skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I feel like the statement that the layoffs "were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens" puts a target on the backs of the people who you claim to be helping."

How do they know who is what race though? If I am 50% latino / 50% asian what does that mean? Do you get to pick? Or do they test my skin color? Do they have forms to fill out what race you are? Do they do genetic testing? Depressing racism is back.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Black_Man_in_San_Fr...
The NZ government (bipartisan decision) has recently made all city councils allow densification by default. “The so-called Medium Density Residential Standard will require the country’s most populous cities to permit up to three stories and three dwellings on all existing residential parcels of land. The policy would allow a parcel with a detached single-family dwelling to be redeveloped into row houses or a small apartment block.”[3].

> as long as your project follows [the planning and building codes], no one should be able to delay or oppose your building.

That is how the regulations are designed in Christchurch, New Zealand: automatic consent if you stick within the codes. You require consent if you need to do something outside of the default rules, and NIMBYs can affect that consent process, so the default rules really really matter.

Housing prices were fairly insane levels[1] but are now reducing[2] (although interest rates are also affecting that).

[1] March 22: Auckland is eighth least affordable city for housing in new rankings https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/real-estate/1280272...

[2] Sept 22: NZ tumbles down international house price growth ranks https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/real-estate/1298444...

[3] New Zealand’s bipartisan housing reforms offer a model to other countries https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2022/01/24/new-zea...
Is requesting donations better or worse than selling advertising?
You can add keyword blocks instead of blocking the entire account. Isn't obvious, but it's there.
I don't think many people miss the dauys of PHBB in practice. Having to sign up for the hundred forum account, often needing admin approval before posting, etc.
The migration plan is to use React instead.
It’s literally in the platform of the Republican Party to “fight woke culture”
I believe you can change your display name but if you change your @username you have to go through some re-verification process.
It blew my mind what a huge difference a simple titanium sheet, wrapped around my pot and stove, can make in boil times and gas usage when I'm camping. There is a product called the Bobcat cooking system made by a small family company that makes a huge difference.

https://www.flatcatgear.com/shop/bobcat-kovea-cooking-system...

So much of a normal flame stove's heat goes into the air instead of the pot.
You are equating the happiness of the individuals involved as the basis for determining whether or not the action is moral. Its inherently a hedonistic perspective. Of course you can't make a moral claim that prostitution is wrong if you consider the "happiness" of the pimp, prostitute, and john as the highest good involved. Frankly, I'm not sure how you could make many moral claims considered reasonable based on that kind of criteria. Using the same measure you could justify all sorts of abusive situations so long as the exploited is "happy" with their circumstances.
>Oh well, I guess we'll never know.

Until the discovery phase
Maritime coverage shows African and Asian coasts in the Mediterranean
From my days of racing downhill mtb and cycling this came naturally to me when I first got on a moto. I still have a really hard time describing the how, but can execute it intuitively. It's a really strange concept to wrap my head around.
My advice is:

1. preview changes until the result looks the way you think it should

2. have faith that if you broke something non-obvious, then the WikiGnomes will fix it (and then you can look at the page history and see the change and learn)

3. be bold! If you've never had an edit reverted you aren't contributing enough.
You can read studies and form opinions all you want. I do the same. But the post I replied to offered unsolicited medical advice that blatantly contradicts the currently-available information from public health authorities. ("It would be one thing if the covid vaccine actually worked well, but it doesn't. It kind of works, but not especially well. Even worse is people who actually got covid, yet they want them to get a vaccine, which is rather pointless for them.")

When you start to post bullshit online, that's when people -- very legitimately -- may choose to challenge your credentials. In fact, people should challenge your credentials in such cases. It doesn't happen anywhere near often enough, and that's a problem.

If you disagree, then you're part of the same problem. Reconsider your position.
Elon was right. WAAAAY more than < 10% of the users are bots.
The 747 CMCA..
https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/americas-plan-to-build-747-arse...
Sexual harassment laws existed prior to the "me too" movement. Known harassers were still in positions within their companies. The cultural movement helped change the tolerance of this behavior. I sincerely doubt that anything but a small minority of children would be toiling away in factories today in the USA.

In todays litigious USA, children would come with too much liability to employ in many many settings. Children are quite capable of doing many different jobs. Total exclusion from the workplace delays the earnings, experience, learning, and networking of people.

Child labor laws have made exceptions for performers for some reason. I think most people would agree that this is fine. Why have we not made exceptions for other areas of work?

A less regulated child labor market would find those exceptions naturally.
In (moderate) fairness to Biden himself, though, we'd almost definitely be in this same position regardless of who had won the election in 2020. We're dealing with the unwinding fallout of the Covid lockdowns - we knew this would happen even when they started, we just have to ride it out at this point.
Agree, there's just easier ways to make good money than this. I think the upside of pure freelance is only having to deal with my own code, but it's still not worth the hoops these companies make you jump through.
My comments where not at all to make a statement about FP vs OOP, for me they both have their place, and I agree that Lisps are great OOP languages. It just turned out for me that FP came more naturally as a new programmer, and learning about the subtleties of lambda the ultimate, lexical scope and state from an FP perspective helped me to finally feel like I grok OOP. I was pleasantly surprised to see someone else express a similar sentiment.
It was in response to this blog post: https://probablydance.com/2019/12/30/measuring-mutexes-spinl...

Basically your standard CAS loop with _mm_pause() to yield.
Then the laid off employees should organize as a class action so that "this specific person would have been let go" is no longer an acceptable defense and the question can be focused on whether using a "lens" to fire people based on race is illegal. If they argue that the lens means something else or that they didn't use the lens then Twilio has potentially just filed a materially false statement with the SEC.
Fair enough. But individuals develop their own level of tolerance/dedication/grit through exposure. Let him Wireshark the shit of the USB connection to the 15yo printer. Lots to learn along the way.
Goals can change. Especially when your stock price gets cut in half and a recession is imminent.

Even in the world of StableCo annual budgets, by the time the budget is approved, I guarantee it reflects a number of goals that have been recently axed. Or, in times of growth, there’s other goals that have come up and claimed some resources that technically were earmarked for something else. Budgets and goals are fluid.

Also hiring goals are useful for measuring activities. They have an HR/talent acquisition team and that team needs goals. How would you frame those goals if not hiring? And , unfortunately, printer purchases is a real business goal if your the guy responsible for purchasing printers.
That's not really a good understanding - it may seem pedantic, but legal theorists and sociologists have very little to say about the 'real biological basis' of race; it's simply not within their purview. However, it may be used as an assumption or presupposition or not considered at all.

You mentioned 'and that the laws and attitudes surrounding race are primarily informed by this social construction' which correctly describes CRT, but it doesn't have anything to do with the biology (or lack thereof) of race.
Sounds fine, if you don't use Wikipedia either.
not necesarily. Slave using countries survived for centuries. (business can be successful even if it makes people miserable)
What has that got to do with this thread?
The issue is that the layoff will disproportionately affect protected groups. Engineering is disproportionately male, east asian, south asian, and white. Companies with explicit diversity targets make up for this by compensating in other company orgs (HR, marketing, sales, admin) making them disproportionately female, black, and hispanic.

This means when you keep good engineers but lay off HR, marketing, sales, and admin employees, the layoffs look really bad in terms of affected protected groups.
> Compression of preset -3 through -8 was slightly improved at the cost of a small decrease in encoding speed by increasing the precision with which autocorrelation was calculated (Martijn van Beurden)

Would love to see some benchmarks on this. Since FLAC hit 1.0 over 20 years ago, CPU speed has increased by ~100x, so a small hit on encode speed for better compression mostly doesn't matter. Then again, storage space has increased by the same amount, too.
My technique for running downhill. Not sure why nobody else uses it.

I gallop like a deer and I can go incredibly fast by basically keeping one foot constantly in front and never switching it and hopping down hills. I don't have to take a full step and I always have two feet or no feet on the ground so it's impossible to slip.

https://youtu.be/lHcZo5mrv2k
Did you look at the study, the details, the limitations, how info was collected, and so forth? I just did a quick read. The data set they're working with is incomplete and poor. It also deals with LDL levels while only looking at baseline and takes no account in for people on drugs to alter it.

So much detail is missing, poor, or uncontrolled for that it's only good to show you published, have something on your resume, and use to justify more research could be useful in the space.
Nope, it's because mechanically, the only reason you're getting a newer house in most metros in the US is by going far (with a horrid commute), and you'd want "more space" in exchange for living in the exurbs. It doesn't cost more for builders to build bigger houses.

Townhouses and condos are starter houses these days, and they're perfectly fine, it's just that the new ones are in places you also would not want to live in, because urban planning in the US is really mediocre.

> international codes

Always funny how the "international" code means only the US eh :-).
I'm also seeing a lot of spam comments pretending to be organic conversation about the market, which eventually leads to you to a "financial advisor" with an oddly unique name that is easy to Google, which leads you to a sketchy website.
Hey, learn something new every day

How to use advanced muting options

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/advanced-twitter-m...
>If building 1% extra houses drops the cost of all remaining houses by 2%, would the city be really interested in increasing the supply?

Do you have a timestamp? Surely Thiel isn't advocating for nationalizing housing, but the talk seems to devolve into wokeism? I imagine he's playing the crowd, but I can't get a read on what his actual solutions are.
It wasn’t passive income. The business was simple enough and he had managed to hire good people. It would run by itself pretty much. It wasn’t a typical startup. Just a small business that sold a software as a service.

The product revolved around making sales easier. The owner was a long time sales person.
The "Documents and Settings" for user home directories used to annoy me because its too long to type and has spaces. Thankfully the now changed it to "Users". There was a time when some old installers wouldn't parse "Program Files" correctly because of the space. Also "ProgramData" is inconsistent with the others because no space. But that folder is now hidden anyway. No consistency at Microsoft.
I wonder if dearimgui would count or if it's just imperative
Awhile back there was a community started by a guy named Kai Davis called freelance.camp:https://freelance.camp.

It still exists and is going strong and is probably exactly what you are looking for...check 'em out.

HTH
I am glad I'm not the only person who has had this thought, and I think it every time I see how many people some of these random tech companies employ. Those are the kinds of employee numbers I would expect from a much larger company than Twilio.

For reference, in the past I worked for an immensely profitable eCommerce business and I don't think our entire engineering department ever reached more than 40 people at its absolute largest.

I know all those employees aren't engineers, and I've been around long enough to know that what we see from the outside is just the tip of the iceberg. But if we assume even 25% of them are engineers directly working on the product, that is still nearly 2,000 people. That must be a huge iceberg.

So what on Earth are all those people doing? I am not being sarcastic or obtuse, I am genuinely curious because the only organization that I have ever worked for that was that size or larger was the US government. Is it administrative/managerial bloat? Are there a bunch of different pivot projects going on? What does Twilio have going on that needs nearly 8,000 employees?
Bivariate Choropleth Maps: A How-To Guide
Same thing with Linux though, my home directory is cluttered with dotfiles and hardcoded paths because people either haven't bothered to look for a standard (XDG exists) or give you the middle finger and choose to do whatever they want anyway. Snap is probably the worst of these products.

You're pulling in a 400 megabytes of dependencies the second you touch cross platform GUIs, a library to automatically create and pick the right appdata folder really isn't that inconvenient at this point.
Wikipedia is a very effective medium for reinforcing the spread of false information and as such will never be "broke".
At the micro level it may sound like good economics. Slavery is not good macro economics. For example, slaves in the US south were intelligent human beings that had they been in the free market with their ideas and efficient use of time and labor, the south would have advanced beyond plantations at a similar rate to the north prior to the US civil war.
In the unlikely event that SpaceX tries to enter the Chinese market illegally, I wouldn't put it past China to swat one of Starlink's satellites using a conventional anti-satellite weapon (one of the sort they have already revealed), just to make a statement. But I think SpaceX won't do this anyway; they'll continue to comply with local/national laws during peacetime. It's not in their interest to stir the pot and cause diplomatic trouble.

But more to your point I agree; they won't try to destroy the constellation itself over something as petty as a few people using Starlink to circumvent their 'Great Firewall'. People sufficiently motivated to get around the firewall already can, without the need for Starlink. The CCP doesn't seem to care about it; the firewall doesn't need to be perfectly airtight to control the population, it only needs to be 'good enough'. And they wouldn't want to expose any new anti-satellite weapons they have, particularly soft-kill weapons that might be addressed after discovery with a software patch.
How long does one need to watch porn in a single sitting? Netflix,YouTube, TikTok, etc. benefit from the fact we can sit there all day watching it (and some people do). Porn? Well...
I appreciate the feedback... Can you recommend any texts on CRT? My view is that of a layperson, I've never interacted with scholarly theory beyond reading shitposts about Hegel on telegram.

But this is actually an interesting topic to me and I'd love to learn more.
I agree with you but it's nothing new. The same thing happens all the time during hiring and college admission decisions. I think the unintended consequence of all such programs will be resentment and mistrust.
When are low-code prototypes useful? Evaluating market and implementation risks
> (if you do buy tickets, write huevosabio as referral and DM me to meet there :))

it is so weird when people do this on HN with no contact info in their profiles ;)
Not just older folks, young people who don't game regularly don't bother to check it either. The UI makes it quite hard to find people on there, nobody uses real names, profile pictures are random game/anime characters...
(1) Most forums are pseudo anonymous. You happen to be on one right now.

> People are a lot more open when they're not worried about being watched.

(2) This is a very "techie" take. Facebook has proven most people don't care about their privacy. Note - not saying privacy ISN'T an issue per se, I'm just saying that we've already proven the general population really doesn't care.

(3) AVS Forums, Tesla Forums, Malibu boat owners, etc. are all forums I regularly use and have great indexed content that would easily get lost in a Discord server. Also, no one knows who I am there. So as long as YOU want to stay pseudo anonymous while still contributing...you most certainly can.
It seems pretty inevitable we're headed toward a reality where there is no privacy. As one example, people are concerned about face recognition, but researchers have had success identifying people simply by their gait when they walk. As machine learning becomes more powerful, more and more of what we do will be exposed even if we close off the most obvious sources of information.

If the above is true, then the choice isn't between privacy and not-privacy; it's between fake-privacy where some people know All The Things but others don't, and openness.

It will be painful to get used to (depending on how fast the transition is) but I'd choose openness.
Privacy should be the default so that people who go for privacy don't stick out.
Companies care about diversity numbers when they have a lot of cheap funding.

When funding is tough, pure capitalism takes over woke values and it is up to whether your monetary value to the company>your monetary cost to the company.
I don't know if it's considered "spam", but another super-annoying thing is when you have to scroll past a whole page of "@downloadbot" or whatever those video-download bots are named. If you want to allow those kinds of things, why are they visible for everyone?
I am curious about this as well. We take privacy very seriously at Discord. Earlier this year, we entirely re-wrote our privacy policy as well to be more plain English and less legalese. I think that it's actually one of the more well written privacy policies out there.
In some countries, this might be corruption, directing business to "preferred" vendors, or it by straight up bribe seeking actions.

In SF and around the bay, it seems to be straight up we don't want to build in our city, so go away.
The idea is that construction barriers are removed so that the normal housing market is cheap enough for teachers to afford. As in, enough housing is built so that a teacher can just browse craiglist and find housing they can afford.
Pam claims that she saw it one day when she was alone in the conference room... okay. I believe she thinks she saw it.
This is the best thing I've seen all day. I love it. Out of curiosity how many images are you generating for each headline until you find one you like?
The question to me is what donors are told. The Wikimedia Foundation built a $100 million endowment in five years, half the time it had budgeted:

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais...

It's gone through a phase of planned, aggressive growth of its headcount. Its salary costs have increased tenfold over a decade:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...

As you can see on that page, individual executives' salaries have risen by 20, 30 percent in the space of two years. And all the while people are told the Wikimedia Foundation needs money "to keep Wikipedia online", or "to protect Wikipedia's independence".

No. If you want to grow your headcount, tell people why. If you want ten times as much money from the public ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Financial...

... then say what you are going to do with it. Don't hide behind "keeping Wikipedia online".
They aren't. It just seems that way because the ones that you listen to are.
I have essentially no legal knowledge, but that's enough to know this kind of language is a red flag the author doesn't either. Amending a complaint and objecting to a restraining order aren't by themselves interesting or informative, this is just reciting the titles of routine documents that get sent at this stage of the legal process. It means very little about the merits.

> Kytch went further and filed a First Amend Complaint. Taylor pushed back on these allegations and the lawsuit, filing what’s called a demurrer, a formalized objection to Kytch’s request for a restraining order.
I read the article twice just to make sure I didn't miss it but I believe the article isn't the headline "Why is every podcast sponsored by a VPN company?" which then goes on to explain why podcasts are (might be?) a good advertising channel. The article is literally the headline, a summary of the VPN biz and... that's it. Nothing specific about podcast sponsoring or how that channel differs from any others. lol
Half of the Board of Supervisors at any given time are just as bad as Dean, they’re just less vocal. The actual problem is the SF electorate.
Keith Code (author of twist of the wrist) has a bike with fixed handle bars that he lets you ride as part of his superbike track/race school. It is really eye opening on how little control you have without countersteering.

Here's a vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA

His school:
https://superbikeschool.com/
Link for the curious
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/
What blows my mind traveling around the country is that, on the ground, Iowa or Texas are egalitarian paradise compared to NYC or SF. I can’t stand to be in those cities these days because of the yawing wealth and racial divides.

I really wonder how much of the progressive drama results from these highly educated folks working in overwhelmingly white/Asian industries and living in places like SF or NYC where nearly all the Black or brown people they meet are working service jobs for them.
I think you're being a little obtuse here. The point of the tweet seems to be that the laser links are up enabling a true global network without the need for nearby ground stations.

They have coverage over all seven continents because of that and I have very little doubt that it's been tested in those continents as well. "Availability" here seems to be a proxy for "is technically solved" vs. "is commercially available".

If you're asking "what's the difference?" Think about the war in Ukraine. Starlink wasn't (and isn't?) commercially available there but was able to be deployed in an emergency.
That’s a nice bike. Enjoy!
There's simply no more room for people in San Francisco. More housing will only cause more problems, the rest of the infrastructure in the city isn't going to scale.
"Users" is a nonsense metric.

Twitter's claim was always about monetization accuracy: that <10% of ad impressions are shown to bots.
The Mechanics and Mayhem of Autocallables