skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One could argue that AI finishing emails is a progression of AI proofreading emails
It’s worth mentioning that Underscore started before browsers widely implemented the same features in standard JavaScript. Underscore is much less necessary now that Internet Explorer EoL’d.
Yes! See the `hishtory redact` command to do exactly this.
In general, the load generated by a series of these pings is so low as not to matter, unless a whole ton of people start doing it at once. But in that case, gfblip's trivial backend code will ask the frontends to slow down so that aggregate load stays low.
Different waves of immigration also makes a huge difference. I’m part of the wave of people from the subcontinent who came here from 1970-1995, largely before H1B was created. Most Indians I knew growing up were doctors or business owners who moved to southern states. Like most Asians until 2000, they voted Republican. Indians who came to Silicon Valley or NYC after 2000, by contrast, are a very different group who assimilated into a different domestic culture and had a different experience.
Yup exactly! This way you'll never again lose a history entry.
Indian-American father here, living in the Bay Area. My wife and I came to this country with a few hundred dollars between us and have worked hard to reach where we’re at. We're far from privileged.

I am 100% against affirmative action on the basis of race. I think there should be some measure of AA on the basis of economic status. It's quite personal for me this year.

My 17-year old is applying to universities to study CS for fall 2023. We live in a highly competitive school district. He's hardworking and studious, as reflected in his 4.0 GPA and perfect 1600 SAT score (thankfully, some schools like MIT have brought back the SAT.) He has always taken the hardest possible AP and college-level classes and has strong extracurriculars. In a normal world, his chances of getting into top-ranked CS programs (Stanford, Berkeley, MIT) would be decent, but we're Indian-American and are considered over-represented on elite college campuses.

Our school counselor and other parents we've have spoken with have flat-out advised us to: Apply to more lower-tier schools. Amongst the elites, target "hard STEM" schools like MIT, Caltech, Harvey Mudd, where he’s more likely to get a fair shot (Asians are 40+% of the incoming class at these places.) Forget the Ivies — the last thing they want is “another smart Indian male” (the counselor's words, not mine.) You see, that won’t help with “diversity.”

Also — we use a system called Collegevine to keep track of applications. Applicants can input their GPA, SAT scores, extracurriculars etc. to understand their acceptance rate at specific universities based on historical data. For my son, keeping everything else the same but simply changing his race from Asian to Black/Hispanic increases his chances of getting in at the above elite schools from 4-8% to 60+%. I am not making this up — you can test this yourself.

Is it fair to penalize my son for working hard and being an excellent student?
Labor force participation rate is lower than pre pandemic.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...

I assume it resumes overall downward trend simply due to aging population.
Hahaha very true, but bougie attracts bougie.
Since you're so inspired sounds like maybe you should volunteer to go work there for free?
Mostly, but not every time.

I also have a Google Voice-backed number (since before Google acquisition, when it was Grand Central), and every now and then I find a site that doesn't accept GV numbers for 2FA. A recent example was Simplisafe.

Does anyone know where "Fraud Risk" and "Textable" come from in unlec's database? My number has fraud risk = high, and textable = No -- even though text works just fine via GV, and it's a personal number with minimal use, so no reason for flag (other than some companies not liking virtual carriers).
Again Maven has the answer: if your namespace is a domain name you own, then the key needs to be available at a well-defined path on that domain (or as a TXT record in it).
> AA introduces this doubt

Maybe. Every once in a while we have someone I consider an AA-only hire, but they don't stick around. OK, I'll be honest, the most recent one I was wrong - even though they lacked experience, they were clearly better than the (white male) person they replaced... and they're still here so I'm happy.

I'm going to imagine a world without "AA hires". I think people still get judged based on their skin color. That's the way rascism works.

So, damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Anyway, when an incompetent colleague sticks around for years... I wish I could blame affirmative action and feel good, but nope - instead I'm going to blame management.
The important point of this story is not whether VIN plates should or shouldn't be affixed with rivets. It is whether the state should be able to _administratively_ confiscate personal and valuable property without a court order. Civil forfeiture laws have no place in democratic societies.
If the $8/mo is a good pivot, then sure. And there's lots of reasons to think it's not. E.g. I pay $15/mo to access the entire Netflix library. I'd pay roughly half that to do what exactly? To get a blue checkmark?

It would be different if Twitter pivoted and went towards the Cameo model where people pay for a celebrity's well wishes or say getting an expert viewpoint on demand.
There's a difference between grinding and being in a flow state at 'quitting time'.
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Honestly, having lived a parallel life to the Windows ecosystem, TIL about “red forest.” I do think, though, that cross-account AWS actions are much more first-class than it sounds like jumping between forests ever was.
Yes, documentation is quite crucial! There are actually lots of elements that we developed over the year to manage the full remote -- and we started as true remote / any timezone from the ground up 10 years ago, so quite a lot went into it over the years. Most of the handbook itself comes from that - and as you have noted it has gotten quite thick ;p

But I think if I had to narrow it down to one core element, it's to focus on making all the processes as asynchronous as possible. Ie, limit chat & meetings to the strict minimum, and replaced them with async discussions on tickets, PRs, forums & checklists tools like https://www.listaflow.com/ (we have even gotten rid of the sprint meetings! no more 3am meeting for anyone, even when in the Pacific :) ). Also we come from the free software / open source world, so quite a lot is inspired from it.

If you're interested in discussing more, don't hesitate to reply & ask questions here, or email me at xavier AT opencraft DOT com.
Get this guy an editor.
It’s more of a cargo check, you fly all the way there to see if they’ll let you take some cargo back with you

*cargo isn’t really the right analogy… but close enough
Probably Elon Musk's advertisement army. "Telepathy" of emotions using implants ( It was spinal, not neural ) has already been done in I believe the 70's or so by some nutty British professor.
( And as with all muskrats firms, everything neuralink claims is a scaled up copy of something that already exists. )
Assuming your username means you're in college: I would wait for a few more years before appointing yourself the expert on other peoples sleep physiology. It's easy to think this way in college because people around you will be sleeping poorly or erratically, won't respect sleep or bother with sleep hygiene.

Once everyone is out of college the biological differences become a bit more noticeable. Most people will "fix" their sleeping relatively easily. Others will struggle at first but eventually make it work by adopting strict sleep hygiene and routine. Then a few will find that no amount of sleep hygiene gets them into a good cycle for the standard working day. For some of them the issue will be severe enough to qualify as a clinical disorder like DSPD. DSPD is known to be extremely difficult to treat.
i used pandas, type guess isn't nice. especially on some string or time types. also extend pandas types is hard, pandas's design is more like a numerical computation tool.
I don't suppose you have any suggestions on what to do about it? I'm now wondering if I should keep sqm off and deal with bufferbloat. I already give up a chunk of my limited bandwidth for it (my connection is only 20mb down / 3mb up).

I don't think I understand this enough to file a good bug report...
Had to do a doubletake after reading the first paragraph. $223,500 for an MBA from Wharton. TIL.
In contrast, I find juniors to be the easiest to teach. Those with more experience, are stuck in their ways, often stubbornly.
Question: For those that stay, all their (vested) shares have been bought at $54.20, right? What do they replace the RSUs with as part of the compensation package moving forward?
Hammurabi agrees with you (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp):

6. If any one steal the property of a temple or of the court, he shall be put to death, and also the one who receives the stolen thing from him shall be put to death.

9. If any one lose an article, and find it in the possession of another: if the person in whose possession the thing is found say "A merchant sold it to me, I paid for it before witnesses," and if the owner of the thing say, "I will bring witnesses who know my property," then shall the purchaser bring the merchant who sold it to him, and the witnesses before whom he bought it, and the owner shall bring witnesses who can identify his property. The judge shall examine their testimony--both of the witnesses before whom the price was paid, and of the witnesses who identify the lost article on oath. The merchant is then proved to be a thief and shall be put to death. The owner of the lost article receives his property, and he who bought it receives the money he paid from the estate of the merchant.

10. If the purchaser does not bring the merchant and the witnesses before whom he bought the article, but its owner bring witnesses who identify it, then the buyer is the thief and shall be put to death, and the owner receives the lost article.

But that's not how the law works in America. They have to prove the person had actual knowledge the property was stolen or should have known it was stolen. In this case it's easy because they had informants representing the property was stolen and the buyers still completed the sale. That's not always the case and can make these kinds of prosecutions harder. Cars are a little different because they are titled which makes disputes over ownership a lot more clear cut. And how was the refinery supposed to know to begin with? They never touched catalytic converters, they just got the metal powder from DG Auto. DG Auto was paid by wire transfer and from their perspective was probably not much different from any of their other scrap metal suppliers.
In many cases this is actually expected: Some of the SQM algorithms work by “penalizing” some packets and therefore signalling to the sender that it needs to slow down in order to get future packets through successfully.

Those red marks are kind of a “slap on the wrist” that keeps the sender in line.

P.s. Try downloading something that can send to you at 200MBps (and therefore saturate your connection) or something that can receive file uploads at 10Mbps, or do both at the same time and see what that does to the test results.
Actually, there may be even higher graduation rates among URM students in STEM fields - this is the claim of some recent research [1]. URM students have lower persistence rates[2] in STEM fields at most universities. Some claim this is due to racism, but the data shows that the persistence rates is actually the same for all races when normalized for academic preparedness. A student with 700s on their SATs is just as likely to persist regardless of white, Asian, Black, etc. Students with 600s and 500s are less likely, again regardless of race. It's just that there's a lot more URM students attending with lower scores.

The expected consequence of eliminating race-based affirmative action is that URM students will instead attend less selective universities where they're more likely to persist. Sure, the university they graduate from may not be as prestigious. But on the flipside, they'll be more likely to graduate in the field they actually wanted to study. They'll also probably save a lot of money, since changing majors partway through usually means that these students take 5 or 6 years to graduate.

1. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w14885/w148...

2. "Persistence rate" means the rate at which students complete their declared major. It's rare for students to drop out of university entirely, much more common is that they change to a less demanding major - that is, they don't persist in their initial major.
We created a second GSuite for GCP at Slack because we didn’t want email and other corp IT assets to be mixed into what could’ve (but didn’t) become production infrastructure.
SEEKING CO-FOUNDER | social app (yes world needs yet another) | Technical Founder | Pre-Seed

No more missed connections.

Group chats for when you are at festivals, artwalks, or hitting the bars on a Friday night. People who are in very close proximity should be able to communicate near seamlessly. Yet 15 years after the release of the iphone there isn’t actually an easy way to do this.

The key is in the user controls and screening. There is more to it but will discuss privately.

Technical solutions exist but have been implemented without the user in mind.

Me: Not technical, but have made a few things. For this have done a lot of research, made mockups, got user feedback. Clear path to V1 of product.

Seeking solid, enthusiastic iOS dev, backend dev, maybe android, cofounders who can make app that handles lots of group chats with up to 250 users per group. Preferably have worked on/made social apps. email in profile.
What is a string? A series of bytes? Characters? What locale is being used? What are you assigning it to? What's dealing with memory? What happens when you leave current scope? What if the two strings aren't the same type, or one or both of them contains "binary" (and what is binary)? What are you doing with the string? Does your language have a bunch of fancy features like calculating length, taking slices, copying? Are you going to read character by character, or use a regex? Are you going to implement a state machine, linked list, hash, sorting algorithm, objects/classes? For any of the functions you'll be passing this data to, will they ever expect some specific type, much less encoding, specific character set, or length? Do you need to use "safe" functions "safely"? What do you do about 3rd party libraries, external applications, network sockets? Are your operations thread-safe and concurrent?

Higher-level languages, being, you know, higher-level, have a barrage of subtly difficult and uninteresting crap taken care of for you. Sure, you could "write some handy abstractions which will result in better security and dev. experience". And you would end up with.... a high-level language. But it would be slow, fat, and there'd be a dozen things you just couldn't do. Kernels and crypto pretty much need to be low-level.

The real reason low-level languages don't get any easier to program in is standards bodies. A bunch of chuckleheads argue over the dumbest things and it takes two decades to get some marginally better feature built into the language, or some braindeadness removed. There's only so much that function abstractions can do before you lose the low-level benefits of speed, size and control. (and to be fair, good compilers aren't exactly easy to write)
if women are a minority doesnt that make a mockery of the term?
All rings true, to me.
BoringSSL and libressl added CBS (bytestring) and CBB (bytebuilder) interfaces in 2015. Converting everything over is a chore, but that's exactly what those projects have been methodically doing over the years.

Unfortunately, I don't see those interfaces in OpenSSL 3.0, though maybe (hopefully) they're working toward something similar.
What is the adult view?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpxQoGk_ryg

and more on his channel
I really love the optimism implied in this comment. Unless people get to USSR poor, I have the feeling they will keep buying the new iPhone N, if anything just to have the newest.
there won't be any black students, they will get weeded out in elementary school
Ah, thank you commenting on this! This is absolutely unintentional and was the fault of a missing comment in the bash script (that I didn't notice because I generally use zsh). See https://github.com/ddworken/hishtory/commit/72ff95ab8b23c3be... and if you run `hishtory update` it should be all fixed.
I think I get picture here that you're probably taking my comment as some old-school Lisp-parenthesis-meme stuff. That's not it. I'm just freaking annoy by that we're using the same shit after decades. Nothing looks cool to me anymore.

> People don't match them. The editor does. Computers are very good at this.

Fixing parenthesis is a semi-automatic operation, performed by people aided by machine. People spend brain cycles on it, still in 2022.

The tree-editing stuffs are in the same line. It's whole purpose is avoid dealing with parens and nested structures, but using it requires in-brain abstraction and getting used to a different set of operations. Extra costs to cognition and operation of the editor. Nothing difficult, but you have other dozens of "nothing difficult" to stack on top of it. Welcome to the world of complexity.

> Try par-edit-mode from emacs

ParEdit is an addition to text editor, and it doesn't block you from introducing mismatched parenthesis. It's actually an important feature, because an editor that forbids this will be more painful to use than manually fixing parens. So we still fix parens in 2022.

Maybe I should compare this to ";" in C-like languages. There are editors, extensions, and formatters that can automatically insert semicolons, but, for whatever reason, semicolons go missing, so people fix it manually, still in 2022. Worse, in Javascript, missing semicolons often causes unintended behaviors, which makes it difficult to debug. Such a nice bug to have in 2022 on a language from 1990s.

Holy Jesus, is this really what we should be dealing with until the last day in our lives? Including all the ancient craps that predates myself? I don't think so.

> did I strip the parens from?

Your example doesn't have any visual structure, and, in practice, we can just refer to the definition of `f` to solve that. Not an actual problem.

What I was talking about is something like this:

defun find-frame-class name
cond
and char= char name 0 #\T
not member name '"TXX" "TXXX" :test #'string=
ecase length name
3 'text-info-frame-v2.2
4 'text-info-frame-v2.3
string= name "COM" 'comment-frame-v2.2
string= name "COMM" 'comment-frame-v2.3
t
ecase length name
3 'generic-frame-v2.2
4 'generic-frame-v2.3

(The original code is from https://gigamonkeys.com/book/practical-an-id3-parser.html )

The tree structure is visually represented in the indented code, which is far much easier for human brain to process. You almost immediately notice where parens should go.

To recover parens without lines breaks, you should go over each symbol one by one, tracking their contexts. You know, state is evil.

So the information embedded in code format is redundant to parens. IIRC, there were people who tried to abuse this to eliminate parens. Not really sure how that went.
Decompression Sickness
>>we don't know exactly what would happen if something have changed
>>This is an opinion.
>>There is no proof that SpaceX couldn't work without govt help.
>These are all refuted by Musk's own words. He literally said NASA bailed him out when they were so close to failure he thought he might have a mental breakdown.

We disagree in interpretation of Musk's words - indeed, I never heard him saying that he would certainly close SpaceX if NASA funding wouldn't materialize.
Ah yes, for all of those thieves looking for a quick buck driving 1300 miles round-trip to Gallup instead of a quick hop down to TJ where they can grab contraband for the return trip. I guess instead of drugs, the New Mexico bandits can bring back some of those cheap (cheep) small-cage eggs back to California, but they’ll have to be fast, like Burt Reynolds did with his eighteen-wheeler.
The Case of the Upside-Down Mondrian
That is a very bad idea.
>There is good reason to believe that if you could magically shove high-status men into nursing; nursing salaries would go up.

What is this inherent quality of high status for men?

Generally, status follows the possible utility one can provide for another, whether it be from being able to earn a lot of money, or having connections, having characteristics associated with positive stereotypes, or some other in demand quality.

Higher pay will increase status for whoever gets it, whether it be men or women or majority or minority. But the status follows the utility (or money in this case), not the other way around.
Everything you said is 100% correct, and I personally just take it to mean when I go diving I have a heavier personal responsibility for my own safety than when I do other activities.

It’s on me to check over the gear, asses my diving buddy and plan and execute the dive given the location and conditions. It is perfectly possible For me to screw up And kill myself if I’m not concentrating and giving the situation the respect it demands. This is not a holiday.

Personally, I like it that way.
> They'll also probably save a lot of money, since changing majors partway through usually means that these students take 5 or 6 years to graduate.

They would also graduate with a STEM major, which would likely enable more lucrative career options.

> this is the claim of some recent research

It looks like this working paper is over a decade old. Was it published recently?
> Why wouldn't we want that?

Because it's possible to have multiple goals at the same time. Reality is a co-optimization problem.

The points that you have made above are why there are still many more female nurses -- it's not like they will accept every single man, there's simply a lower threshold than there is for women.

I think a lot of the arguments about whether AA makes sense at all should really be reframed as discussions about how much AA makes sense. How do goals like diversity, inclusion, and minimizing inequality weigh against other objectives like rewarding merit and maximizing productivity outcomes? Surely the balance-point is not zero, but it's conceivably much closer to zero than today's policies would imply.
A lot of the companies that get bought in LBOs aren't R&D heavy. For instance, you'll rarely see a pharma company LBO'd.

Even in tech, the type of companies you see bought out are ones like Rackspace. Not exactly cutting edge scientific research firms. LBO firms typically want a lot of physical assets and stable cash flow, i.e old economy firms like utilities and manufacturers and retailers.
Great work! I've been thinking that the fediverse could give us this different frontends. I hope for a future frontend that can make both forum and link aggregator possible and interchangeable with the switch of a user setting. I'd love to host something like that for my friends.
I do respect Mark and his Sysinternals products. However I could not care less what he thinks is the language I should be using. I choose what works for me and as long as it brings me healthy dosh I am not in need of one's "approval.
That's what they said for the last five (or something) deadlines...