skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are the children and grandchildren of Japanese-Americans living through the 1940s doing socioeconomically? Arguably, they were subject to worse racism, harassment, and violence than African-Americans for about two full decades, and we literally put them into camps.

Chinese-Americans worked largely as indentured labor on railroads and various other large projects both before and after the Civil War. How are their descendants faring today?

Howabout Ashkenazi Jews, who have suffered probably the worst through all of recorded history? We're talking TWO MILLENIA of oppression, not a measly two centuries or so. Where are all the Jewish kids killing each other and flunking out of school for all of their historical oppression?

The generational racism trope/excuse is played out, has been massively contradicted by every model minority you can think of, and needs to die. It has no basis in reality.

Do people who regurgitate this insane idea just think Asians and Jews don't exist? The only way one could possibly entertain an obviously incorrect hypothesis is if you intentionally blind yourself to the voluminous countervailing evidence.
LLMs are a complement to search, not a replacement.
Link to the airbnb? Name and shame.
At this point, I don't think I could seriously consider Google for anything new... And given they're selling off the domains business, wouldn't be surprised if they sold off Google Mail/Docs.
That's missing the point: how does giving person A preferential access to college recompense person B who is distinct from person A?

As far as legacy admissions go, they're noxious, but you're not accounting for the ~99% of people who don't have that privilege.
Weird isn't it. I used to run Opera on a Pentium 200 with a pitiful amount of ram.

Oh how times change.
That's nice :) In my case, notification (or an indicator atleast) help me save a lot of time. This is especially when I'm serious about knowing the latest updates on something. If it's something less critical, I'd simply snooze them!
You'd need to know the percentage and scores for ivy league applicants to say such a thing a clear. It's likely true but not from these numbers
> 1) Many people of that race may be independently wealthy and do not need help. Grouping people by race is a bad measure of “need”

But people are being treated badly due to their race. Why can't we use race as one criterium to decide who needs help? Why do we have to pretend that racism isn't a real social thing that affects peoples lives?

> 2) I haven’t heard realistic plans for actually helping people of a specific race. Helping poor people seems achievable, helping black people sounds presumptuous.

Well, if you define these plans as unrealistic you're not going to find realistic plans. But affirmative action for example is a very realistic plan - so much so that it is (or was) reality!

> 3) Race itself is a nebulous grouping with many edge cases.

Sure, but people are being treated badly due to those nebulous groupings with many edge cases. Why do we have to ignore that?

> 4) You could easily find other ways to group people to locate “disadvantage”. Religion is an easy one, but affirmative action based of religion sounds quite discriminatory.

Do you have statistics showing that a similarly statistically significant difference exists between different religions?

> 5) The focus on race is actually just racist. People’s difficulty of life is not measured by privilege but by actual experiences.

"The people who identify racism are the real racists!" isn't as good of an argument as you think. People have different experiences due to their race. Attempting to find ways to curb that isn't "racist", it's "normal social behavior".
Not only that, but the Golang example is full of errors. Parameter definitions don't have colons between name and type. The map for seen elements is declared as a, but later referenced to as m. The append instruction references uniques, which is undefined. The return statement also references uniques.
Well then, maybe the law should be a headline tax rather than a link tax. As currently written, Google/Facebook would be free to continue providing headlines that don't link to the sources.
> Harvard, and many other colleges, has a big base of "legacy" admissions, as well as a certain amount of generational knowledge and connections

Had?
As a Canadian, I don't really care about this. The informed citizen model is already broken by censorship, cancel culture, corporate influence, paywalls, monopolies and a soon to be flood of AI content. Burn it all down imo and let something else take its place. I only use google news now to see what agenda/narrative is being pushed at the moment or maybe to check the weather.
Do you remember actual newsstands?

I do. I remember when the newspaper was 10¢.

The guy working the stand didn't let you stand in front of it and read all the headlines in every page of every newspaper and magazine for free.

"I'm only reading the headlines" would get you a slap upside the head.
You might be underestimating the amount of traffic Google sends to publishers through Google News. Anecdotally, I get Android notifications from CBC, Global, etc. through Google News daily and do sometimes click on them.
Because the issue goes way further back than college, yet they sit here at the college-level with little-dictators breathing down their necks about why is their college "so white". So how far back does one need to go, and how patient are we to see generational results?

Honestly, I think this is 100% the responsibility of parents. They are the ones that need to break the generational cycle of whatever they're facing. Beyond that - as you say - needs based approaches to this.

I don't understand why we as a society can't simply have "Oh you got more than 95% on your standardized test scores? 100% full scholarship to any college and any degree you wish without paying it back." That is how you fix a society if you ask me, by rewarding hard work and merit.
That sounds about right. I was trying to activate a Windows copy on a rented machine and ran through so many hoops that when I finally spoke to someone I just said that I lost my patience and that I couldn't even remember why I was trying to activate it in the first place.
That sounds like “just better.”

Or it could just be somebody that happened to have a crucial bit of domain knowledge.

Or the original composition of the team could have included some negative-contributors.
Madness. There is no hope for this kind of management myopia. They are too far gone.
Is this actually developed by UC Berkeley or just a project by one of their PhD students?
Ask HN: How to Submit Bugs to Shopify?
Does anyone know a place to submit non security related bugs to Shopify.

I'm going out of my mind going around in circles with Shopifys frontline support.

Have found an issue with their email notifications and would just like to submit a bug report rather than being told to install an app, hire a developer, that customisations are out of support scope etc.
https://unlistedvideos.com/v.php?youtube-Ojr8294tzmA
Take the car from the ones you catch.
Physicists produce neutrino images of Milky Way galaxy
I don't really see much difference between this and the most expensive/extreme tourist mountain climbing. Plenty of people die on adventures with things where they don't really understand much and put their trust in paid experienced guides.

Its not unusual for a death to be caused by the expert guides being wrong and in the minority of opinion on the right way to do something or planners being wrong on how many tourists can be handled, which tourists are fit enough, etc.

I think many more people who already survived a one time sub trip with that company will ultimately die in safer equipment due to cumulative risk, so one really has to factor in quality of life explanations to argue it is unacceptable, but then maybe from a quality of life POV a once in a lifetime trip was fine.

The real issue I think is the pilot risk which wasn't approaching 100% only because there were other failures that could have shelved the sub besides catastrophic ones.
That is nice. I believe there should be some way to quickly find replies that I'm interested in responding.
Money was just being thrown around. So many office strewn with toys.
"all Valve has to do is remove the game from Steam."

And take the reputation hit that would go along with that. Valve's business is 30% technology and 70% the reputation of being much less untrustworthy than the alternatives. If they lose that they can close shop.
> How will you resolve the disparity, if at all?

Look for other signals of this disparity aside from race; this isn't a new concept.
Ron White "it's not that the wind is blowing, it's what the wind is blowing."
The pilots "see" it with sensors.

The tower sees it with a set of binoculars. Hopefully.
I agree with this take-- and this is probably why Google and Meta were the only companies included. What about Reddit, Twitter, (and even HN)?

The counterpoint here is that this bill is very protectionist in nature and aims to give something to the Canadian news & media industry.
I had no part in interning Americans of Japanese descent during WW2. But I believe that the country I live in is responsible for addressing that wrong. And I feel the same about addressing the wrongs of slavery and racism that continue to this day.
In the 1980's, the About box of most applications (Mac and DOS primarily) often listed most of the people who worked on them. Many of the people were also known to others; I usually met many at the precursor to WWDC. It was cool to see your name on something you worked on (I worked on three apps over my two startups, Trapeze, Persuasion, and Deltagraph). Some people got to be pretty rockstar-like (I remember at the first WWDC (not called that yet) in 1986 sitting on a boat with what felt like all the Mac programmers in the world, a whole bunch of us aptly listening to Silicon Beach's Charlie Jackson on how he recorded a cricket for their first game). Because apps and programmers were rare compared to today and something new, you had more of a connection to the people who built things. Today you have no clue and probably don't want to know.
> a platform engineer who makes internal tools

You wouldn't run an A/B test to quantify your impact, but you could pretty easily do before/after metrics (or just collect them on the way during a graduated rollout) for any feature you're rolling out. It should be straightforward to quantify productivity benefit for a large initiative.

> How much of that revenue is attributable to the manager's superior skill

The output of a manager is the output of their team. We can't A/B test managers (or at least, we probably shouldn't), but we can look at a cohort of managers and see how well their teams are generating business impact. Combined with other data (e.g., upward feedback surveys, level-skip 1on1s, retention metrics, etc.), we can measure the impact of a manager.
Disclaimer: Am Canadian.

The way i see it, it's a clear case of "we tried nothing and we're out of ideas" on BOTH sides. The canadian medias are boring and are mostly opinions and a few Reuters/AFP articles. On the other hand, GOOG and Meta are not even acknowledging that they're trying to bully nations around while providing a slowly worse service as time goes by and profiteering from work they acquire for free. I do understand that people weren't forced to use this service in the past and can (with some level of difficulties) remove their content.

It's not as clear an issue some would like it to be. I know that I will remove myself of both these services in the future as they are hostile (and really, i should move to my own domain for lots of reasons).
The real problem is that newspapers would just like to take a percentage of Google revenue, because they're a big company.

If that's the case, let Google do its own reporting and write its own headlines. It's not like it doesn't have the money. Problem solved.
Wait so it crashes or does it genuinely generate that as the answer?
Lots of folks use it outside of Dr. Racket.
The Ukraine war is not 50 years ago and clearly affects the entire country. If Russia decides to pay reparations that could make sense but it’s a different issue by a long shot.

50 years later after a bunch of people have been born, died, and moved in and out? No way.
> who still cannot formally prove a linked list properly after decades.

Huh? Prove what about a linked list? https://www.idris-lang.org/docs/idris2/current/base_docs/doc... seems like a perfectly good dependently-typed linked list to me.
> The WHO’s cancer division (IARC - International Agency for Research on Cancer)

IARC is only nominally under WHO. It is a weird French agency founded by some French activists and politicians in the 1960's.

They use a 5 class classification

Group 1: The agent is carcinogenic to humans.
Group 2A: The agent is probably carcinogenic to humans.
Group 2B: The agent is possibly carcinogenic to humans.
Group 3: The agent is not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans.
Group 4: The agent is probably not carcinogenic to humans.

But out of the 1042 chemicals and things they have classified, none are in Group 4. (Historically, there once was one single chemical in Group 4, but they have reclassified it.)

For IARC, everything is either at least possibly carcinogenic, or there is insufficient evidence (Group 3) to yet declare it carcinogenic.

Also:

"In 2019 IARC was accused of cooperation with "toxic tort law firms" who make profit of suing companies for compensation for alleged health issues based on IARC classification. IARC was accused from hiding conflicts of interest impacting a few invited experts, especially those related to large-scale cash flows from US law firms."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Agency_for_Resea...

Many countries have perfectly capable chemicals agencies and food safety agencies, who are much more reliable than the IARC.
To me the inflection point was the 2016 US election (which also coincided with Brexit).

Independent of the elections I think social media websites had by this time “perfected” engagement-driven algorithmic feeds and online news had started getting good at optimizing their content for those purposes. And around this time, anecdotally, is when I think a lot of older people started taking the internet more seriously, as real-world services like Airbnb/Uber/Amazon prime (to be fair, started earlier) became popular and middle aged people started using social media more. This, in combination with the polarizing content of the elections, made the internet into the hostile and echo-chambery place it is today. And it also attracted a lot more Government attention leading to things like GDPR (good in theory, bad inasmuch as it led to the current cookie banner bullshit) and link taxes.
That kind of proves the point: the internet is more than LLMs and search engines.
I mean the GPU. Most of the area of the M2 ultra is GPU, while the Pro is more CPU heavy.
Given the tech involved and allegations I agree with the others that this is a smut game, but shielding yourself with an LLC is a smart move for anybody doing anything controversial, commercially.

Ask Alex Jones...
There are already machine-translation services trained and created specifically for that purpose. While it's an amazing realization that LLMs can do this and do it pretty well without having to be trained specifically for this one purpose, training something to do literally all text generation tasks is expensive compared to training something specifically to do language to language translation.

For a maybe more obvious example, say that LLMs ever got good enough to do arbitrary precision arithmetic on numbers up to hundreds of digits. Would that be a good use of one when calculators can already do this and are far cheaper to produce? I guess it makes no difference from a free-tier consumer's perspective, but it's still more expensive even if you aren't personally paying the expense.
> Even first and last names can give away race.

While one can sometimes infer some speculation about an individual based on their name (I do it all the time) this is an exercise fraught with peril.

Names are, how shall we say, user-generated content in the first place. In the second place, race is a social construct defined by the person who chooses to identify that way. So if you, as an institution, begin to discriminate based on someone's name, accent, style of dress, skin color, how they smell, or the consistency of their earwax, then you're making decisions not really on race, but on what you imagine and impute that race to be, since you haven't asked the subject directly.

Discrimination based on speculation is no less discrimination, of course, but it's definitely a different character than discrimination based on some known, concrete demographic fact.
You might be underestimating the amount of traffic Google sends to publishers through Google News.

I have worked for two major newspaper companies. I might know a little bit about this.
How about fake reviews? That's a whole industry deceiving people with Amazon's blessing. I can't even fathom the economic impact of the practice over the years.

And another one: Amazon Basics. Free market research with the data from your paying sellers, to then enter a market with a product you know will sell, in a position of dominance. Much like they do with open source in AWS.

They should get hit with billions, but one can only hope.
One of the companies I worked for was an ESOP [0]. Has there ever been anything like that in terms of journalistic publications?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_Stock_Ownership_Plan
I think ambition often gets the better of most startups and that is especially true with journalism startups. People found companies with the hopes of it being worth billions and rarely try to make a company worth millions.

One great journalism startup that I think is a huge success is Defector. A bunch of journalists, mostly coworkers from a previous media outlet, joined together to create a new company as a worker owned co-op. It's never going to be a unicorn, but it employees a couple dozen people sustainably as they have been profitable every year of their existence. Most importantly, the company is run how the journalists want to run it. They don't chase page views or cover a topic specifically because some businessperson in corporate leadership wants them to cover it. I think we need more of that.
Oh neat. I didn’t know who Temu was or why I was getting blasted with their ads.

They keep trying to sell me dildo headware.
> “Demonstrate with hard facts to an employer that work from home is more productive than in office work for the organization.”

Again, we only have evidence that offices are bad for employees, and that happy workers are more productive, but I suspect that we'll have a lot more evidence about the advantages and disadvantages of remote work in the coming years. I also suspect that employees who enjoyed remote work will be more unhappy being back in an office than they were before they had a taste of freedom.

> we own or have long term leases on all of our buildings and the commercial real estate market is not conducive to a reasonable financial exit from our leases and properties.

That's an example of a sunk cost fallacy.

> . Also, none of our office layouts fall into “the bad” categories that you provided.

If you've managed to avoid open floor plans and cubicles than you're better off than most offices. You'll have to hope that the nice office and culture will be valued so much by employees that they won't mind giving up the ability work in an environment of their own choosing, closer to the things and people that they love.

The good news is that there are a lot of people who really enjoy commuting and working in an office. Some people who were forced to work remotely during the worst of the pandemic have really struggled with it.

You might find you lose a lot of talent, and that you struggle to hire new workers with your self-imposed restrictions of "needs to be geographically near us or willing to upend their lives and relocate, and must love commuting and working in an office environment" but there are certainly some people who will fit that criteria (or at least be willing to fake it), especially if you're paying your workers a lot more than others.
All the houses in my area needed new roofs from "just" golf-ball sized hail. Farmers lost entire crops. The ground was solid white: it was like snow in July.
I wish I could upvote this more than once. It truly feels like the direction we're headed in.
Except since Java 8 that is no longer true.

Nowadays with modules and linked runtimes, deprecated APIs are indeed removed.

Plenty of Java 4 code won't run in Java 17, if it happens to use any of those.
> Inner city schools are terrible, not for a lack of resources, but for a lack of familial support.

But we've known this for a long time, and still refuse to deal with it. With some resources you can deal with this issue.
Honesrly why should i deal with the risk of a bank going out of business, because of some stupid management mistake?
Banks are directly connected to the government, might as well skip the middle man and put my money direct with the government then.

Also this doesn't replace the current euro, its a new type of Euro with a separate account and payment system and so on.
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/code_sugg...

> Google Vertex AI Codey APIs are not trained on private non-public GitLab customer or user data.
That, I understand better than most here.

What did it really cost to start The Intercept, though? Salaries aside - or not.

What can be done with new tech that makes publishing cheaper than ever?
Between legacy news organizations complaining about links and the censorship of news coming from blacklisted areas of the world, what will social media and news aggregators be left with?

Also, I have to believe that some of these outlets will go under without social media traffic. You can get Canadian wire service content from any US website that decides to publish it.
Title is very misleading for something that the only the only evidence of is a anecdote from reddit.
Was expecting a statement from Valve based on the title
Eh, the chances of ever having this impact you are incredibly remote. And yes, the “cost” of following this guideline is low, until you consider that you could have similar rules for hundreds of other incredibly rare situations, none of which will ever happen to you. Seems exhausting for no benefit. I’ll just continue to keep my stuff in my backpack under the seat, and I can grab it if needed. Or not, and I’m sure that’ll be fine too.

Also, there’s no indication that anyone who left the plane without their ID or passport is just being left in the terminal for days, making this guideline even less valuable.
https://excalidraw.com/ is a great tool to have in your belt for this and other quick drawing needs
I mean, there are fp-ts and ts-effect. Sure, internally they do nasty things, but at least as a user I think it's possible to write pf or at least mostly pf code. (without commenting on whether that is a good idea or not)
And it's awesome, especially fried!
Huh, I hadn't thought of it that way, interesting.
How much would Google be hurt if it just stopped indexing news sites?
9/11 was not a systemic injustice, it was perpetrated by a small group of extremists in a single act. Racial discrimination was a systemic injustice perpetrated by lawmakers, enabled by an unjust society, with country-wide effects lasting multiple decades (if not centuries). It's not a logical fallacy to think that a systemic injustice requires a systemic solution.
this is quite excellent
haha, Adam from SM, is it you?
KDE Plasma made getting back to desktop Linux after 15 years of macOS an easy task. Despite GNOME often being described as closer to macOS and Plasma closer to Windows I've found that no DE comes close to the configurability and polish that Plasma has. Congratulations!