skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Focusing on such statistics usually encourages equality of outcome as opposed to equality of opportunity.

A far more helpful metric would probably be to know how many people want to be in tech (or tech journalism in this case) but can’t, along with the various factors that are preventing them from getting into their desired profession.

If you do then break down the numbers by ethnicity, gender, etc., you may be able to tease out a correlation that may hint at institutional bias, but there’s still no way to prove causation with just that data.

You would at least be clearer on the what the obstacles are that’re faced by people, perhaps marginalized people, that put them at a disadvantage when it comes to trying to get into those fields. Then you can proactively and practically start to do something about those specific obstacles.
There was another experiment a while ago about songs becoming hits. Iirc they started with presenting random songs to users, but their "likes" could affect further suggestions. Then it also was random which songs ended up becoming hits.

That seems like a much more interesting experiment, and in the real world, too.

Also the "Matthew Effect" is well known. I find it very dangerous to latch onto such an experiment because it "feels right", though.
> The mind boggles.

This has been ~true of every frame-less window for decades; this isn't a new thing.
Compared to programming and tech, success in a lot of fields in the humanities, including journalism is far more connected to who you know, what family you were born into, what college you went to, and your overall personal network. In such an environment, it is unsurprising that there is a severe lack of diversity.

I have never received a satisfactory answer for why a lot of people from these fields are all about "Everyone should learn to code" initiatives, but not, say "Everyone should learn to be a citizen journalist", or "Everyone should learn to be a copy editor". Indeed, in many aspects, the latter would seem to share many aspects with learning to code (attention to detail, focus on syntax, etc.), and be more accessible.

My conclusion is that there is no desire to increase participation in or accessibility to the field of journalism, because of a rejection of the Jevons paradox. And consequently, the shrinking field seems to rely heavily on credentialism and connections to choose who becomes a journalist.
Interesting! Thanks for the paper link.
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Is that actually possible? Labs have to prepare biological samples before freezing them. Otherwise, ice crystals will destroy any cells or viruses that they are trying to preserve.
What's arrogant is assuming that we are educating our kids as best as we can already. For anyone working in the sector, that's not just arrogant, it's absurd.

Most developed countries have state-run primary and secondary education systems, and most of them also have highly or entirely state-funded tertiary education. This is a statement of the obvious, I think. I also mentioned reasons why private providers often had little incentive to innovate.

I haven't experienced Canvas or Moodle, but I've experienced Blackboard. Blackboard is beyond dire. See my other comment and the notorious review it links.
Captain Obvious, thank you. There problem is, such functionality should be at OS level to connect to chosen push notifications provider if Google Play services don't suit you. Not via some app that is subject to all android restrictions on persistent apps, including occasional unloading from memory.

The OS is designed in such way requires push notifications built into its core to work properly.
I suppose that my point was that this whole thing is silly, NFTs included. While intended to make a statement, NFT Bay provides a free backup service. NFT Bay does the opposite of its intended goal.
98 deaths for a place full of old tourists and retired British couples sounds pretty good to me.

That's is 98 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
I know a halyard from a sheet, thank you. But a better example is that I've run outdoors on a windy day, which virtually every person ever has done at least once. And yet the overwhelming majority never thought to use a spinnaker on a skateboard. All new inventions, every single one, are one or more old inventions composed together. The novelty lies in the composition, not the components.

I share your antipathy toward software patents though. Mathematical theorems aren't patentable, and programs are just gussied up theorems so they shouldn't be either.
> Why do you need to 'protect others' if their mask works inbound?

Huh? You need to protect others because masks (mostly) don't work inbound, that's what I'm saying. (But do work outbound.)

> Clearly masks are not trivial to validate given that there is no evidence they have any positive effect

Sorry, restate: the presence of masks is trivial to validate.
There’s an implicit “arguments” function argument through which you can access the extra parameters. It’s JSs way of function overloading
You want to send Tim Cook to Rikers because Apple make a legal product (which competes against other offerings by Tile and Samsung), someone used it illegally, and the victim found out thanks to countermeasures Apple voluntarily included in the - again, legal - product?

I agree that we need to improve corporate accountability, but that's a bit extreme.
Disguising your marketing spiel as a question? Lame AF. Flagged.
Author here. Compressed data is unlikely to work well in general, unless it never changes.
It is anything but straightforward (unless you're the type of nerd who browses hacker news).

If you sell an app on an alternative store, how do you get the average person to install it? Adjust your marketing materials to teach them how to find the hidden "allow unknown sources" toggle on their phone, and then say something like: "Just ignore the many scary warning messages telling you that you're about to get a virus, and implying that we're malicious. Also, don't let it scan us for malware, not because we're malware, but because Play Protect may end up accidentally blocking us, and we have no idea how to get that reversed".

And even if you do that and manage to get enough customers to qualify as a potential competitive threat, Google will put together a task force[1] to destroy you.

1: https://www.androidcentral.com/google-fortnite-task-force
I have no idea why people recommend this guy. Such bad 40 seconds wiki article reading with a annoying way of talking.

A personality driven channel versus engineering
Once you have more than one team in the same codebase the opinions start to line up as people start to think the types will save them from stepping on each others' toes. Which it might! Publishing types is also a poor-man's contract testing, so people who like that sort of thing will like that sort of thing.
You don't really have a deadline in 3 weeks if you can make the choice to not do it. I was speaking to work that has already been committed to. Think things like changes in the law that you must adapt to or close the business.
My glasses are always fogged up with my mask on. I've tried a few types, none seem to stop this, so I have to choose blurry without glasses, or foggy with them on.

At bicycle speeds with a mask I'd definitely want / need that helmet.
hmm, I have never really thought about it before but I don't think I have ever seen a single heterosexual male hairdresser in my life outside of a barbershop. Never really even registered I guess because that's how it has always been in my experience but interesting now that you mention it. I know there are a ton of male hairdressers just from going to barbershops. Wonder if they just gravitate towards barber shops or its extreme discrimination.
Or at least men tend to _be given_ more leadership responsibilities.
Hardly extortion.

It's not like Apple are the only company in the world manufacturing tracking devices. In fact with most tracking systems their entire MO is to NOT alert the person you're tracking to their existence.
It's not only weird, it's a dumb, shallow, misguided article.

> Marlin speculates that the oversight is a consequence of committing code from one's Linux home directory.
For sure. However most CSPRNGs have "huge" periods which would be infeasible to hardcode into a software implementation. Knowing your period is important any time you use a PRNG for cryptography.
Agreed, I get the sense people are still sounding it out from the bottom up, as the collusion of the state with industry to dominate a nation was the original definition of fascism. The difference from early 20th century models and later and into the new century is that both fascism and communism were mere national movements. The necessary condition for totalitarianism as described by Arendt is it was by definition not limited to or part of the mere nation state, but rather a movement that leveraged other movements to prey upon and absorb nation states under its system of dominion, using directed chaos against atomized people. This is what made totalitarianism a meta level system, and not just a left/right thing. The sufficient and necessary condition is that it aims to become post-national as a means to dissolve the nation state into atomized/neutralized individuals under totalitarian rule. (critics of both capitalism and socialism should recognize this, but if you don't, the deception is by design.)

North Korea and Singapore because they are still nations are still just mere national tyrannies and surveillance states, whereas China, the US, Britain, and even to a greater extent, Australia and Canada are becoming totalitarianized because they are already the compromised vassals for a post-national movement that seeks to effectively dissolve all physical, sexual, familial, religious, tribal, regionalist, nationalist, and obviously, racist, identities. One liquid humanity under managed technocratic rule.

If one is to be anti- something, anti(surveillance capitalism) is perhaps the only accurate anti-fascism of this era, as it is to be against the collusion of the state with surveillance capitalists to dominate your countries, but if you are really looking to fight the good fight of today and not baited with disctractions into relitigating ideas from 100 years ago, I would suggest turning your attention to how surveillance is used to totalitarianize nation states and dissolve them, as whether we are right or left, when we are against the anti-human deception and evils of totalitarianization, we are very much on the same team.
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Also Porn industry. Funnily, straight men are responsible for this :)
you got outdated info. "learn to code" gets people unpersoned on twitter now
> If you have a deadline and won't be getting new resources any time soon, and what purpose does a estimate serve if you are already committed?

I didn't commit, the sales person did. I'm not in trouble, he and the company is. I can just leave, it is their fault if they make bad deadlines. The only reason they can continue is that engineers don't push back and quit when it happens. You work hard so that the sales person can get his juicy bonus, why should you do that?
So, releasing the data is hard by default because of what it would require - you are talking hundreds of thousands of pages for a single drug.

It would take a very large permanent staff to do it.
Or a new set of requirements placed on pharma for how data is submitted to reduce that burden.
I'm not opposed, mind you, just saying what happens now would make it hard for the FDA to achieve "release by default" in practice[1]

Changing the rules here would also make things more adversarial in practice than they are now (for better or worse).

I think the value in the end is probably worth it, but i don't think it's as obvious a win as it is on paper. It's very easy to say how things should be abstractly. It's very hard to make systems that work in practice, and it's never as theoretically nice as we want them to be, nor can you really force them to be (which is often the proposed solution).

[1] you will also likely have to play whack-a-mole for a while
(not saying it's not worth it mind you, just that it's not easy). IE you will now be given 5x the data just because they know it will take you a while to sort through it. It will take a few iterations and lawsuits to get regulation/etc right to cause this not to happen.
Except what is the motive to not surveil anyone besides the head of household? Sure, it becomes harder because the head of household is generally more legible (in the ribbonfarm sense), but it's not like the surveillers just give up on everyone else. In fact targeting children has always been quite lucrative, for example "Go get your phone and hold it up to the TV to talk to Santa Claus ... <touchtones for 900 number>"

Approaching from another direction, how can I delegate surveillance of myself to another third party who interacts with the system? It's certainly possibly for specific aspects (eg nominee deeds, LLCs with professional managers, etc), but being able to do so in general is not possible (eg many counterparties won't accept interacting with an LLC and will demand to know the beneficial owners). Surveillance systems are fundamentally totalitarian in that they assert having in-depth knowledge about your existence, regardless of what you've actually leaked to them.
Well there is "Chrome OS" so you're not wrong.
Apparently he did that after dying in 1919 :facepalm:
Because it’s low effort work that doesn’t require real manual labor.

Anglo-gibberish is great for generating semantic nonsense and given the US is 9th in reading education, 31st in math, you expect these dim white people to work when they can generate cognitive noise to stay busy? Their dad owns a dealership and their mom is on a school PTA. They’re better than work.

It’s has nothing to do with data and the emotional entitlement.
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Yes, in the sense that due to the funding situation of such facilities a bunch of people get refused entry (or because of "complex" problems. E.g. suicidal + addicted? No help for you). So you can study the group that gets helped and the group that doesn't and compare them.

Of course the criticism is that they only take the worst problems (even though refusing "complex" cases obviously contradicts that more than a little bit in my opinion). Likewise other studies that assess the ability of professionals to predict who will commit suicide keep coming with very disappointing results, so frankly, I find it hard to believe they could select the serious cases even if they fully intend to do so.

But the group that gets help has a bigger suicide rate compared to the group that doesn't. Quite a bit bigger. So it depends what you believe.

1) do you believe the criticism that they are able to select serious cases (but are unable to prove that in studies specifically checking that) ? Then it is unknown how effective their treatments are, and until they quantise "seriousness" it is impossible to check how effective they are.

2) do you believe the selection process is mostly random and the criticism is invalid? Then the treatments are counterproductive and they cause suicide. That does not (necessarily) mean they mistreat patients. For example, often the inability to leave gets blamed for job, family, and generally the future prospects to evaporate, which in turn causes suicide, which seems to me to find support in the observation that it's most often just after treatment ends that the actual successful suicide happens. The treatment causes suicide, but not directly.

We should make the exceptions that there are plenty of studies about specific institutions where abuse of patients does happen and it is definitely the institution itself that causes suicide.
I also really appreciate the curation and simplicity of this site - it's my go to resource.

If anyone's interested, they provide the full OPML as well.
I mean it was obvious, but scientific study confirming things "everybody knows" is science in the purest and truest sense.
What you're talking about is just clearly not the same point that I made.

I said: "In general I don't think it's fair to describe anything as a dark pattern this is clearly communicated in a contract."

You said: "or example, it would not be reasonable to have a single sentence buried in the middle of a 20 page SaaS contract that obligated you to purchase cat food,"

I specified that it has to be clearly communicated. You responded with an example of something that very obviously is not clearly communicated.

The examples that OP gave are generally things that are clearly communicated. When you sign up for a SaaS service and agree to pay for a set number of seats for a set duration, it's clearly communicated - after all, it's an absolutely basic part of the agreement and one that always has to be actively discussed between the parties (the SaaS vendor must tell you that you're billed on a per-seat basis, and you must tell them how many seats you need).

What you're describing is all true in theory but not applicable at all to my post or the examples of OP that I cited.
There is the kernel of a nice idea in JS but so many bad early design decisions can never be walked back.
The golden days of the doctor “cartel” (and people in the healthcare chain in general) are over.

https://www.beckersasc.com/asc-news/9-cms-pay-cut-for-physic...

The 80s/90s/00s were probably the golden years for them, but they got in the political spotlight, and combined with the decreasing proportion of young to old people, the government is going to push down cuts to whoever lacks political power to push back. Such as smaller businesses like independent doctor offices and pharmacies.

The government has already increased supply by letting Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants do stuff that doctors used to do, and I suspect a lot more price discrimination is on the way. Expect the average quality of care to fall (may not be a bad thing if overqualified people were treating pink eye), and paying more will result in being seen by someone more qualified.
At about 10,000Gs of acceleration (as per their claims¹ ~2200m/s in a 100m vacuum chamber, e.g. a=v²/r ≈ 97,000m/s² or roughly 10,000Gs) any human passenger would be liquified and form a nice smooth film on the inner surfaces of the vehicle.

¹https://www.spinlaunch.com/orbital#p2
Where's my PC Bullshit Bingo (TM) card? I need to cross off a couple of fields:

1) reducing "diversity" to "different skin colors"

2) fixating on the Third-Reich-esque concept of "human race"

3) insisting that skin colors can be neatly sorted into 4-5 discrete categories

4) lamenting the ratio between these categories, without stating what the correct ratio should be, and why
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> Basically, the PM got accolades, the customer got shitty product, and we hated our jobs.

The incentive for a PM or tech lead isn't to help developers do their job well but to make their boss happy. By the developers themselves not being more closely involved with product owners, using a PM as an interface and shield from the rest of the company, they give sole individuals the opportunity to crack the whip for fun and for profit. If a PM is particularly good at what they do, they make everyone believe they are a hero and that nothing would get done without them.

Guess who's getting a raise for the project getting done ahead of time? It probably ain't you.
I would contend that, while a subset, GAMMA companies != all tech companies as the headline implies
>"And personally, I'd rather burn my house to the ground than let someone rob it."

That is your personal choice and you're more than welcome to go up in flames if that is what you wish. You should have no rights however to force your personal choice upon the others. They might have a different perspective.
Having tried to launch a blog myself I definitely think you are correct that self hosting makes things hard. Getting exposure is quite difficult, and getting to eg. HN front page or similar is basically your only way of achieving growth, and that's very much hit and miss.
>> Elon mentioned low combustion efficiency as one of the major disadvantages of aerospike engines

If you haven't seen the SpaceX presentation on their combustion CFD software, it's a must see. They have state of the art simulation capability in this area - better than any commercial offerings.
It was gwei but this site never made it apparent https://crypto.com/defi/dashboard/gas-fees

And prices, in USD,were higher when I posted my statement earlier.
No. There are many who argue that it is entirely up to you who you want to be. And you can always change your mind.
It's a much higher risk of damaging the trim than breaking the window; and not a guaranteed-damage either. A problem for sure, but not a 'you will lose the window if you ever want to use the door again' problem.
Ah yes, ARCA Space. That company founded by a guy who faced 13 counts of fraud, 5 counts of embezzlement, and one count of forgery. I'm not surprised that company has so many "buzzword" technologies that it's supposedly developing. What better way to scam... err I mean... provide opportunities for bold investors.

What's the ISP on a water rocket? 90?
They may mostly be security theatre, but most anti-mask people are exactly as coherent as that guy who gets petulant about removing his shoes at the airport. Still, I don't understand the strong pro-mask sentiment among the vaccinated. Things to add to my shopping list: a face mask proclaiming "hug me, I'm vaccinated".
They don’t have to return the ETH, they agreed to return the ETH. 9 of 13 of the leaders of the (centralized) org have to agree to be able to move funds back to the people, there’s nothing technically forcing them to do so.

Beside maybe a legal obligation that people would have to take them to court over to sort out, no better than a gofundme/kickstarter.
For way more than 30 years women have dominated men in the librarian profession

https://blog.oup.com/2011/06/librarian-census/
I'm not disputing the article. Discrimination happens. Humans are human.

But let's not lose sight or minimize that women are (currently and historically) discriminated against on a scale that dwarfs this - in hiring, salary, and society at large.
Did you consider moving this non-critical load to a cheaper VPS provider? You are unlikely to be able to beat them on price when taking into account hardware and engineering time.
If you find yourself doing something that's the same, try to automate it. Stuff like bat, ksh, powershell, etc.

Email folders and filters to sort what is important and what is just noise.
That's another great UI IMHO. The whole NeXTSTEP experience was a good one.
Is the Internet so full of spam that good information is impossible to find?
"should" here refers to predictions derived from rational behaviour, I think. In other words, if you want to maximize profits, you pay the same for equal-productivity workers. (If you paid two different wages you could just lower the higher wage, since you're able to hire equal-productivity people at the lower wage.)
I do get your point, but leadership is sometimes unique in that it requires an individual to take the role.
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That position seems to discriminate against gender-fluid people.
Which parts seem least likely?
Or even better pay nothing and get a government run system that is smart enough to figure out what is important and what is wasteful.
That pretty much describes perl, except for the co-processes. Probably in part due to Larry Wall initially setting out to make "a better awk".
At this point, fixing the issue would break all kinds of software that's depending on it working that way.
I once TA-ed for the guy who runs https://www.sakailms.org/, I know his vision is to make a good opensource LMS, so you might be able to tell him what you are finding lacking in other projects.

Dr Chuck is one of the top professors on Coursera, and I understand he's mostly using the money he makes on coursera to fund Sakai as a passion project.