skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first thought was that it was a non-sequitur, but that it involved subcontinent Indians. I find it ironic that people who are apparently calling out one kind of bigotry in this thread are then playing on stereotypes of what people who live in certain places are like.

As a nonwhite who actually has been racially bashed and who has seen people overcome bigotry through their basic humanity, I always want to warn everyone that the problem isn't people from a particular place, people of a particular ethnicity, or people grouped by any surface characteristic, chosen, indelible or in between. The problem is groupthink, and the dark emotions that can come about because of it.

The moment you start imputing thoughts, feelings, and emotions to people with scant evidence, you have taken a misstep. (1) You have succumbed to groupthink. If you would fight bigotry, it first behooves you to actively eliminate your own bigotry. It's then your duty not to fall into the very patterns you're supposed to fight.

(1) -- Also, if you start condemning people because you imagine you know what they are thinking and feeling, and you believe they are lying to you, then you set up a situation where no one can prove their innocence, and no one trusts anyone else anymore. We have historical accounts of such times and places. Often, such epistemological catastrophes accompany inter-ethnic and inter-sectarian violence and atrocities.
Personality does correlate with gender, albeit very weakly. And differences in 'race' correlate with different social/cultural contexts to an extent that might have some effect as well - indeed, 'race' is itself a social construct that largely reflects differences in culture.
Native americans have high levels of alcoholism. The comment was referencing this as a contemptuous sterotype. A casual comment like that is a glimpse into widely held attitudes in the regional: the speaker felt comfortable saying it and assumed the listener wouldn't object.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_Native_Americans
I live in the DC area on $20k a year, and I don't feel like I'm missing anything.

It took me a while to build this frugal-yet-fulfilling lifestyle, but it was so worth it.
> Normal economic theory says protectionism makes the pie smaller for everyone

And when those theories are discussed by serious minded people they are frequently forced to qualify the discussion with "except for those left behind," mostly because of the unavoidably obvious destruction all around them.

"Those left behind" being a euphemism for the working class of otherwise extremely wealthy countries.

When you've heard enough of this for enough decades it eventually dawns on you that it's just about cheap, exploitable labor. The rest is the professional class b.s. spin used to rationalize it.
It's definitely finding a niche in robotic control. My lab just released a paper about running a policy trained in simulation in the real world on a bipedal robot.
Feels like we're heading to a future where half of userspace will recompile itself as BPF and upload itself into kernel space to be executed there
I agree with the sentiment, but I noticed recently that TaxJar (I considered applying there at one point) mandates a trial period along these lines. From https://life.taxjar.com/distributed-team-hiring-process/, "... We hope a candidate is able to spend somewhere between 80 and 160 hours working with TaxJar during their trial. ..."

Presumably there are some people who are willing to do a trial, either concurrent with their existing employment, or on the chance that they will be hired after the trial.
I don’t really understand this comment. Emacs lisp always had dynamic scoping, which is a bit more than just global scope because you aren’t quite stomping on top of other variable bindings. You get resetting your bindings to what they were before you started for free and you don’t need to worry about nonlocal exits. Emacs lisp also has macros and gensym to avoid some of the pain of name clashes.

Emacs lisp also has lexical scoping. It optionally had it for a long time using cl.el with lexical-let and friends. It now has it as a file-local variable read by the compiler/interpreter.

I also don’t understand what you’ve written at all. You say “Nowadays it does support semantic scoping” but semantic scoping isn’t really a thing (as you next write lexical scoping, I assume you mean dynamic scoping), but the words “nowadays,” “but,” and “still” imply that you are talking about the new kind of scoping (ie lexical) and comparing with the old (dynamic, which you cal lexical???).
No, again, this is blank-slateism. People are born with genetic predispositions that influence things such as height, eye color, mathematical ability, and career preference. You would only expect population-proportionate outcomes if genetics played no role. Even if they only play a 10% role, you get vastly different outcomes.
True, I was just trying to maintain the parallelism with this title :-P
It's odd to compare two private industries (NBA and music) to education which is predominantly funded by the public.
I believe it's the past. Professional IT culture in Russia is in many ways retrograde compared to Western countries, especially the part that concerns mentorship, education and professional ethics. It's changing, but slowly.
The interesting part of this pushback isn't that there's between-individual variability with different populations, but that "white guy with stickers on his laptop", and the realm of predictive strategies that implies, is a very poor indicator of intellectual broadness or diversity.

But do you really care, seeing as to how you've already furthered a theory of someone else being either emotionally hostile or defensive?

And do you really not see the obviousness of how a certain situation plays out, of someone using white guy with stickers on laptop as a symbol for toxicity? Or do you see the obviousness, and that's why you're playing the situation out this way?
Why does Facebook want to have UK users? Because he gets paid for advertising.

Who advertises on Facebook and targets UK users? Companies in the UK.

Who controls the banking system through which that money flows? The UK banking system.

There are many sanctions the UK can impose short of a full ban. They can issue fines (and collect them), interfere with the Facebook cash flow, in the case of things that are crimes in both the UK and the US can formally request extradition, etc.

I think the HN crowd has been reading a bit too much cyberpunk.
From this point of view it would be interesting to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of race-based affirmative action and income-based affirmative action.
On my Mac I use a utility called Quicksilver that has an option to record and recall copies I've done then shows me a list of the last 10 copies from which I can drag one of them into an input field. This works on input fields that don't allow normal copy/paste. Quicksilver does a number other things like app launching -- I'm a fan.
Do you think your question is relevant?

Certain standards for sound C coding practices have changed since.
I suspect this might work better than expected. The fear is that employees will exercise some form of nepotism that would “lower the bar”. That might not happen in practice though. Would love to see an experiment.
Note that one often-cited counterargument to its seeming "absurdity" is that it evens the playing field in a fairer, more meritocratic way.

No matter your background, what school you went to, or what randomized experience you got in previous jobs, every person has equal opportunity to study and practice the same algorithms on their own (as opposed to being lucky enough to be able to afford a top-tier $$$ CS education, or to being lucky enough to have the connections or chance to get certain previous jobs).

And thus, when applying to jobs, it becomes something more akin to a raw-ability IQ test, which you can argue is "fairer", especially when management realistically knows developers might be shuffled around all the time, and that the extensive SQL experience they were hired for will mean nothing when project requirements switch to a basic key-value store.

On the other hand, if you are interviewing for a highly specialized position that is fairly certain not to undergo change, then it makes sense that specialized experience could rightly count for far more than any kind of generalized intelligence or ability.
The UK government has announced plans to incentivise corporations to do exactly that by taxing excess packaging[1]. Unfortunately the UK alone won't significantly influence international corporations so this policy is likely to simply increase purchase prices, disproportionately affecting the poorest again.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-sets-out-plans...
It's a good sign (I mean this sincerely!) when the first comment is the project founder with a caveat, setting realistic expectations.

Keep up the good work! (…but do remember to get some bloody sleep every once in a while)
There is such a thing as the "token gaijin" at Japanese companies - the foreigner who can show to visitors how international company this is. Generally very little influence or path of progress. Also just the knowledge of this phenomenon can cause self-doubt for the individual.

White people office workers Japan are of course not the same as black mathematicians in the U.S., but I don't believe that it's not contributing to the problem if it occurs.
This is exactly what it is. Which Frat house do you want into? Google? FB? Microsoft? Amazon?
When I was in primary school in Canada, I was able to get mostly good grades without really trying. I admit I was a little lazy, and my laziness would result in the occasional bad grade.

What I remember is that I would always be scolded by my teachers for not doing well. A few of my friends, however, who were black would never be scolded for not doing well at school.

The point I'm trying to get across is that racism can be quite subtle and baked into things we don't even realize, like the expectations we have of other people. I'm not sure how well I would've done in life if people implicitly expected me to fail.
The alleged drunk would never be white, that's the point. The punchline will always involve $DEROGATORY_MODIFIER $MINORITY. For instance, "drunk Indian"; if you grew up in IN, you'll tack on "but I repeat myself", because that's what passes for clever in IN. (I grew up there, I get to make fun.)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19193568.
Self-Publishing a Book with ReStructuredText, Sphinx, Calibre, and Vim
It is both true and false. Yes, the candidate may spend 1 hour (I don't give difficult homework exercises) while it takes me 15 to 20 minutes to review the submission, but I have to do it for maybe 5 candidates.

I totally understand the main criticism for homework, it takes time, the company may never call you back after you poured 2 hours into their stupid exercise. But it is an attempt at fixing all other alternatives:
* the onsite whiteboarding is BS
* using open source contribution is totally unfair to candidates who don't participate
* the "contract for 1 month and then maybe we'll hire you" is also total BS in my book. Who would leave a FT job with benefits for a contract that may end?

I'm not sure I can think of any alternative that has 0 drawbacks.
So the solution is... nepotism?

(Not technically neptosim. But close enough).
Agreed! Should have used the word "irrational" instead.
Nice tech demo. Looks more like a good UI for making a game. Not sure what advantages it has over an existing 2D version though.
It is a good reason to pursue it anyways. Its environmental impacts compared to actual mining of the earth is little. And we can't just say that energy usage by humanity in Kilowatt hour is inherently evil. Why not power the mining equipment using nuclear power? Humanity in my opinion won't use energy at some status quo into the future. I predict we will use more and more as we venture into the solar system, and we may see energy as following some sort of Moore's law into the future in terms of cost and local environmental impact. Wouldn't that change the situation?
The evidence is exactly the opposite; "democracy and economic growth and development have had a strong correlative and interactive relationship throughout history." Refer here: http://ftp.iza.org/dp10880.pdf. This is especially true since World War II, and even more so after 1980, as the Soviet Union collapsed.

"Credit guarantee is one of the most
significant positive links between economic growth and democracy. The marginal effects
of credit guarantee and foreign direct investment inflows are stronger in democratic
countries than they are in non-democratic ones."

China only experienced massive economic success after liberalizing its markets. For that matter, so did India (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalisation_in_Ind...) South Korea is essentially an American vassal state. Cuba is clearly not an economic success story, but of course if you compare it to the poorest country in the hemisphere (Haiti,) it comes out slightly ahead.

Ultimately what matters is whether your government is open to free trade and liberalized markets, and has enough legitimacy to enforce the rule of law (and attract foreign investment)- and has a healthy relationship with the United States. All of these are strongly correlated with democratic governments.
Debt is also a good metaphor because, just like finance, it can be used as a beneficial lever that propels you to the next level artificially fast, or it can be used foolishly and end up burying your effort.

I see examples of the latter all the time in the experience of developers and how they approach decisions. I have recently worked on largish (or at least in the 10s of millions of dollars of investment to create) codebases in which developers (recently - like 2013) wrote switch statements that became God classes because they simply were not familiar (at least not in practice) with patterns that avoided it. Consider that one example and imagine the type of havoc that lack of experience creates across the entire codebase. You can say this is a case of ignorance, which it is, but it's the same as the ignorance of some to handle money in a sustainable way. It's like giving a credit card to a kid.
Blast from the past
Invalid logic. If you don't trust the government then you probably assume they're already accessing your information.
Netflix officially cancels Marvel partnership that started in 2013
I did the math "a bit" quickly, but my point is that you can live on that money for a long time if you save it well.

I m from Belgium. If you own your house here, 700€ is enough for a month, and with 100.000€ you can have a little house if you can afford to live far from the big cities.
I wont do much with 700€, but I will not starve.
You can even save money if you have a garden and get free food from it.

It isn't sustainable I know that. But if you have that amount of money, why the hell start a company with the stress and the I don't know, 90% chance of losing your money ?
Get a part time job and enjoy your life...
A former governor of MN once claimed that its capital city streets were designed by drunken Irishmen. He immediately realized that was a Bad Thing to say, but it was certainly an afterthought to his statement.
Much of the cost is in the glass. There's only so much they can do to make them cheaper without sacrificing quality, at least until metamaterial lenses get cheap enough to obsolete glass. That's why smaller mirrorless camera lenses and prime lenses for DSLRs tend to be cheaper. Primes have fewer elements to craft, align, and make work together. Mirrorless cameras just need less glass.

You don't need the latest and least supported by third-party tools camera for most things. A $500 body with a $100 prime lens will outperform a $1500 camera with a kit lens.
IBM's AI lost debate to a human
I wonder why nobody has though in the obvious wordplay: "artropogeddon".
Please, please add an easter egg where I can mark tasks as complete by firing at them with a Doom2-like shotgun and they explode!
I think the important thing here is the difference between understanding complexity and implementing a sorting algorithm.

If I were hiring a carpenter I would want to know they understand their tools and when to use them. I don't care if they don't know how to make them. But of course knowing how to make them suggests an intimate appreciation for the craft (looking your way Matthias Wandel)
If you spy on the API calls Microsoft Teams makes, you will see several Skype-branded domains involved in the overall process. It's likely they are still relying significantly on Skype back-end technology.
I feel that people aren't talking about the environment enough when it comes to bitcoin (and many other topics). More in-depth research and knowledge on the matter (like this article, thank you for sharing) might be better known among those who spend more time reading about crypto, but most of the time environmental concerns are left out of the conversation.

Problematic topics are usually omitted from discussions when they are complex or not obvious and in the forefront. The conversation goes elsewhere, and we turn our heads to follow it.

From this article:

> As with many dubious claims, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that much of it is underpinned by a single, leisurely researched source: Digiconomist.

> In fact you’d be hard pressed to find many articles in the press pushing the environmentalist, anti-PoW narrative that do not link back to that one source. But hey, can you really blame them in today’s sound bite media environment? Research is hard and time consuming.

The author's POV is a little different in that he is addressing anti-bitcoin alarmists - but, underlying this is the argument that research and shared knowledge on the topic is scarce. This is the kind of content I want to see more of.

I'm happy this comment sparked some discussion here.
Extra notes: 1) You can share the same data to multiple sites from dump1090, not just FR24. 2) I see no difference between the $27 and $9 version of SDR. I can recommend this one: https://www.dx.com/p/rtl2832u-r820t-mini-dvb-t-dab-fm-usb-di... Running on two different computers and switching between them give the same number of planes spotted. The $9 actually seems a hint better. 3) I can recommend saving your own data to a sqlite3-database (https://github.com/yanofsky/dump1090-stream-parser). Easy to work with and under <50MB/month. Fun to write more advanced sql's to count number of time helicopter take-off, the same plane over your house etc. that FR24 can't give you.
Furries (2%).Occupy Wall Street protesters (unknown but low, one source says 1.6% but likely an underestimate). BDSM (unknown but low). Environmentalists (various but universally low). Wikipedia contributors (unknown but low). Atheists (2%). Fanfiction readers (2%).

there are quite a few that don't really match...
What is important to employers?

1. A candidate who can solve puzzles but is not willing to do the dirty work with team, solving production issues, doing debugging, bug fixing with usual stuff.
2. Another Candidate, who is willing to learn, is ready to work with team and do the dirty work.

I am on a hiring committee as a Tech Lead, and I always try to weed out 1.

Works great, we hire as interns and then assess them. Someone from Google who we hired full time, was detrimental to team's morale, grunting, complaining about code, complaining about food and what not.

Another experienced smartass was self centered on his skills and didn't want to teach junior engineers anything or willing to admit he needs to update his skills. The moment he realized his skills have no values, started attending pointless conferences. Now his LinkedIn profile has "aware of block chain technology", "attended machine learning seminars".

I said not to interviewing at Google and FB because I don't have cycles to spend months on leetcode. Did I erred? Perhaps. But I am sure neither can provide me same work quality I execute in my current mid size company. I regret nothing :).
Yes, coating them is recommended. The 'design' of the brick that I did for this has 4" wide 2" deep grooves horizontally (one) and vertically (2) on the outer surface.

The thought was that lumber could be screwed into the brick and then off the shelf siding or drywall could be attached to the lumber. The grooves also provide channels for in wall services (power, water, communications).

Some specialty ones for window casements and door casements.

The original concept was to set up a processing center in the California high desert near a rail line and provide employment and shelter for anyone who was willing to work at the plant to process the recyclables into stable building materials. Sort of a community that is both saving the world and providing homes, work, and community for those less fortunate.
>You can study lots of vocabulary to achieve better results on the verbal section of the GRE or similar tests. But afterwards, you will, in fact, have better vocabulary, I submit.

Yeah, but tests like the GRE claim to predict academic performance, not vocabulary. So unless you think augmenting one's vocabulary alone will make one a substantially better student, there's still a gap there.
I think he was talking about procrasti-coding. “Should be working on X, but really captivated by a well-defined and elegant Z instead”

Printing arctan tables sounds like a seminal example of a Advent of Code kind of problem, which have been known to nerd snipe countless programmers.
It's worse than that; there is essentially no relationship between the amount of transactions processed and the total amount of actual energy burned so the system is obviously wasteful (compared to other systems where e.g. less transactions = less energy spent)
In the US, it's socially acceptable to discriminate against white and Asian people. As a result, whites and Asians are victimized by racism on a far greater scale than any other racial group. The perpetrators of such racism justify their actions by saying your ancestors were well off so it's fine to mistreat you.
So your belief is that black people as a group have inherently less mathematical ability than whites people? Am I misinterpreting you?
Betteridge's Law of Headlines expanded - if the answer isn't "No," it's "Not yet."
Honestly, I don't want to strawman op but most people that use the slippery slope argument are just mad that LGBTQ+/brown people/women are treated a little bit less like shit and just want to go back to the moral splendor that was the past.
It's part of what makes Emacs so easy to customize on-the-fly.
Obligatory shout out to hardcore history:

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-punic-nig...
Because pervasive racism in the US means that people still don't see native-born Latinxs or Blacks or Asians as Americans, due the same benefits (and benefits of doubt) that white people receive all the time.
If I were asked that, I would say something like "malloc attempts to allocate some memory on the heap and return a pointer to it." If pressed for more details, I would say it depends on the allocator and that we should look at the documentation for it to find out.

If that was an unacceptable answer, then I'd consider the interview a waste of time.
There are Indian products that can be superior in taste to their Western equivalents. In my opinion, Thums Up and Limca are not those products. I'm going to pick a Pepsi or Coke if taste is the most important factor and I want a soda.