skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we can forget about trying to determine whether it is subconscious or not. That's silly. Instead, what needs to be identified is what kind of behavior it really is.

Discrimination Type Ia: Judging people as individuals regardless of what group a person is in based on empirical evidence. (Ideal. Can be cost-prohibitive to gather the information.)

Discrimination Type Ib: Judging individuals based on empirical evidence on the group they are part of. (Less than ideal, but often less costly than Type Ia.)

Discrimination Type II: Judging individuals with no basis in empirical evidence but solely based on personal bias or aversion to members of certain groups. (Racism and prejudice.)

Each of these behaviors has different qualities, different causes, and in the case of the difference between Ib and II different responses needed from society.

If it is Ib, the problem is one of information. If it is II, the problem lies with the individual.

I have to say, this feels an awful lot like Type II in this particular case. The article doesn't make a good case for "systemic racism," though. The overall practice may be poor economic incentives leading to Type Ib discrimination. That can be fixed with easier to digest data.

This is because the costs, in the case of getting appraisals wrong across the board, actually can and do hit the lenders' bottom lines. But if they don't know that, they won't correct.

Classifications are not mine, they are Thomas Sowell's from Discrimination and Dispariites.
> No company that just have been hacked would run a binary received from the hackers in order to restore the systems, they cannot be that stupid.

Uh, why? The system is already compromised. They’re already in.
Part of the issue is that the Midwest isn’t centered around Chicago. American inter city travel exists much less on the hub spoke style that you get in some European countries. While the density isn’t that different, the pattern of demand is!
"the promise of growth that never materialized."

Was it legal and politically palatable to build there, or in the neglected neighborhoods around it? In the USA, unless you're talking about actual greenfield land, rail-supporting development is usually illegal to build.
Can you write a borrow checker that enforces alias-xor-mut using metaprogramming? I'm skeptical, because of the flow sensitivity you really want to make it practical.
> These are the people that have been selected to be astronauts. How often have you seen one have a breakdown during a mission?

I'm not sure about mental breakdowns per se, but there has been some insubordination. I can't recall which at the moment, but one of the Gemini astronauts during an EVA refused to get back into the capsule until he was plead with. Perhaps this could be categorized as a mental breakdown. (Edit: It was Ed White: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_4#Extra-vehicular_activ... )

There was also that well publicized incident in 2007 where an astronaut's life unraveled and their career was destroyed, but that wasn't during a mission.
It’s a terrifying book. The pace and forced anticipation of it is brilliant, and was the first book to give me nightmares as a kid. A del Toro adaptation would be similarly fear inducing.
This article did some decent research about what cheating is happening, though it doesn't really get into why. It certainly is getting rampant.

I suspect (this is a hunch) that cheating really takes off in professions where schools or early career hiring managers have more talent than they can bring on board. Med schools, for example, would fall under this category. This often surprises engineers, but elite medical schools in the US often have admissions rates below 4% and attrition rates well below 1% (something that a is essentially unheard of in graduate STEM programs, which even at the elite level have attrition rates of 25%-50% depending on MS vs PhD and program/field). In other words, for med school, getting in is the hardest part. They work the students hard, but pretty much everyone graduates, and job prospects are very, very good for almost all graduates (again, this is at the elite level).

Because they are so selective, having an MCAT at the 99%ile rather than the 97.5%ile does make a difference. Having a GPA of 3.9 instead of 3.65 does make a difference. My guess is that you could replace the entire class 10 times over without a dramatic drop in quality of graduates or physicians. It is, in this sense, excessively selective (I've heard it described, interestingly, as ironically selective).

Now, add in the fact that some students are cheating - not to pass, and not to deny themselves an education (they are hardworking and absolutely do learn the material), but to bump their numbers up juuuust enough get get an edge.

This isn't to justify it. I still consider it scummy. But to some extent, this is the byproduct of cartel building in medicine (and other fields) that artificially restrict the supply of physicians or other types of workers, creating a situation where "too many" very talented people are competing for "too few" spots (to everyone's detriment other than the members of the cartel).

But the image of the cheater as a slacker who doesn't care about learning and cheats to get a bit of parchment, denying themselves the education they went to college to receive? Eh. I'm sure that happens, but a lot of cheaters are actually very high talent, extremely driven and motivated people who are cheating to get an edge, kind of like the difference between an elite cyclist who trains intensely and an elite cyclist who trains intensely and takes PEDs.
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It's not just you, nobody is more upset about Apple's documentation than the developers who are immersed in the environment.[1][2][3][4]

[1]: https://www.caseyliss.com/2020/11/10/on-apples-pisspoor-docu...

[2]: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/231/reimagining-ap...

[3]: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/20/the-state-of-apples-devel...

[4]: https://kean.blog/post/apple-documentation
I'd still invest. Its not capital gains you'd be receiving, it'd be a higher salary
The amount of empathy that Joel is showing for other people here is on a whole other level. In particular, that people DO NOT have their full cognitive capacity available for every little thing you want them to do.

I've been on a rampage of deleting email newsletters. It's really astonishing how you bought something once (that you buy every two years) and they send you two emails a day afterwards and think you'll care. I "delete them all and let God sort them out".

I deleted my substack newsletters because I just don't need more "ham" in my spam.
Do you have an exploded diagram of all the individual parts?
Call me cynical, but they are supposed to be trying to recruit me. I say "That doesn't sound like more than I currently make, what about other forms of compensation?" If they say "well we're not sure...", I'm going to be pretty reluctant to jump in. For all I know they are "re-leveling" and those 400k paydays are going away.
This sounds employee-friendly, but it's total BS.

You'll just be getting less equity at a higher strike price every year, so it's just a sneaky way for these companies to give employees less. They can still say "we're giving you $100k in stock this year", but it's a lot less stock since you're not locked into a strike price.

If you want to leave after 1 year (post-cliff), you can leave under either scheme and get 1 year's worth of equity. This doesn't solve any "golden handcuff" problems, it just hurts employees.
There are several different branches of Quakers, as a result of various splits over the centuries, with different worship styles and somewhat different theology.

The most evangelical branch (EFCI) often refer to their congregations as 'Friends Churches', and have buildings and service styles that aren't radically different from other protestant churches. At the other end of the scale there are also meetings which hold fast to traditional silent worship, some with a very liberal theological attitude and some (though fewer) with a conservative one. There are a lot fewer Quakers in this 'unprogrammed' tradition in the world, though, partly because the more evangelical and orthodox programmed meetings were quite active in missionary work.

In Britain, FWIW, almost all of us follow the unprogrammed tradition (and would definitely refer to our building as a meeting house, or meet in a community centre or something - the building is not important in our theology). In the US less so, though unprogrammed worship is fairly strong in Pennsylvania and a few other places.
It's been requested for at least 3 years. I totally understand that it takes a while so I'm not blaming them.

But it seems like in the meantime people have started to move on (I have). Let's hope this can bring back some momentum for them.
Still learning Rust here. If I use Rust's safe subset Atomics, am I correct in thinking that I am able to write code that on some platforms does something I didn't expect because I didn't ask for an Ordering I needed to make it do what I meant?

For example if I implement an algorithm that ought to be Acquire / Release (e.g. to build my own custom mutual exclusion) but I tell Rust it's OK to have Relaxed semantics, it sounds like on this PC (an x86-64) it will work anyway, but on some other systems it won't.

And I'd have achieved this goof without writing unsafe Rust, just the same way as if I screwed up a directory traversing algorithm because I relied on semantics not present in all file systems?
Ah, fair enough. Technically, a privateer is not a pirate... but I'll grant that's only a technical distinction.
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Despite several flaws and uncharitable misrepresentations in his policy analysis, I actually agree with most of O'Toole's conclusions.

I post a lot on here about rail, and I disagree with a lot of output from the Cato Institute, but the infrastructure cost of long-distance High Speed Rail in the US would be immense, and the geography of settlement and commuting patterns in the country are too car-oriented to take advantage of passenger-only HSR. Americans already do most travel by car and long-distance travel by air, so High Speed Rail would be a slower and costlier substitute for long-distance flights, and a maybe-faster but drastically less flexible alternative to <300 mile travel.

It's no accident France runs the TGV like an airline, because they work the same way: you get to your destination station, and now what? You need to hop on public transit or rent a car like you would at an airport. But in Europe, a big town is far more likely to have public transit of acceptable quality, frequency, and coverage to solve the last mile problem; all but the most transit-webbed US cities do not.

This article exposes some of the flaws and misrepresentations in his analysis, but then contributes its own flaws in turn. One example: in truth intercity buses are very widespread in Europe, and not only do they fill in gaps left by the rail system, but thanks to expressways on some routes they be as fast as "moderate-speed trains" too. Truly High Speed Rail only runs in a dozen corridors in Europe, and the rest of the passenger rail on the continent runs the gamut from decent to atrocious. Buses are flexible, because they can go where the roads already go.

One way to get around the last-mile problem is to ensure your destination is likely to be transit-webbed town, or your destination station is very close the location to which you actually want to go. This sounds a lot like commuter rail -- the speed depends on how much you want to spend on infrastructure. In the US, this would mean that lines radiate out from NYC, Boston, DC, Philly, Chicago, Atlanta, LA, SF, Miami, Seattle, Portland... but not any further than an hour or two of travel. The Northeast Corridor is a lucky exception because you have some of the most interconnected cities in the US all in a convenient line.

What's most frustrating is that many of both the opponents and supporters of HSR in the US miss the point: the point is to both invest in and subsidize infrastructure and programs that are societally useful and unlock productivity and opportunities. The Cato Institute would prefer a world without subsidies, but that's not appropriate for the sorts of high-cost functions that offer a major benefit to society. Pedestrian Observations would prefer more mobility and transit, but sometimes that transit actually looks like an airplane or bus or subsidized taxis, because it's what makes most immediate use out of the current infrastructure in a way that balances opex with capex.
This is one of the nice things about renting apartments. Even nice complexes like the one we're currently moving out of don't give two shits about race. Life's good as long as you pay the rent on time.

We're looking to rent a house. More space for us and our pets. This means dealing with people more directly (through a broker). People have biases. More specifically, people can be racist.

My wife (white) apply for a home rental on my (black, Latino) behalf precisely for the same reason. I applied for one myself.

She got a call back next day. I still haven't gotten a call back. Racism? Busy realtor? Who knows?
Yes it is, if there is a rocket depo in a building in central Gaza. There is a big difference between loss of life and loss of property.
I don't know of any military in the history of armed conflict that notify the targets to evacuate, keeping in mind that armed militants and rockets are in that building.
Do you think Israel should just let that site continue firing? I don't believe any country would allow that.

No, that will not satisfy me because they are shooting for maximum civilian casualties not military targets, what's the purpose of firing into Tel-Aviv, Rishon, Ashkelon, Jerusalem? It's to create terror.
Move on to what and why?
What country is that, and why is that?
I mean, today we have RISC-V and the M1. And it was a perfectly reasonable thing for those people to discuss.
The lens was awful. I think I had one of those in my early bag too. The lack of autofocus and a focus screen that doesn't make it easy to do it manually makes it even worse. The split prism screen isn't found on cameras other than manual focus bodies or as an option to swap out on the higher end professional bodies of the time.

For a good one - http://www.rokkorfiles.com/500mm.htm (and another review of it - https://casualphotophile.com/2021/04/21/minolta-rf-500mm-f-8... )

One of the things with the reflex lenses is that they don't have chromatic aberration that one sees in the more traditional lenses because all of the wavelengths of light are reflected the same and there are minimal traditional lens elements in there.
Google says Stadia is “alive and well”
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

We're trying to avoid programming language flamewars here, among other kinds of flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We wish there was a standard too! We designed the mainboard in the Framework Laptop to be replaceable and upgradeable to future generations, along with the upgradeability of memory and storage. We've be developing new mainboards ourselves, and we'd love to bring in third party compatible mainboards too.
I'm suspicious of this as well, but would this be better for a lot of employees? Go to Coinbase, get your 25% stock in 25% of the time, then "just" go somewhere else and get more. It's not unheard to return to a company later (Coinbase in this case) and get a better title, additional grant, etc.
Of course, you don't literally (in the proper meaning) sense need a driver's license to live in the US. However, your living, working, shopping, entertainment, etc. options are much reduced unless you have enough money to have people drive you everywhere and/or run errands for you. But I basically couldn't live in my current house if I couldn't drive.
So many other applications out there that don’t hold your data hostage like Notion.

I learned after spending an hour to transfer notes that they have a “limit” on the number of “blocks” (aka notes) that I can have.

Absolutely terrible user experience and turned me off from ever using Notion.

I ended up going open source with vimwiki (and obsidian as a visualization layer, although as comments pointed out it’s not open source). much more robust and less impervious to scummy growth tactics or companies shutting down due to acquisitions/pivots in strategy.
You don't need a DB. The same in memory stuff that supposedly works for fast session auth works here too.
> 65 mi available in liquidity on LN

By 65 million in liquidity, I presume you mean the same ~1000 BTC that has always been on the network, for 2 years now. There has been a slight uptick, in the last 6 months, but the amount of BTC on the network has stayed basically the same.

I don't really consider "People put 1k bitcoin on the network, 2 years ago, and then never removed it" to be a good example of usage.

What matters is usage. How many people are actually using it in actual transactions. Not some nebulous misdirection to a concept of "liquidity".
Nnnnnnng, this is awesome, and annoying because it's so good. Imagine coupling it with the mouse wheel to zoom in/out.

I'd love to have this in MacVim/gvim somehow.
Time dilation during their trip to the first planet was because of its proximity to the black hole, not the planets own gravity well.
Great, we should get the word out then that some don't.

Perhaps a few cases of high-profile companies falsly claiming „wow, what a load of shit! we got ransommed and after paying up the hackers disappeared! we had to restore from backup, AND the money is gone“.

What are the hackers gonna do, sue those companies? :-)
You'll want to be careful in "convert_paramstyle" as it does not appear to take python's dollar literals into account: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/sql-syntax-lexical.html#i...
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Ask HN: Seeking a (non-technical) cofounder to improve knowledge sharing
I'm technical - I've built the application, but I don't have the capacity or existing skill to get the product to market as quickly as we need to.

What's the big idea?

There's a whole lot of content out there - more than we can consume. There's a lot of bad content too. It clogs up google and makes it harder to learn about what you want. What if: a) valuable content was available in any format - a video can be text can be a set of cliff notes can be audio.. the end-consumer decides how they want to consume it and b) searching for knowledge returned the specific parts of content that you want to know about, not (for example) a video that could or could not include what you want to know. I'm not looking to reinvent Google - I am trying to build the next layer of search that Google doesn't (and can't) do well that returns valuable knowledge over generic search results.

Who am I looking for?

I need someone non-technical who is comfortable with and has experience of sales. Building this out will start with businesses that are sharing their knowledge and having a network of people that you can show the value of this platform to is vital. I'm looking for a US based partner ideally. If you have another job or need financial support immediately, this isn't for you. My work ethic is intense and the pace is high - you need to be able to match that. If you have a sales or marketing background and ability to consistently execute then this could be a good fit.

My email is in my profile - if you are interested (or know someone who might be) email me telling me a little about you.
> Imagine being alive in thousands of years, having to mind the 'very little waste' that stopgap produced.

As I mentioned, that long term byproducts can be reprocessed or directly consumed by more advanced reactors.
It’s as easy to imagine as it is to imagine a VC getting this kind of deal. The first employees are the ones who literally build the company and usually take far greater personal risk
The Johari Window
+1 for Apollo 11. I took a day off to watch it on IMAX when it came out and it couldn't have been more worth it. I was very surprised how much the movie moved me. Just one minute in when you see Armstrong get into his space suit almost had me start crying. No idea where that came from. I guess seeing humanity do something incredible like that for once is something I really needed
Not sure, but I became optimistic of there being some solution after I saw someone implement affine typing using stateful template metaprogramming: https://godbolt.org/z/PnPPrnPjY.
>I’d like to treat software engineering like a real engineering profession.

I tend to lean libertarian/free market more than anything else, but yes - it's well past time for computer "science" to be more than a cheap label. No one likes to have insurance so we mandate minimums are purchased so affected people have a chance of being made whole. Same thing with software. Why is a critical gas pipeline down for weeks after a ransomware attack? Why wasn't the company able to enact their disaster recovery plan, plow over their network and restore from backup?

Probably because they have backups that have never been tested, systems that aren't even being backed up and if they have a disaster recovery play it probably exists as pure fiction and not as something that is routinely tested and updated to keep up with the state of their operating environment.

I would say the above is business management 101 but to most organizations it's burdensome overhead they don't need to worry about because nothing could ever happen to them, right?
Your second point is missing some facts that actually make the situation more difficult.

1. Geography and geology is tricky. Rail lines don't curve because the builders just love curves. There's geographic and geologic reasons for a lot of rail line positioning. That's in addition to people living/working/shopping in a place where it would be useful to lay track.

2. Freight lines own most of the track in the US. Amtrak gets to use those lines but freight has right-of-way. Amtrak must side track when a freight train is coming. Amtrak only has a few sections of the NEC as dedicated passenger track. Without dedicated passenger track Amtrak's schedules are all over the place. Freight trains have trouble all the time and passenger trains need to sit and wait while they fix/move the freight train.
Time to export articles as static website
No, perhaps my wording was unclear. It's an on-demand thing. The kid complains about itchiness, I give her a pill.
Can't delete or modify existing blocks yet, sadly.