skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At Automattic, p2 is even better than email. For example, I’m subscribed to projects that I am interested in or have some expertise in. I’m also subscribed to a few keywords that I get notified if anyone in the company mentions publicly. You get the benefits of everything you mentioned without the exclusivity of email.
It is much easier to change external categorisations of one's "culture" than to change external categorisations of one's "race"[1].

Then again, I think how we treat people ought to be just as independent of our guess as to their "culture" as of our guess as to their "race".

All humans, with the exception of Jesus H. Christ, are diploid. That must be what the "H" stands for, and I, for one, would attempt not to treat anyone differently just because they happened to be haploid.

[1] difficult, but not impossible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BsmaoQ3Hu4

or, including a genderswap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EwhkUHjleo
> I would say, no.. considering the divergence of expert opinions.

I would disagree and think it needs more details. There is difference between just 'how money works' and 'how economy works'. The first question 'how money works' is mostly just insitutional and legal knowledge of existing processes of central and commercial banks.

OTOH, 'how economy works' is empirical field of knowledge about complex emergent phenomenon - the economy, and contains questions like how would economy reacts on specific monetary policies. That is what macroeconomic theories like keyensianism and monetarism are about.
> [...] * but almost no one advocates for metric time or angular units.*

What would metric time look like? And angular units?

I've heard milliradians being described as 'metric' (compared to MOA).
Modeling the US Presidential Election in R
I was just thinking about this exact issue. Before abandoning the gold standard, money was basically an IOU for gold. Since abandoning the gold standard, it's clearly not an IOU anymore. It's just the value in itself. Why does it have that value? Only because we trust it.

And honestly, that's really not so different than gold. Why would the gold standard work? What intrinsic value does gold have? Again it only has that value because we trust it. If we stopped caring about gold, maybe if asteroid mining were to quickly result in 10 times the amount of gold that's currently available, gold would quickly lose that trust; same as when a government started printing money with wild abandon. As long as governments are responsible about the money supply, money is just as good as gold. But only as long as they are.
Name one quarter under Modi govt where GDP was above 9.9

I van quote 2 quarters under Congress when GDP was 10

Under Modiji unemployment is at a 45yr high!

GDP is at a 5yr low and the economy is being driven underground and the new lows are beating the old lows with utter incompetence shown by the central govt.

Also we are now the #1 country by new cases. We are the only Asian country where Corona is out of control

If Congress was rubbish and we voted thes morons to power, I want rubbish congress back
Water cannons have a very limited range. Not good for saturation attacks.
It's been 2 decades since my visit there (totally loved it). English was spoken everywhere, even though Maltese was common as well.
Race is a little bit the issue, because there's no biological basis for the idea that humans aren't just one single species.

A genuine observation and appreciation of "race" consists of understanding that humans do not have a single appropriate skin tone, mostly. I'm not sure what else there is for you, but it's not there for me.
Despite the apparent intrigue, non-English programming languages fail to build on the canon except through bilinguals, and this alone is a good reason not to bother.

Also, correlation between English test proficiency and academic success in programming school is not a clean metric, and does not necessarily measure a correlation between “English proficiency” and “programming mastery”.
> A virtuous cycle indeed.

I think that "vicious" is more appropriate here
The immutability of race is one of the reasons why we ought not discriminate on the basis of race, but the parent is addressing the question of whether or not race is “real” and our inconsistent treatment of race and culture, another social construct.
The Germans are dubbing and they usually speak English quite well. My experience with Italian as well as French don’t like to learn or speak English.
> Why does a company that is worth more that 20 billion dollars rent property in the first place?

Market cap often isn't a good metric for how large a company is operationally, nor a great indicator of its operational needs. This is especially true right now, given that valuations are often quite inflated.

Pinterest is worth $21 billion, however they only have 2,400 employees.

Shopify is worth $124 billion. They have ~5,000 employees.

Target is worth $75 billion and has 368,000 employees.

3M is worth $94 billion and has 96,000 employees.

IBM is worth $111 billion and has 356,000 employees.

GE is worth $57 billion with 205,000 employees.

And so on.

Then there is Visa, worth $473b, more than the valuation of all the publicly traded banks in the EU. Only 19,500 employees and comical margins (67% operating income margin, extreme to say the least). Versus, say, Wells Fargo with a $101b market cap and 265,000 employees. Obviously very different businesses within the financial world, however that's the point.

Or AMD, worth $100b, with close to 20,000 employees. Intel has 110,000 employees with a $214b market cap. Intel's operating business is ten times larger than AMD (one assumes AMD will enjoy increasing economies of scale from their products as they continue to grow). The market cap just typically doesn't tell you enough about the operations of a business to give you great insight into its office needs.
Yeah, I used to enter "mutt"

What do real Caucasians (people from the Caucasus) enter in these fields?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23914667
If I remember correctly, Permutation City is more about the implications of modal realism (or "dust theory" in the book). Consciousness upload is used in the book to enter a simulated reality, but in itself that doesn't explain what happens when the simulation is turned off.
It should go without saying that as an interviewer; I am never the smartest person in the room. I am a person with different experiences and I need to find if you’re a fit- not if you’re unintelligent. If you got to me, you’re not unintelligent.
Some context, for those unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
While I agree that decent English skills are a great thing to have in today's world, you can still escape English quite well, at least in Germany, as long as you don't go into IT, scientific research and simliar niches that do require English; it's taught reasonably well in schools, so most people speak at least some English, but I guess most hardly ever need it.

> The technology sector speaks English. You can’t escape this language.

Writing the occasional Excel formula is probably the most advanced thing most people do on their computers, and those are translated. All mainstream smartphone apps and websites are available in German, all mainstream productivity software is available in German, Movies are in German by default, everyday life is conducted in German, work communication is done in German even in large parts of the tech sector. You can live a long, fruitful life and hardly need any English after graduation, I guess. I imagine it's similar in Italy.
How do you do attribution? What if you never find who killed the public figure?
I share this concern. Their own treasurer raised a concern as to whether community donated funds were handled according to the process they had put in place. For a period of time while this was happening, they responded by hiding forum threads about the subject. Eventually the treasurer parted ways with the team, and although they claim they didn't kick their treasurer out, their treasurer felt more or less like they had no choice but to leave, feeling effectively kicked out.

Their apparent respect for their own stated internal practices was basically non-existent and their way of addressing concern raised does not appear to have been great, and their attempt to shut down discussion without explaining anything was bad, and when they did make a statement it did not feel entirely forthright or comprehensive, and it was different in many ways from what the treasurer had said, making it hard to figure out what really happened.

It doesn't appear that any money was used in an improper way (all valid project-related costs, no tickets to Disneyland), only that it was not reviewed + processed consistently with their own internal policies. The management wants to emphasize the 'no improper use' part, which is fair enough so far as it goes. But it does not make them appear trustworthy should there be a real question in the future where we need to rely on their version of events to get to the bottom of something.

Related discussion on lemmy: https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/38078
>Some scientists are self-administering an untested product. Is that legal?

Yes, of course. Obviously.

>Some scientists are self-administering an untested product. Is it ethical?

Who cares? They are self administering.

This whole article can be summed up to "Bureaucrats are annoyed that some scientists aren't playing ball with their giant piles of unnecessary paperwork and invented regulations."
Is it just me or is there no way to continue from this site's cookie modal?
We fought our bloodiest war attempting to destroy one side of that contradiction. Individual liberty remains the most important tenet of a free society. Preserving it demands personal responsibility and impartiality. Anything less is pandering.
The article does not mention Smalltalk's uncommon syntax as a deal breaker. Not many langs with uncommon (not C-like) syntaxes have managed to become widely used. I think that that is known to those who ordered investment in Java and C#.

To me Smalltalk feels too integrated, which is a problem for me. I like a language that's small in it's (open source) core, with lots of (competing) integrations (IDE, testing, profiling) available. It helps me not to feel locked-in to an ecosystem.
I do this day to day, nice to see that there's a name for it :)

Start every piece of work in a markdown with vim. and proceed to dump my thoughts, what I have tried, what did work and what didn't. Also any useful links that I've found useful.

And as they say "You only learn once you reflect", this proved invaluable for me going forward when faced with "ah. I've done that before but don't quite recall the details"

I move feel this to be like literate/log driven development
I remember asking two police (military?) carrying machine guns at the Hong Kong airport for directions to the train into the city. I don't even dare to look a CBP agent in the eyes as I am passing them. (And I'm born and raised American)
Major internet outage: Dozens of websites and apps were down
A parser for sqlite create table SQL statements
Deep Learning has become mainstream. The place work at actually uses 2 unrelated products based on NN.
I see. Then in part the comparison is showing off exception handling, not FP.

Rust is a good example of functional lang without exceptions (panics aside).

In Rust there are many cases where I could use FP but opt not to because it can make error handling more awkward. For example to collect the result of a map operation to a vector, and if there is an error along the way you want to abort the entire operation. In functional this means collecting to a Result<Vec<T>>. Not sure if I'm just tired today but I can think of how to do it in 5 seconds with a loop. I suspect functional solution would be uglier.
There was this aphorism: "It does not matter if you believe in God, but whether God believes in you." In the context of race, the lady can abolish races as much as she desires, but it does not matter as far as their are racists.
It's not just what they're saying that gives it away, but how they're saying it. The way they used ALL CAPS in particular is a tell.
Came here to say this. I respect both communities like KDE and companies like RedHat (before it was acquired). But when call yourself a community but act more like a company (and a toxic one at that) is where you lose all my respect.
What I'm complaining about is that energy transfer already runs into issues, and the weather differences might be not big enough to allow feeding a slump in wind/solar production at one end of EU with renewables from the other side.

Even with continental grid, we don't eradicate the chaotic nature of many renewable sources, which increases the strain on the system.
It seems fine to me, there is nothing in it that makes me think it was written by a non native speaker.
Human languages are intuitive, share some aspects and we have centuries of knowledge on how to learn them. Programming is still a relatively new activity in comparison and requires a set of knowledge that you don’t already get in your youth like speaking does. I also know basic Greek and I can swear it was easier to learn than coding at a professional level.
despite being old, I think the value lies in the "principle", you don't have to generate your code out of your markup but at least if you document your thoughts and reflect upon them and what and why certain decisions were made, etc... That invaluable on it's own IMO
Are accents cultural or racial? There's plenty of cultural traits which are heritable and measurable. The difference is that there's only one human race, while there's many different cultural memeplexes.

Race literally doesn't exist: The partitions that you imagine as dividing people aren't actually backed by any particular observable or experiment. Meanwhile, cultural markers do exist: We can measure what people wear, speak, trade, value, etc.

Aside from accents, another good example is that of locally-grown staple foods. Different locales support different crops, so that merely living in a region for a time is sufficient to alter one's diet. Yet it is not due to differences in people, but differences in soil, which determine which crops are grown and eaten where.
Based on what do you say this? I have my browser set to non-geographically specific, and when I ask programming questions to it, there are many, many answers in chinese and japanese. If the programming languages statements themselves were in those languages, a chinese or japanese speaker (in my field) would not need english at all.
No, it's just normal case of "the system is still in production and the only reason you're on ancient hardware is because you're not upgrading", same as if you ran business-critical component on random 486SX assembled by then-CEOs nephew.
I had th impression Java really had something going for it.

It used OOP and was leaning heavier on the code-side than Smalltalk, which had this in-place modification of a already running system.

I think Java went a step back so people would understand it better.
In the phisical world you much more often want to fit three things in a space/cut material into four equal bits.
Isn't sea floor always 4 degrees no matter the climate?
Nah. I like writing code that ships. If it means that no one wants to hire me, I can live with that.

It does say a lot about the industry, though, that people don't care about shipping software.

Might explain some of these Jurassic-scale disasters we're constantly reading about...
https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html
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If they did a good job to ensure a sense of safety (making sure everything is cleaned and sanitized all the time etc) yes.

The fear I have going back to the office is people just touching stuff, door handles, glassware in the kitchen, etc. Being on top of every tiny violation is a new concept and a huge lift for any small/random company. So who knows, maybe this could be a good opportunity for wework.
Who am I, First? – Chadwick Boseman
Imagine no more, I do not believe culture - as described in the article - exists. When I talk about culture I talk about the arts and literature of a particular time period, area, language, and social status. If someone talks to me about German culture or even something as narrow as Danish culture I know they are discussing a stereotype or cartoon. Cartoons are of course often useful for rhetorical or humorous effect.

That said there is of another difference between the two concepts - race (as described by racists) is something that is considered to not be created by humans but something essential and unchangeable by the person; whereas culture is always something considered to be created by humans.

The arguments against race, as well as not clustering nicely and the within group-variation thing, all hinge on race being a social construct - like culture.

Perhaps the reason then that race and culture would be so similar is that they are in fact both very much alike in that they are concepts created by humans.
That can just never work. Several drones swarming around you do will do bugger all against enough shrapnel, or against a shaped charge, or just a sufficiently heavy drone going fast enough. Or the drone could carry a chemical agent and kill you.

The economics of defence are such that kamikaze anti-drone drones won't work. Either they'll miss the vast majority of the time, or they will be hideously more expensive than the drone they're defending against.
> I’m pretty sure it can outrun an off the shelf quadcopter.

You need to know you're running from something to run from it. Do you have set of mirrors or cameras to conveniently monitor what's happening above your car?
You make good points, especially this one: “without significant immersion, it's hard to improve or retain a language meaningfully.”

It also does not help that YMMV depending on what region or city you’re living in.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/29/1005720/george-c...

This article gives more details
The more likely avenue for relief is for much of it to be de-indexed as it is showing crawlers something different from a regular browser.
We can argue that there is work to do toward equality without discrediting ourselves and our objective with incredible claims about “having barely started” as though we still have slave plantations and so on.
I read somewhere that The Black Man was a historical figure who actually used to ride through Germany clad in black for "recruiting" children to be raised and trained for war. (Lots of wars going on during the Middle Ages)
The formatting of this page is weird; some lines wrap, others don’t.

Even in Reader Mode there’s spurious line breaks.
The drama of Manjaro leadership notwithstanding, does the distro work on the phone?
When you’re working with a couple guys who probably went on a bender last night out in the middle of nowhere with no cell service and a piece of shit walkie talkie that has spotty transmission you sometimes end up having to throw up hand signs to signal northing and easting values. There’s no hand signal for negative. So yeah, negative numbers are hard to work with in that case.
What you are missing is that "All Groups" are not simply asking for "equality of treatment from institutions and from society at large" in fact many groups are asking for equity not equality, there is a difference.

Sometimes this is referred to was "equality of outcome vs opportunity"
why is this down voted? It is just a fact.
You can't compare basic Greek to professional coding, learning Greek well enough to make a living from it (translation/writing/etc) is what you should compare to. Learning basic Greek is definitely harder than basic coding, and a language's difficulty also depends on where you're coming from (Portuguese is going to be much easier for Spaniards than for Greeks).
That "race" is as real as "culture" is, or "sex", or "gender".

So an attempt to abolish identity politics simply by declaring "Those differences don't exist!" won't succeed. They do exist, and sadly, they're considered by some people when making decisions that affect other people's lives and well-being (while, arguably, those shouldn't be considered).
> I was born and raised in the UK, and honestly I think we have it worse than the US.

Try being in Canada.

Your weight and height are in feet-inches and pounds. When driving though you use kilometres and litres to fill up a tank, but often use miles-per-gallon for measuring car efficiency (though L/100km is popular too).

Most construction is done with US as well (1x6', 2x4'--with the dimensions usually being 'nominal' and not actually those lengths):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumber#North_American_softwood...

Of course no one in the US has a kitchen scale, so most cooking recipes are done via volumetric cups, but baking is done by weight/mass. Of course there are two types of ounces: fluid and non-fluid as well. Preheat your oven to 350F or 400F....
https://zapatopi.net/metrictime/
I just got back into ruby after a while and I must say it feels so zen.
the much bigger problem than pricing is timing. retail investors don't get a chance to buy in until the company is already valued at $1-$10B because institutional investors hoard all of those gains.

the other issue is VCs using public markets as a dumping grounds for shi... I mean not so great companies like blue apron or lendingclub, and leaving retail holding the bag.

software is eating the world and capitalism is eating itself. i say this as someone that has benefited from software and capitalism but also knows that the system is extremely flawed
Replication data (CSV files and R code): https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi...
"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt."

Debt created by a bank through a loan can never truly be repaid. The debt is just passed on to another place in society, and the society as a whole remains forever indebted to the bank. Sinister in its very essence and a form of true evil.
Bah, even if the vaccine was 100% safe and 100% effective antivaxers would claim that it's a death shot that does nothing for your immunity.

But yes, we should definitely be as sure as possible that the vaccine is reasonably safe and effective before getting into large scale vaccination campaigns.

Not because of the antivaxers though. Because it would be incredibly irresponsible not to do so and it could hurt many people.
Complexity associated with those stateful images contributed as well, I believe.
Also notably in this article; major life saving discoveries would have been delayed. Maybe we'd still be arguing if bacteria cause gastritis and peptic ulcers.

"Improving" the ethics of medical research will have a cost of 10s of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of lives. Maybe more. Entire towns worth of people condemned to disease and suffering. I disagree with any ethics system that thinks that is a good outcome.
You are a kinder person than me :).
I totally agree with eecc. Even just the punctuation is bizarre to say the least.
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Go enable 'uBlock Annoyances' in the filter lists. Enable 'Fanboys annoyances' too.

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> It's almost like watching an Englishman and a Frenchman hotly debating which language is uniquely better suited to writing poetry -- all the while ignoring that equally brilliant poetry has been written in both languages.

I think the French won that argument when they managed to kill off English alliterative verse.