skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a study[1] that breaks down SAT scores by race and income in 2003. Take a look at table 2.

[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e7a0/dfdee8ad5b91e1d179e9e2...
Sorry for any confusion. New Mexico moved from #50 to #41, while Maine moved from #6 to #48. This raised some flags with me since I went to school in New Mexico and find it hard to believe they have better schools than Maine, especially since Maine was previously ranked very high. So my gut feeling is their is a problem somewhere in how they’re crunching their data (though I’d just be guessing if I tried to pick apart their methodology).
Previously on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18109930
Looks like the salient comment:

Helium affecting Apple device's MEMS clock source and IP67 not helium-proof

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9mk2o7/mri_disabl...
downvoters, please explain. The statement makes sense when you look at it in tech where there are more men than women. So it may appear that more men are getting promoted compared to their women counterparts. But that doesn't mean men >>> women, it's just statistics at play.
Young people can't afford to buy farmland anymore and we're losing topsoil at a concerning rate.
How does MS Teams work on Linux... I'm using osx and windows with UIs and Linux mostly without a UI, so not sure.

Also, the web version of Skype is relatively good now... not really excusing what MS has done, however may be better options.
A similar observation on irrational choice vs. optimization can be borrowed from GPS navigation.

Most of the time GPS offers an optimized shortest fastest way to reach a destination. Yet, often I may prefer a familiar route, or an 'easy' one (e.g long straight runs), or a 'scenic' ('cause it's that time of year) or some other irrational choice.

Then would just absorb any resulting inefficiency as a fact of life (chalk it up in Debit column, if at all).

So ultimately it's kind of optimizing for personal satisfaction (at the moment). Sticking to a rational discipline does bring satisfaction too.
note that you could succinctly put in one sentence something that the author took a whole page. I feel there is something jib about compression to be said, but I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader.
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What domain are you working in?
Then a ton of jobs will have been automated, and as a society we’ll take a hard look at the situation to find a solution.
The only limit is what we accept as a compromise.

But otherwise we could take any of these workers and move them to a developping country, they would have a great impact. It just won’t happen as that’s not how most of them view their future.
Sure, and that's true and if I were to set out to do a large service now I'd use something with typing. My last few net-new 10k+ loc projects were all typescript and I'll probably stick with that approach for a while.

The main issues with large codebases are often not feature-based but rather maintenance and operational overhead related: undiscoverability, config hell, dependency hell, and scaling issues - and typing helps a little bit with one of those.
OK I read wikipedia wrong - Texas it seems has 84 % white population but that includes 34% Hispanic (an odd distinction - is that a common US measure?)

Which makes the Simpson's paradox quite possible. So Texas does not have a racial makeup like UK. (I only have spent a little time in Houston, mostly I found it populated by cars)
What about buyers/traders via exchanges? I'm guessing they're the victims of the scam, and won't face fines, fees? Probably a dumb question. I'm not versed in this.
Interesting ideas. I understand the high-level idea of using X and Z to bound Y.

Questions: Can you clarify what it means to use empty hashes for non-membership proofs? / For the Merkle-Patricia Tree structure, if the branches are ordered, wouldn't it be possible to use bounding for non-membership proofs?
HDF5 is quite bad and corruption prone.

Parquet is gaining a lot of traction lately for this use case.
Oh, but they did, from the article:

> We fixed two serious problems common to traditional rankings. First, we removed factors that do not measure K–12 student performance or teaching effectiveness, such as spending per student (intentions to raise performance are not the same as raising performance)
https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/valhalla/Minimal+Value...

and

In value-capable modules, the class-file descriptor language is extended to include Q-types, which directly denote unboxed value types. The descriptor syntax is “QBinaryName;”, where BinaryName is the internal form of the VCC name. (The internal form substitutes slashes for dots.) In fact, the class name must be that of the value type derived from a value-capable class.

By comparison, a standard reference type descriptor is called an L-type. For a value-capable class C, we may speak of both the Q-type and the L-type of C. Note that usage of L-types is not correlated in any way with usage of Q-types. For example, they can appear together in method types, in arbitrary mixtures.

See also the JVM bytecode standard, which has the following "things", that explain the "L" part:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/5086340

> [0] Logically speaking, we have two things we want to do, and
that unfolds to a choice between three "worlds" of up to four
distinct kinds: L/Q/U/R. L is always present because it is
a legacy model for reference types. Q is always present
because we know we need (at least sometimes) to make
a syntactic distinction between flattened values and legacy
objects.

> (Why not just always look inside the classfile? Because
the verifier cannot be expected to load a class for every
type it sees, so needs a descriptor kind character from
time to time.)

[0] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/valhalla-spec-observe...
It would be good to see some actual figures here, how many staff were replaced? It says it’s a new warehouse, so why would there have been staff in the first place ? The trouble with percentages is they can easily be misinterpreted.

Having spent my fair share of time in Japan, I’d bet there are still plenty of people working st that warehouse and around the clock.
Yeah I can totally see that kind of logic coming. But if everyone just waits for someone else to do something, nothing will change. That is the most likely outcome, I think.
You're saying that software engineers are in the role because they have no other option? No upper-middle-class people in the position? What are you talking about?

You're missing the point anyway. The article made it pretty clear that this AI amplified biases humans already have about women applicants to tech positions. Stating your own biases about women make no sense to the topic, or to the argument you seem to be trying to make.

Janitors are worth talking about as well (women in the same job usually have a different title with less authority and less pay), but high-status, highly-paid, highly influential jobs are where it's most important to avoid bias, and so we talk about those more.
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My argument is that this effect is small, diluted, and doesn't admit a strong positive feedback loop. Whereas the effect of sudden unemployment with no social safety net or training can trigger a strong negative feedback loop. You have the potential for strongly negative outcomes concentrated on a small number of people.

Now the question becomes, "is that a bad thing?" My answer is yes, because the forces that produce the negative feedback compound with each other. It becomes a "negative welfare contagion". It also is fundamentally unjust.
From a meta-perspective, HackerNews is how I'm currently spending my time. Alas, it is a stopgap to a more pervasive problem in my life.

If I weren't currently on HackerNews, I would (very literally) be spending my spare time wondering how I should spend my spare time.

Should I change jobs? Go to graduate school? Learn to make electronic music? Play Hearthstone? Exercise? Eat? Sleep? Go(lang)?

This is a daily battle that happens when I arrive home from work with at least 3 waking hours to myself, which is a rarity.

The inability to make a decision on how to spend my spare time is causing me to slowly lose my sanity. It is eating away at the fiber of my being. I'm not sure if having ADHD may be a factor.
For max portability, you should not try to notice that these variants might be the same account.
I'd rather use Rust than javascript 8 days a week
You can say it wasn't malice, just 'business' or something like that. But in that sense, war also isn't awful, just 'business' etc.

I am on the other hand amazed at how much Slack people are willing to give multinational corporations that don't presumably even have them on payroll.
I'm no expert, but from what I've read you should awaken without feeling groggy or tired. I've personally had the luxury of being able to sleep according to my own schedule (without waking times or alarms, simply sleeping when I was tired). For myself to reach that well-rested feeling, I should give myself 9 hours a night. Sometimes I need 7, but sometimes I need the 9 hours. I very occasionally need more, and very rarely sleep less (though it happens).

What I know affects how much sleep I need or how long I should give myself to sleep varies. I'm female and follow a cycle closely linked to hormones as a baseline. If I wake up at night (for toilet, etc), I need a bit more time. If I increase physical activity, I have an adjustment period that requires more sleep.

I'll also note that time of sleep impacts me. I'm better off waking after 9am (naturally this is 11am or so). I cannot always get enough quality sleep waking at 6am and 7am leaves me slightly deprived. I tried keeping a schedule even on the weekends, but I felt horrible and found it better to sleep a bit more to catch up.
How is Trayvon Martin relevant to this discussion? Are you suggesting that Black people are somehow more prone to violence, after controlling for poverty, and that makes education harder for them? That's a .... controversial line of reasoning.
Interesting. Couldn't see Binance in the list, wonder why?
You already receive that benefit. Will prices go down as a result of this automation? Will the freed resources be cleanly rerouted to other activities? Hell no, if there wasn't an article you'd never have noticed.
A major part of socialism is an end to private ownership of capital-producing property like factories.
Unfortunately, Uniqlo's job is so inhuman from top to bottom.　Possible exception for a few tops but it's just because they have large capital to buy share.

You can't imagine having a family when working on Uniqlo.

It should better be automated for the rest of the world.
All of those significantly post-date protocol buffers, though. It would have been great if they had existed before PB, so we could have used them at Google. But, we had to invent something because nothing that existed at the time was suitable, and the migration cost to use something else now would be astonishing. I'll readily admit that a new company would likely be better off standardizing on one of these. However, standardizing on Protocol Buffers is still way better than having a mish mash of different formats, even if all of those formats are individually better.
All you've done is moved the problem from your organization to theirs.

Phishing can still pwn you.
You might find this interesting reading:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Jim_Crow
Thanks for the effort, the details, the links, and the comment!

How do these two things square against each other?

> Austerity in times of recession is craziness, but is the order that come from Brussels.

> What the ECB is doing now (since 2012), is buying the public debt of Italy, Spain and others in the secondary markets (2).

It seems to me that "austerity" is the buzzword used by states that want to inflate away their debt.
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> I take it you've read his book then?

No, I've read scientific papers on the topic, his and others. I don't trust what is said in books on science for lay people; I've caught too many scientists misrepresenting the science when they write for lay people, because they know they can get away with it (and not just in climate science--I've caught physicists doing it about general relativity and basic QM, which are a lot more solidly nailed down by evidence and controlled experiments than climate science is).
Not sure if you were alluding to this with your comment but people DO complain about vaccines because they haven't seen the widespread ill effects of their not existing
>Would that satisfy your need?

It's not always possible to change the data structure -- different ways of modeling data have different trade-offs. So, for me it is about not having to make a choice than about tools that will help you to change your mind.

Also, it could be something like structure coming from a 3rd-party crate using borrowing and you want to stick it into "Arc" of some sort. Or put it (with the thing it borrows from) into a lifetime-less struct, so you don't have to care about these lifetimes.

>IMHO, this is a valid use case for Rust.

I very much hope so :)
The argument goes that if those cutbacks didn't harm outcomes, they were luxuries not necessary expenses.
They eat a lot of nut butter.

The best nut butter is when they switch production from almond butter to cashew butter, there's like 50lbs of nut butter that comes out that is (::gasp!::) mixed in unknown amounts, so it can't be sold with accurate packaging. Hot tip, almond/cashew butter is amazingly delicious regardless of what proportions you mix it in.
It's not just about passing the savings onto consumers. Even if you deduct 10-15% for tax evasion, most of that money will end up recirculating into the economy.

The point I was clumsily trying to make is that it doesn't really matter. There are forces in the US economy that lead to strong feedback loops of negative welfare for individuals and the families of individuals who come on economic hard times. So while your shirt gets $2 cheaper, someone out there is getting addicted to Klonopin while their wife buys bread on food stamps, and their kid grows up to be a gangbanger, who kills another kid at the age of 15, because he had anger issues and they couldn't afford therapy.

I'm being deliberately hyperbolic, but I hope it helps illustrate the point. In the USA it's shockingly easy to end up in a vicious cycle of poverty that hurts everyone, not just the person with no money. Net welfare gain could well be negative from the situation described above.
his point was about apple customer security, so your question doesn't hold.

He was arguing that this was a kind of Trojan horse for a third party to gain access.
ICO's were just a cash grab by unscrupulous entrepreneurs. SEC should police the hell out of this stuff, that's their job.
I am in the privileged position that nobody needs to contact me in an emergency. Alternatively they can call my land line, or if they know who I'm with, ring her instead.
True, but the Howey test is not the the sole test of determining what a security is. Context matters.
You're saying that software engineers are in the role because they have no other option? No upper-middle-class people in the position? What are you talking about?

There are enthusiastic people who start with enthusiasm and can keep that enthusiasm. Most begin with practical concerns. And most of those who don't begin with stay with. he

And yes, rich people, upper echelon, people of means are rare in the industry
Obviously, Amazon made this decision as a business and not a charity, so it stands to reason that this benefits the business more than employees.

However... as a full time employee who has his two shares of AMZN, I honestly would rather have had the extra income over the last two years. Maybe I could have put a significant dent into my student loans, or could have actually afforded my own place. As it was, too much of the extra "income" provided by benefits required gambles that low income people really should be required to depend on to make ends meet. Productivity bonuses aren't guaranteed, overtime isn't guaranteed, remaining employed for two years isn't guaranteed.

I see it as the ceiling having come down a bit, but the floor also having come up. And let's be honest... the second it becomes feasible to fully automate picking, stowing and counting, those employees are getting fired on the spot. There is no long term career prospect for the vast majority of Amazon warehouse workers, and they should consider the value of stability of income in the face of an uncertain future.
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I use feedly to review HN and it would be so much better if the top two or three comments were included in the RSS feed.
Right! I read that comment and was like “uhhhh what?” But not all engineering teams have the flexibility of moving to platforms that are not as battle-tested as Java/.NET.
Simpson's Paradox is the relevant keyword here. Averaging a across non-homogeneous groups
(multimodal distributions) makes garbage statisics
Crossbeam is awesome. That said; I think his point is more on the "how hard is it to write a crossbeam-like library in Rust compared to a language with a GC".
Awesome, congrats to the whole team
Completely and obviously false (the part about everything in business is about sales). It's not as sexy, but often policies are about reducing costs. Like changing suppliers to save a few pennies per item.

If it were all about sales, then I could buy widgets for $100 a unit, sell them for $50 a unit, and call it a success.

Obviously positioning matters too (hence all the garbage food at checkout), but I wouldn't by default assume that this is the case, and especially not the only driver, behind dairy placement.
When it comes to China, it's best to think of dealing with governments than land mass. Both Chinese governments claim the entirety of the Chinese land mass. Trump's tariffs are levied against the government People's Republic of China. Taiwan's government is Republic of China, which is not a target of the tariffs.
But I would think the same applies to your algorithms teacher. There should be just as many good and bad ones there. Yet it seems different level of what is counted as too rote and unusable.
> I'd love to see a followup/update from Quartz addressing those issues.

As if Quartz ever held itself to any standards of investigative journalism and wasn't just a glorified blog...
If you want to build a school system around maximizing scores on a very particular type of standardized test then their methodology makes sense.

Otherwise, it's just weighing one questionable feature more than another questionable feature.

Test scores do NOT provide a holistic picture of the quality of a school system. Neither do funding levels. BOTH of those things can be increased while not improving or even harming actual educational achievement. They are FEATURES, and reasonable models can weigh them in different ways.

The assertion that funding levels might be positively correlated with (unmeasurable -- you've conceded this point!) true outcomes is not unreasonable.

The assessments the authors are criticizing actually have it completely right. Both test scores and funding levels are PROXIES for the actual quality of education that's happening. They are features. It's unclear how to weight these features against one another, but the conjecture that either of those features might be correlative or even causative is totally reasonable.

The authors, however, go off the deep end and completely mistake one particular map (and a damn bad one at that) for the territory.

If the authors' assertion made any sense, then we could replace all teachers with DRL.
Any data on food poisoning rates from food trucks vs restaurants?
I'm sorry but you inadvertantly made me laugh out loud. I read:

> So, Microsoft releases a (nice) text editor, releases a Linux subsystem, partially open sources .NET, releases an open source JavaScript framework, has an active GitHub account (filled mostly with nonsense by the way), and we're supposed to forget the 40 years prior?

And what I heard was, "What have the Romans ever done for us?"

> Microsoft changed because they had to

That's most humans, and just about every corporation ever. The alternative is to die. In the case of Microsoft what it indicates is that the environment has changed sufficiently such that companies that don't start "playing nice with OS" lose out. That's a good thing right?

I also believe that the "cult of personality" era of IT companies is dying - for good or ill. In Microsoft's case, that fact that Gates and Ballmer are gone has ended up net-improving the company. In Oracle's case, the fact that Ellison is still around is like a huge millstone around their corporate neck.

Finally - people can be "good guys" or "evildoers", not companies. Companies are machines akin to ouija boards. Lot's of humans have a hand, yet somehow they act as if they have a mind of their own. BTW, that's why directors of companies should be criminally liable for the actions of their companies IMHO. You wanna direct? Start directing!
"You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is."

-- Mark Twain

http://www.paulgraham.com/cornpone.html
Am I missing something, or do cap'n proto and flatbuffers not support mapping types?

Protobuf has disadvantages, but mapping types are something I frequently make use of. losing out on them is a big deal
> The two most famous Socialists in the US right now are probably Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez. Both are very aggressively anti guns.

That is not true of Bernie Sanders [0]. He has moved to some degree towards favoring more gun control laws than he used to, but he is by no means more anti-gun than most mainstream Democrats.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/24/41718...
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Even if you can tell, the question is, why fixate on it? As you say, the changes are far more subtle than getting a cheap set up. Most people do not live or commute in anechoic chambers. For myself, I'm happy to 128k opus or -v1 lame it, which arguably may still be overkill
I wasted too much time trying to look if there was a way javascript date objects would report there being eight days in a week...
It would be funny if part of what they are seeing is because the Dropbox client doesn't try reconnects or re-resolving very often.
Do you think I'm not aware of the claims?

They're perfectly valid, until they claim that no white people have similar experiences. A lot of privileged people really seem to imagine that all white people are as privileged as they are.

And when sociologists lump the population of Beverly Hills and Silicon Valley together with white people born in the ghetto, the resulting statistics mask the experiences of white people who aren't as fortunate.

Specifically in response to that link, I believe the overpolicing of America is a serious problem, and the war on drugs is a war on poor Americans. I know it because I've seen it. I know too many people who've gone to jail or prison for drug crimes. But I won't call it "The New Jim Crow" because I've seen it affect too many white people as well.
In many ways yes, but someone's always going to be making movies somewhere.
Not if the food is good!
And of you think programming is high status, high paying, highly influential, why we import immigrants to do that ? You think the talent pool of some hundred million American people with most entensive education system is insufficient ?
China spy charged with trying to steal aviation secrets
just commenting as a makeshift bookmark to this very interesting comment. sorry, please ignore
26% of big tech employees say their companies spy on them unreasonably
That is actually lower than i expected - since globally only some people are able to afford music services like spotify, apple music etc.