skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By definition, it means some people were extended offers that would not have absent positive discrimination. Well, I suppose it could be the case that the level of positive discrimination didn't alter the outcomes, but then the affirmative action program achieved literally nothing.

At least, that's with the typical meaning of "affirmative action". It's a nebulous term that some use to encompass things like blind orchestra auditions. In the tech world this could be equated with anonymous resumes and blind zoom interviews with modulated voices. But few tech companies seem to be interested in this type of affirmative action.
MSFT value is even huger when you factor in dividend payments.
Sadly nobody does that, and if anything Linux on the desktop is missing most, if not all, of the process isolation features Android and iOS have.

You mean fortunately? Android and iOS are siloed walled gardens, not general-purpose OSs.
You can't actually insert a complete duplicate row because the ROWID (or whatever your particular RDBMS calls it) is a implicit, but unique property of each row (and corresponds to the offset in the file the row is located at). Further, while tables can be the identity element of all records they contain, they themselves aren't really a set. Usually when people associate set theory with SQL, it's with queries (and their results).
Certain people just refuse to accept certain groups of people are capable of accomplishment without outside help or uniquely uncommon circumstances.

Sounds like the solution then is to remove that outside help, and thus all doubt. Right?
Same but for foobar2000!
No it isn’t. The sun isn’t a social construct. As much as people here want to disconnect from nature and reality. Some things are still rooted in real world unchangeable nature.
Looks like this doesn't work with HTTPS because the pings are done with HTTP requests. You have to disable HTTPS-only mode and load it over plain HTTP: http://gfblip.appspot.com/

Requests get blocked for mixed content if the site is loaded with HTTPS. That's what causes the constant stream of red blips after a few seconds.
I've heard many lefties say this is just being class reductionist.
High quality college should be available to all who want it and who are actually college material. There are a large fraction of college students who don't belong there and only matriculated to meet parental expectations or because they didn't know what else to do. As a taxpayer I am unwilling to finance this waste.
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It blows my mind that so many people are paying $100-$200/month for postpaid family plans (including redundant phones that pile up) , when Prepaid MVNOs charge $15/mo/person.
I thought it was published in 2019 - apparently it was actually 2009. The author worked on a similar piece of research in 2016 and concludes that Bar pass rates would be higher without affirmative action: http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/dropout.pdf
Yes I live in Arizona. There wouldn't be as easy as other places, but the existing settlements prove otherwise.
State issued ID card is not enough anymore for domestic flights because it's pretty easy to clone/copy (just google it ...). Not sure why you are trying to tie it to racism.
> Not a pure function at all. And not really a function either. Just a mapping.

A function is a mapping of an input to an output.
Because it was an easy lazy way to keep getting out of tight bends like 2008 and Covid, only not enough effort was put to reverse it.
One could also exec any available 64 bit program and then overwrite all its memory with ptrace on Linux.
1 - makes no sense. We had the same (worse, really) housing shortages pre-COVID with very little inflation.
Phones break and they get lost.

Even if everybody intended to keep their phone 4-5 years and replace the battery once until it couldn't install new apps...

...stuff happens to an object you drag literally everywhere. Just the number of phones that slip out of a pocket in a taxi alone.

Yes of course a desktop PC that sits at a desk and isn't dropped and goes nowhere is going to last longer.
I used to tout "tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment" until I started working primarily woth lisps. Idiomatic lisp indention isn't compatible with regular tab-stops, so the only solution is to go with spaces (maybe losing accessability) or, preferably, to go elastic.

https://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/
> Unless you have a very particular background, I'm suspicious that you can actually follow the frontier of that argument. More likely, you're getting the ELI5 explanation.

People who actually understand complex things are able to provide ELI5 level explanations for people who haven't the background for more rigor. You're presenting a false representation of the OP's comment anyway: it never suggested the explanation for why vaccines are good required "frontier" level discourse.

> Well-designed FP languages reify coherent low-complexity formal semantics.

This is such a great example of what so many of us have noted about FP evangelists. It's so divorced from writing software as to be gibberish.
As an aside, the F-1 manual includes the asbestos [1]! See the image on page 1-44.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33320294
This is exciting news! This CPU is "last-gen" but when it comes to gaming, it easily trades blows with the current generation of gaming CPUs, namely the i5 13600 and the Ryzen 7700.
I don't think it's the same situation. Not accepting 50 cents for shoveling establishes the price for this work - i.e. creates situation where there's "paid work" - which costs more than $0.50 and "free/charity work" which costs nothing. With gifts, it's neither - you don't work for gifts, you work for the salary. The gifts are extra - unless there's something in the contract, or they are culturally expected - e.g. in Israel, it is customary for every company of decent size to give out gifts on certain holidays, and if it's not done, it's considered a cultural faux pas. Shitty gift could in this situation be considered as trying to change the cultural norm and thus one could push back by refusing them, for example - thus signaling that the cultural duty of gift-giving remains un-fullfilled. But in the US, I don't think there's any cultural custom like that?

> It's more about dignity and respect and thoughtfullness

I guess I just don't think people giving me money for free is an affront to my dignity. In fact, I am willing to accept monetary donations of any size (well, maybe above $1, otherwise it's too much trouble to bother) - as long as they are not accompanied with any reciprocal expectation from me. As I said, if there are expectation or cultural norm, that's different business.
> Russia obviously blew up Nord Stream 2

Why? Why after pausing Nord 1? Please enlighten us if you are going to use "obvious" without any source.

There is disadvantage to Russia from every perspective if they blew Nord Stream. To me it doesn't make any sense to commit suicide.
> Apple Developer Program annual fee $99 (Do you know you can build many apps with the same $99?)

What a fun fact.
I love the function chaining. It's basically functional programming with "immutable" intermediates (yes I know they're not really immutable, but we don't modify them in place).

Another good example of this style is tf.data pipelines. Also a very nice API.
What are the breakdowns of job function? Sales, various tiers of support, infosec, solution engs, etc add up beyond the C-suite, devs and admins.
They should - but hard-line Ethernet connected.
https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-secure-environment-accele...

I've used the ASEA to get a number of organizations setup. I prefer it to Control Tower (it can be installed on top of CT). The ASEA is open source and written in AWS cdk so it can be forked and modified if needed.
This has been my go to tool for checking my internet before playing an online multiplayer game.
Interestingly, even though the labor participation rate hasn't returned to pre-covid levels, total civilian labor force levels have: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CLF16OV#0
Malicious packages are yanked as and when they are found or reported by the community.
Cool to see the Coqui team dive into this too. I made a video using Stable Diffusion, Coqui TTS with a VITS model, Frame Interpolation for Large Motion, and Wav2Lip a couple weeks ago:
https://youtu.be/BnrnJ_6wiYs
Theres links to the walkthroughs if anyone wants to set up the open source components and try it out.

My voice model wasnt great for this, so it shouldnt be considered ideal performance by any means.

Heres Bill Gates rapping: https://youtu.be/1ztm7aBssgA
It vests as cash
It was a comment on the irony of their profile pictures.

It shouldn't be acceptable to glorify neither of: Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, Mao, Stalin, Fidel, Guevara, Hussein, Pinochet, Ceaucescu, Gaddafi, etc.

My point is that authoritarian murderers are authoritarian murderers no matter their political affiliation and should not be glorified. You can be against one extreme without supporting the other.
If the caller is an external actor, yes, their provided length should not be trusted. However, this is not always the case. The caller may be another part of the same program, trusted not to perform malicious actions to the same extent that the rest of the program is trusted.
Elon is is full of hot air, yes, but not _that_ much hot air.

Reddit will implement Twitter-like feeds and hashtags and eat their lunch. Twitter content creators hate Elon.
> This question, posed by someone new, makes it to the front pages of this site pretty much every week nowadays. I’ve been visiting this site for years and it used to crop up once every few months or so but nothing near the frequency it does now. There is something seriously wrong with the state of the world right now.

I wish I could post on my main account, but I can't have this associated with my real identity sadly. I've noticed the same, but never thought I would be posting one of those threads. It's been helpful reading people's replies and has given me a bit of hope I didn't have this morning.

>It may mean doing something you never thought of doing and moving somewhere you never saw yourself moving a few years ago

I think this is likely. I've been in contact with an org that wants to hire me, but the logistics are complicated because they're extremely remote. They aren't even sure if it'll be possible to hire me, but if it is I might just go for it.
Yes.

I've seen an increase since end of July, this year:

one, in the usual suspect - Groups, where bogus profiles are increasing their spam. They get away with this because some Groups, with seemingly useful names, were initially created by bogus profiles and thus are the moderators of the groups. (I discovered two of the Groups I joined way back have this.) Spammers in these can act with impunity;

two, in messages from obviously bogus 'recruiters' - these are less spam and more phishing for personal information, likely to create more bogus profiles, or to create data repos for later scam attempts.

The most-frequent type of these don't even hide the location put in the profile - as India or Pakistan; they have very little Experience, sometimes with only two job records, within a less that two-year period, yet are already Directors or CEOs. Their 500 connections are obviously other bogus accounts.

The next-frequent are the extremely, IG-looking HR recruiters. You've probably read about these: a supposed recruiter, always female, always super hot-looking, wants to connect because she's sooo impressed with your experience & credentials. Typically the info about the opportunity they present is either so vague as to be useless, or so wild that it's beyond nonsense.
> would this have been a problem had it been written in rust?

The answer would be "it depends on whether you consider denial-of-service a problem". The key detail which makes all the difference is that, unless you're playing with raw pointers (which can only be dereferenced in "unsafe" blocks), the pointer to a buffer slice is always kept together with its length (in a "fat pointer"). Attempting to write through it past the buffer's bounds will result in a Rust panic, which usually aborts the whole process (there are ways to abort just one thread, or even to treat it similarly to a C++ exception, but a library cannot depend on them since the program might be compiled in the panic=abort mode). While that's obviously better than allowing for remote code execution, it still could be considered an issue.

Of course, that's assuming you want a similar API and are writing the code in a similar style, just replacing the direct pointer manipulation with slice manipulation. I don't know whether, in this particular case, more idiomatic Rust code would have avoided the issue. And, of course, the "growable container" approach would completely avoid it, but Rust is also used in places where memory allocation is not allowed, so having a non-allocating API still makes sense.
Two things would improve Labor...

4 An immigration policy that allows new (eager to work for less) citizens a legal path to work within the country, and maybe even become full citizens in the future.

1 More housing so workers can afford to live near where the jobs are.
Isn't it fascinating how everyone likes to theorize but no one is consistently right about the causation of macroeconomic developments? Understanding a distributed system with 7.8 billion agents is... hard.
I want to believe that, but metal prices aren't tracking the way I'd expect if it was just excessive money supply. Much, or even most is money supply, but it looks to me like we still have actual scarcity issues.
Take a look at a graph of the US monetary supply [1]. Many factors can contribute to inflation, but monetary supply is generally the dominant driver. And since February 2020, the US monetary supply has increased by about 40%. You can also see a table of inflation levels here [2]. The causes today being blamed for the inflation happened long after the inflation. It's just gas lighting, pun intended.

[1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS

[2] - https://www.multpl.com/inflation/table/by-month
Thanks ;)

There is a lot of good advise here, more than I ever thought I would get. It's made my day a little brighter.
Another comment in the same thread is a link to a Bridgewater associate saying the same thing. It's economic orthodoxy. Either you can believe that every reputable mainstream economist is wrong or admit politicians have a vested interest in not admitting fault.
Instagram will soon allow select creators to make and sell NFTs directly in app
Looks like a cool project but why would I use this over phpBB? And why does it have the phpBB logo on it?
Exactly my point above, about Java.
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TL;DR It puts people out of work so there's less demand and we move back down the demand/supply curve towards lower prices/slower increase in prices.

The simplistic version is one idea of the cause of inflation is there's too much demand for all goods as a whole in the economy because there's too much money floating around causing demand to push higher on the demand/supply curve because it's more expensive to produce more of something past a certain point. Making it harder to get loans decreases the money flowing in for some expenditures so there's less expansion in areas like hiring (which when we're near full employment like now usually means having to raise wages pushing costs up and injecting money into the more general market). Thus by increasing the cost of expansion you slow it down and cool the labor market and maybe even cause it to contract.

In the end it boils down to getting more people out of work so they can't buy as much and are willing to accept lower wages meaning it costs less to produce so you might meet the increased demand curve in the middle. It's an incredibly shaky way to try to run the economy but the government has limited knobs to turn and ideally it's easier to target relief at people put out of work because of this than it is to aid the entire population generally.

That's one theory I've heard explained at least. It's incredibly callous to me though because it depends on just putting people out of work and our safety nets in the US are extremely weak meaning you wind up with the fact that a 1 percentage point increase in the unemployment number is associated with a 1-1.6& increase in suicide rates. [0]

[0] https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20220302.274862/....
Do you have data backing that up? The data is all FOIA-able like calls to the police department and dispatch data.

There's also insurance claim data which requires a police report.
I see ping times consistently around 10ms on my WiFi connection. However, it sometimes briefly spikes upward (while remaining green). Based on the behavior of the line, I think this might be happening when the bit of JavaScript drawing the line on the canvas staggers, rather than a blip in the connection itself. Probably a bug? It's quite noticeable when resizing the window, for example.

(I don't think it's the connection being flaky. Running `ping gstatic.com` in the terminal at the same time as the webpage is in the foreground shows a maximum time of 23ms after 180 pings.)
A camera certainly helped me when someone sideswiped my car, then drove off and after being chased down claimed the big scratch along the side of their car was, "already there".

But I agree in general with what you wrote.
In theory interest rates should be set at a level which keeps demand in balance with supply, but isn't so high that they're out of line with economic fundamentals.

For example, imagine I were to say, "the US economy is so strong today consumers can afford 7% mortgage rates". This is obviously laughable. The underlying economy isn't strong enough to support anything even close to those kinds of rates, but because of excessive fiscal and monetary stimulus over the last couple of years the consumer has high savings, low debts and extremely low 30-year fixed rate mortgages - the Fed could raise rates to 50% and for a large percentage of US consumers today it would make practically no difference.

Similarly with the US being a consumer economy so long as the consumer is strong businesses are generally going to be fine. Some overleveraged companies might go under, but those with healthy balance sheets will likely do better than ever, keeping the labour market robust.

The problem we have today is that rates are now way too high relative to underlying economic strength, yet are doing close nothing to address the supply / demand imbalances we're seeing. In fact they're at levels so high it wouldn't just slow demand but kill it dead were anyone actually forced borrow at them.

And yes, eventually some people will have unexpected expenses which they'll need to put on credit cards, and from time to time people will need move and be forced to try to afford a mortgage at a much higher rate, but that's going to take quite some time given robust levels of savings and otherwise historically low mortgage servicing costs. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MDSP

I guess what I'm saying is that the Fed has no effective tools to address this. The US consumer is almost completely insensitive to interest rates moves right now. What I'd argue we actually need is fiscal measures such as tax increases and spending cuts to force down economic demand.

Should rates keep rising though (which is likely given the Fed never seems to have any idea what they're doing) then eventually someone's risk model will blow up because these are unprecedented moves we're seeing in the treasury and FX market today. Expect people in developing countries to starve and expect a series of financial crises in developed economies. Of course I hope that doesn't happen and I hope eventually the Fed sees sense, but this does seem to be the path we're on today.
Why is that ridiculous? Information like that is subpoena'd all the time.

An inadvertent customer of a criminal organization is still a customer of a criminal organization.

If you're not dealing in stolen catalytic converters not really sure why you would care if the cops know you downloaded an app for that.
> If we assume that:

> Whatever merit based metrics the school uses to determine admission are predictive of eventual performance

This seems a questionable assumption.
Yes, there were plenty of bad UI's and they got called out on sites like that because of it. If you read some of those "bloopers" you realize that the functionality the guy is complaining about are pretty much the default broken behavior these days. For example: applications that don't honor system colors.

With some OS's you can't even have fine grained control over those defaults anymore. Dark modes have brought some of it back, so its better now than 5 years ago, but still worse than 20 years ago. But people pretend that having a dark/light switch is the same thing as being able to customize the color of just about every layer of the UI and have the vast majority of the applications honor it.
Person B might not be able to afford the gas in food now so possibly. The main way it functions is ultimately depressing wages and putting people out of work so there's less demand.
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David Wheeler's Ph.D dissertation on the subject hasn't been refuted as far as I know, so the diverse double compilation method should be sufficient to mitigate the compiler subversion threat. I worked on a project to do this in OpenEmbedded to build firmware for the Power9 Talos workstation firmware and the BMC. Somewhat painful but successful.
I use the Ethernet on a mesh router so only the backhaul channel. Why not leave the wifi bandwidth for other devices that stream etc. It's also good for the times I do game on the net. Other computers in the same room as the base station are also connected by switch.
I suspect there just won't be. But for those of us not working there, it will be an interesting data point, to see how it goes.
Full employment of a smaller labor force, you need to look at the labor force participation rate [0] to get the whole picture.

Yes unemployment is at near record lows, but the percent of the population in the work force is the lower than its been since the 1970s.

0. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART
The greatest lie ever told to employees by their company is that "they are all family".
> or a NullPointerException in Java

Just nitpicking, but the exception for an invalid array access in Java would be IndexOutOfBoundsException (or one of its subclasses), not NullPointerException.
Those are all individual relationships that creators have with advertisers and likely would not go away no matter how much of a cesspool the social media platform is. You see, most platforms don't actually intermediate these kinds of advertising deals and thus don't see a cent from them.

Some platforms - notably YouTube - have a platform-run ad exchange that creators can participate in and make money from. This is critical for people getting into the online video business. Like, to the point where people are expecting creators to jump ship from TikTok to YouTube the moment that Google figures out how to sell and attribute ads on Shorts.

In a world where platforms are legally barred from providing advertisers with brand safe placements, advertisers will just jump ship from platforms and start working with individual brands directly. Which means that the platforms are now just providing free hosting they can't pay for and smaller creators aren't able to use ad networks to get paid for their work.
Does FOIA data include how many calls the police don't pick up? I've literally never gotten an answer when calling my local PD's non-emergency number