skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice point. You miss the obvious fact that these people are lying on an application about being nonwhite. I'm sure they don't walk down the street daily pretending to be non-white, nor would they lie about their race during a traffic stop. So congratulations, you found one small part of life where being nonwhite has an advantage. You're so unwoke.
I applied for many grad schools and I don't remember having any of the applications gives my race correct. And to be fair the race options in US doesn't work for me in general. I chose white for applications that made the choice mandatory. I don't think this had put me in a disadvantage. I am the only international student who got accepted in the school I accepted and got offers from about 40% of schools I applied. I actually can think that identifying as a white is the advantage.

But to be honest I don't think that it matter because in most applications I remember that they say it is just for stats and will not be a factor in admission.
This seems incredibly unlikely to be true - if 34% of students lied, and 48% of people who lied claimed to be Native American, then ~17% of college students should be Native American. Which they're not, suggesting that this is probably bullshit.

EDIT: Yes, this really seems extremely fishy, see: https://twitter.com/Daniel_Laurison/status/14530269295110553...

> here's a quick reality check that
@insidehighered
could have done - took me under a minute to find this report. Less than 1% of applicants using the Common App said they were Native American in the 2 states I've looked at so far.

> Ok ok, on a bit of further reflection if this (48% of 34% of white applicants say they're native american) were accurate it wouldn't be 17% of all apps, it would be 17% of all apps that SHOULD say white. Which is at least 53% of all apps, probably more.

> 0.48×0.34×0.53 = 0.86 = at least 8.6% of all apps should claim to be NA (or 2 or more races). More to the point, if 34% of white applicants are saying they're not white, you'd expect some over-reprentation of "non-white" applicants, which is not what you see.

More here, same conclusion: https://twitter.com/JonBoeckenstedt/status/14528649227657830...
True, I should have put better. Maybe, 'Why would a company invest in research if a patent troll could come along and extort money from them from day one?'
They probably do, I expect that the keys aren't leaked but that a way to convince the real system into signing fake data was found, or one of the systems feeding data was compromised.
It is the same reason you still see banner adds with a beautiful woman saying that she is looking for a hookup in your town. Also the reason we have lottery tickets and casinos and pyramid schemes. People logically know it is risky, but they want to give it a chance just in case this time is different.
That’s a common optimization, not just with this particular requirement. Choose the thing that is most ambiguous that gives you the answer you need, and it’s more likely to result in a simpler hardware instruction.
Let me ask you a question: is using numbers natural?

Apparently it is not, because otherwise it wouldn't have taken so long for the concept to spread, and folks like the romans would have used 0 from the beginning.

But just because something is not natural does not mean it is not more productive than the alternative solutions, given that one spends the time to learn it.

So, maybe mutating state is natural - but I would object the claim that this means it is more productive.
There used to be a lot more information in binaries in general. These days everything is stripped. Giving my age away here :)
I find that rust playgrounds and inline tests are a good solution for trying out snippets. With rust-analyzer, you can run a test via an LSP code-action from right inside the file you're working on, so it's a nice lightweight way to try out a couple lines of code.
One thing that helped me with Dune is using the glossary at the back of the book. It's a bit odd and some might say due to bad writing, but he will just start using a word without ever letting you know what it means. The only way to know is from the glossary. Also, don't be afraid to consult a dictionary in some cases. I remember the word "qanat" appears a lot in some of the later books and I just ploughed through without even know what it was. Just look things up and you'll get more out of it.
Oh you don't want every search to find every python bytecode file on your whole system every time?
PS: I highly recommend crash analysis written by Admiral Cloudberg. In the above case: [0] Arctic Approach: The crash of First Air flight 6560

[0] https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/arctic-approach-the-cras...
I think it's more accurate to say "34% of respondents lied about race.

Without more details, I'm skeptical that their methodology, as presented, was very rigorous to be able to extrapolate to the entire population. So this is very suggestive, but I'd like to see a more tightly controlled version conducted.
Little Big Adventure series source code released
I still like the David Lynch Dune. I know a lot of people hate it and I agree that it has a lot of problems, but the batshit weirdness of it seemed to jive with the feel of the novel.

The Guild navigator alone is a masterpiece. The fact that it looks simultaneously uncanny and silly actually gave it a certain weird realism. If humans really did mutate like that the result would not obey any Hollywood rule of badassery and could well look silly. A platypus and an aardvark are silly looking but are great examples of adaptation to a specialized niche. I imagine flying a transdimensional space drive while hotboxing psychedelic nootropics would be a weird niche too.

I just can’t get over the hotboxing shaman piloted flying bong spaceship as a concept.

The Mentat mantra from the Lynch Dune is also great and I don’t think it appears in the book. I have my own version:

“It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of coffee that thoughts acquire speed. The teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning.”
Objectively, one way to protest the use of race in admissions is for everyone to lie making the practice useless. Game theory is strongly in favor of lying.

Personally, it always infuriated me when I was applying in the early 2000s that most colleges had a checkbox for "underrepresented" minorities. Don't bother applying if you're not the "right" kind of minority.
World of Warcraft classic pays a tribute to Dune as well. One of the bosses, Ouro is a giant sandworm and drops an item called Jom Gabbar (a play on Gob Jabbar)
I've .gitignore'd it and never looked back.
Nobody. Those people don't exist since we are building a new bubble from scratch. We are creating a utopian society funded by a multi-billionaire. There are no poor people. Everyone living in this theoretical bubble gets free food, housing, healthcare, entertainment, etc... But you are right, if this bubble has any dependencies on people outside of the bubble they might be poor and miserable. They would have to get on the list to migrate into this society.

In full disclosure, I don't see any of this as a utopia but rather a highly dystopian society. It is the basis for some movies and books. But I am just playing along with the idea.
The UK government could create such a company, given the size of IT operations that the government has.

This could be a commercial entity that is owned by the government.
Ha, coincidentally they just announced they are finally fixing this in the UK.
> I have female friends

It's good

> I have male friends

It's okay

> My boss is female

It's good

> My boos is male

It's okay
That article is flagged, sadly.
A benefit of Kafka is that it is relatively trivial to spin up multiple consumers from a single CDC stream.

If you have some user attribute table that you set up with Debezium, there are a couple downstream consumers (teams!) that also want this data. So you hook up the table with debezium to Kafka and write all changes to a Kafka log.

A team of data scientists can stream these straight into their model, or a team of data engineers can dump these changes real time into an analytics store for business intelligence, or another team that needs access to this data can also create their own denormalized table of user attributes as well.

For the data producing team, once they get their data into Kafka basically any team can consume from this data which is a lot easier to maintain for the producing team and does not stress the database so its a very nice pattern for bigger orgs.

For the most part, keeping the data in a single postgres instance as long as possible would be my recommended solution. But there is a point where getting the data to consumers of that data becomes tedious enough that this additional infrastructure is worth it.
These aren't really contradictory statements, tho.
because our national culture indexes people's worth based on race in very structural ways. america's hegemony is based on the entire concept of 'western superiority', and that the core way to boost QOL is to create a subservient class that actually wants to be used.
being white is generally a huge privilege but in some contexts being not white is advantageous.
I've watched every single freely available GDC talk on game netcode and read countless netcode guides and I keep coming back to yours. You've done a wonderful job at explaining the core concepts in detail without bogging the reader down with nitty gritty implementation details and code!
Considering everything and their dog now runs on some sort of lithium ion battery, it very much is the new oil.

I don't see why wars wouldn't be fought over it, certainly has been the case for oil.
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One Laptop per Child can't bridge the digital divide
From the article:

"IMPROVE CHANCES OF ADMISSION, FINANCIAL AID BENEFITS"

Quotas and approval criteria are tied to race.
On my previous macbook it was a showstopper because it would lock the machine up returning thousands of irrelevant files.
So that the bureaucrats know who to discriminate against.
Is 'self admitting' a thing (grammatically)?
being a perceived victim will get you all sorts of things in today's society.
This chap sounds like an outstanding functional programmer.

I am not a functional programmer. I'm also not an imperative programmer. I'm more of a "craftsman," and I use a lot of tools (including the dreaded OO) to write shipping software that ends up in the ungentle hands of The Great Unwashed. I've been doing that my entire adult life, and I'm 59, so that's been a minute. I've outlasted most of the tools and fads that have come and gone, during my time, and I've learned not to let the tools dictate the craft.

It's a bit discouraging to see how some people look down on folks like me, but I really like getting my hands dirty, and making stuff that people use.
I didn't realize that all the stated resolution/refresh rates weren't achievable using RGB data mode.

Also worth noting that last I checked macOS defaults to YPbPr on non-Apple branded displays. (Some) LG models may also work in RGB mode out of the box as they were sold as Pro gear in Apple stores. Searching for "RGB EDID patch .rb macOS" can find solutions.
People forget that a battery has only a dusting of lithium. A very small amount. People hear the name and they think it’s a chunk of metallic lithium.
I don't think you understand the word "constantly". You make it sound like the US fast food scene is a warzone over a single article that is newsworthy because it isn't _that_ common.
I think so. The QA work has been distribute in the team, and now they are hiring a person just for that task.
Generative Adversarial Networks for IDS Attacks [pdf]
It's a privilege to gain the benefits of an ethnicity while not having to suffer the disadvantages associated with that ethnicity.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/affirmative_action
I'd like to see the getting into/paying for college trade press cover the modern state of the "surrender custody of your child so they can declare financial independence and qualify for a full tuition waiver based on their near-zero income" strategy (e.g. https://www.propublica.org/article/university-of-illinois-fi...).

Is this strategy still viable? I couldn't find any coverage of it with a quick Web search ([site:intelligent.com independent student]). Maybe it's so good that the college-consultant industry is hoping it'll stay under the radar for a few more years?
let's index millions of people's personal and health data, including their exposure to dna-altering drugs that might have health repercussions for years afterwards... and secure them so well than some kid can create and sign a record for a mister adolf Hitler. what can go wrong?
You dont go to jail when you are a big fish and break the law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Cohen_(businessman)
I assume you are referring to Asian Americans, but I can't even begin to imagine why.

https://asianamericanforeducation.org/en/issue/discriminatio...
It's not really surprising. The use of lithium batteries to replace fossil fuels is really just shifting where and what environmental impact is produced. It's not as clean as they claim to be. It's like coal plants with scrubbers saying they are clean. They are only relatively clean, just like lithium is only relatively clean.

At least the lithium deposit near the Salton Sea is already in an area that's an ecological disaster. It makes sense that Maine would want to protect their natural resources.
From the outside (Europe) you have to ask yourself why the US even recognizes such a thing as race. To start with, it's hard to define precisely. It also seems to be at odds with the idea of individual responsibility, and individual identity. Just let young people, who have not yet formed their identities, apply. And judge them by individual criteria, not what groups they happen to be part of.

There's also a very superficial idea of diversity presented. Is your university really going to be diverse from simply having people with different skin color? Having varying skin tones does not tell you for instance whether all the institution's students are wealthy or poor. Or if they grew up in the same place. Or have the same attitudes, which I suppose is the real diversity that you want to have.

As for lying about it, you can't really be surprised. If there's no checking, and people think ticking one box puts them at an advantage, why wouldn't they? Surely many of them have a similar attitude to race as what I'm writing, and why would you set yourself backward unjustly?
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> I remember so many pointless arguments that something had to be built in a theologically-correct manner even if it wasn’t a natural fit for the problem

I don't think most of the arguments were about building something RPC-like, the people complaining were just saying "stop calling RPC APIs REST", and that's perfectly reasonable. REST is totally not just RPC over HTTP.
It is not an energy source though. So the comparison to oil is at least a bit flawed if you ask me.
Abba on fame, divorce, ageing backwards
What exactly is an "ethnic sounding" name?

Pretty much all the literature out there shows that people with more "white names" get more interviews and have more callbacks.

2008 - https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/35823/1/584702035.pd...

2016 - http://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/facbios/file/Whitening%20MS%...

2017 - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23780231177371...
First penny black stamp could fetch up to £6m at auction
That's kind of my point - when you stretch the source material too thin you end up with a crappy movie.
It seems like not as strong. A more jokish version might be:

> Having no kids is a financial advantage

> You have to claim kids on your tax form to save more on taxes

The two may not be as exclusive as they seem.
The comment you're replying to is sarcastic. It is actually saying being not white has more downsides than upsides.
Probably because , for this case, comparing for > or < is faster than equality comparison. Which from my experience is true.
While I believe white privilege is overstated, the sibling comment is correct that these are not mutually exclusive. https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/23/can-things-be-both-pop... makes an analogous point.
2 things can be true at once. It’s doubtless that at a overall societal level white privilege exists in the United States. From the article it also seems that in some isolated situations there are benefits to not being perceived as white.
Here we return to models based on LaTeX stuff and the lack of development in this OCR area to generate that index.
I've read the books but so long ago I forgot almost all about it (I remember the sandworms and that I liked it).

What did you feel left behind about?
Federated E-Cash as a Bitcoin Scaling Technology
Leave it. Let's not strip the planet of every natural resource. The environment has suffered enough damage.
If you follow American media then you will realise that there is a strong trend towards fighting systemic racism and fighting systemic discrimination of LGBTQ. As a German it is unbelievable to watch to what extent they are doing this. It seems it got to an extent where there is a forced ideology where anybody remotely identifying as somewhat liberal feels forced to follow. From what I can see on the internet, any discussion about these topics is almost immediately hijacked by ideological views and thus an objective discussion prevented.
i thought they were trying to stage a kind of 'star wars' set in the desert. They are probably planning for several sequels, that's why they had to stretch it a bit.... (at least the worms were fun)
Because being a woman is already an advantage these days. With woke culture and diversity hiring, women are already given priority. Even the universities are trying to "gender balance" their STEM majors by prioritizing women over men. So I guess that's why women don't have to lie.
Don't debate cryptists, they fundamentally incorrectly believe their imaginary money is better than other imaginary money for Reasons(tm) and you'll be met with nothing other than fallacies on their arguments.
I liked how the music didn't succumb to "Mickey Mousing", where everything that happens on screen is accompanied by a change in the soundtrack, but instead was composed of (sometimes pretty) long lines that faded in and out. And no attempt to cover up lacking development with rhythmic distraction, either. It didn't result in memorable tunes, which is a pity.

Over the top, probably, but mainly because it had been mixed too loud. The sound editor could have done that more tastefully. Still not as bad as TENET, although that's a pretty low bar.

How much our tastes can differ!
It's fairly common. Known reserves amount to around 80 million tons. Yearly production is around 100k tons.

I think I saw a projection for a yearly consumption of around 1.7m tons in 2030.

I'd say the biggest issue is simply going to be environmental impact. This is a big reserve that can't be mined because of environmental regulation. That's a lot of money to just pass on, and I don't think that's going to hold.
You should not answer to a question which has no scientific value. Answering a question about race is like answering to a question about astrological sign.
> some might say due to bad writing

Anybody can come up with a new language that happily condenses the concepts you need to have in your new world, but forcing the reader to read an encyclopedia to decipher it is just lazy. You are meant to weave the explanations in your narrative, so the reader picks them up seamlessly.

It's a bit like building a UI that is unusable without reading a boring manual.
It is a tragedy as it has legitimised total control. In Latvia you cannot enter the shop without showing the certificate and passport. The control is even worse than during Soviet times.
> The best bookshops do not necessarily sell used books (with reference to the «ageing population»).

Fair point. There are some cool new bookstores. I had used book shops in mind because to me they really offer something that the internet (or, god forbid, 'the metaverse') will never really touch. Tactile, olfactory, and completely at the mercy of contingency. Maybe some philosophy professor decided to unload some of his collection. A local writer dropped off some poetry volumes where the margins are filled with their own notes. Stuff like that. You can get lots of cool stuff on Abe books but it's not the same as combing the shelves.

> spill some beans

my lips are sealed
After 2011, they kind-of have it, but not previously. For non-const parameters the compiler normally assumes that they are in-out.

Whether a parameter is out or in-out is very important for types with destructors.

Before calling a function, an "out" parameter is raw memory, on which a destructor should never be called. After the function returns, the "out" parameter contains a new object, possibly with allocated resources.

Before calling a function, an "in-out" parameter contains an existing object. If inside the function a new object is assigned to the parameter, the destructor must be invoked first, usually implicitly, inside an "operator=".

Before C++ 2011, most C++ compilers treated the return value as an in-out parameter, like every other non-const parameter, so they allocated a temporary and constructed a default object in the temporary, before calling the function.

One of the major changes in C++ 2011 was a collection of extra syntax features and library tricks to achieve the so-called move semantics, i.e. to avoid unnecessary constructions and destructions of temporaries, all of which had their origin in the lack of distinction between out and in-out parameters.

Aliasing of "out" or "in-out" function parameters is something that does not have defined behavior in any programming language.

When 2 aliased in-out parameters are passed by reference, the value after the function returns is unpredictable, because it depends on the order of interleaving of the changes to the 2 parameters inside the function.

When 2 aliased in-out parameters are passed by value, the value after the function returns is unpredictable, because the function receives 2 copies, whose values are correct immediately before return, but the final value seen after return depends on the order in which the 2 values are copied over the original aliased location, which is undefined.

Similar effects exist for exceptions and abnormal termination, the details may differ between pass-by-value and pass-by-reference, but the result is always undefined, so it does not matter.

While aliasing of "out" and "in-out" parameters cannot have defined behavior in any language, regardless of the method used for parameter passing, aliasing of "in" parameters is always OK, and here again it does not matter whether they are passed by value (when multiple copies are passed) or by reference (when multiple references to a single immutable object are passed), the behavior is indistinguishable in this case.
>why use it for internal communication I have no idea

Here are a few potential reasons:
1. HTTP is familiar

2. RESTful seems easy

3. people are told that RESTful is the way to go, is cool is mainstream and is modern
I'm sure you would be called a racist just for saying that. Haha. The irony!
Yeah and there wasn't 9 hours worth of story to tell hence all the completely pointless fluff and endless CGI. Lord of the Rings (the theatrical versions) is still the gold standard for a difficult, large-scale fantasy adaptation as far as I'm concerned.
I'm italian and still had trouble. Anyway, I think the right options are Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A.
Will the people of Maine get any pay off from this when the Govt. makes their money?