skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am with you. I cannot for the life of me imagine who would want this machine. Companies that mass produce frozen pizzas have industrial processes that would put this gizmo to shame in terms of consistency and output volume. For restaurants, this machine looks like it would require so much maintenance to keep it working and sufficiently sanitary for use in a commercial kitchen that I am not even sure that it would offer any labor savings over a traditional pizza operation, and that is before you consider the fact that those pizzas look completely unappetizing.
We're offering personal anecdotes as facts on here now?

Really?
It is pretty hard in general to prove that calculating things takes at least O(n) time, so I wouldn't expect that one to be solved any time soon.

Personally, I am curious if there is any cellular automaton that has something like 3-dimensional rotational symmetry. If our universe can be described by a cellular automaton, it isn't obvious to me how such a symmetry could arise, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone figured it out.
If by "why not both?" you mean "why aren't people outraged about both comments?" then I agree completely. That's why I said what I did. People seem to think racism against whites isn't racism. By reversing the roles, hopefully it's more obvious that it's equally wrong.
Of course there are — they are the “Michael Jordans” of the world... not only Michael Jordan himself, but all of the top accomplished people in the world... presidents, Nobel Prize winners, CEOs, famous authors... Harvard is prestigious because they admit people who later do those things. The content of the curriculum is largely the same as other colleges.

Harvard is looking for people who have the highest probability of becoming prestige generators, the same way that NBA teams are looking for people with the highest probability of being points generators. Sure, the assessment methods for Harvard are much more coarse, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
You can believe exactly that but still acknowledge that institutions like Harvard have a certain amount of power, and believe that if they use it in a discriminatory way that's bad.
I suppose its not far from the SCOTUS 1st Amendment cases of porn/obscenity, they can't quite define it, but they'll know it when they see it.

Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003) (link: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/539/306/)

>The requirement that all race-conscious admissions programs have a termination point "assure[s] all citizens that the deviation from the norm of equal treatment of all racial and ethnic groups is a temporary matter, a measure taken in the service of the goal of equality itself." Richmond v. J. A. Croson Co., 488 U. S., at 510

>But such measures, the Convention instructs, "shall in no case entail as a consequence the maintenance of unequal or separate rights for different racial groups after the objectives for which they were taken have been achieved." Ibid.; see also Art. 1(4) (similarly providing for temporally limited affirmative action); Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, Annex to G. A. Res. 34/180, 34 U. N. GAOR, 34th Sess., Res. Supp. (No. 46), p. 194, U. N. Doc. A/34/46, Art. 4(1) (1979) (authorizing "temporary special measures aimed at accelerating de facto equality" that "shall be discontinued when the objectives of equality of opportunity and treatment have been achieved").
I mean grouping Jews together based on a religious affiliation is just weird -- Reform would look at you really funny if you start talking to them about how Hasids and Orthodox view the world. It is as if Christianity was compressed into Amish, Anabaptists and Catholics and someone said "they are the same people"
I'm very interested in seeing where this leads. I've had so many problems creating Ada capable GCC cross-compilers from the FSF source, and it looks like I'm not alone in this area.
This might open up new and better possibilities for platform support. Great work!
Fascinating that non-jewish whites are actually the least proportionally represented. I've never heard that mentioned anywhere before.
The fastest time for TAK for a Cray-1 is 0.04 seconds.

Well common lisp on my Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz desktop:

[13]> (time (tak 18 12 6))
Real time: 0.025124 sec.
Run time: 0.025122 sec.
Space: 0 Bytes
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Did he get in?
So... whites steal from black bucket, so that makes it ok for the black bucket to steal from the Asian bucket?
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Good point, I added a note to that post. We do have a safety training that you have to complete in the app before flying, and various support resources [1]. I think it's possible for drones to be safe, fun, and non-disruptive at the same time.

[1] https://support.skydio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000586653-Sk...
Some have waffle irons, but they still require the user to put the batter in them. The pancake machines that OP is talking about automate the entire process of making a pancake (and don't require flipping the pancake). Here is an example: https://uncrate.com/chefstack-automatic-pancake-machine/
Sounds better than the alternative, which I'm all too familiar with.

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More sources don't help; the problem is very early availability. Networking isn't online yet. Uninitialized memory is probably worthless.
Ah, business travel feels.
Males, sure, there way more men than women in dev roles.

At least for Silicon Valley though, white people are, oddly enough, underrepresented relative to the US as a whole. Though that's less because white people are discriminated against, and more because there are a LOT of Asian immigrant tech workers.
>Jews were also historically discriminated against

And Jewish people are a protected class, even defined by SCOTUS as a race for purposes of Civil Rights/Anti-discrimination laws
Well, not everybody -- I don't!
I've been very critical of people here who are fatalistic, it didn't occur to me I was doing the same thing. You're right to pick me up on that.

My sad point is I've been trying to get stuff done on climate change for 20 years, and nothing got done because nobody cared. They didn't care because humans mainly don't care for anything beyond their local environment. The reasons for that are often down to lack of feeling of ability to change anything, which fatalism feeds into, but also down to, quite frankly, indifference. Mainly indifference. "Climate change? Whatever. Look, cheap flights!!"

I no longer care because that wore me down and made me ill. I accept that it's too late to avert climate catastrophe and, barring some miracle, I don't expect to live out my full life. I've come to terms with that.
No, it's not actionable unless you've developed some kind of machine that can change other people's opinions.

You're right that we've made significant progress on racial issues. That doesn't mean more can't or shouldn't be done. Furthermore it's not clear from your slippery slope argument that the disadvantages of reverse discrimination (of which there are of course some) are actually more significant than the advantages.
I would recommend reading [0] before being so quick to tear everything down. You're replacing the devil you know with the devil you don't know, so I think it's worth making a point of learning more about that one.

[0] https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
Well yeah. I was simplifying a bit.

The doctor would have to do a bit of research, but being such a rare symptom, achieving a diagnosis for blue skin would be much easier than reaching a single diagnosis from something like chest pain.
Ms. Pac-Man started life as "Crazy Otto"-- an "enhancement pack" for Pac-Man that replaced the Z80 with a daughterboard. This daughter-board allowed the creators to selectively patch-out data and code from the original ROMs with their own. This was done to prevent needing to burn ROMs that might contain copyrighted code.

There are some details about a recreation of Crazy Otto (where you can see some of the game graphics) here: http://www.pacificarcades.com/crazy-otto.html

Here's a photo of the daugherboard from Ms. Pac Man (which Crazy Otto begat): http://lawnmowerman.rotheblog.com/images/msaux.jpg
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There's a famous corollary to that approach: "Fire him? Why, I just spent 10 million dollars _educating_ him"

(regrettably I can't find any evidence it's a true (quote|story), but I enjoy the sentiment)
Pretty much every demographer agrees that the world is on track to top out at 11 billion people due to rising standards of living, access to health care and reductions in infant mortality, electricity, specialization in agriculture, and access to financial instruments. Basically, everyone reaching the same conclusion that Westerners reached in the 80's: having a bunch of children doesn't really make sense any more.
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I just don't buy this anymore. Not when Asians, Indians, Nigerians, Lebonese, Cubans, Iranians and Jews all do better than average White households in America and are over represented in education. If it permeates everything, why does it not apply to these groups?

Amy Chau wrote a great book on this: The Triple Package.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triple_Package
I'm a center-left social democrat and believe in mitigating climate change for its own sake. If anthropogenic climate change weren't occurring, there would be no need for climate-oriented conservation. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people with political leanings similar to mine would agree with that statement. For most proponents, the purpose of climate mitigation measures is in fact to mitigate climate change. Assuming otherwise is plainly not to ascribe good faith to one's opponents.
True, what I have observed is that quantitative metrics help in empowering better decisions. That, and product putting in effort to collect feedback about things that matter in that context.
It absolutely could and should! This is called out in like, 2003 in FS&K Fortuna.
Recent article on Harvard "legacy" admissions by Tyler Cowen of MR: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-23/harvar...

The "oh wow, that's odd" part:

"The most shocking number in the paper is this: Of the white students admitted to Harvard, more than 43% are in the so-called ALDC category — that is, they are recruited athletes, legacy admissions, applicants on the “dean’s interest” list and children of Harvard faculty and staff. Furthermore, in the model constructed by the authors, three quarters of those applicants would have been rejected if not for their ALDC status."
"EFI variables." Or shove it in an ACPI table. Or any of the myriad other ways BIOSes communicate data to the operating system via RAM rather than disk image. Edit: or the virtio-rng interface, as another commenter reminds me.
It's a great exaggeration to say the numbers are meaningless. Just shy of 90% of Harvard undergraduates are from the US and its territories: https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics
I have an example of that. In the late 1980's early 90's read an fluff piece in Product Design News or some such about a team of engineers at GE that got an award for designing a washing machine tilt sensor. The article then gushed that the reason this was wonderful was the tilt sensor would allow GE to replace expensive metal washing machine drum bearings with inexpensive plastic ones.

Without a tilt sensor they needed to use metal bearing because an out of balance load would break plastic bearings. But now with the tilt sensor plastic ones could be used.
Americans fixate on skin colour and forget that class is far more important
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Pretty sure the Linux entropy pool is "consumed" when read and thus will become exhausted when not replenished fast enough.

You can see this when reading /dev/random on a low-entropy machine (such as a VM), and adding whatever you want to the entropy pool manually. The reading process will unblock, read a few bytes, then block again until you add more.
These numbers are grossly misleading. US population numbers are meaningless.

Harvard doesn't consider all US born students. They have an academic floor. Most of the US population does not meet the academic floor. Low achieving students are effectively not in the applicant pool even if they apply.

A more accurate representation of the applicant pool would be the USA demographics that meet the 10th percentile SAT score at Harvard. However, even with this more accurate pool, the accepted population would differ because different races have different average scores within this pool. The races with lower averages would be expected to be underrepresented in the accepted pool compared to the applicant pool.
>They need to have a demographic profile that roughly approximates the US demographic profile to not appear racist. They also need to have a balanced gender ratio, not overly favor a single region, etc.

I don't think this is true of any Ivy League institution (that the racial demographics mirrors that of the nation). The gender ratio and "regionality" are well-balanced, however.
You're asking for a lot of sensitive data. It's pretty much all company confidential.
Sorry, I can't help.
I love this.

Hong Kongers don’t need the 2nd Amendment because “maybe” the United States will start WWIII over their protests, which they started after realizing that integration with China will actually happen.
I was contacted back in beginning of August. Someone was supposed to get back to me to setup a call, but never heard back after that.
> Anecdote: My company has recently passed on a few early career candidates who pretty clearly hadn't been mentored.

Either that or the candidates you passed on simply didn't want to spend several hours making enterprise-grade software for a take-home test that they're not getting paid for.
Yeah. Reading the opinion, it looks like SFFA only could make an argument via statistics and it failed to establish how those statistics related to reality. About 20-30 pages of the opinion are about comparing and contrasting Card and Acidiacono and honestly...it seems to me that both models are just inconclusive. Neither ends up taking into account what goes through the mind of an admissions officer and leaves out (what are arguably) critical components in an applicant's profile. In general, it does not seem there is a way for us to point to statistics and say "look...this is discrimination" there are human factors involved that are too complex (whether that be school support ratings, racial biases of interviewers/admissions officers, or just luck of the particular application cycles we have data on). I'm unsure whether the supreme court would take this case on...there doesn't seem to be much here that SFFA could argue in its favor.
When I see things like this, I try to think about:

- this relative to my existing tools
- think about what tools you I wish I had
- think about what tools that other people from other disciplines wish they had

Tools and habits and thinking patterns are interwoven. Changing tools might seem, in some cases, to be a waste of time, relative to a rigid, short-term performance metrics. However, changing tools can change your thinking patterns, which can really help with long-term growth.
If you can't trust your cloud provider to give you good boot time entropy you shouldn't host your VMs on them at all.
The "boilerplate" needed to launch a web application, to make anything people need to sign in to you have to add a bunch of functionality that we see many services get wrong and do poorly, and it just gets worse as you add complex functionality like subscriptions. It's a lot of work and a lot of margin for error rewriting this stuff again and again.

I already started but I would spend 3 more months on this problem, trying to separate the boring stuff into something reusable and better than rewriting: https://userdashboard.github.io/home
His wife sounds like a psycho
I assume the counter-argument is that this time change is happening faster since it's driven by intangibles like code. It took a long time for the effects of the first industrial revolution to spread out because transportation was slower, the world's communication infrastructure was not as developed, etc.

But honestly, I could see both sides of the argument here.
> The WeWork IPO-failure, as well as Peloton IPO drop, has shown that "tech" companies are not as valuable as VCs thought they were.

Would you suppose that the failure of their IPOs points more at the lack of a bubble? I mean to suggest that in a bubble / "irrational exuberance", these IPOs would be more likely to succeed, and after, the value of their public stock would go up dramatically because investors were being overly optimistic and speculative about these companies. Instead investors determined they were overvalued prior to even entering the public market. To me, the failures indicate the lack of a bubble.

Although I wonder about the bubble-iness of the gig economy. I've had increasingly bad experiences with it (more on the side of a customer), and I assume workers have worse experiences. I 'feel' like something's got to give at some point, where you'll see over some short period of time, a ton of people just begin to opt out from the "gig" economy on both sides (as customers and workers), aside from the fact that many workers depend on it.
> I had perfect test scores and grades

If Harvard wanted to admit 1,000 kids with perfect test scores and perfect grades they’d just take the first 1,000 applicants and call it a day.

They can be and are much choosier than that. Why wouldn’t they be? If you have the choice between a 4.0/1600 kid and a 4.0/1600/world-class pianist, who would you take?

When applying to Harvard grades and test scores aren’t even worth mentioning. If you’re counting on those to get you in then you’ve got almost no shot.
How is it different from the manufacturing of pizzas you buy frozen in the grocery stores?
https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-08-14/why-are-police-using-...

Not quite a tank, but it is an armored military vehicle.
Owning a gun makes it 2-3x more likely someone in your family will die by a gun. So it makes you less safe, not more.
https://slate.com/technology/2015/01/good-guy-with-a-gun-myt...

And it definitely makes it less safe for the rest of us in society.
Clearly all racial and ethnic sub-groups were discriminated against to various degrees in the US (and elsewhere). I distinctly remember being taught this (including about several of your bullet points) in the Texas suburb I grew up in. But its not comparable in scope or legacy to that of Black Americans, and by your own admission if Asian American's "basically own the United States" -- do they actually need help? Its not just about being fair, its about fixing the legacy of segregation in the US. There's an obvious gap between blacks and whites -- not so much between asians and whites.
This is automation on a scale that we have not seen before where machines are actually capable of decision making and precision work. This is combined with a massive concentration of wealth at the top. Also there are a whole lot more people now. Potential long term could be colonization of the moon / mars. Plenty of unskilled labor required and opens a new frontier.
I.e. Asians who went to Harvard will be seen as extra desirable because they had higher admission requirements?
According to who? If you're referring to the census designations, Jews are considered white too which just goes to further underlines my point.
This always happens. It's the most effective way to create the illusion of legitimacy for using violence to kill peaceful protest. The French police have been doing it for ages.
Yup. There are ways to do that without a disk seed. They need to be actually implemented on both sides though, so some standardisation is needed. (Or at least one popular solution)
Sort of.

If you have the skills and experience gitlab is seeking you could work for any bay area company for $160,000 or more remotely or $200,000+ locally (sv/sf)

This ensures gitlab will get average, some good but very few great employees. Most will flock to google/facebook/etc and by pass gitlabs when they are paying double.

In lower cost areas they are coming in at the top end but a lot of places are hovering in that range.
I'm sorry .jon would be more logical Javascript being one word and all.
As an atheist Jewish person, I don't agree with your definition of "Jewish".

Neither did the Nazis, btw.
I don't get why a private University can't decide who it wants or doesn't want to attend its school regardless of the metrics it chooses.

For instance, I don't think that matching a Universities demographics to the "national" or "global" demographics is likely to produce highest caliber candidates. What if Jewish and Asian candidates consistently outperform other candidates, why shouldn't a private school be allowed to accept more of the candidates it thinks "deserve" it more?

If people don't like the policies of institutions that do this, or think they are ineffective, over time other institutions will outcompete/outperform them.
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A smart TV doesn't offer any value add for me - I have a chromecast, I have a recorder. By contrast, a smart speaker in the kitchen does add value. Being able to use Siri to set a timer, play music or add something to the shopping list when up to my elbows in cake mixture is of benefit.