skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is both a pipeline problem and a bias problem and they are intertwined.

Historical discrimination has left black families much poorer than they would otherwise be. Poverty discriminates in myriad ways: lack of good role models and mentors, poor educational environments, lack of nutrition, lack of opportunities for enrichment, etc...

Discrimination is also still present and different ethnic groups are affected differently.

The negative effects of poverty and discrimination compound over time such that when you get to a tech company's hiring process, the pipeline would have shrunk massively. The students in this pipeline are competing against upper middle class kids who have been groomed their entire lives to compete in the system designed by people like them.

As to the recruiting pipeline, there is class elitism/narrow mindedness in tech companies that does narrow recruiting. Some interviewers don't countenance views or attitudes other than their own just as some recruiters favor certain universities far more than others. This seems to be changing at least at the recruiting level.

As to why some ethnicities still succeed or fail despite discrimination, that is at least partly cultural and partly selection bias and these in turn have also been affected by discrimination past and present.

Lastly, I suspect the beef some poorer whites have is that they too have been discriminated against due to poverty and they feel that another group now has a leg up on them and that discrimination against them isn't acknowledged.

I hope that we come up with a just system for everyone.
That doesn't match my experience. People are afraid to speak openly to me and that does me a disservice.
The Antimemetics Division series on SCP is great http://www.scp-wiki.net/antimemetics-division-hub
My team has been doing this almost all the time since we went remote in March. It works well for us.

It helps more junior team members as well, since they're able to watch how more senior people figure stuff out and ask questions whenever they like.

It also has the social element, which many people have mentioned they're lacking while working remotely.

As long as you're on a team with people who can communicate well enough and are happy to have their camera on, it's great.

I've only had issues when there's someone who is just lurking without a camera and they seem to refuse to turn their camera on for whatever reason. They're making people forget about them and they miss out.
That's a fair point. You need a demo video / sales MVP and need to actually go talk to customers most of the times.

There are certain enterprise specific channels where you could run an ad to test. E.g. https://appsumo.com/
"Some distrust", understatement of the last two hours.
That’s not gameplay. Actually playing the game will look completely different. You might as well just be making an animated film.
The post ends with:

> Pipeline problem, my ass.

after spending exactly no words refuting pipeline issues. I'm left to conclude that the author feels the two explanations are mutually exclusive and that by giving an anecdote about one, you can determine the other isn't real.
Actually, it took me decades to put it into stone. But then I realized I was doing it bit by bit since I was about 15 years old.

Now 40 years later, i'm cogent enough to put it into words and mentor it to younger people in an elevator pitch way that they "get it".
This comment right here. If society wants to mandate the facade, there will be leftovers.
What was your basic strategy for training a 1-year-old or an 18-month at literacy?

Put her in an environment that she can only navigate by reading signs?

Flashcards and the conditional withholding of food?
In some countries, non-religious "cultural" circumcision is very common (eg 75% of males in the US [0]). Relatively few cases will be for a medical reason (something like phimosis). Parents in most "secular circumcision" cultures base their circumcision decision primarily on social concerns, rather than medical concerns; the strongest predictor for the decision a couple will make is whether the father is circumcised or not[1]. So your point about religious circumcision being the most common is true worldwide (2/3 of circumcisions are for Muslim men[2]), but there are countries where this is significantly less of a factor.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_circumcision

[1] https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/80/2/215

[2] See page 1: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/43749/97892...
If you mean zoning that requires first floor retail or whatever, sure. But mixed use zoning also means zoning that just doesn't ban small business, multi-family housing, and single-family housing coexisting on the same block.

The causality in your statement is backwards, because the lack of the latter kind of zoning is exactly what prevents inner suburbs from densifying organically. The current zoning in most of (at least US) suburbia is what artificially caps density.
> ( ) planetary-scale engineering is impractical
I never found any decent resources, just lots of click-bait. These were my key takaways though:

- You will freak out about everything as a new parent (feeding, prams, weight, learning). By your second you will take everything in your stride. With good reason. Just bear it in mind.

- Dont be overly protective, it will backfire, kids will get scrapes, fall, will be constantly sick. So did you. Dont worry. Also dont worry about being a perfect parent / finding the perfect school etc. This tends top backfrire too. Just be a good dad, -put in the time, put in the effort.

- Let kids play with other kids. Kids are learning, so dont freak out when another kid is mean or whatever. Make time to play with them yourself. Encourage them but never force them to be your definition of a success.

- Kids learn FAST and they ENJOY it. Seriously. So feed them with knowledge! You can teach latin to a toddler. Kid loves mops? Show him how to make a mop at home. Loves getting dirty? Let them do do your garden. Loves the motorbike, teach em how to change the oil! Dont shy away from complex learning, build hobbies.

- Phones are crack to kids, especially youtube. Which is a shame as its also great for learning. Best to severely limit.

- Use basic psychology tricks. Eg you can limit reading to 30 mins before bed when very young so its a treat thats looked forward to. Use diversion tactics.

- Dont fall for basic psychology tricks. Dont override your spouse, present a joint front. Dont let them use embarasment as a weapon in public.

- When you first buy a car seat internalise the way to tie it to the seatbelt properly so you dont have to try and remember every time you put it back.

Kids are great fun. Enjoy
> In essence, the opinions of your opponents and enemies are just as valid as your opinions

I think that this is not true and that society and individuals can and should reserve the right to suppress intolerant ideologies.
Hey - very cool. Great creative!

Just wondering if you'd kept the original iON joystick. When I did my conversion I tried a few different joysticks and found the Sanwa was perfect drop in replacement. I also dampened the acoustics of the plastic enclosure using foam.

Thanks for sharing! Awesome :-)
If your commute is short, say sub 10-15min, enjoying such amenities would not be mutually exclusive to a good work life balance.
And they all have access to all accounts? I would imagine only a bank teller from the appropriate branch would have access to this branch's accounts.
I would love if gob encoded files were supported natively with some special sugar syntax.

I have a project I work on where I need to package a bunch of data that won’t be available locally. Given that I’m loading data, it seems most optimal to just package it as encoded go data from the get-go.

Right now I’m using go-bindata to embed gob files.
Just to offer a different perspective from the people lauding WFH - I get that it's nice to have your amenities all in one place, not have to spend time commuting, etc. And I get that for people who were already working from home, making the switch wasn't that hard, since you already knew your coworkers and had built relationships with them.

But consider the new people here. I've had a totally different experience coming into a company during this pandemic, not having already built those relationships with coworkers and having to ramp up on the team's tech/codebase. Every day I wish I was in the office, just because as a new person it is so much harder to get the help and guidance you need online. Whereas in the office I could casually shout over a question to a coworker, WFH I don't have that same ability. Everything feels super scheduled now, much more like a meeting, even when I just want to have casual banter. I think this is the huge downfall of WFH.

What I'm hoping will be the future of tech jobs is a hybrid of WFH and in-person work. I think that if you're someone who's been at a company for a while and can be self-sufficient at home, more power to you - feel free to work from home more often. But as someone who really needs more oversight and assistance while learning how to do my job, I still believe the office has its purpose -- we shouldn't just get rid of it.
White Collar Crime Pays
1. High throughput

2. There is definitely some level of small-scale tax evasion/paying under the table in NYC. Grey market is a lot bigger, some places will not charge tax if you pay cash.

3. Small square footage. Most deli counter setups I've seen in New York, there's basically enough room for a person to swivel between a counter and a grill, and that's about it. Less square footage means less space to pay rent on. There's almost certainly no seating so you save even more.

4. Most places like this will probably make most of the margin on drinks and snacks that are also prominently displayed, most delis also sell lotto tickets, smokes, etc. I will say that I didn't have the healthiest snacking habits before moving out of New York.

This is all anecdotal growing up in New York in the '00s. Things have certainly changed since then, in some neighborhoods the deli is an endangered species due to increasing rents. And they have never been everywhere; a deli could not afford the rent on 5th Av next to Bergdorf Goodman.
But not in Slavic languages :)

I guess my point was just that I find the write up in "simple English" the same as the Rust book (I have just been going through it).

I would not have any objections if the term is introduced later on. To rely on it from the start just seems... well, the same as the book :)
> Sort of. Purpose means perseverance is useful. Lack of purpose means perseverance, resilience or even the least effort can be wasted.

That's taken care of right in the title: "perseverance toward life goals"
Don't understand either, there me and the missus and the boy in a 2 bed flat, my PC and dual 27" monitors lives in the corner of the living room (facing in since the screens act as a barrier) - we are tight for space but working at home wouldn't be an issue for me at all, in fact it's something I want actively.
> Why were a bunch of new Christmas songs written 60 years ago and barely a song a decade has been added to the repertoire since?

You are factually incorrect, and i suspect biased against country music, which is disproportionately (but not exclusively) where new original-and-popular Christmas music has come from.
Now you've got me wondering if the left/right shadow preference might actually be rooted in other natural phenomena besides human dominant handedness, like something with the rotation of the earth a.k.a. sun setting in the west.
While it doesn't exist in the US, many countries have the same moral right. The intent is that if I buy a painting from you and exhibit it you get to determine how your name is displayed, within reason, so I can't say the painting is by "Puppy Kicker Smith."

Note that usually people are reasonable about it, and that it's also extremely common to have contracts state the right will not be exercised. This case is unusual because the use of the photo is completely non-consensual.
> Do we need modals in front of every image with the attribution, so we know for sure that the viewer knows who created the image?

Don't give EU lawmakers ideas...
In datomic the concept of a database is pretty light, creating a db doesn't imply spinning up a new backend stack.
> you'll still just end up getting bad data from a lot of merchants,

The last few times I bought anything computer related on amazon was just that. Hundreds of entries with bad and probably copy pasted technical data. They would have to vet the data at least randomly and ban problematic sellers to make their search even remotely usable. This is one area where specialized online stores outshine Amazon and it will probably remain that way.
Thanks for sharing -- for me:

* actix-web:

Pros: good docs, well supported, good eco system, Actor model fits very well with how I build systems (Actor ~= Component)

Cons: some ceremony around setup of the app object

* tower-web

Pros: good ergonomics, much easier to wrangle app state

Cons: all-in-one macro is a bit hard to reason about, hard to split up bits of API (I might have just not known enough about how to break up the impl_web! macro)

* warp
Pros: express-y (req, resp) => result interface, surprisingly feature complete (http2, sse, websockets) due to building off of simple interfaces/extension points, functional APIs that are easy to compose

Cons: very new, kind of experimental, docs are a little lacking but examples help
My opinion is that clojure has a confluence of just right abstractions and language choices that allows you to be very very succint while still very readable which in turn makes the language very expressive. I can name a few features: immutability, multimethods, protocols, transducers, lazy sequences, macros, and a very small and sturdy core. All of these features exist in some other language, but the combination of them together is what makes clojure great IMHO.

Besides, experienced clojure devs just see things differently and end up writing lots of nice libs that capture the essence of the feature the lib is providing. Think datomic (immutable database), reagent (interface to react), honeysql (data-as-sql), "dependency injection" (mount/component & others), pull/query-based UIs (om.next and its spiritual successor, fulcro) and so on.
Akshuly he has had fewer mega hits lately.
Japan has no fair use, which is part of the problem here.

Usually people with their rights "infringed" by unauthorized posting on Twitter don't care. If they do care, the poster usually takes the image down. I guess that didn't happen in this case, which is why it went to court, but it rarely gets that far.
I like the Data Science from Scratch book. I’m working through the book and rewriting the examples in Swift:

https://github.com/melling/data-science-from-scratch-swift/b...

I haven’t read it yet but the Think Stats book is available for free online:

http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats2/html/index.html

PDF: https://greenteapress.com/thinkstats2/thinkstats2.pdf
> this sounds expensive and unnecessary to me

Should we be OK with what has become a significant communication platform being run with sub-par security because it's "expensive" to do it properly?
Curious History Photo of the First Modern Flushable Toilet
I think the GP is trying to say there's obvious bias and disrespect, but it's not obvious that the disrespect was primarily due to racism or primarily due to school ranking. No school of comparable ranking to A&T but a more Duke-like racial makeup was visited in this instance. There was racism and/or elitism displayed, but there isn't enough information in this story to rule out elitism being the primary driver for the lack of respect.

Certainly the students should have been treated with much more respect. Multiple people clearly confused priority and respect. The two student bodies should have been treated with equal respect, but we can understand why they might not get equal priority. However, there's not enough evidence to rule out plain elitism for the lack of respect.
> The mental image triggered by that sentence is funny and there is some truth to it.

Sure, but funny isn't insightful.

> I just looked up the words.

Words from one language don't map perfectly to those of another; idioms map even less well. Are you seriously trying to lecture me about idioms in my native tongue, German? Which happens to be Joscha's native tongue, too, which is probably the reason why some of his phrases sound insightful to you and like bad translations to me. Another example:

"A spirit is an operating system a brain runs on."

Apparently he tried to translate German "Geist", which could be "spirit", "ghost", or "mind". The appropriate translation is "mind", then it makes sense. The mistranslation to "spirit" makes it sound profound, unless you take the time to think about it. But you can't, because Joscha talks so fast.
There has always been shady part of the Internet sub-culture. Nothing is new, as you so infer. People were just more open-minded. Nobody's forcing you to read 4chan.

If people hold a conspiracy theory gathering in a bar without causing disturbance, should the patron be judged for the behaviour of his guests ? If you do believe so, I really do not want to live in your world.

An argument could be made for allowing patron to deny service to the guests if he so desire, in which case, guests shall be discriminated for any particular reason, and the patron shall not have to justify himself for such or such decision. Unfortunately, the law says that "some class" of citizens are protected from discrimination (congratulations if they belong to multiple class!) while a lower classes of citizen have to be discriminated against (talk about equality !). I do not agree with this principle. Either any or no discrimination is acceptable, no in-between.
To be fair, I remember thinking the same thing when Go was new. HN was pretty dominated by everyone apparently switching to Go (if you were to believe the general attitude anyway) and how Go was the clear path in the future

Not that it is or isn’t and clearly Go does things really well in some problem spaces but yeah, this seems to be a common theme for all young languages

I do think some members of the Rust community Take it waaay too personally, which I never saw in general when Go was the hip thing. That I agree can be very obnoxious
Looks like PlantUML syntax:

https://plantuml.com/sequence-diagram
Sir/Madam, you are a hero!
Ah, but the more niche it is, the more likely they depend on car traffic to bring their customers in.

I'm fortunate to live within walking distance of a supermarket. It's nice to get fresh produce and things that we run out of or need on a whim. A little Ace Hardware store serves in a similar way. It seems like the fairly sizable population of retirees in the nearby apartments provide these stores with a lot of business.

I don't expect those stores to have everything, but they really reduce the number of car trips that I make.
If they don't provide an extension, they lose the Senate and the White House. Trumpvilles, etc. I doubt they will gamble like that.
Will GPT-3 change the Front end developer eco-system
If there was any commercial incentive to leave said bubble we'd see all sorts of activity to that end.
Thank you. That's an extremely fascinating, well-written, in-depth history and critique of responses to the virus, what's happened to the world and what's likely to happen. And how ham-fisted and based on ignorance and fear the west's response has been, and.. Hard to summarize. A must read.
In your story the bank trusted a phone call more than you being logged in the website? How did they authenticate you over the phone?
I run an Oryx Pro as my daily driver and am pretty happy with it -- it mostly sits on my desk though, and the fans are crazy loud, so I solved that by just... having another lighter laptop I carry around. The Oryx Pro was able to replace my old ITX-case desktop though so I'm thinking it's a win.

Thanks for your support to the cause -- I do agree with what others are saying though, seems like you can't go wrong with lenovo these days, but maybe give System76 a try with some of the cheaper models.
While perhaps not the most professional on the recruiters' part it's hardly racist to half-ass a 'check the checkbox' assignment.

This is exactly why you can't reasonably accept treating one group of people differently - it might be a lazy recruiter half-ass'ing their job, but it might also be actual real racism. There's no way to tell by looking. The outcome is the same.

If you're willing to give them a pass you might just be enabling a racist.
There's a difference between listing it and being able to filter it in the search results. I'd like to remove Alibaba that gets blended in, essentially.
At the very least the commodification of absolutely everything is pretty extreme.
I've often found diversity training is itself reductionist and racist, by teaching stereotypes.
This sounds like the French Revolutionary Calendar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
What happens once they have the footage is anybody's guess. So even if they receive it with restrictions the only thing that matters is whether they receive it or not.
They can’t. Intel has at least five times the production capacity of TSMC when it comes to the bleeding edge nodes, and companies are already fighting for a share of TSMC capacity, which means contracts will be expensive.
I don't think it is even closely true that mental problems like this are sorely caused by genetic mutations. There is a careful chemical balance in your brain and it can get out of order by food, drugs, trauma and probably a lot of other factors unknown to us.

Our lifestyle isn't very natural, we have long left natural selection behind for that matter.
People who seek entertainment have the reverse problem. They need an efficient way to use up time.
I was just assigned to a project based on zend 2.x php framework (2015 version) and angularjs(version1) (not angular.io). Just looking at the code, I just want to scream, because I was told to make changes and add features. I could re-implement everything in Rails in about a week's time but manager's opinions just drown me.
Project SAINT in the 1960s looked at some non-destructive ASAT techniques such as spraying paint over camera ports. The idea being that it would be a deniable, non-escalating type of attack.

However the technology required to manoeuvre that closely to the target was more sophisticated than a stand-off kinetic attack, which was also less detectable in execution.
It's possible to focus 8 hours every day, you just have to sacrifice some more of your time to rest afterwards.

It's just not worth to throw your life away for someone else. Especially if your peers don't do it, and you won't get rewarded proportionally for doing it.
Ask HN: What password manager do you use and why?
After reading the discussion around password managers in the recent Bitwarden thread on HN, I decided to switch to password manager instead of dealing with the buult-in browser password manager.
But the available password managers are overwhelming. LassPass, Dashlane, 1Password.
Which one do you use?
The reason you have days off is due to decades of labor agitation. Productivity has continued to climb even after the 70s.
The USA is the only place I know that doesn't have businesses in residential neighborhoods. I really don't understand why it is that way. We have mini-markets with a small stock of most commonly bought items, fridges with water iced tea etc, cigarettes newspapers on almost every corner. And it doesn't need to stop there. Why not laundry shops? Small cafes, etc.

99.99% of any potential issues can be taken care of with simple laws such as noise limits etc.