skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That race is mostly a social construct, does not abnegate the fact that it can also exist physiologically.

'Aliens' visiting Earth would immediately categorize us into groups very crudely resembling the groupings we use today, because our visible characteristics are the most immediately obvious artifacts of our existence.

(Edit: when I say 'immediately' I'm indicating this would be an obvious, first order thing to do from the first pictures they have of us, not an 'Enlightened Alien' scientific form of categorization).

If all they had were 'pictures' of us, the race categories we use would be the obvious grouping, or something resembling that.

They would see that most of the people in Sub Saharan Africa looked quite different from those in East Asia. (And difference between Sub-Saharan Africans and East Asians is more than 'melanin').

There's a 'continuum' between every biological grouping, that doesn't mean those categories don't exist. It just means we're going to argue a lot about where and how to draw the lines.

Race as a 'Social Construct' relates to all of the other attributes that we associate with race, and individual lived experiences due to how they are perceived etc..

To your point, Aliens wouldn't immediately pick up on the 'Social Construct' bit, at least not right away and so they wouldn't have the prejudices that we do, but if they could only observe from afar, they would see exactly what we see, and visual distinctions would be the 'first order of separation' even if it was, after further understanding (i.e. genetics) a less important distinction as you hint.

Edit: someone provided this like I'd like to also include it [1] which illustrates some of the current debate over the notion of race, and that it's clearly politicized.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)
Yes, I think the best opportunities are incremental changes like phasing out negative gearing, tweaking SMSF rules and so on.
Restaurant Menu Ideas: 9 of the Best Menus to Inspire You
Treason itself is a slippery, morally obsolete (probably coming from the feudal ages) concept which I wouldn't apply to people who have been born a citizen, never asked for that in their sane age, never volunteered to join the country military or civil services or signed up for access to secret documents.
Race, of course, is based on physical traits. But the groupings and boundaries are culturally determined and very arbitrary. Minor nose and cheek shape differences are obvious to the Hutu and Tutsi (enough they massacred each on the premise they are different racial groups) but to the average American they're both just black. Similarly, a century ago, it was entirely obvious to the British and the Italians that they were different races of people, although closely related. Today that idea is completely alien in America, where they're both white.

Perhaps the best example is the American views on what defines blackness. Because I grew up in a community where mixed race white/black was seen as a distinct race from white or black, I have a very hard time interpreting race the way Americans do sometimes -- Barrack Obama and Kamala Harris's mixed parentage is obvious to me, which makes them obviously not black to me (think like in the same way Obama is obviously not white) and I have a hard time wrapping my head around Americans seeing them as such, but apparently they do, since even a small amount of physical traits that suggest recent African descent categorizes you as black there.
strange, I find the "Royale" here still the best on their menu if it wasn't for the no-gluten options I nowadays prefer for digestive reasons. very glad they have those in Switzerland btw., their burger quality here is remarkably consistent and decent IMO.
Keep in mind the minimum wage also varies by state. The state minimum wages overrule the federal minimum wage when eclipsed (so if the federal rate is $7.25, and Maryland state is $12, then you have to pay $12 as a business in Maryland). It's probably ideal that the minimum wage is state based, with a lower baseline provided by the federal, given the extreme variance in prosperity and income levels between the states.

It'd be like Germany and Greece or Lithuania having the same minimum wage, if you had Massachusetts or Connecticut with the same minimum wage as West Virginia or Arkansas (two of the poorest states).

GDP per capita (loose reference for income potential) in New York state is $90,000 per year ($87k in Massachusetts). It's $40k to $45k in Mississippi / Arkansas / West Virginia by comparison.

So for reference that $90k New York figure is higher than Norway and comparable to Switzerland. And the Mississippi figure is a bit above Italy. Base wages just can't rationally be the same in Italy and Switzerland for common service jobs.

Almost nobody earns the federal minimum wage in the US. It doesn't matter very much at the present rate and could be easily, safely raised with minimum labor disruption. The federal minimum wage hasn't been relevant for 15-20 years, because the market left it behind.

To push the lower tier wages higher, the US would need to set the federal minimum wage up near $15 these days. That's the floor that Amazon (via their fulfillment centers) has placed on the labor market as they compete to fill their huge need for labor, pulling it away from companies like Walmart. You can now earn $15 working at Walmart, Target, Amazon, grocery stores and a lot of convenience stores or similar type service businesses with essentially zero labor skill or experience.
I guess the fact that every generation seems to have moral panics about new technology (radio, tv, video games, internet), and every generation seems to complain about the decline of pop culture, led many reasonable people to adopt the heuristic that this is all just the talk of old curmudgeons, and new fads are no worse than old fads.

But what if facebook, instagram, youtube etc. are actually harmful? What if modern pop culture is toxic trash compared to that of the previous decades? What if popular music has, in fact, been getting worse?
Get a LinkedIn, get a professionally done resume, practice interviewing skills.
Most of all, don’t give up.
I'm not sure how this information improves the fight against COVID. Is the argument that everyone should be constantly sick with a cold instead? How many people have a cold at any one time, and what are the odds those same people would be infected with COVID? There's also no mention of whether that would give lasting COVID immunity, or if it would just swing around for when the person isn't actively sick. I don't know if the Mr Burns method of fighting COVID is a particularly great idea.
Israel preparing for potential second round of coronavirus booster shots
Try "The 100 Best Business Books of All Time: What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4274735-the-100-best-bus... . I found it useful as it has summaries of the books as well.
I found the exact timestamp in the video, but MKBDH actually didn't explain it very well.

So I found some other articles that articulate why F is better for weather: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28524505
The navigation/entertainment unit on our Suzuki uses it (I pulled apart the firmware update out of curiosity)
You're suggesting they should have introduced metric units (grams) to an American audience or assume they'd recognize stone as a measure of weight?
I did exactly that this year - went from £1050/mo for a 2-bedroom flat in the south to £375/mo for a 2-bedroom house with a back yard, in the North East.

You can get anything you need delivered these days, including groceries, and I’m within walking distance of a train station if I need to head to an airport or go anywhere bigger.

It’s seriously worth considering.
I don't know how the Israel data is being misinterpreted.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_F6vV0XoAMbaNO?format=jpg&name=...

https://imgur.com/a/fzMdPFE

I guess ignoring data to push an agenda can be defined as "misinterpretation", fair enough. Carry on.
My parents keep seeing other people’s kids getting married constantly, and it’s driving them nuts. Also their relatives bought new houses recently. They are obsessed and pretty much make me feel like a loser (or worse, evil for not giving them those things), even though I have different life goals.

And these are grown ass adults, so god knows how the kids deal with it. One thing I’ll say is that other people have a way of smushing this info in your face regardless of what era. They managed to do it when it was just rotary phones, and they’ll manage to do it now with whatever the internet has. In fact, the real interesting one is when someone delivers food to you in jubilation. They will manage to rub it in your face, so Instagram is at the very least an asynchronous form of showing off that you can try to avoid.
you mean the 4000 page cookbook thing?
"Private space company"

I give it a year before a SPAC buys them for billions and makes them public. It's crazy how much demand there is for space companies at the moment.
“The Royale with Cheese”
Is it Facebook / Instagram's fault or us as a culture?

Yes.
Configuration as Data, GitOps, & Controllers: it’s not simple for multi-cluster
Because race is not a social construct.
It is rooted in reality, you are inside and cannot see yourself, the frog, being boiled. It always has been a police state.

They literally just introduced new laws that allow cops to modify data and without a warrant from a judge. Wake up bro!
Anecdotal, but as a kid from the 90s it always felt like kids were really abusive/toxic and there were always power dynamics going on.
Please reflect on the circumstances in your life that lead you to this belief. In my experience this is a very toxic viewpoint and couldn't be further from the truth.

If anything I'd argue that more than ever both women and men are searching for authenticity in a partner. Something increasingly difficult to come by in our social media fueled world.

Sure, there is a subset on both sides that has been completely sucked in by this culture and measures each others worth by the number of followers on their instagram, but I'd actually view this as a positive. It's really convenient to be able to identify and filter out these vain individuals early on in the dating process.

Keep your head up nodejs_rulez_1, there are still plenty of good women and men out there.
Bizarre pig-faced shark found dead in the Mediterranean Sea. Is it real?
Yeah I first tried this in Safari and just had a black screen - edge/chrome worked just fine. Notice/pop-up would be helpful
The point of the article is that if you clustered people based on genetic or anatomical properties in a non-post-hoc way, you would not end up with the same system of racial categories that are commonly used in the USA (or indeed any other country). As another poster has pointed out, the most striking example of this is the category 'Latino', which while often treated as a 'racial' category obviously has no biological basis.

This does not entail that no biological traits are correlated with race – biological traits are correlated to varying degrees with all kinds of subgroups of people. It does, however, mean that racial categories have no scientific basis.

To expand on this, imagine a Martian scientist studying human biology in isolation from human culture. Such a scientist would not subdivide humans into groups that match common racial categories, as these groupings are arbitrary from a biological point of view.
How race is a social construct: it was imposed as an idea for reasons that were not connected to physiological fact (although often claiming the contrary at the time, the claims were the same kind of made up BS as phrenology, another idea from the same time period).

There are biological correlations with inherited genetic lineage. That only has weak correlation with assigned race. Lots of different lineages of people are "black", Africa is big and diverse. Lots of different lineages of people are "white". But for example, if your lineage is from a malarial region, your chances of being a genetic sickle cell carrier are higher. Most people from those areas are dark skinned, so it correlates with being "black".

Also there's the impact of racism, which affects everything from nutrition to poverty to pollution exposure, and does so on an individual, a regional, and a national scale. And this has biological consequences.
I am responsible for my life, a physician I hire is responsible for delivering the best advice and assistance they can, but the decisions and the responsibility for them are mine.

The "$X Medical Association", other professional bodies, the government, and whichever Churches we might subscribe to all have no place in this transaction. Their opinions are if not totally irrelevant, certainly overwhelmed by the actuality of the present situation and professional transaction between myself and my doctor.

...how i think the would should be is rarely anything like it actually is.
There was an article posted on HN a few days ago indicating such: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28438315

Almost necessarily less harmful than the complete virus, but the spike protein isn’t entirely harmless it seems.
Yeah, I'd like some corroboration for this blog post's rather alarmist rhetoric about Jekyll's project health. I get that the blog author is maintaining a fork so it's possible he has some other motive to make things sound this bad.

It's kind of interesting to me that the author opted not to use the Github "fork" feature to start Bridgetown, and there's no reference to Jekyll in the README (and hardly any in the git history either). This strikes me as an odd way to respond if the concerns are for the health of the upstream project; it would make sense to reach out and try to work with upstream if they aren't doing what needs to be done, then explain why a fork is needed in the README.

Jekyll itself is a project that still receives active commits and continues to do everything I ask of it (and indeed, it seemed essentially feature complete for my uses years ago).
Fair enough, but gig work is still work. They're still doing a job, and so the standard expectations of a liveable wage and fair treatment should apply, as for any job.

I'm a lot more relaxed about minimum wages and such than I used to be. Here in the UK we've ramped up minimum wages over the last decade or so and the feared impact on jobs for low wage earners never materialised.

I'm a conservative and free market liberal because I'm primarily interested in what works. Ideology be damned, and I've been slapped in the face by a reality check that actually some basic wage floor rules and employment standards work just fine. Those minimum wage rises? Conservative government.
> Political power grows out the barrel of a gun, all power does.

I disagree. That sounds more like a military junta than a government.

> If you have 2 groups of people, one group armed and one unarmed, which one is in charge?

Insufficient information.

The members of government are, by and large, unarmed - and certainly unarmed when in Canberra. Our defence forces have a whole bunch of firearms, yet answers to and obeys the lawful orders of the government.
I'm struggling to understand what it's good for? Couldn't you just look? Or better yet, ask?
And Frosted Sugar Bombs can be part of a nutritious breakfast.
This sounded silly until I remembered that software versioning trips me up just the same.

I always read 1.2.11 as < 1.2.2
I've heard that "Vox Latina" is really good for classical pronunciation.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/vox-latina/0D460CEF06E5...
Roads and trucks are not a problem but most third world countries also have an abundance of corruption and general apathy towards rules, good luck running a cold chain to all corners of such a country.
> I have yet to see anything create protons from energy, so I am hesitant to do this.

Won't a proton/antiproton annihilation also create two photons? If so, wouldn't that also work in reverse?
Concrete on Mars Could Literally Be Made Out of Astronaut Blood, Sweat and Tears
> “When I went on Instagram, all I saw were images of chiseled bodies, perfect abs and women doing 100 burpees in 10 minutes,” said Ms. Vlasova, now 18, who lives in Reston, Va.

I just logged into my Instagram. I saw a guy fixing an old "roundie" television set, someone baking food, some through-the-microscope photos of soldering surface-mount components by hand, a home-made 3D printer, and a couple of clips from musicians. What am I missing here?
The same holds for the large brewing companies. I toured the Budweiser plant in Ft. Collins once, one of the things they were very proud of is the fact that no matter where or when you buy a Budweiser it tastes like a Budweiser. It's no small accomplishment, i can taste the differences between batches with the small brewery stuff i like.
Extremist conduct keeps people engaged longer, so they see more ads.

Facebook/YouTube/Twitter all exploit the dark side of human nature. They've been doing it for so many years, that it's difficult to imagine that it's unintentional.

>in Google’s effort to keep people on its video platform as long as possible, “its algorithm seems to have concluded that people are drawn to content that is more extreme than what they started with—or to incendiary content in general,” and adds, “It is also possible that YouTube’s recommender algorithm has a bias toward inflammatory content.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/youtube...
PS4 Emulator for Linux Now Plays Hundreds of Games
Skip Nord (equally dodgy company, proprietary wrapper around wireguard that forces you to use their app) and go to Mullvad.
https://archive.is/9YLSb
Well, isn’t the point of publishing to get help figuring it out from other researchers in the field? I agree it’s very likely that there’s some kind of explainable trick the AI is using, but there’s no guarantee it’s an easy trick that the authors could have figured out.
CRISPR startup wants to resurrect the woolly mammoth by 2027
Source? Are you suggesting that Moderna and Pfizer have factories-worth of unused capacity sitting around idle?
I'm not so optimistic. There are some technical things Microsoft did poorly when going from x86 to x86-64, which in my opinion delayed the transition of a lot of software by a decade. And this is with processors that can run both instruction sets natively, where no actual software emulation was required.

To give some context (this started with Windows Server 2003 64-bit and is still how it works in Windows 11): Instead of implementing fat binaries like OS X did, they decided to run old x86 applications in a virtualized filesystem where they see different files in the same logical path. This results in double the DLL hell nightmare, with lots of confusing issues around which process sees which file where. For many usecases around plugins, this made a gradual transition impossible. (Case in point: The memory hungry Visual Studio is currently still 32-bit. Next release will hopefully finally make the switch.)

Also, it’s surprising how much stuff in Windows depends on loading unknown DLLs into your process, like showing the printer dialog. So you run into these problems all the time.

Have they learned their lesson? It doesn’t look like it. Last I checked, x86 on ARM uses the exact same system as x86 on x86-64. If they ever emulate x86-64 the same way, that’s triple DLL hell right there. And I don’t think they’ll get a decade to sort things out this time around.
Forgot all about this guy. Biolab disaster was so cool(it's e demo for a game engine he wrote) and got me into playing around with Javascript side-scrollers.
“Trust the science”
I suppose someone should first study whether or not the average person knows the difference between .10% and .1% – or whether it has subconscious effects. The problem with the current way things work is that the bank likely has done a little research or focus groups themselves... and they have no incentive to publicize their data in a way that informs people.
What's interesting is that the book is 100% Latin - you need to figure everything out from context and examples. It's almost a logic puzzle, and learning Latin is a side effect.
Nature does not create "bins" to sort people or things. Some traits are clustered and we latch on the most visible clusters to define "races".

In reality, there is broad overlap and if you look up close, the whole concept becomes hairy. Someone with a father of Scandinavian descent and a mother with African lineage, what is that person, black, white, 50/50?

It's the same with gender/sex. While the biological substrate is clearly variable, the categories are social.
Resort is a mega-scale reproduction of planet earth’s moon
Anomaly Detection with GANs – A Toolbox
Our bodies can’t handle large doses of refined/high density compounds (sugar, alcohol, opioids, etc) or social interactions (being judged by 1000s/millions).
https://github.com/phoboslab/underrun
Could Robots from Boston Dynamics Beat Me in a Fight?
Jonathan Haidt has done a ton of research on this and it's terrifying. His thesis seems to make a lot of sense: boys bully each other physically while girls bully each other reputationally. This is likely why mental health issues for boys and girls have diverged wildly since about 2014, because as lives moved online, this was a recipe for disaster for girls since social media is so perfect for this kind of bullying, but sort of a non-event for boys who were already online playing video games all day. Social media unlocked and turbocharged all those preexisting pathologies for girls.
Could Robots From Boston Dynamics Beat Me in a Fight?
Or rather have the browser treat the no-network session period with private window logic where the session is deleted if the no-network browsing session ends or dies (e.g. incognito puts a virtual session data container in RAM). That would even allow the app data (prior to triggering the mode) to stay cached without risking side channels with future resource loads.
> "Wage rises without solving the housing issue is only going to raise house prices further."

House prices aren't that tightly linked to incomes. House prices are more strongly influenced by interest rates and availability of credit. And, of course, supply/demand fundamentals (ie: population change vs. number of housing units in an area).
How Ancient War Trickery Is Alive in Math Today
I happen to agree with the author here, but I think Go has cleverly inoculated itself against this kind of criticism by driving away the sort of people who care about this kind of thing.

People who use Go generally don't care about the tedious error handling or lack of generics or whatnot; people who do care about those things generally don't use Go.
Both Google and Bing are smart enough to associate "X-Windows" with "X Window System"
It will be interesting to see how they are planning to earn money. The only ones willing to expend resources on space cleanup right now seem to be ESA (the European Space Agency).
At some point I just wish Zuckerberg would give one single fuck.