skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is "race" (and its manifestations) is a protected class? I'm not sure what the law says. If so technically you're not supposed to use it, because the 14th amendment (which is what AA is based on) mandates "equal protection."

This is somewhat confused. The equal protection clause limits what state governments can do. There’s a doctrine interpreting it called suspect classifications, and race is the most important of these. (Gender is quasi-suspect.)

There’s also a series of federal and state civil rights laws that regulate the private sector. These laws create protected classes, of which race is one.
Yes I was going to make the same comment. The poster you're replying to seems confused in equating the two.
> Almost all professional photographers who need to get the shot have moved to zooms for good reason.

Nitpick: I imagine you mean telephotos, not zooms.
> You can’t apply a law without interpreting.

Hamilton observed that the courts don't apply the law. All they can do is talk about it. Which means, as he reckoned, that the other branches can just ignore them if they go too wack-a-doo.

The court's perceived legitimacy is really important, in fact.
> The Federalist Society is more or less an affirmative action program.

In the same way that legacy admissions are probably the most powerful affirmative action system, perhaps.
Any favorites you'd like to call out and why those were your favorite?

Did you also read his short story collections?
Which are your favorites? Do you have one that you would consider to be the magnum opus? If I had to pick one of them I would pick Ubik.
There is a school of thought that specifically decries being "color blind" as complicity in oppression.
This looks great, definitely more active and offers a good variety of topics/profiles.
Yup, keep your head down. Accept everything you're told even if you agree with it or not. There is nothing to be gained by asking questions.
Andrej did answer, he said that the delta was tested and found wanting, then detailed a number of risks that came with keeping Lidar. Positive but small. Risks larger. That exactly answers "don't you want all the help you can get." (paraphrase, from memory.)

Securing supply chains is hard period. Tesla and SpaceX have gone to heavy vertical integration because ensuring quality seemed to insist upon that.

What specifically would the new management team do that would secure supply chains trivially, etc? What's not being done?
I like the new <bit> header. In C++/20 they added support for BSR and BSF instructions from 1985, introduced in Intel i386. In C++/23 they even added BSWAP instruction, much newer one, introduced in 1989, in Intel i486. Most other instruction sets (ARM, Power, etc) have equivalents of these instructions.

Currently I use C++/17, have to rely on compiler-specific intrinsics. They work fine in practice, but standard library functions are IMO better.
> Enter your Mastodon host's web address:

What?
A futuristic Mastodon introduction for 2021 (2021)
Actually, here's another example:

def foo(a)
if a == 1
bar
else
baz
end
end

def test_foo
foo(1)
foo(2)
end

In the C++ equivalent there's no need to test those values because the compiler will tell you that the methods exist. In Ruby you need to test them so that you catch those paths in refactoring.

void foo(int a)
{
if(a == 1)
bar();
else
baz();
}
This is amazing. You going to monetize this? Another idea would be to accept a Wikipedia URL and have it generate questions
Many open source DNS servers support region specific responses based upon group or edns subnet info. The venerable bind which is available on almost all systems supports it. There are some such as gdnsd which are purpose specific for this use case. In addition many managed DNS providers support geo based DNS replies.
I think it's reasonable to say that having 25 projects on free tier is excessive. So, be outraged all you want.

Can I borrow your car? I'll only put 20k miles on it, no big deal, man! Oh you won't? Do you know where I can use a car for free?

And you're defending this kind of nonsense.
Not so sure about quote bit. I really like the quotes because I follow people for perspective on articles and content. Seeing the article summary and the comment as to why it’s good/bad/recommended reading is perfect. It’s basically hundreds of people being unpaid news aggregators and filters for me.

If their tweets were “this is a good article on why X is good [link]” that would be a much worse UX for content aggregation.

I have zero interest in discourse (and most people I followed don’t engage in any, nor do I).

Also, last time I tried mastodon (many years ago) there was a lot of focus on the distributed/federated thing. I found it hard to emulate the global timeline of posts from just people I follow. Maybe it was just me not understanding the UI, but I failed to create a Twitter feed like experience back then.
> affirmative action is zero sum

Not sure that’s the definition of zero sum. Presumably it’s correcting for some existing discrimination. Maybe it over corrects, maybe it under corrects. Highly unlikely that the balance remains the same afterwards.
Honest question: why don’t universities use socioeconomic status (SES) alone for admissions? Don’t they get IRS docs for financial aid? And given that disparities tied to SES affect child development and opportunities.
There are migration tools to move your followers and your followings between nodes. But no way to move your posts. And so, yes, your identity partially/kind-of doesn't move. But mostly sort of does?

At first this bugged me, but then it was pointed out that if you could just move your posts you could also potentially violate the moderation rules of the host you were moving to. So it makes some sense.
not sure but i know it started as a porn thing
I don't think you can relate TNG to communism. Communist society still had/has money, people still go to the store and buy things. They're more concerned with who owns the means of production.

But TNG (and TOS to some extent) is a total post-scarcity society. Effectively infinite energy from anti-matter reactors combined with energy->matter conversion "replicators" solves scarcity totally. The only limit on what can be created is how complex it is, and how advanced the science and engineering of the reactors and replicators are.

Hence TNG society is totally oriented around science and discovery, rather than production, economic growth, and financial gain.
Europeans are the most inclined to modify stuff around their homes in my experience. In Asia I don’t see it at all.
For a slightly different approach, shown[1] will let you generate responsive SVG charts ahead of time, so no JS is needed. Useful when you have very basic chart needs.

1. https://stephenhutchings.github.io/shown/
>The new Star Trek is a different flavor from the old, but it has to be. Because the kids that grew up watching the old Star Trek didn't see that future manifest

According to the Star Trek timeline we're 4 years away from World War III.
I went with indieweb.social. I think some people from hackernews might find a vibe they like generally there.
> First there was no such thing as race, then suddenly everyone was using race for everything, and now only white people can't use racial terms. WTF?

Not only that, but the way that "Whiteness" is obsessively referenced in so-called "liberal" discourse as some kind of master oppressor status is outright disgusting and can only be fairly compared to the very worst kinds of Nazi propaganda. There are significant amounts of white people in the U.S. today whose ancestors were serfs kept in bondage, and this state of things persisted even longer historically than the enslavement of people of African descent in the U.S. and Caribbean.
For me it's basically what Michael Keaton's character in bird man covers.

Live so that your trying to impress yourself, not others. If you live to impress others 2 things result, 1 - they become gatekeepers to your happiness and 2 - you end up being surrounded by people that aren't your people. If you live to impress yourself at first you may seem alone but over time others that like what your doing, like you for you will gather around you and those are your people,
That's what the Chicago Style Guide recommends, and a lot of outlets use the Chicago Manual to guide their editorial practices.

https://cmosshoptalk.com/2020/06/22/black-and-white-a-matter...
The places I go just leave the device with you and say pay whenever you feel like it, no rush. They’re using devices that have a big red light and green light on top. When they bring it to you it’s red. It turns green after you pay. That way they can see at a glance whether you’re trying to skip out.
What on the earth are you talking about? The overturning of Roe v Wade?

I live in a country with no constitutional right to an abortion (Australia) - and we have abortion available nationwide, even funded by the federal government. Whatever the rights or wrongs of allowing or prohibiting abortion, is a separate issue from whether a constitutional right to it ought to be interpreted to exist in a constitution which never explicitly provides for one.
Legacy Database Migrations: What to Know Before You Start
In general? No, because I agreed to yearly evaluations. Randomly asking me to prove my worth like my time so far didnt matter? Yes, there is, and the company being sold is a random event from my point of view.

The question itself comes from a place of authority, and the employee has nothing to gain, only to lose. Best case - I keep my job. Worst case - I get fired. That introduces stress into my life unnecessarily.

The new owners can go and read past evaluations instead of boiling the ocean. But, of course they won't do that. It's much easier to assert your authority and stress everyone out, to make sure they know that they are just resources churning out code.

If you step out of the soulless business mindset for one second, I'm sure you'll understand why asking me to prove my worth out of the blue is insulting.

"Prove your worth to the new gods, employee #1337!"

No, thanks.
I was thinking more along the lines of civil disobedience. The court has changed our norms and understanding of what society is supposed to look like and do... for instance when it integrated a segregated society. It can't do that if people resist what it says because they see their decisions not as what's "right" but as partisan actions
Wow this is the worst comments section I have seen in the history of HN.

How about people take a minute to look at what the actual effects of affirmative action at universities had been instead of just trotting out tedious talking points?

All the comments about "I thought Nature was a science journal" are so silly. Sociology is a science.
You are right. It was DEBUG.COM. Indeed it did not have an assembler. It had a disassembler though. An archived copy from MS-DOS v1.25 can be found here: https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/v1.25/bin/DE...

C:\>DEBUG.COM
-A
^ Error
-N HELLO.COM
-L
-U 100 107
0340:0100 B409 MOV AH,09
0340:0102 BA0801 MOV DX,0108
0340:0105 CD21 INT 21
0340:0107 C3 RET
-

There is another copy of the debugger for MS-DOS v2.0 here: https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/v2.0/bin/DEB... This one does does have an assembler.

C:\>DEBUG.COM
-A
0482:0100 MOV AH, 2
0482:0102 MOV DL, 41
0482:0104 INT 21
0482:0106 RET
0482:0107
-N A.COM
-R CX
CX 0000
:7
-W
Writing 0007 bytes
-Q

C:\>A
A
C:\>
It's a hint that we subconsciously pick up. Because capital letters indicate a group with a name and an identity ("American", "Bavarian"), which strengthens the idea that being black is an identity.
There are many more, but if you try to talk about these hints, you will just sound like a crazy person.
Any tech-savvy person could probably figure out a way to search the articles of the last 20 years and see how often there are articles in which the words "Black" and "white" appear, in contrast to "black" and "white".
though you can certainly also find plenty of racism vs. East Asians in the USA

Harvard’s admission’s office, for example.
This frightens me because it sounds like the setup for a preference cascade, where everybody realizes that they aren't alone, that everybody else thinks as they do. Suddenly the familiar order inverts almost overnight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification#Gener...
I just never reflected on the idea that cold tap water in summer is quite luxurious. I have that but I have no idea why tbh.
you can hard-code values if you know their address in memory. If the data section comes first, then it doesn't move around if your code size changes.
Second Variety: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32032/32032-h/32032-h.htm
They might try to slow down search by having major servers transitively de-federate with anyone who's involved with searching.
Thanks for mentioning the "demoscene" community! Had totally forgot that word and group but that's exactly up my alley
Iassume they have 500 teams working at tinder, each with their own dev, qa, lead, and operations.

That’s 2000 headcount right there.
Also worth noting that with mirrorless cameras, large-aperture 35mm full frame lenses can be made much more compact than their SLR counterparts, which need retrofocusing design.

On a mirrorless full-frame camera a 35/1.2 or 35/1.4 makes a fantastic, portable, all-around landscape and environmental portrait lens. Not so true for a 35/1.4 DSLR lens.
I'd love to have more demos of NeWS or details about the interpreter. Don..
> (Twitter has 'tweets' but Mastodon has 'toots' because the logo is an elephant!)

It's a mastodon, not an elephant!!
They apply the law in reaching a decision. Enforcing that decision is up to the other branches.

If the US President and/or Congress wish to announce “we no longer accept the Supreme Court as having the final say as to what the constitution means, and will disregard any decisions by it which contradict our own interpretation of it” - they are free to unleash that constitutional pandemonium at any time - there is nothing SCOTUS can do to stop them.
To start, you should choose an instance that had been around for a while and isn't too small. Instances do shutdown occasionally but the admin(s) will give you plenty of time to migrate to a new instance. Mastodon has built-in tools to migrate your whole account (and content) to another instance if needed. I'm currently having to do that because a large well-established instance (mastodon.technology) is shutting down the end of the year.
There isn’t one. So that part is a formality. But the idea is the same: member countries that would clearly fail to meet the criteria, are scrutinizing whether other countries live up to them.
60+ dead, many injured after bridge collapses into river in New Delhi, India
I've used buku for years now. It stores everything in a simple db that can be version controlled and exported to json. I sync across multiple machines, but usually only care about bookmarks on my desktops. I search it through FZF and add new items at the command line. It's a very simple, very reliable tool that's faster than anything out there.
Is anyone else tired of the mainstream misconception of what an algorithm is?
Ask HN: Living a fullfiling life as a autistic/neurodivergent person
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Trying to influence the racial make-up of a class is, let's admit it, loathsome racial engineering.
You know theres a shit ton of poor white people right? Its like people dont know that or something.
Roddenberry had some pretty specific ideas about the sexual liberation people in the future would experience that definitely wouldn't fit on TV in the '60s and still wouldn't fit on TV in the '80s-'90s.
That's a great one, especially for code ideas
Thanks. You can enter a Wikipedia URL in already! Just hit the URL tab at the top.

I will keep it free for occasional users. The GPT3 bill will need to be paid, though, so if there's demand, I'll add a paid tier.
Recent yep, but your guess is wrong. A cousin comment linked to a Chicago Style Guide post from around the 2020 riots where they mention it's a recent change other publications have made and they're following suit.

The change is to refer to "the Black identity" instead of race. Whatever that means.
If it's decentralized, how do they keep the nazis out?
There is no difference between telling me you want more Black and Latino people and telling me you want less White and Asian people when the game is zero-sum.
Mastodon will not evolve into a single-instance monolith like Twitter because fediverse users are too diverse to agree on a single set of rules. Some instances are general purpose while others focus on specific topics. Some welcome certain types of content while others don't.

If you choose an instance with rules that you agree to follow, you're not likely to be blocked in the first place. But if your Mastodon account is blocked on an instance, it's easy to make a new one on a different instance. There are many other instances to choose from and you can regain your social graph by following everyone again.
Menus are never cleaned. Ever. Dishwashers are regularly inspected as is the food preparation area and food handling practices. Menus? They’re cleanliness isn’t regulated, so guess what?
> They bring money to Twitter how exactly?

They draw an audience to the platform and they tweet things that journalists want to write about which is free advertising for Twitter that draws more of an audience.
Hopefully not. At 5$ I would hope they would actually check the account marked as verified is actually the individual/etc that they claim to be ...
My take on most of the content of Syfy channel pretty much aligned with this old comic. http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
> No need to deal with C-libraries, the GUI can be completely language agnostic

My understanding is that X11 didn't need to be tied to the C libraries either, it's just that nobody actually bothered writing the appropriate library in anything else. But it's just connecting over a socket and speaking the protocol, so there's no reason that it has to be tied to that implementation.

(Although yes, there is something magical about just using stdout)
While you are not wrong at all, neither is OP:

In many cases, the cowardice is served with a side of genuinely internalized guilt.
Mild shock. Of course if you argued that side previously you were obviously a racist or something.
> I feel like all of this comes from treating our homes as some kind of liquid asset that we must keep in pristine condition at all times so we can stage it and sell it at a moment's notice.

Well, you aren’t wrong. This is exactly the thinking behind that.

The other response is correct that it’s nicer to have it all covered up though. I guess it comes down to a bit of perfectionism. If I stick everything on the walls I will always feel like there is work left to do.

That said, our living room is still (3 years in) a mess of (nice, not industrial) on-wall conduits.
Yeah, I would say that features of the software can definitely affect the community but there's a limit.

If you actually have Mastodon grow to include any significant portion of Twitter's userbase then you're going to get much of those same behaviors.

Like, on the "dunking" example: people will just use screenshots. Memorably, Twitter didn't have even retweets well into its life, but the users created a de facto system for doing it. This "pave the cowpaths" feature growth was once a defining aspect of Twitter.

Many of the people who like Twitter like to dunk, they like to read dunks, and they'll do it wherever they go.
I use archive.xx to strip the original page of accessibility obstacles, such as modals and home-made scrolling behavior.

Though most of the time I encounter such nonsense, I just close the tab and move on. There is rarely good content behind it.
I highly recommend learning Idris if you want to understand the power of Dependent Types. The book “Type Driven Development” is an excellent guide.
Hollywood as well, there's a notable dearth of East Asian male leads in Hollywood movies. (Latino male leads as well. Hollywood uses Black actors for to meet their diversity quotas, and largely ignore other minority ethnicity.)
I worked at a company that did background checks on doctors. Part of that involved involved checking doctors licenses in all 50 states, which all do things a little differently. I was paid 6 figures a year to help automate this, and this company had a few hundred other employees who would make calls and do other things to support that. It was all very expensive and could have gone away if only there were some standardized ways for all the states to report these things.

I realized then that I was part of the problem, not on a personal level, but part of everyone's high medical bills ended up in my pocket as a developer at this random healthcare company awkwardly filling our niche.

15% of US workers are in the healthcare industry, and they're not all doctors and nurses. All those people have to be paid, and all of them have to be paid by that ridiculously high medical bill you just received. Sadly, making healthcare cheaper will involve pushing a lot of these people out of the industry, and that won't be politically popular. The insurance companies are going to have to become smaller and lose some profits before things get better.
This sounds good, but I have health insurance to cover for catastrophic health failure, which is very probable for me.

I'd need to pay for both direct primary care and health insurance, and primary care payments wouldn't count towards my deductible.

This is a situation without fast solutions.
Basically most news agencies started doing this after AP pushed it.

https://apnews.com/article/archive-race-and-ethnicity-910566...
(author) I assume this was MiNT. Did it have the same limitation this implementation does about no offscreen or partially offscreen windows?
I see some practical challenges in that for university admissions. What measures of poverty and income would you use and of whom? The high schoolers themselves will all look similar (as could be arranged at least). Many could arrange their income to look how would be most advantageous in a specific admissions year.

What’s wrong with using measures of merit of the applicant? GPA, standardized tests, application including essays, letters of recommendation, etc. The desire to find ways to improve upon direct measures and the hubris to believe placing these thumbs on the scales will make things globally better is somewhere between puzzling and mystifying to me.
I think the Laravel ecosystem is pretty comparable, if not better, than the rails one.
That goes a bit too far in the other direction. Most people everywhere have ancestors kept in bondage. That includes slaves brought to the US and the Caribbean; slavery was rampant in Africa as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_Ready
That sounds like a suspect take. If someone's studying how some plant cells work, or discovering new stars, they're discovering information for the long-term of humanity's collective knowledge.

Everything is political, you can't sit still on a moving train, etc. The fascists said that this or that art or science was Jewish art or Jewish science. The Marxists said that this or that art or scientific take was bourgeois art or bourgeois science.

What you said about everything being politics reminds of Foucault's arguments, comrade.
My company has donated thousands of dollars to the crystal development budget. Always excited to see new additions to the ecosystem!

This framework is looking very nice if you're looking for a rails-style framework. I'll definitely give it a shot on my next project.