skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't feel the diversity should be sought for its own sake. The best applicant should be hired every single time - although I do feel that it is okay to consider diversity as a tie-breaker when choosing between equally qualified candidates.

On the opposite side: people not hiring the best candidate, in order to prevent diversity, should be fired. Just hire the best person.
they wouldn't do this because it would expose their anti-white anti-Christian anti-men toxic policy of racism, which is ironically called "diversity" -- anything but.
I remember back in the dot com days when google was just a bunch of white boxes, everyone used Altavista and/or yahoo, and men and women of all races worked together in harmony under the pretense of professionalism and I sadden that an entire generation of millennium seem to be growing up not knowing how nice it once was. I remember one job with a Japanese manager, a women executive, a korean analyst, a black manager, and me -- a white guy, who was the best at perl and pulled all nighters to make sure the ERP loading scripts never failed and doing conference calls together at midnight on a Sunday with everyone.
Do you have any evidence this person is a paid advocate?
How does an ad seller know whether an ad buy is "political"? Requiring the seller to keep records seems reasonable, but requiring the seller to make records, does not. That is, an ad seller ought not be expected to know which incoming buys are political. That ought to be the responsibility of the buyer/"creatives" to declare.
I've seen a few things recently in this vein, that I should look at Microsoft with new eyes because it hasn't done anything bad lately, as if a few years makes up for three or four decades.

Even if I were to buy that, "We've been on our best behaviour lately" isn't really a great reason to invest time and money in a company's mediocre-at-best products.
For mushrooms? Far more likely to have a Xanax accident.
The rendering slowness is probably because every cell is rendered as an individual little HTML5 canvas (two, one for off state and one for on state).

Some browsers have no problem at all with so many little canvases, but in firefox it causes a slowdown.

A solution that will hopefully be faster is to make one big canvas instead of many little ones, and blit the cells on it every frame instead of using CSS visibility to swap between on and off states for each cell. Such rewrite of the rendering engine is a todo.
One of the most important principles at the executive level is seniority, not meritocracy. McKinsey research (among others) has repeatedly shown that higher diversity correlates with higher performance.

This is not surprising. If roles up the corporate ladder are filled based on status and networks, talented people from disadvantaged or novel backgrounds lose out. In this case increasing diversity disrupts old networks and has a corrective function.
I would summarize those two quotes as saying something more like "women may be biologically less inclined to want a job in tech and therefore expecting a 50% representation of women is unrealistic".

My reading of the memo, way back when it broke, was that his argument was more about differences in interest/inclination rather than ability.
> It's crazy to develop very similar APIs for GUI apps in parallel, and what has become two different OSs with slightly different apps and feature sets, but a huge amount of overlap. The savings for Apple and developers of having a consistent set of new APIs and one set of apps to manage (for example their entire office suite) would be huge.

Right, and what the announcement seems to show is that UIKit could eventually grow to replace AppKit. Like you yourself say - "uikit is a better appkit written with the benefit of experience".

That still doesn't imply the two OS would necessarily be merged - there's still a ton of things that make sense for macOS that are not needed in iOS, and vice versa - just for one thing, they have vastly different energy budgets. There's also a ton of overlap and shared code already, for pieces that it does make sense to share.

So, I still think the answer is really targeted at people who fear that iOS (with all of its current limitations) will replace macOS, essentially, rather than being a misdirection as you seem to find it?
So Getty images has a whole lot of photos of the paintings in the Sistine chapel. I bet those photos are copyright the photographer, ‘yeah but that’s because it’s Getty, that’s allowed’
Pointers are converted in order that they be used. Though the uses may be undefined, there is value in the conversion having a well-defined syntax. In effect, C and C++ allow certain intents to be expressed in a common way, without requiring implementations to make those intents work. This is better than having compiler-specific syntax for that sort of thing.
Strangely without the crypto babble, the climb and the man's death wouldn't have even made the news, it'd just be another day in the Himalayas... (How many other sherpa deaths have you noticed?)

But the crypto promotion does make the death feel extra cheapened, it'd be like having someone die doing a dangerous stunt while promoting, I don't know, Kim Kardashian perfume or something useless like that.
Oh dear god, even more emojis :-(
Any opinions on which is harder in any kind of software, properly supporting all Unicode characters or correctly handling floating point numbers?
I guess both :-)
Atlas Shrugged should be required reading for employees
Yes, they are. You can say they're making a value judgement, but that doesn't change things.

"The EU is basically saying "if you do business here, and you screw this up, we are going to sue you before seeking other remedies""

That has never, EVER been said. Not once. In fact, the vast majority of guidance says that they will seek compliance BEFORE suing people. If you can't get the basics right, no one here can trust you to have an honest conversation.
I don't think the person you were responding to was saying that those categories are political ideologies.
Neither of your quotes speak to qualifications.
I guess pared down to its absolute core, this is what Monte Carlo is - you just generate many a large ensemble of possible states.

But this simplified explanation misses out on one key aspect of Monte Carlo: sometimes different kinds of Monte Carlo moves can be designed that can allow it to more efficiently sample the phase space than other methods such as gradient descent.

Unfortunately, doing so is can be very involved, and is not always very general, so it isn't as easy to do as using other methods for exploring phase space.
Is an Attorney General enforcing the laws of the state "activist"?
You have it reversed. The only thing that makes his behaviour slightly bearable to others is his effectiveness. Otherwise the community would've dumped him right away. Not like there's any reason not to, except for his technical knowledge.

This is kind-of a survivorship bias example.
Averages say nothing about individuals. Do you avoid hiring black people due to higher criminal background rates in the US?

If the pressure in the US is on average higher for males to focus on career, then that will influence overall percentages in top competitive careers. It doesn't at all imply that the women in the top are unqualified, it just explaining why they make up a smaller percentage.

Talking about averages is not "softer language". It's not related to making generalizations at all.
They won’t even let you view messages on the mobile website either. Instead they restrict that and force you to install the Messenger app. Yelp does the same thing and feels just as scummy of a tactic. Basically both companies try to force you to install an app you don’t actually need so they can mine your contacts and personal data. No thanks to your tricks and traps business model.
>Enough with this.

As if, Dad.
> roll their eyes and think "there goes Linus again"

You both seem to be unaware, that emotional responses are not universal. A swear word in a second language and a different less sensitive culture doesn't feel like much to cause anyone to care enough to roll their eyes.
iOS-factor, inspired by the 12 factor-app framework
Replace convenience with whatever benefit you see most pertinent. That is your trade-off. For me, convenience is the most frequent benefit.
Nobody bothers to define what "diversity" even is. Skin color and gender? Is that it? After civil wars and decades of social unrest to prove that your appearance has nothing to do with your skills, talents, motivations, and competence; are we really back to saying we need a certain quota of each group?

This madness needs to stop.
Fun fact: at least one large company I worked with explicitly internally documented WTFPL-licensed software as unable to be merged into their codebase, because lawyers. Cf. MIT/BSD/Apache/ISC/CC-BY/CC0 that were all fine.
I didn't say orchestration provides no value. I've spent the last 15 years building orchestration systems, I believe in them. I'm merely saying the most value of containers is achieved without requiring the adoption of orchestration. What I mean by that is if you take your existing means of running non-containerized apps, and change nothing except putting your app in a container, you will see a large benefit. Now changing your existing means of deploying application and swapping that out to an orchestration engine such as k8s may or may not benefit you. If you have 1000 servers, you will mostly likely see benefit. If you have 20, you might not.

k8s or orchestration/clustering is not the only way to run containers. Amazon knows that. If I was to make a bet I say that Fargate or Lambda have much better chance of being a major money maker for AWS.
I'm aware of that distinction, but even the former case isn't legitimate. Of course employees should negotiate against what they perceive is unfairness. Not just legally, but culturally. If Google employees believe that many of their peers are not compensated fairly and that executives are biased in their compensation, they ought to speak out.

Why shouldn't they? To not disrupt the echelons of upper management? is that the tech industry now, run like a 1940s oil company?
Honestly, I read a few sentences, began stumbling over the expletives, then decided I didn't care what the issue was or what his opinion is. Though he acts like everything that isn't done precisely as he would have done it in hindsight is "utter garbage", there are probably all kinds of historical
and logistical reasons that things were done a certain way and that doesn't make the people involved "f*cking morons." And, to save everyone the trouble, the usual refrain of "he's actually right" is meaningless to me.
None of the things you quoted mean that women are less qualified. What was meant is that women are generally not as interested in this type of work as men are, hence the disparity in numbers. Two very different things.
Because the buyers are all registered political entities: candidates' campaigns, political action committees, etc. It's illegal for a "regular person" to go buy political ads and not register with the state.
“I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership”

Maybe it’s a little more nuanced than “suggesting women are biologically less-qualified than men for tech jobs." But it’s not a gross oversimplification.
That's not the point. The point is there is an identifiable group that is underrepresented within Google. It doesn't matter why, it doesn't matter who, it doesn't matter if it's "political". All that matters is that it is clearly discriminatory.
I don't understand why people feel the need to go Kremlinologist on his tone.

He swears a lot. Who the fuck cares? His audience isn't HN or The Register or anyone else not doing kernel development.

The apparent desire for bland, well-scrubbed and boring is not universal. I haven't heard of a sudden increase in demand for talk therapy for kernel devs. Lots of engineers swear a lot, and that's unlikely to change anytime soon.

Now, if you'd like to discuss actual abusive managerial behavior, we could have something to talk about.
According the Damore's complaint, they consider diversity to be non-white and non-Asian, or non-male
I am extremely highly qualified to work at a cashier job, but I don't have a job working as a cashier, because I have other options I prefer.
Yeah, it was safe to assume they would announce something related at re:Invent, given that they had joined the CNCF a few months before, after simply ignoring Kubernetes for years.
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Are you aware of the difference between qualified and interested?

Are you qualified to paint a house? Are you interested in painting a house? Are those the same exact sentences?
Why can't the brain pull back to make things even? I'd think the brain should be smarter than the spinal cord.
Genuinely curious what features of a GitLab or GitHub equivalent you would require in a self-hosted scenario that 'git' doesn't provide?
The Google network is really good, but still has congestion between regions (probably just for GCP customers, I’m sure Google reserve capacity for themselves).

We have to run proxies over the public Internet to work around poor latency between Singapore and Iowa, for instance.
You're basically couching your anti-conservative and anti-white viewpoints in flowery language.

What laws are currently applying barriers to employment and disenfranchisement?

We're literally commenting on a thread about one of the worlds biggest and richest tech companies applying barriers to white male employment (and by extension, if you look at the demographics of voting.. conservatives).

You think it's ok because you view it as a redress of past sins. But whose? Anyone alive today?

And what country does not have a history of those isms you've mentioned? That is excuse to install racist policies to tip scale against people simply based on their race or sex today.. in 2018?
I've spent a decent amount on custom glass from Wilmad-LabGlass, I can recommend them.
It seems like that could easily mean that certain groups are just less interested in certain types of work, no?
Why Robocallers Win Even If You Don’t Answer
Conservatives isn’t a protected class, and neither are liberals for that matter.
It's an easy mistake to make, he says in the memo that differences in both preference and abilities (emphasis mine) are partially due to biological causes.
Or you just stop hearing the barking, like the annoying dog in my neighbor's yard. I've mostly stopped noticing that the damn thing barks 8 hours a day. But if it yelps instead of barking, I notice immediately.

Most of us will perk up a lot if Torvalds has something nice to say, even among the barking. Communication is complex.
Newly released NSA security education posters from the Cold War now on T-Shirts
I really wish they went easy on the animations.
It is really hard to measure why people are or aren't hired. Why do I have product managers that can't write a complete sentence or even use a consistent vocabulary? Were they the best choices? I don't think so, but there is a lot of factors that go into e decision.
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its not a mistake, its misrepresentation
That is quite a jump you're making. Interest != qualification and looking for work-life balance != lack of qualification.

I think that it is a bad characterization to make that leap of logic. Just considering the statements that you've chosen, I see nothing that says anything about whether either sex is more qualified, only statements about the sex distribution in tech.

Is there something that more directly relates to qualifications inside of his essay? I have not read it.
Facebook granted devices from Huawei, a Chinese telecom, access to social data
I'm definitely guilty of not unit testing my error paths robustly. Line-by-line code coverage reports showed pretty consistent gaps, especially when operations become no-ops by returning early in case of certain errors.

Kind of surprising that other kinds of testing didn't reveal that bad log line, since it will always KP...
Team projects are not individual activities; therefore candidates cannot be evaluated in a vacuum.
yeah i probably am. i haven't gone back to read it, yet, and it is like me to question minutia before i question the larger narrative.
It's worth noting that while Service Fabric as a technology does power a lot of offerings at Microsoft (as noted in the article), strategically it has been superseded somewhat by Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Most new development should really be on AKS. Even Azure Container Instances (ACI), a recently GA'ed Azure service, runs Kubernetes underneath.

Edit: As noted in the comments, SF is on Github. The following paragraph is incorrect and I retract what I said; leaving this here for context.

"Also, by going the K8S route, you potentially avoid being locked into a proprietary offering -- SF is only available from one vendor, whereas K8S is available almost anywhere."
Their code is executing with a third party kernel, trusting that but not trusting the notification system which sits way above hierarchically seems like a very arbitrary delineation.
How do you think Motoblur worked?
PRE-CRIME POLICING: HOW COPS ARE USING ALGORITHMS TO PREDICT CRIMES
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"The 18th-century Irish philosopher Bishop George Berkeley concluded that, since all we know of the universe is what our senses convey to us, things in the world exist only to the extent that we perceive them."

This is a mischaracterization of Berkeley's position.

Berkeley did not admit even the existence of the senses, much less that they convey anything to us, nor the unstated assumption of the above description that there's something outside our senses to be conveyed to us through the senses.

To Berkeley, everything that exists is either a perception in the mind or the mind itself.

Berkeley's writing is very accessible and clear, entertaining even. To anyone interested, I strongly recommend reading his "Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous"[1] where he leads you through his thinking step by step. I wish more philosophers wrote as well as he.

[1] - http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/berkeley1713.pdf
What's it called when an employer promotes their cause with disregard to the damage they might cause to their employees (and users too)?
In addition to all of rayiner's points (which I agree with), I think you vastly overrate Taibbi's journalism. Just because he attacks a lot of things you happen to be against, it doesn't make him a good journalist. He routinely exaggerates the facts, gets his economics wrong, and is otherwise misleading in his writing.
I have not. I choose not to grumble in public that the enormous contribution to the world of a master craftsman could have been even more enormous if he'd done things the way I prefer instead of whatever way works for him.

And then I get back to work using his software which I paid close to zero dollars for.

Is there another gift horse whose mouth is so frequently inspected as Linus?
I'm curious.. Can you please provide more information or sources on these concepts? I've always had a hunch this was the case
>and richer on average than dumber scientists

...but not the richest of all people. Nor do the richest people in the world tend to be great scientist, mathematicians, chess players, writers etc.

Because intelligence can only shuffle you around in the class you inherit but only luck will get you out of it.

Children born to carpenters will tend to become good carpenters because they get connections, learn skill and are given tools by their parents not because they are inheriting more intelligence than someone just breaking in to carpentry.

Children born to massive landlords will be landlords because they inherit the estate not because they are smarter than people wanting to become landlords with no cash.

>Wouldn't controlling for inherited wealth completely wipe away the signal?

You need to measure delta in wealth so in fact you _must_ control for wealth. Otherwise a rich kid who looses half his inheritance will be counted more successful than a poor kid who doubles his.

>just find a richer ethnic group

I point out above why this is impossible. If, for some reason, you decide this moment in history was the one to make the judgment on, you would find that the richest countries are also the most progressive and have the largest social safety nets. Are we going to claim the intelligence correlates to progressive politics and the wisdom of social safety nets as much as wealth?

>The marshmallow test measures delayed gratification.

And yet when it was believed to predict future wealth, it was said delayed gratification _was_ intelligence.

>the original marshmallow experiment showed...

The article explains why the original test was fundamentally flawed. For one reason, because it only had 90 subject rather than 900
the Memo is talking about interest while this article is talking about ability.

At no point the memo is stating that women are less capable than men.
Nobody was doing either of those things. Theres a whole plethora of innovation and social network competition and integration that happened in the 2000s. Google Friendfeed.
The constitution doesn't protect them from criticism, which is what you were replying to.
Then that suggests a fundamental brokenness.

If the industry is structured in such a way that certain groups who are qualified have less interest in participating, then there is a problem in that industry.
God forbid people have opinions and voice them. What a terrible world we live in that the rabble feel they should speak up.
If I am dying, what right have you to tell me what experimental treatment I can take or not, if I otherwise have no hope to live? You would condemn me to no hope at all in order to save me from what you consider to be unproven or possible quackery.
Google has far higher proportion of non-Americans than black people (let alone limiting to American and women). It's not even a close comparison. This sort of extreme ignorance is the sort of problem that D&I initiatives are struggling against.
"No two pieces of scientific glassware are the same"... isn't that a problem considering science should be reproducible?
borrow from a library?
Agreed. I can’t recommend Peopleware enough. It is common sense, humane reasoning applied to software teams.

Sadly, I read Peopleware long before I ever became a manager, and it made me very attuned to being treated badly and being given ineffective tools or support (e.g. crappy open plan seating arrangements instead of private offices).

Peopleware will open your mind to the obviousness of productivity-first thinking and accomodating basic, inescapable human needs. Which can make you reflexively sad when you see how much of our industry steamrolls these ideas in favor of idiotic open plan disasters, hazing-focused interview barriers to entry, unrealistic mandates for Agile-style estimation and work tracking, etc.