skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>To be frank, it really seems you are suggesting people who disagree with you should be marginalized

Seems that way. Parent explicitly wrote that it's only the articles that say "they've gone too far this time" that they find at fault. This means articles with the opposite view ("yay, more of those diversity efforts"), that touch on the same subject (and thus one would assume to be equaly divisive), are ok. I'd find it impartial and ok if they didn't wish either kind on HN, but only targeting one side is icky.

But even this framing (of articles like TFA as being anti-diversity) is wrong, if not disingenuous, to begin with.

As if TFA author is a seggregationist or wants less diversity (so agreeing makes you like that too), when diversity is not what the author complains about, but rather the inverse: lamenting the litany of the same facile rage-bait identity articles to the detriment of substantial reporting.

Actual reporting which would include substantial reporting on matters of opressed identity and lack of diversity, as opposed to e.g. gaslighting readers that Dave Chappele's special was met with uniform hostility when it was a huge success, or letting huge social issues be ignored, while covering inconsequential complains...
> the youngsters seem more interested in insta

... which is owned by FB. Between Instagram securing the audience of the next generation, and Whatsapp gaining huge share as the communication tool of developing world, FB is going to do just fine, even if facebook.com usage totally tanks (also unlikely)
You get an accountant and don't ask on HN. You need to decide how much you will reinvest into the site and keep for a rainy day fund. HN can recommend what they've done, but please take it as a grain of salt, advice you got talking to some buddies at the bar, and get a good financial advisor and accountant probably one that specializes in tech would be good if available.
Oh geez the Star Wars special edition is one of the stronger arguments in favor of immutability
I guess this is why these discussions are unproductive, because folks on both sides of debates on diversity efforts have contradictory anecdotal experiences. I know many women software engineers who've felt deeply, uniquely uncomfortable in tech spaces. I have yet to have a woman software engineer friend who hasn't had one of these experiences, and the idea that the tech industry is uniquely hostile to diversity efforts doesn't seem to be all that uncommon or controversial.
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This article wasn’t really about race. It was about the freedom of speech and the chilling effect upon news journalists of late due to editorial guidelines enforced by pharmaceutical sponsors and fact checkers also sponsored by the like.
I moved so that solved the problem, but the common wisdom does seem to be that Eisenia foetida colonies rarely survive more than a couple years, since they don't burrow far and they aren't cold adapted. If you have to pick a worm, that certainly beats nightcrawlers by a mile.

I'm told that they think most incursions are caused by fishing expeditions where the fisherman releases the worms at the end of the day, rather than carting them back home. You can track the progress outward in a circle, not unlike fungal fairy rings.

In a pinch you can start an Eisenia foetida worm bin by calling all of the bait shops to see who can sell you a large container of them. So clearly they're an option for fisherman.
I think NBC would actually love it if you would please pay every month to watch the office over and over.
They hem and haw because some people care a lot and make a big deal if you get it wrong and it can have social consequences depending on where you live/work, etc, and if you repeatedly ignore what other people want to be called it can be seen as an act of aggression.

In the current climate, people want to get it right for other people because either they don't want to be an asshole, they believe it's important, they're afraid of being called out, or some combination thereof.

If you actually don't care, the easiest thing to do is just advertise that you don't care so people don't have to wonder. If you actually do care, but about how you shouldn't have to care and are trying to make a point about that, well that's something different, isn't it?
Always with good intent?
Facebook has a history of getting first or buying into new social spaces. Gaming and facebook will be important going forward. I would bet in them getting bigger.

The cloud computing fad could go away and Amazon would still be the #1 retailer.

Google, Microsoft will get bigger probably more government contract related.

Netflix is in the worst poor position. There costs for high end production are extremely high because they have to overpay for top talent. So they take years to continue a series or cancel successful ones because actors want raises. The availability of fresh existing shows keeps going down while costs go up.
Well, technically there's another place, but we don't go there anymore. Like Ravenholm, and for similar reasons.
A show I had one episode left of went off Netflix on 1/1. I tried to find it EVERYWHERE, I even downloaded iTunes on my PC. “Not available in your region” left right and center. I luckily found a torrent and it was legitimately the only way I could find the content beyond buying DVDs on eBay.
Do you actually not give a shit or do people just tend to properly guess what you'd want to be called? Pronouns are part of how we communicate gender and many people do get bothered when others perceive them differently than how they perceive themselves
Why do people hate Netflix? I'm out of the loop on that...
For this reason, I do have Netflix DVD subscription along with Netflix streaming. At least until now, I feel that there is still vast catalog of movies available to choose from their DVD service unlike their streaming one.

Obviously waiting for DVDs to arrive is a hassle in comparison to watch-at-any-time streaming but that's ok tradeoff for the freedom it gives me to chose a title to watch from its vast DVD and Blue Ray catalog.
Israel: Jerusalem Post site hacked by Iranians with threats of annihilation
Apple and Amazon are still churning out products and tech advancement at breakneck speeds, especially given their size.

Google and Facebook are definitely stagnating and burning money on expanding (unsuccessfully) outside of the advertising duopoly they have.

Netflix is in the unfortunate position of battling against the established and increasingly technically competent entertainment industry and the technically competent and better funded tech industry.
I would start with a rogue-like game and the hard part becomes generating the training data to describe in beautifully flowing prose what happens on a per move basis. Enter your patient friend who offers to do this and has run lots of campaigns previously.

It seems like something that could be trained starting with an existing GPT model and specialized to this task to me, but I'm just brain farting here. And by all means steal this idea if you're so inclined.
Been using Ebiten for close to two years. One of, if not the nicest 2D engines I've used.

Nice to see Hoshi's work shared here.
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Strange thread here ignoring the very important points about the media Tara is making.

'Those of us on the inside know just how swiftly — and how dramatically — the politics of the public broadcaster have shifted.

It used to be that I was the one furthest to the left in any newsroom, occasionally causing strain in story meetings with my views on issues like the housing crisis. I am now easily the most conservative, frequently sparking tension by questioning identity politics. This happened in the span of about 18 months. My own politics did not change.

To work at the CBC in the current climate is to embrace cognitive dissonance and to abandon journalistic integrity.'

I would argue the UK BBC & US NPR are also in dire straits because of similar erosions of impartialness.

Neilsen demonstrates that the legacy media are dying fast, fewer and fewer people are tuned in as the broadcasting becomes more and more toxic. This is a good thing imo.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-busin...
Honestly that's super impressive. Sand casting can be difficult to get right. The metal was likely aluminum? Did he use motor oil to wet the sand?
Jurors in the Elizabeth Holmes trial appear deadlocked on some charges
All of them, if we are lucky.
The question isn't which company twists your undies the most, it's which is most likely to actually decline.
Whats the story with Progress Residential?
I'm curious if taking a little time to organize your thoughts and expressing them succinctly would be a net-win for your argument.

I get the impression that you're really fired up about this topic. Partly because you're writing numerous, small comments. Unfortunately that commenting style makes it hard for (at least) me to understand your point(s).
I use justwatch for this
On a 500k house, stamp duty is 2%, and that’s already an expensive house (stamp duty is progressive). So it’s not that big, certainly for a first time buyer away from London (no stamp duty at all on first 125k).

Council taxes are effectively based on property price, in a weird kind of way.
> "the evidence that contradicts my model all suffers from the same methodological flaw, and that explains why they get the results that they get"

Note that Taubes says this constantly about a wide range of evidence that contradicts his model, including studies like the one lead by Hill that were funded by NuSI and personally signed off on by Taubes himself.
I bought a JPEG
At least we know which snapshot we're talking about and are free to buy (and sell) the snapshot of our choosing.

Streaming is just another form of broadcast. What you see now, isn't what you're going to see tomorrow.
In North America at least, I think this century will be the first time it has really run out of "unoccupied" land to grow into. Other parts of the world have been in this steady state for many centuries; it remains to be seen how the equilibrium will manifest here and where it will lead.
That was my first thought as well. While I don’t know their financials intimately from the outside I don’t know what they have done in comparison to Apple of yesteryear to triple the market cap. Feels ominous for the dollar.
"To me it seems logical that a young black woman who sees a black female CEO interviewed on TV is more likely to become a CEO herself. "

Beware logic in this case. A lot of claims in social sciences seem logical, but either aren't proven at all or the alleged proof fails to replicate.

A similar logic was used to argue for banning violent video games or porn.
Funny, all the simulations point to the wrong direction (ground view vs space view). I assume this design is intended for surveillance, not astronomy.
Isn’t a cartel more about illicit collusion (often outright illegal) rather than forming a public organisation to act collectively?
I had netflix from 2003 to 2020, and still got DVDs until 2018 when I moved to an area with broadband. It has been a ride: from it's rapid decline from having all sorts of art-house films (Preminger, Castle, Fassbinder) on DVD, to having almost nothing, to it's near 100% self-generated content which is largely meh. But those first years were epic. I must have watched 800 films the first year, limited only by USPS latency.
All of these companies are too big to fail at this point. They all have at least a decade of reserves to power through anything that gets thrown their way.

However, I do predict that they will change in significant ways in the next decade.

* Apple is one Supreme Court ruling away from ending their App Store monopoly that could disrupt the entire world, since it would also affect all other digital marketplaces.

* Amazon is about to enter a decade of unionization all over the world.

* Google and Facebook both lost a key ability to micro-target on their ad platforms so they are both reinventing themselves to drive revenue from other sources, hardware being the biggest moats they can invest in.

* Netflix has some of the worlds brightest minds in data science and they've built up a war-chest of understanding viewing habits. They've also gobbled up a lot of key Hollywood players in the last few years, so I expect some huge cultural changes ahead as these creatives start to take more leadership roles in the company.
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> I can't think of anyone who hates Amazon the service

Wait, what? They do have a huge problem with counterfeit crap sold via bait-and-switch reviews.

Edit: A related article https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/12/amazon-still-has...
agreed. I have a SDR monitor and given the choice between a 4K HDR release and a 1080p SDR release, I'll always go for the 1080p release. The colors in the HDR always look off compared to the SDR. I tried a bunch of fixes (eg. different media players, tweaking tonemapping settings, etc.), but it never works. Does anyone know whether it's still an issue on HDR400 (ie. "fake HDR") monitors ?
Karen Wetterhahn did replace her (latex) gloves immediately after spilling a drop of dimethylmercury on them, but it killed her anyway.
It's not illegal to download movies/music from the Internet in most jurisdictions I know of (Europe). It doesn't extend to computer programs though (i.e. using them). It's also usually illegal to make copyrighted (materially) media available for others (outside of group of family/friends), so torrents are tricky.

But it was quite a success for RIAA/MPAA to stick a label of criminal to everyone who downloads free audio-visual content even if it's not true. Though, let's not aid them in their quest by throwing sentences like 'illegal content' too frequently around.
Perfectly fits this 10 years old comic classic from Matthew Inman:

https://www.theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
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1. Leave it blank on your CV. In discussion, say, "Then I took a break to help family during covid." That's all you need. Resist the urge to try to explain or justify it.

2. Explain what you did to "stay sharp": played with a side project, read a book, took a course, etc. Be prepared to answer questions on it just like you would if it were a job. If you didn't do squat, at least say "I kept up on the literature" and be prepared to cite some blogs or essays you found informative.

3. The reference from your last job is absolutely critical, make sure you have good ones lined up. Contact them to ask if they would be a good reference and remind them who you are and of good stuff you did, and then ping them again to say, "You should be getting a reference check from ABCorp soon, please emphasize my skills with [leadership, architecture, whatever]".

Good luck!
She was a TV and radio producer. First paragraph of the linked page in case you missed it.
Maybe for you, but I don't know what pronoun to use to refer to someone named Xie that I have never met, and it's not exactly unusual for it to come up in email discussions.
No, preferred pronouns are like he/him, she/her, they/them. These pronouns are only used when other people are talking about you. In most contexts it’s considered rude for people to talk about you like you’re not even there. So in fact, the only time your pronouns should be used is when people are talking about you and you’re not present!
yet another instance of Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

Measuring diversity of organisations is a good way to know if people are being excluded from opportunities based on immutable factors. It's not something you should be actively boosting by refusing to hire cis/het/white/male people and calling that equality.

A much better approach would be to say something like "oh, our company hires less black people than you'd expect based on demographic data. Where's the bottleneck? Are we discriminating in hiring, either intentionally or unintentionally? Is our industry insulated from black employees by geography, culture, perception?" Then when you know (or at least have a good idea) where the bottleneck is, you know where to intervene if it's something you're able to do. It's basically just the institutional equivalent of investigating problems based on dashboard metrics. If you have a dashboard of t1 vs t2 subscriptions and you think the ratio's wrong, you don't just start banning t1 subs to fix the metric, that's moronic.

Good "wokeness" is just egalitarianism with a systemic/holistic perspective. Bad "wokeness" is just more racism a la "two wrongs make a right".
Assuming you're right and increasing density somehow does not decrease home value/price in the densest cities, then how can up zoning/increasing density help alleviate the housing crisis?

It's like saying 'We want to change the zoning to make housing more affordable but don't worry it won't make housing more affordable'.
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My big issue with the Netflix model is that I'm subscribing to a content smorgasbord where the only thing they have in common is the distributor. With Disney+ at least I know I'm getting specific brands (Marvel, Pixar, etc).
Don't you only find out the team/manager at the end of the process? I'm self taught so I assume I'll get stuck on a bad team at least to start.