skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue the exact opposite: with each year the cloud makes less and less technical sense. Local computing power, storage, and networking are getting cheaper all the time, while cloud services really aren't, and won't because of their business model. Cloud is also risky for security, privacy, and business (hard dependency on a single vendor) reasons.
Does MacOS count?
Except that this whole movement is now reversing. These communities are starting to gentrify and grow rich - to the horror of progressive activists everywhere! Damned if you do, damned if you don't. You just can't win!
I find WIN + SHIFT + S to be superior, because it is not limited to the browser window, automatically copies to the clipboard, and you can choose to annotate it if you want
Given https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/24/tesla-loses-bid-to-sh... (yes, factory worker, yes, sexual harassment... however...)

> Alameda County Superior Court Judge Stephen Kaus ruled Monday that the female worker who filed the complaint can proceed with her case — even though she signed an arbitration agreement giving up her right to sue.

I would assume that engineers have similar arbitration agreements. Talking to a lawyer would be the first thing to do, but be prepared that until it moves out of arbitration they may be rather powerless to do anything.
I was reading your comment and thought of Jonathan Blow's talk. Without even clicking the link, let me guess, that's from Moscow's 2019 conference?

EDIT: yes, it is. He has a very important point there.
I recently went on Twitch to see what young devs where coding. One (rather smart, I must say) young lady was creating a simple sign in/sign up page, but there's a twist: with React. Upon me asking, why wouldn't she just code it in plain HTML, she responded with a question: "but how would it connect to the API?". So there you go, ladies and gentlemen. I don't really know what to do about it, but I don't believe we're a bunch of old men yelling at a cloud (quite literally - AT A CLOUD), especially that I don't think we're that old.
> For some reason progressives are against voter ID laws. I've said that before and will say it again: Most of EU requires ID to vote. I will support Republicans that want to do this. It is sad to bring EU in the picture to convince progressives but it is a magic word that somehow brings logic and reason. We shouldn't have to say "They do it in EU, so it must be good".

There are several key differences between the US and the EU.

The most notable difference is that there is no national ID card like there is in Europe. This means that what qualifies as a valid ID is up to the states, and they can (and do!) play games with what is valid. For most people, the de facto ID standard is a driver's license, but if you physically can't meet the standards for one, well... maybe you can get a state-issued photo ID. Just show up to your county courthouse between the hours of 11 and 1 on any third Thursday of a month and you can get one [1]. That's easy, right?

Oh, and it'll cost you $50 (actual costs vary from state to state). And requiring voters to spend $50 to get an ID that lets them vote is totally not going to be in violation of the 24th Amendment (that bans poll taxes).

The second aspect that's rather key is the US has a sordid history of using gimmicks to prevent the wrong sort of people from voting. It's not unreasonable to suggest that voter ID laws are intended to be a more modern variant of historical tricks like literacy tests--and a few of them have been struck down because the legislators passing them have admitted that they were intended to prevent people from voting.

A final thing I'll bring up is this: to get my photo ID, I basically need to show up to the appropriate state office with something like a birth certificate and something that has my current address. Why is it that showing up to vote with this same information is somehow insufficiently secure to allow me to vote?

[1] This example is admittedly hyperbole, but there are some states where getting these sorts of cards are rather closer to this difficulty than I'm comfortable with. Especially in areas that were historically barred from voting because they're mostly the wrong sort of the people.
> Unlike VSCode, Emacs and Vim have a learning curve

have you seen the extent of available emacs packages? maybe it is a learning curve for a person who just learned how to power on a computer but i find emacs soo much more approachable
I think the Asian and Pacific Islander one is interesting because it lacks a shared history of strife to support the amorphous grouping. (Latino should also be treated very differently, this post is about Asian-American and Asians in America)

Asian-American, especially in New York City (but somewhat replicated across the nation), is kind of a burgeoning identity which has now somewhat of a shared distinctly American culture, but is only kind of a self-fulfilling identity because everyone pigeonholes them, domestically and wherever their heritage was from. This makes individuals forced to attempt a shared representation. But it makes less sense compared to "white", "black" and pre-colonial civilizations here, given the lower population and the large time gaps in migration waves, and the large difference in why people migrated to the US at all during those migration waves.
I never miss a plug for the idea that the United States Postal Service should get into the PKI game and issue hardware tokens. They have immense infrastructure they could leverage to be a very effective trust provider.

They already serve in that capacity to some extent evidenced by the various government entities who accept an addressed piece of mail as proof of residency. I don't think there'd be enough bipartisan support to make it happen, but I think it'd work great.
Wow! End of an era!
Sustained innovation is finding a series of technologies with S-curve growth that can be transitioned away from as they approach their asymptotic limit. Then, society can stay in exponential phase until it hits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale#Type_III
Can something be sticky to a race but not genetic?

Obviously yes.
There's a config option to limit the total max number of dwarves, which can help (though mainly on peaceful or similar starts - obviously you can't fight a war without dwarves).

I believe the dwarves now will flash some various icons (in the text mode they'd flip between the dwarf character and a downwards red arrow, for example) but it's usually when they're almost dead of whatever it is.
> they [the libertarians] reveal an anarchism very much at odds with itself

Oh the irony in being able to call this out on the people who believe in a variation of what you believe but not being able to see that the exact same is true for your own overlapping beliefs.

We need to form a collective around the idea that all organized social structures are evil! Unite in disunity!

Organized anarchism is an inherently ridiculous idea. You don't even have to make it passed the title to see that it's an irreconcilable contradiction.
If there were a cost for pumping pollution into the atmosphere required to generate electricity then that cost would be passed on to you the consumer and then it might be 'cost-efficient' to install solar.

Like I said, the problem is policy.
> Another answer is to work at an early-stage startup or a small non-tech company where you can move fast. The tradeoff there is lack of job security and lesser pay.

I work for a very small "non-tech" company, have been here 12 years, and have a great income. The tradeoff I had to make was a much higher level of responsibility. (I'm at the very top of the tech stack - if something isn't working, there's no one for me to blame, aside from a vendor like AWS)
There’s two ways to equity.

1. Make sure everyone has access to opportunities.

2. Get rid of all opportunities

People are going for the second one despite the fact that it doesn’t actually improve anyone’s life. Its like solving homelessness by burning down all houses.
Hey, sure! Check my profile for contact.
I feel like you have opinions here - that you think certain sorts of groups are more likely to be scared than others. I'm sure that's right, but wondering who you have in mind.

As a straight, white, fairly well-off, more or less neurotypical man, I'm sure I should be in all the privileged groups and so should feel pretty empowered. Maybe that's why I feel like I should be able to blog under my own name.

But I completely understand what OP is saying. I definitely have the fear, and I've toyed with the idea of having an anonymous persona before.
We no longer read to our kids, and it makes me both happy and sad. Happy because they are voracious readers on their own, but sad because damn, childhood goes by quick...
Thank you for bringing up Elon in situations that are completely unrelated. There isn't enough attention on him already /s
Maybe I just have horrendous taste, but I just get GitHub Theme Light and am done with it. Do you tend to be nitpicky around aesthetics?
Even better is to use a single workspace for each task. I keep an IDE window, a few terminals, and a couple browsers for each task I'm working on. Not sure if this works in floating WMs, but in a tiling WM it's a delight. I actually disabled tabs in Firefox and let Sway do tabbing instead. That way I can have a single window tabbed with multiple apps, only some of them a browser.

Before I started working this way, my stress levels were through the roof. I spent so much time alt-tabbing through 100 windows and getting burned out. Organization is key!
I mean, if you are in Windows already you should be using Snip at least since Win7. It has cropping, window snap, and basic annotation, in addition to capture save and copy.
> What you are pulling out seems to be narrowly-focused and highly-contextualized.

It's the most straight-forward and objective measure. That the main result of a paper would be omitted from the abstract and "highly-contextualized" is not surprising, given social science's bias. If a study gets the 'wrong' findings, it tends to be rejected:

The authors also submitted different test studies to different peer-review boards. The methodology was identical, and the variable was that the purported findings either went for, or against, the liberal worldview (for example, one found evidence of discrimination against minority groups, and another found evidence of "reverse discrimination" against straight white males). Despite equal methodological strengths, the studies that went against the liberal worldview were criticized and rejected, and those that went with it were not. - https://theweek.com/articles/441474/how-academias-liberal-bi...
Same! Appears to be some more info/usage here:

https://github.com/Hydrock/AhemFont
What you call "pattern of splitting" is a feature.

In a decentralized society political power is decentralized, much like you have different music genres, or universities or restaurants.

People are still able to communicate, read and write and influence each other even if they wear slightly different hats.
A private beta is not what I’d consider a shipping product, but you may have a different definition of that
Can this be applied usefully to non-public datasets?

Would it be feasible to add some other zero knowledge proof to this that would confirm a user has paid a subscription for access? For example, if this were a news site, the user would have to prove a valid subscription to read articles, but the site would not be able to know which articles any subscriber decided to read?

If that is possible, what could the site to to prevent a paying subscriber from sharing their access to an unreasonable number of others? Would it be possible to impose a rate limit per subscriber?
It was done by the election officials in charge of certifying the count. Read the article and it explains the whole thing. They went to great lengths to keep it "within the bounds" of the existing system, to make it harder to detect.
Indeed, client behavior when an article fails to be retrieved is very important. A malicious server could guess what article is being retrieved, remove it from the database, and see if the client 'reacts' in some observable way.

The mitigations for this are somewhat heuristic; the client should perhaps 'pace'/'debounce' subsequent requests when a retrieval fails. For example, enforce that the re-retrieval will happen at a uniformly random time between 1-5 seconds later.

It's good to note that this kind of attack is somewhat unavoidable, since denial-of-service is (generally) always possible. An interesting mitigation might be for the server to produce a ZKP that the full dot product was computed correctly, and have the client always check the ZKP before displaying the article. This is mostly a theoretical fix for now I believe, since ZKP's over homomorphic computation are in the realm of theory more than practice.
Managing Bufferbloat in Storage Systems
is "PS 87 elementary school" a public school of private school ?
They're not cutting prices across the board. They're cutting prices on specific stock they have a glut of that their consumers can't afford anymore.

Inflation is measured across a wide range of goods- a one-time discount on select items isn't going to budge the needle, or a sign of improvement.
Ah ok, well that's different, i just use base images a make my "apps".
I think the move to WFH has accelerated this shift (a worthwhile tradeoff IMO)

Previously when working with a company (small startup or large company) you'd have an office LAN and a few servers, or a corporate VPN which your office network was on, and Openstack, or other 'local' services available.

Now that a large number (the majority?) of devs are working remote, if you want local/internal services you need to get everyone's buggy VPN software configured correctly
To me, "not only" can mean any quantity other than only. I have never heard it used any other way, though I fully admit you may have.

So to me, many and not only equate.
> We must not equate indentured servitude, wage slavery, and pointless anxiety driven makework for "real work".

I'm explicitly not doing that. My whole comment can be rephrased as: "if we can meet society's needs with less soul-crushing, we should do so, but some of the soul crushing may be inherent (needing to work to meet our own physical needs can be inherently exasperating for some)".

> Please don't fall for that 18th century factory-owner terminology.

I'm inclined to defer to credentialed economists over arbitrary Internet strangers.
I got a commit into Django a few years ago. It was just updating a documentation link, but are you saying I should put it on my resume?
Thank you for acknowledging that it wasn't close. It's awful what's transpired but unnecessary and breathless rhetoric will do us a disservice when the next, worse event occurs.

Even if the vote was delayed the legal system isn't an ethereum smart contract. Congress and presumably the supreme court would get involved to reverse the decision, or worse, have something similar to a civil war.
Atom was unbelievably slower than VSCode for any comparable set of capabilities. What do you mean bloated?
Myers was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 1st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1975 to 1980.

Meyers was convicted of bribery in 1980 as part of the ABSCAM investigation and on Oct. 2, 1980, the House of Representatives expelled him in a 376-30 vote.

Source: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/michael_myers/40809...

More on ABSCAM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscam

Each congressman who was approached would be given a large sum of money in exchange for "private immigration bills" to allow foreigners associated with Abdul Enterprises into the country and for building permits and licenses for casinos in Atlantic City, among other investment arrangements.

The FBI recorded each of the money exchanges and, for the first time in American history, surreptitiously videotaped government officials accepting bribes.
> You’re describing why you believe it’s okay to discriminate against that Asian student because there’s “too many yellows, not enough blacks”.

Not really. If intelligence is equal between races and a system is an actual meritocracy, then the balance between groups should be the same. One group outperforming indicates a difference in circumstances. If you believe those circumstances aren't because of disadvantages then you either believe one group is inherently more capable than the other, one group works harder than the other, or that one group has a more effective culture. Generally, there is a lot of animosity within the black community toward ̶A̶s̶i̶a̶n̶ people who tend to believe any of the above (because it is pretty common amongst racist).

> You’re also ignoring that they’re choosing to engage in institutional racism rather than utilize programs such as meritocracy + individual aid, which automatically counter any “structural disadvantages” — and is in sharp contrast to their proposed racist system that rewards privileged blacks ahead of poor Asians. One of the many reasons such racist systems fail, in practice: they don’t confront the issue you claim they address.

Are you arguing structural disadvantages are not real? are you arguing that the issue in the black community is effort? if the issue isn't structural disadvantages, what do you think they are?

> You just described racism and a belief in racial tribes — exactly what I said was driving this ... You start off disagreeing — and then go on to describe exactly what I said.

I'm disagreeing with the policy as an effective way to address a set of issues. I never said I disagreed with the idea that there are tribes. Tribes are going to exist as long as we live in a society that offers members of different tribes different opportunities and experiences within society. The way to fix that is not to just pretend that doesn't exist. A meritocracy can't exist until everyone within a society believes they have a fair chance to participate in it and it is not controversial to say most black people do not believe that is the status quo. You are choosing to see this as people trying to take something away from you when its really a bunch of people lashing out over the fact that the system was never fair in the first place.
Supported hardware is very limited [1]. I guess it could be good if you know you want to use an ESP32.

[1] https://toit.io/product/supported-hardware
"Is one group inherently inferior?"

It's reasonable to think that there is (A) some correlation between parental income and intelligence. Also, it's reasonable to think there is (B) correlation between parental intelligence and their children's intelligence, which in turn (C) correlate with school performance.

Source on B:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

Sources on A and C:
https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/ses/2007-strenze.pdf

So yes, maybe people in the low income group are "inferior" in the sense that they'll have a harder time in school, because they are (on average) less bright. Everyone knows that some kids have an easy time in school because they are quick-witted, and others will have a harder time.

That's not saying we shouldn't try to help them, we certainly should! But I think we'll make less progress on that goal if we cannot admit that some kids will have a more difficult time than others.
In Alabama, it's $36.25 (cite: https://www.alea.gov/dps/driver-license/license-and-id-cards).
You just linked an insane conspiracy theory website.
I'm skeptical of that site, without reviewing any of the details, simply because it said "Loader %" instead of e.g. "Loading 10%" when loading the content.
Location data is nowhere near fine-grained enough to determine if an individual has gone to a ballot dropbox vs. the coffee shop next to it. And dropboxes are intentionally placed in convenient high-traffic areas. I would be very suspicious of these fraud claims just on how unreliable the data naturally is.

Besides, if you really wanted to rig elections with mail ballots, it's way more effective to throw away ballots than to stuff them.
The best analogy I can think of is sports.

In sports, the rules are whatever we say they are, that’s the part that’s socially determined. Lebron James is a amazing basketball player, due to a combination of his genetics and his hard work. But there’s a parallel reality wherein basketball was never invented. And people enjoy sports like horse racing or marathon running, where he would never be able to be world class given his frame. What sports are popular is based on culture and happenstance, and up to the whims of society, not genetics or hard work of individuals.

For several hundred years, America literally constructed a society where it was decided that white people were considered more valuable than black people. That had nothing to do with what individual black people did, those were just the rules of the game.

You may say “but that’s not how it is anymore”, and yes things have certainly changed. But at the same time, there are people who are alive today who weren’t allowed to attend the same schools as whites, weren’t allowed to drink from the same fountains as whites, etc.

The argument that is being made, is that society continues to favor people based upon the color of their skin. Certainly, individual talents and hard work contribute to one’s place in life, but that does not mean that the playing field is level.
> you are saying school (1,2,3) get same funding per pupil. but test score for 1 is worse than 3.

Yes, and in fact its petty big jumps. 3 >> 2 >> 1. We are talking like 95th, 50th, and 10th percentiles statewide (percentiles picked for effect, did not pull up the data)

> Any idea how they could be compared in a data-drive way?

Right, and that is the hard part. If they don't do the same tests, you cannot have this data.

However, the more you look at layers of this data, you will find that the most important thing you care. Parents looking at school rankings have kids that perform much better than kids that have parent's who do not look at this data.

For me, I knew that 3 or 4 would give my kids a fine education. So I toured both (and actually had an older kid already in #3). The reason I sprang for #4 was

1) Smaller class size. Something like 15 kids per class, vs 30. All else being equal, you get way more chances for success the closer you are to the teacher.

2) Likeminded parents. People send kids there because they want the best. They are the high achievers. The college profressors and doctors of the area. #3 wasn't too far off, but you still got to see stuff like parents smoking in the carline with their windows up and the kids locked inside (grrrr).

3) More opportunities. #3 school starts music class at like 6th grade. #4 starts like 2nd or 3rd grade. It is something not reflected in test scores, so not important to public schools. But something shown to be good, so it's available for parents.
seems complicated.
I moved my family as the town I lived in did exactly this. They also removed support programs for those falling behind vs racing ahead. All under the equity banner.

The New town we moved to is great. Oldest kid in accelerated programs, accelerating. Younger kid got the support she needed to catch up. :chefs_kiss:

Taking a step back, I don’t know how ‘equity’ got twisted into creating a lowering tide for all vs. a rising tide for all. So confusing.
This depends on the region/university/timescale/etc.

Consider this: student at institution A (UK) writes code, postdoc at institution B (USA) modifies it, shared with researcher at institution C (China) who runs it for a paper first-authored by student at institution D (Germany).

Who has the rights to share the code and data? Which jurisdiction would this fall under?