skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would somewhat agree with you, but the definition of sexism, like many things, do not depend whatsoever on the solution for it.

For example, if I robbed a bank or stole money from my parents, the solution for those are very different, however they are still both theft.

A bit tangential, but I always dislike this new trendy phenomenon of assigning whether forms of discrimination are "voluntary" or not. I find that it misses the point, and is mostly irrelevant to the conversation. "Oh my manager is totally sexist but nobody else sees it because everyone's been conditioned by society". Just like that, I find that it's a slippery slope into explaining why one is always right or wrong.
Which municipalities in the US enacted "defund the police" programs?
He was effectively self-grooming for the position, isn't that what you're supposed to do? He was getting internal training for the role and claims to follow the policies he was taught. You are making claims without evidence.
Musk’s Twitter Buyout Gambit Is Getting Costlier by the Day
They could sum it up in the first paragraph and then extrapolate, but like most of these things they stretch it out until the bottom.
I think the name is a little funny, and maybe the funny is so crude and juvenile, that no one was willing to mention it? Like the Pepsi logo, I can't unsee it.

"OK, people, creative time! Blank slate, no second system syndrome. Let's rethink the JetBrains concept, from the bottom, up!"

"Jet-- Butts?"

"Will the JetButts brand fly in all markets? Riff alternatives?"

"...Fleet?"

"Explosive! Sounds fast and productive! Can we get a mark search?"

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=fleet
Back in 2015, the Washington Post published an article titled "Wikipedia has a ton of money. So why is it begging you to donate yours?":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12...

At the time they had reported net assets in excess of $77 million. Even by mid-2020, that had increased to $180 million.

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

The Wikimedia Foundation had an 8-figure surplus in 9 of the last 10 years. The only exception was 2013/2014, where the surplus was "only" $8.3M. That was their "worst year" in the last ten years. The Wikimedia Foundation has beaten its own annual revenue record every year of its existence.
I think that was close to the original intent of "defund", as in reallocate funding for policing into different areas (and in some cases, I've heard more specifically splitting up police work into more granular area i.e. responding to mental health incidents vs. domestic abuse vs. a break in).

But the "defund" quickly ran away into "remove all funding", which of course is a lot more radical and less palatable for any but the further left. Also doesn't help that it made an easy strawman for opponents to this kind of reform to prop up and spread.

Definitely curious if anyone else has a different experience/chronology of events.
I thought the Twitter thread that was on HN about how Wikimedia sends money to other charities was interesting. The tl;dr is that they regift a lot of their donations to charities and advocacy organizations with limited effectiveness. The post got flagged off the front page, maybe because of the tone of the person who wrote it, but I thought the objective facts they shared are still worth knowing.

If Wikipedia has enough money to fund youtubers who deny the scientific method, I'm a lot less inspired to donate.
VSCode is open source and you are free to alter it (MIT license), removing those parts that you say Microsoft is using to "charge" you. Or just use vscodium.
He also wrote "Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms" which is part of the canon of the field.
The problem is that if you increase the price too much, the bad PR and hit to your reputation will likely offset any extra revenue. If a service like Hulu released a $50/mo ad-free tier people would freak out, even if they still had access to the same free ad-tier experience they do now. I don't know that it'd be beneficial.
I moved from CS to an experimental field where there is no blind review, and I don't buy these arguments. Most experimental fields are sufficiently large that when you submit an article to e.g. Nature, reviewers don't necessarily know who you are.

Even some Ivy League universities are now requiring blinded applications for faculty positions and they have double-blind reviews to avoid bias, e.g. hiring a graduate from Oxford instead of no-name university.
Author had zero proof of that and speculated the entire time.
Notice how "unconscious bias" is no longer in vogue when it comes to interviewer training or best practice. HR has skipped that, because it doesn't translate to more DEI hires, so now they just openly discriminate.
Merit isn't good per se. DEI is certainly worse though.

Simply because merit approximates fair far better.
Lock-in through the network effect is lock in. The fact that it’s the de facto standard outside the US is quite a network effect.

SMS by contrast is an open standard.
If you aren't particularly musical, like myself, but love the concept of playing with loops, ambient sounds, etc. give the fully open-source https://www.bespokesynth.com/ a try, it has a brilliant pro tier option as well ;).

A simple MIDI source keyboard can help you find the notes that sound pleasing, then you can code them in. Python support, etc. etc.
they want to prepare you :)
I find Roku's search engine great for this scenario. Tells you which service and also if its free with membership, without membership, or paid per episode
Larger organizations with a lot of salaries to pay are also typically risk averse and therefore much less willing to make huge bets on adventurous experiments into the unknown.

I can also confidently say that most people using Pop aren't using it because of the theme, and Pop!_OS is actually marketed to STEM and developers rather than gamers. It's just that a lot of PC gamers like what Pop!_OS has to offer to them, so it seems that way by word of mouth.
> which uncritically parrots Google "Get the Message" PR campaign.

You're misunderstanding the order of events here. "I don't talk to green bubbles" has been a thing for at least five years now, which Google has very recently used in an ad campaign.
Is there going to be a flip on kubernetes like we saw with the mongo hype from 10 years ago? It seems overkill for so many things.
Meta isn’t the only company in VR. It’s like equating AOL with the internet. Im just watching history repeat itself
It feels like everyone could come up with a few 'war stories' of issues and people that they had to deal with during their career. While the story presented certainly makes the reader feel that the author was treated unfairly; we are only getting one side of the story and many relevant details might have been left out.

I could also relate a few stories about how I was not treated well and selectively include only the parts that make me look good and my nemesis look bad; but that would just be self-serving. That is not to say that there are not many examples of bad behavior out there that should be exposed and lessons learned; but I am just trying to figure out what the lesson is in this case.
Human Brains Are Hard to Study. He Grows Useful Substitutes
Just google “popcorn time”. It’s a user friendly UI for torrent world. On the facade it looks like regular streaming service. In the back it downloads and shows torrents seamlesly. Depending on yor country, consider using VPN.
The Pirate Bay has all the seasons. Even with the hassle of starting my VPN, downloading, making sure it's in the right format, dealing with subtitles (looking at you, Better Call Saul), piracy is a better experience than fragmented streaming.
> Ubuntu Pro APT integration is a bit much

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-advantage-t...
Verifying distributed systems with Isabelle/HOL
But I want to know is, who cares? I have yet to find a single person who says to me that they think it’s unfair that their text messages come across as a green bubble on my iPhone instead of blue.

Why is this even an issue?!?
… so why can’t I watch NBA games in VR?

What’s the limitation there? They don’t want to put cameras every 5ft in the front row in a bunch of stadiums?

The compelling use cases (not horizon worlds) to the general public are possible but not even being attempted.

Can I watch a single sporting event in VR? Olympics? College?

It seems like they’ve tried to do concerts but to be honest I’ve been to concerts in reality and the sweaty heat and blinding lights are different. I haven’t sat courtside.
I don't think you get the big picture. The MS plan is to assimilate Linux into Windows to increase Windows' perfection. You will comply.
> Of course computers can do arithmetic operations, but this is not the same as solving math problems, proving theorems, etc.

Computers can solve math problems and prove theorems; this remains a significant subfield of Computer Science with lots of industrial use cases. However, pure machine learning based approaches toward these problems remain subpar.

> Even mathematical objects are approximated up to an approximation error in a computer (like a differentiable manifold or a real number).

Only because it caught on (and in the case of non-computationally-intensive applications, for purely historical reasons). For example, Mathematica has Reals and even functionality for Reals that is literally impossible to implement for integers [1,2]. There are also precise characterizations of objects in differential geometry [3]. You could imagine applying LLMs to these types of programs a la Copilot, but when you do this you will find yourself agreeing with Paul Houle's observation that math is harder to fake than eg art, language, or even glue code for web apps.

[1] https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Reduce.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...

[3] https://github.com/bollu/diffgeo
I suspect the degree of hidden incompetence in any organisation can be
measured by the number of "imposter syndrome awareness training
initiatives" handed down.

In fact, I've almost never worked with people who are proper
charlatans, winging it and dreading exposure. They are dealt with by
their peers. Most in the rank and file help each other out, confide
and support, since we all suffer the same anxieties about trying to be
good in a world that seldom recognises achievement.

But the higher one ascends, the more often we encounter people
elevated by the Peter Principle to precarious standing, who then
preempt being called-out by weaving an air of victimhood or even
martyrdom around their position.

"Don't you dare question me" is implied in almost everything they do.
These people at the "top" are very, very scared, can't quite
understand how they got there, and imagine it will all unravel at any
moment. They are also quite often frozen by fear, meaning that an
eerie silence surrounds the levers of power which nobody dare touch.

I think "imposter syndrome" is a real thing. But it's much more
complex and significant than we're currently understanding it. There
are real imposters, who deserve to be ousted, and if we're not careful
they will use "imposter syndrome" to entrench further.

This is not a good culture, either for leaders or those they lead.
"Defined the police" usually means "fund social welfare" with a side of "disarm the beat cops so they learn to deescalate".

"Abolish the police" is the message of a much smaller group.

And any count of crime surge should also include crimes committed by police under color of law.
All bad job stories can be boiled down to someone at a company who was in charge over employees did not want someone at the company anymore.

No amount of emotions or rationalization or any other factor really changes this.

Employees are professionals who provide services while in employ. When your services are no longer wanted, they are no longer paid for and rendered.

You can say someone was a bad person or an asshole or whatever, you might be or they might be and probably will be right or both the employer or employee will both be right, or you will be dealing with a bad employer or employee. It happens. It’s life.

But I think the healthiest way to deal with these things is to remember you are providing a service for a fee. That fee might be a salary, it might be a retainer, it might be a flat rate, or a one time fee.

But you vend and perform services to those who pay for them.

Everything else, every other ceremony and nicety and construct, usually built by employers for employees, though sometimes albeit rarely both ways, is designed to impair this judgement and create a scenario where one party forgets this and their relationship is transformed into something else, usually subservient without a notion of autonomy.

It is why employers use “subordinate”—who are you truly subordinate to? You are not a slave. They are dependent on your labor and you on their patronage. It is mutual.

Or “terminate”—why is such ceremonious negative language used? To make you feel bad that employment has “ended.” Which is what it is an “end,” “termination” is needless.

Or “performance improvement plan,” what improvement needs to be dictated to a professional? A professional knows their limits and places where they can or cannot provide satisfactory service. When a professional fails to deliver, a client or customer simply does not buy. A professional knows they lack because a service or good was not purchased. The ulterior motive here is to punish. That’s why.

My advice—don’t do this. While rarely there might be something interesting to learn from bad employment stories, writing them as someone who is not of notoriety just tarnishes one’s image. The benefit is only, and only rarely, for the reader.
Defund was probably a bad choice of word, and reform a better one ? But if people can only deal with single-word manifestos, then you re bound to misinterpret.
Segway! Yes! Great analogy!!!
I don’t think CLion uses rust-analyzer. IIRC it uses their own thing which was developed by the same person who later made rust-analyzer.

Edit: more info:

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8182-rust/docs/rust-faq...
Well no you wouldn't say "company financials" to escalate it, you would just be generic and say "proprietary information". There was enough suspicious stuff going on (being uninvited from internal group chats) that you can't chalk it up to one-off accidental miscommunications.

Besides, unless I misunderstood, it doesn't seem like the "knock it off" was directly communicated to the employee by the svp at any point, which a good faith manager would probably do, unless they have a severe nonconfrontatiomality issue (some managers do)
Having used both, I don't think you can say it's the same functionality.
phony... I see what you did there.
Did you mean WhatsApp doesn't have anywhere near the same lock in as the Messages app? I don't know what you mean by "same lock in as Apple". I also don't know what you would mean by lock in with the Messages app. What's locked in? I can use WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, WeChat, or any number of communication apps on my iPhone effortlessly.
I need an ELI5 here.
From the article:

"For example, our business unit and design teams will be able to consider the potential impact on their margins if they want to run an additional product stepping, while the manufacturing team will be able to assess requests based on actual costs and impact on factory output. "

What are the margins in business and design? They mean "profit margins?"
Why would the external foundry would be different?

Is Intel profit driven when it comes to innovation?

Like a pet-rock?

So many questions.
And now System76 has proven that there is money to made in the Linux desktop if you sell Linux desktops.
This isn’t really that hard on Apple TV though. Siri has universal search and will show media and punch out to the right app.
Copyright infringement isn't theft.

And to say that it's just an ethics thing, is completely ignorant view. It's perfectly acceptable to torrent something when living in a country that wasn't deemed worthy by the rights holder to release their product there.
Why does this meme always come up in any discussion when it only takes a little bit of research (if you aren’t old enough to remember) to know this was never true?

Cable TV was first pitched as a method to get broadcast TV - with ads - in places that couldn’t get broadcast. Cable companies put big towers up and rebroadcasted network TV - with ads.

Then HBO came along as an ad free premium channel and it still is.

Then the “Superstations” like TBS out of Atlanta came along. Which were always ad supported and started broadcasting nationally.

Then the first cable channels came along like MTV, Lifetime, ESPN, USA. Not only dud they have ads from day one, they had infomercials to fill out the time when they didn’t have programming to show.

There has never been a time since the invention of cable TV in the US that it was ad free.
I take it every CD contained the same tracks, but each played a recording of a single instrument?
Jun Fukamachi - Quark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9UtpJ2iAQA
This is the first time I see someone mention Teams in positive way.

If the future of VR is like Teams, I guess I’ll pass
That's almost as good as the Windows Vista/7 icon for "Network" -- computers connected to a pneumatic tube (referencing Senator Ted Stevens and his "series of tubes" comment).
This is nice if it works, but management and leadership are specific skills that not all people have off the bat.

What is it that management does that would lend itself to transferability and rotations? If leadership’s contribution is primarily to provide updates to others or to schedule meetings, sure that’s easily replaceable. If leadership is about being empathetic and resolving conflicts, everyone brings a different style of handling this to the table and not everyone wants that sort of work. That’s the start of politics. If leadership is about making tough decisions and being held accountable for those decisions and getting teams to buy in and coordinate work around that, then switching people every six months could destroy any accountability and stability entirely.

Politics is what happens when two sides disagree, and what happens next. You aren’t going to avoid it except without groupthink. Most people are reactive to “bad” politics, just like bad sales and bad management. When it is handled well, people don’t notice it or realize it.

I don’t think this is relegated to certain industries or certain team sizes. It’s a question of roles and responsibilities, and if changing a company’s M.O. from one thing to something quite radically something else. If you’ve ever tried to change a company culture (really, a collection of a bunch of individuals’ cultures), then you know this is a huge huge task and it’s often easier/lower cost/more effective to understand your current culture and how to be most effective within that than to come in and try to change everything.

Also, Chesterton’s Fence and the like. We’ve have great social experiments in rotating leadership and in practice, people bring whatever lens they view the world to the leadership table, which is great until it isn’t.
You can: https://www.oculus.com/blog/go-courtside-in-vr-with-nba-leag...
Kids do it, I've heard it, it's an actual thing in that age group, adults don't care. It's like having a collection of gobots instead of transformers if you're an 80s kid.
Reminds me of this related take: https://ibb.co/zVFw2C2
>Apple can't release a $1,000 headset in a market where $400 headsets exist too. VR is a novelty, and people will probably reach for whichever option is cheaper.

I disagree. Apple did this kind of thing with the iPod and the iPhone. IIRC, the iPhone was $600 when it came out, and people paid it, even when there were dozens of other options. There are certainly people who are price sensitive, but Apple’s never really cared about selling to those people anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9UtpJ2iAQA
My takeaway from this is that they got caught up in Twitter drama. The article screams “I was/am way too online”. Even threw in a racism claim for good measure.
> Lock-in through the network effect is lock in.

Exactly. If your complaint is about being locked in but the platform you use is the one everyone has to use because of network effect or otherwise you yourself are locked in with that platform.
> I am uncomfortable with the video stills at the end that do seem to be picking on black people.

Ugh, what?
> The question VSCode users might wonder about is what's Microsoft's strategy here? They have plenty of money, but then again so did Sun/Oracle and IBM. Is there a long term commercial plan to let the VSCode team justify themselves.

Exactly, especially since VSCode is also an "open-core" product, just like JetBrain's products (the community versions are open-source).

The difference is that the other parts are still free, as in beer. But this is precisely what makes the offer weird to me and makes me think there's a shady angle being played.
> It does affect your visual impression in the eye, though. If you're using a bright screen in a dim environment, your eyes will be hurt by the bright light, you flinch and that will reduce the perceptive contrast.

See a few posts above where someone did the hard work of taking real screenshots instead of the totally bullshit fictional ones the author has in the article.
It's open source, and all new code is released under AGPL. See the frontend repo at https://github.com/capyloon/nutria/ for instance.
I’d recommend looking into Radarr and Sonarr. Those two programs really simplify the process and is basically automated once the initial setup including automatically moving and renaming the files for to a plex library if you happen to be interested in using something like plex. I personally think Usenet is better than torrenting but I also choose to spend about $60ish dollars per year on providers and indexers because I feel that it’s worth the cost.
I agree that this is a middle school level analysis, but I've seen it a couple times in practice during my career.

1. In the dating scene, I have heard women remark that it was a red flag (Android users are stereotypically poor... despite a large number of techies using Android)

2. A manager at my old company was advised to get an iphone for communication with VCs. One of our old leaders had heard commentary from a VC at one point about the text message colors.
DDIA…….
It proves that the person knows where waldo is.

Imagine having a where's waldo book, looking for waldo with a friend, and your friend says he's found him... you don't believe him, but he won't show it to you, because then you'll know the location of waldo too. How can he prove, that he found it, without showing the location to you? By taking this punctured-foil approach, he can prove it to you, that he actually did find it, and do it in a way, where you know he really found it, but you still don't know where it is.

Moving the foil randomly enough might work with a book, but this is just an example of a mathematical principle. An rsa key might be between 1 and 2^4096, randomly guessing the number is practically impossible (atleast with current computing power and without waiting literally millions of years). But if the owner uses the key and signs a number you gave him, you verify the signature with his public key, you know that he actually has the private key, but you dont know the actual key.
If you like Robin Guthrie, you may like the ambient music of Harold Budd, one of his collaborators. One of the their cool joint projects is the instrumental score for the film Mysterious Skin from 2004.
The whole LE appararus is designed to go after opponents. That's the whole point. problem appears when "opponents" are chosen wrongly, when the government does not represent the people.
Having an independent, federal agency that can investigate local and state police is a nice thing though.