skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "If your team looks like that, your team is horrible too, no matter how much you tell yourself it's not."

Yes, it's true. There has never been a strong team of young, white nerdy men. Never happened.

Technological and engineering progress was at a baffling standstill for centuries until the wisdom of diversity, inclusion and equity dawned upon us.
They sure can be seen as reactionary as one of CSPI's areas of interest in "The Great Awokening" (see https://www.cspicenter.com/about).

I found the article interesting as I've just started to work in US corporation and I've wondered how achieving specific diversity goals are achieved in cases there is a very limited pool of people to hire / promote in a select subgroup.
I guess they can't use uintptr_t, as that's 'large enough', not 'same size as'.
So what’s the secret?
You don't need to prove that that measurements are reliable to highlight the existence of discrimination. If 10% of applicants are X, and I mandate that 20% of hires are X, then even if my interview results are truly random it's still discriminating in favor of X.

Similar deal with tech hiring. What is the pool of candidates for this hire or promotion? If you're setting quotas in excess of the pool's representation you're explicitly instituting discrimination.

I'm okay with people doing this, provided they're transparent in that they're instituting affirmative action and do not intend to create a non-discriminatory hiring or promotion process. What does get on my nerves is when people privately push for policies like this, but publicly decry and mention of discrimination favoring "diverse" groups as hurtful.
In my experience, it's 13-year-olds that are posting the porn, gore and insane ramblings in the first place.

It's also a volunteer gig. If it makes you uncomfortable, stop doing it.
So much misinfo in one post.

> They have much higher rev-shares

The current revshare for App Lab is 70/30 in favor of the developer. Much* lower than Apple.

> they have tighter control

Than the iPhone? The Quest can be used in SteamVR like any other headset. Third-party apps can be sideloaded, and the bootloader is (semi) unlocked. Not sure how they're even comparable.

> require a Facebook account to use it

A Meta account now, disconnected from the social network. How is this different than an Apple account?

> I think the Quest is basically useless without a Facebook account setup

Do you have a Quest? I've used mine entirely as a PCVR setup, I don't think I've used a FB service in years besides the store.

* EDIT: Discussed below, "much" is maybe a bit too far. Seems like the final split is roughly the same, though AppLab doesn't take a cut of IAP.
Personally, I would just keep a power bank in my pocket and wire it up.
According to people that make Simula One you can't compare them because Simula One is the next coming of Jesus and the quest pro is for kids to play games.
Quest Pro is not tethered to an online Metaverse.
I don’t really know if the specs are good for bang for your buck. All I know is that the Quest 2 specs run the existing library pretty well. Paying 5x the price, I would expect a jump from WiiU to PS5, but is there any software that comes close?

The 4x resolution sounds great, but the Quest 2 resolution was already pretty solid. It’s still a great movie watching experience. I’m sure it’s even better with the Pro, but not $1500-for-a-niche-device better
I'm not really convinced how good we are at measuring merit.

But I don't buy into that being the reason for <insert my idea>.

I DO worry that "hey we doubt we're doing it right based on merit so we're picking race this time / some times" will have an effect, and not a good one.
How is it pronounced, you might ask:
“gooey-duck”; /ˈɡuːiˌdʌk/
>And on top of this being an absurd rich-journalist problem

Journalist is a stretch here. OP is a fiction author, a blogger and columnist at best.
> However, they also are very aggressive with compulsory psychiatric treatment, which this author would consider unethical.

Based on what?

You think the author would be against additional mental health resources for homeless people? I highly doubt it.
I’d think on a directory basis would be the ideal
How many people will start their conversation with "can you tell me why my app was rejected and how to fix it?"?
a lot of comments here recognize what a discussion of 'diversity and inclusion' on this forum (HN) is likely to contain -- i.e., HN should recognize it's own stereotypes of tech culture being toxic which only reinforces _any_ company from trying to curb that toxicity (whether it's the perfect approach to doing so or not)
However, the ASHP can also be used to cool your home in the summer. In the past this has been a dubious benefit for most of northern Europe, but heat waves have been getting stronger, last longer, and happen more frequently as time goes on. This is turning into a serious consideration.

Also, you can theoretically power a ASHP with renewable energy, while there are few if any carbon neutral replacements for natural gas.
The drug seems to have no impact, but I wouldn't go as far as claiming the odds are better with placebo. 96 vs 103 can just be random chance.
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...or they get hooked on VR p*rn and can't stop using them. Maybe Meta wants whales like these but more enterprisey.
> Multi-tasking, it's the new superpower.

I mean, What? Why? I thought the whole point of VR headsets is to be able to focus on a single task and do it in the best possible way.
And portability without recompile or negotiating different delivery for different targets, and being able to run in a common browser that nearly every user connected internet capable device already has.
And even if frothed milk is your thing there are better ways to do it than these big machines.

I drink matcha lattes, they make these magic things called "milk frothers" for like $30. In my case I add Oat milk up to the line, add a tablespoon of matcha powder, then push the button. Then it heats and froths the milk and provides a nice little beep when it's ready.
They mention better contrast for this panel.
It's also easier and faster to make your own butter today than it was 100 years ago, but most people don't because it's even easier to just buy some at the store.
This is a fallacy, unless you would change your mind if someone else experienced the opposite.

"Making a good team" is part of meritocracy. D&I is often implemented as an entirely separate quota system.
Aardwolf MUD: text-based MMO operating since 1970
How do you give your intranet site an internal domain? Or do you make the family use the IP address?
We're posting on their forums.
Friends might be apple developers instead of just developers trying to do something unrelated and randomly discovering they need to download Xcode to do something :(
What's the difference between a snapshot, and a checkpoint?
The questions were easily manipulated, so I would find someone I liked, changed all my answers so we would be either 96% match or lowest as possible because I would always get interest from them when they discovered who viewed them with the lowest score, usually they would send a message 'hey we are supposed to be enemies' which led to dates.

They were community made questions so often very vague and not very reliable, another attempt would work if someone remade that feature with user voting maybe on best questions
A way to measure brain blood flow in pre-term babies at the bedside
This is what I've been worried about too. Meta isn't betting the farm on a shitty Second Life ripoff because they think consumers will want it. I think they're doing it because the end users are going to be low-level work from home employees who have no choice in the matter.
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Why was my app taken off the store, and my developer account banned without explanation?

No? No answer?

Funny that.
> A hole is not something, it is a cavity in something else

this reasoning also applies to "infinity". it literally means NOT-finite. it refers to the lack of a thing: namely a biggest number.

then again, freaking language and maths sure make us able to think about these 'lack of [blank]' as if they were actual things (to the point that abstractly they are as real as it gets)
We often can't, without displacing humans and damaging property.
They're working on that: https://twitter.com/kibblesmith/status/1575898595244445696
Knowledge needs to be cheaper to verify than to produce. Otherwise it's simply not worthwhile to produce at all. Choosing to trust "authority" doesn't fix anything. One still has to be the smartest person in the world at determining who's right.

If you show me a battery you say lasts longer, I can verify your claim quite easily. If it doesn't last longer, without knowing a single thing about batteries, I have every reason to believe I'm right and you're wrong. There's a chance I am in fact wrong, but I'll be expecting you to put in the effort to convince me otherwise.

If someone tells me to significantly change my life based off their climate models, and they laughably fail [0], I have every reason to believe they don't have a good climate model. If they don't have a good explanation, and even worse, get angsty when asked for one, I'm out.

It's perfectly possible some small group of people or even an individual possesses knowledge that could save the world from imminent destruction or produce some great benefit. But if there's no way to verify such knowledge, there's no reason to care about it.

[0] https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/ICCC13-DC-Sp...
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>in a ratio that shifts from fat towards muscle as energy supplies dwindle

it's in fact the other way around. The body first reduces what is not used (unused muscles) and then energy reserves.
Ah interesting. I was thinking along the lines of if you wanted to, say, package up an algorithm as a class, make a ton of these classes/algorithms, and then affix them in a bunch of ways. E.g. "find the algorithms that take in data and spit out predictions, compose them with the algorithms that have a prediction_input field" etc.
>The discourse in many subreddits is invisibly dictated by the moderators.

If you haven't signed up for alerts on reveddit, odds are good you have no idea how many of your comments and posts have been silently removed: https://www.reveddit.com/y/<your_username>
Same. My inner nerd yearns for this tech but I'm very cynical about what the public at large adopts and what we end up with in practice.
> How, specifically, do other services detect this?

I don't actually know specifically. I assume there are two different ways:

- The service is using Verify / Authy, which is owned by Twilio so likely Twilio themselves discourage it

- Looking up the number either through Twilio or some sort of central subscriber database. All virtual numbers are described as virtual numbers.

> Are you aware of mechanisms to avoid this detection/blocking that don't require using a "real" number.

Definitely gets into ethically gray areas since that would be super useful to nefarious people. I don't actually know for sure. I know from the recent Blizzard mobile 2FA controversy that this issue expands to also prepaid phone numbers.

So I don't know of a definitive way to get around it beyond using a postpaid number.

Somewhat related, near the end of my above mentioned service, I had pivoted into trying to launch a "21st century phone service" complete with SIM cards provided by Twilio.

The issue? They were still considered virtual numbers. At the time, in Twilio's defense, I was somewhat misusing their service because their SIMs were intended for IoT purposes not actual cellphone usage. That's all to say, it's likely provider / subscriber level vs something you can individually spoof.
I believe in Star Trek cannon, Romulans use artificial black holes as the power source in their ships.
The CAD of Quest 3 already leaked.
That's a nightmare. She should be sent to prison for that, tbh.

Not nearly as extreme, but last time I tried Online dating I messaged someone and found out she was only looking for someone to get her pregnant and be a father. Straight up, first thing, not interested in a first date unless I was interested in getting her pregnant.

I'm Christian so sex outside of marriage is a huge no-no for me anyway, so unmatching was not a hard decision even though she was attractive.
Senators Want .US Whois Privacy
This is probably the first I'm hearing of using webcomponents. I'd be interested to read about packages that help with JSON.
from TA:

> A checkpoint is a snapshot of your system at a given point in time, but it can be deleted automatically if some disk space must be reclaimed. A checkpoint can be transformed into a snapshot that will never be removed.
Has anyone found pluralsight instruction useful? I wasn't impressed with the last free trial I tried with them. Video quality was fine, but the instruction wasn't compelling. Any courses you can recommend?
I highly doubt that.

The extent of your usage of an iPhone is rarely mandated, and most people I know use the iPhone primarily for photos, iMessage, a browser (usually Chrome? At least in my circle) and an email account.

For those functions, Apple is hardly slamming you with recommended content and ads. Instead, you pay an initial premium for a solid bit of hardware. And if you want more, say if you want to store a lot of photos on their servers ($), you pay for it with more money.
I noticed a change in my "addictiveness coefficient" with age and stress level at work. So I no longer think of it as a constant multiplier.
A (pretty spaced out) cluster of Green Tech companies.

Would be nice to see some comments from Nordic people.
So do you still eat fish?
You still have to deal with a complicated web of accounts and apps, converting your "Oculus" account to a "Horizon" account to unlink your Facebook from your Meta or whatever (who knows!).

I have a Quest (1 and 2 actually, though the 1 is in storage) and I basically never use it anymore because I just can *not* be bothered to try and log in through its various apps again and install software updates in broken UIs with no progress indication etc.

The only thing I use it for anymore is if somebody's over and wants to try VR, I let them to the tutorial demo and maybe play some Superhot (which hasn't broken for lack of updates ... yet!). Unfortunately streaming that to the TV via Chromecast from the app doesn't work anymore for Zuck knows what reason.

Consumer tech is so hostile and frustrating, I really just can not deal with it anymore. Sorry for the rant.
Isn't it kind of explicitly about not being scalable?
Depending on the reviews I might pick one up later but really I'm just waiting on Apple's AR/VR headset. I have a Quest 2 and it's quite nice for casual gaming but the resolution/processor is too low/weak to handle text-heavy games (it's blurry and gives me a bit of a headache). The resolution listed by other people here (because god forbid we actually put tech specs in the tech specs section) seems like not a big jump but maybe with the dynamic foveated rendering it will be enough to have clear text.
Decentralisation fixes this.
Independent repair shop fixes Apple laptop at a low price https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1346591299727 "Louis Rossmann, the owner of a repair shop in New York City who teaches millions to fix Apple products on YouTube, repairs a MacBook Pro at a much lower cost than an Apple Store in Toronto estimated."

'Complete control': Apple accused of overpricing, restricting device repairs https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/complete-control-apple-a...
"CBC News used a hidden camera to verify reports that Apple customers are often told their malfunctioning computers are not worth fixing, even when minor repairs could remedy the problem. When presented with a MacBook Pro laptop that had a common issue where the screen was not displaying properly, an employee at the Apple Store responded by saying the device would need significant repairs at a cost of more than $1,200."
You're writing with the implicit assumption that private companies ought to be meritocratic above all. I don't think that's the case. I think private people and orgs ought to be free to choose whom they associate with, hire, and promote based on any criteria they can come up with. Nepotism? No problem. Height/weight/age/beauty/culture/hair colour discrimination? You bet. Then these orgs all compete and the most efficient ones win. This leads to a long conversation about the merits/efficiencies of monocultures.

Furthermore, we as a culture ought to be at least not hypocritical in our tolerance of clearly nepotistic/discriminatory hiring practices in minority-owned businesses (restaurants/trades/jewelry/etc.) but somehow intolerant of them in some sectors like tech and finance. These things are equally silly:

1. Expecting a Chinese restaurant not to exclusively hire more Chinese people

2. Expecting a tech-bro agency not to exclusively hire a more tech bros

3. Expecting a Kosher butcher not to exclusively hire more Jews

4. Expecting a WASPy finance org not to exclusively hire more WASPs
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This seems like arguing whether chicken shit or pig shit smells worse.
Collaborative architectural design is what Arkio does, one of the launch partners.
> Before my current team, my whole career, every single team I worked in was pretty much exclusively young, white, nerdy men. Maybe each person on those teams was objectively the "best" candidate for their respective hiring round! (though I doubt it) But they make horrible teams. If your team looks like that, your team is horrible too, no matter how much you tell yourself it's not.

Do you think this would be true if you expanded it to all teams made up of one single demographic? Or is it just young white nerdy males? Cause that would sound pretty controversial if you swapped out white for any other color.
In the presentation they said 50% faster and better thermals.
I wanted to emphasize that the final part of the article links to Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch, which is a great way to identify which fish are coming from a sustainable fishery, and are okay to eat: https://www.seafoodwatch.org/
That's why i specifically wrote -> stable...
If that's the case, then what can we do to preemptively frustrate facebook's control?
Scientists claim that overeating is not the primary cause of obesity
I also removed the last traces of EmberJS from our apps last year. It was a great feeling.

Ember was fun and productive initially, but eventually turned into a quagmire when the app got larger. Seems like most people I knew in the community have moved on too.
I think we're going to see a rise of new companies formed, perhaps not from Silicon Valley, that will reject the whole D&I concept and move forward with complete blindness to race, culture, or gender. They will excel, outperform and form a new age of englightenment. I don't think this will happen because I want it to, it will happen because incentives and fundamentals of operations of a company – i.e., just focus on building good things.
The G in GTK doesn't mean Gnome, it means GIMP. And XFCE is GTK-based.
That #Etymology subsection reaffirms my faith in the human species. Across centuries and oceans, we're really all so similar.
You're looking at it from the perspective of a higher-end knowledge worker. $1500 to strap a 1984-esque telescreen on your call center employee and have them work from home instead of a cubicle would save a bundle.
> There's a mix of existing theories that are being actively studied in theoretical physics (holographic cosmology), and some claims that the author seems to call out in rhetorical question.

All of those are speculative claims without evidence to support them.
The increase from 3.7% to 5.6% black executives as a sign of lowering standards, when black people are 14% of the population in the country... Can we first establish what percentage of managers people genuinely think got their job based on merit as a baseline? An equal explanation might be that because Microsoft forced people to actually interview black people at all, more qualified black candidates were hired.
As somebody who isn't super in the loop about VR headsets, is this $1500 headset 3.75x better than the $400 one? Why or why not?
Yay! More motion sickness with prolonged use. This needs to be ironed out.
What you are seeing is a change in culture.

X11 was very much a "everything is a work-in-progress" culture. Experiments were fine, clients and servers could support whatever they wanted, etc, etc.

Wayland is an "opinionated" culture. Everything the core devs don't like is not allowed.

Everything HAS to fit into the "every frame is perfect" mantra. Which is ridiculous over-engineering and disallows a large number of perfectly acceptable (to end users) use-cases.
>But don't pretend like diversity isn't sorely needed in the industry

Diversity on most commonly selected metrics barely does a thing as far as empirical evidence goes.

The metrics that really matter aren't actively selected for. At best they are a byproduct. More often than not, the teams willing to be open about hiring gain their benefits over being open and cooperative rather than their diversity hires magically boosting things.

But by all means, let's continue to be reductionist by stereotyping 'le weird white young male' group.
I guess MS should just pick people to hire in a lottery then.
Meta will need cheap headsets to get adoption of their platform.

I reckon the Pro has a healthy margin and will targets companies. They will use Accenture and peddle the Microsoft suite VR to sell tens of thousands of these to companies for remote work, and most of them will barely be used .

Meta can stem the losses of the VR division, and a Quest 3 will come in a while.
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I like it. It's somewhat reminiscent of this one we used to use called Pine :) I think sourcehut guy made this, right?

edit: yep sourcehut guy. they also made this cool guide here: https://git-send-email.io/
The post doesn’t suggest there’s any mandated quota for hiring or promotion—only for interviews or consideration. And it doesn’t suggest any secrecy about this policy.
> Having two IRs (or even having a 1st-stage IR for each frontend language) sounds like something that a compiler project would want to avoid in the long term

Can you please share the reason behind why it should be this way ?
You can indeed implement a very simple message broker with a WebSocket server.

I would however use STOMP or MQTT over WebSocket with existing messages brokers so you don't reimplement the wheel.

I did reimplement the wheel many years ago and nowadays I prefer to use RabbitMQ or Mosquitto (over WebSocket).
Not wanting to do X or Y can be perceived as lazy (I consider myself lazy).
Well, Nvidia has only about 18% of the whole GPU market [1] share but around 76% of the gaming market share on Steam.

I'd be very surprised if gaming didn't represented the majority of Nvidia's revenue of selling GPUs.

[1] https://webtribunal.net/blog/gpu-market-share/

[2] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
Why do you suppose that a non-broken recruiting pipeline would result in more diverse candidates? Do you really think all candidate pools in all professions, and in all locations, are as diverse as the population at all times?
It is not a proprietary cable. It is a 5 meter long USB-C cable capable of 3A (it doesn't say the wattage, but Quest 2 uses QC 3.0 which is 18W) which does 5gbps data as well. It is an active fiber optic cable which is necessary because the USB 3.1 gen 1 (5gbps) spec doesn't allow for passive cables over 2 meters.

* https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/USB%20Type-C%20Spec%...