skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All differences result in inequality, but not all inequity is created by differences in ability.

The largest source of inequality, by far, is inherited wealth. This is true both at the top (Bill Gates' children will start out much better in life than his cleaner's children), and in large populations (children of freed slaves start out in life with much less wealth than the children of free workers, whether it's black slaves in the south or gypsies in Romania), and this also tends to perpetuate through many generations.

Probably the second largest source of inequality is explicit in-group biases. Powerful and wealthy groups (e.g. rich people, politicians, academicians) can induce large inequality by simply selecting people like themselves to help and peoe different from themselves to hinder. Male professors would often give female students harder assignments or lower marks in the early days of women in high-education. Male-only entrepreneurs were far more likely to do business with other men than with women when women started being allowed to own property. Rich people rarely accept poorer people in their social clubs.

Another huge cause of inequality are perceived differences (for example, there was once ample belief in European circles that non-white people were not capable of higher thought, so of course it is absurd to try to educate them). Even today, you have people like James Damore claiming that women are known to be inferior in coding skills, and extrapolating from there that few women could code at Google, as if coding at Google is like Olymping weight-lifting, instead of it being like being mildly successful at the gym.

And these 3 are all sources of inequality that we should seek to eliminate. There may be others as well, but these are the biggest by far. After we eliminate them, sure, some natural inequality will remain, and the very top of some fields, where differences in ability really matter, inequality will be very visible - you will rarely see female weight-lifters trying to compete in men's competitions. At this level, we may also see differences in aspects of intelligence between different groups show up, if those are indeed real.

But for the vast majority of human endeavors, there are no significant natural differences between people which would truly affect outcomes. Human beings are vastly more similar than usually believed, after deliberately taking some moderate amount of training in something.
Ah, I was confused. It was Hugo Weaving and Tony Martin.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120714/
This is nonsense. Even if you do everything right, you can have bad luck. Illness can happen to anyone.

Of course you can improve your odds, but acting like sickness is some sort of personal failing is a bad mentality, and one of the reasons American health care is so messed up.
Scheduler Extender was initially released over 4 years ago[1]. What you are referring to is Scheduling Framework[2], which indeed is a new feature (and will replace/contain Scheduler Extender).

[1]: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/13580

[2]: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/...

EDIT: formatting
A lot of things seem to be missing. Blender, C#/C++, Android-Development, Modern Javascript, MMO Development, etc..
I'd both agree and disagree with that statement.

There are people who simply cannot be effectively replaced. That does not mean that the powers that be will not replace them. For example, a startup might have a critical engineer who happens to know how everything works or holds everything together. They can be replaced, although this may have a severe impact on the startup, including the failure of the startup.

To your point, even if someone is critical to the success of an organization does not mean that they won't ever be replaced by poor management.
There are many traditions that survived for thousands of years:

Genital mutilation circumcision, human sacrifice, using poisonous body paints, using lead in water pipes, asbestos, etc.

It often takes a great effort to stop a stupid and harmful tradition.
Yes the business allows this to happen because it is obviously in the self-interests in the existing employees: everyone tries to build their own little empires and to keep 'invaders' at bay.

In some companies, often when there is no growth, that leads to very claustrophobic atmospheres with a core group that has been there for 10+ years and gatekeeps everyone else.
Thanks! I've been reading and writing English since I was about 10 years old, and I really like writing, so that might have something to do with it.

I think that are various levels of proficiency, but in general, most Danes have a very good grasp of it, and it's easy to live here if you only speak English.
Chez scheme is just as dynamic as python and is about as fast as C# running on mono IIRC. My scheme was probably worse than my C# was when I did project Euler though.

Chez does unboxed integer arithmetic (but not floats) and does not have to do any OO-like dispatch, and is also probably one of the best language implementations there are.
You can get burned out in any kind no matter how great it seemed when you started. People grow and their priorities change. There isn't necessarily anything wrong with the job or your boss or your colleagues or with you.

Sometimes you just need a change of scenery and a breath of fresh air, sometimes literally.
Yishan Wong has an ambitious idea for fighting climate change: Plant more trees
> So, let's prove some people wrong and let's see how we can improve performance of our Python programs and make them really fast!

I have to say, the desperate lengths Python programmers will go to to use it for things it was not meant for rather than learn or use other languages is one of the aspects I most dislike about it. However fast you make it, the same effort would have made it that much faster again in a performant language.
This can be taken further: There will always be exactly as much work as you can get done.

Work isn't about getting things done, but maintaining a consistent throughput.
>* I can long press on notifications and directly block it forever or finely tune the App sending it what it is allowed to send etc.*

Apple improved that on iOS, see the screenshots here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201925

Also, I just aggressively remove apps that try to show spam notifications.
Here in Europese standard bottle /can sizes are 250, 300/330 and 500ml. The former are more common west of the Rhine, the 500ml is the standard East of it
"This is probably one of the easiest ways into a network if not the easiest way. Simply starting [xxxx] loading the module and giving it an IP address of a vulnerable Windows host will get you full administrative access to that system."

"I myself have performed penetration tests in other countries such as China, and Russia where I was able to use MS08-067 to exploit systems running Windows systems with language packs that I was unable to actually read."

https://blog.rapid7.com/2014/02/03/new-ms08-067/
People have a tremendously distorted view of reality due to their own biases. Myself definitely included. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - Upton Sinclair

More concretely in the field of software engineering:

Accurate, precise estimates are more expensive than the actual task itself.

If someone asks you "how long until it is done", the only reasonable answer is just as long as you've already spent, even if you're close to the end of the project. a "three week project" on week 3 will most likely take another 3 weeks, all else being equal.

Nobody has any idea, they're just making it up as they go along.

If you do the math, you're ahead of almost everyone. Most people won't do math to save their own life. Same goes for reading. If you actually read documentation or source code, you're in a very slim minority. Most people just google.
Capping personal wealth at zero (or less than wealth per capita for that matter) is obviously a nonsense, so you should be careful with this strawman. Reasonable amount probably starts at some multiple of that.

Of course, you need democracy too. Since the beginning, the democratic concept was about equality of access to political power among citizens.

In many ways, it's what traditional anarchist/liberal left is about - equality in power (egalitarianism?) and not necessarily in the outcome.
New York Times Editorial Board Interviews: Bernie Sanders
I can't take you seriously anymore.
definitely write in when you have a problem

there are relatively few people writing constructively to companies and while some companies suck bufallo wings, the good ones are good and will use your feedback to make their products better
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. Sms 2FA is not safe, full stop.
Meanwhile you know little about tax system in Europe and you just blindly apply a ratio to an average taken from a picture.
In France, raising a family or marry someone who earns less than you will reduce your income tax, unlike Germany for example.

About teacher's pay, if you look into the details, you will find that the french state motto is "Do as I say, not as I do". All the annoying employment law do not apply when the french state is the employer. As such, the brutto/netto salary ratio for teachers is bigger than other employee. But the main perk is not salary, it is the 2 month summer holidays and job for life, and of course free healthcare and pension plan.
> "Writing is Nature's way of showing you how sloppy your thinking is"

Also:

• "You write to find out what you believe… When I write, things occur to me. It's a way of thinking. But you can perform your thinking instead of just thinking it." — https://web.archive.org/web/20161201164608/http://www.thepar... / https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/06/09/adam-phillips-paul-...

• "To think, you have to write. If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking. […]
Everyone thinks they think. If you don't write down your thoughts, you are fooling yourself." — Leslie Lamport (http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/3-642 , 1:30 & 45:34)

• "Turing machines are incredibly more powerful than Finite Automata.
Yet the only difference between a FA and a TM is that
the TM, unlike the FA, has paper and pencil.
Think about it.
It tells you something about the power of writing." — Manuel Blum (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mblum/research/pdf/research02.txt)
There were toolchains that did compile P-System into native code though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_MicroEngine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvus_Systems

Adding a GC to bytecode systems, is what Xerox PARC did with their Interlisp-D, Smalltalk and Mesa/Cedar workstations.

The CPUs were microcoded and as part of the boot process they would load the respective hardware interpreter for the environment being booted into the workstation.

A similar idea was explored in one of Oberon's implementations, where instead of using straight native code like on the Ceres workstation, the modules would have a compact representation, JITed into native code on module load.

See section 7, Machine-Independent Mobile Code on http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.90....
When a company uses the word "family" to describe themselves, run for the hills!
If you can prevent being cynical and take that effort into doing actual work, your skillsets quickly compound. If the job sucks, take your improved skillset elsewhere. But do not sit idly and complain - it does nothing, hurts your career, your colleagues and your life.
Not only that, but the incredible depth of pretty much every field. Not every practitioner dives deep, but the masters of any job leave me speechless.
I manage a team. The reason I don’t promote or give raises to people who overwork is because I don’t want to encourage behavior that inevitably results in burnout.

What I instead do when people overwork is I give them extra paid time off. Stayed in the office for a couple of extra hours yesterday helping a customer? Great, please make sure to take Friday afternoon off. You had to work extra last week to meet a deadline? Apologies, that was my fault for not managing your workload properly and distributing it better (and also not setting a reasonable deadline). Second, again, please take the equivalent amount of time off.
That's default, but you can buy an RSA hardware token.
On ios every app has to ask permission before the first notification, so you will not get the spammy ones in the first place.

I agree with your point that android is making management much easier though.
I fixed my mum's computer a few years back (cleaned up some adware and other stuff that was making it awful to use) and did a bunch of virus scans and cleanup etc. After a while she asked "Is this what you do for a job?"

The conception of what happens inside our industry just isn't present in the wider population, and I imagine we're not unique in that.
I see SpaceX and Tesla as different. They are engineering/manufacturing companies and have a legitimate need for venture capital to help meet the very heavy capex demands on such companies in their first 10 or so years. (I also wouldn't include Cloudflare).

What I don't like and would describe as unhealthy is the use of venture capital to massively scale software companies, usually in a 'free-service' model, until they have grown to monopolise the market and can then be 'monetised'. I think that is a very toxic model.

And no, I didn't mean to push buttons. I was only objecting to the assumption made in the original comment to which I replied. My viewpoint is far from unique, however much it may come as a surprise to you.
> there is no way at all to make your own legit "hacker" apps trusted to use elevated privileges

Of course there is. To circumvent this closed apple-esque bullshit you can just install magisk.
No, I would not use those terms in that case. The construction steps may be the same, but the lack of a lost life is a key distinction that invalidates the analogy for me.
Just a heads up: Apple in their guidelines tell developers not to do that, and yet they do send some notifications advertising their products and/or services sometimes (recently for Apple TV+). They also do not police developers' notifications, so some developers abuse it. Just an example: I love Slopes and its lone developer deserves all the praise, and yet a week ago I've received an unwarranted ad for the paid subscription disguised as a notification... Not cool.
Your prediction is in die contradiction of the trend of the past 50 years, we are on track to have fully atheistic societies in the west withing decades. There is no empirical evidence that your rationalisation is correct.
Quote from the article:

> The average Wikipedian on the English Wikipedia is ... (some characteristics)

This builds to conclusion:

> The systemic bias of the English Wikipedia is permanent. As long as the demographic of English speaking Wikipedians is not identical to the world's demographic composition, the version of the world presented in the English Wikipedia will always be the Anglophone Wikipedian's version of the world.

I don't see how you get to that conclusion form the premise other than by thinking that reality is modified by personal characteristics.

If there is an Anglophone Wikipedian's version of the world
which includes things like gravity and science - then it is not valid for Africa (as the woman in the video is expressing) as Africa is not the Anglophone world ... not sure what about this is not clear.

And it absolutely is as bad as that youtube video I linked - you think that poor unfortunate woman came up with that drivel on her own? She is not nearly dumb enough - no single person can be that stupid.

You need years of academic circle jerking and hand picking of the dumbest arguments from the dumbest people to come up with something that stupid.
For California in specific, there are special legal privileges for transfer applications from community colleges to the UC system. That's what you're supposed to do as a community college student, so e.g. it's easier to transfer into a UC from a community college than from a CSU, even though the CSU students are, by design, superior to the community college students.
This wouldn’t make a difference.

Read Eyes In The Sky or just generally about WAMI (wide area motion imagery): https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Sky-Secret-Gorgon-Stare/dp/05449....

There will have to be legislation around use and access in order to have any real protection.
I love Python as a glue language. So much heavy lifting done in numpy or opencv or whatnot. But Python as the interface makes it trivial to explore, experiment, and glue together a workflow, especially when the solution is unclear.

Then at some point if Python isn't needed because you know exactly what you want your software to do, rewrite it in C++ or whatever.

Also with CFFI and other interoperable libraries, it's really quite easy to write some heavy work in a more appropriate language and call into it.
Ask HN: Why HN lets sharing content that is behind a paywall e.g. WSJ?
I frustrate when I clicked to a title or entry and when I go to the tab I see that I need to pay for a subscription to see the content. I think this creates a great struggle in an open community like HN.
I can confirm this. I really want to use the trading platform Gemini but will never cave to Plaid.

Any organization that asks for your personal password is nefariously normalizing this behavior and building complacency in consumers to trust anyone with their private information.
I've found myself defining `native_str = bytes if PY2 else str` (with `if PY2: str = unicode` at the top of the file, as in all my py2/py3 polyglot code) because there are some things that need bytes on Python 2 and unicode on Python 3 - e.g. the `__file__` attribute of a dynamically created module or other low-level things.
> I prefer to see us pursue technologies that don't require the harvesting of parts from intelligent life, even if we deem that intelligence to be low or embryonic.

How do you define "intelligent life"? If frogs and embryos are considered intelligent life, then you really are painting yourself into a corner.

> Yes, I am aware that we are omnivores, but I believe we can make ourselves into something better.

What's better than omnivores? Evolutionarily speaking, that's the best out there. Not sure we can do better, but I'd love to hear what you had in mind.
You don't need to wait. Just offer your service on that port and you are done. Why build protocols with shitty networks or shitty admins in mind?

You can use most ports just fine. Multiplayer games show this every day. If those don't work in corporate networks (I include "public" wlan in this) that's fine too. It's not up to you what should be allowed or not in a company setting. ISPs don't block ports just for fun.

And if you are big enough like Google or Facebook, just offer a service only on that port. If it doesn't work, show a warning that the customer should complain to the network owner.
As we can agree that inequality is natural, the burden of proof is on you to prove that any particular inequality is unjustifiable.

You have fallen back on the same lazy trope that for inequality to exist, that it simply must be due to injustice.

Aside from your illogical assertion that inheritance some how constitutes an unjustified inequality. A person can give their property to anybody they please, we can and we do tax such transactions, but it perpetuates wealth across generations, it does not constitute an unnatural or unjust inequality.

> Human beings are vastly more similar than usually believed, after deliberately taking some moderate amount of training in something.

The differences from one person to another simply cannot be dismissed. If you seperate people into large enough group, the average differences become much smaller. But from one person to the next, differences are often very extreme. If you took two random people from the worlds population, you have no reason at all to believe their motivations, or the choices they made in life would have much in common at all.
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> $2400/year isn’t anywhere near the cost to provide the education- most states spend more than $10k/year on elementary school students.

That's not evidence. States spend that much, but not because that's what it costs.
iOS has had this for several major versions.
You don’t need any kind of Xeon - most of recent i5/i7/i9 cores have AVX and even AVX2 support.
That's a big one, and on top of that people don't realize how fast software decays when the man behind the curtain is on his coffee break
Thing is that when knowledge is built into organisation you lose some agility, so there are definitely some tradeoffs.
It works only once as they relay the code for verifying account numbers. But it doesn't always work (both with BofA and Wells Fargo) and certainly not for continuous pulling of data.
AMA with Сristina Bunea (YC19)
This Friday, I will have our first AMA (ask me anything) in our StartUp School 2020 chat.

This week’s guest, Сristina Bunea, is the co-founder of Listle (https://www.listle.io) a platform for delivering articles in audio format. With her app, Christina participated in the YC19 summer set. The experience of hitting and passing the co-founder and share.

The time of the AMA is being specified.

Link to access slack chat: https://forms.gle/RB85XgzCnyzARYze7
That people will take a conspiracy and run with it because they'll believe a publicised scare over any number of actual experts.

I saw it with the introduction of EMV (Chip'n'Pin) credit cards in the UK, and again with contactless cards a few years later, and you still see it with Apple/Google pay.

They're not safe, people will steal all your money, you shouldn't have to use your PIN in public, they'll get cloned, I microwave all mine just to be sure. All while ignorant of the real improvements these technologies bring.

I imagine anyone reading this that's ever worked with/around vaccines and vaccinations is thinking "you don't say!" right now...
> the actual benefit derived by an individual can be far less than what is advertised or publicized

which is why the UK has NICE to evaluate everything. THe individual GP/family doctor/specialist simply does not have the time to evaluate every single treatment.

Basically the author has described what NICE does, but without knowing what NICE does. (for reference, NICE evaluates the evidence of new drugs and techniques and works out if they are safe, effective and worth the money. Where they cost lots of money and show marginal efficacy, they do not get approved.)

However despite protestations to the opposite, the author appears to be calling for a political judgement ("The expert is just very enthusiastic, but this isnt real progress") instead of an evidence based authority with clearly defined thresholds.

Dangerous twaddle basically.
Yep he did that.
This is sad but it is SO refreshing to see something on the web that takes us back a decade or two - plain content, links, no banners, tracking or email subscriptions. Just people sharing a bit of their passions online. Farewell
Again, seeing connections where there are none.
You sound like a great manager/team lead. I think the obsession with 9-5 and whatever else it takes to get the job done is absurd in today's world.
Well what is it else than emotion when some Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin or Mozart make me cry?