skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at tech and most startups, an overwhelming amount of founders come from a similar background: white, male. I don’t have the data on this but you could for example make inferences from the YC summer and winter showcases.

I would expect that what this helps to do is encourage participation from ethnic minorities in the US.

And to your point on white people from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds. Sure it is good to lift all people up in society, but they certainly don’t have to face racial discrimination in the workplace or admissions pipeline. Failing to acknowledge that race is a factor in many people’s lives experiences is a failure to acknowledge systemic racism. This is an attempt to recognize that and correct that. And as other commentators have said, this by no means implies that other initiatives have to be mutually exclusive l.
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Custom templates and domains are built-in too.

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I noticed the lowest performance corresponds to a woman senator. I plotted what I think are only all woman senators and they all are under the S&P500 performance.

Maybe someone with better statistical knowledge than me can study if there is a significant difference between man and woman senator stock performance.
There's only so far a metaphor can be pushed, unfortunately (or fortunately?), and I completely agree, the real point is the distinction and whether it applies.
Assuming everyone acts rationally and without bias.
First of all, I want to say that I don't support roving gangs of mercenaries. But just as a thought experiment... which do you think is likely to kill more innocent people: roving gangs of mercenaries in a stateless community where most are armed or the US government?

edit: changed vigilantes to mercenaries for consistency
> the intention behind the restrictions was simply to not overwhelm the medical system

This is my point. When the medical system wasn’t overwhelmed, the restrictions should have been eased, but weren’t in many places. The goal posts were moved dramatically.
Class is a problem, but the class issue isn't "poor Black kids from broken homes" (to quote some comments here) vs upper middle class FAANG employees and MIT grads. Being poor and uneducated is a barrier to being an employee in tech, but it's not the only barrier to getting funding. Anyone that can leetcode can get a job in tech. Raising requires a strong network, involves quite a lot of signaling and bias and gut feeling.

You have to be rich for class to be a major advantage when starting a startup, middle class isn't enough unless you're willing to expose yourself to a lot of personal risk. For various reasons middle class Black people with the skills to start a startup are more risk averse than white counterparts. For other reasons those same Black people get less funding than counterparts of other races.

I say this as a Black engineer from a middle class background that has been a founder, worked at FAANG and personally knows many Black founders that tried to bootstrap and failed to raise, even with strong pitches and profitable products. It's possible that these companies are fundamentally worse than all white founded companies that raise, but I rarely see Black people given a chance to fail. Class is not the only issue and it's not the main barrier for most Black people.
It’s a great decision, it filters out some people you probably wouldn’t care to talk to.
Thank you for the massive leaps you’re making with repl.it. It’s game changing how low the friction is.

How do I quickly convince my safeguarding team of the safety of repl.it and github integration?

We’re obviously concerned about pupils having contact with strangers. A much more common problem in schools is bullying. It’s also important to not allow yet another channel for harassment. Anything where pupils can privately message each other is usually quite difficult to endorse.
I’m not familiar with GoAccess or Matomo but after some Googling it looks like Matomo requires self-hosting it’s PHP/MySQL server.

If you are using a CDN then I’m assuming that multiple access.log files need to be aggregated at some point unless the CDN has a service that automates the process. Logstash and the full ELK Stack (or alternative) seem to be required when multiple heterogeneous servers are involved in serving content. Browser-side JavaScript analytics seems to avoid the DevOps surrounding the ELK Stack. GoAccess seems like a minimalist solution when you control a single httpd-style server and can run a local daemon to process the access.log file.

As a side note, it looks like you need an Enterprise account to use Cloudflare’s Logpush Service or Logpull API. Amazon’s CloudFront has an advantage here.

Avoiding Google Analytics is non-trivial for the lazy and/or price conscious.
Speak for yourself, I have never encountered a spam problem on Whatsapp. Fake news - maybe, but it was from the "usual suspects" ie. people who believe in every conspiracy theory they encounter.
I think “in the dark ages” it was more common to end up using keyboards with only one Shift key - think “nuclear reactor control panel” and stuff like that. So it probably made sense to bend touchtyping theory for practical purposes when preparing kids.
In the Gompertz-Model (that worked perfectly for China) Sweden is converging to R~0,8 - with a total death-count <6000. Germany is going to R~0,7 / <9000.

Given the explosive dynamics of COVID-19 that soon converges to R<1 going for herd immunity was most likely a bad choice.

For Germany cutting the flu in half worked - while the bad math of the epidemiologists-community seems to last forever...
Penalized sites still get onto HN's front page, so all is not lost. It's just a question of degree. People were overdoing it with the generic Wikipedia submissions for sure.
To be fair, I can entirely understand why they’d do it: the platform all but makes you annoyed at people who don’t have iPhones.
Think lease-to-buy. That way the tenant has skin in the game. MY house was a school project. It was absurdly cheap to build as the construction workers had to pay to build it. If you account for market value the rent paid for the place 4-5 times by now. If you only take the original construction cost + maintenance its been paid for an absurd number of times, so many times over that I don't want to think about it.

We can at least lower the rent down to zero over [say] 40 years but it would be more reasonable to make the tenant the owner after he paid for the place 3 times over.
Are iMessage communications signed with an apple device specific key?
I imagine part of the reason that it has proven to be so difficult to reverse engineer, is that it somehow utilises an apple devices secure enclave?
Aren't these the real reasons why people are disadvantaged?

Not when it comes to raising VC money, no. Typically people who manage to raise a round come from good backgrounds, middle-class families and have a high level of education. There are exceptions but that's a good general heuristic for a founder who has successfully raised money. If you're from a broken home, didn't finish school, or you were abused as a child you're much less likely to be raising money from a VC fund for a litany of reasons that all need to be addressed by society as a whole.

However, even though practically all the people who pitch to VCs are well-educated, relatively wealthy, middle-class people regardless of what color they are, it's still the case that more than 3/4 of deals go to white men[1]. It's extremely hard to raise, and even harder if you're in a minority group. VCs are systemically averse of doing deals outside of their comfort zone.

For Softbank to ring fence the equivalent of 0.1% of their Vision Fund as "this money is only for minorities" that's fine. To be honest it's not really enough.

I don't look at this news as a VC company going 'positive discrimination' but more as a VC company realising that it has a problem turning down deals that could make them money, eg minority-led startups, and doing something to fix that.

[1] https://news.crunchbase.com/news/untapped-opportunity-minori...
I'm sorry that your post didn't reach the front page and it is not included, in my most because I only pick recent blogposts. This is maybe not the best choice, but I want to encourage individual to post frequently and also this is a bit longer to verify that the post has never been popular if it is old
Lol, most gangs are coming from Central America and Mexico ?? Have you even heard of Bloods and Crips ? The most legendary gangs in the US ?
How would one rationally model and determine a multifactor policy on covid lockdown, balancing for health, economy, and overall wellbeing? Is it even possible to balance those, if it means making x lost life years equal to y many bankruptcies or z lost jobs, etc?
Really? Memorizing mistakes and not making them again is how many students improve. How did you work around this?
> given how much Amazon is is already doing to prevent coronavirus

This statement that you've provided as fact is the crux of the complaint. There are multiple reports claiming that Amazon is not adequately protecting warehouse workers. There are reports of whistle-blowers being fired for speaking out about it.

I don't know which side is true. It's entirely plausible that both sides are true, and it could be variable between teams and/or facilities.

I don't think it's fair to make a blanket statement that Amazon is 100% doing right by their warehouse employees, especially considering the numerous reports prior to all this about said staff having limited timed bathroom breaks.
Aha, I wouldn’t worry too much about it. 20 years ago CVS was the new hotness in my RCS using lab. 10 years ago it was SVN. We’re due for a seismic shift soon.
"Fast PC support"
Thanks for that. G Suite groups are a pain, I'll look into it. Feel free to email me directly at chase@zumaltd.com
> read emails or anything in my free time

Is this widely expected now?
It's shortsighted how beholden some people think the world is to Twitter and other social media platforms that happen to be in vogue at the moment.

Changing fads tend to drift the masses to a new platform for communication every decade or two. Personally I barely use Twitter or Facebook. I much prefer forums like this one or StackOverflow, which do a better job of encouraging quality contributions.

Trump or the White House could conceivably come out with their own app as an alternative means to directly reach followers and avoid censorship. If the people who want to hear him aren't engaged enough to tap a few buttons to install it, I have trouble mustering much sympathy.

I'm an avid supporter of free speech, but I think people who place their faith in a small number of private companies to provide that are naive.
That's not how it works. I think you have little idea, if any, how easy it is to find exploits if you had a source code vs if you didn't. With source code you can immediately see the conditions that will cause buffer overruns, for example. One of the huge target has always been jpeg decoder code in Chrome. If you can somehow figure out conditions that will result in buffer overrun, you will have exploit just by creating artificial jpeg. Your victim simply needs to visit your webpage with that jpeg which even can be pushed by narrowly targeted ads, Facebook etc. Building such exploits is much harder to accomplish without having source code. This is rather outdated example but think about possibilities in JavaScript engine, HTML rendering, graphics drivers, OS calls, extensions, APIs etc. When you have 10 million lines of code, you almost inevitabily have some exploit. Such zero day are often sold for 10s of millions of dollars. Its much much harder to find same vulnerabilities without having source code.

Your argument that somehow Apple will do better than these black hat guys is also flawed. Apple can higher N security experts but Apple will always unlikely to match in number of firms and state agencies who can hire M >> N in aggregate. Think of Apple running centralize effort with N people while whole world running distributed attack every day every hour with 10X more eyes and time on hand. Also it has been very well understood within security professionals that source code gets far more scruitiny from black hat then white hat guys.

Finally, remember that people don't update their systems for months and even years. You should know that Bezos iPhone was hacked by an exploit developed by a black hat firm which ultimately cost him $40B in divorce. Think about that for a second. A single software vunerability cost was $40 billion, more than market cap of many companies and GDPs of many countries. This is a guy who literally owns huge chunk of public and private infrastructure, has the best of the best security experts at his finger tips and he got hacked.
It’s also in a superior league in term of install size, and more importantly, package management hell which is required for doing any basic things like handling unicode. I have memories of needing separate packages that where incompatible with each other for a single document. I finally switched to Word, which has a lot of issues too, but which at least let me include characters outside the BMP and changing their font in an easy way.
One thing that rarely gets mentioned is that trees having a cooling effect. Just stand under a big leafy tree and you feel it directly. Thats one reason Beside co2 to plant at least a gazillion trees.
Not really an Android or WhatsApp user, so my perspective there is probably not all that relevant ;) I am curious if any apps there fall back to SMS? I think Hangouts might have a long time back?
90% of all covid-19 deaths in Sweden have been people over the age of 70 [1] which is the only group of the population which have been quarantined. So it's arguable what difference a nation wide quarantine would have made.

Of those over 70, half of the deaths were in care homes and another 26% had home care [2].

Many of the workers in care homes have reported that their companies/bosses won't allow them to stay home when they're showing symptoms and some have been forced to work without protective equipment.

There have "only" been 42 deaths under the age of 50 [2].

[1] https://www.svd.se/90-procent-av-alla-doda-i-covid-19-over-7...
[2] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/halften-av-alla-doda-over...
I think it's this one [1], there are also more detailed graphs in section 3 of the paper.

[1] https://imagehost.imageupload.net/2020/06/04/IMG_20200604_09...
That's true but let's take it a step forward - if the TV station published a list of rules and your content did not cross the line but you were denied, would that be okay?

Would retroactive application of rules be fine, or new rules created and then retroactively applied?

Would it be okay if they refused simply because of who you were? Or what you did elsewhere? These kind of questions seem to be more applicable if we're comparing to Twitter et al.
It's the most important rule in my opinion. Master must always compile and pass tests.

I'm glad sending patches or looking into bugs whenever I find them in OSS but having to jump through hoops just to get things compiled is a big no-no.
Status signaling might be a thing in certain circles (middle school and high school), but I think it's simpler than that. It's about being in or out.

People might have gravitated towards iPhones for status signaling in their youth, and by association and inertia, their inner circle uses iPhones. now, as adults, any person coming into the circle needs to conform to the group or be seen as clueless.
The key to eliminating small talk is to announce observations and get to a point where you speak with more statements than questions.
Why are we reopening in the first place? What could be more predictable than this result? I hope the case succeeds. I can go onto amazon right now and by a game console. Why? What hope do we individuals have against business if this doesn’t go through?
The propaganda spread on Whatsapp is happening because of external issues. There are groups of people paid or motivated to spread it on that platform. Such a minor thing wouldn't make any difference in reduction of propaganda spread to people dedicated enough to spread it.
These permissions are likely for a UI to delete your lessons.

And you should have a local working backup
I've heard multiple similar stories (in Europe) with non subsidized tenants.

Being disrespectful is not probably not correlated with being poor or not.
Maybe we NEED to be closed for a while.

Slow down the consumption. Grow our own food. Barter with each other for services.

We can reverse some of the damage. Let's do it.
They all have a critical impact.

If you look at Rust, you cannot commit to master:

- without the resulting master merge passing the whole test suite, which would probably take a day or more to run locally, and
- without a review of someone that knows the part of the code you modified well, or somebody they delegate to, and often, of a group of multiple people that know that part of the code well. These people verify that the code is correct, commented, tested, appropriate, etc. Often, a design team in charge of that part of the code that makes sure that the change goes in a direction that aligns with the project strategy/goals (i.e. that this is a change we want to make).

Even the best of the best software developers:

- don't always test that their code compiles before committing: for Rust, they really can't to, they'd need to cross-compile the compiler dozens of times, run these compilers under qemu on different hardware, and verify that they work - too much work for any single human
- don't always test that their code passes the test suite: the test suite is _huge_. Its impossible for anybody to test anything locally, takes too much time.
- don't always benchmark the compiler after a change on reasonable applications, takes too much time.
- etc. point being, you cannot trust the best of the best, much less anyone else. As a Rust compiler dev, the first person that you should not trust is _you_.

The whole point of the process is identifying all possible sources of errors, and making them impossible, or at worst, extremely unlikely to happen.

Most of these errors are only quite unlikely to happen, e.g., because all the automated tooling that exists to prevent them is also written by humans that make mistakes.

But every time a new source of error is identified, there is at least a discussion about how to make it impossible to happen in the future.

Having a test suite, having reviewers, are just two things you have to do to avoid a large set of errors (see a comment below about how each release of Rust is required to succesfully compile all existing public Rust source code and run all their tests succesfully).

They are not barely enough. And even if your process makes errors extremely unlikely, Rust and LLVM have hundreds of PRs on flight and hundreds of developers working on the source code regularly. Throw enough developers at a project, and unlikely events become a daily thing.
This is a general observation: you shouldn’t judge pandemic policy over the short term.
Catalina is a significant downgrade in quality but it's still better than the alternative so your point still stands. My worry is what this means for the future, whether it will keep going downhill.
The death rates can be off by an order of magnitude. Or not. We have no clue. This is the only thing “safe to assume” about this pandemic.
> the interface is hideous

I always thought WhatsApp did a fairly decent job at feeling native like iMessage? I haven’t used it much, so I’m curious what you don’t like.
You can be recorded anytime anywhere and placed on the internet.
Most bot filtering from analytics tools (GA or Adobe or so) are quite efficient. So you would expect lower traffic in these tools as from a tool using your server's log files.

On the other hand a lot of browser plugins or privacy/incognito mode kill analytics and do not have any effect on your log files. This would lead to higher numbers in your log files as well.

So I would expect somewhere between 10% - 25% increased numbers from your log files depending on the audience you serve and the overall traffic volume your site has.

At least this were the numbers some years back, when we did some additional backend tracking for some clients, were we linked the front end tracking tool ID (from the cookie) to the tracking hit being sent from the backend with additional information. Back in 2015 it was between 7% and 19%, in 2018 (before GDPR kicked in) it was 'tween 15% and 27% of backend tracking hits that did not have a frontend ID associated with them. So we knew the amount of tracking calls that had FE tracking blocked.
When you have enough people trading over some period of time, someone will have consistently high returns.
He's not the only one pointing this out, though: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/29/covid-19-surgi..., and the "study" is very easily verifiable as horseshit.
Sweden has a low population density yes, but that's irrelevant - most is unpopulated land, which doesn't have an effect. If you count Greenland when measuring the population density of Denmark, it's super low, but that would be ridiculous.

More relevant measures would be things like urbanization, where Sweden is number 23 in the world and Croatia number 104 (by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_by_country). Or, perhaps, the population density of the most dense areas (5,200/km2 for Stockholm, 4,055/km2 for Zagreb). These are just examples of possible metrics, of course there are many more which might be more relevant, but population density of the entire country has no relevance at all.
The cooles trick in JS is that they fixed the off-by-one error using dates. Since Month are stored in an array the 5th month is... April! How did all other Languages get this one wrong? I don't know. That's the stuff that makes JS cool and interesting!
>Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he doesn't have power to change police union contracts.

At this point screw the fallout from the police union. Rip it up and renegotiate if the existing contractual obligations are too restricting. Realistically whatever recourse the union might have for breach of contract would be worth it. The most damaging action they could take would be to strike, and if they did public support would be against the police at this point and that would be a boon to appeasing the protesters. Heck, make it a PR stunt and start a campaign to get protesters to enroll in the police academy and fix the injustices they're marching for.

Either the PD gets replaced wholesale and the union can pound sand and the protesters are appeased or the union comes back to the table to come up with a reasonable deal that lets the municipality make some real changes to appease the protesters. Regardless of how they proceed serious accountability is crucial.
Turn off the browser and try red, green and refactor pattern (part 2)
This is slight variation on the theme of the Black Lives Matter vs All Lives Matter argument, and it's been addressed adequately on social media.

The fund isn't pointing out that "Only Black Founders Matter", it's saying that that group of people require attention at this point in time, and we're going to focus on them now and correct the systemic problems that have given them a disadvantage until this point in time.

We'll get to everyone else next. The principle of using the water wagon to save the house that's currently burning applies. The people starting this fund have decided that focusing on this group is a good start, other groups will come later after the problem is clear enough.
Can't grow your own food at short notice unless you really love cress.