skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a resident I'm curious to how this will play out. I have no strong opinions either way but I feel like it's going to be a long legal battle.

The current ongoing thing here is that the power company wants to build a power corridor to transport electricity from Canada to Mass. The power company has gone through questionable means to do this and the locals are rightfully unhappy about it. It's hard to not hear about it right now.
Seems needlessly dangerous to lie on an application like that, just mark prefer not to answer.
As a black man, I usually decline to put my race on job applications. Even though EEOC information isn't supposed to be used to discriminate against applicants, I don't believe for a second that it isn't. Unfortunately, having attended an HBCU, I don't know how helpful that is. I've seriously considered, recently, marking my race as "white" for future apps. It wouldn't be a complete lie; my great-grandmother was white. However, I keep remembering th anecdotes of black professionals with "white-sounding" names who were welcomed enthusiastically during the phone interview, only to get the cold shoulder when they showed up to the office.

In case anyone was keeping track, the ability to get the job you trained in your degree for is more important than getting into your specific desired degree program.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/african...
It is the 33rd most abundant element on earth. However, as it is highly reactive it is never found in its pure form in nature, and right now, we extract it from mineral rich brine from lakes. This process uses a lot of water, approximately 500,000 gallons of water goes into extracting 1 ton of lithium, enough to make 190,000 smartphones.

I think we’ll wage war over water before we wage one over Lithium.
My first and last name aren't typical Anglo-Saxon (i.e. John; Mark; Bill; Ken; etc...).
I don't think they're mutually exclusive they just apply at different times because we have inconsistent standards.

Being white gives you a lot of advantages, but I'd say on occasion (affirmative action, diversity based decisions, etc.) then playing non-white can be advantageous.

My underlying concern is that in a highly competitive society where we're so pushed at every corner we look for any advantages we can take to get ahead (reasons people lie about silly things like race/ethnicity), how do we maintain trust and cohesion in our society?

At some point, people will lie about anything and everything to get ahead to a point that I no longer believe even the most trivial of statements they claim. At that point, my trust is completely removed. It's already well on its way down to nothing but at least now I can look at motives and question why someone may or may not lie and think about the large obvious factors. At some point, the factors people lie about may become so asinine to get ahead that I have 0 trust in anyone at all anymore. How do you operate in a society where trust is all but completely removed.
I got "hylomorph". Given that hylomorphism is a term in Aristotelian metaphysics, surely hylomorphs exist?

It's also already taken as a startup name!
In 2020, the UN encouraged France to use race statistics, after 75 years of ban, to increase chances for the non-whites [1].

So, it is not specific to the USA. If I were all opponents to the West, I would fund the hell out of those movements because they destabilize the Occident.

[1] https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/l-onu-exhorte-la-fr...
So anything that's not Anglo-Saxon is ethnic sounding? What country are you based in?
Unlike coal, lithium does not get burned or used up. At least in principle, it can be recycled.
The sea is the largest resource of lithium. It's just cheaper to dig it for now.
Or use Cap'n Proto [1] and eliminate all serialization costs.

[1] https://capnproto.org/
That's just a query string with extra steps.
i know you're conflating 'privilege' on purpose but i'll outline the terms in this context for anyone actually curious.

`privilege` - this is the whole concept that you're treated as a good, honest person by default, and that you behave the way all others _should_

to have a college say:

'hey, we would like to know your race so we can attempt to correct for the general over-indexing in our society for matching white cultural values'

isn't removing your privilege, and to have someone check your privilege doesn't remove it.

to sit here and complain about privilege when it's finally being used against the person experiencing it is top tier cognitive dissonance
As someone who remembers watching the Lynch directors cut at a 24 sci-fi marathon and had no clue what was going on I felt like this movie did a good job introducing the world building without dwelling too much on the details. The various factions made sense and if I want more there are a lot of books to dive into.
Probably a name that was never used by a King of England or found in the New Testament, if the GP is from the US.
Yes, you should probably avoid making a SaaS without having a competitive knowledge in what makes that field tick.
From the outside it seems frustrating that instead of addressing the underlying issue—indexing individual’s worth based on race (or other unalienable characteristics)—the solution is to keep applying the same logic, just assigning different weights to the output.

For example, financial aid should not depend on race, but on actual financial situation. If it happens to be generally worse for certain minorities, you’ve achieved your goal—and without using racial discrimination. Judging by one’s appearance seems like the lazy way out.
Wouldn’t it be better for the planet if we move away from fossil fuels, and Lithium could help us in that process.
Institutions striving for equity within a white supremacist framework does not mean that the framework is not white supremacist. It means, instead, that institutions have recognized the imbalance and are doing a small part to correct it.

Additionally, the Jim Crow south is just one of many flavors of white supremacism, and just because we don't have Jim Crow laws now doesn't mean that the problem has gone away.

(editing bc apparently this is poorly worded sarcasm?)
my understanding is that it is super common, but not very concentrated in the earth. As a result it makes mining more difficult. You don't just find a ore vein in a cave, you have to dig up and process tons of stone in a wider area.
So colleges can avoid being “cancelled” for supposedly not being diverse enough, rather than accepting the best students
Assuming that's a genuine question, the idea is that otherwise we still have a systemic problem where (for example) the overt racism which denied opportunities to black Americans historically is still having ongoing impact because whether your parents went to college has a huge impact on whether you do (and if you succeed).

The idea is that we want a society where there's no racial disadvantage, and if you just ignore race entirely that's accepting the ongoing disadvantages that still measurably exist due to the overt racism that was 1-2 generations ago.

Specific implementions are obviously extremely complex and lead to bad outcomes like the article here, but it seems like sound logic that "doing nothing" is not optimal for getting to an equal society within a couple more generations.
I imagine it's because of the same reason people lied about their race. Women are considered 'under-represented' in some areas and so are actively sought after, so there is less benefit in lying about belonging to a group they consider 'over-represented'.
Yup. They invented this "social construct" concept. This is obviously vulnerable to abuse. They have no choice but to accept it now. Either they accept it or they will be forced to admit that it is not a social construct.
Obviously it's super easy compared with the restrictions before.

Pre-green pass I basically carried a thick folder as I crossed multiple countries, each with different restrictions and translation requirements.
There really isn’t that much lithium in today’s “Lithium ion” batteries. A few percent by weight. Much more Nickel, Cobalt, Aluminum, Carbon, Copper, and Iron than Lithium. Lithium metal anodes would push that number up but that flavor hasn’t really solved it’s lifespan problems yet.
It's used by the EEOC to track racial (and sexual, and disabled) equity in employment.
Jumping to white “dudes” is funny. In America at least, the most famous examples of someone doing this are a white woman politician who blatantly lied about being Native American/First Nations, and a white woman who pretended to be black in order to run a local chapter of the NAACP.
> And are you telling us we need privilege to write a song?

I wrote: “you need privileged access to humanity’s techno-scientific inheritance.”

So no, that’s not what I'm telling you.

For cultural media/products it’s different. If the working class need for affordable housing was respected, and we didn’t have parasitic Wall Street housing-financializers like Blackstone sucking out our life energy, then songwriters wouldn’t need to extract endless royalties from cultural products like songs to pay for their housing rents. Instead they could live off live performances or use some sort of societal reputational framework to measure their joy-bringing cultural contribution (e.g. by using the number of plays or similar metrics).

Rent extraction and monopolization of our techno-scientific has a grossly underexplored compounding cancer-like effect on the social organism. Today's property relations (the state letting individuals 'own' bits of science) are literally pushing us towards climate genocide.

I care about growing radical universal access to our techno-scientific inheritance because we live in an age where scientific discoveries, which are all individually part of a larger web of interconnected collective feedback loops revealed when painstakingly reverse engineering various phenomena on our planet, are increasingly being commoditized, with little public awareness of the destructiveness and insidiousness of that shift.

> “…today, a tiny minority of people and corporate interests across the world are accumulating vast wealth and power from rental income, not only from housing and land but from a range of other assets, natural and created. ‘Rentiers’ of all kinds are in unparalleled ascendancy

> Rentiers derive income from ownership, possession or control of assets that are scarce or artificially made scarce. Most familiar is rental income from land, property, mineral exploitation or financial investments, but other sources have grown too. They include the income lenders gain from debt interest; income from ownership of ‘intellectual property’ (such as [trade secrets], patents, copyright, brands and trademarks); capital gains on investments; ‘above normal’ company profits (when a firm has a dominant market position that allows it to charge high prices or dictate terms); income from government subsidies; and income of financial and other intermediaries derived from third-party transactions.“

> Rather than a “free market,” the neoliberal global economy praised as “free trade” is actually “a global framework of institutions and regulations that enable elites to maximise their rental income.”

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-08-03/book-day-corru...
Frank Herbert was a mycologist. It is not widely known that the blue eyes of the Fremen in Dune are an homage to the cerulean blue of Psilocybe mushrooms.

In Chapter 9 of Mycelium Running, Paul Stamets reveals:

“Frank went on to tell me that much of the premise of Dune—the magic spice (spores) that allowed the bending of space (tripping), the giant sand worms (maggots digesting mushrooms), the eyes of the Fremen (the cerulean blue of Psilocybe mushrooms), the mysticism of the female spiritual warriors, the Bene Gesserits (influenced by the tales of Maria Sabina and the sacred mushroom cults of Mexico)—came from his perception of the fungal life cycle, and his imagination was stimulated through his experiences with the use of magic mushrooms.”

— https://www.bartkasperolaw.com/dunes-magic-mushroom-origin-s...
It's an intermediary source and it doesn't care where that energy came from. The oil analogy is not that far fetched if you consider that both are tied to a geographic location where they needs to be extracted.
I've tried to read the book a few times but have never succeeded. Last weekend I watched the movie at home and absolutely loved it. I only wish part two was available.

For me, this movie is one of the few book-based movies that is significantly better than the book.
Just a guess, but maybe they’re getting tired of paying suppliers excessive amounts to build inferior and slower-moving versions of what exists already?
> Maybe I’m just old and don’t get excited anymore for proclamations of pie in the sky ideas - funny thing is, even if he hasn’t delivered on his proclamations people already give him the credit for it; e.g. neural link.

He has delivered on enough to have credibility. When he starts a new project you know its going to get a lot of funding.

People give credit that somebody is TRYING to do it.

> Maybe I’m just old

If you are not exited about Starship or reusable rocket in general it has nothing to with your age.

> I’m no psychologist but Musk pretty much displays almost every sign of NPD - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-....

> After the “last 4 years” of 45 I have growth very warily of people with such personality traits.

Maybe he does. He publicly stated aspergers. I don't really care, more about what he does and how he behaves most of the time. Judging everybody that lives by their worst moment is a bad tendency in todays world.

> Neither of them try to style themselves as some kind of visionary and obsessively hog the media limelight

He doesn't need to push himself into the limelight, that happened by itself. Elon was the same person in 2005 when nobody cared about him.

> Ruthless businessman like Gates and Bezos at least wear their characters on their sleeves

Read anything by journalist and authors about Musk, Musk is very genuine. When he gets angry, you can see it. When he is bored he will tell you. He says his opinion, when its popular its popular and when its not, its not.

He is described as very funny and engaging sometimes, but also very competitive if you get cross with him.

Compared to Gates and Bezos he shows way more of his actual personality. He has no PR department or endless media training in the art of saying nothing.

You can dislike that, but accusing you of fake is just wrong. Just as Trump wasn't fake if you want to compare them, he was presenting himself as he actually was (and that was a moron).

> told his biographer to tell it as it is flaws and all

Elon never claimed he was flawless and he has authorized books about him that clearly show that.

You can read Liftoff as a recent book about SpaceX. Elon has good and bad moments in that book but there is no question that he is genuine.

Ashlee Vance who did the original biography also believed he was genuine. And that book equally has plenty of negatives about him.
I think that the point – to show that the certificate system is about total nazi style control.
If people want truly green infrastructure, the only practical options are nuclear power and densification -basically turn as many cities as possible into Paris. LRTs don't need batteries because they're hooked into the grid with catenary lines, subways have 3rd rails, bikes run on human, and e-bikes use only tiny batteries.

And while nuclear power isn't ideal, it's the only tech that has fully decarbonized power grids at State level.

Otherwise we need battery power on an utterly insane level.
We are working on a new way to create Python notebooks. Each cell has not only a code but also a menu with available integrations and form for code generation. It can be seen as a no-code tool for creating Python programs.

Thanks to this, no-coders will be able to create simple Python scripts. For experienced developers, it will make coding much faster - you don't need to jump over the docs, just click needed step and fill the form.

The MLJAR Studio is a desktop application, so everything is on your machine. Created program is compatible with Jupyter Notebook or can be converted to plain Python - no vendor lock-in.

We wrote the article with description how Google Sheets data can be read in Python with no-code MLJAR Studio https://mljar.com/blog/read-google-sheets-in-python-with-no-...
> C++ is a pedagogically worthless language. It bogs a budding student down with historical baggage like header files and cryptic imports whilst drowning said student in the complexities of an abuse and archaic syntax, with nothing but an error message that’s as clear and useful as a lead-filled balloon used as a flotation device. It’s impossible to get a pleasing, mathematically-sound model of your domain in C++. Heck, you can’t even model something in an OO way whilst following the literature on that. Almost all effort is consumed in attempting to appease a persnickety compiler.

You may not learn "programming" this way, but all of these are going to be useful skills when you work as a programmer.

> Since getting the syntax and the ceremony right is so much of C++, it turns into a guess-and-check game, where the student keeps tweaking things until it works. This is not the way. You don’t learn anything about why things are the way they are. This is similar to one argument I’ve heard about how Java suffers from a similar problem. We shouldn’t be teaching students how to solve programs in a given language. Rather, we should be giving them tools to think about the problems they face and how to solve them.

And here's the part where you learn to deal with office politics.

I guess my point is that I'm a bit skeptical about "good learning techniques" when there isn't any data to back it up and just the reasoning of the author. All of this "feels" true to me, in a way that "let the students figure out C++" doesn't, but I don't know if this theory is true.
Let’s hope it stays that way. But $1.5B is not a tiny sum and I’m willing to bet the government will bend over backwards to bring a bunch of “jobs” to the area at the expense of all environmental concerns.
> What country are you based in?

From context it is USA. Asking job applicants about race is illegal or at least not common in most countries.
Well in my case I marked it truthfully, but what is an institution going to do? Force genetic testing? Tell someone they aren't "x" enough? What if someone grew up adopted?

No way an institution would dare challenge an answer.
I’ve only ever seen the word “hypergamy” used by red pill maniacs. If that’s the case, his scientific basis is bitterness and pseudoscience.
The key bit:

“Yet lithium is a metal, and state regulations passed in 2017 prohibit mining for metals in open pits of more than three acres, which would be the only way to cost-effectively extract lithium at Plumbago North.
“I don’t know of any underground and manganese or lithium mines in the world,” said Dr. John Slack, a geologist who co-authored a separate upcoming paper on critical minerals in Maine.
“Because those metals have a relatively low cost, in terms of their concentration per ton or per ounce, you need to excavate large volumes of rock cheaply in order to economically and profitably produce the metal you’re interested in.””

Basically, Maine demands that whatever mining is done, is done underground, like coal. But open carrier mining is cheaper. If all this lithium is so important, someone will find a way to mine it properly underground, I guess.
It's tricky and hard to find absolutes.

It's unlikely a couple will be able to fully equalize this aspect depending on granularity of time slice: on any given day/week/month, one of you may be in better or trickier or happier or more stressful place at work, with friends, in general.

I agree that if through the entirety of relationship support is strictly one-way, that is explicitly not the way I want my relationship to work (though there are others who do seek a one-way relationship from both perspectives).
Ah, if we "had ways to make you talk"... I am taking note of every single place mentioned here!
Does it face a PR crisis? Despite all the clamor, I've yet to see any actual movement away from it. I guess maybe it's opening the door for a competitor, but until that exists again, I don't see anything happening. They've got plenty of time to massage things around until people either shut up or get sick of hearing people complain about things that those people don't really understand or believe.
What do russia, china korea have that Europe doesn't have? They have their own internet media
>limit the movement of people based on medical status

That's literally the idea behind fighting contagious diseases, widely used to defend islands and castles before the vaccines. People used to wait in ships for weeks before they can embark. We used to have castles insulated to keep an outbreak out of it's population. Through the history of humanity, countless people were lost to contagious diseases.

The Green Pass thingy is essentially an enabler to open up the castle and let sailors embark without waiting for weeks to see if if they will get sick or not. It's a management tool to relieve the hardships of contagious diseases fighting methods.

So let's not confuse the causality here.
So... from just driving across the border, it's got "super easy", by having to stop at every border crossing, "papers please", and "medical papers please"? I've traveled through the balkan in the 90s, and it was easier then, than now. And even during the war times, the travel was more consistent, and I didn't have to check the border crossing rules every day, because they didn't change that often.
> Villeneuve is on board as executive producer and the pilot director, while Diane Ademu-John signed on as showrunner

He's only directing the pilot episode.
love this and the input tool others are mentioning. i never knew how to best select a font for my terminals because looking at 20 fonts in font book side by side makes it hard for me to even tell WHAT i like. im excited to try this and input.
Does that mean we will need less of them? As technology advances, we need more lithium.
How would you propose to level the entrenched inequities if not by reversing the previously unequal distribution of scarce resources?
I'm a bit surprised the DuckDB file size is that large (5x Parquet, and nearly as large as sqlite). I haven't used DuckDB, but I thought it had columnar storage and so would have better compression.
If Elizabeth Warren could make this fib into a potent political career, why wouldn’t anyone else?