skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All this does is make it so certain groups appear to be REALLY dumb at certain companies. In my experience at my work places, only one in 10 women are actually qualified, and the rest are so utterly incompetent that they just end up taking up money. It's not because they're women, it's because they just don't belong there due to their skill level, but got a diversity hire.

I enjoy having women in my office, but because of DI&E I don't interview at places that have to many, since 9/10 times it's a big indicator the department or company is going under due to incompetence. Exact same thing applies to skin color. This shouldn't be the case, but this is all policies like this do, and it's going to whiplash REALLY hard once the cultural pendulum is over.
Isn't it possible that making Starlink available in Crimea is in effect making high speed internet available to the Russians which would not necessarily be to Ukraine's advantage. I would think that many of the people that lived in Crimea and considered themselves Ukrainian have left or if they stayed don't exactly want it to be known. Vlad the Poisoner may just throw them out a window.

Elon should get out of geopolitics and stick to what he knows best - overpopulating the Earth.
The difference is that Houston has more diverse and better job opportunities yet still has reasonably affordable housing.

There are tons of places with very cheap housing and no jobs. Nobody moves there except maybe a few teleworkers looking to optimize hard for surplus or people with other reasons to go there like family ties.
One of the big announcements in the Keynote was "legs" so apparently all avatars have been legless.
I was wondering why the US is so obsessed with diversity alone the line of race and gender instead of social-economical status, education background, career background, and etc? If I'm developing a statistical model, wouldn't it make more sense if my diversity means having in my team people who have statistics background, people who study statistical physics, people who are great at maths, people who are great at building a team, people who are creative, people who communicate and market and sell well, people who are amazing engineers, and people who are experts in the domain for which I develop my model? Why would I be interested in my team member's sex orientation, their gender, or their race? Or on the other hand, why would give up Quoc Le for Gebru if I have only one opening for developing the next generation of NLP model? Just because Quoc is an "over-represented" Asian and Gebru is the vanguard of righteousness and checks all the boxes of diversity?

Or why not by my birth origin? Say, India? India is a huge country with diverse languages, cultures, histories, religions, and social structures. I guarantee you that I had such a unique background among the other 10,000 ones in India because I grew up in this particular family in this particular town of this particular state in this particular union territory.
HN is not a monolith. Some people might like Meta and other people don't like Meta. You can also like Carmack and dislike Meta.

I don't see the narrative you're talking about in that link.
People just won’t put on world-occluding headsets to talk to cartoons, end of the day. Only in bubble-land does this pass the smell test imo.
I’m fairly certain we’ve recently fought to open a rented car because the keyfob died and the way to extract the key from the fob was non-obvious.

Then when we finally got inside, the car didn’t have a keyhole to start it at all. Ended up calling the rental agency that showed us how to invoke the magic sequence by holding the (empty) fob in front of the start button for a few seconds before pressing it. I guess it does passive RFiD or something?

Anyway, that’s the point where I decided modern cars are not my thing.
I've looked at this codebase and that of the XL version. Can a neone explain why there's C code there if it's meant to be lua? Genuine novice question. Thanks.
I mean I really don't want to shit on Meta but ...

is this parody? The quality of this is really really bad, almost ps2 level bad

Using this for presentation is really unwise.
That's simply running the thought experiment the other direction: There are places where you could lower the cost of living to zero and people still wouldn't move there.

Alaska effectively goes further by paying people to live there with their Permanent Fund - https://pfd.alaska.gov/ - where they give residents an annual dividend based on oil proceeds. But Kansas and other places have done the same offering to pay remote people $10k to move there.
Do you think Apple will ever contribute XQuartz back to the X11 / X.org open source community?
The problem is that we can think it's totally legitimate to stop terrorist money laundering, corporate crime, or illicit gun purchases - but what the KYC regime dictates is that it is impossible to run payments services without tracking all parties involved, and FINRA has been happy in the past to just send banks nicely worded letters to unbank their targets for being bad without any sort of due process.

'Wouldn't it be a shame if you were audited for criminal money laundering due to your association with person X' is enough of a threat itself that it gets banks to unperson real humans, and that threat does not require a judge or a jury or even a law.
It was okay, but solidly last gen. Stadia was always limited to 1080p@60hz, upscaling to 4K at max bitrate of ~45Mbps.

Getting the new MBP actually pushed me to GeForce Now at the time which can hit true 4k@120hz and stream at native Mac resolutions with eg ray tracing in Cyberpunk 2077 now up to 70Mbps, I highly recommend trying it out if you’re still interested in cloud gaming, the difference is quite drastic.
Sandstorm is awesome, and still way too hard for my dad to use.
I don't follow the logic that suggests that because I have no personal problem, a problem doesn't exist.
Oh, whatever. Blame it on the recruiters.

I guess we're just looking for any excuse now to NOT talk about the actual source of the problem.
> People will live in the best place they can afford.

This is an overly simplified view of demand. People with live in the best place among the places they want to live. That’s why we see strong selection along political and cultural dimensions, even when they correlate weakly (or even negatively) with purchasing power.
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Flutter local network privacy permissions for debugging: the smart way
I can’t wait for Apple to add this to iCloud
> But the Houston metro area is barely below the national median for house prices.

That seems unsurprising, and not sure it's a good metric. Houston is certainly much cheaper than, for example, Austin, and my guess is that it is considerably cheaper than similar sized metros.

I can't find it right now, but I remember reading an article from a few years back that basically called Houston the best city to live if you are poor. That is, don't just look at median prices, but Houston actually has a ton of affordable housing that is simply non-existent (or highly restricted in stupid lottery games) in other cities.
Houston is the home of the US oil & gas industry and has one of the largest and most advanced medical centers in the world. There's a lot of money in Houston, and the city has incredibly ritzy neighborhoods like River Oaks and Piney Point Village, among many others; keeping overall housing relatively affordable with so many affluent people competing for it actually is an accomplishment.
I don't want my child to get murdered at school. Few things are more tragic than the ongoing wave of school and community shootings plaguing the United States.

I also don't want to get into a gun debate on the Internet, because I'm unclear on what combination of words might persuade you to reconsider your position.

What I do know for certain is the world needs much more love and empathy, fewer guns, and fewer self-centered assholes.
Funny, I just spun back up my kaaik.local the other night.

Still working through some things, but everything basically works the way it should. Firewalls might not be a bad idea to update though.
Facebook, and every advertiser, credit agency, etc.
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A little less, but this was a small asteroid. Dimorphos is 170-ish meters in diameter. The asteroid that made the Chicxulub crater (the accused dino-killer) is thought to have been 10 kilometers in diameter.
> Search for micro-hydro if you want to know more.

I've probably seen everything YT has to offer on that. :-D

While I really enjoy those videos and the "let's just do it" vibe with old washing machines as generators, I'm also somewhat happy that Germany has rather strict regulations on how to use water from streams and rivers. Some installations are quite disturbing for local ecosystems. But being off-grid in remote areas these solutions seem like a probable compromise.
Or European cities with reasonable rent.
He just entered the Desert of the Real. Leave all that has a meaning behind.
It makes no sense to debate the meaning of "rejected outright" with you. Just because a strategy doesn't work when it is applied at a particular point in the process, doesn't indicate that the strategic goals are wrong to pursue. Even the idea that it won't work is debatable, I question whether the strategy was applied in good faith by the people responsible.
VR has excited kids for the last, what, 60 years? The reason adults are jaded by it is not because adults are lame but because VR continues to be lame despite all the decades-long optimism around it.
If you hook up your Quest with your PC you can run SteamVR apps like Google Earth.
Interesting. Last winter my parents' rooftop solar had zero output until April, as it produces nothing until all the panels are clear of snow. Granted their installation is at a fixed angle that matches the roof, and this is in the Nordics.

During summer months the production mostly covers and partly exceeds their use, but the sell price is so much lower that it doesn't even begin to pay for the rest of the year. But that of course then relates to the installed capacity.
In Windows 10 and 11, after you create another virtual desktop, you can easily move between them with built-in Win+Ctrl+Left/Right Arrow. It may not be as perfectly tuned as many would like, but it works well enough.
I wonder if the majority of people designing/pushing these huge systems of weird cartoon avatar interaction systems... are a tad bit on the spectrum (Which gives them superpowers in understanding tech/algorithms....) but a side effect is the uncanny valley of these weird avatars being pushed by these teams at Meta/FB. It feels more 'creepy' to me talking to a cartoon 'uncanny-valley' representation of a person rather than just seeing their actual photo/video feed.

reading this post on "Avatars, Anthropomorphism, and Autism Spectrum Disorder"...

> A 2016 study looked measured the neural responses of children with ASD and neurotypical children when shown unfamiliar human and robot faces. The test showed that the targeted responses were present for both for neurotypical children, but only for the robot faces for the kids with ASD. “Together, these studies provide some evidence that individuals with ASD may typically process anthropomorphic rather than human faces

https://codebaby.com/avatars-anthropomorphism-and-autism-spe...
One day when I had just started using linux, this never happened to me either ;-)
I've done some work on this. Android is a very toxic environment for this sort of thing, primarily due to draconian filesystem permissions and aggressive killing of services. It's all in the name of security and battery life, but I wish there were an easy way to turn that all off for selfhosting.

I've also seen people mention that apparently the flash memory doesn't do well with server type workloads, but a lot of that could probably be mitigated with logging to RAM, using a CDN, etc.
Simple and free solutions exist for this exact purpose: TextNow, Fongo, etc. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33169096
If you can't figure out how to make a free email account in 2022 then the information behind the so called "Class gate" isn't going to be of much use to you anyhow.

Besides - most of this give-me-your-email is just to get you into a marketing channel and drip emails on you anyhow. In my experience very little info is behind this crap that cant be found elsewhere.

https://accounts.google.com/signup/v2/webcreateaccount?biz=f...
I’ve gotten motion sickness just looking at static images from Google Earth. I used to work at Facebook and saw some talks on this. As I understand it, the problem is basically one of latency; the time between when your head moves and when the image updates should be < 7 ms or something like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lY8Fc8VzdY
If your allegiance is not absolute, then you absolutely do not have allegiance. So, don't question. Do.
Ok, let's do some nice, calm soothing math for a second.

Per the OP previously 'diversity' candidates were 1% of all applicants. I'll assume the null hypothesis here and then also assume that they were 1% of the interviewees too.

Lets assume that diversity interviewees are turned into hires at some factor Y. I'll make no assumptions on if that is different than from non-diversity interviewees.

Now, with the new policy, there is a 15x increase in the probability of turning diversity applicants into interviewees.

However, nothing has been done to change Y, the factor at which diversity interviewees are turned into candidates. They are explicitly stating that they are not changing Y.

So that then means that diversity interviewees are now less likely to move on past the interview stage. Based on the numbers, they then need to interview at 15x the rate as previously to be turned into hires.

Please, correct me if I am wrong here, but this seems to hurt diversity interviewees.

I see it as taking up 15x the time, rejecting at a 15x rate, and eliciting these real human people to become stats in some database that the policy makers can show off to some other boss without any compensation.
NASA's press conference said the result was in the upper end of the predicted range, which was between "a few minutes and several tens of minutes" depending on the (unknown) physical makeup of Dimorphos.

Studying the impact and debris plumes is expected to help scientists learn more about Dimorphos.

I linked the press conference as primary source in my sibling comment if you're curious, although it didn't go into much more detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33169879
I should've made more of an effort to separate my two points. You are indeed correct. I still have issue with putting words into Steve Job's mouth w/o permission from his estate. I think the bigger issue is including someone who already has many news outlets picking and choosing one-liners from his many years of podcasts to make him out to be a horrible person. My stupid solution was to use not one, but two dead people for the demo. My first point still stands I don't think they should've put the words into the mouth of anyone living or dead.
Generally agree that the problem is larger. However, I think this quick fix could result in a net negative.

"So a good thing to do is apply some pressure on the funnel to elevate candidates that just barely miss out."

Imagine you're one of the non-minorities who worked hard and misses out because of an artificial pressure. How do I explain to my kid that all else equal they will lose to another candidate because of not being a minority (assume this is similar to minorities of the past; however the results are mixed)? What's the point of trying hard in school? What's the point of working hard at work? These are the types of questions I'm starting to struggle with in real life. Teach the kid the same stuff I was taught (lies), or disillusion them that the world is not a meritocracy, truth and honor count for nothing, hard work may or may not pay off, etc?
No idea about this project in particular, but Lua is designed with C operability in mind. It's very easy to integrate the two languages together and this is often done so that you can have performance-constrained code written in C with higher level scripting done in Lua.
The audio latency problem is solved with spatial audio. In VRChat you can easily follow a conversation with 10 people talking over each other, because the audio comes from the direction of their avatars and you can tune it in and out naturally like you do in real life.
It does look goofy, doesn't it? Like an elaborate joke. I'm not trying to shit on people's hard work, but it all looks so, I don't know.. bland and not interesting AT ALL. Like Second life meets that playstation thing, but even worse somehow.
For a moment I thought I was on Lainchan.

Anyway, does the set of people that never eventually learns how to anonymous email addresses meaningfully intersect with the set of people that will ever learn any meaningful amount of knowledge about any technical field?
Apple may not be perfect, but the bar to be more ethical than Facebook is incredibly low.

Facebook has consistently demonstrated a level of contempt for their users' privacy for many years. I took note of this personally for the first time in ~2007 when the news feed launched and their privacy settings around it very obviously employed dark patterns, but it's clear from reading about the history of the company that it's something that has existed from their very beginnings.
You seem to be making a lot of assumptions about what I did or didn't say. I didn't say people can't demonstrate merit. I said people are bad at measuring merit, and I think that is relatively true on its face, and the subject of a whole mess of thinkpieces and arguments on Hacker News. Shit I thought it was funny there was one posted today:

https://workweek.com/2022/09/26/performance-reviews-dont-act...

No where in the article is it suggesting that anyone is pressuring managers to promote demonstrably poor performers for racial reasons. They are being asked to adjust their processes to consider the most candidates.

I think for a medium size group of relatively equal performers, it would be nearly impossible to rank order them in a way you could get a small handful of people to consistently agree with. Everyone seems to love to straw men this with some idea that Microsoft is firing all of their principal engineers to replace them with entry level candidates from state universities.
> okcupid is leftist tinder for relationships

LOL

Some people are going to take this the wrong way, but I've never read a more true statement.

I'm a pretty liberal person (folks think I'm conservative because I think communism stinks), but my experience with OkCupid many years ago was that most of its users were self-proclaimed cultural Marxists or feminists with a bone to pick. My digital head was decapitated several times by women there just for introducing myself to them. I'd even been lectured a handful of times about how I was "misogynist" for the age range I specified on my profile included women 5 years younger than I was, which wasn't even low enough to include women of college age.

The day I saw an advertisement for OkCupid that actually used the initialism "DTF" was when I knew for sure I would never be returning to them ever again. It would surprise me if they still had any meaningful userbase since it was pretty much dead in the LA area the last time I used it.

> but the same basic idea that gets men to pay to meet women.

In which case men should just go to Seeking Arrangement.
I wouldn’t be surprised if open hardware is gone for good. There is too much money to be made with SAAS.
> the conclusion that "taller women, on average, are less attractive to the average male than short women" is invalid

I'd say it's premature given that a lot of women don't want to date men shorter than them, so I can see men messaging them less just because they'd assume they were wasting their time.
A few seconds Googling shows an example of women being barred from applying for garbage collecting jobs https://www.bradley.com/insights/publications/2015/11/eeoc-t...
I’m not one of them, but Los Angeles doesn’t really scream “sustainable” to me. Is it really a counterexample to what the GP is saying?
If it's not a supply-side issue, it should be fine to bulldoze 100k units while everything remains the same, and the prices shouldn't change at all.
Huh, by coincidence the episode this month of a podcast I do on the history of astronomy happened to be on the Antikythera Mechanism so it has been top of mind for me. If you want to hear a little about the history of the discovery of this device the episode's page with a transcript is here: https://songofurania.com/episode/022

It's a fascinating device --- it's the earliest known geared mechanism in Europe. It seems to tantalizingly suggest that engineering in the late Hellenistic Era was much more advanced than we had previously suspected. It's just a shame that so much from that period has been lost.
It is ambiguous as written, and false by one interpretation but true by the other.

True: There are more white people in poverty (~5.5% of population) than black people [in poverty (~2.5%)] in the US.

False: There are more white people in poverty (~5.5%) than black people [in or out of poverty (~13.6%)] in the US.
Exactly!

I literally quit my job at Apple shortly after having this realization myself. It's actually a somewhat comical short tale.

So there I am sitting at my desk right outside the iPhone hardware team's main conference room. I don't recall who on my subteam I was talking with when an exec meeting was just ending from that room, but I distinctly remember exclaiming "We're not good, but we're the best!" before looking up to see people like my boss's boss's boss and the likes. Yikes. But also, fuck them all, they were probably having a meeting to discuss how they could calm down people about the 3.5mm jack they removed.
> or the family of Steve Job

Was that not a dead giveaway that I already knew that?
> especially the ones that make it a truly transcendent experience, that just can’t be captured with a VR headset

Agreed. But giving you a taste of something you may not have the resources/ability to do yourself is a much better use of the technology than giving you a taste of... playing board games in person.
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