skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The related phenomenon in biology is called the “just so” fallacy; e.g. “X species evolved Y just so that they could do Z”. It’s a comforting story, but it will often lead you astray.
I don't understand the article. First it says "thousands of public servants have been told to pick recruits who have had all mention of their gender and ethnic background stripped from their CVs." But then it says "adding a woman's name to a CV made the candidate 2.9 per cent more likely to get a foot in the door." I feel like I'm missing something. Is there a link to a full study? Did someone manage to reproduce this study elsewhere?

Also, there's this fragment: "Last year, the Australia Bureau of Statistics doubled its proportion of female bosses by using blind recruitment. Professor Hiscox said he discussed the trial with the ABS and did not consider it a rigorous or randomised control trial." Isn't it too harsh? Does that mean all of the real-world case studies should go to the bin because the organizations didn't have randomized control trials at every step of their operations?
Do you imagine the meltblown production lines come from fairy land or something? They are subject to the exact same market forces as the masks.

IDK about the US, but in Europe the supply of masks and respirators is now sufficient (and has been for months). From what I've seen, the countries that did limit the prices ended up having worse shortages than the ones who didn't, big surprise... /s

If you suspect that a retailer is selling masks or respirators that aren't compliant with the relevant regulation, perhaps you should report that somewhere.
huh, would have expected that he would give it away for free after that introduction... but it's his decision this way or that.
As an aside, I wish something like shareware would have become a middle way between free2play and game-does-not-sell-at-all.
I barely even skim the resume. I don't believe there is reliable information on anything that can be prepared in advance. I'm sure I've had false negatives, but in 10+ years of hiring I've never recommended someone be hired who wound up being bad.
I agree they should focus on building products not boilerplate but i would argue "outputting pure data, i.e writing your own data format, is just as much boilerplate.

JSON is fine IMO
I don't consciously type...

I think, my fingers type...

I spend 0% brain cycles on typing (it is pure muscle memory), which why picking from a list (or checking that autocomplete choose the correct) is more brain work...
> I just wish it wasn't so deeply embedded in the .NET ecosystem.

Kind of amusing, given the whole article is about how great it is that it's embedded in the .NET ecosystem
Half of the pair here. For context, I always run out of steam when getting on the blogging wagon, so my wake is littered with the charred remains of blogs of old.

This time it'll be different. Science proves it! - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/827023
Oh the internet is not without irony. On second page of HN today:

https://tunnelingonline.com/why-tunnels-in-the-us-cost-much-...
Also the Cloudflare cookie is clearly for technical purposes, not marketing. So no consent is needed under GDPR, in my understanding. Getting rid of it didn't accomplish anything useful.
Sorry, I was confusing LoRa and Zigbee.

LoRa claims 2-5 km range in urban areas or 15 km suburban, with even larger variability in rural areas depending on line of sight and landscape features.

Zigbee claims I found vary from 10 to 100 meters.

LoRa is pretty cheap, and there are a lot of gateways around to piggy back off if you don't want to set up your own.

You can see a map of one network of gateways here:

https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/

It also uses less power than Zigbee. The big downside, though, is that you get a lot less bandwidth with LoRa.
I'll work daily with the founders to validate the product and get customers. If the products already been validated then we'll build a prototype, we have design and engineering resources.

Yes we'll take a small percentage of equity and the goal is to get an investment after the 1 month program.
> This is white supremacist drivel.

Because as we all know, white supremacists are famous for praising jewish intelligence.

Seriously though, just saying that something is "white supremacism" is not a valid criticism.
The only requirement the actor model demands is that actors only have access to their own data but how actors are scheduled is up to the runtime. It could be that Erlang/BEAM does pin actors to a single thread and then pins those threads to a single core but it is not 100% necessary.
Clojurescript creates lots of overhead on the runtime, I wouldn't recommend it for UIs that need to do more than very lightweight processing on the client and be really snappy. A 50k LoC codebase(as in Dark) in Clojurescript will be a nightmare. To scale a Clojure(script) codebase to that size requires lots of documentation and discipline(and lots of tests!), it can me made but it's not easy.
I wonder if anyone is trying to seed them in newly habitable zones.
There’s certainly some threshold, but maybe past that you have to adjust your definition of “great”.

I think the technology of Docker just doesn’t line up with a venture scale business. So it’s not an execution failure, but just wrong from the start. If they had been successful at a huge scale, I think it would have almost been a pivot level change and using Docker as a springboard. Like offering container hosting or something.

I wonder how they would have done if they just stayed a 50 person company.
the issue is turning blocking calls (or non-async calls) into non-blocking ones, or simply yielding from a callback deep into a callstack (the usual example is turning an internal iterator into an external one).

Of course you can add async to the whole callstack, but it could be third party code and it might require code duplication if async adds a penalty to compared to non-async code.

Ideally the fixed stack size/conversion to state machine would be an optimization that the compiler would apply if it can prove that the coroutine ever yields form top level (or from a well known and fixed stack depth) and resort to dynamic stacks otherwise. I have been thinking a lot about this, and I think the key is reifying the incoming continuation and, as long as it doesn't escape the called coroutine , the optimization can be guaranteed. I believe that rust lifetime machinery might help, but it is something I'm not familiar with.
> I still think aurocomplete might be faster for libraries you haven't used much before, but it doesn't sound at all unbelievable to me that the brain works as stated.

Possibly, but I still need to read the librarys documentation carefully, where I plan my code anyways...

I have seen so many "auto coders" write 100+ lines of extra code because they missed reading the manual carefully and doing it correctly/efficiently...

If lines of code is your metric, that is great, if not, not...
Automotive Case Study: How We Worked on MyMyCars
MassMedia Group works in many industries, and automotive retail is no exception. We’re going to be talking about how we’ve helped create an innovative solution in this industry. One day, a client from Ukraine asked us to create a cool modern platform for selling cars. According to them, at that time, a monopoly of one particular service dominated the Ukrainian car retail market. At the same time, the attitude towards customers on their website left much to be desired, many useful functions were absent, and the platform itself was full of paid features, although services in other countries offered these functions to users without any fees. Our client set the goal to correct this situation by creating a "service for users." When it came to choosing executors, the choice fell on us, because we are best suited to the customer's business approach and took on all the pain points of development. This allowed the client to concentrate on thinking of interesting ideas and marketing strategies while we were engaged in business logic and its implementation into the technological side.
Name is a JoJo reference.
MMT doesn't depend on “reserve currency status”, it depends on having use of fiat currency.

> Reserve currency status does afford increased deficit-spending capacity.

The key point of MMT isn't that fiscal balance (deficit v surplus) doesn't inherently matter as much because there are conditions (whether “reserve currency status” that you've focussed on it something else) that Trump it for the countries of concern, it's that fiscal balance is ultimately an illusion based on a metaphor (the fisc, a finite purse filled by revenue and depleted by spending) that simply fails to reflect reality for a country whose budget operates in its own fiat currency, and that the financial constraints on such a country have to do with monetary effects of decisions, not fiscal balance.

> If a country runs up large deficits in the name of its reserve currency it affects others’ inclinations to hold the currency in reserve.

Sure, the sum effect of the governments decision making on demand for the currency, and those value of the currency, (the kind of reserve considerations you discuss here are an aspect of this, not categorically special) is exactly the kind of monetary consideration that MMT holds is a real constraint. But fiscal balance itself isn't a useful yardstick for that.

> Piloting federal fiscal policy on MMT is akin to steering the plane to FL 100 and keeping an eye out for a stall.

No, it's more like guiding nap-of-the-earth flight with a radar altimeter rather than a barometric altimeter calibrated to the long-term average global pressure at sea level. Monetary effects are the actual hard constraints, fiscal balance is a distant, murky proxy with an uncertain and time-and-conditions-variable relation to the actual constraint that obfuscates rather than clarifies.
> There's no reason why JSX had to be included at the same time with React.

Why? JSX was one of the main reasons React became so popular. What would you have instead of JSX?

> There's no reason for it to provide classes, the whole bells and whistles.

They didn't provide "classes whole bells and whistles". React came out before classes where even standardised in Javascript. And its original API of `React.createClass` was really no different from hundreds of similar APIs.

> When React released with so many features at once

What? Which "so many features"? It released exactly that: a VDOM library with JSX and an API that was not much different from those on the market. That was the main reason it gained this much adoption: it was very simple, easy to understand and get into.

> You have to introduce each concept in isolation and then build understanding of the whole from those parts.

That... That what React does. It introduces major new things with major new versions.
For me, it's the fact that there is a toggle button on mobile allowing you to turn off scripts and third party cookies. That's great UX.

Ublock origin is an extension, so accessing the options menu feels a bit janky on mobile as the options are shown in default HTML styling, and you need a couple more clicks to turn off scripts.
It is true that C# is gradually adopting features from F#, but F# will always be a much better F# than C# is. C# is great in its own right, but if you prefer F# why not use the real thing?
<40 is “life expectancy AT BIRTH”, that is not the adult life expectancy which is much higher.
The Multicloud Gelatinous Cube
If you already have OCaml, the transition of OCaml->F# is a lot smaller than OCaml->C#. Once you move your core stuffs over to F# (with necessary changes), you can more easily make a decision from there of whether any particular new work should be F# or C#.
If any part of your function depends on the result of a promise then it has to return a promise; this is true whether you use async/await syntax or then(). Unfortunately JS doesn't have something like block_on, which now that I think about it is probably because it's single-threaded, so any block would block the entire app.
Colombia is using advertising data to track coronavirus
Can we use it as an actual keyboard (plug it into our PC)?
Probably they would be taken. Because people's moral stance is when it comes to me or my group - that's sexism or racism, but when it comes to others - that's "fragility" and sexism or other discrimination "can work in my favour only". In other words, hypocrisy
binding user level threads to hardware cores without preemption is completely equivalent to the thread-per-core + coroutines, except that user level threads allow deep stacks (with all the benefits and issues that it implies).

In fact a well designed generic executor can be completely oblivious to whether it is scheduling plain closures, async functions or fibers. See for example boost.asio.
> Masculine terms include:
entrepreneurial
confident
aggressive
challenging
outspoken
strong
Feminine language is communal, reflecting a commitment to working with others. Feminine terms include:
considerate
committed
supportive
understanding

What makes these words m/f? Is it studies of how people perceive them? If that’s the case the authors seem to be missing the picture. In an equal world these words are gender neutral. And personally I don’t view them as having that division, but I guess others do and that seems to be the real issue.
Anyone want to build a new public education system with me?
I've been a teacher for 20 years to over 2000 kids in 3 countries from infants to teens, from kids in underfunded failing schools to the rich and famous. I'm sick and tired of the way our education system is failing our kids at all levels and I want to completely rehaul it. I think everything about it is backwards and it needs to be thrown out and started from scratch.

Since March, I've been building a movement around what I'm calling Modular Learning- an approach that's really personalized, really flexible, really involves families in the learning process and very much nurtures children's natural curiosity and love of learning - in a nutshell, a more holistic and child-centered approach that allows for total flexibility and personalization.

I've been hosting workshops for thousands of parents and kids impacted by school closures on issues ranging from communication with children to curriculum planning, food, financial security and talking to kids about racism.

I'm now working closely with a group of 20 families (mostly in tech) with kids ages 3-12 in personalizing their children's education through a combination of 1-1 instruction, social-emotional learning, electives and parenting workshops, closely measuring how kids perform in a parent-driven approach. We've also written hundreds of blogs on the best curriculum and apps for parents to support their children's learning. based on their learning styles.

I need to find a co-founder who can share this big vision with me and has really bold and smart ideas on using technology to scale something like this, and of course is at a stage where they'd be excited about taking on a project of this magnitude.

Anyone interested?

If so, email me at manisha@modulo.app
Is there a single market which has remained with a dozen of those companies which didn't have a cartel or preapportioned monopoly? Just with random variance I would expect three at most still around at the "traditional international size" level even if we started with a dozen Jeff Bezos Clones all told they were the real one with the goal of Amazon given identical starting funds (all too stubborn to merge).
they'd let you get away with it, you wouldn't go to prison. i'm pretty sure individuals used to take way more weird writeoffs. but mostly these have been closed over the years for individuals.

the laws are generally enforced the problem is various companies and nations working very hard to make sure that loopholes in the tax code are preserved.
Also only one person is working on it - everyone else in the dev team seems to have been let go/fired. https://blog.darklang.com/dark-and-the-long-term/
The gravitational assists (especially from Jupiter) helped a lot with the delta-V.
Yes, that was the only "portable solution". I use quotes because we had to assert() the sizeof float with uint32_t in the code prologue (it is unlikely to be an issue now, but the code is 25 years old, so we stuck to the spirit of expecting compilers where C types could be a variety of sizes, not just the "conventional" sizes of today). Unions are defined, casting is very poorly defined, especially float<>int. There's a good link a few comments down.
Train station from Half-Life 2 in UE4
If you click on the animation then it will walk you through how it works. Keep clicking, each click gives you another hint.
Very true and good point. What would be a good low friction way to solve that?
For me, it works with 5+ languages I write (production) code in at least every month...

I don't know how it is for others.

Also, I really try to minimize complexity and not ending up in the javascript npm dependency spaghetti..

Good code is simple and obvious....
Website that wastes a third of the reading area to logo+menu is less likely to be read
At their scale I do believe there’s a benefit to authenticating to see logs: a lot of people scrape GitHub for secrets. CI logs are at high risk for user error, errors where a user unintentionally marks something as non-secret when it should’ve been secret. Putting these logs behind auth feels like an easy filter for some scraping.
Wouldn't a supremacist emphasise scientific progress?
A new scam uses Google Drive to send out a deluge of dodgy links
This argument applies more to Angular 2 and them bundling rxjs with it. Learning React was a very pleasant experience
Interesting that Project Zero considers this “High” severity, and GitHub says “Moderate”.

Legitimate disagreement between security teams, or is GitHub applying spin and trying to downplay the severity, in light of there being no easy fix?
I guess hindsight is 20/20, but even though I think OCaml is a really endearing language, I would not build my startup on it, for the reasons everybody else is saying! I don't have time to shave yaks with respect to database access, cloud storage, etc.

The savings in just going over to GCP or AWS and filtering your "potential languages" by the list of supported languages seems impossible to overestimate.

If you want something with more safety machinery than Go (and I get it, so do I), I think your real choices for a language that needs to interact with cloud providers are something on .NET, or something on the JVM - you pick one, and you go solve your actual problems instead of having to write your own stdlib.

I'd be way more open to experimenting on the front-end with buckle->rescript or similar, where I'm leveraging existing JS libraries and don't have to worry about high quality database drivers.
PDP Fight Pad Pro My New Favorite Switch Controller
Good thing that almost everyone fucked up the pandemic response so the demand is here to stay, eh?
the trick here is Google Scholar it seems!

so, feminine in this case refers to Bakhtin & 'feminine dialogic'?
Sometimes you have not-great connection even deep in the city. I’m in a city touching Paris right now, 60k persons on a 1.5 by 1.5km square, one of the densest part of France.

Well I have a shit ADSL (not VDSL !) connection, despite everyone else in the street having FTTH, because the HOA of my building won’t bother…
Ant is definitely not a pyramid scheme, if you've ever been to China you'd know.

But b. is very credible. Jack has been criticized by state media as he piled negative comments to the regulators and traditional lenders - and frankly the regulators were right. Ant essentially needs no deposit to lend, relying on big data and not any traditional financial safety instruments. It's been overlooked for a while but when you get the big benefit of living outside of regulations you shut up and take what you get, and not making a public fuss about how 'every bank is stupid for following regulations'.
the free market will sort this out.

oh wait. no it won't because you can't manufacture more land to build on.
AWS has been very chummy with HashiCorp and Terraform in the last few years, going so far as to announce a Landing Zone collaboration with them

https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/aws-terraform-landing-zo...

and of course the https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk

I am not sure what I would think of an offering from one cloud provider to support another cloud provider, just seems shady as hell. I could see AWS spinning out an MSP that would handle multi-cloud stuff, because AWS MSP would be "cloud experts", but that might be a stretch too, TBH.

I really see them taking Terraform, and the CDK, and pushing that as their multi-cloud if they were to really lean into that, but there is little to no reward (as I see it) for them doing such a thing. It would just be another tool that will gather dust in a few months while they venture off to exploit another Open Source project in their MSP Cloud providings
I'm using F# and .NET Core on Linux and I actually really like it. I can use my Linux distribution package manager to install different SDK versions side by side (at the moment, 2.1, 2.2, 3.0, 3.1) and the CLI tools automatically picks up the correct version for each solution. I find it superior to other languages like Rust/Erlang/Python where you need to use a tool that manages the SDKs outside of the distro package manager.
Quantity demanded drives supply too, not just price. Manufacturers won't say "no" to the extra revenue from increased sales volume at the same prices.
Statically checked safety is a big deal.

I mean it can have a crappy UI, and not do what you want it to, but at least you won't have a memory leak.

I think for most applications, written in rust shouldn't be a selling point, but things such a cURL can definitely benefit from it
From Pecking Orders to Making Friends: How Animals Elect Their Leaders
why does it matter? if you want to buy a home you have to pay up regardless of where your money comes from.
.NET has a Global Assembly Cache[0] which I think (please correct if I'm wrong) is used to pre-compile the system frameworks and so makes startup faster.

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/app-domain...
Scientists spot 1k nearby stars where E.T. could detect life on Earth – Space
Ask HN: Best forums to counter affiliate sites?
My neighbor has had this electric kids ride-on toy for 15 years. It seems very durable and I wanted to get one for my son. I can't find the brand, so I suspect it has changed.

When I search for anything these days, I always get tons of affiliate sites. I would much rather find a forum to review kids toys, a forum that has been around for years.

In general I would love to know if there is a list of lists of the best forums out there. Does such a list exist?
He's a toxic individual who attacks community based projects on the regular. No wonder he got canned.
The Secrets to Success as an Audiobook Narrator
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I believe the preferred term nowadays is "simulation"
“Making is show business now” https://alexdanco.com/2020/10/08/making-is-show-business-now...
So if you have a long cell with an ion-gradient along it, I guess you have to have the turbines attached to something right? Or else the protons will just push it around rather than spin it? And then there is still the issue of protons just flowing around the turbine rather than through it. It may be possible, but to my layman intuition it sounds way harder to get right than a membrane.

I wonder if maybe an intermediate step could be just channels and turbine. But no pump. If the amount of protons surrounding membrane varies over time, the cell can open the channels when there are many protons outside, and close the channels when there are few (forcing equalization through turbines).

Or maybe it can use acid protolysis to create protons?
Masks could save 130k American lives from COVID19 by March