skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had bad experiences with doordash. I ordered a pizza. It showed up 40 minutes after the estimate. It was cold. It was all messed up. Driver apologized and said she dropped it and took off.

Being an Uber eats user I wasn’t worried as I went into the app and said what happened. App did nothing immediately. In a few minutes got a template email saying “sorry, we’ll give you your $5.99 delivery fee back” Didn’t happen. Emailed support saying what happened, no response.

Uber Eats is on top of food orders. Any errors result in new deliveries to replace or refunds on food.

I assume that a company with bad customer service agorithms has other problems. I tried again and it was ok. But don’t use them as alternatives are way better.
> Do you want to live in a world where you are judged by the color of your skin, your gender, your "ethnicity"?

We already do, through systemic biases.

Sadly, as the downvotes indicate, reminding people of their privilege seems to be an unpopular thing.
Do you really think there are young people in the US who could be NBA players but are held back by lack of resources, lack of training, and lack of friends/family members who play basketball? I think that's a key difference between the "diversity problem" in the NBA and the diversity problem (no scare quotes) in tech.
And only 700 light years away ;) It would be nice to compare the atmospheric spectrum of WASP-39b. As well as other candidate exoplanets in habitable zones. With the baseline of our own home planet.

High resolution transmission spectrum of the Earth's atmosphere -- Seeing Earth as an exoplanet using a lunar eclipse

https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4780
Wait, so the majority of tall athletic people are black men? What is the actual argument here?
The Triumph of Hope Over Self-Interest
> The lack of conversations/threading is really annoying.

I find it interesting that people want to have threaded conversations in what is essentially a synchronous chat, but they prefer to have a degraded threading experience in their email client by using conversation view rather than traditional email threading using the Reply-To and/or References headers.
If your key is compromised, anyone can send that message and sign it with your key... :)
I suppose these white and asian men are better off not being employed by a sexist and racist company. Even if they got in the door who's to say that "no raises for white/asian men" isn't the next step (if that policy isn't already in place).

I hope Google gets raked over the coals for this though. Not only are they hurting these men (and their families -- if they have them) but they're also hurting women. What man wants to be an "ally" to the women in tech movement when that movement's goal is to put them out of work? This is just going to create more hostility between people who should be working together, not at war with each other.
It is not at all a false equivalency. How do we encourage artistically oriented people to be more mathematical? How do we change ESFJ into INTP? How do we increase IQ?

Just hecause certain traits are mental rather than physical doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
I would encourage you not to apply as I nailed the onsite yet was told that I lacked experience. They knew my experience when I applied. Not a serious company, maybe thats why they have so many open positions?
relevant part of the item linked

Employers are allowed to undertake initiatives to promote diversity hiring, employment lawyers say. But under Title VII, the federal antidiscrimination law, employers aren’t allowed to make hiring decisions based on race and gender among other protected classes. That means they can’t employ practices like hiring quotas based on race or only hiring one type of minority candidate, attorneys say. Such practices would also run afoul of California laws.
What happened to just letting people deal with their own problems? A lot of people work with managers and coworkers who treat them unfairly, and you can't do anything about it besides be a good person yourself. Sure, women have an even harder time, but that's going to change as society continues to shift as more culturally progressive. Until then, sexist people are going to continue to be sexist.
Incredibly exciting that these techniques for exoplanet spectroscopy have come so far so quickly. I have full faith that we will discover indirect chemical evidence of extraterrestrial life within the next 10 years. Once JWST [0] comes online it's going to be just a matter of time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope [0]
I am law enforcement - the opposite is true. LEOs are looking for any opportunity to close off their cases with as little effort as possible.
It's not about recruiting. It's about lawsuits. Companies with more than 100 employees are legally obligated to report demographic information to the EEOC. The EEOC reviews this information when someone files a complaint alleging discrimination.

If similar companies in the same industry and geography have numbers that show a more diverse demographic profile, the EEOC is much more likely to consider a discrimination complaint non-frivolous, which is required to file a lawsuit alleging employer discrimination (as I understand it; not a lawyer).

Companies play this game a) to protect themselves against lawsuits; and b) to potentiate damage to competitors who are not yet explicitly playing this game, and therefore have correspondingly less demographic diversity.
Is it a systemic bias that men choose to study CS and Engineering majors and make up 80% of graduates and the talent pool? Should we discriminate against them for this reason?
Mad respect for you Dom, but why would going from Nim -> JS be Transpiling and Nim-> C++ be compiling? Both go from a high level Lang to another high level Lang.
It is not at all a false equivalency. How do we encourage artistically oriented people to be more mathematical? How do we change ESFJ into INTP? How do we increase IQ?
Just hecause certain traits are mental rather than physical doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
Used to be 75K, now it's 105K. When will we finally admit that there is no satiation point, and rich people generally live better lives?
This shit.. just hire the most talented people. Doesn't matter what colour they are.
So height discrimination is not discrimination? Funny, but no, not to encourage people to grow taller, but to encourage NBA to have height classes, just as boxing has weight classes.
I don't doubt thats the reason - but I've always felt it wasn't exactly a compelling argument. (Potential) Discrimination is perfectly fine, so long as the job is average. Welders, car mechanics, nurses.... Aren't we somehow presumably stifling the interest of large amounts of kids to enter these jobs based on gender biases? I would assume so based on the numbers.
If I understand it correctly, it is only discrimination if employer cannot demonstrate the criteria are needed for work performance. Race and gender are not related to performance in most work categories. In the case of body types in sports, they are.
I don’t think your parent comment was saying DC was bad. He/she was just saying that it’s not an option for everyone to uproot and move and he/she wishes the listing was remote friendly.
There’s plenty of interest in getting more men in nursing.

http://blog.diversitynursing.com/blog/topic/male-nurse
Quite high for veterinarians, which, at the college level, is as dominated by women as CS is by men (80%). They aren't dominating the work force yet, since in the past men became vets much more often they do now, and we still have those older male vets in the work force, but their numbers are steadily decreasing.
It's a systemic bias when you send out two resumes, one with a traditionally african-american name, and one with a traditionally white american name... And have 50% more callbacks for the one with the white name.
Not at all a false equivalency. How do we encourage artistically oriented people to be more mathematical? How do we change ESFJ into INTP? How do we increase IQ?
Just hecause certain traits are mental rather than physical doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
> Sadly, as the downvotes indicate, reminding people of their privilege seems to be an unpopular thing.

How is being denied employment a "privilege"?
All too commonly, it seems that the solution to a social issue that doesn't affect a particular person is "ignore it and that will make it go away".
My favorite quote illustrating this is from former GE executive Craig Kipp, quoted in the book Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle[1]:

“So Oracle has this great product that will do eighty percent of what you want just by throwing the right switches in the software—no special code or anything—and it all falls down because someone asks that innocent little question: ‘What else would you like it to do?’” (p. 231).

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AK78QVI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
Infoxchange | Melbourne | Systems Operations Engineer + Systems Operations Lead | Onsite | Full-time

We're a non-profit that develops and hosts a decent number of web applications that are used heavily throughout Australia by other NFPs, NGOs, Government Departments and communities.

Modern Ops Team that works closely with developers, we automate all-the-things and CI/CD everything we possibly can, very rewarding work with a team that's been long engaged in the DevOps scene. If you're in Melbourne - you've probably seen us talking at local meetups more than a few times.

https://www.jobseeker.org.au/job/48960-systems-operations-en...
>Do you want to live in a world where you are judged by the color of your skin, your gender, your "ethnicity"?

Reading that sentence as a black person was cringe inducing to say the least. It truly never ceases to amaze me the complete lack of awareness that white males have of their elevated position in society.
Every indication has always been that this was the problem with tech and how women are treated in it (and many other fields). They are constantly having to prove themselves, they are constantly denigrated by their coworkers and colleagues, they are routinely made to feel unsafe through sexual harassment of varying severity. Overall they're just treated like second class citizens in the field. And that results in women leaving the field routinely and at basically every transitional step, that's why you see a continual diminishment in the representation of women in the field as you go towards greater positions of seniority and authority. It's not that women can't hack it, that they can't do the work, they just get tired of being shit on constantly and they go somewhere else to make their life better.

And yet for years and years and years the constant refrain from the establishment has always been "nah, it must be that women are just bad at this job" or "nah, it must be a pipeline problem". Nobody wants to look themselves in the face and ask whether or not they are part of the problem. Either through not taking women seriously in the workplace, always questioning the work and fitness of women in a way that men don't experience, or allowing a hostile work environment where sexual harassment happens and everyone just sweeps it under the rug or looks the other way.

Women have been telling each other these stories about what it was like to work in tech for decades, and they've been telling anyone, including guys, who would listen for years and years as well. Why has it taken so much work for people to actually pay attention?
Is it just me who cringes heavily reading this? A single Haskell enthusiast decides to code up something in Haskell despite it doesn't fit the infra and most people don't know it. And they do this while Python already has SQL parsers. WAT.
Financial Industry Pushing for a Weakness in TLS 1.3
The trickiest bit isn't parsing per-se, but disambiguating references, so grammar alone isn't enough.

And unfortunately, disambiguating references doesn't work the same way everywhere - for instance, tables on Hive will shadow a CTE.
GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded
I agree. Unfortunately, lazy fixes at clear and prominent decision points are much easier than removing hurdles in, say, the early childhood education system.
I may have been born as a white male, but I identify as a half black, half hispanic female...should be easy now to find any job I want /s
> 50:50 is not going to happen

It is just a matter of choice. If companies make it a priority they can do it.

I don't think companies should ever hire someone based on anything other than their qualifications for the job so of course the actual distribution should vary from company to company but if it is 60:40 m/f at one company then it should be 40:60 m/f at another (SHOCKING CRAZY IDEA) and the average should come out somewhere near the middle..
women form a majority of new entrants in certain medical sub specialities that were historically male dominated e.g. pediatricians, psychiatry etc.

rather than any of these organizations being overtly discriminatory, can we acknowledge certain groups might just be self-selecting into professions as a part of culture identity and work-life balance or risk/reward preferences. and that's okay!
Discrimination per se isn’t necessarily a problem. You’re discriminating on some basis no matter how you hire someone. A lot rides on the motivation for discrimination.

As Martin Luther King said:
> History unfortunately leaves some people oppressed and some people oppressors.

It’s just a fact that some groups end up with advantages in any society and some end up disadvantaged, and those that have advantages will use their power and wealth to retain them.

You don’t have to lay blame on people to see that it happens, and how it can be damaging to society if allowed to continue to its natural end— massive political and economic inequality.

So how do you fix it? If you go on a purely quote-unquote merit based system, the people who grew up with educated, wealthy parents, in safe neighborhoods, etc, will naturally fill the educational and recruitment pipelines that train people for high status jobs.

And thus you perpetuate injustice and unfairness from generation to generation, which even if you don’t object to morally, you should at least object to out of self interest, because it will leas to instability and civic unrest.

Racial quotas in hiring are a blunt instrument to be sure, and can be grossly unfair to individuals, particularly the less well off members of advantaged groups who get passed over.

I don’t know if I think they’re a good way to solve the problem over a purely class based approach, but if you look at it and all you see is ‘racism’, then I would suggest that you look a little bit deeper, because it’s a much more complex issue than that.
> There are more than enough qualified women to fill tech jobs in roughly equal proportion with men

Even if that was true, having enough qualified women is not sufficient. You need enough women who are both qualified AND want to fill tech jobs.

When you look at measurements of STEM ability and of reading comprehension in high school students in the US and Europe, an interesting pattern emerges. For boys who are good in STEM, STEM tends to be what they are best at. For girls who good in STEM, they tend to be even better at reading comprehension [1] [2].

Scoring high on reading comprehension correlates well with being good at things that are important in various non-STEM fields (or in the "soft" sciences part of STEM).

People generally have to narrow their focus as they move on to college, maybe graduate school, and into a career. They strongly tend to narrow that focus to what they are best at. That means we lose a lot of those "good at STEM" in high school girls because they are even better at non-STEM.

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180214150132.h...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
South Africa's Ramaphosa says aims to resolve land issue “once and for all”
Not sure if this will change your mind, but the latest research with a twice as large sample size does indicate any difference anymore:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-bias-hiring-0504-b...
We already know how to make seawater affordably drinkable. Your wish is granted!
Just out of curiosity, what's the reason for looking so far out? Are we assuming by the time we would actually need to visit these planets, we've discovered some method to go faster than the speed of light? I only ask because realistically, how do we expect to actually make use of these resources if it would take so long just to reach it?
Hi there, great questions. The satellites are spec'd to deliver the same power (EIRP) on the ground as traditional large GEO's, with each of our satellites having a fraction of the capacity. This is a key point-- it will take several of our satellites to do the same job as one traditional large GEO. But that's not only ok, it's much better. It means we can put up a smaller chunk of capacity as needed and not do the "all or nothing" approach of a large GEO.

The high capacity satellites do have insufficient bandwidth to serve demand, on that I agree. But that's not a spectrum limitation, its a limitation on how many such large GEO's have been launched. Which is a small number because each one is so expensive. There is still plenty more spectrum we can use for GEO telecoms, and more with proper frequency re-use schemes.

The point you make about the drive to large GEO's holds true if you assume only one spacecraft will ever be in a single orbital slot. But that's not the case. There's plenty of orbital slots where multiple GEOs are co-located, and this will increasingly be the case in the future. I'd argue the drive to large satellites was more driven by various incentives and systemic issues in the industry that drove them that direction. A much longer conversation, but it's things that can all be fixed.

And to answer your last question, because our satellites are spec'd to provide the same EIRP on the ground, the ground terminals used are the same as those in use today for GEO telecoms. These terminals are all off-the-shelf and very low-cost compared to the terminals necessary for a LEO-based network.
Ambulance chasing lawyers seem to have focused their efforts on large tech. Reminds of that joke "Why do robbers go after banks?". "That's where the money is". Wonder what the lawyer vs individual split is in these cases....most of them land up settling any way.
NBA players on average are 2 inches shorter than listed height because that includes shoes. IT is 5 foot 9 and potentially shorter. Half of the best players in the league are point guards with heights ranging from 6 feet to 6'3 again with shoes. Kyrie Irving, Steph Curry, Lillard, Chris Paul, Westbrook all fall under this. Average American Height is 5'10. 7 foot tall players have mostly struggled last 5 years so you don't have to encourage kids to grow taller to play in the league.

Asians and South Asians are vastly underrepresented in the Music, Entertainment, and Acting industries and Asian and South Asian women are vastly underrepresented in Fashion, Modeling, etc, industries. Sometimes freedom of choice results in outcomes that we shouldn't try to force but it's not white and black. In STEM, gender disparity results in many problems for females, in the other industries I mentioned it's significantly due to connections, glass ceiling, a certain type of "boys club" but also due to choice. I agree with role models, and removing barriers, but I highly highly disagree with excluding individuals based on their race. That is racist and I will oppose that to the core of my being
Sure! Except when left to our own devices to "look beyond the superficial traits of a person", we usually end up hiring people who remind us ourselves.

There is a place for consciously paying attention to race, ethnicity, and gender in that case. (Admittedly, the alleged situation in the headline is too far.)
It's the classic "When did you stop beating your wife?" example. The denial of nonexistent impropriety can itself be construed in a manner that paints a target in a negative light.

In the above example, one might conclude that perhaps you make a habit of assaulting homeless people, and today was notable because you didn't.
Shouldn't the demographics of new google hires look roughly like the demographics of university graduates? If say 80% of graduates are men, how could google hit gender parity without discriminating?
This doesn’t surprise me. I can’t speak to what it’s like to be a white man but for some reason Asians especially men are excluded as being part of what contributes to diversity despite being visible persons of colour.
"It's a Big Club, and You Ain't in It" --George Carlin
Simply work to continue educating yourself and try adding new helpful behaviors one at a time. For example, women are much more likely to be interrupted when they are speaking. Learn to recognize this, learn to stop doing it if you're doing so but more importantly learn to stand up for women when it happens. All it takes is "excuse me, I believe X was talking, I'd like to hear what she has to say before moving on". Just like that.
You hardly need half an EMT course to learn when to call 911. Those 160 hours include a lot of anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, etc.
Does nursing do a lot of navel gazing about the reason why so few men are in nursing is because everyone currently in nursing is sexist?
I'm not a lawyer either. But I remember that explicit racial quota are illegal.But in another precedence, diversity is considered a valid objective. So having preference that favor minority for the sake of diversity is OK. That is the case for a lot of hiring and admission processes now: No explicit quota, but a soft preference towards diversity, which usually means favoring under-represented racial and gender groups.
In my case I was thinking of long strings such as SQL queries. We would show a few initial words, but in SQL they're typically the same.

For example:

select sum(sales) from tablexyz where region = 'West'
select sum(sales) from tablexyz where region = 'South'

In this case I think we want the distinguishing word or token, and we can fill the remaining space with text from the left, eg "select sum(sales)..'South'".

I could write out some javascript for this, but IANA front-end or css expert.
This isn't exactly new, though. Incidence of corporate taxes - not just Amazon - is already well-understood to primarily fall on labor.

https://www.kansascityfed.org/Publicat/RegionalRWP/RRWP07-01...

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/tax-policy/tax-anal...
Thank you for the insight. I will give dropBox a try.
I currently don't have automatic Syncing enabled on my desktop which explains why I could not see Onedrive the way you did.