skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're reading it wrong. They weren't saying that there's an equal chance for anyone to be born poor as to be born wealthy, they were saying the chances are the same for a straight person to be born either poor or wealthy as for a LGBT person to be born either poor or wealthy.

This is not always true for other minorities. A random black American isn't as likely to have been born into wealth as a random white American.
This is very surprising, in Australia I understand we have strict codes and I have never heard of it taking this long

What exactly does the electrician spend all that time doing in California?
> Because of the site’s design, conversation happened in a nesting-doll structure—to comment on anything, users had to reblog the original post onto their own page and make their additions beneath it.

> Tumblr was often criticized for its purity culture—conversations could go nuclear as soon as someone was deemed “problematic,” or once their “fav” had been declared “canceled.”

The first paragraph caused the second one. That’s not a conversation, that’s broadcasting to your narrow group of like-minded followers.

Fatal UI decision ultimately, and it was probably done because comments were considered toxic.

But nothing was ever as toxic as challenging some of the crazy ideas on there (one I remember getting tangled up in was “feminism means men can hit women”) and having that person’s personal army come after you.

So RIP Tumblr, you sucked and made the world a worse place.
Nope. I actually don't hear anything relevant from them.

Non if there things are popping up anywhere.

Do they actually do anything which helps people instead of making them more victims of fb?
How is that "shrinking"? If new luxury housing gets built now and refurbed later, the additional unit count is still there.
"I hate the living..." -- Dr. Weaver
Most of that can also be said for bars, restaurants, living rooms, gyms etc. If you have a kitchen at home, you don't need a bar and a restaurant. Soft drinks? Useless unhealthy pollution. Alcohol, even worse. Why have two rooms (bedroom+living room) if you can't be in both at once? And you're wasting space with then, and energy to heat and cool them.

Looking at the causes of death in the developed world, I think food (fast, restaurant, processed and junk food + sugary drinks) kills way more people than cars, even when accounting for pollution, brake dust, etc.
Funny, I think Quake 2 or Unreal Tournament were both better, respectively. Most likely an age thing. To be fair they were all pretty good.
> What goes wrong with Tesla cars specifically, I don't know, but I will point out that Waymo manages to kill many fewer people and so we shouldn't consider Tesla performance to even be SOTA on the self-driving task, much less tell us anything about fundamental limits to self-driving cars and/or NNs.

Side note, but I think Waymo is treating this more like a JPL "moon landing" style problem and Tesla is trying to sell cars today. It's very different to start with making it possible and then scaling it down vs trying to build something working backwards from the sensors and compute economical to ship today.
So let me get this straight, you want me to give you money so that you can build and run a business, and you also want me to have no control over how that money is used, and for me to get no benefit from the whole thing?

Why would I give you my money?
He is referring to racist racists.
Is the "no ships adjacent to other ships" rule part of the original commercial Battleship game? When I played it with my family, we didn't follow that rule, and so there was considerable scope for ambiguity about whether nearby hits were part of the same ship or not.
My anecdotal experience is contrary to the science.
Invisible walls and automatic aiming. It ruins the experience for anyone trying to get better at it. Especially now, with automatic matchmaking. You have to climb the ranks and beat the cheaters, whereas before you just had to know which servers had the good players in them.
This is one of the most beautiful comments I have ever read. Thank you writing them.
Interviews are more thorough because firing became harder.

It used to be that if you hired an employee and found out they aren’t good at their job you could fire them. Today it is complicated and can backfire if the employee believes they were fired because of any reason other than their skills, or were not provided with ample opportunity and support to succeed.

The solution is a lengthier process based on the assumption that once hired, the company is stuck with the employee unless they decide to leave.
GNU Parallel is one of my favorite utilities of all time.

I used to write complex and bug-ridden scripts that used bash job control to implement parallel execution of batch jobs. When I discovered GNU Parallel, I deleted them all and never looked back.

Also, the documentation is awesome - there is a whole book [0] on GNU Parallel, and the manpage even links to a series of youtube videos [1] that explain how it works.

[0] https://zenodo.org/record/1146014/files/GNU_Parallel_2018.pd...

[1] http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL284C9FF2488BC6D1
Why not elaborate some more? I'm bored, so...

2 + 2 == 4
"Hello" + "World" == "Hello World"
[2, 2] + [3, 4] == [2, 2, 3, 4]

Should we bother reusing `+` for this? Why not,

2 intPlus 2 == 4
"Hello" strPlus "World" == "Hello World"
[2, 2] arrayPlus [3, 4] == [2, 2, 3, 4]

Well: the polymorphism `+` allows us to express a common idea, that of "appending". For each of these specific types: int, string, array we can speak in the application-domain of "appending" whilst in the programming domain of "+"ing if we introduce an interface for `+`, that of "appendable",

interface Appendable[A] {
A + A -> A
A + 0 -> A
}

This interface allows us to use `+` generically in a principled way, the technical name for Appendable is `Monoid`, but i prefer Appendable (incidentally, Monad is `Sequencable` or `Nestable`).

Polymorphism is just the ability to speak as generically in the programming-domain as we speak in the application domain, ie., to use the double-meanings of ordinary thinking in programming.
I’m a little skeptical. California code is not that dissimilar to the national code in terms of labor and materials. I’ve had extensive work done to my California house by electricians for a (fully-permitted) remodel and it’s been pricey but not that slow or pricey.
As I said:

> If somebody has managed to situate themselves in an ideal location for them specifically to live without a car, then they almost certainly only managed to do that by benefitting from the positive externalities created by car owners

I can, and frequently do, walk to my nearest supermarket. But I know for a fact that if cars disappeared for a day then it would be unable to open its doors. These small areas of hyper-convenience don’t exist without cars.

I live 9 miles away from my office though, so that would be a lot more difficult.

> In pretty much any pre-car city you can get everything you need on a daily basis within a 10 minute walk from home

I’m sure if you wanted to undo 80+ years of economic development, we’d be able to recreate that society… that economic development is of course one of the positive externalities you’re choosing to ignore. So if this is your agenda, I’d suggest you try to figure out how catastrophically devastating that would be for the economy first.
Not the electrician. The company owner.
A tax break is not a subsidy.

A subsidy is a payment to the person.

If a farmer lost money one year, the tax break does not financially benefit him.

Money I have left over from paying taxes is not a "subsidy".
for tunnelling better use autossh
+one billion points for ASS.

I love ASS, its one of the best stores in the US. If you have a chance to visit one I would highly recommend it. Their product labels are cheeky and adorable and they have all sorts of wonderful, random shit
Again you've seemed to misunderstand. I'm happy to work at the company and make money, I just don't want to be forced to contribute to shareholder profits, just like you don't want to be forced to contribute to union dues. Why should one be voluntary but not the other?
wait... that wasn't an april fools joke?
A preprint of the information that was derived to make the above article has been available for a year.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.454038v2
Around here they make about $150 an hour if they are contractors and work for themselves. So I would guess 80-100 for an electrician with 5+ years experience. About the same as most other semi-specialized trades.
> some energy and generates some pollution... but so does .... sex not for procreation

I think sex for procreation is likely the one thing you could possibly do with the highest resulting pollution.
> There's nothing more insulting than discovering that you were hired not for your technical merits or capabilities, but for the color of your skin.

I think I would feel more insulted if I discovered that I was rejected based on the color of my skin.
C++ should double down on high performance. Better support for inline assembly. More parallelism and concurrency. Specialization.
Thats fair, I suppose it depends on how one defines safety. I'd still lean toward JavaScript being safer from a language design perspective (no comment on VM/interpreter implementations!) because there's no equivalent to golang's unsafe pointers. I've updated the page with the grid [0] to be more specific.

I like the idea of putting Golang in the comparison matrix, since Vale will be a strong choice for servers. I'll see if I can fit that in!

[0]: https://vale.dev/comparisons
What is your point? Tomatoes are grown in sunny locations and usually watered artificially. So ungrown tomatoes are unwatered tomatoes.
> That makes my sell interview so much easier because I can trust the process to assess their technical skills

What makes you think that the process provides an accurate representation of the skills needed for the day to day job? In my experience it simply tests whether the candidate has invested lot of time cramming for that very specific type of test. If I was running a small company I would much rather discuss a candidate's experience with them and leave them the time to build useful skills, not worthless ones for passing a test.
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The 90s one isn't bad, reminds me of the Pleroma UI
That can work for some, but imagine you already have a job, and time commitments, and it takes 5-10 companies to find a fit.

Spending ~1-2 months is expensive.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30890674
Way overkill.
Too many people got into this industry, and too many people were able to easily switch between companies and boost their salaries absurd amounts. The big boys decided to use interview grinds to reduce turnover (that's why they all more or less have the same process) and all the people who started companies and came from these companies have been through and assume this process works due to the success of the big boys and they themselves being subjected to it.

The reality is this profession isn't that hard, and majority of people working in it are pretty much just plumbers using the innovations of true computer scientists.

We've managed to created a much more inefficient gatekeeping mechanism than just creating a proper certification process and commended ourselves for it and pretend it's somehow more meritocratic than just getting a comp sci/eng degree and license.
Not sure if your ask is only for open source. I got lucky that my product is JavaScript based and Docusaurus is a perfect way for me to have live interactive docs by using MDX and a wrapper react component. https://sqlframes.com/docs and a quick 5 minute tutorial at https://sqlframes.com/tutorial .
I want SPF/DMARC etc. results as features alongside all other message content, and overrides (like whitelisting, clicking "not spam") to apply similarly. Valid SPF/DMARC is so commonplace in spam that it's not worth treating specially, there are much more reliable indicators (e.g. domain age, Google safe browsing list, Phishtank) that in a variety of cases a user might still want to override.

I'm actively playing with this stuff so probably my requirements are a bit special, but even aside from that, it does still feel quite irksome that all mail input can't be cleanly recorded.
I’ve done some work adjacent to those shiny mckinsey pages. The mergers wouldn’t explain it. It’s not looking at size, it’s looking at growth and success relative to where they were some period of time ago.

It’s probably a bit tautological. The only effective way to make your company more diverse is to grow and hire diverse candidates. This is not the case for top level leadership though. Boards as well. Growing companies want to invest in their people and that tends to result in some more attention to diversity. Conversely dusty old companies that are having their lunch eaten by tech enabled competitors do tend to be very non diverse because that’s they way it is and it’s not an environment that diverse candidates want to join. Also self fulfilling.
Is it possible to make an antenna that radiates teraherrz radiation?
A dependency structure matrix is a nice tool to have for some languages too (used to worked fine from IntelliJ for Java at least 10 years ago and I bet it still does).
I can build the entire house with everything included. And not from those pesky woodsticks, but from a real concrete and bricks. For around $40k. Something in US is seriously wrong. I understand that labour cost difference is huge, but it can’t be the only factor.
This reminds me of a project idea I had...

I was thinking of setting up a small server that can emulate some up multiplayer games, such as battleship, connect 4, even perhaps monopoly.

Then people submit code, or connect their machines to it, and it becomes "battle of the algorithms".

You'd have to register an algorithm name / version, and compete a few times against other algorithms, to be placed on the leaderboard for that game*.

Each game could just be stored as plaintext, so it would be easy to replay each move and visualise it on the website.

I haven't yet begun creating it, but it'd be great to see how your algorithm would work against another; You'd also have to consider how to place your ships as well. (probably sticking them in the corners could be easily dealt with, right?

Looking at this algorithm it seems like it's pretty optimal, I don't think there's much else that could be done with Battleships. Playing with other human players would be a different outcome..

* I would only really expect algorithms work per game, not across games.
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A variation on https://xkcd.com/810/ except instead creating bots that play like humans!

I like it.
How am I less free because my country has free healthcare and decent unemployment benefits?
Contrary to what you wrote about T. gondii definitively not being sexually transmitted between humans, the article links to several studies which postulate exactly that. The paragraph is:

> Since reports that T. gondii can be a sexually transmitted parasite in humans are relatively recent (e.g., Flegr, Klapilová & Kaňková, 2014; Hlaváčová et al., 2020; Kaňková, Hlaváčová & Flegr, 2020; Tong et al., 2021), many questions and hypotheses still need to be properly formulated and tested in further studies.

The basis for this theory is that T. gondii cysts have been found in human ejaculate, which means it could for example be transmitted through oral sex. There does not appear to be any conclusive proof that this has happened, but apparently these are viable cysts which, if swallowed in any other context, would result in infection, so it's plausible.

This non-"pregnancies, organ transplants or cannibalism" route is the basis for a lot of this article's theorising about T. gondii benefiting from raising its host's likelihood of having sex.
You're assuming that people live to work when most people work to live.

The difference is that the latter would happily NOT work, or at least not work at what they do, if they could support their life. The former will happily change their life to make work easier.
This is the commercial version I remember which has less ships, a smaller board and no adjacency rules https://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/battleship.pdf
I'm down with mistranscription into something offensive, but then why would the appeal fail with the same condition? Could the appeal button be a placebo?
The awful rise of ‘virtue signalling’ (2018)
you updated with a screenshot of the color palette, I think everyone wanted to see what the actual vim session looks like
Somewhat. A lot of that old housing goes to rentals.
> On the other hand, if you make a string of common byte sequences, a couple GB long, and distribute it with every PC...

This is what brotli does.
We're all told to treat our running software as livestock, not pets. That means they're disposable, you start and stop them rapidly, etc.

If I'm being very, very kind, this kind of hiring practice means the company wants to treat you like a pet (in the best possible sense) and not livestock.

Probably it has more to do with data-driven decisions to optimize the hiring funnel. Or possibly voodoo.
Democracy means representing the will of the people. Do democratic processes produce better outcomes? Because the last 10 years of America would seem to indicate polling for the collective will is no promise of good outcomes.
Albini pitching Nirvana: “I would like to be paid like a plumber” (1992)
Anyone know of some tools that could draw graphs of the Linux kernel ? I’d like to draw subsystems or pick a function and have it diffuse out to build a graph.
It would if you had to continue the airstream indefinitely until your mouth was closed¹, but we can also stop the airstream of a vowel without closing our mouths at all (I guess either by using a stop further back in the vocal system, or disengaging the muscles that are producing the airflow²). So in practice, there are other ways to end the production of a vowel without producing a /p/.

¹ I haven't thought clearly about how nasals affect this, but it seems like still another possibility is to allow air to exit through the nose, producing /m/ instead of /p/.

² When I try to pay attention to what I'm doing when I deliberately stop a sustained vowel, it seems like I'm using glottal or velar stops much more often than I would have thought. Interesting!
Least trustworthy social media platform.
I swear some of you have had terrible work experiences. I've been an engineer for the last 20 years. The first time I tried being manager, I sucked and it sucked. (I definitely sucked more because the place sucked but I wasn't great.) That was a decade ago though and I've gradually stepped back into management because I've had great leadership and learned a ton along the way. My primary goal as a manager is to ensure the team is happy and healthy, so that they are able to work effectively. Our hiring process supports this by ensuring we're not hiring dead weight, toxic people or engineers that can't provide value and drag the team down.

Where do you people work because I'd like to (a) avoid it and (b) poach people because your world view sucks and I can only assume that's a direct response to a shit environment.

To put it into perspective, my first 1:1 with everyone on the team includes questions like "what have previous managers done to help you be successful?" Managing people can be difficult but managers shouldn't be.
MB version appears to allow it, and I recall playing it like you did.
There is nothing magical about a supercritical fluid (SCF), i.e. a fluid at a state that has a temperature and pressure higher than the respective critical values. The article repeats the same crap that you read other places: it does not have liquid and gaseous properties simultaneously. At low temperatures, the SCF is a liquid; at high temperatures (and not too high supercritical pressures), it's a gas or even an ideal gas. The 4-quadrant way of showing the 'supercritical domain' is super misleading in this way. Nothing happens when you cross those imaginary boundaries.

What is almost magical is a fluid at near-critical conditions. There's a whole lot going on we don't properly understand yet.
Just want to note that kibble is not the best of foods for cats, especially not as the only food: it tends to cause urinary blockages which are a veterinary emergency.
> Looking at the causes of death in the developed world, I think food (fast, restaurant, processed and junk food + sugary drinks) kills way more people than cars, even when accounting for pollution, brake dust, etc.

A big difference is that I can chose to eat healthy food as an individual, but it's basically impossible to escape the negative impact of cars without a major shift in how government allocates space and money.
> different conclusions

Those seem to be wildly different phenomena. The “hearing radar” mentioned frequencies of 1, 3, and 10 GHz(!?!?), while “The Hum” is between 32 Hz and 80 Hz, modulated from 0.5 to 2 Hz.

My including the link was not suggesting the thing reported was true, rather, it was the only thing I quickly found suggesting anyone hearing electromagnetic frequencies of any kind.

In the hum, most thinking is either physical noise, or resonance. That said, one paper linked from Wikipedia does have this:

“Analysis of the largely anecdotal data that are available at the present time suggests that the most probable explanation is that some people have the capability to interpret radio transmissions at certain wavelengths as sound. It is well established in the scientific literature that people can hear electromagnetic energy at certain frequencies and peak power levels.” — https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.51...

However, while this could validate both phenomena as being perceivable by some, I do not think this is why Pop-Sci made their chart as they did. I stand by my objection.
The law that was struck down lumps everyone who isn’t a straight white male into the same category. At least as to race, the majority of non-whites are immigrants or children of immigrants, so immigration recency is an important factor that laws like this fail to consider.

Moreover, the category of “white” is deceptive. I suspect that corporate boards have few people of Appalachian descent, and many people of New England Puritan descent. Understanding what causes that disparity would probably reveal structural mechanisms that affect other groups as well.

At bottom, this law suffers from the same defect identified by Judge Thapar in striking down racial preferences for SBA loans: https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/21a0120p-06.pd.... Maybe there is a kernel to this law that passes Constitutional muster because it addresses concrete harms to specific groups that can’t be remediated in a less discriminatory way. But the intersectionality approach of lumping everyone from ADOS to immigrants to LGBT people into one category for favorable treatment isn’t going to fly under civil rights laws.
Those seem like fair arguments to be made, although so do the counterpoints.
> Accountants have occupational licensing.

Forgive my ignorance, but is this during every interview? If I am reading this right this is a certification they'd need to get which would be on their resume. Do they need to re-prove those skills every time?
There's a decent blog article here with some more strategies for Battleship: https://datagenetics.com/blog/december32011/index.html
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