skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gender is just one example of disparities that exist for non-biased reasons. You have indeed used unequal outcomes as evidence of disparities, in fact your repeat it in this very comment:

> I have gone out of my way to explicitly talk about consistent outcomes however, and where a discrepancy is found, to understand why.

My point is that the burden of proof is on the person alleging discrimination to prove that an inconsistent outcome stems from bias. You've concluded that this disparities means underrepresented groups are bing "pushed out" on account of this unequal outcome.

This is a big leap in logic, and instead of actually trying to substantiate your claims you're saying I'm not addressing your point. I fully acknowledge your point: some other discrimination outside the scope of the hiring process, or whatever else we're talking about, is having an effect. And my point is that you're merely postulating this as fact and doing nothing to substantiate this statement.

What am I missing? You say I'm missing your point, so please explain what I'm missing.
It is ironic that I came to HN in my boredom and read this thread.

Discovered that there are two kinds of boredom!

Thank you boredom and HN for making my boredom strangely productive.
I solve trivial software problems but get to help solve interesting business problems. I still code but have moved into a role where I get input on the business processes that my software helps run. It's awesome and I love it. My input is directly aligned with business outcomes and it feels amazing.
Social media is an active mechanism to keep you hooked.
It's weird that in the 80s and 90s, "database" was a standard and integral part of pretty much every office suite from every software company.

Other than Access, that seemed to change overnight, and now it barely is a thing you can do with your computer at all, and even Access is aimed exclusively at enterprise usage.

I wonder why. I often think that a desktop GUI database app would be very useful, but with the possible exception of the aforementioned LibreOffice Base, this barely exists at all.
One very notable difference between Facebook circa 2010 and Facebook circa 2020 is notifications circa 2010 had a very good signal to noise ratio. Basically 100% of notifications were ones I wanted to see.

That also meant on many days I'd have no notifications at all. A week could go by with 0 notifications. Since the quality of notifications used to be so high, I used to treat FB notifications the same as I treat my email inbox (no email goes unseen).

Over time, they started jamming in "fake" notifications like "Your friend posted a new video!" whereas in the past, I'd simply have 0 notifications for the day. After that, it became impractical to keep up with the never ending notifications.

They need to be looking at the quality of their notifications rather than their frequency.
If a person was out to scam people by looking for handouts that they don’t need, the last place they would be prowling would probably be a message board for individualist tech entrepeneurs and wage worker technologists who don’t believe that it’s possible to make less than 80K USD as a programmer (stereotypes).
I would also contend that it is necessary to check which vaccines are being administered. The different vaccines have different effectiveness.
In the same way a protection racket provides substantial value to them as well. But only if the platforms mess with their rankings on organic listings and ratings depending on how they pay for ads.

Yelp likes to do that, for instance. Alternatives to ads include:

Referrals / word of mouth

Organic rankings

In a way, ads are similar to speculators pumping a token they think will eventually justify the hype by recouping the speculative spend. There are diminishing returns the bigger the ad spend gets.

The only difference is that there is no secondary market to keep reselling ads and scalping them higher — or is there? But there is certainly the element of a large supply of greater fools to try out ad spend on various speculative ventures.
Ads via notifications should be regulated.

For example, I have notifications enabled for Amazon because I need to know when a delivery is coming but they’ll use that channel to spam me about “deals”. There’s no reasonable way to disable all these ad-via-notifications.
Different people have different lives. It’s okay for you to not agree , but it can be viable for someone else.

Starting a family? Who says this person wants that. Many people don’t.

Having meaningful normal relationships? Again, who says that’s important? For all we know this person may be polyamarous or content with just hookups. Or they’re asexual.

Additionally, does his lease not allow reselling or subletting? He could get out of it early if he wanted or just share it with friends and family instead.
Once when I visiting a friend I heard someone saying hello, hello outside the window. I looked out and couldn't see anyone. Then I saw this crow standing there and it said hello again.

Turns out one of my friends neighbors used to feed the crows and taught one of them to say hello like a parrot.
You generally still need electricity for radiant heating - there's a pump moving water through the radiators.

But I think it's pretty easy to understand why it's unpopular. First, AC is popular in the US, so a system that can reuse the same ducts is a lot less expensive than something entirely separate. Secondly, it's a lot simpler and cheaper to service. If your hydronic heating system freezes or develops an airlock or springs a leak, you might be looking at five-figure repair costs.
You haven't led anyone to anything. The article itself says they don't know who did this, and yet you've said that we know who the perpetrators are and what their "stated their motives" are. Go on, then - who did this on Christmas, and what are their stated motives?
I have disabled all forms of video notifications on Facebook, but over the last few weeks I have been getting video notifications for pages I follow sporadically throughout the day. It felt very much like periodic attempts to get me back into the app, despite my direct indication that I do not want those types of notifications.

I reported the spurious notifications, then eventually gave up and disabled notifications for the entire app at the OS level.
I haven't been at facebook in a while, but seeing that chart at the top which shows the goal metric increase and become statistically significantly higher still makes me subconsciously very happy.

One thing a lot of people outside the company probably don't realize is that every team at Facebook is different and the culture of experimentation varies greatly from team to team. When I was there, the people who worked on stories ranking were very serious about user satisfaction and thought deeply about whether changes were good for the user even beyond what could be measured via metrics. I worked a tiny bit on notifications experiments at Instagram (wasn't on a team but monitored and changed some ongoing experiments to improve metrics). At the time, I believe the notifications team was less thoughtful about this. I think this has changed in the years since I left though, based on this blog post and what I've seen in the app.
In fairness, a lot of us have been grumbling about that word since it caught on.
Terrorism doesn't have much to do with outcomes. If i accidentally flew a plane into the twin towers while drunk, it's not terrorism. It's a lot of things, but not terrorism.

If i was homer simpson and caused a nuclear incident due to negligence, it's still not terrorism.
Thanks! Of your list I only know Ticket to Ride and Codenames (both great), so this is a list rich with potential for me. I really appreciate you taking the time to write that out.
Though they feel like they arrive at the same rate.
I did a back-of-envelope calculation that it is possible for BitCoin to get into this kind of death spiral, but it's not very likely.

In the hypothetical scenario that the mining rate drops to just tens of percents of the original, then the utility of BitCoin drops because transactions get both slower and more expensive.

This could cause a "run on the bank" where people try to get their money out, but can't transact on the network. If the next hash rate change is far enough out and a panic sets in long enough, then BitCoin's value could plummet as users lose all confidence.

This can recover, but if it's juuust bad enough to take out more miners via bankruptcy after the next hash rate adjustment, then it can sustain itself.

Miners have fiat expenses and BitCoin revenue.

If BitCoin drops too fast, they have to cease operations, otherwise they're literally burning piles of valuable currency to make worthless monopoly money they can't spend on anything.

It all depends on how long the big miners can "hold out" while being unprofitable, or more importantly.. how long they're willing to risk losing everything they've made until then.
I think the argument against TikTok being banned is the inability of US government to regulate tech at all, even if both sides agree in concept. Casey Newton talks about this.
I suspect people who like to live in cities prefer them to be car free. I equally suspect people who don’t like cities do not live in cities.

I suspect therefore that this headline is misleading.
And these days, Windows is more about chasing the shiny than ensuring old applications run.

I've had more luck with old Linux binaries running, myself.
If seagulls are in your area, put some Cheetos on your dash board, press record, know the location of the nearest carwash.
Relevance isn't a sufficient metric.

Just because something is "relevant" to me doesn't mean I want to be notified. Usually I don't.

I go out of my way to have zero unread notifications in any software I actively use, even if it means making liberal use of Mark All As Read. This lets me visually scan for where activity is without visual noise.
Try taking them on paper. That may reduce the friction dramatically and keep you in the zone.

I take all my notes on paper. Then at the end of the day I put them into the computer. For some notes, that means writing a little more than I had put on paper. For other notes, it means they don't deserve the transition.

A big change for me was not to curate the notes beyond the above. That is, I have a huge emacs file and just use search to find things of interest or relevance.
We don't talk about it much on HN but I for one follow very closely and have given several thousand euros over the past year. This is not to pump myself up (it's the least I could do), but rather because you need to know that Ukraine isn't alone.

Stay strong.
Very interesting. Nice to get some insider info.

Java came pretty near the end for Sun during a massive time of upheaval for their traditional business model, a massive economic downturn, and a historic change in leadership. Those could also be factors.

It would be interesting to get the same take of before and after from somebody working on SPARC or Solaris.
I think it's hard to judge, because we have so many more tools and resources today which amplify creative output.

It might true that we are have more creative output today than we did 100 years ago, while also being true that social media stifles us from reaching our full creative potential.
I don't have a bad opinion about Facebook because I don't use it.
People are upvoting this after watching "It's a Wonderful Life" yesterday I see
Philadelphia reporting in: The core of my city was designed in the 17th century for horses, and grew short on money before that could be completely undone. As someone who used to put 20,000 miles on my car annually, living in the part of Philly where I do, I might drive twice a month.

That said, visiting Amsterdam was still quite the revelation. Having lived and worked in Philadelphia for over a decade, visiting other American cities often isn't as exciting as it used to be for me, and I pick up on patterns that used to be normal for me, like how everything is a fifteen minute drive to anything else.

I do still feel an odd appeal to American suburbia sometimes, but I don't think I'd go back to that kind of living if I didn't have to.
To give it another way to visualize it: every 25 hours the US pollutes as much as burning an entire 50 car long train full of coal for Bitcoin mining alone.
Obligatory direct link to the paper:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ancient-mesoamerica/...
In that sense everything is at fault, not just all forms of media.

But social media has no downtime and is engineered to be addictive. A casino will lose it's appeal once you've run out of liquidity. Social media has next to no prohibiting qualities.
No, it’s very flexible. If you need to present complex relational data to clients in an easily digestible form, it has some nice tooling around that now in addition to basic views - Interfaces, they’re called. It doesn’t have the permissions granularity of rolling your own, but it’s surprisingly useful. We also built a custom CRM in it.

I also use it for personal things like aggregating transaction histories across financial institutions, personal contact management, etc. Although Notion has eaten its lunch a bit here imo.

Turns out that a web-available relational database is pretty useful.
It sure took a long time and a lot of words to state the obvious. What I’d actually find interesting is an exploration of the conditions that led Facebook to its current state of notification hell, unable to see the obvious errors of its own ways for so long.
These days, pickups seem to be more often seen as utilitarian symbols than utilitarian vehicles. The idea that you could haul a lot of stuff matters more than having a job or hobby where you need to haul a lot of stuff. I see the cybertruck similarly - no, it's not very utilitarian, but it still has that thing where the idea matters more than the actual functionality. (Just like the idea of the windows being bulletproof means more than them actually being bulletproof...)

A lot of people genuinely like the look of it, they like Tesla's, and would be happy to have one. It's fun, and it's a conversation starter, and it can still haul groceries. The stats don't matter, it's the experience of being in a dystopian cyberpunk truck that matters.

I certainly wouldn't buy a Tesla (and not just because I don't have the money for one) but I can see where The Muskrat is coming from.
I suspect you're correct, but this only applies to businesses or companies in the US. Does it also apply to groups, communities, clubs, etc?

I don't care about the US, and I don't think the laws there should be an example for the rest of the world.
Where does your passion for programming end, and your disdain for a job begin? Perhaps more important, does this potentially affect the quality of code you produce? In other words, if you discovered a mission-critical bug at 5 pm, would you be more likely to clock out and go home because you didn't like the project? (These are legitimate questions, not trying to be snarky.)
We use Google Drive shared drives for this since, and a lot of people don't know about this, their Shared Drives have no file size limit. They only limit it to the amount of files, which is 400,000 per drive. This way, you can upload as much as you want and don't have to worry about the file limit. However, I think this is only available on the Google Workspace accounts. We have the lowest tier and we can still use it. Hope this helps!
An Easy Introduction to Generative Adversarial Networks
It seems like living in a hotel with extra disease risk, not to mention motion sickness.
Why? It’s our government (in theory), no reason we shouldn’t make laws to the benefit of the people.

When the private sector consistently refuses to self regulate bad behavior, the law can and should step in.
The 1993 WTC bombing was definitely labelled terrorism. I remember it as a bit of a shock, that Americans didn't realize people in the Middle East were really pissed at us about something. Oklahoma City was quickly labelled terrorism, many originally assumed it was Mid-East in origin again and were shocked that it was domestic terrorists. I don't remember the Unabomber incident much, but I do remember there was much attention given to his manifesto.
> I've heard a number of Christians talk about how many of them dislike people like Pat Robertson. Why don't they speak up?

Couldn't tell you, I'm not a religious person. But I agree that these "warriors" for social justice are grifters just like the Pat Robertson's of the world.
Inhaling 40 nanograms is enough to reach the yearly radiation limit.
I don't doubt that Linus is a genius. What I wonder if he's driving away other potentially valuable contributors (not myself, but other geniuses) with his tone.

It's not like Linux never has security vulnerabilities, and if he's actively driving people away with his hostility... what happens when someone actually catches a mistake of his but doesn't want to deal with reporting it to him because he's so thorny? What happens when he decides to retire or dies? Is Linux going to fragment into petty warlordism because the only core contributors who managed to thrive in that atmosphere were equally tough-skinned and vicious? It reminds me of dictators' empires that collapse after the strongman goes away, unless another strongman can immediately take over and consolidate power.

I'm not saying that he needs to be all nice and accommodating and accept crap PRs all over the place, but there are ways of gentling correcting people and encouraging them to fix mistakes while not driving them away altogether. Some of those might've turned out to be valuable contributors with some coaching, rather than being turned off altogether.

Now I wonder how much of the abysmal adoption of Linux on the desktop is because of hostile attitudes like that. Could Linux have altogether obliterated Windows and macOS if it had a more welcoming, inclusive community that took different perspectives and user needs into account? Maybe they never wanted that, preferring a clear kernel/userspace separation? I dunno. Of course Linux is super valuable on servers and in embedded devices, but how much of its greater potential was limited by the arrogance and hostility of one man?

shrug On the other hand, look at more "community-driven" FOSS efforts that inevitably fragment and diverge from their original core mission... the modern Web is a mess (looking at you, ECMAscript), Mozilla has its tentacles everywhere while Firefox goes down the gutter, Wikipedia was taken over by a cabal of elite admins that care more about power than users, the BSDs are mostly niche now... maybe there IS an argument to be made for a strongman, dictatorial vision?

Just food for thought.
I'm not really sure what to tell you. Empirically, I plug the car in when I get home, and that charges it well enough that I never worry about range except long distance trips. The car says I averaged around 30 kWh/100km on the trip that I took today on the highway, though it's also warmed up today all the way to -11C. Units are metric even though I'm in the U.S. because imperial units are silly.

It helps that I've got a 62 kWh Leaf, so I've got lots of range to start with.
PHP8 was released this year. JQuery had major releases this year too. Saying some is "antiquated" doesn't really mean a lot. What do you mean specifically?
While I can sympathize with people suggesting these initial reports shouldn't overreach, I agree that it seems like a stretch to call attacking infrastructure 'vandalism' - it seems qualitatively different than throwing a rock through a window, somehow. But of course labeling it domestic terrorism doesn't explain who did it, or why.
> It lets me be a bit more objective in a field that's prone to a lot of subjectivity and - like almost any field - pride and ego

Unpopular opinion: pride and ego actually drive personal ambition, technological achievements, and human progress. No one accidentally stumbles over being "passionate" and no one truly passionate divorces their personal identity from their work. That's why some of the most successful people in their respective fields also are often the most egotistical. There should obviously be some checks and balances there that everyone needs to take stock of, but that's just my two cents.
My concern is that students/novices are going to be using this, without the ability to double-check the output of the tool. It inspires overconfidence, looks okay at the surface level, and bugs go unnoticed. The younger generation using this as a crutch, treating their own creations as a black box, will not have an adequate feedback mechanism to learn from their mistakes. Code quality and performance will deteriorate over time. You, an expert, learned without this crutch. Your use-case is frankly uninteresting.

Amusingly, without careful curation, I'd predict that buggy code will tend to self-replicate and these tools that indiscriminately slurp public code will enter a death spiral because the novices outnumber the experts. It's only a matter of time before viruses are written to propagate through this garbage stream. http://www.underhanded-c.org/
I saved a blackbird's life once.

He was flying low across the road near my house and I saw him get hit by a car. So I went over to stand in the road and make sure the other cars coming drove around him, and I picked him up. One of his eyes was bloody where he'd been hit, and he was stunned and very distressed. I kind of just knew what to do, I held him in my hands by the side of the road for a few minutes which I think helped him calm down from the shock, and then he jumped down and sat for a bit when he was ready. I stayed and watched him for a while, but I could tell he'd had enough after a bit so I just left him.

I didn't see him fly away but I don't think his things were broken and he wasn't there the next morning. I guess he probably only had one working eye, I don't know how well birds manage with only one eye. Maybe he didn't make it but I hope he did, and I'm sure he would've been stuck shocked and panicking in the road until he got flattened without my help.

It was cool.
> I'll never forget the open contempt Meta has shown for me as a user of their products.

Even better was when messenger split off from fb proper into its own app, but still showed a notification bubble with red exclamation marks (or some such, it's been a while) that you couldn't dismiss. clicking opened the page to install the messenger app.

I deleted my account.
People seem to have an odd sense of fertility time nowadays. My wife was watching some reality dating show last night be a woman on there mentioned wanting 10 children, and hopefully starting to have them once she was 33 or 34.

Good luck. Age 35+ is considered a geriatric pregnancy. Above 40 and the risks are quite large, if you even manage to get pregnant. Almost all of us are having kids way too late, biologically speaking.
Modern synthetic oils can be run for longer intervals with regular filter changes in most vehicles. The 100k claims are on very specific circumstances by a few manufacturers.

The valve hydraulic lifter noise can usually be shut up by using a high detergent oil (I use Rotella t6 in vehicles that do it).
Runs anywhere... except embedded platforms? (And no, android doesn't count so far as embedded platforms are concerned).
If it was just $2250 for 45 years, maybe. That's not a payment option. The price will probably go up with inflation. It's probably closer to $4000-8000 after inflation, as $50 will become $100 after a decade or two.