skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon Musk tweets something stupid and it gets discussed. You or I do it and it's ignored. Celebrity is a thing, nothing odd going on
You may not have to worry much about Vulkan too much longer. Adoption is already low and Valve's Proton is going to ensure no one bothers targeting anything but DirectX. I know I wouldn't, Valve and some open-source community is going to worry about that for me.
The company knows it’s a lie too.

My friend had a company all hands where someone asked “Why does our company PAC give money to politicians with anti-diversity views?”.

The answer was a lot of handwaving but ended with “It’s good for business”.

It’s abundantly clear it’s all performative. Companies are happy to talk D&I all day long, but when it comes to the bottom line they are more than happy to drop it all if needed.

You’re smart to just play the game, because it is just a game.
Galveston will sink way before Houston
It is common for build time or runtime dependencies to change in incompatible ways meaning eventually you might not even be able to run it or even built it from source.
> It doesn’t have to be better than Zoom. It has to be $1500 better than Zoom. Per employee.

Is this sarcasm? That's less than 2/3rds of the entry-level price of a 16" MacBook Pro.

If whatever your (remote) business makes isn't valuable enough to spend $125 / month per employee on (assuming you buy a new system every year!), then the future is bleak...
Ask HN: What are the best books on the economic history of Japan?
Simon Kuznets famously said that there were four types of countries in the world: developed, underdeveloped, Japan, and Argentina.

Japan is an industrial powerhouse despite so many obstacles that should theoretically hold it back. It imports most of its food and energy. Its geography is very mountainous and prone to natural disasters. The population is concentrated in certain areas rather than spread out. It's facing a demographic crisis.

And yet...Japan is still a world leader when it comes to numerous industries. It produces the most reliable vehicles (Toyota, Honda, Mazda, etc.), reliable office equipment (Brother, Canon, etc.), and amazing consumer electronics (Sony, Nintendo, Panasonic, Toshiba, etc.). It also has a very powerful military despite the constitutional restrictions.

Japan also excels in soft power. From video games to anime/manga to sushi/ramen, Japan is arguably the strongest non-English speaking soft power in the world.

Which leads to the question...how? How did they manage to build an economy so robust and antifragile despite the many obstacles in its way? What are the best books to learn about the economic history of Japan and how it became a great power economically?
Timer set for y-minus 1.9yrs…
RAII: Compile-Time Memory Management in C++ and Rust
If you leave it up to private companies, you'd still get an eugenics program, one that selects for creating the perfect little consumer.

In a future where dating apps (and technology in general) becomes the only way to meet potential mates, only those who successfully "engage" with the apps/tech in a way that the company approves of will be allowed to reproduce.

Those that either refuse to engage on principles, or don't "engage" with it the "right" way (let's say by not falling for dark patterns, etc) and end up banned are effectively prevented from reproducing.

Both options can end up dystopian, but I'll take a government-run scheme any day. Not only are governments at least theoretically accountable to their citizens, but they are also as slow as molasses and terrible at tech, so they'd fare much worse at eugenics than a private company.
> California continues to fail in that area by every conceivable metric.

The right repeats this over and over again, hoping for it to become true. Meanwhile, those liberals who bought at $500k now have houses worth $1.5M, and their pay checks aren't taking the 13% hit conservatives keep repeating (because they don't understand how graduated tax rates work). People will continue to move to as well as leave California in remarkably reasonable numbers, I doubt Texas will achieve population parity with California again (they were the same size in 1940) in my lifetime.
If this is going to happen anywhere it will most likely happen outside the West.
this comment is gonna age poorly
This is about whether a pensioner is a widow or widower -where a widow gets her pension for life in the event of the husband's death, but a widower only receives it if they have children under 18 and stop receiving it once their children become adults.
And if what you like to hire is only dudes to keep the culture the same? Like I said, illegal.
As the satellites (EDIT: terminals) were bought bought by the US government, can the government put sanctions or repos on Starlink?
Old mine shafts have been used.
No. It was the Target app and it associated it to your Target Circle account.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/20/target-rolls-out-bluetooth...
Why "libré" with a tilde?

The word for "free" in Spanish is "libre".

"Libré" is a past form of the verb "librar". It has many meanings but I guess the most common one is "to avoid".
Android is losing a generation, not a good sign for competition. I like my iPhone like many others I’m sure, but without competition it’s likely to stagnate and worse potentially have even higher price points.
Honestly, this is the least of academia's problems.

I've seen it from the inside. Probably read 80-100 widely-cited papers during my PhD (before dropping out), and maybe half a dozen of them were written by people who had any interest in discovering truth and pushing mankind forward.

Seriously cannot overstate both the willful ignorance of established scientists, and the extent to which this is enforced onto the next generation.
Women have been able to vote in Switzerland for, what, 30 years now? A bit behind a lot of other countries for sure, but let's not act like that has or should have any bearing on this subject of this post.
Once upon a time, links had an underline and buttons had a beveled frame. We seen to have somehow come to accept the visual designers’ claim that, for some reason, we can't do that anymore.
Meta Quest Pro: A $1,500 Virtual-Reality Headset for Working in the Metaverse
Here, here!

Now do TikTok!
Now I feel better about using a password manager.
> taking a 30% cut of all sales

So four games like Fortnite make more. There are a lot of games on Steam.
$40K per seizure or nearly $2,500 per stop, hell of an ROI.

I used to be acquainted with a cop out of Carroll county and the way he'd casually talk about the money he'd seized the prior week was gross. Hundreds of dollars. Usually on a Friday night. Pay day.
But if they want to match it to your Target Circle account they need you to be using the app. Also iOS uses BLE address randomization to make tracking a specific individual more difficult. Having your app blast out a known ID bypasses this

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/20/target-rolls-out-bluetooth...
Chimps and gorillas form rainforest friendships
> Can you see the micro expressions on your audience faces?

No, but you get an amazing amount of context from their body language

> Can you draw on a whiteboard with fidelity similar to that of RL chalkboard?

Yes

> Can I take notes?

I never tried this, but I can imagine several ways to do so (the simplest of which is to just record the meeting & the contents of the whiteboard).
For those that did not click on the link, that lists 11 CVEs for chrony and 68 for ntpd
Reminds me somewhat of trash-cli:

https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli
This is neither surprising nor upsetting!
Yes we all know the joke, but it very much is an emulator. Otherwise Yuzu is not an emulator either since it mostly just translates the Switch graphics API calls to equivalent DirectX ones
You've piqued my curiosity - what happens when you drain your pool in Houston?
"If you are a woman, learn this simple one trick that can land you a job in FAANG."
The core product is not for me, but some of the merch looks good!

I admire their dedication to producing a full-fat product range.
KaiOS is based on FirefoxOS and sells more phones than Apple does.
> This is the beginning of the death of the monitor market.

no. no it is not.

for one thing, people are always going to need to view screens when they are not at home or at work.

screens have a VERY long way to go before you can reproduce the clarity and just sheer number of pixels available to display clear information to the eyes in VR.

even if eye tracking is used, and even if you only render where the user is looking, the virtual monitors must be legible, and VR headsets are nowhere near that kind of pixel density, yet. they're fine for rendering scenery and walls and avatars, and conveying motion, but if you want to read a screen of text on one of your five virtual monitors without leaning in and making that monitor consume much more field of view, you're going to need LCD displays for headsets which have 10x the resolution in both X and Y than are available today. maybe only 7x.

and there will always be afterbirths like me who get motion sick instantly, and for a full 24 hours minimum, in VR no matter how good the experience is.

I'll keep my monitors, thanks.
> Contrary to what we expected (and probably contrary to what you expected as well!), masking gender had no effect on interview performance with respect to any of the scoring criteria (would advance to next round, technical ability, problem solving ability).

Or here's another hot take: the masking did not work. What if there is more gender signal in speech than just in voice pitch?

I don't see any mention of explicitly asking interviewers what gender they perceived the interviewee to be, and with what confidence.
It also could just be a small specialty.
Besides the sibling comment, in a lot of fields, people just know which group a paper is coming from even without doing any sort of searching or looking at preprints.
yeah, sizzy is cool, it's what lead me to responsively as these monthly charges just don't match how I use the tools.
You don't even have to use WSL (which requires Windows Pro I believe). Accelerated QEMU already has experimental support on Windows hosts via WHPX, on both Home and Pro.

Android doesn't currently support virtualization, but there's hope it will eventually, which should mitigate many security concerns.
jQuery was written to give you a nice interface when browsers were less standard. Read here for examples of what it was working around:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LPaPA30bLUB_publLIMF0Rlh...

It still works, but you "might not need it" if you were using it for "workarounds"

https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/
Diversity and Inclusion are very different things.

You can do top down diversity. If you can hire or fire, you can increase diversity. Not easy, but doable.

Inclusion is a very different thing. After someone is hired, they have to be see their employer as an accepting place.

This is accomplished mostly by peer to peer interactions.

You can’t top-down force inclusion.
I don’t believe a voice modulator alone would be effective in the gender “equalization“ of speech. It would act as a form of distortion, not equalization, and cannot mask differences in usage, pauses, emotional messages like giggles, breath intake, etc. I can even envisions situations where, regarding the hypothesis, it makes things “worse.”
It's probably inherent to any site that allows you to follow individuals. For Twitter that's not much of a problem because most people know better than to rely on Twitter for life advice or product reviews. Letterboxd, on the other hand, manifests exactly the problem you're talking about, and the whole point of the site is to assign purported ratings to film and TV shows.

Reddit and IMDb are mostly immune. Which is not to say that they're immune to all problems (astroturfing, brigading, personal biases, etc.).
The problem with this is that we really can't trust the home network any more. You need to make sure that any services you run on it are zero-trust - i.e., they don't just assume that anyone inside the domestic firewall is a friend.

Because inside the firewall are a bunch of phones and laptops and things that are accessing random webpages and running random apps; and (depending on your level of home network paranoia) maybe a bunch of internet-of-things things, or networked speakers, or televisions, etc., etc.

So even your basement server for home-only use really needs a cert, and client auth, and obviously needs to stay patched... lest it become a monster inside the firewall itself.
They do this all the time actually, though it's mainly here the reddit admins personally don't like the existing mods. So they're completely willing to do so for their own whims.
Long time HN lurker here - some of the comments are being blown out of proportion.

Statistically speaking, these are called “minorities” for a reason, there simply aren’t enough of them in STEM related fields.

Diversifying your team/group with one or two female or foreign born individuals won’t dramatically impact the overall productivity of your team - assuming this person is not already a very hard working and/or bright individual, which many/most are.

The fact that this person made it to the interview phase and passed the initial filters (which are typically gender/race blind) indicates that they are potentially qualified for the role.

Keep in mind, interviewing is hard - for both parties involved, for different reasons but especially hard for candidates.
There is a significant “luck” component involved.

Many interviewers are inexperienced and focus solely on finding ways to disqualify candidates as opposed to figuring out how a given person could “fit in” and contribute/help level up the team.

I ask that you have an open mind and show some empathy. We still have a lot of work to do to create a more diverse and inclusive society.
Managers are NOT free to choose who to hire. When you get headcount, they tell you to make sure not to sacrifice quality and, also in same breath, they tell you that you have no career paths if you don't make your DEI numbers. If there are no actual competent candidates in your field who also happens to be diverse, what would you do?

Everyone from CEO to line managers in all major big techs are now have DEI target that must be achieved. If it is not then don't bother applying for promos. Most people at L7+ will also see significant cut in bonuses if they don't make DEI targets. Especially at VP level, the cut becomes pretty significant. So, they constantly badger their underlings to make their numbers. There are very specific commitments you must write down in OKRs.

I have seen a situation where a manager literally ignored every single non-diverse resume and did not interviewed single non-diverse candidate because of desperation of not making his numbers. He went out of his way to get person completely stranger to work his team was doing. He finally ended up hiring a person well below expectations and this person now simply hangs out in the team as diversity token. The VP sent email to whole group congratulating in supporting diversity and be inclusive. Everyone got their well deserved bonuses for this magnificent achievement.
So hilarious. My car probably does too. And my other frugal behaviors. Guess I'll keep buying assets instead of liabilities.
Various First Words (2020)
> https://archive.ph/rLFnf

Isn't that the case for most of the news stories today.
>This is way back in 2000 so before smartphones, and before texting,

I remember sending my first text on the first widely available Nokia GSM handset in the fall of 1994.

SMS wasn't advertised as a feature until the turn of this century when networks figured out how to charge for the service largely due to base station logging disk constraints of space and latency.
See the keynote for the resin for the lack of legs, and the new avatars coming soon.
I've seen many arguments against double-blind which were very unconvincing, and they were all from the people that already had a big name, the ones that decide how journals operate.

In any case, this is the tip of the iceberg. The entire structure surrounding academic publication is absolutely ill-designed and few people in that world are even remotely interesting in safeguarding veracity.

The overwhelming majority of peer reviewed scientific results is infotainment for other scientists with no party having any material stake in the veracity of it, which is almost no one bothers to replicate because accuracy is irrelevant so long it be interesting to read.

The moment a company has bet a sizable stake on it's accuracy, then they suddenly check, and double check and have another party independently verify it because they do not want to loose money, obviously. But most science is nothing like that.
Some additional context for us lua noobs:

>Conditionals (such as the ones in control structures) consider false and nil as false and anything else as true. Beware that, unlike some other scripting languages, Lua considers both zero and the empty string as true in conditional tests.

https://www.lua.org/pil/2.2.html

>The basic use of string.find is to search for a pattern inside a given string, called the subject string. The function returns the position where it found the pattern or nil if it could not find it.

https://www.lua.org/pil/20.1.html
Are you familiar with the Tides Foundation, who manages the Wikimedia Foundation?

It might be the most politically biased foundation in the world.
I'd be worried that the change in people's attention spans means that a OKC clone (which as I understand relied on lots of personality questions) wouldn't work today as most people just wouldn't actually complete it. A promotional post by an "influencer" would probably make those people self-select too.
I watched this one that came out and it goes into a bit more detail of what they have currently viable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrEeCp5xJj8
Is this the right repo for bower?

https://github.com/wangp/bower
The article you link mentions Google asking Apple to use RCS, which is the industry standard for messaging interop these days, not SMS. Apple has so far declined, so nobody can function in their Messages app.
The problem is that KaiOS is just a "big browser" so its usefulness entirely depends on how much developers care about the mobile web, well they don't.

The mobile web today is horrible to browse, websites are slow, most aren't designed with mobile first in mind, mobile has become an afterthought because companies want users to use their "native apps" where they have full control over ads, tracking and what not.

Go to i.reddit.com and compare that version with the regular mobile website, there is no debate, i.reddit.com is bloody fast and light while whatever the regular mobile website uses is slow as hell. Why is that? Because reddit new design wasn't designed to be efficiently browsed on mobile phone.

Same could be said with any ticket/hotel booking, eshops, or governmental mobile website. 99% of these aren't designed for mobile at first place. Slapping a CSS with some media queries isn't designing for mobile.

KaiOS isn't a failure, the mobile web absolutely is since developers stopped caring about it.
If I was a sincere believer in the threat of CO2 driven global warming I'd want:

- better temperature measurement tech (even the data can be controversial, big problem)
- better measurement tech for all potentially relevant factors
- a well-reasoned model that can better predict what's "variance" today, the more precise the model the quicker you can prove it right

Without any data or models we already knew CO2, all else being equal, should have a net warming effect of some kind. What the failed models suggest is we don't know much more than that. Without any advances, even if the current trend continues indefinitely, I don't see this being settled in my lifetime. You'll have a much easier time convincing me I should care about CO2's effect on cognition.

I don't think all Malthusian concerns are of the same kind in terms of epistemic controversy. I could see humanity dying because of something that could have been prevented with collective action. What I don't see happening is humanity saving itself by collectively choosing to defer to the right people. It almost seems like a logical contradiction. If we do save ourselves from catastrophe by collective action I except there to be collective conviction. If we die because we were too stupid to listen to somebody then we were bound to die either way.
I wouldn't call speaking with Putin (and then promoting his interests) strange, I would call it unnecessary, inappropriate and disappointing.
I found the results to be unsurprising:

Masking a woman into a male voice created a slight disadvantage, the other way a slight advantage.

Also, women underperformed men by about 0.5 on the scoring metric before the modulation.

After interviewing 100's of candidates, I realized women are more easily intimidated on average and also need to be much more careful in how they present themselves in interviews. (Some non-trivial percent of interviewers think aggressive males are confident, but aggressive women are combative. The candidate doesn't know if I am such a person when they come into the interview.)

I noticed that, on average, women with scores that match those of men (on my own scoring) significantly outperformed the men when hired.

I settled on adding 0.5 points to the score of every woman I interview (then rounding to a whole number). Also, I champion them if they are borderline in the panel discussion.

Based on the gender ratio and performance of the team I recently helped hire, this works great (when I am the interviewer).

Edit: There was a wonderful article by a VC along these lines. Some other VC bragged that their female founders were all way more competent than their average successful male founders. The first VC pointed out that this was as close as possible to incontrovertible proof that they were holding women to a higher bar before funding them. I can't find a link...
Yeah, pitch is only one of the components of speech pattern differences between genders. Others include resonance, intonation, rhythm and more.

Ask a trans person and they will tell you that changing your perceived speech gender is much more than just the pitch.
It completely missed the point though, by a mile.
It's not different from Reddit or H.N. in the sense that most people that vote never bothered to read the entire post and the same thing is true with peer review. This isn't simply the case in soft-science as the Bognanov affair showed.

They skim, see if it looks okayish and give it their approval.
I made a big button that does something by going somewhere. https://gloutir.com/
Just the other day I rewatched Fast and Furious 9, with an ensemble cast containing 4 male role models with "grit" who frequently rely on and inspire each other. Before that I watched Dune which has a couple, Shang-Chi which has one, and Doctor Strange which has two. It seems to me that male role models are as common as ever, and it's just become unfashionable in some circles to acknowledge them.
TikTok chases Amazon with US fulfillment centers
What conclusions do I draw from this? Sorry to be so blunt, but my conclusion is that you are lacking a lot of understanding of how these things work. Are you really arguing that they can fly and move anyone in from any country as a means to deal with struggles in diverse hiring? Do you not know much about much that costs and the issues with visa involved?
Isn't it generally better to have affordable housing than shockingly massively increasing home prices?
The nice part is that that can be gamed and should be gamed.

People should copy the writing style of famous auctor's then to expose the system and keep people honest because then they know there are copycats.