skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, it does not matter if 0.1% of companies are Black-owned. In my article, I am not looking to establish intent. I am just showing what is effectively happening and for that the percentage you asked about is irrelevant.
Can't help but think of this.

https://youtu.be/41U78QP8nBk
This is very sad but I share your sentiment. Thanks for having the courage to write this comment.
>Public sector unions seem a little odd to me

You're not alone. George Meany, the first president of the AFL-CIO was opposed to the very idea of public sector unions. As was FDR. And virtually all union leaders through the mid-1950s.
When do you take notes on an article?
I take notes on many of the articles I read, but when do you decide an article is worth taking notes vs. not.
i could argue dataminr is just a fun way for the government to sidestep the fourth amendment but there are toilet paper brands with more resilience than the fourth amendment these days.

The reason you do not surveil protestors is because it encourages the government to intervene and acts as an engine for parallel construction. some US cities actually profit from incarceration, and the opportunity to fill a jail cell is all too enticing. It also makes it almost impossible to defend against the argument that the state is acting to punish political dissent, or that police arent reacting as a defensive organism instead of a public safety agency. Police and governments are meant to build trust with their citizens, so when surveillance tactics make themselves public (and they always do, its just great PR for dataminr) citizens rightly feel targeted, vulnerable, and bullied. surveillance erodes trust, which leads to more fervent protests.

Surveillance does little to keep people safe during a protest. Its mainly a tool to write negative narratives about protestors, or used as a tool to help infiltrate protests and break them up from inside.
And also to arrest the leaders of said protected activities.
We can already imagine that. Apple increased the size of the touchpad for no good reason. And palm rejection constantly fails causing the cursor to jump as you're typing or pressing key shortcuts.
In my article, I am not looking to establish intent. I am just showing what is effectively happening and therefore to make my point it does not matter at all where fewer companies are Black-owned
I call bullshit. I have more children than average and during every single labor & delivery I've caught paperwork problems and mistakes in communication while my wife was too distracted to pay attention to such things herself. All minor, but given the option I would always want an advocate on my wide who is purely there for my own benefit and who isn't experiencing a major medical problem at the time.
It’s not a belief, it’s a fact. And it’s part and parcel to the basic system of checks and balances underlying the US Federal and State Governments outlined in the Constitution. I had assumed it was common knowledge but I’m happy to walk you through it:

The United States Constitution guarantees a certain minimum level of civil rights. Each state’s Constitution may set forth a higher, but not lower, bar for civil rights. (California, for example, cannot amend the state Constitution to allow slavery or to prevent people with orange hair from voting. Well they could but the Federal Government would step in to stop the amendment from being enforced...)

Who is responsible for enforcing the Constitution? The Federal and State governments. So when a State government is the entity violating the Constitution the Federal government is responsible. It happens all the time and in myriad ways.

The executive branch (President, DOJ, various Federal agencies like the EEOC, etc.) can intervene if enforcement is at issue - usually with a lawsuit (for example, when a state violates voting rights) and rarely with force (like when states refused to carry out school desegregation following Brown v. Board of Education and Brown II). Likewise when the Federal government is infringing civil rights States Attorneys General will bring suit against the Federal Government just the same.

Congress, as the legislative branch, can also pass laws under the authority of the Commerce Clause to articulate a minimum national standard for specific civil rights like housing, employment, and education. I can’t post an advertisement for a job opening with the qualification “WHITE WOMEN ONLY” and the State of New York can’t either. States must abide the same way you or I are bound to follow federal law and the consequence of non-compliance is the same: the Department of Justice will come knocking to enforce the Civil Rights Act.

Finally, the Judicial Branch has oversight of state judiciary enforcement of civil rights. If Massachusetts arrests me without cause and a Massachusetts judge sentences me to prison without a trial I can appeal to a federal court that would then order Massachusetts to charge me or release me as the Constitution requires.

Our entire system is intended to allow the Federal and State Governments and the people to seek assistance and oversight to ensure the rights we are guaranteed are not infringed.
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Keeping buildings cooler with super-white paints
The people have ceded their authority in this regard as well, through their own apathy and cynicism. Democracy requires an educated and engaged voting populace that actually believes effective government can exist and politicians should be qualified and held up to a standard.
This is the best fintech app I've ever seen. If y'all could get the interest rate up, there would be no reason not to use this. I'm not using this today because I get 1.05% with Marcus.
"modern replacement for X" looks to me like about the worst title one could choose for advertising a product.

In networking (and a bit everywhere in engineering) people seem to associate "modern" with negatives, at least as a first impression; so if the tagline you try to sell your product is only "Modern replacement of X", it likely starts at -1 in the minds of most of your targets.
I am not trying to take a side but adding a point or two worth consideration.
IANAL, and other disclaimers.

Prescriptive easement is not intended to apply to physical encroachment. It's intended to apply to right of way and ingress/egress issues. Otherwise, it would be an end-run around having to pay for the property.

I don't think that principle would apply in GP's case.

Adverse possession, however, may apply.
Basic SSH does not provide much (any, really) guidance for SSH key management. For a large organization, it can be a very real problem.

At one company I worked for, they handed out an SSH key for the prod admin login to every developer on their first day. Every user actually got the same key. When someone left, they had to rotate the keys. There was no bastion host, but the SSH port was open to static IP addresses for various offices and homes of employees.

(Yes, this was a bad way to do it, of course.)
> This may be the first interesting/good use for the Touch Bar many HN'ers have seen.

I've only recently started using a device with the TouchBar, but as a developer I've really enjoyed having debugging controls on it. It is nice being able to have the main screen focused on the running application and having the secondary debugging tools on the TouchBar.
I don't think "deserve" is the best word to use, but I can absolutely see how it's a deciding factor whether you get to live a comfortable and secure life, vs pretty much working to survive.

But that's not really unique to China. One can go to the more expensive cities in the western world, and take a look at how the working classes are just surviving. Zero upward mobility, once you're trapped in those jobs - from a professional point of view.

I've had the great displeasure of working minimum wage dead-end jobs, in a major city, and it was the most stressing thing of my life. Poor pay, ever-increasing rents and general living costs, zero job security, close to no prospects of owning your own apartment or home.

You don't really feel like a permanent resident. Just a transient passing through, and when the jig us up, you're out.
> if your axioms are violated by your system then your system can wind up in an undefined state.

Yes, and if your hardware is broken or a cosmic ray hits your system in just a bad way, then all the static type checking in the world won't help against that. But that's a different problem to solve, isn't it?

I'd postulate that for most applications, you'd usually be happy to have a software stack that's less likely to contain programming bugs in the first place. It's also true that you don't want faulty Airbag software in your car to affect your steering, but don't you want non-faulty Airbag software as well?
That's a charitable interpretation. For example, infiltrating groups with undercover officers goes beyond making sure that said group is "legal".
Until you called out Madelyn as a she. I had no idea.

Fundamentally men and women have similar brain physiology, so an equal amount of compute and memory. Which would imply there are no differences when it comes to programming ability. It's just a matter of experience.

I'm glad HN doesn't have profile pictures and things.
Which just goes to show how useful it is to have these kind of exploits. Imagine if there was a way to fix Checkra1n, and it was fixed a while back. Then, figuring out the details of this exploit would have taken much longer.
The problems with the article that I perceive:

1. It makes claims about the SSC readership and the rationalist community intended to invoke an emotional response with little verifiable evidence.

> This plea conformed with the online persona he has publicly cultivated over the years—that of a gentle headmaster preparing to chaperone a rambunctious group of boys on a museum outing

2. It's overly general in how it addresses people involved; it tends to conflate very different people connected by little more than their professed belief in using evidence to make decisions and examining their preconceptions. Using a rationalist psychologist as representative of "Silicon Valley" is evidence of this point.

I may be influenced by the fact the fact that I have a good friend who is an avowed rationalist and I don't believe the broad strokes generalizations in the article represented him.

Also, it fails to grasp what I perceive as the main reason for Alexander's blog takedown, which I think is merely a game theory influenced attempt to prevent the NYT from printing his name, rather than anything more grand.
Rejection rate might give a clue to intent - but even then not really cause it would be hard to tell whether the difference in rejection is justified by other non-racial factors. I wrote the article to show the effect of the policy not the intent of the implementation and for that the metrics I used were appropriate
It does. That's why I bumped the orders to 200. Despite selling more, the restaurants are making less. Of course these are random numbers that came to mind, but this is my understanding of the issue.
Wages are only part of the function of a union. An arguably more important part is preventing arbitrary and capricious management decisions, including retribution against employees for expressing grievances. A big part of what unions do day-in, day-out, is dispute resolution. A unionized meat factory isn't going to pay much better wages, if at all, than a non-unionized factory; but it would be significantly safer.

The thing is, the courts often grant Due Process protections to government employees on the theory that a government employer taking actions against an employee isn't too far removed from the government taking actions against any random citizen. At a minimum, the government almost always must follow some sort of reviewable investigatory procedure. Compared to at-will employment, the burden (however de minimis in an absolute sense) is much greater. The need for checks against malicious government managers is significantly reduced.

The upshot is that unions aren't as necessary in the case of government employees. The downshot is that even if you prevented unionization, the government would still have problems firing problematic employees. The issue is never that they can't be fired (union or not), but whether it's worth the hassle, which has a cost in terms of time & money.
For those who are looking for a simple ssh bastion but have no need for all of Teleport features, there is also https://github.com/moul/sshportal. Administration and registration is done through ssh, with no need for a special client or a web ui, and the whole thing is just a single binary which stores its configuration in sqlite (by default).
> It could be that people with higher paying jobs find more satisfaction from their work

So you should expect that happiness levels would remain constant despite paying lower wages for the same job. They don't. So your hypothesis is bunk.

Imagine living on $15k a year total. I don't care how much you like your job, you probably wouldn't even be able to live in your city without working a second job at that rate. Now you're working two jobs just to make ends meet... Do you really think you'd be as happy just from the intrinsic joy of sitting at a desk?
> If your jurisdiction does not have "adverse possession" or "prescriptive easement" laws, you can probably tear that fence down or do whatever else you want with it.

My jurisdiction does, of course, which is why I mentioned it.

> None of this has anything, either legally or in spirit, with the sentence you cited

I disagree, strongly.

I acknowledge that the fence line is now legal, in the colloquial sense meaning "in compliance with the law".

Everyone acknowledges that the fence line was once illegal, in the same colloquial sense.

Yeah, you're right, the ruling in the linked article is different, and governs the creation or removal of actual laws. However, it's similar in spirit in that something that was forbidden, if done for long enough, becomes permitted. If you can't see the analogy, I recommend you just shrug and move on.
> Official VIP students... wow that’s horrifyingly corrupt. Clearly admissions is also letting things slide, just with less official backing.

I do not think your conclusion follows from your premise.
The cryptography world has a ton of ideas about this, but it's possible that most of your customers wouldn't find it easy to understand why some of those ideas are correct and fair.

A simple one (not necessarily anywhere close to the best that cryptography people have come up with) is to combine several sources of randomness in a prearranged time order and format, and use the result as input into a prearranged cryptographic hash function. At least some of those sources should be publicly verifiable, and at least one of those should be https://beacon.nist.gov/home. I can think of critiques and limitations in this approach, but it's a good start!

Edit: someone elsewhere in this thread has given a link to a more sophisticated method.
Good, frank, thought provoking read.

For years now, I have asked the question, "what if it were me?" to better understand how it is different for women. I still don't know, but each time I consider shared thoughts and experiences, I feel like I may be doing harm and not even know it, and I gain some perspective.

Understanding one another better seems to be an important component, if we are to get past it.

Some of my mixed gender work experiences have been great. Others? The author definitely spoke to those.

So far, I have arrived at the idea of greater gender role freedom for everyone being an answer, or part of the answer, due to how many higher order implications seem to be rooted in basic norms.

For me, realizing that has helped me see everyone as peers, just people. It has helped some. Or, maybe I do less harm, or maybe I am more insulated. Hard to know.

Getting back to that question:

If it were me, giving up work I love would be unacceptable. But, I have done something like it by leaving places that are ugly, where the norms are toxic, etc. despite the actual work being great!

But to just bag on a whole field?

Super rough. I have done that too, but it was due to policy, pay, globalization. Not my own nature and how that colors things. Not gender.

Really, my take is it just not being OK. A waste, or profoundly frustrating. It pains me deeply to know worthy, capable people step away and it happens because of things they do not control.

Are there real answers, or?

I just don't know and after reading her, I feel I should.

What if it were me?

Worse:

Sure glad it isn't me, just to put that desire for answers into context.

Ideally, nobody has to struggle because of who they are. Not in such fundemental ways.

Shouldn't be anyone.

It all seems fixable. But so far, it hasn't been fixed that I can tell.
How Mad Cartoonist Al Jaffee Found His Inner Jewish Superhero
The only reason one senator can hold the nation hostage is because he has the support of the majority of senators.
Alright I’ll stop being so pedantic.
I believe government data should be much more openly accessible, but it's hard to blame anyone for removing a tool provided by them that's being used against them.
Google Women's Accelerator
Are we happy about this? Is it throwing us a bone? What do guys think about this? Peronsally, I'll use its o my advantage but being called a "female founder" feels like a subset of success, like I want to be at the table because I deserve to be there
If there is something that both the left and right leadership can agree on, it is that there will never be ranked choice voting. It benefits the Democrats and Republicans (the leadership) to have a 2 party system. So I don't see either of them trying to change that.
It does work over USB-C on 2019/2020s
Maybe this should read "that obfuscating an exploit does little to prevent the bug from winding up in the hands of a talented full time security researcher".

Of course if he was this talented, surely he would routinely diff new kernel versions and realize the old bug had been reintroduced before having to rediscover it in a jailbreak?
As always, I think the answer here is more along the lines of "it depends." It's not that uncommon of a task to make an existing function more performant, and a well thought out test suite makes that leaps and bounds easier even for small, internal functions.
Just go back to sleep :-)
Sure , anyone can be a woman
You're not responding to what I'm saying, you're responding to what you wished I said. In reality, what I said was that municipalities enacted laws, specifically targeting black families during an era of proud and overt segregation, designed to make it difficult for extended families to move into white neighborhoods.

There is a long case history involving these ordinances, including extensive documentary evidence that occupancy caps and definitions of "immediate family" were designed specifically to exclude blacks (in the first half of the 20th century) and latinos as well (in the second), taking advantage of both the fact that black and latino households are far more likely to include grandparents, aunts, and uncles, and also the (obvious, in retrospect) fact that municipalities simply don't enforce these regulations against white households --- again, a fact documented in the case history.

At any rate, the dispute upthread suggested that there was no racial justice aspect to the "Western-prescribed nuclear family", and whether you agree with the courts or not, there clearly is such an aspect; the allegation that BLM is exceeding its charter by railing against "nuclear families" is easily refuted, and we should have all known better than to raise this objection in the first place.
The percentages you mentioned would be relevant if I, the author, was look to show intent to discriminate but I was not. I am just showing the effect of the program and for that the percentages you mentioned are entirely irrelevant.

The sample size (14%) was large enough statistically. Might also be interesting to see if this trend was larger when white owners did not identify themselves.
I definitely romanticize the time when I didn't have annoying pop ups telling me to "Use The Reddit App!" on every single page load.
My examples were all historical, as a way to highlight that some things we now think of as obvious, basic rights could have (and did have) opposing arguments consisting of "this is the way this world works". The point being: when it comes to human laws, it's not actually a sound argument.
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What does this mean? Like blockchain or can it be an application that creates a new way of doing things that aren't social media, etc?
I feel like the "don't bail out private companies" narrative applies when doing so prevents creative destruction.

When the government straight up bans most companies from doing business, with little warning, and for a prolonged and unpredictable amount of time, I think some level of nuance should be applied.
> In most (all in the US?) jurisdictions a law regarding prescriptive easements or adverse possession probably makes your neighbor's actions legal.

After enough time, the neighbor acquired the title to the land through adverse possession and the fence became legal. Before that, the fence was illegal as it was built on property that the neighbor did not own.
Eh. This is obviously wrong, I must be misunderstanding you. I was cooking dinner earlier, which is a legal and protected activity. In what way was I being surveilled?
What do you take issue with? The first two are clearly factual. AP tests are limited to a single subject and are 2-3 hours in length.

My comment on grading is also pretty objective, imo. Your AP score is 1-5. And the curve is crazy; when I took AP Physics C E&M I would have gotten a 5 whether I scored 60% or 100%. When reported, though, nobody will know what percentage of the points you scored. OTOH gaokao scores are reported in full.
So why wouldn't a chamber like this just be delivered, and then watched? It feels like the dutch cops arrested somebody for the crime of transporting a torture chamber, and the people who were actually planning to use it get off without a hitch.
The sample size (14%) was large enough statistically.

A majority of modern studies about race rely on sampling.
They should kill datetime.fromisoformat() with fire.
For a command-line option, ddcctl (https://github.com/kfix/ddcctl) works nicely in my experience, with a Dell Ultrasharp connected via USB-C.

I have a script hacked together to fetch the internal display's brightness once a minute and apply it, with a scaling factor, to the external, so that they're both effectively controlled by the laptop's ambient light sensor. It's really nice for working in a room with lots of windows.

A more batteries-included alternative, which appears to also provide brightness sync, is Lunar (https://lunar.fyi/). I haven't had a chance to try it, but the Github repo makes it look pretty solid.
I think the point was that the difficulty for machines is not the differential diagnosis, but in coaxing out the right details of patient history to feed into that algorithm. I don’t know if differential diagnosis is automatable but machines definitely suck at the latter issue.