skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you see how those two statements strongly contradict one another?

Nope, no contradiction at all. You can have adversity and not have systemic racism. I don’t have the foggiest clue how you can think that is a contradiction.

> people with white sounding names are 50% more likely to receive a callback for a job interview.[1]

Fair enough, but how is this remotely “systemic”? Do you really think there are company policies that promote this? Or is this individual (I.e. not systemic) biases?

Unless the company policy is to prefer the resumes with white sounding names then I don’t see how this is systemic.
How reliable are they, and how many vulnerabilites do they have waiting to be found?
With how often this happens, I guess it really is impossible for Apple users to not act like their device is what everyone needs.
Threatening to fire 75% of the staff might have been a last ditch attempt to turn public, shareholder, board and/or Parag’s opinion against the deal.

It didn’t work, and I doubt he’ll follow through on it. Otherwise, it’s sure to freeze almost all future initiatives and turn the team into caretakers instead of innovators and I’m not sure what the point of that would be.
Can this be the future of clothing? If it’s biodegradable and/or compostable, it can be used for single use underwear or body suits over coats etc.

It’s not easy to find seamstresses these days and prêt-à-porter is too basic..and common.

More than high fashion, this ought to be affordable..starting with thermal layers or undergarments.
Well... https://www.libressl.org/ seems to be working out pretty well?
How did we manage to lose GUI editing of HTML, as in Dreamweaver, and GUI editing of user interfaces, as in Visual Basic?
No. Mac II's showed up in the late 80's just as the workstation vendors were moving off 68k hardware and onto SPARC and MIPS. PA and POWER came along a few years after that, then Alpha a bit later still. Motorola never got back in the game, really, though Intel caught up with the release of the P6 in 1995.
OK, if you don't believe commentators or legal analysts, then read the actual supreme court rulings and the case matter for the upcoming case. They are public record.
Can you explain what the Metaverse is then?
In all fairness, that’s still stupid.
> I am perfectly fine with not flying anywhere, my friend. :)

But as you know I’m not speaking about you specifically so your preferences are irrelevant at the individual level here. Most people want to fly and so they demand corporations serve their need.

> janitors

Eh they just disseminate corporate ideology so no difference there. Does the janitor that works for the government not disseminate ideology?

> as I mentioned somewhere else in this thread, it has already been established that capital has no moral obligation and no social contract with the society that it subjugates.

If you deprive capital of agency such that it has no moral or social obligations the idea that it subjugates anything doesn’t make sense either. It’s a force so you have to treat it like one. Do rocks, and air, and grass subjugate society too? If not, well. If so, then I’m not going to be outraged by that because it’s just physics.

This hospitality toward capitalism results in no progress toward climate change because even if you sat down one day and made the case that climate change is 100% attributable to corporate actions you’d still have to regulate them and keep a capitalist system and so the failure of regulation would continue to rest with the government.
It's notoriously hard to get excited about VR without having tried it. It doesn't seem like it should make that much of a difference, but the "immersive" nature of VR really does make a lot of things a lot more engaging, and with AR there are a lot of real world use cases outside gaming/entertainment/fitness
"Whatever policy Cupertino prefers"

The only policy that was detrimental to Facebook was to have the shocking audacity to, gasp, ask for a user's permission before tracking them on every other app and website. And, shockingly, nearly everybody said "No, I don't want to be tracked everywhere."

Facebook's business model deserves to die if that's the policy that kills it.
You first. What browser and OS are you posting from?
November 1st is a bank holiday in France, so a lot of sysadmins won’t be happy and systems will be vulnerable.
>” and yet there continues to be a movement to defund all liberal arts and humanities departments in colleges”

What movement is this? And, is this actually a serious movement with any real traction? Or is it merely some reactionary meme?

>”eliminate the English classes while claiming it is because people dont like wokeness.”

If you look at highschool graduation requirements, English requires more credits than any other subject. Often the full 8 semesters / 4 years. Almost all colleges require this as well. I don’t see this going away anytime soon.

As far as the whole “wokeness” angle is concerned, when I was in high school I often felt like English class was more about making sure students learned “the moral of the story” and proving that they did in the format of an essay. I didn’t feel like we spent much time on the grammar and syntax of the English language. I can understand wanting a wider variety of expression at the expense of reading stories and reviewing them. But to some that might sound like being anti-woke, albeit indirectly?
That's larger than the entire NSF annual budget.
Tesla is L2 and nowhere near L3.
People haven't had to buy new PSUs. The adapter has the circuitry built in to detect how many of the connections are populated. For each one, the 40xx cards will raise their power limits by 150W.
It wasn't DOA because of FM. FM stereo predated it by decades.
I can definitely see how you can spend lots of resources building a new platform. I could spend years developing/interating over a "simple" cms. Big projects such VR are hard to get right. It's both a hardware and software problem and Zuck's timming may not work in his favor(he may be too early on VR)
https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1586127052767318016

https://twitter.com/leahculver/status/1586145696163373056
I'm not quite sure what the threat model is that you're suggesting. Are you imagining that a government will demand that browsers drop support for unencrypted HTTP? It would be simpler for that government to just demand that ISPs drop traffic on port 80 (or do deep packet inspection for a slightly more sophisticated approach).

But in any case, what's the danger with that? Are you worried that a government could tell all CAs not to issue certificates to "subversive" websites? Obviously there are jurisdictional problems with ordering CAs in foreign countries not to issue certificates, but I suppose a government could instead require that all browsers (within their jurisdiction) only trust certs from the government-run CA.

Those would certainly be bad outcomes, but if your threat model includes "the government controls what your browser can do" then I don't see how the situation is any worse due to widespread adoption of HTTPS. If the government is going to interfere with your browsing, then it's actually some consolation that other random attackers aren't also able to do that.

The only extra attack I can think of that mandatory TLS makes possible, is that this government which controls its citizens' browsers in this way could then put pressure on Let's Encrypt (via the US government?) to require ID information from all their users (and a similar rule for other CAs, which wouldn't be too hard as most of them require non-anonymous financial transactions). That still seems like a lot of unnecessary work for little benefit, though, surveilling web publishers when this government already controls its citizens' browsers.
Not all shareholders have been bought out , notably the saudi investment continues and is rolled forward as equity shares into the new structure, they retain the same amount of ownership as before .

Also he raised equity investment commitments from a16z , Sequoia , Ellison and few others as well who likely come in as new investors.[1]

So he still has a few shareholders but those who are accredited and have much higher risk appetite and long term view unlike not qtr to qtr of typical public companies so twitter wont be buffeted with market forces like FB is now when trying something radical.

[1] while some of 7B equity investment secured backed out since April , few publicly affirmed their intent to participate recently, no one knows how much was still on table and how much musk took.
When I bought 2 different TVs 10 years ago, both were 3d TV, not because I wanted it, but because there was essentially no other choice. All makers were on board. I never used the feature, not even to try it. Call that a bubble if you want. I know what I was on the market for and what the market had to offer.
I addressed this.
Yep. Normally the security embargo for these things covers a large range of distributions and packaging organizations; Ubuntu should be one of them.
> Push hardware vendors to require it to boot OS

AFAIK the requirement only applies to Windows? And hardware vendors care about working on Windows, news at 11. Show me where "Microsoft is now pushing toward TPM being required in Linux."

I fail to understand your's or the GP's point. I think you think "We got 'em!" On what? A vibes violation? A TPM, or something like a TPM, seems pretty sensible these days.
When did "The United States government is watching and logging everything you do" change from conspiracy to common knowledge? I'll admit they use third party contractors for storage and some log collecting instead of doing so in-house, but the question remains.
You can pay me my usual $400/hour rate to get that report.
You could link to content _in another Stack_ (file) , for that matter. HyperCard absolutely had hyperlinks :) They were just called Buttons, but you could not only directly link to something, but also attach scripting to do additional stuff, pretty much exactly like the <a> tag we use and attach click events to today. I mean, I guess it wasn't like a piece of inline text, but you would just overlay a transparent button. That's a method I used, but there were probably better ways to link text. It was a long time ago, tough to even remember haha
Yes but we live in a society.
Get started then. We can't use something with no track record nor releases published in production systems.
Yeah, I think I was chasing this exact same bug elsewhere just the other day - modulated by the bulk caps, and variations on SD cards (some worked some didn't)
> What's wrong with screenshots of text? They're easily readable. The white background makes things stand out more than just posting text on stock Twitter. It's one reason Insta story posts and even slides have text.

The fact you defend it as more readable than actual twitter design says a lot
It's now more than 10 years ago.
Pardon my ignorance, but i've recently been trying to decide on a cms service and it seems like there are too many options (strapi, prismic, contentful, ghost, cockpit, forestry, etc...) What am i missing here?
AI-generated Halloween music video [Gunship]
Thanks for the example, but I'm still confused. Can't you just add a button to the dashboard for "download source"
Same. If there's an empty can from a drink I just finished sitting to my left for instance, it will bother me to eventually the point of being a distraction. Plates/bowls/etc usually aren't at my desk in the first place since I have a disinclination towards eating there but on the occasion I do the first thing I do after finishing is to take the dish downstairs to put in the sink for washing later.

For more general desk junk buildup I have to neaten it up every week or two or it too will become a distraction.
It seems cruel to use a metaphor of "manufacturing error" to describe intersex people. Humans make "errors", nature just does whatever it wants mindlessly and deals with it.

While I think "sex is a spectrum" is perhaps not how I would phrase it because it lets people muddy these kinds of arguments together, I think it's pretty well-accepted that there are people who are neither fully male nor female, i.e. intersex.

From a biological perspective, what if you were born biologically male but have no androgen sensitivity and basically develop biologically female? Your genitals appear to be male but you've undergone all the puberty that someone female would: I don't think you can cleanly carve a sex binary here. Actually, maybe as a larger point, I don't think even "biological sex" is as clear cut as people try to make it: do you consider it all of genitalia, chromosomes, hormones, or only some?

For what it's worth, don't take my comment as any argument about gender as a spectrum one way or another because I don't want to get into the culture war aspect of it: I only want to point out that people who are resolutely "sex is a binary" are being overly prescriptive about it.
There was a time, getting to be quite a long time ago now, when you'd search for something - software to run on your old SGI, pictures of your 1982 ERA Vans, etc. etc. - and you'd find it. You'd find it because someone's 'thing' was old shoes, and they'd built a web shrine to their thing. These were people who had knowledge of things unrelated to HTML/HTTP/CSS and so the sites were rudimentary.

You are right, the engine should focus more on content and less on the complexity or quality of the formatting - but I also kind of get it.
In my LAN days, I traveled with a MASSIVE Antec case with water cooling, and a 21" Trinitron.
Huh, I've heard about this study but recall them having the opposite conclusion.

Edit: I think this is the study we're thinking of. http://psychologyrich.blogspot.com/2011/04/does-bungee-jump-...

They couldn't see the flickering screen any better even though their subjective experience of the duration was longer.
Check out Jeffrey Sach's recent take on that. You can skip right to 4:50. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP_SpW-DyQg&t=318

He was instrumental in the neo liberal conversion of the Soviet union.
> Also, Russell's Teapot is not at all a fair comparison. A vast, incomprehensible, inconceivably simple unitary consciousness as the fundamental substrate of reality is much closer to most religious conceptions of God than is a teapot in orbit

The corollary between the teapot and the idea of "god" is that both of them are extraordinary claims and therefore the burden of proof rests on the people trying to argue that they're true. That property remains holds for your first definition of god as well. That doesn't mean it _can't_ be true, but it does imply that it should be held to the same standard as any other unfalsifiable claim.

Of course, the converse is true as well, which I think is the point the article is trying to make; believing in ghosts or hauntings isn't any more incompatible with the worldview of the cold, rational technologist that the article describes than religion is. If believing in ghosts or hauntings makes someone happier, as long as they don't use it as a rationale to harm anyone else, all the more power to them!
Whatever you thought that meant.
Sounds very interesting! (The website, and well also the bugs). Is the site still operational?
Now that's cool! Did you ever see someone try and write data to regular audio cassette with them? One of my earliest computers you could record programs off the radio and play them into the machine and it'd run if you were lucky.
I agree, this is the single most exciting event happening at twitter from a technological point of view. why miss it?
Everyone on Twitter is selling something. Products, outrage, themselves.
> And by widely leveraged, I mean almost completely ubiquitous, if you’re using HTTPS, chances are you’re using OpenSSL. Almost everyone is.

This is probably a bit of an exaggeration. There are quite a few other SSL implementations that actually are also "widely leveraged"[1]. In particular, LibreSSL was forked and cleaned up after Heartbleed. Google uses BoringSSL. GnuTLS is widely used and unrelated to OpenSSL.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TLS_implementati...
>>I absolutely love sites like this. Nice and clean.

I agree. Although it would be cool if you could sort by column. I wonder if you could sort using a client-side javascript function instead making a new web request.
It could be a generational thing. I think people like me who started on DOS are more likely to want full keyboards, while the younger people are used to laptops and never became accustomed to using function keys. Also, when GUIs happened the function keys turned into a second class citizen as functionality was brought to the toolbar. Most kids never use F keys now because they never had to.

For these younger people, the numpad and navigation keys are an impediment to reaching the mouse. For me it’s the opposite: the navigation keys is how I normally navigate (outside of vi controls) and the numpad is for numbers. The mouse is the input device of last resort.
Such gluttony!
Just like "gender is a spectrum", "sex is a spectrum" is a simplified map of a complex territory.
If there is a fence, I think it is because of quantum decoherence. More and more qbits leads to a possibly exponentially greater chance for decoherence, and the result of the quantum computation is invalid. The program will need to be run many times to get the valid result.

What is the lower limit to battle decoherence? Can we push the number to zero, or will there be a limit?
I've been trying to quit twitter for years but there's some people I like who use it and despite dipping into Mastodon about every six months for the past five years, I've still struggled to find anyone I care about following there.
Social media has sucked for a long time, I'm just interested to see whatever happens to Twitter
SpaceX is cool. I think musk definitely draws excitement and his companies have great brand reputation. Tesla sells an idea, a lifestyle. When you look at the product, its not great. ill-thought out features (camera rain sensor, parking sensors being taken out), crappy materials, and promises that might never be delivered (self-driving).

I think musk really just is an optimist and a big thinker that is driving constantly towards the future, and people love that. Even if he accomplishes 10% of what he sets out to do, thats still a massive step forward.
Then rewrite in Ada or whatever.

Ada has been around for a while and has been used in important projects.
and yet that changes nothing
27.5 million is chump change for nVidia.
TFA says that the code was to be printed to show to Musk, not to these middle managers.
So toxic. Twitter employees please get out of there and find jobs that value you as people.
Everyone’s made fair points! I stand corrected.
On the contrary, LBO debt investors typically have clauses to be able to convert their debt to equity and basically force liquidation/sale etc to recover the money they put in if their debt is defaulted on.

The 13 billion in loans are secured not complete junk.

Of course if cash flows become too low to service the debt (I.e. default), musk can always inject[1] more capital and keep the debt serviced he can afford to do that by leveraging (or selling)TSLA and SpaceX stock easily or use other financing options

(1) he could also buy the debt directly himself without changing capital structure, or refinance it by lending the company money personally

or have one of his other companies lend Twitter money,

he did this between spaceX and Tesla once , it is more difficult with TSLA today- he will get sued . However he controls the board and has the power. He did force TSLA by solarCity and won the lawsuit as well so not implausible.
I'm aware, I don't believe that the populations of any combination of 2/3rds of the states constitute a minority, and it's safe to assume that significant populations from the 1/3rd of stares would support whatever measure a convention was attempting to address whatever problem.
Full of scams.

Used section is filled with "refurbished" 0 hours SMART drives. Those are >40K hours drives with wiped SMART. Sometimes people doing the wiping are sloppy and you can dig into previous smart logs. Example:

SMART Extended Self-test Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 11829 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 5586 -
# 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 41650 -
# 4 Vendor (0xb0) Completed without error 00% 41252 -
# 5 Vendor (0x71) Completed without error 00% 41251 -

I bought this one "0 hours refurbished", ran Short offline after a year with 5K and another (clicked by accident so quickly aborted) a week ago with 11K. 52K hours total.

New section is full of "new" MaxDigitalData refurbs. Same drives as in Used section, but with new sticker and wiped SMART. :)
In '97 I bought a '96 Mustang and had an AM station on for some reason; maybe a Cubs game. I was shocked to hear stereo effects come out of the speakers, and then I looked at the LED display on the radio and saw a little "headphone" icon. Sure enough, the stock Ford radio had AM stereo.

Cool novelty, but in the end it was the same AM sound quality but with two channels. A worthy improvement though.
> get a solution to advertiser tracking.

Fuck. That. The "solution to advertiser tracking" is surreptitiously tracking people all across the internet without their informed consent. And when Apple's policy change required informed consent, surprise surprise, people also said "Fuck That".

Facebook has tons of data from their own sites to build extremely detailed profiles of individuals to target advertising to them. If they can't build a profitable advertising business with that information, they deserve to die.
No, gender-sex separation has always been an oversimplification. The fact is that gender identity is driven by complex interactions between biology and society. There is no better explanation for why regret rates for gender affirming surgeries are the lowest across all of medicine.
Is Ada memory safe? I don’t think it is.
>Why would you assume consciousness is a thing rather than a property of a system?

If consciousness were simply the property of a system, then I'd assume it is effectively an illusion. I'm not sure, and I'm not saying this it would be de facto wrong, I'm just saying it's absurd for me to conceive of it this way, because if it is the case that it's a byproduct of a system, then there is effectively no self. It may be the case that that is true, bit it's useless to conceive of it.
Yea, just did.
Are there TLS implementations in Ada that have a track record? I don't think that remark was aimed at the language, only pointing out that writing a new TLS library in a safer language is not exactly a trivial expenditure of resources.
Why would I want single-use clothes when I could have multi-use clothes?

Most of my clothes last 5+ years, so cost-per-wear is very low (probably less than $1 for everything, and possibly less than 1 cent for certain things like socks).
https://www.amazon.com/Plusdeck-2c-PC-Cassette-Deck/dp/B000C...
I joined Twitter for the curated news feed.

You can still set your feed to timeline so you don’t get anything the algo feeds you.

I’m staying; my feed is a great source of news and opinions from various prominent scientific, tech and hacking people.
OK, but go try a screen reader on a sampling of both kinds of sites and you will quickly find out that what you think is true is wrong.