skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as you aren't trying to refute the fact that historically silenced people are the de facto authority on being "historically silenced", we're on the same page.

And for the sake of clarity - Yes, anyone can and will conjure up great ideas and solutions. No, I'm not calling for such an ideas to be discarded just because the source is "wrong".

For your convenience, let me paste my original comment that you had a beef with:

> Your opinion is valid regardless of your privilege. When it comes to discussing specific experiences that minorities face, however, you should defer to the experts in the area who have lived their entire lives being in the seat of discrimination. Hope that made sense.

I thought it was clearly implied that the voice of the discriminated be priotitized over others 'in the events of clashing opinions'. If that wasn't the case, then I apologize for my weak writing. English is obviously not my first language.

Lastly, when you engage in a discussion with a minority person in matters regards to treatment of minority groups, do not be surprised that terms like "we" "us" and "your" get thrown around. It's simply how conversations naturally flow around such topics, and not indicative of the speaker's bias towards identity politics. You might be shocked to find that my close friends of diverse backgrounds don't see me as the strawman you described. And that's not even mentioning my wife and her family.

Have a good week mate!
it has a small price so it becomes difficult/cost-prohibitive to use for nastier purposes.

ex, in my country forest owners get spammed and targeted by forest-management companies that want to cut it down.
The article lost me over a much more basic point: its unstated and unexamined assumption that "STEM", and indeed education and society in general, needs to be centrally controlled. For example, consider this right at the end:

"What I insist that we do is to refocus our STEM education debates on the right question. And that question is not “Who deserves what"?”. It’s “Who will run the fabs?”."

First, where does he get off "insisting" anything? If he's so gung ho on improving education, why is he wasting his time writing a blog post instead of going out and doing the hard work of actually educating some people?

But even leaving that aside, why do "we" have to debate this question? "We" don't determine who runs the fabs; the companies that own the fabs do. Nor do "we" need to centrally control what education kids get; the fact that we have a huge, bureaucratic, centrally controlled public education system in the US is a bug, not a feature. But not to this author; in fact, he is basically arguing for expanding the central control model of education:

"[T]he notion that the purpose of education should be to discover and elevate natural talent is fundamentally flawed, as the entire previous section of this post argued. Finding a few kids capable of defeating China in a math competition is useless compared to the task of training millions of kids to work in high-tech export industries."

So now the education system is supposed to do job training for specific skills? Didn't that used to be called "apprenticeship"? And didn't it used to be done as a private thing, without having to drag a huge, bloated bureaucracy into the mix?

And what, exactly, is wrong with the idea that education should discover and elevate natural talent? Isn't that exactly what you want if you want to have the best chip fabs? Not to mention all the other good things the article mentions. (The author does argue that the belief in "natural talent" has bad side effects and that what should be focused on instead is "long-term motivation". But then he saws off his own branch by admitting that "what people want to do is ultimately more important than what they’re told to do." And when kids are subjected to education to "improve their long-term motivation", they see it, correctly, as being told to do things they don't want to do. The only handle that any education system can really grasp with a kid is "natural talent"--what do they naturally want to do? What are they naturally interested in? And our regimented, structured, centrally controlled bureaucratic education system is perfectly designed to entirely ignore that input--and not just ignore it when deciding what kids will do, but kill it when it is detected, on the grounds that it's disruptive.)

To this author, the "millions of kids" are just cogs in a machine, to be moved around to wherever the central authority thinks they will do the most good. (But of course he isn't any such thing.)

I'm all for encouraging more kids to go into STEM and to improving the incentives involved so more kids who are interested in STEM will see it as a viable career. But we don't need to make ourselves into China to do that.
One day that will cause a major geopolitical headache. And now every time I move around in that area it causes me a huge detour. Oh, and I ended up accidentally at the Belarussian border one day (note to self: update your satnav).
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27037667
This works the other way as well: if you are constantly bored and idle, you will not be in a good state of mind when you suddenly need to focus on an urgent task.
Calculus is a joke anyway, colleges should just teach real analysis which will go through the same material in a way that's actually rigorous. If the students are lacking in mathematical fundamentals, teach those via discrete math and linear algebra.
I'm not surprised these conversations are predictable to you, if every time you twist the other person's argument into one that fits the narrative.
It's a good question and something I'm looking into as I consider the idea of selling them. It's something that has to be approached in the context of other changes (like BOM optimization) for larger manufacturing.

I've studied SMPS design and am not totally oblivious to conducted and radiated EMI issues. I took several considerations in the project like analyzing current loops and taking near-field measurements on a spectrum analyzer. However, what ultimately matters is what happens in the testing chamber.
Approaching 40. Haven't ever needed calculus (or Trig) for anything. Sometimes I make an effort to pick math back up just because I feel like I ought to, but it'd be so purely a hobby with no practical use that I have a hard time keeping at it. Some of it's neat but it's not really any more valuable to my life than doing even-less-useful-but-more-fun recreational math puzzles.

Most people's lives and jobs involve even less math than mine does.

More stats probably would have been helpful. Anything less-obviously-useful needs a hell of a lot more emphasis on what it's used for and how to apply it than I ever received, IMO, unless you're a pure-math major, and certainly in k-12 since almost none of the kids are going to be math majors.
I think coders should learn to shoot and develop film, and ideally learn to wet print. not that it's something that you'll need at your day job, but it's just such a fun hobby for an engineering type person. The basic process is simple and yet infinitely modifiable, and there's numerous deep rabbit holes you can go down once you master the basics. It's definitely one of those "a moment to learn, a lifetime to master" type hobbies. And it's really enjoyable for someone who stares at a screen all day to work with your hands and do something that is completely analog.

I've been meaning to put together a personal blog with Jekyll to learn the tool, maybe that would be an interesting subject for some posts.
New Relic open sources Pixie, its Kubernetes in-cluster observability platform
In my experience, you're wrong.
They did contribute to the JVM but directly, not by forking it.
The trick is that life is a series of "opportunities" and equality of opportunity at any particular point of choice generally results in perpetuating any imbalance of opportunity that has occurred before that.

For the sake of illustration, assume two large groups of kids who innately would have had identical ability, but one's growth and education is (on average) more stunted because their families are more likely to be single parent families, or have a parent in jail, or just very poor (which affects a lot), so right now they don't have identical average ability because they did not get equal education and support some decades ago.

If you want to have equal representation of the groups, you'd have to artificially correct for all the previous differences in opportunity - without a time machine, you can't actually fix the differences in their skills and experience (no matter how fairly or unfairly those differences came to be), you can only pretend that those differences don't exist. And so we come to the core issue that granting equal treatment to unequally capable candidates means granting unequal treatment to equally capable candidates, there's no way around it.

And there's also a gap between treating individuals fairly and treating groups fairly. You can't/don't measure the opportunity differences on an individual level, but on a group level, and individual variation in opportunity is huge. In general, any "compensating opportunities" happen at a group level, because if one group is underrepresented under a "background-blind" schema, then it's because lots and lots of capable individuals from that group have "filtered away" and gone on to very different life paths long before applying - and any corrective action or quota system is not helping those individuals who suffered most from the lack of earlier opportunities (because they're already "out"), instead it's granting a larger (compensating) opportunity to other individuals who just happen to be from the same group but had enough opportunity to "stay in the game", while individuals who personally have had so-so opportunities get punished if they happen to come from a group that (on average!) has more opportunities.
I'm from Europe and our scientists say that it was most likely lab leak; a leak of genetically engineered research virus aka gain of function research.

40 days ago I shared a video of Fauci(American chief immunologist) explaining the dangers of gain of function experiments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26582245
Parent's/"home home", and my own home in a city 3 hours away. :-)
> I’m very concerned about how our welcome push for equity and representation has been evolving from pulling underachieving people up to pushing overachieving people down.

I would be interested in seeing any historical evidence for this, because I’m a bit skeptical. This is something that swings back and forth, based on the location where you live and what happens to be popular. I remember advanced classes being pulled in the early 1990s. Then at some point, focus returns to the gifted students. Then you get No Child Left Behind. It seems to be partly a cycle and partly just a bunch of unintended consequences.

> You see this in the deemphasis on testing outcomes (SAT for example).

SAT isn’t a good test. GRE is worse. They should be deemphasized.
We've been integrating Compose into older projects without many issues at all. What have you run into?

Re: SPM - it is a huge improvement! But it has some issues (behaves differently on the CLI vs Xcode, Xcode support is basic and lacks control) and not every dependency has moved to it yet, especially proprietary SDKs. Combining it with Carthage/Cocoapods is a pain - worse than dealing with ProGuard imo.
Wait, this is article isn't sarcastic?
Great post. As a man in my twenties, I think that, even though we’re hearing about this from the men at the bottom end of the sexual-success spectrum, the problem is still being felt by average men as well. Many of my friends have complained about how dating these days feels like women are always holding out for the next best thing, and I have to agree with them.

A female friend of mine echoed a bit of the sentiment that a few of my friends had theorized was at least partly to blame, and that’s that she felt like had too much choice and was getting too much attention. She felt like her ego was being inflated in a way that was unhealthy, and so she turned away from online dating and eventually met her fiancé through mutual friends.

I wish I had some actionable advice to give along with this anecdote, but I’m still stuck in the dating game myself.
Yeah, the pattern is always the same:

1. Reach out to some young, impressionable, and vaguely angry kid.

2. Radicalize him, then convince him to carry out some plot.

3. Arrest him when he starts to go through with it.

4. Hold a press conference about how you foiled yet another terrorist plot.

5. GOTO 1
The basic idea clicked pretty quickly with me. A restricted memory model that sort-of guarantees a number of awful things can't happen. Makes sense. But how do I express working things in it? The obvious approaches conflict with the rules.

A simple emulator in a C-style might consist of a UI thread and a compute thread. The UI thread sends messages to the compute thread. You can have some timing though not usually safety/crash issues if you do this without locks. So maybe you do or don't lock that. But the UI thread can pretty wantonly read the compute thread's memory array to render it for graphics and may just get tearing like real hardware. Simple, fast, almost-safe.

How do I express that sort of arrangement in Rust's type system and make it actually safe and fast? It's hard to get that right.
I've seen some posts on the various Toyota 4Runner forums about this. I'd check out the forums dedicated to your specific make/model.
Tails: A tiny Forth core written as a hack for May Forth
free will is a product of complexity turbulence.

if a complex system can be disentangled to explain certain causes producing certain results, the system exhibits a form of laminar flow in time and space.

otherwise it exhibits turbulence. while certain forms of turbulence appear indecipherable at first, it turns out some of the turbulence can be predicted by identifying vortex patterns.

at the margin beyond those identifiable vortexes, lies the the volume in which entropy of turbulent flow goes asymptotic towards proveable non-decipherability.

thats where free will is.in that volume.

so free will might 'not exist' but still be comprised as an emergent property of provably undecipherable turbulence.

if we can prove that causation can NEVER possibly be found, then we can express this as free will. god of the gaps. free will of the gaps.

as such, even a bacteria may be found to have indetifiable free will in a number of studied circumstances. ypu may have to look in very fine detail to find it. find what? find the indecipherablr margin where the bacteria takes actions upon itself and its environment.

animals most certainly can be found to have free will.

the real question for human civilization is not whether we have free will.

the big question is how we follow a code of ethics to hold people accountable and responsible for their actions. that is the bedrock of faith in our way of life. individually and together.
Investors should invest in a model to decide in which projects to invest.
Presumably he’s talking about the acquisition of authentec.
No, but if you have a less open ended question then I'm happy to answer.
That's also common in the Netherlands and even Germany. French first names are simply popular all throughout Europe (ditto Italian and English names).
The original NSDAP was quite socialist, and even as Hitler developed it into his own party, it retained a strong socialist faction, which we now refer to as the Strasserites. It was purged eventually, but the history is there.

FWIW, "red-brown" political alliances are still a prominent thing in some countries, usually based on shared social conservative ideals. Furthermore, there are political movements such as National Bolshevism that explicitly draw this connection.
Seems like no one ever heard of church. I saw so many sewer pigs of both genders score a new young spouse it was rediculous.
You can do an advanced search against your follow list and filter out replies and only tweets with links. Might be useful for you.
Is sex that is paid for the same as one in a relationship where both people actually desire each other?

The statistics in the article point to the "problem" being women's increasing standards that young men can't meet. Mental health coverage, polyamory, sexwork, etc. don't seem like relevant solutions.
I've always thought of brute force work (like marathons) as compensation for not being as gifted as rms, Carmack, etc.
Saying that you disagree and saying at the same time that you rewrote it in Elixir makes me think that wasn't a good use of the money. They will have problems hiring for it and it isn't even performant compared to other languages you could have written into if you really wanted to save money (i.e: golang).

Of course I don't have all the context, but, I cannot imagine any circumstance when rewriting some server side logic in elixir would be useful from a PoV of cost savings..
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Yes, yes, yes! This is what I've been waiting for so long.

Python has emphasized readability for the reference implementation vs. the practical benefits of better performance for everyone, and the community is really hurting for it.

Please CPython, upstream this or something like it. There reaches a point where this whole zeal about readability becomes idealistic and hurts real-world pragmatic goals. It's hurting the language and we can do better.

Python can be ahead in the performance race. We just need to get real.
Haven't tried Pyston, its revival as an active project happened well after Cinder was in production.
> Think about this from the government's perspective. The government would rather govern a small number of large entities instead of a large number of small entities, thus the government is incentivized to favor monopolies/oliogopolies.

According to what incentives? The government’s responsibility is to the country at large.
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And how big was the risk to have the invested time wasted? How long did you block new feature developement?
This comes up near the top when you search "Google Maps My Saved Places" and now a random list with 1 saved place - the USDA Cereal Disease Lab in Minneapolis, MN - has a whole bunch of views.
I'm not sure many companies have the luxury of doing what FB did. I can't imagine a world where choosing to rewrite your app, or choosing to rewrite the entire language, where rewriting the entire language would be the cheaper solution.

Twitter did this with their Scala craze, but Twitter struggled to scale it's Ruby app. Twitter didn't have nearly as deep pockets to write a performant alternative Ruby VM.
> On international tests of reading ability, the U.S. scores well above the average for developed countries, but in math we score below average.

The average is completely irrelevant here, and this is important because we could burn a lot of money, and make a lot of children miserable, by trying to move the average up.

What we need is as many students with exceptional math abilities as possible. I'm not going to offer my opinion on good ways to do this, what I am going to point out is that moving a bunch of students from the global 40th percentile to the global 60th is completely irrelevant, we have no evidence that it would be good for those students, and we shouldn't do it without a compelling reason, which this isn't.

Keeping students who could be 99th percentile from ending up 90th due to sub-par education, and lack of opportunity, would be a very big deal.
X and Y are used as distinct variables here.
> As near as I can tell, they think this is something recent, but in my experience it started in the 1970s and the emphasis on increasing emphasis on STEM since the mid-2000s is the course correction that’s taking place now.

I believe what underscores the current problem is STEM being something special, while current "elite" STEM high school is what used to be a normal school curriculum 60-70 years ago.

Everybody miss the fact that curriculums were much more small, compact, pushing, and focused in the West before everything from basket weaving to "business education" managed to sneak into high schools.

A conservative, and supposedly "elite" high school in Russia in nineties-noughties were all having more hours, and very few subjects.

Mine were 8 classes 5 days a weeks of:

- math

- physics

- geometry

- engineering

- chemistry

- language

- pe

- biology, literature, history, geography, informatics, 2nd foreign language, military education, professional education as electives

And even math, and physics there wasn't anything too fancy. We used textbooks with more hardcore, and grinding emphasis on arithmentics, and analysis/linear/diffeq/stats were put in the last 2 years almost as an afterthought. In physics, they actually removed almost all of curriculum quantum stuff, and put even bigger emphasis on Newtonian mechanics, and Landau-Lifschitz classics for everything else.

The school tried to introduce art as was required per new Russian curriculum, but it was quickly thrown out after a year due to militant opposition from parents.
Definitely influenced. There are people on our team who also worked on hhvm.