skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas

>Thomas has recollected that his Yale Juris Doctor degree was not taken seriously by law firms to which he applied after graduating. He said that potential employers assumed he obtained it because of affirmative action policies.[18] In 1969 Dean Louis Pollak wrote that the law school was expanding its program of quotas for black applicants, with up to 24 entering that year admitted under a system that deemphasized grades and LSAT scores.[19] According to Thomas, he was "asked pointed questions, unsubtly suggesting that they doubted I was as smart as my grades indicated."[20] He further reflected:

> ⠀⠀ "I peeled a fifteen-cent sticker off a package of cigars and stuck it on the frame of my law degree to remind myself of the mistake I'd made by going to Yale. I never did change my mind about its value."[21]
Love that idea! In this society many people will be severely discouraged from crimes under threat of being banned from social platforms.

You can even think up a dystopia where Facebook does the policing.
You can always construct a credible argument for how any statement is "encouraging sentiment that does lead to real world violence and other harms".

So with that "exception", you can ban absolutely anything.
It depends how you define market. Apple has control over 100% of ios apps.

I doubt ms had 90% of consumer electronics market or even os.
Yes, the joke is that unemployment benefits are the real Endowment for the Arts. One wonders if we would have a healthier society if those who are capable of creating great art could do so by being freed up from financial constraints.
My company released a course for helping beginners learn Python for Data (cont)
I removed that portion of my comment before I saw your response because it was a poorly developed thought that detracted from the substance of my original comment.
Diversity of viewpoints is essential for long term prosperity - it allows for a marketplace of ideas and limits blind spots.

The first time this really clicked for me was when I dived deeply into the history of the First World War. If I could restate the root cause, it was complete failure by both the British and especially the Germans to envision a point of view different from their own. They each operated like they were sparring with themselves, and shit got out of control. The problem is that it’s now vogue to assume what point of view a person holds bases entirely on their race/gender/etc.

P.S. If WWI sounds interesting, I very much recommend the podcast “When Diplomacy Fails.”
We just want justice.
We need to ask how and why people found themselves in “underrepresented” and “marginalized” categories in first place. Piketty [1], Katznelson [2] (white people are happy to go along with set asides and actions to address class inequity, as long as no Black or Brown folk are involved) might be worth pondering.
I hope that everyone is using the opportunity to understand the processes that got us to mass uprisings in most U.S. cities.

Funny, I had to have drawn out argument with a white surgeon — day after day a few months back. He didn’t think my mother’s Black life was worth much.

[1] http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2020SlidesLongVersion...
[2] http://origins.osu.edu/review/when-affirmative-action-was-wh...
>You then end up with no body buying the console. It would cost $999,

If people are bad at gathering enough money at once then there are options like pay 999 now or pay 1099 over 2 years period. This is not in the interest of the consumer so it will not happen without regulation.
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. It describes common practice for US Federal government business in response to the creation of minority business preferences in contracting.

Many companies that are not actually minority-owned essentially rent minority-owned shell companies to clear the qualification hurdle for contract preferences, it is de rigueur unless you have unique capabilities that make it likely you'll get a contract award regardless. The obvious consequence is that once every company is "minority owned" no company is and you are back to where you started, just with some middlemen.
I tire of this suggestion. It made sense to me, so a few years I started subscribing to several newspapers, digitally.

Suddenly I was getting paper newspapers all the time. This became a safety / security concern because when I would travel, the newspapers would pile up. Nevermind the sheer amount of waste. Since I didn't actually ask for delivery, I had no mechanism to put my deliveries on hold. I contacted the various newspapers 3-8 different times to ask them to stop. Eventually they all only stopped when I cancelled my digital subscription and told them that was the reason.

I also wasn't very happy with the news I was paying to get. Even though I was paying, it was still riddled with ads, and heavy on the click-bait. I would find an article with a compelling subject, but felt the writing lacked substance. So I would go look up similar articles from other sources, and have to read 5 or 6 before I felt I had a good sense of enough of the facts to judge any of the articles by. There was never 1 outlet I could pay for that I consistently felt had a well-rounded, factual statement of a story. I'm not paying for 5 or 6 newspapers and doing that much work for every story I read, sorry. If only for my emotional health, I'll choose to remain ignorant at that point.

This was mostly local papers. I would be willing to try a couple of national papers if they didn't have similar problems, but as far as I can tell, they do - but at least it's less severe.

I probably should support some international news sources as they are a lot better in this regard (like Reuters, Al Jazeera, BBC) but I don't think I've ever been prompted to subscribe. I just checked Reuter's website and I don't even see the option. Is that even the business model with these sources? But that's all beside the point.

If I pay, will I get an RSS feed? No.
> she weighed whether to include her involvement in a black student organization

I suspect the same bias would hold true if someone applied for a job bragging about being in a white student organization.

Would you hire someone was a member of the Society of White Engineers? Probably not.
I'm not sure you're familiar with RSS. By default, you don't receive notifications for each item, nor do you have to explicitly mark them as read or scroll through their contents.
Perhaps the apps are higher quality in iOS due to the App Store policy, and consumers are more likely to invest in that quality.

Remove the gate, the quality dips. I'd imagine the amount willing to pay goes down too.
What's wrong with that? I trust Apple more to cancel a subscription correctly and stop billing me than most other companies.
It's really no more obtuse than people trying to change the world of entrepreneurship by writing about getting 'ramen-profitable' or 'fuck you money' or 'bikeshedding'.

Someone writing Medium blogs about startups probably expects the target audience to have at least a passing familiarity with what comparing an approach to Steve Blank might imply, and academic business schools referencing Veblen aren't very different.
We would also play better golf. Still keen to subsidise it?
I don't have an Apple device. I put my money where my mouth is. But I am sure that some of the services I am buying are more expensive because of the Apple tax and I am paying Apple tax anyway.

Bad taste in my mouth is not going to accomplish anything. Simply not buying an Apple device does not accomplish anything either. Speaking out, raising awareness, asking for regulations, etc. is the only way to accomplish anything.
"diversity and inclusion" initiatives are coming up on a long overdue reckoning. The premise is to allege discrimination, based solely on "evidence" in the form of inequality of outcome, and then use that unilateral accusation as justification for the accusing party to practice the discrimination they claim to oppose. Bonus: you are liable to lose your job for criticising these practices.

The comments ITT suggest that perhaps the taboo surrounding criticism of diversity initiatives is finally lifting, and rightly so.
> Selling at a loss is also called "dumping" and Is generally considered as a illegal anticompetitive practice

No, this is wrong. Dumping is selling at a loss unsustainably in the short term to drive out competitors. If you do it sustainably, it basically can't be dumping.

Thousands of business have loss leaders, from supermarkets to rasers. Video game consoles are not an exception.
For those you, can show people that they do use it. For RSS, they don't use it.

I love RSS as much as most of older tech geeks, but I'm fully aware it's as relevant nowadays as usenet, and don't expect non-geeky surfaces to support it.
They just want to displace pinterest's SEO from their image search results. This could actually be useful for them
I measure virtue by how much you are willing to lose for the sake of your values or because you want to help other people. If you aren't willing to give up anything, you're not virtuous no matter what you say. Actions matter.

If you say you care about privacy but do nothing to protect your privacy, you don't really care about privacy in any way that matters. Since you mildly inconvenience yourself for the sake of privacy, I can conclude based on this very limited evidence that you mildly care about privacy, which is a whole lot more than most people care about it.

Apple markets itself as privacy conscious because that makes Apple look like a trustworthy company. That's a rare and beneficial appearance that a company can maintain to get more business.

Not all gay people care about their privacy. Plenty live in states where they feel more free to open up to their friends, family, and neighbors.
That's fair! We didn't use any fancy process for loop tuning. I basically played around with it until we were getting decent convergence.
this is the slow version of idiots falling into the grand canyon trying to get a great selfie.
I thought they were talking about https://build.opensuse.org/
We had all kind of theories too, up to the moment we said fuck it and took our son with us into our bed.

We slept, oh sweet sleep. Zero guilt.

The second one was sleeping in his bed 3 seconds after putting him in. He still does at 14 yo.
Perhaps I wasn't clear. Unless you can voice an opinion with which others disagree without legal or serious social consequences, you do not have free speech.
You can't fight the power without upsetting people.
> Respondents who said they'd gone to work or outside while showing coronavirus symptoms were three times more likely to get a "great deal" of their information from YouTube and Facebook.

That's the important bit right there. I don't care so much about people messing with their own brains filling them with lint as I do about people messing with other people's bodies by spewing virus in public.

Nevertheless, raises the question: what percentage of respondents said they'd gone outside with C19 symptoms?

Also, this article reads as if it were generated by AI.
What you describe in the digital age will be an illusion of freedom. Delivery of the bits will still be locked down tighter than ever. Delivery allows filtering. The future is very bleak.
Do you ever plan on adding live video for the coaching or trainers?

Additionally, would preventative health reminders be coordinated with the patient’s PCP in some way? For example, you wouldn’t want to tell a user to go get blood work for checking lipids when they just had it done the other day.
This Quora answer seems really weird and the Wikipedia article doesn't clarify much. I recall people talking about the hiptop using NetBSD pretty early on...
I kindof get them calling DangerOS an OS though after reading through the answer, its kinda a meta-OS...
While I obviously still use email, the company I work for doesn't use it. We only use slack (and various other communication tools like Github and Monday).

We use our personal emails to set up the accounts. It's an interesting experiment that seems to be working fine so far. Not sure how it will work as we continue to grow (only about 40 employees right now.)
"But what if the genociders are right?"
I have avoided commercial smartphone products entirely, yes, and very much on purpose.

I have not avoided technology in general, not by a long shot.
30% is extemely steep and I think if it was 15% hardly anyone would complain.

This is just my opinion, but a 30% tax is there because they provide something that the competition doesn't.
And that is automated security updates by default for at least 5 years and user friendly app permission management where I really can trust my settings to provide me privacy by default.

You will not get that from Google, they barely support their own devices for more than 3 years, I still have no idea if advertisers are allowed to read my gmail or not.

I remember recently a friend getting an old ipad mini with a nice screen but poor cpu specs, 1gb ram. And guess what, it ran fine, it's getting security and feature updates the same day as every other apple device. TouchID worked, everything actually just worked I can trust that thing my bank account.

And recently I found my old Nexus 7 with amazing specs, quad core , 4gb ram, 1920:1200 screen and now I have to do bootloader & operating system surgery just to get the thing to work.

Everytime I've heard of someone get their bank account hacked it usually has started with a text sent to an out of date android phone. For that reason alone I can't recommend a non-technical person to use android unless they understand security or it's on a brand new Pixel device.

If I'm building and deploying software and I want to have the piece of mind that all my users are running it on a secure platform that at least tries to respect their privacy my best choice is an iOS device and for that Apple wants a 3rd of my revenue.
One way to solve this would be to regulate only the largest platforms. So maybe this different kind of net neutrality only applies to Twitter/Facebook/YouTube, domain registrars, ISPs, large cloud providers and other significant privately-owned infrastructure, but not to every random bit player with no real market share.

Otherwise, what happens if the ISPs decide that, say, Net Neutrality cuts into their profit margins, so they're just not going to route traffic for the sites that are politically antagonistic to them right before the election?

Sure would be a shame if something happened to that site of yours, huh?
Behavioral Econ is where all the energy is right now. Advances in computing, data collection, and statistical methods have enabled levels of quantitative analysis around natural experiments that nobody thought possible even a few years ago.

>Social science theories, when faithfully implemented, have had some terrible results.

I think the challenge is that there isn't such a thing as "faithfully" implementing a social science theory. There is too much unaccounted for to just blindly apply. What you're describing sounds more like ideology, which is generally a step or two removed from the underlying theory. Social scientists are themselves aware of the limitations around generalizability of any specific truth claim. It's mostly the pop-version that get a mind of their own and start getting applied uncritically. And the shift of expert opinion in the policy world from actual, practicing social scientists to political flacks and industry types has really ramped up this tendency.

Part of the challenge is that there is also lots of ideologically motivated funding in economics and social science that is attempting to put its fingers on the scales of academic inquiry.

>Was Endogenous Growth Theory the basis for higher education subsidies, or is that a different flavour of human capital theory?

Partly. Depends on whether you're talking about in the US context or a developing country context. In the latter, from the perspective of financial institutions like the World Bank it mostly guided where the loans were disbursed. Previously the focus was very much on infrastructure. Endogenous growth theory started encouraging them to pivot to investments in education and healthcare instead. One of the challenges is that infrastructure is fairly easy and politically popular (powerful people get to bid on the contracts and it creates a rich vein for cronyism and kickbacks). Education and healthcare take more mature organizational capacity and, once you start promising it, people start getting mad at you when you suck at it and vote you out.

In developed countries education subsidies are very old. Even high education was mostly viewed as a public responsibility until fairly recently when the risk was offloaded to students instead. American Land Grant universities, particularly the University of California school system, were an early case study to prove the value of education as a growth driver.
Thank you, I missed that on my first pass.
> Companies are not personal, they are purely about managing business and risks.

Let's completely refute this notion:

"Companies with more culturally and ethnically diverse executive teams were 33% more likely to see better-than-average profits. In McKinsey’s previous study—conducted with 2014 numbers—that increase had been 35%. At the board of directors level, more ethnically and cultural diverse companies were 43% more likely to see above-average profits, showing a significant correlation between diversity and performance."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2018/01/25/more-...
Wirecard CEO resigns as $2B goes missing, fraud claims fly
Wow, Hey doesn't have SMTP support? That's ridiculous.
> He started building his team in late 2015, and what grew into a 1,000-strong group of engineers

There were about 30 people in the original iPhone team. Something tells me larger teams find it hard to bring out innovations faster.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/13/15782200/one-device-secre...
Well, I'm so glad that today I can also bash the 30% cost of doing business on the App Store, like I did yesterday and two days ago. And the day before that. Maybe I can also do that tomorrow, because hey, it should be 0%. Apple has enough money anyway, right?

After that, I'll probably hop into my race car for 24hrs. And start talking to people about capitalism after freeloading on the App Store for 8 years.
> I don't have a problem with some corrective action.

What you're arguing in favor of is addressing problems from technical debt by adding more technical debt on top.

The corrective action is to perform a root cause analysis and fix things at the root.
> Are there many applications these days which are not available as a "web app" aka website?

I hope you mean "are there many application these days which cannot be replaced with web app". The majority of desktop applications are not available as web apps.

I'd say the majority of several dozen applications I use on a daily basis could not be replaced with a web app, at least today.

Of course with web browsers becoming their own operating systems, most of the applications could in theory become web apps...
The difficulty is that communication networks form natural monopolies due to Metcalfe's law, unless we legislate APIs for open connection and federation. Which is probably above regulators' capabilities, and definitely above our political capabilities.

The most straightforward way would be to mandate that web services had to allow API access for everything the web interface does, so users could use client software to aggregate multiple services. But this would undermine websites ability to make money off adspam, which while great, means it's politically a non-starter.
If you open it up, what you end up with is, no one pays for your app, because there is 20 other free ones that are good enough.

Developers all want into the walled garden because it is a great walled garden, consumers are very happy, they trust it more, they spend more. But when you let everything in, it becomes a dumpster fire of crapware, and people overall spend less.

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-users-spend-twice-apps...

I'd argue Apple's walled garden is better for good quality developers. There are cases that suck - but that is an exception to the rule.
> loaded terms like "master" and "slave" have been ongoing in the community for some time, but recent world events have given them a new urgency

World events? Isn't it just the US?
So in your particular example you can't add micromorts - you can only die once, so if you die in the first round, you don't get to play the second round. And if you could, the number of known-to-be-empty-chambers and/or bullets has changed, which changes the probability.

But you can add micromorts in the case where n people are playing separate games of Russian Roulette.

As another example, the Wikipedia page says that this is equivalent to 1 micromort:

> Traveling 6000 miles (10,000 km) by jet (cancer due to increased background radiation)

If you're just trying to calculate your own risk as a passenger, you can't just multiply 1 micromort by the number of 10,000 km trips you take. But if you're operating a flight, then you can multiply it by the number of passengers on this 10,000 km flight.

It has more to do with the nature of the thing you're trying to model, than it does with the nature of the unit.
I mention this whenever FastMail comes up: it is way too expensive to equip my family of 6. Give me a sanely priced family plan and I am in.
Your site suggests it's based in San Marino, but it doesn't seem to cover any Italian news, nor does it seem to cover global news

Your motto is "Just what's happening in the world."

Scrolling down your (never ending) front page shows a single item of global significance - The highest number of coronavirus cases were reported to WHO in a single day yesterday
Rather than having to keep the drill bit cool, to drill through ice you could use a heated drill bit. Perhaps using using radioactive material to heat the drill bit and cut through the ice like a hot knife.

(Of course, irradiating an alien ocean is perhaps not the greatest idea ever.)
But 95% of computers sold ran windows then. 10% of computers run MacOS now and maybe 20% of phones. Just buy a different computer, or don't... Or if you are a developer, make software for Windows or Android instead.
If you go back to Popper's paradox of tolerance, it was predicated on protecting oneself from those who used "fists or pistols" rather than words to argue.
Americans and citizens of high GDP countries are totally the scarfaces in this scenario
Agreed. Oracle sends their dataset to like 200 different partners and it’s in a constant state of being updated, so it’s not surprising one of those was misconfigured.
Sorry, point withdrawn!
We probably do disagree. I think that there is certain speech that justifies firing someone.
I understand your point. I just suspect, perhaps wrongly, that people asking the question on HN may be inclined to base serious stuff on their tourist's understanding of French. There's a place for tourist math, but it can be dangerous when misused.
That's a pity, I use RSS to forward feeds from many news sites to my telegram.
Agreed, aside from one major difference, which is that I'd substitute "and called" for "rather than call".
Thanks for the idea! Definitely something to consider for the future, though we'll need to bring on a few experts to develop the content and pathways first. We've seen online solutions like https://donefirst.com/ but that seems like a more pharmaceutical approach.
The fact that Microsoft was a subject to the anti-trust investigation for giving away their browser for free is not an indicator of a just law and its correct application. The law is flawed and that case was simply a hint to MS that they should've lobbied proper people in the government. "Pay us or else" - a typical practice of any government with unreasonably wide powers over country's economy.