skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't really understand what you're saying there. There are actively racist institutions now, their systemic racism is affecting people today, and they are continually pushing for more racism. The racists are becoming more emboldened and blatant -- look at California prop 16, there was a push to explicitly repeal the constitutional prohibition against racial discrimination! And it was only narrowly defeated! Does that not ring any alarm bells with you?

I oppose all racism. "Oh but we can just be racist in this case because..." - nope. Doesn't cut it for me. Racism is non-negotiable. Racism can never be a tool for improving anything, because it hurts the individual in in unjust way, that's the problem with it. "It's fine Asians are privileged they can easily get into college" doesn't help the Asian kid from the poor family who came as a refugee, didn't speak English and was picked on at school for not fitting in.

I have no problem with institutions giving consideration to people who have experienced certain disadvantage. The income their parents made, for example. And if that consideration turns out to benefit some races more than others that's perfectly fine. "We have too many Asians at our college, increase the cutoff for them" is just disgusting vile discrimination though. I don't care what justifications I hear, what gaslighting, or how much people falsely accuse me of being the racist, I will never accept or agree with that.

I know some people think they can use racism "for good" as it were (isn't that always the story?). They need to own it though. Rather than accuse other people of being racist for opposing their racism, if they believe racism is the best tool for the job they should just be honest and admit it.
Some of these are not specific to computer games, some not specific to games (in general), and some are OK in some circumstances (but they often do it worse). Some are common even in older games, and aren't new. If the game is properly isolated, if you do not have to pay every time, if the documentation could be improved, could improve some things. Many kinds of games should not require an internet connection to work. However, these are not the only problems with computer games. In addition to unskippable advertisements, there are games with unskippable cutscenes, slow animations, etc. FOSS can also usually avoid such thing, fortunately. I make up computer games too and it avoids them.
How can users be sure that "results" aren't sponsored?

I imagine that whoever runs such a service would get hounded by paid placement opportunities if it takes off. A similar issue plagues browser extension devs.
Prescriptions of diet and exercise are ineffective because many obese / type 2 diabetic people can't exercise self-control. That's why they're obese in the first place. It's way easier to take a pill than cut to 1500 calories a day for 2 years.
> Better products don’t necessarily make the world better.

It depends who you ask. Someone is buying those products. We use money and public opinion to proxy for what we value. Without freedom to use those someone would need to dictate what's valuable.
good job teaching your kids that if you don't get what you want, always blame others and everyone's out to get you.
Presumably someone tipped the SEC about this, so they just had to go and verify the trades and then ask Twilio for chat logs. The report actually mentions exactly which SEC employees led the investigation, and it wasn't a huge team.
I have no idea why you're replying this with a question like this. You should read the MIT blog at the top of this forum and then return without the trolling.

If you're saying I should prove that my son is on a math team and has asian friends who are going to the University of Minnesota with similar test scores and GPA? Yeah, I'll get right on that.
Reminded me of http://intronetworks.cs.luc.edu/
You know what would make this less of a waste? Release the source (whatever is reasonable without leaking sensitive information) under a permissive license.

It could potentially provide tremendous value for someone else solving for an overlapping problem - and strengthen the recognition of the author. There are no requirements to give a single second of your time to it after that. Just dump it on some free place online. No need to provide contact details, if you prefer not to. Maybe someone will eventually rummage through the dump, find it and appreciate it, maybe not. Maybe someone will figure out a way to use parts or insights from it into a crowdsourced public good which does not rely on VCs, ads, or paying customers.

There are countless valuable learnings that are lost when founders abandon their projects and just wipe their efforts from the earth.

Imagine how much further and faster we could progress as a species if there was a culture to release your abandoned projects like that.
Imposing one's own hellban...
Transitional Architecture
Four Canadian provinces pushing ahead to build small nuclear power plants
That was my first interpretation as well, and I don't think there's actually any such technological limitation.

But I think what was meant is that typescript's mostly committed to not changing runtime behavior of the JS that remains when you strip the types away, and while I we might disagree with that goal or with its application in this instance, I can at least see the flow of the reasoning and label it a matter of priorities.
I tried getting into Factorio and bowed out for this reason. It had kind of the same complexities as programming, except now instead of making my arrangements directly I now had to control a little animated sprite to walk around and place things. The spaceman as a character holds no compelling interest.

I suppose there's probably some "pure design" mode that skips that tedium, but then the game feels shallow. You're design a bunch of dataflow pipelines organized on a 2D grid. Also the graphics feel washed out and grainy, and the whole alien species attacks thing was distracting.

Playing factorio just makes me want to reimplement factorio. Not that I have the time or inclination.
Good question ... I spent a long time trying to understand probabilistic graphical models. Using them to make sense of time series data (more specifically on-body wearable sensors to detect specific activities in maintenance). E.g. Kevin Murphy's and Daphne Koller's work (highly recommend their books).

The type of problems in that space usually didn't work well with linear control theory, although I'm not strong in theory ... at the time mostly playing with some signal processing packages in matlab (e.g. Kalman Filtering).

Recently, I got interested in group and social dynamics (we recorded a couple of large scale datasets).
I found an approach found in some of the non-linear dynamics practitioner's lectures/works intuitive and fun for me. You could call it "Explorative Experimental Computational Mathematics":
1. find an interesting phenomenon
2. record data, run simulations and plot data
3. look at the visualizations
4. fit a model /formulas based on the visualizations
Iterate.

If I have completely misrepresented a field/research please forgive me. Just an enthusiast amateur here.
Despite having used the megablock tool in the past when I was on twitter (no longer active on there), I completely agree with your idea of social gardens. It's a large part of why I moved from there and tumblr to dreamwidth which has attracted a significantly more laid back and nuanced collection of people than the other two platforms. It's nice because you can subscribe to people's journals who have a very different collection of hobbies, and yet it doesn't feel forced for engagement or anything - it's their whimsies and thoughts, hollistically, and under various privacy filters if it's a delicate topic.

The main reason I used megablock on twitter was to reduce harassment from younger folks who send death threats for the sole perceived crime of creating NSFW art. I wish I were joking. Didn't follow anybody, it was already too toxic with those messages alone ... and why post if you can't create?
WeTriedOurBestAndHopeWeDidBetterThanRegularCabs™
Thank you. Reader view is my favorite thing we've built. The web has become a cesspool of ad-tech to the point that most of the news or articles you try to read are simply unusable. Pop-over/under/auto-roll ads, no visible content on the page, paywalls for content shared with search engines, allow notifications, location prompts, full-screen interstitials and on and on.

I don't blame publishers. Google and Facebook took all the digital revenue and left the people who make content with nothing, so they have to milk every last penny through out of control ad tech and tracking.

Reader view is a way for users to get back to what the web was like, without getting tracked or having to sign up for every subscription site on the web. But it is really important to stress that our entire model is to share revenue when we start having it with the people who make the content. So we want to actively partner with media companies to give Andi users even more paywalled and exclusive content, and give a revenue stream to content producers that shares they value with them that their content creates in search.
How much Mercury does satellite propellant contribute to global airborne mercury, compared to coal fired power plant emissions? My first thought is that this is about 7 orders of magnitude less, and thus a ridiculous thing for these technocrats to focus on… but I’m happy to be educated. Or is there some other concern about mercury in satellite propellant?
> I feel the true, primary function of these institutions is to give the rich and powerful a means to identify each other and their respective pedigrees.

That has been true for a long time. And before then, the primary function of those institutions was training ministers.

Joking aside, there's lots of evidence (assembled in a book like The Cult of Smart [1]) that the effects of education are saturated in developed countries. In other words, you won't get an appreciably better education at a prestigious school than you will at an unprestigious school. The biggest educational difference arises from the composition of the student body, not the actual instruction.

So many young people are working themselves raw in high school and college to be prestigious when it doesn't have much of an effect on outcomes. Couple that with an antiquated curriculum and the modern college experience is so much wheel spinning.

[1] https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250200389/thecultofsmart
Wow, this seems really cool! You have no idea how excited I'm to give it a try. However I was unable to find a download for ubuntu... either way, I joined your mailing list and i'm hoping to hear about a version for linux soon :)

edit: actually i just had a good idea, gonna try this next weekend when gaming!
I argue somewhat opposite.

* Japan won't decide good future energy plan since 2011. They avoid wide discussion for that because utilize nuclear (meaning replacing old existing plants by new plants) is obviously unpopular opinion but other options also have problems or difficulties. So currently just burn coal/LNG. They encouraged to build solar plants but it's hated by some people due to it encourages deforestation (makes land weak for disaster), high additional fee for every electricity bill. Also it won't work much in winter (when supply crisis tend to be happen).

* Germany decided strong future energy plan, but their plan (renewables but also rely on russian gas) is failed now.
It’s still not a propellant, and use of nuclear explosives in the atmosphere or near earth orbit is already covered by other treaties.
FSU was a perfectly fine school, you can certainly do a lot worse (at least the CS department, I can't speak for anything else really).

I was suffering from a lot of "don't give a shit" syndrome, leading to me not going to class, which makes it a lot harder to get decent grades.
The Debate over the Definition of “Anime”
I suppose there is a middle ground where it spits out a curl request (or something) that you could inspect and then insert your own API key into
I expect those guys will start pushing SGLT2 inhibitors (gliflozins) next.
I sometimes manually do this when I'm feeling petty, or when a tweet is so offensive that in real life, I'd disassociate with people who endorse it. Good to have a tool. I just tried it on a spam tweet, and only the author got blocked.

Maybe other users get put in a queue or the service is close to Twitter limits.
Probably still good to create my own block function (and hope Twitter doesn't ban the API use).

Reminder: Probably best to revoke the app's permission when done.
Advertising is the corrupting influence that has ruined the Internet and made using the web awful :(

Google can only get away with it because they have a browser distribution monopoly with Chrome, Android and their deal with Apple.

If Andi works, our mission is to come up with a different and more fair economic model for the web. It's early days, but it's time for different approaches than a screen filled with advertising.

So, I'm with you here! It's time for a world that lacks advertising :)
Ask HN: Is Apple low-balling me or am I an impostor greedy bastard?
TL;DR — Apple offered me USD $228k average annual total compensation (base + RSU + bonus), which is below the 25th percentile of ICT4-Senior according to Levels FYI (https://www.levels.fyi/company/Apple/salaries/Software-Engineer/ICT4/Canada/). Are they low-balling me or am I being too greedy?

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I am a Software Developer with over twelve (12) years of verifiable work experience as an individual contributor in Canada, US, and LATAM. University drop-out. I started in Web Development (full-stack), then Web Security (back-end and tooling) and, finally, Systems Programming in industries like InfoSec, Web Hosting, Gaming, Marketing, and Internet Services. I worked for two (2) Fortune Global 500 companies and have a passion for distributed systems.

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Hello, HN.

I wonder if you can help me riddle this one out.

I have been doing interviews at dozens of medium and large companies for the last couple of years, mostly because 1) I want to keep my impostor syndrome at bay, 2) I want to practice my English as much as possible, 3) a manager taught me the best time to interview is when you don’t need a job, and 4) LeetCode and take-home exercises are equally fun to me.

Long story short, one of those interviews was at Apple (Canada). It was less technical than I expected, but still challenging, especially the one about Data Privacy and Security, which was the most entertaining interview I have had in years.

Unfortunately, the offer is several thousand dollars below what I expected (↓2x).

I feel like being a university drop-out and/or keeping a Senior Software Developer role for so long without jumping into management may have contributed to the low offer.

I am not white, and I don’t think race or gender had anything to do with it. However, the last time I tried to negotiate the salary, they invited me to a video call and I was the only one with the camera on, which I thought was a bit disrespectful and disingenuous.

Now, you may ask —Why didn’t you ask the (internal) recruiter?—.

Well, I did.

They said that the range for base salaries is limited by the 75th percentile they pay in the city my team is located, which is determined by market rates. Then, paraphrasing, —If we pay you the amount you expect, you’ll have a much higher salary than any of your team mates, and it will make it much more difficult to give you a raise in subsequent years.—.

The answer didn’t make sense to me at all, but I did not have a good come back in English at the moment.

Today, I think, why is it my fault that my team members are also underpaid? Is not that a sign that the company needs to re-evaluate their salaries too? And lastly, why would I worry about future raises if you can’t even pay what I expect today?

What do you think HN community?
> Configurable via web interface, provided by the device.

Very much a plus. No cloud means these won't magically stop working at some random time in the future. Also means my picture frame is (probably) not spying on me.
Sure, but the consumption of luxury food products is only loosely related to the population size.
You already likely have people in your life you just ignore the opinions of on certain subjects, or anything, because you know there's never going to be anything there. But there frequency and interjection is pretty well controlled by meatspace reality. Basic example: I will not watch any movie my brothers recommend. 10 years of trying and it turns out our tastes are pretty much exactly divergent.

This tool is basically a practical implementation of trust markets for a very large space. I'd say the one flaw in its implementation is that you might like to block only the intersecting set of users which liked 2 or more tweets - which would be a pretty good selector function in a lot of cases for "nuanced perspective or accident" versus "consistent pattern of behavior".
Spicy take: lots of folks use it once, on a tweet from Elon Musk.

Twitter would explode. Either from the blocklist explosion, or the outrage whiplash.
As a programmer I’d be more worried about the lookup cost. There are efficient ways to lookup a name in a list and very inefficient ways that would be fine for small lists, but struggle with large lists.
Compressed bitmap indexes are the way to do this in theory. Very efficient storage.
Yeah, I did some software poly stuff too but late eighties and it didn't have texture mapping. It was used in some sports games.
It's not. It's a strong signal of things going downhill.
The first thing to do is establish how many people the world can sustainably support. I haven't seen any numbers about that. All the estimates include industrial practices and many include assumptions that we will have technological breakthroughs. The support estimates range from about 9-12 billion, with peak population estimated around 11.5 billion. Still no mention of sustainable numbers. It seems you're using Malthusians as an insult without going into what is wrong with the general concept that population increases could outpace resource availability, especially given that resources are constrained. I wouldn't say I'm a strict believer in Malthusian theory. But some of it is looking likely when you see many of the fish species we eat have declined by 90% or more, aquifers are at risk in the next 30 years, arable land is being lost, etc.

You focused on transportation, which is something, but not really about how many people the earth can support. Most people rarely fly, so I see that as mostly a moot point to most individuals (potential for a policy change). Trains could be a great replacement option - but again, something that requires massive infrastructure changes to be feasible. Could I move to a place that would require little to no driving, yet it would require giving up more than just driving. I wouldn't be able to participate in various hobbies, I'd have to quit my job, and worst of all live in a dirty crime ridden city (yeah yeah, over the top but some truth to it here in the US if we're talking about big enough cities to accommodate a large number of my interests without needing to drive.

What we're really talking about is food and water, and somewhat of other constrained natural resources (metals for EVs/batteries, lumber, etc).

In the case of water, we are depleting many aquifers around. This will eventually require lifestyle changes like rationing water, collecting rain water, no lawns, etc. And it could mean a reduction in crop output while populations are near their peak.

For food, do we do away with foods that require a lot of water, processing, or land? Do we eliminate meat and stop fishing the oceans? These are huge lifestyle changes.
It's a complex issue. On one hand, what differentiates universities from trade schools is teaching students how to learn/do their own research vs. acquire specific skills/knowledge: demonstrating some kind of self-motivated achievement aside from strict academic requirements helps universities select students who are receptive to this. On the other hand, yes, it selects for more well-off students who have the free time, inclination, and means to pursue their interests.
There's a lot of creatives that need twitter in order to make their second income viable (promotion for their patreon/etsy/gumroad stores, etc).

... and there's a lot of those artists who get sent death threats for the sheer crime of drawing NSFW art or even milder LGBT+ works.

I used to be on that track of indie artist promotion but swore off twitter after repeatedly seeing that level of harassment. Why post? While I was on there, this was an enormously helpful tool that at least cut down on the level of toxic messages seen.
It would help if you specified whether the book is a textbook, if it's a dead tree book or ebook, or if it might even be an online "book" like the Stacks Project: https://stacks.math.columbia.edu/
Ah that would explain it - I know there are lots of high resolution textures and high quality sounds in modern games but there's still a limit to what can fit in RAM etc.

There is more "stuff" in games too I suppose but it's not like games have twice as many maps/levels as they did 10 years ago.
turn back on the computer and play elden ring. touch grace
The actual analogous action would be to keep scrolling. This does nothing to show disgust as no one else knows that you blocked them.
It is just so easy to get caught, this kind of insider trading is just the classic dumb criminal crime. And at the end you only made $100k at the very high chance of some algorithm in the SEC easily detecting what you did.

There are probably more lucrative and/or less risky ways of making illicit money.
Leap is basically two dedicated keys for incremental search forwards & backwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_TlE_U_X3c
Thanks! I saw three theories listed in the nature article and none of them mentioned lensing or Einstein rings.

Some curiosities behind the question were whether optical and radio frequencies behave the same with lensing. And how to tell if the radio image is in front of or behind the stars.

I'm an armchair astronomer if that, and obviously didn't read the source paper. Appreciate your thoughtful response!
It'd be great if there was a record of how/why people were blocked on twitter.

Fingering megablock & the originating tweet would be great context to know.

Personally I also think this kind of activity should itself be an optional part of our timelines, that we should be able to publicly or privately do these actions, as we see fit. Moderation is all individual right now, blocks are private activities, and starting to stake ourselves in, make our personal moderations part of the public discourse seems like a necessary next jump.

At this point I don't think anyone ever reviews their moderations, who they block. But I want to see a path for social media to eventually become a little more redemptive, where we a couple years down the road we might possibly be willing to try again. Structurally, right now, the whole moderation system is opaque as fuck, there's no real trace of what happened, there's no ability to reconsider at all. It's weird having a big log of shared internet history where the most important factors are not logged, have no record.

I don't think twitter is an echo chamber. I think it's badass & wide ranging & we engage in huge wild globe-spanning conversation in the exact opposite of echo chambers. But I do think it's cruel & merciless & that these proprietary social networks are cold & hard structurally, & that they refuse to allow a more real story & more real engagement & accounting to happen, systematically. They keep an amazing record, but also are radical extremists blowing up some of the most important parts of the record, deny much of the most core & vital history they create. Moderation should have the option to be part of the network: right now that is blanketly denied.