skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thought experiment is to think that people are motivated by love and empathy to their family and neighbors and future generations and it's this very thing which leads to war and power and inequality. People are motivated to succeed for their family and society not for power and money on its own. They want their sons and daughters and their family and their family's family to also do well. The manic evil tycoon is a fairy tale.

Now I think Marxism or communism also agreed that people were motivated by love for their family and society so they sought to get rid of the family. more Brave New World than Animal Farm.
You're right, she's literally half a century ahead of her party leadership! It's amazing how long we've let our policymakers remain totally ignorant of the new systems that govern our lives.
Europe is behind - but it goes in the same direction. It is not that this is very new - my father (in the 1950s) used to wander whole day in the forests, I did not have exactly the same freedom (in 1980s) - but still a lot of it, a few years ago when I let my 5 years old daughter to go outside alone (we live in a fenced off condo, a couple of hundreds of meters long) then other parents wanted me to stop this because their children wanted too.
> So by acting like we use esy on Bucklescript, when we actually use npm, we get a very similar result?

Yeah, we use npm in that case just to fetch deps and layout them in node_modules which bucklescript understands. Otherwise we use esy for native built tools (ocamlmerlin, preprocessors and etc).
Interesting point, where were you when Ted Stevens was made fun of for analogizing the Internet to a 'series of tubes'. As an analogy of bandwidth restrictions 'series of tubes' is not too bad.
Thats what surprised me when I learned that they were "shucking" drives from off the shelf external drives at some point.
It's not that they know what you want, it's that they make you want it. And that destroys individuality, creativity and the last bit of freedom we still have.
Use zenni. Cheap af.
Have to second the recommendation for Jins (and they also have a location at Westfield Valley Fair in San Jose). If you have a prescription, you can be in and out with a new pair of glasses in less than an hour. There's a nice selection of frame styles to choose from, and AR/high index lens are bundled into the cost (~$80-120). Lens extras like transitions, progressives, polarized/tinted, and/or blue light filters are extra and special order (2-3 weeks).

They have onsite eye exams as well for ~$65, but you'll need to find a way to reimburse with your insurance provider on your own (for out of network).
Some pretend to, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Cult_Awareness_Network
Keep your eyes open, I paid less than $10 USD plus book rate shipping for my used, very good condition copy from a random seller on Amazon several years ago.

https://isbn.nu/9780070383609

I have no idea why sellers are asking the prices they are.
ML models are created and driven by human intervention. Humans are biased (in various directions). All models are biased in one way or another.

Now, you say this article should engage this counterpoint, but you haven't actually made a point. You've simply narrowly constructed "all models contain bias" to view only attempts to balance known bias with skepticism. You also fail to take a position on what we should do about this -- we're forced as readers to assume your conclusion is that counter-bias programming is bad and the status quo is good. That is wrong, but you don't actually say it so now that I've said it out loud you can complain that you're misunderstood or I'm making false assumptions about you, then continue to argue without ever stating your thesis about what should be done.

What's your belief? What's your suggested course of action? Take a stand for what you really believe.
My dad has had a good experience with Glasses Direct in the UK. They are not the cheapest online store, but they have been around for a long time. They also offer a home trial for some of their glasses (if you are in the UK)

https://www.glassesdirect.co.uk/
That is a good point. But people can also pull carts, and often have. And there were wolves, from which Europeans bred dogs. Maybe deer and buffalo aren't amenable to domestication. But I don't recall Diamond's arguments and evidence about that.

And what about iron weapons? I presume that there was meteoric iron lying about, as in Europe. And glass. Why didn't they independently discover glass?

I suspect that there was something generally about indigenous American culture that favored peaceful coexistence. Notwithstanding some ritual warfare, of course. But they just didn't seem as driven as Old World cultures were.
Ya you're right. I should have used something more light weight like Atom.
Would be nice to have an open discussion about it here in the comments. Feel free to share your opinion about it.
But calling Tokyo just a "city" would be somewhat misleading. It functions quite like a mini state, with each of its wards being largely self contained and independent

A classmate of mine who visited Amsterdam in the 80's described his experience like this: People seemed to hang out in different neighborhoods based on what "type" they appeared to be. The police might spot you being "out of place" and guide you back to where you were "supposed" to be. Essentially, they would do a friendly "deportation" of you to the right neighborhood.

I think all cities have something like this going on, to one extent or another: subdivision into different sub-cities.
Out of curiosity, what's wrong with the name? Using a human name doesn't seem much stranger than using the name of (say) a comedy troupe or fungus.
I'm all for investing in cutting edge engineering to build something new. I just want the new thing that we're building to actually be useful in itself. A quantum computer, room temperature super conductors, (closer to) human level AI, etc... are all useful things in and of themselves. A particular accelerator a lot less so.
I don't see how those adjectives add any clarity to the situation, since you can swap them out interchangeably and you're still describing the same vague, handwavy sense of racism somewhere being a cause for an unequal outcome.

Larry Elder had an interesting take on "systemic racism" IMO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phPXTWJhnYM
This is a really poorly thought out policy masquerading as deep understanding. It's if I can coin a phrase yoda talk. Basically incoherent ideas aren't improved by being couched as hard earned wisdom.

The tools being used to create a piece of software are often fundamentally different than those used on the other end.

This means that machines should be provisioned in accordance with the needs of the actual tools running on them.

Developers may in addition to running different tools may need to iterate quickly in order to test functionality. It may be acceptable that an app that is started once at the beginning of the day takes 3 seconds to start but if you deliberately handicap developers machines and it takes 7 each time the developer is trying to fix a bug in the space of a few minutes instead of 1 on a faster machine you may have damaged your own productivity for no reason.

This has no nothing to do with the idea of who works for whom. Incidentally this statement sounds entirely passive aggressive. Ultimately I'm pretty sure all of you worked for whomever is your ultimate customer and are invested in helping each other do effective work it sounds like the management team was entirely unclear on how to do this. Is that shop even in business.
It would sure be nice if researchers who work on machine learning were less ignorant of statistics! But singling out one employee for this seems rather disingenuous, doesn't it?
If his studies basically equated liberal ideology with communism (equal outcomes), I think I'm a lot less inclined to read his book.

You know, what I'd really like is for parties or candidates to identify what they think the appropriate GINI coefficient should be for the US.
Hmm...that is super strange then. Intel has definitely been the most solid for me when it comes to GPU stability, including in Firefox. I primarily use a workstation with an AMD GPU, but have a secondary laptop with Intel and had no issues with Firefox there whatsoever. I am also on Arch. The only time I ever experienced frequent crashes was when I was testing the Wayland build early on, (they still happen sometimes on Wayland, which is still experimental in Firefox, but on X things have been solid for me).

I am honestly perplexed what the issue could be then, I was sure you were using an NVidia with the proprietary drivers or something like that, as such setups have caused me trouble in the past.

The only thing is I wouldn't recommend turning on WebRender for everything yet, but it's not on by default so I doubt you had it on.
Meh it's usually not as simple as thing especially as in tech. Because we do problems a developer in one interview can do wildly better than the next simply because he is more familiar with a type of problem.
Sorry for asking an unrelated question, I recently bought a XPS 15. Do you know what is the difference between Precision 5530 and XPS 15 exactly?

It is the graphics card? Or it does have better build quality or better keyboard or something? Build quality is important to me since I use my laptop all the time.
I think you don’t understand the point of view of diversity advocates. (I don’t mean this negatively, it’s often difficult to understand people who have very different perspectives)

> I have not observed anyone ever trying to intentionally underpay female or minority candidates

Most bad things that happen in our world are not intentional. Car accidents kill millions each year.

One idea you may want to consider is that salaries are often set based on what someone earned previously. Therefore one bad actor can roll through 10 or more later positions without anyone acting intentionally.

> there are lots of non-minority male nerds who spend ridiculous amounts of time... to the point that they have no social lives and may never have a family

An alternative way to parse these same facts is that white men are more likely to be in an economic condition where it is possible to spend time on non-income-generating activities. For that matter I think at least some men believe a social or family life is not something they could have achieved. In any case I think it is harder to disentangle choices from cultural forces than you think.

> I’d also like to see research that controls for things like... how many hours do they work on average?

I’d like to see research that explains why working more hours is good for society. Buried in your questions are assumptions like “equal pay is fine as long as it doesn’t change the system too much” but the diversifist assumption is “lack of equal pay is a code smell for underlying problems in the system.”

> we can’t say it’s a result of discrimination unless we’ve controlled for all the actual variables

I think here you are projecting your values onto another position. (Intentional) discrimination is the problem that would annoy you, and so therefore diversity advocates should do research to establish a problem you would care about. From the perspective of incorporating you as a political constituency I don’t think you’re wrong.

However, the actual pro-diversity position is something like “I’m annoyed that our society values traits common to X group and not traits common to Y or Z.” As a person in X group this argument is statistically unlikely to impress you, but it is harder to tease out if this is because you intentionally dislike Y (“intentional discrimination”), if there is something important we will lose if we start to prefer more Y traits (perhaps a traditional conservative type position) or if it is just hard to envision a society different than the actual one we live in.
Political terms are misused all the time. For example, "liberals" are constantly conflated with "leftists". Half of the population currently believes that "fake news" means "news that doesn't confirm my political preconceptions".
> They are so cheap there is no reason not to do it this way.

Besides the environmental cost, maybe.
Many worlds is one of the more popular realist models, but it's quite rare for physicists to claim they think it represents reality. It's not taught in any textbooks I'm aware of and even now papers often dismiss experiments having multiple outcomes without even mentioning that they are doing so, coming to absurd conclusions as a result.

The situation has certainly improved a lot since the days of Everett, who was basically dismissed as a crack-pot.
>In general, women tend to negotiate less aggressively (there's research supporting that), so if your friend was paid less, it doesn't necessarily mean there was discrimination.

The real question is why aggressive negotiation for doing the same job should lead to fairly different salaries. Forget gender, race, etc. If I can negotiate a higher salary than my coworker who does the same job, I'm not seeing a really good reason why I should get paid more.

If we are going to normalize this reason, then it's two faced for a company not to mention it. When it comes to the internal dialogue, performance reviews, etc, are all about the work you did, and how it impacted the company. If aggressive negotiation is a valid strategy, I would like the company to be transparent about it. List it at the same level as your work performance when listing the criteria by which you are evaluated.

Edit:

Too many of us treat salaries as a game. When we play board games, we often accept rather arbitrary rules. One of the rules that many put on this salary game is: "Well, he gets more pay for the same work because he can negotiate well". Somehow, we don't accept it as a rule in the "school game": "Well, Alice got a higher grade than Bob on this essay because she negotiated better. She brings me two apples a week, and recently threatened to stop giving me apples and give them to Ms Brown of geography."

I'm not, BTW, arguing against negotiating if you're an employee. I'm arguing that companies paying significantly different for similar work just because of negotiation prowess is fundamentally an admission that "Yes, we will pay people differently for the same work." It shouldn't need to become an issue where one group (women, here) feels disadvantaged. It's a problem even if there is no systemic bias. The appropriate thing for the company to do when an employee shows that the market is paying better is to do a salary adjustment (if they can afford it) for all similar employees (barring small deltas for individual performance differences). Without this attitude, they are fundamentally creating an "us vs them" scenario ("company" vs "employees"). Sooner or later, that mentality leads to a large amount of cynicism and an unwillingness to view themselves as a cohesive group ("I'm just going to do my job - I don't care about corporate goals, and am not here to improve the company beyond what they pay me for").
Even on that narrow view, the fact that the law on its face requires systems to be race-blind doesn't mean that, in fact, they are.
Anyone have any idea why these dev-focused machines top out at 16GB of RAM? Even Apple finally caved and bumped it on newer MBPs to 32GB max...
I would strongly urge you to create a white label version of this and sell it to consumer BK lawyers. I used to practice in this area and the biggest pain-point by far was handling the documents from the clients and turning that into PDFs of the petition and schedules to upload to ECF.

Sounds like your tech stack is already worked out on that, so why not white label it to debtors firms? The typical SaaS billing levels (Starter / Pro / Enterprise) would work, and you could offer a paid-by-the-filing level, too. Roll in the pre-filing counseling and the electronic filing and you've got a really good and attractive solution.

Especially as this is built for self-service. If a lawyer could have an in-person counseling session with a prospective client, then point him/her at a webpage to fill out the details and upload docs, that would save an enormous amount of time.

It's been a couple of years since I look at the filing software, but the industry was dominated by a couple of big players and the client-facing solutions were minimal and sketchy. The big advantage was being able to file electronically. But it still needed a couple of dedicated paralegals / clerks to track down all the papers and enter all the details.

Good luck to you!
And a problem for the Resource Server: no common way to check the validity of a token. You may be lucky and get a JWT but even then there's no specified URL to get the keys to check it. Usually you get an opaque token and hope the client gives you a way to know where it comes from so you can do some specific server to server call.

So you can't implement an independant RS which does not care about clients and how they authenticate their users.
I know doing the same for android is tough. But any plans to make an app for android?
I wrote a book advising parents how to give kids a life of independent neighborhood play. Check out Playborhood - http://playborhood.com

In a nutshell, I contend that this is a social problem of neighborhood culture, and parents should work to make their neighborhoods as fun and inviting as video games and the Internet. Simply cutting off electronics and shoving them out the door won't do it because there's no one out there - neighborhoods are very boring. Somehow, we need to create a culture of play, first with parents, and later without, in our neighborhoods. The book Playborhood is all about that.
That’s not true.

It’s just that racist intend is almost always impossible to prove. Outcome therefore becomes a needed proxy, but only after excluding other factors, by, for example, normalizing for age and income.

Two landmark studies in this regard come to mind are (a) how the success rate at an orchestra doubled among women after auditions were changed to a “blind” format not allowing the decision-makers to see the applicants’ gender, and (b) how changing applicants’ names (and nothing else) could impact their chances to be invited to interviews.
Interesting how much prices can vary between countries. I just googled for the prices in several stores here in Poland and it seems you can get the most basic frames and lenses for about $20. You can get a very decent pair for ~$100. Many companies here have to reimburse you a pair up to ~$130 every 2-3 years and this is the only time when you need prescription from doctor, otherwise you don't need it.

RayBan, Armani, etc. cost a lot, but I never seriously considered them.

I got my current pair over 15 years ago. Back then I think they must have costed over $200 but only because I have asked for (at that time) fancy lenses. This was expensive but considering how long they lasted and how much they survived I consider them one of the best purchases ever. I have couple of other glasses (reimbursed by my company, i.e. free) which I wear every now and then but I stick to the old pair simply because I am used to them.
We're way off into unsubstantive territory here. Please stop.
Notes on the Dynamics of Human Civilization
On the way to Angular 8: The 2nd beta is here
How? I can only see options to disable auto-playing the next episode. I do not see the ability to prevent the next episode auto-play to aggressively come on seconds after the episode has ended, and putting the credits in a postage stamp.
I hadn't thought of the cost, but the article does a good job of highlighting that. What I had noticed (in the UK at least) is how limiting the styles are by not being modular: opticians stock an impressive array of glasses, but it's incredible how inflexible it can be as countless times you find a pair that go well but then find there's some random flourish that ruins it - were the pieces modular (or better yet made to order by 3D printing) you'd get exactly what you were after - and then maybe I could just about stomach the pricing!
I’ve been having many of these problems with my 9360 as well. I recently switched back to using a 2013 MacBook Pro Retina with Linux on it, and the much older thing just feels faster, and I can’t put my finger on why. Maybe it’s the CPU throttling? I mean, even web browsing doesn’t feel right on my 9360.
I've been looking at a screen for probably 8-9 hours a day on average since I graduated college 11 years ago and I can honestly say I've never once thought about glossy v. matte screens.
Sorry, I simplified a little. The newjoiners I was talking about are not interns, but a fresh-from-college full-time workers. But still...
I implemented a minimal OpenID Connect server internally a few years back when it was difficult to find something for our specific use case in Go. I think that while the general idea is good, the spec is a mess: it's too flexible in all the wrong ways, so every large player implements it slightly differently, leaving you with no clear path to go yourself; and actually making the protocol (... concept?) less secure than it could be.

I kept thinking that for our use case, a simpler aead token or perhaps something like Maracoons (if there would be more battle-tested libraries for it...) would suffice. In the end I implemented a partial solution with one flow and one JWT signing algorithm so the other services could rely on existing client libraries for their respective programming languages.

Of course none of it ended up being used, as SAML (there's another can of worms...) support became a requirement and some large framework was brought in for that corporate software feel-good factor...

I agree with the sentiment that it would be nice if there would be new development in this area, even (or especially) if none of the big players are involved, but non-trivial crypto protocols and frameworks seem to need a lot of momentum to break out of their local ecosystems. It's not easy to design something that fits different use cases yet doesn't break at the joints.
> Even when reflections show up on glass displays, it's easy to see past them because they're full optical reflections with correct depth in stereo vision, meaning that you can correctly focus on the screen without focusing on the reflection.

That does not work for a laptop - the glass surface is too close to the pixels for the "focus past the glass" to make a difference.

The light which is not "at high angles" reflects into your eyes from the surface you are focusing on (+/- 0.5 mm).
I'm waiting for the 2-in-1 with the camera on top
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tip: I have the exact same setup, and I use earlyoom (https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom) to prevent this. Previously, I was frequently unable to break out of the freeze no matter how long I waited, forcing a hard reboot, but with earlyoom just a single memory-heavy app gets killed instead.
You should try reading the HN guidelines first that say not to accuse someone of not reading the article. Sometimes discussions can meander outside the original article's context.
Today I learned that Thunderbolt is the name of the interface/protocol, not the connector.
Pennsylvania Clarifies That Crypto Exchanges Are Not Money Transmitters
After serving in the military (Air Force air traffic controller, so military lite) I align more with the 3rd country workers mentioned. Take the task, complete it to the best of my ability, move on to the next task. I don't care about the mission or domain. Im paid well, work from home and have relatively little stress compared to 11 years in the military. Searching for more meaning out of my work would create undue and unnecessary stress trying to find that unicorn role, which in reality doesn't exist.
please take a look at my rant below, do not want to write it twice