skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ESA's article claims to "reveal" Mercury's shadowy north pole, yet the image provides no actual insight into the pole itself, which remains shrouded in permanent darkness... The term "revealed" feels more like marketing spin than substance, as the image merely captures the general area around the pole.

This framing is reminiscent of similar oversights in planetary science, such as the perplexing case of Mars' north pole. Studies suggest a cyclical process where subsurface vapor escapes through a thinned crust during colder seasons, freezing into massive ice deposits, like those seen in the Korolev Crater. These ice layers, some over 1.2 miles thick (see the ESA Korolev Crater Study), challenge the traditional narrative of Mars' geophysical activity. Observations from missions like Mars Express and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal hints of dynamic interactions between the crust and atmosphere, yet much of this is glossed over in mainstream discussions.

Why is there a persistent pattern of incomplete or opaque presentations regarding planetary poles? The public deserves transparency and detailed interpretations, not handwaving claims. If the evidence of crustal thinning and volatile release is as compelling as the imagery suggests, why the reluctance to address it head-on???

A commitment to clarity would foster trust in scientific institutions, rather than leaving informed observers to speculate about what's being left unsaid. This is frustrating.
> According to reporting at the guardian [1], FBs DEI program increased black and brown employees from 8% to 12%. Seems abysmal.

Abysmal based on what? What % of CS graduates are brown/black to begin with?
Ignorant question - is the relatively small size benefit worth another standard that's fairly opaque to troubleshooting and loses readability?

Is there a direct comparison of why someone should choose this over alternatives? 27 bytes down to 18 bytes (for their example) just doesn't seem like enough of a benefit. This clearly isn't targeted to me in either case, but for someone without much knowledge of the space, it seems like a solution in search of a problem.
I was searching for such a reply, because I knew the title can be misleading. My experience was exactly the same, just diet. Absolutely no change in sports (which was btw absolutely ZERO) with great and persistent results, also with the benefit of better blood values across the board.
That is fantastic. I wrote a brief history of web browsers/engines as part of an article a while ago [1] and noticed that tons of smaller browsers were hardly referenced, difficult to get information on due to link-rot, and had very little information available if there was anything surviving.

This looks like the opening to a wonderful rabbit hole for me to dive down this weekend. Cheers!

[1]: https://vale.rocks/posts/everything-is-chrome
> America is a country where the majority even of “white” people belong to ethnic groups that never had anything to do with African American slavery

You're framing DEI as a punishment for slavery, which it's not. White people aren't being punished. That's not the correct framing. That's a self-centered misinterpretation of what's going on.

DEI programs are meant to correct for generations of injustice and to push for equity). But to the dominant group, this feels like oppression, in the same way that feminism feels like man-hatred to many men bc if you have 90% of the pie and there's a trend toward you only having 50% of the pie, you think that's oppression.

So I get why you view this as a punishment of your group (which I assume is one of those white groups who "didn't own slaves", never mind that they all benefited from, and still do, the systemic oppression of non-white people in the US).

I'm full German American to the extent I'm still the same religion as my ancestors, I still speak German in the home with my kids, etc. But it's plain to me how much I benefit from being white even though my ancestors didn't own slaves and were, in fact, opposed to slavery.
Almost certainly the peering and connectivity fees are most of their expenses and all of that is international corporation domain. Id wager the ISP fees are mostly driven by connectivity to the island not greed and avarice by the local ISP.
it seems pretty reasonable to charge $30-50 a month for somebody doing the hero's work of reimplementing and building on top of a 30 year old programming environment. also there's a free one! spray money the people who do crazy niche work! that's what makes the world beautiful!
This is really cool! it allows you to see 2D charts in 3D without actually rendering anything in 3D
I agree. The affordable housing costs $1M per unit because that is the market price for constructing any housing in those areas.
This could be why dimensional analysis is one of the few things from physics class that can't be drilled enough..

Without forcefully dumping the geometric "intuition", this would still feel counterintuitive to me!
I agree with your conclusion, but when you say "VB is totally fine" do you mean VB6?

I can get Modern iterations of Visual Basic such as VB.Net. The syntax and semantics hurt my eye and my brain, but if that's your thing, yeah the language is very serviceable. It's a modern language with modern features and a lot of legacy baggage. It's not worse than PHP or maybe even JavaScript (though I would much prefer JavaScript).

But VB6 means taking the language and tooling as they were in 1998, frozen in time, and writing a modern application to a modern user base.
> You really can't imagine why American culture treats blacks differently from how it does Indians and Chinese?

I don't know why you infer that from my comment. I am merely responding to the GP's post which I disagree with. I believe US, or at least Silicon Valley which I am very familiar with, is one of the least racist place. At the same time, it is also highly classist.

Unfortunately, race and class correlate for American blacks. Not so for, say, Nigerian blacks because the ones able to migrate from Nigeria to the US are already the privileged ones in their society. Same goes for immigrants from India, China, Philippines or Egypt.

Look at class, not race, if you really want to understand the SV demographics.
Photoroom (YC S20) Is Hiring a Senior Front End Engineer in Paris (React, MobX)
Are they? At least as keys for most dictionaries. Zero and positive integers sure, but negative ones would be somewhat rare. I could maybe see something like error handling, but then do you need performance there?
> What I don’t understand the advantage for “state management”. Like, you build a new state object, and then mutate some pointer from prevState to nextState… that’s what everyone else is doing too.

Clojure's real super power is its reference type(s) (in particular the atom). Rich does an excellent job explaining them in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wASCH_gPnDw&t=2278s
Definitely at least some cousin branch of the family tree...
I read the book first and I've got the same impression as you, the movie felt lacking and certainly not as fruitful in fresh ideas as the book felt.

I'm very surprised the post's author finds the book shallow (he uses "lacking in depth" I think).
We do not know who invented zero. Or who identified earth to be a sphere. Or who wrote the sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 ... . We just pick a name and associate them to our liking.

So when another colonizer comes up, we will have newer people associated with these. Hope it does not happen. But history does say so.
I have seen (anecdotally) lots of people trying to lose weight by sports. Had never ever worked if not done in parallel with better eating. I would like to know how it was verified that people doing exercise were not using the opportunity to make a general change. It is very difficult to conduct such studies while changing only one variable at a time. Meta studies are even more misleading.
Well, a possible consequence of this is a) my AI spews out resumes and cover letters to the HR AI; b) the HR AI then summarizes and scores my resume and cover letters (possibly, ironically, attempting to determine if it was AI generated); c) the AI agent invites me to submit some work on an AI generated test; d) I get my AI to produce an AI generated answer to their AI generated test....

and so on. That is The Horror.

Necessity, because AI generated or not, we're likely going to hit HR departments that are AI augmented or perhaps nearly all AI with some outsourced humans to review anomalies. So this becomes necessary if we want to compete with all the other job seekers.
A kenyan politician once wrote about it. They even thought their phone had an issue because when they were in office they would receive an average of 30 phone calls an hour, once they left it was zero in a day till they though the phone had gotten spoilt

https://nation.africa/kenya/blogs-opinion/blogs/dot9/ndemo/t...
You cannot stop cancer cells with diet alone. If you think otherwise, make your own clinical trial and publish results. I'm not spreading misinformation, instead, I'm challenging those who claim their diet can cure cancer. Copy-pasting internet links doesn't cure cancer either.
"problem". Looking at the $NVDA chart is not showing any problems to me
or ahem... CMake
The gaslighting from the DEI types is unrelenting.

I've been in the corporate DEI training courses. I've read the CRT papers and books that are the influences of the DEI types. They all define equity as EQUAL OUTCOMES not equal opportunity. And they all say that the ONLY reason why we don't get equal outcomes now is because of structural -isms.

There is NO concept of individual merit in the source materials that lead to DEI ideas because DEI/CRT are offshoots of 'critical theories' which are related to our favorite communism/Marxist ideologies. This is not hyperbole.

(Mark Cuban is absolutely wrong the way he describes DEI vs what the proponents are really demanding in case that's where you got your idea about DEI from.)

But at the same time, it's true that most companies use DEI for marketing and conveniently ignore the equity part because it would lay bare their hypocrisy when their CEO gets paid $50 million a year.
I havent experienced marketing being irrelevant myself either. But i think his point is interesting, maybe most products arent great enough to reap the benefits of x^y, so marketing still has a place.

Great reflections on the scrappyness! Haha i just think you are a year ahead of me in these reflections. I will conclude on the same i think. Agree on all.

Im from Norway, so i probably make some unwilling errors as well.

But right now, as it often is in an startup, i just feel there are more important things for me to fix. 36 y old and two kids here, limited time.

No, your writing has landed where it should! Im reading "on writing well" to trying to improve my writing. Great book. With conciseness like you have then your personal style can show more easily by small words here and there

You sound like a "fierce nerd" in the best possible mening, if youre thinking like this at 18 then you will achieve huge things!
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My personal opinion: they are full of it.
extrapolating from that page https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualized-how-much-do-ev-b... the battery cost should be around $8000. Also this https://bookmygarage.com/electric-vehicles/how-much-does-an-...

Although the price of lithium has "skyrocketed" it is now previous levels.

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lithium

Do we see this reflected in battery or EV car prices?
Well the case is different here.

OP was present in the conversation and was able to figure out it's important without knowing the language. Otherwise they can just say they had a very important conversation in a place where OP was not present.

Also curious what happened after OP figured it out and asked them to switch to English. Did they refuse? Did OP reach out to his manager? Did manager ignore OP? Did OP reach out to skip or HR about the manager?

Lot of missing details.
> That's because no one really defined what "equity" means in the first place

Just because you haven't bothered to look up what it means doesn't mean no one has defined it. This comment reminds me of the people who complain "the mainstream media isn't talking about XYZ" when they are, in fact, talking a lot about XYZ, but the complainant is only reading Facebook articles shared by their friends.

One might consider [this seminal paper](https://web.archive.org/web/20090612025522/http://bss.sfsu.e...) on the concept of social equity, and then google "equity" to see how institutions are using the term.

Most of them, you can see a connection between the ideas expressed in that paper and the definitions the modern institutions purport to believe in.
What Is the "MFFAM" Policy?
Agreed, in fact this is a pretty disappointing development - Chromium doesn't need any more support when it's already the overwhelming majority. I wish they picked non-Chromium based browser instead, such as Servo or Ladybird.
Funny, I'm using FreshRSS as my feed aggregator as well, but then reading it using the android app. One of us should file a bug.
MLK was a minister (because Baptists don't have priesthood), Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. He was profoundly Christian.

The whole movement for racial equality, and thus liberation, in the USA grew from intensely Christian foundations. One of the core tenets of abolitionism was the idea that humans are created equal, and such attributes as race or skin color are irrelevant before God, and hence to the faithful, too. Christ specifically said that being a Greek or being a Jew does not matter before God, and being a slave or being a master also does not matter; all are equal.

So, certain amounts of colorblindness are inherent to the very idea of people of different origins being equal, as it emerged in the USA, and supposedly elsewhere in the Christian-dominated areas of the world.

Also, it's the idea of equality, equal worth (before God), not of fairness or compensation; the latter might come from atonement and Christian love to the neighbor.

Eventually other ideas took hold and somehow eclipsed the initial ideas, not just of 1860s but also of MLK's.
One of my favorite things about all the awesome castles in France is their super awesome gardens like this. I only have a couple examples online, but:

https://flickr.com/photos/amatecha/31188202017/

https://flickr.com/photos/amatecha/45215830245/

As if it wasn't cool enough to explore all the amazing castles themselves, their properties are usually basically works of art. I have to wonder how it would be to live in a residence like that for one's life. Super cool.
> It was magical that dropping a telephony component into a form enabled the form to make phone calls

the magic of COM[0]!

But when it crashed it crashed hard. And the underlying programming model (beyond just using premade ones) are a bit hard to grok and fraught with footguns that shoot not only yourself, but the OS as well.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model
And the obese or overweight people who make 150+ minutes of aerobics, maybe also change some other things also, like change diet.
I think Makefile is maybe the wrong analogy - the problem with most people and makefiles is they write so few of them, the general idea of what make does is at hand, but the muscle memory of how to do it from scratch is not.

But, point taken - I've seen so much code copy-pasta'd from the web, there will be like a bunch of dead stuff in it that's actually not used. A good practice here is to keep deleting stuff until you break it, then put whatever that was back... And delete as much as possible - certainly everything you're not using at the moment.
> Change that occurs through fear of your power can only last as long as your power. Lasting change is only possible by actually changing hearts and minds.

I'm trying to put in flat terms, but fundamentally power matters. This is the base of democracy: give people the power to change things, there needs to be a fear that these people will exercise their power.

Changing hearts and minds is beautiful, but one reason is that it usually doesn't happen, I think very few people will ever just stop being racists for instance. They might stop saying racists things, and might care more to not go against social rules and laws, but changing their deep believes will not happen, or it will take decades, if not a lifetime.

And also people are way more influenced by their everyday environments than nice speeches. Having a nation that values diversity helps more to also embrace these ideals, than living in a racist dictatorship and fighting at every corner to keep your minority voices in your heart.

> It's a slow, painful process

The trap is to see it as a one way ratchet, when in reality it comes and go, and the groups with the most power can revert decades of progress in a snap of finger. Women lost abortion rights over a few weeks (the leading to that was also long and slow, but when it finally happens it doesn't take much). Foreign people lost the right to return to their US home within days when the ban happened last time.

Power matters.
cant bring this up on HN without shadowban.
The answer is to just build a lot more housing. Increasing the housing stock by 10% everywhere would be a good start. If there is so much housing available that buyers don’t get into bidding wars and landlords have to struggle to find tenants, then prices will come down.

Why doesn’t this happen? Because developers will have to do more work for less money.
Abbott districts in New Jersey are an obvious counterpoint to this. They are funded at levels equal to if not greater than the wealthiest districts in the state, despite being in some of the poorest parts of the state. I spite of this, over the four decades that Abbott districts have been in place, educational attainment gaps between them and the rest of the state have actually widened.
Where I was at there surely were internal "Asian" community groups with a budget and so on, for one. Don't think proposing a "White" or even "American" or "European" one would've gone over especially well.
I discovered JSON Binpack recently, which works either schemaless (like msgpack) or - supposedly more efficiently - with a schema. I haven't tried the codebase yet but it looks interesting.

https://jsonbinpack.sourcemeta.com/
these rare stories are rare, because the creators of these software aren't bragging about which platform they're using, and merely focus on the software!
We already have CBOR and other binary JSONs.
> Are we perpetuating them? Or we just not undertaking to undo the effects? Those two things are fundamentally different.

It is not clear to me that they are fundamentally different in any way other than deontology.
Also in healthy market bottom end should be housing build decades ago and already fully paid for. Now it would mean large mid-rises. But still, entirely reasonable standard of living when you are not been brainwashed into needing expensive wasteful single family buildings.
I’m not sure why you wouldn’t just develop in json, then flick a switch to use binary.
This idea that white-passing people benefit from BIPOCs being discriminated against is not convincing. We are all harmed when we are amongst racist assholes refusing to coexist with others based on skin color.
The same thing? The community will maintain it
Can't wait for physical paper with JS support
If you need a format that can transport byte arrays unmodified (image data, etc), msgpack (or protos or whatever) is much better than JSON since you don't have to base64 encode or escape the data. It also supports non-string keys which can be convenient.
This is a great example of an instance of this "Makefile effect" with a possible solution: use Markdown and Pandoc where possible. This won't work in every situation, but sometimes one can compose a basic Beamer presentation or LaTeX paper quickly using largely simple TeX and the same Markdown syntax you already know from GitHub and Reddit.
"the sensor stuttered or became misaligned, or etc etc."

if your eyes suddenly crossed, you'd probably fall over too!
Why is a solution needed? Where is the problem?

I hire developers. They are all white because theres no black people around here. It isnt a problem.
This is all moot anyway since the Trump admin lacks the intelligence and diplomatic chops to acquire Greenland, even by force. All he’s doing is driving away our allies.
I always wondered if housing affordability was the real reason for falling divorce rates.
The office coffee machine is not „set and forget”, but you wouldn’t expect the entire responsibility for it’s maintenance to be evenly distributed between all people that use it. Similarly, CI needs ownership and having it fall on the last developer that attempted to use it is not an efficient way of working.
Yes, you do everything except measure merit.

Equal outcomes for everybody.

This is how you get 100lb women in the fire department who can't even control a fire hose at full pressure.
Yes, very clever. Have them deliver the diploma while you deliver the software... ever...so...slowly... and then, charge for consulting fees to make it work after you graduate!!!!
Do you have a link to such an example of Aaron's code? Thank you in advance!
How do you know what is and isn't related if nothing is documented?

Trial and error?

Well have fun with that :p
> FBs DEI program increased black and brown employees from 8% to 12%. Seems abysmal.

That's a 50% increase.
> the tool (or system) is too complicated (or annoying) to use from scratch.

Or boring: some systems require boilerplate with no added value. It's normal to copy & paste from previous works.

Makefiles are a good example. Every makefile author must write their own functionally identical "clean" target. Shouldn't there be an implicit default?

C is not immune, either. How many bits of interesting information do you spot in the following excerpt?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
printf("Hello\n");
return 0;
}

The printf alone is the real payload, the rest conveys no information. (Suggestion for compiler authors: since the programs that include stdio.h outnumber those that don't, wouldn't it be saner for a compiler to automatically do it for us, and accept a flag to not do it in those rare cases where we want to deviate?)
Never start from scratch – Product Management Tool
I've been tinkering around this idea of product managament and productivity being fast tracked with boilerplates. For example, I put up a task on my Kanban ToDo to research on a topic and the groundwork is already done for me to start with - maybe a page linked to my ToDo item which I could build off. In more complex cases maybe being linked to your repo and based on a task creating a branch with the changes.
I'd argue the value goes up with larger payloads. The tradeoff is ease of use vs efficiency.
I did the exact same thing, due to a feeling of wanting to "even" things out between right and left. Blew my mind that it was a known pattern; after watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prh72BLNjIk&t=549s

I'm always reminded that we are all more alike than we realise :)
For me the big problems with CI setups tend to be:

- They're often slow

- They're often proprietary

- They're often dealing with secrets which limits who can work on them

- You generally can't run them locally

So the feedback cycle for working on them is incredibly long. And working on them is therefore a massive pain.
> why isn't this same standard applied to, for example, NBA players[0]?

There's no way this isn't just disingenuousness on your part. Or do you really think there has been a historical, society-wide attempt to deprive white people of the right to play basketball?