skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't watch Fox news.

New Hampshire school district says it will not disclose to parents if their kids come out as trans at school and will lie to them if need be.
https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/school-di...

California school plans how to mislead parents and scolds parents for using wrong pronouns
https://kmph.com/amp/news/local/mom-scolds-california-school...

I could go on and on with these.

I'm pro gay marriage and want trans people to be able to transition if they want. What I have no interest in is anyone presenting either as an acceptable option to my kids. If they end up gay, so be it ill love them the same but no one should be putting those thoughts in their heads.

I'm white but also a jew, as I said in another comment, I have had stones thrown at me as a kid for it. I would never want my coworkers to have to take classes on anti semitism because it assumes they are potential anti semites. That is insulting. I have had calm informative conversations over beers with open anti semites, I'm fine. It did not bother me in the least because I'm not fragile. People are entitled to their opinions, right or wrong.

Every one is entitled to live their lives and raise their kids as they see fit barring some rigidly defined abuse. Parents not some teacher making 35k a year are the ultimate decider in kids lives; to push for anything else is insane and gives government and random people with teaching certificates an unholy amount of power. You seem to want to police people's minds and demand that every one adhere to your world view or they are terrible people. Most people just want to live their lives and be left alone. We don't care about movements or reparations for things we had nothing to do with. Raise your kids how you want and everyone else can do the same.

This is not Iran, we don't need a morality police. America is and will continue to be the greatest country on earth because of individual freedom and our at least historical ability to agree to disagree with each other.
Number Three Has to Work Hard in the Cloud
Between airports, long distances, on well-known routes. That is a very different problem than autonomous air taxis.

(And it's not like autopilot is full automation. You still need a pilot.)
I'm arguing that belonging to a majority does not place implicit responsibilities on people. Wanting to associate with culturally similar people is a natural human behaviour, not something to be ashamed of.

You seem to be arguing that we should force people to deny this quite natural impulse in order to make minorities more comfortable. Seems pretty toxic/controlling to me. Let people be.
You are begging the question, I don't believe eliminating private schooling harms anyone, nor will it "pull people down."

Inequity in schooling is already harming others.
https://capyloon.org/

Capyloon for freedom, runs most anywhere ( Desktop too )

It runs FirefoxOS apps.

Runs on top of Android on any phone as a GSI.

Comes with a SDK out of the box

Pragmaticly free in that it runs anywhere
Dare I ask, in the title, what is meant by the word "it". The word is used four times. However the meaning does not seem consistent across each usage.
So we should be thankful to reckless billionaires for commanding the lives of millions in what we often call 'democracies'?
> That's an absolute difference of 2.7%. Again, 100% random data.

I think I get what you're going for here -- you're trying to simulate a coin flip? -- but what you've actually done is made successive draws from a uniform random number generator. The software is designed to return numbers that fall along the interval [0,1) with equal probability. Thresholding the numbers and dividing their counts is not a meaningful transformation; the result is still just a uniformly distributed random number. It's like...the ratio of heads in two identical, unfair coins or something.

If all "random numbers" were uniform like this, then no, we wouldn't expect an X% difference to be any more or less likely based on the magnitude of the underlying sample. But when we're talking about something like a a population mean, then the behavior of the errors on estimates is very different indeed, and most estimates cluster around the true (aka population) value:

https://online.stat.psu.edu/stat415/lesson/9/9.4

As the sample size for an experiment of this sort gets larger, the bell curve of expected errors gets sharper and sharper, and it becomes increasingly less likely to see errors >= X, for any value X. In the limit of large N, the distribution of sample errors around a known mean approach a normal distribution:

https://www.jmp.com/en_us/statistics-knowledge-portal/t-test...

For what it's worth, the expected proportion of N heads in M coin flips is modeled using the binomial distribution, which is also bell-shaped and illustrates the same idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution
And summarily laying-off senior GCP support engineers to save a buck.

GCP is what would happen if npm js developers assembled an *aaS stack.

I work at MegaCorp™ and we wouldn't touch GCP with a grounded fiberglass pole.
... and developers don't care if users like new tabs, they write SPAs.
a dependency change is no longer an author's problem when they have pinned down versions.
There's work being done on incorporating paraffins and other such materials into walls, so that they go through a phase change close to room temperature. That way they act like heat mass, but without all the weight: https://www.doityourself.com/stry/phasechangedrywall
GTA might be a bad example here. GTA Online sells cash cards via Steam and I'd imagine that makes up a large % of overall cash card sales
This actually seems like a rational move. Whether or not these eastern (mostly Russian-speaking) provinces of Ukraine remain under the control of Kyiv or Moscow is really not something worth starting World War III over. The world should really be pressuring for direct talks between the American and Russian governments at this point (it is a proxy war, after all), to bring an immediate end to the conflict. Yes, that would mean Russia retaining control of those eastern provinces.

If you see this as unbearably shocking and a violation of national sovereignity, well, there's that wedge of Kurdish Syria still under the control of the US military, so let's just bring an end to this debacle and not be hypocrites about it. If it makes people feel better, note that Russia's economic relationships with Europe are basically permanently damaged at this point, so they won't really be 'winners' either.
You can also run multiple haproxies with identical config. One machine goes down? Your existing proxies still balance load to jobs.
You dump jQuery today because it's an unnecessary addition to your software stack if you don't need to support older browsers. And because jQuery supports so many browsers (especially IE) it's also fairly large.

I prefer using jQuery over the DOM interface because it's well ahead of the browsers, and you completely avoid bugs where you might implement something that's supported in Chrome but will be supported in the next version of Firefox, but you're running Firefox Nightly locally so it appears to work for you. But jQuery's big mistake, IMO was insisting on retaining support for older browsers.

If jQuery had created a jQuery.next or something like that, which dropped support for non modern browsers and focused on ensuring a common interface to the latest browsers and monkey-patching missing features into browsers which don't have them yet, I think it would continue to be popular with a significant developer base.
Clearly not, in the context of this discussion. No city is better off by eviscerated its tax base.
This shows up as a blank page in firefox with ad blocking. Interestingly, it is readable with Lynx. It seems to be about Streak which is some kind of gmail automation gizmo. But the saying is that if your business depends on a platform, you don't have a business.
i bet they still are mostly hardwired.

gaming companies don't generally do their primary development on wifi. not the rule, some people will, but most people aren't making halflife alyx on a macbook.
While I don't think I want to delve too into the matter, arguably, the Federal Reserve NOT holding more control over the amount of money flooding into the system through repeated rehypothecation of securities as the roaring 20s saw banks and brokerages happy to loan out more and more money had a lot to do with its occurrence in the first place. Prior to the Securities Act of 1933, and later Regulations T, U, and X (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_T), brokerages and banks had a lot more leeway in determining their own reserves. Which ultimately, particularly in a booming securities market, means that they were largely unregulated when it came to raising the total amount of money in circulation at least in nominal terms. The aforementioned regulations took great strides in curtailing this excessive power and brought margin rates and reserve requirements under the domain of the Federal Reserve as tools for manipulating the cost and flow of money toward serving their dual mandate.

If there is a particular institution that is exacerbating the peaks and troughs of the business cycle, it is credit itself. Going back a few centuries, in Europe anyway, the usury laws used to forbid (Christians anyway) from lending money at interest, being seen as effectively a form of theft (think of laws limiting loan sharks now). The business cycle is tied right back to the credit cycle (to the extent that the words are used almost interchangeably), and if you remove the existence of credit, you remove much of the boom and bust cycle that goes with it. This said, it's worth determining if this is REALLY what you want, as prior to the availability of credit, the ability to start businesses and innovate was significantly reduced, and generally, only available to the particularly wealthy.

Central banking was just a means of trying to bring some order to the chaos that all of this credit flowing around was having. Sometimes it seems to work well; other times, it feels like the cure may be worse than the disease. Either way, it's worth knowing about the beast its there to attempt to cage.
11% Brexit
You’ve got it backward. European courts have been more respectful of the democratic process when it comes to social laws than Republican-majority Supreme Courts in the US. 5 of the 7 Justices in the Roe majority were Republicans.
Maybe they had that many people they couldn't see worth their cost ($ and/or headache).

Laying off people is a lit easier than firing them.
Crypto-First Architecture
> Super heroes only work if the rules of their fictional universe are believable enough that suspension of disbelief can work.

Not really. Perhaps that was true in 2008 when the MCU started, but as the years go on, it gets less and less serious, yet continues to rake in more and more money. Turns out, people just like big action set pieces with large CGI budgets. Compare that to a movie like The Northman which is all about the hero's journey yet was a commercial failure, in part because it wasn't flashy enough to capture the general public's attention.

People are more simple-minded than you give them credit for.
Ask HN: How are you, a dev/programmer, preparing for the probable recession?
How are you preparing mentally, financially and otherwise? How are you dealing with the anxiety of ever increasing news about lay offs and rescinded offers? What can very senior Devs do to remain relevant and sane? What else?
But, But, But --- blockchain is super duper secure.

Maybe so but DeFi does not live by blockchain alone. The surrounding crypto infrastructure is a security nightmare waiting to happen --- oh wait, I think it just did --- and this is just the latest in a string of such happenings.

Use at your own risk.
There was a study some time back where they set folks up in groups, then had them listen and vote on bands / music.

Each group trended towards catapulting a single band / musician, but it always just depended on which one in the group got the momentum first.

I wish I could find the study again but it's hard to google for.

Pretty eye opening.
Haven't found any hotkeys, but for mouse-based it's nice and simple. My favorite is still Spectacle for MacOS, haven't found a perfect equivalent for Windows yet.
So...I'll save on energy by turning my walls into candles. Interesting.
Side topic, but why does something relatively respectable like Quanta Magazine need a reading progress bar? These odd decisions truly amaze me sometimes.
Who wants to build a better dating website? Free and open source without any bots run by donations. Dating website is a human right. People are lonely and this dating websites are taking advantage of the situation.
Every paper Albert Einstein submitted to anonymous peer review was rejected.

(he had only one peer anonymous reviewed paper and it had an error)
https://lapce.dev/ is looking better every time I check
It's not left or right ideologies but CEO and their desire to be in good standing in social media. During early 2010s, there was whole barrage of books and editorial on income gap, gender gap and biases. News channels regularly picked up authors and circulated them on and on. Talk shows need someone to talk with and what could be better than these topics to energize audience to argue? This built-up a lot of resentment of being exploited and left behind in "diverse" group over short span of years which eventually exploded into me-too movement. During those days, a CEO will go out and post on Twitter how they cared about diversity and going all-in by tying the diversity targets with bonuses. Then if the next CEO doesn't do the same then they obviously looked upon as anti-diversity/racists. So, this whole thing cascaded into all big tech CEOs lining up to setup artificial diversity targets and that's where we are now. No one really cared that pipeline to funnel diversity in tech was broken at the start.
it is not, almost all big employers happily announce that they are Affirmative Action employers and this provides shield for their actions
Yes please - let people make their own decisions. Why this list but not height or hair colour or beauty or sexual orientation or any one of 1000 traits that people have little to no control over? Do you think the last 50 years of identity-driven public policy have served to unify or divide Americans?

Also "race" isn't really a "thing", so what does it mean in the context of this law?
It takes money to run a business and pay 300-400 people every week. There is no obvious reason to value it at 300x earnings.
I think you’re doing the math wrong.

The question isn’t if your business can afford to spend $125/mo on VR headset for every employee (I’d even amortize that over 2-3 years to $42-62/mo).

The question is — does the employer get more than $125/mo of benefit out of the VR solution — for every employee that needs to attend meetings. Because this only works if everyone in a meeting has a headset. And you’re only going to see $CORP buying these headsets if they get more benefit out of them than they cost.

Buying a ten seat license for Zoom Pro is an easy thing to approve. The laptop/computer required for a zoom meeting (as you pointed out) is already a sunk cost. Buying $15k of VR gear to have that same 10-person meeting is a much tougher pill to swallow.

For some small teams, I could see this absolutely making sense. But Facebook needs to sell this to large enterprises to have the transformational impact they are looking for.
Every company is now blaming the “macro environment” for poor strategic business decisions.

Meanwhile unemployment is still at an all time low.
Citation please, I want to see these wokesters with family ties to the klan.
Any good ML post recommendations? I've found 9 out 10 people write the same thing and it is superficial once you start building your own DNN. The Annotated transformer out of Harvard is better.

This could probably be really well done with tensorflow.js
Daycare helps poor children, harmful to middle class and up, worse for boys
Many are sick of waiting.
This is a much better rule of thumb IMO.

I actually have been a proponent of replacing a bunch of buttons with links at a previous workplace, using the middle click as an argument in favor.

Sibling comments seem to misunderstand a frontend development a little. I’ve replaced quite a few dialog modals with pages (in a single page app), and it is usually because a backend developer (or a well meaning intern) thought they could implement the feature on their own (or more likely a project manager told them to), and simply didn’t known about the usability issues with this. Most front end developers I know deal with the same stuff in their workplace.
Do Google’s chat apps support XMPP? Would it help iMessage connect to Android’s chat(s)?
Can anyone share their workflows and setups of how they use software like this? I have several computers of different kinds mostly local but potentially remote. I’ve never done anything more than ssh/mosh/screen. How do people use these types of screen/app sharing systems?
Returning/navigating back absolutely takes you back exactly where you were. It’s broken because the whole page is now being rendered in js and that forces a re-render. SPA misuse has ruined web to the extent we’ve forgotten what it was like to have proper navigation before all the history hijacking and complete rerendering jazz.
It should be illegal. Why do you think it shouldn't be?
I work in mining, as long as the price of gold and iron stays relatively good, I'm not too phased.
Sure it works. It just doesn't work for Facebook, which is on Failure #3 now.
Here's an intro to VRchat by some VR natives.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UBmmpt5iJ8
I use it to generate fun lists, like names of trucks. It's really interesting all the knowledge in this thing. I hope I didn't "expose" the existence of the Toyota Tundra!
Reverse Engineering a GPU from 2009
Just to add more to the siblings. Research is inherently social. In a small field you can even guess the reviewers. Sometimes there is the "oh yeah that professor talks like that. It's definitely her writing me this review" moment, and reviews are supposed to be anonymous at least in most of the venues. Unfortunately the social dynamics and trust in some cases extend too far -- many sloppy research get published due to trust or favoritism. Double-blind makes this a bit better, but beyond this, at a certain point you will be changing what research is about from a social enterprise to something much more result oriented.
The claim is that compared to jobs with similar training requirements and similar job demands.

Comparing to all occupations is a useless comparison if you want to stay on topic. There should be no need to repeat the entire context of the conversation. That's your responsibility as the reader.
https://www.droid-life.com/2021/04/08/apple-android-imessage...

> the #1 most difficult [reason] to leave the Apple universe app is iMessage. . . iMessage amounts to serious lock-in,” Schiller commented that “moving iMessage to Android will hurt us more than help us, this email illustrates why.”

They know it's lock-in, and won't be fixing it any time soon.

Granted, moving to Whatsapp would resolve this but then you're using a Meta product.
right words, but it is not what's happening in real world in hiring
if pc gta made any significant chunk of their revenue it would get its own standalone launcher and marketplace. they have thousands of developers
I really don't think it's that big of a deal compared to other things. JS based animations and scroll effects were the real issue. Now that CSS supports these things with GPU acceleration. React DOM changes are usually pretty insignificant unless something has gone wrong and gets stuck in some kind of loop.
It's not possible in Rust. Yes, you can write a macro for it or use the existing one, but now you get all the disadvantages of macros.

For instance, you cannot (to my knowledge) manipulate a macro with another macro. You can't use a macro and feed it with the format macro to get another macro. With types you can do that (obviously).
That accent is too cute to be a tilde.
Took two whole years to arrive according to PCGAMER, appearing online for preorder in June last year
No business sense? Probably a software "engineer" in charge wanting to be the next Steve Jobs.
I was really confused because when I last looked at academic job postings it was in Medieval Studies.

“Jobseekers with Anglo-Saxon” means “candidates who speak Anglo-Saxon.”

And I’m like “I thought that was just a medieval studies thing, but I guess the older languages really do help …”
"Doctors are PUZZLED by this simple trick to land women in FAANG."
It never changes until it does. And eventually it will. Just be ready for it to change if anything you count on relies on it. I know this from experience (and far more than just mine).

P.S. - I pay for a static IP from my ISP. Don't count on that never changing either. I know this from experience.
The website is interesting, fun to discover what is around. All served by "index.php"!

Some on-the-nose comics/art: http://vijemiller.com/index.php?t=Politicks
He says he didn't use the new face tracking because it glitches out too much, so it was using the old auto generated face expressions. Big WTF.
> So your argument that math were a "different realm" with no connection to reality

This straw man was not my argument. My argument is that circles only exist mathematically.
While it can be quite difficult to disentangle it from political biases and bad-faith arguments, there is evidence the possibility of men to "win big" in evolutionary terms by having a large number of children has led to males being prone to more extremes of both behavior and aptitude than females. That is to say, while men and women average out the same, you'll find more men at both the top and the bottom of many measurements. More geniuses and more fools, more heroes and more villains, more big winners and more terminal losers. Though to be perfectly honest, the field is so riddled with people with an axe to grind I suspect it may be decades before we know anything definitive on the subject.
Why does the web need half the chaff it has these days? That's why I love YComb, it's a simple text site.
Marketing ruined the Internet.
Yea, if you look at the benefits for those laid-off, it's pretty supportive (at least from my American experience). They are paying at least 2 months severance, you keep your hardware, you get 6 months healthcare, and they weren't dicks about doing this. I would say this is better than most recent layoff announcements and the fact that they even state that they will re-hire anyone later on as a priority shows that they aren't trying to blame "low performers" or something, it's just some colleagues that they can't keep on right now due to business reasons.

Now, maybe their business reasons are dues to their own ineptness or bad luck or whatever, but they handled this pretty well.

I say this all because we tend, on HN and other places, to focus on the shitty aspects of every bad news story, and rarely speak up when something goes right that is still shitty, like this.
Less useful if you can’t generate a mask per a signup form.
This! This era is nostalgic for me and I am convinced we've only downgraded down from the handiness and thoughtfulness of the tools we used back then.
There's a list on Wikipedia[1], not sure if it's complete; the company behind KaiOS has a list of devices too [2]. Important ones include the JioPhone, which was part of Jio's large push into the mobile market in India. There's also a nostalgic Nokia 8110 4G (Banana Phone); there's even some with modems appropriate for the US market.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS#Devices
[2] https://www.kaiostech.com/explore/devices/
I just learned about using this tag in github comments for hiding full tracebacks or large code blocks and it is such a usability game changer.