skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t see how DEI initiatives address any of that. It may actually be regressive in that regard.

I don't understand DEI initiatives enough to agree or disagree. The poster I was responding to seemed to be speaking of diversity in general so that was what I was intending to address.

> I think we agree on that part. But forcing a DEI model on hiring will take on the biases in the model itself.
It’s like delegating an individual’s bias to a group of people, who have their own bias. And it seems fruitless to me.

I view diversity in general as shifting biases, not eliminating them. It's just not possible to eliminate them.

We already know that certain groups are underrepresented based on historical selection criteria so we're going in with the assumption that they are capable of doing the job but are not given the opportunity.

To make it less open to misunderstanding I'll just use self-taught software engineer as an example. We can all imagine there is a 100x engineer that is self taught. But due to hiring practices (requires college degree, requires unrelated computer science fundamentals, etc) is never hired and given a chance to reach their potential.

Maybe we're not quite sure how to evaluate self taught engineers like we are with engineers that take a more traditional path, it's likely they work and learn differently. All we know is some part of our process is selecting them out.

I view the idealized vision of DEI sort of in those ways. We know there are some set of biases that are leading certain groups to be underrepresented in tech. We also know that our interview process isn't some grand objective measure of engineer competence.

DEI to me is accepting the existence of biases. While you try to address the ones you can, you cannot eliminate them all so you design processes with assumptions of bias.

I don't pretend to know what companies do specifically in their DEI to shift those weights. But let me pretend my company gives everyone score on 100 point scale. Now I'll shift to a genuinely controversial case.

The info I have:

A black woman received a score of 80 and a white man received a score of 85. My company views anyone that receives a score above 70 as "acceptable to hire". Who do I hire? If I view my measure as completely objective, I should take the higher score. There is even fairness to doing so.

But if I think they both can do the job reasonably well, is it right to tip the scales? Do I think my company can benefit from underrepresented people in tech? Is there some bias that caused her to get the lower score in the first place such that she is the better engineer? Etc etc.

Sorry that is unorganized stream of consciousness
Hoped to find a simple link to a simple tarball. Ha, silly me. Encountered the usual phantasmagoric quagmire of but-first pages.
I'm not sure about this title. You do not actually get to hear anything beautiful or bizarre being played by this instrument.
What’s a good site that lists current differences between native apps and PWAs?

Like can PWAs run in background or respond to location changes, etc
They might either mean that the (current line of) humanity will not continue

or

Millions will die.
I think your nephew is the exception, not the rule.
Meth is historically misclassified, too. Why are we drawing the line at marijuana?

If we lower the scheduling of opioids to Schedule IV, fentanyl usage in the United States would drop almost entirely within a month. Importing clean prescription drugs from other countries would have low enough risk that the reward would be easily met. Odds are, it would also undercut wider organized drug crime.

You may find this article in The Economist worth a read:

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/10/12/joe-biden-is-to...
The EU's DMA law is going to force them to finally start competing with other browser engines on iOS, at least in Europe. When that became clear they started investing more in WebKit. It's been a few years now.
New seed varieties made for growth and shelf life, greenhouse grown instead of field grown
Government lies, aka statistics, conveniently ignore the cost of high quality items when doing averages. If you are buying eggs as a health conscious person, you know not to buy $1/dozen eggs any more because industry producers have made them low cost by reducing quality, feeding chickens soy and the cheapest excuse for food. The pastured ones are 5-10x the cost and the quality is night and day. US government conveniently views these things as staples, but they are not.
Interest rates were intentionally kept low after the pandemic to let wheels running. Erdogan had an election to win and made "interest is forbidden in Islam" as a slogan for economic policy and also lower rates was good for unemployment, which is good for elections. Also you can't just say "we'll devalue the currency in your pocket so you'll be poorer but this is necessary to make industrial exports to be competitive with China" to your voters.

The new plan after the election is single digit inflation in 2027. I don't think he will live that long to see it, he's ill, but yeah, it's the usual economics after all.
The value of the service depends on how many other peaker plants there already are.

> That's a valuable service, and it gets rewarded by usual electricity-market arrangements.

This is the bureaucracy papering over the details like an abstraction layer. You want to look at the underlying economics when you're redesigning a system like this. This is napkin math but it should be directionally accurate.

Suppose we assign rates to the relationship between supply and demand in the power grid. The price of electricity set by how much demand exceeds supply.

Then you're going to have a base rate, call it R0, essentially what electricity costs off-peak on a typical day. This is the rate which is going to prevail for around two thirds of the time. Then you have your normal day peak rate, R1, this is what it costs in the early evening when there is low renewable generation and high demand, basically the higher cost of intra-day energy storage. This might prevail for 1/6th of the hours in a year.

Two thirds plus 1/6th, you still have another 1/6th, that's when something bad is happening. It's a bit cloudy today, rate R2, happens 10% of the time. More cloudy, even higher rate R3, 3% of the time. Overcast for the whole day, rate R4, 2% of the time. Overcast for multiple days, rate R5, 1% of the time. Overcast for multiple days in the summer during peak air conditioning demand, rate R6, <1% of the time.

Now you can calculate how much value a nuclear plant has, because it generates all the time:

0.6667 * R0
0.1667 * R1
0.1000 * R2
0.0300 * R3
0.0200 * R4
0.0100 * R5
0.0067 * R6

Solar has to recover its costs from just R0, which is the lowest rate, but it can do that by generating for a large number of hours a year relative to a peaker plant, and because it's cheap. Batteries recover their cost during R1, which isn't as many hours but the rate is higher.

The first peaker plant gets R2 through R6, because it gets turned on as soon as you hit R2, i.e. you need more than you get from current generation + energy storage. The second peaker plant only generates at R3 through R6 because it doesn't get turned on until then, since the first one was enough during R2.

The last peaker plant only generates during R6 and has to justify its entire cost by operating only 0.67% of the time. Which is why R6 is the highest rate, but even then it's a tough sell -- much harder than the other peaker plants which operate during R6 and R5, R4, etc.

Whereas the nuclear plant operates ~100% of the time, R0 through R6, replacing both renewable generation on a normal day and peaker generation during a supply crunch. But it costs more to build. So it should be worth it to replace the peaker plant that only operates during R6, but maybe not worth it to replace the peaker plant that operates from R3-R6, and definitely not worth it to replace the peaker plant that operates from R2-R6.
The persistence of tradition: the curious case of Henry Symeonis
> Now, the traditional way to solve this has been through algorithms. We rely on them to find patterns in what you read or listened to or watched and then identify other things which you might like to read or listen to or watch.

That's an odd use of "traditional". Maybe I come from an older tradition, but my solution is to forget passive discovery. Instead of hoping someone else's algorithm will identify things for you, actively search for it yourself.
I've got a NAS, a really nice NetGear router, and four mini PCs
I don't think there's anything about the standard history APIs that causes conflicts between history and url hash use. I don't really know how widely used client routers work, but this really sounds like a trivial fix. I'm probably missing something.
given the nature and significance of the online world, it would have been more appropriate to retire the phone number. what percentage of people who used CompuServe had a clue where it was?
Yea, it's like a form of warfare. Governments need to take these things seriously.
> Not private individuals consuming it in their own homes, and causing absolutely no harm to anyone

Considering that there is -at least- a correlation between substance abuse and domestic abuse [1,2]. I wouldn't be so sure to say "absolutely no harm" in this case.

[1] https://www.gov1.com/public-health/articles/the-link-between...

[2] https://academic.oup.com/bjc/article/59/5/1035/5486457
I think you're looking for the term "contemporary", at least in the context of art and design.
Went to a trade high school, the usual classes but a focus on carpentry.
That Symbolics keyboard looks like a minor variation on the PC keyboard in some regards.

The Control key is in the same wrong general location; it wants to be where Symbolics has Rubout, and where PC keyboards have Caps Lock.

Another bad design was the DEC VT100 terminal keyboard. It put Ctrl to the left of a Caps Lock key: [Ctrl][Caps Lock][A][S][D][F]. Yikes!

Apple II had this right:

[Ctrl][A][S][D][F]

Commodore 64: Ctrl weirdly high:

[Ctrl][Q][W][E]
[Rs][Sl][A][S][D]

Ctrl next to Q. Rs = "RunStop", Sl = "Shift Lock".

In any case, I need the LeftControl to be somewhere far to the left, just like LeftShift.

Here is why: I only use those! I never use RightShift or RightCtrl.

When I type Ctrl-Q, Ctrl-W, ... Ctrl-Y, Ctrl-A ... Ctrl-G, Ctrl-Z ... Ctrl-B, I'm always using the left pinky, plus another finger of the same hand.

Same with the capitals of those letters: LeftShift with left pinky, plus left hand finger.

Whenever I have to use Alt, which is rare, I use LeftAlt, and it's quite awkward with the left side keys due to its position.

Here is why I use only LeftShift: from time to time ALL CAPS material occurs, like when typing identifiers such as PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER. The only way to type these fast without using the Caps Lock key is to hold down shift with one finger and just type with the remaining nine fingers. Changing between left and right Shift in order to always use the opposite Shift key would be slow and prone to typing mistakes. Once you can type arbitrary material blindingly fast with your pinky holding down the LeftShift key, it makes no sense to think about the existence of RightShift.
A reminder that anytime an outlandish or shocking sounding claim is made, to follow up on its veracity. Usually it is much less surprising. For example: that lady that sued McDonald’s for coffee being hot… sued because the coffee was hot enough to melt flesh, which she experienced firsthand. And don’t take my word for it because that, too, is shocking. 0.

0 - https://www.tortmuseum.org/liebeck-v-mcdonalds/
There are indeed multiple sources of emissions, many not at all needing human intervention at all.

Luckily, we can generally measure natural emissions vs human emissions and find how much of it is being caused by us. Incidentally, due to where various gasses are trapped, many natural looking emissions are still our fault, this is frequently discussed in talks and papers about runaway climate change (note that I mean talks and papers from scientific authorities, not Facebook and fox)
No, it's fact, not conspiracy theory.

"You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?

We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon
I wonder how many VINs were on the list. A small percentage of cars or all of them?
As a Turk I'm still calling the country Turkey but most foreigners prefer Türkiye. Maybe it looks cool.

You can continue to call it as usual, I don't think no one will be offended by it :)
One could say the same for Google's browser investments as well. At this point, if Chrome and Safari don't implement something, it basically doesn't exist as a web technology. The only other engine is Firefox sitting at 3% of usage.

In Apple's case, I think there's some utility behind their drive for WebGPU: it's basically Apple's Metal graphics API. If WebGPU takes off, it'll mean a lot of developers getting familiar with something very similar to Apple's Metal API. Apple seems to be pursuing a long-term strategy of bringing more games to their platform. From the Game Porting Toolkit to ray tracing in their processors to Apple Vision to simply giving gaming a lot more attention in their keynotes.

And Apple might be well positioned to capitalize on gaming. A $130 Apple TV has a lot more CPU and graphics power than a Nintendo Switch. The same applies to the iPhones people are carrying around. It might not compete with giant consoles from Microsoft and Sony, but Apple has been showing that it can offer impressive gaming performance.

Fast forward to 2026: does a next-gen Apple TV have hardware ray tracing? Apple put a 2021 A15 processor in the 2022 Apple TV. It seems reasonable that they could put something better than a 2023 A17 Pro in a 2026 Apple TV (a 3 year old processor at that point). Sure, Microsoft and Sony will have next-gen consoles, but at what point are graphics facing diminishing returns? Nintendo has the most popular console even though it's older and was low-powered to begin with. For PC games, one must assume that some people are running graphics cards that are older.

I'm not saying this will happen. Companies can be fickle. However, Apple has show a reasonably consistent (if slow) move toward games over the past year or two. They're making the investments now and WebGPU's Metal-like API could be part of that strategy.

Heck, maybe WebGPU is even a strategy to avoid lawsuits from companies like Epic and anti-trust action from regulators. If you don't like the App Store rules, just use WebGPU. If games with native-level graphics can be distributed via the web, then there isn't nearly as much for regulators to go after the App Store.
My takeaways:

> 4.2 Recommendations

> The core problem is that MySQL claims to implement Repeatable Read but actually provides something much weaker. We see two avenues to resolve this problem.

> The first is to keep MySQL’s behavior as it is, and to clearly document the consistency model “Repeatable Read” actually provides. There is precedent in other databases: PostgreSQL’s Repeatable Read is actually Snapshot Isolation, and exhibits behaviors which violate PL-2.99 Repeatable Read. However, PostgreSQL’s documentation eventually mentions that their Repeatable Read implementation is actually Snapshot Isolation. MySQL could similarly document that their “Repeatable Read” means “Read Committed, plus some sort of guarantees that hold until the transaction writes something, at which point mysteries occur.” A precise characterization of those mysteries would be most welcome.

Calling what MySQL's "Repeatable Read" as "Read Committed plus..." would be more confusing as even the simplest repeated read without mutations wouldn't work as expected. The documentation should be more upfront about how MySQL "Repeatable Read" doesn't mean what might be expected. In the meantime keep the "MySQL consistent read documentation"[0] close by.

> The second option is to treat these behaviors as bugs and fix them. Jepsen would be delighted if MySQL and other vendors were to commit to providing PL-2.99 Repeatable Read. However, even satisfying the incomplete, ambiguous ANSI definition of Repeatable Read would be an improvement over current affairs.

I doubt this would be feasible with the extent of deployment. At scale bug-fixes are bugs in themselves. The best that could be done is to create distinct isolation levels for the existing MySQL-RR and the compliant RR isolation levels (somewhat akin to the utf8/utf8mb4 evolution).

[0] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/innodb-consistent-re...
This take doesn’t survive scrutiny. The real money from the App Store comes from play to win games. The reason those make so much money is because of the direct link to in app purchases and “whales” spending money on meaningless coins and loot boxes.

This came out in the Epic Trial. Those people are much less likely to put a credit card on any random site.

Candy Crush games could already be done on the web on mobile - it wouldn’t be nearly as monetizable
How effective were the laws against it?
"straight to the balls" ... "under the desk"

What?
fintech?

Like just hacking the stock market with signals and information intelligence?
thank you for reading the article posted and leaving a meaningful comment that speaks to its content. /s
It could also be strategic. A more capable web browser along with better PWA support, could be an offering to the EU to settle app store monopoly issues. Apple could say they have made it so easy to install quality apps from the web there is no need to mandate alternative stores.
If you don't find some parts of crypto impressive then you probably don't understand it. Proof of Work, smart contracts, and zero knowledge blockchains are actually very incredible innovations. It's just all the scam bullshit around that people hate.
Wow what a cool project https://github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui
If you're implementing a web server you would want to allocate a fixed size buffer that can hold the request body or at least the request headers. Otherwise an attacker can cause excessive reallocations (memory churn) just by sending very long requests, and hold the memory until you time out their connection.
Mozilla to Support Trusted Types
The article is the doubt. How can you say there's no doubt about this?
Fentanyl is only a thing because cocaine and heroin are illegal or hard to get.
Yes, drugs come with risks. You know what else triggers latent psychosis? Alcohol. Prohibition is not the answer to this problem, education, harm reduction, the freedom to seek information and help without prosecution, is.
I lost track of how many times the article uses the words “could” or “potentially”.
So if that’s true, why are app developers still releasing Android apps instead of just letting them use the web version?

And I haven’t heard anyone say “you know I have a really great experience with web apps. I wish all of my apps were web apps on mobile and Electron on my computer”
You have to draw a line, then edit all it's parameters. It's a pain.
It's injecting one's opinion of what is important about the article into the title. This misrepresents the article and puts the personal view of the poster in a favoured position it doesn't merit. One of the most basic not-allowed things in HN titles.
well, "find a friend to be your senses", circa 1999.

Even more true today.

Anyone who helps your senses stay sensible, becomes a kind of friend..
Yes they are being sarcastic.
When I need a new one I'm just looking at what's available for a decent price (usually local on Mercari, sometimes eBay) and then checking the list of supported models for the not-ChromeOS firmware at https://wiki.mrchromebox.tech/Supported_Devices

If it's supported and I'm comfortable with the method for disabling write-protect then I pull the trigger.

I usually install xubuntu, but on a couple models I've found Ubuntu/Debian based distros have some issues with the trackpad, but Fedora running XFCE works fine, so you may want to go straight to that if you're comfortable with Red Hat.
for me Factorio combat was overall boring and just drudgery, and just adding unfun pressure.
> Did the government set out to subsidise an upstream industry, or did they set out to incentivise consumers to purchase certain products?

It's both. If you want customers to buy certain products in large volumes, there has to be capacity to manufacture said products in large volumes.

> Interesting that mine do, and yours don't.

Me asking you for evidence does not preclude you from asking the same of me. If you want evidence that government subsidies and incentives do work, I can readily provide that[1] - it seems pretty self-evident to me considering history, and international trade complaints about subsidies.

1. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/1/534, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10131743/, cash for clunkers, etc
This is really cool and humans are amazing. You have to be relentlessly resourceful to engineer a material and study it like they’ve done.

If you read the paper, however, you see that it’s more about chemists showing off a tour de force. The application itself is not exactly novel. It’s a solution looking for a problem. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2311396120

Which takes nothing away from their remarkable effort. Kudos!
I'm extremely pro remote work, but this... seems perfectly fine.

It's not even "time zone close to Australia", which would also be fine, but "we have teams around the world, if you want to work with team X you need to have some overlapping hours". Common sense really.
I meant individuals living on their own in that case. By all means increase the penalties for the abuse if it's proven to be fueled by drugs.
Hot take- I don't use cannabis and I like that cannabis use disqualifies a lot of my competitors in the job market.
I didn't pick up regular staph -- I picked up an already moderately resistant strain that became more resistant due to treatments stopped too-early due to both allergic reactions (my issue), illness/vomiting due to collapsed "stomach biome" (my issue), and undersized prescription lengths (doctors issue).
Why does fentanyl kill? Because people buy it and don't understand the strength. Regulation would take care of that. So what's your argument here?
I don't think we were ever normal.

The entry barrier got so much lower with learning overall.

Humans just don't care in avg how shit works.
isn't it more likely that classical mechanics emerges from the Schrodinger equation?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman#Drug_war_quote
I’ll bite that bullet.

Legalize heroin, and nobody would want to take the more-dangerous fentanyl?

But sure, legalize fentanyl and nobody would accidentally overdose.

Legalize and standardize all drugs and nobody would die from fentanyl contaminating their cocaine.
The video embedded in the article contains some samples: https://youtu.be/CoYL2LtMZFQ?t=31
> Microsoft aims to discontinue support for Windows 10 by October 2025. The next generation of the OS, anticipated to bring advanced artificial intelligence technology to PCs, could potentially boost the sluggish PC market.

Planned obsolesce so they can push ai, a cancer of the software world.