skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
African Americans and Hispanics are hired at lower rates into the IT sector because they have poorer outcomes in school, particularly for mathematics.

How does racially-biased hiring address that other than just placing unproductive workers into roles they are not qualified for, with flow-on negative impacts to the rest of the company and society?

Why is it that migrants from poor countries like Ghana, Nigeria outperform African Americans, when those migrants have no connections or local advantages?

It would seem to me that there are fundamental cultural problems in some ethnic groups in the US (eg. father absence, 'acting white' meme) that if addressed would actually yield improvements. Deciding not to hire White or Asian workers at Google does not - instead it diminishes the achievement or any Black or Hispanic worker who was hired based on their actual capability instead of just their skin color.
You are 100% right, it is AVX1 I was thinking about (which nowadays I am not sure if that has downclock or not either).
Oppertunity-Solution Trees
Yep. He even married a McKinsey partner back when that was an admirable career.
Batteries would fit perfectly in the cane, and possible acoustic proximity sensors like those on cars.
Usually name, accent, dialect, food habits. It's not visible upfront, but a few minutes of conversation will get that information.

There is a skin colour bias, but that isn't about caste (darker skin is a sign that you have to work in the sun, which signals poverty and being of a lower economic class).
And LSP is yet SO MUCH better
> try to charge people to use maps

I think lots of consumers would be willing to pay for Google Maps.
Analyzing Apple Glass Leak and Asking the Right Questions
Thank you for the insights.

Lately, I have also been thinking about different subjects such as flowers, art history, music theory, about animals (how insects, or bats work).

My question, how do you choose books if you intend to learn such subjects as non-expert? And if you can recommend any good books?
> Governments “did not want to spend pennies in January; now they are going to spend trillions”

Based in the UK here, and this is what I find particularly galling.

If governments, including ours, had imposed travel restrictions in January people would have kicked up about it, and the travel industry would have been slammed, but thousands of lives would have been saved, and we would not now be in our deepest economic slump in over 40 years.

Sadly, as with various other countries, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that the people at the highest levels of government and civil service here are utterly incompetent[1].

[1] Yes, I know their jobs are incredibly difficult but, as pointed out already, this was an entirely predictable set of circumstances. This is also not a partisan comment: our Conservative government have done an extremely poor job, but the Labour party are so useless they handed the them an easy landslide at the last general election, and the Lib Dems aren't even worth the bother of talking about.
Make training sets. Nobody wants to do that, but unless you do the rubber never hits the road.
Don't Dox Scott Alexander (Slate Star Codex)
Can I honestly ask what is the point of this question:

> Why do you want to be at Obvious?

I never understood this. Unless you are Apple or Google or some other big brand, most likely people found your job through a job forum or even HN and never heard of you before. Then most likely the answer is money. So what is the point?

I just stopped filling up job applications that have this. Seems so counter productive. Heck, I was approached by a CTO of a Ycombinator company a while ago, he found my resume somewhere, asked me if I would be interested in the position, then redirected me to a form where 2-3 questions was about why I wanted to work with them, and what I would bring to their team. I want money, and in exchange I give you my time and knowledge. Is that so hard to understand?
Actualy Gilead is allowing generics manufacturers to produce remdesivir

https://www.gilead.com/purpose/advancing-global-health/covid...
So much for “war on women”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_women
How many of the 50% of your anecdotal data is brahmins/upper-castes marrying dalits?

Have your heard of honour killings where a dalit family killing the upper caste bride or groom?
The good news is that the drug that actually works is a generic one.
There's no guarantees what you're getting even if it's open source, unless you read and understand the source code :)

The set of computer users who a) have the knowledge to do security code review and b) have the time to review the programs they run is, I would expect, fairly small.
> such numbers that they have little pressure to assimilate and adopt Western values.

you mean like the uppety expat communities of Anglo-Saxon background who can't even bother learning German or French in Berlin or Nice even after 5 years in the country, the ones who go shopping every Saturday in their English groceries stores in Lyon and Munich and who will never invite the locals to their gatherings. Yes I've seen them in Singapore, HongKong and even Germany & France these British expat clubs. Think in India they're called British Raj unto this day for a reason.

I've been living as a foreigner all my life and the higher the contrast between rich/poor between the foreigner/host the less of "integration" you see. Telling people to "integrate" or claiming certain types of "foreigners don't integrate" is extremely xenophobic. Anyone speaking of "integration" needs to be sent to the country these people come from and forced to live on the local salary and do as the locals do in that country, ... if the speaker hasn't tried this, you can assume that what comes out of their mouth is racist garbage.
I would love for HCQ to be shown to be effective, but this pre-print study is not super convincing.

First, this is not a randomized trial with a control group. It's a retrospective look at patients in Marseille where they gave HCQ+AZ by default to all patients who would take it and then compared those patients against the small number of people who either refused it or were too at risk of side effects to get it.

If you look at the breakdown of the groups, it's comically unbalanced. Of the 3,737 people they tracked, only 162 didn't receive HCQ or AZ. And the rate of heart disease in those 162 untreated people was 2.7x the rate in the group treated with HCQ+AZ (11.1% vs 4%)! Furthermore, only 28 of the 162 untreated people were in the high risk >= 65 age group. No deaths in any group were reported under the age of 60.

In other words, if you compare a couple tens of people with 2.7x the rate of chronic heart disease to a random assortment of other people, you get numbers that may or may not mean anything.

Meanwhile, there are other studies with proper control groups and balanced patient enrollment that show no benefit of HCQ and lots more studies still in progress that test it in different doses and times of administration. At the end of the day, you have to follow the best evidence.
Leaderless Consensus Protocol
Exactly, so much spaghetti writing.
Yes, and similar scenes played out everywhere that wasn't affected by SARS or MERS: they produced plans, issued advisories, but the politicians didn't act. Countries that were affected by SARS learnt their lesson, which is why they've dealt with this so much more effectively.
I was tidying out some books the other day and I found an excellent book that I had read ~1995: "The Coming Plague" by Laurie Garret:

https://www.lauriegarrett.com/the-coming-plague

I'm slowly re-reading it again and it is quite surreal - the first chapter describes a team from the US investigating a nasty disease in South America in the 1950s and literally one of the complaints their senior's have about the project is that it is "no worse than flu" when it was actually a highly dangerous disease.

The basic message of this book is: it's not if but when this happens.
I simply won't use an IDE if it doesn't have a decent Vim plugin.
Reminds me of the fragile [0] nature of entrepreneurs and startups that take the risk to create services or products to keep the global economy antifragile which eventually benefits from the good ideas while the bad ideas and their creators perish.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile
The worst forms of racism are not very obvious.

Not considering hiring people with non-Biblical or clearly "Black" names is one of those things which you can't see. Not showing Black people houses in good neighbourhoods is another. That behaviour is still racist, but invisible.

Casteism plays out along similar lines, with people not being hired, or promoted.
I heard this story once:

> ooooohhhhh... i got a sextortion email

> 'm a hacker who cracked your email and device a few months ago.

> "Through your email, I uploaded malicious code to your Operation System."

> (somehow i doubt that)

> "So, when you had fun on piquant sites (you know what I mean!)

> I made screenshot with using my program from your camera"

> piquant? bitch, please, the porn sites i visit a more hard-core than piquant.
This is actually pretty much the dumbest argument if you take just a moment to think about it.

Imagine some drug that costs $100 million to develop and that the most it can earn in the market is $70 million at a price of $1000. Okay, but then the government thinks it's really important to provide, so it's going to subsidize the development to the tune of $40 million. The drug company could then spend $60 million for development and earn $70 million. Over the typical drug development and sales lifetime, that's actually a quite mediocre return, but let's not worry about that.

But wait, the government paid 40% of the development cost. Why the fuck should that company be able to charge $1000, they should only be able to charge 60% of that, they should charge $600. Well, then they are fucked because they are right back at the same equation for whether it is profitable to work on that drug.

In general, with a moment's thought, any intelligent person will realize that expecting discounts on products based on how much the development was subsidized by the government completely obviates the entire point of subsidies.
The idea the article is trying to get at is (I think) that people are willing to pay for the history channel, but as long as they're more willing to pay for some other channels, studios will just jack up the price of the other channels to the point where their funds for discretionary spending on television are exhausted very quickly. This is because it's cheaper for the studios to get people to pay more per show while producing fewer shows, as this increases their profit margins to the maximum they can get away with. The argument that this is bad for consumers is pretty straightforward, but I will point out that these incentives only work so long as consumers have no choice about their cable provider. i.e., the problem is that cable providers are monopolies, not the bundling specifically. Moreover, we've clearly seen over the last two decades that these monopolistic practices have driven huge numbers of people away from television... unfortunately, usually the competition requires the internet, and the same cable companies control internet access, so there's no particular reason for them to change their business model.
that's actually true, but in most cases, while they might be reluctantly willing to accept a partner from a "higher caste" they'd be downright aggressively dismissive of the other. And this holds for families all along the long chain of the caste hierarchy. Hypocrisy is a way of life.
Yes Tramp mode.
Still a reputation to lose, generally speaking.

I have also never seen anybody who made this argument verify their free software by looking at sources before compiling.
> Even the marginal cost of production/copying is zero, actual marginal cost is not.

??? I'm confused. You seem to be redefining the term marginal cost to mean the opposite of what its normal definition is.
They are mostly people from the east coast. If you draw a line from the state of bihar to kerela and people in the 4 big cities. punjab and kashmir to some extent too.
Some support the communist party of india, which still holds power in some states but is steadily declining. Many support fringe armed terrorists and domestic terrorists and breaking up the country.

Before independence there was a strong movement to push india towards a communist revolution like china or the USSR. The indian national congress which is still the main party on the left absorbed many of these radicals. In the cold war, these parties aligned India with the USSR, despite the absurd hypocrisy that india is a member of NAM but also signed a cooperation treaty with USSR. You will find that roads in new delhi are named after thugs from the eastern bloc like Tito, thats something you will not find even in ex-yugoslav states. But zero roads or monuments named after anyone from the western bloc or indians not part of the nehru-gandhi dynasty.

It is mostly orphans of this movement which disbanded after 1991. They're against everything america does but send their kids to the USA for studying in america's best universities.
Personally, I find it really difficult to make progress without a rigid curriculum. There’s such a wide range of online content that I feel overwhelmed by the choices I have in what I should learn, which is why I decided to go to university in the end - I trust them to pick out the most relevant topics to my field of study. Although, to be fair, I do occasionally look at online courses so I can fill in some of the gaps not covered in lectures.
Caste is a complex subject, the word itself is imported from Portuguese and the system itself is a copy of the European system - Royalty, Clergy, Merchant, Landlords, Artisans, peasants/labourers.

There is nothing "Indian" about the caste system, certainly nothing to do with "Hinduism" where even rocks, tree, animals are considered divine.

The modern caste theory was synthesised by British scholar by putting together two separate ideas that existed in the Indian culture.

"Varna" - found in one of many law books called manu-smrithi used by some kingdoms at some point in time. It postulates society and a nation's strength lies in the four pillars of society based on the type of powers and responsibility a person has based on where he/she fell, nowhere does it make the claim that it is by birth. I have never known anyone who has actually read the Manu-smrithi nor have I even seen one, so much for the theoretical indulgence.

And it is very practical and fair in that harsh laws apply to people of power like royalty, clergy, teachers or landowner for crimes committed.

The "jatti" on the other hand evolves naturally based on the work passed on from father-son and communities based on profession, marriage. In fact, different jetties do have their own temples, with their own priests and gods related to their profession. This is in strong contrast to the Church that monopolised god.

Jatti is strong among people who still live in traditional rural settings still following professions passed on from father to son. So ironically jatti is extremely relevant among the poor and weaker sections.

So who benefits from promoting casteism today?

- Politicians who can divide and rule

- Christian evangelists who have done similar things around the world like in Rwanda

- The elitist among the different castes who either benefit from reservations, exclusivity, politics or as bargaining chips

- Even for people who do not care about caste, will find it exceedingly difficult to find a partner for marriage outside their community network
> With "performant", I assume you mean "how well it works", not "how fast it works"?

Exactly, sorry, not a native speaker.

> Yay... You can always customize the hints.selectors setting to add selectors for those

Didn't know about that, thanks
Refactoring in IDEA also allow you to for example also change function signature, safely delete an element (class, function etc.) - i.e. with full impact analysis, move code, extract interface/trait out of a class.

I've tried the ctags-indexes with Sublime and afair the basic navigation was not bad (I think I remember there being an issue with some delay though? It was a while ago). I'm not sure if things like "show code which access this variable" or "show all children of this class" are supported though?

Apart from those advantanges, I can think of two more:

1. IDE can import your build file (maven, sbt or bazel project for example), parse out the project structure from it and download the necessary dependencies. I don't think that ctags-like powered solution is as robust, which means you'd have to fiddle with it until it can understand the structure a complex repo.

2. IDE can run and show the results of unit tests. (just right-click on test you want and select "Run" from context menu).
We'll also do well by taking a leaf from the Stoics, who wrote only 2000+ years ago ... on the importance of "prerehearsal of future ills".

The meaning of it is explained in a note (24.2) from Seneca's Letters on Ethics (the full collection of 124 letters; excellently translated by Graver and Long):

"The advice to reflect on all possible misfortunes is not meant to license groundless worry but rather to afford an accurate assessment of what a human life is likely to include, thus mitigating the psychological impact of inevitable misfortune. [...]"

---

And here's a rousing passage by Seneca from letter 91 ("A terrible fire at Lyon"):

"When one is unprepared for a disaster, it has a greater effect: shock intensifies the blow. No mortal can fail to grieve more deeply when amazement is added to the loss [...]

"Absolutely anything can be overthrown in its finest hour by the caprice of fortune. Th brighter it shines, the more it is liable to be attacked and shaken: for fortune, nothing is arduous, nothing difficult. Not always does it come by a single road, not always by paths that are well worn. Sometimes it turns our hands against each other; at other times, relying on its own resources, it finds dangers for us that need no agent. No moment is exempt. In the midst of pleasure, things arise that cause us pain. In a time of peace, war breaks out, and all that one had relied on for security becomes an object of fear: friends turn into foes, allies into enemies. The calm of a summer day is suddenly transformed into storms greater than those of winter. Even without an enemy at hand, we suffer war’s effects. If there are no other reasons for calamity, excessive prosperity finds its own reasons. The most careful people are attacked by illness; the sturdiest by physical decline; punishments affect those who are completely guiltless; riots those who live in total seclusion. People who have almost forgotten the power of chance find themselves picked out to experience some novel misfortune. The achievements of a lifetime, put together with great effort and many answered prayers, are cast to ruin in a single day. But to speak of a day is to make our hastening calamities slower than they really are. An hour, a mere moment is enough to overturn an empire. It would be some relief to our frailty and our concerns if everything came to an end as slowly as it comes into existence. The reality is that it takes time for things to grow but little or no time for them to be lost."
I share the feeling that writing as a SE gives you a better perspective of the things you learn. I'm also liking that the old web with the personal blogs is coming back :D

Do you track the visits to your website somehow? I'm trying to avoid Google Analytics, but other simpler options look to be expensive.
There is a small number of things which, I believe, should be done to make email great again:

1. Deprecate the 7-bit stuff and make UTF-8 the default codepage.

2. Give up the practice of overquoting (including full text of previous messages into each message - clear message ID and relation tracking is enough).

4. Ban antivirus etc software signatures - misleading statements saying "the message has been checked by an antivirus".

5. Standardize the way inline pictures are attached.

6. Stop prepending countless prefixes like Re:Fwd:RE: in the subject line

7. Give up the practice of discouraging subject specification omission - this leads to uninformative, irrelevant and misleading subject fields in many cases when subject changes, is not clearly defined from the beginning or is hard to describe concisely

8. Standardize supported HTML&CSS subsets.

9. Add support for MarkDown, AsciiDoc or some other lightweight markup.

10. Disallow quoting an forwarding of decrypted versions of previously encrypted content by default.
They were easy to pirate up until CS6, nothing more than a keygen (or pregenerated key) and a couple blocks in /etc/hosts.

After that they really cracked down on piracy, and at the same time offer the CC subscription decently cheap (50$ a month) that honestly the risk of malware isn't worth it any more.
BaseComponents – Increase Productivity with UIKit
Because it's not profitable and users always want more, it's just that each person wants a different set of channels.
Well.. It does have [TDP][1] of 280 watts. So if you ran it at full capacity all the time - it'd be roughly equivalent to 300 watts heater. But at that time you'd probably be more worried about the fan noise (which really depends on how you build it). Most of the time my machine is at very light load. Case exhaust is slightly warmer than ambient, but that's not a good metric. Unfortunately I do not have a power meter.

I'd say heat is not a concern, but noise can be. It takes some time to figure out good fan curves to balance cpu temp vs noise. There may be some companies who do pre-built and well configured machines, but I haven't researched that at all.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_design_power
I'm an atheist and secular homeschooler, and I'd like to encourage you not to worry about working with religious homeschoolers. They can give you good answers to your questions, and if you get some religious content in your readings, it shouldn't be a problem. I compromised and combined some homeschooling and some state schooling and often preferred the theistic religion of some the former to the nontheistic religion that permeates the latter.

I think you should put aside the quest for "open source" curriculum and choose the best items you can find a la carte. The point of homeschooling for me, as a secular homeschooler, was to create a customized educational experience tailored (meaning adapted on the fly) to what each child seemed to need and what seemed to work. That meant not looking for comprehensive curricula but trying different things for different subjects. Keep working with other homeschoolers, online and off, to find materials to try. It's very difficult to predict what will work before you try it, because kids are so different. Reviews and recommendations help, but steel yourself to the hard fact that doing the best job will mean expensive trial and error.
A lot of people say "never be the first to give a number" (which might be wise if you aren't confident you have a good idea of your market value) but I've always found it useful to just give recruiters a salary requirement figure upfront.

After all, I know $X is what it will take for me to move enthusiastically and see it as good for my career trajectory, so if $X is over their salary range being coy about what I want just wastes my time.
Except they declare the terms of who gets to produce it and where they can be distributed. Conveniently they reserve the exclusive rights for the 'rich' countries to themselves.