skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True point about the wheelchair example! I wasn’t using it in the sense of equality of outcome because it really doesn’t apply [https://edeq.stanford.edu/sections/equality-outcome ]. I took the question about equality of outcome and ran with it.

You obviously haven’t been listening to the same news, or were in the same corporate meeting rooms, or have dealt with the HR realities I have.

There are numerous large players right now making it very clear that equality for them is x percent of your workforce is female, or black, or white, etc, and they need to be paid on exactly a specific curve - or else. I’ve had friends who were told (for leadership positions at very well known companies) that they were more than qualified, but weren’t the right color or gender - just in the last year.

It has been made clear that compliance with expected distributions is required
[https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ofccp/ofccp20210201]

And this isn’t a exaggeration. I’ve literally had very senior managers at a FAANG say to me (in diversity training!) ‘well, we have too many white guys here, so let’s start figuring this out’

What you are referring to is equal treatment - which is great! It is not equality of outcome by any definition I’ve seen used. I’ve always seen ‘x percent of workforce is y’ and ‘pay for x workers is z’. And that is exactly the coarse metric I am referring to. And it is, very clearly, being used in the real world right now to do the things you are saying no one is doing. My wife has endless complaints about it, as she is a female engineer and gets bombarded with recruiters that leave no shadow of a doubt they they are talking to her because she is a woman (and they only are interested in woman), and her actual skills are secondary - which pisses her off to no end.

And if you think you can go into any big tech company right now and complain if you notice this happening without being fired - then I have bad news for you. At least the brutality here is low though, and we don’t have to worry about getting shot over it! I’ll take that any day of the week. If you think a lot of the back and forth harassment going on politically isn’t to neutralize political opponents, then I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

And if you read it, I never, ever, said it was inevitable you would end up with a Mao or a Stalin. I said they tend to grow in conditions where the population is unhappy or scared, and is willing to listen to things that sound good but don’t work - and need people to ‘try harder’.
Smart move. Hope it works for you!
>I’m skeptical because I don’t necessarily trust the people who would be at the top of a union

why would they be any worse than whose ever in charge of your employment.

every country has proven that no matter the the system, without an engaged populace, it can be crippled with corruption.
I feel you, I'm a macOS user, and I love using Safari, but for Linux users/developers , not being able to test their web apps in Safari, just because they don't have access to a Mac, is ridiculous. If I were in that position, I would not support Safari, until I can afford a Mac, or just throw a warning banner in my site for Safari users.
"Imagine a small company trying to write their own web browser from scratch nowadays. It's just not possible! "

Imagine the much more common case of a small company (or individual) trying to make a useful app that is available to everyone. If they can make it in a browser, it's possible, if they have to make it for every proprietary platform (iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux...).... often impossible.

I'm happy that web browsers can do a lot. Many of the "security nightmare" arguments don't make sense. It wouldn't be a security nightmare if, for instance, Safari could allow a MIDI keyboard to talk to the web browser as it does in Chrome (ignoring Sysex support, which is the security excuse for holding it back.... there is very little need for that in a browser). God forbid I want to do a piano learning app. This is just one of many examples that may not affect you, but affects some subset of apps. (there are tons more, that one happens to affect my app) People are quick to say "I don't need that in a web browser", but you could say that about just about anything, for instance camera support.

I do look forward to a day when most apps run in a browser rather than having to be platform specific, or require giant teams of developers to be cross platform.
A small independent team would probably struggle to build an SUV, too. This is not an argument on its own, why is it important?
Most Amazon warehouse employees will attest to how much you're tracked in terms of performance numbers and how taking micro breaks[0] is discouraged or punished. And $15/hr is still generally more than most employment, with the state average maximum individual unemployment being $2042 a month [1] and Amazon paying minimum $2600 a month (in terms of full-time), which might make or break the bank for many Amazon employees.

0: https://ehs.stanford.edu/subtopic/microbreaks

1: https://savingtoinvest.com/maximum-weekly-unemployment-benef...
this is admittedly self-promotional but i've built a free app that helps with this... it's a web app designed to literally "maintain relationships with users" especially new projects.

you can see how i'm doing this in www.yen.chat — the communication platform is also a community platform where i can get feedback about the product itself, from them directly. i engage and build community around topics that we all like and slowly build the project.

i'd love to help!
honestly why develop for safari anyway? you can't really complain about apple if you keep bending over backwards to support their software
I've listened to the real thing ie Beetles live and releases on vinyl, tape cassette (of various grades - iron n chromium etc) and CD. I am not a sound engineer nor do I buy cables that cost more than a few quid.

Sgt Peppers sounds right to me because that's how it sounds. A bit self referential but you have to remember that things were a bit different back then. Rather a lot of sound engineering stuff in popular music was being invented at the time.

In my view, the sound that was recorded and post processed at the time and released is the correct one. A well preserved record (vinyl) from the time will have a decent representation on it. I don't think you can go back and retrospectively "improve" it. This proposed change is just a remix and a re-interpretation. It is not canonical.
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I'm currently experiencing issues now from what I believe to be Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, ranging from facial, shoulder and arm numbness, to radial nerve issues in my forearm and hand, as well as bilateral ulnar nerve pain in my arms and hands.

I've gone to physical therapy, adjusted my posture, bought an ergonomic workstation, and had every diagnostic test imaginable, but the issues still remain. Have any of you had any luck treating TOS? Thanks!
I agree, and for me the problem is also that newer screens won't even go down far enough because they optimize for max brightness as that looks better on the spec sheet.

Most of my monitors are way too bright at 0% at night. On my 4K I even need to work at 0% during the day and reduce contrast at night (which messes up colour depth).

And yeah the OSD controls are horrible.

I still work on a real VT520 CRT terminal sometimes and it amazes me how it can go from super bright to hardly readable in pitch dark. And has amazingly handy analog brightness/contrast knobs. Not all innovation is progress.
Consider Google targets everyone everywhere at all times. Because it is easier.

The Stasi did the same thing analog fifty years ago. For the same reason.

There is no evidence in favor of presuming anything online is anonymous or private. Eve owns the wire. The US DoD created TOR. Patriotism is stronger motivation than individual interest in privacy.
I also fail to understand how "lets install native code to run on our OS" results in more security and privacy.

The browser is inherently more locked down than native apps. A Facebook app on your computer can read anything on it without any pesky browser security and privacy features getting in the way.
Your whole argument is about long term good to Amazon.

This is what this subthread is talking about

>But, of course, the fine isn't a price point for unlawful behaviour but a penalty levied in judgement of the fact that the company violated the social contract. Seeing fines simply as a business cost would be a serious distortion of the way society should function. Could people in boardrooms actually entertain that kind of reasoning in good conscience? I really hope not.

>>People in boardrooms dont entertain reasoning in good conscience because conscience doesn't come into it - just "Does this make us more money?"

>>>Boardroom greed might follow a logical rational but this behaviour isn't reasonable in the long run. Disregard of fairness and civil conduct won't be worth the eventual cost of a society that becomes increasingly opposed to the system itself.

They're talking about societal good.
All social media suffer from the twin problems that they need a metric to rank content (as there is too much of it to transmit everything) and that any such metric ceases to be a good metric once it becomes a target.
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I joined the Canadian military 9 years ago. Vaccinations were forced and not optional during TRAINING, let alone after you accept your commission.

When you join you know what you signed up for, you don't get the right to fuck over your unit because you are a dumb ass, too bad so sad.
I am very aware of the multitude of Chinese perspectives. I just happen to find your apologetics for Han fascism not to be one of the worthwhile ones. The very fact that you don't consider Cantonese who want to be free to be a "Chinese perspective" belies the perverse dishonesty and racism of your entire worldview.

It's frankly quite rank to defend Beijing's interference in Hong Kong by insisting that, somehow, it's Westerners who aren't respecting others' rights to live by their own worldviews.
My two cents is that the people you're screaming at haven't left their 25 mile residential / geographical area for more than a few days in the last 30 years. They only have their own worldview to look at.

They'll get serious about climate change when their house is on fire and not a moment sooner.

The only solution is to force a solution from up-high, the way JFK did with the moon race.
That would make a hybrid option more palatable since it would in theory allow for more of those kinds of in-person interactions instead of just WFH.
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No, they didn't.

I instead got a smiley :) and that made my day.
You probably don't need to test Edge on Windows if you are already testing Chrome since it's the same engine.

If you really want to you can test Edge on MacOS¹ or you can use the Windows virtual machines² that Microsoft provides for free.

1. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge
2. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/v...
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Follow the money. For most of its history you had to pay to participate. Yes, their work products and discussions were fully in the open, but you had to be invited to participate if you weren’t employed by a funding enterprise.
If something goes wrong it is very hard to debug unless the relevent information is in the logs. Unfourtuantly, the build system doesn't know what information will end up being relevent, so it just shows everything.

Needing to sift through a giant log is annoying, but you can get pretty fast at it for "normal" errors. Needing to debug an issue that is not adequately logged is a nightmare.
I wouldn't give it to most institutions, especially the rich boy schools.

My father had some 16mm footage of Lon Chaney.

After talking to someone at UCSF, they offered him a vhs tape for the original, and all the rights.

It always bothered me.

(lon Chaney was an actor, and some of you might recognize the name from old horror movies. He did all his own makeup. And no--UCSF is not a rich boy school.)
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>colossal harm to society at large

Oh please. The native browser on a popular phone not being standards-compliant is not causing colossal harm to literally anything. You may make a compelling argument that it's a bad thing, but to describe it in the way one would describe e.g. the opioid epidemic is just absurd. Get a grip.
Thank you--you're too kind. Yes, this feeling is a strange one, unique and universal all at once.

I wonder why I haven't pursued it again after all these years. It would just require driving a few hours out of town, nothing too crazy. Like another commenter here mentioned, it would be good for all of us, especially we who work in front of screens all day, to do this more often.

EDIT: Your username is excellent haha.
It's up to you to decide if your life is successful.

Last year "60 Minutes" profiled a guy who spent maybe 10 years in prison. He used his time to study law, and became a successful lawyer when released. He was profiled because of how unusual this was, not how common.
As a vaccinated person I feel the only course forward here is for me to mask up.
Tunisia's life expectancy is 76.7 years. The United States's is 78.7 years. A difference of two years compared to the most wealthy nation on the planet is minor.

In fact, your average person in Tunisia is likely to outlast your average person in many US States:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/life_expectancy/li...
> Demand for the so-called RRP facility has surged since the Fed boosted the offering rate on it to 0.05% from 0% last month as a flood of cash continues to overwhelm the U.S. dollar funding markets. That’s in part a result of central-bank asset purchases and drawdowns of the Treasury’s cash account, which is pushing reserves into the system.

This article kind of leaves the significance of what's happening as an exercise for the reader.

The Fed is in the fight of its life to hold back negative short term interest rates. That 0.05% in the RRP is the only thing standing in the way. Yes, this is ironic (and alarming) because QE was supposed to drive down long rates and thereby entice borrowers to borrow. However, the massive drawdown of the TGA (the Treasury's account with the Fed) has left the banks starved for good collateral yielding anything. Money market funds are obligated by law to buy short-erm US Treasuries. Throw in various government transfers clogging up the banking system, and all of this puts huge pressure on short-term notes.

QE is only inflationary if banks lend against the collateral they receive as a result of QE. So far, that hasn't been happening much. So the potential here is a deflationary shock that few are expecting, with negative rates across the yield curve leading the way.
The big question that I did not see answered is does it support location transparency. One of the huge benefits of Erlang is that it is easy to take a process and move it to another machine or even another data center.

If Lunatic can do that, it would be a game changer for distributed computing.
I like this. Base64 it is!
Furthermore, he's been reporting on the Assange case, and that has angered the British government, which is why his appeal was rejected

Appeals aren’t rejected by the government.
Nor Raytheon, Lockheed Martin should lobby politicians for bigger defense budgets, etc... But that's how it goes. Not using Apple products and telling all your friends/family to not use it either is a good start. Go and be that guy.
It's more than that. It broke working projects because v2 was opt-out, not opt-in.

If they'd made a new tool/project called "yarn2", leaving "yarn" alone, that would've been fine.
>> Six months later, I wore that t shirt to a hiring fair. Someone recognized the t shirt because he was at that meet up too. We started talking. I end up joining the start up he worked for

And if that hadn't happened you would have just.....given up?
I've been thinking about replacing my Mongo database with persistent Redis but I'm torn on this, I don't know what to expected long-term, what about migrations? It feels like once I'm going for a structure it'll be very difficult to alter it, but maybe I'm wrong.
I'm developing a real-time application (think Figma), and still cannot choose a solution with confidence.
Infrastructure Deal Puts Cryptocurrencies in Washington’s Cross Hairs
The only reason I recognize the name is Zevon's "Werewolves of London".
Seems like a hackathon. s/hack/work/ .

Compared to the $1m netflix prize from 2006, $3.5k seems like a meagre bounty.

There may be the case where someone has already been thinking hard about solving similar problems for the last couple of years, and this challenge falls fairly easily into a framework they've already got in place, so it is relatively quick and easy to crank the handle to generate a challenge submission (or a paper or whatever).
curl -v "https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.wiki/db/en.db" -H "Referer: http://static.wiki/" -H "Range: bytes=0-"

Above works but for the sake of OP's wallet I would suggest that you do not download the entire database from his S3 bucket.
> The states that "beat" COVID are currently led by progressive parties

No. The states that dropped the ball on COVID were the progressive states. They only "beat" COVID in the sense they let it run rampant in the first place. Australia's red state equivalents have all handled COVID near flawlessly.
I don’t think anybody is claiming horrible work conditions at Apple.
Wow that's a high no-show rate! We're major repeat customers for home pros, which gets our jobs prioritized and ultimately gives our homeowner clients great service. Today we don't charge homeowners a premium like that but it's great to know you value the service so highly
If you forgot the /s remember sarcasm doesn't transmit well over the internet, and by not clearly indicating it, you encourage or legitimize the people your sarcasm is aimed at.

Secondly, I find it oh so funny that people barge into a community and demand the language change because it's offensive to them, yet claim that they are being the tolerant ones.
The internet (Arpanet) was invented by the US Government and Universities that worked with them. The www (Tim Bernes-Lee) was created at CERN (scientists) and won out things to other things like Gopher and BBSes.

The telcos almost won the wires for voice instead of IP based systems. It’s been a mix of Government, Scientists, University Academics, and corporations since the late 80s/early 90s if not sooner.

AOL got the masses on the web and things like Prodigy existed before them. AOL is more akin to Facebook nowadays.
Are you using some sort of website builder / pre-made styles for your writeups? I really like the layout and color/ stlye.
The thing is, a lot of companies are offering 100% now. There is a shift going on. It probably won't be a particularly big shift until larger companies get on board, but it's still moving the status quo little by little.
Tarjan and Sleator are legends.
It's simple. Break up Amazon, Facebook, Walmart, Apple and Google.
I also worry about publish backlash if the neurodiversity movement continues to pick up steam. An increasing fraction of the general public is likely going to disagree with the enabling, and when that happens it usually involves an overcorrection. Especially because neurodivergence is much more likely to result in non-PC behavior, it is plausible that both sides could end up feeling resentment.

It's going to be brutal for a kid being raised today with the coddling mindset if the real world decides to go back to the unnecessarily harsh old days.
It's not technically hard to change that - it's hard because the service now has millions of users who expect it to work the way it does.
A lot of old music "doesn't sound right", and most of the time it's because we didn't understand stereo imaging in the 60s and just went with "what sounded good".

Turns out, we're willing to make the same mistakes today by remastering this in a format nobody will use instead of standard stereo.
I'm not trying to kill the fun here, but since this thing relies on a working internet connection, it would probably be pretty useless on a remote island
>which is source of these rights

Not in the American tradition.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..."

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/rights-constitut...
Right, that was the huge issue I had with the story. In most respects it seemed to be trying hard to be speculative hard SF in the Arthur C Clarke vein (i.e. fine to introduce exotic new physics, but only very carefully and consistently) so it was very surprising to have that gaping hole at the centre.

The aliens had instantaneous communications, and could directly influence events on earth, but still had to travel at sublight speeds? It wanted at least an acknowledgement of the inconsistency, and a token effort at explanation. As others have noted, it’s not at all clear why they couldn’t simply have killed off the humans remotely.
This isn't correct, the fashion industry uses a wide array or different IP protection methods, trademarks for specific colors, sketches of design can by copyrighted, you can then get a design patent to prevent others from creating fashions that resemble your sketch, designs on clothing can be protected by copyright, even textile design can be copyrighted.

And as for the low cost to consumer, seizing and processing counterfeit goods cost consumers nearly $500 million a year in taxes to pay for law enforcement alone.
Well is the same with Carlsberg, they taste "different" around the world.
Isn't this a halting problem sort of endeavor? Figuring out if any possible input to the library triggers a "bad" outcome?