skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given two candidates, one being a woman with so-so skills, and the other a competent man, I would (and have done so) hire the woman if no woman was in my team. The main reason being the change in group dynamics that a woman brings.

If enough women are in the team, my attention would revert to the candidate skills and I would probably choose the man.
Hmmm so much for "just works". Macos is becoming as buggy as the average Linux distro. They need to take a pause with adding features and clean it up.
Once free open source vscode appears, all the paid editor is not attractive any more.
Rails has a tendency to turn an I/O-bound problem into a CPU-bound one. with those hundreds or even thousands of object allocations per request, and dozens of abstraction layers, no amount of async magic powder is going to save you.

At the same time, fiber-based concurrency does look promising for lighter weight Ruby web stacks.
>Apple is pretty good at the planned obsolescence game

If that's their game, they are terrible at it.

Seeing that Macs hold their resale value for longer, for mobile they release iOS updates for longer than any other Android vendor, and so on.

What Apple is good at is making the product an "Apple only can fix/change" affair. But that's not the same as planned obsolescence game.

>With a maximum memory size of 8G it's a bit anemic

Is it? The majority of non-Apple laptops in 2021 are sold at 8G and below. And for people's use (web, surfing, email, Slack, Zoom, regular apps, etc) that the Air and smaller MBPs are aimed at, that has always been plenty.

(In fact, outside of video, audio, 3D, VM, and number crunching work, it's crazy that people would need more than that for the same stuff, computationaly wise, we did 10-15 years ago with much less RAM - blame Electron).

And 16GB and below is something like the 95% percentile or above.
I’ve always wondered if California and other places perceived as more liberal have greater problems with smaller crime, homelessness, etc because they are more tolerant of people in these situations and therefore attract them from across the USA?
Not just worse in visual quality, I've heard many stories of friends replacing cracked screens with knockoffs who got their battery life decimated after the repair.

Many such cases probably don't connect the dots and instead just think iphone battery life sucks which is bad press for Apple.
New research shows how many important links on the web get lost to time
Yeah this feels like really close to an assassination market haha
> Someone in this thread might scoff at testimony describing unmistakably unidentifiable phenomena that lacks compelling video evidence, while simultaneously reposting "I believe victims" on Twitter. Pick one. Do you think credible witness testimony is admissible, or do you not? Millenia of justice systems are built on this concept.

In a justice system, testimony is trusted to the extent that we believe those people saw what they did. Their opinions on what it might mean is completely inadmissible even for mundane phenomena. Even then, we test these accounts by asking probing questions, we don't just accept them at face value.

Let's take this example:

> I personally have sane family members, who, in a group, circa 1970, had a close encounter in broad daylight so unmistakable there is no way it could have been anything but an intelligently controlled flying object with incomprehensible capabilities.

In a court of law, their testimony that some light/object visible to humans displayed some behavior they describe could be accepted. Of course, the opposition lawyer would be free to ask probing questions about their mental and physical state at the time, their history of similar claims, their pre-existing beliefs about such phenomena, the extent to which they each personally observed these things versus being influenced by the others etc.

Let's assume that the lawyer didn't successfully cast any doubt in their minds. The next step would be to bring in expert witnesses describing known phenomena that could match the observations that were described, at least to a great extent - flares, parallax, even exotic phenomena like ball lightning or St Elmo's fire could be described, and evidence could be brought that people observing these understood phenomena had previously described them in terms similar to the witness testimony we heard earlier.

In the end, the jury would conclude something based on the preponderence of the evidence or on the beyond reasonable doubt standards - in the latter case, concluding aliens beyond reasonable doubt is impossible, and I believe it would still be extremely unlikely even for the preponderence of the evidence.
Java and .NET also have weak references.

Also C# can do everything that Objective-C is capable of, provided one actually knows how to use the language.

CPython uses a mix of refcounting with a cycle collector tracing GC, other Python implementations use tracing GCs.

The language does not specify GC semantics and counting on them is a recipe to break code when moving across implementations.
Some past threads:

UltraEdit text editor for Mac - Now Available - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2019148 - Dec 2010 (45 comments)

UltraEdit for Mac nears beta... First look - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1517745 - July 2010 (31 comments)

UltraEdit for Linux - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=937957 - Nov 2009 (15 comments)
The rivalry between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos is now extending to the moon
Hand tracking in VR is mature enough for such research. You can transplant a finger from one hand onto another by copying over the skeleton poses. Physical colliders synchronized to skeleton position allow you to interact with objects of different shapes. There is no haptic feedback, which is also true for this artificial thumb.

As for real life: while it would be amazing to have a second thumb semi-permanently, I would prefer it to be pure mechanical contraption without any running software.
I returned it within the original return window.
The rivalry between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos already was intense. Now it’s extending to the moon.

In a flier distributed on Capitol Hill last week, Elon Musk’s SpaceX warned that legislation now being considered would reward “Jeff Bezos with a $10 billion sole-source hand-out” that would tie up NASA’s moon plans and hand “space leadership to China.”

Bezos’s Blue Origin space company countered quickly and forcefully. “Lie.” “Lie.” “Lie,” it said of each of the allegations in SpaceX’s paper, adding: “What is Elon Musk afraid of ... a little competition?” (Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
There are many options to get fed in America, even if you don't have money. Here [1] is a list of food banks in SF.

[1] https://food-banks.org/assistance/san_francisco_ca.html
I feel if we had Godzilla invading the city and start ripping people apart there would be still people questioning "hey is it even Godzilla doing that? I'm not convinced by the evidence"
Also James Joyce, and others like him.
The fact that you keep giving these watered down examples of what people do on their own time that hardly anyone takes issue with ("going door-to-door proselytizing on the weekends") only further proves my point.

I mean, suppose Chaos Monkey (again, I haven't read it, so I don't have an opinion) said "Man, the US was so much better when we had slavery" or "This country has all been downhill ever since women got the right to vote." Would you still be making this same argument? I mean this seriously: go ahead and respond with a truly egregious, offensive example and see if you still want to argue "they shouldn't be fired for what they do in their own time".

Again, my whole point is that I think what you really believe is that the offense really just wasn't that bad (and, indeed, maybe it wasn't, I don't know), not that anything out of work is off limits.
I recently had to go through the hell of setting up a Java development environment, plus Android emulation, on my new M1 MacBook .. mid-way through, I was cursing myself that I wasn't just using a Linux machine .. but okay, eventually, SDKMAN came to the rescue. For a while there it really felt pretty regressive ..
>> in company general chat, where often important business also happens

I'm lucky in that I have never worked at such a company. My love for email continues to grow and knows no bounds.
"Mac/Win/Linux versions for both"

This is either funny or it means you only get two of the above.
at least in some parts of computer science the solution is easy: do not ever publish results without the public source code of all the experiments.
Because it’s basically what you’re looking for in a good coffee? Unless you got into wine tasting stuff with « notes of chocolate and raspberry ».
What's frequently under lock and key isn't items thieves themselves want, but items that are easy to fence. A lot of people have no objection to buying say unopened, brand name, but obviously stolen laundry detergent for pennies on the dollar.
Link Rot in the New York Times
I really don’t know.

One perspective is that, “knowledge generation wise,” the current system really does work from a long term perspective. Evolutionary pressure keeps the good work alive while bad work dies. Like that [Top Institution] paper: if nobody else could reproduce it, then the ideas within it die because nobody can extend the work.

But that comes at the heavy short term cost of good researchers getting duped into wasting time and bad researchers seeing incentives in lying. Which will make academia less attractive to the kind of people that ought to be there, dragging down the whole community.
>In the thought experiment, Maxwell imagined splitting a room full of gas into two compartments by erecting a wall with a small door. Like all gases, this one is made of individual particles. The average speed of the particles corresponds to the temperature of the gas—faster is hotter. But at any given time, some particles will be moving more slowly than others. What if, suggested Maxwell, a tiny imaginary creature—a demon, as it was later called—sat at the door. Every time it saw a fast-moving particle approaching from the left-hand side, it opened the door and let it into the right-hand compartment. And every time a slow-moving particle approached from the right, the demon let it into the left-hand compartment. After a while, the left-hand compartment would be full of slow, cold particles, and the right-hand compartment would grow hot. This isolated system would seem to grow more orderly, not less, because two distinguishable compartments have more order than two identical compartments. Maxwell had created a system that appeared to defy the rise of entropy, and thus the laws of the universe.

What do I miss?

The system only "defies the rise of entropy/laws of the universe" because we've added an arbitrary agent in the middle (the "daemon"). Shouldn't the needs (entropy and otherwise) for that also should be accounted?
The telcos probably have enough raw data that with a bit of machine learning they could get most of that information.
I like the idea of voluntary prosthetics. But IME, your brain needs time to get used to these kinds of things and build them into its proprioception.

For example, if you wear a vest containing haptic motors which constantly buzz towards North, your brain will start to build an understanding of directionality into your worldview, like how some migratory birds navigate. And when you take the vest off after wearing it for awhile, you'll feel oddly disoriented for some time. Try it out: motors and microcontrollers are cheap.

This project looks sleek, but that strap between the thumb and index finger looks tight in the screenshot. Is it comfortable enough to wear for 18 hours a day?

And if the thumb is controlled from your feet, what happens when the battery dies or the radio is disrupted? Brains do not like unresponsive limbs.

Great concept, though - can't wait to see how it develops.
Well, not sure whether turning off a setting in your phone would help you in that case?

They could probably compel Google to make the UI not reflect what the phone actually does.
Tractatus is available as a high quality and free/libre ebook from Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ludwig-wittgenstein/tracta...

(This publication was a driving factor us in our production pipeline coping with MathML, and the necessary SVGs.)
GNU is heavily skewed to developer tools and infrastructure, and gcc is no counterexample.
There are so many classes of software where this does not work. Pretty much anything for heavily regulated industries is not well served by FLOSS. There are few open source insurance software or medical records systems (the few that exist are highly niche and/or limited), EDA/CAD is not well served by FLOSS (I’ve toyed with FreeCAD, but even hobbyists gravitate to Fusion). Outside of developer tooling and infrastructure: commercial, generally closed source, closed development software is king.

* besides the hard part of standing up an EMR is not installing a prepackaged software.
For the very low chance someone wants to give this a try, be wary of any zucchini you grow yourself, if it tastes even mildly bitter it might kill you. The chance that this happens is greatly increased if cross pollination occurs. Most people don't seem to know this.
They aren't literally wrong; we've covered this ground when deciding the role religion plays in society and made some excellent decisions that we don't want to lose.

People who claim to have superior moral principles do not get to enforce them in the workplace. Organisations that rally around moral principles don't get to decide who does and does not enjoy employment.

Intransigent squeaky wheels do not get to decide what "hostile work environment" means. It has to mean hostility in the work environment. If it comes to mean "disagrees with my politics" then society is in for a world of hurt.
It does, but the Norwegian system is not perfect. It does not work as a mitigation against Eastern European “theft tourists” that come to Norway to steal. This is because Norwegian jails pay inmates per day in addition to being setup for rehabilitation, so they are not a disincentive for “theft tourists” from very poor countries.

The Eastern European mafias take advantage of this and ship busses of thieves to Norway.

Basically, Norway system of rehabilitation assume strong borders so that you can limit how many you need to help and Schengens free flow of people from some poor Eastern European countries violate this assumption.
Where is FlutterFlow with supporting UI import from the design realm (Figma, Sketch etc) ?
Yaupon is native to the southern US. If it were going to cover the land it would already have done so.

Also technically this description encompasses strawberries. If that were sufficient to be invasive, there’s be way more strawberry bushes out there.
Have a scan through the homepage. I often find the same few people posting broad questions over and over again to generate engagement. On top of that I feel most of the article titles tend to be click bait. I have come across one or two really good articles but they are very much the exception.
> With how much we know about implicit bias causing so many problems in equity for things like promotions and opportunity in the workplace

Researchers haven't found a link between implicit bias and behavior. [1] From the abstract:

"No causal relationship: Implicit bias doesn't affect behavior at all."

Is there more recent research that contradicts this?

1: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190802144415.h...
So, I haven't read the linked article, I'm just going off from what you say here.

Hypothetically, say someone hates you, think you're a low life, that you're not as smart, and have bad habits, a trash culture, despise the way you dress and talk, and find your life choice repulsive, might even think you're tainted and doomed to eternal condemnation.

Now say you work with this person, but at work they pretend like none of it. They act normal and casual with you, and so they don't exhibit an active hostile environment.

Now say you found their online blog, where they basically reveal their sentiment about you. Lets even say they don't specifically mention you by name, but they clearly describe their hate for people which you'd identify as.

Now you go to work the next day with this person... Will you also just pretend like none of it? Will that knowledge now not have inherently tainted the work environment for you? What if they're your manager?
That such for you.. the great thing that happened for USA California right before the pandemic was it gave us full details (How much pickup location, and drop off location) prior to accepting, but of course this was only to satisfy PROP 22, now as of 5/18/2021 they took it away since the bill had passed to keep UBER here...i think all cities, counties, countries, all over the world have to do what California did but make it stick, for now i only do "set destinations" to stay where i want... note for those that like to driver miles and hours.. kudos to you.. but for those that want to take control...i can only hope for this
> I think a good argument can be made that at work there should be a right to not contribute to discussions not related to work

I think you already have that right.

> and to not have such non-contribution held against you

That is the tricky part. How do you know if they will or will not be held against you? Maybe your skills aren't great but not bad enough to fire you but now with your non-contribution on an opinion is taken as you opposing it and your shortfall of skills is used as a platform to masquerade the real reason. Maybe the people judging you this way operate in a way that doesn't provide any clear cut evidence of their ulterior motives. Subjective areas like these have lots of shadows and shades of grey to hide things.
A better example is "that's interesting" meaning "wtf is that? Take it away and burn it" I've had to start specifying "not in the British sense" when using the word.
The fact that you have to come up with hyper-extreme examples to make this seem reasonable proves my point.

Say Bob thinks women shouldn't have the right to vote. But Bob is also kind, courteous, respectful, and professional to every real woman he interacts with at work. What is it that you think is being gained by firing Bob? If Bob starts harassing women, sure, fire his ass. But as long as he acts civilly, Bob can think whatever he wants in his own head. He can even write it down and if someone wants to publish it, good for Bob. As long as he comes to work and does his job and gets along with everyone, what is the problem? It is absolutely insane that people here are arguing that your workplace should be able to police your thoughts.

We can all disagree with opinions other people have. That's not a valid enough reason to fire someone. Suppose one of your co-workers is a die-hard vegan, should he be able to get you fired you because you think there's nothing wrong with eating meat?
This is a well known problem for many people, male and female. Many students (and teachers) experience it with maths. I got over it by practice and consciously relaxing in these sorts of situations.

I think she's probably making things worse by telling herself it's because she's a woman, but you'll get in trouble if you say that to her.

Edit: and the comments which advocate preparing as thoroughly as possible are good advice.
This sort of response is why people dislike techies. Arbitrary codes are how you get a priesthood, and that's not a good thing.
If it's unsupervised why English transcription is much better than the other languages?
Bill Gates is getting canceled because he spoke out against striping the Pharmas of their Covid 19 patents. The "Woke" have him in their sites and the media is 100 % behind them. They are going to tear this guy down.

Just sayin....
I would go a step further and say that the value of specific scientific discoveries (even if no bullshit is involved) can often not be evaluated until decades later.
Moreover, I would argue that trying to measure scientific value is in fact an effort to try to quantify something unquantifiable.

At the same time, academics have been increasingly been evaluated by some metrics to show value for money. This has let to some schizophrenic incentive structures. Most professor level academics are spending probably around 30% of their time on writing grants, evaluating grants and reporting on grants. Moreover, the evaluation criteria also often demand that work should be innovative, "high risk/high reward" and "breakthrough science", but at the same time feasible (and often you should show preliminary work), which I would argue is a contradiction.
This naturally leads to academics overselling their results. Even more so because you are also supposed to show impact.

The main reason for all this IMO is the reduced funding for academic research in particular considering the number of academics that are around. So everyone is competing for a small pot, which makes those that play to the (broken) incentives, the most successful.
For that matter, UAE is doing equally well and have low crime rates with a policy that’s completely opposite of Scandinavia. UAE has one of the lowest crime rates in the world.
How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and “Export” Oil
Yeah, but any news around it is pointless unless I can buy it. Devkit or no. I can’t even find a price, that makes it kind of hard to get enthusiastic.
Good that the car has DMS then :)
I'm a noob using Xcode.
Loaded the workspace, removed the signing team, everything builds for all schemes but where is the binary?
Our main usages of speech rec are:

- Understanding for videos for content moderation, ranking and recommendations

- Captioning

- Assistant tech in Portal, Oculus and upcoming glasses
"No offence intended" -> "I don't want to face any consequences for what I'm about to say". Although I had a boss who would say it all the time. It was very stressful because I was constantly trying to work out what it was he just said that might be offensive, leading me to overanalyze and wonder if he was the world's best passive aggressor.
I would really like this technology to takeoff in mobile apps. When interacting with my mobile phone often it is more convenient to do navigation by voice than by using my finger.
Fabrice Bellard picks up one more side project, and beats state of the art in text compression by a substantial margin...
No, it’s different in that now the shutdowns are not over issues such as the Vietnam War but rather a professor objecting to to a ‘day without white people’[0], an instructor using a word in Chinese that merely sounds like an unmentionable word in English [1] or a progressive dean using the word ‘slaveholder’ in a self-deprecating context [2]

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-lesson-in-campus-consequences...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-54107329

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/nyregion/CUNY-law-school-...
"Socially unacceptable" is the litmus test? So, regardless of what the majority of your coworkers think, if you express a contrary opinion that they don't agree is acceptable, you have created a hostile environment.

"If you don't want to be shunned from society, don't be identified as someone who does socially unacceptable things," warned the Holy Inquisition and every Puritan minister.
Even a bog standard LAMP setup has opcache enabled nowadays.
Very nice! I'm currently using https://github.com/amebalabs/TRex for the same purpose.
Your last paragraph is on point. James Hoffmann made a video about this (link at the top of this thread) featuring the researchers and basically this is exactly what they said as well.
Every time I see a Fabrice Bellard submission here - it's like a little cake that you found in your fridge unexpectedly. Great stuff!
Being within punching range also has a calming effect on most people.
Which is why I included other large cities as an example. Although I would argue the density in SF is not that much higher than some parts of Irvine due to restrictive zoning in SF.