skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
aren’t Asian-Americans dominant in every high-paying profession? doctor, engineer, consultant, banker, etc.

I just haven’t seen very many in industries such as education or government
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I am not in the market for a car, but I don't think I'd ever want to buy a vehicle I don't fully own. Cars last for decades. That's a lot longer than short-lived technologies and standards, and especially online services.

Fortunately, this trend hasn't quite reached the motorcycle world yet, but I know KTM charges you to enable "rally mode" on your motorcycle.

I sometimes wonder what we will really own in 10 years. The operating system on my phone and laptop are already taking worrying liberties.
Yeah this is the part of the issue that my social media feed seems to attach to. They post comments from politicians and public figures (and medial professionals) saying early on that we shouldn't wear masks.

I'm sad that the original messages didn't come across as the nuanced issue that it is. Hospitals need the N95 stuff because they are exposed at high rates for a long time. Hospitals also educate their staff on proper protocol when wearing a mask so that people don't negate the effectiveness by wearing it wrong or touching their face after removing it.

The public isn't educated on proper mask wearing procedure. We don't know how to test that a mask fits properly. We don't have the same training to avoid cross contamination and poor mask hygiene. We don't understand the marginal benefits of masks and how it creates a false sense of security causing us to take more risks and spread the disease more quickly.

So at first, it makes perfect sense to funnel the best masks to the highest risk people and encourage "stay at home" (instead of "go outside with a mask") because it limits disease spread the most and protects the community.

I'm sad that it has turned in to "but they said masks did nothing" as an excuse to not wear them. It was never that they did nothing, it's that masks ALONE is not enough. Masks and proper behavior are necessary together.
I have heard from people (and read accounts from people on HN) that companies use all kinds of software that does this during remote interviews. Recording the screen, turning on the camera to watch the interviewee, etc.

I doubt the main problem is ensuring integrity, it's that it's hard to test knowledge and capabilities reliably, and that's already a hard problem regardless of where the candidate is.
If I could give my high school self only one math book, it would have to be Seven Sketches in Compositionality by Fong and Spivak. Did every exercise over winter break in college and realized along the way that I had been hustling through math courses and olympiad problems without appreciating any beauty in the structure of mathematics. It completely changed my life and, at least in my eyes, dissolved the assumption that “applied” math must be less rigorous or “pure” math must be less practical. Not only did it immediately recast my basic intuition about what math “is” (and what numbers “are” or what processes “do”) but with a bit more effort toward studying category theory, I came to see my previous encounters with more advanced topics like forcing in set theory or the Legendre-Fenchel transform used in physics/economics in a completely new light. What is truly wild to me is that Seven Sketches has no real prerequisites, and I could have just as easily read it when I was 14. This book should be the basis of a mandatory course for a math-loving high schooler. Instead of rushing to learn linear algebra and real analysis in high school, I wish I had gained the wonderful perspective of Fong and Spivak—I would have fallen truly in love with math much sooner, found a deeper perspective in my courses much faster, and enjoyed all of it so much more along the way.

Hope someone sees this and shares the book with a high schooler—it’s also available for free online!
I have been reading hackernews for a number of years, but I have created an account just to reply to this comment

blancolirio is not a good, nor trust worthy, source.

Nearly every word from this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mampv8DdHlU - is, some would argue, stolen, word for word, from an article by The Air Current
> What do you think politics is? Everyone in politics has an agenda.

Agendas combined with half-truths which is where the bad faith and other problems come in.
Markdown and AsciiDoc would do well to embrace (1) hashtag syntax and (2) modification times.

For me, that’s the key to discoverability and categorization.
I've personally spent countless hours working on HN's anti-abuse systems. From everything I've seen, what you're saying is quite false. It's also pernicious because it undermines people's faith in the community, so unless you can point to actual evidence, please don't post such insinuations. There's a site guideline about this, so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Lots more explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... Short version: people make these accusations up based on nothing more than patterns they imagine they see.

If you do have any evidence, such as links to posts that you think "get on the frontpage" with "managed accounts", you should be sending it to hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate. It's highly unlikely that the Economist or Bloomberg are trying to game HN. There are plenty of voting rings but the ones we've seen come from quite different places.
Are they going to rename their servers as well? The word 'server' comes from the Latin word 'servus' which means slave.

Also, the word 'twit' has several meanings which might not fall so well with certain people. Ask Google Translate what it means and this is what you get:

Twit: (noun) a silly or foolish person. Syonyms: idiot ass halfwit nincompoop blockhead buffoon dunce dolt ignoramus cretin imbecile dullard moron simpleton clod dope ninny chump dimwit nitwit goon dumbo dummy dum-dum dumbbell loon jackass bonehead fathead numbskull dunderhead chucklehead knucklehead muttonhead pudding-head thickhead wooden-head airhead pinhead lamebrain peabrain birdbrain zombie jerk nerd dipstick donkey noodle nit numpty clot goat plonker berk prat pillock wally git wazzock divvy nerk twerp charlie mug muppet nyaff balloon sumph gowk gobdaw schmuck bozo boob lamer turkey schlepper chowderhead dumbhead goofball goof goofus galoot dork lummox klutz putz schlemiel sap meatball gink cluck clunk ding-dong dingbat wiener weeny dip simp spud coot palooka poop squarehead yo-yo dingleberry wing nut drongo dill alec galah nong bogan poon boofhead mompara tomfool noddy clodpole loggerhead spoony mooncalf

While I personally think they chose a name which fits the product very well indeed I do get the feeling that, if the current witch hunt continues, they'll eventually fall foul of the mob and be either forced to bend to their will or find themselves in the position now reserved for Facebook, i.e. the whipping boy of the social media giants.
Just a heads up that your submissions read like ads for your companies (Duct and Pital). They might better be placed in/part of the "show" feature of HN.
They had round green buttons labeled “●POWER” since those days I think.

Not all Sony devices has green power buttons but if there’s a button labeled in green it powers up by pressing that.
What gets me the wrong way about these arguments, and it is even itself addressed somewhat in the article is the reduction of 'the humanities' to formal or academic study.

The ideal of the humanities and of the holistic, cosmopolitan citizen with a broad education in every field of human activity is not new. Humboldt (and others) formulated it long ago.

In that sense I think the humanities aren't just needed in education. They're needed in churches, in political debates, in homes and families. Humanities as a practice rather than as a four-year degree.

If you really want to democratice and popularize the humanities don't treat them as a grooming mechanism for leaders or an intellectual exercise as is common in the anglosphere, but as a part of everyday life.
Graphite doesn't burn well, but it does erode away in a stream of hot oxygen or CO2. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/196600... The CO2-based Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor runs at 650C to keep core lifespan reasonable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Gas-cooled_Reactor
Frank Black's love song to the Ramones is as much a love song to the Walkman. ;-)

https://youtu.be/oGbbwBET-p4
Maybe they seemed especially bad next to Scott's essays which were all very well thought out in comparison. I do agree though that I've found them more disappointing than HN comments on a pg essay.
taking tests in a testing center is actually pretty viable and scales well. This is primarily how all those international students from developing countries write GRE, TOEFL and end up coming to study in the US.
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> if the public thought masks were important, there would have been an unprecedented run on PPE and the medical community would have had squat

This still happened, though. All the stores that sold masks to consumers sold out, very rapidly, at the same time the Surgeon General was tweeting that they didn't work.

They should've ordered they be pulled from sale, not lied about their efficacy.
> I think one big problem with college here is that it's fairly easy to attend and get a degree while putting in only minimal effort.

> I think we'll fail to make college a truly valuable experience for all unless we increase the challenge

This is really interesting. I think we need to both increase the challenge of getting a degree and find other ways to make it more "exclusive". One way to accomplish this might be to make certain, non-technical majors limited somehow. That way areas of study that are over-populated like social sciences, psychology, etc are smartly minimized so they could produce fewer, more elite graduates with credentials that are more valuable. This is obviously easier said than done.

Also, if you're still looking for a book on compilers there's none better than the "Dragon Book" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers:_Principles,_Techniq...
Not the author, but I assume the one big pro is being a lot simpler, and the one big con is that it limits the flexibility of the full QT bindings.

All in all, it's a wrapper that hides complexity and flexibility from you. Might be what you need some times.
> So a person wanting to promote a cause through their FB profile is "virtue signalling" even if they do it regardless of recent events (let's imagine someone putting up a "stop racism" banner there 5 years ago), but a company doing that when the public eye is on it is not "virtue signalling".

From your response, and others in this thread I'm starting to believe that a lot of people that use the phrase 'virtue signaling' may not actually know what it means.
It’s unclear. The usefulness of Hong Kong is supposed to stem from it being a bridge between China and the global financial system (allowing Chinese firms to raise foreign capital and Chinese citizens to get their money out of China), and secondarily as a place with stable legal institutions which are useful to businesses. It seems like the former advantage is being reduced through HK’s special treatment being reduced, and the latter may or may not go away for businesses but I think that remains to be seen.
You made a good point. I didn't have any particular motive for meditating at that time except that I did it because a lot of people in my native Theravada Buddhist country encourages everyone to do that (to attain Nirvana).

I meditated to find Nirvana back then. But as I grew older, I realize that Nirvana is interpreted very differently even among Buddhist scholars, and thus is a relative/personal term. Nowadays, my definition for Nirvana is just to have a day without a lot of bad karma (hate, jealousy, anger, fear, anxiety) in my head. If I don't meet that daily goal, that's okay as well. For that, I find myself not needing to meditate and just need to be aware to distract my mind if I catch it in a state of bad karma. Maybe meditation will help some people catch their mind of dealing with bad karma, and maybe that approach might yield better results than me simply trying to be more self-aware and be more stoic. :)
link to read online: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.05316.pdf
I wish that there was a third party web-app that would be similar to https://old.reddit.com and https://ns.reddit.com without the bugging... and maybe combine it's own service with reddit. And eventually drop reddit....
On the flip side there are positive racial biases.

i.e. if you're the only non-white but otherwise fit the part / especially if dressed on the smarter end some people are less likely to question you because they don't want to be seen applying a bias. Actively questioning the one black guy is a lot more obvious than actively not questioning him.
The US Surgeon General, in late February:

> Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus...

https://twitter.com/surgeon_general/status/12337257852839321...

It's not surprising people got "masks don't work" from that messaging.
My conspiracy theory mind tells me this is just brands doing a show of power to end up paying less for ads.
Plus scoring a PR win.
The bad part is that it encourages Facebook and others to do more aggressive automatic moderation, which has low precision and deletes accounts of people merely mentioning sensitive topics.
It's outrageous to fly under the radar if you look like you're supposed to be there. Being white makes it easier in most cases, but it was not required.
The divide here is who holds the bag. With a straight rental the rental company is responsible for anything that goes wrong. You of course pay a levelized premium for not having to deal with that. With this stuff they get the reoccurring revenue and you're the one taking on the risk.
> It's worth offending people

I didn't see the questions are offensive patrern by keeping my mouth shut :)
The post you're responding to literally links an SAA magazine section wholly devoted to rebutting just one of Hancock's books.

You also mention that academics refuse to address schoch. Here are a few academics responding directly to Schoch:

https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.3340100203

http://www.hallofmaat.com/sphinx/comments-on-the-geological-...

I'd like to point out that the conversation in this thread has covered topics from Gobekli Tepe to the silurian hypothesis to early agriculture to climatology to early mesoamerican architecture and now to pharaonic monuments. That's an incredibly broad range of topics and no single person is an expert in all of them. Cranks like Hancock BS about an astonishing range of stuff.
Contact their legal department directly with the combination of disagree and opt-out?

I imagine they make it as hard as possible to do that.
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Humans seem to have evolved to live in small-ish societies where being given the "cold shoulder" or being ostracized was a great danger. I'm always mixed though whether abandoning that is good or bad.

On the one hand in liberal societies we're more free to express ourselves than ever, love whomever, etc. On the other hand, it does seem like anyone can find a subculture for whatever they believe in, even if it's destructive.
> He ignores the fact that no institution can make a realistic solvency determination during a crisis. What that means in practice is he supports things like TARP.

I don't think either of these sentences are true. Friedman wasn't for bailouts for those that did wrong, he simply knows that a deflationary spiral can occur if there is a cascading banking failure. Which is what happened in the Great Depression, and what was avoided in 2007/08. It should also be noted that TARP made the public money.

> Should be born by the public rather than the financial sector.

That is also not true. The issuer of money explicitly a tool of the government (even if the Fed itself is technically private.) The reason the Fed has to step in, is because the actual equation for money supply includes the velocity of money. If economic activity crashes, the money supply goes down. That is accelerated further due to complex financial instruments such as derivatives. The Fed shoring up balance sheets with low interest loans alleviates that during economic downturns. There is a side effect that some firms are able to use this opportunity to enrich themselves, but it is rarely at a great cost to the public, relatively speaking.
TARP was a resounding success. There was nothing political about it, because it was sound policy that worked.
I've seen Walmarts as anchor stores inside malls. Maybe 1/4-1/5 of them?

Another interesting design of these anchor store Walmarts is that it's even less common to have a method of entering the Walmart from inside the mall itself. You usually need to leave the mall and re-enter the Walmart from outside (I've even seen a JC Penney be replaced by a Walmart, who walled up the indoor entrance). I don't know if it's a loss prevention tactic or some other strategy, but I've found it unusual.
I went to a BLM protest about a week ago. Universal mask wearing there, and people were doing their best to distance as well. It's not that we "stopped talking about it"; it's that we didn't need to, because the rules were already being followed in that context.
OnRad.io[1][2] lets you search for any song on their sources for internet radio and if it’s available, you can stream it from any of the matches. It’s the only thing I’ve seen which does this in real-time. I wish you could add arbitrary streams to search from. I think Winamp could do this back in the day, but not sure of other app based solutions for this.

Kind of the reverse of what you may mean by broadcasting every song, but if the songs are already being broadcast, tune in.

[1] http://www.onrad.io

[2] https://rainnews.com/onrad-io-launches-with-searchable-share...
I’ve been watching his videos as well. I was surprised by the lack of equipment he has to build what he does. It shows just what you can do yourself at home if you have the skill.

Extremely interesting, channel.
Maybe we should get rid of it. I wonder if 'past' is doing any good either.

Edit: taking them both out.

Edit: got pushback on 'past' so put it back. 'web' is still toast.
All the examples of extremely dedicated people with airplane building side projects were founders. If you are looking for a founder then sure, side projects likely have value. Not all of the employees you hire need an outrageous energy to spend day and night doing work and more work on the side.
I suspect that a lot of the nice behavior on HN is because, for the most part, people value the community, and consider this a "professional" environment, and it's not a bad idea to play nice in places where employers/ees can see us show our butts.

LinkedIn was like that (in fact, sickeningly saccharine), but it's starting to fray.

Slashdot was good for a while, then CNN and YouTube kicked off their trolls, and they all went to /. It's now the place to go, if you want swastika ASCII art.

StackOverflow manages to be a painful place to participate, even though they are sincerely trying to be decent. I think it's way too "gamified," and competitive.

For myself, I'm an old troll. I admit that I was a right bastard, back in the UseNet days.

I am trying to atone.

One of the ways that I do that, is make all my info connected with every place I participate. If I am a jerk, you know where to find me. Alternatively, if I make a good impression, you know where to find me.

I also pay attention to downvotes. If a post I make gets a couple of rapid downvotes, I nuke it. Sometimes, I understand why; sometimes, not. It's just not worth it to me.

I am also making an effort not to engage too much. I may have a one-or-two-post back and forth, just to see if we can come to an accommodation, then it's "Have a great day!". Totally OK to let someone else have the last word. I have better uses for my time.
This was an issue long before 1984. It's shocking by today's standards, but the portable transistor radios dating from the 1950s never received any security updates in their lifetime!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_radio
I love posts like this and I’m glad they’re blogging something like this. I would have killed for a break down like this to have been public info when I was studying digital media in school.

I hope we continue down this path of opening up software to students and and public at large to learn and play as well as blogging about how things are created and what sorts of tools are used in that creation.
Pilots are definitely not sleeping on landing.
You should take a close look at what the US actually makes and then reconsider this opinion.
> It feels like the smaller marbles are denser but obviously they actually pack the same efficiency as the tennis balls

That's not obvious to me. Won't the marbles pack more efficiently due to the edges of the container? As a limiting case, consider a container slightly smaller than 1 tennis ball: the packing efficiency of tennis balls will be 0%, while marbles will be something like 60-70%.
> And common sense dictates

Evidence based medicine doesn't exist to protect us against crystal healing (the bullshit that we know cannot work). It exists to protect us against things that sound plausible, against things that sound convincing.

The problem with the "wear a mask" message is how lazily anti-science it is, and how it distracts from the more important message of "keep your distance" and "wash your hands".

People who promote mask wearing say three things:

1) Masks work

2) They work well

3) We have good evidence for this

In healthcare good evidence would be a well run meta analysis of well run RCTs, or well run RCTs. We have lots of randomised controlled trials for mask wearing to prevent spread of respiratory disease. If masks were so strongly effective it would be easy to see the benefit in these RCTs. So why don't we see these benefits in the RCTs?

We have lots of good quality evidence around masks, and it doesn't show a benefit. For use to be able to see a benefit we have to drop the quality of the evidence, and then we start to see some marginal benefits of FFP3 type masks, but not for fluid-resistant surgical masks, and certainly not for cloth face coverings.

The message could have been "we don't know if they work, we don't have the evidence yet, but you should wear one anyway".

Instead we've got this bloke...

> “Back in March, it was difficult to even have anybody take you seriously when the CDC and WHO said the opposite,” said Jeremy Howard, a data scientist and entrepreneur who has become a major advocate of universal mask requirements. In response to the lack of support, he launched a bipartisan campaign called Masks4All that lobbied for widespread mask-wearing and argued that masks were a crucial, if not the most important, part of the COVID-19 response.

...ignoring the science around handwashing and distancing and focusing on mask wearing.
lucky them not being treated like anyone else
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Why is it a request or a requirement to not just have streaming Spotify or [insert music streaming service] over a cellular connection?

Satellite radio has awful audio quality for music. I am far from an audiophile, but even I can hear that Sirius/XM sounds like those MP3s I used to download over dialup to save time.
Why that book and not, say, Capital? Friedman is hardly unusual to run into in the US so I'm a little confused why you would consider that a distinguishing factor. Why not just label them a Friedman fan and move on?
This may doom me as a merely okay candidate but a simple paging strategy in python trivializes the problem and has the added benefit of probably being the "okay-est" tool for whatever the next transform is as well.