skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A decently nuanced take. We don't want universities to be an echo chamber, however, neither do I want it to be a place where we pretend that "both sides" are equally valid. Rather, a spirit of inquiry should be welcome, and congealing around a left-authoritarianism is not healthy either.
Go isn't even easy to learn compared to high level languages let alone system language. It is the only language I ever gave up on after 3 months of struggle I concluded I'd rather work with anything else.
It will happen via in network and out of network agreements.

Healthcare providers with greater proportion of NP/PA will be selling for cheaper, so MCO will sell access to only them in their lower price plans, and healthcare providers where you get to see doctors will be in higher price plans.

This already happens, especially with many healthcare providers not accepting lower reimbursed Medicaid patients.
Legion Health (YC S21) Is Hiring a Clinician Operations Lead
I'm using a couple of different SRS applications to learn Japanese. It's an incredibly useful tool for when you need to commit a lot of bulk content to long-term memory.

Does it help with higher level critical-thinking-problem-solving work? Probably not. But one must walk before one can run, and to run, one needs a foundation of bulk-facts to work off of (in my case, kanji readings / meanings / particles).
even if you can't manage to consciously memorize it bits of information gets stored somewhere in your mind. then let's say a few years later you're thinking about some seemingly unrelated topic and the old memory of that thing you read way back pops up.

you go back to it, reread a bit to refresh your memory and it all somehow clicks.

at least that's been my experience so far so i don't bother with retention too much. perhaps information you ingest simply needs to age a bit to mature and develop.
Oh yeah, you could probably do some sort of caching to that effect. This is just a fun toy I hacked together, so it's not super optimized.
Using a fixed, non-trivial passage is helpful for normalizing across languages.

One wonders what the literature has to say regarding generalizing information across topics.

Is it easier to convey some topics in some languages? For example, Philosophy in Greek?

In our day, such inquiry may not be possible due to Political Correctness.
Ask HN: What would you expect from a good mentor
I as well
Isn't Punic a proper noun? Those are excluded from most word games.
I believe everything you're saying!

But also, please understand that what he's accomplished here is monetarily out of the reach of your average American as well. Especially the average American teenager. The article notes that his dad is a very successful engineer, so roughly speaking he's almost certainly in the top 5-10%. Most homes do not have garages of this size and most garages are not climate controlled as this one is.

Additionally, his dad is an engineer. I grew up middle class, but my dad sold vegetables. Neither of my parents could do algebra, much less advanced stuff, so they weren't in a position financially or otherwise to help me start up a semiconductor fab in the garage. Not that I would have had the smarts or the drive to do that; I'm merely pointing out that this kid is at the intersection of talent and privilege.

In service of their "boy genius" narrative, the article glosses over how much parental monetary support this kid has had. To pick one example:

One of Zeloof’s best finds was a broken electron microscope
that cost $250,000 in the early ’90s; he bought it for $1,000
and repaired it.

Very impressive, but thousands more were spent on plumbing, repairs of the unit, a giant electrical transformer to power the thing, etc. Shipping costs alone may have exceeded the cost of the unit, but he doesn't touch on that. You can see some of the details in his video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJXio_jpc_Y

I remember in the 90's, my school turned down a free electron microscope for exactly that reason -- the cost of the unit itself is only the tip of the iceberg.
For sure, but I bet not all kids with support from their family do cool things. Or put it in the other way, you have to prove yourself worthy before getting any fund (even from parents).
Title should be changed to that of the article, "USWDS: A design system for the federal government"

Although I can see why putting "U.S." in there helps as a qualifier, touting it as The system of the government makes it sound like this is in widespread use. The truth is that this is hardly used. The USDS does great work but they are tiny minority in the U.S. government. It would be fantastic to see their ways adopted and become the way of more departments and agencies, but currently it is not a reality.
The complete quotation must be:

> Nearly a quarter of American social science and humanities academics support dismissing colleagues who have unorthodox views in areas such as immigration or gender differences

The poster's comment has large gaps in matching the quotation.

Edit: actually the poster's comment literally seems to support «dismissing colleagues» out of «hat[red]» (on obscure basis, but at this point, giving "hatred" a weight, it is already irrelevant).
There's quite a few of undercover journalistic investigations too:

>Meet The Activist Who Uncovered The Russian Troll Factory Named In The Mueller Probe

>Internet activist Lyudmila Savchuk spent two months working undercover at the troll factory in 2015

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/03/15/594062887/... (2018)

>Inside a Ukrainian Troll Farm

>To understand how these powerful mechanisms function, OCCRP member center Slidstvo.Info sent a journalist undercover to work at a Ukrainian troll farm in advance of this summer’s parliamentary elections.

https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/inside-a-ukrainian-t... (2019)

>Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm

>Katarzyna Pruszkiewicz spent six months running fake social media accounts at self-described ‘ePR firm’ in Wrocław

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/01/undercover-rep... (2019)
Ask HN: Am I being instructed to do something illegal? (DEI hiring practices)
I work in an engineering department at a tech company in the USA. I've worked on many hiring projects over the years but the latest project is different to the others.

In the spreadsheet that lists all the open positions, there's a new column next to open positions with DEI comments. It has a line like this:

Senior Software Engineer (must be female)

If I follow this spreadsheet and exclude male applicants, then would I break any laws? Or if not laws, then would I violate other regulations or ethical standards in the industry?

I ask because my understanding of anti-discrimination law is that there are certain classes of people that cannot be excluded from job openings. Things like sex and race.

If this is illegal then what's the right way to handle this? Are there other ways I should think about this besides legal/illegal or ethical/unethical? Does region or state within the USA matter?

A little more context:

As a SSE I would do interviews or screen candidates but now in a Sr Manager role I'm more involved in the early planning and management of the process. In the first meeting where I saw the comments I said nothing. I followed up a few days later with an email to VP eng to say I opposed. 2 days after that I had a call with VP eng where I raised the issue again and they insisted that the requirement remain. I've taken no more action after that.
Go is incredibly hard to read. There's no intentional. Everything from error handling to flow control to business logic all looks exactly the same. On top of that naming conventions and package constraints tend to absurdly long and verbose (and therefore hard to read) programs for what should be trivial.
It tries to paywall content to recoup its millions in VC investment.
I thought we’d have banned software engineer lobbying by now, look how much harm they’re causing - https://www.healthline.com/health-news/social-media-use-incr...
I agree. I think python needs some solution to the `def foo(mylist=[])` which is a mistake I see devs make all the time. `foo=>func(a)` is awful. There's too much precedent that `x = f => {}` defines a lambda with x as a parameter. This flips it on its head. `@` would be challenging for the parser. `:=` also does not match the walrus semantics.

`x ?= default` is perfect IMHO. There's already prior art (Makefiles) that this means exactly "present? else = ..." with lazy evaluation of RHS expression.

It also would allow eliminating the "if x is SENTINEL" pattern, where None is a valid non-default argument.
This is really not the article for me. It's written by someone who, I infer, agrees that Newton "Destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to a prism." [1]. And that is so alien to my experience of understanding things and defining things that I fail to relate to the text. I'm very much on the "it only adds" side of things [2][3].

That being said, consider a meeting that happens "on the second Tuesday of each month". The number of days between each meeting is so haphazard and ridiculous... if you rebooted human society, that definition would not survive unchanged. There's a clear example of the spandrels in our time keeping system reaching out and affecting the actions we take.

1: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Keats (search for text "prism")

2: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/184384-i-have-a-friend-who-...

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbFM3rn4ldo
> I thought the same, but as I grow older, I believe people would reject this.

At some point, the (possibly subpar) GP will be a costlier decision (whether in dollars/time/frustration).

Just like grocery stores having 10 self-checkouts and 1 cashier.
This writeup has a pretty weird style of citations. Five of the first six links are actually the same PDF. Feels a bit misleading, when you are trying to establish something as a measured fact with statistical significance.
Hotel Concierge Is Probably a Texting Robot
I'm aware but I don't think unvested RSUs are subject to divorce asset splitting. Unvested RSU is like unearned salary. It's not an asset to split.

Maybe you mean vested but not released RSUs in pre-IPO companies.
> Education predicts liberal attitudes on issues such as immigration, Brexit and the death penalty, those with less education tending to adopt conservative positions. There is a crucial implication for universities. Because universities provide education, they gather individuals who tend to have liberal views. Exceptions always exist, yet the education-liberalism nexus implies that liberalism will predominate; most academics have higher degrees and students work towards degrees.

Isn't this reasoning circular?

It seems the author is taking a correlation ("liberal attitudes" and "higher education"), and then claiming that because the correlation exists, there is a causal connection that will perpetuate the correlation? But the cause is just glossed over, an implicit step in the circular thought process?

Assuming for a second that compressing political ideas down to a single "liberal vs conservative" axis is useful (I think it is actively harmful), my first question here is: why are "liberal attitudes" correlated with education?'

edit: there is a single, but shallow and unsatisfying point about the "educated class" tending to come from "creative fields" that are somehow better-suited to "liberal attitudes", I guess, but that's not really doing it for me
I recommend this course [1], it's 4 weeks long, but I did it in 3 days and got 97 [2].

It was also discussed on HN in the past [3].

--

[1] Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

[2] https://twitter.com/nivertech/status/1441657387325145096

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15092707
simply agree with whatever they are saying, then get the hell away

One of the characteristics of facism according to Wikipedia is “forcible suppression of opposition” which is ironic because facism is typically considered a far-right ideology.
I would argue that the single biggest application of spaced repetition today is the repost.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18706280

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24565987
I can recommend https://docs.postalserver.io/
This surprises me. I've never heard of anyone losing an internship or co-op position for such a reason. I can't think of it happening anywhere I've worked. As both of us have anecdotes however, perhaps some data on this could be enlightening.
Looks like this is $1k USD and not $500
It's interesting. I think you are correct about your approach having an implicit space repetition component, and that's actually one of the two principles underlying the power of structured spaced repetition: it's how we already learn anyways. By anchoring the process explicitly to the forgetting curve[1] it simply makes it more efficient.

You can see it everywhere: non-fiction books are often padded with redundancy as a sloppier form of spaced repetition, people often only remember other's names after using it several times, etc.

The other principle is recall > re-exposure. Outside of highly emotional experiences, one of the best ways to encode a new memory, paradoxically, is to remember it. But to achieve this means our notes have to be converted into something like flashcards, so instead of reviewing them, you are always giving yourself a pop quiz. It takes me a long time (if ever) to remember how to get somewhere if I use Google Maps. If I have to find it myself, even once, I am very likely to remember.

As someone whose absent-mindedness is a constant low-level existential crisis (what are we but our memories?), I'm motivated to extend the process beyond the straightforward flashcard material within subjects like computing and chemistry. I really don't think history, general musings, or personal interactions are any different. It just isn't as obvious at first. Some non-traditional examples:

Q: What restaurant did Bob recommend for me to visit the next time I'm in Seattle?
A: x

Q: What behavior adjustment did you tell your partner you are going to make to improve your communication?
A: x

Of course you can do the same thing with facts in history _and_ with your personal takeaways from the information.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve
When SimCity Got Serious
Tangential: I know there are people who collect stars on their projects and use them as badges of pride and perhaps put them on their resumes. I've never quite understood this. I never look at how many stars a project has and I have never starred a project as far as I am aware.

What am I missing?
Please list some of the solutions, because from where I am (actually in a hospital) all I see are people who care about patient outcomes.
A strategy which works until it doesn’t. Right or left does anyone think the current US political climate is sustainable?
If it doesn't feel right for you skip it for now.

Only after you get frustrated by adhoc nature of all the frameworks that rely on arbitrarily hacking html syntax and get lost in tangle of event listeners, triggering who knows what and when and in what order and state distributed over various html tags you might come to appreciate react revolutionary model and its exceptional consistency and composability.
What is the licensing of AlphaFold? If the drug makes it to market, does the creators owe royalties?
Not for IBM.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/IBM/ibm/market-cap

It is even worse than it looks considering the opportunity cost of not sticking the money in basically risk free and cost free SP500 ETFs. Even Warren Buffett took a huge bath on IBM.
This is why insurances are moving toward capitated plans. Instead of paying for services provided health care providers get paid per patient they care for. That way the perverse incentive created by asymmetric information is removed.
If he sets up a franchise business to open-up custom chip hardware manufacturing; that would be amazing.

The US military alone I feel needs this sort of redundancy; not to mention the freedom we need from closed-source hardware.
Sounds like the quote from the article is using the term "gas fee" to refer to the overall transaction cost. At least I don't see any reason why someone would specifically car about the gas fee portion of the overall fee in the context of losing most of the money in the refund process.
I was briefly a PM in a past company and I agree 100%. The obsession with chasing business metrics over actual performance, quality, and end-user value is demoralizing. And it’s not just chasing metrics: it’s chasing vanity metrics like 7-day retention and number of weekly new installs (ignoring uninstalls).

I could never give the engineering team time to fix bugs, improve efficiency, or clean up tech debt, because of the constant pressure to feature-cram and juice “engagement” metrics.

I’ve since moved on to being a Program Manager so I can focus on the “when” and “how” and be a neutral third party when it comes to the “what”. Only way to keep sane.
A desktop app could do the same. It would be trivial to run a little bit of extra code if the person running the app’s username is yours.
I would hope/think that the company's leader(s) consulted their attorney before instituting an objectively discriminatory practice. You might ask about that -- but if you're not a principal of the company, they don't necessarily have to answer your question (honestly).
I think what many people don't realise is the insane amount of research that is being done at IBM. In lots of areas, I know of quantum computing, silicon photonics, process development for integrated circuits, processors... They still file the most patents per year in the world by quite a margin (9000, the only one being remotely close is Samsung at 6000, for comparison apple and MS have 3000) and while I am not a big fan of patents, I do realise that one has to do significant research for getting this amount.

They probably could just run much of the business just on the licencing fees they get. If you think they are not doing anything you're likely not their target customer.
Nice job with the game.

Not to belittle your effort, but one of the appeals of Wordle is 1) everyone has the same word, 2)Once per day. It becomes a ritual between friends.
Easy. Governments, emerging countries, and heavy handed consulting. Once you're on their garbage it becomes near impossible to leave it.
> Another Medium alternative is Papyrus: https://papyrus.so.

Right. But even ignoring all that NFT stuff that others are commenting on, isn't your offering with Papyrus just somebody else's playground not owned by the content creator? Whereas the author has gone for a setup that fundamentally they own: they could move it anywhere, not tied to any provider, pretty easily. There are a ton of options for hosting a jekyll blog.

No disrespect to what you've built with Papyrus, because it does look good, but you've completely missed the point. Isn't this post more about taking back personal ownership and control of content than ceding to yet another "platform"? Here's the third paragraph:

Because I want that my content is my content and not my content on the “Medium’s hands”, plus Medium is not what was in the beginning.

Some of us don't want a "Medium alternative": we want ownership and control. Papyrus might be great now but, guaranteed, if it becomes as successful as Medium, I seriously doubt it will avoid devolving into a similar mess. I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

Again, with no disrespect to the quality of what you've built, in this context screw yet another company that wants to line its founders' pockets off the back of other peoples' content. I wish you well, but I don't believe what you're offering is what the author of the post is talking about (though it will no doubt suit some, and that's OK).
Well, I paid $500. For what it is I would not pay $1000. Certainly it shows that a $500 eBike is possible.
Not quite. If you write something that violates the TOS of
GitHub your content can be removed, also if someone
flags you for some reason.

You rely always on a third party service.
> They require no licensing and no insurance AFAICT.

That's because the amount of damage a bicycle can do, even a powered one, is astoundingly small compared to the damage even a subcompact car traveling at typical urban speeds can do.

~40,000 people a year are killed in automotive crashes. That's one person every fifteen minutes, roughly.

A person on a bicycle killing someone in a collision is so rare I can tell you the two times it's happened in my state: once in the 90's when a bike courier hit a pedestrian who stepped out into the street without looking, and more recently when two cyclists collided on a bike path (which happens to be one of the most trafficked bike paths in the nation.)

> As someone who has a motorcycle license, and had to do a bunch of training and get insurance I see folks on these things as no different to my if I were on a 125cc or 250cc motorcycle/scooter.

Most 125CC scooters are capable of 50-60mph (even a 50cc scooter can usually easily hit 40mph); the majority of e-bikes in the US top out at 20-25mph.

A 125CC scooter weighs about 300lb; a typical e-bike is well under 50lb.

A 125CC scooter can carry a passenger; the majority of e-bikes cannot.

There is near universal experience from early childhood with learning to ride a bicycle. There is not near-universal experience with learning to ride a scooter or motorcycle.

Etc etc etc.
> that eventually IBM ended up hiring teams of doctors to process the diagnosis requests that were coming into Watson.

Sounds like another health care company where the exec just got convicted.
In Illinois Doctors have to go to a one week conference every year that is supposed to talk about this stuff. They also have to take board exams every few years that make sure they're staying caught up on new advances.
It looks like web components are a nice way to encapsulate components for reuse, which is great but it doesn’t seem like it would enable one to write React-like code without dependencies or an external toolchain… am I missing something?
While I like personal mail servers and would suggest tech-savvy people at least to try them, OP mentions a home server, which probably involves a residential IP address, an ISP that won't set a reverse DNS for regular users, and likely other annoyances that would complicate mail delivery considerably more than usual.

If you'll decide to give it a try, BrandoElFollito, it's best to have at least one IPv4 address that isn't in a residential range and not in DNSBLs, a /64 IPv6 subnet (since blacklists tend to add at least a /64 subnet for those), ability to set in-addr.arpa records.
Stars are a soft indicator of community reach. Between any two similar projects, one with more stars has plausibly more people aware of its existence and more people who wanted to say "I like this".

"I never do X, therefore..." is a closed mindset that people should try to get away from. Ok, so you don't star projects. But clearly other people in general do star projects, so stars shouldn't be a huge mystery.
I mean fair enough. I gave you the time since I came from HN and knew the risk/reward for good content was strong.

If it was more than a toy, it would need to be less aggresive
Huygens optics is a great YouTube channel with lots of homemade lithography and optics stuff.

https://www.huygensoptics.com/
I’m not 100% sure, but from memory I believe most or all apps remember their previous window placement when re-opened. I know Kitty (the terminal I use) will open full-screen if it was full-screen when I closed it.
IBM is basically an Indian firm these days
I think my question was a bit misunderstood (downvotes): it has two parts, the fed and the rich.

1. The Fed: Thank you for providing resources to answer the 1st part of the question.

2. The rich: For the people who sold off stocks or real state at its peak, where are they going to park that cash next, if not speculative assets?