skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They sure love that 13% figure. Why are so many nigerians in america so well educated [1] ? Not doubting any other assertions but my theory is that historically, STEM has not been a well reputed path to success,recognition and respect for black americans both in their communities and nationally. Segregation is only half a century ago,but even these days being STEM educated and black is associated with negative stereotypes (although that is changing). Another factor: STEM just isn't well famed/influential enough in american society to where holding a STEM job would help the black community solve significant social problems.

I hope you forgive me for the candor,but, at the home parenting level even in early life, kids have to be raised to pursue such fields or at least see others like them do well and succeed so they can draw inspiration. In other words, an asian american(or nigerian!) person pursuing STEM would not feel like they're swimming upstream and against the flow while america born black americans and many rural european americans would feel that way.

I don't presume that's all there is to it, but plenty of immigrants with terrible education spending in their 3rd world countries get full ride scholarships in STEM in the US. I am certain, it's not something solvable by throwing money at lower education. uni's in america are a cash grab scheme, so you are asking people to get into a lifetime of debt right now. Instead of depending on foreign workers, the US government on it's part should conditionally subsidize higher education for americans with the condition being they pursue in demand acadameic goals.

[1] https://www.chron.com/news/article/Data-show-Nigerians-the-m...
I think that races on recumbents would be comparably boring. Because there are fewer tactical options when drag is reduced. So I can understand why there are races on the classical frame.

But yeah, that shouldn't stop everybody else from using a modern frame.
Stable link: https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS02...

(It’d be neat to have the image ID in the explorer link to this page.)
> I think employer matches are limited to 50% of that

No, I they can be much higher than 50%. I think the NFL does a 200% match.

There is a $56,000 total limit though of employee + employer contributions. So assuming that an employer wants to do the max match that still has the employee contribute 19500, then that employer should have a (56000-19500)/19500 = 187% match.
Most poor families don't value education, so it's very hard to get children interested in school when their family actively discourages the involvement.

Drugs and crime have destroyed the family structure in all poor neighborhoods.

Frankly there is a strong anti-education bent moving through the entire Republican party, educated people hare harder to control.
There's no need for a motor; that's what the phased array antennas are for.

802.11ac packages already implement MIMO-based beamforming, and I think there are already speciality 802.11ac packages using phased array for backhaul radio links. Phased array beamforming is a matter of size and processing power, but nothing different from cutting edge WiFi and 5G products, and not much different from what's already deployed in many laptops and cellphones. The entire software and hardware stack, including at the consumer level, is already capable of real-time, electronic beamforming. The technology for the Starlink terminals is well established and it could be done cheaply, it's just a matter of whether Starlink has the manufacturing pipeline primed.

Just like with rockets and electric cars, all the pieces exist and are relatively mature. It's just a matter of assembling them cost effectively, and that happens to be Elon Musk's special gift.
Yes, they provide such useful services as underpaying authors, ensuring that authors get as little control over their creative output as possible, and bullying authors into changing their work to fit pet ideological crusades. Maybe smaller publishers still provide some semblance of service to the writers they work with, but the big publishers have been predatory entities for a long time.
Direct URL https://www.namebase.io/
Well, this didn't work work quite as well as I'd hoped:

https://music-grid.surge.sh/#1152-32-512-32-152-0-148-0-266-...
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Where do black Africans fit in within this theory?
I'm glad to see you're pulling from the CNCF landscape, where we have 1,400 individual curated SVGs. There are another few thousand across the other Linux Foundation landscapes referenced at https://landscapes.dev/.

(Up-to-date list is https://github.com/cncf/landscapeapp/blob/master/landscapes.... .)
These are nearly all videos which are pretty self-explanatory (and horrifying).
We've looked at getting the cable provider to run cable to area of the district. I could be as high as 10k per house to get them to do the work. How much are downlinks. You may not understand what a school district will go to to make sure its students are served.
I don't quite believe that this was the case for Adobe, though. Cars are status symbols—people want ones that look cool so they can show off too their peers. No one (well, very few) is showing off their copy of Photoshop.
As a long time self learner (35 years), I really enjoyed the learning format (and learning focus!).

I was surprised how much I enjoyed clicking I learned something, even though I got the yes/no answer "correct".

Well done Julia. You have me thinking if I should prep my own content to direct new users to when fundamental questions are asked.
Autocrop and Optimize SVGs
The amount of FOSS in the world that exists from people who contribute on their own time is a small fraction of the amount of software (total) in the world. Yes, software won't die out, but if somehow people couldn't get paid to be software engineers any more, there would be a lot less software engineering happening.

It's certainly possible to argue that copyright is so bad that we should have way fewer authors and musicians in this world, such that only those who are truly passionate about writing and making music (and/or independently wealthy) will do it, but it doesn't seem to me that that's what people are arguing.
Could you share your scripts, for those or us with lesser scripting skills
> as users are supposed to be able to decline cookies and somehow still maintain state; the lawmakers don't understand a session is necessary for things like logins

The lawmakers do understand that, you are allowed to use sessions and cookies for essential tasks like tracking login state, and no popup is necessary in this case.

I wouldn't be shocked if you are correct and many devs are indeed completely ignoring the legal requirements here, but that may be in part due to developers not understanding the legal requirements or believing incorrectly (as you seem to) that the requirements are not technically feasible.

A simple, GDPR compliant solution would be a tickbox for "remember me across visits" next to the login form. If ticked you get a persistent cookie, if unticked just a temporary session that goes away when the browser is closed. No popup is needed.
Ok, so, that just means that people need to be more informed.

The reality is that people move between top tech companies all the time. It is extremely common. And basically nobody is having those non competes enforced, for a random engineering job.
I've been in the DBMS business for three decades and have never heard of this happening. In California it's a vanishingly rare case. What has happened is that every new DBMS company I know has benefited from the flow of engineers from legacy companies. This would have been impossible with non-competes.

Happy to be proven wrong.
The safety of your home directory relies on the integrity of the operating system.
This is very useful advice. Managers have a difficult time remembering all your accomplishments from memory - and often recency bias takes over. Having data that documents your wins is very helpful during performance reviews.

I would go one step further and say that if you collaborated with someone both should make it a point to jointly document the win - which also helps during with peer reviews.
Cultural Differences on Stiffness
Why is there a G buildup? I would love imagine acceleration to be fairly constant, not to increase with time (at least once out of the atmosphere).
Here We Go! https://music-grid.surge.sh/#0-2048-0-144-1072-0-40-530-0-26...
Agree, no one will ever see your post. Also, the "Who wants to get hired" is a stupid fucking joke.
That's an illusory distinction.
And it's already off of the front page.
The dynamic here is exactly why a lot of fundamental questions rarely get litigated; both parties are terrified that a court case against them will create long term precedent. So they usually negotiate a compromise before the court decides.
Here is the link to the Piranha repo since I didn't see it mentioned in the article:
https://github.com/uber/piranha
There is an API to pass it non-python files (so that alongside your Python app it can watch your configuration files for instance/HTML files).

However it does not work for just watching a directory + running a command, it is specifically for watching Python code.
LTSC versions were not exempted from this regression.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-information...

> Affected platforms: ... Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019; ... Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2015; Windows 8.1
You can definitely set up automatic updates. I don't know the method off-hand but I've done it (on fedora) in the past.
Second time in the last hour I see it deleted and resubmitted? "Please don't delete and repost the same story." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> A corporation doesn’t have the power of the state to threaten to take away property or liberty.

Questionable, and to the extent that this is true, it is because of power given to governments to ensure those rights.
> On the other hand, AMZN stock has done much better than Facebook, Google, Apple over the last five years, so at least they have that.

Yes, but you don't have to work at AMZN to buy their stock. And RSUs are just another name for 'cash compensation, that was immediately spent on buying company stock'.
The paper:

WARDuino - A Dynamic WebAssembly Virtual Machine for Programming Microcontrollers

https://science.beardhatcode.be/papers/2019-WARDuino-MPLR.pd... (PDF)
Check [1] to see what I'm talking about. I'd suggest you to investigate more before making such bold claims.

[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ieBuArS...
Same thrust but less mass as the fuel burns up.
I wouldn't call this random. It demonstrates how small it really is, while still functional.
if you click Downloads, it won't give the C:\Users\User\Downloads path, it'll just give Downloads.
You have zero evidence for your 5% comment.

With how infrequent this stuff happens, and how often people jump between companies, I find it much more likely that the number is closer to 0.1% for a random software engineering job.

Or, in other words, it is nothing that anyone needs to worry about.

Your link is irrelevant because those examples were for VPs.

I am not talking about VPs. I am talking about a random software engineer at a top tech company. Those people don't have to worry.
I don't know how or why (exactly) but my site (https://audiobookreviews.com) has also been scrubbed from google but is top result on Duck Duck (we allow users to post torrent magnet links).

Google needs to die.
Yeah I was thinking a torrent too - seems like the only way to guarantee it stays up.
I took it more to mean that, e.g., when solving for 1+1 it won't be allowed to answer "tomatoes".
I mentioned this above—I feel like Apple's pro apps are highly analogous to what happened to the Mac. That doesn't portend a bright future.

Apple killed Shake, which was an industry standard at one point. They killed Aperture, which lots of photographers loved. They replaced Final Cut Pro 7 with a much more limited Final Cut X, and seeded lots of ground to Adobe in the process.

There's also OS X Server, although there's a strong argument to be made it wouldn't have survived in the modern world anyway, and Apple just saw the writing on the wall.

Logic does seem to have done consistently fine, at least, so that's something.
You are probably thinking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4

Bottleneck is in the input layer. While using a desktop computer look at the mouse cursor, now move the mouse - hardware accelerated 2D graphics, imperceptible latency.

Low latency thru orthogonal multiplexing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1VcC9_yhc0
> If not, I guess we'll just have to live with less creators in general. That is fine.

I was wondering if someone was going to make this argument.

1. Why is it fine?

2. How is "Actually, it's okay if there are fewer books in the world" a defense of "Internet Archive was in the right to give people access to books, because it's very important that people have access to books"?

If the world doesn't actually need people to write books unless they can afford to do so for free (or via crowdfunding/patronage), why did Internet Archive need to do anything at all, besides say "Authors, please make your books available for free if you can"? What was so important about the rest of the books?

And why abolish copyright? Is the world improved if we go from a small number of books available for free and several available under copyright to only a small number of books available for free?
+1. I recently made a variation of this argument on my FOSS app. [1] If it were commercial software with support I'd feel even more strongly.

Philosophically, people should be able to do what they want on their machines. But expecting support (eg figuring out how their third-party software has corrupted my database) is another matter, so I can see why people would install a speed-bump or two...

[1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/issues/44#issuecom...
Using sites that are infested by ads is the very reason to use an ad blocker.
Shakti, with roots in apl, seems to embody the latest cutting edge concepts
Considering ISPs and Nation states have injected additional scripts into plain HTML payloads, it does matter, technically.
Pro sports are (nowadays) highly specialized, highly optimized professions, where one millisecond counts. Whether it be though underlying genetic predisposition, or social opportunities/incentives (both discussed in other replies), it is not unlikely that one identifiable section of the population would have inherent advantages.

STEM (or similar endeavors) are no such thing and never will be. Progress in these fields require the entirety of human virtue (and perhaps vice) - over and above that which can be strictly measured, categorized, in-calculated or trained. There is no good reason why any part of humanity should be under-represented in these undertakings.
The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness [pdf]
Browsers don't have a way to block tracking cookies without collateral damage.
I feel like popular is an understatement—they were everywhere. They basically were the MP3 player market, and that was in turn how just about everyone listened to music. I can't say that today about the iPhone.
Guru would be cultural appropriation
Ah yeah we forked the codebase here and added NASA's api to it basically

https://github.com/cambecc/earth
I know that, but there IS a motor. Elon has said this himself. what you are describing is far more expensive than a phased array with the scan needed for no motor. It is not a solved, inexpensive problem. 5G and wifi use significantly lower frequencies, which is much easier and cheaper to implement the phased array. Starlink is Ku and Ka band. There are no examples of a consumer version of these that is cheap enough. The only thing that came close is the oneweb, but that's only Ku, and it only exists in a Wyler tweet.
I think given the firestorm that would erupt from the right side of the aisle if Trump's posts were deleted - there probably is a slightly specialised handling for his account (and other high profile accounts) vs the general populous for whom standard escalation processes kick in when a post is reported/flagged.

I'm not saying this is right or wrong.
Thank you, I wish I had known this 5 years ago.
You mean the power given to unelected departments like the FTC, FDA, etc that actually create regulations or the unelected judges with lifetime appointments or the unelected officials in the Department of Justice?
The word "copy" gets kind of strange in a digital world, but I think the closest analogue to this in the pre-digital world would be public performance, which is one of the limited rights under copyright.

I only need to buy one copy of sheet music (and maybe not even that, if I'm a quick learner) for a thousand people to enjoy my performance of it, but merely having the copy does not entitle me to perform it for those thousand people. The first-sale doctrine does allow me to resell the sheet music itself, for someone else to rehearse from or study, but that's it.
I've managed to be upvoted for saying conservative things more often than not here. You do have to pick your battles a bit and be careful how you say things, avoid responding to hostile vitriol with more of the same, be mindful of what will likely play well with a libertarian-ish hacker crowd, etc, but it can be done.

I've also seen some weird post score swings, like mildly pro-Trump things going down to -3, then back up to +3. We know there's a lot of orgs out there actively trying to influence social media, I wonder if any of them have downvote farms or bots pointed at HN? I'd be disappointed to learn that real HN regulars just reflexively downvote like that.

I don't see the suspect downvotes that grandparent sees though. Maybe gone already?
> their experience report

It's not "their" experience report.
> I think your point grossly misses the point of what my post (and indeed the two parents) were really getting at.

Most likely.
> For a time, many developers couldn't find fault with OS X and Mac hardware

Totally.

I bought my first Mac in 2007 and from that moment until 2013 I only had small complaints about the Mac platform.

Then my MBP 2011 suddenly died and by the time Apple started a repair program it had been collecting dust for almost 2 years. Then Yosemite came and it was the absolute worst version of macOS I've ever used.

These days I'm happy with my iMac 5K but I'm still using High Sierra. I will probably upgrade to Mojave at some point but that's it. I will _not_ upgrade to Catalina. Thank god I don't need Xcode.
Do Nigerian have such high levels in the USA because they need these degrees to immigrate?

https://africacheck.org/reports/nigerian-immigrants-top-clas...
By now it should be known that doesn't happen.
The flip side of this is there are a lot of teachers who claim (and probably believe!) they are poorly compensated, but are actually paid well if you factor in the cost of the pension.
Since this is already flagged, and only RSS power users will see this now, I will risk a negative comment. Sometimes HN seems like a great community of the the mind, a bastion from the flame storm that is the general conversation on the internet.. But sometimes you catch a glimpse of all that even here..
Not to disregard those who were trying to have good faith discussions here. I just feel sometimes like nowhere is beyond manipulation anymore..
What does "^H^H^H" mean? Is that code for "ass"?
It sounds pretty fancy. I'd want a very thorough set of unit tests before trusting code to delete code, though.
Most insurers that offer a tracking-based discount also offer policies without. It seems to me, all that matters is, on average, they don't offer a discount to tracker users that is larger than those users, as a pool, save them in claims.

The only incentive to get it "right" is that, if they do a really poor job at this, they will lose business to insurance companies that do a better job at it -- again, to the extent that the differences between insurers are significant, that customers are price sensitive, aware enough to shop around and compare the actual rates they pay, etc.

We already know that your non-tracker-based insurance premiums may vary wildly from one insurer to another. One may penalize you heavily for being 18. One may offer a larger discount to those who complete driver's ed courses, or own a car with airbags.

Maybe you'll be penalized for that first accident or ticket, or maybe your insurance company will give you some leeway (and, presumably, double down on the surcharge after your second accident).

I don't see how it's inherently obvious that an insurer that gets their tracker-based metrics 'wrong' will go out of business in short order. Again, all they have to do is charge more than they pay out in claims and overhead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C99SZRbw50E