skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good points, I was not aware of that anymore. But I think my broader point still stands, even though I just checked the GTK website and would agree, that they could probably make it clearer, that they primarily focus on Gnome. Still, Sabotage is a strong word.
DART mission successfully altered asteroid's orbit
I think that cattiness is reflective of the grant funding model and its downsides including toxic cultures.
That seems to generate svgs which as far as I know no site will show og embeds with svgs for some reason
Not all have given up.

I have a web server in the corner of my room since the beginning of 2004.

Besides being a firewall/router/switch and hosting a web server, it hosts more than a dozen other services, including an e-mail server, NTP server, DNS servers, DHCP & TFTP servers, etc.

In 18 years it did not have any down time, except for a few minutes every 3 to 5 years, when I have upgraded the hardware.

I could have upgraded the hardware less frequently, but I have replaced it whenever I could reduce the power consumption without decreasing the performance.

Now it is at the 6th hardware version. It has started as a big Pentium 4 pedestal server consuming over 200 W, but until now it has been reduced to an Intel NUC with a 4.5 GHz 4-core Coffee Lake U CPU, together with 4 USB to Ethernet adapters used to increase the number of Ethernet ports to 5, consuming not much above 10 W, while being much faster than the oldest servers.

A laptop has the advantage of incorporating an UPS, but I would not trust most of them with working 24/7 for years, like an Intel NUC, or preferably some fanless small computer (with an external UPS).
They could be a law-abiding homeless person. You know: someone like you, maybe, that lost their home to their wife in a nasty divorce.

Or maybe they comply with the court's orders, because they don't want more severe sanctions? Fact is, some states seem to manage without throwing people in the can as soon as possible; some states use incarceration as a last resort.

[Sorry, upthread person; I wasn't trained on US constitution. As far as I'm concerned, jail, prison, penitentiary, reform school are all the same as incarceration. At least for the purposes of this discussion.]
If I tell my recruiters to never interview black people, it's not discrimination because it's not actually prohibiting them from hiring or promotion? Quotas in choosing who to interview or who to consider for promotion is absolutely a form of discrimination.

I've worked at a company that implemented this. It resulted in a vast double standard: white and asian males only got interviews if they came from elite colleges or well-known companies. Diverse candidates could pretty much come from anywhere. This resulted in a substantial disparity of tech-screen pass rates. Which the company held up as evidence of discrimination, and demanded that we address this disparity. Proposals to anonymize tech-screen, strangely, were ignored. Instead, recruiters (who had bonuses attached to diverse hires) got to decide who advanced from the tech-screen to the on-site instead of engineers.
Many corporations require non union workers agree to arbitration.
I had this on a mid-2012 MBP (bought new in 2015). Somewhere around Apple's 4th or 5th repair of the machine. Replacement logic board didn't solve the issue, but it sure made macOS complain loudly that my machine appeared to have been stolen.

(Real problem was Apple's flaky SATA flex cables, notorious for breaking on this model. Been replaced 6 times by Apple. I still have the machine - I'm typing on it now - but I do my own repairs. And of course I switched years ago to Windows on a Thinkpad X1 as my daily driver after that Apple experience.)
This seems to be a common position, but a weird one. It seems like you are saying Apple is the best, but you are mad at them, even though nobody can do better.
The law doesn't matter except to the degree that the regime will enforce it.
> Statements like this carry a lot of weight in this essay: He's "pretty sure" and "assumes" an awful lot.

Sure. If it wasn't pretty sure or assumes Microsoft could be sued over it, so Microsoft implements these policies as harshly as they can without opening up the path to a clear lawsuit.

It's standard operating procedure for most discrimination.
Every article I’ve ever read on pushback against DEI has been a white male author so it’s just “stats” as the sayings goes.
Geoduck
Their competitor Hololens 2 is CAD $4,749
> I do take one "testosterone-boosting 'supplement'" (the main one). I've been running a test level of around 900.

That's basically a PED for your condition. That + protein + muscle load from lifting means you will be gaining muscle and losing fat as long as you engage in a progressive overload ( which is much easier to do with T boosters ).
CNET video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u5PIqnXWHw
Sure it can. It can be as simple as this (pseudo code):

warehouses = get_warehouses_via_io()

if len(warehouses) == 0:

-- Here you have a proof warehouses is empty

return Err("Oh no couldn't get warehouses")

else if len(warehouses) > 10000:

-- Here you have a proof warehouses contains more then 10000 elements.

else:

-- Here you have a proof that the amount of warehouses is not 0 and not larger then 10000 or you have between 1 and 10000 inclusive warehouses

do_stuff(warehouses)

Even Haskell which barely has dependent typing can do that. You simply have to introduce a proof that your lists length is between those.
You can sideload apps for free on the Quest and Apple requires a dev account for $99 a year to sideload anything more than a trivial app or two. The Quest definitely feels objectively less locked down than iOS IMHO.
The author says he is in AI, and when I was hiring entry level ML engineers I had similar challenges. As much as we blame the recruiting pipeline, I think it is the educational pipeline that is not creating a sufficiently diverse talent pool. Part of it is "weed out" courses that adversely affect students from less privileged backgrounds[1]. An additional (perhaps controversial) opinion I have is that companies are so aggressive about their individual diversity goals that they often pluck students out of the training pipelines prematurely (e.g. courting Ph.D. students before they finish their dissertation).

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2021/...
> A home web server is probably STILL the easiest way to get files to heterogeneous computers and phones and tablets and...

Similarly for printing, I would love a local web app that I could submit PDFs to and get a printer to print the pages. I could imagine scanning working in reverse. I tried googling a bit but alas it seems no one has done it.
1) I have to add everyone to a box if I want to collaborate.
2) I want to collaborate directly in a thread. See https://missiveapp.com/features/collaborative-writing
The post describes turning down a lot of qualified people because they had not encountered any applicants of required race/gender yet. In fact, they ended up not hiring for the position at all because they never encountered applicants of the required race/gender. So despite the fact that they had qualified applicants, they ended up forced to hire nobody. No individual person was discriminated against, but the group of applicants sure was: none of them got hired, despite the fact that the manager had qualified applicants and wanted--needed--to hire one.

The post also notes that this was invisible to people who weren't a manager, so it was effectively a secret, whether or not it was intentionally so.
Also sway, but hacker news doesn't always hold him in that high of an opinion, probably mostly of his Rust criticisms...

But I use many of his tools, all top notch!
It's not the whole interview. Just the first part of many questions. You have to print a string abcdefghij... like

abcd

efgh

ijkl...

And you would be surprised by the number of people who it takes 20 minutes to do that. Doing it in 2 minutes doesn't mean you're competent, but taking 20 damn sure means you're not
I read that as "carnality issues".
The University of Central Florida has bought an email address I own from some spammers and they're now occasionally asking me to enroll in some program where I can prove my commitment to diversity and inclusion and eventually become a certified supplier to them. "Positive statements" will not be what you need, you'll need to show that you actually have the numbers, and if you don't, you will not be considered.
> Sure I know that a lot of the DE&I stuff is frustrating for people.

It's also inherently unfair, that's why nobody likes it, I have seen it first hand that it just leads to a few token hires, with no real change. People who actually care realise that if you want to improve something you start at the beginning, not a the outcome, you would at minimum start at education, however I guess it's cheaper to have a few diversity hires here and there without changing anything that really matters.

> Can you actually prove that people are in any way capable of measuring merit, especially for leadership decisions

You can, otherwise we would select leaders by rolling dices, however we don't tend to do that.

> which is pretty squishy to begin with

I guess your narrative is that it doesn't matter who we select as leader, they all have a chance of doing an equally bad job, which diverts from the point, we make decisions without knowing the outcome all the time, if we would take your worldview then every decision where we don't know the outcome would be decided by a dice roll.

> Better this than promoting the CEO's nephew.

You are exchanging one favouritism for another, how is that an improvement? At least the CEO's nephew would have connections in high places and likely more pressure to perform.
Have you ever used an Oculus Quest before? Between the full-screen Apple Music pop-ups and "suggested apps" when you search on the App Store, I think my Quest actually has less advertisements than modern iOS...

Regardless of platform, the problem is still the same, and the solution is equally plain. Apple and Meta should both be allowed to sell hardware - they're both really good at it! Their software needs an opportunity to compete with the community though, otherwise they'll never have their best interests at heart. The good news is that both companies already hire thousands of software engineers to work on their software. It's economically impossible for them to make inferior software even if we do force them to do the right thing. Win/win!
There is no a priori reason to believe that the pixel resolution will ever be that high. Not all technology we can imagine is actually possible.
We've already caused it. The overwhelming majority of land mammal mass is either humans, or farm animals raised for humans to eat. Almost half of the world's land surface is now farmland.
Those are services, not software.

Most US businesses do their payroll in-house --- using proprietary software --- mainly due to cost reasons.

Companies that outsource payroll to a service provider are actually a minority --- mostly larger businesses.

https://www.civica.com/en-us/insights/managed-payroll-or-in-...
My expectations weren't that high to begin with but... hmmm... What should I have been expecting in context of what the AI is actually doing? Is it automatically cutting together clips to fit a script? The cadence of Jobs just seems strange and comes off as being stitched together. Surely an AI that can get this far could add some natural gaps to the conversation.
Any source?

This seems to indicate that minority demographics may be targeted for recruitment, advancement, etc.

https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/hiring/affirmativeact

At least at my company, I know they have preferences for minorities over similarly qualified candidates. I've heard a department head specifically tell the managers that we need more women in a specific role. Maybe they're just breaking the law though...
Best example is r/legaladvice. Good luck getting any advice on dealing with corrupt law enforcement.
The beta testing is not complete. They need way more buy in before they ditch the consumer model.
I not only run my blog on a computer in the corner of the room, it's solar-powered as well. At night it is supported by a bunch of lead acid batteries[0].

If you can you should host your own blog/website on your own physical computer at home. Especially for blogs, availability and redundancy is just not critical. And if you do a little bit of preparation you can recover quickly from any failure. It is fun, you may learn a few things and it makes things more tangible. (Maybe dig into VLANs or a firewall with multiple interfaces that allows you to separate your home network from the server)

My blog is a static HTML site and it has survived many HN visits of 20k+ visits on a Raspberry Pi3b+. It has since been upgraded to a Pi4 but it doesn't really matter. My 50Mbit upload capacity was never really taxed at all.

I'm currently working for a customer fighting the Azure cloud and it's abysmal in every way possible. The simplest tasks of provisioning resources take forever to complete. It makes me fond of my 8-10 year old 20-core DL380 server that allows me to spin up a huge infrastructure in the same time Azure can spin up a small web app.

[0] https://louwrentius.com/this-blog-is-now-running-on-solar-po...
> I was reading the subtitles of End of Evangelion out loud to the baby (because she can’t read)

lmao
As I said LOOP is designed such that names, local variables, local iteration variables are all defined INSIDE the LOOP, such that LOOP can process them and that they are all using the LOOP syntax.

(loop with a = ...) maybe equivalent to (let ((a ...)) (loop ...))

but

(let ((a ...)) ... (loop ...) ...) is not equivalent to (loop with a = ...)

The difference is that in the latter it is not clear to the Lisp developer that A is meant as a LOOP local variable.

That's a design choice, not bad design.

Historically LOOP was named FOR and was only a tiny part of CLISP (Conversational Lisp) in Interlisp. There CLISP had a different syntax than normal Lisp, including iteration, binding, infix operations, etc. The idea of such a LOOP macro was then brought to Maclisp, ZetaLisp and, eventually, ANSI Common Lisp.
Same this side. We are happy user of Gmail.js[1]

[1] https://github.com/KartikTalwar/gmail.js
"Mathematically possible" is a much lower bar than "has evidence to support it". Yes, AdS/CFT is mathematically consistent, as are classical GR wormhole models. But there is no evidence to support either.

> I would, however, agree that evidence could have been presented in the article, but I'm guessing the target audience for this piece may have never clicked into an array of academic papers.

If you know of any scientific papers that present evidence for AdS/CFT (or for wormholes, for that matter), please post links. I'm not aware of any such papers.
> when it is needed the least

I don’t think this is true in many areas. In our area, during the summer the neighborhood is running A/C when the sun is at its peak. During the winter, heating. Also the transport loss from a power station is nothing to sneeze at - my understanding is that locally produced power often just results in reduced demand on the larger grid.
Chinese technology poses major risk – GCHQ Chief
(2021)

> Public health messaging exhorting people to eat less and exercise more has failed to stem rising rates of obesity and obesity-related diseases.

Isn't that just because people don't follow the messaging?
Would using a headset solve that? Wouldn't it be just as effective to have a space that allows you to use a traditional monitor?
Depends on how you define "young people", the average age of the US congress is 58 and Senate at 64. If the people I know in that age bracket are representative, they certainly don't exist in the "peer domain" that even has a conception of what we're discussing, even less so in the context of digital/software shit.

We're talking from 1958-1964, in particular (predominately) the "elite" class of people born in that period who became successful career politicians, who are arguably (though not much of one when considering the evolution of IP law...) beholden to lobbyists which is just a convoluted way to say corporate interests or arm twisting from their peers...

So no, young people aren't in control, and the ones that are will ostensibly be borne to power from their favorable starting position which means they're probably going to follow the trajectory and preserve the status quo.
I know this isn't what you're getting at, but is it smart enough to create a sparse file when you specifically pick zero as your filler byte?
Ah they upgraded the ram between M1 and 2 then.
> ESG funds will see competitor funds that will outperform. No wasting money on greenwashing or other ESG bullshit.

Would that work? IIRC, stock prices aren't so much about performance, just who wants to buy your stock. Decreased actual performance from "greenwashing or other ESG bullshit" might be overwhelmed by demand by ESG pots of money.
At the moment it's offline because I'm between homes, but normally I have a cluster of Raspberry Pis running Kubernetes to host my blog and a few other services. Unfortunately, the Pis need static IP addresses which requires admin access to the router, which I lack as I'm staying at an AirBnB, so in the meanwhile my site is running on an EC2 spot instance.
The current U.S. Supreme Court, though perhaps more ideologically bent than I'd like on many other issues, is certainly well poised to start slapping down some of these policies which brazenly dance on the wrong side (gray area at best) of Civil Rights law.
> Get rid of private schools

There are good steps that can be taken, but objectively harming some students is not the way forward.

Improve public schools and try to get more money into the poor regions. Do not erase private ones.
This is a recent change no? Previously it was 70/30 across the board and this also includes in-app subscriptions/payments.

I say much because (afaik) the majority of developer income comes from recurring payments, which AppLab doesn't take any of.
I'm sure there's some specialty version out there, but coffee made in a regular espresso machine doesn't count as "filtered" either does it?
For anybody super out of the loop:

> The Oculus Quest 2 VR headset is the second version of the Quest headset range. It's similar to the original Oculus Quest in that it's a battery-powered, standalone headset that allows you to freely roam around your physical and digital play spaces without fear of tripping over a wire.

The Quest 2 and the Quest Pro are both "standalones".
i guess its not easy to build a container like that. it has to be strong enough to withstand the air pressure trying to buckle it in, but light enough for the vacuum to actually lift it off the ground. maybe there is no such material
As a developer I avoid anything Apple ... their disjointed technical support forums are terrible ... if only they could clone stackexchange
Green Hydrogen has not worked out so far. It is not clear that it even has a path forward. There are a lot of people hopeful that it will be a solution in the future, but as of today it is so uneconomical that even people willing to spend more to be green don't use it.
Companies aren't doing DEI because they feel like it. They're doing it because if they don't, they will be punished by the state. The way this works is that there is a patronage relationship between the grievance HR class and certain political actors. If you fail to hire enough DEI HR people to suck revenue from your company, the state prosecutors hit you with all kinds of hiring discrimination lawsuits. It's sort of like a mob protection racket. You hire some of our guys for some no-show jobs, we don't burn your business down.
Not sure I like that idea. What if I never marry because I don't meet someone {compatible, available, interested}?

Maybe if I can delete my account from the platform at any time (even without marrying anyone) and get my money back I'd be OK with it. Ideally, the money in escrow should also earn interest or have the option to invest it in some generic index fund.
I think op is saying these things:

- We've had major progress over the last however many decades.

- A lot of the teams responsible for that work were probably made up of young white nerdy males (obviously not all, but young nerdy males probably covers a large portion of them, otherwise why would we even be here talking about DEI initiatives?)

- were all of those teams horrible?
That's some great feedback, thank you! I'll add these to my notes for the upcoming revisions.

There's a section about having a "team-first approach," but I agree with your comment that mentorship is another trait that could even deserve it's own section.
We don’t eat land predators, generally, and most of the biomass lots happened much earlier with the spread of humans, i.e. 500 to 20,000 years ago.

Most of the worlds land megafauna are gone because big slow things are really easy to kill for groups of primitive humans with pointy sticks.
Should be right at the top of https://inboxsdk.github.io/inboxsdk-docs/
I’ve seen active encouragement to violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Specifically Title VII section 703, (d) - Training Programs.

“It shall be an unlawful employment practice for any employer, labor organization, or joint labor-­management committee controlling apprenticeship or other training or retraining, including on­-the-­job training programs to discriminate against any individual because of his race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in admission to, or employment in, any program established to provide apprenticeship or other training.”

By specifically allowing Women to attend the Grace Hopper Conference on company time, funded by the company.

Men, are not allowed to attend (unless not male presenting), and thus being discriminated against based upon their sex.

At the Grace Hopper conference, there are plenty of sessions which could be argued are training.

If the attendees were going for recruiting purposes, I could see it not necessarily violating the law. However, Women are attending to go to the conference (training?) without any recruiting duties.

I expect there are similar conferences for POC, which equally violate the Civil rights act.
Tailscale MagicDNS [1] can also do this, which you can also setup with TLS certs using their Let's Encrypt integration [2].

1. https://tailscale.com/kb/1054/dns/

2. https://tailscale.com/kb/1153/enabling-https/
Using Dockerfile to compile latest version of SQLite for Python images
In the last year-ish I wrote a pure-Rust windowing and input library for Windows / MacOS.

I never even had to think about making the window controls appear, they were just there by default when I created a window.

If I eventually want to extend support to Wayland / Gnome I need to figure out how to pull in complex UI framework dependencies. Or I could write my own code to render window controls but it won't be a perfect match to the platform's aesthetic. Compared to Windows / MacOS it's a mess.
Yes, and FOSS payroll software also exists. People don't use it because they'd rather pay for a service that offers support (another service) and absolves them of liability (another service).
Labor Department Proposes Changes to Gig Worker Classification [pdf]
True, I only have used it on x86 devices. Thanks for the heads up!

I’ve heard so many stories of SD card failures (against which snapshotting might be of no help) with RaspberryPi that I’ve decided to send any valuable data promptly to safety over a network. (Though, I personally haven’t had any problems with failing SD’s.)
It... pretty much has been since the 120hz update for the Quest 2? As long as they're not using a poorly-written application that drops below 90hz, I've barely heard stories of anyone getting sick these days.