skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really sure I get what makes this off-topic; isn't the question of innate vs. learned skill pretty deeply related to the story of Ramanujan?
> but it's doing well in its own right.

I don't think anyone thinks Twitter is doing well in its own right. It's shedding users, it's possibly harming democracy, their moderation is being questioned daily in the national US press and many users don't know how to use Twitter.
how do I hire?
any other use case which doesn't involve burning it or aerosolizing it creates no health hazard

That doesn't sound quite right:

"Normal functioning of the kidney, brain, liver, heart, and other systems can be affected by uranium exposure, because, besides being weakly radioactive, uranium is a toxic metal. Uranium is also a reproductive toxicant. ...Uranium metal is commonly handled with gloves..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium#Human_exposure
Suprise! When you want to get actual productive results from advertising progressivism ain't so useful.
>Looking at Graduation rates Arizona is well behind New York.

I never understood the US focus on graduation rates when "graduation" can mean vastly different things depending on the school.
For this analogy to work, doesn't Trump or Alex have to call out Wil directly?
Shops can move with the times, schools can continue to have buses to get kids there and offices can stay where they are as long as they'd like.

Banning vehicles has been shown to greatly increase shopping revenue and improve the healthiness of the area, so if a few businesses suffer, poor them... I'll not shed a tear for the strip malls.
I wonder if job discrimination suits are ever going to be filed against Hollywood. They literally choose employees at a minimum by race, age and gender. Actual skill is the last thing they look at.
That may or may not be, but in the end it is a different question than the one I raised. One might have an electoral college system without a state by state winner take all, which can lead to particular districts in particular states having outsized influence on the national election, and as such presents itself as a manageable target for foreign influence campaigns. This seems, to me, a national security risk that should be mitigated...and is much easier to mitigate than, for example, depending on efficient removal of foreign state-powered advertising campaigns.
> Quick edit -- that law is for highways, I haven't checked whether this also applies for other types of roads.

Note that “highway” in California law has a very broad definition; see https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....

“Highway” is a way or place of whatever nature, publicly maintained and open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. Highway includes street.
I have been looking for something exactly like this. I've tried some other apps as a place to collate and organize PDFs but haven't found anything. This looks really promising.
FWIW, it's a genuine opinion with samples right from the same blog post. Also, I recommend you read this which seems to corroborate his general disposition on social media: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18011144
The issue is that under the law, you as an employer are not allowed to make a hiring related choice that in any way discriminates against a protected class (with some exceptions discussed on other comments). You might expect to only get applications from men, but legally you can not target men specifically.

The inclusion of 'women and people of color strongly encouraged to apply' is actually walking a fine legal line when you go by the word of the law, and is only accepted as it is encouraging what are more-often the discriminated-against groups within the protected classes. It follows the sprite of the law, which is to protect the discriminated-against groups within the protected classes.
The safe harbor protects sites whose users infringe copyright, if certain conditions are met. I don't think it applies to advertising.

An example of safe harbor protection would be something like a user uploading a copyrighted song without a site's knowledge. If the site did not know about it, did not benefit from it financially, and takes it down when they are told about it, safe harbor protections would probably apply.

In contrast, Facebook knows the content and targeting options of every ad that they publish, and makes money from the ads.
When I'm reading code, I may not realize that an expression can return, because it can be hard to spot a ? embedded in the middle of the line:

sanitize(getFile(getName())?.contents);

Swift requires prefixing the line with try, which makes it easier to notice:

try sanitize(getFile(getName()).contents)

Both are a big improvement over exceptions which have no indication at the call site.
Exactly this. I don’t understand why the-thing-I-searched-for.java is so rarely on the first page of results. Doesn’t that seem like an obvious thing I might be interested in?!?
I've read the Mythical Man Month, and it has no bearing on what I'm talking about here. The problem is that "building Shenzhen" isn't a "project", and never can be a "project". The key feature of an industrial ecosystem like this is its enormous diversity -- hundreds of thousands of companies, large and small, doing complementary and competitive and most importantly different things.

That is not something that can ever be matched by a monolithic "project". But it is something that absolutely requires large number of both bodies and brains. STEM graduates is, as I say, a poor proxy, but I can't think of a better one. Feel free to suggest.

(Hint: it isn't GDP or anything like that, otherwise China would never have been able to do this in the first place.)
I use Dropbox Paper (work at DBX too) and it’s quite amazing for the long form research notes - I’ll have like a million projects going and paper documents is just such a nice way to pick em up, write some stuff and then put it down again (and embeds online and file media really well). The free version is he one I use personally and it’s great! But it’s not the best for a large repo of short personal notes - I too am looking for something there (always wanted to get “in to” Evernote but just never did) - I actually use Todoist for small reference notes and material now.
If you use a Surface, or other modern, non-caveman computer with excellent pen support, then there is nothing better than OneNote for note-taking. Interestingly, MS has been slowly deprecating the legacy desktop version of OneNote in Office and replacing it with the free Windows 10 app, which is now far more capable than the old version was.
Of course, there still things that should be added - especially in the drawing, touch/pen UI (bring back radial menus!), and data management/tagging searching departments, but if you haven't tried it lately, OneNote has gotten staggeringly better over the past couple of years, and IMO, easily outstrips its current competition...
If you were to only recruit from single gender schools then I personally would have an issue with it, same as this issue. However, if you are recruiting from many universities and some happen to be single gender, that is not discriminating.
So she gets pulled by a dragster, how is this different from sitting on a side car, or being pulled by a trailer. This seems dumb.
What if Facebook's algorithm determined that women weren't interested and stopped serving it to them automatically?
Facebook and Google are just as complicit, if not more so, in this "harming democracy" and moderation questioning.
I don’t think Musk needs any help in driving Tesla stock down ;)
Seems like the whole being towed by a race car bit is cheating.
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Number row.
The law says that it is "sexist" (i.e. discrimination) to target advertising in a way that denies qualified women the opportunity to apply for a particular job.

In the end the net result of targeting only men is the same as refusing to hire women, it denies otherwise qualified women opportunities that they are deserving of.

That this has a cost is understood by those who wrote the law, they decided those costs are worth it.
It's not going to change for the thousands of small towns where mass transit can't be realistically employed.
Go check Notion.so. I've been on the same boat as you for a long time, tried all the open source atlernative I could find as well as the paid ones but kept coming back to plain-texting.

I read about notion a few days ago and it's been smooth so far. It's everything I've been thinking of for when "I'm gonna make my own note-taking app I swear". I'm looking at moving maybe a third of my notes to it and use it for a few weeks before I consider moving fully and paying, I guess. The desktop client is an electron app so that might be a turn off for some. But! There's a web clipper on their road map too so that's one point for them that always makes me look back at evernote.
"The US will have to bootstrap a lot of manufacturing to replace Chinese labor."

They just have to move to cheaper countries to replace Chinese labor. One time upfront asset cost, but lower expense over time.

"US trade "only" accounts for about ~18% China's total trade"

Once China is not part of the trade flow between US and X country (Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, etc), the total trade for China will fall even more than 18%.

"they can still manufacture goods intended for anywhere else in the world there - just not for the US"

US is the largest consumer market in the world. Japan is second at 1/3 of the size of US. EU consumer market is mostly fragmented. There is just not that much singular consumer demand outside of US. Plus other countries are enacting tariffs on China as well - India for example.

"Especially other foreign companies operating in China will profit from reduced competition for Chinese labor / manufacturing, encouraging them to move more manufacturing there."

There are lots of countries that have way cheaper labor costs than China, there's no reason for the foreign companies to go there in the face of increasing tariffs. Nike is 30% in Vietnam. Samsung is producing more of its phones in Vietnam. Uniqlo increased its presence in Vietnam by 40%.

"US companies will only withdraw in part from from China, since they can still manufacture goods intended for anywhere else in the world there "

Again, tariffs and cheaper labor costs elsewhere will entice companies to move out of China entirely. Not to mention the threat of Chinese government takeover of assets, or capital outflow restriction.
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I like how she was wearing a helmet. You know, for protection.
That may be true and I never made any assertion to say they weren't.
She got pulled up to 100mph then accelerated under her own power to the final speed, due to gearing being too insane to start from 0.
Might want to reread the article. It's only towed by the car until it hits about 100mph since below that speed, it's not really possible to turn the pedals due to the insane gearing. Above that speed, the race car detaches and the bicyclist pedals up to 183.9mph.
Some people drive to work.
Sort of - Trump really does intend to get better deals on trade from our allies. It’s not a ruse to deceive the Chinese.

As such even the technocrats know the focus is only on China because they are the worst offender on trade.

It helps keep trade issues limited to trade.
She is only being pulled to start (the gearing is too tall) and to be in an aero envelope.
I think there's a happy medium that already works fairly well. I live in a fairly bike-friendly mid-sized city. For the most part, cyclists stick to designated bike paths and neighborhood streets, where traffic is minimal. Someone who's riding a bike on a main trunk road is either inexperienced, or trying to prove something. Most people eventually find ways to avoid those roads.

For me, high speed and low speed are both OK. I take longer rides that get me out onto the trunk roads where people drive 55+, but they usually give me plenty of room. What I'm not OK with is congested roads where drivers are not controlling their cars -- if someone stops suddenly, there will be a crash.

The city is gradually adding bike lanes on the more congested main roads when there isn't a good alternative. They're also designating some side roads as "bike boulevards" with "traffic calming" features that effectively discourage cars.

A way of planning for bike paths is if bike traffic gets heavy enough on a road, then set aside a portion of that road for bikes and leave the rest for cars.
In AdTech lingo a publisher is the site on which the ad is displayed.
Not having license plates on your car can in and of itself be a benefit, if one doesn't want license plates on one's car. AIUI that was the benefit Jobs was looking for.
> Brown often works from 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. at her school in Versailles, Ky., then goes to a second job manning the metal detectors and wrangling rowdy guests at Lexington’s Rupp Arena to supplement her $55,000 annual salary. With her husband, she also runs a historical tour company for extra money.

So, basically, in her teacher job, she already makes more than 60% of Versailles, KY households. If her husband makes anywhere close to what she does, their household makes more than 85% of households in Versailles, KY, and that's not even counting her moonlighting.

Maybe they have some special needs, like e.g. disabled children, that make them need six figures income, then certainly I'm sympathetic to their plight, but if the argument here is that a household in Versailles, KY needs a six figure income just to survive, then well, I'm stunned.
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The previous effort failed to set a record because the lead vehicle (range rover) wasn't fast enough!!!
lol what? im kinda curious what the french price restrictions are
Oh, and FWIW, MS has put a LOT of effort into improving the OneNote apps for iOS and Android, too - they are approaching full first-class citizen status, which makes them really handy. (Funny, I used to bash MS, but they're really doing a great job with OneNote, VSCode, and WSL, all of which I use and rely on regularly. Now if they (or anyone else for that matter) could only build modern email/calendar/contacts app that works as well as what we had in the 90's (Palm, cough, Palm...)
Old school newspapers would refuse to run ads that broke employment laws. And I've never heard of them bellyaching about policing that.

But Facebook is somehow how different? Why?

Oh right their business model doesn't work if they have to pay the costs associated with following government regulations.

I'm not feeling sympathetic.
Doesn’t look that great in the screenshots to be honest - would be nice if it’s not just a gimmick because “we can” but some new paradigm of more effectively and immersive Ly consume the web... I mean - the kind of distraction free “reader mode” that you do in Safari, imagine if you had that in VR and then a 3D way to navigate between web docs/pages based on the links on the current page and smart topics - a bit like Ted Nelson’s Xanadu[1] project from the 60s or whenever - the real vision behind hypertext!

EDIT: [1]: Bit is history on Xanadu https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/ - and there’s a video of it somewhere and you can/could even download a real demo of it on floppy disk I seem to recall
They keep saying "built to Canadian standards" in this article. I'm sure they mean that as "built to 1st world, legally relevant standards", but given the context it sounded like they were saying "Canadian standards" as an excuse for why it fell down.

However, the previous bridge, presumably also built to Canadian standards, held up for half a century and was still working (albeit apparently not looking great) when they ordered it replaced.
Way to suck the joy out of a very innocuous change
when you price cap what you are doing is telling shop keepers and warehouse owners that there is no purpose to risk your safety and open back up until things return to normal because you cant make extra profit so they just stay home and no one gets the needed supplies. When you let them profit at least those with money get supplies. The choices really are either no one gets supplies with price caps or only those with money get supplies when gouging is allowed. If supply was capable of reaching everyone then prices would quickly return to normal. There is no fair system of delivering limited supply and high demand without raising prices. If you come up with one please claim your noble prize as you would have the solution to world hunger and poverty
That's true only if you can readily bring in new supply to compete with existing suppliers. But if market entry is difficult or impossible--on an island and unable to quickly arrange transport--then no price is sufficient to bring new supply to bear on the market.

Price gouging in this context might imply existing suppliers with more than enough supply to keep water at affordable rates until new supply comes online, but who choose to charge exorbitant prices simply because they can. Or more realistically, they charge just below the price at which outside suppliers could profitably enter the market given the temporarily enormous transaction costs (e.g. transport) in emergency situations.

Furthermore, when discussing essentials such as water, society cannot tolerate a system that explicitly puts people into conflict. Maintenance of law & order requires a minimal degree of equal treatment regardless of circumstance as part of the social contract. And while we can argue that a $100 bottle of water might help to ensure that, e.g., only the severely sick receive water because, facing imminent death, they or someone close them is willing to pay the price, often the price may far exceed what the impoverished are capable of affording, no matter how they value it. Again, maintenance of the social contract--incentivizing the impoverished not to begin violating property rights--is often a collective action problem and not something free markets can ensure.

I agree that people use "price gouging" far too liberally and don't appreciate how price signaling works to moderate supply and demand, but there are situations where free markets cannot adequately serve a population.
"Code is read much more often than written" ;)
I once applied for a job as a porn actor (at a flatmate's joking suggestion). They replied saying they only wanted women, but weren't allowed to say that in the ad. That seemed a silly waste of time.
"The US will be forced to pay more for everything"

I'm assuming your assumption is because China is taking over all of the resources/production capabilities around the world? I don't think that can even remotely happen. Again, lots of multinationals are already 30% in Vietnam, Malaysia, or India. Companies can source ag or oil from plenty of non-Chinese sources. The consumers have barely felt the supply chain shifts.

"The US is a manufacturing powerhouse, but its production is bipolar"

You would be surprised at how much reshoring and US factories automation have occurred in the last few years in US. It will increase in scope after this current round of tariffs.
I've been dabbling in Go, but I keep wondering if I would prefer Rust after reading articles like this...
Multi-device sync in OneNote works pretty solidly, although I suspect the sync mechanism backend could use a lot of TLC...
> we might begin to focus on quality instead of quantity which what we consume if the labor is now a larger part of the price...

I'm hoping the same. I don't think it's likely to happen, but it would be good long term. Short term though, it will be a bit of a shock to see the plastic toy that was $20 now be $100.
Woman pedals a bike 184 mph, smashing record held by men for more than 100 years
AFAIK they are printed on demand when the volumes are low.

It's incredibly easy to publish (you're essentially uploading a .pdf file). I assume that tons of books only sell a handful of copies.

E.g. the only copies of a book that was written by a family member where those that he bought himself.
Yes, I mentioned it in my comment:

> And, moreover, the graduation rates don't mean much, as shown by recent DC graduation rate scandal.

Did you miss it?

It is you who even brought up the graduation rates in the first place. If you believe that the numbers are not to be trusted, why did you even bring it up?
Another win for physical books, at least for me, is that I generally find vague searching to be faster in physical books.

By vague searching I mean searching for something where I don't remember enough exact phrases or low frequency words from it to use an electronic search.

With a physical book I often remember the approximate physical location within the book of what I'm looking for, and often nearby things to further help with the search. For instance, I might remember that the equation I'm trying to find was on a left hand page around 40% into the book, with the right hand page having a plot of some function that was growing logarithmically. I can then quickly flip through the book and find it.

I don't get that physical sense of location within the book when reading e-book.
No single number is that meaningful on it’s own. But when a system has both lower standards and lower graduation rates that’s a clear sign of a problem.

Similarly, if your measuring graduates you need to ensure your measuring similar populations and one system is not simply dumping problems into a separate non counted category.
Isn't the easy solution to this to immediately cancel auto renewal right after subscribing?
I formatted the text for printing in landscape mode with a two column layout. I shared the PDF here: https://github.com/bluemont/hamming-on-research
This law is nothing new to digital advertisers. The New York Times is also forbidden by law to advertise job or housing ads that discriminate against protected classes in its classifieds page, and this has been an uncontroversial state of affairs for decades. Facebook is being asked to play by the same rules as everyone else.
The gp almost certainly means when reading code, not when writing it. Why did this function return here... I don't see anything. Oh wait, there's a ?.

On the other hand error handling can distract from the intention of the code, so in another sense ? makes it easier to read.

The author can choose if they prefer ?, try!, or a plain old match or if let / return on the Result.
>OP had set up an excluded middle between a conspiracy and an emergent behavior unrelated to bias.

Nobody said it was unrelated to biases except for you. What was being suggested is that it's not a conspiracy (a.k.a an explicit agreement) against older employees. Nobody is suggesting systematic biases don't exist, which is the strawman you are attacking.

>So am I, and that is also irrelevant. It simply doesn't matter whether you, I, or s/he are in that group.

It's relevant (to me at least) in discussions where you have opportunities to hear anecdotes from the victims. We aren't lawyers deliberating a case.

> I wasn't hostile to anyone, only to an argument that had no place in this discussion.

FFS, it's not an argument anyone was making. I don't know why you're being defensive because OP was not defending ageism or claiming that an age bias didn't exist. It was just a suggestion that it was a product of the complex layoff strategies rather than some backroom hand shake of "let's get rid of the olds".

>who presents facts that don't support your "perspective" on an objective question.

You didn't present any facts and I don't have a perspective to support on this matter. I just pointed out that you're attacking people you appear to largely agree with because you're not understanding what they are saying.
Hadn't heard of miniserde before, awesome find, thanks!!