skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a reaction that is both funny and frustrating. While there is enlightened self-interest for Microsoft to buy GitHub (they rely on GitHub for a lot of their open source work as well as their documentation websites) buying GitHub and saying "We're going to let it operate independently as before while we fund the project knowing it will never turn a profit -- that's how important Open Source is to us, we're willing to lose money every quarter to ensure GitHub will never implode for want of money" STILL brings distrust.

And yet, the hue and cry is "Unless you open source every byte of GitHub's code and infrastructure you're just evil monopolists trying to smother us!" Given all that Microsoft has done to embrace and support open source I think the onus is now on the Open Source community to justify their distrust of Microsoft because "Duh, it's Microsoft" simply doesn't fly as a legitimate argument anymore.
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I tell them, "Sorry, but I rent." Gets them off my back immediately.
It's fascinating how big a quotient the persuasiveness of his speech lies on the vocal level, and is almost nonexistent when written out, abstracting away that detail. It almost makes me think that the current level of chatbots are enough, if only they could nail the text-to-speech component; to really surf whatever it is that makes speech sound powerful and influencial.
from your question, you just got into the company, hence, don't trust much from your direct employees before you do something to earn their respect. All of them truly believe to be more qualified to your position than you, a "newcomer straight out of street", and deserving of a promotion when you fails.

Find the person latest hired, most close to your position and pay him/her a lunch, take notes of the next steps ( which accesses are needed, to whom to speak, how is the politics, who are the known backstabbers, etc... ).
The GUI makes a computer easy to use, while the CLI makes a specific job quick to execute.
Yeah Github wasn't a non-profit. It was a company that wanted to make money. They weren't giving everything they offered away for free. In fact the main reason I used Gitlab was for free private repositories. But no use arguing I guess since people will never change their mind no matter what Microsoft does.
That's true, moreover in the legal systems I know, prosecutors also have the authority to request such documents that means the documents requested can be used as evidence. If you do not comply with it a judge can compel you to give up the document. In which case you also might get in legal trouble, because you refused the initial request of the prosecutor.

Furthermore, at least here in Turkey, communication records are also used in civil cases. For example, in a divorce case, the parties sometimes request the phone log through a judge and prove disloyalty by showing call history and duration of each call.
As investment, you don't actually have to live where you are buying. I have a relative 2000 miles away that buys condos in my city as investments. My wife researches them, reports back and they make a buying decision. There's a favorable situation here and they're taking advantage of it. Not by 'privilege'; by smart investing.
Based upon my neighbours; yes completely. Anecdata is anecdata however...
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You might not care if you die early of black lung if your much higher income from coal mining allows your family a higher quality of life until your death (when life insurance and social security survivor benefits kick in).
I'm going to defend 69132 here.

1. We know that the symptoms of many different varieties of mental illness have been helped by the administration of SSRIs and other drugs that alter brain chemistry.

2. But what we most assuredly do not know is that mental illness patients have detectably different brain chemistry from baseline.

We assume from (1) that (2) follows, but we have no actual evidence of (2). Herein lies the problem. We cannot make a scientific statement on (2) predicated only on (1).

In this specific sense, OP is correct. And the downvotes are unfair. And more research is needed.
I think some context would be helpful to parse the specific things he's referencing, but, here's my partial translation/paraphrase:

"I'm smart. My uncle was smart too. I went to Wharton, he went to MIT. He was a nuclear scientist. You know, I feel like people don't give he and I the credit we deserve. We have good credentials but people don't pay attention to that. They think I'm stupid because I'm Republican. But if I ran as a Democrat, they'd think I'm smart.

Anyway, my smart uncle told me that nuclear energy is really powerful and efficient. And that was 35 years ago, so I imagine it is even more powerful and efficient now.

Now I'm going to tell you about three or four prisoners. Some are male and some are female, I think. The female ones are smarter.

But anyway, the Persians/Iranians are great negotiators. The US should have negotiated harder with the Iranians. But I feel the Iranians ended up getting a good deal regarding our nuclear negotiations. And I feel that the United States' economic and security interests have been harmed by the deal we made with the Iranians, who are smart."
Aim and yahoo both threw away massive social networks through neglect.
Complacency kills.
Well, the question is: how much of the problem is explained by the "pipeline" theory.

If a company hires x%, and there are y% graduates, then we have a pipeline problem if x=y, or is close to y.

If x is much smaller than y, then the pipeline doesn't explain the whole problem.

I am not taking a stance on the pipeline issue in the general case. It may or may not be a problem for particular companies on a case by case basis.
I think F# will be my next learning project. Still keeping an eye on Idris, though.
This problem starts from early childhood and is reflective of the utter failure of public schools in lower income districts.

For too long we have used the band-aid of lowering standards and affirmative action at every stage after, in college and hiring, to kick the can down the road and the result has been quite the opposite, leading to more bias and resentment.

If you are a highly skilled engineer and black, you have to constantly deal with the stigma that maybe you got to where you are not based on your outstanding abilities but only to fill some arbitrary racial quota.

There is nothing worse than that for ruining someone's self-esteem.
Males die of suicide more often because they use more successful methods. It makes sense that a female doctor would be much more successful than the average female due to her education.

Most women use pills, men use guns.
but isn't this inline with the original article?

> Blacks made up 7 percent of U.S. high-tech workforce, and just 3 percent of the total Silicon Valley workforce.

4% of the degrees are granted to members of the AA community, 3% of the jobs in SV are given to them.

i guess SV companies recruit from the top graduates. it would be interesting to know the percentage of AA of say the top 10% graduates in the STEM fields.

as others have pointed out, this doesn't mean that things are OK. it just shifts the focus from the hiring companies to the education system
That, and the price inflation sucks. I am going to look at a former AB&B property to rent today. The ludicrous price will be discussed, if they are unwilling to negotiate, the place will likely stay empty for the summer months(AZ, in a tourist oriented corner of the valley).
It’s just like why all voice interfaces are shitty: no one has any idea what the thing can or cannot do. They have a hidden user experience but the interface makes it feel like you’re talking to a human, but it’s so far from being a human.

These interfaces are almost like a dark pattern because of how bad they are.
> Modern safety features shut it down if current goes into the earth

What? No, that's only true for GFCI circuits, which are not the norm in the US (typically only found in bathrooms and kitchens, though the NEC has been slowly expanding the requirements). Touching hot can kill you and the breaker box won't care.

Actual safety advice:

1. Buy a current sensor. They're like $5 from Home Depot (speaking of).

2. Turn off the breaker, and make sure it's the right one by using the current sensor.

3. If you're in a situation where you cannot turn off the breaker, wear rubber-soled shoes, and work with one hand and place the other behind your back. (This prevents current from traversing your chest cavity.)

4. Buy a receptacle tester (again, $5) and use it to test your work.

5. If any of the above is not obvious to you, hire an electrician.
Yes. The way this man LIVED made me forever envious. He was and is still a personal hero of mine as well.
I don't know. The county was reviewing composting toilets in 2013. I don't know the outcome.
In my university, both machine (and deep) learning and FPGA + chip design are specialties of the electrical engineering department. We just launched earlier this year an industry-oriented AI masters degree. Taking your extra classes in chip design would give you a solid foundation to perform this.
This Redditor offers one plausible cause/reason [0]:

> This may not be a popular opinion here but I totally understand the concern. There had been a huge increase in transient international visitors being introduced to residential areas that previously did not have to deal with that. Having a constant stream of strangers coming and going in your building is not something many residents feel comfortable with.

Also: > Also I just want to be sure to note to people: THESE LAWS APPLY TO ALL SHORT TERM RENTALS AND ARE NOT JUST FOR AIRBNB.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/JapanTravel/comments/8os3mv/minpaku...
AFAIK the limit is on AirBnB's site directly. Your account is limited until you provide documents from the council. I don't know to what extent people are forging these documents though.
Indeed, the way mgmt seems willing to capriciously fire people for "values" conflict or getting caught in the middle of some mess management created is one of the reasons I don't really see the point of investing much in a single job. I can still get fired or laid off at random if I worked two hours extra a day or something (has happened to me). If I spend those two hours making myself marketable and networking it won't matter if you fire me because I'll just bounce to something else. I wish some managers would just learn to interact like humans instead of being insecure tough guys and "playing hardball" with everyone. I've seen that tank projects and set back careers (IC and mgmt).
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I think it's equally wrong to just write off chatbots. They are a User Interface tool that works in some areas and doesn't in others (and recently has been dramatically misapplied).

Chatbots work well as an input when your hands are otherwise occupied:

- driving/directions (Google Maps telling you where to go)

- cooking (reciting a recipe)

They work well when you're requesting a specific thing:

- "Play Everlasting Light by the Black Keys"

- "Add Eggs to my shopping list"

- Responding to Answers in Jeopardy: "What is Syracuse?"

They can work as an alternative CTA in certain narrow areas where they function like a traditional "wizard". I've seen some ecommerce stats for things like "Are you shopping for a Fathers Day Gift? Does your dad like sports? Does your dad like gadgets? Want to see some popular gift ideas?"

Where they don't work:

- complex NLP dependencies

- data entry

- when there is an expectation set that you're talking to a human.
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I haven't thought about Yahoo Messenger in years, maybe a decade+. I'm looking forward to see what my chat logs from back then contain; I think it might have been my primary communication method in high school.
Good luck Brad, keep going and I reckon' you'll get there!
This, this, this!
Same. I felt like I was racist and sexist while trying to hire people, based on the results (a team of 90% white males). But it was not a problem I could solve.
Sorry, I was not referring to the execution speed of c# once deployed, but the experience of pressing F5 to debug the app in an emulated environment is pretty slow and hairy, and makes development hard.
Intel's TPU2 and 3, as well as NVidia's V100 series get great tensor performance on FP16 and FP8. There are many implementation and algorithmic risks associated with using such small FP sizes, especially if you are working on problems related to convergence, and you have significant roundoff error.

Smaller FP sizes mean you can run more of these in parallel. Smaller FP sizes mean (much) larger roundoff error, fewer bits of precision kept.
Microsoft as well. MSN Messenger was absolutely massive in some countries.
Let’s assume (correctly imo) that every subgroup (race, gender, origin, sexuality, etc.) is equally skilled. If you apply a technical standard equally, you end up with a market distribution of hires.

Companies are being leaned on to over represent certain groups relative to their market distribution. That’s not possible industry wide unless you lower your technical standards for that subgroup.
wow, thats a venn diagram. do you see opportunities for software in farming where you are from?
I like his good vibe about all of it, and I agree I love to see that MS is doing more moves into the right direction. However I feel we should not trust him too quickly. Every big company tries to claim they have changed, will change and are currently in a process of change. But in reality most companies stay stuck at exactly that point in time where they were most successful. that means Microsoft is likely stuck ~10 years go, where Windows XP was at its peak.

It's not just a CEO who can change that. It needs all kinds of changes on all kinds of levels. For instance if department leader's KPIs and bonus structure hasn't changed, they will continue to actively fight open source. Even if there is now a new, fancy department with even big names from open source communities, that doesn't mean all the other departments changed.

Also what happens to the devs who are there for 20+ years now, probably quite a few of them in senior dev and architect roles. Will they drop all that they've grown up with? Can Microsoft afford to let them go for big money and hire new, unknown people instead?

If they manage to get this github integration right, I may start to think about them in a positive fashion but until now there's too much doubt and too many things that might go wrong. Compared to the size of a huge corp we've only seen fluff up till now.
Do you really think Anthony Bourdain wanted to die and hurt the people who care about him? Suicide is what people do when they simply cannot go on any longer - this says nothing about whether they wish they could keep going or not.
There's a popular theory among the American left that classical liberalism (free speech, freedom of association, "equality of opportunity", etc) is actually an oppressive social structure devised by powerful white men to keep the poor and disenfranchised (minorities and women) from rising through the economic ranks. In the estimation of the American left, the "hands-off" approach of right-wing American politics is actually a "hold them down" approach since no one that is poor or disenfranchised can rise from poverty to wealth on their own. Instead, they favor increased spending on public institutions (like more money for public schools) that will theoretically pull the poor and disenfranchised out of poverty and into the middle or upper classes.

The American right, on the other hand, contends that providing social support to the poor and disenfranchised creates a "victim mentality" and a dependency on the system for advancement. They often accuse the American left of trying to make the United States into a communist nation akin to the Soviet Union and tend to favor the maximization of non-government power as much as possible. In practice, this manifests itself as a sort of "hyper-capitalism" where the American right grants tax breaks to the rich and large corporations in the name of both economic freedom and as a reward for their success in the free market.

It is very hard to reconcile the two perspectives.

EDIT: And just to add my own view here for clarity - I think both the left and right make salient points. The left is correct that there is no equality of opportunity without adjusting for the complexities of other aspects of life and financial constraints of a poor individual's starting position. I think the right is correct that a victim mentality is extremely dangerous and should be avoided at all costs. I think there is a centrist position to be held that works for everyone, but both sides despise centrists, so I am hated every time I talk about politics.
The problem with tracking cash that way is it only works if the shop closes right after Alice leaves.

If another customer comes in and gets Alice's note in their change (which is fairly likely since it's sitting at the top of the stack) then that note becomes entirely disassociated from the original purchase.
Is that not tax deductible ?

They get a write off and your support as well as the marketing bits.
Usually you buy something in order to make a profit from it. In the case of GitHub, Microsoft is committed to losing money from now until they cease to exist to continue GitHub as a going concern, that will never implode for lack of funds, as a place where open source projects can be freely hosted and open source developers can find a sense of community. This is more magnanimous than anything Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Twitter have done -- COMBINED!
AFAIK, Windows is still closed source. I guess some parts of Microsoft have not embraced open source :)
Lets talk money instead of 'race' e.g. the Latino problem is similar, so money is probably the more important factor. Other programs like QuestBridge work hard to recruit folks who are underrepresented, either by family income or kids who are first in their family to attend college.
I think the key factor you're missing is that this issue is deeply political and historical. This isn't just a question about what's on the label, ie. black people being hired proportionally, but also about whose fault/responsibility it is to fix. If you say "should we look at other parts of the pipeline?" you're aligning yourself with the political faction of "it's black peoples' problem, not society's." If you advocate for hiring quotas or similar, then you're aligning yourself with the "it's society's problem, not black peoples'"

Of course real solutions to the problem are somewhere in between, and you can argue until you're blue in the face that suggesting looking at other parts of the pipeline is NOT actually saying it's black peoples' problem, but it won't matter. You're in a space where there are powerful political divisions with the entire socioracial history of a large population at sake, and you're going to ruthlessly rounded to either US or THEM.

That's a big part of the reason it's so hard to talk about, and harder still to solve, even before you get to the fact that even without the deep psychological and political baggage it's already a super hard problem.
Yeah don't worry I have people like these too , and they also are responsible to physically call people to make sure they will come to the invite.
Arrogance is the cause, not success itself.
In Romania at least it was what Facebook is these days, basically. Everyone had an Yahoo user for Messenger (and Mail, but Messenger was bigger). Companies would post their Yahoo Messenger user on their sites and billboards (!) so that clients could contact them.

I can't fathom how they managed to not have decent clients for every mobile platform...

> But like other services in that first generation of messaging, Messenger’s role and functions were swiftly surpassed by faster and more functional mobile-based services, and specifically mobile messaging apps. Notably, WhatsApp was created by ex-Yahoo employees.

If we ignore the mobile aspect, almost no modern messenger has as many features as Yahoo Messenger used to have. Notably, it was one of the first messengers to have offline messages. You could set an "invisible" mode so that your friends (or boss) wouldn't see you online, either globally, or just per user (basically ignore user). It had a million features, some I still don't see in modern messaging clients.
Despite what I said in the other comment, I have to admit that it's not just a sponsor but also one of the biggest contributors of commits.
Take it from current (HPC) experience/measurements that the big performance advantage of the Intel compilers is mostly mythical, but the unreliability of ifort isn't. (ifort is infinitely slower than GCC on most architectures, two of which are currently relevant to HPC.) "Just use GCC" solves quite a lot of problems, but people who don't understand the code and have measurements tend to insist ifort should be used even when the code won't build/run with it; really!
It's quite likely that differences in compiled code quality are irrelevant anyhow, particularly considering communication with thousands of cores, and there are aspects like debugging, mentioned elsewhere.
Presumably the "magical force" is revolting against identity politics of all kinds. The more our society has embraced the idea that individuals shouldn't be judged on the basis of superficial attributes, the better it has become. So it would seem the "solution" is to continue the course that appears to be working--that is, to oppose racism and prejudice; not to double-down on it.
What is the point of this comment? Are you really disputing the idea that small acts of connection are meaningful (especially to lonely people)? This idea seems very noncontroversial to me.
The short answer is that Google has money and articles like this are about activists trying to get money from Google to fund various programs.
I hope I can add a “me too” without stepping on the rules too much. In truth I’m still learning but it’s been worth it.
Question: Who works on Windows NT / low level hardware / kernel at Microsoft? Is this something they still hire for?
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Many of the counties in the Northeast have taken a strong stance against composting toilets. It's because the local construction companies control the local governments here.

They literally don't let you buy or move onto specific properties without submitting plans from "an approved septic installation company."

You can imagine who is on the approval board, and which companies are "approved providers."
I think that depends on how you measure success.

Strictly in business terms, sure they have more success than other groups, but I don't think (assuming here, no facts) they have over taken White people as the predominant group in leadership roles, high paying positions, or otherwise 'stakeholders'.

If that's not true, feel free to correct.
Many of these are not "home-shares", they're hotels.
5% isn't great, but it's still higher than the 2-3% actually employed by these companies, suggesting improvement is possible.

I think one major problem that's in the companies' power to solve is that they don't have offices where black people live (e.g. Atlanta). Coming to work for these companies means being isolated from the black community both at and outside of work.
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That is a very interesting point actually. That Microsoft is a sponsor of the Linux foundation is not just a plus point in this discussion, but also a motivator for the Foundation to report positively.
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