skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can be. Some companies (famous example:google) use "culture fit" and "share our values" to discriminate based on political views or other criteria which if they were to be specific about it,then they would break multiple employment laws.

But some have that for a good reason. I applied at a tech company recently whose product I am a fan of. Did well on the phone and in person technical interview. But after that, they kept asking how I like to work and how I felt about open office spaces(told them I can deal with it so long as I can put headphones on while doing technical work that needs concentration and that I felt some tasks are best dealt as a team while some should be developed and matured before involving others). Needless to say, I haven't heard back from them. But my point is that even I felt a bit of a cultural incompatibility( I was willing to make it work but they saw it as unworkable I guess).

Frankly, I don't see how a 50 year old person (not myself,I'm in my 20s) can be culturally compatible with people young enough to be his/her grand child. Or how a coder from asia can have the same work culture as west cost americans.

There is this view that the culture and values made all these tech unicorns what they are. Maybe that's true but I keep wondering whether or not the same group of smart people but culturally diverse could have acheived the same goal so long as they all agree to use rationality,communicate openly(in an inclusive way) and agree on what the goal and their role in the organization is.

I like to think silicon valley startups to be more or less as culturally exclusive as 80s era IBM,bell labs or Xerox. Which is why I keep doubting the culture narrative. Smart people make smart companies and smart enough people should be smart enough to make cultural diversity work (my humble opinion).
Gracias..
"Works on my machine"
Probably not enforceable..
"It's not discriminatory."

Maybe it's not necessarily discriminatory but almost certainly has been in instances. So really it can be either.
I collect pinball machines and they are regularly over $10,000 for the highly-sought titles. Unlike a car which needs to be registered, they are "cash and carry" items and accepting any form of payment other than cash is risky (paypal? cheque? I think not).

It's like buying stuff at a garage sale with a credit card. Ridiculous.
The sheer idea of it was offensive.
Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World's Deepest Ocean Trench
To add some context: essentially all scientific calculators with LED or VFD displays had rechargable NiCd batteries and plug packs. Typical engineer mostly used them plugged into wall. (And then there was my dad who used his IIRC Sharp VFD scientific calculator as charger for AA NiCd cells well into late 90's)
Have you found an ADA attorney yet? If not, I’d encourage you to do so.
https://get.app/ has a gallery.
What is this? A real life example of non discriminatory bad cultural fit?
This is a surprising obvious usecase for cryptography, actually surprises I haven't seen anything similar spring up before now.
That's not the whole story (re: immunoglobulin). You're right in broad-brush strokes. The abstract at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12850343 has some quick notes on the broader context. For immunoglobulin in particular, when you say "doesn't survive digestion," you're missing the substantial amounts of IgA (ok, milk sIgA) in the intestine. There it will bind with lots of bad stuff, preventing said bad stuff from causing an immune response. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257684/ is one place to read about this.)

You also must consider all the leukocytes in breast milk. Both maternal and infant infections cause huge increases in leukocyte production. There is a theory (hard to test) that babies like to stick their hands in mom's mouth while breastfeeding so that mom gets baby germs, and then mom will make appropriate leukocytes. Bizarrely, baby backwash (into the breast! while feeding!) also leads to maternal immunological response. Fun fact: breast milk from the same mom can vary in color dramatically (from blue to white to yellow) and a lot of that has to do with the contents, with yellow in particular generally having a high leukocyte content.
My country is capable of determining the services it offers me, its citizen. Your country is capable of determining the services it offers to you, its citizen. No country is capable of mandating behavior from third parties who haven't chosen to engage in a citizenship relationship with it, meaning that no country is capable of regulation.
Well inflation
Thanks for answering. Do you have any idea of how the economics work out ?
Sounds like one mind.
My ISP is capable of denying services to me, its customer, based on principle (e.g. it conflicts with their business model). Ergo, they regulate what I can/cannot do. Without government regulation to say "bad ISP, bad", they can regulate my ability to access services and charge me more to slowly peel back that regulation.

In case you are still confused, here's the definition of 'regulation':

> to control or direct by a rule, principle, method
Out of curiosity, how difficult would it be to "buy" your way in?

I'm thinking you could more or less hire influencers to recommend your channel/content?
I have to add that because dad can't lactate, he's developed more sophisticated strategies for dealing with infant discontent than this mom :)
It's opensource and available externally tpp

https://github.com/google/pytype

It just doesn't seem to have gotten as much traction yet.
Generally true but MyPy has some support for protocols http://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/class_basics.html#proto...
thanks for sharing... It's crazy that Berkeley (such an awesome institution) has come to this... The US/CA govt's owe it to the university to increase funding.
In my experience growing a successful(ish?) YouTube channel, the initial barrier was more like 10k subs. I don't even upload anymore and still get hundreds of subs per month.

But the way YouTube works is a bit more difficult. Higher subscriber counts get you higher CPM rates. Higher CPM rate videos place higher in search. I've actually seen this myself in my own competing videos. YouTube really pushes video CPM rate in search.

So on YouTube, the barrier to entry is extremely difficult. To hit 10k subs I had to do tons of marketing, guest posts, bought some advertising. 10-20k? Just post a video every week. 20-30k? Just post a video every month or two.
Many people assume (educational) segregation's gotten better, but there's reason to suspect it's gotten worse

> CASHIN: In 1954, 0 percent of black children in this country attended a majority white school. By 1988, 43 percent of black kids did. So we were fulfilling the promise of Brown. We were increasing in integration every year from the mid-'60s to the late '80s. We were closing the achievement gap between black and white kids.

> And then, in 1988, we begin to retreat. And in the '90s, the Supreme Court threw three opinions - signaled to lower courts that it was time for federal courts to get out of the business of policing schools' desegregation. And school segregation levels are about where they were in 1968. So we kind of lost 50 years of progress.

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/28/597750714/a-look-at-the-state...
As a manager who does a lot of interviews and has run teams with a lot of different working dynamics, culture fit is something I used to describe a collection of social skills and dynamics at play in my team, with the company as a whole, and with our clients. There are a large number of ways people can interact well, and there are a number of specific things an employee might do to make these dynamics strained. If, in the course of an interview, I can identify a large number of these, then I have effectively identified someone who will take up a large portion of my time in coaching & mentoring to smooth out those habits, or who will take up my time in dealing with inter-office conflict. If that's the case, I will turn that person down based on a culture fit and choose another candidate that can present both the technical skills required as well as the soft-skills that allow us all to work more effectively.

This is my interpretation of those terms and how I use it personally. My basis for behavioral traits is based on personal experience as well in working at a large number of companies in various roles, industries, and positions. I don't believe that it is at all discrimination because I'm using my best judgement for who can work most effectively with my team. That's just smart business.
Children of Dune and Dune Messiah are, imo, the weakest of Frank Herbert's Dune series. Persevere through those and you'll be rewarded in his later books.
What exactly is the argument here?
Ok, and right now I'm "regulating" my fingers into typing a comment.

Or maybe there's more to the word, particularly in context, than the shortest dictionary definition you were able to find.
Examples like King/Bachman are the sorts of things that to me debunk the notion of meritocracy and support things like wealth redistribution and affirmative action. If success is largely a product of randomized path-dependent effects and feedback loops, then success is not really earned. It's basically lottery winnings.

That being said I'm not sure I accept that premise universally. It seems like this is true in domains that are popularity contests: pop culture, politics, etc., but I have no proof of that and have never seen anyone do any kind of comprehensive analysis of it. Maybe I just don't want to believe that success beyond a certain point is random.
This is a fascinating language with some great ideas. I tried years ago to create my own implementation in Python but while I found the paper straight-forward the implementation in Bud, to me at the time, was quite dense.

It'd be interesting to revisit it again with some of the advances we've made in deep specifications and dependent type theory.
You can try to find an NIH facility near you, thats what I do. They only let you donate every 45 days though.
I am a little surprised that it just provides a simulated model; Yahoo ran a famous experiment which does exactly what demonstrates his point about randomness and media success being only weakly correlated with success: "Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market" http://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_dodds_watts06_full.p..., Salganik et al 2006; Salganik & Watts 2009, http://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_watts09.pdf "Web-Based Experiments for the Study of Collective Social Dynamics in Cultural Markets"; http://cultural-science.org/FeastPapers2008/AlexBentley1Bp.p... ; "Leading the Herd Astray: An Experimental Study of Self-fulfilling Prophecies in an Artificial Cultural Market" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3785310/ , Salganik & Watts 2008.
‘For Honor’ and Thomas Hobbes
In order to maintain access to (currently) free services without making one's computer unusable.

The problem I see is that the processing and bandwidth used by advertising are currently "as much as advertisers can get away with" and I think it's leading to a tragedy of the commons.

But I see no need to eliminate ads and free services either. There just needs to be a cap enforced on the resources used.
thanks, I'll look into it!
Someone should do a proper analysis of MyPy vs PyType vs Pyre. What features they support, how fast they run, what tooling there is around it, etc. But yeah, competition is definitely nice, as it'll lead it innovation and hopefully cross-project inspiration. All 3 are open-source so that's awesome.
Maybe in 100 years we'll be experiencing such extreme hardships that we'll regress our values to more primitive forms.
As I dive deeper and deeper into this thread, it looks like people are confusing "verbosity" with "it-has-a-type-system".

Java (5,6) wasn't verbose just because of types. Java was verbose because the language, and everything surrounding it was verbose. It was difficult to read Java at times because the language had been gunked up with AbstractFactorySingletonBeans. FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition is a joke that is only funny and simultaneously dreadful in the Java world. However, despite being relatively more complex, Rust is far less verbose than Java- even though Rust is more powerful with regards to types. "Hello World" in rust is 3 lines with just 3 keywords. The Java version has 12 keywords.

Engineers ten years ago weren't choosing Ruby/Python over Java because of static typing. They didn't choose Java because it was relative nightmare to read and write.
Well one idea is that the first world economies transition to a higher value add for a set of industries.
The old mobile reddit had gotten pretty ridiculous too, if you go back a page you see "Sorry an error has occurred". Sometimes the error goes away just by waiting, which is stupid. Sometimes you have to refresh and it shoves you all the way back to the top of the page, which is equally stupid.

Reddit is such a simple site. I know scaling is hard but it's just a basic CRUD app. They're not doing anything hard other than scaling. So why is it constantly broken?
I doubt the really big ones would do it - and anyone moderately successful is still going to ask for like thousands of dollars. But yeah, if you have money to burn that can probably boost you - but most people don't, so it again favours the people who already have an advantage.
Part of the “allure” of “influencers” is that they are important on their own. “Self made” and relatable, basically. The second you group all those people together and put up a big sign that says ‘these are the important people’ that all goes away.
Sure, and I think the reason he's taking a 6-week break now is that he failed to take sufficient breaks earlier.

I've burnt out myself, and it's no joke. I wish him only the best. But to me the real risk here isn't "senior leader out for long, possibly indefinite period". It's "Tesla has been running a sprint, not a marathon." If somebody this high up is burnt out, what's it like for everybody else?

Given Tesla's precarious cash position this is the time when they really need for things to go smoothly. But if people are at or near burnout, they'll be making mistakes, cutting corners, etc.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7xwknx/republican...

The difference between giving money to change alignment, and 'already being aligned', is appearances. It's still money being sent, and that absolutely influences the individual being funded. It's a complete conflict of interest, and especially in this case it's an absurd amount of money being sent to many politicians, not just one.

I think there are some good points against NN. Such as the FTC's role in investigating unfair practices. But the FTC is always playing catch-up when it comes to the myriad of bad practices ISP's get up to. With the repeal of NN there has been no real replacement to prevent the ISP monopolies from being unfair, as they have done in the past. I generally side with libertarian arguments and that markets can do a better job. But in the U.S, we have monopalies. ISP's grew under non-NN rules, and there are significant anti-competative practices to blame rather than the easy one of 'regulation'.
> JavaScript numbers are always stored as double precision floating point numbers, following the international IEEE 754 standard.

It doesn't have integers to store.

https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_numbers.asp
Hackers might find away, but regular users do not.
I think of it as axiomatic that nobody is really in it for the money, as that is just a placeholder for the ability to do things or comparative status.

When you say he's in it for power, that sounds like you think of power as meaning power over other people, but why can't he be primarily motivated by seeking power over nature - which living on Mars might amount to the ultimate example of?
> As for programming languages, there have been very few actual productivity gains since the standardization of Common Lisp.

This isn't true. Common Lisp had more than a few problems which later languages fixed:

1) Module system/encapsulation

Common Lisp has a notoriously fickle and opaque system for importing other code into your space.

2) Sequences as sequences rather than linked lists terminated by null.

Dealing with the fact that a list is a null-terminated linked list instead of an actual sequence/vector/tree is a big deal. Try implementing a printer for dotted pairs at some point. Talk about annoying and it costs you enormous performance.

I could keep going, but there are far better qualified people to talk about the many shortcoming of Common Lisp.
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-2? What is happening to this website?

"This, in the end, just illustrates the point that repeating misinformation constantly will convince people that it is the truth."

"You chose a side, it ended up being the losing side, and the whole debacle likely cost the Democrats the White House, yet you're still unable to see that you were played."

These "observations" are in fact 100% imagined.
I’m turning 50 in two weeks. I get a long with the 20 and 30 year olds at work. My interest tend to align with thiers (movies, politics, tech trends)) thanmost people my age. I associate with them both in and out of work.
I’m not sure. To me the threats you mention seem more cerebral since we have to think about them, but don’t feel them (well, I guess one feels pressure from one’s economic sitation). For example, irreversible global warming is a huge concern, but I don’t walk around thinking about it all day. But feeling lonely and disconnected is something that is hard to escape. Lack of human connection is hugely emotional. And in my experience, depression is emotional.

But to be honest, I’m an armchair quarterback here so I’ll see what others have to say :)
I am breaking the day down hour periods, and I think a human might average 100W over each of them.

Being slightly faster in a factory is often not very useful, but being slightly slower will quickly cause problems.
A new health startup boldly claims to reverse diabetes without drugs
I guess this was your point, but the problem is how Java does does type erasure. With Haskell type erasure is an implementation detail, but with Java it leaks into the compile-time type checker. For instance, you can't have both these overloads:

public void foo(List<String> list)
public void foo(List<Integer> list)

This just wouldn't compile.
> 7 isn't really that late for reading. Lot's of well respected schoolin systems don't even attempt to teach reading until 7.

This is very interesting to me. I come from the UK, and the government's attitude to education is contrary to all of the pilot schemes, studies, and research I've seen. Namely they seem to have warmed their heads with the idea that the only way to advance learning is to put the student into the education system earlier and earlier. Rather than waiting until later (when they are ready), and improving material concerns so that good nutritional health from birth onwards is available to everyone.
Apple made more profit in three months than Amazon has generated in its lifetime
Or maybe Tesla and/or its market position are not mundane.
A Wait-Free Queue as Fast as Fetch-And-Add (2016) [pdf]
> A backup generator that's never used actually is useless.

Having a backup generator for your data-center means you can have less batteries. Even if you never directly use it you are benefiting by reducing overall capital costs while still mitigating the same risks.

Put another way owning a generator can provide a revenue stream because you can sell that risk reduction to someone else. That's not a theoretical benefit that's cold hard cash.
OTOH, if you are engineer faced with the problem of picking some number between the respective economical constraints (ie. pick a number not much higher than 2.25 or not much higher than 3, both of which are somewhat well known estimates of manufacturing overhead) you are somewhat likely to come up with these two transcendentals.
Ask HN: How to help people that shut themselves in?
We are about to start a study to identify what causes flares and remission in a chronic condition. The problem is that about half of people with this condition can't differentiate between good and bad days in terms of symptoms. A trusted buddy (in real world) could to do it for them, but they often shut themselves in, and all of their interactions are online not in the physical world.

The condition is idiopathic malodor - when body loses ability to "deodorize" digested food in the blood and malodor episodically emits from all the skin pores at seemingly unpredictable times.

My questionnaire asks questions like how many people interacted with them in the last 24 hrs, how many of these interactions were positive, if they felt well-rested, depressed, miserable, had any physical symptoms (based on quality of life questionnaires).

Any other suggestions on how to differentiate their flareups from remissions?
Extensible Broadcast Fusion in Julia
I used to think ‘culture fit’ as a reason not to hire someone was nonsense, however, I left an employer not long ago after they refused to deal with someone toxic that was hurting the team attitude. It led to some massive attrition and made me realize there’s certainly something to idea of ‘culture fit’, but I don’t know how it can be assessed so easily over an interview process. This employee actually started off quite well and seemed like a fit at the time but eventually it became clear they lacked the growth mindset we needed.
So culture matters, yes, and attitudes affect team balance but I’m not sure that this is the same as a post-interview ‘culture fit’ rejection. In fact, it may actually be a matter of hiring at the right level of seniority to get the job done. That’s not a culture thing so much as knowing what you really need in an employee. You could easily hire someone who just wasn’t what you needed then blame ‘culture fit’ which seems like a bit of a cop out.
Silicon valley likes to pretend you can run a marathon in 45 minutes by breaking it into subsequent 100 meter sprints. Dashing without breaks burns people fast.
What about a statement such as "whites are responsible for slavery". It's true, but not all "whites" were responsible. I think a lot of people wouldn't bat an eye at this comment. However, at an individual level it seems unfair to me, since obviously not everyone that was qualified by the label "white" during slavery is responsible.
Someone tried defeating the secret-image security... it turns out all it takes is a static image saying "Error with Secret Image Server, call us if the problem lasts more than 24 hours."
For completeness, I feel like for...of should be included. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Yeah, pretty good idea. As mentioned up the thread I run a web site dedicated to this kind of thing: https://startyourownisp.com/ we're getting kind of deep in the thread but I'd be happy to chat further via email. I think it's on my profile or my contact info is on that site.
What causes of ED?
IM-C&UO (Initial Mini-Conglomerate and Universe Offering)