skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are some usable alternatives on macOS you folks use? I also need the calendar thing. Outlook is quirky and I essentially pay for it. If this ships, this will only become worse.
Yeah, every time the discussion comes up about, for example, reparations for the descendants of slaves, I start out thinking: it's been 150 years! Some of those descendants are very successful now and some descendants of slave owners are probably very poor now. And some people are descendants of both.

And then I learn about the Jim Crow period, and then you hear that even the GI bill explicitly excluded black people, and lynchings into the 1950s, and the extremely hard fight the civil rights movement had, and even legal discrimination up to 1971, not to mention tons of possibly illegal but still very real discrimination after that. And then I think: you can't just stop doing a bad thing and pretend it didn't happen. You've got to try to make things right.

Have things been made right by now? I have no idea. I do know plenty of black people still live in fear of the police, and that when black people call the police, there's the non-zero chance that they're the ones who end up getting shot.

Not to mention that many universities also have affirmative action for children of alumni, who are still predominantly white and rich, partially because of the legal discrimination uo to 1971, and partially because universities are ridiculously expensive. Has that affirmative action also been struck down?

> America is not in the least social-democratic,

It used to be, though. The New Deal and many of the social policies of the 1940s and 1950s were very social democratic. Well, except that they tended to exclude black people.
That’s amazing. Most of my stories involve providing healthcare to Marines.
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." ― Stephen Jay Gould
>> I was valedictorian and had a perfect score on the SATs

Sounds like OP certainly deserved it to me. Instead we have these perverse incentives to go to "elite" schools purely because of the school's name (not because you're really getting that much of a better education than you would in a different top 100 university). These schools end up with thousands of applicants who definitely deserve to get in, but they need to cull the group of perfect candidates somehow because of practical considerations like faculty to student ratio. Whether they discriminate using race, or implement a lottery system, there's plenty of candidates that deserve the entry but don't get in because of practical limitations.

I certainly didn't get perfect scores on the SAT and I certainly wasn't valedictorian.

This mentality is very gross, and treats life like it's a fair game with clear winners and losers. Life is messy, and you can still do every single thing right and end up worse off. Likewise, you can, and many people do, fail "up" into extraordinary positions of power due to no merit of your own.
The original Alcubierre paper came up with the energy equivalent of the entire mass of Jupiter, if I remember correctly.
Considerate driving should be rewarded. Great to see in action.
Legacy admissions are not just a few spots. They constitute a high percentage of admissions. I've seen estimates ranging from 10% to 35%.
Thanks. Looks like there is not many options out there.
The downvotes might be from people that don't realize that "But, then I’m a 50+ year old white guy, so unqualified to speak." is a reference to something else the OceanGate CEO said
> is the end goal that every industry, workplace, and residential are

Well, if we follow the meritocratic ideology that everyone has the same opportunities available to them, it would be a natural conclusion. There is nothing that inherently causes a specific skin color or gender to have the ability to capitalize on an opportunity.

But, not all things are equal, so IMO we need to give folks help in ensuring that the same opportunities are actually available to them. Provide help with ensuring that everyone has the same tools available to them to capitalize on those opportunities.

Now then, WRT disabilities, this gap in opportunities and tools to capitalize on the opportunities is even greater. However, given that the one constant in life is that "you will become disabled, unless you die first", it makes no sense to leave those with disabilities behind.
I followed this tutorial 2 weekend ago, switched out github repo with zendesk. was super helpfull to actually see how easy it was to build it. And how good the result was.
Vitamin D and major cardiovascular events: D-Health randomised controlled trial
I'm considering compiling a dynamic language to it. Mainly because it gives you C style performance on the fast paths and a built in garbage collector. Decent chance it's optimal for that.
I'm happy this happened because Asians are the only ethnicity that suffers true systemic racism when it comes to education.

However, my fear is that the universities are working hard to figure out ways to continue this practice against Asian Americans by skirting around the rules.
That WaPo article was also discussed [0] on HN yesterday (although most of the comments were about the garbage quality of the reporting).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36514521
Ben is not just any old technical reviewer. He wrote a version of AWK in go and has done a ton of other work in the AWK ecosystem.
> A premed, biology grad just lost out on a 500k/yr job by not getting into medical school.

Into that medical school. There are others.
Thanks, I had his "Amit's game programming" page and it is pretty good.
Why the great Twitter Migration didn’t quite pan out
Are you talking about assimilation vs maintaining cultural heterogeneity (like "melting pot" vs "salad bowl" models)?

(Sorry, it's a bit hard to keep track of which post/point is a parent or GP or such. Not sure if I understood your point correctly.)

I think this is more about opportunities than conforming, like whether we could have a system that provides supplemental resources (whether it's tuition or teaching aid or job opportunities or whatever) to people who have the same drive and merit as anyone else, but for whatever reason was given a significant handicap early on.

That just lets them get into an organization to begin with. What they do with their participation, whether it's to conform or rebel or something else, is a separate (but still fascinating) question, I think?

There is this idea that diversity will automatically lead to change. Sometimes it does, but yeah, sometimes people just choose to assimilate and stay quiet instead.
Couldn't agree more. I wish we could replace the moniker "functional programming" with "aesthetic programming" because it feels like Monads are less practical than they are hygienic for the code.
> Every decision is discrimination. Basis and purpose is what matters.

That is true, which is why it is illegal in my country to discriminate based on things that you are. In my country, we value equality and believe that everyone should be treated fairly and without discrimination. Laws are in place to protect individuals from discrimination based on factors such as race, gender, religion, age, disability, and other protected characteristics.

Discrimination based on who you are, such as your inherent traits or characteristics, is considered unjust and contrary to the principles of equality. The focus should be on a person's abilities, qualifications, and merits rather than factors that they have no control over.
That really pissed me off about this whole story. Hundreds of people drown on the surface of the sea. A bit of news coverage, "oh no", that's it.

But if 2 billionaires get lost 4km under the sea level it's not a problem to start a multi-day search which I don't even want to know the cost of.

As usual people in general don't really care about refugees, a lost submarine just tickles our monkey-brains, I guess.
Simple Mobile Tools SMS is fine. Not spectacular, but fine.
You have standard high achiever imposter syndrome and probably would if you were white/non-hispanic as well. You deserved to be there...
The Equal Protection Clause operates on States. It does not purport to regulate the conduct of private parties. By contrast, Title VI applies to recipients of federal funds—covering not just many state actors, but many private actors too. In this way, Title VI reaches entities and organizations that the Equal Protection Clause does not.

p 129 of https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf
Airbnb rental revenues have plunged in some parts of the US, this chart suggests
> But seriously why can't we just focus our help and aid around people who are poor and needs based rather than all this faffing about with race? (snip) If people of a certain race are proportionally more poor than people of another race than they will be helped more and it helps out the people of a specific race.

Because that assumes "poor people" get "help" in a uniformly fair and anti-racist way, and that's never really true in the US today.

If you help "all people" with "no regard" to race, you have just participated in favoring white folks over all others, even though you likely don't realize it. The systems by which you choose to "help" all have various types of racism built-in, and you will have racist results as output, even if you yourself never directly try to commit such an act. (This is what systemic racism is, sometimes called 'institutionalized racism' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism )

Affirmative Action, while not perfect, is one of the few things ever tried that actually accounts for this. It's saying, "you can't be more racist than X" where X is some kind of objective metric (say, "percent of enrollment by race"), and it does not care which of the thousands of people or systems involved are causing the issue, it attempts to force-corrects for it.

It is an emergency stop-gap, until such a future as that result is already happening naturally, making it redundant. The fact that we still depend on it ~60+ yrs later, is sort of living proof that we haven't really dealt with systemic racism yet. (As if all the other evidence, between housing, employment, police brutality and murders, etc, wasn't already enough)
Looks very slick! I used QR codes and a sloppy script to back up a SSH key recently, and was dreading the possibly of needing to use said backups. I 100% will be looking into this.

Also, 100% that KeePassXC needs a better paper backup option. It's a great application, but I had a terrible time with how it formatting my notes/comments last time I printed from it. My one thing is that I want my backup to be something much closer to plain text that I could recover info from without KeePass. No encryption and no KeePass database structure.
Whose fault is obesity? Primarily the food industry's
Yeah, arguing with my dad some time back he says, "Minorities have unfair rights over whites: affirmative action."

"Name another," was my response.
Databricks puts cards on the table format as Snowflake looks for more players
These two apps seem to be the number one and two most popular desktop-packaged webapps & they have done immeasurable damage to the perception of the web as a technology.

It's cemented the perception of web desktop tech in many people's mind & I question whether it's possible to de-infect what has become a quite strongly held dogmatism. There's few apps broadly actually uses these days, so the opportunity is also troublingly slim. I want to ask, what are the contestible assertions, what would change your mind? But even for me it's hard to imagine finding sufficient leverage, having enough examples, to really challenge the negative perceptions.

For what it's worth, discord load time is a bit obnoxious but I've found it to be pretty performant once loaded, and I'm a fairly intense user who is on many dozens of servers.
I suppose I should've said they not intentional ladder-kickers; quite the opposite: they genuinely believe that their policies, and only their policies, will actually lead to more affordable housing.

This is in comparison to more conventional NIMBYs, who don't really care - they feel entitled to "preserve neighbourhood character", say things like "city's full, don't move here", that sort of thing.
William J. Bennett’s Aug. 12 commentary is the latest example of a recent trend in conservative public relations--opponents of affirmative action claiming to be the heirs of Martin Luther King Jr. They invoke the sentence from King’s 1963 speech looking forward to the day his children would be judged by “the content of their character,” not the “color of their skin.”

Bennett conveniently ignores one fact--King was a strong supporter of affirmative action. In “Why We Can’t Wait,” published in 1963, he argued that given the long history of American racism, blacks fully deserved “special, compensatory measures” in jobs, education and other realms. Four years later, in “Where Do We Go From Here?” he wrote: “A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him.”

You are incorrect about MLKs assessment. From the LA Times.
Without having numbers, we'd just be armchair economists. But there are a number of things we could look for.

- Everyone wants to live in the same places. From what I understand, Toronto is the elephant in the room in Canada. It's the #1 and almost everyone wants to live there. Also, most of Canada's farmland is below the 49th parallel. Next up are Vancouver and Montreal. Vancouver is hemmed in by mountains and floodplains so you can't just build everywhere. There may be a local version of this as well.

- Plain old demand outstrips supply. Y'all are building housing like crazy in Vancouver, compared to the Bay Area, but folks who've lived there a while tell me that the place was discovered after the Olympics. Someone else mentioned zoning, which may work with this point and the previous point, but we don't know.

- The business / investor class is relatively static. In the naughts, there was this idea that software developers should not be paid more than X, and that the only way to move up was to become a manager. Despite that, salaries crept up because of competition from finance, until the collusion between Jobs and others was exposed. Is there some wider version of this in society? I don't know. In Oregon, non-competes only apply to people up to a certain level of income, so this sort of thing may be subtle.

- Property taxes are low but income taxes are high. This would favor investing in real estate rather than the labor market.

- Immigration for skilled labor is difficult. This would depress average incomes, especially if the immigrants you are losing are the sort who tend to use more services.

- Infrastructure / building costs are expensive, e.g. if the cost of infrastructure is subsidized through housing any way. Canada's topography is not as blessed as the U.S. It is not lacking for resources, but the only region of Canada where it's easy to transport said resources, without significant capital investment, is in the Toronto area. In the U.S., if you want to ship grain, you just float it down the river. That's super cheap. And then how do you get it to population centers? Most of Canada is big and spread out, and the rivers run north in many parts too. I imagine that in a lot of it, you have to build roads, and it's hard to build roads to all of the places. This restricts the actual amount of land that's available for settlement.

So yeah, someone with a LOT of time and experience doing econometrics could go and quantify these and other things, if the data is there. They may need to gather data themselves.
If the government presents a company with a warrant to wiretap an account, as happens in these cases, they should sleep well at night. Due process is followed, and we as society have decided that warrants are a reasonable trade-off between privacy and successful criminal prosecution.
The warning really should be to avoid using service providers for long-term storage of anything.

You should have your own copies of any important emails/documents/etc.
Let's imagine a hypothetical America, where we remove the economic aspect. Let's imagine that every household in america pulls in $250k/year and prices are uniform for every household across the nation. No one is poor. Everyone goes to the same excellent free schools where the teachers also make $250k/year. We've removed economics as a variable. Everyone is equally educated and equally rich.

But let's leave one variable in: America is exactly as racist as America is currently. Ethnic backgrounds and cultures still exist, and there are enough white assholes in "gatekeeping" roles to affect the distribution of people who pass their gates. This is a fact that is a true thing that already exists in America; we're not ADDING it to the model, we've just left it in as the only thing we want to measure.

Structurally, as a society, you want the distribution of people who pass through higher education into roles like "Doctors" and "Lawyers" and eventually "Politicians" to broadly match the distribution of cultures that comprise the society as a whole. Otherwise you create an apartheid state, and an angry under-class that threatens the stability of the system. This is an axiom so simple that even Lyndon Johnson understood it.

So in our Model America, you need to have a law that says "yeah we know that everyone is the same, but because a degree from [Prestigious University] has a ripple effect that affects society as a whole, we want to make sure that graduating classes have at least the CHANCE of reflecting the cultural diversity of the nation as a whole, so we need to have a law that prevents Bad Actors in Admissions from just saying 'Oh, we already let in all the white people in line, wink wink wink, sorry, maybe next year'"

That's the reason you might still want quotas. And given the distribution of test scores because everyone ISN'T identical frictionless spheres, you might want to add a weight to minority test scores to float them overall, so they get in.

And yeah, that might not seem fair if you're in the majority; or if you're in the minority whose test scores are highest, but there's a clear and self-evident purpose to those kinds of weightings. Life's not fair, but it should be equitable, overall.
Sure, I meant for the people actually using it. Like if you want TikTok just continuing using TikTok, which you know is "mobile-first" and thus craptastic in a regular browser but presumably you don't care. But Google seems to have just blindly copied TikTok and enshittified their existing product to push it, when they could have integrated it into normal Youtube and made something better than both.
The constitution doesn't enumerate every right a citizen has. It's a framework for judges (and congress) to determine what laws can and cannot be applied to citizens. The right to abortion was ruled to be protected by the 4th amendment.

While this case is held up as being the legislating from the bench case, it's really not. We don't generally pass laws that make something legal, except as exceptions to other laws. Saying that government access to a person's medical records is protected by the constitution is exactly the function of SCOTUS.
Hang tight.

github:ayim
WW2 airplane armoring?
Flutter doesn't use native UI. It recreates similar UI.
Those rumors were started by his estranged aunt, who apparently just wanted a ton of attention.

Don't get me wrong, it's still horrible, and I still believe he shouldn't have gone down there. But he wasn't freaking out and terrified for weeks like his aunt said.
That's what it was supposed to do but this time it went down and didn't come back up.
How to ruin your competitors business
I see this sentiment often expressed on hacker news and it seems to be happening more and more often
Probably the reason is licensing is a pain, and its not true "zero-cost" in that case. CentOS then Rocky/Alma removed that issue.

RH doesn't understand this.
Thunderbird is good, but I'll also suggest Postbox for people looking for alternatives. It's a commercial fork of Thunderbird (so about as "native" as Thunderbird is), but I find Postbox has a nicer UI, and at the time I switched its local email search was significantly faster. Layout is customizable, you're not restricted to the design (or theme) in their screenshots:

https://www.postbox-inc.com/

It has some support for Thunderbird plugins. I use a self-modified version of h.ogi's Priority Switcher to bring back the user-editable priority column that Eudora used to have. (I don't understand how people can process their mail without sorting it by Priority....)

Won't be for everyone - it's not open source, not free and there's no Linux version (yet?). Personally I'm happy to pay for a professional / premium email client experience, since it's so mission-critical to my work.
Roe v Wade's trimester system, like virtually all abortion cutoffs, was essentially arbitrary. Calibrated to fit what their gut felt was right. For evidence of this, look at the abortion cutoffs in Europe, nearly every European country has a different cutoff from the others. In Germany it's 12 weeks and in the UK it's 24. It's all over the place. If these cutoffs were based on science there shouldn't be this much spread.
The policy was based on several factors, of which race was one.

And helping some groups of people - yes, sometimes the grouping is determined by race - is not discriminating against everyone else.

In other words, lifting Asians, Blacks, Hawaiians, and Eskimos is not being racist towards "Whites" as is asserted elsewhere in this discussion. I use quotes because white is a pretty new categorization. It used to be Germans, English, Italians, Irish, etc.
It's generally good advice.

Although when I was younger I took it too much to heart and became obsessed with having a verbal and written understanding of everything when, sometimes, a deeper understanding at a subconscious, more intuitive, level is more useful. :)
The GCD code seems underspecified - it only guarantees that the result is a common divisor, but not that it’s the greatest common divisor.
Here's an article that explains this distinction in detail: https://medium.com/the-infinite-universe/why-galaxies-recedi...
I like "throw away your first solution" or "be prepared to throw away your first solution."

And the difference between a senior dev and a junior dev is knowing when to stop.
Oh boy, here we go with the scare journalism again. Nuclear disarmament would be a great thing, but this garbage where we make entire generations live in fear of annihilation to sell (Checks Time ads) Flextra Solar panels... No thank you Time.
I mean, if I were jumping on a wooden board and it started reducing in snapping noises, I'd probably feel the board weakening, not hardening and improving. The logic in above quoted sentence seems to be drawing a completely opposite conclusion from intuition.
Writing is like extending the context window for our brains neural nets. Writing helps us also defragment our brains. We write notes for ourselves to empty our brains of the thoughts at times.

PG's work back in the day on writing as a form of think is still pretty relevant.
http://www.paulgraham.com/words.html