skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This author seems to have an angle they either can’t prove with facts or don’t know how to discuss with data. How much better are the super-rich test scores? Is that enough to fully explain their over-representation in the Ivies? How much does private school improve those scores? Does that fully explain their admissions advantage? What is the statistical benefit of wealth in the GaoKao? What portion of the wealth advantage in Chinese admissions is due to better scores, and how much is due to provincial quotas, or even political favors? In the US there have been several Supreme Court cases about this, and the conclusions have been that meritocracy is not a goal of federal education funding and tax relief programs.

A simple search comes up with a far more comprehensive article on exactly this topic:

“The Myth of American Meritocracy” by Ron Unz
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of...

I admit that I haven’t read to the end; it’s nearly a book. But what is interesting to me is the source and focus of the complaint, today versus a decade ago.

Is it liberal or conservative to decry the lack of meritocracy? Is it okay to skew admissions to redress privilege, while not okay to skew admissions in favor of privilege, or does the simultaneous practice of both make it okay?
Do you have any alternative platform where people that genuinely feel oppressed can call for help or even assemble themselves.

Not everything about Twitter is good, but, for countries at the verge of losing their right to free speech, access to twitter proves essential until there's a better alternative.
I’m not talking about YC I’m talking about the person accused of lying to get the vaccine. They claimed the accusation is false and explained why. The article fails to mention that despite the fact they sourced the accusation from the same place the defense was (Twitter.) It’s selective reporting without a doubt, but I won’t guess a motive. intent, or cause.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26898266

(I had not seen this before, just the result of a search). It looks like it did get quite a bit of discussion
sorry, "promote" in the sense of "promoter", not in the sense of "promotion", the former being what you need for the latter (as you describe).
Plugins were native code, usually running under NPAPI.

Extensions or Add-ons running with WebExtensions API are HTML/JS/CSS and have way less access to your machine. They run in a sandbox with very specific fine-grained control over permissions and capabilities.
Funny how this is turning out. People who live off that ice have been saying this for years, but we need some "fancy" model to tell us that.
The cause is further down in the abstract

> Consequently the two temperatures defining the core of krill distribution (7–13 °C) were 8° of latitude apart 60 years ago but are presently only 4° apart.

Krill lost 50% of their habitat in the last 60 years. This article has been added to my favorites because this is one piece of evidence that shows that climate change won’t just shift organisms north, but will result in reductions of species that will impact our ecosystems.
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Seems like it should be Linus Torvalds? Influential is not necessarily correct..
The FBI informant who almost got away with murder
It looks unnatural when you put it in a game like CS, yes. But remember where CS came from, Action Quake.

Then you have games that put this front and center, and it looks completely natural, such as Warsow.
> It’s not in the interest of both parties to keep escalating.

I think it clearly is.

Modi is set to Robinhood them. If options are set to doing that, and winning the election, or not doing that, and loosing, he will certainly do so.

If he will be set to lose it if he not bans them, or bans them, but still lose, he will be way more pliable. Way more.
Maybe you just bought floating rope? There are a bunch of floating rope products that advertise foam cores.
Google BigQuery: user-defined functions
i want a simple walking app that does one thing that no other step counter does -- announces how far i've gone.

so, let's say, every 500 steps or so, i want it to interrupt whatever audio i have playing to say something like:

"<chime> <quick pause> you have now traveled five hundred steps"
...
"<chime> <quick pause> you have now traveled one thousand steps"

on android you can supposedly just rely on the internal step counter mechanism of the hardware.

i currently use this one:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pedometer.step...

if you make it, i will be your first purchase of $5/yr. i'm serious.

UI-wise it prob just needs to show the number of steps you've gone.

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Perks/fringe benefits for employees are imputed income in virtually every tax system.
Previously discussed over a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26898266

Seems to be little more than an overly ambitious, moderately sized Kickstarter where the creators can't deliver. Only wrinkle is the fact that it's a YC company. It's a stretch to call it a scandal.
Artificially putting a floor under the price one's allowed to charge for one's services benefits only politicians proposing such populists ideas and the non-working.
No you are right, but that’s irrelevant to my point. The point being that Flutter is an example of a “react-like” framework to write UI that renders to multiple backends.
What is the goal of this group since the current WebExtensions standard is already supported by almost every major web browser? If seems their goal is already complete.
A global price fixing scheme.
So you got accepted. Then tell everybody in YC that they're shitty. Then you get kicked and wonder why.
Most people join in the middle of the swing perhaps, then get dragged too far to one extreme.
From the point of view of a European living in America the #ENDSARS protests looked very similarly motivated as the #BLM protests in America and Europe. #BLM got their own emoji, so why wouldn’t #ENDSARS?
One major point I noticed everyone was not commenting on was the psychological side as seen through management's eyes.

I've been both sides of the table, so to speak, and can understand the perverse motivations that sometimes come into it. Some people in management actually love being in management because of the hierarchy that comes with having subordinates in one area, and a manager desk that overlooks them. The same desire drives such managers to have all-department meetings which serve little purpose. From their perspective, it reinforces their superior status over the individual contributors. When such managers have remote staff they don't get the same validation. They desire people to come in to get their personal validation with everyone sitting around them. At this point there is some post-rationalisation. The various factual benefits of having people in the office are offered. But they are not the true motivators for this kind of manager.

Obviously not all managers are such ego or status driven as this description. But it is not a caricature at all. I have regularly seen this perspective and attitude amongst managers. It is just easier to spot and understand when you are at C-level and have management or senior staff reporting to you.

I believe this is the true explanation for why there has historically been reluctance to offer a remote-first culture in work environments. Of course, with COVID, public health issues have adjusted the power balance here. When COVID is not such a public health matter in a locality, the return to normal now means return but for 3 days. Why 3? I think it is enough days for management to still feel that they are the boss on enough days of the week. Down to 2 days, managers would not feel boss-like.

Lastly I don't want to malign the true managers and leaders we have. Those that want to achieve great results, and circumstantially need to be a manager, just to realise the journey with team contributors are the best type of manager, in my view.
We can dance around our environmental issues all we want, we'll always reach overpopulation and overconsumption driven by cultural beliefs.

Until we act on values other than growth, efficiency, comfort, convenience, extraction, and externalizing costs, we will continue this trend.

Plenty of cultures have thrived with other values. We can too.

People insist that individual actions don't matter and that only governments and corporations can make a difference. We accept this hogwash proven wrong by history over and over to mollify our indulgence. Acting in stewardship doesn't bring deprivation or sacrifice. It brings joy, fun, freedom, community, connection, meaning, and purpose.

The greatest change we make is leading others, because it multiplies our effect, which requires leading ourselves.

Still, logic, facts, and figures don't change behavior. We change when five people around us do, loosely speaking. In that spirit, I'll share that I've dropped my emissions over 90 percent with only improvements to my life. I take two years to fill a load of trash and haven't flown since March 2016, picking up litter daily since 2017, my last electrical bill $1.40 so nearly off-grid living in Manhattan, plus plenty more. All sources of joy, more time with family and friends, more control over my career, saving money, more gratitude from people with less resources who tell me their changes improve their lives and save them time, money, and the other resources they lack.

The main Resistance (capitalized to refer to Steven Pressfield's relevant book The War of Art) comes from people with more resources than me, who say what I did before changing. Strangely, those with the most act like they can change the least. Resources that were supposed to improve our lives make us spoiled, entitled, needy, and dependent, the opposite of free and fun.

To those who insist there's no point, you can argue against me, but now that you know someone who's done it, you're 20 percent there. Find another few who have changed and you'll change too.
"In July 2019, for example, Medium chose to publish a series that included a profile of Trump supporter Joy Villa with the headline “I have never been as prosecuted for being Black or Latina as I have been for supporting Trump.”

When the Latinx community at Medium spoke to leadership about discomfort in the headline, they claimed that executives from editorial didn’t do anything about the headline until it was mentioned in a public Slack channel. One editor asked anyone who had gone through the immigration process or was a part of the Latinx community to get in a room and explain their side, a moment that felt diminishing to this employee. The headline only changed when employees posted in a public Slack channel about their qualms."

I'm not empathetic with the employees.

I despise Trump, it's unconditionally within bounds to publish something like this.

If you want to work for a political organization, or a 'far-X' organization please do that.

Medium already tilts very strongly in one direction and their political orientation is well known.

If people are being actually mistreated, there should be a discussion but this is getting out of hand.
That should be taxable in the hands of the employee, obviously. Estonia seems to be doing well with their tax system, and it's pretty much exactly what is described above.
> It's just that all these devices and microchips have opened a way to trade on data that we'll never be able to regulate and control with 100% clarity and precision. So we're definitely gonna have to get more clever than just asking the government to ban them.

There's nothing fundamentally different about the technology in the last ~decade that has caused this trade to explode. Bandwidth, storage and compute have all gotten cheaper, but there's not much more that has actually technologically changed to cause this explosion.

What has changed is that companies now see this sort of data-gathering as a potential source of profit and have essentially never had to pay more than a fraction of the costs that they incur on society when this data is abused/leaked, etc.

If there was actual civil and criminal liability attached to negligence, misuse of user data, etc. then most of these problems would disappear pretty quickly. The reason why this hasn't already happened is almost certainly related to the immense amounts of money and influence that the data-gathers can wield on politicians.

A key part of any sort of effective regulation in this space would also require that breaches or misuses of data that didn't involve negligence were also heavily punished (similar to how some toxic waste spills are handled). This would create a powerful incentive for companies to just not collect the data in the first place unless there was a serious business need for it which justified the additional risk to the company.

I can't see that ever being popular here though given how entrenched online advertising $$$ is in SV/YC/HN...
Tense Relations Between China and Philippines; Europe, Japan Seek Larger Roles
"I think it's a very good sign if Google's own sites fail these tests. It means the tests are meaningful."

I agree, that appears to be a good sign. I am curious to what degree Google will reward fast sites and punish slow ones. I wonder if they are willing to make big shifts in the rankings.
If your goal is just lowering R0, sure… but a lot of countries prefer to lower deaths, which is why they start with the older population / those with health conditions.
TBH the bad idea in the EU scheme is allowing different countries to have different taxes on digital sales. There should be one rate across the whole Union, to be paid to the Union itself. This can then be redistributed to national governments in various ways, or reinvested in digital infrastructure that benefits the whole continent.

Enforcing fair taxation is not a bad idea, making it awkward is.
Murray Gell-Mann effect applies here.
Of course. How else do you entice literally hundreds of thousands of people to apply for a job?

They’ve hired somewhere around a million employees in the past 5 years.

> The $15 is enough to lure some people to work at Amazon but it seems there are others for which slightly lower pay and the benefit of bathroom breaks

I know a couple of people who work at an Amazon warehouse, and I’ve asked them about this, and they said it’s never been an issue.
What I find baffling is that PG is so against cancel culture. Approx. 1 in 10 of his tweets are railing against this phenomenon. Yet in the YC community cancel culture is permitted. Admittedly they are not one and the same (YC and PG) but it does undermine the credibility of the organization to go against on of its founder's principles.
I feel people without experience in C can underestimate how high-level it can be and base their assumptions on how cleanly simple structures translate into machine language.

But people forget how high-level assembly can be, especially if using a macro assembler (which almost anyone does).

The line between “my language handles this for me” and “my macro/function handles this for me” gets blurred pretty easily.
Right now, the educated, and progressive part of Indian society sacrifice blood sweat and tears to get Modi out.
Self-determination. Always.
Htop is great. Lately I've been reaching for a way to get an overview of process clusters (like firefox or vscodium like to make), and I can see there's an open feature request in htop for that. Would be a nice thing.
For whatever it’s worth, I was pleasantly surprised at how easy Rcpp is to use.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32614222/
I don't think Amazon's decision to raise wages was pure microeconomic pressure. Single market participants don't need to get their policies out of a textbook, and textbook responses don't get as much news coverage.

High productivity leads to better margins. Better margins allow Amazon to raise wages. Raising wages helped them hire in a competitive marketplace, sure, but it was also a political act. Amazon has been accused of mistreating workers, and paying them above the going rate defuses that accusation.
I assume they’re limiting it to a particular subset of authorship - namely fiction.

Also calling Linus an American is a bit of history rewriting.
My favorite problem involving Two Sorted Integer Lists is "Sort X+Y": Given sorted lists X and Y, each of length N, produce the list of N^2 pair-sums in sorted order. Specifically X+Y is the set {a + b for a in X and b in Y}. It seems like you should be able to solve it without relying on a sorting algorithm, since the input lists are already sorted. However, it's unknown if there is a faster algorithm than simply constructing X+Y directly and running a sorting algorithm.
It would be interesting to compare this representation with Haiku vector image format described in post [0] and discussed a couple of times here [1, 2].

0: 500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format
http://blog.leahhanson.us/post/recursecenter2016/haiku_icons...

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12420763

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22373422
> Many people would call your refusal to hear their opinion on Israel/Palestine or any other issue “problematic,” or contributing to an “unsafe” environment.

Citation needed.
To me, "no politics at work" means "the company does not get involved in political activities or discussions". Individuals are free to discuss what they want, with who they want.

This means: water cooler discussion about Middle East conflict? Perfectly fine. "Bomb Israel Activism Day (with free cake in staff room)" organised by the company? Not okay.

I am sick of receiving corporate emails inviting me to "x pride/awareness/celebration" activities that have nothing to do with work, and that are not neutral topics. I am happy for people to have different opinions with me, and talk about them, and even debate with me about them, but I don't want "mandatory fun" events where the "fun" is eating a cake with icing colored in whatever way symbolizes the current woke topic, and being forced to stand around and pretend I care.
I thought Django is a framework..
Chello used to be a local ISP that IIRC got gobbled up by UPC, or at least so I remember; the German Wikipedia is IMO a bit hazy here and implies that it might have been a UPC subsidiary to begin with. The first time I heard about Chello was when I was in high school and they just gobbled up a local ISP, inode.at. But none of that matters now anyway, since it was all part of UPC, which for couple years now is part of T-mobile, *ehem* "Magenta", sorry. The whole consolidation of small, local ISPs into huge, international ones over the last decades is kind of crazy to think about.

The website itself seems to contain a list of mostly MS-paint style drawings of scientific, engineering and pseudo-scientific concepts (there are 3 lists devoted to perpetual motion machines), also I have no idea why graphene and "UFO over Vienna" are listed under "Centrifugal Force". Most of the stuff on the site also feels vaguely familiar, probably from some German phpBB bards I was on at the time. I'm pretty sure some of the weirder stuff reference old in-jokes that I forgot about by now. Stumbling over chello.at and GW-BASIC sure brings back some memories.
I went to a Walmart Supercenter this week to try to buy clothes and groceries. No carts or hand baskets available. One employee reprimanding another employee right in front of customers. No bags for produce. Underwear was in a locked cabinet. I pressed the button but nobody came to help. Grumpy attendant at the self checkout.

It's no wonder that people who can afford to shop elsewhere do.
You've got that backwards, exchanges are only used by people with USD or trying to get USD. The Bitcoin ecosystem did just fine before exchanges existed. I was there. We either mined our own coins, or earned them by doing work for people with coins. It was great.

Also recognize the privilege that you were born with that allows you to open a bank account. About a third of the people in this world don't have that luxury. I've used Bitcoin to pay under-served artists and programmers in corners of the world that I had never heard of, and with many of them I never knew where they were located geographically, because it just doesn't matter anymore.
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I feel like links to Jordan Peterson videos should be flagged. Watching just one will fill your You Tube recommendations with the worst sorts of hatred and idiocy.

That doesn’t mean the Jordan is wrong. But it does show what the people who like him tend to be in to.
These are details that inevitably will be hammered out in the following months.

In the end, most of these companies are public, their profit margins are already disclosed.
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The recent high profile police shootings were not during arrests for violent crimes, and in many of them the victims had committed no crime at all. You aren't going to change very many people's minds by citing statistics unrelated to their concerns, and some may even take offense at seemingly trying to steer the conversation from talking about killing clearly innocent people to violent fugitives.
or Gmail for the last 10 years
Wait, who's shitty?

A.) The person posting about how to lie to jump the vaccine queue

B.) The second person posting about how to lie to jump the vaccine queue

C.) The moderators of the forum who allow posts to exist that describe how to like to jump the vaccine queue

D.) The person bringing this behavior to light

Pretty sure it's not D...
If you actually looked at any western country's budget, you'd see the vast mmajority of tax revenue is spent on welfare (and in the US case, warfare); only a miniscule amount is spent on infrastucture. Singapore for instance has way better education outcomes and infrastructure than most western countries in spirte of way lower taxes.
To add: in my experience, programmers who denigrate R think of it as a software engineering language. Not all programming languages are meant to be languages for building large scale applications. Programming is not just about building business applications, it's about getting a computer to do things.

And R excels at doing statistics and data science. If you keep that mindset, I believe many will find that its an excellent programming language.
Federal Judge Overturns California’s 32-Year “Assault Weapons” Ban
> What makes you think that the people running the sites, once fully informed, would not have cared?

Without exception, every person I've talked to that has been involved with vaccine distribution has cared only about getting vaccines into arms. In their minds the gov't can make rules, but where the rubber meets the road they were 1000% more interested in maximizing the number of people who were vaccinated than spending precious manpower carefully scrutinizing eligibility.

Heck, even in official communications the gov't repeatedly pointed out that they wouldn't actually be checking documentation on site. Almost like they were inviting people to get vaccinated before they were officially eligible.