skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To a large extent it's because the ruling class in America and Western nations is trying to create a managerial class of English-speaking "global men" (and women) for who things like religion, culture and traditions are kept out of the office at best, if not completely eliminated.

I don't think it's a good idea in the first place, but it doesn't even work, because it tends to crush weaker cultures while only preserving the more resistant ones: Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, the current form of Han-centric ethno-nationalism promoted by the Chinese Communist Party, etc.

I really think we need to do globalization in a different way: free trade between nations, but mostly ethnically homogeneous nations, as it used to be until the 1970s/1980s.
The iOS app feels a bit sluggish. For instance scrolling a list will trigger hover state on list items.

What technology is used for the mobile apps?
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Dependency and addiction nurture recurring revenue. Fasting doesn't.
Aren’t they effectively unreachable anyway, if they make customers wait for hours?
Yeah I learned this lesson too. I run a coding education nonprofit and for years we have offered free shirts or stickers to people who bring someone totally new to coding (usually artists or musicians who want to work on a game) to one of our events in certain areas.

We tried it with an online event in August and it was immediately flooded with fake signups from people in poorer parts of the world.

(Honestly made me sad more than frustrated. But we're not equipped to give out that many shirts.)
It's not strictly her personal account when it's posted on LinkedIn, her professional website, before and after her professional talks, etc.

Besides that fact, none of her talks, papers, blog posts, etc., practically none of them are about engineering.

And ON TOP of all that, the OP was asking for examples of things she's said or done that were unprofessional. Her Twitter account being personal or not is immaterial to the fact that she's posted and retweeted ridiculously unprofessional things.

QED.
Not quite.

"An L-glucose catabolic pathway in Paracoccus species 43P" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23038265/

But it's true the vast vast majority of life on earth cannot metabolize L-glucose and it would be unlikely to have bacteria in your gut capable of metabolizing it.
I had the same issue on my old MagSafe MBP though, and there you don't even have the option of charging on the right to work around the problem
Yeah I had exactly the same question. I'm unable to tell from their page. I tried to follow the flow to buy the SIM to see if more details would pop up, but I eventually got stuck in an infinite loop clicking on "Sign Up Now".
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I think people optimize for value which is a combination of cost, time and convenience. I won't save 50$ or even 100$ if it means I have a connecting flight or spend more time traveling. My goal is to get somewhere as convenientlt as possible balanced with cost..
This is something we're thinking about continuously; it's unclear how central the prediction %s themselves should be. I am hopeful our core community can become more accurate over time, and get better and better at surfacing new information to make the market more efficient. We'll be evaluating this throughout...
Well this is what was apparent for me on day one, and I genuinely did not understand people calling for "DON'T SUE THEM, YOU WILL SCARE THEM AWAY FROM LINUX!"

I see no goodwill from those types, and the simplest explanation for their stance is them being material beneficiaries from that.

People like Patrick McHardy do an enormous service to the Linux community, and he alone provably did more in the last few years than what that GPL conservancy did for its entire existence. Nothing will be more educational than a "GPL death sentence" to some multi-billion dollar multinational like Broadcom. If it will not be McHardys doing the hard work of suing such companies, who will? I don't see those conservancy guys, Linus' associates, or meek Linux Foundation raising a hand on kinds of Qualcomm, or Samsung (from whom, coincidentally, lots of Linux Foundation funding comes)

I completely don't understand people who direct flak on them, and the brouhaha with the "pledge." The only rationale I can fathom, is again is that material beneficiaries of GPL violation have now penetrated the circles who made the "GPL Cooperation Commitment"
I predict that it's React Native
But who says legitimate whistleblowers have specific rules under which they must do it? (E.g. they must only enter into employment or servitude with zero suspicion of employer or zero intent to leak information of any wrongdoing observed? Isn't that against the very principles of whistleblowing, and even potentially legal protections under whistleblowing laws?)

His actions are only seen as a 'sin' if you already agree his whistleblowing wasn't warranted.
If it's always plugged in, then you're not charging the battery and there is less heat generated. I only have issues when it's charging the battery (maybe the battery controller is over there?)
No, you can account for Black Swan events: Talib's whole company is built around the idea that they are more probable than people assume.

The Superforecaster approach absolutely should account for this, and to some degree does. You won't see anyone who has done superforecaster training saying things like "It is 99% likely X will win a two horse race election" before any votes have been cast.
> This might even be protected by religious freedom.

It's not. Religious practices in violation of social duties or subversive of good order are not protected under free exercise of religion (Reynolds v. United States).

In particular, it's a nigh-certainty that discrimination in matters of employment based on caste will be ruled illegal under Title VII (a fortiori, even employer or customer's preference for individuals of a particular _religion_ cannot be taken into account; a fortiori intra-religious preferences will not be taken into account either. This is almost certainly what will happen in California v. Cisco).
Seconded. I use it and like it enough to pay for it.

Does exactly what I want and no extra jazz
I am getting downvoted for merely stating the origins of caste system. This speaks volumes about echo chamber in which HN audience is living.
“Prediction market” is such a nice euphemism for gambling.
Your comments remind me of the French Cagot's.

Link to first random thing I could find

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-last-unt...
Hinduism isn't a religion, it's just a word the British made up to refer to all the (non muslim) beliefs in India in convenient shorthand
I use (and pay) for Inoreader. I was a loyal subscriber to Feedbin for a few years but the developer made some UI changes for the worse, and then wasn't interested in feedback. After a couple of long outages, I decided to switch away.
Found nothing that had the perfect combination of what I wanted from an RSS feeder. After like 30 tries I gave up and made my own. Best RSS feeder in the world!
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Bitmap fonts are useful for WebGL/Canvas games.
A lot of newer developers do it for resume reasons. I know people who have gone around doing spelling fixes to claim they contributed to stuff.
What's happening here? Automated spam? Surely hundreds of people aren't all submitting nearly identical PRs?
> Irony of India is that caste as a system was introduced by European.

The BBC seems to believe that the caste system is 3000 years old.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35650616
That's good, but I suspect continual monitoring of headline markets ("who will win the US Election") is insufficient because FB is big enough to influence the result.

What are you going to do if (when) you detect manipulation? You won't be able to take it offline without the President using it as an example of "liberal bias", and you won't be able to ban users because of the same thing.

I know you won't do this, but I think you should experiment with some lower-stake markets first, and potentially use participation in those as a gate to the high stakes markets.
I've used a self-hosted version of Stringer for a while: it's a barebones single-user RSS reader with very few other features. Probably not great if you plan on following lots of feeds in different categories, but it's perfect for me: https://github.com/swanson/stringer
The training that good judgement project gives you is a beautiful introduction to all sorts of evidence weighing, prediction, black swans, power dynamics of an outcome etc. Should be required for more professions and possibly democracies
For the CLI junkies like myself, newsboat[0] is pretty nice.

[0]:https://newsboat.org/
I have an external IDE/SATA hard disk dock that has a USB A port on it... and comes with a USB A to A cable. It's absolutely insane.

Stupid manufacturers will do stupid things with any standard. Nobody should be making a laptop with one USB C port that's power only and one that's power and data.
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EE Master here, this is a wide topic but usually from my experience (friends around who work in chip industry, ie TSMC, MediaTek).

Generally, you have the hardware design (Layout designer, R&D, Process engineer ) this typically need a Master and mostly PhD in EE or related fields. From what I heard in Taiwan, TSMC only accepts Master/PhD for these position and internship.

Then you have the interface side which writes firmware codes for these chips ( SSD controler ). These are more like your typical software engineering, you will need at least BC degreee and well verse in C/C++. But usually it's hard to get in with a BC degree unless you are recommended by one of the employee.

If you don't have any of the mentioned degree, the fastest way is to get one. It is really hard to learn yourself since this is a highly automated industry with most of the work available in maintainence and cutting edge R&D.

Otherwise, your job scope in chip industry is limited to a few ( Firmware is a good start )
Great to see that zasgar. Monkey patching is pretty gnarly to replace functions at load time or in JVM/.NET CLR. Python is easier. Every version change, the monkey patch has to be updated. But you can get a lot of good value from it in the form of performance charts and call graphs of an application. It would be great value if you could reduce the gnarliness of the monkey patching work and possibly replace it with a simple configuration file. Have to look into eBPF in more detail.
Yeah its being used in a project I'm working on and basically is a major footgun. Also not every browser native api works well with it like I was expected to use this with p2p webrtc but it gives out weird "that function does not exist" errors when calling a method from another method.
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I imagine that it could channel radiation rather than divert it. Or channel ejecta.
There seems to be a maximum amount of points any one person can invest in a prediction right now. There is a cap of a 10 share stake in any single prediction and a cap of 99 points per any share. This cap will prevent power players from placing too much weight on predictions.
That really depends on the particular flu strain. All are dangerous to frail and elderly patients. Some stains are also likely to cause cytokine storms in young, healthy patients.
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It is a prediction market: you trade "shares", all of which have a price. However, the currency is points, not real money.
Mannerisms could be anything from how articulate the candidate is and the depth of their vocabulary, to how they dress and the types of questions they ask.

I’m not saying it’s okay to discriminate candidates by it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Go to any finance firm on Wall Street and tell me how many people employed there grew up on food stamps.
1 in every hundred billion... is that low enough odds to be cosmic rays?
You get a free t-shirt if you submit 4 PRs. An Indian YouTube channels with 650k subscribers made a guide and 10,000s of people are following it.
Switched to inoreader very recently, after having been on Feedly ever since Google reader died. Honestly don't see much of a difference in terms of functionality, but the interface looks and feels somewhat better, so I'm sticking around for now.
Ok. What was the experience? Sometimes the customer is not right.
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I don't understand why a person or persons create new repos and merge PRs into each others hello world empty repos. This would be be the optimal solution no?
I'll join the crowd and say, if this doesn't use real money, it's essentially worthless.

Even if people value a "reputation" the way they want HN or Reddit karma... people's behavior is ultimately extremely different. They make wilder bets "just for fun", because the rewards are highly asymmetrical: everybody cares if you're top of the leaderboard, nobody cares if you're in the bottom 95%, so the rational strategy is to make wild improbable bets and hope you get lucky, because there's lots of upside if you win and zero downside if you don't. (Or create 1,000+ different accounts to cover every combination of outcomes, and only publicly claim ownership of the one that wins the most.) All of this necessarily "pollutes" predictions making them ultimately worthless.

Prediction markets have to use real money people care about not losing. There is simply no way around that principle.

Poker players are well aware of this: advice on learning poker stresses how important it is to play for money as opposed to "fake money", because you and the other players will all play differently. (Play money is only when you're learning/practicing the basic mechanics of the game.)

Now of course, prediction markets have the unfortunate necessary side effect of people making money off of morally abhorrent events -- literally profiting off of a genocide or terrorist bombing -- when they successfully predict them. And a lot of people also see it as closer to gambling than investing. Which is why I can't ever imagine a large corporation like Facebook designing one -- it would be suicidal PR.
It would be extremely rare for a professional athlete to have an undiagnosed heart condition serious enough that doctors recommend months of zero physical activity. This isn't a normal person. This is someone watched over by world class doctors and who constantly has his performance, health, and bio data measured. The condition is almost certainly a result of COVID.
Most companies look for "cultural fits"?
Isn't that a form of caste discrimination?
People from similar social background have similar taste hence fits well culturally.Isn't that obvious?

If racial discrimination doesn't exist why Blacks are economically poor across in west?
Thanks! Right now we're focused more on building the community and usability of the product, so the market implementation itself is fairly simple. But we're following the various crypto implementations closely...
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what's the alternative to do the best they can to thwart cheating?
This is something I made for myself, I've been on the lookout for a house or land to build on in Brisbane with specific orientation and grade (land angle both parallel and perpendicular to the road)

It was useful to me so I figured I'd see if it was useful to others.

Pretty fun little project to build.
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GitHub actually released a full feature specifically in response to this spam?

That's pretty impressive given that we're still in the first day of this (or maybe great timing if it had already been in development).
Yes it’s already common. Look at the concentration and over representation of Ivy League schools in industries like finance. It’s very unlikely those places would even bother interviewing someone with low social status (I.e. poor and grew up on food stamps).

I don’t think it’s great that this happens, it insulates elites from those with working class backgrounds and accelerates inequality.
* coolness, to claim that you got a T-shirt from big company.

* An entry on resume.
It's a fun story. I made a video about extracting that track too, by running my CD player into the 300 bps modem on my Commodore 64: https://youtu.be/bVFem3I9B9w
You can also try adding fish balls (can find at Asian supermarkets). Another is Napa cabbage - it sounds quite plain but is surprisingly good in a hot pot. Also try getting a fish based bbq sauce (it’s a Taiwanese brand), and mixing that with sesame oil, soy sauce, chili oil, ginger/green onions/cilantro/garlic, finely chopped. For noodles, I would use udon, hands down. Lastly, adding steamed rice to the broth at the end with beaten egg to make a congee is excellent.
I stumbled across this documentary and found it captivating. Great coverage of a really ambitious, challenging goal and teamwork over the years. Really inspiring stuff across the board!
I feel like this is the ultimate tutorial syndrome. People doing exactly what the video said!
Oh - nice. I'm not in the US/Canada so it's hard to tell and nothing says this is the case.
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Gating could be a good idea; I think also leaning less on the aggregate/average and more on the positions from reliable participants in the market would be important once there's any kind of influence or scale to this product.
yeah...this never happened. this isnt the language people who talk like this use
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A better idea would be for hacktoberfest to send everyone who has made a 1-line change to a README.md as their PRs to be given a dunces hat instead.
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ahh, gotcha!
I was a firmware/software engineer at a semiconductor company. Sadly the most common thing the EE design coworkers were asking me on the side was how they can move into the software industry. And these were brilliant engineers and technical leads. Now I see many years later that some have made that transition.
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It already existed but now it allows a full month instead of shorter timespans.
Great proposal and response. And a new version of OBS that supports virtual cam feature is the topic.
> By the time there were 50000 cases we had already lost any realistic chance of eradicating the virus.

Disagree strongly. I am currently in Australia, which shut down early and has been serious about fighting this from the beginning, despite repeated outbreaks from international travel, most recently in Victoria, which prompted a hard and long shutdown...that worked.

27,000 total cases over the course of the entire pandemic. Less than 1,000 deaths. And all of the worst of that has been lapses in vigilance and mistakes.

Those 50,000 worldwide cases were the seeds of the 34 million that have been confirmed. Every one of those hotspots could have been and should have been isolated and quarantined. We'd be through this if we had responded simultaneously, fast and hard. But no one was really prepared for what that shutdown meant or looked like.

But now we are stuck with a persistent infection that just keeps getting worse.

> At this point shutting things down causes more harm than good.

And people then were saying that a shutdown would do more harm than good. I think a 3-4 week hard simultaneous worldwide lockdown would have stopped this in its tracks, but the logistics and necessity of that were absolutely not clear. Instead we were constantly one step behind, enacting half measures and wishful thinking based on past pandemics. Incredible that people said almost exactly the same thing 6 months ago and look how screwed we are.

Now we are three steps behind and there is no putting this thing back in the bottle. We're boned. Millions more deaths are coming and the only hope of even remotely normal life now is a vaccine.
In this fictional hypothetical, we get really good at manufacturing new vaccines, and we also get really really good at targeting suppression policies at only the highest risk individuals.

Because for the majority of the population it’s less of a concern than annual flu.

Back in reality, coronavirus mutates much slower than flu, and vaccines are targeted at particularly stable features even within an overall fairly stable structure.
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