skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forgive me for continuing this thread, but the original poster does not seem to imply that overrepresentation is the reason we don't focus on Asians. They actually use scare quotes when using the word 'overrepresented'. You also disregarded the part of their answer which doesn't seem to include doubt. The full quote is: "Because Asians are "overrepresented" and serve as a counterexample to the narrative that systemic discrimination can't be overcome with hard work."

And if their use of scare quotes is to express doubt that "overrepresentation" is a good justification for discrimination, then I agree.

I also don't believe gay people are underrepresented in higher education, relative to their overall population in the United States, so I don't find that part of your argument compelling. I've found this quote with a brief Google search,

"The three surveys of American adults consistently indicated that gay men are far more likely than straight men to have graduated from high school or college, with just over half of gay men having earned a college degree, compared with about 35 percent of straight men. Some 6 percent of gay men have a Ph.D., J.D. or M.D. — a rate 50 percent higher than that of straight men."

From this article:
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/straight-men-face-e...
Fixed, looks like.
Could be but super unlikely. Also could be an Alien but the probabilities are low on that possibility as well.
This is not directly my field, but in general I've found that many, many articles (and not just free-daily-rags, but also from reputable magazines and news sites) always seem to inflate every scientific achievement, where some minor discovery (still worth a published article) is presented as "new cure for cancer found!", and even worse if some well-known substance is used (eg. caffeine makes medicine delivery faster), the title would say "coffee cures cancer!".

And not just medicine... just look at the number of "new, 10.000x better battery discovered" articles posted here.
For years I've wondered why renewable energy hasn't been considered under the auspices of national security. I think the primary reason is that the fossil fuel lobby outranks national security on any topic too complicated for the majority of the general voting populace to understand (ie. anything less subtle than big boom-boom bad makes).

It's politically interesting (cringe), the line between assisting Ukraine's defense by sending weapons and funding as opposed to actively committing troops and implementing a no-fly-zone etc. Interesting that Russia is now accusing NATO of effectively conducting a proxy war against Russia - it seems that Russia wants to have war declared upon it in order to post-justify their invasion as "see, this is what was going to happen anyway" - it doesn't have to make sense to anyone other than the Russian leadership in order for them to be assured of the righteousness of their own cause.
What are these people going to accelerate ? How to talk gender identity to 5 year old children? Or how pedophilia is acceptable? Comic at best
Read The Ministry For the Future
Nymphs sound so much nicer than "smoke".
>A key question is whether Elon will be able to make a workplace environment competitive with FAANG. He's not known as a great guy to work for. He will need that calibre of talent (if not the current quantity).

I really wonder about this part. His model with SpaceX was basically the opposite- Lots of cheap junior areospace engineers backed a small quality of top tier experts.
Meta physical: Facebook parent to open its first real-world store
> I'm not sure why anyone would seriously propose it.

Likely, cache line contention just probably never crosses their minds. I don't blame them. I'm largely self-taught. My degree is in mechanical engineering, and I did a bit of dabbling in kernel programming in college, and took a CPU design course, but I had been working in industry for more than 10 years before I had a decent mental model of cache coherency.

There are just so many things to learn. I think few practitioners were exposed to or remember MESI or similar cache coherency protocols unless they've really done a lot of deep optimization in low-level languages or other languages with value types.

Most of your GC languages (particularly those without value types) do so much pointer chasing that cache line contention may often get lost in the noise floor of cache line evictions.
If you believe that differentiating students into classes appropriate for their skill level and knowledge is racist, then there is nothing I can say to convince you that any of my opinions are right.
Um renewable assets don't run on an information island. Weather forecasting is part of the equation as well as being able to keep up to date diagnostics for operations.
"why is it connected to the internet in the first place?" Really?

I'll give you points on security concerns but your other comment is borderline ridiculous.
Elixir is great at it and becoming increasingly mainstream.
A former worker of three companies?
Ford Mustang Mach-E Review
I don’t have an inner voice, and it’s a bit puzzling to me to read about journalists and/or scientists who seem not to be aware of that. It’s not that uncommon either: just ask ten people at a party or at work, and you’ll probably find at least one person who doesn’t have an inner voice…

PS: I speak a couple of languages fluently (e.g. English is not my native tongue) and have never experienced any effects between being immersed in one language and “thinking”, except of course when I’m trying to formulate language consciously, for example when writing.
The poison pill was a negotiating tactic to discourage Musk or at least get him to raise his offer.

What happened? Simple. Large shareholders are in favor of the sale.

The board here doesn't "sell" Twitter. All they do is recommend to the shareholders to accept the offer. I mean it's not quite as simple as that because there are rules about making formal takeover offers and boards can (and do) negotiate with potential buyers who may exact conditions like not seeking other offers and so on.

But ultimately this is up to the shareholders and the board is just reflecting the will of those shareholders to sell.
Why would manganese be able to dodge the insincere environmental accusations that are aimed at lithium mines? Manganese is mostly produced using destructive open-cut pits in poor African nations. The number and size of said pits absolutely dwarfs all lithium mines put together. So why would it be OK to increase manganese production when there are organizations opposed to lithium production?

Honestly, same question about iron. Why is lithium such a bogeyman when iron ore production is 1000s of times larger?
Thanks!

If the apple documentation says it does, that would seem like an obvious bug, but I'm curious whether the apple docs do say that, or there's a general assumption of that being the case?

Oh, as I think of it, did you test the UI switch position or network traffic? I could believe the following behaviors:

* UI switch turns off, private relay continues to carry traffic

* UI switch stays on, private relay continues to carry traffic

* UI switch stays on, private relay does actually turn off

All seem like entirely plausible bug behaviors, and it would be nice to know which it was (UI off + iCPR on would seem to most overtly be a bug)
Maybe a disgruntled former worker in Russia.
The massive Russian troll farms making posts was the conspiracy. You made up a straw man.
Strange. I like Ruby, but probably the biggest gain I got from moving to Elixir was the comparative ease of debugging.

Its immutability drastically reduces the search space.
Biologist and an elite climber team up to hunt for new species in The Last Tepui
Everyone knows that "free" healthcare means that it's still being paid for via taxes, so points like this aren't exactly insightful. The OP's point was that their care cost them nothing to utilize or receive, not that there aren't costs in the system at all. Nobody actually believes that doctors are working for free, that assumption would be a strawman.
Or working at one scada company that built the system for all three.

I'm just saying that it's convenient to just blame russia for everything without any proof.
There's no Worlds Fair because the WF was about the future. And the future of today is utterly terrifying.
What happened to Goodenough's improvement some years back that was supposed to triple the capacity of batteries, per unit weight?

I see them getting cheaper, but it doesn't seem like capacity of a cell has improved much.
You mean creepy human like entities or don’t fire the human creators type of vibes?
Looking at your comment I understand you refer to the actual images. Yes, some of them are unsettling for sure but I think it’s the initial shocking stage. The future (including games) will be inhabited with these and a lot of new things probably even more disturbing.
The only way L6s are making "low 7 figures" is because of large movements in the share price after they were given grants.

Low 7 figures is realistic for L8s without the share price noticeably appreciating. With discretionary grants some L7s may squeak into that club. But L6? No way.
If you don't want it public, then don't post it.
My understanding is they changed their position when Musk proved that he could come up with the funds (previously he was unsure)
Personally, I think that you could deduce that the conclusions were likely invalid by simply looking at the ordering of the "best fonts" list.

They're is simply no metric by which any reasonable person could arrange that set of fonts in that order.

Serif vs sans? Random. Condensed vs spaced out? Random. Heavy vs light? Random.

Obviously there can be subtle interactions that we haven't understood yet, but there is simply no hypothesis presented as to what features could be important. A study with "statistical significant" (perhaps) results and no hypothesis ought to at least be replicated before we even discuss it.
Depending on your cynicism levels the current admin is already tripping up SpaceX:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/30/nasa-tells-spacex-to-halt-lu...
Discussed at the time (of the article):

80-year Harvard study has been showing how to live a healthy and happy life - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14814970 - July 2017 (166 comments)

I recall that the Harvard longitudinal study has had several HN threads over the years - anyone know where they are?

Edit - here's one:

What Makes Us Happy? (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10471344 - Oct 2015 (12 comments)
Deep Insight into Open Source Databases
A time traveller trying to save us from some unseen future disaster caused by wind energy seems at least as likely as aliens.
> Wouldn’t “liberal” teachers be teaching kids about it’s okay to choose the gender of your partner, it’s okay not to conform to what other people say “should be” your sexuality , and it’s okay to express yourself however you like?

I can’t help but notice how you’ve framed this in terms of “choice” and “self expression.” Do you see why even parents who want their kids to learn to be accepting of these biologically-determined differences might be wary of how the message will be delivered in practice?

> Isn’t the entire idea behind “libertarianism” that you can do whatever the hell you want to do as long as it doesn’t affect others?

That applies to adults, who are fully developed persons. But the moral socialization of your own children—dependent humans with underdeveloped brains—is within the ambit of what the State shouldn’t mess with. Aversion to social engineering is a key distinction between liberals and libertarians on this front.

> Shouldn’t Libertarianism be more concerned about teaching that you should conform to the standards of a religious institution?

You’re not allowed to teach that in public schools either. And libertarians should be concerned about the State trying to socialize children in the opposite ideology too.

> Yes because “abstinence education” has shown to be really effective. I’m sure if teachers have all of their students take “abstinence pledges” it’s going to stop them from having sex

Teenagers will draw outside the lines. All the more reason to draw those lines rigidly. And again you confirm what ideologies will come in through the door of these discussions.

> just like the “Just Say No” campaigns stopped teenagers from smoking weed.

Legalization of weed seems to have resulted in a significant uptick in smoking of marijuana.
Yes? What control do you think their low single digit percentage ownership gave them over day to day operations of Twitter?
"Destroyed", I love these experiences. If you're doing retail and haven't figured out that it needs to be instagrammable, then you're going to be gone when the lease renews.

> you'll have a harder time finding a bar, bodega, or any kind of shop you'd use on a regular basis.

I don't love that

> but if you need to "run downstairs for some eggs" or grab a coffee or something, you'll be walking many blocks

I don't love that either.... for New York City (almost no other place in this country has this luxury generally available)

I'll resist saying something snarky and realistic about prevalent delivery services, but some compromise would be nice. I don't generally have sympathy for market based complaints that boil down to "oh no this thing makes rent prices go up", but I do have sympathy for a lack of services especially when paying to live in a premium desired area, services that remain available to people not paying a premium in a less desired area.
I worked with an ex submariner in the oilfield and he was fond of this phrase, must be a submarinerism
>Generations have debated the delegation of kitchen duties, often touching on class, race, and especially gender. Most frequently, women have taken on home cooking, which often means hard work for little or no pay.

The idea that men only started cooking at home less than a century ago is dumb. The idea that most people the world over didn't have loving family units even in prehistory is especially asinine. Also, anyone who expects to be paid for cooking their own food at home is living in their own little bourgeoisie bubble. That's ridiculous. I hope this satire.
California is a massive state with 16 different climate zones. The vast majority of California is not a desert. Lawns are fine in most of the state.
I believe pattern matching is an important part, but intelligence comes from how you organize these patterns and relate them to one another. E.g. you can learn pictures of a dog by pattern matching but you can’t learn if a dog can beat up a bear, if there’s a bear outside a human just knows not to let the dog out.

What we need is a pattern detector + a the ability to create basically infinite ANNs (or be able to multitask on them) + an event loop that takes input feeds (from cameras, microphones etc,) does some kind of reasoning and then pushes to its output feeds (wheels, etc.)

I think you use pattern matching to extract unique objects, store these objects as a node with its own simple neural net + long term storage where it only stores pictures of this object plus a dataset about it e.g, how often you see it. You then you organize them into an object hierarchy. Each new object is compared against all other objects we’ve stored using their pattern marchers. The higher the output the more weight we give their “connection.” Each object is made up of of sub objects so they are the top of their own tree as well, so you can run this pattern finder on the dataset of individual objects itself and if you find new objects the tree recurses. You can then check these objects against existing ones etc.

A general intelligence does this constantly, in real time. Then it’s a quick algorithm.

1. Have I seen this object before

2. No, but it shares characteristics with animals (an object that groups together all things that look like animals.)

3. It’s much larger than my dog, and I’ve seen large animals attack small ones more often than not.

4. My dog is also a dick, and attacks other animals more often than not

5. It’s probably a threat

Just scaling modern compute won’t get you there unless you’re willing to dedicate a few orders of magnitude more energy than a human being to do so. You need a completely different, distributed, architecture if you are going to be able to compare billions of objects against billions of objects every time you see something new and in real time.

Machine Learning is great but it’s only the learning part. Intelligence is reasoning about multiple things in relation to one another not detecting a pattern. You might trick yourself into thinking you’re getting there because pattern matching is powerful but it’ll get you to the intelligence of microbe at best. Even then you need something that’s driving the actions.
Not sure why you're being downvoted there. But you've made a good point.
Or Musk believes it's not garbage.
Don’t pretend we’re back to normal fight for cleaner air to prevent Covid
Frankly you won’t see many in the US either, just like you don’t see many ICE Hummers.
To be fair, we blamed Russia before we blamed North Korea for a long time. Russia just fell out of favor as the whipping boy, but what was old is new again. Remember when Russia was our "friend"? With friends like these, who needs enemies?
So obviously just as we click on the "new Google Docs"-link the JS-function

onMouseDown: function() {li(si({withAddtlText: !0}), "https://twitter.com/cyrusroshan")}

gets called, which overwrites the clipboard.

I didn't spend any time looking at the obfuscated functions li and si, but why does this have to be in a 14,000 line Javascript?
Isn't writing something to the clipboard a regular html function?
https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_copy_clipboard.asp
I also have a hard time believing any object backordered by 6 months is ever going to show up.
LinkedIn endorsements but for Twitter
There are so many great ideas in this!

For developers, here's a simpler but still cool GPU cellular automaton with code and a tutorial:

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2014/06/10/
sometimes i won't feel like starting a task for like 3 hrs into my workday, you must be a god at sticking to a schedule.
You may very well be right. As I said in another reply, I'm mostly quoting a delicious bit of writing Matt Levine published last week.

I suspect that none of what I said is easy or even likely- but I do believe the risk of such things is real and that's why the board set up a poison pill, to ensure they got a real deal and not something more aggressive.
> Sorry but this is utter nonsense.

Can you please make your substantive points without name-calling? There's a site guideline that asks you to do just that.

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
i think it does, a button labeled 'original message' or something like that

i wouldn't be sure how much to redact tho
Alan, nice to see you on the front cover of HN. Life has been good for you post-Arena, eh?

Most of those critical of what you wrote haven't had an article like this happen. Don't sweat it.
Look into ranked choice voting. That could help.
This is one of those stories that make me wonder how out of touch these ebay employees were. To throw their careers away over such pettiness is insane.

Then I stop and realize it's not impossible for me to end up in a bizarre bubble like that. What a world.
Did densely populated areas overall fair much worse when controlling for poverty? I'm not being snarky I genuinely don't know, the last time I heard about this it wasn't conclusive.

Anyway we may have left ourselves little choice. I certainly don't think we're still within the window of "this is worse for everyone but better for me" being acceptable.
Flint's population is over 400K. The crisis was over in 2019: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/23/flint-wate...
A random (large) earthquake along the San Andreas fault is not the same as all of western USA ripping apart. A much more likely scenario is that the power grid goes down and the data center stays reasonably intact for a while on emergency power.
Manara (YC W21) Is Hiring a senior front end engineer
Oh JFC, does anyone expect any of these "could" battery breakthroughs to ever go anywhere?

I honestly don't even want to hear about them. Let me know when you're shipping commercially. Until then, it's just a waste of time and an attempt to drum up research funding. That's it.
Yes, it's postdoctorate, but it's the only academic job for people in their ~30s. It's the equivalent of an early/mid-career programmer. There's just no other title so they're all called postdocs, even if (rarely) they don't have a PhD.
Next week on "command line" with Stephen fry
Now I'm trying to creatively imagine a disaster caused by wind energy? Near human extinction from all of the cancer the windmills create? World wild exitinction from birds from all of them being killed by the windmills? Near worldwide deafness in all humans from the humming they generate? I'm just running through all of the right wing consipriacies I've heard about. I'm not creative enough to come up with that nonsense.
On a technical level it was pretty decentralized. RSS and OpenID specifically did not rely on any particular server. XML namespaces, RDF, "folksonomies" were about open distributed permissionless participation. XMPP was federated. People got too excited with the Twitter API, but even the social services were in principle meant to be replaceable with rel=me (people were supposed to be identified by their URLs, hosted wherever, not by an account on a platform).

I do agree that Web 2.0 was naive in thinking that merely having open decentralized protocols was enough to ensure services built on top of them will be open and decentralized. The commercialized centralization happened despite the decentralized/open tech — on a layer above. Megacorps figured out that open protocols are merely a fertile ground for building walled gardens on.
I briefly scanned the Lobster reference, but I didn't see how they're dealing with the undecidable cases. Presumably it punts out to the garbage collector for objects where lifetime isn't statically decidable, right?

My understanding is the answer for "Why doesn't Rust use something like type inference for lifetimes?" is "In the general case, that reduces to the halting problem."
Some of my work is iOS development, and I am an Apple user as well.

Old apps, if they no longer work, should die.
Cool, got a search-ban, no idea what that is though =P
Suffice it to say that I don't think the details of message passing are what most people care about with Ruby. I can see how your experience would lead you to believe otherwise.
In many places the time-since-PhD is also relevant to opportunity, so if you are 5 years post-PhD but you were unemployed for 2 years or outside academia, you count as 3 years post-PhD.
Article:

> Portions of northern and western India, especially areas near the borders with Pakistan and Nepal, may endure the most extreme heat.

Wikipedia:

> Summer in northwestern India starts from April and ends in July, and in the rest of the country from March to May.
[...]
> The hottest month for the western and southern regions of the country is April; for most of North India, it is May.
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_India

Seems to align fairly well?
> If I listened to HN comments, very little research would have value, very little information would be worth reading. The top comment is almost always of this nature; it's depressing to me that it still happens; we all should be very familiar by now with social media and these patterns, yet we keep following them.

If you listened to HN comments, you would have a more accurate model of reality.

It is true that very little research has value.
It is true that very little information is worth reading.

The hard part is figuring out which is that little bit.