skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sowell believes that systemic racism doesn't exist because he has examined the various research and finds issues with all of them -- namely that the various discrepancies they find can be explained in other ways.

He never claimed that systemic racism could not exist. In fact, in his books, he openly admits that he believes that it did indeed once exist. He just questions whether the studies being produced today are done so without pre-existing bias (are they looking for data to back up their belief, or vice versa) and whether the data produced evidentiates the conclusion. If indeed the studies you cite and that he refutes are looking for data to back up their pre-existing conclusion, then propaganda is the correct description.

No one has put forth the argument that Sowell believes systematic racism cannot ever exist. All that has been said is that he questions whether it currently exists today and the conclusions of the studies you cite.
>The more you know about a subject, the more false reporting you will find related to that subject.

This sounds like it should be a named law. Like Amdahl's Law or Moore's Law, or Sturgeon's Law!
Its a shame the Pixal 4A does not have an ultrawide camera.

Of all the newfangled phone features, an ultrawide camera (with the software to back it) seems to be one of the new truly worth while features. I never understood nor cared for the feature until my job gave me a new phone with that had one.

It would be quite the bummer to go back to having a phone without this feature.

So many phone reviews drone on and on about the latest Snapdragon 2934838 chipset with its 2^N cores and 2^N GB of RAM. The vast majority of us simply don't care for the horsepower nonsense. We're not looking to run hadoop on top of k8s on our phones. The cameras are really where things matter.
Thanks for sharing, I wouldn't have thought of that.
My apologies if this comes out garbled. Trying something...

∗#∗#4636#∗#∗
Do you have proof that people would not wear better protection and that it would be ineffective even if they did to due fit issues? Or are you just making an assumption?

The fact that N95 masks were and still are selling for such high prices seems to be evidence against this view. I assume this view is most popular among Americans because Americans seem to represent the majority of anti-maskers.

Where I live everyone wears a mask but very few people wear N95 masks simply because they are more expensive and hard to find. If COVID is short range aerosol infectious as some evidence suggests greater N95 mask availability and usage may affect infection rates at least outside of the US. How significant a difference this might make is simply unknown at this time.
There's actually a named psychological effect for when people read a news article that they know to be inaccurate and don't believe that lack of standards carry forward into the rest of the paper's articles...

Unfortunately both my memory and Google are failing me on this one. Maybe someone in the comments will contribute.
It really depends. In some domains, compatibility is a big enough reason as to completely rule out Rust or Go. In other domains, it's just not something you need at all.
Ruby Software Engineer - Perfect Audience (Remote - East Coast) | SharpSpring | Remote, Full-Time: SharpSpring is looking for talented Ruby Software Engineers to join our team for our Perfect Audience platform. This position will give you the chance to work with the latest technologies and come up with creative solutions to problems across a wide range of projects. Ownership of product modules is encouraged, and as a member of our team, your contributions will have a positive impact on thousands of customers spanning the globe. We work in an Agile environment where input from every developer is welcomed and everyone’s voice is heard. SharpSpring compensates based upon merit and skill level with a strong basis on practical skill sets, so existing projects are helpful in establishing experience. Overall, our team is a group of dedicated individuals working to provide the best service possible to our customers using the most innovative solutions. Our engineers tend to be passionate about new technology, have high attention to detail, and generally just enjoy writing code. Questions? --->careers@sharpspring.com

Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/sharpspring/64da94c5-d025-4e17-a2ec-0a...

Software Engineer (Gainesville + Remote-EST) | SharpSpring | Gainesville, FL | Full-Time SharpSpring is seeking talented Software Engineers for our team in Gainesville and for remote employees located on the East Coast. We're looking for Software Engineers with significant real-world experience working in at least a few areas of our technology stack and a high level of enthusiasm for learning other technology we use. Candidates should be able to demonstrate examples of at least one public-facing or commercial application they have made significant contributions toward developing — ideally an app powered by a modern TypeScript or JavaScript framework with an API backend. We compensate based upon merit and skill level with a strong basis on practical skill sets, so existing projects are helpful in establishing experience. Questions? ---> careers@sharpspring.com

Apply here: Gainesville: https://jobs.lever.co/sharpspring/33c28193-2c09-4a53-8f39-80...

Apply here: Remote (East Coast): https://jobs.lever.co/sharpspring/4c80e4a1-150d-46e8-ae3c-0e...
Location: Russian Federation

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, asyncio, Javascript, Vue.js, PostgreSQL and many more

Résumé/CV: https://bit.ly/2ENphvx

Email: mail@ngrishanov.me

---

I have over 6 years of professional experience as software engineer, mentor and team lead.

Python backend development is my strongest side, but I also have experience with numerous frontend and mobile app technologies.

Among the most notable projects I've worked on:

- Web-based app for parsing and visualizing data from oil well sensors

- Mobile app for TOP-3 Russian internet and TV provider. 500k+ downloads both at Google Play and App Store

- Financial accounting service for Russian bank. It used machine learning for categorizing payments and was able to quickly (tens of ms) calculate complex financial stats for clients with tens of thousands of payments
Always happy to discuss -- send me an email at dan [at] [same-domain-as-website].
> As much as I'd like it to be I don't think Linux is a serious desktop contender for most people, so Microsoft is just in second place - and it's not that distant yet, since the Apple transition has just started.

My point here is:

- A huge chunk of Linux software (desktop or server) has been ported to ARM or will soon be.

- A huge chunk of MacOS software will likely be ported within the first few months of launch.

- A very small percentage of Windows software has been ported to ARM. Even the usual Windows strongholds: Games and corporate software have poor support for Windows ARM. Windows x86-64 bit emulation is missing (or at least was at launch) so a significant amount of pro software and games won't run even under emulation.

> The Windows version is "maybe there will be ARM devices one day, maybe". That's not nearly as convincing.

Exactly this. Microsoft has had so many false starts on platform shifts they have a hard job selling this.
Bateau.io | Software Engineer | Seattle, WA | REMOTE

We build software to help senior living providers keep track of policies, protocols, and forms. Our vision is to build an operations platform for industries with lots of documents and high regulatory & compliance needs.

We launched during COVID, raised $1.5m, and have happy customers across the US.

We are hiring our second full-time engineer (and fifth employee) to help us scale our product and support our growing customer base. You will lead our team on infrastructure design and implementation. You will also play a major role in shipping features and have a major impact on our customers.
https://angel.co/l/2tg4ir
Yes. See my comment in this same reply thread. It isn't the banks. It is the funds who invested in these AAA bonds backed by a very diverse CRE portfolio. Who owns these funds? Avg. Americans. Pensions/retirement/etc. They are already close to the breaking point with the forbearance. The fed/Fannie/Freddie will need to step up next, but that won't last long either.
https://www.crowdcast.io/careers says "no open positions". I understand your post says to send a resume to your email address, but it would be nice to know what one is actually applying for, job description wise.
That was intended to be a direct reply to your original concern about businesses being fined for not serving the right kind of food. I think you're saying that it's arbitrary and capricious, but I'm saying it makes sense in terms of reducing the number of people that go into bars without closing them completely.

Maybe my personal experience is wrong, but bars are pretty crowded in New York City, and I think reducing the crowding can have a large impact in slowing the spread of coronavirus.
Your account might be linked to another account that did something malicious.

I'm not 100% sure but I've heard enough Google horror stories that I am migrating to Apple sign-in for everything. (Yeah, assuming that Apple won't start doing the same.)
Or if you read the debunking book first, then you won't have to waste your time with his book, since you'll understand the crux of the argument and why it's wrong.
Might be worth emailing the mods and ask them to boost it a bit each week - their contact address is in the page footer.
What's happening in Illinois seems to be like a smaller version of what happened in the US. The northern part of the state near Chicago got hit early on in March-May, and that has quieted down a lot. Now the downstate areas closer to St. Louis are getting hit, as well as other more rural areas of the state (and some of the suburban Chicago areas as well which had been spared somewhat initially).

It's nearly impossible to draw firm conclusions (obviously, though so many are trying), but to my non-expert eye it certainly seems like this virus just burns through areas until some threshold level is reached (either due to some form of immunity kicking in, or the local population getting sufficiently scared to take their own measures more seriously, or something else). And it looks more and more to me like there's only 2 kinds of places: those that have been hit already and those that will be hit. It's unclear if the lockdowns really did much beyond delaying the inevitable (which, to be fair, is what we were told they were supposed to do in the beginning - it was "slow the spread", not "stop the spread").

Even looking at other countries, areas that were being scolded for doing a bad job seem to be nearing the end of their curve while areas that were touted as doing successful mitigation measures are flaring up. And of course there's counter-examples to everything that can be found as well.

It's hard to shake the feeling that no one really has any idea and everyone is just guessing. Even mask usage isn't clear - in the US it is getting near universal recommendation from our experts, while quite a few European countries with their own experts are not recommending masks, saying that there's little proof that they help and possibly some evidence they may do harm. It's mind-boggling how little agreement there is, even on something relatively simple to do like wearing a mask (fwiw, we wear ours because intuitively it seems they should help and it's a simple thing to do if it helps in any way).
This video is not available. Anyone nabbed a youtube-dl?
"get a job, landlord" or "apply for unemployment"

but really there should be some minimum UBI so that nobody starves or lives on the streets.
It's difficult for me to come up with a charitable reason why Sowell, an arch-conservative, is somehow interesting to HN (and, to be fair, I'd say the same thing about a sudden surge in interest in Brad DeLong or Matt Bruenig), or why we'd vote City-Journal, the house organ of the Manhattan Institute, to the front page. I think it's especially dicey given the climate.

If you're curious about Sowell, some policy positions worth noting: opposition to marriage equality on the basis of heterosexual marriage protecting women from the impact of their declining physical appearance as they age, full-throated support for the Iraq war, repeated comparisons of Barack Obama to Adolph Hitler, a spicy "Brown v. Board of Education was decided wrongly" take, opposition to criminal justice reform and particularly decarceration, support for Donald Trump in 2016 (and after), and opposition to the building of mosques.

It's not that these positions are beyond the pale (well: the mosque thing is), but rather that they're cut directly out of the coupon book of 1990s conservative think-tankism. Many dozens of public intellectuals held (and still hold) this same revanchist culture war portfolio of positions. Why is Sowell, long retired, so enthusiastically trotted out?
People in the D community like to think that, but stuff like ranges is older than D, born out FP languages research and even Smalltalk had them on its collection types, then auto for type inference was already there in C with Classes, just Bjarne faced too much opposition back in the 80's.
> How do you choose which narrative to privilege?

Do you REALLY find it that hard to figure out? I can't tell if you're being sincere, or just being a troll who is trying to shrug and say nihilistic-sounding things to advance the alt-right agenda, which is to "flood the channels with shit" as Bannon said.

If some right-wing rando at a protest start burning a bible, and then two large established groups of protestors try to stop him because it is not what they are protesting and is sending a misleading optics, it really isn't that hard to see what is going on.

Like the white supremacist biker that was recently arrested for smashing windows during a BLM protest in an attempt to create deceptive optics for the right wing media machine.
Many central valley counties are completely inundated with cases. I'm currently living in San Joaquin, and we hit 100% ICU capacity and are approaching 100% hospital capacity. I'm worried that this will just increase the amount of deaths across the board because help is now much farther away.
Journalists tend to quote people institutions deem to be an expert on a topic. "Do some research and find the experts for yourself" is also how people get sucked into a lot of charlatanism re: health, fringe economic ideas, climate change denialism, etc. etc. etc.
lol... a shame? wealth and status? you do know he created this site... right?
These kinds of fonts do not help dyslexics at all. Children in fact show a preference for reading in Arial and Times New Roman. Some research has shown that increased letter spacing results in fewer errors, but studies are not unanimous about this.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5934461
> Stop the Sowell worship. Please, internet, for the love of god. He will always talk about how everything that democrats do is bad and everything conservatives do is good. He isn't right on everything all the time.

Stop the bad-faith discussion. I never 'worshipped' Sowell. The commenter above claimed that Sowell has not grappled with various studies that show various racial disparities. I've read his works, and Sowell indeed does directly confront these studies, so to say he is ignoring evidence is wrong.

Whether or not Sowell is right is not really up for discussion. What was being discussed is whether Sowell acknowledges studies on topics he is interested in. Indeed he does, and he finds issues in many studies as well as other studies that have remained mostly unacknowledged by academia.

> He isn't right on everything all the time.

This is a ridiculous standard to judge anyone by. No one is right all the time. Stop changing the goalposts.
Everything you've said has demonstrated that you're _choosing_ not to understand, or agree with, his arguments rather than disagreeing with them through counter arguments and evidence.
SEEKING WORK | Houston, TX | Remote only

I've been building applications on the web since 1999.

Main skills: Ruby/Rails, managing AWS, Docker (especially ECS), Puppeteer (+ browser automation at scale), SQL Server, ColdFusion, Javascript (been using it before it was cool)

Also available for one-on-one mentoring or training

Availability: 20-25 hours/week

Contact information: my username at gmail.
Never saw it. But did see all the pretty images.
The last sentence in the article mentions celery as a luxury good:

"No, they didn't. Dr O'Hagan says the truly wealthy then set their caps at another luxury and difficult-to-grow food. Celery."

Does anyone have a good link to the story about how celery became a luxury item? The obsession with pineapple as an exotic luxury makes at least some sense to me. But...celery??
What does the "A" in 4A mean? Large? Small? Cheap? Fancy?

The answer didn't appear in a skim of the first several paragraphs, and like many here I don't care enough to RTWFA
Who better to control the money and know how best to use money than the people?
SEEKING WORK / Remote / Los Angeles, US / Full stack software engineer + Web developer

I'm a freelance full stack software engineer with ~5 years of start up and contracting experience developing full stack applications in the JS ecosystem. If you need React work done, chances are I can help!

My experience includes building responsive and performant user interfaces using React/Redux from designs or from scratch as well as creating robust APIs using TypeScript/Node.

Technologies: React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, Redux, HTML, CSS, SASS, Express, Webpack, Babel, Git, create-react-app, styled-components, GitHub, Jest, npm/yarn, CircleCI, Next.js

Personal Website: andrewkowalczyk.com

Email/résumé/LinkedIn can be found on my website!
Ok - these multiple superspreader events... do you mean 100's or 10's or a few? And when you say "can't be explained " really? Can you provide some back up to this information?
Just because a logo is a vector art doesn't mean you can just naively scale it up.
I find this kind of comment exhausting. What you're seemingly asking people to do - go to the original source for every news story that you think is important - is impossible for anyone with any kind of normal life. That's why people read newspapers, so they can get a reasonable impression of what's going on in the world, and they would ideally pay for that newspaper so there are fewer problematic incentives. It's much more feasible to take a publication, in full cognisance of its leanings, and parse the stories appropriately. For example, I'm not as much of a free-market person as The Economist, but I pay for and read it because they're clear about what they stand for and think that they're factually accurate.
It's important to point out that the vast majority of phones are sold through the channel - carriers will probably choose to sell their own subset of all the options based on their own market research.
Expect we will see a repeat of the bungled rush for air purifiers as we did with ventilators.
Hello Everyone,

Once again, thank you very much for all this support. We're planning to add new blocks and all new blocks added will be totally free for existing customers.

We want to ask you what type of HTML Blocks (Business Ideas) you want to see in the next update.

Thank You.
> The vast majority of us simply don't care for the horsepower nonsense.

Non-flagship Android phones are visibly slower in a responsiveness than flagships. So yes, people do care, otherwise they would not be buying flagships, saving gobs of money and accepting that sometimes it takes several seconds to open an app.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038843, which is currently on the front page.
Blender is programming-adjacent (a lot of Blender users are employed by software businesses to create assets for distribution with software products). In particular, I think that's where a lot of the funding for it comes from.
byrd (https://getbyrd.com) | Berlin, Germany | Multiple Roles | Full-time | Visa | Onsite (During COVID-19 crisis, working REMOTE) | Logistics / Supply Chain

1) Senior Python Engineer 2) Senior Full Stack Engineer 3) Senior Frontend Engineer 4) Android Engineer

Backend: Python, Flask, PostgreSQL (SQL Alchemy), Heroku / AWS

Frontend: Angular 8, Ngrx, Bootstrap, Material, Karma / Jasmine, AWS S3 / CloudFront

Apply now: https://getbyrd.com/en/jobs/

About byrd:

byrd is a logistics start-up which aims to make shipping a simple and effortless experience.

Fulfillment warehouses and online sellers suffer from old and outdated software that is un-intuitive and hard to use. We want to change that by using state of the art technology to disrupt the European logistics industry!

We built a platform that connects multiple partner warehouses with e-commerce online shops. This logistic network helps our customers to ship more efficiently than ever before and enables them to provide the same high quality service such as online giants like Amazon or Zalando.

byrd was founded in 2016, is a successful startup with real customers, and we’re looking for your help to support us in growing further!
Why should it? At least ISO C++ knows what they want, while D is still trying to find out to which community they should be advertising to.

I find many of the people on their forums quite nice, but D lacks a profound sense of direction and which market they want to target.
Isn't it the opposite? I thought the compressor was the thing that was not warranted because they break so frequently.
cLabs | Berlin, Buenos Aires, and Remote | Hiring SRE/Infra, Cryptographers, Data Engineers, Dev-Rel Engineers, Product Managers, Security Engineers and Mobile Engineers | All Levels | FULLTIME, ONSITE, REMOTE, INTERNS, VISA | https://celo.org

cLabs is one of the many companies working on Celo, an open-source permissionless platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone. Using a novel decentralized PKI, Celo lets you send cryptocurrency to phone numbers in a fully decentralized way. Additionally, Celo uses stable-value tokens pegged to fiat currencies, like the US Dollar, to minimize volatility, and crucially allows transaction fees to be paid with these tokens. To make sure that the platform is scalable and fast enough for day-to-day use, Celo uses a new Proof-of-Stake protocol with fast block times and one block finality. Further, it uses SNARK-based proofs to allow light clients to sync with the chain near instantly. The protocol is now live (run by hundreds of entities) and we are now working with organizations such as GiveDirectly on an open-source social payments app (Valora) that looks and feels like Venmo, yet is fully decentralized.

Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Polychain, General Catalyst, Coinbase, Reid Hoffman and Jack Dorsey, among others.

Stack: Typescript, Solidity, Go, React Native, Python, Android, iOS, Rust, zk-SNARKs

Team backgrounds: Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Square, Zcash, QEDIT, MIT, Stanford (~100 people today)

More about us here:

Code: https://github.com/celo-org/celo-monorepo and https://github.com/celo-org/celo-blockchain

Blog: https://medium.com/celoorg

Chat: https://chat.celo.org

Mobile App: https://valoraapp.com

Mainnet Stats: https://thecelo.com and https://stats.celo.org
Anyone know of any progress in 6G, that would improve privacy in this area? For example randomized (or truly encrypted) IMEI numbers?

Also, I found this SIM card which seems to be doing IMEI randomization:

https://omertadigital.com/blogs/news/encrypted-sim-cards-wha...
The symbols are pretty standardized these days. I am always perplexed on the rare occasion I encounter a physical radio, but I wouldn't ask them to waste space by adding text to the buttons! On the web, hover text is probably good enough.