skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are studies showing bias against women, there are studies showing bias against men. This should remind us not to take any one reported bias and conclude that it represents the overall relationship between the sexes, even if politically convenient to do so.
You would surely love going through a code review @ Google :-)
Yet another editor with no ability to switch to vertical tabs. Looks like I'm staying with the old-school JetBrains IDEs for the time being.
You may be interested in Collapse OS, a "Forth operating system and a collection of tools and documentation with a single purpose: preserve the ability to program microcontrollers through civilizational collapse".

http://collapseos.org
Housing and commuting costs play off each other.

Working 3 jobs requires limiting transportation time to have enough remianing time to work multiple jobs. This makes Houston disruptively unaffordable for the working poor in a way that’s less obvious if you look at them combined.
In this case far-left mean groups that are opposed to objectivity and support adding bias to science. This is the 2+2=5 crowd. They can believe whatever they want, but this is not science and is born out of neo-Marxist ideology.
About your edit: "we never got our national fibre network". I'm confused. No trolling. What about NBN (National Broadband Network)? That has spawned 100s of new ISPs that rent bandwidth on your amazing new national backbone and resell to retail customers. From afar, it sounds like a great national investment. Do I misunderstand?
I wonder how well those hold up in court if you really wanted to build. I could imagine a Texas court being friendlier to development.
You might like https://ambientsleepingpill.com/
You can't buy a book, keep it on a shelf, lend it to new hires, and afford to have an employee take a week out of being productive to learn something? Or you can't afford salaries for a company of people who have more than 5 years of development experience?

Both sound like major dysfunctional problems.
Not if you count that as cumulative time spent (wasted) over the course of a day… (video).

Video: https://nexus.armylane.com/files/kaios-I-test.mov
Yes, of course your argument is valid. But i still think the functionality gained by VR is more of a smaller incremental one, rather than the revolutionary one that the PC was back then.
They should do what they want worrying about the customers that matter to them. They don’t have to worry what you as an individual care about. How much were you paying them? Submit a ticket to your paid support agent if you want them to listen to you. Otherwise… stop complaining about how this free thing isn’t how you want it.
My employee does not pay for JB license, I'm doing that myself and my colleagues are either using community editions or vscode (or cracked ones). He does not pay me $180,000/yr either, LoL, more like $30,000/yr.

Also I think that it's more like $600/yr for companies.
How I Tried to Replicate Airbnb's Obama O's and Cap'n McCain's and Failed
That is selling it short. In ChromeOS, the browser might be front and center, but the internals of the OS are mostly normal OS stuff. FirefoxOS had JS/HTML/CSS used all around the OS itselft besides the browser app/experience.

No I don't mean they used JS to write the HAL or anything like that. I'm saying that whole user-facing part of the OS is a WebView. Everything that the user interacted with was part of an HTML5-based application. The window manager, the process switcher, etc. There were custom JS APIs to handle all that. ChromeOS is quite different in that respect.
For the record, you aren't donating to Wikpedia, you're donating to the foundation. And the cost of running Wikipedia is generously less than 10% of donations per year.

Why do they need 550 employees? I think it's fair to question what the foundation has decided to do with your donation, because basically all of your donation goes to the "not-Wikipedia" parts.

But yeah the fact that this was written by some radical right-winger makes sense. The weird red-scare stuff at the end was so out of place, I should have realized it was by a right-wing propagandist, they have to shove that tripe into everything.
Mostly OT, I know, but... anyone have any clue as to when 'spaces' might actually be a supported task server for their IDE products? They offer 'spaces' as a project tool - keep track of issues/bugs, planning, communication, etc. But you can't connect your IDE to it the same way it can connect to Jira, Github, Trello, Gitlab, Redline, Pivotal and others. It seemed like a short-term oversight at the start, but after... 2 years(?) ... it seems like a vote of no-confidence in their own product. I was excited to use spaces but... some of the most basic stuff I wanted to use wasn't there, and still isn't.

https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/po...
does anybody really think that companies are going to supply their employees with $1k VR goggles just so that they can do a virtual meetup instead of just a normal phone or video call?

Yes. Spending $1k (probably a lot less if you're buying a thousand devices at once) is almost insignificant when it comes to kitting out staff to do their job as well as possible. If you can make someone you're paying $100,000/year just 1% more productive then it's already paid for itself. Plus it's a perk "top of the line VR headset for every employee" keeps people onside (I'm reluctant to say 'happy'; that would be too much).

If the company I work for decided to get all the staff VR headsets for meetings I'd be really cool with that. If we switched to Teams though, that might undo the happy vibes..
I'm surpised anyone would be hiring devs based on what language they use cureently. Any good enginner can learn a language quickly.
FPS are immersive, fun for an hour or so, but I'd rather play with keyboard/mouse/monitor anyway - I'm often tired after work and just want to chill for a bit. Actively moving in VR gear is more of an excersize.

Otherwise you can go play paintball/softball etc and it would be 100% better than any current VR tech.
Fair enough. I like getting the opportunity to soap box too much to pass it up.
Wholesale prices rose 0.4% in Sept., more than expected as inflation persists
It’s not a secret haha

Tocky is a fully featured video conferencing software with the following features:
- browser-based using WebRTC
- supports up to 8K video resolution
- all users in a room can simultaneously screen-share
- optimized matching system for allocating users into breakout rooms so that matching is biased towards meeting new people
- different modes for presentations, collaborative working, and matching
- Google or email magic-link for authentication
- share an event link for easy join
I'm trying to remember someone's words that if <politician(s)> were a woman, there wouldn't have been <bad things>. As if...

Google has so far suggested to me Boris Johnson's "if Putin were a woman...", Kaja Kallas' (Estonian PM) "If women were in charge...", and Sheryl Sandberg's "If women were in charge"; but I am sure I heard this sentiment before 2022.

Probably a good illustration of the effect :-)
> A lot of right wingers believe that most news sources are grossly misleading or lying

Not just right-wingers. With few exceptions, Wikipedia "reliable sources" are mostly mainstream media, which most lefties regard as locked-down, neo-liberal propaganda cannons.
Yeah, today's "unrealistically expensive" is tomorrow's basic toolkit. I don't know if a Meta headset will be tomorrow's basic toolkit, but I also don't know that I would have predicted smartphones being ubiquitous in 2000 or the PC in 1970.
This comment made me cackle. High-five :)
Having tried and used current VR hardware for many hours, often long sessions, I can absolutely see the potential. But the hardware and sofware has a long long way to go. Looking just at Meta and the Meta Quest 2, the top 10-20 apps are the same today as they were a year ago. There are some cool fitness type apps, but for the time being its a novelty and I don't see doing meetings in VR as something I have any need or desire to do once the novelty wears off.
>But what does distributed mean in this context?

The older Jetbrains IDEA IDE is a monolithic local application. E.g. it does both UI navigation _and_ batch processing work like source code indexing.

Fleet is re-architected to be "distributed" aka "client/server" style into a "lightweight" frontend + "heavyweight" backend. E.g., the frontend does UI navigation and basic syntax parsing but the backend (which can be on remote servers) can do full codebase indexing. As a bonus, the code index database can be shared by many frontends.

Code indexing for huge repos (e.g. 1 million LOC) takes a very long time and is one of the complaints of classical IDEA IDE performance being sluggish.

Take the "code indexing" example and extend it to other "heavy" backend batch processes like linting, testing, etc. The backend can also be in the cloud.

As a footnote, Fleet is also a competitive response to MS VSCode by having collaborative features. But my comment mostly answers the "distributed" aspect.

Related articles that also have the client+server diagram:

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3664112/jetbrains-fleet-th...

https://blog.jetbrains.com/fleet/2022/01/fleet-below-deck-pa...

>frontend + backend is not distributed, but it definitely is client/server architecture

EDIT to clarify: the "distributed" is describing "distributed application" of client+server ... like 1st sentence of wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client%E2%80%93server_model
But they didn’t only give loans to business who were shut down. That’s the point.

You claimed businesses got loans because the government forced them to close. I am saying that plenty of business that didn’t close (and saw record demand) sought and received loans. Nobody made them take out PPP loans. Once you acknowledge that, it looks a lot like student loans.
Check out the album “Tape Loops” by Chris Walla, artist Loscil, and John Cage’s “In a Landscape”.
Also, please check other posts in Professor Nick Higham's blog. Especially his wonderful and accessible "What is ..." series of articles [0]

[0] https://nhigham.com/index-of-what-is-articles/
I know that VR is compelling, and FB's VR headsets succeed in providing some level of immersion, but I don't think people will go from remote-working-with-Zoom to remote-working-with-headset, because it's a trade the most aren't willing to make.

If I'm on a Zoom call with 8 other people and the conversation shifts to something that doesn't concern me, I can bring up a code editor and continue hacking away at something without advertising that to my colleagues. But if I started in VR, I'm basically stuck there.

The whole thing still feels like "we built this great piece of technology but we're struggling to find its killer app". It feels very Segway-ish.
Meta's metaverse honestly may be gearing up to be one of the biggest financial tech failures in decades. Still after all these billions poured into the metaverse... still no compelling reason to use. Already they are pitching it as a "marketplace" of digital sorts before they even have an audience.

VR done wrong. Requiring a Facebook account. Utilizing a marketplace run by Facebook. It honestly is astounding how much money is being spent here... and to say underwhelming at best is an understatement.
These are charitable donations. That money wouldn't have gone to ExxonMobil et al, it would instead go to thinks like the Against Malaria Foundation.
My reluctance to donating again to wikipedia lies almost entirely on the subtext of their communication. There's a dissonance between the class of the project, the alleged finances, the in-your-face popups (some years it was half the page).
Someone had made a programmable forth computer in Minecraft. Going back a few years, but I think it was RedPower Mod. It ended up teaching you a little forth to control your factory.
No such place exists. Let's make one. It will be you and I and nobody else.
I ran Linux on the desktop (and LOTS of servers) for 19 years, starting with Slackware in 1994. I spent multiple years on each of RedHat, SuSE, Gentoo, and Ubuntu. (I tried Debian only briefly.) I keep a wary eye on Apple, and the possibility of moving back to Linux, in the back of my mind. "I'm gettin' too old" for Gentoo or Arch. As proper, paid, commercial distros, I would consider RedHat or SuSE before Ubuntu these days (especially RedHat, because they're still heavily involved in kernel development), but I haven't seen anyone on this thread suggesting them as the alternative. Why is it all Debian?
Sounds like marketing
We can be confident that whoever crudely tagged the boxes did not make them.

We do not know when they were made, which is to say which generation of Egyptians made them, or for what, or how, or why they left one in the middle of the hallway, or how they could have moved any of them into place. What is offered is obviously inadequate.
Thanks for that dose of information. Basic arithmetic is so lacking in all these discussions. People throw all sort of fantastic pseudo-facts with little or no anchor to reality.
I think it depend on two things:

- It needs to be light enough to wear 8 hours a day and not disconnect too much from reality, like with XR/AR.

- Input devices matter a great deal and writing on a keyboard - while in the field - will pose a problem, same goes with mouse input devices. The current controllers are too large and slow for productive input.
We would really need examples of what you are referring to. The reason for that being that intuitively, when someone talks about a platform no longer being neutral in such extreme language, it usually means the platform does not support their specific interpretation.
I wont buy one, but the fireware on chromebook is just flat out better and safer. If it was just a standard linux distro by default it would be great.
> Ok, so we distinguish between "good racism" and "bad racism" then?

How uncharitable. I never said either racism was bad, just that one has less weight behind it.

> Also, stop assuming that the whole world has the same historical context as the US.

This is a thread about a US based company so assuming the historical context of the US matters is fair.

Also anti-black racism exists across the world.
FB doesn't just "sell ads". They do their best to snoop on users (and non-users) in every context they can to better target advertising. And there's no easy way to say "stop tracking me". I think it's perfectly reasonable to be a little miffed about that.

20 years ago we called software designed to do this kind of thing "spyware". How did it get normalized to the point that people defend it?

And regarding the comparison to traditional media: if the NYT had a PI following me around every day, I wouldn't trust them either.
I was usually successful in proving to teachers that I had zero knowledge. :)

These were not the proofs they were looking for.
Basically microsoft is trying to crush ide makers. To achieve that its leveraging unpaid work. I dont know how someone can celebrate tools such as VSCode that despite being free are clearly products made by a corporation so large that it can crush legitimate businesses. Its not jetbrains trying to fight back vscode. Its jetbrains fighting back microsoft by providing not just good tools but also pay to those that want to build such good tools.
You’d really want to be disconnected entirely from your surroundings while you’re working ? Sounds nauseating to me.

I enjoy looking at friends and loved ones, looking out the window occasionally, taking notes, drinking coffee without a headset in the way, not having a sweaty face or being nauseated.

AR maybe, VR for hours ? No thanks
> If it is known that most discoveries are made by males it is reasonable to give larger weight to new male-done research

No it isn’t. Dont you see this is just circular reasoning?
>He's had none of the experiences an African American (defined as the black skinned descendants of US slaves) has had

Just reel yourself back in right there... Even after achieving high levels of political status he was mocked and harrassed by millions... solely based on his skin color. anyone can look them up.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/410625-new-epa...

https://www.alternet.org/2009/09/10_horrifying_racist_attack...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/west-york-pennsylvania-republic...

https://www.ebony.com/news/pro-trump-officer-racist-michelle...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mayor-char...

https://www.salon.com/2014/10/01/7_disgustingly_racist_anti_...

https://hiphopwired.com/870840/tennessee-exec-obama-lynching...
The "keyboard" in the name, probably.
Someone please scan this, extract all the faces, and create an avatar generator.
There are a lot of subreddits that discourage all of the things you mention. They are usually full of eternal september posts, repetitive and low value.
It's is far cheaper to temporarily bring down and upgrade a spy satellite than to build a new one. Probably leads to faster iteration on new designs as well.

Also, the fact that the secret satellite stuff is in the payload bay with doors that can close is likely very desirable when a Russian or Chinese nosey satellite matches orbit. And once that does happen, the ability to move to another orbit is on tap as well.

I'd say that the fact China has launched their own nearly identical copy is evidence that the X37 is not useless, but China copying someone's space thing is just another day ending in y and not actual evidence of anything except their copying prowess.
Even if it is illegally obtained, then that should be the crime. Just having the money is really quite irrelevant except that it may help in some cases to indicate there was a crime, but alone it isn't sufficient or illegal (well shouldn't be)
I give you the ole reddit pedant trap:

1. Ask your question

2. Create a new account and give your question a wrong answer (or point out mistakes or whatever)

3. Watch as 90% of pedantic idiots focus fire on that guy who clearly doesn't know things

4. Profit
Funny enough, the faa recently released guidance on “vertiports”. This may actually happen…

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-releases-vertiport-design-s...
webstorm is the way to go for react and other web type stuff... though I'm not sure if the intention of fleet is for it to be free forever or not.
> Anyone talking about "dog whistle" gets an instant ignore from me.

Yet you continue to engage
IMO 9 is the fault of the language rather than the programmer. Julia solves this one by having types that can represent conjugates, transposes, and adjoints of arbitrary matrices lazily.
Completely different. Your face and ears are covered, so the staff or anyone else can't interrupt your special virtual bubble. Not without tapping you on shoulder.

Perhaps you could place a doorbell on the table. When pressed it gives you a notification in your eye screens. You could rig up automated contextual replies "yes you can borrow the sugar". Saving you the bother of being human.

Sitting there with laptop or phone, you are not faceless like you are with VR headset.
Not to mention mods that come in and close your question without a word because it is "duplicate" or "unhelpful".

Hopefully they got the mods under control but I think #4 should be "out of control mods". I think all 4 can be applied on almost all public forums and #4 is the most killer because of how impactful it is.
Legs are finally coming to Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse
I agree 200% with your words about Wikipedia. I am sure that I have spent 1000s (literally) of hours reading Wikipedia, opening my mind to new and interesting ideas. And, learning that I was wrong about long held beliefs. Plus, it is like a huge, free encyclopedia for lower income people in developing countries. The digital footprints are astonishingly large.

In closing, one small joke: About dark / annoying patterns: You forgot my least favourite: When you move the mouse out of tab, lightbox pops up: "Don't leave yet... blah blah blah... sign up for our newsletter!" As if that is going to keep me on the page!
I'm not sure lorries would get 30% heavier, they're already trying to maximise every load. You would, instead, get x% more traffic.
> No, you cannot expect overlapping, non-mutually-exclusive sub-populations of 9% and 18% to equal 27% of a total population.

Obviously, this is true. I don't know why you continue to exclude the Latino population, but again Latino CS grads (to focus on that narrow slice of tech jobs) are also ~7%.

> I hope that helps explain why your expectation of the gender & racial diversity of CS graduates is inaccurate.

But (as you have pointed out) we do know more about the sub-populations that let us infer that the populations are less overlapping than we might prefer. If you're interested, there are published demographic data that go into more detail than I have time to do here. But yes, I understand the concept that a Black Latina fits into three categories.

> you'll extrapolate (incorrectly) that 2/3rds of this population meets your criteria.

The basic idea here is simple: at Microsoft scale, their pipelines broadly should look like the collegiate exit pipeline. If you think that < 30% of programmers are women and/or Black/Latino, I think that assumption is the problem.

No matter what assumptions you make around the numbers, my core point still holds. Which is that if your pipeline is routinely missing X% of qualified applicants, your sourcing is not good enough to know whether you're even seeing the best candidates. That is as true if X% is 15% or 30%.

Using an analogy: if your company isn't seeing any applicants from states representing 15% of the population (say: Texas and New York), that says more about your sourcing than the talent available.
TLDR:

> ... rich countries would contribute between 1.6% (in the best case) and 11% (in the worst case) of ocean plastics through shipping waste overseas.

So, even in the most generous case, 89% of plastic waste comes domestically from Asia. The only solution is to get Asian countries to take waste seriously. As the article says, stopping all shipping of waste would have a negligible effect on the amount of plastic entering the ocean.
I think it was a joke :)
Brex lays off 11% of staff as part of restructuring
For what it's worth, I enjoy editing WP. I'd enjoy it less if I were paid. I'd love to be able to edit some of the crap that the MSM pump out.
>my guess is that "wonderful" is not the same as "competent".

Right. There are two different sets of benefits that help or hurt someone in different ways. Being competent when standing trial can work against you while being wonderful will reduce the risk of a conviction and reduce the sentence if you are convicted.

We have identified the "competent" bias and are taking steps to correct it, but we need to do the same with the "wonderful" bias in other systems. For starters we need to recognize how strong that bias is in certain fields. For one example, there are specific crimes that people would bet are extremely gendered in nature, and the crime statistics show they would be right, but interviewing the population at large and querying victims, including those who never went to the police or who were turned away by the police (or even worse, who couldn't legally be victims because of how biased even the laws are), we see the gender component goes away. The rate of men victimized by women and women victimized by men are at near a 50/50 ration (I think 49.8 to 50.2).

Even the extent of studies measuring the impact of the wonderful effect is lacking compared to studies measuring the competent effect (which itself is likely a bias of the wonderful effect).
KEXP out of Seattle has a good program on Sunday mornings with music that often falls in this genre. https://www.kexp.org/shows/pacific-notions/

Also, the blog Headphone Commute has some excellent ambient showcases. Suggest finding their year-end lists and listening through: https://headphonecommute.com/
https://headphonecommute.com/best-of-lists/headphone-commute...