skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It replaces my LaTex with unicode symbols that often look shitty, and are usually the wrong size. Also, it sometimes never rendered my equations. Don't let this totally dissuade you, I never really looked into it (switching to mathjax was easier) but I just remember that "out-of-the-box", a lot of things were broken.
It says that our world has descended into utter madness.
No need. Straight from the horse's mouth:

Secretary of State and former CIA director Mike Pompeo: "we lied, we cheated, we stole..."
Do you have any evidence of this?

I could not find any mention of secrets being shared with companies in the (very long) article you linked.
What exactly is your point? That no evil enterprise is that bad so long as it employs people? You will find yourself defending some pretty bad shit with that argument.
They can get jobs that actually contribute to improving society instead of causing pollution, thus improving the living conditions of everyone around them.

I could pay someone to break windows and then repair them, but that would be a bad thing.
Wow, that's nice! I must admit I wasn't particularly curious about it but a fortuitous click over the region where I live returned some really nice pictures! Nice exploration tool!

A feature request if I may: it would be incredible if somehow I could zoom in a bit on the world map as there are so many shots over multiple passes of the ISS that it's very hard to pinpoint the desired place on the map, it's almost by chance sometimes.
Why is group_id?
They specifically said "There is no evidence that mask use reduces transmission." ...despite a 2003 SARS WHO study showing a 65% reduction in community transmission even with basic surgical masks.

The conspiracy people say it's because they wanted to protect mask supplies - but most people just blame incompetence.
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? That doesn't say anything about the costs, if you're going to claim that it's insignificant to costs than you need to back that up. For all we know that 8% could be the bulk of the costs.
Twitter and Reddit are both known to be poorly-engineered and ridiculously heavy applications. They're very slow on Firefox, too, and probably any browser you care to use.
better yet, why don't we just strike the word "master" from the English language, that way no mortal will make the mistake ever again?
This is so cool! Thanks for sharing and great job to you both, some great wallpaper worthy shots here
U.S. also spends an extraordinary amount on schooling: $12,201 per year per student in 2017 (K-12 education) [1].

College education spending is also very high, as public colleges and universities are highly subsidized (typically an in-state student only pays about 1/3 to 1/4 of total costs, which is why out-of-state is more expensive) [2]. Keep in mind, low income students are eligible for Pell grants. There's a lot of federal and state funding of research, etc.

I would wager U.S. is among the highest in per capita spending for education.

[1] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2019/school-s...).
[2] https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-co...
If it's triggering underlying emotional trauma, then there's still unhealed/unprocessed trauma; rightfully so, though "actions speak louder than words" seems oddly fitting here.
In that case. It's very likely to be done to existing projects.

Creating a different branch requires commiting to the repo, at least from what I understand.

And and branch name is just a text field.
Newsflash: most software makes assumptions that it shouldn't. Doesn't mean it's acceptable for something like Github to break it just because "well, you shouldn't have done that".
It's not like they can just take your one request and push it to the head of the line because you say it's urgent.

Everyone gets their turn.
This is my favorite example of insane requirements:

He devoted an entire session to the French Railroad payroll program. The French Railroad had gone on an economy program and reduced their number of employees from 540000 to 360000. So that was the size of the payroll that was run on the computer in Paris. That payroll must be the most difficult payroll in the world to run. The size of the payroll is only the tip of the iceberg. An Engineers' (i. e. A train driver) salary is a function of the amount of power that he uses. So if he is on an uphill run, he makes more money than on a downhill run.

The employees live in government housing and their rent is deducted from their pay. People with a lot of dependents get more money than people with a few dependents. A veteran gets more money for each medal that he won in the war. The amount of money depends on the medal. A Purple Heart is worth more than a Sharpshooters medal.
Not enough. Master branch should be deleted outright. Then go in and pattern match the word "slave" in people's code and delete that as well (including all prior revisions). Only then will systemic racism be fully abolished. /s

At the speed this is going, I'm beginning to worry about my master's degree, male/female connectors, and color coding in electrical code.
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De Beers held a diamond monopoly and stock piled diamonds to drive up prices for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Beers
Pray that git doesn't fall victim to the same disease. That might cause an avalanche of stupidity like this one among VCS web GUIs.
I read his comment as "inherent racial disparities in ability". For basketball, I doubt you'll find many that disagree.

For STEM, or computer programming and math at least, it's far harder to know. Certainly there are very few black people in tech/math, at least at the higher levels.

Perhaps part of the problem is that empty virtue signaling (like banning the terms "master" and "slave") is easy, but actually doing the work that would really matter is hard. I spent a couple hours helping a black kid polish up for his Google interview (he made it).

That's something, but it will really take serious tutoring and a society wide scale to bridge the gap. And other socioeconomic factors might still prove overwhelming.

And for gods' sake, the whole "girls that code" thing needs to die right now. Can you imagine how a young black man would be affected by that?
The company was De Beers and they no longer have a monopoly: https://www.diamondportfolio.com.au/investor-centre/market-i...
The law is much more favorable to employees, and the legal definition of conflict of interest is more narrow than the company would like you to believe.
> Research has pointed out that students are more likely to regard teachers of the same race and ethnicity as role models, and due to proximity to them, put more effort into education and have higher college ambitions.

Is this claiming that students in homogeneous societies are at an advantage, because they are more likely to share their teacher's ethnicity?
> People realised that you maximize the throughput of the raw medium if you push it hard enough it has a high error rate

When?

FEC has been used in optical systems for decades. The undersea fiber guys have been using it in production at least since the 90s, for example. So I'm a little amazed that decades went by before someone noticed that you can throw BER out the window for the components and drivers to improve the overall system BER.
Very cool. In a few moments I was able to find this picture of Hawaii, looks like there's some impression in the surface. Old volcano, meteor? :)

https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/DatabaseImages/ESC/large/ISS052/ISS...
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I once fasted for about a week while suffering an illness that wouldn't let me keep any food down. I only drank water during that time. To my surprise, after several days of not eating, my hunger disappeared completely. It was scary, but also eye-opening. The experience taught me that hunger is not the "you require food right now in order to survive" signal that everyone thinks it is.
Turns out that PHP was "serverless" the whole time.
The usage of a timestamp (stored as a TEXT column!) as a primary key sets off every single alarm bell I have in my head. This is a shockingly poor decision, and a terrible way to enforce semantic uniqueness.
https://archive.vn/NBoiL
I think that you would be shocked to find out how little an annuity costs that pays out starting at age 62 (common US federal government minimum retirement age).

I don’t know the specifics of the examples you are thinking of, but pricing the pension value/cost at $50k a year probably posits some extreme assumptions (e.g., start and retire at lowest age, end with a very high salary, take pension with full value immediately, and live a very long time).
Presumably for the same reason no one else is interested: https://www.govtech.com/education/k-12/New-Research-Shows-De...
Did not find a logo for Logosear.ch though!
When will all this political correctness and social justice warrior nonsense stop? Just because a word can be used in a way that causes offense, doesn't mean that it's always used that way. Also, people need to relax a bit and not hunt down things that could potentially offend so aggressively. Take it easy, if something offensive was intended you'll probably know from the surrounding context - stop shooting down individual words.
Chances are, the average Joe (pun intended) will not make a better cup than Nespresso, at least based on this ( https://www.grubstreet.com/2013/03/nespresso-sold-at-micheli... ) and this ( https://www.businessinsider.com/baristas-are-going-obsolete-... ).

Of course, if you pour bad water into your machine, you're still not going to get the best you could get regardless of which method you use.

And I wasn't speaking anything about price (where Nespresso loses). Nor was I speaking of convenience (where Nespresso is great for 1-2 cups at a time).

I used an Aeropress for years, and it is tricky to get consistent results; plus it's a bit of a cleanup chore. Also, there's still the question of whether to use the Aeropress the way it was intended, or instead to do the upside-down brief-brew method.

I currently happily use a standard Melitta brewer where I can put good beans, freshly ground, and good water in and then get 10 cups of coffee 10 minutes later. My partner and I wouldn't enjoy our liesurely outdoor coffee time nearly as much if one of us were having to run back in the house and make a new Aeropress coffee every 15 minutes.

(Incidentally, make the pot of coffee and then pour it into a pre-warmed thermal carafe. It's not good to keep cooking it on the burner.)
Until you mentioned it, I didn't even realise this was a PC thing.

I'm all for improving the rights of minorities, but this behavior of eradicating all trace of references to anything tentatively related to historical racism seems like useless noise at best and dangerously naive at worst...

If our society becomes so sensitive that we cannot even utter a word that implies another word which when placed in an entirely different context and the assumption of malicious intent becomes racist then we are doomed to repeat history as a species - i.e unchecked, this pattern of behavior can only evolve into censorship which is itself detrimental to future generations understanding racism in our history.
It's pretty offensive to assume that women just want "marriage, ring, baby, house"
I could venture a guess, and its probably why i'll never go from my current job as a diesel mechanic to junior python programmer no matter how badly i want to:

criminal record.

in the US you can discriminate against employees who have any sort of criminal record. I've served jailtime for possession of cannabis, so that automatically rules me out for a lot of white-collar jobs. Black people tend to get the brunt of policing, and hold disproportionately high rates of misdemeanor and felony charges and longer sentences. I got 3 years for my conviction, but i know a black machinist who served 8 and a parole for an almost identical charge.

We call them "correctional facilities" but continue to discriminate in housing and employment for anyone who's been 'corrected' in one...sort of a standing biblical retribution.
> For a company like Amazon, wouldn't a huge chunk of tech companies be competitors?

Yes. You nailed it. Exactly. That's why these non-compete agreements are unconscionable.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jenkinsci-dev/CLR55w...
This is good at first, but I deployed on a very small machine, that couldn't handle the live application + the Docker image being built, thus why I wanted to build the image in my CI pipelines.
- bad or missing tooling

- no clear direction

- no vision

- no ide

- no big company

- bad or missing documentation
Since Mozilla doesn't collect search, browsing, location, and email history — No, it's not the same. It's not even close.
Why do you assume this is driven by anger and that the worries here are "coddling" and a "weaker society"? Why can't this simply be "hey, that term has some serious historical baggage and it doesn't sit right with some people, why not change it?

As a white person, the term "slave" in distributed systems always made me feel that way. Not as much for master and whitelist/blacklist personally, but I see no harm in transitioning our terminology away from these types of terms. It's simply a subconscious effect that helps engrain bad defaults we shouldn't be teaching people like "white good, black bad". Study after study has shown that has bigger psychological effects. None of that has to do with anger.

Can we please get rid of this narrative about "coddling" and "triggering" and "anger" when the reasoning for changing terminology has nothing to do with it?
> latest macos doesn't support hardware encoding. Once video is on VP8 iPhone will became hot, 5 year old MBP turns on all fans

I don't understand. Why isn't your question "Why is Apple so extremely late to the party?" ?

An iPhone becoming hot with VP8 is caused by Apple not improving VP8 support, not by any inherent quality of H.264. They have been denying for quite a lot of time that the industry did standardize and make mandatory the support for both H.264 and VP8 if you want to implement WebRTC. Apple ignored that and until very recently, they decided to ignore half of those codecs.

If I had to guess, maybe "everyone" is "obsessed" with VP8 because H.264 is encumbered by royalties and stuff. VP8 is royalty-free, and its successor VP9 is too.
That was my first thought. Probably (maybe wrong, just IME) most 'people from the Western portion of continental Asia' don't see themselves (I suppose we say 'self-identify' now) as 'Asian'.

Similarly to we Britons speaking of 'Europe' and particularly 'Europeans' with the 'continental' implied - and even that phrase not really making sense, not meaning the same as 'mainland'!
I think if you actually did all that then you’d almost certainly get the job. I wonder why there’s that disconnect?
That would support the hypothesis, if latinx people check ‘other’ and ‘of Hispanic descent’.

Many modern forms just say ‘check any that apply’, so you can check both white and Asian, for example.
I get what you're saying, but the evidence in my experience seems to prove otherwise if I can't get into Google or Facebook after trying nearly a dozen times between them.

I make around ~$150k a year right now. If I get promoted this year, I'll make $180k. Google engineers start at around $200k. By nature of the free market of labor it seems like I'm only worth about 75% of a Google engineer at maximum to work on identical things.

Folks have told me to "just go to Google" don't understand the anguish of being worth 75% of a human at best, and not having the intelligence to pass an interview loop anywhere consistently.
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When I did my computer engineering undergrad, there were just a handful of US-born white people (or black people) in any of my classes. They were mostly filled with the children of working-class immigrants and foreign students.

edit: we joked that the progression of generations went: immigrant maid/janitor -> engineer/nurse/lab tech -> doctor/lawyer -> artist/unemployed philosopher
The concept of a master branch is completely detached from distributed systems, so much that every clone of a repository has a separate master branch.

I am not a native speaker so my brain might work differently but I don't believe the theory on associations. We're even talking of a noun vs an adjective. Do people make the same associations also when you hear about a Masters degree? Or when you hear about Slavic people, do you feel for the times when they were enslaved?

I have no problem with replacing master/slave, there are usually clearer names since that pair has been overloaded (though changing master/slave to master/replica should be just as acceptable as e.g. primary/replica or active/backup, for the same reason!). Even outside distributed systems other names are clearer (controller/device for example).
Noodler's Air Corps Blue-black, here! :-)

I was mostly looking at the mold comment.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jenkinsci-dev/CLR55w...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12736061
Oh, I'm sure it is. The problem is that they could sue me anyways.
> You sure you can do so in court when the company comes after you with its top-notch legal team?

Here is your mistake. The reality is, that they arent going to do that, the vast majority of the time.

The only time when it maybe might happen, is in far out there situations, such as, for example, when that self-driving car guy, built his own multi-hundred million dollar company, on the basis of stolen google documents.

And even then google only went after this guy, after he sold the company to Uber. Before that, google was perfectly fine with the guy running his mult-hundred million dollar company.

Are you going to create a multi-hundred million dollar company, on the basis of literal stolen documents? No? then you almost certainly don't have to worry about it. Nobody is coming after you.
So your premise is all Black people have criminal records and that is why they aren't in STEM?
Doesn't America have a great deal of mixed-race people (like their prior President)? Or is that not usually treated as a separate category there?
This is incorrect. Non-competes are enforceable, and are enforced, in the majority of US states.
I've heard from a few former Amazonians the same story: Amazon puts a hard cap on stock grants too, so if the stocks grow and you're due to a stock refresher, that stock refresher is withdrawn on the grounds of "your current stock has grown enough already". The total comp numbers are just OK in Amazon too.
Yep, thanks for sharing!

Can someone recommend tools that can help me build something like this? So far, I've thought of Docusaurus+Gitlab+Netlify with a custom domain to build such a website but wondering if there's something better.

OP's tool looks cool. But I am fairly technical, so looking for something I can fully control and isn't tied to a monthly subscription.
It's an interesting economic phenomenon, trying to keep your generated economic output of labor local. Always seems to be done by relatively isolated sub-communities (socially or geographically), where, let's call it, artisan shopowners seem to be the beneficiaries. Usually not where there's a whole lot of meaningful industrial activity to begin with...

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_currencies_i...
Two things:

1. Where did I say anything about emotional trauma?

2. Even if that was the case (for most it is not as far as I can tell), I am surprised to hear an argument for "ah yes, let's not decrease emotional trauma if we can for low/no cost".
This reminds me of a problem I've been having on newer versions of Chrome. Chrome, even if I'm not using it for anything, will sometimes consume so much power it drains my battery while plugged in (albeit to a previous-gen 85W brick with an adapter). There are a few threads on chrome support[1], but one of the theories is that Chrome's internal SQLite database that is used for tracking history locally is the source of the drain.

[1] https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/17537877?hl=en
Not all black people, even in America, are African Americans. Which makes the term wrong even for people. This is a whole new level of stupidity, however, on par with say renaming the git master branch.
They have infinite dollars to pay attorneys.

Do you?
Does your new employer like you enough to pay for attorneys?
The general advice that I've heard (and which I agree with) is that when you propose should be the big surprise/reveal, not that you're proposing.

It seems to be best if both partners have discussed and agreed on marriage prior to the actual proposal, and it would then make sense to also have discussed the kind of ring (or price class of ring at least) that they would want.

Exactly what ring you get can be a surprise of course, but I think the price tag should be somewhat known beforehand.
Do you have data to back this up? My understanding was that the viewership was predominately White/Asian/Hispanic with black being the minority.
Amazon was the best offer I got out of undergrad. I came very close to doing some very bad things to myself when I got rejected from Facebook and Google after my onsites and was depressed for months.

Please have some empathy for people like me that can't waltz into any job and don't say things like this.
Why is that the first thing people think of when it comes to explaining black behavior is that they must be poor? Not all black people are poor. Stop it with the stereotypes.
Wow. That's pretty cool! Bummer that nothing comes up when you search for logosear.?ch ;-).
> There is a curse on these ideas, so please contact me if you want to use them elsewhere.

I've added my own curse, so also contact me if you need a license to use them. :-)
Most the folks I know in their 40s and older fit that mold, myself included. I make enough. My retirement nest egg is big enough. My job works for me.

Such a life would sound non-ambitious to someone in their 20s. But I did the startup thing in the first dotcom boom. I made software that was used worldwide, and went from "I want to code" to "I was the lead in a successful product" before I turned 28. My goals were met early.

Nowadays, I like to spend time with my children. We go out on the weekends and explore the mountains. I spent yesterday sitting in a zero-g lawn chair next to a lake nestled between forests and mountains, in the Rockies, chatting with my wife while my children ran through the forests and swam in the lake. I'll take a day like that over more money in my bank account, every day.
I think it's because of Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is clearly Latin-American, but many Puertoricans would identify as Black as well, and these two are independent.
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Then it would be very convenient to have keyword arguments, as in the case presented by the previous poster
That's how the U.S. operates today. Schools are run by the state, although they do get some federal subsidies and those come with a lot of strings attached, they are largely run by the states individually. And in K-12 each school district has its own administration. The colleges and universities, except for the private ones, are run by the state.
in many states, a felony conviction will disqualify you from education grants.

that same felony will also basically permaban you from any educational loans, or most other loans fwiw. Check cashing is now your friend.

Also not all black people, but the fact that black people make up 14% of america but 40% of the prison population is not helping the prospects for a more diverse STEM.
>scientists are not in the business of filling reports

The primary task of a PI these days is to write grant applications.