skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a middle road, you know: being bilingual. To run with the Icelandic example, you'll be hard pressed to find someone who speaks it but not English.

Where I live, there's also a local language (Frisian) spoken beside the 'bigger' language (Dutch). And here too, lots of people speak English. Or if not, you might get lucky with German.
"One man's innocent, casual conversation with a female coworker can these days become that woman's #MeToo moment"

Lets look at some notable #MeToo cases in the last year

1. Harvey Weinstein - Dozens of women accused Weinstein of assaulting, harassing, or raping them.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-ove...

2. Matt Lauer - Fired for inappropriate sexual relationship with a coworker. Not an isolated incedent, as many women came forward through his career with reports of sexual assault and unwanted sexual advances.

http://people.com/tv/matt-lauer-sexual-harassment-assault-al...

3. Mario Batali - Accused of sexual misconduct by multiple female employees. Repeated reports of Batali groping the breasts of women who worked for him.

https://ny.eater.com/2017/12/11/16759540/mario-batali-sexual...

So where is this "innocent conversation" you mention?
Would you use the service if it was 3x more expensive?
You seem to be happy to ignore that the larger context is this:

Non-white people are discriminated against because society as a whole accuses their parents as a whole of being degenerates.

> If your father was a violent degenerate and arsonist, would you comfortable paying society back for a portion of his crimes?

I'm a german. Ask me about the amount of paying back my entire life has consisted of.

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You're also veering very off-topic from the fact that op made the claim "more discrimination is being proposed as the solution" to which i replied by disagreeing that it is more, and claim it is the same amount of discrimination, just moved around.
The error you made is that you imply that fake news is somehow related to lack of nuance, biased news, single viewpoint, downvoting news you you don't like or drama in general.

Fake News is is deliberate misinformation and hoaxes published with the intent to mislead in order to damage an agency, entity, or person, and/or gain financially or politically.

I hope you understand the difference. You didn't see the nuance.
No doubt: my point was simply that they were doing the same thing people do with things like A/B testing ads – try a bunch of things and measure the results.
This is becoming a common thing for bitbucket?
Think I will be switching to GitHub.
recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15787023
The question that is critical though -> was it with the knowledge and support of Trump or was the agistation designed simply to sow discord by taking out the front runner (Clinton.)

My problem with this Russian thing is that they have failed to actually connect Trump to it in any convincing way but certain media outlets keep making the case that Trump is for the Russians, So, some are under the impression that Trump colluded with the Russians while the real story appears to be that Russia wasn’t colluding with Trump but simply trying to create chaos over the election process. There is evidence to this because some of this Russian stuff dates back to 2014 — long before Trump was even thinking about running and far before anyone took him to be a contender. There will be the argument that Trump’s campaign met with Russian officials during the campaign. However, if that’s suspicious, then we must question the Hillary campaign meeting with Chinese officials during the campaign as well (among many other countries.)

This Russia thing is real; that Trump was part of it is not. Honestly, Trump wasn't sophisticated enough to run a multinational spy/propaganda operation with the Russians. If he were, then that would necessarily discredit arguments that he isn’t smart or sophisticated enough to be president.
Ding ding.

I've started seeing "buy here pay here" auto dealerships use "Uber-ready" as a marketing message on their most expensive cars (and subsequently most insane leasing arrangements).

It's a smart selling point, because you're overcoming peoples' general aversion to spending $$$ on luxuries for themselves by allowing them to justify the nice-car purchase as a business investment. Sure man, you really NEED that F150 to ferry drunk kids around a five block radius from Duke.
It can be organic if enough people who share an interest in world news have been influenced by their earlier marketing efforts.

In the early 2010s RT invested heavily in advertising to people who can be vaguely classified as "political contrarians", somewhat dissatisfied with how the American government uses its power, but also sufficiently aligned with mainstream politics.

Similar efforts have been undertaken by Qatar (Al Jazeera - AJ+). China (CGTN) is a new entrant, but I haven't watched it closely to say if they're taking the same approach.
Capitalism has little to do with allowing foreign corporations to compete in your market
This limitation is also clearly stated in the job description itself.
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

I was once asked to do recruiting at a university. They told me to only collect the resumes of Females, Blacks, and Hispanics. And that they would not consider any other genders/races for the positions. This was for the BOLD program: https://www.google.com/about/careers/students/bold.html.

Talking around with my co-workers, we found Google has multiple programs like this. Another is a program to hire only LGBTQ people for entry MBA positions.

Still afraid to speak up within Google as I fear my job would be at risk.

Google claims its a meritocracy. It used to be a meritocracy , but in the past few years thats no longer the case. We've become a Microsoft.
montyf is likely trying to imply that the article isn't worth reading, because it's so obvious and self evident that the entire premise is "just more deflection and misdirection by the American media."

Note that they even asked for downvotes, in order to include Hacker News in the narrative of global propaganda and censorship, by way of appearing a martyr to the cause.

I'm surprised they didn't throw a reference to "sour grapes" or mention the DNC while they were at it.
> They're the ones doing all the work.

Because, you know, art arts itself.
Affirmative action literally means the opposite of what you think it means. It means that there will be efforts taken to ensure no discrimination in hiring on the basis of race, sex, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_11246 etc
That's one controversial interpretation that claims collecting citizen data doesn't count if you don't really mean it.
Brevity is the soul of getting people to read your shit.
That's not really true. Having just been through this with my mother there is a huge amount of hospital care required during terminal cancer.

For starters radiotherapy is often used to control symptoms. It may not do anything for length of life but targeting key tumours can keep you mobile for longer, reduce the risk of seizures etc. It can be a boon to quality of life.

There will also almost certainly be other things that occur along the way that require visits to hospital. That is complications that could kill you but can be treated without too much discomfort where you can get back onto your feet. Infections are incredibly common for example. Particularly if you're on steroids.

Obviously you'll rule some things out, e.g. chemo as not worth the cost during palliative care.
> You don't need a persistent root. I'd already addressed that point. Just run modprobe and you're done.

That assumes too much. For example, that you have a network connection while booted from the live media. You may not have one; then you cannot run apt/yum and you need persistent media that you prepared somewhere else. (Happened to me).

> Bullshit.

Surely. Or you have extra speedy USB keys. Just installing minimal distro on USB takes a better chunk of that time.

> The whole point of this tangent was about when one needs an Live CD.

When you are doing something non-standard - and installing ZFS on Linux is pretty nonstandard - you know in advance that the normal live media won't work. It's prudent to have something prepared, if/when SHTF event occurs.

Specifically with regards to filesystem, when you are installing with non-distro-provided-fs root, you need to make it anyway, just to install it in the first place. So instead of throwing it away, just label it and put in into the drawer. (When you are not installing on non-distro-fs root, you don't need support for that fs in live media at all, the standard one will do for making the system boot).
What to What: What/Why people move from this to that
This lines up with the incredibly high turnover rate too. People like this are the positive use case for Uber.

Unfortunately, I believe they make up a small minority of drivers, at least in most metro areas.
Nuts and bolts of Growth Marketing for startups
The problem seems well-advertised to me. From the Tor FAQ (https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#AttacksOnOnionRo...): "it is possible for an observer who can view both you and either the destination website or your Tor exit node to correlate timings of your traffic as it enters the Tor network and also as it exits. Tor does not defend against such a threat model."

I think that Tor does already implement some padding protections, specifically against correlation via NetFlow records. See the spec at <https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/padding-spec.... and an implentation history at <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16861>.

The effectiveness of further padding protections aren't clear unless you go to full padding, which is very expensive (probably impossible for mobile clients, for example). Tor is successful, in my opinion, because it understands that reducing performance reduces users and thus actually harms anonymity.
Racism is racism regardless of whether you coat it in "statistics".
Rule of thumb: anyone using the term "best practices" doesn't understand them.

(Yes, some do. On the whole I find most don't.)
Maybe they couldn't find any 'diverse' candidates to hire and had to settle with you.
No, the key requirement which makes it difficult to use on real-world tasks is that you must be able to do a forward rollout of your environment in your decision-making process.
>In favor of much higher discoverability (I'd argue)

That is the trade-off isn't it? The downside, though, is that Reddit's interaction design privileges low-effort, easily digestible, and sharable content at the expense of everything else. Especially the kind of off-topic personal discussion that builds durable "communities" that go deeper than just sharing content about a particular topic.
This is a lot worse than I thought. Last I heard Uber was subsidizing fares, and they're losing tons of money. If it's still not enough for drivers not to lose money, then the difference between what riders are paying and what the service actually costs must be immense.
Oh come on. A five minute googling session will give you various articles talking about what telemetry was designed for and that the backlash was largely a storm in a cup of water based on ignorance and misunderstanding of the technology. Curiously, I've never heard anyone hate on Apple over telemetry.
Or just don't click "Connect" on the USB access permissions prompt when it pops up.

Unfortunately though, as with any phishing attack, this flaw is most likely to be effective against uninformed users, and those users are the least likely to take proactive measures to protect themselves beforehand.

Fortunately:

> "We will have a short term mitigation in place in the upcoming version of Chrome, and we're working closely with the FIDO Alliance to develop a longer-term solution as well."
Can you explain this further, or offer a link that does?
So I can go into the president's bushes and spy on him. If I'm caught surely he would understand that by definition I was doing something legal.
NRK (government-owned broadcasting corp. - about as "mainstream" as it gets) covered it yesterday [0], and has published comments [1-2] today.

[0]: https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/xl/antennene-som-samler-inn-da...

[1]: https://www.nrk.no/ytring/sviket-mot-grunnloven-1.13940422

[2]: https://www.nrk.no/ytring/e-tjenesten-folger-norsk-lov-1.139...
That argument is weak. It's equivalent to saying I should kill some people because my adversaries kill people. That's nonsense because the situation isn't symmetrical. It's not the adversaries who are getting killed.
Most likely. I used "right now" as "In consequence of that", probably a carry over from my native language.
>if you looked at that shit if you didn't know it you'd be sure I was serious

And if you kept posting it long enough, and participating in that community long enough, it's very likely there would stop being a meaningful difference between what you posted ironically and sincerely.
Icelanders pretty much all speak english. Having a common language does not mean having a single unique language.
Gee... Putting incompetent people in important roles... What could go wrong!!!
Interesting. I've discussed this with others on HN previously. Seems this one goes toward confirming my suspicions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14605111

Now the moral dillema of whether or not to continue to use these services or revert back to terribly inconvenient taxi services is really going to nag at me.
If the word embedding is, say, 400 dimensions, are you averaging the vectors of all the words in the document to get a document vector?
Why must intelligence be secret?
Are you saying that speaks on this article or not? I don't care about a rule of thumb if it doesn't apply here.
Are all of the engineering jobs remote friendly? On the Careers page only one position is listed as local/remote
Er, thanks. We've just moved to go dep :)

Go's dependency management story is starting to resemble JS's modules story :(
That's the first half of a language dying. If everyone speaks Dutch and it's on signs and menus etc then learning Frisian has limited value.
Apart from the difference between not hiring aspirants and driving away old employees, the metrics of diversity are probably based on pure head count, not on having quotas on important roles (which would also be unlikely to be satisfiable).
America’s Main Streets Are No Match for Amazon
The only reason I didn’t buy that HP pen plotter is because I’d want the freedom to give it any kind of pen or marker, not just ones made specifically for it. I imagine it’s not possible?
That's the frustrating thing though. Doctors tend not to talk in probabilities of outcomes. Fortunately I haven't had a ton of experience trying to get them to do so.
If you are a foreign government or individual that wants to lobby or advertise politically, you must register with FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act).

> The purpose of FARA is to insure that the U.S. Government and the people of the United States are informed of the source of information (propaganda) and the identity of persons attempting to influence U.S. public opinion, policy, and laws. In 1938, FARA was Congress' response to the large number of German propaganda agents in the pre-WWII U.S.
"People cared" maybe plays a bigger role than you realize here. There were stronger social norms back then about the role of medical care in society. Most hospitals were community or religious owned, physicians were content with merely above average professional salaries, and you never saw any kind of advertisement that ended with "ask your doctor about X".

I think it's naive to assume the 16.5%-of-GDP octopus we've created wouldn't figure out a way to profit from the removal of all regulations.
It may be in the US. Doubt it is in Russia though.

"Charging" them is a pantomime; Russia won't, and AFAIK legally can't, extradite them anyway.

(I'm assuming they were and are in Russia, not the US.)
AWS Direct Connect down in us-east-1
See https://status.aws.amazon.com/
Twitter should just realize they are the "you're gonna have to throw one away" of global-scale internet discourse and just shut it down and try again.
Sarcasm is low form of communication. It doesn't work.
"health" and "civility" aka they are going to double down on censorship and hostility towards anyone who opposes thier radical left wing agenda. More racism disguised as "anti racism" and more restricted discourse disguised as "openness" Pure doublespeak here folks.
Here's their actual price listing. https://surgerycenterok.com/pricing/

It would be great if the insurance companies would get behind these kinds of prices as this is probably the same as their negotiate rates they pay other surgery centers. Seems like it would be a lot less hassle for them to process.
This is a direct quote from the linked article
I was preparing to make a long post asking for ideas/help (been saying that for weeks but it's ready and I was waiting to Monday since weekends are slower) This sort of thing ruined my life, cost me everything, and has finally brought me to the precipice. I was convinced 15 years ago to have surgery to "prevent later disability" and it ironically left me disabled and in severe pain. I later found out abroad from several doctors that I never needed the surgery but the catastrophic damage was done, but they did improve things slightly and Ive been trying to get back to live there but cannot.

A few years later in some nightmare the "repair" surgeon messed it up far worse and changed the procedure we had agreed on, but I signed the vague forms hurridly shoved in front of me as I was being prepped and legally he as allowed to. I never would have agreed to that procedure he did had I been clearly informed. They got paid...my life got ruined...and things slid downhill from there as systems and people failed me. Now I am facing seemingly insurmountable needs and costs and more surgery which terrifies me and I would never trust having in this country if at all.

It's long story that has no TLDR. I am at my wits end and don't know if a comment here is the right place to share whole thing, or if I should make my own post now or Monday...I need as many eyes on it as possible if there is any hope.
Yes using dep full time for projects andnit has been great.

I think it’s the right choice for now. It was going to be the one true solution and many people have stopped working on the alternatives.

We’ll see where vgo lands, but dep is very practical right now.
>Paying 20$ per visit...

Such experiments have been made with Medicaid demo projects in the US. They've failed every time. People can't distinguish needed care from unneeded care; they end up foregoing needed care, deteriorate, and end up costing the system much more in the form of hospitalizations, disability, etc.
There are large differences between individuals.

Differences between individuals are far greater than differences between populations.
Dogs and humans have co-evolved[0] for approximately 30,000 years[1] (for reference, agriculture is only 10-15k years old[2]). Human-dog gaze can cause the same effect as parent-child gaze.

[0] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6232/333

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_domestic_dog

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture#History
Bitbucket briefly blamed the issue on AWS us-east-1 too, until they scrubbed it and just said "cloud provider". Here's what they said then:

Identified - Component services in AWS us-east-1 are currently unreachable due to upstream incident. We're attempting to route as much as possible away from the affected components now.
Welp... at least the status page is working...
Yeah, I'm looking forward to checking in with eul in about six months, the idea seems promising but it's nowhere near usable (for my personal value of usable) yet
Thanks, we've reverted the title to that of the article.
phenomenon*: Couldn't help myself.

I'd be surprised if people were selling HN accounts for this purpose, it's much easier to reach a larger audience, and have more impact, on a general social media site than HN. I wouldn't suspect the practice is likely to happen here.
For a Designer Behind a Social Media ‘Army,’ Instagram Looks Stale
Based on an article that went on HN a few days ago:

https://mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-google/

it seems luck (as in being the right person on the right project) plays a large factor (not the only factor, of course).
>If you ask locals they don't have any feeling of belonging to any larger-than-them nation, they clearly describe themselves by the community/tribe they come from.

Rural locals? Because city locals, and increasingly rural locals as well, will feel like belonging to a larger-than-them nation.

>This is the only reality that matters.*

Obviously not. This might be the only reality they know, but in the outside world, the state they belong to, their government and the general national identity the have to live under matters as well. When such a state is at war with another state, it's not a tribal matter anymore.
That's demonstrably false. Early screening is useful, but that's also a medical procedure.

Really what we care about is cancer deaths at a specific age AKA what % of 15 year old people die of cancer and that really has dropped. Even beyond that the absolute rate of cancer deaths in the US peaked in 1990 216 per 100k vs 2015 at 158 per 100k. Which is a massive drop even over 1950's pre screening and younger population numbers of 193 per 100k.

PS: Stomach cancer is flat out much less common because we understand a major cause now. Cervical cancer rates will similarly drop from the HPV vaccine.
> Most people, including myself, find the idea of eating dog meat abhorrent

A Muslim person might find someone eating pig morally abhorrent and a Hindu may find someone eating beef reprehensible.

Grow up — people can eat what they like and what’s food is going to differ between places. If you prioritize your own personal food preferences over the right of others to eat a perfectly ethical food, you’re just spreading xenophobia.

I have never understood why people are so upset that other humans eat animals.
It's because Asian's don't "need" the diversity agenda to help them that they are screwed over by it's policies. You aren't useful to them.

Your last paragraph is an explanation for why "tech" is becoming increasingly under attack by the diversity industry.
Or the pipeline's shut off to access those roles. It really depends on how much hiring is done at that level vs. internal promotion to them.
Check out https://www.resumonk.com

Disclosure: I'm the Co-Founder of Resumonk.
Haha. It's hard to give hints without giving it away to everyone else. Feel free to pm me on twitter @mitch_crowe and I'll be happy to give a hint.
Hmm, maybe I misunderstood the feature.

If I have a variable declared as fooBar, and somewhere else in the code someone refers to it as fooBAr, does that compile, or is it an error?
ok scratch that, use firefox then

but still hardly anything supports U2f :-(
Given this (correct) understanding of what "diversity" really means in American culture, why do you think it is that Asian-Americans overwhelmingly vote for pro-diversity policies?
Logfiles. ZFS with lz4 has given me compression ratios of over 100× with /var/log, due to the huge amount of repetition.

My first test of PostgreSQL on ZFS was also quite instructive. lz4 again achieved respectable compression (>10× for my datasets) and improved throughput several fold (with no other tuning!).
I loved that book! Excellent recommendation. If you want a good intro to non-PWR nuclear power technologies, I'd highly recommend "SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future" by Richard Martin.
Sure, if I thought to do that before the chargebacks. I'd also better have an iron-clad backup strategy for the now irreplaceable files.

What about the non-technical user who disputes a charge, doesn't even know what DRM stands for, and finds themselves in this situation?
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