skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That Kendi quote is incredibly polarising, but makes sense when you think about his view of the world. The Kendi quote that helped me understand where he’s coming from was “When I see racial disparities, I see racism.”

Some comments on this post mention the irony of diversity initiatives that discriminate. Kendi’s argument, I think, is that there’s no good reason for occupations to be skewed towards one race or gender or age or whatever, so additional / opposite discrimination simply undoes the initial bias.

I think that’s a challenging POV for a couple of reasons.

First, for those of us in well paid or high status jobs, like software development, it’s a POV that suggests “maybe you don’t deserve it quite as much as you imagine”. That’s a tough thing to consider, doesn’t feel great and probably isn’t going to be popular.

Second, it’s really hard (impossible?) to know the extent to which culture has affected distribution into occupations. But some people seem confident that our status quo is natural and fair and some people seem confident that it’s unnatural and unfair. When people with those different POVs talk to each other, they’re starting with a big gap in how they understand the world.
> But if you HAD to index to a population distribution, I think it should be tied to the pipeline of competent candidates. However, my previous employer was already fairly representative of the pipeline in the summer of 2020.

Most companies are representative of their pipeline but then if you set that as the benchmark - well those DEI people would get fired and never be able to have a job or be able to start a culture war over a mostly non-existent issue.
Getting a job and then immediately loosing it is obviously a bad fit for everyone, running the whole hiring process in the first place that close to folding seems pretty dishonest.
having lived in Russia, I assure you there's a lot of pretty open racism there, racist slurs are openly and widely used for anyone who's not a slav, and even some slavs now as well (e.g. Ukrainians)
Detoxification/cleansing has always been real, in the alternative and conventional/allopathic medical worlds. I don't know any school of thought that denies the benefits of cleansing (within reason); only those who disagree on how to go about it.
If your intention isn't to attack others, that's great—but in that case the burden is on you to express your intention more clearly.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

If you can't or won't do that, we're going to have to ban you, even if you're right that your comments are perfectly innocent and everyone else is just reading them wrong. That's because we have to go by how these things affect the threads. If you post things that look like trollish swipes, and feel like trollish swipes, they're guaranteed to have the effect of trollish swipes. There isn't much difference between arson and negligence if the goal is not to have the house burn down.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
The Netflix decision that is causing me the most aggravation is that they are the only service I use that doesn't integrate with the watch next bar on Apple TV. I forget that I'm watching something, especially if they are doing weekly episode drops, and then lose interest if I've forgotten what's going on. Everybody else is able to add their new episode to that bar so I can work through my backlog, and even pop new seasons in there if I've watched the show in the past.

It feels like they're making decisions to suit themselves rather than me and it winds me up considering they are the more expensive subscription.
You're absolutely right. But I have bad memories of dealing with parentheses in AutoLISP from the 90's. The trauma remains :)
Netflix has too many random choices of equal weight for me. I search for 20 minutes then just jump to Youtube.
>> What would happen...

The probability of nukes hitting Moscow, New York, Paris, and London in the next 48 hours would skyrocket.

One of the lowest-levels of escalation that Nato could take in response would be to deploy conventional assets into Ukraine, particularly fighter jets and anti-air systems. If Russia wanted to maintain a military presence in Ukraine, it would likely have to use further tactical nukes against Nato assets. Nato would have to respond in kind in order to maintain a credible deterrent. Very quickly you have a tactical nuclear exchange which can escalate (in minutes) to a strategic exchange. 15 minutes later all of the cities we know and love are gone. There's a non-negligible chance that the situation escalates to a global exchange including China, North Korea, Japan, and Australia. We can only hope that some parts of the third world are spared from which humanity can once again flourish. Even then, the nuclear winter likely kills an additional billion people due to mass crop failure and famine.
> And human interaction is genuinely very unpleasant on Zoom/Slack relative to real life.

I don't find being in the other side of a webcam much different than being on the other side of a table. Maybe that's a sign my own brain is weird but really, it's the same to me.

> We should it expect it, all else being equal, to secure the working conditions best adapted to doing management work

No, we should expect it to provide the working conditions best adapted to their team's needs.

Fuck this whole idea that managers are more important than ICs.
Sorry treating people with respect is unacceptable in children's shows for you. But I don't think that's changing soon.
> Source?

I don't have the interest in doing the legal research. I could be just wrong about the requirement. Or it could be that in practice HR lawyers advise companies to make a token effort of recruiting U.S. workers as a precaution. It doesn't change my fundamental point in any way. Either way, the loophole is absolutely massive and exploited at great scale.

The intent of the law is extremely clear and it is being violated. Just read the statement of intent and then work for any U.S. tech company in a hiring role, and you'll soon know for yourself.

> If someone can't hire enough domestic workers when offering $300k/year, I think it's safe to say there aren't enough domestic workers.

Or is it more likely that they'd have to increase the offering to an even higher number? In other words, it's a de facto subsidy for tech companies, to prevent them from having to increase wages. Text book wage suppression.

It just doesn't make any logical sense why FAANG would have to use H-1Bs at all, except for a few roles where their may truly be a lack of candidates. How do the other thousands of U.S. tech startups have any U.S. workers at all then, if FAANG is in good faith trying to recruit U.S. workers?

I think I've explained the situation clearly, and don't believe any reasonable judge could disagree with the main point that the program is not being used as intended.

I'm done with this thread now. Have a nice day.
I'd agree with the comments that reflect women's skills in networking and team consensus, rather than saying it was because of any sort of diversity quota. I've been at recruiters frequently where it was all-female offices, and, at risk of labouring a cheap point, it's sometimes been difficult to get my technical skills understood, outside of buzzwording.
Good to be here occasionally, considering writing up some blog posts I figured this community might find interesting. Seems like we are well liked enough that it might be fun
Pseudo-engagement, optimised for easy and massive consumption, pushing you to compare yourself constantly.

And all we have to protect ourselves, is our over-exerted self-control mechanism.
Netflix is US-centric, so that's no surprise: https://www.comparitech.com/tv-streaming/netflix-subscribers...

I don't mean to be rude, but in the grand scheme of things the other countries don't quite matter as much, financially speaking. And those smaller parts of the world pirating isn't a big loss. Similar to the video game industry in Japan; some games may get an overseas following, but if the domestic market is slacking, that studio may not get the chance to make a sequel for those overseas fans.

So back to the US-centric sentiment: American audiences don't have the excuse 99% of the time of "this content is region blocked in my country", so the sentiment here shifts to "I don't want to manage 4 streaming services".
I loved NFLX when they had a 4-CD plan. All the HBO shows from the golden age of TV 10 years ago .. I know that I cannot blame them for losing streaming rights. But I definitely can for pushing the government ideology in their original content. The last few seasons of Longmire is the last show for normal people I can remember NFLX to produce.

I'd have no problem paying for the kind of TV we had with Mad Men or Breaking Bad. I'm not aware of any streaming service of that kind.
And for context, neither do Britain or Canada.
Also have been using catch-all with companyname@myrealname.com since 2007 and haven't had any significant problems with spam except for a brief period when a baseball player with the same name was in the news.

Reading this thread makes me feel lucky!
Coinbase CEO says Apple’s crypto rules highlight ‘potential antitrust issues’
they really want the premium tiers in my experience
Idk how this works in the US in particular - but I suppose that - essentially - yes. Harsher conditions.

When one has a essentially complete control over another person's life, there are ways to make this life hell, even while staying within the legal bounds.
Youtube is suffering a similar issue lately.

I'll watch a tutorial video then suddenly that's the _only_ thing my feed recommends to me. None of my subscriptions. None of my established preference. Just dozens of videos on a topic that I likely don't actually care that much about.
Would be nice if Netflix had an easy way to migrate profiles between accounts. People move and situations change. Some might consider a new account if it were possible to migrate a profile.
I work in France (on a French contract), remotely for a US based company.

I make more than I did in Australia.
Arguably those ones disappeared together with desktop messaging: main use of messaging migrated from desktop to mobile, but they either never developed compelling mobile apps or developed them too late (Skype)
> Likewise the whole sexual revolution and the normalization of sex outside marriage is an experiment.

This seems extremely ahistorical. I'm pretty sure humans were having sex exclusively outside of marriage for most of the history of Homo Sapiens as a species. Marriage, and especially exclusively-monogamous marriage, is a relatively recent invention.

> We do not know how successful it will be in raising children to be healthy, productive human beings -- which is the chief social purpose of marriage.

We kind-of know though[1]:

> To date, the consensus in the social science literature is clear: in the United States, children living with two same-sex parents fare, as well as children residing with two different-sex parents. Numerous credible and methodologically sound social science studies, including many drawing on nationally representative data, form the basis of this consensus. These studies reveal that children raised in same-sex parent families fare just, as well as children raised in different-sex parent families across a wide spectrum of child well-being measures: academic performance, cognitive development, social development, psychological health, early sexual activity, and substance abuse.

Families with same-sex parents are not a new thing in 2022, there's been plenty of time to draw conclusions.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4091994/
I actually find it tends to split groups between those that watch episode drops and those that wait to binge later. Not to mention the spoilers that people drop when they assume someone is watching along.
I think I would pay for all these services for content if I could be assured of watching the content how I want. I don't like the monthly fees, but Ill put up with it, I prefer the rental model and I'm willing to wait (like we used to for rentals). That said the way I want to watch content is downloaded for offline viewing, on our projector, with the sound split since my wife is hard of hearing and likes the sound going directly to her hearing aids. The content providers see that as pirating and disable it. Its frustrating to find that out, when you are no longer anywhere with service (the reason for the downloading the first place) and can't do anything about it. Netflix has worked like that for a while and the problem is finding good content. Amazon Prime "works" and is the rental model and I like that the best. Disney does not work at all. And I cant be bothered to try every service to see if it works like that. I would love an aggregator and would be happy to pay monthly if they could provide EVERYTHING. In the meantime, Ill often even pay for the content somehow and then pirate it to watch it how I want.
That’s exactly what they did. They used LiDAR to train their vision neural nets to accurately compute the distance of every pixel. https://cleantechnica.com/2020/08/03/tesla-achieved-the-accu...
Central anything + smart home = miserable experience. If my router is having a sketchy connection I should never be blocked from turning my lights on, or have one random light in a scene fail to turn on. Someone needs to take the plunge and make the smart home a resilient mesh network that will work even in a zombie apocalypse.
YouTube Cheats Its Creators- and I Can Prove It [video]
I think this requires major introspection, it relies on the idea that representation is only important in higher paying jobs when that still means exploiting yourself for a corporation
What I've find most useful is the immutable nature of the database. That within a reactive framework for UX is great combination. You get really cool things to happen with little effort.

Also, because the database is a value. You can easily do mock data and isolated transactions locally to experiment and test. This makes some things easier.

Another cool thing is how you do cross database queries by simply passing multiple databases to a function. It will pull in the subset of the dataset needed to compute the query result. It's that easy to do.

It's not good at dealing with high volume transactions (a lot of writes) it's not too bad but it's not built for that primarily.
You can dye your hair and use soft lighting to look a lot younger on video. I've seen senior engineers do exactly that to get remote jobs. Then after that you leave your camera off.
Ask HN: Are there any rural tech communities?
With increasing remote work, are there rural communities where many people are tech workers?

Curious globally, but mostly interested in USA/UK.

I would like to live a more pastoral life, but anecdotally I've heard that people tend to be very different to those you find in a city.
the point still stands though

could you please explain to me, a non-native english speaker, why using "mainboard" is better than "motherboard"?
So riots in Sweden and Spain makes Sharia halfway in UK?!
More Hindus kill Hindus in India. Relative to people belonging to other religions, More Hindus attack other Hindus in India. Where is your outrage against those Hindus here?
And stick to the topic at hand rather than inflammatory tangential remarks. This is not the place for that
My design Philosophy around my smart home things has been a model of enhancement. Meaning everything has to work with out the "smart" part, the smarts just add convenience, and and wow factor, but I should not HAVE to use the smart controller to turn on a light, I may need the controller to dim it, or change the color but it should turn on with out it.

Alot of smart Switches will work (turn the circuit on and off) with out the controller.
Wow this is great. I could see how using this framework could lead you to identify the same factors in the article (assuming you had similar domain knowledge).

I think the next hurdle would be coming up with a solution that sufficiently addresses these root causes.
Snap - booming product, public since 2017, so where's the profit? What are they waiting for?
Absolutely, the point of a blood transfusion is that a body needs blood replenished faster than it can produce it. A blood transfusion now, PFAS or no, gives someone a chance to survive (and who knows, maybe donate blood themselves at some point)
I'm coming from a similar background and asked myself that exact question :)

These two books helped me much already:

Programming from the Ground Up by Jonathan Bartlett
- A very good introduction to assembly

Learning Computer Architecture with Raspberry Pi by Eben Upton
- Great read about the inner working of memory and the CPU, with reference to the past and how things developed
I have hemochromatosis and here in Germany it's impossible for me to donate blood. It's not actually forbidden, afaik, but no company want's to give 'contaminated' blood to patients, even though it would be perfectly fine.
Airlines’ faulty altimeters spur FCC plan to regulate wireless receivers
Don’t get why one was a ‘distance’ and the other a ‘journey’?

But either way - wow a whole 600m! What a hardship just to have clean air and a future for your children!
Steam charges by the game and often times you can find whatever you want on iTunes or Amazon video if you're willing to "buy" the movie/tv season. Why do you limit yourself to content that comes to you from a subscription? I'm guessing because it's kind of expensive to buy a season of tv.
> Ah, that explains how the joke works. The linked article wasn't especially good, I felt. It's a little too on-the-nose.

They did also put a link to their Twitter in the article ;)
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-x-lidar-equipment-phot...
After a quick check with wikipedia’s sources, I found that the previous operational energy per collision was 13TeV and now it is 13.6TeV, a 4.6% increase.
I thought you would be able to do this with a mass spectrometer.
Although you would probably need a lot of blood :)
When I was a young kid, I hated Disney movies. The villains were always too mean and scary for me (I still hate Ursula), and besides that, those movies had too much drama that made me feel extremely anxious. My aversion to violence and sadism in media wore off eventually, but is that good? Maybe I was just excessively sensitive as a kid and needed to be exposed to even more stuff like that even earlier on. I'm not sure about that, but I don't have much fondness for those movies even in retrospect.
That’d discriminate against the outgroup. Although I guess “denylist” would be offensive to <whatever> deniers?
I think that you are correct. I have been on Dr. Fuhrman's Eat to Live diet a few times: start by eating no processed food and drastically reduce sugar intake unless it is berries or a little fruit. After about a week, the level of candida in your system is reduced to levels closer to what humans had > 50 years ago. At this point, all sorts of food cravings (especially deserts) go away, and homemade meals from natural ingredients taste very good. The first time I went on this diet, I felt 10 or 15 years younger with lots of energy.
> So the next time you see an article on hacker news where the solution to some problem seems overly complicated, and you want to say, “Why not just do X?”

I don’t understand your takeaway. This is an example of someone asking the obvious question and getting an interesting answer, which is what happens on HN. It sounds like you’re asking people to withhold asking these questions.
I fail to see how changing the names from "master" and "slave" makes any "progress" at all. What is the most concise way to express the idea that one entity is totally subordinate to another, and must comply with every request the other sends?

I struggle to come up with any two terms that make this more clear than "master" and "slave". Just because we've abolished chattel slavery, doesn't mean we should avoid the very words themselves when they are appropriate. Destruction of meaning is far worse than some abstract offense that doesn't seem reasonable to take on behalf of a computer process.
50 people in a FANG doesn't sound like being anything close to large enough to be representative of the whole org by random chance. Enjoy being the weird corner case?
You can't really do much better than a private car.

There are all kinds of things that might be better than a private car. The point I'm trying to make here is that most of them require radically more commitment (= money + political capital, usually) than those in power and those who vote for them are willing to give at present. Bashing car drivers is the "something must be done and this is something so we're doing it" approach. It gets you popular points with your base. Unfortunately as we've seen for many years now it doesn't actually work without providing decent alternatives as well.

People will still use cars whenever possible. You have to make it difficult, expensive and uncomfortable.

Obviously I don't accept that premise. There are also inherently inconvenient things about a lot of car journeys and about owning and maintaining the car itself so to an extent it provides the deterrent effect you've been talking about automatically without any artificial "stick". Public transport doesn't have many of those downsides. Some alternative methods of private transport don't either. But you need local transport to be frequent, reliable, cheap and comfortable, and you need long distance transport to be all of those things plus easily reachable by local transport.
Even if was was necessary, leveling residential areas of major city was not. But, that war was not necessary in the first place.

Both war and the destruction of city were optional and deliberate.

> However, we wouldn't have re-occupied cities in Iraq that resisted without leveling them and Russia wouldn't have conquered Mariupol without leveling the parts of the city that contained entrenched defenders.

Both are crimes and mass murders of civilians. Neither was necessary.

> That's the awful thing about urban warfare. Luckily we're not at genocide yet, though.

Who is that "we"? USA in Iraq did not committed genocide. Russia in Ukraine is committing one now.
Huh, I had no idea. HN won't let me edit it either. Thanks for letting me know.
It would make it quite suspicious and weird if the most obvious solution to the problems which are often the content of those posts, wouldn't have been posted by somebody in the comments.
I think they're only superficially about sacrifice. Look what you gain in exchange: apotheosis. The child-god in all of us wants to be recognized as special, exceptional, unique.
Sure. This was a late 30’s white woman being biased against a late 30’s white woman. It didn’t feel intentional.
"who destroyed government or private property during a protest, strike or riot, and that if necessary, the property of the accused would be seized and auctioned to recover the money" — Narottam Mishra, Home Minister

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-61042315.amp

If you’re a Muslim living in an illegally-built home and you were _accused_ of being involved in riots, they will bulldoze your life.

The extremists argue that this is well-deserved. Even if you agree with that, why should an entire family living under a shared home suffer for the actions of one person? They’re not just forcing “rioters” to be homeless, they are ruining the lives of uninvolved people. Where will all of the displaced kids go? What would you tell them when they riot because of what was done to them?
TMS34010
people forgive a lot of hiccups and quality issues when the service is "free". I see the same sentiment in the emulation scene where people will in one breath call a game "playable" despite weird graphical hitches, slowdowns, and crashes. And in the next breath berate some remaster because it dips under 60 FPS in a few moments of gameplay.