skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AIM truly became useless. Everyone got phones and texted instead of using computers. AIM was popular before every person had a mobile phone. It wasn’t really AIMs fault. Mobile phones came out and they were too slow to have a decent application. For a few years phones didn’t have the ability at all to download applications. In that span of time AIM was completely replaced by texting. They may have been starting from zero again by the time iPhone and Android popularized app downloads.
One way to do that might be: require the unions to carry settlement insurance. Require that insurance payments are made directly out of union dues. Increasing cost of insurance cost would act as a deterrent. Of course, that would be short-circuited if cities raise wages (paid by taxation) to cover those dues.
That's _exactly_ my setup.

But I cannot understand why there are no reasonably priced 5K or 6K monitors of around 30-35 inch. I would buy one in a heartbeat.
Earlier you wrote "Not useful for the many gifted students who are not white" and "it sure looks like some students are at a systemic disadvantage". What is a systemic disadvantage for non-white students but racism? For what it's worth, I would categorize a system that disadvantages people based on their race as racism/racist. I don't mean to be putting words in your mouth, but I do understand you as claiming that this is a system that is disadvantaging people based on their race (privileging white students, harming black and Hispanic). If that's not what you mean, then I apologize because I have misunderstood.

I'm not relying on handwaving and racial stereotypes here. There are plenty of measurements pointing out the difference in standardized tests. For example, this document[1] shows SAT scores and percentiles divided by race. Assuming I'm not misreading this, it shows that 23% of Asian students score a 1400+ on the SAT compared to 1% of black students with the same score. That's more than a 10x difference. That seems a little hard to believe, but wikipedia[2] also has some illustrative graphs that suggest 10x+ differences. For example, figure 1-9 shows the difference in perfect math scores by race.

I don't think it's really a stereotype but a well documented fact that Asians outscore white and black students both on standardized tests. I also think that tests are kind of like school. Tests are similar to how you are graded, they are about similar content, classes are meant to prepare you for tests, etc. It seems straightforward to me to say that if Asian students are good at the kind of standardized tests they encounter in school, we should also expect them to be good at the standardized tests that gate high achievement programs, and that we should expect them to enter and perform well in those programs.

I'm not familiar with any evidence showing the efficacy of test prep and I'd be really surprised if it was as large as the differences between groups that I've pointed to in the sources mentioned above. Perhaps you could share something to read on the topic?

Regardless, students who take test prep courses are probably a better fit for advanced classes that require students to do more work. Doing more work is how you prepare for tests and how you perform in the advanced classes. As I mentioned before, I think it is absolutely worthwhile to check and see if racism is happening here - and I think you could do that by checking what percentage of students by race pass the test, win the lottery, and are admitted. If there are unexplainable discrepancies between those steps, that would be good evidence of racism, the fact that different racial groups perform differently on the tests seems just like a recreation of a well known and oft-observed and documented phenomenon.

1 - https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/pdf/sat-percentile...
2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT#Association_with_race_and_...
So you submitted something that's not really a Show HN, just "because the number of articles submitted there is lower, hence each post remains visible longer", and you used an editorialized title for your submission, because it seemed better fitting for a Show HN.

May I introduce you to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
All three of those are subsystems of a broader overall system that makes up American society. It's that overall system that perpetuates systemic racism through a combination of factors in the myriad subsystems.

Addressing economic inequality along class lines would go a long way, since it's the economic system that has the strongest (or at least most tangible) impact right now. That doesn't do much to address lingering cultural issues, however.
I can't recommend you spend your time reading this nebulous essay, which doesn't in any way address the time and cost blowouts for the latest generation of reactors, instead choosing to blame woke liberals. Tiresome.
Look, bub, you're on HN, now on /r/im14andthisisdeep.

> Who knows? The point is that we don't know all of the ways that masks affect us.

I don't know all the ways that the rice I ate yesterday affects me. I'm not going to stop eating rice because of this.

Your argument is completely null.

When there's no clear proof of something having a strong negative effect, the rational thing is to assume it doesn't have a strong negative effect.

When something clearly has a strong positive effect, the rational thing is to assume it has a strong positive effect.

And when we decide to do something, we balance positives with negatives. There is nothing in this world that only has positive aspects (the opposite is also true, nothing truly has only negative aspects). We never do something because it's "perfect", we do things that are "good" (more positives than negatives). We live because of water and oxygen but water can drown us and oxygen can burn us.

Your logic is: "a lot of very respectable people (as well as common sense) say that this thing has a positive effect, but I don't know if it has any negative effect, so I just won't do it at all".

That's no logic, it sounds more like spite.

I don't say this lightly, even on the internet, but you act like a horrible person. Please reflect on your behavior and for your sake, I hope you change.

Anyway, goodbye!
Massive bonuses would have been paid out already while the liability burdened company will need to be bailed out.
Only alcoholics do that. I think most beer is drunk in the evening when people get together and drink 5+ bottles.
what year though?
Tape and glue is literally how iMac panels are held on https://www.replacebase.co.uk/for-apple-imac-a1419-27-lcd-gl...
Yes, there were a lot of deaths from these nuclear disasters, they were horrible, we should have avoided them.
But nuclear energy is still much less deadly than fossil fuels. Air pollution-caused diseases are lung cancer and stroke for example.
I think nuclear plants have become much safer and there is more international regulation to maintain their safety.
I recommend this excellent video on this topic from Kurzgesagt: https://youtu.be/Jzfpyo-q-RM
Nothing because the incident killed fewer people than a coal plant does during regular operation in the same time period.
Chernobyl and Fukushima are not the best arguments against nuclear imo.

Chernobyl was underbudgetted in terms of safety. For instance no protective dome was places around the reactor housing as done in other countries. Add that to a suboptimal design to start with and sheer bad luck...

Fukushima on the other hand is a better comparison. But on larger scales, such as Europe or the US, surely it must be possible to place the plants in areas that are not subject to such natural disasters that would threaten the safety of the reactors?
Ethernet 10base5 were similar cables and similar wiring topology
Or you could say that CA and TX are demonstrating that deregulation is a failed strategy.

"Vital infrastructure" and "market driven" are rarely a good match.
Yes, assuming they are paying for it and are not able to use it on the use cases they are paying for.

Then again, they clearly mention on that page:

"
Please put us out of business.

Stop writing C/C++.

Probably you should also sandbox your software.
"
Look at e.g. the now disgraced and dissolved Woodford fund though; some managers seem to keep being above average, until they aren't.
One point the article could have made but curiously didn't is that even in the case of a catastrophic aftermath like Chernobyl or Fukushima the end result is primarily human moving away from the zone because of cancer risk and nature claiming back control of the exclusion zone.

So at one point maybe we should start considering that nuclear is mostly dangerous to human society. As human society is responsible for climate change maybe that is some form of karma. Should nuclear be part of the solution this is the risk we might need to take because we will be the most impacted by consequences.

Life, Uh, Finds a Way...
The article says nothing about a "bailout".
Let me guess, when they started this JSON was small and this parsing code worked fine for that small input but over time the JSON got bigger and bigger and here we are.
> We don't even have to imagine: we had a patent-free vaccine, better than the privately developed ones and available before all those. Yet we chose to get into the mess we are in now, with many states uncapable of providing enough vaccines in time.

The vaccine mentioned in the article was developed later than Moderna & Pfitzer, and it’s Adenovirus based, so it’s most likely worse than them, and closer to AZ or J&J.

It’s like comparing a paper written about doing online search and a deployed, working on production system.

In many cases it’s easy to do a first prototype, but getting it to production - especially with sevurity considerations - is the hard part.

(For some things the research cost is high too of course, but here, for mRNA vaccines, the research cost was taken up by private money).

I am against patents in general, but the narrative about Covid vaccine patents is just plain dishonest.
Renewables are based on the hope that one day we [...] get batteries with energy storage seen only in Star Trek.

You're right that we aren't there yet, but Star Trek level technology is hyperbole. Just to give one example, the German gas grid can store several hundreds TWh of energy, and there are lab results that indicate we might be able to improve power-to-gas-to-power efficiencies to make this viable[1].

[1] https://www.kit.edu/kit/english/pi_2018_009_power-to-gas-wit...
We could do just as badly and still have nowhere near as many deaths (including evacuation related deaths) as a single coal plant causes due to pollution.
I'm not a historian, but afaik this order used to own Malta as a whole so it's likely due to historical reasons coming from this fact.
> ...if you have some unique insight on some specific market, use it on the market!

One thing to be cautious of here is that people often overinvest when they have some sort of advantage, and become way too over-leveraged in one single area.

I remember a calculation from a college finance class. Imagine you have an otherwise "optimal" portfolio with 1% of its assets in a particular large stock, but you know that the real average returns of that stock are going to be ~2x what the market is expecting. So you recompute the efficient portfolio with this new information and find the new optimal weight of the stock and it's only something like 2-3% despite having a very strong information advantage over the market.

But most people would think this sounds crazy. "I've got a crazy inside stock tip that it's worth double what everyone else thinks? Shouldn't I put at least 10% of my money in there?" No. Diversity is a hell of a value-add in a portfolio.
> Only half of school funding comes from local taxes.

That still leaves a lot of wiggle room for school revenues, and a lot of influence on those revenues (and, correspondingly, student education) by residents' economic class.

And further, just because the state/federal spending is "targeted to level the differences" doesn't mean it actually does so.
> Open-source is bound up with Linux and C for historical reasons, and also because the top mainstream languages were not open-source until recently, and so is disproportionately behind the times.

The top mainstream languages (C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, C#, etc.) have all had at least one open source implementation for at least a decade. A decade is not a long time in the life of programming languages but it’s also not “recently.”
It came back with my linux distribution's provided update... not sure what hapenned but I didn't remove it.
Well roku's are popular, have nice software, and are easy to stream to. They are also newbie friendly, hand someone a remote and they'll likely have netflix, amazon prime video, youtube, and related streaming services going in no time. Even a 5 year old can manage to get things going.

It's the best I've seen, way better than I've seen built in TV's. It's also the Switzerland of streaming services. No problems with Apple devices disliking google services, or vice versa. So you get the best selection of streaming channels I've seen.

It's also popular enough that clients written for roku tend to be better than less popular devices, like say some random brand TV. Not to mention TVs are often useful for 10+ years, and it's way cheaper to upgrade a Roku than replace a TV.

Oh and there's a Plex client.
I like a 4:5 display, but they don't really make them any more (or if they do, there's one or two choices)
To say CA is "deregulated" is kind of a bastardization of the term.
I find it strange that Reddit still gets advertisers and investors with the vast amount of porn on the site. They are getting good at hiding it from people unless you actually look for it. Meanwhile, places like pornhub get visa and MasterCard banning their service for the same things you can find on Reddit.
I went through this registration page on Saturday myself. At least in our league, the documents are optional.
Radiation doesn’t only affect humans
'We just want to play': Iran gamers battle reality of U.S. sanctions
If you watch any of the video game developers conferences they are (or, were, before Covid) in unanimous agreement:

They have no OpenGL job reqs. They have tons of Vulkan job reqs that they can't fill.
Locking someone up for disagreeing with you just highlights your insecurity. And I think the point here is that Facebook is a primary news source for many people. It may be enabling government censorship due to the company's monopolistic status.
"Science for me and not for thee!"
Elon Musk making the move to Texas specifically to avoid the regulation that would have helped stop this from happening, would be kicking himself right now if he was in any way affected by this or consistent in his beliefs.
Latest unc0ver release can jailbreak the iPhone 12 series and iOS 14.3
I think nuclear definitely has a role to play, at least in the short term. I'm not sure about expanding its usage, but definitely maintain what we have until it can be replaced with renewables, and definitely replace nuclear only after coal/gas/other fossil fuels are no longer being used anywhere.

Don't be fooled by disastrous events, nuclear is statistically the safest energy source we have[1], so don't fear it senselessly. This is a whole topic on it's own and I won't delve deeper into it here.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...
But that is not the case (AFAIK) for hundreds of years now.
Not easily. I answered "NO" to everything during setup, and it still collects just about everything. And this is Windows 10 Pro.

I'd much prefer an "opt in" scenario where _nothing_ is reported unless i specifically allow it. I'm aware that some things go hand in hand, like "find my device" requires my device to report it's location, but i can't remember EVER opting in to sending every app i open, filename of every file i open, every link i browse, to them.
Well the electric grid falls in that category of service, like the military where the market is potentially a bad solution. So in this regard. The electric company was able to be negligent to their personal benefit of 1.8 billion dollars of unfunded liability it created. And then they call bankruptcy and that's the end of that chapter.
yep, just flag the post and move on.
Have you seen the Tom Cruise deepfakes? I mean, if you can reliably detect deepfakes like this[0] then the product could be better sold as deepfake detection software.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3dPBiQa5bw
Alternatively you can use TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMPTZ types in postgres for instant and ZonedDateTime, and serialize local date, local time, and localdatetime either to iso 8601 pr their underlying fields (millis after midnight and julian date)
Ask HN: Is average code getting worse?
Hi HN,

There used to be a time, in the dark dark ages of history, 10 years ago or so, when I would encounter issues during the course of my work, and I could fairly confidently assume I was doing something wrong, or I just hadn’t read the manual correctly.

Contrast that to now, when I regularly write code, or include a library to do a certain thing, and I find it just does not work. Following my historical logic, I spent a day trying to figure out what I did wrong, only to figure out that it was a bug, or edge case that someone just hadn’t covered (never mind that my life seems to consist of edge cases now) or the documentation is just plain out of date (or nonexistent).

Is this a trend? And does it have to do with the average code, or myself? Have you experienced something similar? It’s driving me nuts.

I want to rely on other code, but more and more I find that it’s safer to just assume it’ll be broken from the start.
Yeah I always found it funny that Tumblr faced so much heat from Apple, etc for its (underage) porn problem[1] yet Reddit and Twitter are probably even larger harvesters of it

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/20/18104366/tumblr-ios-app-...
That may be, but what deregulation there has been has almost uniformly been a disaster (see: Enron).

Vital infrastructure, practically by definition, is unprofitable. That's not a good match to profit driven markets.
pour one out for AIM
The article discusses only nuclear fission power if that helps to decide whether you actually want read it. The arguments presented are pretty much the same as always.
I'm not a fan of having cancer rates rise either. I've stated this before, and I'll repeat it here:

Solar, wind, geothermal, and hydro are more than enough to power the world. They're cheaper too.
Is he against regulation to keep power plants working in winter?
Blaming hippies is kinda like the Solarwinds CEO blaming an intern.

If nuclear power was all that it's boosters claim it is, the objections of woke liberals would be a long forgotten road kill squirrel. Seriously the hippies don't have that much political power.
I played the game on PS3 and PC. The loading time at launch for PS3 (and later for PC, albeit on SSD) wasn't great, but it also wasn't nearly this terrible.

From a game programming perspective, I'm sure at launch there were very few extras to obtain, so this method ran fast and didn't raise any red flags.

But as time has worn on they've added a ton of extra items and it's become a real problem. What it does show is that probably most of their team are working on creating new things they can sell, vs testing and maintaining the codebase for the last N years.
Yes but Apple removed Tumblr from the App Store for this -- why doesn't your argument apply there?
Org Charts Are Cages
Yes but the deep question is the following:

Being an animal would you rather unknowingly have you lifespan reduced by an invisible force or being killed by humans or the artificial infrastructures they build by grinding more and more natural space each year?

Unfortunately animals can't advocate for themselves so we'll have to try figure out the best answer.
And yet the exclusion zone around Chernobyl has biodiversity higher than anywhere else in Europe.

So even if nuclear power is as bad as hippies say it's still better for the environment than human civilization.
I’m working with OpenGL in an indie game across Windows/Mac/Linux.

I feel like in the games space, if you’re not going through Unity or Unreal then it still makes a lot of sense to target OpenGL for most games rather than going to Vulkan. I definitely still get a bunch of error reports from folks whose computers don’t have OpenGL drivers capable of a context >2.1 on Windows, and I expect that sort of problem would be even more common for Vulkan. Mac hasn’t been a problem thus far, as long as you don’t need advanced 4.x features (I’m just using a 3.3 core context)

While the ‘average’ hardware shown in the Steam hardware surveys is pretty good (better than all of my dev machines, in fact), being the support contact for my game has definitely demonstrated that the standard deviation on that hardware goes down as well as up, and sometimes by quite a lot!

I’d love to play with Vulkan someday, but I worry about support, especially on really old hardware.

(Other thoughts: in indie spaces, it probably makes a lot more sense to use Unity or Unreal or Godot rather than rolling your own. And in AAA spaces, you’d be silly not to go Vulkan instead of OpenGL. It’s really only in my unusual “I happen to have already rolled my own engine and I’m using it to make an indie game” case where OpenGL makes a lot of sense to me)
Try it on almost any smaller subreddit though.
In jobdescription.ai [0] I have the challenge of making the job descriptions gender-neutral. I have tested ten job descriptions with Jobvite tool, and the results showed zero biased, but then I started researching more about the gender bias tools and found one study and an article about gender bias [1,2].

Study [1] suggests that men and women will decode wording differently. For instance, women felt that job adverts with masculine-coded language were less appealing and that they belonged less in those occupations. Some masculine-coded words are challenging and lead while some feminine-coded words are support and commitment.

That does not mean to imply that men lack the ability to be supportive or collaborative, nor women lack leadership or challenging skills “But, based on data analytics on the kinds of jobs men and women apply for, research shows that the adjectives matter.”

Article [2] supports the study and added "Many women won’t apply for a job unless they meet almost all of the listed requirements" so the list of requirements matter as well.

I plan to research more to better understand the gender bias in terms of wordings before implementing tools to create a feedback loop to improve the algorithm.

[0] https://www.jobdescription.ai

[1] http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/static/documents/Gauch...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2016/12/14/...

edit: to provide more information instead of links with no
context
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I have the PS2Linux kit nicely packed. It hardly got the use I expected for, and modern GPUs are more interesting to use.
>Super paranoid question - I wonder if one of the Mastodon coders poisoned the Mastodon source code in the hopes that Gab would pull and merge the changes?

I highly doubt that. It's a fairly large open-source software project, slipping a backdoor into the codebase via a patch wouldn't go unnoticed. The Wikipedia article you linked to states Gab uses a fork of Mastodon. I would lean towards this being a bug introduced in Gab's fork or a patched bug in Mastodon not ported to their fork, assuming that was even the attack vector. The data could just have been exfiltrated directly via their hosting infrastructure and not related to Mastodon at all.