skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The top moderator was changed at the request if stability to someone they had more trust in (but was still a community member and not an employee), and then they convinced that person to transfer. That person identified themselves as a minor.

I wonder if Stability fucked up by using a minor in this case. They seem to still view Stability in high regard, mostly it seems because they are hoping for future gain from the relationship, but I doubt they'll feel that way forever. Probably they won't feel that way for much longer given Stability's heavy handed approach. It might be a lot easier to reverse some of this once it's made obvious they took advantage of a minor.
it's there: deliberate management manipulation of the candidate pool

In which direction was the manipulation? How do you prove that the pool manipulation was neutral before and is now favouring blacks, rather than it was disadvantaging blacks and has now moved to a more neutral postion?

"has existed for a long time" is just an appeal to tradition. It says nothing about the validity or correctness of the previous situation.
Just because the enduser doesn't see the data anymore, doesn't mean the company doesn't have/use them anymore.
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You really think a username obsfuscates your behaviour at 60 frames per second?
Not at all. Carmack does these each year at Connect, and they're always fairly bespoke to the things that Meta are working on and just announced
> “I’m a person who doesn’t drink alcohol.”

This is very interesting. I have gradually become this person because I don't tolerate alcohol well anymore and it doesn't bother me to say this to myself or anyone else. Yet on the other hand, I have someone very close to me, who experiences incredible anxiety when embracing the identity of being a non-drinker. The way it was put to me was "Everyone will know I have a problem with alcohol and it makes me ashamed and self conscious".

And yet, my experience is that no one ever asks why I don't drink or even care and they still like being around me.
My guess is because of height variance, crouching, misaligned floors, difficulty doing IK in a lifelike way given all those.
Maybe they couldn't figure out how to stop the legs from flailing around and obscuring his face.
The thing that bewilders me is that this has already been done with stuff like VRChat, but FB seems to think they can come along with a weird sanitized corporate version of the same thing that doesn't do anything at all new and actually attract users?
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I don't know how many seconds passed (of course it felt like a half of eternity), but by the time I re-learned how to breathe the car was already calling the emergency services.
Just to add one more to the conversation: I have found "FancyWM" to be a real productivity booster. For some reason it is pretty unknown, though.
I've had one at home for over 25 years. (Currently, I have to pay extra for a business cable connection, however!)
Email sign-ups in front of technical content = modern day Class discrimination
Ever try and find out how that thing works, or start exploring a field to see if you have interest only to be confronted by the modern day Class gate? Asking you, or some 12 year old kid what your email is. We can put in our corporate email, we're privileged, or like me you can always use test@ibm.com but does that 12 year old know that? Why are we (mostly you more technical) okay with this gatekeeping, denying self-taught people and forcing them to fake something if they want access? They're not good enough as they are and we don't care. I don't know, can we do better?
This would be a good case for anonymizing resumes in the interview process. I'm not sure why that wasn't considered over setting minimum representation requirements. An easy way to eliminate discrimination is to make it impossible to discriminate between protected classes.
> Everyone knows that's a goddamn lie. I almost want to cry when I read that

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him."

Racism is anti-racist. Objective thinking is biased. Burning down cities is mostly peaceful protest.
So you don’t use either iOS or Android? Those both have ads in the OS.
> one kernel dev has a side hobby trying to block openzfs

Can you elaborate?
I tried “ask apple”

It’s called using the forums.

They reply once in a blue moon and never follow up on bugs.
Do you really think you could use a tool that is, by its own admission, expressly designed for collaborative experiences without giving up your implicit identity?

The answer, by the way, is no. Facebook has had highly-accurate "shadow profiles" for people who do not use their service for over a decade.

Having a basic interaction graph, geo-location data, and being in the income band able to afford a $1500 headset begins to narrow down people a lot faster than you think. Not to mention the headset is technically capable of gathering skin tone (easily mapped by the hand recognition), IP address, height, and even performing facial recognition.

Using a fake username achieves nothing. Unless you use it for sideloaded, offline, single player games and nothing else - at which point, the pro headset doesn't really make sense.
if you're using pi-hole, you can actually do all of this within the admin panel itself. they added Local DNS a couple releases ago.
Why? Kotlin and Swift are easy to learn and don’t require a special library and interop that needs to be updated with every new version of the SDK.
D doesn't actually have string types, either, what it does have is `string` is just an alias for:

const(char)[]

meaning you can treat it like any other array.
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It's Texas, where oil industry runs everything.
I'm wondering how this is any better than video. Sure, if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail but still.
> I almost want to cry when I read that - it makes me so angry.

I understand this feeling. It’s because they do not at all want you to bring your authentic self. By definition, all this culture stuff is teach you who you should be at work. That’s ok. You have to run a company and you need a certain culture to do that (or at least you think you do). Fine. It’s your company. Discriminate against who you have to successfully run your business in the current cultural climate. But when you blatantly lie to my face about it and tell me to bring my authentic self, it infuriates me because I know that’s precisely what you DONT want.
I’m not sure I agree with your final conclusion while cities like Flint and Detroit exist.
When I was in college, there was some surveys that evaluates the professors, by the students, in order to provide aggregated feedback and points for improvement.

As one professor put it to us: “it’s pointless, the people that use it as feedback to improve are already good teachers because are using other ways to get better; and the ones that just ignore the surveys doesn’t care about any other way of improving. So the exercise is irrelevant”

I think management is the same, good managers take frequent opportunities to give feedback, manage, and care for their managees, and fill a form that it’s already redundant. Bad managers fill a form once a year and ignore it the rest of the year.

But, hey, we have a form that’s mostly ignored by everyone.
So we have the Carmack fans rushing in to hear his masters voice as a floating virtual avatar in the metaverse. But I thought they weren't interested in the whole thing because of the 'Meta is dying' narrative? [0]

So far it looks like despite the so-called 'chaos' reported by the media about Meta, he is still bullish on both AR and VR at the company.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33087535
I don't agree about guns and finance (it's not right to let peole easily acquire guns or trivially circumvent financial fraud regulations), but I do agree about KYC for a phone being overboard. Excessive phone tracking is already a huge thing at every level around the world, right now, today. iPhone and Android both send so much info back to the mothership, it is mind boggling.

p.s. what country is this instance taking place in? Looks like it's in the Philippines.
Both of those classes are actually illegal to ask about(in Canada at least but probably many nations, so unless the candidate volunteers this information (almost certainly not). Who knows how one could know to reverse discriminate themselves.

The more pain (and hence unlikely to see the light of day) would be companies chipping into a educational fund to support impoverished individuals who would need added education to make it into positions where they can support themselves and break the difficult to climb wealth ladder.

He'll, even the location of on-site jobs can be considered discrimination. All our candidates must attend interviews at our offices in NY, SF, London, or Seattle. All others can spend their own bucks to travel here for the hope that we'll hire you .
This is so massively wrong I don't even know where to begin.
> Parent comment literally said "D&I should be rejected outright"

Nope, they didn't. A direct quote: "If D&I is operating at the wrong end of the pipe, it should be rejected outright because it won't work". Note the "If". If you disagree that D&I wouldn't work under these conditions, or that stuff that doesn't work should be rejected as pointless, you're still welcome to make that argument. But please be careful not to misquote other users' comments.
Exactly. I don't think it would be too difficult to do a little editing and end up with much more natural sounding speech from both of them.
Yeah, it's very tricky. I don't think the IRS / government was prepared for how complex the future would be.

Like #1, turning down a ride or job you don't want could eject you from the platform. It's seems to imply "telling you where / when to work". Does that count? I'd say so, but IANAL.

Like #5, they provide hired support for issues, and I would argue (IANAL) that engineers making the app are assisting the worker.

Overall I think the fact their business can't exist without the drivers means they should be classified as something other than gig workers. What that is, I don't know.

It sounds like we need something new to handle this.

To your other anecdote though, don't underestimate the impact of the massive spending these companies engage in to push propaganda to their gig workers. There's propaganda on both sides for sure.

Ultimately I would say most gig workers don't realize their exploitation until it's too late (health issues, car maintenance, etc.).
Reminds me of Elon Musk. I think it's a new category where a handful of people announce vapourware and billions flood in to back it with money but none of it exists in reality.
Depends on the system in "systemic". I wouldn't dare argue too much about the U.S. but if you applied the same standards globally?... Well, "whites" aren't looking so oppressive on an individual scale, and on a national scale the "white" countries most oppressive aren't long for being viewed as "white" within a generation or two, regardless of how often "great replacement" conspiracy theories are debunked. See the ever-expanding definition of "white" in order to maintain the illusion.
> His team found substantial subsidence in Katy, Spring, The Woodlands, Fresno and Mont Belvieu with groundwater and oil and gas withdrawal identified as the primary cause.

I lived in Spring for 13 years. In the last 2-3 years in the house, the foundation issues seemed to be accelerating. I assumed it was just old house issues (house was built in the last 1970s) but perhaps subsidence plays a role.
That doesn’t match my experience. I know that’s not very objective, but that’s the best I can give you here.

Just putting on a VR headset, makes my head sweaty within a minute or two, even when I’m just sitting down and doing nothing strenuous. Just different biology I guess I generally don’t like wearing hats for the same reason, it makes my head and hair, sweaty.

Speaking of hats, I generally don’t like wearing construction hard hats either, because it makes my neck sore at the end of the day. And that’s just having a little bit of balanced weight on the top of my head. Balancing isn’t the issue, it’s a higher center of gravity, especially when you rotate the head as you are prone to do in VR.

Nausea I get consistently, no matter what I am doing. Even if stationary, any bit of lag can cause nausea. I can’t imagine doing development work and not causing the machine to lag a little bit here and there, when I run a test, suite or something. Thankfully for me, it’s only mild, but if I were to do this, all day would be a large impact on quality of life. I don’t wanna spend half my day mildly nauseous.

And all of this only so that I don’t have to have a couple of high resolution monitors on my desk? I just really don’t get it. It’s a solution in search of a problem.
All Brahmin, members at the top of a caste system established by British colonizers[1]. A system causing its own set of problems in Silicon Valley[2].

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48619734

2. https://slate.com/technology/2022/07/caste-silicon-valley-th...
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Anecdotally, the biggest piece of advice when I mentor friends in the earlier stages of their career is to fake it till they make it, as no one has the answers to anything and in this field everything is learnable given enough time and research.

Surely enough, men seem to take the advice to heart much more, with women questioning their abilities and feeling something morally off about the advice.

I have no suggestions on how this gets fixed; there's evidently something wrong in hiring when young people need to "fake" their credentials and still do very well while people who to try to be honest and humble but of objectively similar performance get rejected.

Hiring and performance in our field is still very much in the pre-science stage where we mostly do with ancient incantations and magical beliefs and vibes.
This is neat. I remember learning some Lua in order to write some custom Redis functions, and I was blown away by how handy of a language it can be. The indexing definitely tricked me a few times though.
> the memory-unsafety of those programs

How do you know they are unsafe? Have they been audited and memory un-safety been found? I don't understand why the Rust community automatically assumes there are always memory safety issues with C, for example. I get that it's possible to write unsafe programs in C, but not all programs are automatically unsafe just because they are written in C.

I need to do more research, because I don't actually trust that just writing a program in Rust will result in total memory safety, so these are actually questions I want answers to, not just me trying to attack Rust or anything. Thanks!
I've just finished an internship this summer, I'd say the #1 thing that makes you stand out is some kind of personal project in something you're interested in -- beyond the usual tutorial crud app.

Every company I interviewed with said it was the thing that stood out the most about my CV, and it gives you an interesting subject to talk about in interviews.
He's the first author listed on this paper, too.

It's the reason he took a hiatus from filming, because he discovered this and had to write it into a paper rather than just talking about it on Youtube.
> So you will have mostly a group of 20 year olds, who are willing to answer a lot of questions. It doesn't matter how big the pot is, thats not a random sample of society.

Is that all? That doesn't make it "incredibly" biased.

I mean, looking at your example of "black women being the least desirable on OkCupid", it's easy enough to check if it applies only to 20 year olds who are willing to answer lots of questions or if that correlation actually exists outside of that group[1].

Your way, of simply dismissing it instead of regarding it as a data point that can be further investigated is the opposite of science.

[1] OkCupid certainly had the data, and on one of the blogs I recall seeing their distribution of ages, and it was not dominated by the 20-30 age group, even if they were a majority. It would have been easy for OkCupid to redo that desirability analysis for particular age groups.
They changed all the user facing docs to "server" a while back. Internally the code might still say "guild", but officially they've embraced calling them servers.
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While this "metaverse" thing is worse than some "crypto NFT AR" scams I do appreciate that Facebook invest into VR R&D heavily and hopefully at some point in future some other company will benefit off their investment. I guess it's great they give funding to people like John Carmack instead of spending these money on lobbying another anti-consumer garbage.
As someone with a physics background does this sound right?

From the article:

According to Einstein’s general relativity, the information content of a black hole or any three-dimensional space — your living room, say, or the whole universe — was limited to the number of bits that could be encoded on an imaginary surface surrounding it.

I thought this was more according to the Bekenstein bound than GR.
Who’s talking about -30C? I’m talking about 32F, or 0C. I’ve yet to be impressed by a heat pump once the temperature gets at or especially below freezing.

Geothermal heat pumps are great but at least in the US they are wildly expensive compared to traditional ones. You either need a large lot for horizontal laying of the pipe or a DEEP hole if going vertical ($$$). Plus they’re uncommon enough that contractors are happy to charge a serious premium.
"A single person cannot be diverse or not diverse."

There's a manager/HR somewhere saying "hold my beer"...
Job tenure at each : ~12 months. This is blog spam and I flagged it as such.
I completely agree, this absolutely horrendous for a visual presentation. A wii like character, no proper lighting, floating with no legs and the subtle fidget moving of the limbs, lack of facial expression and flapping mouth that hardly mimics the sound. What did facebook spend all their money on?

I'd rather see video or even a still picture of Carmack than this monstrosity.
During the press conference [1], they stated that there was a variety of models that depended on the physical properties of Dimorphos, which were not well known.

The estimated range by which the orbital period would be shortened was between "a few minutes and several tens of minutes" and that 32 minutes is "consistent with the estimates but at the upper end of that range".

They also showed a pretty fresh Hubble image of debris plumes from this past Saturday and mentioned that teams are working to use the data and imagery to better understand the composition of Dimorphos.

[1] Discussion starts around 11:25 in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhzn0U2m5wQ&t=685s
> You haven't had decades to talk about this either because weed was only legalized a couple years ago.

Marijuana has been legal for almost a decade. When asking people who have lived here their entire lives when did the thing start to change, many have said when it was legalized things started to change for the worse. Not that it changed overnight, but it was a noticeable difference in the quality of life, and decreased since that point in time.

>I'm not trying to be glib but it sounds like you agree with everything I said. You haven't looked at any studies and have based your opinion on conversations you've had with people around you.
> You claim that people are stupid and don't look at studies but that includes you by your own admission. If you're ok with that I guess that's fine but I would think you'd try to do something about it.

I disagree with much of it and you are misunderstanding the point I was trying to make, I feel like I did a poor job explaining it but it's not a big deal. Appreciate the back and forth.
You cannot get a 16” 1600p @ 120hz laptop for anything less than double the cost of that $700 model.

The specs are very specific to gaming, and anything similar (1440p@120hz) will include the cost of the hardware required for local gaming.
This is the worse than the corporate dystopia I imagined back in the 90s.
In large corporations promotions are frequently way more a product of “playing the game” than of doing work that’s related with your work. It makes a tiny bit of sense from the point of view that sometimes promotions involve developing a network of contacts and knowing how to use it. But only a tiny bit…

In small companies, promotions are very very rare, as the organisation doesn’t have a big structure.

Also, “objective criteria” is, at least in my experience, pretty nebulous, which make it quite subjective in practice
$1500 is nothing if it makes remote collaboration competitive with IRL collaboration.
Yea, I actually found the avatar in the video was worse than just audio. It was just enough motion to distract my eye, while being pretty valueless in terms of communicating anything.

I ended up listening in the background, but opened up a new blank tab to hide the motion.
- Games fade, VR has a user interface problem: it's just so hard to find the VR replacement of the simple old computer keyboard in terms of communication bandwidth speed and latency.

- Movement in VR causes nausea, the entire visual field is just never meant to move like that. So static-position videos and photos will be the most comfortable , pleasant experience

I think everything else in VR including complicated controllers are gimmicks, in the same way that most people don't use the most advanced apps in their phones , but instead use instagram
> Basically currying is only useful in Haskell.

This seems like a weird take. Currying was a completely natural thing to do in SML for example, why would it only be "useful" in Haskell ?

I agree that currying isn't likely to be the solution to any problem you have in say, Rust or Java. But "only useful in Haskell" jumped out as a weird claim.
I’m seeing a lot of R&D solely focused on giving them the chance to extract rent through future silly things like buying artificially scarce houses in fbs metaverse. I’m barely seeing any “giving back” type research like AT&T created with their research in the internet.
> Perhaps there’s a way to host my website at home, but have the static bits served by Cloudflare if the Raspberry Pi isn’t available (using a global CDN as a UPS), and the dynamic bits always visit my home – but there’s a graceful “come back later” message if the Pi is down?

I feel like this is what IPFS and similar are made for. I could see a home user appliance configured with something like that, plug it in and your site is up, unplug it and it was replicated to other opt-in hosts.
I've never been so excited for a desk
It’s actually unsettling to me how committed they are to such garbage.

I’m hoping this is just an expensive example of the Sunk Cost Fallacy because otherwise it’s perplexing and eerie.
The audio latency is better. You're not sending or receiving HD video so your connection is less loaded and the audio doesn't ever have to be delayed to synchronize with video. And VR devices are better optimized for low latency than your average system. Visual cues for turn taking while speaking work better, as you mentioned. Spatial audio is awesome for locating speakers and differentiating multiple speakers at once. Hand gestures work better; you can actually point at things in a shared 3D space.
95% stored energy by what measurement? See my other comment. It is not accessible to everyone, nor can it be made accessible to everyone, and the current storage capacity is a marginal fraction of what we actually use. It's a short term load balancing tool that operates within a small energy window.