skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think somehow it's based on the idea of "give more opportunities to the weak" which seems more humane.

It's not the policy only in the State. Believe or not, there's a similar policy in China that if a student is ethnic minority then s/he can get extra scores on the university entry exam named GaoKao which is equivalent to SAT. To take advantage of the preferential treatment, there are quite some fake "minority" students who might have some blood of ethnic minorities. The favorable treatment is not limited to GaoKao.

Personally I'm not totally against the policy in general. It's true that weak groups need to be taken care of. But there are many problems:

1.It doesn't reflect the real academic capability for the students who got extra scores. Eventually some of them can not catch up the pace of normal courses.

2.It created another stereo type and bias towards those students. The are considered to be less competent but actually some of them are excellent.

3.There's no social problem like eastern Asia countries that the minorities are very small group. No body complain. In US it's a totally different situation that could cause tension.
You have to understand, this is the last dying throes of a liberal fire that has been raging for hundreds of years. Liberalism has achieved great things in the west, including expanding the rights of women, minorities, and LGBT individuals. We are all better off for its achievements. However, the low hanging fruit is taken, and now the same activists that once fought for noble goals are reduced to taking ever more divisive measures in pursuit of an unattainable ideological purity. The hyper focus on race, the election of Trump, the increasingly bizarre language of the modern liberal intelligentsia - these are all symptoms. Expect these crazy racist programs & ideas to intensify in the next 10 years until the whole movement collapses in on itself like a dying star (it may have already started, look at SF school board elections).
I'm not allowed to work for any travel focused company for another 20 months according to my previous contract. It might be illegal but also I'm so done with that industry I don't really care.
That is a genius idea. Maybe the first row of coloured squares that you share can be a different colour scheme to show to others that you are playing that mode.
You were one of my biggest inspirations for going into software engineering, I absolutely loved your website in high school and would always mess around with the source code to your games. Happy to see you’re still going!
They probably don't even want to sell virtual clothes. They just want to skim 30-80% off all the virtual clothes transactions with a "platform"
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Good advice. What I usually do is also create a few chrome profiles. One for Discord, one for Gmail, one for Shopping, etc.

Firefox is also great for this kind of thing with custom container tabs.
> Whilst there is such a thing as domain skill, a noncompete should affect a secretary or assistant minimally in practice, as they generally have a broad, non-domain-specific skillset, unlike the executive they report to.

These aren't what people think of as 'secretaries'. These are highly skilled executive assistants with WAY more domain-specific skills than you're giving them credit for. I have friends that do this for C level executives. Including at $100bn+ companies. A non-compete within a given industry would severely hamstring their future career.
I've meanwhile read that they are networked very well, with fibre even, but only between each other when built in a park/farm. And often very remote, far from other inftastructure. The problem arises at the transfer/injection point from the utitility one level up. Not always, but sometimes, and in different ways. It can happen that there is no 3/4g at all there. It can happen that the other utility isn't networked(in a usable way). It can happen that the other utility doesn't want to network for whichever reasons, security, etc. And it can happen that you get 1Gb/s symmetrical there.

Apparently Enercon choose to offer its clients this solution as 'carefree package', to spare them the regulatory/bureaurocratic hassle of having to deal with this.
Personally, I’ve much more “empire building” type behavior (let’s hire tons people from my background who will probably support my initiatives), than discrimination against “others.”
Hey! Your 12 games in 12 weeks thing (back in ...2014? Jesus, time flies) was what got me into HTML5 game dev! So I wanted to say thank you for the inspiration :)

I especially appreciate the "loads no assets" aspect. I will take a look at the code in the morning!

p.s. have you considered the name "Flappy Pong"?
I find it fun because it prompts me to find the optimal guess (given hard mode). Playing easy mode I'm much more happy to do the first word that comes to mind and sort of fits.
>There is none, because there is no mainstream progressive position associated with discriminating against Asians.

Right, just as there's no political party/government whose position is runaway inflation. Yet, runaway inflation still happens, usually as a result of some sort of government policy. The fact that no one advocates for it directly is irrelevant. If you advocate for a policy, you're advocating for all of its effects, good or bad.
If the risk is too high, no it is not, almost tautologically so. If nothing is left of humanity but a smoldering crater, then democracy is, and always has been, entirely meaningless. And the survivors (if any) would never forgive us.

Your logic is left over from pre-nuclear times, when it still made sense. As horrifying as it might be be to face this cold, post-nuclear calculus, we must do it to survive as a species. Which is not to say that we should not push back against aggressive dictators — we must, as much as we are able — but conventional warfare between nuclear powers has to forever be off the table.
If you are patient Paradox games become reasonably priced over time during sales or through bundles. Also they are so much more replayable than other games, it's perfectly reasonable to spend $100-250 on them (I logged >1000 hours in EU4 before a third of the DLCs even came out).

I like that their DLC model gives them the opportunity to support and expand games for so long. I don't like that their base games pretty much stink until they get at least the first few DLC though - there's not much reason to play CK3 when it's so content-bare and CK2 exists as a "complete" game with tons of content.
Honestly, I think both Souls games and Street Fighter are very watchable for non-players. Both rely on a very strong link between animation and gameplay, which I find reads more intuitive than something like watching someone play a shooter I'm unfamiliar with.
If I remember Google's racial makeup is pretty close to the racial makeup of {x: SAT(x) > 1450}
That sounds like you want to keep people away from your organization. Why not ask them these questions during the interview? Usually ask questions around the issues that your organization is facing. See how they would solve that problem. Often times, teams get intimidated by strong talent so they often pass on these scouts, but your team should be the one that is providing you with the problems for these candidates to solve their riddles =p

Always present real time challenges, so that you are helping the teams pass obstacles and not providing tests that make no sense in teams therefore resulting in steep learning curves.
Sure, but the startup that does this is going to lose, because usually a given risky dependency isn't actually going to turn out to be malicious, and reviewing all foreign dependencies as if they were your own code is wildly time consuming.
It's faster now, I haven't been bothered by speed yet.

But yes, realtime collaboration is a critical feature for documents that can be used during meetings (and IMO ~no meetings should be held without documents).

The other critical feature is comments, which I assume Obsidian does not have support for (they would be very nontrivial to represent in markdown).
The University of California is eliminating them because scores are correlated to race.

Ironically, they used to have a set number of seats for people that had bad grades and aced the standardized tests. Blacks, Hispanics and other economically disadvantaged groups were over represented in that admissions pool. (So eliminating the tests will reduce the number of minority kids. According to the WSJ, they did this in Virginia in an attempt to boost enrollment in those groups. UC claimed that was their goal, but the study that they commissioned specifically to evaluate the policy change said it would reduce minority admissions.)

Doubly-ironically, a while back, California colleges had explicit quotas for Asian kids to keep them from "taking over". They eliminated the quotas and promised to never do it again.

They're still making a big stink about how the student body isn't representative enough. Guess which group is the only overrepresented one in California. (Hint: It's not the Caucasians.)

The structural racism in this state continues to amaze me.
You can use it free, mate. Just sync your markdown files via your favourite provider, or your own WebDAV, e.g. Nextcloud, or use a free sync plugin. There's even git plugins if you're a fellow nerd that wants version control.
Nftables – Demystifying IPsec Expressions
This is such a good take on a classic. I love it!
For the same reason, I use the previous day's solution as the starting word.
To put parent poster's comment in context, the Japanese committed unthinkable atrocities on the Chinese civilian population during WW2, a lot of which they haven't even bothered to apologize for to this day. Ergo, a lot of Chinese hate the Japanese with a passion.
> “ 1. it is not free software”

What are you talking about?

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/master/LICE...

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/master/LICENSE

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/blob/master/LICEN...
I have started saying aloud “Someone on the internet is saying something I disagree with, and it’s making me upset”. I say this whenever I notice it happening. It immediately makes me realize how silly it is for this to take up my time, and frees me to let go and move on.
Did you take them up on it? Would be an interesting experiment.
I went to visit https://athensresearch.github.io/athens/ and got "Only browsers based on Chrome/Chromium are supported" on Firefox. Lol.
I once thought git for humans would be a great idea but never got around to speccing it out. Later on, a lawyer friend showed me the software they used 'for backup' (that they paid thousands per month for) and it turned out everything about it was just exactly like SVN. The terminology was different, the UX was laser focused to the intended users, but at the end of the day it was commits, syncs, merging, pretty much everything but branches, just laid out with domain specific language instead, professional office UI and simple UX.

So, uh, yeah I agree absolutely with you.
Thanks for the feedback, we'll look into it.
Have a look at Etherpad.
I’m not going to defend what random internet commenters may have said, but in my view the core team has been fairly consistent and their design decisions (to me) make sense.

The first thing to understand is that Go occupies a space lower level than Java but higher level than C. It includes things like explicit pointers and more control of memory layout.

Many of the design decisions make no sense without that context. Go can’t simply copy generics from Java or memory sharing from Erlang, since the design decisions made by those languages would introduce too much overhead in a language intended to be lower level. In a lower level language more aspects of how a program executes are specified explicitly, rather than accepting more overhead or guessing what a complex optimizer will do.

On generics, I think the team’s position has mostly been that it’s a big project and there’s been other priorities like rewriting the compiler in Go, improving the GC, etc. And that in the spectrum of trade-offs for generics systems they didn’t want to go all the way to Java or C++.

I feel like a lot of HN commenters compare Go to higher level languages and find it lacking, which may be a fair assessment for certain problems but isn’t really understanding the niche it tries to occupy.
Location: Pakistan, Japanese National.

Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Numpy, Scikit-Learn, Pandas, PyTorch and Python-based Back end technologies such as Flask and FastAPI (and eager to learn Django).

Résumé/CV: [Google Drive Link] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EUeHniUixfLXmKRp_lDUQ6IOhCT...

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Recently graduated, have been working as a Machine Learning Engineer for the past few months at a Fintech company that provides BNPL(Buy Now Pay Later) financing.

I am looking for jobs that would allow me to work with people who are well versed in the field of Machine Learning Engineering or to an extent Data Engineering. Although I am a recent graduate I consider myself a quick learner and my passion to get my hands dirty in data ensures that I would perform my jobs with due diligence and interest.

My communication skills have been praised by my peers and my ability to work under pressure ensures that the task gets done no matter what. I also have experience in building MERN stack web apps and mobile applications using React Native but I'd really prefer something Python and ML based. Thank you for reading.
That doesn't seem designed for growing teams – for example, it doesn't seem to have comments.
> Which still might be “better” for them than a California style blanket ban on non compete.

To my knowledge, companies in CA have the option to counter their former employee's offer from another company. If Company A really doesn't want their employee to work at Company B, they can offer them a fair amount of money to not work for a year.

I think that would be a fair middle ground that doesn't require non-competes.
What you say is as inarguable as 1+1=2. That's why it's fascinating to watch people twist themselves into rhetorical knots to avoid the obvious truth.

The reason for disadvantaging Asians (and Jews) is that it has always been fashionable to do so. This was true long before the Chinese Exclusion Act and, in the US, it seems it may always be true.
At this point I feel like an anonymous platform for publicly available bugs and vulns like this would be a good thing.

Oh, you don't do a bug bounty, and you say it's fixed when it clearly isn't? Okay, then it shouldn't be a problem if I publicly name, shame and provide a POC for everyone to see.

Though, I'm sure most people would just sell it to a vulnerability broker instead and make a quick buck.

Note: Such a platform I'm invisioning here would definitely be illegal. I'm aware.
This is the stated reasoning.

It came out in the court case that the real reasoning was to discriminate on the basis of race without saying they were discriminating on the basis of race, and they weren’t very careful about hiding the fact that the changes were racially motivated in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing. Here’s the opinion: https://pacificlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Coalitio...

The whole opinion is worth reading, but the meat starts from the middle of page 5 onward. Their explicit goal was to change the racial makeup of the school for political purposes, and so the case hinges less upon the changes themselves than the racially motivated reasoning behind them.

If you are interested and would like a far better explanation than I can provide that goes into the opinion, the context around the case and alternatives, consider the latest episode of the Advisory Opinions podcast released on February 28th, 2022[1].

[1]: Link to the episode page here but you are better served searching it in a podcast app like Overcast. https://advisoryopinions.thedispatch.com/p/judge-strikes-dow...
I don’t see it as the governments job to ensure the loyalty of those with privileged information through legal force, that should be ensured through higher salaries. It’s an example of a law which exists purely to facilitate inequality and to ensure that people paid so little they will never become homeowners can be threatened with joblessness and poverty if they get a competitor to increase their salaries because of the value of the information they know. These non-competes make it companies can expense enforcing loyalty through legal force to the public purse, instead of actually having to pay for loyalty.

Most laws revolving around protecting corporate secrets are enablers of inequality that the public pays for. It’s one of these services the government provides to business that it really shouldn’t.
* flappy pong *
IMHO has nothing to do with that respect

It something to do with the environments or clients smooth interactive operability

Whichever OS is better and more efficient in configuration to achieve that, it'd be used the most
How is that any different from someone with a regular job? Especially someone who has to leave before the kids are up?

And how is 5PM "shortly before bed"?
It's all about incentives.

It's easier for education departments to shoot the messenger (the college admissions board) than admit the K-12 system they're responsible for is hopelessly racist.
> I'm not just talking about lack of rendering bells and whistles - I also thought the design itself was tacky, reminiscent of much lower-budget games like Valheim or those mid-2010s f2p Korean MMOs. Admittedly this is subjective.

Did you make it into Limgrave?
Hopefully Haskell will get some monomorphizing generics and we will make less stuff boxed too!
As per line one of my comment — I also don’t much like non-competes.

The only reason I commented was to dispel and push back on the conspiracy-esque style that the parent commenter used to characterise /how/ the law got written this way.
Wing hits 200k drone deliveries in Australia, a delivery every 25 seconds
Interestingly, in many languages you often would, but it depends on the specific country. Both French and Portuguese use the definite article for most countries but not all.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_pays_du_monde

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_Estados_soberanos

If I were speaking French or Portuguese, I would definitely say "the Mexico" (le Mexique, o México), "the Brazil" (le Brésil, o Brasil), and "the France" (la France, a França).

English has some traditions of using definite articles for singular proper geographic names. People have found some patterns in this, but my impression is that it's something that can be quite irregular in individual languages, and not consistent between languages, either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The#Geographic_usage

The use "the Ukraine" sounds natural to me as a middle-aged native English speaker; my impression is that "Ukraine" has replaced "the Ukraine" in most references only because of the request of the Ukrainian government, and not because of any grammatical concern with proper names using definite articles.

But it's definitely possible that there is a pattern in which geographic features other than countries more likely to bear the definite article in English, while countries are less likely to bear it, and if there were such a pattern, we might be unconsciously aware of it and not be able to articulate it easily, much like many other patterns in language.

So I would encourage people not to say that it's illogical to use definite articles with proper names, including geographic names -- it can be traditional and even obligatory in English and many other languages! -- but also not to say that it's obvious that there are never any possible connotations to be drawn from such use in English (that governments might want to avoid, as some people are saying has happened here).
Hmmm... Never thought about it this way. I'd mostly seen it as if some people were unable to separate argument from the messenger.

Maybe I got so used to talk to and live with people I disagree with that I expect others to be able to handle it just like I do.
And this is why I am so thankful to Periyar and the social justice movement in the 60s in South India. The only state where it caught on with a fervor was TamilNadu, and thanks to the vast majority of the population opting to shift from caste-based surnames to Patronymical surnames, it is very difficult to identify caste from the name alone in today's Tamil Nadu.
I use notmuch[1] with lieer[2]. Notmuch maintains a tags database with full-text search indexing for a set of maildirs, and Lieer uses the GMail API to synchronize messages with a maildir and labels with notmuch tags. There are lots of notmuch frontends available, but I use the built-in Emacs frontend.

[1]: https://notmuchmail.org/

[2]: https://github.com/gauteh/lieer
free as in "open source" not free as in free software. you cant do squat with the software, you cant submit bug fixes or fork and roll out your own. this is for complying with license requirements.

oh, also the github repo last i heard was very far behind in commits from their internal live branches. they push to github as an afterthought
Too clever by half, I think.

Why would rich and powerful executives lobby to make sure there is an 'exception' that keeps them bound by these contracts?

One answer: It helps them. If you're in demand, you can extract more money by promising to keep the secrets. This gives "executives" and "secretaries to executives" a special way to extract a little more.
Email is fundermentally insecure. What we need is a new protocol entirely, not to pile more stuff on top of it.
> This is how they look at free speech: https://twitter.com/nrr/status/627606068546437120

Not necessarily. It's probably more how they view people who yammer on about free speech, which is a totally different thing than free speech itself.

Also, how exactly did you come to have a six year old reply-tweet to make your comment?
I literally have never met anyone who spent that much time daily with their family while also having an intense job. Taken at face value it's nothing short of marvelous.
I have gotten a few offers - sadly the company I chose to go with pulled my signed employment agreement (arguably illegally given the jurisdiction but I don't want to force someone to hire me/fight for damages) when someone internal complained that they were discriminated against or somehow not considered in the job search.
Pongy Ball
> The racial categories are a very American centric and limited term, and arguably rooted largely as social constructs that loosely define the ethnic populations they cover. For example, and I don't mean any offense or to call any group out specifically, Koreans are overrepresented compared to Cambodians at the academic institutions listed in the article per their population proportion. This doesn't seem to be captured and accounted for under the current system.

You've really hit the heart of the logical conclusion of intersectionality that those espousing it fight to avoid: individualism. Once you have to start accounting for subgroups of subgroups, you reach the fact that the smallest subgroup to account for is an individual person.
Gravity Snake is great!
The authors are not doing a particularly good job of framing the losses or the benefits with their wording in the article.

They link to a source that indicates that losses can be as high as .. well, exceeding the value of a seed stock used to plant the crop, so I guess that is greater than 100%?https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/27034#tosummaryOfInvasive...

The actual article in question cites 60% losses:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00852-5

The five-fold statement appears to be sloppy/misleading writing with respect to comparing the improvement over the baseline, not 5x the actual production. The article is not generally dishonest but the specific claims seem to be well into the "geez.. IDK guys.." territory.