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Minorities in tech are doing just fine. I get sick and tired of article after article trying to argue the opposite based on a handful of biased anecdotes, usually painting non-minorities as conniving bastards.

Meanwhile, there are actual people and businesses being crushed under mob social justice, a far scarier phenomenon.
> This article, with the thesis that good arguments are more important than data, is based on, well, a good argument – not much data.

I'm not sure what you're claiming. All intellectual demonstration is a matter of rational argument. That's what proofs are: arguments. Data is not self-explanatory or demonstration. "Data" can only support arguments by first being collected, something motivated by argument, and then interpreted so that it can enter into argument as a body of propositions.

> On the other hand, the work by Meehl et al. claiming pretty much the opposite, is based on, well, a lot of data, and maybe not much intuitive reasoning.

I don't understand. Argument is logical demonstration. The strongest form is the deductive argument. If you don't have a logical argument, then you haven't got a demonstration.

> I don't know what to believe. Fortunately, as I've grown older, I've become more comfortable with holding completely dissonant opinions in my head at the same time.

Depending on what you mean, this could be good or bad. Inconsistency is not a virtue, and if there is an inconsistency between two of your beliefs, then it means you've got work to do (or at least you'll need to admit you don't know what the truth is). This requires humility, the frank acknowledgment that you're faced with an aporia that you don't know (at least not yet) how to address. It also requires patience if you are to tolerate your ignorance instead of jumping to some ersatz explanation.
It is shocking how schools begin to act like quasi governments, trying to regulate things off campus only because people who happen to be individuals are involved. I’ve lived in a number of college towns and seen it regularly.
How are damages calculated in cases like this?
> you have to pretend you want a relationship even if you just want fun.

This wrongly presumes that every girl on Tinder wants a relationship. Not to mention that it’s very dishonest.
Even then people are buying an external audio interface as much or more for latency improvements as opposed to sound improvement.
That explains why they are building one generic luxury apartment block after the other - and hostels, hostels, hostels. It's insane.
decimate is also defined as destroying 1 in 10.

i agree that meta is not on the verge of collapse (although i'm not bullish on their long term prospects); but i'm sure we can both see that apple bloodied their nose pretty badly with this.
The US doesn't think they can "win" in the sense that someone 'wins' chess or checkers.

What the US can do however, it make the conquest of Taiwan very expensive. Sort of what they're doing in the Ukraine but probably with a shade more direct involvement. China will experience a abrupt cutoff from the US lead international order in addition to some limited skirmishes with western forces. But they also won't be physically prevented by western forces from occupying Taiwan. Western arms and intel will help fuel the Taiwan government until it's defeated. The goal isn't to win. It's simply to make the invasion very expensive.

Now, what I think western leaders are missing in this calculus is that China will not stop at Taiwan. The expense of exclusion from the western system is already priced in. It'll be paid for with additional expansion. So, after a short rest, China will ramp up with the annexation of additional territory within and around the nine dash-line setting up further conflicts with those countries. Taiwan's violent subjugation will give those countries pause and likely result in some combination of territorial concessions or vassalization; similar to the recent integration of the Solomon Islands into China's new extra-national order.

In parallel, Russia will solidify their holdings in western and southern Ukraine. I think at some point they'll test European and Nato resolve with a handful of attacks / incursions. But don't expect Nato to invade Ukraine or Russia anytime soon, because, you know, nukes. Ultimately, I predict Russia will move to finish their conquest of Georgia or accept their capitulation. Armenia will welcome Russian forces and Russia will begin moving further south into the middle east where they'll support Iran in conflict with some of the wealthy but poorly defended Arab states in the late 2020's or early 2030's.
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Portugal should just do what the U.S. and Canada should also do: built more housing: https://slate.com/business/2013/05/exporting-housing-service....

It's not hard! We knew how to build a lot of housing on a particular parcel a hundred years ago.
And a very good memory at that!! I’m pretty sure jeopardy is the same way.

How do the high scoring players of jeopardy do it? Do the memorize a book of facts or something? The mind boggles.
Yes, there are very few rules on the standard that could create two binary-different local parts that resolve to the same value (mostly involving parenthesis). But the mail server can add as many rules it wants, including the very common setting of making completely different names resolve to the same mailbox.
MS Teams Linux client is being retired. To be replaced by a progressive web app
(Updated) Important upcoming changes to Microsoft Teams desktop client on Linux

Updated August 30, 2022: We are updating this message to indicate we will be retiring the Microsoft Teams desktop client on Linux in 90 days (early December). Please take action as appropriate for your organization.

We hear from you that you want the full richness of Microsoft Teams features on Linux such as background effects, reactions, gallery view, etc. We found the best way to act on this is to offer a Teams progressive web app (PWA) on Linux as a new feature of our current web client, which we’ll make available to our Linux customers in the coming months. PWA enables us to ship the latest Teams features faster to our Linux customers and helps us bridge the gaps that existed between the Teams desktop client on Linux and Windows. The PWA experience will be available on both Edge and Chrome browsers on Linux.

We will be retiring the Microsoft Teams desktop client on Linux in 90 days (early December), which is currently available in public preview. All users on the Microsoft Teams Linux desktop client will have to transition to the web or PWA version, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources. We are committed to helping all current customers on Linux start using the PWA app; we’ll publish guidance once we are closer to releasing this feature.

Teams PWA is an evolution of our Linux web experience - it offers the “best of the web with key functionalities of client”: zero-install, lightweight, and has a rich set of features. For example, the PWA version supports features such as:

Background blur and custom backgrounds
Reactions and raise hand in meetings
Large gallery and together mode
PWA also provides desktop-like app features such as:

System notifications for chat and channel
Dock icon with respective controls
Application auto-start
Easy access to system app permissions
When will this happen?

We plan to make Microsoft Teams PWA on Linux generally available in the coming months.

How will this affect me?

If your users/administrators use the Microsoft Teams Linux desktop client, they either need to set up the Microsoft Teams PWA (when it is generally available) or use the Teams Linux web app to ensure business continuity.

What do you need to do to prepare?

To prepare, we recommend informing all your users about the upcoming changes, encouraging them to switch over to the PWA (when it is generally available) to get the latest features on Linux along with a desktop-like experience. Microsoft will publish a blog post about this change and how to install Teams as a PWA on Edge and Chrome once we are closer to making this feature generally available on Linux in the coming months.
Most people have day jobs they are better at instead - it's still a day job for the most talented/dedicated. Great photographers and modern musicians would have likely been mediocre painters / live musicians.
> I don't know about "hacking camps" (hackathons? code boot camps?) — never been to one — but a close cousin of these, [industry niche] startup events, tend to attract just as many business cofounders as technical cofounders; and the business cofounders tend to be an even gender split. (They also attract seed-stage VC scouts and marketing people, and these jobs actually tend to lean female.)

I think people are going to be weirded out by someone hitting on them at a business event.
Apropos of building suspension bridges, different people apprehend the danger of situations differently. I recognized this when I read that Alex Honnold doesn't like to be on ledges. When I climb, I love ledges and given about 12 inches of ledge I would host a party. But I never could climb without a belay the way Honnold does. I could never jam my fist into a crack in granite and just hang from it. ETA I don't have Honnold's talent.

Also I think when people are in a hard-core feed-my-family situation, they dig deep into their resolve, follow the safety rules, and avoid looking down.
You're giving me flashbacks to the stupid amount of time it took for me to identify a coil whine issue on my motherboard that gets worse when the CPU is in power saving mode.

I 'worked around' the issue for the longest time by leaving covid based processing going on folding@home, which would force my CPU into turbo mode.

Eventually I found out that if I disabled cstates, it mostly went away.
This entire situation was grossly mismanaged by the College. Their Counselor to Students encouraged the protest, provided them with hot chocolate, gave them a safe space to rest and recover in. That official was never disciplined for his role in this, and a couple of years later moved on to another role elsewhere in the country.

In my non-legal opinion, the College should have acknowledged some culpability for encouraging a riot, and should have disciplined the three students involved in the shoplifting, fake I.D., and assault of the shopkeeper.

Then they should have quietly settled with the shop for a couple hundred thousand plus legal fees and this whole thing would have been all but forgotten by now. In fact all the students who were around in 2016 would have long since graduated.

Instead, Oberlin has a public relations disaster on its hands. Or, at a minimum, some much unwanted attention and a very painful penalty that they can ill afford. They just cut around 100 spots from their core Conservatory program, and they also controversially fired about 100 unionized custodial and food staff.

My spouse is an Obie, and my teenager is looking at colleges. Having read this story, she's a lot less interested now in Oberlin, though a classmate of hers is going there this fall. Too bad.
> Firefox has been an Electron-style app for 100+% of its lifetime

That's technically correct, which is the best kind of correct, but horribly misleading.

Firefox has always been mostly written in JavaScript, but not HTML [1]. A bunch of features that are being standardized now, like Web Components [2], are pretty similar to stuff that Firefox has used in non-standard form for decades.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL

[2]: https://briangrinstead.com/blog/firefox-webcomponents/
Mo' acceleration, mo' trolley problems.

Go on vacation; come back; everyone's dead.
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Related article in the WSJ today about Americans buying European homes due to the favorable exchange rate: https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-the-u-s-dollar-surges-americ...

I wonder how this will impact "golden visas." Personally, if moving to Europe, I would be a little concerned about short-term energy insecurity pretty much anywhere except perhaps the Iberian peninsula. I think they'll find a solution, but it'd be hard to make such a big bet on without certainty.
Truly agree.

There are also countries like France which only imported cheap and poor labor. France never tried or even discouraged rich people to settle in the country with punitive taxes (compared to our neighbors and other western world countries). For instance London has (or had) rich Russians/Indians/Pakistani investors who made London their residence, not the case for Paris, foreign real estate owners don't take French permanent residency.

And nowadays, we are left with some politicians who promote economic immigration even when there is no need or deny any form of control on illegal immigration mostly to import voters.
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I am looking for a senior role in the San Francisco Bay Area at a company with 10+ engineers. I am most excited about roles in languages such as Rust, Scala and Haskell, as well as roles in data-intensive domains, especially those involving distributed systems.
We pay a rent for a small flat that used to be very expensive and now is on the cheap side in our quarter of the city

Portugal should build more housing, which is a simple, effective solution if the rent is too damn high: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/the-ren....

The nice thing about indoor space is that we can make pretty much as much of it as we'd like.
It's hardly any work at all. If you've made a webview you have icons and splash screens, you have what you need to make the manifest.json.

You can create the simplest of service workers and your done.

If you want better offline ability, you need more TLC in the service worker - which you would need anyway if you want your webview to work offline as well.

The "extra work" takes a few hours. The boons of the PWA over the webview, updates are much much easier to roll out. You don't have a bunch of ancient versions running around. If you don't need access to native APIs this might be worth pushing users to use it.
Technically second planet covered in liquid water... they clearly forgot about Earth
I disagree, my very first job was at a startup in lieu of a big company. I think I was very naive at the time and thought I knew how things worked coming out of business school. I learned tons of what not to do and saw what I thought were pretty big mistakes like not having tests, not talking to customers and actively saying no to user requests. And despite all this, the company was still afloat and was still growing.

It gave me a lot of hope tbh that you can make several mistakes and still have a decent shot.

And I learned tons of what to do correctly. I saw what "rockstar" engineers were actually. I drank from a firehose from a tech standpoint.
Love the name! Really evocative of what the product does / looks like concretely.

Would be neat if you could e.g. earn credits to use a service or points towards swag as you complete tasks for a given API.

Could see this expanding to encompass use cases like Applitools' Test Automation U https://testautomationu.applitools.com/
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CourseKey is changing the Career Education industry with a cutting edge SaaS Platform for vocational-focused training businesses. Launched in 2015, CourseKey has quickly grown to support over 200 organizations and hundreds of thousands of learners across the United States having raised ~$20M in VC funding.

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In this generalist role, you’ll join a small, existing data science team, reporting to the CTO, to leverage data insights to help build the next generation of CourseKey's (user-facing) analytics dashboards. You'll also work closely with a Technical Product Manager to facilitate discovery of value-add product additions that power the company’s growth in the near- and long-term.

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Reporting to the CTO, you will play an instrumental role in being the first to build out better monitoring and reliability at CourseKey ahead of our next fundraise. You will identify ways to proactively improve reliability, providing thought-leadership for the rest of Engineering around how best to build scalable, reliable systems. Although you may have never been a DBA, you're comfortable with typical DB performance issues (particularly for MySQL) to be able to identify them and maybe even resolve them.
I thought that was called "progressive enhancement". I like that too
At ~$40k a semester the student body is for the most part operating in a nerfed universe.
That is the goal on the Dem side though. Universal healthcare isn’t picky on the how but on the outcome. That was a core theme of the failed “Hillary Care” bill in the 90s.

The Republican EMTALA bill solved access. Every ER is required to treat everyone regardless of their ability to pay. The republicans didn’t fund this particular bit of regulation so the costs flow into the outsized bills hospitals charge.
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PostHog is open-source product analytics. Graduated YC W20, we were the most popular B2B software HN launch since 2012. Our GitHub repo [0] has 9k stars and a growing and active community. We've raised significant funding, default alive, and are growing quickly. We're 30+ people. Our stack is Django/React/Redux (Kea -- main contributor works at PostHog too!).

Our mission is to build tools that will increase the number of successful products that exist in the world.

We are looking for Backend Engineers & SREs to take care of scaling to 1 Trillion+ events, both for our cloud offering and larger customers who are self hosting. If you are interested in processing data reliably at scale and love databases like ClickHouse, this is your role!

We have a culture of written async communication (see our handbook [1]), lots of individual responsibility and an opportunity to make a huge impact. Being fully remote means we're able to create a team that is truly diverse. We're based all over the world, and the team includes former YC founders, CTOs turned developers and recent grads.

To apply see https://posthog.com/careers or email us careers@posthog.com

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AppLovin is one of those companies that few people have heard of but nearly everyone has used our product. Our platform reaches 700M DAU and we are processing 7PB of data daily. Our business is focused on the mobile ecosystem, enabling developers with the best tools to grow and monetize their applications. We IPO'd last year (ticker:APP) and our software revenue is expected to double in 2022.

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Earth is not an exoplanet, it is merely a planet.
Ah yes of course, spaced on the Ohio court not actually ruling in this case. thx
Thank you for mentioning interest rates. Any time housing comes up on HN, the main factors people bring up are short-term rentals, NIMBYism, and lack of new development. However, if these explanations had any merit, why have home values in Flint, MI increased by 67% since March of 2020?

Flint's population has rapidly declined over the past 40 years and continues to decline (its population is less than half of what it was at its peak), so there's not a population boom driving up demand. Flint is not exactly known as a tourist destination either. And to top off, Flint is most well known for its contaminated drinking water that contains lead. So why on Earth would such a place be experiencing a housing shortage?

The obvious answer is that governments around the world have brought interests rate down to zero, which forces investors to seek out riskier and riskier assets to invest in. Instead of investing in traditionally safe assets like treasuries and bonds, investors now have no choice but to invest in stuff like tech startups, cryptocurrencies, personal loans, mortgage-backed securities, and dilapidated houses in the Midwest.
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I’ll probably be buried in all these comments, but my position is that data is only as good as how it is collected. Sloppy data collection gives rise to sloppy conclusion through unknown biases.

The key is to understand the ‘data generation process’ so you can identify biases. My experience suggests that doing so side-step some common pitfalls.

I recommend reach out for ‘The Book Of Why’ by Judea Pearl. He includes many real life examples that’s surprisingly applicable to modern data science.
To your second point, that’s a policy problem. You can tax these golden visa real estate investors at any rate. You can have a different tax rate for nonresidents and an extremely high rate to penalize non-occupancy.

The country might be poor and in debt overall, but somebody is getting rich off this real estate bubble and it is within the government’s power to make them share.
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The grace period is also a source of many security vulnerabilities [0].

[0]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-can-h...