skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder why the push to diversity hasn't affected other sectors of the economy that have equally huge gaps in 'diversity'?

- Airline pilots are 90% white men

- Airline stewards tend to be predominantly female. Maybe Jetblue should publish a diversity report on its cabin crews?

- Nursing seems to attract mostly attract individuals with XX Chromosomes. Why isn't Stanford Hospital pushing for executive compensation to be tied to diversity among its nursing staff?

- Traders at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are predominantly male -- unlikely to change in the next 10 years no matter what programs are launched or how much money is spent

etc. etc. etc.

Silicon Valley seems unique in its headline grabbing push in this regard, despite decades of failed experiments: https://hbr.org/2016/07/why-diversity-programs-fail ...

Google spent $265m on diversity, Intel pledged $300m in 2015, Yale pledged $50m to diversify its faculty - Columbia, not to be outdone is spending $100m.

All these programs and many more like them going back to the 80's have been spectacular failures... it seems this media fueled social justice movement only makes money for diversity consultants and the new field of "DE&I Program Leaders" which have emerged out of nowhere...
Oh excuse me, I should bend over for him then! Because his achievements are so great, he must be immune to criticism!!!

> the enormous contribution to the world of a master craftsman could have been even more enormous

Hardly, it's about the contributions that don't exist from other people because of the insufferable shit-headedness of working with him. But that doesn't matter to you because we can't criticize him now can we? No, we must bend over because he is so much better than us!
Careful, a lot of those same graphs apply to currently specially-favored diversity demographics. But whatever the case, at least be consistent. If all you care about is diversity, not intelligence, bring in all those conservatives too, low IQ or not. The low IQ ones will be especially grateful for the leg up in life.
So when someone says they "want total control", your response is "no you don't". Wow.

Are you a sales rep for Shopify? That $30 per month fee is bad.
Note: Potheads will spend in ordinate amounts of money on paraphernalia.

That's true but most of them spend inordinate amounts of money over a large number of pieces, which doesn't leave enough profit per piece to really support a skilled craftsman. Cannabis is already pretty expensive for a heavy smoker (1/8th of flower or 1g of concentrates a day is easily $30-40/day) and the aesthetic of cheap glass is good enough for the vast majority of people.

Out of the dozens of heavy smokers I know in Washington, I'm the only one with any glass pieces worth over $1,000 and they are all practically indestructible so they get replaced at a rate of once every 4-5 years instead of every other month.
My cynical view is that executive stock is usually set at whatever level is necessary to signal to stockholders that the executive's own self-interest will place the interests of shareholders above the interests of employees, customers, or society in general.
No one is stopping that person from buying anything; they just have to register first.
You seem to be very confused. Getty pays photographers for the rights to their photographs.
I think godbolt.org uses it as well.
Except using memcpy specifically does not violate aliasing rules, while aliases do.
This is likely an Omen that crypto currencies are dying.
No, because the exception is with respect to people's experiences, not with respect to what the news reports. People experience regular stuff every day, whether the news reports it or not.
CLI tools also have the advantage that their developers don't have to waste their time building and maintaining a useless GUI, but can instead use the time to improve the tool itself

Maybe it's just me, but I stopped reading here b/c this language struck me as unnecessarily antagonistic. Just some feedback.
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I wonder if this is because FB is trying really hard to get into China. IIRC Zuckerberg offered Xi to name his first born child.

https://mashable.com/2017/09/18/zuckerberg-chinese-president...

My cringe muscles are getting such a workout these days.
How about SageMaker, Can we include it in this list. I played with SageMaker sometime ago and it helps you build a whole pipeline to host your models, in addition to host your notebook and bridge the gap between data scientists and data engineers.
> Bezos takes WaPo to protect Amazon

What?
> Being a woman, being African American or being transgendered aren't political ideologies, nor are they mutually opposed to conservative beliefs.

That's true and a great point - the top tech companies discriminate against African American conservatives, transgender conservatives, and female conservatives too!

Perhaps even more so!
"there goes tptacek moralizing to everyone again"

(I am merely trying to illustrate that we are all creatures of habit)
This is not typical at all for tech startups. If you take investment, the founder's share declines quickly:

https://www.lawtrades.com/blog/answers/usual-share-percentag...

Even a single founder can be under 50% by the end of the series A, as you not only have two rounds of investors, but you have to carve out a chunk of equity for employees (10-15%). And if you have multiple founders, which is typical, no one founder may own more than 50% past the seed round.
> SF is only available from one vendor, whereas K8S is available almost anywhere.

SF is open source on GitHub and you can run it on-premise or on any cloud, Windows or Linux.

The tooling is probably easier on Azure; but you can also happily run it on AWS; as well as the Service Mesh variant which is sort of "Serverless Clusters" or "Clusterless Clusters", applying the strange naming of "Serverless".
I know you're being lighthearted here but that kind of thinking is actually another form of "appeal to authority".

FWIW, having not looked at any of his LKML rants for years, he seems to have mellowed out a bit in this one.
did he reply?
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...
First, create CLEAR instructions that shows how to access the database from outside the company. It's best if you create a script.

If you have zero tolerance for risk, then print out the instructions and a copy of the script AND put the script on a thumb drive. Then mail them (physical mail, in a literal envelope) both to the company with no return address.

Then you've done your part, and you're unlikely to be sued.

Good luck.
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-bought-...
How does one define “best person?”

Is a female candidate of the age and life situation that she’s likely to become pregnant soon less suitable? After all, she might be about to take extended maternity leave! Better not risk it.

Is the candidate with a strong foreign accent less suitable? Maybe the project managers will struggle to communicate as effectively. Not worth the bother.

Is the candidate who lacks a degree worse? They seemed good in the interviews, but maybe there are holes in their knowledge. Why bother?

That gay guy was a bit flamboyant. The sales bros might not be into it. Pass.

That view rapidly invites monoculture. It’s easier to hire people who are similar to yourself. In reality, diversity is in itself a desirable attribute for a team to have. Teams with a variety of backgrounds have different experience that contributes to solving problems in different ways. They will know things that you don’t, and your products will be better for that contribution.
You're just flat out wrong dude. You've got some very bizarre believes about copyright law and I can't fathom where you got them. Whoever you learned from did you a great disservice, or if you 'taught' yourself then you didn't do a very good job at reading.
http://prior.sigchi.org/chi96/proceedings/desbrief/Sullivan/... is a fun read. At the time, the very concept of a UI on a computer was itself alien to many of Microsoft's target users - they did a lot of user testing to come up with what ended up in Windows 95.
That's a great deal. And yes, most universities don't need a full-time glass-blower, if they need specialized glassware they can hire services or make orders to companies.
Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC. We must fight it
This is going far beyond my own knowledge. I only use double-entry. Or at least I use a style where everything is a transaction that adds up to zero -- there can be more than two accounts in a transaction. I don't even understand single-entry.

[UPDATE: I am now pretty sure there is a serious misunderstanding my paragraph above, but think it is more constructive to note it, than to delete it.]

My main objection was to making account types so so fundamental. From the POV of my account book "Assets:InTheBank" behaves just like "Liabilities:CreditCard". True, the later balance is almost always negative, but it is the minus sign and not the word "Liabilities" that matters.

Similarly for transactions, a plus or a minus in front of a delta is less confusing to me than the equivalent accountant-jargon. But here, for some reason, I have more sympathy for accountants and their jargon.
Lets be honest.... people just like to shit on microsoft. i was against open source most a decade ago.

Now they understand that they need open source alternatives to keep alive.

Azure has suport to various popular open source techs, they keep a lot of repositories in github, and even open sourced .net.

And, you complain about microsoft buying Github? Imagine if Oracle had done the same.
In pointing my father to this story, he told me tales of Joe Wheeler of UW Madison's chemistry department. His retirementish (21 years and moved to Hawaii for their department) in 1976 http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/UW/UW-idx?type=turn... . Note the family business - his son (Mike) (in '76) had moved to Arizona... and there's an article on Mike's daughter from 2017: https://kjzz.org/content/535871/asu-third-generation-scienti...

One of the bits to note form the 2017 article:

> Today, she serves four campuses of research faculty and graduate students.

> ...

> Nevertheless, scientific glassblowing is a dying art.

> "It's slowly been dwindling. Like, lately, if people retire, they kind of shut down the shop and start outsourcing. But us glassblowers are trying to change that," said Roeger.

> Roeger is working to reestablish the apprenticeship program in which she learned her skills.
"The apprenticeship program is a four-year, full-time, hands-on training with a master glassblower, and it really does take that much to be able to produce glassware that customers can use."

Going back to the 1976 article:

> Joe was successor to Jim Davis who doubled as glassblower for
the Physics and Chemistry Departments for many years before retiring for health reasons

UW Madison still maintains its glass shop ( https://www.chem.wisc.edu/content/glass-shop ), a mechanical engineering shop ( http://chem.wisc.edu/content/instrument-shop ) and an electronics shop ( https://www.chem.wisc.edu/content/chemistry-electronics-shop ).

The UW Madison chemistry glass shop page has two videos on it - one from Wisconsin Public Television and another on YouTube ( https://youtu.be/pfeUbkU7IKQ )

(edit: another article about Scientific glass blowing https://asgs-glass.org/history-of-glassblowing-who-was-first... - note the editors note that when that article was written, Joe Wheeler was the oldest practicing glass blower at 90 years old)
I'd say far from perfectly feasible. I looked at the prospect of commuting from South Bay into San Francisco. In isolation a "Baby Bullet" sounds feasible, (45-60 mins), but there are only so many of those, and they of course don't drop you at the door of your office. So the end result looked something like showing up to the station at 7 AM to get on a standing room only train, then needing to cobble together the rest of your commute via bike/rent-a-scooter/Uber whatever to show up anywhere reasonably close to 9. Then doing the reverse on the way back!
#1 is just the origins that dont have bearing on the modern use and #2 is a fiction book so what are you saying? you would rather have hiring based on what you look like? no thanks
I don't even want to SSH to instances that I control and have provisioned, why would I want to SSH into instances managed by AWS?

Unless the point of your server is to provide SSH (you are using it as a development box, maybe?), having to SSH means that you are lacking in the tooling department.

At work we are guilty of that. We are actively trying to improve on this.
FYI this was fixed in both macOS and iOS last updates: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=15...
This is unexpected, I'm assuming both instances are on the same VPC and you are using the internal IP addresses right?

(I work for GCP, would love to know more. My contact details are in my profile if you want to go into details)
Unfortunately, they don't have one. Their development and security practices are straight from the 1990s, I don't think they even have someone reponsible for these areas anymore.

I'm at a loss because I've got the feeling that they are no technical people at all. I feel for them because I know the pains of selling online and I don't want to wreck the livelihood of these people.
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Completely off topic... but are you the same 2mcm from another orange coloured forum back in the day?
Cripes. He's not the first opinionated, yet strangely effective Engineer the world has ever seen and will not be the last either.

I personally happen to like his approach in general but as I'm sure you are aware: "You can please some of the people most of the time and most of the people some of the time but this aphorism sounds a bit tired these days"
On the other hand, just because a point is valid doesn't mean it is also useful. Especially compared to all the other points that could be raised in its stead.
The numbers reported strike me as very small (I buy digital political ads for work). Especially 1.1mm in 2016 for FB statewide strikes me as tiny!

Looking at official candidate committees for Senate+Congress only in '16 is close-ish to 30mm raised (1). Plus PACs, 501c3/4s, any Presidential spend on top, I would guess double that at least. Even if 50mm total spend that would be only 2% spent on FB which seems really low, based on a low spend estimate.

I wonder where they got these numbers...

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/races/election?cycle=2016&id=WA
What do you mean!? Everyone knows Rails doesn't scale and jQuery is garbage!
I've sent emails anonymously but I'm not sure I would do it in the future. It doesn't seem like it's worth the risk.

You might wait 30 days or more in hopes their logs don't have your previous requests in them which could potentially identify you.

Ethically it doesn't seem right to feel obligated to help a business that has a problem. They have money and it's their responsibility to run their business competently, not yours.
No only Xeon E5-2600 V1-4 series (Dual Socket) and Xeon E5-4600 V1-4 series(Quad Socket) are multi-cpu capable.
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Wow, if only there were some forum in which these issues might be addressed, where you could write precisely the problems you've found with his reporting rather than blanket smears that mean nothing to anyone without all the background you're imagining we have. Perhaps it would be a forum in which Taibbi himself would be likely to see those specific complaints, and could if he chose respond in some fashion that might be educational for all of us...

Or, I guess we could use the opportunity to police his literary style.

ps. I'm giggling now because I'm thinking of all the journalists whose economics have been "right", and the number of days over which that has been the case...
Try both, you'll understand.
This reminds me of shareware and game demos from the 1990s!
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This seems to be the impression in the business world, which has what I can only describe as a fetish for stories about the military, but Marines in particular have a very tough time adapting to life and careers outside the military.

It's fun to think of our businesses as just like a Seal team and try to glean lessons from stories of heroism, but the reality is if the military were in the business of making a profit, retaining employees, or pleasing customers, it would fail miserably.

The reality of the U.S military is far different than the impression that the leadership papers give you.
Give it a rest already Facebook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeZZr_p6vB8
No. But could they prove it with the standard FB app either? I mean, you are typing your user name and password on that phone, if you assume the manufacturer is outright malicious, then official API access doesn't really matter one way or the other. An API used to create a third party client is generally a good thing and doesn't actually change this (unless I am missing something here).

You could, however, with some trouble, check which data is going where on your own device, as long as that API isn't meant for direct connection between FB servers and those of a third party.
And I can't stress enough that they should not use Shopify. They said "total control" and independent. That is the opposite of what Shopify provides. It sounds like you love Shopify, that's great for you. Some of us like to actually develop websites and customise the checkout proecess, the cart, the categories, the product pages, the collections, the wishlists, the account membership, the invoices, reports, .... the whole lot. It's good to have control rather than be tied to some fast food e-commerce solution.
Apple's model is Embrace. Replace. Extinguish.
Mea culpa, I gave way too much benefit of the doubt here.
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In the sense of being consciously modeled on Silicon Valley, copying many of the practices, I think it's fair to call some other tech scenes offshoots. New York I'd call different in that it's very media- and finance-heavy and leans on existing business tradition more. But even in NYC I can think of some companies that strike me as much more SV in culture than the NY median. And Seattle I don't know well enough to say.

Broadly, though, there are a ton of places that are (or would very much like to be seen as) Silicon Valley offshoots. Wikipedia lists dozens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_technology_centers
Have you considered that conservatives may just have, on average, a lower preference to work at a large tech company than liberals?
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this is basically what Deepmind is doing
It's been a while but glass worker I knew said a simple pipe you can turn out in a few minutes. So 50-100 a day depending on how much boredom you can stand. You get about $5-10 each. Bonus cash business. Double bonus, your Hippie GF sells them on the street for $20 ea.

Compare with a scientific glass blower at $15/hr. Then factor in payroll taxes.
What you've described is literally not double-entry. Double-entry is based on the concepts of two accounts being modified by a related set of similarly-sized transactions (i.e., the credit and debit actions). The idea is that you can separately replay the sets of transactions for each account and at the end they reconcile (i.e., balance) because the accounts are modified separately.

You've presented a system in which one transaction modifies 2 accounts. If there's an error in the code, you've got no way of knowing it without manually checking the calculations by hand.
Under GDPR, Netflix would probably have to divulge this data.
This is so overblown. Its not a far leap by NYT standards here to say that Facebook also "gave data access" to every screen manufacturer that ever displayed a Facebook page.

The bottom line is when people have data on FB and they have hundreds (in some cases thousands) of friends who all have the privilege to view their data, then the data is really not all that private to begin with.
Yeah, Xi turned down the offer too. Probably the most bizarre Zuckerberg story I've read yet, which is saying quite a bit.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/119106...
Neat, thanks. I'll try and get it going again this weekend.
Author here. Using Node Pools to upgrade your cluster isn't something that some people are aware is possible. Same with using Regional Clusters to ensure HA (as it just came out of beta). Sure, the rolling update is one-click (or even zero-clicks with automated upgrades) on GKE, but I wanted to let people know there is another method as well.

Check out the other posts in the series[1] if you feel this one is too much like an ad and let me know what you think. Trying to keep the series a good mix of OSS and GKE specific things with the majority being OSS.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIivdWyY5sqL3xfXz5xJv...
The site is so fucking slow though.
> `memcpy` is insufficient because it's a copy and that's a huge performance issue.

Compilers (at least clang and gcc) are smart enough to see through those memcpy's. For example:

https://godbolt.org/g/5L5PT5
ai definitely needs a lot of people (researchers, to invent or at least apply the AI) and money (to pay the researchers, get good ones), and the quality of the program is definitely correlated with the money invested
this whole fear "antibiotic super resistance bug" doomsday fear is narrative is totally out of control, where now doctors are resisting prescribing totally safe and proven penicillin based drugs, which is causing more damage then good. The "super bug" threat is not from penicillin based resistance, but this clarification is nowhere to be found in the mainstream media. This article and the researchers are totally out of character with what the problem is. It's gotten so bad that the WHO has now put out an advisory to say it is OK to prescribe amoxicillin because people are getting really really sick from doctors worried about this irrational fear because they believe in these lies.
I don't really think this is about pleasing people or not. More about self respect. I for one would have to be way too drunk to pun on a shitshow like this in public, also when there's no apparent reason.

But well that problem belongs to those who work with him, so I don't care. All I wanted to say is that because he gets away with it, it does not mean that us the halflings will too, so that's not a good advice to somebody thinking of participating in the general open source sphere.
I was only kinda interested in this article, because I have worked enough years at enough different American places to know what good management looks like, and what bad American management looks like. But, I would really like to read an article on what good (and bad) SE Asian business management looks like.
Skepticism towards keyword arguments is something I have trouble understanding. Is it because of some performance consideration?

Thanks for your answer!