skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Green and red on the map color as keys is probably not the best choice of colors to choose.
I'm sorry, but this is completely wrong.

In 2021, 9% of computer science graduates were black (1). 18% were women (2). These numbers are the ceiling of what you might expect for a senior pipeline, since women attrit at a higher rate than men (3).

In a typical senior hiring pipeline for a Microsoft-scale company, while you'll have loads of applicants, you might have a dozen who make it through initial screening and are at least qualified on paper. I've been a hiring manager at companies slightly larger, and slightly smaller, than MS, and this was true at both.

So of those 12, you'd expect perhaps 1 to be black, and perhaps 2 to be women - optimistically. But every company, but especially high-profile fortune 100s, are trying to increase their D&I numbers. Qualified minority candidates rarely come through applications - instead, they're recruited, since everyone wants to somehow turn that 18% into 30% in order to get their D&I-linked bonus.

Blaming a hiring manager or company for their "pipeline" when they fail to hit impossible targets is absurd, and mathematically dishonest.

1. https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2021/04/01/stem-jobs-see...

2. https://www.computerscience.org/resources/women-in-computer-...

3. http://edge.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/WomenInT...
git-wshow – show Git commit diff in the browser
what are you talkign about? vim (and variants), emacs (and variants), vscode, vs community, eclipse, codeblocks, gnome builder, kdevelop, and probably a bunch more I can't think of.
> photorealistic avatars.

It's coming, to, of all things, Second Life. Second Life is adding "puppeteering", and this works with head tracking, face tracking, and full body tracking. Users have been working on VR viewers. (The client is open source.)
It's all very experimental, but there is a meeting in Second Life every two weeks[1] where all of this is demoed. Some of the attendees are rigged for full body tracking, and, with good quality Second Life avatars, which have far more detail than Meta or VRChat, and can do facial expressions, they look reasonably good. It's striking how someone with a full rig dominates a meeting without even trying. They're so much more present than the people sitting at keyboards.

Hardware is a big problem. You need a good gamer PC to run all this and get the full effect.
And a VR headset. And tracking gear. This is a real problem in the era of the $99 Chromebook. It's not getting cheaper, either. The first NVidia graphics card that was good enough for this was the NVidia 1060 with 6GB VRAM, in 2016, introduced at $250. It still costs about $250 to get that level of GPU power from NVidia.

People who really want to be looked at - performers, influencers, etc - will need a full tracking rig. The audience doesn't.

[1] https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/6509-introducin...
Performance reviews are both terrifying and humiliating. They’re just a chance for the boss to remind you that he holds your whole means of survival in his hands and that your absolute obedience is necessary to not become homeless. Want to keep custody of your children? Want to have food? Want to have a roof over your head? Better jump when I say jump, worm. No matter what he might say, even if your performance was fine, that’s the context the conversation takes place in- fear, intimidation, and power. It’s not any fun.
If cognition evolved along with organic evolution, then it seems to me that the very first survival value associated with initiating evolving cognition must have been the ability to control motion. I can not imagine a survival value to cognition in a system lacking motion. If by non-organic you mean mineral, then I don't see how cognition could initiate or sustain in fixed crystals. If we consider patterns in electron motion or motion of imperfections in crystals, I suppose that might work.

This is a fun topic, but pretty squirrelly.
Of course, this has been known for very long. Moynihan was getting in trouble for saying it back in the 60s. It's also the reason why the Civil Rights Act includes women; a particularly angry racist congressman from Virginia added women to the bill (which was widely understood to be aimed at strengthening black fathers to keep families together) to get the whole thing killed (though some publications have argued that Smith was the Baptist rather than the bootlegger in the group that got women added to the bill). The bill was still destroyed by it, if not in the way originally pictured, since it passed.
That's fine if your population model is just an independent logistic function for each species. But ecosystems aren't like that.

I'll take an example from New Zealand because it's where I live and what I know about. New Zealand has a huge fishery EEZ and is, I believe, widely regarded has having one of the most "well managed" fisheries in the world.

And yet, in large parts of our inland waters a combination of soil runoff and bottom trawling has turned millions of acres of seabed from incredibly productive nurseries of seagrass beds and shellfish-covered rocky reefs... into featureless swathes of sediment called "Kina barrens" (basically, dominated by a kind of spiky sea-urchin). These areas have passed a tipping point, there's basically no getting them back. Shellfish can't attach to the mucky sediment to regenerate the reefs or filter the water, and seagrass is instantly eaten by the sea-urchins, which run amok because there's no nursery for the snapper population that would normally keep them in check.

I don't know what my point is, really, other than to say that I think it's hubris to think we have a sophisticated enough understanding of ecosystems to balance thousands of species on the knife-edge of fishing them to maximum sustainable pressure. Sometimes we'll get it wrong and an ecosystem will go "pop". Then we can't get it back.

As for positive prescriptions -- The main thing I've heard is that we should be urgently pushing for marine reserves. And that they absolutely have to be large and NO-TAKE. The goal should be something wildly optimistic like 50% of EEZs. Fishing can happen in the other half. (For reference here's where we currently are: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-no-take-areas-and... )
What does it have to do with geometry?

And FWIW, there is more space in the sky than on earth, where cars are rather prevalent.
I like the prose poetry of this article. It flows in a nice way. Well done.
They are an "X for Y" startup in a space that...really doesn't need disruption?

Normal banks with tellers named Maud are likely the ones eating their lunch.
I do. Between getting a nicer bigger home for cheaper, and no income tax, it works out pretty well for me.

YMMV
Æðelwulf wrote a heck of a quicksort on the whiteboard under the gun last week.
Naw, they'll just lobby up barriers to entry.
Amazing a website/company/man whose claim to fame is a service that lets people watch videos and pictures in a virtual rolodex that happened to do a better job at letting people upload videos and pictures in a virtual rolodex assumes it can tackle 100x technical challenges better than any other company. All they have is capital, though I guess that's really all you need.
At least they didn’t do this just BEFORE cancelling Stadia.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments and particularly please don't take HN threads into flamewar hell.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And massive ad spending in SF a few years ago. They had ads everywhere.
I am not sure how legal argument can work unless you show that it breaks equal employment laws. DE&I actually is beneficial in many roles such as design, customer advocacy, sales, support, UX and so on. It helps achieve a better representation of population and diverse ideas in the group. Even for managerial roles, DE&I helpful to have representation for minorities at org level. So there are a lot of provable benefits of encouraging DE&I. However, for many technical roles, for example database administrator, I am not sure how DE&I will yield same benefits. One of my pet peeve is not including disabled people in DE&I group. Most big tech only mandates racial and gender minorities for DE&I targets.
I don’t think a scantron machine not connected to the Internet would sow distrust. We have seen them in our high schools. And Adversarial observers can validate the results on test samples quite easily.

Which raises the question- why do we use the really awkward, blackbox and sometimes networked machines that we do, manufactured by weird companies rather than whoever makes scantron machines or whatever?

And this isn’t just about “dumb Republicans” or what have you. Here’s Scott Aaronson [1] in 2016:

> For that matter, if Russia or some other power hacked the trivially-hackable electronic voting machines that lack paper trails—machines that something like a third of American voters still used this election—there’s an excellent chance we’d never find out.

“Antivirus on voting machines? You’re doing it wrong.” [2]

The thing that really gets me is, even if you wanted to use machines, you wouldn’t use the weird machines made by shady companies that we do. Different counties would buy standard scantron machines used to grade high school finals off the shelf, and verify it in ways that are obvious to all of us.

[1] https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2957

[2] https://xkcd.com/463/
Buying more gpus
ive been waiting for someone to replace etcd with pg in k8s for realz. there’s been a couple of cool toy projects
On the other hand, after opening a bunch of tool windows and documents to copy-paste between in photoshop or blender or whatever, users don’t expect a ‘back button’ to take them back to the previous window layout state. They might expect a back button to navigate among which window is in the foreground, or between view/zoom positions.

Consider the possibility that some web applications might actually benefit from acting more like that.
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>How did “not my war” turn out in the 1930s?

For the Americans? I'd say their policy of being a "neutral" arms dealer mostly made the Americans a ton of money and rocketed them to global superpower status. Now Japan did attack them in a hostile action but America kind of pounded them after so I'm still not sure "neutrality" worked out so badly for them. If anything the Americans started doing worse and worse the more and more they got involved in wars halfway across the world.

For the Brits? Yeah appeasement was kind of a policy failure, Hitler turned out to not be the most trustworthy chap. I dare say Hitler was an unscrupulous chap.
Honestly even though it fluctuates, Iron Ore is also an industry that is always pretty recession resistant so long as you're not a low level grunt
A while back I subscribed for The Economist on a whim. I'm not really into economics, but I felt they provided a nice alternative view of what was going on elsewhere in the world compared to what the local news here in Norway reported.

One thing I quickly noticed was that the articles were never signed by the authors directly. I found this striking, but also refreshing. It caused me to pay more attention to what was said. And, as I later found out, that seems to be the main intention[1]:

The main reason for anonymity, however, is a belief that what is written is more important than who writes it. In the words of Geoffrey Crowther, our editor from 1938 to 1956, anonymity keeps the editor "not the master but the servant of something far greater than himself…it gives to the paper an astonishing momentum of thought and principle."

[1]: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2013/09/04/...
I had an equal pay job offer in Austin that I turned down (despite a massive increase in the standard of living I'd be able to afford) not because of "abortion" per se (this was several years ago), but I just didn't want to live in a state full of Texans. I like Texans as "characters" but not as my community.
How about being the Google manager who has to call Acer, ASUS, and Lenovo?
And yet, with women representing just 18% of CS graduates (1), still 200% as much as would be expected as an extrapolation of the population.

1. https://www.computerscience.org/resources/women-in-computer-...
Wow, this is the closest I've gotten to having i3 on not-Linux (even considering Fancy Zones/the built-in for Win11, and the MacOS tiling window managers I've tried).

After using i3, anything else for productivity just doesn't feel right for me, although I've made do. I'm excited to dig deeper into this and to make it work for me.
Australia and Antarctica haven't been antagonized yet.
Ask HN: Who wants to build a better dating website?
I'm 30 years old and I have tried almost all dating websites. They are either trying to turn the dating experience into gambling by paying for swipes or filled with bots or people that are not there for dating. I'm a software engineer, not a psychologist but I think the only barrier to making a better dating website is customer acquisition but it's doable.

What motivates me I see my peers are also tired of dating apps and experience of dating. I think in the year 2022 when people mostly work from home and everything is online having a free and open-source dating website that works and is not biased or motivated by money is a human right. Current dating websites are designed to keep you hooked so it's not in their interest to find you a match.

Again, free and open source so privacy first and not motivated by money and no gamification.

Just my two cents.
He actually mentioned there is still too much voice latency in person and he wants to fix it at the firmware level. Sad part is he's said the same thing about audio latency on Android for the past 5 or 6 Connect events going back to GearVR. The company must be completely dysfunctional. They hired a whole custom OS team and abandoned the project rather than fixing low-hanging fruit.
No, it cannot glide or auto-rotate.

However, there will be several different batteries and powertrains and control systems, eliminating any single point of failure.

For the Volocopter (an aircraft with 18 rotors), at least three rotors or one battery system can fail and it can still land in a controlled manner.

There is also the option of fitting a ballistic chute.
I feel like that number should be much, much higher.

Activision was just bought for nearly 10x as much, IIRC.
The point why i3 / sway on Linux are used so much is not that they have a specific layouting concept.

It's because they let the user decide what layout and how many virtual desktops they need.

I usually have 10+ virtual desktops, because I use 3 screens, and each of them has a different set of virtual desktops - which are also not bound to a specific screen and can be moved to another screen just as easily. If I need a new virtual desktop on the fly, I just create one without any repercussions for the rest of the layout (or stack).

And I think that's the key concept of tiling WMs: user choice.

On MacOS and Windows, on the other hand, I don't see a chance of this working anyhow. The virtual desktops there are usually just a single stack behind the scenes, and they are not per screen, so working with those platforms and expensive window manager tools has been always a pain for me.

The fullscreen mode of Apps alone is just so botched, no way this is gonna work failsafe with a third-party window manager that is reverse engineering the unofficial, breaking, APIs.
For those of us without Facebook accounts, what is this?
Not sure if Google knows how products are made. They seem to approach everything with a “one-hit wonder” or nothing at all tactic. Contrast with Apple where they decide on the market and iterate until it succeeds. Apple TV was literally a useless box for the first 2-3 years.
Yet most non-economists would have predicted exactly this. If it's astonishing to you, well, perhaps you've had the misfortune to learn to think like an economist (ie. poorly & very muddy about normative vs actual).
The part about how 'cabals' form temporarily to achieve goals and build things is interesting. I was wondering how they go about 'leading' projects if there are no true 'leads', basically, they just form temporary teams/hierarchies that are suited toward a particular goal.

This part about why these teams are temporary and they prefer a flat structure makes a lot of sense and resonates with me (and probably many here who've worked in larger organisations):

> Valve is not averse to all organizational structure—it crops up in many forms all the time, temporarily. But problems show up when hierarchy or codified divisions of labor either haven’t been created by the group’s members or when those structures persist for long periods of time. We believe those structures inevitably begin to serve their own needs rather than those of Valve’s customers. The hierarchy will begin to reinforce its own structure by hiring people who fit its shape, adding people to fill subordinate support roles. Its members are also incented to engage in rent-seeking behaviors that take advantage of the power structure rather than focusing on simply delivering value to customers.
I’d expect a glide ratio similar to a brick.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar hell. It's nasty, tedious, and just what we're trying to avoid here.

We've had to ask you this more than once before. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
It gets even worse with azure devops. It tracks which repository/branch/feed/board you looked at last and then shows that one when you go the respective features. Which means that when you copy the url it does not always include your exact location and you need to do dance to switch the repository or branch to another and back in order to get it in the url.

To make it worse ctrl/cmd click for opening it in a new tab doesn’t always work. Sometimes it open the repo you clicked on in a new tab, sometimes it opens a new tab but with your most recent repo, and sometimes it just opens the repo in the current tab. It is infuriating…
Yeah, the list of stuff I've worked on over the years is long and boring. I'd happily work on this for Facebook salary and stock.
Kotlin in is very similar to Java. There are tons of Java devs. And tons of Kotlin devs who program for Android. There has to be an order of magnitude of magnitude (at least) more Kotlin devs than Elixer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen#Schlangemann

> In 2008, in response to a series of Call-for-Paper e-mails, SCIgen was used to generate a false scientific paper titled Towards the Simulation of E-Commerce, using "Herbert Schlangemann" as the author. The article was accepted at the 2008 International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE 2008), co-sponsored by the IEEE, to be held in Wuhan, China, and the author was invited to be a session chair on grounds of his fictional Curriculum Vitae.
Yeah, there are a lot of options for static site hosting. I’m not doing in on a Kubernetes Raspberry Pi cluster because it’s easy! To be clear, the static IPs for my Raspberry Pis aren’t public addresses—I already proxy tunnel through a VPS, but Kubernetes gets cranky if a node’s private IP address changes, so I need static private addresses (and in the interim, I’ve just put the whole blog into the VPS). There’s probably a better solution, but I haven’t struck upon it yet.
For this argument to work you must implicitly assume that mathematics were a different realm, with no connection to reality.

But it doesn't matter. The definition of a hole doesn't rest on the definition of a circle.
https://tinygem.org/listen/

I think it uses the AWS API under the hood.
I bet you could study this on hacker news of all places. Take posts on specific subject matter and have experts rate the comments. Then have a random set of people rate them. See what you get. I bet most of us are wrong in our opinions.

There's that weird effect when you read a newspaper article about something you are expert in and notice everything they get wrong... then read the next article and take it all in verbatim. Not sure what the psychologists call it.. if it doesn't have a name it needs one.
Checkout Healthline today. Then do WaybackMachine of Healtine in like 2009.

It is shocking
Black people are being scammed by colleges. Colleges happily admit everyone and hand out diplomas in return for ridiculous tuition (only made possible thanks to student loans) and graduate folks with very little prospect of getting jobs and repaying loans.

In the end black people with diplomas end up college educated with fancy but useless degree, still underemployed, with giant student loans accruing % every day and living paycheck to paycheck.

Literally modern servitude reinvented, what an irony
What do you think about Lilium?

https://youtu.be/ywJWka1evH8
If interested in playing around with zero-knowledge proofs, recently was at a workshop with Ying Tong who has an exercise (and long associated slide deck) to walk through them using halo2 ( https://electriccoin.co/blog/explaining-halo-2/ ) to build your own zero knowledge proof https://github.com/therealyingtong/halo2-hope
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
Not all useful features are valuable, not all things of value make valuable businesses. That said, good luck to them. Anything that pushes the browser oligopoly to improve is commendable.
There is zero chance my enterprise would go for this - besides which taking on and off VR headsets during the day vs opening Microsoft Teams just doesn't currently seem that practical.

I'm sure the day will come where this is more normal, but there are still a few more cultural and technical hurdles to overcome.

During the last lockdown here, I took a few meetings in VR with a digital avatar (using teams) and it was a pretty good experience and broke up the monotony of working from home, but I haven't done it again since being back in hybrid mode...

All that being said, I desperately want one of these to try out as essentially a 'replacement' for my monitor at home.
Peer reviews are blind, but in a lot of fields, once you've read enough papers it's obvious from subject and style who wrote the paper
Except Houston is a fast-growing city, and Gary is a dying city. Houston managed to keep housing affordable while growing faster than most/all major cities.
Yes, good point. Also, classical electrodynamics based on Maxwell's Equations was already known to be Lorentz invariant, not Galilean invariant, so SR can be thought of as simply taking the invariance properties of electrodynamics and "porting" them to mechanics (whereas pretty much all other approaches went the other way, trying to "port" the invariance properties of Newtonian mechanics to electrodynamics).
While reading the post, it didn’t strike me as odd. I worked with small services wrapping ML models and 200 lines looks very slick and I don’t recall anyone considering weights as part of the code, and even the model training code is treated differently that the cliente code. Seems legit
When I was a product leader at Dropbox back in 2015, we chose to build our Gmail integration on the InboxSDK and we're generally happy we did.

It let us focus on our core user experience, without worrying about all the DOM hacking, Gmail variants, constant version updates, etc.

If you want to build cool experiences in Gmail, highly recommended.
Setup TailwindCSS, postcss and esbuild on Rails 7
Hiring Kotlin devs is easy because you can just hire open minded Java devs.
But there’s no obligation to show anyone prescription, and proving guilt means proving a negative.

What would that trial look like?
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What you've posted here was already a hellish flamewar cliché when the article came out 6 years ago.
Lol

Lawd, all right, 95th%ile is 13 or something :-D