skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but then you are simply dividing by ability

While I understand the sentiment, but I think we need to speak of skill vs physical factors. The division of weightlifters in weight classes is to deal with the latter rather than the former.

Similarly - WADA does this already by banning doping. PEDs don't make you a high-skill athlete, they enhance physical capabilities (stronger, faster recovery etc).

Laurel Hubbard is in an unfortunately unique position, where she's at a natural advantage due to higher testosterone levels earlier in life.

It might be impossible to end up with a fair division, but I don't think "no division" is a good answer.
Uh I don't know what management consultants you've met but as an industry it is the opposite of efficient. It's an industry that's built on stealing value from the productive bits of society by leveraging the social status of it's employees. Some software is certainly very efficient and productive but after many years in software I can tell you that a lot of software work is repeated broken window fixing. It's not about lazy / hardworking it's about those with social capital and those without. Those with it prosper and those without it flounder.
Here come the experts! Love to read all these fat asses in momma's basement who just know everything about everything but don't do anything except post shit on the web. What a waste of life. Useless eaters.
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Policy Responses on Excess Mortality [pdf]
Russia fired at the ship but their weapons missed.
Ask HN: What’s the worst advice you’ve been given?
A lot of threads focus on the best advice or insights people have been given. I’m curious what the worst advice you’ve ever been given is, and what you learned and did instead?
Yes, SW is much more conducive to video games. Lucas told grand, albeit imperfect, stories in a world he built. He was an auteur in every sense of the word. The prequels are rough, but they still feel like Star Wars.

Whereas the Disney movies are safe, soulless, designed-by-committee comic book action movies set in the Star Wars universe.
You're again still focused about ratios and optimization and I'm again pointing out the original prompt was to cultivate hobbies without regard to ratios and optimization.

I'll butt out (as I unsuccessfully tried to do before). Enjoy your day!
It's a painfully frequent strawman/red herring, up there with "weed is just a plant", "all gun owners want to do is protect their families". I think it's useful to assume that not everyone who disagrees with you is malicious and/or insane, and hence their argument can't be condensed into something obviously false or indefensible.
Eh, it’s pretty real, we just call it going to a top school. People like me will never achieve what the people at Ivy+ schools will, and I’ll be locked in a lower caste for good.
No, under your hypothetical it's still a crime, but it's not admitting to a crime. You haven't pled guilty, you are still asserting a defence to the accusation (that you own Moscow).
If you expect that seeking safe passage through those waters with that ship will make a point to Russia, both can be true simultaneously.
For governments, yes. Having that sweet legislative power is pretty nice.

(Yes, there's an international court. It's not exactly having a lot of teeth)
> unless there are numerous private schools in West Virginia that charge $4600 or less in tuition, which I would not expect.

There seem to be quite a few: https://www.privateschoolreview.com/tuition-stats/west-virgi...

In general, Catholic school is per capita cheaper than public. In fact, according to https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-private-school, $4600 would be enough to cover the average Catholic elementary school in the US as a whole.

> Otherwise it's simply a transfer of funds away from public schools to middle and upper class families who were already leaning away from public education and the private (largely religious) institutions they prefer.

That's not true. Vouchers are more popular with minorities: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/02/24/voters-str...

I also notice you use religious as a pejorative. There is little reason to do so. Catholic schooling for example provides better outcomes for low-income minorities than public schools, including when adjusted for poverty, parental behavior, etc. Thomas Sowell goes in depth in his book "education in america".

> If the intent was truly to provide school choice to all, they could end enrollment based on residence and allow low income families to choose to place their children in high performing schools in high income areas, but that kind of choice is not the intent of these programs.

Low income families do not want to place their kids in high performing schools in high income areas. That doesn't actually work. This typically leads to ostracization of the poor kids in school and the creation of two separate tracks.

My wife and I are in the best high school in our city ... if you're white or rich. If you're black it's the worst. It's in an extremely rich area, but it also includes a predominantly black poorer inner city neighborhood.
I doubt that it would be possible to screen trafficked women from registration. Then it would be a lot of work for the police to actually "just do routine checks", just like they don't check most businesses for illegal immigrant workers or whatever. Also, they wouldn't know where to look, because brothels would just open up and nobody would tell them, because the johns wouldn't know how to verify all the documentation.

Just as with firearms in the US: the more potentially legal prostitution there is, the harder it is to sniff out the illegal ones, even when hiding in plain sight.

In Germany we have exactly that situation. Prostitution is legal, though I am not sure about exactly what registration is required. It is a bloody mess, because it is assumed that forced prostitution is now rampant in Germany, to the point that men from other countries travel over the border just for the brothels...
It doesn’t feel like a great idea to saddle a young person with maybe 2 years of career experience with management.
No, Society (well, Sweden in this case) is against prostitution and want to eliminate or at least minimize it. It's the same with drugs laws or illegal downloads- criminalization of this side or another is just tactics, in this case to hurt prostitutes less
How should data teams handle data requests?
Comparing countries by PPP doesn’t account for the cost of education between countries. A collage educated worker in Mexico is much cheaper than a collage educated worker in Luxembourg even accounting for PPP.

In fact if you compare countries by Median household income PPP. You find a familiar ordering,
Luxembourg 52,493, Norway 51,489, Sweden 50,514, Australia 46,555, Denmark 44,360, United States 43,585. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

Differences in scope between each country such as what pays for school lunch programs explains much of the difference.
There is that, and also less funding and more regulation.
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I don't think it's the case that prostitution is a social negative. Has anyone shown that?

I think your last paragraph relies on the concept that all sex workers are always victims and no one else (the buyers, coworkers etc) is ever a victim.

That really can't be true in practice. So we need a more nuanced approach.
The facts are collectivism basically requires oppression. and those governments would just murder you if you didn't like it. So how about no we won't stop.
Has regulation changed appreciably the last two or three decades resulting in less drive for innovation?
radio free europe is a us government propaganda agency, you should not take anything published on there to be true. At the very least, question why it is being presented to you

Copied and pasted because the original was downvoted and flagged.
> I think Thomas Sowell said once something along the lines that the black schools in DC at about late 1800s-early 1900s was OUTPERFORMING those of the white schools in the region. If one is to look at the present day schooling in the same region, those children/teens are functionally illiterate.

There's a lot of quiet stereotyping going on where people assume that blacks have always underperformed whites in schooling, economic growth, etc.

In reality, this is a recent phenomenon. Well into the 50s/early 60s, black incomes were growing much faster than whites.
You're not wrong, but the problem is that interviews aren't actually about jobs. The average person interviews because they need the money. So from the start they're not thinking in the programming space. The pressure for them is to make the interviewer believe they are worthy of the job.

I think if I could describe my personal experiences, I'd say that on a subconscious level, I know that how I speak and articulate details will be observed by the interviewer through a cultural lens more often than not. This may be unique to my personal background, so maybe this is different for other groups. But interviewers often get hung up on the use of different language/terminology, the types of jokes/jests that enter the conversation, how I respond to their language. And there's sometimes been an unwillingness to allow different terminology, perhaps because that's all the interviewer themselves knows and understands.

All that to say, a code interview doesn't always come down to the quality of the code.
OpenStreetMap in the form of OpenMapTiles: https://openmaptiles.org/
That seems to me a very uncharitable take on the TERF position. For example, approximately 1/4 of women have been raped at some time. It's not very hard to see that such women could have a problem with someone who's biologically male in the women's room - a serious, traumatic problem.

You can say that and still be sympathetic to the plight of trans people.
Like racist, nazi, or phobe, Joe Rogan is used by certain types as a dismissive. They had that one locked and loaded without looking at the target.
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It's male chauvinism, abuse and oppression of women. As long as buying a woman just to exploit her body sexually is normalized we will never reach equality. The few happy sex workers that truly think they are not abused are not worth the enormous negative effects prostitution has on society.
Some of that may be due to redundant devices. You're waiting for at least 2 devices to return a reading, and probably a third thing that handles reconciling the results.

The speed of this thing doesn't seem particularly vital either. Everything of interest in a split second scenario is already on-screen; just looking at their speed, it would you a comparatively long time to get off the edge of the map. If you have time to get off the edge of the map, you have time to wait a couple seconds for the page to load. If you don't have time to get off the edge of the map, there's not really a reason to fidget with it.

I agree, it seems annoying, but it doesn't ultimately seem dangerous. I can't think of a situation where you a) need to change the screen, and b) don't have time to wait for the UI to update. And I would much rather have 2 seconds of UI lag to get a known correct response than milli/nano seconds of lag to get a probably correct response. Most of us exist in a world where the response time is more important than absolute correctness.
Note that both the collected Dialogues (letters) of Seneca and Discourses of Epictetus are available from Standard Ebooks for free. I can't speak to the quality of the translations, but as far as e-books go they are always fantastic productions (compared to just grabbing the text off Project Gutenberg).

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/seneca/dialogues/aubrey-st...

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/epictetus/discourses/georg...
Legalization may not be a panacea. But the alternative is criminalization, and that is far far worse. Criminalizing prostitution guarantees a bad outcome for the affected prostitutes.
Lets separate two things, what is fair payment on the one hand and on the other hand how this might be achieved. For the first question I already stated my position, I think it is unfair to have the supply and demand situation heavily affect your wage, especially if an oversupply of workers is used to lower wages for hard or unpleasant jobs.

For the second question I will admit that my initial comment sounds like it is an easy thing to do but you are right that I can not provide some policies that if implemented would yield my desired outcome. But you should also not take my comment to literally, I do not want a better wage for the janitors at Facebook but for menial work in general. So as a first step at least have a minimum wage that ensures that you are not living at the verge of poverty if you work full time. That is certainly a far cry from achieving what my initial comment asked for but it is better than nothing and as I said, I unfortunately do not know how to get there.
Its funny, I had the hardest time finding a software job last summer and ended up taking a job in an unrelated field to get some money coming in. Perhaps the market is heating up now?
I use my iPhone’s voicemail transcription to screen most of my calls
I'm really looking forward to the Brenner Base Tunnel[0]. Apart from cutting train time from Innsbruck to Bolzano from 120 to 50 minutes, it will increase the number of trains that can go through, and I hope it will absorb a lot of the lorries going through the Brenner Pass,

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenner_Base_Tunnel
Hey, thanks for the quick response. So I still don't have any emails, and I couldn't find any other Log-in / Create Account functionality on the home page. In other words: I couldn't find any other way to create an account that wouldn't result in me using the form on /signin.

Maybe I'm being a dummy, let me know if you have any additional suggestion otherwise I will get in touch with the email you provided. This is a really cool project, and I hate to admit some of the unfinished amateur hobby projects I've created towards similar ideas to multiverse.plus.
That can be explained in part by compulsory schooling and individual education programs
Docker containers are a valid Serverless option nowadays. There are services like Cloud Run which work very well with them and usually are not hard to set up.
I don’t see why not. There’s an official web version at music.apple.com. They probably
prevent multiple simultaneous streams on the same account at the same time though.
> sorry, it's 5:01 and

You are entitled to your time. If you're set to work til 5, then your employer should pay you a minute's overtime if they need you to turn that screw.

Why would you volunteer for someone else's money-making venture?
I don't think supply is the problem.

It's simply that demand is skyrocketing, but we didn't make software substantially easier in the last decades.
I imagine the information needed for small integer data from a sensor of rainfall mm/hour and snow gauge, etc is a very low data rate... What channel widths and modulations are they using in the 40MHz bands?
Quod licet Beari...
I mean, sure, but we've always had that - but having widely-supported elements that are as good as the built-in elements with accessibility support and all, and have no dependencies and no requirements on a particular application architecture or framework use would certainly be nice.
Certainly. But does wage inequality cause people to "vilify sex work and torture sex workers"?

I doubt it, as I see that the gender wage inequality in The Netherlands is much higher (https://www.statista.com/statistics/537993/average-monthly-w... ) and yet the Netherlands has legalized sex work.
Awesome idea, and even more awesome execution!
I get your point. But there are better ways of assuring consent than paying the pimp...
> That is wishful thinking.

No, it’s pretty basic capitalist market economic theory. The invisible hand of the market doesn’t work at an acceptable pace for some issues, but the theory is likely sound on the evolutionary scale of time.
> If Europeans are more free to take chances, why is there substantially less innovation in Europe?

Someone told me a joke about the Vasa Museum in Stockholm. The Vasa was an ambitiously designed ship that capsized shortly after leaving the shipyard on her maiden voyage. The joke was that they build the museum to send the message that if you try to do anything ambitious, you'll fail, and they'll build a museum to your failure so others won't make the same mistake.
To people complaining about H1Bs, one thing to consider is that if importing workers is no longer an option, employers may think about remote work or offshoring, transferring jobs out of the country entirely.
Several fintech companies use it to power core logic, with or without phoenix, so it's used for general purpose computing where speed, resiliency, and parallel execution are important. I've seen hints that people are using it to run crypto trading bots, but idk how common that really is.

I think a few companies use Elixir to power their web crawling/scraping tools. This makes intuitive sense as a good candidate for the process supervisor and parallel work architecture OTP encourages.

Nerves (embeddable Elixir) has come a long way. I switched to Nerves for some Raspberry Pi projects and the amount of time I waste dealing with hardware/config has gone to nearly zero. I am a hardware novice and was able to setup flashing firmware over-the-air updates to the Pi with very little effort. I'm sure the companies that use Nerves in production have more to say about it.

I'm not very tuned into the updates to Scenic, a project for display/UI on embedded screens, but it looks like they've hit some big release/stability milestones.

Phoenix is the way to go for web interfaces, and is an excellent toolset, so alternatives haven't been demanded. For more lightweight http people usually reach for Plug, a key building block of Phoenix, if you won't need the full bird.
What exactly makes a crappy school? I went to the school dictated by my geography my whole life which online rankings don’t indicate as anything special - is this just a thinly veiled proxy for SES?
Hm interesting... presumably this could be changed though? We aren't locked to <input> following one convention, are we?
> Say what one will, but it's effective.

Yes and no. Yes, it's effective at shutting people up. No, it's not very effective at convincing people that you're right. It's more effective at convincing people that you're completely unreasonable, and that it's better to just not talk to you at all.
Interesting to see this on the front page right next to "Software Developer Shortage Is Coming":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27606393

Can't speak to other forms of higher education, but my degree in computer science has more than paid for itself and acted as my ladder to the upper-middle class.
I guess it depends on your definition of useful. I've been using it since 1.4 to do things like:

- PBX configuration (e.g. dialplan and routing)

- email monitoring (e.g. monitor multiple email accounts and multiple folders on those accounts)

- interacting with API's (e.g. creating a supervision tree that has multiple API accounts making requests)

- processing huge CSV files in chunks and storing them in a database

Of course you can add Phoenix on top of these to make them more useful.
According to the EFF, in most cases, you can invoke your 5th amendment rights to prevent CBP from making you give up a password, particularly if you claim the content of the password (as opposed to the data the password is protecting) is personal and protected under the right to avoid self-incrimination. Of course, CPB has plenty of perfectly legal ways to get you to "voluntarily" comply: from making you miss your connecting flight, to putting you through enhanced security in the future, to denying entry if you're a non-resident.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/04/bill-rights-border-fif...
> ... this is all somewhat biased since if this was 2009 both of these phones would seem as if they’re the future. On the other hand it isn’t 2009 anymore, and these phones are here today.

This is interesting and something I hadn't thought about. I have a PinePhone that I've been hacking around on for the past few months. If I had this phone a decade ago I would have been over the moon. I'd really like to make it my daily driver, but I simply can't because of the experience I'm now accustomed to on modern smartphones. My future of being a happy hacker with a fully open-source Linux smartphone in my pocket still seems a few years away, but the future is bright.
> > deliberate move to make a point to Russia

> > only seeking safe passage

> So... which one was it really?

Both; it is a FONOP (“Freedom of Navigation Operation”) in which explicit claims and implicit practices contrary (in the perception of the acting party) international maritime law are deliberately and pointedly challenged by naval forces exercising the rights the claim or practice threatens or interferes with.
A Chrome Extension that does one thing right: Voice notes on Slack
>Perhaps a partnership with some existing manufacturer that is struggling for relevance in the phone space like LG or Motorola?

This is kinda what Jolla did with the Sailfish X program - they periodically choose one of the mid-range Sony Xperia devices that are part of the Sony open device program, then port Sailfish OS (a pretty nice mobile Linux distro) on it and sell licenses to people.

It's not a partnership per se, rather a symbiosis, but has been working like this for years. Also nice that they support the devices long after official support for the original Android firmware has ended. :)

For more see:

https://shop.jolla.com/

https://sailfishos.org/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS
Still prevents an evil maid attack malware upload.

Security isn’t about being 100%, it’s about making your stuff as a target unworthwhile, or delaying things until long after you’re dead (where apple’s password cracking prevention obviously lacks)

With enough epoxy when you reconstruct, resoldering isn’t so straightforward.
There is a difference between operating a nuclear power plant and stuffing random shit into a box. I'm not really sure the latter contributes to any measure of "progress" beyond Amazon's bottom line. It's a weird position to take that unionizing Amazon warehouses would detract from society. I'd say that for the thousands of warehouse floor workers, who are also members of society, it would move things very much forward.
https://ismyinternshipcancelled.com/
Living with a short sleep gene: 'It's a gift'
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I think this pretty clearly wouldn't scale very well unless you have incredibly good hiring practices, and complete testing coverage. But it is interesting that it works for them at their scale.
Well sure but then it relies on the US army. Costa Rica is allied with the US and foolish would be the country trying to declare war to Costa Rica because it'd very probably face the full wrath of Uncle Sam's army.

I'm not saying setting up an alliance with the country that has the biggest army in the world and then doing without an army is a bad thing...

What I'm saying though is that it'd probably be very different for a country without any alliance with the US to decide to have no army.
I disagree if it was effectively ignored, a lot of things would be better and alot of things would be worse. While the lines between state and federal power has even diminished, it’s very much still there.
Patent law was designed for giant companies to stop other giant companies from using their stuff.

Nobody could really "publish" things on their own.

And the fact that it's overbearing for normal people is now a feature rather than a bug.