skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m going to share my own personal anecdote because I think “it’s China’s fault” is both wrong and leads to the anti-Asian sentiment that is going around North America right now.

I viewed many properties during the pandemic, and when we saw other potential buyers (e.g. had the appointment before or after us), they were all white couples in their 30s or 40s.

After a couple tries, we bid on a home and won (I am white citizen). We have since moved in, and I’ve observed that the other homes that sold on our street all now have white families living in them.

This is obviously inconclusive, but I believe “it’s all foreign money” is mostly a convenient scapegoat and doesn’t really capture what’s going on.

(Also I find it strange that in your story, the homeowner would break a contractual agreement to sell and go with someone else.
I’m not a lawyer, but that seems like obvious grounds for a lawsuit. Note that in 2017 in Ontario a buyer broke an agreement to buy and was ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in the ensuing lawsuit.)

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/04/11/couple-ordered-t...
If it they can run Warhammer: Dark Omen with 3d acceleration, then that would be pretty impressive. Pretty famous for being a pain in the butt when it comes to running it on modern or emulated hardware.
If I'm interpreting this correctly then the company is providing incentives not to unionize, which at least in my country would be illegal.
Some of us would agree.

There are currently legal barriers to doing this. For example, recording audio without consent is criminal in Washington state and the basis is well argued.

There are many serious issues to such a monitoring system and shifts that would be necessary in society but some potentially amazing benefits. Imagine the end of "he said, she said". The reduction of incentives for running scams. The reduction in security related spending.
Great work, I love it. My smallest GoL implementation runs on the black-and-white LCD screen of my TI-89 Titanium (C cross-compiled to Motorola 68000 with an amended version of TIGCC for 64-bit Mac/Linux). Executable size is 5309 bytes. You cannot edit, it just eats the pixels it finds on the screen when it starts. But you can pan while it runs, pause, continue, and single-step. When it sees nothing is changing any more, it stops and outputs the number of generations computed.
In my experience at work, the business has problems and asks the technical teams for solutions. The technical team consists of just people, of course, and those people identify what the available options are for the solution. The more capabilities our team has, the more options we have to pick from.

What I'm saying is instead of trying to pick a language (Lisp, Haskell, etc) to get good at to land a job that currently requires it, you should instead pick one that you enjoy learning and pursue it doggedly. This puts you in the position of recognizing the types of problems well suited to that solution. Inevitably, the business will raise a problem and you can demonstrate that a functional language solves it and you're suddenly working in the language you wanted.

Of course, constraints vary from team to team and company to company. I think it would be harder to introduce a new language to a large, highly regulated company than a start up. In that case, your consideration should be less about which language to learn and more about which company to apply to.
I didn’t see any mention of it in the study but I’d hazard a guess that most VCs are heterosexual men and that might be a factor in an initial preference for women’s pitches, other things being equal.
Aren't we at web 4.0 now?

(slightly sarcastic, but honest question)
The way that some tech millionaires are now queuing up to sacrifice Stallman after having become rich beyond their wildest dreams on the back of his pioneering work reminds me of all those former Facebook executives and prominents we see in mainstream social media documentaries, who are now, after having secure their financial future, at pains to express remorse for the monster they designed and created. Yet, no-one ever feels bad enough to donate all of their blood money to a charitable cause.

Talk is cheap.
The fact that they're not NULL terminated and the slices itself have length information is already a great improvement over C.
I actually like the idea of content creators monetisation upfront whether bitclout will work or not
Yes, thank you. Autocorrect changed it. Fixed.
If a country is going to be blamed, the US easily bears the most responsibility in my view.

The UN wanted to do something, but the US kept them locked up in channels debating exactly what constitutes genocide (and threatening an outright veto if they didn’t) until it was too late.

The US claimed a humanitarian role in Somalia, but were really just protecting US interests (primarily oil). We didn’t have any significant interests in Rwanda and Somalia blew up in the Clinton regimes face, so they made the decision to let them die by not intervening.

Clinton claimed ignorance, but the few UN troops present sent back very clear information about what was happening. All the US citizens leaving (not to mention everyone else from other countries) knew what was going down. Either the president was lied to or he lied about not knowing. I don’t see how the former was possibly and the misdirection in the UN points directly to the latter.

In truth, it’s probably the banality of evil that preventing a genocide isn’t glamorous. It might cost soldier’s lives and people won’t be horrified because there aren’t stacks of dead bodies when everything is done (nobody notices when the system does its job). A cold, calculating politician would see the right thing is all risk and no visible reward. I guess Bill “Lolita Express” Clinton shouldn’t be accused of caring about other people’s well-being.

Epstein didn’t kill himself and I begin to wonder if the couple dozen suicide victims whose death benefitted the Clintons so much were similar kinds of “suicide”. I guess that’s a question for another time though if true, could explain the kind of moral character that would allow such decisions.
Woke and supernatural are a false equivalency, both are bad but only one is religion.
Undocumented x86 Instructions Allow Microcode Access
>Which real estate agent would be out of their mind not to take it?

The owner or person who has control over the real estate is accepting the offer, not the real estate agent.
Show HN: Website for a non profit I love
Goals of the project were to play with animations and svg art that was on brand with some of the things their designer has made
It's impossible to control for the culture of the organizations who are reviewing the applicants.

In the US, if you sent anonymized resumes to old, large companies in Industry X and then sent them to new, small companies in Industry Y, you are likely to get very different results.

Then your results become very dependent on how well you randomize those organizations, which is very difficult. If you get a few more "X" orgs instead of "Y" orgs, your results look totally different.
Fantastic tip, thank you!
This is awesome! Good job on it :) Wish you had a mailing list signup - I don't want to forget about this!

I took a one month Spanish class in Mexico a few years ago. It was amazing for giving me a solid base, and your tool would be perfect for getting regular practice in and learning new things.

Definitely agree with the other comments that a more modern book would be better. For me, probably a children's book haha. I can't imagine how much time it takes to translate though!

Idea:

- Create a list of a few books you could translate.

- Allow users to donate and select the book it would go towards.

- When donations reach the threshold, they're charged and you write it.

Like Kickstarter for book translations haha. Or maybe Patreon or something has that feature.
Sure, I meant you can post the link to your extension explaining what it does on the problem thread I shared above as those who want HN Notifications are checking it out.
Reason
https://www.bloombergquint.com/us-elections-2020/biden-plans...
Exactly this, but this points toward the conclusion that equality is going to be hard to achieve as men and women have different goals and ambitions.

When you remove the "survival" aspect of going to highly paid STEM job you get women who choose less technical jobs and huge disparity in number of women in tech.

Personally I don't think that is an issue at all but I feel I am in the minority, at least when we look at the decision making level.
I think the point is that there is a bias against males and white reducing the the chance of equity of opportunity, and this seem to be because the focus is consistently on equality of outcome.
Sort of a methodological question: why does a crash max out at 30%? The author seems to point out that even a 30% crash wouldn't fix it and therefore no crash would, but I'm wondering why crashes can't be larger than 30%.
rofl, I was thinking the same thing and also agreeing with the GP and GGP otherwise. =)
Also one sentence order might sound right in the one region and totally awkward in another. As a native speaker its mainly intuitive
My metaphor:

Just like governments mint currency from bullion, miners mint bitcoin from electricity.

While I think it's weird to consume so much energy to create something so ephemeral, I'm still unclear about the externalities, eg negative ecological impact, driving electricity prices up. Is all this effort worthwhile? Maybe? It feels like a tulip bulb craze, south sea bubble. But I've been so wrong so many times, I question my own certainty.
Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act - to eliminate the 7% per country-cap on green card applicants, among other things, which would have ended the painfully long wait for thousands of green card hopefuls.
It's normally slightly larger on average. I get you're joking, but the joke doesn't even make sense. A full build of LLVM + Clang is 15-20Gb, and yet, weirdly, IOS apps are not all that size.
This is not surprising to me. For all I've seen "non-white non-male" is generally given priority in all kinds of areas, certainly in start-up interest. It's considered "hip" to associate with these "non-white non-male" groups, irregardless of their actual performance in whatever area they were prioritized. (To a certain extent at least, they can't be completely nonperforming) Being able to show that you have included these groups in whatever way your organization works, gives you advantages in press situations foremost, but also in other ways such as meeting arbitrary quotas set by higher-ups and HR dept.s in your organization.

This is however, given two equal applications. Such as this study shows. I would be knocking down open doors to state that white men are over represented in the "STEM/Entrepreneurship" areas. What needs to be addressed is what the underlying cause is to this over representation. For all I see there are two potential causes:

1) Non-white non-males are given less ability to grow in the "STEM/Entrepreneurship" fields as students and/or children by society.
2) White men are able to outperform those other groups by some inherent quality.

Worth noting is also that simply stating 2) as a potential cause of this difference is more or less a hatecrime in most settings, and academia would do well not to touch in attempting to work with that hypothesis if they wish to keep tenure and funding. Nevertheless, 1) seems to be partially disproved by studies just like the one above, showing that white men are in fact given less ability to grow in "STEM/Entrepreneurship" areas, as by the bias shown towards the Asian and Female applications.
Fortran is the first imperative high level language and it had impact on almost all the computer languages created after that.
The energy consumed per transaction to produce the PoW to earn the block subsidy decreases as the number of transactions increases, because the two are independent of each other, with rising transaction volumes not increasing the block subsidy and the associated energy consumed to earn it.

Moreover, the energy consumed per transaction to produce the PoW to earn the transaction fee decreases when the transaction fee decreases.

So for both of these reasons, a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin Cash, that can process thousands of times more transactions than Bitcoin, has the potential to be orders of magnitude more energy efficient.
> The preferred results were not found (females are oppressed) so we ignore wrong-think results (males seem to be)

It's true that any discrimination in favour of one group would be discrimination against the opposite.

But as a middle-class white guy at a big tech company, whose boss is a middle class white guy whose boss is a middle class white guy whose boss is a middle class white guy whose boss is a middle class white guy whose boss is a middle class white guy whose boss, the CEO, is a rich white guy... I don't feel very oppressed.
> Regular intercourse is the key to success.

Nobody will argue with that one.
iOS and web apps were designed and developed with the limitations given by the sandbox from scratch; there are exactly zero iOS applications in existence that didn'assume sandbox limits.

Flatpak applications are retrofits; they were originally developed with the assumption of the full access to the system (as permitted by permissions); so in order to remain useful, there has to be a transitional mechanism. No user would install an app, that is perfectly sandboxed, but no longer fit for purpose.

The same thing applies to MacOS, MacOS sandbox and MAS (MacOS App Store), it is the same store. You can also see apps that are being offered outside MAS exclusively, or the MAS version having limited features compared to versions that you can obtain outside MAS.

This also highlights difference between mobile and desktop apps: mobile apps are silos, that silo user data and only that one given application operates on them. Desktop apps on the other hand are built on cooperating; the user has a set of files that he organizes and then miscellaneous app operate on them. For this to work, the apps need to be provided access; thus they cannot silo user data for themselves.
How are they different?

Jane is found to be falling asleep on the factory floor. Or Jane is found to be falling asleep while delivering packages.

In both cases the feed might be recorded, abused in terms of privacy expectations, sent to an AI algorithm... And in both cases she may get reprimanded.
I don't think you understand my point.

Labelling something incorrect is what I l'm suggesting what they are doing. To stay relevant. So members keep paying their member fees.

I'm not saying it has any disadvantages to me and that shouldn't matter at all.

Eg. Teachers here in middle school are labeled as a physical heavy profession and receive advantages.

Explain to me what is exactly physical heavy about teaching.

And it's not just that. Working for the government here in general is labeled like that and it's just a reminder of the past ( in my opinion) to keep their benefits ( early and big pension).

Does that disadvantage me? Yes, because I don't have a physical profession. But neither do they.

I think it's more of an insult to those that actually have a heavy physical profession and have potential health problems because of that.
Some have postulated that the rise of conspiratorial thinking is exactly this. So people are leaving the church, and moving to QAnon, and cults of personality.

Perhaps organized religion was serving to keep people's need to be part of something more productively contained. However I can tell you it isn't universally a neurological need. There are those of us who get by just fine without any religiosity, or church. I don't know if that is because we are different or if anyone can do it.
An REIT (and other traded equities) have agency risk that you can avoid with something you directly own and control, but also, you can diversify your places of shelter by having somewhere to physically escape to if need be. So it’s less diverse in the financial return aspect, but might solve other diversification needs.
Both. They publish and say "yes, we found bias on X, and our next study will verify via Y"
> As for wealthy immigrants, the amount of purchases by foreign investors are few compared to locals purchasing.

The marginal buyer[1] has pricing power, so it doesn’t need to be a huge number. Pricing is complex though so I’m not sure that’s really what makes sense to call the root cause.

[1] http://www.jnrealty.ca/buyers/what-is-a-marginal-buyer-/
And the rabbit hole only goes deeper!

"Craniometrists virtually without exception dismissed Phrenology as crackpot science while promulgating an alternative nonsense of their own. Craniometry focused on more precise and comprehensive measurements of volume, shape, and structure of the head and brain but in pursuit, it must be said, of equally preposterous conclusions. (Bill Bryson)"

It's so funny how these pseudosciences diss each other and think the other one is nonsense :)
No. Family in law.
What I'm trying to get at is that all of these factors matter, not just one of these factors in isolation. Ethereum also has larger block size over time, and I'm sure it processes far more transactions than Bitcoin.

Suppose that Bitcoin Cash were to increase in price ten-fold, then logically it would make economic sense to burn ten times as much energy to mine it, no matter how many transactions are processed.
Well, or if they have neatly trimmed facial hair or wear dark clothing.
I got a day trip on Sydney harbour on a yacht a few years back. It was really nice. I can imagine a very expensive day for the host. I wish it was my yacht, because it was a real indulgence. Personally, I would have been pretty happy to just take the manly ferry a few times and have a sandwich.

Anyway, as we were boating about the proper harbour side mansions that sit close to the water. I noticed a few things. A lot of them were empty. I asked about this and the finance guys with us mentioned that most of them were land banking assets for Chinese money which isn't safe in CCP banks. I'm not sure how real this is, but if I owned a home on the waterfront in Sydney, I'd never leave the balcony.

Anyway, the effect is that rich foreigners own the places where our rich countrymen used to live. So now they've moved a street back and pushed all the upper middle class into the inner suburbs and now the regular professional folk our on the outer rim. And if you aren't rich, then your over mortgaged and live in a flood plain. Which just flooded.

Sydney is nice, but it's getting less nice, we generally need more cities in Australia. But what we really need is people to treat the family home as that. A place for families to grow and not some asset class.
How did you arrive at that conclusion? With the decline of organized religion, could one not suggest that religiosity is very much something people can be without? Or are you referring to already religious people being unsatisfied religiously?

I'm in a very secular country. Non-religious people are... non-religious. I don't believe there is anything that "replaces" religion in most people's lives. If you're not religious, you don't necessarily have metaphysical needs, and I think most people here don't.

Regarding religious people: they meet with eachother in church and other constellations as usual. Nothing is keeping people from practicing their religion, but they can't assume most people will empathize with their views, which is true for many different standpoints in life, not just religion.

(I did not read the article as I was paywalled, I might have missed the context of your comment)
I agree. That is why I don't like the argument that we should just tax the wealthy to solve our social problems. It isn't that simple.
Funnily enough, there is more gender diversity in Indian tech companies (or local operations of US tech companies). See https://go.451research.com/women-in-tech-india-employment-tr...
Zoning is largely local though, so the actual political control of the thing that would make this situation unsustainable is held by incumbent owners.

There are of course still limitations to the impacts of higher density as well, the desired living conditions of many buyers is yard+reasonable commute, so there is an absolute physical constraint here as well.
>They don't even have the tired Nazi accomplice excuse that the French ordered them to commit it, because that would be a lie.

You're saying using orders from leadership to commit crimes is a tired excuse. Are you therefore claiming that executors of orders bear all of the responsibility? So then, in particular, all of those in Nazi leadership that never actually fired a gun bear no responsibility?

In reality there's universal* consensus that Hitler and Goebbels et al do bear overwhelming responsibility for the atrocities of the Holocaust.

*Excluding ideologically driven contrarians/deniers
Ada as far as I know positioned itself for a niche of secure software. It is very popular in defence, aerospace etc sectors where secure and safe is critical. When I first looked at Ada sometime back it looked like throw back from the Pascal era. It looks like a mix of Pascal and Eiffel; it is very verbose.

Edit: Changed ADA to Ada
Wokeism, BLM protests, diversity training, drag queen story hour, posting in solidarity on Instagram, struggle sessions.
I took the question as "thats impressive for someone this young, are her parents in related fields so shes been exposed to this stuff or is it all self guided?"
That's not antifragile nor even particularly robust.

20% efficiency waste in salary is existential risk if it happens that:

- you get ill

- you get wiped because you have not diversified these extra 20%

- you get wiped because your 80% is wiped

In short, the strategy only works if there is no downside. As there is always a potential for a big enough catastrophe, correct antifragile approach is to never gamble (with your own funds) until you have existential risks covered.

If you have to ask "what will I do if bad outcome x happens" then you have not covered done existential risk.

I recommend putting in typical natural and manmade disasters.

This banker job? Worth about $0 in wartime. You better have some useful skills. Gambling on being rich enough for an escape or on people willing to work for you does not always pay either.

Most people do not have even basic existential risks covered. Such as having a place to live. Preferably more than one. Water to survive a few weeks. Or good enough friends as well as enough portable capital for a clean break.
(Such capital is knowledge or easily portable equipment. Not currency, as WW2 teaches.)
Even to some surprise some really rich.
But if you're using electricity to power CPUs, may as well pump that heat into human-inhabited areas to keep us toasty warm.
No one can find the animal that gave people Covid-19
Relevant:

“ This has the potential to destroy the livability of every major community, create two classes of citizens, cement a wealth divide, disenfranchise an entire cohort, create structural household debt, make shelter unaffordable and hobble the economy as billions a week flow into vaporous housing equity. In short, it’s an epic policy failure. It’s time those who have greased the wheels – realtors, central bankers, political leaders and our federal housing agency – stand accountable.”

https://www.greaterfool.ca/2021/03/26/we-are-watching/
In a physics sense a processor just turns current into heat, the same way a wire does. It just does so in a way that happens to be useful to us. So in that sense they're resistive heaters, so 100% efficient.