skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Windows Task Scheduler is probably the way to go. You can create tasks that run on a variety of schedules or events. They can run a script that does what you need.

There is a PowerShell module for managing scheduled tasks. It should be possible to write a script that will create the appropriate scheduled tasks on behalf of the non-proficient user. They just need to run the PowerShell script once to get things going.
the dataset is interesting, thanks for linking to it. the relationship is for now linear, which I believe doesn't invalidate the point that you and I both make that exponential is not sustainable. the GDP-energy consumption decoupling must also become exponential, which I lack vision for how to achieve.
You skimmed too fast, from that same article:

> We say that an instruction x precedes an instruction y, sometimes denoted x ? y, if x must complete before y can begin. In a diagram for the dag, x ? y means that there is a positive-length path from x to y. If neither x ? y nor y ? x, we say the instructions are in parallel, denoted x ? y. The figure below illustrates a multithreaded dag:
I got a feeling that so many of the new accounts being made are for spam or scams so that some crappy ML algorithm overfits towards new account as a marker for scams.

Twitter had the same problem a while ago where I could not make an account without it getting instabanned.
Given that the fruit is actually enjoyed raw by native people there I'd guess that, yes, that's probably exactly it. Ideally, a plant adapted to having an edible fruit, can remain inconspicuous as much as possible to avoid it's leaves being munched on and then produce a bright red berry when it's ready to attract the attention of whoever they want to eat their fruit
OrgMode?
It at least used to work with LINE and Discord for me, but I gave up on using it because it's so damn buggy and the Windows side of it uses like 4GB of RAM. And both of those have native desktop clients I can use instead.
No, that's not right. conhost.exe is the old terminal emulator and Windows Terminal is the new one. cmd.exe and powershell are analogous to bash/zsh/etc. and can run inside either conhost.exe or Windows Terminal.
I'm fairly sure Python had destructuring syntax before Clojure existed. I remember using it in early 2000s.
Then make the thresholds low enough so that spam bots are totally ineffective by staying below the threshold.
Also, if equality of outcomes is used as the measurement, then it definitely harms advantaged groups.

Let's assume that all gender-unequal job distributions are due to discrimination (which is highly unlikely, btw), then by definition forcing equal outcomes (e.g. a 50% women quota) will harm the previously dominant group by reducing their share of the distribution.

The discussion shouldn't be if equality might harm some groups (it definitely does), but instead which level of harm we're willing to accept for the greater good (of more equality).
> I think this is normal for most people who ever write something in markdown

I recognize that I am not normal and this doesn't contradict your assumption, but I use Emacs' fill command to hard-wrap long lines at ~80 characters when I'm writing Markdown. In fact, it's so habitual for me that it causes me problems when writing Gemtext. I keep meaning to disable filling in gemini-mode.
> Racial inequality costs the U.S. economy an estimated $16 trillion in lost gross domestic product (GDP)

The entirety of US GDP is about $21 trillion. Based on that, this just looks implausible.

> "According to a recent report, in 2018, White homebuyers received roughly $386.4 billion in mortgage loans from banks, while Latino homebuyers only received around $12.6 billion in mortgage loans overall"

So in the "descriptions of the disparity" given to the participants, they don't even bother to normalize by population.

> "Several banks propose increasing the total amount of mortgage loans to Latino homebuyers by $7.3 billion and not changing the total amount of mortgage loan funding to White homebuyers"

They use this as both an example of an "equality-enhancing policy", which doesn't "harm advantaged groups". But they are misrepresenting this as a Pareto improvement. Changing the amount of loans offered obviously effects the price of homes. Inflation be damned.
> It's the equivalent of when places used to want to to give a home landline number.

Lots of places still require a phone number (many email services do for example).
Firstly, they have no authority to refuse - if I have just moved to a new address, the bank had a legal obligation to deliver my monthly statements, letters, etc. Their database is their problem, I have lived at new addresses and every serious institution has a way to manually enter abtirary address. You might get some nonsence from the customer service person and might have to speak to a manager to get it sorted, but if you show up with contract of purchase for a new house that states your address, they can't turn you away.

I have also been registered with several improtant institutions at an address that does not exist, because the telephone operator made a mistake - and the address was preposterous, they have put me in a house number 15000. So they don't check much.

Thirdly, addresses are not real. They are a myth, like simultanous events in special relativity, they do not exist in the real world but people who never had to deal with them much don't realise it.

What we call an address is a set of instructions to the postman, and if that set of instructions gets the post to your door, it is valid. Anyone paying attentions should have noticed that they often recieve post with slightly different permutations of their address. And ofcourse I have given a few silly examples. But there are genuene addresses that are unkowable. I lived in a building that spaned 3 streets, (one for each side, the last side was a house). It had 2 entances and 2 addresses.

There are addresses that are not a {street}{housenumber}, there are addresses that are a grid and no map software knows how to deal with them

And lastly there are houses that have no 'official' address! A lone hamlet near the coast might have no name at all.

So the only way to determine if an address is real, is to sent a letter, and to see if it arrives.
"Only when equality is increased within their ingroup, instead of between groups, do advantaged group members accurately perceive it as unharmful."

This is why it's critical that policies for education, city planning, economic planning etc. all maintain and encourage interaction between classes. If the advantaged are never made aware of the struggle of others, the result is runaway social stratification.

Also, these studies are entirely within the US context and so correlate along common historical and geographical lines. Conclusions can't be applied broadly to other societies.
The problem with the hybrid approach is that I’d still have to live in the area. However I want to be geographically independent from my employer and prefer a quiet, low cost of living area as my home.
Thankfully, no one living today exists in systems of two individuals. We all live in complex societies with multiple systems that can, and do, move beyond just zero sum addition.
I sometimes see this in academics; I like to call this phenomena, "trying so hard to be anti-racist that it comes out as racism."
cmd.exe and powershell do not include "terminal emulators". Pre-Windows Terminal, they (and every other console app) use conhost.exe, that comes with the system. Windows Terminal comes with openconsole.exe, that any app can use instead. In Windows 11, it can be set up as the default one.
$50 a year but you can read banned books for free now https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/books-for-all
Even in a complex society relative standing is still zero-sum.
So, Google Photos?
Nice use of Greenspun as example data.
My first winter in NYC was very rough and I didn't understand why at first. I got a blood test at the doc and he said my vitamin D was very low. I committed to walking in the sun at least a half hour a day, weather permitting, and I never really had issues again. Part of the issue was I was spending a lot of time walking outside but not in sunlight due to the tall buildings. Just my anecdotal 2c
Take the gender pay gap for uber drivers, unassailable equality of opportunity, yet there’s a gender pay gap, oh yeah, people/groups have preferences…

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/what-can-uber-teach-us-abou...
Those are the literal words spoken by the judge the last time I challenged a speeding case. I was also forced to testify against myself and told clearly and specifically by the judge I had no fifth amendment right to remain silent.

[admittedly that challenge happened in a different state than the guesstimation state. I don't even bother to challenge in the guesstimation state because you're basically fucked no matter what.]

The judge's explanation to me was that any offense without possible jail time are held to preponderance of the evidence and constitutional rights such as 5th amendment are revoked.

I've also been called to show up in a 'Mayors court' for speeding where the mayor who is the cousin of the cop oversees your case. Good luck with that; the ACLU has actually done a pretty extensive documentation on Mayor's courts and the corruption involved there.
> only minorities of some sort suffer from worse opportunities.. that is utterly ridiculous.

> You throw under the bus anyone who’s in “not marginalized” group but had a shitty lack of opportunity, and vice versa.

The entire definition of “marginalized” is “pushed out to the margins”. In the case of equity, it’s that marginalization that means a lack of opportunity. So throwing people under the bus who had a lack of opportunity means a bad definition of the marginalized.

Which has happened. A lot. So many mistakes have been made in trying to provide equitable outcomes. Shameful ones. But that doesn’t mean the whole concept is bad.

> I am literally willing to fight in a war to stop it at this point if it comes to it.

If you’re willing to die for something, you better be damn sure you’re fighting the right enemy. Given what you’ve said here, I don’t think you’ve found them yet.
It’s written in .NET but historically HN isn’t keen on that kind of thing
Is that not a testament to how awful the current situation is with respect to the living conditions of the average person and the average salary?
The exact reason is probably that their ML model told them to. They probably have no ability to give a more satisfying answer.
You're assuming that the counterparty must be purely transactional. But there are people with big money in this system who have no problem holding vast amount of digital currency. They wouldn't have any problem accepting it as payment for larger investments. Also, imagine you sold one ton of cocaine and now you want to move the money out of the country. You'd instruct your dealers use their local crypto handlers to transfer the money from cash and then wire the digital assets to your crypto wallet. You can now cross any border with that wallet and access it in any country and noone will be able to inspect it if you do it right. And there's already a lot of infrastructure for getting cryptos back to cash - even (and sometimes especially) in poorer countries (think of an ATM, but you can use your crypto wallet to withdraw).
Flip the DB board main switch at home.
100% real poverty.
I presume every nation that is not the USA is taking notes right now. Expect e.g. the EU to push forward with more digital sovereignity initiatives.
Any progress you can share on that sample project?
Isn’t jQuery mostly dominant in stats because it’s included in WordPress by default (definitely in 90% of Wordpress themes). It’s been a while since I checked so this could be out of date.
"This doesn’t make this [big abstract] idea less valuable to pursue further."

But such ideas often need to be heavily driven by the one with the idea. Even people receptive to the idea often misunderstand such a vision.

So for practical purposes the idea is BS unless the person with the idea is actively working on it. It doesn't need to be proven yet, but if the person with the idea isn't working on it, probably nobody else will.

Sure, sometimes big ideas inspire others, but often the ispiration is more of a winding path rather than a direct "I read this big idea and did it".
You can also:

- Command-Delete to delete the current file

- Return, type a new name, and return, to rename the current file

In both cases the view will properly update.
If there are 8 demographics and you boost one, you're not "disfavoring another". You've raised one and the other 7 are all even with each other (theoretically) like they were before. If things were originally skewed unintentionally, you may have actually evened things out.

"Finite number of spots" is also kind of a faulty assumption. There are many cases where you can adjust how many spots you have available if you make more intelligent decisions about resource allocation or are willing to make junior hires that cost less than senior ones and train them up.
Isn't there already CloudFlare Workers KV?
> I'm having a hard time imagining a society with unequal outcomes but equal opportunity

That is only confusing if you also assume that all people have equal skills, desires, preferences, physical characteristics and so on. They don't and so there is no reason to think that equal opportunities presented to a collection of unique individuals will result in equal outcomes. Instead there will be a unique outcomes based on what the individuals bring to the opportunities.
> No, they would work, but would they be more productive in those other jobs? Possibly not.

On possibly yes - it depends. Yet, the company mission and priority is usually "maximize shareholders value".

Not "maximize worker creativity and happiness and empower them as much as possible".

Not "maximize technology, wealth, quality of life for humanity"

The last two might sometimes happen as fortunate side effects. Often not. See all the complaints from Tesla workers around safety and anti-union activities.
Small drones are giving Ukraine an unprecedented edge
I have been doing a lot of Go and Rust these last few years but always come back to Python for quick iterations and proof of concept, scapy is a blessing for low level network programming inspections.
I have spoken with a few hardcore “progressive” fanatics arguing for absolute equality of outcome.

It’s a good reminder that intelligence is used to achieve goals, it’s not used for setting goals. When someone’s values are so different it’s hard to have any sort of meaningful conversation.
Opportunity + luck + preferences (I.e. someone values flexibility over compensation, or video games over homework)
If they are over-complicating it, then you are not communicating the problem well.

Maybe change the problem to an array of ints. It's the same solution but you will not have anyone asking about UTF and text direction.
History is a vector. If you think of it that way, it makes sense that some groups end up with relatively more negative outcomes than others. Our moral obligation is to provide everyone with the tools to overcome whatever disadvantages their ancestral vector has placed on them.
Progress from Vision to Beta
Stocks are mutually exclusive by definition.
I don't think they should both be allowed to join the team, but if our goal is equal opportunity, then going forward person A is going to have more opportunity and thus we will not achieve our goal of equal opportunity.

I guess I'm saying that unequal outcomes lead to unequal opportunities. "Equal opportunity, not equal outcomes" sounds nice, but it's inherently unstable, because the unequal outcomes will result in unequal opportunities.

I think:

1. It's an impossible ideal, but that's ok. It's not the only impossible ideal.

2. Sometimes, we should just focus on concrete ways we can help equalize opportunities.

3. Sometimes, we can talk about the difficult philosophy behind it all, and probably wont come up with concrete solutions in the process, but it might be a worth while thought exercise.

(I'm doing 3 right now.)
Ask HN: WFH – will I be outsourced?
I once heard, if you can work from home you will be out sourced.

Is the WFH movement going to turn into a “they replaced with with cheaper labor from xyz?” Is this a be careful what you ask for situation?
Violent anarchists, who are these? Also, as I am interested to learn, sources would be helpful.
> it's because of some characteristic within those people

But why can't this be true? Numerous studies have shown that genetic and particularly cultural traits produce vast differences in cognitive ability. Most recently for instance in a story about Korean twins separated at birth[1].

Research also shows that these differences can account for an overwhelming majority of the disparity in outcomes. This has been an active area of research for decades, and academia isn't at all in agreement that "marginalization" is the culprit here[2].

> marginalized groups have drastically worse outcomes

Not all "marginalized groups" do though, do they? Unless you only include groups with poor outcomes in your definition of "marginalized", in which case it's a bit circular isn't it?

1. https://www.psypost.org/2022/05/psychologists-found-a-striki...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5csE8q9mho
> I've found that far less people in software understand and are curious about algorithms than there were 15 years ago

Maybe because so many SW job descriptions these days seem to consist of plugging library into framework, and anyone interested in algorithms would be bored?

Not saying that's what you're recruiting for, but the industry has expanded massively while I'm guessing the number of algorithm heavy jobs has stayed roughly constant.
Yet asking while spitting someone in the face is not going to work well either. If your base principle is that the other person is privileged scum (even though there might be some truth to that in some cases), there's not really anywhere to go from there. Unless you're willing to go for violent revolution of course, but it should be fairly easy to understand that is not generally going to make the other sympathetic to your cause.

Fair enough, some defenestration needs to happen every once in a while, but being divisive and going for open war might not be the best long-term strategy from a societal context, as opposed to some consensus and common goals.
Panama doesn’t tax income on foreign gains, so the corpo tax there would be 0%.
> Would it be possible to make a game that is both entertaining and educational about the real challenges these people face, at the same time?

Sure, just play Monopoly with a handicap against people who are really good at it and who collude against you. Not many folks would find that fun though!
A Messy Table, a Map of the World
Give noteplan a try
Besides, what exactly would E2E protect from? Your Twitter DMs (assuming you already use HTTPS to access Twitter) only travel through one party: Twitter itself. So basically E2E would be to protect your message contents from Twitter itself?

First, they already have all the metadata they could potentially want, the message contents itself is virtually nothing. I'm quite sure they're even logging keystrokes in their website for autocomplete/analytics/advertisement/whatever purposes.

Second, they control the entire platform, including the code you would be running to encrypt/decrypt the messages!
What would prevent Twitter from sending a specific party a special version of their JS that sends an obfuscated unencrypted copy of your messages to the mothership?

All this conversation is just security theater..
The quote problem has been a long standing issue since before Unicode became the dominant encoding. You will often see older web pages with mojibake caused by MacRoman encoding of smart quotes.
fancyzones is great for utrawide monitors. I've been using it for years and once you create your own layouts you can snap windows to fill them with easy shortcuts (click and drag the window + hold shift), and windows will remember the layouts later and keep them.
> intelligence is used to achieve goals

I thought grit was more important than intelligence?
A bunch of The Bachelor contestants were also caught taking borderline fraudulent PPP loans.

https://pagesix.com/2021/06/28/tayshia-adams-and-more-bachel...

If you had bothered to follow up on that, you would have learned that all of these Bachelor(ette) contestants employed other people and used the PPP loans to pay those salaries during the PPP period when their normal revenue streams were unavailable due to COVID restrictions (Tayisha Adams actually went into detail about how and why she used the loan in the linked article). Which was quite literally the point of the PPP loans.

But I get that critical thinking is hard when you have an ideological point to make and you just want to shit talk other people.

Guess what? A lot of tech companies also took out PPP loans. Former HC darling Mixpanel took PPP loans. As did Bird, and a number of dating apps. (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/06/ppp-loans-to-tech-start-ups-...) Are we calling them unscrupulous too?
So which societies have adopted them and it lead to negatives? I would like an example and also an explanation for why these things aren't solved problems in America then?

> Agreed, there's no contradiction in saying the USA is brutal and one of the less brutal regimes in the world, to the point that it's the number one destination from immigrants that can actually choose where to live.

That also does not mean the USA is working and working well for people, hence the millions of suicidal teens. It's possible that no system is working.
IIUC, for better realism, you can't stop playing, you can't get new games, games you had before disappear, things outside the desperation game disappear, every week causes lasting damage to your console/PC health, government help with its Kafkaesque procedures stresses and humiliates you, neighborhood thugs randomly break down your door and use a hammer to hit your hands gripping the controller, but you still can't stop playing, because your only character is permadeath.
> The software is only good because Mac fans join the company and slave hard enough to make it that way.

What does this even mean? This could easily just say "they have good software because the workers care about what they are making"
A Pot of U.N. Money. Risk-Taking Officials. A Sea of Questions
People propose hypothetical situations as part of a question all the time and then you're asked to try and come up with an appropriate answer for that situation. Opting to discard the hypothetical and answer based on your worldview is of course something you're free to do.

You really can't conceive of any possible way that disadvantaged groups could be given more resources? Have you heard of gold mines? Oil wells? Stock markets? Resources are "created" all the time. A harsh and immediate refusal to even consider a hypothetical scenario like this indicates a lack of imagination on your part, not a failure on the part of the researchers.
The cause isn't adequately explained, but it's hard not to see the ramifications of the outcome everywhere you look. We live in a society that couldn't rebuild, if it had to, the New York City subway, or the Interstate Highway System, or the national electric grid, or numerous other features of industrialized 20th century America.
In the end we live in mostly free countries.

Women are not clamoring to be brick layers. And men are not clamoring to be kindergarten teachers.

And as long as we remain free - meaning, the ability to choose what we want to do, biology will remain the foremost driver of choice of occupations.

People keep trying to suppress biology with various social constructs, and cry when we fail.