skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me the giveaway was the motion effect of the hair following the tilt of her head, followed by the spiralling background.
I've come to the conclusion that most people cannot grasp how meritocracy works, because the majority of the "real" world simply doesn't work like that.

One side of the equation are people that grew up with an alternate reality, because they spend a lot of their time online, growing up, working on their own projects and only later joining "society". In that world you get indeed ridiculed by how good or bad your code is, but not generally based on your socioeconomic background.

The other side of the equation is people that grew up in society where things do indeed work like in an old boys club. I will never get access to the people, that people studied international affairs at columbia do. I will also never get access to the people that MBAs from Harvard do.

But I still very well remember when I graduated from "the annoying kid that doesn't know shit" to "the kid that wrote a LR parser in IRC almost 20 years ago. And most of those people never ever found out my real name, my gender, my socioeconomic background, nor my ethnicity.

In fact the reality that this shit does matter in real life was as inconceivable for me back then, as the concept of meritocracy must be for someone that spent his entire life in society now.
Deep learning is hot in that everyone wants to do it. But very few companies use it (Google, Facebook come to mind). It's still mostly in research labs and academia.
Are they going to 10k sized tweets, or some sort of notes facility? It seems like the main use case crying out is people attaching massive blocks of texts as images.
something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting?
Oh, wow. TIL that graphics drivers are the Windows of GPUs.

(Windows has had application-specific patch/fix code since Windows 3.1. Fascinating reading: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/82860)

So this is one reason why GPU driver code is necessarily closed :( to save face.

There are some software-based graphics cores out there, and one or two VHDL/FPGA efforts, but the performance/watt ratio between those and mainstream GPUs is laughable without a second thought.

Here's hoping AMD's vision to try and be more open in the future really works out. Also that Vulkan is at least mildly sane with open-ness.

Because the current state of things reinforces ideas like "the GPU is opaque" - architecturally, graphics processing is not a magic box, and while it would take a long time to fully understand it's not technically insurmountable; but the current status quo with drivers makes it so.
I don't believe the two approaches conflict.

We're all familiar with the possibly apocryphal experiment of five monkeys, a ladder, and an electric shock - with the end of the experiment being five monkeys that have never been shocked, but their behaviour is changed. I think we all like to think we've evolved above this kind of manipulation, though I also suspect we each have stories of having worked in professional environments, staffed by evidently smart people, where we observe this same phenomenon.

(Aside -- it's sobering to consider that the people we've worked with may have stories about such effects operating upon us.)

Anyway, point being that while you may be correct in the assertion:

> It's rarely possible to achieve a goal merely by pretending
> you've already achieved it.

What if the goal is to have the next generation(s) achieve a way of thinking by pretending (I'm not ecstatic about that word, but it'll have to do) we think that way now.

Do you think that may have a positive effect?

I'm reminded of the Garbage Dump Troop - a fascinating story, told in many places, but here's a succinct explanation of the effect:

http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/11/the-baboon-tr...

Unsurprisingly, alpha males usually don't find the story charming. ; )
I did a search on the incomplete URL fragment that was posted, and the intended URL may have been:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/find-your-next-read/extra...
"Hispanics or Latinos can be of any race, any ancestry, any ethnicity." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic
I don't understand how people can seriously claim that these are "current dominant themes". I studied at UC Berkeley, one of the liberal capitals of California. Most of my friends are Berkeley students. Most of my friends are feminists.

There's practically no hostility (as you put it) towards white, heterosexual males in these circles. I have never been personally attacked or felt uncomfortable. Most of the discussion is aimed at systemic issues, not individuals. It's been pretty eye-opening, actually.

Based on my experience, I'm fairly certain that stories involving militant feminist/diversity people have been vastly overblown by places like Reddit.
> Keep in mind we wouldn't need to care about enforcing case in a style guide, if case didn't matter, because there are no distinctions

You would still need it to get uniform code. Spaces vs. tabs also doesn't matter but it's still in almost all style guides.
Do you look non-Asian? If you do, you will never be fully accepted in Chinese society, as I've heard from a few white people that have lived in China. Even if you marry and settle down there and raise kids.
Give it a go. Actually doing it and learning from your failure or success is much better than endless analysis of niches.

Just make sure to have definite goals to make sure you are making progress along the way. If you miss goals continuously, maybe you should readjust your goals, maybe the niche is too difficult to break into, or maybe you need a different approach to marketing & getting traction - learning the "art" of finding out what it is will in itself be an invaluable experience.

Good luck!
Everyone seems to have completely forgotten that Dropbox was named in PRISM documents as handing over information to the NSA.
9/10

The computer does not duplicate selective detail. Artists will put detail in areas of focus, and intentionally obscure or abstract other areas. Also, there is often an interplay between medium and message. To that last point, I'm guessing there is still a human "artist" who chose the reference scene and pose and artist style, even if they didn't paint it directly. Towards that, I see this as a creative tool to be included in some future Photoshop, or similar.

Also... Share on Facebook? "App Not Setup: This app is still in development mode, and you don't have access to it. Switch to a registered test user or ask an app admin for permissions."
It seems that people disagree with how obvious the existence of white privilege is. I don't think 600 comments would get posted over something obvious.
Could not a man with a familiar dog, perhaps a hunting animal, the property of a rival, cause it to rise against a particular person at a signal? I suspect the 'friend' of manufacturing the entire event, being the murderer himself. We have only his word on the history of the dog. He may have assumed its ownership upon the killing of the real owner; he was aware of the curious tradition of combat; he contrived a cute storey of animal loyalty to cover his vile act and misdirect attention onto another for the crime.
So-called "slight" decreases to wages add up to quite a lot of money over whole careers. I don't see any reason to deliberately institute a policy that helps advantage capital over labor, when it is already so very advantaged.
Because control of priority in the feed is key to making brands pay to reach followers that they normally could reach for free, after investing in building the audience on Twitter's platform. Case in point, FB.
Yes, because god forbid a biologist get rich contributing to humanity.
You realize you just cited a hit piece that happens to say global warming is not a problem.
Very progressive indeed. These kinds of expressions show their veil is thin and their agenda nefarious.
The race aspect is basically a footnote in the article regarding the exodus (the complaints largely center around a change in leadership and the company's hierarchical structure).

Yet a comment about the race aspects is the top comment here.

Your complaints have already been addressed many many times in academic literature and popular media. But I have to say, there is something amazing about reading someone comment that we should not be talking about race. I guess the current alternative, where we don't talk about it, but people both consciously and subconsciously continue discriminating by race seems far more palatable to you.
Being facetious doesn't advance your argument.
You are of course right that appalling working conditions are not new. The labor movement was a response that such conditions. But the key point being made is not that conditions today are in all regards worse than all conditions in the past but rather that despite all our much vaunted progress and productivity gains many people don't experience the benefits and are in fact working in toxic work conditions that are profoundly stressful. And that point is, I believe, not especially difficult to substantiate.
The problem is proc0's comment is saying that any discussions of racism are racist and should be shut down. This is clearly wrong, because not talking about something does not make it go away.
There are even more previous discussions than that. The Priceonomics article is just a rehash of an Atlantic article from 1982, with a modern spin on it. Over a third of the Priceonomics article is just quotes from 1982 original. The original is a far better article overall, but no one has time to read longform these days hence why the rehash is popular.

Earlier discussions for the 1982 article:

279 points, 1237 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535611

140 points, 2073 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1405698

96 points 2189 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1110283
Thanks for that perspective, I hadn't thought of that.

Would a system that did something like an internal cut-over be useful? e.g. try to start a whole new instance of the application, if it loads, then let it become the running application, if not, write an error log and shutdown?

It would still lose all the state associated with the previous instance, e.g. user sessions, but would avoid this specific issue.

I agree that it's pretty silly that things like email addresses need a restart, but I'm wondering in general how bad this pattern is.
> Any company is free to set their limits on who they want to work with.

this is not true.
>AVR8 (and IIRC 16 and 32)

What's AVR16, may I ask?
Where does it say it's not optional?

I've never needed to edit a tweet. It's supposed to be a "now" service, is it really now if you can go back and change everything you've written?
Interesting suggestions all around. I've been looking for appropriate tutorials for a high schooler. Many of these suggestion seem to fit the bill.
And if somebody self identifies as trans-racial.

All jokes aside, some white people grow up dirt poor in predominantly black neighborhoods and identify more with black Anerican culture then their own skin color.

Do they get better access to schools, scholarships, government jobs, funding for small businesses? Etc...

What about the black kid who grew up in the suburbs with a stable family and all whote friends. Should their access to the same programs be cut because they're less likely to need it.

Categorization will never go away as long as people are incentivized to promote their identity as a 'protected class'.

It has gotten to the point where everybody except white males falls under one or more protected classes.

I'm not claiming inequality is an issue that should continue to be addressed. I'm creating government mandated classes of people based on their race/ethnicity and throwing money at the problem isn't the solution. It replaces implicit descriminatiom with explicit descrimination.
What a total non sequitur. You haven't showed that rotw is saying "meritocracy is discrimination." You've merely insinuated that by saying this total cliche.
As a child in the middle class, there was a widespread sense of progress and opportunity in life ahead. If you were a good person, and followed the Way: study hard, stay on the good side of the law, get a degree from a respectable college, ..., then the good life was waiting for you: land, house, career, stability, recreation, community, romance, health, etc. After all, this is America, the greatest nation ever with the greatest kind of government ever. And! through the glory that is science and invention, the intellectual giants of today are the peons of tomorrow's intellectual giants, you just wait because it's going to be awesome. Your middle class existence now won't even compare to your life in the future, because you can't even imagine what will be in play. (Remember, I was a kid.)

Well, decades later, by so many measures, many things are pretty amazing, if you are wealthy or are willing to live as an ascetic and are smart enough to be in a field that at least somewhat resembles its former self's wages. Modern computing devices, building materials, medicine, tools, educational resource availability, and international travel & communication are here, and they are great!

Soon, even the automation of truly tedious, mind-crushingly boring and dangerous but needed tasks that are non-trivial, like driving, will be accomplished. (all the people who have staked their lives on this work whom are no longer needed, please, just don't look at them, they'll figure it out. No problem, Okay?)

Where is all the wealth? Where is the growing middle class? Where are the new cities? Where is the new infrastructure? Where is the game-changing innovation, lifting humanity and life on Earth higher and higher, spawned from the vast business landscape, fomenting living centers all across the nation, an America of much greater population size and no obesity epidemic? Where is the efficiency?

You want a home? You're ready to contribute to society, you're smart, you're burning to make your mark and live? Well, you didn't do it right, so do it right this time and save and be smart and someday you'll be able to afford a home next to a job. A place to grow a family in, in safety and stability. Maybe you'll still be living in your parent's home when they die of old age.
If its any consolation: I lived and worked there 10 years, and left. It was hot, crowded, full of envious avaricious people who turned over every couple of years. When we realized almost every person we knew had moved, we decided to leave as well.

Settled in Iowa where I've worked at half a dozen Silicon Valley startups remotely since then. With reasonable cost of living, a decent stable group of friends, and a culture of helpfulness and inclusion.
The Bitcoin of politics: Flux Party offers radical new model for democracy
Disabling Classic MacOS PowerBook Password Security
What do you think is going to happen, people are going to start typing thousands of words? No, people will type a little more than they do now because that's how people communicate.

181 characters -
Sorry, mixed up. Somehow thought he/she was talking about the signs and such.
Not sure if your argument is in favor of killing Twitter or improving the Twitter as product.
I've always liked the telemarketing counterscript: http://egbg.home.xs4all.nl/counterscript.html
The call to action is the acknowledgment, not the beer or the guilt.

Getting white males, whether successful or not, to even say "yes, the system discriminates for us, regardless of outcomes" is such a huge barrier that their acknowledgment of the issue is the first thing that must happen before any kind of "fixing of the system" could happen.
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This article is racist and sexist drivel.

The server that's malfunctioning at 9AM doesn't care about the color of your skin or if your precious fee-fees are hurt that the server isn't working.

The fast approaching deadline for producing a product doesn't care about what's between your legs or what made up word you use to identify your gender, it just matters that it works or it doesn't.

Everybody with half a brain cell knows that society goes out of it's way to get women and minorities into cushy tech industry jobs. But it's never going to be enough to professional victims like this. No matter how hard you try and appease them and go out of your way to diversify, they're never going to be happy. Never.

The solution here is to stop negotiating with SJW terrorists.

Stop trying to make them happy and start making this about who can do the job the best and not about what group of victims whines the loudest.
"Biplanes -> Looking at Earth from Moon in 40 years"

A favourite Mitchell story is telling how is grandparents traveled across the US to Texas in horse drawn wagons with canvas roofs. Forget airplanes, try no electricity, no railways or big towns. From covered wagons to the moon in 100 years ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAyVSylJBuo
I see. My bad! Let me try to explain the analogy to apartheid South Africa. I didn't mean to suggest that people are against the H-1B system because they are racist. I mean to claim that restricting foreigners from competing in US labor markets is bad for the same reason that restricting black South Africans from competing in the labor markets of white South Africa is bad.

In apartheid South Africa, it was illegal for blacks to work in the white parts of South Africa without getting a permit (sort of like the H-1B visa or the green card in the case of the US). Most people consider this to be wrong primarily based on the intuition that such severe discrimination on the basis of race is unethical.

1. Why is it not okay to discriminate on the basis of race but okay to discriminate on the basis of country of birth? Why is it not okay to require that only highly skilled, highly paid black South Africans be allowed to participate in the labor markets of white South Africa but okay to disallow less competent Indians willing to work for a lower wage access to the US/UK labor markets?

2. The South Africa analogy is particularly compelling because black South Africans were not considered citizens of white South Africa.

This analogy is not original to me. I stole it from Lant Pritchett. This is what he says in 'Let their people come':

"The analogy between apartheid and restrictions on labor mobility is almost exact. People are not allowed to live and work where they please. Rather, some are only allowed to live in places where earning opportunities are scarce. [...] The restrictions about who can work where are based on conditions of birth, not on any notion of individual effort or merit. The current international system of restrictions on labor mobility enforces gaps in living standards across people that are large or larger than any in apartheid South Africa. It is even true that labor restrictions in nearly every case explicitly work to disadvantage people of “color” against those of European descent."
How is race or sex aware hiring going to help with eliminating subconscious bias?
It reinforces bigotry, because it gives a rationalization for bigots to not respect their minority coworkers, as they can claim that they were not subject to the same scrutiny when they were hired.

What is the historical justification for the effectiveness affirmative action? Certainly, countries like Malaysia and South Africa with extreme disparity seem to have mixed results at best.

I agree that pretending ethnicity/sex are not visible, is not the same thing as making ethnicity/sex invisible.
But actually implementing enrollment and employment laws or policies that hide this information from decision makers could make it nearly invisible.

That's actually not the fundamental problem though. Even if you managed to a perfectly even proportion of middle class stem graduates from 1st and 2nd tier universities represented on your payroll, you'll still end up with a monoculture. Not because of some hard to pin down unconscious bigotry, but because little has been done to eliminate class from society, and social class is a big factor in a persons access to education and the quality of their childhood.

Poor, working class women have less work opportunities than men, as less educated ( religious ) working class people tend conform to traditional gender roles more than middle class people, well paid working class jobs require more physical strength, and unlike middle class mothers, working class mothers cannot afford childcare or help with housework while working or studying.
Like ethnicity, class is almost hereditary so is easily confused with ethnicity in statistics.

Making the statistics look better by hiring proportionally more middle class minorities is a face saving exercise, not a solution.
Yes, everyone is concerned about the patent because we want the biologist to be poor.
A problem to be sure. But I'm not convinced of the ubiquitousness of the problem - that folks really suffer much from 'reverse discrimination'. Or that folks do much to promote their identity as a protected class. Most of us just muddle on.

And I'm not ready to resist every attempt to re-level the playing field as 'explicit dicrimination'. Is the alternative to do nothing, and hope it all works out?
For open source I suppose, since GitHub being so popular makes it easier for people to contribute to your project. Still, though, the only obstacles in using Bitbucket for those purposes (that I know of) are that you need to sign up for a Bitbucket account and learn how to make pull requests. As far as resume code goes, I wouldn't trust an employer who thinks having code samples hosted on Bitbucket is a mark against you. There's just nothing different between GitHub and Bitbucket in that case. Or is there some other issue I'm not aware of?
> From my view, race seems arbitrary. You could also split people into blue-eyed and brown-eyed or something.

You could pick any societal construct or experience and say it doesn't matter to you. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

You could say money is just paper and ones and zeros in a database so you shouldn't have to use it but you are deluding yourself.
If the entry requirement is to merely have an accredited degree, the foreign degree system will be promptly gamed. Bureaucratic rules are always gamed, and being bureaucratic, are very slow to adapt.
If you start to give out visa based upon just the salary, indirectly you are saying that small business and town outside of high cost of living are not worthy of hiring people on visas.

So only SF and NYC can employ immigration while Denver and Atlanta cannot.
You are human. You are not a robot. That's the problem. Humans judge people, make snap judgments, fit people into sterotypes. I'm not saying you do that. I bet you don't. But if you start scaling the interviewing process, adding more and more people into it, you'll eventually get a few who do make racial/other unfair judgments.
But in that case you aren't blaming the Pacific Islanders for the lack of warmth in Siberia. If you were, I would like to hear their opinion on the matter.
Already extremely heavily discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049067
In regards to warranty repairs automakers can (and often do) deny coverage due to the presence of non-OEM parts. Outside of warranty / safety repairs they are certainly not obligated to perform service.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11047359
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This would be a nightmare - talk about a "surveillance state". And I bet that this has very little positive, and probably a very negative, impact on performance