skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's powerful about this name change is that it pushes us to alter a habit, in my case one embedded deeply in my fingers, something that I do every day without realizing that I'm doing it. Thus it is a useful reminder of the implicit bias that contributes to the lack of diversity in tech. Never mind that the old name was harmless, the change brings repeated awareness to an important topic, and it reaches a the developer community in a targeted way

This is a really interesting framing and I appreciate it.

As a Caucasian American, I have been perplexed by this issue. The terminology change itself didn't especially annoy me - you don't have to change your existing repositories after all - but it didn't seem to really accomplish anything useful. My instinct was that this served no purpose beyond PR ("virtue signaling") and might be mildly harmful at worst (as a distraction from important structural issues, a constant reminder to right-wing people how annoying liberal scolds can be to them) without any upside I could actually envision.

I feel like what you describe was very far from the original intent, whatever it might have been, but I appreciate that it may help in some small way I did not envision.
Yes, this is a good summary of what these changes do. They allow white people to pat themselves on the back, without actually doing anything material to help break down racism.
I imagine a headline:

The surprising results of dropping else from ifs

Programs are mostly for humans to read.
The worst I have seen is the media's failure to cover that Google - and probably Microsoft too - blacklisted historic black universities for over a decade. This a juke, a pump fake - not something substantial.
Because if you don't offer fair equity then any engineer worth their salt will just go somewhere that does.
Artificial wombs are interesting to me for the colonization of space angle. It's an old trope-- the ship full of frozen embryos lumbering across space at a fraction of c-- but the idea is really exciting to me. For all I dislike about humans and human nature I'd love for our species to spread beyond our single solar system.
COVID-19 vaccine doses administered per 100 people daily rank percentile for all countries in ourworldindata.org

https://sitrucp.github.io/covid_world_vaccinations
> It fits the bill. Asians are treated as white in tech.

Or are they treated as asians? This whole thing is complicated, but including asian people as 'white' when it is colloqially used to mean 'caucasian european' for the most part, is just disigenuous and moving the goalposts.
Personally, I expect a lot from smaller, entry level EVs based on existing ICE platforms. They can be built on the same lines as their ICE cousins, share a lot of common parts and cheaper to develop. Switching to higher volumes will come at the expense of their ICE cousins, so capacity at the factory isn't much of an issue neither. Higher volumes should also make them cheaper, the EVs, due to economies of scale.

Sure, that's no dedicated EV platform. But who really cares for cars one size class smaller than a Golf, or the same?
Utility-scale solar is around $1/W on average, so it does sound a bit expensive:

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/doe-officially-...

I wonder what the mix of projects was
Looks cool! How is it doing?
The M.U.L.E. music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EubKmtFBXY
You actually implied it heavily by calling me xenophobic. You know full well they are synonymous. I am not stupid, so don't play silly games with me please.

> Your insistence that foreigners can't continue to identify with their own culture while also embracing a new one is aptly described as xenophobia.

Nope. I never insisted that at all. I never even mentioned foreigners. You keep on twisting what I am trying to explain and trying to pervert it into something you wish it to be.

I said that this sub dividing people in the *same nationality* by *race* is an American import to the UK (and from what some of my Belgian and French friends have told me) a import into some parts of Europe as well. It isn't typically done in the UK, France, Belgium and I suspect it is the same in many of the other European countries.

Then I said that working class labourers (not all of them white btw) don't like it when 2nd/3rd or 4th generation immigrants aren't patriotic or don't try to assimilate (like their parents did). I then said these concerns / complaints will always get hand-waived away by people as "racism" when the real problem is a feeling of disrespect. Just like you have.

It got nothing to do with xenophobia as the people I am talking about are British.

> If you want to have a sensible discussion, lets start by engaging with what is actually said instead of what we wish was said.

I do. So if you could actually respond to what I said and refrain from this behaviour (which you are now accusing me of) that would be great. Pointing the finger at me, when it is actually you is disingenuous.
Take a look at the The Problem header. There is usually a list under there discussing the actions/motivations they take.

I have found myself in a few of them.
All syntax is about what's convenient for people to structure their world. If it weren't, we'd all just be writing machine code.

The word "else" exists in every human language, implying that people have a thought pattern for "if this then that, otherwise the other thing". Structuring code is hard enough, so taking cues from human language is a good heuristic.

If/else is side-effecty. Ternaries are the equivalent in a functional world. Some code is very natural in a functional style, but statefulness is another natural way for people to work. Every time you write intermediate results on scratch paper, you're doing stateful thinking. Every time you make a decision and take an action that can't be undone, that's stateful thinking.

There are some purely side-effect-free languages, but many developers find them unnatural. At the very least it requires a substantial revamping to think about databases and UIs in a purely stateless way. And if you're working in a stateful language, if/else is a natural way to express some actions.

People are increasingly pushing toward functional programming, and the more you do that, the fewer else statements you write. In fact, the fewer if statements you write as well. If statements are kind of a code smell -- and in fact, ifs without elses are also a code smell. They hint at asymmetry, and there's a hidden "don't do anything" that should make you wonder if you should have done something.
I'm largely in agreement, but this:

>> Hidden trauma is not something like a faceless blob. It's something you remember, you know, however you didn't realize that it created a trauma with you.

Some people will block the memory. Others are aware of it but don't associate it with current feelings, thoughts, or actions, so when asked they will essentially "forget" it and say "no trauma". Yet other forms of trauma form from years of subtle mistreatment and can not be traced to a specific event - only through extensive work can that be pieced together.

The subconscious can be a minefield, and to say poor outcomes are due to poor practice is almost as bad as victim blaming. I think triage is important, but there is a lot of belief that any practitioner can handle any person. I think that's false even with the best of them.
Tweet is a reaction gif.
Why would they? What sanction do they risk if they don't? What do they give up / risk if they do?
The article on Patent Author does mention as one of the exceptions exaclty that - working with teams on different time zones may require a Patent Author attitude.
However, I do have to agree with the original comment in this chain, that website is filled with bad advice and slightly sociopathic in nature.
Yes, and autopsy and anatomical study of cadavers was once considered immoral. Just because our lizard-brain has a "that's gross" reaction, it doesn't mean it's the right reaction. Millions and millions of people are alive because of what we learned studying dead bodies.

We are ok unplugging life support if someone is well and truly braindead because they aren't a sentient, thinking self-aware being at that point. How is this different? Show your work. :-)
It's not if it's developed ethically. The price of this research is often paid by the suffering of countless animals. Aa externality that may be slightly less odious if it is at least there to reduce our suffering, not simply cash in on making more humans.
Stuff like diversity training and wokeness and virtue signaling is all counter productive. What you've done is planted the seed of discrimination where there was none to begin with. Congratulations.
In India changes aren't easy, existing power nexuses have built their power over centuries and now they wield so much power over common people's belief and thoughts that any change seems against the existing value and belief system.

Luckily first time in history India has now a leader who isn't scared of breaking existing power structures and replacing them with inclusive ones, ones which are more democratic and progressive
I wonder if anybody has modified their browser fonts with the powerline characters and can actually see the character you've written here. If those people are anywhere it'd be here. :)
Here they do: https://system76.com/guides/lemp10

Notice "65W+ USB Type-C Charging Compatible" in specs.
Tesla P100 is the previous generation. P100 > V100 > A100. You can see detailed benchmarking here - http://ai-benchmark.com/ranking_deeplearning.html
Who the &^& said I think like this? You chose literally the worst example and then attributed it to me.

Perhaps a quick reread of the site guidelines is in order.
I grew up as part of the overwhelming majority in a place with a small but distinct minority. I tried to befriend the minority and was often harshly pushed out. I came to think they were oversensitive because of some victim culture.

Then I spent some years in a culture where I stuck out by skin color, hair color, language skills, height, shoe size--pretty much every way possible. People were not mean to me or racist towards me. But every waking moment I knew I was different. And I knew I would never have the right hair or skin or height or accent to fit in. I would always be an outsider.

For the first time, I understood in some small way that minority from my youth who seemed to have a chip on their shoulder. I can't say that I have had their experience, but I have had an experience that opened my eyes to realize what it means to always know you are an outsider.

I wish they didn't react so negatively. But I think I know better now than to condemn their hostility outright. My experience was some short years as an adult. And I wasn't treated as inferior. How would it be to grow up under that and to expect it for your entire life?
The Radical Liberal
Slippery slope is considered a fallacy because not all things vaguely similar to previous paths to X result in X, obviously. Nobody looks at a well-run public rail schedule and thinks 'uh-oh, Fascism is just around the corner' [1]. You're conflating your personal strongly held beliefs about it with imagined inevitable consequences. We don't agree that they're inevitable at all.

[1] Popular myth nature of this quip aside.
> I'm not convinced human stupidity is bounded

I kind of am? Besides, people don't need to never be stupid again, they just need to become stupider at a slower rate than productivity increases. If hour by hour production significantly increased, how could people possibly waste enough?

More importantly, would they? We waste resources to signal wealth. Wasting an ever greater proportion of your allocated geyser of materials doesn't signal anything.
There are essentially no differences, except J&J's platform had been successful in an European Phase III trial for an Ebola vaccine, but not the one widely used in the last big outbreak, and Oxford's had an 8 year history of Phase I failures. Both replication deficient adenovirus vectors, with the spike protein spliced in, although maybe significantly different versions of the protein.

The biggest difference is their goals, Oxford was intended to be a regular vaccine, J&J intended to get the very best protection from a single vaccination, with an initial goal of protecting a billion people in 2021, now increased to 3 billion. Besides J&J's press releases and slow but sure development methodology see the difference in their Phase III trial primary endpoints, here's J&J's https://www.jnj.com/coronavirus/ensemble-1-study-protocol:

To demonstrate the efficacy of Ad26.COV2.S in the prevention of molecularly confirmed, moderate to severe/critical coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), as compared to placebo, in SARS-CoV-2 seronegative adults

As in, not stopping people from getting the disease, that's a secondary objective.

AZ/Oxford will be hard to track down because they did several different Phase III trails in even more countries. I'd start with ClinicalTrials.gov, look for Primary Outcome Measures and this is a good search to start with: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=ChAdOx1&cond=Cov... For the US trial:

The efficacy of 2 IM doses of AZD1222 compared to saline placebo for the prevention of COVID-19

J&J is also doing a 2 dose 8 weeks apart US based Phase III trail to see what that can accomplish.
> running fvwm

That's the secret. I've been running Windows 10 on the desktop for almost the last decade, but ran Linux for more than a decade prior to that. If I want a Linux desktop, I know I can pull out my old archived FVWM configs and be set.
> I don't want a ISIS member coming back to the UK.

A lot of ISIS members came back, they faced persecution, some even death sentence but none had their citizenship stripped.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-k-strips-citizenship-is...

> If they were born in the US, they would have just been assassinated by drone strike instead like they did with Anwar al-Awlaki.

Yes, but the point is, is there are a legal treatment which is different for people who have been living here for generations vs those whose parents became a citizen in their lifetimes.
You shouldn’t be afraid of failure, but it’s a bad fetish. If failure can help future endeavors great, but there’s nothing inherently interesting about failing a lot.
There some less-ethically challenging reasons, explained well in their nature paper, namely that using controlled environment they learn a ton of things about how embryos grow

> The ability to remove a mammalian embryo from the uterine environment and grow it normally in controlled conditions constitutes a powerful tool to characterize the effect of different perturbations on development during the period from gastrulation to organogenesis, that can be combined with genetic modification, chemical screens, tissue manipulation and microscopy methods
This is also a propaganda technique made famous by Putin's Russia - the Firehose of Falsehood. Make people so unsure of everything they don't know what to believe, which makes them easier to manipulate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood
You mean like China is doing to the Uighers right now...
> I'm also French (but living in the US). How is that not selection bias if you only ask your friends which I presume you met through school or work? These friends have already overcome the hurdles that minorities have to go through.

Many statements are selection bias or apex fallacy. The author of the original article talks about $20m donations as though that's the case for the majority of white people, instead of just a rounding error. What's worse is assuming that an observation must be selection bias, when selection bias needs demonstrating.
Given that this was just a case study and we don't have explanations for why TM alone would cause this, it seems the simplest answer is that TM can exacerbate underlying conditions.
> Thus it is a useful reminder of the implicit bias that contributes to the lack of diversity in tech.

Implicit bias is made to be the boogeyman when it reality, it is probably a very a small fraction of the cause of "lack of diversity" in tech, if at all. Anyone who has attended computer science courses in college anytime would know the number of black students were little to none. It has always been a pipeline problem from the education side of things. To say that typing a word that so happens to have a relation to slavery caused a "lack of diversity" in tech is the biggest farce in this industry and it is extremely sad to see this line parroted by many in the industry. I expect to be heavily downvoted and even flagged for "wrongthink" but I think it tells a lot about how irrational and unhealthy our state of discourse is in today's world.
That might be Tesla's biggest value contribution, building and forcing others to build charging infrastructure. Doesn't necessarily have to be the OEM. Right now no car company is running fuel stations nor are oil companies building cars.
I think of my pet cat as a "person". Maybe you think that's crazy but I would suggest it's more person-like than a fetus, and that therefore I have a better definition of person than you are using.

At any rate the real issue is not who is a "person" but who is worthy of moral consideration.
You just answered your own question: Babies routinely drink their mother's breast milk, but almost never kill them.
This is the winner right here, this is the manager who will get the most things done and deliver the most business value. This team would run in circles around a whole department of snowflakes. Focusing on being efficient at getting the actual job done, not wasting time on bullshit like figuring out how to have the perfect "one-on-one" to "make people happy". People on a team like this will be happy because they have a high level of purpose, craftmanship and impact.
Learning programming is different from learning a programming language
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. We're trying to avoid that here.

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As someone who grew up playing in VGA, EGA was always the "outdated" option I was glad to avoid (and let's be honest, most EGA artists did not have the skills of Steve Purcell). But this makes a pretty damning case in favor of the original art.

The thing this immediately brought to mind for me was the way Silent Hill 2 was absolutely massacred a few years back in its supposed "remaster" (they left out the FOG): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Hill_HD_Collection. This seems to be an eternal pitfall: "Upgrading" graphics while failing to realize that impressive visuals are about artistic skill and effort (often MOSTLY), not just technical stats.
Yes, that's almost all of per-capita energy consumption. It would be a really dumb metric otherwise.
The cities are absolutely going to invade the surrounding countryside. Mobs and gangs of hungry people banding together to take what they can from weaker neighbors has been a feature of nearly every instance of state failure.

As a city-dweller, your strategy for surviving this is to join one. As a wealthy suburb dweller, you better hope you have a private security advantage where you can kill the whole mob before it kills you. As a rural dweller, your strategy is to be far enough away, high enough up, and insignificant enough that it's not worth going after you. Gas will be in short supply after a collapse; it's not worth driving 100 miles to take food from a farm that you don't know exists. Most of the towns and small cities in the regions I mentioned are easily that far away from the nearest city.

It's pretty likely that the dominant political organization after a national collapse would be city-states. However, that doesn't mean that it's best for an individual to be within them. We might see 75% depopulation within cities, but people in rural areas can go on about their normal business, if they don't get conquered entirely by the local city. It's a choice between living in privilege in the aftermath of the collapse but having a good chance of not making it there, vs. a higher chance of survival but you'll be a vassal state to the local city.
AWS Graviton2-based instances are now generally available for Aurora PostgreSQL
I can't think of any time since the mid-1990s where being affiliated with Phrack would have jeopardized a high-status career in software security.
Teen 'mastermind' pleads guilty to celeb Twitter hack
I guess Crypto..

https://twitter.com/SellFiat/status/1347958257642569730/phot...

Above graph is only about Bitcoin, people have made a shit ton more on Alt..
Ask HN: Which Business Intelligence course do you recommend?
Hey HN folks,

I'm considering to improve my business intelligence skills: dashboarding, charting and reporting. Is there any go-to course that you recommend? Is there any sort of "Fast.ai: Deep Learning for Coders"-like course for business intelligence?
I actually started with Obsidian. It's a beautiful editor and was pretty easy to pick up. I must've built my first batch of notes in Obsidian.

I picked up Dendron due to 2 things:
1. Hierarchies leading to better note structure - I can have my notes be folders (kind of like notion)
2. VSCode - working with something extensible and familiar to me.

Here's more from the wiki: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/683740e3-70ce-4a47-a1f4-1f140e...
I guess he's no longer under contracts from Apple, but still seems kinda unprofessional. Then again, when one of your biggest assets is your association with certain brands and characters, you sell it to the full extent of the law.
Quadplay Fantasy Console by CasualEffects
Germany ditched the holding period a while back for stocks. You pay 25% plus a little bit (26.375% in reality) on every gain, no matter if you hold it for 10 years or for two seconds.

Bitcoin is tax-free after a holding period of 1 year afaik.

If you lose $500k, you don't owe taxes, congratulations. But you still lost money (even if you maybe only lost $300k, because the rest would've been taxes).
I think this idea that “master” is associated so narrowly in English is ignorance, perhaps even willful. It obviously has broader meaning depending on context, and I would argue that the majority of its use is disassociated entirely with the history of the American slave trade (just think through examples and count them).

It also occurs to me that having these kinds of fights means people are running out of meaningful struggles, like we’re trying to wring out the last 5% and it gets inefficient because it starts doing harm as well. Then you see these hoaxes like Smollett and others and start thinking that the demand for egregious behavior exceeds supply in the US. It can happen, but it’s surprisingly rare given the state of conversation and rhetoric in this country.
Well I guess my brain accidentally skipped that sentence...but hey for anyone else now you know.
> Is this yet another case of ML picking up on bias in seed data?

That was my first thought, that this probably reflects more the views of the original translators than the engineers at Google.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar and please don't cross into personal attack.

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We really should though. If we can get this to work it would mean we could save lots of species that are endangered. Elephants and rhinos come to mind.
Prove it - we do't understand consciousness enough to make such claims. Or at least have the wisdom to apply the precautionary principle when you don't know.