skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect there are two big factors in this that have nothing to do with BLM:

1. The year before this, 2020, saw disproportionately large job losses for non-white employees. It makes sense that the rebound would affect them disproportionately too.

2. People of the right age to retire or die/get disabled by Covid in large numbers are disproportionately white, while the people of the age to enter the workforce are disproportionately not, so it makes sense that job growth is mostly non-white.
Yes, and factories are a good thing for every other country as well. Why have 1b Chinese moved from rural farm life to city factory life? Because rural farm life is unimaginably shitty in pretty much every way.
Really looking forward to bcachefs, but honestly, what a prima-donna. Just follow the process like everyone else.
Neither Russia or China has ever interfered with vote totals. No one has ever claimed that
Go back a hundred years or so and describe advancements such as organ transplants, DNA sequencing, insulin, pacemakers, the MRI machine, mRNA and more to the common people and they would think we were all living in a post-disease utopia. In reality a very tiny percent of the world has access to any of this medical progress.

Technological innovation is not enough. We also need the political will to ensure equitable distribution, otherwise it will create a yet bigger gulf between the haves and have nots.
I've left this place a few times as it's gotten progressively worse. Then I rejoin after some time off, and it's even more warped and hostile to new users.
None of Taiwan’s fans can run for very long without parts and replacement machinery from the USA or Europe. The tech is pretty locked down, even if production is currently distributed. China doesn’t have much choice but it re-invent the engineering done in the west to catch up (on economical perf, not just perf or economical).

I don’t think the economists get this, but definitely people in the Chinese government are aware that taking Taiwan doesn’t really get them the tech.
Chrome is already a monopoly. Youtube is a monopoly. Point me to the EU action against them.
You're telling me no defense lawyer thinks about arguing the evidence is unreliable or are you just saying the prosecution throws everything they can find at their side of the case? The former seems extremely hard to believe (lest you're about to become the greatest defense lawmaker of all time due to wisdom shared in a short HN comment) and the latter seems to be evidence of the system working both well and as designed, not evidence it's badly faulty.
One word: Dashboard.
There is only one "now", is there not? All else is perception of speed.
RCS is a half baked implementation from google; the company that has killed every single chat app they've released. It's a spec that relies on carrier implementation of any feature and if actually implemented by a majority would immediately go the way of SMS and people would cry for a new better spec in a few years. We have seen all of this before and the push for RCS from google is propaganda because iMessage is effective for iOS lock-in and Apple sales. Users have the freedom to install any third party chat app and use that if they don't like iMessage.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-...

> Even if you could snap your fingers and magically roll out RCS to every device, you wouldn't actually create a competitive messaging solution. Being a standard created in 2008 means RCS has standards from 2008, and it's lacking things you would want from a modern messaging service, like end-to-end encryption. The Google Messenger strategy strangely insists on using RCS as the base protocol, but the service also keeps trying to build features on top of it that kick in when both users are on Google Messages.
Tell HN: macOS Bartender disables features, forcing users to buy license again
I have bought Bartender's license and while some of its features already didn't work on Ventura, I didn't mind. But after upgrading macOS to Sonoma, Bartender has become an annoy-ware, randomly showing a disturbing item in the menu bar and basically telling me it's what it is unless I buy the newer version (Bartender 5) which is "optimized" for Sonoma.

This is not acceptable. Deleted the app using App Cleaner to make sure none of its files remain on my machine.
Going off the chart, shrinkage due to theft is pretty stable. It’s not up. If anything, it’s down from last year. Anyways, I guess perception is reality.

I think what this calls for is ubiquitous retailer facial recognition systems. You thought tracking pixels and cookies were bad? Get ready to be tracked everywhere you go with high granularity. The MGM fiasco was just the beginning.
Lmfao Rishi Sunsk and Justin Trudeau interfering to protect the rights of the oppressed moose minority, make English one of America’s official languages, and reclaim America for the Crown

I’m not even going to touch the thinly veiled antisemitic smear
Old but good post on vector maps vs. raster maps from our friends at CARTO: https://carto.com/blog/raster-vs-vector-whats-the-difference...
Unnesting is a bit orthogonal, I'm basically saying any UPDATE statement that has a FROM clause in Postgres.
How Big Is Debian?
Something like 'f(x) = y + 3' can make perfect sense, depending on context.

For example, that could describe a constant function that doesn't depend on x, and y is a free variable that gets its value from context.

Or y could implicitly be a function of x. That happens a lot in calculus or physics.
It might matter to you, but it has no bearing on the welfare of a child or the greater good of the community.
Yeah I always assumed Taiwan was an ideological / historical kinda thing.

It could be all but a barren rock, same feelings and motivations would apply.
I believe it means vector-graphics based.
I'm gonna be honest, I've never understood the appeal of a smart bulb. I installed dimmer switches in each room of my house and bought LED bulbs that get redder when dimmed (like incandescent bulbs naturally do). I turn on the lights when I walk into a room, turn them down when it gets dark outside, and turn them off when I leave or go to sleep.

To those who do find value in WiFi-connected bulbs: what makes them worth it to you? I'm genuinely curious, because if Home Depot's lightbulb aisle is any indication I'm the odd one.
I asked Meta's A.I. chatbot what it thought of my books
I think incarceration is very bad at deterring future crimes, but it very good at delaying them. Someone in jail for 10 years is at the very least not going to commit a crime for 10 years. There is some merit to that until we have a better system.
Hogwash:

> Picture a Lego castle, an intricate structure where replacing a single component often necessitates dismantling large portions. Now envision a bag of marbles, where elements can be effortlessly swapped in and out. The goal of a well-structured software system should always resemble the latter. Properly applying SOLID principles leads to code that is modular and easily reconfigurable.

It's a bad analogy for one thing; try to get that third marble from the edge on the bottom row without disturbing the rest of them. And Lego is about the most "modular and reconfigurable" thing around.

But I'm sure that buzzwords, acronyms and principles like the "Onion Architecture" will take that big ball of mud and turn it into a bag of ... marbles?
Why are you trying to play off your limited anecdotal evidence as universal? It has been the most important thing since the dawn of human civilization and continues to be so. What if someone just dropped off a random child at your doorstep and tells you you’re responsible for its upbringing now. I can understand people that want to adopt but that’s a conscious decision they made on their part.
> I much prefer modern society over what they had. Commonly available running water, electricity, heating, insulation, the internet are some pretty nice things.

This is totally, completely, utterly irrelevant to the GP's point.
The article purports to be about hiring, but uses net gains/losses by group. Actual hiring data is left out.

The breakdown by job category tells a different story from the headline. Whites were well represented in the growth of executives and professionals, but overall declined in the "less senior" category of laborers and service workers.
GrapheneOS supports devices 1 year after they stop receiving updates by the OEM.[1]

E.g. my Pixel 4a stopped receiving updates last month but will probably receive Android 14 updates until the next release.

[1] https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-lifetime
Halting technological process is way way more costly for humanity than the alternative.
> The purpose of a company is to make money. Not all companies are successful: lots of companies fail to make money. But, when push comes to shove, and a company needs to choose between "make money" and something else, say, a commitment to not being evil, the company will choose "make money".

Are non-profits not “companies”? Are there no small businesses that opt against expansion?

This is a reductive and ridiculous take. The real world isn’t Soc101 or a poor reading of Marx, nor is it black and white.
> Well, I got 4 ocular migraines in less than 3 days. Packed them all up and sent them back. If anyone has recommendations for LEDs that don't trigger migraines let me know.

I had the opposite. I had significantly fewer migraines after switching (originally) to GE LEDs from incandescent. I forget which product line, but they were the daylight ones and expensive.

> Honestly, the whole thing sort of seems like focusing on the wrong things. I've never owned a car, am vegetarian, have never lived in more than 1000 sq ft as an adult, and walk/take public transit in NYC daily. Not sure the 2 incandescent lightbulbs I use in my living room are really causing climate change.

I can confidently say that the general public laws about light bulb choices are not written for people who match this description.
I use both MacPorts and Homebrew. By and large, I prefer MacPorts (because I can pin a package and it will stay pinned, whereas Homebrew will upgrade a package if it happens to be a dependency of something else) but there are numerous packages and casks only available in Homebrew.

If I could switch entirely to MacPorts, I would.
Wait, what Flintstones am I supposed to have watched? The Hana-Barbera cartoon was so good that it deserves to be the go-to example for things that young people "somehow haven't heard of"?
The Duane Reade near me always had them. Bodegas. Smaller grocery stores. I don't know, they never were hard to find here in NYC until a few months ago.
> We had to demand formula

I don’t understand. You can’t just go to the store and buy infant formula?
I don't mind paying for bandwidth. I mind paying well in excess of 1,000x what that bandwidth costs.

Peering costs are effectively zero and so your costs are hardware to peer and bandwidth to the site. They already split bandwidth so we will consider that unimportant for this discussion.

You have a 10 Gb connection to a peer and that connection costs around $10k and lasts 5 years give or take.

So given a per year rate of $2k and 10% maximum utilization the entire bandwidth cost is ~$200/year.

Since that is 4.6 Petabytes that means it costs 4 cents per Terabyte of bandwidth.

Sure I could be off by a bit but an order of magnitude puts it at 40 cents per Terabyte.

Now let's compare Cox's price of $10/50 GB or $200 per Terabyte.

Even inflating the costs by 10x you are looking at 99.8% profit margin on bandwidth fees.
And the same government makes sure that the code, in addition to including things that are actually necessary for your safety, also includes a lot of other things that aren't, but that are beneficial for the friends and relatives of government officials who run construction companies and don't want to have to innovate. As Robert Heinlein once said, "We have never seen a modern house."
A good hacker does not reject any tool at their disposal. The corpos certainly don’t.
I don't have any problem getting it to help with exploit development. I never had any issue with that with any of them, in fact, which is surprising in retrospect.

Inference is so slow, and almost everything about fuzzers are meant to be super fast. Maybe there's a late stage part in crash validation/analysis where you can use it but my bias is that we're just not there yet.
The pattern I have observed in my friends and myself (when I was on dating apps) goes something like this:
We get matches, some of those matches flake, don't respond, or don't pan out into anything. So we mitigate that emotional risk by talking to multiple people at once. As a result we're pulling the lever (swiping) and eventually getting the emotional payout of a match with someone cute. Then we see something we don't like in the person we matched with, so we're faced with the choice accepting someone for their flaws, or pulling the Skinner box lever (swiping.) I know it sounds reductive, but it preys on our addictive nature in a way that gets in the way of human connection. Eventually we snap out of it, but by that time, we have been on the app for several months or even years for some people. While it doesn't keep people single per se, it is not the most conducive means of cultivating genuine relationships. As a result people stay on the app for longer, and keeps the user base high.

Maybe I'm mis-attributing survivorship bias to malice. In other words, sure it's profitable for Tinder, but not inherently beneficial to society. Tinder might not actively trying to operate this way, but there is a large population of people that will gravitate towards the dating services that give them that high of variable rewards It's profitable for Tinder and all of it's look-alikes, so they continue to exist in the market.

The issue I take with all of it is the misalignment of incentives in the business model. Regardless of intention, there's an inherent disconnect. If Tinder has someone paying $500 a month, they're going to want to keep those payments coming. How would they do that?
Target Closing 3 Bay Area Stores Due to Retail Theft
It’s based on compression. The paper explains how the GPU stores pixels in memory in a losslessly compressed format in order to speed up data transfers. And the filter stack is designed so that a dark pixel input produces an all-black output (very compressible), while a light pixel input produces noise as output (very incompressible).

Link to original paper:

https://www.hertzbleed.com/gpu.zip/GPU-zip.pdf
I like the term as it brings excitement. To me modern just means new. Sure, maybe these things haven't been battle tested or widely adopted but they still have a place. The last thing we want is to be stuck with something legacy and unable to progress.

As with all things YMMV. I like having the flexibility of reaching into the toolbelt and having all the tools available, but you can be sure I'll pick the best tool for the job.
It would only have been since 1949, and they gave up their best chance to retake Taiwan (while the Americans weren’t interested) to meddle in Korea instead.

The Americans don’t really care that much about TSMC. Its fabs are highly dependent on parts, material, etc from more secured countries, which is by design, or they would have never allowed semiconductor industries to be setup in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. They have much of the process locked up and a chip only gets made via free trade from multiple countries (with a lot of fate keeping by key allies, like the Dutch).
Rep. Seth Moulton (Mass.) is in government. And if a Chinese military journal said something, the US press would have no qualms saying "Chinese military thinks/wants X". It's on the same level of "disinformation" as 99% of journalism, which is to say, it contains minor sensationalism but has meaningful factual basis, and with minor additional qualifiers, has a reasonable factual basis.
It’s amazing that DAs stopped prosecuting and police calmed down and retail theft wasn’t actually up. Turns out those things don’t affect retail theft.
People already have trouble stashing away money in favor of immediate consumption. Forcing them to take a loss of 10% immediately upon investment basically makes saving much less attractive, especially if their future is uncertain. If for whatever they had to liquidate their investment they'd suffer a loss of 20% before any gains.
I was writing a theorem prover for higher-order modal logic. All the theorem provers written in C or C++ were tens of thousands of lines, and even at that they had only a fraction of what I needed. What's more, they were all like 100 times *slower* at proving theorems which prolog could prove out of the box.

So I decided to try to implement the features I needed on top of the theorem prover which prolog already is.

Took me forever, but eventually it all came together like a thunderclap, and I was able to implement a theorem prover for quantified, higher-order modal logic which was amazingly-blazingly fast--in 67 lines of prolog.

In terms of lines-of-code per day, its the least productive I've ever been :-)
> due to all the weapons that the US gives Taiwan and will continue to give them to defend themselves.

Sorry, we gave all those to Ukraine.
Jailing the shoplifter doesn't do one iota of good when it's an organized crime ring. They'll swap somebody new in without so much as a hitch.

This is a case where the FBI needs to put some old-fashioned boots on the ground and rip the rings, themselves, apart.
True. That’s a fair policy, even if I wasn’t able to use the discount.
I don't get why they removed this in the first place
> I honestly don't care if someone in China knows if my lights are on.

What about someone in China using your devices as part of their botnet to DDoS someone?
I think if you go into virtual biking expecting some sort of exactness - and if there's money/fame attached, you are just set up for disappointment.

A while ago I noticed that all my Peloton PRs happened on the bike at my in-laws gym, not on my own bike. Clearly there is a calibration difference between the two that majorly advantages the in-gym one. And obviously every rider's bike is different so that person ahead of you on the leader board might be putting out less output than you are. But who cares?

I was repairing my Peloton the other day and getting inside made it really obvious how else you can manipulate it if you really cared to. And maybe some people do but again, who cares?

The two numbers that matter are; your weight and perhaps the comparison on output between yourself today and yourself some time ago. Anything where you attach significance to comparison between your number and someone else's, you are in trouble. Somehow the culture on Peloton is such that people don't get into that. Maybe because social interaction is blissfully limited to high fives and following someone's class history.

This system of competitive e sports on temperable equipment was sort of latent with disappointment from the start.
I think leetcode is a fairly brainy and fun game aimed at programmers, but as you note leetcode-style algorithm puzzles are only tangentially related to the work you might actually do at one of these companies. And the fact that you have to grind it for employment makes it less fun.

Maybe slightly better than making candidates do chess puzzles or solve Rubik's Cubes though.
This is the ultimate big tech play.
As long as your 'connected' devices are bulbs going into normal sockets, you can always just fall back to the way you do it now. My Home Assistant is just kind of an appliance (running on a 10 year old mac mini), that I do essentially nothing to keep working. If I unplugged it, I'd just be back to where you are now.

That said, when I set up Home Assistant, it was not without the need for some hobbyist motivation, but it wasn't too bad. That was over a year ago, and I have only gone into it since then to add a couple extra lights and set up a Christmas mode.

As far as the 'why', I can put the light switches where I want them, and have them do exactly what I want. I don't use voice or phone control, I have physical switches, but they're just exactly where it makes sense. An example is that in my living room I have a switch remote on the coffee table that lets me turn on or off all lights in view (kitchen, hallway, living room) and two different light scenes for reading or watching TV.

To me, it's actually simpler than flipping the 5 or 6 switches I would have to otherwise.
No, he's saying he expects the Windows 95 TOS not to change, so you have the option of staying on 95 if you don't like the 11 TOS.

But they don't promise that.
The CCP doesn’t really care what people outside China think about it. It comes off as crass because they plays well at home, and they are immune to public opinion anywhere else.
On this note - without implying anything about OPs personal politics - it's absolutely crazy to me how quickly certain varieties of leftists bought into the imperial notion that major powers are entitled to spheres of influence within which they can enforce their will on smaller neighbors regardless of what those neighbors want for themselves.

Because that's basically how a lot of arguments about NATO, Ukraine, Taiwan etc tend to go. People like Chomsky end up using the same arguments that were used to justify heinous actions in the 70s and 80s, just with the "sides" flipped.
Okay, so let's assume Tinder wanted to foster as great quality of long term relationships as possible.

What would it do?
I do find it bizarre they don't verify you can see with your actual glasses.
No but I do think it’s more resistant than what we currently have? Yes.
Phillips sells dimmable bulbs that become redder as they dim. Those plus a few dimmer switches are all I've needed to create that effect, no network access needed.
> Unfortunately, I can't afford to keep buying systems out of my personal funds. I have personally spent ~7k USD on hardware for the CI and I have been offered reimbursement from the Debian project for my next ~5k USD in spending.

This is ridiculous. There is absolutely ZERO reason why AMD are not giving or donated by AMD at the minimum. I am sure some AMD folks are on HN. Please link this comment to Dr.Lisa Su and get this sorted out.
We know now that the CDC and the manufacturers (and the media) lied about efficacy regarding preventing transmission/infection. In fact, the trials didn't even attempt to measure transmission or infection, and were not ever authorized for such. The only thing they were authorized for was reducing the severity.

Do not perpetuate the myth that the vaccines slowed the spread.
It is just a noop, but here it looks very appropriate/readable because it reads as saying "AI will fill this in".
How does your POI database compare to Google's?
3rd party "Works with google home" stuff will often stop getting updated causing more and more functionality to break over time. Admittedly this is an issue you can avoid by entirely buying the products actually made by Google, or at least carefully selecting third parties, but a huge amount of smarthome stuff is going to be rendered non-functional because of this sort of thing.

I do think the 1st party Google Home stuff is supported well enough, and I don't think any of Google's competitors in the smarthome space are really offering anything that's obviously more compelling. I mostly recommend people either go with big brands or something that can be flashed with tasmota, pick your poison.
At least Ubuntu's names are alphabetical.

Off the top of my head I couldn't tell which was later out of Big Sur, Ventura, Monterey ...
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that if Russia/China get involved they are guaranteed to decide the outcome of the election. That is absolutely not the case.

There are hundreds of factors that will ultimately decide who wins on the day.