skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people say that this is not racism, but there are various undertones that imply that dark skinned people are inferior. Just the skin tone is enough in many instances to help people use stereotypes (leading to both positive and negative conclusions, and both imagined) and depend on prejudice to guide their actions. It results in a huge trust deficit and also an internalization over a long time where dark skinned people consider themselves as inferior or unworthy.

The movie industry aptly needs to take a big portion of the blame here by continuing to reinforce these stereotypes since a lot of Indians are attached to movies and tend to adapt what’s shown in movies into their own lives. But the governments over successive decades haven’t done anything on this, even though there are others laws against discrimination (against similar prejudices against certain sections of people who tend to have darker skin tones).
Wow, what a flashback! This was the OS I actually grew up with. I remember being 3 or 4 years old and playing Carnivores 2 on my Dad's Windows 98 PC. Even the slowness and unresponsiveness is there, just like I remember! Yeah...this was the golden age. So much hope and so much optimism for what could be in regards to technology and what it would allow for the general population. I still think we're not there, but we can get there still, perhaps.
Skeptical of the book reviews I have seen so far

> The book raises striking and specific points about how as whites we have biases toward race while pretending we are colorblind. She states specific examples, and outlays practical way forward.

> Most of the lower star ratings of this book seem to be exhibiting the exact fragility she outlines, and really only prove to drive her point home further.

- Goodreads
Sure, the Soviet Union. A government literally made inequality go away with the stroke of a pen. Ideal, of course not. Recommended? Definitely not. However, it's clear and self-evident that the US government allows wealthy people to keep their wealth. A wealth tax would solve that problem, for instance. Again, without advocating, I'm just saying that wealth and wealth inequality exist at the whim of the ruling class. I'm not sure I could come up with a counter-example that didn't involve a contrived crypto-ancap utopia.

The fact that income and wealth inequality are different in different countries is proof in and of itself.
How is obscene amounts of money forcing anything?

This sounds good for developers all around, and a minor inconvenience for gamers who are free to buy from as many stores as they like on PC. Yet could benefit gamers long term as it motivates Steam to be more competitive.

Anti competitive would be buying up competing battle royale franchises to reduce consumer choice.
> Don't mansplain to me

I honestly don't think this has anything to do with your gender or the gender of the person you're replying to.
Better and more practical education for children sounds great. What exactly has that got to do with disliking spending money on science? There's no reason not to have both.
Not to mention that first chart, using bars plotted over the us map. Urg!
It might come as a shock, but majority of people using the terms “whitelist” and “blacklist” are not native English speakers. For them the words “black” and “white” have a completely different connotation, even translated. In some cultures, death is white. So who are you guys to draw an universal line for the rest of the world?
There is definitely a problem with subsidising the destruction of US small-scale businesses while favouring Chinese businesses and subsidising death of American citizens via fentayl.

https://www.quora.com/Does-China-ePacket-hurt-American-busin...

"COMBATTING THE OPIOID CRISIS: EXPLOITING VULNERABILITIES IN INTERNATIONAL MAIL"
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Combatting%20the%...

US Senate Staff Report: "Fentanyl Flows from China"
https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Research/Fentanyl%2...
Human wants are unlimited. GDP growth (in the ideal sense, when perfectly measured) means more wants are being satisifed. It doesn't imply growth in resource usage: if your CPU becomes twice as efficient, or your package delivery route is optimised, or your barber learns to cut hair faster, that all counts as GDP growth.
I immediately played Freecell, which I spent way too many hours playing as a kid.
This is an extremely well studied and well documented effect. One-off extreme situations such as WWII and COVID aren't counter-examples of a global trend. Development leads to a reduction in fertility. The only dispute globally is what happens once incomes rise after the birth rate falls below replenishment (i.e. whether there's a J-curve effect).

I read your article, and nothing there tracks the correlation between birth rates and income in a greater-than-replenishment situation. I conceded that in the tail end, rising wages may lead to more births, but I have not seen (including in your citations) an indication it would lead to an above-replenishment birth rate. Just some micro-level changes.
They've been known to send C&Ds to various sites that host old versions like this.

"no longer supported" is a flimsy argument for abandonware anyway. by that reasoning, Windows 7 is abandonware and it still runs basically every Windows program ever.
Do you feel better after venting, little one?
But subsidies could have pushed certainly wind generation 50 years ago, rather than push oil and require a huge navy and military to secure our overseas oil interests.

Solar probably could have been pushed substantially as well with better research funding.

Battery storage probably could have been pushed for practical EVs earlier as well.

Sure there's a lot of monday morning quarterbacking there, but we are in a major hole with GHG levels in the atmosphere, and our oil and gas friendly policies over the last century are a major cause.
The citations are recent and pre COVID (2013, 2014, 2018, 2019).

I agree that educated, empowered women delay having children and have less children overall. Yet, the data shows income plays a part as well. Economic insecurity acts as an arrestor on the fertility rate (rightfully so), and economic security increases the fertility rate.
Valuation has only a fleeting relationship with revenue. In the traditional sense valuation is essentially the cash returned to shareholders discounted over time. Walmart’s margins are thin. That’s why their valuation is much lower
Choosing the Right Type of Business Financing
I think the point is that part of the reason the goods are cheaper foreign is because they can't be made here at all, when shipping is 5x more expensive than importing from China.
I think the argument survives being pushed back to colonisation, but maybe that's just me moving goalposts. I certainly don't know my American history as well as you do, and to be honest I'm more interested in learning more than I am in being proven right or wrong. Thanks for adding more substance to the thread than I did.
So Unity is suffering because a rich competitor is funding more competition? Having used Unity and Godot I don't think the former needs to sweat this modest sharing of the wealth with the latter.

If anything well regulated markets might tax oversized competitors to fund upstarts to maintain a balanced, competitive landscape. There's room for more than just two game-making tools.
I was asking myself the same questions, also how can it bounce twice, it would have to be an elliptical orbit to bounce twice on a spherical (convex) atmosphere
there's a pervasive feeling that Apple doesn't really care about professional creatives in the way that they once did.

it likely started with apple killing firewire (which immediately ended numerous product lines and EOL'ed many people's devices).

it continued with the redesign of final cut, which was clearly done to appeal to new(ish) users rather than people who used it all day.

the arrival of AUv3 has been somewhat half-assed, with poor documentation and inconsistent experiences among developers. developers using higher level audio APIs have also found things changing with no clear reason or announcements.

the mac hardware has continued to become less and less competitively priced if you care about CPU cycles/unit-of-currency.

the demise of connectors on macbooks was hard on many musicians who were performing live with their machines.

continued subtle OS-level changes continue to break many pro-audio/music creation apps in not necessarily deep ways, but the breakages still have to be addressed by someone.

there have been repeated reports of significant worsening of performance of various types of audio interfaces as macOS has moved from version to version. i tended to dimiss these initially, but they are becoming too common to completely write off. the machines are becoming more and more sensitive to the entire state of the USB bus(ses), and although they were never entirely safe in this respect, things have gotten worse just as USB connectivity for audio has become more and more important.

that's a sampling ...
Well Toshiba was an inch from bankruptcy and Sharp was sold to Foxconn to stave off its own impending dismemberment so now I really don't understand this definition of success.
Omigosh, I really miss the heck out of when Windows had charm, and personality like this.

Stuff like Hover! - getting that Weezer music video with the Happy Days set on the Win 95 media edition or whatever...such cool little things that displayed a sense of ‘fun’ about very business-centric software.
Except that even in software. More developers makes it easier to build more products and more manageable prices making it easier to expand the market. Lower develop cost makes pricing better which makes demand increases. There’s a positive feedback loop that also results in more opportunities for developers.

Take the flip side. Scarcity of talent leads to competition which leads companies to be aggressive in deterring movement of employees to competitors so things like non competition agreements increase. In extreme cases you get cartel like activity between Apple <> google and others agreeing not to recruit or hire each other’s employees. Similar protections against employees founding their own companies. So while income may increase with restrictions on immigration, all of other effects may
Outweigh the salary offset.
Show HN: Railsjig – Bootstrapping Rails / MySQL apps using Docker
With the potency to weight ratio Fentanyl has, do you really think the shipping being slightly more expensive will make it cost prohibitive? "A kilogram of heroin is purchased for approximately $6,000 and sold for appropriately $80,000." [1] Paying a few more dollars for shipping, which would be the case, doesn't make a dent in profitability.

1. https://www.affirmhealth.com/blog/word-on-the-street-fentany...
Thanks!! I love this
People are paying employees in gift cards to avoid payroll taxes.....reminds me of the Nevada guy who was paying employees in face value of gold coins.
That's also in my opinion the hardest part in the backend. In the frontend, the most difficult part has been to support dynamic fields at runtime. E.g. a webuser chooses which fields they want to see.

Sure, you can use the "include" directive in ".gql" files to subset the fields. But it's a pain to use, specially in nested queries.
Where does he say he has no money?

He is expressing he'd like to do more art, but he has to weigh giving up his salary to do that, and weighing the pros and cons.
Surley the FCC could just publish a data file that clients download and lookup their frequencies.
By "REST verbs match up nicely", I meant REST verbs match up nicely with HTTP methods...(there are currently about 9 HTTP methods?). That's why it's not an additional abstraction, a POST is a POST. Compared to SOAP, which is where I came to it, it's tightly aligned with the transport. (People used to advocate for SOAP saying you could use it over SMTP...). If you are going to do a non-HTTP API, REST doesn't make a lot of sense.

Anyway, I was still annoyed by the limited verbs 10 years ago after using REST for five years at that point. I even blogged about it, as I started doing HATEOAS about that time, so I really feel your annoyance. I've just discovered over time that the verb/noun thing is just stylistic, not an actual technical concern. All of your verbs can be nouns.
ADB was basically USB 0.1: 5-volt multi-device serial bus for desktop peripherals, polled by the host, with dynamic addressing and standard device classes. The only thing it was missing was hot-plugging. (The protocol could handle it, but there were mechanical/electrical issues that made it hazardous to try.) They even had a connector that made it hard to tell if you were trying to plug it in upside down!
What interests me is the core interactions with Windows systems remain mostly the same, unchanged, in the span of last 20 years!
So you go to another post office. Nothing ties you to an account.
You act like dropping 32-bit was a surprise.

They had two years to get ready for 64-bit only, though the writing was on the wall for more than 5. They didn't. Either they didn't care, didn't find it worthwhile, or they didn't even exist anymore.
Byju's said to hit $10.5B in valuation
This is just wrong sorry, it's well known that poorer countries have higher population growth across the board while richer countries have lower birth rates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility#/media/Fi...
FYI, The deal was made (2010) during Obama(2008-2016) time.
How about we encourage births again instead of encouring people to be gay and trans?
What country based discrimination are you seeing?

The US accepts a lot of immigrants due to hardship or persecution from around the world
What are you talking about, that's absolutely a premise.

To quote a huge heading "Should violent video games narratively justify their obsession with violence?"

My response is that there's nothing to justify. There is no dissonance between violence and questing. Lopping heads off to get treasure is no more dissonant than lopping a chicken's head off to make soup.
Ask HN: Is there still a Windows shell replacement scene?
About 15 years ago or thereabouts there was a fairly thriving Windows shell replacement scene/community... I think I remember Litestep being one of the more popular shells.

Is this sort of thing still going on these days? Is it even possible with W10?
It does seem very useful.

And I'm disappointed :( Given the title, I was hoping for a way to fix Google's broken web history. So it goes.
His movies are insufferable, they mock humanity, they are low-ingredient-count/genuine, and they convey very few life lessons to take outside the movie. But the flip side of these attributes also make these movies great.

Insufferable: He doesn't just convey a feeling to his audience. He makes the audience feel it directly. If he wants to convey boredom, he bores you. If he wants to convey patiences, he makes you wait patiently. If he wants to convey discomfort, he'll make you feel uncomfortable.

Mocking: He mocks his subjects in many ways, but mocking also seems to be his main way to express admiration. He mocks man's battle against nature. "Man is a fool. Nature wins" is a binding theme, yet he believes greatness only comes form that struggle (hunting in the taiga, an impromptu hike through France and Germany, Fitzcarraldo, playing chicken with an active volcano, etc). The more highly his subject thinks about himself (and it's always a "he"), the more he savages them with mockery (that includes all PhDs in his movies, and every character who wants to be on camera). The more prestigious the character, the more he lunges at them. And if he can't make them flinch with his mockery, he holds the shot steady long enough for the viewer to flinch. He needs someone to flinch in his mockery/respect/admiration game.

Low-ingredient/genuine: In his older films, his actors were raw (either because they weren't actors, or because they were Kinski). Hertzog portrays himself on the scene through his characters, and criticizes himself. The struggles he documents remind him of his own follies. He makes fun of his characters to criticize himself. It's a form of bullying for sure, but it's also a genuine form of self-criticism.

No life lessons: You might walk away thinking "what did i learn from that movie?" Usually you'll have learned nothing (Rescue Dawn might be an exception, because it's really a Hollywood film. But think about his documentary about the skiing wood carver. You learn zero things about skiing or wood carving). But you've walked away with a shitload of feelings. You've been through the ringer. These feelings seem to dissipate soon after the movie, but the sounds, the music, the tone of his voice, the periodic movements in the scene all stay with you. These images have a taste, and you'll remember their taste for years to come.

I hate his movies, but I've watched every one of them to understand why I hate them. I wish kinski had succeeded in strangling him, or that pellet had not be so insignificant, or that Alice Waters had let him choke on that shoe. But there's no escaping the images, I'll always feel haunted.
> Caveat: "Expected" does not mean fact. But it is understandable why investors believe this.

Yes, this is what I said. Stock markets factor in future potential (a little too much I think) and not just current performance. Hence their growing diversion from reality.
> In many instances, positions that native born workers are not willing to fill create opportunities for migrants.

What are these positions that native born workers are not willing to fill?
I am aware of the design failures of the shuttle and their consequences. This does not invalidate what I said about the net historical ROI of NASA. Please go research a bit more.
Social credits and security: embracing the world of ratings
This is quite surprising. I feel like often the victims of ransomware do not pay the thieves. Are there other high-profile examples of paying the perpetrators?
It’s a travesty that this was flagged off the front page. The topic is directly relevant to the tech industry and we actually have some really good discussion in the comments. Sigh...
This bias (censorship, shadow-banning, partial fact-checking and so on) should be prohibited. But politicians who seek to strip biased and monopolistic publishers of Section 230 immunity do so at their peril. It was part of Elizabeth Warren's platform -- though only briefly. The moral hazard that FTAANG and its shareholders have embraced is diabolical. This should be a bi-partisan issue in every democracy.
according to statista[1], the average weight of cross-border packages is about 1 lbs or so, so according to that table shipping from China would be about 1$ cheaper. As the article itself states

"You can see from the above anything under 4 ounces is actually cheaper to ship from China. From 4 ounces to 8 ounces the rates are pretty comparable. Once you start hitting about 2 lbs, the prices from shipping within the U.S. start to get comparatively cheaper and cheaper than shipping from within China."

I seriously doubt this was ever an existential in the sense of the shipping cost itself destroying a business. China is simply able to produce cheaper things because they have lower labour cost and so on, and that is actually good for American consumers. It's simply free trade.

If anything I see a much bigger threat in the ability of the US to raise the prices, because given the current administration it may be used as a protectionist tool.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/974065/cross-border-deli...
They also made a full UNIX workstation called the Unicorn.
How ML Is Changing the Way We Use Touchscreens
Wi-Fi 6 looks promising for people with really fast Internet connections that are not capped. For capped internet connections it's almost irrelevant. In my experience, it just reaches the cap quicker and ends up in charges or having to carefully manage things to not reach the cap before the end of the month. I downgraded my connection from 350mbps to 200mbps as I was breaching the 1tb cap too quickly (Comcast). I can't imagine having a 1gbps connection with a 1tb cap. It might last a week or two before getting hit with massive overages. It's been nice not having this problem the last few months, but I don't expect to upgrade my router anytime soon. There's simply no service here that would warrant it as Comcast has a monopoly.
"Unity does not currently have ANY realtime-GI solution in their latest versions"

Not 100% true; there is ray-traced GI.
> It doesn't imply growth in resource usage: if your CPU becomes twice as efficient, or your package delivery route is optimised, or your barber learns to cut hair faster, that all counts as GDP growth.

If demand is not saturating your efficiency improvement then you are maybe capturing a bigger piece of the pie but the pie may shrink or grow. Isn't the pie the proper measure? Why are we measuring scoops of pie passing back and forth?
Country of Origin and Medicine Quality
> Being seen racially is a common trigger of white fragility, and thus, to build our stamina, white people must face the first challenge: naming our race.

Outside the context of this discussion, I don’t think a reader could decide whether quotes like this are from a left wing anti-racism book, or a neo-Nazi pseudo intellectual

More troublesome quotes below

Why only whites can be racist:

> When I say that only whites can be racist, I mean that in the United States, only whites have the collective social and institutional power and privilege over people of color. People of color do not have this power and privilege over white people.

Attributing all cultural traits to race, and then labeling everybody based on their race

> Whiteness rests upon a foundational premise: the definition of whites as the norm or standard for human, and people of color as a deviation from that norm.
Comment said 'a generation'. The rest of us still hold the belief quiet deeply that profit, operating a business and earning money is one of the most noble things you can do.
This was discussed here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23659590
Domesday was awesome.
A bit off topic, but does the US have import tariffs or customs duties for items purchased abroad?

In the EU for most items over €20 purchased outside the EU, you will need to pay customs duty and VAT, and possibly a processing fee. The rates depend on what exactly the item is, but can be quite substantial. I bought an action camera from a site like GearBest (I can't remember exactly which one) a few years ago for ~€60, and when it arrived I needed to pay another €50 in fees.

If it wasn't for this I would buy a lot more swag - as most companies will ship from the US, it means a $25 t-shirt would end up costing me closer to $50.
I'd suggest the comment above is from the perspective of the vast majority of Americans becoming poorer, and not a reference to the entire countries wealth which serves to benefit a large wealthy minority.
I think that kind of boils down to the ‘spirit of the law’ kinda thing.

Windows 98, conversely; cannot run modern software, and the majority of software in use for the last decade - it is only going to be installed as an experiment by geeks like us, for the most part.
Thanks! I'm glad the drawings were helpful.

Most of my writing can be found at my blog (https://avikdas.com/), but here are some from the same dynamic programming series:

- Deep-dive into the Chain Matrix Multiplication Problem - https://avikdas.com/2019/04/25/dynamic-programming-deep-dive...
- Real-world applications of DP: https://avikdas.com/2019/05/14/real-world-dynamic-programmin... and https://avikdas.com/2019/07/29/improved-seam-carving-with-fo...
- Another real-world application, this time in machine learning - https://avikdas.com/2019/06/24/dynamic-programming-for-machi...

If you look on my blog, you'll also see my recent series is on scalability, things like read-after-write consistency and queues for reliability.