skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and that despite not knowing any single person who would actively discriminate against someone

I've met plenty of people who I believe would actively discriminate against someone because of their race, and I'm an asocial white person who avoids public spaces. I just replied to a comment on this very page that openly argued that unequal outcomes in Black communities were the result of biological differences. I don't know what word to use for the belief that Blacks are biologically inferior other than the word 'racist'. I can't speak to anyone else's experiences, maybe you've been fortunate to interact with better communities than me, but I don't personally think this stuff is particularly rare.

If we're going off of what is and isn't hard to believe, I don't find systemic racism to be far-fetched. There was, objectively, an omnipresent, elaborate rouse being played on Black communities for the entirety of American history leading up to at least the civil rights act. That part isn't debatable. So for me, the wild conclusion to draw is that after >180 years of targeted oppression, everyone involved in those systems immediately vanished after a law was passed.

60 years is not enough time to fix wealth gaps in a preexisting neighborhood, not unless we take active steps to fix them. It's just really obvious to me that the reason many ghettos exist is because we built them; there's records of banks deliberately choosing not to invest in those areas because of race. We never did any kind of restitution plan or went back and gave those communities the investment money we denied them earlier. Those areas didn't immediately become rich or get better schools just because a law was passed.

But if you want to look at statistics instead of anecdotes, this is also something that has been studied a lot if you're willing to put in the effort to research it. There's a lot that people can debate around systemic racism, but at the very least, it's pretty hard not to acknowledge that there are unequal outcomes happening. I know you saw breakyerself's comment, do you think that none of those stats are worth being concerned about?
MSG is literally salt…
> The California central valley is probably the best climate on Earth for growing almonds

Except for that whole pesky "lack of rain" thing--which was part of "climate" last I checked.

That would seem to indicate that California's Central Valley really isn't the best climate for growing almonds.
Started a new medication some time back, Plaqunial.

Turns out a very rare side effect is it makes you psychotic.

The kind where sweet old grandma would come at you with a kitchen knife and dance on your grave in glee.

Was extremely angry for months on it, but didn’t realize it was the medication.

Then since it was working so well on my condition, completely life changing.
The doctor doubled it.

Was not a good week. Out of a job a few days later.

So not an excuse for tossing a printer, but on that med it was a constant battle to not explode.
Authentication always has a single point of failure: you.

If other people could log in as you it would defeat the point
The Android API gives me the feeling that the original idea was to do in-process sandboxing in mostly same way as it is done in Java and run the whole thing as one giant JVM instance and only later it was changed to the process-for-app model (which probably was not that much of breaking change because lot of things that cross the process boundary had to be serializable/parcelable already because of how android activity lifecycle handles memory pressure).
I tend to agree. HN is pretty much a global community and having this show in the selection of articles is a good thing IMO.

Automatic translation might still have to improve though.
That might prove to be a difficult endeavour for foundries that do not design their own chips.
There are certain topics that get reliable readers, despite having been true for the last 100 years or so. You can publish them on a slow news day. Stories like "the plight of the small farmer", "child care is awfully expensive", and so forth.
I've worked at a few different teams between some startups and Target, and I can tell you that the variance team-to-team is massive. I've been lucky to avoid anywhere that's been truly toxic, but even just at Target there's been a big gap between one team that was basically perfect and I enjoyed both work and life immensely and a different team that, while not awful, has definite problems and resulted in unnecessary stress.

So not much concrete to say except that great teams do exist, might come up in surprising places (I never expected to find one at Target!) and that team-to-team variance swamps company-to-company variance. It's a complicated function of your immediate team and manager as well as upper management and broader company culture.
You're not from here, are you?
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Human evolution is poorly understood, and the assumption that any choice $X supposedly made by early humans led to our forefathers’ anamolously rapid brain development is flatly speculative.

> Unlike most great apes today, whose diet is primarily plant based, we can thank the incredible nutrient density in meat and our incredible hunting and tool creating ability for prefrontal cortex development.

Complete and utter speculation.

> We were pack hunters, forging tools and strategies capable of taking down mammoths. Call it 'diabolicaly evil' if you want, but this is simply nature and survival.

Subsistence hunting amongst early human tribes is not comparable to modern day factory farming in any conceivable way.

B12 doesn’t come from eating plants OR animals: it comes from bacteria, and ironically that bacteria is in such short supply on factory farms that the animals need to be injected with synthetic B12.

> I don't personally believe highly processed plant alternatives such as Beyond meat are a long term option if you're even vaguely interested in your own health.

I eat raw soybeans, legumes, grains, nuts and seeds. I’d recommend watching the documentary Forks Over Knives [1] if you care about your personal health, and the documentary Dominion [2], if you’d like to see what really happens on factory farms.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtnlwqEii2I

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQRAfJyEsko
That woulda given it away.

Username checks out too :D
The article in question (assuming it's the same one I read on his blog) actually does tell us these things. The research was largely funded by the United States and the funding would appear most likely to have been signed off by ... Anthony Fauci. So if that's true then the guy ultimately responsible in money terms is the guy who the government put in charge of fighting it, almost certainly without realising. This set of events ensures that whatever the truth, we can never expect an honest investigation of any kind from the governments (plural) that would appear responsible.
I recall seeing kea throughout the PostHog codebase.

https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/search?q=kea&type=code
Respectfully, this is not the crux of the article.

The article is an examination of American cultural beliefs about meritocracy, our systems of meritocracy, and relevant societal effects.

In my opinion this quote is more representative of the “crux” of this particular piece,
“A social and economic order based on the immense labor incomes of extravagantly educated workers traps high-achieving students in a pitiless competition to attain meaningless superiority. The more completely people embrace education’s competitive face, the further they retreat from its deeper place in human self-actualization; no matter how skilled they get at capturing status, they never acquire a deep self-knowledge. And in this sense they remain forever uneducated.”

But I actually think that there’s quite a bit here and in Markovits’s other work. If you have a chance to take a break from your compiler work, I recommend a lecture he does called “The Meritocracy Trap” and perhaps also his conversation with Glenn Loury.
Sonoma's water doesn't come from snowpack.
I mean, it's directly relevant: the man regurgitates tired, bad science to justify a racist worldview. His trustworthiness in this domain is compromised.
You're treating that question as settled. To me that is the mirror image of the media outlets trying to shut down an open question by claiming it's a "conspiracy" that has been "debunked". I would say what's needed is a credible, independent investigation, one that reasonable people can trust. We haven't had that yet.
But you're not in charge, so having nice attitudes or empathy isn't really helpful to anyone. What is helpful is to acknowledge up front that those kind of problems exist rather than being so aggressively upbeat.

Your approach to dealing with life is valid, but you push it so aggressively it makes you sound like one of those yoga evangelists who is so into their thing that they lose sight of how it's not the answer to every problem.
I’ve never heard of any of those beers
Somewhat controversial opinion: The biggest problem with passwords is that users select them, and users are stupid. We would get 95% of the benefit of 2FA (For forms of 2FA that aren't yubikeys, as yubikeys have benefits related to phising, but nobody uses them so its moot) if websites chose passwords for users instead of the user choosing the password.

In particular, the only two threats that 2FA as widely implemented on websites protect against are password reuse, and weak passwords. Both are the results of users choosing stupid passwords.
As a contractor training is my own responsibility. I pay for own Pluralsight and O'Reilly subscriptions and conferences all tax dedcutible. I take at least 2 certification exams each year as the motivation to stay current. This has allowed me to improve my resume year after year.
> You are comparing over timeframes that don't make sense. The america of today is not even comprised of the same populations, and the people that lived these injustices died a looong time ago.

The children that integrated schools in the south are still very much alive, and aren’t even that old [1].

“Hispanic” wasn’t even a category in the census until 1970 (they were here, they just weren’t counted). [2] While there has been significant Asian and Latin American immigration in the interim, the stats you cite aren’t comparable due to differences in collection criteria.

> How are DEI programs, affirmative action and diversity quotas for hiring&promotion not structural level discrimination? These are policies and laws pushed by the government and corporations.

The government isn’t allowed to have racial quotas [3]. But I would cede that you make an important point here, that the proposed remedy mirrors the problem that is being brought up. I am not here to argue the virtues of such programs. There is a difference between identifying that a problem exists and agreeing with a proposed solution. My understanding is that you don’t agree that there is a problem, and that is the extent of my concern.

> Most wealth and status is also currently not gained through inheritance. Most get high status through education and wealth through work. This shows how bad it is that social justice activists push racial discrimination where status and wealth is currently gained.

This is a red herring, no one is arguing against education and work. Conservatives just want people to focus on those things in lieu of addressing racial discrimination. Also, treating inheritance as though it’s insignificant is a bit odd… 35 to 45 percent[4] may not be a majority, but it’s hugely significant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Bridges?wprov=sfti1

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2010/03/03/census-...

[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regents_of_the_Univ._of_Cal._v...

[4]
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2015/01...
"Inheritance Matters. An estimated 35 to 45 percent of wealth is inherited rather than self-made"
Within the last year on the same system I've had both windows 10 and a linux install commit suicide via update with no particularly special conditions. I later figured out what happened with the linux system only after some frustration and paving over it. It was a defect in a distro provided config file that resulted in the initramfs not having the proper support for the filesystem.

With windows no automated repair could fix it and the whole system is so opaque that I will probably never know what happened other than it works after reinstall.

Even if nothing ever goes wrong you will eventually need to install to a new system and usb drives are incredibly cheap with a 64GB USB 3.1 weighing in at all of $8-$12. You needn't carry it around just stick it in a desk drawer.
Sure, but it's not solved in Chrome, is it? Mighty is just a VM running Chrome as far as I understand.

Not to mention, the problem is fundamentally simpler in a terminal, with a very limited range of outputs. The problem of optimistically drawing the result of your input on the screen is much harder when that input could affect any portion of the screen in any way, like it can on a JS-powered web page.
Practicing medicine must be lucrative because it costs an individual student around $240,000 in tuition for the M.D. itself, excluding cost of living.

Doctors are made out to be predatory vultures, but unless they come from money they must undergo massive debt burdens that they are not able to even begin paying down the principal on until they're well-into their thirties. Imagine the feeling of taking out half-a-million dollars in student loans to cover both undergrad, and graduate-level training. After that look forward to your 80-hours a week of residency making below hourly minimum wage. [1]

Make medical school free, and you'll have people lining up the door to practice for low-cost. Make it half-a-million pay-to-play, and you'll have people desperately clawing their way out of debt so that some day they can have a family and own a home after a decade of hellish training.

Cut the docs some slack. They're taking on unimaginable debt burdens for a job that often isn't in the same universe of cushiness as something at FAANG (inspecting that anal fissure in the ED at 3am with perks including, well, hospital food), but involves an tremendous service to society.

[1] https://www.mdlinx.com/physiciansense/is-it-better-to-be-a-d...
Better than animal fat
> This is not true. Check out Lodash.

Respectfully, as someone who spent over a decade building front-end apps, I'd say: the code re-use between js in the browser and js in node still feels limited in comparison with Clojure/Clojurescript approach.

I'm not talking about utility libraries.
This is another classic example of Tragedy of the Commons [1].

Outright bans will likely never be feasible at all, though we could (and should) consider banning many of the bad practices that usually come with large-scale factory farming (and publicly funding grants/subsidies for these plant-based alternatives).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
Exactly, they are pure price speculation and manipulation, this recent NFT being a perfect example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27038275
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGG-A80Tl5g
Also next Android will introduce splash screen for all apps. Why??

https://9to5google.com/2021/04/21/android-12-dp3-all-apps-no...
Crypto means cryptozoology!
Misunderstandings of Diversification
Dad? lol, you basically describe myself as well. I have zero tolerance for brilliant jerks or arrogant assholes when all I want is to solve a problem. Like you I came from a very blue collar upbringing and I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for my complete and utter obsession with computers in the early 90s. Confrontation doesn't have to be destructive. It's also a great way to gauge another person's motivations and desires. Just remember to treat everyone (even your enemies) with respect.
Also known as "empire building." And also toxic.
There already is a future without passwords, it's WebAuthn.

The key element that didn't make your list is phishing. The next threat to Joe Average once he isn't reusing a crap password is phishing. Joe goes to a site which he thinks is the right place but it isn't, it's actually run by bad guys and then Joe gives them his credentials and helps them break into the real site Joe thought he was visiting.

Better passwords make no difference to that. Some types of password managers might slow Joe down a bit, as he needs to override a default presumption that this is the wrong site, but since the site has tricked Joe already this is very fragile. TOTP makes no difference, SMS of course makes no difference, and even the Google Auth tech AFAIK makes no difference.

But WebAuthn just stops this attack dead in its tracks.
> I hope you're not managing anybody else's wealth because you don't seem to understand that not taking a position on something is a valid position

Not if they want me to give them the time of day. No skin in the game? No shits given for their opinion.

> He's not exposing you to a risk that he himself is not taking.. shorting is a different move altogether, one that he's not asking you to make. How's this hard for you to understand?

He is exposing people who listen to him to risks he's not taking. Given his relative popularity, that could very well translate into a lot of risk taken (which he could also be taking a position on). Doesn't it strike you as odd that he doesn't ever disclose his portfolio?
> the great irony is that kids who grew up in wealth and surrounded by healthy parents seem oblivious or to not care whatsoever about such judgements from others. Are they ignorant or inoculated?

I think that we learn from experience, and experience has shown these people that judgement from others do not have any real effect on their lives.

Oppose that with people in less favorable positions, who have been badly affected in real life as a result of the judgement of others.

That’s where a lot of the difference comes from I think, in how different people later in life relate to judgement from others.
> Countries with more equal societies, like the Nordics, and Canada, do not have strong populist movements like those in the US and the UK.

Maybe besides the point, but nordic countries do have significant populist movements. In Finland (which I know best) populist Finns Party[1] is the largest party according to polls at the moment. We had our trump/brexit moment in 2011 when they took landslide victory against what the experts and ”elites” expected.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finns_Party
My personal synopsis of the California water situation is "when the situation gets dire enough the agricultural users will have to adapt." The government isn't going to let cities go without water yet keep it pumping for almonds.

The corrupt system will persist and urban users will continue to overpay, but at some point before people start dying of thirst the politics of unduly favoring agriculture will become untenable.
> In law, for example, of the roughly 2,000 people admitted to the top-five law schools each year, no more than a smattering choose to enroll in a law school ranked outside the top 10.

Am I the only one whose parser is throwing a syntax error for this sentence? "People already admitted to top-5 law schools don't choose to go non-top-10 schools instead"?
Someone already turned Apple’s AirTag into a slim, wallet-friendly card
Small cattle and typical burger meat are different. That said, do you think small cattle would scale replace factory style production? I doubt it.

Furthermore: Cows are not perfect machine and eat plants - you have to grow more plants for to make a meat burger than you have to make a pea protein burger. So if cropping is bad for animals, farming meat requires more of that too. You could argue your cows eat different, but what do most cows eat? For mass market, fake burgers are simply better for land use, water use, animal welfare, emissions, environment, and even health.
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I think those are both different things. Reading is something only a person does, a discussion has to be in a language everybody can speak.

I think it shouldn't be a problem to have non English articles, as long as it's a good translation is provided in the post.
The article doesn't support the case for it being intentional. Negligence at best.

One of the things Wade demonstrates is that China was most likely doing research on CoV viruses in ordinary labs with nothing more than gloves and a white lab coat. The standard photo of Dr Shi is of her in a pressurised bubble suit but that's bsl4 and virologists don't like working in those conditions because it slows them down. So the research grants say the work will be done at much lower safety levels.

I guess at some point you enter a gray area where gross negligence and intentionality blur together. But the bioweapon idea shouldn't take hold because it's obviously wrong on its face: the virus has no characteristics that would make for a good weapon of any kind. For it to be intentional would require some kind of theory involving vaccinations but Europe's irrational shutdowns of their own vaccine programmes throws a wrench in the typical vaccine related conspiracy theories.
Assuming reasonable levels of competence on the part of the service, which scenario seems more likely for the average user:

1.) Some unexpected glitch occurs (could be the user's fault or could be the company's), and the user's ability to access the service is temporarily interrupted until a human is able to investigate and resolve the problem.

2.) The user is specifically targeted by a malicious actor performing SIM swap and/or social engineering attack.

I'm not really a gambler, but if I'm forced to guess, I'd say #1.

EDIT: clarify initial assumptions
this rubbish was already been debunked years ago[0], the author has only published the paper in another rubbish-journal

[0] https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-the-truth-about-that-pho...
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And hey they taste really good.
This is cool. To the front page you go...
> Because “systemic racism” is a term used mostly by college educated white people for other college educated white people.

But we can agree that it exists, right? Whatever term you’d use, the phenomenon it describes is real. And it refers to present injustices as well as historical ones.
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The people who voted for him don’t see him as an elite in the same way as other elites. They view him as someone who attained his status by operating outside of their corrupt system; this is what they believe, I’m not saying it’s true.
I share this concern and miss the 90s. It created a positive desire to promote diversity because it is the right thing to do and there aren't downsides.

Nowadays, many people may reject POC in social and business settings because of political fears. For instance, if I hire, could I fire without being viewed as racist? Or, if I befriend someone, could they end up accusing me of racism in a devastating way?
The population of white people is about 6 times bigger. That should mostly explain the lightning disparity.

The statistics on unarmed people being killed by police account for differences in population sizes. Also while that is a hot button issue it's really the tip of the iceberg for this subject. The body of work showing systemic racism is an ongoing problem in the US holds up just fine if you ignore police shootings altogether.