skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But that’s because of aggressive efforts to recruit women, as well as lawsuits, in the 1980s and 1990s, to counteract the long history of discrimination (the field as 95% men in the 1960s). If people back then hadn’t done that, we wouldn’t be getting the “best person” today.

Is that not a counterfactual?

> Your comment may be factually correct, but doesn't make clear how it applies to its parent.

I didn't realise it wasn't clear. Maybe I should have defined the term & pointed out exactly where it was:

Counterfactual: 'Relating to or expressing what has not happened or is not the case.'.

Then again I expected people to be able to connect the two things together.

I guess my tone was because I'd expect someone who works in corporate law to know better. Maybe I should have outlined that as well. I could have explained that I was shocked. That's what I thought the tone conveyed. Surprise: Really?

Does that not convey surprise?

I guess it could be dismissive, but dismissing what? I'm asking a question.

I'm sorry if I was dismissive to the corporate lawyer regarding his use of a counterfactual (with the presumption that I'm correct). I probably could have pointed out I thought they were wrong in a nicer way.
Millennials turned off from home ownership because of all the responsibility?
Yes, or you could edit the html source with dev tools. Trying to purchase a ticket with a modified price will not work. Never trust user input!
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Especially given how much these private companies act as the public commons nowadays. Between network effects and wide proliferation, the "just go elsewhere" defense doesn't work too well anymore.

I think it's workable. Once you both market yourself as an open platform for discussion (as Twitter and many other social sites have done) and reach a certain level of use (which I think we can debate on, but certainly Twitter who has world leaders making official pronouncements on it would clear that bar), some kind of oversight should kick in to prevent abuses.
Good thing no one is being forced to drive for Uber. If your main source of income is from being a ride-share driver, the problem isn't with Uber.
Agree with the rest, but the US is not highly litigious, common misconception, probably created by corporations trying to defend themselves from "frivolous lawsuits".
Honestly, if you're buying a new vehicle to use for Uber you're insane. Perhaps they got more people roped into that or leasing than they ought to have and that's responsible for these issues. But you can get a used car that's more than adequate at a reasonable price even with terrible credit.

At least in my area, most of the vehicles have been 5+ year old Toyotas (almost entirely Camrys, and a Prius or two) that were likely purchased with over 100k miles on them. The nicest thing I was ever in was a new Honda Civic.
I think the challenge is how to correct for unconscious bias (e.g. the classic NBER finding that "black" names have to send in 150% of the resumes of "white" names to get the same interviews[0]) without over-correcting. When people think they're making objective, merit-based judgements, they are actually being racist, sexist, classist, etc.

So how do you fix this? One way is what you suggested: "companies ... should be completely blind to their workforce's background. This is doable in the interview process; for example a test which results in an offer if passed. (Though normal interview processes are not like this.)

But recruiting is more difficult, because right it involves humans reaching out to other humans who they judge to be a good fit. So being truly merit-based there requires some correction of one's own intuition.

I mean, if recruiters were really instructed to "purge the hiring pool" of non-diverse candidates then that's obviously pretty blatant. But I just wanted to note that being 100% merit-based is not easy.

[0] http://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html
"people should take ownership of the consequences of their actions, especially when those actions are part of their professional identity and are reasonably within their control."

That's a normative statement, which I personally agree with, along with the rest of your post, so this is by no means disagreement with anything you said. But it's really easy for people to rationalize away normative statements.

I prefer something a bit more direct: Nobody else is going to save you. Whether or not it "should" be your job to manage your own happiness is an interesting philosophical discussion that happens to have absolutely no bearing on your life, because in your real life, it's on you.

If you are that unhappy with your job, do something. Nobody else will.
Ya, good call, I should make a Cloudformation template to simplify the installation process. I'll do that, thanks!
>It's totally plausible to me that the sum of avoiding these costs is equal to five bucks per hour.

It's only a choice when viewed from an ivory tower. If you have to make ends meet on fast food wages you're not gonna take a massive pay cut in exchange for slightly more autonomy.

Also, the customer interaction side of things is about the same in both jobs and in fast food you'll have to do less bending over backward for customers.
Ive heard this statistic before and it's not all that surprising. One of my "mental models" is that humans tend to be pretty bad at things.
> It would be one thing to set quotas that favor a group, it's another to exclude any group at all.

Any sufficiently low quota is equivalent to exclusion (ie a quota of 1 is pretty much like a quota of 0, which really means "nobody"). The very notion of quota implies exclusion (of those who are "past the quota").
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Is "eat out" a real term, or just something you made up? The term I've heard for this sort of thing would be "capital consumption".
> "...i replied by disagreeing that it is more, and claim it is the same amount of discrimination, just moved around."

How is this an acceptable solution??

So its more like "discrimination is bad, but only against some groups, if we discriminate against this other group though, its okay"...I still don't how this is "fair" or "just" in any sense
Most personal insurance doesn't cover driving for Uber or Lyft. Your friends may want to double check that they're actually covered.
And the patient should simply ignore the bill. Medical debt has become so irrelevant that mortgage companies don't even bother to take it into account
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From your post: "These sort of things happen a lot, and they will continue to happen a lot. Like plane crashes, we can study and learn from them each time to make them less likely to happen in the future. Tor continues to improve, and to make these attacks harder, more expensive, or impossible to pull off."

This really doesn't give me any confidence.
In my city (Montreal) there are some Uber drivers who seem very content and have driven for 3+ years.

They often have very nice cars. What is going on: are these drivers just doing it as a hobby? Are they somehow earning more than others?

One would assume that you can be fooled and stay in the game for 3-9 months at $3.37 an hour, but not 3+ years.
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IIRC this is only looking at hospitals, and it’s likely the second if you include outpatient clinics, nursing homes, etc.

Excessive medical care is why the upper middle class have longer life expectancies than the super wealthy.
You are referring to cancer prevention, while the GP is referring to cancer treatment.
Easy! When I moved here, I was not a professional programmer (just been playing around for a few years), didn't speak spanish and had basically no work experience. But it took no more than a week or two of scouting before I got my first job (but crappy job). Fast-forward one year and I got a entry-level job as a programmer. After another year with some more experience, I had plenty of programming jobs to chose from.

Edit: worth to add that this was in Barcelona, which seems to have a higher percentage of people speaking/understanding Spanish. First town I moved to was Girona but no one spoke English so had to move to Barcelona.
> it was in the government’s interest not to count bodies

Absolutely. So long as we remember it's in other party's interests to boost the body count, too. You're right though - we'll never know.
Medical costs could also be halved while increasing distribution of care to the indigent and jobless via the implementation of single payer.
I like how many ads are in this article
Uber was more expensive than a Taxi for me in Paris. Uber gave me a 10-14 euros quote. And for the same distance the taxi took only 7 euros. I'm pretty sure the math might be working on some places. I'm only suggesting that it is possibly not working on other places and users are not aware of that.
Test-Driven Development by Example: by Kent Beck.

also,

Clean Code: by Robert Martin
I guess the policy has changed. My impression was in the early days you could work 20% on your own stuff (no/few approvals necessary) and 80% on your corporate assignments. That's changed into something that, frankly, isn't very unique:

https://www.hrzone.com/lead/culture/why-did-google-abandon-2...:

> Why did Google abandon 20% time for innovation?

> In 2012 the firm began requiring engineers who wished to work on individual projects to run their proposals by their managers first. This was a significant change from the firm’s previous policy.

> In 2013 it was reported that managers had clamped down on staff taking ’20% time’ so as to avoid their teams falling behind in Google’s internal productivity rankings. Managers are judged on the productivity of their teams—Google has a highly developed internal analytics team that constantly measures all employees’ productivity—and so time spent on ’20% time’ projects would impact this.

2013 Google sounds like pretty much every other major company, in this area.
Iterators in nim are also weird because many of them are not first class types and cannot be assigned to variables. I do not consider that to be a particularly good concept to be honest.
I agree, the param passing is not ideal. Session storage/local storage is another option.
Yes, preventing phishing by only sending credentials to the appropriate origins is a very important part of the spec: https://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido-u2f-v1.2-ps-20170411/fid...
I can only imagine the level-headed discussions this is going to spark.
you compared it to the "birther" movement. now you are moving the goalposts.

Everyone cared about Russian influence before Trump was elected but the New York Times put out a huge story effectively killing the debate in October of 2016, additionally Mitch McConnell refused to bless president Obama's wish to alert the public that Russian interference was ongoing.
Yes but if you're in an accident and the insurance company finds out you were Uber driving they will deny your claim. In that scenario you're out the cost of the accident and all the insurance payments you made. Spread that concentrated risk across the whole population of Uber drivers and you'll get the same result.
Maybe. But there are probably enough people for whom $3.37/hour profit sounds better than $0/hour.
But how are you going to use something as bland and generic like that to differentiate your applicants?

You've got twenty applicants, and they've all built a production API using Go or some equivalent language and they used some design pattern like micro-services or something else. Now what?

Plus in my field even something as generic as that would identify me.
I'm not sure I follow. Screening detects cancer that is already there, hopefully in early stages when it might be treated more easily. In both cases, cancer is already present.
A generation ago, Dutch minority dialects & languages were really discouraged and some were nearly killed. Kids were disciplined in school for using them. A generation before that, British accents/dialects^ actively suppressed to give way to standard (King's) English.

I think there were almost no advantages to this dialect killing.

Small minority dialects are at a danger of dying out, not crowding out the bigger languages. This is how all of europe worked for hundreds of years. My Grandfather grew up speaking yiddish (german dialect) in school, czech in town & Hungarian at school. These are completely unrelated and individually difficult languages. He later went to college in German & Latin, later on English. He spoke 10 languages in total, most fluently. I knew him in a language that he learned in his 40s. This was normal in his day. They weren't afraid of languages then.

Anyway... if your "home" language is a tiny, local one. There is no danger that you will be monolingual in a commercially useless language. You will speak a big language too. Speaking 2 makes the 3rd one easier to learn.

^more on the dialect end of the spectrum than most people realize.
Oh, c'mon, they are named after specific Gods after all.
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but wouldn’t it be a medium gray in RGB? Or are you talking about HSV?
Yes, I should not have implied otherwise since how one leans is really a reflection of how one defines their morals, not a deficiency of morals.
Everything that can be modified by the user is not suitable.
The price must be stored on the server side, everything on the client side is subject to modification.
I dont have references right now but I have continually heard that long term studies have proven that knee (which I have also had that made things worse) and back surgeries (those two common ones have been extensively studied) show no overall improvement in pain years on compared to those who skipped surgery. In fact it is often worse and precipitates new issues.

Surgery is a huge cash cow in the US. The ones that are my only option, but am terrified to have given the past, and dont have the stability or money for would cost something like 25,000usd minimum per foot in this country and take 6 months to a year each to recover from with high complication/failure rates AND are likely to exacerbate the RSD. I am guessing based on previous experience it would be maybe 10-15% of that in Poland where I lived before and got excellent care...and that is paying full cash private prices there. I dont want more surgery at all but I can't live like this either. This is what they did to me and the lack of options they left me with.

*@astura has linked some in this thread
Little to do with economic returns.

Unrevokable student debt is one of the biggest government assets.
Not for jobs, but for higher education it is in a few states already. So there is precedent.
So that refrain seems to imply the 20% project must be done as additional work after spending 40 hours a week on the 100% project. My point was you actually can spend roughly 32 hours a week on your main project, if you are performing well, and then roughly 8 hours a week on your 20% project, and still get high performance ratings.
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While I agree the the economic impact of government-assisted education is often overstated (or at least misunderstood) and that a degree and an education is not a 1:1 mapping in either direction, education for education's sake is a perfectly worthwhile goal, IMO. That often seems to get forgotten in these discussions.
Our thermal plant has a maintenance engineer that also works on crematorium ovens. I found him muttering, cursing, and swearing one day, obviously very irate, as he fiddled with some of our heating systems. I enquired, mainly to make light conversation, and he went on a tirade about home cheapskate crematorium manager had skimped on maintenance and that this had resulted in a breakdown mid-way through a ’ceremony’ and had required ”pulling the client out when he was only half done” and letting the chamber cool down so that the relevant part could be accessed.

That was really quite a nauseating thought. Must make for the shittiest maintenance request ever.
> I think that's mostly due to wider and more public acceptance of conspiracy theory, Fox News, and your Rush Limbaughs, etc..

That's a pretty serious shift!
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Cue 'unnecessary surgery land' in 4, 3, 2...
Just because people share the same language, it doesn't mean they think the same, or share the same values.

Many people around the world speak English, but they don't become culturally American or British because of it.
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People don’t care about Asian males (and I am one) because they’re the highest earning demographic in the country. In a country where you die if you can’t afford health care, it’s quite reasonable to take the tack that economic challenges are in a different league than dating challenges.

Combatting discrimination isn’t about some platonic abstraction. It’s about money, wealth, jobs, health and criminal justice outcomes.

And when economic concerns are implicated (e.g. advancement into leadership roles), I definitely have seen the media address Asians. E.g. https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/almID/1202779428743/.
How do entrepreneurs, makers and creators make a living through the internet?
While the above comment may not be the best or suitable, where do you see racism in it?
Ostensibly this is for use at the beginning & end of your shift to help with the “commute”. But you’ll probably be find yourself out in the sticks with a choice of waiting long periods for each local ride request (~$2-$3 keep per ride), or using the destination geofence in the middle of the shift to avoid double-digits is deadheading.
Bad guys have biases, good guys have convictions.
Given TOR's U.S. Navy roots and the theme of TOR's origin story, I can't say I'm particularly shocked at this. That TOR was a technology developed as part of naval research that "no one wanted anymore" was kind of a flimsy veil, since there weren't any names associated with the narrative.

Similar to bitcoin's story: no one knows who built it, but gee, it's so useful... ~shrug!~
Theres an important distinction in deferring taxes versus avoiding taxes. Every time they buy a peice of property there’s taxes on the sale. Every year there’s property taxes (very high in WA), then finally there’s a sale and guess what?
Just got back from Iceland! (I'm Canadian) Outside of the touristy parts of Reykjavik, everybody will assume you speak Icelandic until you respond in English. Then they'll switch to almost perfect English, with remarkably few exceptions. It was pretty amazing.

In small towns like Akureryi, there's a lot of local pressure to keep signs mostly in Icelandic. I was actually surprised by this since there were a lot of English-speaking tourists in the area, but I respect it thoroughly. It's their country, I should learn how to get around.

Oh, as an aside - as someone who is single and still uses the various datings apps, I was also impressed by how idiomatically correct their english was even down to slang and figures of speech. There's clearly a large influence from American media.

If you're travelling to Iceland, take the time to learn a few basic Icelandic phrases - the locals have a lot of pride in their culture and will love you for it.
Hebrew, like Icelandic, is subject to a conscious effort to maintain its character as it modernises. Icelanders want their new vocabulary to stay Norse, as opposed to the far less picky tendencies of everyone else who uses Germanic languages. With Hebrew, it's keeping things Semitic. New words should be derived from Arabic/Aramaic/Maltese/Ethiopian sources before anything else, and if that fails, first go to Persian, Greek or Latin before getting words from English or French.

Icelanders are going to have a harder time of it, because English can worm its way into Icelandic more easily than it can enter into Hebrew. Plus they have less of a critical mass.
I just made it up as it is easier to understand than capital consumption.
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> White high school dropouts are wealthier than Hispanic college graduates.

What I'm seeing is "people who have lived in America for a long time (European heritage) are on average wealthier than people who arrived fairly recently from third world countries (Hispanic heritage).

Why is that surprising? Why is that a problem?
Medicine is individualized. If you have certain risk factors you may benefit from a particular screening tests or even prophylactic treatment and procedures. These should be evidence based too, however. Same when you're having symptoms.

The topic at hand is, as stated up-thread, "full body MRI scans for healthy people."
Not to any extent that is relevant for an Uber driver
But is it a sustainable road? French-Canadians have been complaining for many years that Montreal's "bilingual" neighborhoods become English-speaking in a decade or so, and "French-speaking" neighborhoods become bilingual. And this is despite extensive government efforts to encourage or even enforce the use of French. You can see the same trends in Catalonia, Wales, Ireland, etc.

Where the government intervenes in the opposite direction, the transition can be much more rapid. Visiting Strasbourg (in Alsace, France), people's surnames, street and place names, and the local cuisine are all German, but nobody speaks a word of it. It was amazing (and slightly depressing) to see how in 2-3 generations a city could forget the language it spoke for nigh-on 1,500 years.

The way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if Dutch were considered a dying language 50 years from now.
While I'm sorry that this has happened to you, it's not fair to pin it on foot surgery. The same can be said for the majority of surgeries. I'm not in the US, FWIW. I've a family member who has had 3 surgeries on their hand (the last 2 to repair the damage done by the first one). Meanwhile, I have multiple friends who have had various surgeries for small sports injuries that are fully recovered. The risks and failure rates _are_ very high, but if you read the documentation[0] that they give to you, they are honestly explained.

Anyone going for surgery should strongly consider whether or not being placed under a medically induced coma, cut open poked around in, and sewn back together, along with the possible complications of all of the above, are worth the procedure happening. (That's not to say don't do it, but there's no such thing as risk free surgery).

[0] The piles of forms that they stuff in front of you are filled to the brim with this information. You are normally handed them at an incredibly inconvenient time, and told not to worry about them.
I wonder how that'd pass muster if it was the other way around. I can't imagine a company that discriminates against black applicants getting a pass because they say their interview process is fair, but they just throw most of the black resumes in the trash before it starts.
In a surprising demonstration of not burying the lede, it's given away by the subheading: "Earning a degree is about signalling, and not just learning."
After gas and maintenance. Buy Honda.

I'm not calculating depreciation, but that's dumb, since I used the car I had (for about 4 years prior), and continued using it about 2 years after.
Title should be "cracking down on Bitcoin exchanges", I don't think they can crack down on Bitcoin proper.
because the alternative is to vote for an overwhelmingly pro-white party.
Yeah. Just recognize it as "consumption" rather than "investment" in economic terms. People usually conflate the two with regard to home-ownership as well.
"since 1970 the share of workers with degrees has increased in virtually every occupation. But in around half of occupations with better-educated workers average wages have still fallen in real terms. " -I love it when "the economist" forgets how "supply and demand" work.

Real talk: it's easier to govern a nation of debt serfs who have to take out loans to take a glorified IQ test.