expectation they had for us was a C grade.

I do, however, think we're talking at cross-purposes, and the issues you've raised with the education system (I believe) are different from the points I've been working through about recruitment choices in later employment.

Fairness is different in education (I agree with you that any kind of artificial limit on access to a decent education is a shitshow we should be ashamed of), where quality should be consistent and equitable, versus what it is when making a qualitative decision on a hire. It's not about fairness in the latter situation at all, but identifying greater potential in candidates - whether that's through raw grades or taking into account the context those grades were achieved in (which, is more often than not based on the education they achieved, but not always)

I know, based on the POLAR[0] information about my school, I've been looked at through a Widening Participation/positive action lens. I wouldn't begrudge someone from another underrepresented group to be given that treatment based on another characteristic of theirs.

For example, if there's a lack of men teaching primary/kindergarten in an area, then I'd be ok seeing them to be selected over a female equivalent of similar qualified status as the environment for a male primary teacher is societally harsher.

> I think if you look closer subcultures hold groups of people back every day. And again, the fix is education early and often.

True - but if we wind it all the way to my argument up the thread about role models and success, the educational fix also comes from breaking those subcultures through example.

[0] the UK's access to higher education ranking for UK areas
Good for India. Going in the right direction. This proves that the world is improving. It has many problems, but it is also improving.
Not sure what the point of this discussion is, there have been BSc in AI at various universities for years (at least 20), whats the debate?
Having same issue. Seems to be a bug.
All (72) data stores mentioned in the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications
The approval rating itself is a result of the mechanisms you describe: polarization in social and traditional media, low standards of evidence etc.
The edges between the trips mean that one trip can be performed after the other on the same vehicle.
The costs on these edges represent the distance of the idle trip - if they are far away - it would be more expensive.
The depot pull outs are connected to the earlier trips,and depot pull ins to the later trips. The cost of these edges also represents the distance of the depot from this trip.
id definitely be interested, as i say its just an idea/hole in the market that ive noticed, i dont believe actually building the app itself would be difficult its just things like marketing, funding, legal issues etc. im not sure how it would work on a global scale but here in the UK i believe a significant number of people would be interested in using it.

feel free to email me gaspoweredcat@gmail.com (thats just my unimportant mail account, ill likely respond from my main account i just dont like putting it up on the net openly)
On that note, it would be cool if QEMU could emulate a GPU.
Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is also my enemy, because he's just an asshole.
Serverless and Evolutionary Architectures and Safe Deployments
>How do you feel about the travelling part?

Honestly, scared that I'll have time away from work. It's becoming more clear to me that I have a dysfunctional relationship with my work, and some deep-rooted money issues (despite having enough to live on and money saved up).

Finding the root cause of my perceived issues is a priority, there's only so much I can repair (or improve, to be less weasel word-y) myself without locating and addressing the thing(s) that cause my issue(s).
British astrophysicist overlooked by Nobels wins $3M award for pulsar work
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A lot of people look at the equity of their homes, unfortunately. Consumer spending has been steadily increasing in Sweden during the past decade in spite of salary stagnation. This sadly means the restaurants, novelty stores, coffee shops and what not that have plopped up in downtown areas are not here to stay.

What has happened during the past decade is that the real estate prices have increased by a lot and Sweden is among the most indebted populations in the world.
Mark LaGanga's WTC 9/11 Video (Enhanced Video/Audio and Doubled FPS)
I received a protestant education and as such Calvinism is part of the curriculum.
“We are all smart here. Distinguish yourself by being kind”.
> When enforcement is rare but with complex rules and huge penalties, it causes everyone to have to hire an army of lawyers to make sure it isn't them who the government is able to arbitrarily make an example of

This is Europe we're talking about. You are using your liberal American mind set to create issues that don't exist here.

>
What you want instead is clear, simple rules with proportionate penalties that are rigorously enforced -- ideally with notice to give the company a chance to correct its behavior before any penalties have to be put on the table.

This is exactly how rules is enforced in Europe. Pedagogy first and after that the stick for those who are purposely break the rules or are malicious.
But how would one get to NZ? It isn’t exactly around the corner. Couldn’t pick a further place if tried.
You have to give it to Google, they ambitious: people use ad blockers, they want to change how every single website is made to be able to bypass ad blocker.

I think it's just genius.
How to Start a Shawarma Stand Business * Sivapex
But then I am developing in Windows again anyways.
Whatever happened to their plan of sharing home data with 3rd parties? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/technology/roomba-irobot-...
Lawyers who consistently engage in this, and/or back up corporations that do, should be disbarred.

Watch your abuses decline precipitously, after enacting such policy.

Lawyers take an oath to uphold the law -- not just their employer's policy. Enforce this.
"Fake it till you make it" was about confidence not building a business.
Echo comments on rxvt. It’s blazingly fast and customisable (set fg white and bg gray8 in .Xresources). It has full Unicode support too. Firing it up on my 10 year old FreeBSD workstation is still snappier than macOS or Win10 WSL will ever be.
Snail Farming in Nigeria and How to Start This Lucrative Business * Sivapex
Hmm well if they think its gonna be robot waitresses and self driving lorries then yeah maybe .. however I suspect that 80% will be automating business progresses in enterprises, where it will mostly be invisible (apart from those made redundant).

Al-Khalili isn't really in the position to know anything about this and is just parroting about of noise from other self proclaimed experts.
Making it easier to discover datasets
I use facebook as a calendar and event planner. And I don't see another service overtaking theirs any time soon - for the simple reason that no other service can hope to get 99% of a persons social circle onto one single service again. I think the window for that kind of dominance has closed.

The question is whether facebook can afford to pay the bills in 20 years when its only us 70's and 80's kids that still use it for only messenger and calendars/events.
I'm guessing you're on KDE (as am I) but it would be cool to see GNOME Terminal compared also. What I got from these results is that Konsole is already good enough to not bother switching.
MIT and, I believe, Harvard both offer S.B. degrees. I assume others do as well. B.S. is probably the standard though. At some point, I was advised to list an S.B. on my resume even though my actual degree used a different abbreviation.
Fiverr was never worth it.
Thanks. Didn't notice that, because... you have to place your mouse exactly in the right spot, and only then an arrow icon will pop up under it, and only clicking in that small spot will make the hopper dispense a ball.
If they all get wiped out, it will be very good for me personally.

Firstly, I will enjoy watching them fail. It will make me happy intrinsically.
If I lose my software engineer job and have to work as a janitor for a while, it would be totally worth it.

Secondly, the subsequent failure of their portfolio companies will free up a huge amount of marketshare in many industries; some of which I will be able to capture with my own side project until I can afford quit my janitor day job.
if he's actually deranged and incompetent to the point of being unable to handle the presidency they have the option of the 25th amendment.

But they obviously do not actually believe that.
i totally understand that, the app itself wouldnt be anything complicated, the work would need to be put in to market the idea and get a solid userbase before its worth anything, but i havent even really considered worth etc just seen a demand that seems very poorly catered to by current services in the industry
although data.gov.pl exists, and even presents a valid cert, it has no content. The place with the data is:

https://danepubliczne.gov.pl/en/#

(website is being terribly slow for me right now)
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Can't wait until they bachflip on this decision http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/bachflip.j...
It sounds like maybe you would like the genre of aphorisms. By definition, there's no filler at all.

My favourites (which are also mostly those with the highest reputation, don't just take my word for it) are:

La Rochefoucauld's Maxims - scathing about your character and it's fabric of vanity and self-love. I find it very funny, for all the terrible things he's always saying about me. It was all polished in the 17th french salons to say the most with the fewest words.

La Bruyere - Characters - slightly longer average length, mostly less savage than La R, still he knows how to sink the boot into humanity, men, women. An example:

Children are haughty, disdainful, quick to anger, envious, curious, self-seeking, lazy, fickle, timid, intemperate, untruthful, secretive; they laugh and weep readily; the most trivial subjects give them immoderate delight or bitter distress; they wish not to be hurt, but they like hurting others: they are men already.

Didn't see that coming, did you. :-)

Lichtenberg - Aphorisms - He was a scientist, thinker, wondering about everything, questioning everything.

All these were favourites of Nietzsche, whose work contains a lot of aphorisms, although it's mostly written in self-contained paragraphs. (except Zarathustra and Untimely Essays)

Gracian's Art of Worldly Wisdom also is written in short paragraphs, and I'd say filler-free. It's a guide to living, maybe the best one I know.

There are a lot of wonderful aphorisms in Emerson, Boswell's Johnson, Kierkegaard, Oscar Wilde etc although I guess they "spend a lot of words on filler", but I thought I'd mention them.
Not a musician here, and hadn't thought of that. And I don't recall that recent coverage of this re YouTube and Facebook have addressed copyright on scores vs on recordings.

I mean, how would one even do that, based just on recordings? Can experts tell what score was used for a particular performance?
They are not the same, not even at a higher level. The default action is different, ignoring errors by default is dangerous. Sure in many cases you'd like to catch the error and ignore it, but that has to be a conscious decision someone should have at some point thought about.
Political sextant
Google already has a copy of most of the internet on their servers - they're quite open about this if at tech conferences (although they claim to respect robots.txt).

I completely agree with you that their monopoly dream is bad - their motto "don't be evil" is starting to sound as ironic as the word "democratic" in some countries' names - but many of the advertising and data-sharing practices on the "open" web are also bad (and sometimes illegal under the GDPR).

Choose your poison.
In fact, this shows that “when optimizing code, know what your asymptotes are”. It is more than an order of magnitude trivial difference between 34 and 1.2, but the conclusion bases itself on silly 0.1 which plays no sensible role at all.

People take advices like “don’t optimize” and then in 2030 someone 300byte-patches system updates so they would install at ~ssd write speed instead of sudden 1.5 hours. And everyone is like wow, how we overlooked that. You never hired an engineer, that’s how.
Probably should have a [video]-tag if so. There are also plenty of other situations where one is unable or where it is cumbersome to be able to listen to audio.
How to be an outstanding JavaScript developer
Adjusting across polls, Trump's approval rating is probably under 40% [1] which is very unusual for a first-term President [2]. Not sure where you got the idea that his numbers are "basically the same" to Obama. Trump is an unusually unpopular President by virtually any measurement [3].

It is interesting though how people blame the media for their own distorted views of reality. The American media is objectively awful by most first-world standards, but that doesn't explain the extraordinary ignorance of Americans themselves.

[1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

[2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/116677/presidential-approval-ra...

[3] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-year-in-trumps-appr...
freetype definitely doesn't use the GPU and it's the most used font rendering library on Linux. What libraries did you check?
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>> This leads me to wonder: what abstractions are we missing today that will be obvious to future generations?

That's a very nice question. But I tend to see it like this : if you'd know, it'd mean that somehow you predicted the future.

I'd say that abstractions are built everytime but only the good ones survive. So the only way to answer your question is to wait 50 years. Then we'll know what are those missing abstractions.

But the simple act of asking the question already opens the way to a critic of current abstractions, which will lead to new ones and maybe, one of the future :-)

Are there public places where such things are discussed ? I mean, places where you don't need to be inside a university to actually participate.
How to Create Back-links
Video games. You forgot video games.
Nutrigene wants to personalize your vitamins using your genetic code
[...] what procrastination looks like for most people:

- Think about working.

- Immediately feel the urge to procrastinate.

- Start beating themselves up with a bunch of negative self-talk for wanting to procrastinate (I’m such a procrastinator, why can’t you just stay focused?)

- Feel badly, including a bunch of negative emotions like shame and disappointment, on top of the already-strong urge to procrastinate.

- Procrastinate on something emotionally numbing.

Is that really how it works for most people? I (and I always assumed that's how it is for most people) often just rationalize procrastination ("My tasks are not that important/interesting, I'll do them later", "Reading just one more article is fine, then back to work") without any negative thoughts at that time. Sometimes I do some research and suddenly realize I ended up on StackOverflow or HN and think "wait a minute, that's not work any more". But that's ok if I get all work done.

I think that is the usual way of procrastination. What the article claims how most people procrastinate (negative thoughts, getting no work done) sounds like more extreme but rarer cases.
When I was a kid a teacher donated an old game to the class that was a rudimentary version of this, Avalanche[1]. None of the kids had seen this game before but the satisfying mechanical movement and thinking it took to get all the marbles to fall all at once made it became very popular. I had these fond memories of Avalanche, and did actually think of it as a visualization when studying hardware in college, but over time my recall had made it more elaborate. Surprising to see how simple the old game actually was. If me and my classmates got so engaged with a primitive ancestor of Turing Tumble this new game could really catch on with kids, as long as it isn't overly complicated.

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/446/avalanche
Kitty is a fork of Putty, or maybe more precisely it's built on putty. I used it a lot in my previous job as we didn't have key-based auth on customer servers. With Kitty I could create profiles with login information, and where needed automatically switch user to root. Good times.
> Doesn't have a lot of discoverability out of the box since there's no menus

But it does have a comprehensive documentation page: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/index.html#scrolling
The phrase "legalises gay sex" is surreal and otherworldly to me. We recent fought for marriage in Australia. Shocking to think they were and are still so backwards as to make that headline possible.
Oh! Now I get it, thanks.
This feels inevitable, culminating in "Default Reader Mode." It makes one wonder why Google didn't bury some option to disable AMP to head this off.
Ask HN: Data diff tool for tabular data?
Is there a tool you'd recommend to diff tabular data / TSV files?

Every day I have a snapshot of a database stored as TSV. Given two days of snapshots and that every item in the TSV has a unique ID, I'd like to get a list of which lines are new, changed, unchanged, and deleted between the two days. These lists will then be used to update an external service with an awkward database-like API.

I can kind of do this with normal diff but perhaps there's something better suited for the task? It reminds me of data joins in d3 but I'm not working with a UI or Javascript.
Survival Tips for Women in Tech
React Guides That Stood the Test of Time
IlluStatus-HTTP Status svg animation that can change color and text arbitrarily
> Btw, Constitution is a law too. Should it have an expiry date too?

Not necessarily. A constitution is a foundational law, a set of principles by which the nation is to be governed. Those principles are not expected to change very often, so no expiry date is needed. The detailed implementation of these principles, however, could - and probably should - be done with an expiry date.
> I would take the dick every day of the week.

That came out wrong...
It's not like just anyone can put a video on AllOfBach. That site is entirely the Netherlands Bach Society's project.

If you're saying everyone should make their own AllOfBach... the website clearly has taken tons of development effort, its first iteration was unusably difficult to navigate, it's still not great at accessibility, and if I wanted a portable version of their recordings I have even fewer options than I would with YouTube.

I'm glad AllOfBach exists but there's a reason people want to stick to the music services they are already familiar with.
I've seen your politicians. There is plenty of backwards to go around.
>
If you want to argue that we should pay less taxes and let people die if they cant hold a job, then feel free to make that argument.

I do not argue for that, but I argue that the behaviour of many people provides strong evidence that this is the opinion of the majority.
Mathematics and school shootings
What you suggest would amount to biting off the hand that feeds you, so no, ain't going to happen. The system isn't dumb, it's working as intended - making people in control of it money.
The Future of Docker Swarm
And still no way to horizontally scroll the tab bar.

There are still some of us who end up with more than a screen's width of tabs, at times, especially on laptops.

So, the rounded rectangles maybe nice, for some, and all that. But, how about some actually useful functionality, there?

"Design" -- meh.
Formula 1 2018: teams, engines, drivers, and nationalities
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You may have better font rendering (anti-aliasing support on low-dpi screens), faster rendering and scrolling, better support for terminal attributes (crossed-out, overline, italic, etc). iTerm does a lot of optimizations so it can render and scroll faster (I volunteered to add a feature to it, and I dug a bit through the code).

For instance, iTerm supports italic, which Terminal.app doesn't. Gnome's terminal (vte, actually) does support overline (I volunteered adding it to iTerm, but I'm nowhere near close), which is handy for status lines, as well. I think there is one that takes ANSI codes seriously enough to support double-height and width.

To see what's missing, you can look into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code
Well, historically, India was comfortable with and accepting of people of all sexualities. The laws that are being overturned were put on the books by the British. So, the backwardness depends on the time scale
In Tasmania, gay male sexual conduct was illegal until 1997.
This is a well known idea in data visualisation -- first articulated by Jaques Bertin back in the 60s (I think). Colour is known as a selective visual variable; selective variables are better used to represent categorical data as they "enable us to immediately isolate all correspondences belonging to the same category". i.e. sort your lego by bricks type rather than colour, though sorting by colour will lead to more instagram likes :)
Note that same sex marriage is still not legalised! We still have a long way to go before the idea of a same-sex couple becomes commonplace in our society.