skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole stop asian hate hashtag is pure opportunism when it comes from a Democratic congress person. If Democrats really supported Asians they wouldn't have almost universally voted no against this recent amendment to prohibit federal funding to institutions of higher education that discriminate against Asians:

Here's the roll call for Amendment No. 1456:

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_...
HTML embedded into email templates often uses tables for layout.

If you get a commercial email and the content has graphic borders around the content, check the source and you'll probably see a table. Also emails with text content in columns.
http://archive.is/Nptwe
Let me put it this way: I prefer Music-A so much more than Music-B, that I'd choose Music-A playing on an AM-radio over Music-B playing on an FM radio.

Fidelity is indeed swell, but how important is it really? A lot of the music I like best, I first heard on a crappy recording or a shitty sound-system. There were A LOT of hit songs recorded before FM came along, and yet that 10k AM bandwidth (e.g. when the Beatles were big) didn't keep people from buying copies by the millions. Gasp! How can that be?

How much of the time I'm actually listening to music I like do I actually care about the fidelity? If band A's crappy cover is available in FLAC, will I choose it because band B's brilliant cover is only 128K mp3? NO.

This eternal argument has little to do with music. I still like 'Louie Louie' by the Kingsmen (a recording that cost $36), never mind how shitty the studio was. I'll still choose it over a FLAC from the studio master of "Never Gonna Give You Up". I can hear around the 'flawed' repro. Two kinds of 'purism' at work here. Pure genius beats pure fidelity.
Typically there are limited numbers of zealots for any given cause.
That’s not quite true, HN thinks fusion is still 20 years away.
A bit of a false equivalence, not to mention a tired trope
Yes. Exactly. (You could also see it as a rendering of some of the Peano axioms.)
Check out the Op’s submission history. It is ALL articles like this.
I don't live in SF so I won't speak to their particularities but in the cities I have lived in the shelter capacity is below the homeless population, that's for sure.

The sad truth is the easiest way for a homeless person to get a place to sleep and a reliable food supply is to be incarcerated. It is something I don't hear a lot of people talking about but a non-trivial part of our absurdly large prison population are people who habitually reoffend because they have nowhere else to go to begin with. Once you've got a criminal record and you already have no support system on the outside, breaking the cycle is damn near impossible.

We end up paying for it either way so it is a problem worth addressing, at least in my opinion.
Very curious who is downvoting this comment, as I’ve frequently experienced with this sort of topic, rather than providing a substantive response
Large scale truth suppression
I was hoping the course you recommend would be available for the general public, but at >$1000, this is a no go. I would happily pay for something like this, but not this much.
Can anyone recommend an affordable equivalent?
Physics is so broken that they cant even explain galaxy rotation (dark matter is a failure) but the media is reporting with authority what was happening microseconds after the “big bang”.

Hard pass.
It’s hilarious that anyone thinks this is anything other than a way to pump the stock.
Do you think that making fertilizer that literally feeds the world is comparable to bitcoin?
This aged poorly. Ironically, I've never seen anyone get banned on reddit for incorrect opinions
Sure, let me try to explain.

1. Just like Asians have been the "model minority," Blacks are treated as the opposite. There's a lot of resentment going one way, and a lot of "what did you hit me for?" going the other way.

2. There's a lot of Asians (especially those from overseas) who don't understand the historical context, and aren't privy to empathy or compassion when they're being targeted. This dynamic isn't something that's new. When I grew up in NYC in the 80s, it was like Chinese immigrants were fair game. The poorer Chinese immigrants were the only folks who other groups had any "power" over. In turn, it's been really difficult educating my own relatives about this, and the prejudice that they may have. It's sad, and I understand them.

3. The matter is something that has caused real rifts in the AAPI communities. Asians as a group are not uniformly affluent, and the folks who live in inner-city neighborhoods feel as if the "boba Asians" don't understand them. It's these poorer Asians who are subjected to the brunt of the violence and prejudice.

4. There's a fair bit of talk these days in some of my circles that there's a divide-and-conquer thing going on.

Edit: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMevdw3yn/
It's what some would call Coulter's Corollary:

>Named after a 2015 tweet from provocative conservative political commentator, Ann Coulter, Coulter's Law states that the longer it takes the news media to identify a mass shooter in the United States, the less likely it is to be a white male.
I was a stay at home dad for two years in my mid-thirties. Learned to make iPhone apps, and landed a job developing iPhone apps when my kid was two. It was my first programming job. Have been in the industry for a decade now.
It is critically important in a political climate where one side is using the spectre of white supremacy as a political cudgel. When a complicit media makes a consistent effort to paint a false picture. This censorship is not an isolated incident. News articles regularly leave out the perpetrator's race unless it's white. Reddit regularly deletes and locks threads on inconvenient articles/videos such as this, including on default subs. Right leaning sources are effectively forbidden from wikipedia and stackexchange. A dangerous narrative is being manufactured across the social, news, and entertainment media sphere.
I don't see how it's any more of a dog whistle than to mention the race of the victim in the title, regardless of the race of the perpetrator.
One way to fight these biases is to remind ourselves that it’s a very small percentage of any demographic that commits violent crimes. It might be more useful, then, to say “99% of X people are never violent versus 99.2% of Y people.”
The label is important because the media has been going on about anti-asian hate crimes and "#AsianLivesMatter", while blaming white supremacy. Of course the violence is actually by blacks (who are somehow immune to all criticism). The pattern of black-on-anything violence isn't unusual, but of course any un-PC facts like FBI crime statistics are buried in the media and on places full of liars like HN.
They’re proving your point as we speak.
Razorpay has had this for a while . Stripe seems to be catching up.
It's Unabomber, not Unibomber.
Discrimination and racism against Asian Americans is something that gets flagged a lot on HN in my experience.

But then again, discrimination and racism posts in general are something that gets flagged a lot on HN so it's not surprising.
I don't think it's constructive to talk about ideological motivation; the elephant is that most of the increase in anti-Asian violence over the past year _is_ black-on-asian. Which is a narrative incompatible with pinning it on white supremacy.

A lot is clearly crime of opportunity, but a lot of the high-profile cases appear to be completely unmotivated by theft (ie, the assaults on elderly asians are often just sucker-punches by a suspect who leaves immediately without taking anything).
That's something that I think can be put into context with a short preface. I think propaganda is some of the most interesting parts of history.
"This post is for paying subscribers"
> why call it a “deal”?

Because compared to what an ordinary taxpayer gets, it is. And that's the relevant comparison since ordinary taxpayers are the ones ultimately paying for the research.
He is a billionaire. He can bail out good own company. No money from tax papers is needed.
If you can't have a life and the current programming job at the same time, you should probably look for a better job. It shouldn't be an issue to have both in real life.
Because anything that challenges the narrative and posits that diversity and inclusion initiatives are actually harming minorities (Asians) is somehow racist. For example, if I were to make a comment saying affirmative action is racism, my comment would get insta-flagged.
Even more so if you have separate buses, separate power supplies, electromagnetic/heat/sound isolation, etc..
Evidently you and I have very different standards for what counts as an explanation.
PayPal has had this for years with paypal.me
I'm pretty sure beagle worked for a time, but that time was probably "CCL/RMCL on PPC mac with OSX" and I don't think it would cover all versions of that.
Nice work! It always amazes me how a visual display of the data can show us so much more than the simple text version. "A picture is worth a thousand words" as the saying goes :)

I saw other comments talking about ISO 8601, color coded events and one asking for other examples of timelines and it reminded me of the custom timeline I did for my previous personal website in 2017 if you're interested:

- Demo (gif): https://twitter.com/maxmre/status/919236332995702785 (it shows the "fisheye effect" that happens when hovering the timeline with the mouse)

- Code: https://github.com/blaze33/openblocv2/blob/master/src/compon..., I used React, D3.js and moment.js.

- Live version (surprisingly!) still hosted at https://www.openbloc.fr/home/about, click on the life timeline to expand it, might not totally work on mobile though as I recall, see above tweet in this case for the demo.
perhaps also expect a usb-pd (power delivery) 4.0 spec, which we'll probably need in order for devices to negotiate the extended power range.

i could be mistaken, it might not be necessary... but pretty sure it is a pre-requisite. perhaps an existing usb-pd version already is flexible enough though.
For those of us outside of the US, can someone explain the background of what's happening? Is there a group using covid or conflict with the CCP to incite violence against Asians? Or is this just the relentless churn of everyday pointless hideous violence that has been previously un-noted in a media when the victims were asian?
Well /remind works in exactly the same way and you can tell it to remind people or channels etc. The fact that it shows as a reminder, not a message as if you just typed does matter in some contexts, but I certainly make heavy use of scheduling reminders in channels when it's important to follow up on something.

For me I think this tool would be better when for example you know it's a birthday coming up and you want to write a message now. It always bugged me that Facebook doesn't let you do this either (although it is obvious why FB want you to have to come back).

But I guess the funny thing about Slack not offering this is they have all the code / infra / text parsing they need to do it, it would surely be trivial to add.
Thirty-freaking-five? Is this a bad joke?

I haven’t been 35 in a while and I love what I’m doing. I have the greatest job in the world. Furthermore, people keep paying me to do it. I have no intention of stopping for a long time.
Yeah the assertion that older developers don't have time to learn new things is especially stupid. I'm 35 and I just wrote an entire playbook on how to move my employer off of some obsolete VM-based infrastructure and into the Azure equivalents. A month ago I didn't know shit about any of this stuff. But I know enough about networking to be able to read the Azure docs on all their platform components so I was the only person on my team of 7 who could formulate this plan. I learned it all on the job by reading the documents.
It's quite sad that random firing of people based on feelings have started in Apple, because with the M1 laptop, I'm moving all my things closer to the Apple ecosystem, and I feel bad for the people working on it.

1000 people (together with the leadership) just ruined job safety for the rest, now people have to play gender politics as well instead of just improving the ecosystem.
It's a similar concept to a trading card, in which you don't own nor have any relation to the actual asset depicted on the card. If trading cards were not a thing, you would think the purchase of a Hank Aaron card worth $10,000 would be ridiculous.
A lot of HN moderation is aimed at curtailing discussions that tend to be unproductive flamewars. I wouldn't take it as "truth-suppression" just that people tend to already have their opinions formed on some topics and prefer to just shout them at each other rather than have a discussion.
That seems like a useless corollary, nor does it answer my question. I can't tell if you are intentionally trying to erase the motivations and replace them with skin color. There is an ideological difference between a white teenager shooting up a black church and a black teenager shooting a gang. Only in one did race play a motivation in the shooting. Coming back to my point, the GP is claiming there is an ideologically motivated uptick in crime where black people, specifically, are attacking asians. I'm not even arguing that he might be wrong, but I'm seeing this trope a lot more and I want to find out if there's any actual theory behind it or if I'm just going to find more 13/52.
Looks like Macromedia Flash and KidPix had a baby. It's a bit of a nerve calling it "Power Tools", to be honest.
I can’t speak to the other three points you made - though they sound reasonable and plausible. But divide-and-conquer is certainly being practiced in America today, both within ethnic communities and between them. It’s a nasty game orchestrated by the media and large corporations, and not fundamentally different than how it’s been practiced in other countries, like Rwanda and early Soviet Russia.
“What I find most ridiculous is that the ‘take’ for Uber is often over 50% of the fare, especially with the $3.10 "safe ride fee" but their deductible for incidents like this is $2500,” he told me over e-mail. “My own insurance disclaimed the event because of Uber. So I get the entire bill.”

Sounds like they are charging tens of thousands of dollars a year in booking fees for each FT driver, how is the coverage that bad?

https://help.uber.com/driving-and-delivering/article/what-is...
Oh? All working people are forced to do particular work without pay in Cuba? This is news to me. Here I thought that people there work so that they can keep a roof over their heads, and so that they don't starve.

I'm also not sure where the ~400,000 Cubans who own or work for small, private businesses enter your world view. I guess their presence isn't compatible with your politics, so we will have to pretend they don't exist.

It's also news to me that only hippies have a problem with pipelines, I'd imagine that among other groups, Native Americans whose lands were stolen from them at gunpoint occasionally lodge a complaint or two about them.
That's an interesting way of thinking of it. I suppose this reveals an inherent problem with using statistics to represent crime — their significance is easily distorted, even if the numbers themselves are accurate.

But to throw a hypothetical at you: is it right for an Asian person in San Francisco to be more scared when they see someone of "X" race than when they see someone of "Y" race?

Even if most of the people in the "X" group are nonviolent, if threats disproportionately come from the "X" group, it would not be unreasonable to be more wary of members of that group.
Model minority == no guns. This has to change, every Asian should purchase a gun
It's so weird how opposing the male gender was accepted with the #MeToo movement against men (based on flimsy evidence regarding widespread sexual assault), but having a #MeToo against blacks (for their well-documented extraordinary crime rates) is a "dog whistle".
You know that journalists (or even people!) can have more sophisticated stances than alignment with left or right, right?

It's really unhealthy to write off "contrarianism" as some kind of tactical play instead of like... complex opinions.
Man, I was one of the few people who tried to stick up for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27236832

It’s like you went out of your way to make the worst possible decision at every step. All you had to do was nothing, and let the people go who wanted to go. But now people are going to actively fight you.
going from 20V to 48V means there's more arc'ing potential, if the connector mis-aligns or starts to break away.

thankfully usb also has fairly high electrical ruggedness standards, so i doubt it'll break many ports/have much impact if this does happen.
Even more expensive if you're in Canada and want to accept USD.
Registration process is broken. Upon entering the email, it sends me a mail link in which leads to the same page, and it again asks to register. Tried that loop twice... Hard to imagine such a big publication's website to be simply broken with no way to register.
Absolutely, especially post Covid I've seen several senseless random attacks on Asians regardless of nationality or origins. I hope it's just a passing thing which was fueled by Trump. I feel for them. I feel for all folks whose mere look renders them targets for hate crimes. I really thought we put that behind but recently, during the past 5 years I realized how wrong I was.
Why couldn't a future OS update add access control to these registers?
The language wasn't mentioned but often the alternative to assembler is C. C compilers beating hand written assembly comes up in pretty much every discussion of the subject. You can still beat the compiler in many cases if you iterate and analyze enough, but that won't be the case in the first-pass code you'd write.

There are some exceptions in areas where compilers have weaknesses, like SIMD code.

The thread context is ClojureScript and JavaScript, I think people don't compare JSVM JIT code to hand written assembly that often (tip: node --print-opt-code --print-opt-code-filter=myfunction).
Why bully anyone at all?
You can generate at least 50% of the electricity with hardly any storage at all, more if you integrate heat and transportation in the network. The world is very far from the levels of renewables were storage is strictly necessary, which is why there is not very much storage being built right now.

There is no real need to reduce energy consumption. We have plenty of space to build solar panels and wind turbines. But primary energy consumption will naturally go down a bit when you replace ICEs (30% efficient or so?) with EVs (80% efficient or so?) and oil and gas heaters with heat pumps (2
4 times as efficient). Of course electricity consumption will be way larger.
The sun is slowly warming. In only 100 million years it will be too warm on earth for plants to perform photosynthesis and everything dies.
That would be very helpful.
How brains work is still a puzzle despite advances in psychiatry
This is non-technical in nature, and incredibly rudimentary.

Best suited to those with little to no idea what the term robotics even means.

Certainly not what I'd refer to as a 'Master Class'.
I am 39. Been programming my entire life.

My career took me from programming, to architecture roles, to managing projects then managing engineers where I found myself in a position where I never interacted with code. But a couple of years ago I decided to do more programming again and it was no problem at all to get back into it.

I have been programming every day since then and will never regret that move.
People said the same thing about the Asian spa attacks. And then the perp wasn’t black. Sometimes the race just isn’t mentioned, not a grand conspiracy.
What I've heard from some friends in the installation industry is that their work is dominated by large installation projects that will become huge money-makers for the owners in a reasonably short time frame, so it's worth the big up-front cost.

The panels are quite expensive and the labour is not cheap, but when you're installing 50-100+ panels on a big box store roof, it seems the economics far more than works out, at current energy price and subsidy levels.
If we're assembled ahead of time, yes, but usually everyone is all business to keep the meetings short and packed.

Outside of meetings, yes we had banters. We were nerds, so we conversed about nerdy things, which sometimes are spin-offs of our works. Another it was about food because who don't love food?

The workplace was a small open-plan office, 27 desk max in that room. When stressed and needing someone to talk to, I would see if anyone didnot have earphones on and are not working. I guess that was the "busy"/"not busy" signal.

> Some places make it very hard to bond during work hours.

I guess yeah, moreover if there are physical or procedural separator between people.

Also, I realized I don't feel the same atmosphere once we grew into a larger company with varying prople with varying interests. I guess it was a niche kind of thing.
The point is it invalidates the Zinn quote
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> 1. Just like Asians have been the "model minority," Blacks are treated as the opposite. There's a lot of resentment going one way, and a lot of "what did you hit me for?" going the other way.

Not sure I'm understanding; are you saying asians are targeted by blacks because of some "race retaliation" scheme?

> 4. There's a fair bit of talk these days in some of my circles that there's a divide-and-conquer thing going on.

Divide-and-conquer of what exactly?
At least those samples to be mixed just right to survive over 1,000 years had a mixture that got stronger with age. There's a big element of survivorship bias.

Also, due to a lack of reinforcement, Roman concrete structures, at least those that survived, avoided putting concrete in tension. Roman concrete won't last very long in areas of buildings that are under tension. Edit: the implication being that using Roman concrete would make many modern building designs unworkable, particularly taller thinner designs that sway a bit in the wind.
Any idea how to go around the paywall?
Same, Walter. I’m 61 and been enjoying the Seattle Eastside scene since ‘83.
Yes, this is HN so you are 100% correct. Asians and whites are the majority here so blacks are constantly demonized even though anti-blackness is literally a fundamental part of asian culture. HN has a very "high-brow" intelligent crowd, if this was reddit they would just go ahead and use a slur.

Intrestengly enough, even though this comment will be down voted and flagged, my asian friends are the ones that explained these things to me.

Here is a video one of my asian friends sent to me, its a bit long but actually quite informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXo2ub_nZFc&t=1s

Unlike in America, its actually 100% accepted and seen as the norm to be "anti-black": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Few8kJ0zfnY. This is also why Asia/India are the largest market for skin lightning cream. Objectively, I find it quite fascinating and it was very interesting for me to learn about.

The book: Blacks And Asians: Crossings, Conflict And Commonality goes much deeper into the topic if you are interested.
Just to explore this: what exactly is your objection to the often-cited observation that black people, who are 13% of the population, commit 52% of the violent crimes? I don’t even know if that’s accurate - if not, then surely that’s the biggest problem with it. But if it’s true, then why is it a dog whistle?

I’m not challenging you here, I’m trying to understand why it’s wrong to state it in this kind of context.
Does this actually work? All that does is change the framing (ie. glass half full or half empty) but doesn't challenge the underlying fact that they commit crimes at a higher rate, which is what racists latch on to.