skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, the point that I am trying to make is that we, as a society, should be trying to ignore these obvious statistical likelihoods when we are choosing a candidate. Those statistical likelihoods have nothing to do with the candidate themselves. If we make these kinds of interpretations, we are no longer judging a candidate based on who they are, but rather who we think they might be. And who am I to make that judgement? I'm nobody special. That's all I'm trying to say, really.

Ah, ok I see. I didn't understand your point then. I think we at least kind of agree on that point. What I was trying to say is that, I don't think that it's accurate to characterize the resume study as proving racism or racial discrimination, given the bias induced by AA. At least, providing they are not going further than correcting for that bias.

I do agree with you that in an ideal world, people would try to avoid factoring that in. But, it is important to keep in mind I think that hiring decisions are often extremely consequential for the people that make them (in a way that university admissions are not), and as a consequence, asking the decision makers there to intentionally ignore pertinent information is almost always going to be a losing proposition.

I think, even if people are correcting a bit for this bias in the hiring pipeline, AA is still providing considerable value to historically disadvantaged candidates, by helping them get access to alumni networks, and presumably a higher quality education and hopefully that will be sufficient to close the remaining skill gaps over time.
Ha! And where to start and or what topic with which to begin? You've no idea how potentially dangerous tempting me like that really is (I'd be immediately banned from HN for server overloading)!

Take a look at my reply to alliao. Can you imagine thousands of pages like that? Not likely. I'm far from being the brightest spark on the block but I'm smart enough to know I'd be chased off in a greased lightning sprint.

...But you've seeded an idea, some of it could be used as a substitute for Vogon poetry (shame on you).

Honi soit qui mal y pense.

;-)
That only gets you some of the way there. The next hurdle is that a lot of low income housing is street parking only that isn't always reserved for the owner. So this is an awkward situation where we will probably also need residential streets to come with either city paid for charging or a change in zoning so that owners can reserve the spots in front of their house and install chargers.
> Be religious

Er, seems like an outlier on this list. I doubt religion, which often suggests causes and effects originating from divinity rather than predictive behavior, will overall result in life extending decisions.

Besides, just logically it would seem to be a source of acceptance of your impending death, when perhaps continuing to fight for life may be the superior strategy.
lol. you’ve made it clear you’re not capable of evaluating the situation.
I'd like to add a datapoint from my professional life. I work with a very niche-specific automation solution for the print industry.

That solution always had some scripting capabilities, which were a subset of JS with some software-specific extensions. Nothing really fancy, a few useful things were missing but overall there always was a way to reach your goal.

As I'm not doing developments daily this "low-tech" approach was nice: One file that would be copied to your production system and linked there and that's it. For debugging you had the integrated logging interface, a web-based thing, not too fancy.

One or two major release ago, they switched to a TypeScript/NodeJS based scripting system.

While I can now "glue parts together" by using npm, I also have to transpile my code after every change and have to run an extra step to "package" everything for deploying it. Creating a new script requires a specific console command which will then prepare the file & folder structure.

Debugging can, in theory, still be done through the web-based interface, but the recommendation is to set up a launch.json file, so VS Code can directly connect to the software on a pre-defined port and you can set breakpoints and step over your code while it's being run. I'm sure that's cool for hardcore programmers, but maaaaaaaan, ain't nobody got time for that if you've got business stuff to run.

Somewhat anecdotal, but I spent 4 hours on Friday with trying to extract numbers from a txt file and write them to another file. Reading the file, running a regex, that's no big deal.

But creating a temporary file is a HUGE pain with the new system. In the old system it was something like: var fh = job.createNewFile('test.txt', 'UTF-8'); and you could then work with your file handle.

Now I' fiddling around with the third npm package to create temporary files and it seems like the problems is not me using the packages wrong but how those packages try to create a file in a Windows environment which fails.

To be honest: I'm still guessing that's the problem and need to ask some smarter people, but thing like that "just worked" before.

Oh: And now everything is async, which really gives me headaches, or you have to create a function which can then be called with an await so everything else waits for it...
Do you have amazing internet?

These services are basically unusable to everyone I know, and we have pretty decent connections. The input lag is just horrific.
More info: https://coalton-lang.github.io/20211010-introducing-coalton/
I'm not saying to exclude the event where the person got heart disease. I'm saying to exclude the data after the diagnosis, where the person is avoiding the sauna under doctor's advice.

This isn't difficult to do in a longitudinal study and would indeed be standard in many such studies. You wouldn't want to include data where the arrow of causation is known to run opposite to what you are trying to test for.
No. They just need to say that the research has nothing to do with DEI. It's just like a canonical tag. This whole thread is crazy to me.
I'd go for the SVG format instead of rasterizing to PNG. It's going to be lighter and give you a similar crisp feeling.

Have you tried passing the pages through a OCR transcription system like tesseract? You also get this with the text-parsing feature of the reMarkable 2 for free, and I was thinking you could use the [link title] syntax to mark links and have some sort of automatic mapping to the links so you don't have to specify the links "by hand."

Anyhow, great idea. It's a bit small to read on iPhone.

A cool idea would be to convert each word to an individual image and put each of them inside of an inline div to make the article responsive.
Twitter Has Copied Instagram Reels, Which Copied TikTok
I use Feedly / NetNewsFire for feeds, rather than newsletters, but in reality they're the same, just different consumption methods. Just interesting to see NNW was in HN recently. These are the most interesting things I keep in Feedly.

acoup.blog - A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry - frequently linked to HN already. He's a great history writer, covering everything from Roman logistics, to analysis of current games and movies - eg. LotR battles.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC364qOwWXAzgRruHhhFMhVg - Croker vs Rover. A New Zealand guy restoring a 70s Land Rover. It's a Youtube channel, but both hilarious and informative. Infrequent too, so easy to cruise through at leisure.

Atlas Obscura - https://www.atlasobscura.com/ - interesting history/geography mix.

https://www.numberphile.com/ - Mathy easy-access but complex topics - mostly videos on Youtube. Very accessible, but interesting for a mostly non-math person to see real math at work.

https://waynehale.wordpress.com/ - Wayne Hale - NASA flight controller. Interesting views and analysis of current space / incident management topics vs how it was done for the shuttle, along with some other commentary. Infrequent and interesting.

https://computer.rip/ - Deeply geekly telco / 50s-70s computer history with some cold-war fun. Pretty in-depth, and a fun read.

https://www.cringely.com/ - Cringley - weekly-monthly tech posts on bigger tech strategy with an Appleish focus. He's been around SV for years. Was early at Apple then made documentaries, was a journalist, and blogged for years,

https://mondaynote.com/ - Jean-Louie Gassee's monday musings on tech, mostly Apple. Originally Apple, then founded Be, then chairman of Palm. Been around the block in tech.

https://www.techdirt.com/ - legal analysis in a similar style to Matt Levine (who's also a must-read for finance). Funny and informative.

https://usesthis.com/ - The setup - weekly post on someone's tech setup and tools they use. "Uses This is a collection of nerdy interviews asking people from all walks of life what they use to get the job done."

Matt Levine - Bloomberg Money Stuff - already mentioned, but here as a second vote for him. Hilarious financial industry commentary.

https://monitoring.love/ - weekly tech newsletter with a focus on Monitoring/SRE type topics. Also a good Slack server if you like SRE/Monitoring stuff

BOFH - https://www.theregister.com/Author/Simon-Travaglia - the original author's currently (and for the last 20 years or so), been on The Register. Not as good as it once was, but funny, and worth the weeklyish read.
I've long been of the opinion that the rust community is missing the boat in a lot of respects.

Rust could do the external tooling better than any other language out there, but they're so focused on the _language_ preventing abuse that they've largely missed the boat.
What year was 300bps the state of the art? Around 1995-1996 I had a 14.4k modem and it was pretty fast at the time.
In the 1700s, maybe; today profit comes from fragile human and physical capital that don't like having bombs dropped on them.

Let's look at some numbers. Ukraine, a largely agriculture country, is one of the strongest possible cases for your thesis. So consider net Ukrainian raw materials exports: <https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/UKR/Yea...>

Around $18 billion in 2019. To gain partial control of that revenue stream, Russia has largely smashed up the military it spends $50-$60 billion a year on. It's not a good trade.

You might protest that land also has factories and such on it, and that's true, but today many of those factories look like this:

<https://gdb.rferl.org/07520000-0aff-0242-a90c-08da3a5a2c06_w...>

Launching wars of aggression is a bad idea because killing people and taking things that don't belong to you is wrong. But if that fails to persuade, recall that it's also a financial catastrophe, for both sides.

(Edit: formatting)
> shift more people to not using cars as much or at all, and having those people walk/bike/transit

This only works for city dwellers.
I am happy that Stadia is gone, maybe now all the stadia exclusives can come to Geforce Now. Presumably not much development work is needed to port your game to GN, it just needs to run on Steam.

Stadia business model was flawed from the start, people want to own the games they buy, they might buy a new expensive computer in the future and don’t want to pay for the game twice. With Geforce Now you play the games that are already in your steam library.
I did a couple months ago to a number of files. Worked fine. Windows 10, all solid state storage.
The field has expanded. Things are deprecated but still in use. AI synthetic 3D coexists with supermarket machines using a version of Windows 98 for embedded systems, an a bank mobile app written in electron talking to a Java API which eventually calls COBOL.

And all that has to work, kindof. It’s a bit crazy.
Question about not getting involved with politics in your fandom: how does this apply to pop stars like Lizzo, Lady Gaga, Lil Nas X, Nicki Minaj? They all have huge, highly fervent fandoms too. And they're pretty darn political all the time.
yes, they even flagged the Tom Scott video about eletronic voting with the following warning:
"The Brazilian electronic voting system allows the exercise of citizenship with greater security. The ballot box was developed to compute votes safely and confidentially, meeting the demand and specific characteristics of Brazil."

So eletronic voting is good or bad depending on what the candidates are.
If you think making engine moves at the level Hans is at is evidence that he is cheating, I think you are just not very well informed about chess.

> He’s either the greatest chess player alive

Ridiculous, nothing about his play suggests he's the greatest chess player alive.
Other people already explained the base case, but also: for voters who are out of the town were they originally enlisted, it just a matter of going to any poll station and filling a justify form. It is usually quicker than voting but, as the voter can not do it at the enlisted town, it is not an alternative.

Voting is also highly distributed, on most towns no voter has to travel more than 1 or 2 km to get to their assigned polling station (if they enlisted to the station nearest to their homes, of course). Every voting zone is split in a number of "voting sections", every one with a single voting machine, and the number of section/machines per zone is mostly proportional to the number of voters, so queues are not that common; unless people group in some particularly unfortunate times ... local jokes say to NEVER vote at the opening hours, or you will be stuck on a line of senior citizens (who also have the right of jumping the queue, defined by law).

Also, everything is defined with months of advance, so there are no surprises on where to vote.

There is a lot of safeguards to prevent fraud (we had a lot of time to learn this by the hard way) but the bad part is these also prevent some nice things (quickly moving your enlistment to another town/zone/section, mail voting, etc... even transit voting is very limited because you will need to know where you will be long before the poll).
Is any of this much different from pop boy bands of the 00's? You make generic, catchy songs that are hard to resist. Then have a group of four or five attractive teens perform the song. And then Highlight each individual so people form a parasocial relationship with the band members. The fanaticism follows quite easily from there.
Neither aeronautics nor material science have stagnated. I doubt computer science has either.
Mark Zuckerberg says in a recent podcast [1] that the next VR headset will scan gestures perform eye contact. He says that will be available in October.

[1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/51gxrAActH18RGhKNza598
If you configure annex.largefiles, git add should work with the annex. I start with something like

git annex config --set annex.largefiles 'largerthan=1kb and not (mimeencoding=us-ascii or mimeencoding=utf-8)'

> By default, git-annex add adds all files to the annex (except dotfiles), and git add adds files to git (unless they were added to the annex previously). When annex.largefiles is configured, both git annex add and git add will add matching large files to the annex, and the other files to git. —https://git-annex.branchable.com/git-annex/

Note that git add will add large files unlocked, though, since (as far as I understand) it’s assumed you’re still modifying them for safety:

> If you use git add to add a file to the annex, it will be added in unlocked form from the beginning. This allows workflows where a file starts out unlocked, is modified as necessary, and is locked once it reaches its final version. —https://git-annex.branchable.com/git-annex-unlock/
And I would take that trade every single time compared to renting a car.
Adding to this - the i3 was a game changer in terms of materials and manufacturing. The i8 is still an excellent hybrid sports car - available long before the electrically boosted exotic cars were released.

Lastly - I was happily driving an electric 1er convertible in Berlin under the DriveNow car share back in 2012!

They’ve been in the EV game far longer than people realise; and have the iX1, i3, iX3, i4, i7, i8, iX either available now or within the next 12 months.

This is not to gloss over their current subscription based hardware access, which is in poor taste, but obviously people are still buying their cars.
Karl Marx did not predict this. He predicted estrangement from labor - from being emotionally dissociated from the results of your work. He didn't predict being estranged from (or worse, because of) your non-work interactions with others through media.
If we had a magic button that replaced all gasoline cars with electric cars in the USA this moment, the power grids would basically explode from the additional load from everyone charging them, in all 50 states.

We're DECADES away from having enough power generation and delivery to get everyone on electric cars, and that's not even considering the "How the F is everyone going to afford to buy electric cars in the first place?" problem. Look at the lines to charge EVs in states like California already, and that's with ~5% of new car sales being EVs. Multiple that by a factor of 20 and just laugh.

Every state that has passed "We're going to ban the sale of gasoline cars after 20xx" is going to have to repeal it in shame, or just force their residents to drive to the nearest red state when they want to buy a new car.
No one sees a vote. It's just bleebleeblee and it's magically computed.

PS: Weirdly.
>The only way that this works is to exert total control of the content of all communications.

Not true! Just being banned from significant swaths of social media has frequently forced many prominent Nazis/alt-righters out of business. Before Kiwifarms recently had all of their major issues, they were already finding it difficult to keep the site running as a result of continued pressure on every host they switched to.
The theory is that hippocampal neurogenesis could be a factor in the treatment of depression. The hypothesis is based on the fact that effective antidepressants trigger neurogenesis, and not all antidepressants have the same mechanisms of action.
Wish there was some AI tool that could do some proper ligne Claire. It seems to be quite impossible. Oh, as is Escher, but I do understand that one.
Oh, I absolutely believe that IBM researchers wanted to share their findings, and that IBM's management was to some extent willing to tolerate them doing so. But I don't think IBM's management (post-Watson at least) saw that as a benefit of having researchers, but rather a necessary cost, one they successfully curtailed during the 01970s. And I don't think IBM's management cared one way or the other what engineers outside IBM thought of it.

But none of them were my personal friends, so I might be inferring wrongly from their behavior. Their behavior was pretty egregious, though!
Yeah, opuntia pads do root easily. I also won't have them in the house any more. Guess why (shudders with memories of pain)

But other columnar cacti do root easily, eg. trichocereus (though it's is a mountainside cactus not desert) and I've rooted a few others of similar shape over the years, so I mistakenly assumed saguaro would as well.
The Birth of Emacs, with Lars Brinkhoff
Not everyone choses the language they code in and boilerplate amount is not the only consideration when selecting a language...
> Magnus has nothing beyond "I feel" statements.

It's much more nuanced than this. Magnus said that there's more he'd like to say but he'd want Hans' permission to speak openly - https://twitter.com/magnuscarlsen/status/1574482694406565888

Just because he can't immedially dump all the information that he has doesn't mean that he's obliged to keep playing chess against someone he believes is cheating.
> How could cheating help her when he still had a reasonable chance of pulling either a straight flush, flush, or a pair in the river?

Because her call was +EV. Not knowing Garrett's cards, it was an insanely stupid call that threw away money. But if one knew Garrett's cards, they'd know it was a healthily +EV call.

The fact that Garrett had outs is very irrelevant here. You seem to think that one would only cheat by knowing that the opponent is drawing completely dead. But that's nonsense. You just need to know if your call is +EV or not.
>This seems like being mad at popcorn for not being broccoli

Probably not your intention, but I don't know if I've ever read a more succinct description of the online behavior of Gen Z.
Wikipedia claims 1200bps was available in the 70s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem I did start with a 1200bps modem back in the 80s, even then it was considered quite slow but was enough for email reading and basic bbs tasks. It sucked for any kind of download though.
Can poor people afford to maintain either hybrid or electric? What's the third party repair market? There is no right to repair a Tesla or anything using that business model.
On the third time FB changed my privacy settings, I left. Had to google to find out how (not trivial).

On Quora, I've had a few nice exchanges on matters that matter, but a continued bombing of my inbox lame questions like "My son is playing with himself. What should I do?" is seriously driving me in the direction of leaving.

I've got a tiny and very quite ecosystem running on Twitter; to keep it there, I'm very quick to mute jerks, and those who follow me who clearly engage in useless tweets. But, even there, the value to noise ratio is on a downward slope.

I don't even engage in any of the other platforms. I'm busy building a new kind of social network which is fully open source.
> . That alone is a forcing function pushing young Americans to rely on credit, greasing those consumer wheels by decoupling their spending from their earning at a young age.

I'm Canadian and lived in the US for several years and can attest this is a strange system.

Here (Canada) credit scores are starting to become more and more common but this is a new thing, and probably something we 'borrowed' from the US.

When i moved to the US I had a credit score of zero and a really good income. I had problems finding a place to live as everyone asked for my credit score.

I finally bought a car and took out a loan which i paid off a few months later simply to attempt to build a "credit score" and make my life easier.

Things may be different now, but I dont recall ever being asked for a "credit score" when attempting to rent in Toronto many years ago.
Interesting that the terminal appears to have at least an 80 character buffer, as it is able to print after an LF and while performing a CR.

My first modem was 300 baud and while it was painfully slow, text interfaces of the era tended to be very efficient. File transfers of high resolution images is where it tended to get very painful, especially since watching the block count increase (if even that) wasn't anywhere near as engaging as actually navigating through menus and reading information.
I like my pseudo-anonymity here.

It's in the US. Here's the census data to discover many occurrences of "1337"

https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2...

FWIW the town I'm talking about has a different population listed there, a little bit short. The road sign still says 1337, though, as of Thursday.
I was using 300 baud back in 1986-1987 or so, though 1200 was definitely easily available by the late 80s and 2400 was cheap by 1991.
Fair enough. I probably should have added a condition that the doubling period is significantly shorter than population doubling period.
Your motorcycle riding reminded me of Attention Restoration Theory, where spending time in nature recharges oneself in pert due to the loosely held attention (as opposed to directed attention, like when we read or spend time online).
It is sort of funny/interesting -- I only tried a few, but famous anime or manga artists (try "Junji Ito" or "Hayao Miyazaki") seem to have at least one picture that is clearly the result of the algorithm picking up on their fans' art.
This website should include a google-image-search link to the artist, so you can compare the styles more easily.