skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that “diversity” improves a company’s performance.

Hm - well, I agree that there's a lie floating around, but I don't think that's quite the lie in play. More often what they say is that you're hurting yourself by turning away qualified candidates based on their race/geneder/sexual orientation/whatever they're not seeing as many of as they think they ought to be. The problem is that, while this is strictly true, there's no evidence that qualified people of _x_ race/gender/sexual orientation are actually being turned away. For all the digital ink that's been virtually spilled on tech and diversity, I have yet to see _anybody_ claim, even anecdotally, that they, themselves are qualified members of diversity group _x_ but are unable to find employment. Instead, they express bewilderment that although they have no trouble finding employment, they don't see enough other members of group _x_... which they presume must be because all of the other ones are being turned away by prejudiced hiring managers.
That's actually a feature.
So, are companies less profitable and successful than they might be by not hiring on a totally meritocratic basis? In other words, do tech companies really reject potential employees for reasons other than pure merit?
Why is that true? Games can potentially be hard problems and might need very aggressive optimization; as well as your creative staff might need to be creative enough to attract a lot of people to your art. Even if you use a game engine for everything, employing a rock star engineer in something like Blizzard certainly will not make WoW development any worse.
? Most people say Bee-Bee-See, so BBC is consistent.
I feel like this needs a bit more polish before you start telling users it is ready. I see double menus, random logouts, and a bare bones feature set. Basically just a list of users with ability to send emails?
Why Classics

1

In the book Fourth of the Peloponnese Wars

Thucydides tells the story of his unsuccessful expedition

Among the long talk of the chiefs,

Battles, sieges and plagues,

dense network of intrigues,

diplomatic procedures

This episode is like a pin

in the forest

Athenian colony Amfipolis

fell into the hands of Brazydas

Because Thucydides had been late for the rescue

He paid to his hometown

with a lifelong exile

Exiles of all times

Know what price it is

2

Generals of recent wars

if there is a similar affair

whine on the knees before posterity

Praise their heroism

and innocence

accuse subordinates

envious colleagues

Unfriendly winds

Thucydides says only

he had seven ships

it was winter

and he sailed swiftly

Czesław Miłosz [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czes%C5%82aw_Mi%C5%82osz
As said below, it's not C, but CO2 we were worried about. Also I admit that I don't know if humus organism produce CO2 from wood remains.
I don't know, I'm hearing a lot of buzz with angel investors about this.
So, for the folks like me who don't know anything about rockets, it seems like "specific impulse" is the measure of how much "impulse" is generated per unit of fuel.

So 330/275 = 20% better.
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We have this issue now. Inevitably when the actual users of the app report issues with this or that, the answer from the dev team is almost always, "Works as designed".

Yes, we know, THE DESIGN IS BROKEN.

And then, nothing. New features come out though, most of which aren't needed or deprecate features that we actually like. So I'm sure some Project Manager is being paid handsomely.
Found one with a microphone embedded in their cheek. Another with half a pair of glasses embedded in an eye socket.
> TL; DR Full flow lowers turbine temperatures at the expense of parts complexity.

Ehhh. I'd argue it also lowers part complexity, because it eliminates interpropellant seals.

> The pay-off isn’t so much efficiency

It improves achievable chamber pressure (assuming similar maximum pressures and temperatures at the turbines), which improves both thrust and Isp.

> (This also explains why full flow hasn’t been a priority for anyone until SpaceX.)

The reason it hasn't been a priority is more that no new development has been a priority since the 70's.
> Seems like a cop-out. Extraordinary claims and all that.

Deducing this has almost nothing to do with the specific topic of how your speech can be sanctioned, but only how the court systems function.

This isn't one of those situations where it makes sense for me to dig and post tort case law just so people can dissect whichever one I post to either be surprised at how reality works, or find a way to carve an exemption about why it doesn't apply at all. Backing up claims this way is not an effective way to synchronize our realities, and it is sillier to conclude that it is an unfathomable reality simply because I don’t feel the need to don’t carry the responsibility of changing your (or other's) mind in this way.

Your response seems like denial to me, as if you need your social contract to be true.

So, here is a more effective way of deducing what you need to know:

A judge will take libel and slander cases from private persons. Which means the judge didn’t dismiss the claim, and civil cases can result in summary judgements, at the discretion of the judge.

A judge will take criminal defamation cases from the state.

You can face civil or criminal liability in the United States for offending people, making fun of them in ways that fit the criteria of libel, slander or defamation. This means you have to defend yourself if in this circumstance or face disruptions to your way of life and freedom, in the United States.

This isn't an extraordinary claim and I would put the ball in your court to disprove it, because this is just an explanation of how the court system works and has almost nothing to do with whether it damaged your ideals about how speech can create liability.
>Electron is only the best way to do something when someone knows only javascript and web dev but doesn't want to learn a new language.

Why is there always someone ready to jump in with this elitist nonsense? There's plenty of reasons to use a web stack even if you know other languages. It's inherently crossplatform, has an extensive library, and is extremely quick to iterate on.

Slack and Discord building in Electron means they only need to maintain one codebase across web, desktop, and mobile. They don't need separate teams for building in Java, Swift, and C#. They only need to write a new feature once.
Crazy, right?

This "web programmers are dumb" attitude is nothing but elitist rhetoric. Cut it out.
All things are not equal. Black Americans as a group are poorer than other racial groups save perhaps native Americans, and have worse educational outcomes on average.

Is this the result of institutional racism? I’d say so, but it also can be a cause or underrepresentation in higher skilled employment, even if the employers are not biased in their selection processes.
PNG as well, iirc
This is true only in part.

We have found shells, made of Calcium carbonate, still relatively intact more than 3000 years after the death of the animal. Some shells had last for 500000 years (See Nature 2014-dec-03)

Under the sea there are entire ecosystems based in dead shells.
Anecdotes and all that, but the past month has been crazy. Call for doxxing of high school kids, to open fire on them if you see them, or to lock them in the school and burn it down, and nothing happens. Tweet "learn to code" at a journalist and your account gets suspended.
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Why did you put "can" in quotes?
if we train a reverse encoder of the output of the GAN back to its own latent space, it's probably possible to find your face and mess with it.
That title is NOT the whole story.
At the risk of not answering the question, I'd say no form of capital is "better" than any other. Capital is a tool and the job of the founder is to find the option (both on payments term and other aspects like mentorship or personal exposure) that best aligns with their goals.
> While the Space Shuttle has long since retired, a variation of the engine itself will go on to power the Space Launch System. It will be the most powerful rocket NASA has ever built and is slated to begin missions in 2020.

2020? I honestly doubt we'll see the SLS launch before 2024 at it's current rate.
Linux user not cheering here. I don't really get the point for desktop apps for things like discord... Why would I want another browser engine running when I can chat in discord in Firefox that is already running? Electron is like starting a tiny VM for every app. The only advantages I see here is for the app developer, who can be more intrusive (full access to run proprietary code on my laptop, send desktop notifications to make me an addict of their service, etc.)
You sleep on foam, I sleep on a computer
Yes, I did. If that joke satisfies the criteria of libel, slander or defamation then you can face civil or criminal penalties in the United States as well.
You realize racism doesn't necessarily mean discriminating against _all_ races, right?
Slack is a poorly-written Electron app, and unfortunately it's the poster child for it.

Discord does more with a fraction of the resources, and is also Electron. Atom is a giant editor framework, and is still less heavy than Slack in normal use.

Electron can run quite reasonably when you aren't an idiot/under complex enterprise requirements which probably explains Slack's load.
Well, right. Corporations internally work towards their diversity goals, which are sensibly based on the pipeline and aim to eliminate bias in hiring. That's why they don't want to publicize their numbers; they know people like the Bloomberg reporter who wrote this article will incorrectly try to measure their efforts against the total number of minorities in the US.
honda is having some issues with some of their newer models (too many changes leading to more faults). But, after 10 years, I bet hondas still rank really high.
Here's the context - this guy does these jokes a lot and has been featured on here before:

http://olifro.st/
It may well be, but that's not what happens to most of the wood in trees— most of it rots (CO2 released slowly by the organisms consuming the wood) or burns (CO2 released by combustion).
In 2017, the feds said Tesla Autopilot cut crashes 40%–that was bogus
In the US, Audi, BMW and similar European brands are intentionally marketed as a mid to high luxury vehicles to preserve their brand mystique. None of these companies sell mass-market cars in the US in the same tier as mass-market cars by Toyota, GM, etc. Most of these brands do sell mass-market cars in Europe, though.

It's also worth noting that in the US, most families have had multiple cars due to the lack of alternative transit options, and so families of modest means buy lower cost vehicles as a result.

Only recently are multi-car households are seeing a big uptick in places like the UK [1], and in many developed urban areas of Europe, the car is used by families as a "weekend getaway" vehicle, not a daily commuter. When you only have to buy one car, you might be able to afford more luxury.

[1] https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/912000/two-cars-ho...
Agreed. The general population argument also has troubling implications. For example, why don't we talk about the lack of representation in tech by whites?

After all, they're 3/4 of the U.S. population. At Google, this means they're already underrepresented at 53.1% of all employees in 2018. That number does not separately identify whites as non-Hispanic, or more significantly (and most troubling to anyone who's seriously examined the implications of this type of argument), non-Semitic.
It makes me a little sad that JavaFX never really caught on. I thought that Swing was horrible for cross-platform development, but the little I've done with JavaFX is pretty pleasant, and seems to perform at least as well as Electron, if not better.
> Electron is only the best way to do something when someone knows only javascript and web dev but doesn't want to learn a new language.

What toolkit or library would you propose instead? Seriously, what are these great alternatives? Doesn't necessarily have to support JS.
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Swift 5 Module Stability Workaround for Binary Frameworks
Young girls/women have much more sexual value than young guys in general, so it makes sense for them to invest more in their social life and looks, and less in their future earning potential.

Still, it can be changed: in China studying is increasing social value much more than in Europe / US for example.
'Per molecule' gives no real indication of cost, that appears to be a 'tooling' charge, to design the reaction chain. I doubt $100 will buy you any useful quantity of any research chemical, much less a custom mfg one.
The diagram doesn't show that the fuel used in the preburner is combusted less efficiently than the fuel used in the main combustion chamber. It comes out through the nozzle, but isn't fully combusted (it comes out as liquid, while the main fuels are gasses) and so is wasted energy.

From what I understand, the fuel and oxidizer that has been through the preburners to spin the turbines is basically fungible with fuel and oxidizer that is used in the combustion chamber.
Surprising to see them take the "Even tech workers..." angle.

With the exception of some employees at a few popular companies, who have a vested interest in disagreeing, I've noticed most tech workers have been unhappy with what the "tech industry" has been doing for quite some time now.

It's unfortunate that the entire "tech industry" is getting a bad rap over this, because it's almost entirely the online advertising industry that's doing all this malicious stuff.
Founders should def consider all their options. It's very much not a loan though. There is no repayment schedule (we get paid as the founders generate Founder Earnings) and there's no personal guarantee. On average I think it's more likely that we would fund a business earlier that might use a number of cool new debt products to continue growing once it hits a level of revenue and business maturity.
What is going on within the pricing scheme for flights that longer, ostensibly more costly-to-run flights are so much cheaper than alternatives that skip-lagging makes sense? Are airlines using multi-hop routes as loss leaders of some kind?

If so, no reason they shouldn't be the ones eating the cost when the customer calls their bluff.
Excellent read, thank you.
If the loan in to the LLC then the loan would also go away if the company fails. The difference is primarily the deferred payments in case of non-profitability.
I am wondering what is the issue with dynamically linking Qt, are developers statically linking with MS c/c++ runtime or GUI libs ? From my experience you must install c++ runtimes on windows or if you use C# you need to ask your user to make sure to have it installed, where with Qt you ship the dlls.
I don't follow your logic. When the floppy was killed, there were better replacements available. There were devices just as portable, larger capacity, and faster access. It just plugged into a different port, and came in a different form factor.

Switching from wired to wireless giving up performance capabilities (ex: over ear headphones vs ear buds) forcing one to recharge batteries etc is not even in the same ballpark as the loss of the floppy.
Aside from Persian Caviar, you could consider Chinese Caviar, one Chinese Caviar company, Kaluga Queen, already supplies 30% of the world, there are documentaries of them on Youtube. They supply 21 of the 26 3 star Michellin restaurants in Paris.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaluga_Queen
The author suggests Google’s “Material” but in my experience, Google has it wrong compared to Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines. For example, Google hides stuff behind icons with no text. Unless you already know the UI, you are hunting around for what you need (remember screensharing on Google Hangouts?) On Apple’s apps, icons always come with a text label and rarely are things hidden behind unnamed icons. Google also seems to be changing UI constantly. Material Design is terrible — it’s the very essence of the problems being mentioned in this article. Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines also address accessibility far better than Material design. Maybe it’s me, but it does feel like there are camps when it comes to UI: the Material Design side and those that care about usability for people that don’t spend their time in the Googleverse.
Scott Manley has a fantastic video explaining all of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QXZ2RzN_Oo

In terms of efficiency, it's worth mentioning that even tiny gains have big impacts because of the rocket equation. Having a 1% boost the entire time the rocket is running can have an enormous impact in the overall velocity, or reduce the overall amount of fuel needed for the same targets.
One victim of Electron and the whole web-app economy is right-click context menus. Actions that would previously be doable by right clicking often require selecting, and going to a hamburger menu within electron apps or apps with a "modern" design.
"like the other mechanistic software theories, the relational database model is a pseudoscience; that it is worthless as a programming concept; and that the relational systems became practical only after annulling their relational features, and after reinstating – in a more complicated form, and under new names – the traditional data management principles." --Software and Mind, pg. 676
i legit don't know what you're expecting? your lie was central to the technical discussion and at no point did you acknowledge the error.

if you can't handle being called out for providing false technical information... don't hand out false technical information? seems easy. it's not, as you so desperately want, a personal attack to identify areas where you're misrepresenting the technology.

im curious, how did you want this to go? DT, incorrectly:"fences are required" jv6:"ah, well, hm, er, here's section 8.1.3 which doesn't mention fences at all and specifies two methods (neither of which is a fence) that ARE required to ensure correct operation" like can i even tell people the truth? or must your egregious misrepresentation stand without question for you to find the "tone" acceptable?
Except when looking at the EEOC report, the numbers they are comparing are percentages of black, hispanic, and women working in tech in Silicon Valley vs. the percentages of those same groups working in all industries (not just tech) in the US.

In reality, the tech-tech participation comparison between SV and the US is closer than the article makes it seem. Look at the chart "INDUSTRY PARTICIPATION BY GENDER SEX AND RACE GROUP - HIGH TECH VS. ALL PRIVATE INDUSTRIES" in the EEOC report [1], and then compare to the numbers listed on the graphs for SV.

The proper corresponding stats for representation in tech between SV and US would be:

Black: 2.6% SV vs. 7.4% US

Hispanic: 6.4% SV vs. 8.0% US

Women: 32.3% SV vs. 35.7% US

So one could still point to the differences above for looking at the group disparities, but the article's statistics are comparing apples to oranges.

Not to mention location demographics and other factors attribute to differences between SV as a data point vs. the aggregate data for the US.

The pick-and-choose implementation of statistics is looking through a narrow lens.

[1] https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/reports/hightech/
That exactly it.
Women and blacks should have the right to choose their own destiny, who are we to tell them they're supposed to go into tech?
This tracks with my sentiment in the superbowl thread the other day. eSports are way more open to participation from any person than analog. I think this gives eSports a major advantage in growth potential.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19139282
> Being able to speak freely is something that isn't to be taken for granted.

Where does the case of Michelle Carter fall into this.
But their truck frames are also legendary for rusting out -- a very expensive repair.
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> The only advantages I see here is for the app developer, who can be more intrusive (full access to run proprietary code on my laptop, send desktop notifications to make me an addict of their service, etc.)

From most people's perspective, that "intrusiveness" is the reason they're using a desktop OS with desktop apps, rather than e.g. ChromeOS.
Since this has become yet another discussion about "the pipeline problem" instead of a discussion about a tactic major tech companies are using to duck accountability, this Twitter thread might be informative: https://twitter.com/Code2040/status/1092853501766467585?s=19

It's from an organisation (Code2040) that spent 10 years working to build a pipeline of qualified Black and Latinx candidates, only to find many companies had hiring processes that wouldn't hire their candidates anyway.
Elon Musk is selling his $4.5M home that overlooks Los Angeles
> Not sure why people are opposed to unions in software dev - the basic function of a union is to equalise the power imbalance between employer and employee.

That's a good question. It may have something to do with the solitary nature of the work encouraging an individualistic attitude and a predilection for mechanistic ideologies (like those focused market economics, any of which have strong anti-union streak). Startup success stories may also prime developers to think of themselves as future business owners rather than as life-long workers.
It gave a lot of developers for a long time an impression that Google only really cares about (maybe) Java and Python and other languages are SOL?

It gave a lot of developers for a long time an impression that Google both very much wanted proprietary lock-in (App Engine APIs were extremely distinct to other libraries commonly used for those tasks in those languages), but didn't have the dedication to support a lot of backward/forward compatibility and were happy to change those proprietary APIs seemingly on a whim?
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Linux user cheering on here - I personally prefer having the option of a dedicated app.
Also remember: you MUST kill any Java-based enterprise app (Java is old and not modern) and replace the backend with Node.js. Then you can reuse all your server code in the frontend!

And remember to use Angular or React... actually, now you must use Vue. And create polyfills for your webpacks (and vice versa).
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