skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, the purpose of quotas or affirmative action is to undo a previous distortion.

In my experience, if you look at young kids, no matter the gender, ethnicity or class, they are all equally interested in science. But as they grow older, they start to move apart. Many boys who want to study but don't know what choose physics or computer science as a "default" (like I did). Girls are more likely to default to humanities or a teaching career. The really passionate kids are less affected by this, and choose what they want, but I know a bunch of people who chose the supposed "safe default" and were miserable or dropped out. It is not just bad for them, but also for society, if we are training some additional mediocre men, and missing some talented women in a field.

Same applies to other categories. When I look at my kid's classmates, you can tell unfortunately who's parents have the time and money and energy (and habit from their own upbringing) to support them properly in school, to read to them, and so on. The difference is minimal in Kindergarten, but kids drift apart quickly.

What I'm trying to say is there is a funnel in life. People who are not as priviliged as maybe I am, often "play in hard mode". To me, quotas etc. are not exactly about achiving justice or fairness or equality (you could do that by disadvantaging the priviliged, so that everybody is equally bad off. I think that is what many people fear when they think of affirmative action!). It is about righting a systematic wrong.

And it is not like AA means we will be giving stupid people scholarships. Right now we are often accidentially prefering less qualified people just because they are white or men. Trying to steer against that can only be a net win for society.
French Nuclear energy has bailed out Europe when then the wind isnt blowing more often than not. They generate about 45GW on average from nuclear and its constant and pretty reliable. A big chunk of that, maybe 10-15 GW is for export, primarily to the UK, Germany and Italy. The fuel is relatively cheap so they can run their reactors flat out and sell at any price. Its also one of the reasons why they have one of the lowest carbon emmission rates for a major economy in the world.
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It's not a contradiction.

A 1980 Dodge Aspen cost under $5000, and was a large sedan capable of carrying 6 passengers. From a consumer's point of view, a comparable car today -- something suitable for transporting a family with three kids -- is around $20,000, so about 3% annual inflation.

http://blog.consumerguide.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/201...

On the other hand, a 2021 Kia Soul or Chevy Trailblazer have features which wouldn't exist on a 1980 vehicle, or only be available on super-luxury models, so if they sold in 1980, they'd probably be $20k. Zero inflation. They have:

* Crumple zones

* Air bags

* AC

* Much better gas mileage

* Power windows

* Touch screens

* Various driver-assist systems

* Cell phone connectivity / bluetooth

* ... and so on

It depends on how you squint; data can paint either conclusion. On a related note, if you wanted a 2021 car with the same amount of steel as a Dodge Aspen, you'd be looking at a lot more than $20k; cars back then were built in ways which required a lot more material (an upside being maintainability; you could pop the hood and do a lot of work yourself).
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Since this 2020 post, Apple's home grown map data has extended to all of the US and it's territories, Canada, Ireland, The U.K., Spain, Portugal, and Italy.

I believe Australia is the next addition.

https://www.justinobeirne.com/new-apple-maps-expansion-12

You can access the Apple Maps web interface through DuckDuckGo.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Rome+Italy&ia=web&iaxm=maps
I suspect they want to review and check every inch of OSM in an area before they import it.

Just incase someone has hidden something extremely offensive within the dataset, and deliberately mutilated the maps to create funny images etc

Google had a few very public cases of people using their open contribution process to embed images of Android, penises and hate symbols into their maps. All this created a huge about of negative PR, and eventually resulted in the contributions system being shutdown.
Did you consider here.com, and if not, why?
> it's a shame you lose out on Google's frankly ridiculous business data

In India, Apple Maps has compensated for this - they have purchased this data from JustDial.com ... However, Apple Maps still remains inferior to both Google Maps and HERE Maps due to lack of data. It's a Catch-22 for Apple as even if people want to use Apple Maps its poor user experience forces users back to its better competitor and without the users using it, it cannot improve itself. Google Maps is nearly unbeatable in India due to the sheer amount of data it collects every single day from Android Phones and "crowdsourcing" from its users has made it really good at routing - for e.g. in Bangalore's insane traffic, its algorithm is quite good in considering both shortest popular routes + traffic to suggest routes that will take the shortest time to reach a destination. HERE maps is quite good too and is quite popular in India because it allows its maps to be downloaded for offline use. (Google was forced to add this feature too. Apple Maps in India still doesn't have this feature).
I understand where you’re coming from, but just finding things can be a lot of effort. If someone wants the images with no watermark, they can look them up
Strange, I find eBay when filtered to UK sellers gives me a good experience. Usually no postage charge and I get the item in a few days. I don't have Amazon Prime so the experience is about the same for me.

For anything I need immediately, I check out Argos, Screwfix or Toolstation. Sometimes I'll walk at lunchtime to the local hardware store if I want to check the item in person against say a rusted piece. But, not everyone has that option.
> a company that understands the cultural shift that just happened.

Can anyone name some of those companies? I would like to start applying in those places.
Without the EU Poland still wouldn't have the infrastructure and modern roads they have now.
These days it's possible to drive from Germany all the way to Krakow on solid roads.
They would literally miss billions of dollars if they exit the EU. They will never leave it. It's all a facade.
> Then, considering your answer above, how does that match to reality? What accounts for this mismatch? Why are fields (and awards like this) underrepresenting our populations?

Isn't that obvious? Nobel prices (especially science) often have a lag time of 50 years (semi random number) and is also often given to middle aged people. So since science has been dominated by white guys we will see almost all Nobel prizes given to white guys. I expect this to change in 100 years as more women enter STEM and then with some added lag time.
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There very obviously is a good reason why European and Anglo-Saxon populations dominate cutting edge science, even without going into "inherit" factors: The GDP/capita and incomes of these countries/ethnicities were and are far higher than those of Africans or Asians (especially 40 years ago when current laureates where educated), so more people can go into science careers that need 18+ years of schooling and have uncertain payoffs compared to industry careers. These countries also have far better funded universities and science institutes to make science without immediate payoff possible.
I see. Is the code that gets updated by team A some type of versioned library? And does it sit in the same codebase as the other applications that consume it?
Pre-Covid I was travelling 1.5hours each way, door to door.
Awful..
> "Whereas normal data would show no obvious pattern"

This isn't true. The distribution of digits in most elections (i.e. those with a large number of electors) follows Benford's law [1] -- the distribution isn't uniform; the number 1 appears as the leading significant digit about 30 % of the time, while 9 appears as the leading significant digit less than 5 % of the time.

In this case, the pattern is so outrageously obvious that you can see the spikes in the data as individual patterns of five like a grid popping out on the graph (or indeed a histogram, I'm sure). That, and all the CCTV videos of people shoving ballot papers in the box after the election had closed...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
Currently showing a "this page cannot load Google Maps correctly". I guess they ran out of free views? (But also underscoring quite effectively the other people saying "I won't build on Google Maps")
It makes sense to me because you can return stuff from any Home Depot to any Home Depot. Or even not even from Home Depot since the give you store credit without a receipt.
And what consequences of working for Huawei do you see right now?
I do not recall she saying that in 2002 - when she was essentially the leader of the opposition. Do you have a public source for it? I am genuinely interested in reading/listening to her full statement.
There are a lot of interesting comments in the Lisp subreddit regarding the second part of the blog: https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/q5f7u5/revenge_of_lis...
> China is home to an estimated 100 million dancing grannies.

Sounds like talking about a species of animals.
Well, there are always exceptions, you can always find a place that's 10min by bus and the place that's 2h by bus but 30min by bike

It depends. Though German public transport is one of the best in Europe.
Now that I have experienced 2 min commute nothing will be better
State aid in EU is limited to 15% of the total value of the investment, but sometimes it is circumvented by offloading certain parts of the investment onto public budgets (e.g. infrastructure, or training programs)
If we had a reliable way to identify contributors there might be nice ways to build on top of that. Like semi automatic donation services that uses id keys of the list of contributors.
The thing is, GPS signals are really weak at the receiver. They're technically below the noise floor, and receivers have to use shenanigans to get a usable signal at all. If you're transmitting the jamming signal, you're really close to it, and therefore it is really strong near your receiver. I wouldn't like to calculate how many orders of magnitude stronger than the real GPS signal, but it would be a lot. Generally, subtraction works when the two signals are similar in strength, and you still lose definition in the received signal. GPS signals are so on the borderline of being able to be received that this would just not work at all.
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I discovered that Google Maps is consuming a huge amount of data, several GB during my last vacation, nearly depleting my contingent. How does Apple Maps compare?
When he puts his mind to it he can be quite a convincing person, because he can bring genuine passion to the subject. The most famous example was to find the greatest Briton which was done at the beginning of the century. Hundreds were nominated and then reduced to the top 10, each one would have a person present a documentary outlining why they should voted the greatest Briton, Clarkson was first up with Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a great engineer but no ones favorite to win it. His documentary was passionate, informative and entertaining, It was so good that Brunel actually ended being voted second in the entire list. The other candidate such as Newton, Shakespeare, Darwin werent presented nearly as well to the public as Clarkson did with Brunel.
> I can understand the rationale behind quotas

I can't. When I hire a removal company the work will be carried out by strong men. Would this company benefit from "diversity"? Should they be hiring more women or disabled people to carry out this work? Would people from different ethnic backgrounds contribute to a more effective team? I doubt it would make any difference at all. But, of course, nobody is talking about jobs like this because they aren't considered desirable.

I question the premise that "diversity" is even a good thing. Where is the evidence that it is? What is it better for? Efficiency? Productivity? Happiness? Just give me one concrete piece of evidence that it's a good thing. I see efficient teams composed of very similar people all the time and I don't see how they would be improved by diversity.

So no, I don't think it's rational at all. Rather, people have been conditioned now to look at people's skin colour, sex, age etc. and be embarrassed if everyone around them is "the same". But this is identical to racism/sexism/ageism etc. It's the very thing we were trying to get away from and it's completely irrational.
It is shocking how bad Lowes tech is compared to Home Depot. All they have to do is copy them. I frequently can’t search on Lowes website because in Safari, the search results and pictures are offset by 1.
We already went through this kind of thinking and narrative in Soviet Union and countries under its influence. Additional admission points for where you were raised and what social/economic class you came from. We know how it ends: resentment, friends of friends being promoted, people trying to get to chosen classes (in America you already see attempts to get on affirmative action train by being 1/32 black etc.). It's all very destructive and it breeds nothing but hostility.

We also went through this kind of language: "merit is subjective" may sound clever to you but it sounds awfully Orwellian to anyone raised in a communist country. As do quotas and the whole newspeak around diversity.

If you ever wonder why people coming from Russia, Poland, Hungary and all other Soviet block countries are very against modern American left ideas the explanation is that we have already lived through it and we know where it ends. If I could point to one instance of "please learn from history instead of repeating it" it would be this one. It's good to see a rare display of sanity from Nobel Prize committee but it's also scary to see the mildest stance already getting flak from diversity radicals.
Here's another. Instead of returning Sometype|undefined from a function which may or may not have a value to return (such as searchCustomer), return Sometype|null.

That forces the function to return a value that's explicitly intended rather than defaulting from a missed out if-else codepath. This is useful since JS is often imperative style code.
Now, that is also a great idea. I have never driven a car with a trailer. Is it very different driving dynamic than without?
Another case that was resolved by the HN tech support forum.

I wonder what happens when cases like this dont reach front page of HN?
Like I said we lab test all our stuff here in the Netherlands. Its actually free to do so. So this wasnt laced with anything. Go do some more research on mdma and hallucinating because you are clueless. Many people experience this
Check out quora.com, It must be whitelist or something ... it's a real melting pot ...
Those observations about fishing quotas do not mean that they do not work. You do not need 100% proof for that, same way as you do not need to check tickets of 100% of passengers in public transportation or vaccinate 100% of people during pandemic. After all, the purpose of the quota is not to reach certain number, it is to set such constraints where population of fish will not fall beyond irreversible level. If the majority of fishermen are one or another way compliant and the rest cannot significantly exceed their quota without being caught, then the goal will be achieved. I do not know if that was the case with the specific quotas, but the quotas could be even stricter than necessary to take the non-compliant behavior of fishermen into account.
I actually don't really like Record types in the way people/library maintainers often use them - the type-checker asserts that values are actually present for all the specified keys, which is fine if the objects with the Record type really were exhaustive; but instead I often see them used where the reality of the data is a Partial<Record> - some keys are missing. Something about the abstraction causes people to misuse it frequently.
Agree that you want to be living somewhere with enough employers within tolerable commute range, and obviously it's hard to compete with access to the whole world. I don't find a single change to be beyond the pale (maybe I would if it was a 10 minute wait), and I find that in dense cities with decent networks you can be in range of "enough" employers, but YMMV.
I don't think the issue is good or bad move, but volume of time wasted by third party recruiters who collect candidates and shop them around but have no job for you in mind / can waste your time endlessly.
not really in this case, it's important to know which state's emergency service to call depending on which side of the real border you are.
> neither [...] were products
I feel like this article is frustrating. They talk about some design choices of each, but never really connect it to use-cases or trade-offs as they apply in practise. The title of the article is "more different than you expect", but i came away feeling like there was even less differences (in ways that matter) than i expected.

I guess it felt like the article didn't really deliver on what it promised and instead gave something else. Which would have been fine if the topic was more clearly introduced.
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https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/history-behind-ge...

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/konsens-bei-atomg...
Gentle education?
Scandinavian prisons do it, schools do it, HN does it*

* (I was once called out by dang for posting humor/meme content but fully comprehend now how keeping such stuff away yields better discussions)
Does anyone know of any similar magic for turning an RPi into a Chromecast?
Human priors are a feature, not a bug. The reason deep neural networks need so much data to train them (and still do not handle languag nearly as well as humans) is precisely that humans have "background knowledge", things that we already know and don't have to learn all over again from scratch. We bring this knowledge to bear in our ability to learn and understand language. Deep neural networks on the other hand have only a very, very limited ability to represent and therefore use background knowledge- and so they have to make up for it with astounding amounts of data.

The OP's criticism is valid. Being forced to learn everything end-to-end, from scratch, is a severe limitation.
Short analysis;

3 out of those 8 are non-white (note: Lebanese are white).

One is however Japanese, who are maybe not in any context considered discriminated against, rather they are revered.

So you're left with Abdulrazak Gurnah and Maria Ressa as "ethnic minorities" for which AA sometimes makes sense.

Still, 2 out of 8 is actually pretty good. It shows that you don't have to force this issue. IMHO 25% is solid.

A bigger concern is maybe that there are so few women.
I feel the opposite. The more computer interfacing takes place in software, the better for disabled users. If you have a device that expects a keyboard scancode to respond, then you need to build a physical keyboard to talk to it. Building a physical keyboard that doesn't suck is expensive, and so disabled people pay crazy prices for gear tailored to them.

Tailoring software that can use very general-purpose input equipment is much cheaper. Training a neural net to recognize one-handed gestures, for instance, could be done by one developer then deployed worldwide. Making a decent one-hand keyboard is way less easy and way harder to scale.
> I'm slightly biased, but I think the Edinburgh New Town design with a couple of modern adaptations could be the ideal even for the 21st century. Grid layout, four to six floors, high ceilings, decent size windows, wide streets, occasional shop on the corner or restaurant in the basement.

Likewise Berlin, though a bit taller: https://goo.gl/maps/HyMJsSFKQNErfWJZA

(New Town reminds me a lot of some parts of Cambridge; I think it’s the stone colour and some of the motifs).
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I live in Stockholm and have a beautiful 20 minute walk to the office. It takes about the same by bus or metro.

On the other hand I have an 45m2 apartment, since I would rather have a small place in the center of Stockholm than having a bigger one in the suburbs.
From my experience, trying to boot up the entire platform on developer's laptops (or remote cloud servers) for each developer is something doomed to fail and cause pain, whatever you use.

My best experience so far, has been to start services individually, and work with mocks and tests. And do integration on a shared staging environment or, even better, have a way to deploy multiple versions to the same env (like you can do with App Engine, Vercel, etc).

I hope I never ever again have to work at a place where I need to replicate the entire platform for my development environment.
If you're not in the USA, Amazon and perhaps Microsoft do stupid fucking things with a mobile number.
It came as a surprise to me but some people are extremely uncomfortable when their environment is silent or at least quieter than they are used to.

I went to camping on Dartmoor with a friend about a decade ago, he just started screaming out and playing music out of nowhere. He grew up in London like me and for some reason he was unable to handle the absence of noise when we were the only people who miles around.
Whatabout the starving children in africa?
If you like that step in your career do it. Compared to people here who work for Facebook, Google and other harmful US companies that can't event respect European privacy laws Huawai is doing way less direct evil to the society. That said their technology is great too ;)
The US pioneered programming and has had a lot of success because of it and therefore they value it. The rest of the world, not so much.
Maybe that's the reason. It sounds a bit extreme but given the control culture of the company that would make sense.

> All this created a huge about of negative PR

Probably not that huge though, given I've never heard of it before :).
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Yes, humility. This. I used to have it. Now I wish I had more of it. How can I get it?

I used to read lots of books. Maybe that's what I should start doing again.

I say this quite unsarcastically.
>Whereas Germany has set aside €38 billion to decommission 17 nuclear reactors, and the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority estimates that clean-up of UK’s 17 nuclear sites will cost between €109‒250 billion over the next 120 years, France has set aside only €23 billion to decommissioning its 58 reactors. To put this in context, according to the European Commission,

> Soon EDF will have to start the biggest, most complex and costliest nuclear decommissioning and radioactive waste management programme on earth

Seems like it won't be enough, as german gouvernment reports estimate around 50 bln for less then a third of the french reactors.
Wasn't antirez working on threading some parts of it (I/O I think)? Has that been canceled?
Man I wish there was.

LinkedIn is just recruiter spam for me now. The noise level of people just collecting names arbitrarily (either by design or due to ignorance) is off the charts.

I too would like to talk to a recruiter with specific job(s) in mind and who knows/ works at that company.
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