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I always found the chatbot idea odd, it felt like a step backwards in terms of interaction. We started out with very basic input methods to computers, like punch cards. Then we moved onto a command line interface where you could type in words. Then we eventually got GUIs, graphics, websites, all sorts of complex and nuanced ways to interact with a computer.

To go back to interfacing with a program using written language seemed like an odd step. It's never been the most efficient way of doing something, and it requires very advanced technology to accurately understand what people are trying to say, in whatever slang, shorthand, or bad spelling/grammar they use.

Besides, it's not really dead, the tech just moved to "voice assistants" rather than "chatbots" - really just spoken word rather than written word. And I'm not convinced that's the "revolution" most people are expecting either. I'll stick to clicking buttons and typing things into my terminal.
It’s just my opinion based on personal experience, from my own struggles and those of people that I’ve known. It seems to make a lot of sense that we like the chemical imbalance narrative because it allows us as a society to wash our hands of this and pretend it has nothing to do with us.
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You see, it takes a huge amount of humility to admit that self-driving cars are possible, but we need several long years of supervised training to say we're actually there. Nobody would like that statement, people - including investors - want to have advanced tech here and now, they don't want vague and distant promises. That's why we deal with alpha and beta versions of everything now, including the partially-self-driving cars.
BUT there are. I read a fact recently that stated something like the USA, has 40k NEW Tech jobs per year and we are only graduating 10k... There is plenty of work for everyone.
I hope you're trolling.
Most of us here support and appreciate diversity. The lack of diversity in tech companies represents a lost opportunity. It's not just black people, but women as well. The mono-cultures can encourage some troubling attitudes and restricts creative multi-cultural ideas.

Forcing companies to maintain racial/gender quotas is not the solution. I'm not sure what the solution is. The causes for the situation are multifaceted, a reflection of our country.
I hired about 10 junior dev/qa/pm positions over 3 years as a manager in a SaaS tech company of 50-100.

We posted on every job site and received 1,000+ resumes which I reviewed, in a city with ~30% african american population.

Maybe 3 out of 1,000+ resumes were submitted by african americans, and none met most basic requirements for the position (either a relevant degree, or at least 1 year of related experience, or at least 1 relevant side project).

It's hard to think that I was part of the problem, or could possibly be part of any solution, as the hiring manager.
I don’t think this applies to dark-skinned Indians, so it must be more than simply skin color.
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I did not say you did, sorry if it seemed that way, but others further up this tread are indeed saying that.
Similar discussions are ongoing in lots of cities. In Edinburgh they're trying to pre-empt this a bit with voluntary restrictions: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-4...

AirBnb creates "bad neighbours" by putting lots of tourists, some of whom behave badly, in formerly residential locations. It creates a whole new set of absentee landlords. If it were restricted to renting out places where the owner was still living it wouldn't be nearly so much of a problem.
There's already a book on this: "Other People's Money" (2016) by John Kay. It discusses how most of the modern financial industry is self-dealing, provides no real value to the economy, and is actually parasitical. Here's a short official video introduction to the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kOAS0yzUIQ
Github's aim was also making money.
I’d say so! Our family just celebrated 50 years in business.

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> There is no evidence that said OTA update made Tesla cars any safer.

That particular OTA update significantly shortened braking distances. [The update] cut the vehicle’s 60 mph stopping distance a whole 19 feet, to 133, about average for a luxury compact sedan. That's a safer condition, IMO, and I'm uncertain how to argue that it doesn't make the car safer.

[0] - https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-model3-braking-software-up...
>What are you expecting? If you already know what you're looking then why bother with them at all?

What I'd expect is what Mr. Langone, 82-year old co-founder of Home Depot and subject of the CNBC story linked here, claims about Home Depot's associates, as related in ancestor post:

> Home Depot had ... associates who are knowledgeable about the products, says Langone. "These people learned their business and, to this day, the heart and soul of the Home Depot are these 400,000 people that work in the stores," Langone says.

Sure, I know exactly what I'm looking for. But I don't know where to find it. I'd expect the heart and soul of Home Depot to know this.
You don't embrace open-source by buying a major code hosting platform.
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Why? Pair programming is actually something I haven't found much different remote vs in person, assuming the right setup.

I feel like the downsides of remote conferences really only kick in with multiple participants.
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This particular translation is a bit confusing in its wording, but the meaning of the passage is the opposite of what you're implying.
Conversely I was hired at a search company (no not that one... or that one) when I got out of college and wore a suite to an interview. Come to find out later the suite almost sunk me because they felt I might not fit with the culture. Fortunately my code stood on it's own.

Today I routinely wear a nice button up shirt and designer jeans (the "cheap" $80 kind not the $500 ones) to work. Which is overdressed still but I feel it is a nice medium.'

Occasionally I'll take in a Broadway play (when it travels to Boston) and I always wear a suite. Sure, half the people there will probably be in T-Shirts but I like dressing nice. 15 years ago they probably wouldn't have even let you in without a suite.

Edit: As one might gather from my lats comment. I'm North East USA (New England). NE is very different culturally from any part of the country. We are closest to California but here suites are more common.
Earth's atmosphere is 20.946% O2 and .047% CO2. The amount of oxygen tied up in CO2 these days is really tiny.
If you ignore the feelings and needs of everyone around you, death is just another choice.

I’m not an expert on it, but there is a certain impulsiveness to it that suggests to me that it’s not just another choice. Terminally ill people often or maybe frequently get things in order and prepare things, almost going out of their way with limited time to take care of things for their loved ones. These things frequently take their loved ones by surprise and there aren’t exhaustive preparations.

This will be more inappropriate, but AB had a marriage dissolve because he had to travel 250+ days a year and be away from a wife and young child. As a husband and parent of two, I find that staggering, we aren’t talking about someone without financial resources that does whatever job they can to support their family, he probably didn’t need to work. To me, it’s not even a thought, I’d do a different job or somehow rearchitect my life to keep my family near. IMO, there was clearly some priority issues or something going on. If he had this supreme rationalism and simply chose to end things, where was that when he fathered a child that he didn’t spend time with? Or was this a new found clearity he discovered? Im not try to sound accusatory but I think there might be a lot of other differences in his life if this was a healthy and rational choice.

RIP Anthony and I hope his family and loved ones find peace and comfort.
Agree with nomy99. I work on a college campus. There was 1 African American in our CS graduate school. He was hired by Google before he even graduated. Out of several hundred undergrads, the number of "other" students is statistically zero. The college is actively recruiting any and all qualified students regardless of race. People like google and the mom & pop store down the street are legally to not discriminate based on race. How do we get African Americans to enter STEM fields? I honestly don't think your average African American student who wants to learn computer science is thinking "I am never going to get hired". Am I wrong?
It would fit if the GPU and RAM were both in the module. No GFX or RAM slots needed on the board.
whyyy???!

It's not as though the tones are harder to recognise!
Tech companies are being actively leaned on to lower their standards to hire more black workers. Saying there aren’t jobs for them is nonsense.
I guess so, but it downplays the amount of cash they're giving to the organization that employs the author of this post.
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That is better than what I have seen. Where it was possible to tell I have never seen a black applicant to a programming job. That is as a founder and in previous roles where I helped review resumes and do interviews. We also saw something like (estimating) 50 men to every 1 woman last time we advertised a job.

If there is a problem it is "upstream." I'd be happy to interview black candidates if they existed.
The report indicates the system ignores stationary objects. I would not be surprised if a suddenly decelerated car in front of the system effectively vanished from the car's situational awareness. Your scenario does not seem that far-fetched.

An attentive human would realize something horrible had happened and perhaps reacted accordingly. A disengaged or otherwise distracted one may not have the reaction time necessary to stop the system from plowing right into the situation to make it worse.
It's a common scenario: you want to solve a problem by reading online help or contacting customer support and a window pops up "Hi it's Brian, can I help you?" Of course you know it's not Brian, it answers by spiting out some pieces of badly-prepared script, can't answer any specific question, and sooner or later you realize it's worse than useless as it only took your time you could use to actually solve the problem.
I do think that eventually these technologies will supersede trivial human transactions like customer service calls. The problem is that no one seems to understand the sheer difficulty of the problem. You have to create a machine that can realistically speak to a person, with all the nuance that entails. We're far further from that than AI marketers would lead us to believe.
> It's a shame that I now have to choose between hostels and overpriced hotels

You don't.
It would be upsetting because it's more than likely not their choice but people assume it is.

Depression is like a broken bone it's a physical problem with a person's body beyond their control they need help to fix it.

People who have open-heart surgery have a 40% chance of developing depression it's not that all their life they were dealing with depression this is a sudden change. That's terrifying to see depression develop so quickly like a virus suddenly changing a person almost overnight.

If a person impulsively and mortally harms themselves because they couldn't control their actions due to chemical imbalance in their brain (depression) that would certainly be upsetting.

Knowing a person's actions were out of their control and they could have been helped or healed that's quite sad. We need to help people not accept it or mock it since it is just as much a medical problem as a broken bone, and it can be treated.
Interesting, having never used async video messaging, what's the strength of video here?
Please forgive me if I am missing something here. Is a company to make a chart of color distribution of their employees and base their hiring on that? There has to be a better way to figure out if a company is hiring based on skill or not than just this.
Very sad. Bourdain seemed like one of the few on TV who didn't take himself too seriously. I can't think of too many people who didn't like him or enjoy his show.
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I've got mixed feelings returning from Japan. My best and worst stays were both AirBnB's. The best, which is still listed, came from a host who owned the place and very thoughtfully went out of her way to share local things to do.
The worst was run by a nebulous "company" that gave us half the rooms promised, at an apartment where residents/management had put up "Foreigners cause crimes, please call the police immediately." signs. It turns out that company had double-booked units in that building using another platform and brazenly gave us another spare unit. This kind of gold rush to capitalize on Japan's tourism boom may indeed need some thoughtful regulation.
How to make decisions when your team can’t agree?
You could have offered apprenticeships to the black population.
Bourdain's daughter just lost her father. I can't believe anyone could rationally and deliberately choose to inflict that much pain on someone they love. That's why I would infer that Bourdain was not in his "right mind" when he acted to leave this world. And that's why I would consider his suicide to be "wrong". Of course, I can't possibly say whether it was just, somehow. I just can't imagine how it could be.

Frankly, unless he had a hidden medical issue (like Robin Williams), I also believe Bourdain probably could have restructured his life in some way to make life better and worth living again. I'm pretty sure most mental health pros would agree that most suicides arise suddenly, emotionally, and irrationally, and can be productively prevented if the impending signs are identified early and addressed with help. Personally, I believe that suicide is never the best and only option anyone has -- barring an irreversible medical/physical condition.

I think the reason we see more tolerance for suicide today is we expect less from people in general. Forty years ago, society presumed that each of us had a continuing duty to other people -- family, friends, community, and country. This duty clearly proscribed certain behaviors which would hurt others or would fail to live up to other social duties, like voluntary military service in time of war, or working VERY HARD to overcome difficulties in marriage when children were still present in the home, and would suffer from the breakup. (I've been there. It's not a delight.)

I'm very saddened by Bourdain's passing, and I'd rather not judge him. But I regret even more his loss to his daughter and his friends. The act of suicide is a terrible legacy.
My manager once told me that when a position is open, majority of applicants are either Chinese or Indians.
Because addressing the pipeline problem means admitting that racism is still alive and embedded in the foundations of our education and work force system.

You can't expect there to be more workers if there's no applicants. There are no applicants because there is a severe lack of Black people (among other groups) represented in Engineering/STEM degree programs. That stems from a lack of good public school education.

But like you said, it generates more clicks-per-article to blame the Big Bad Tech Companies for not being diverse enough, when really we as a national don't honestly want to see marginalized groups succeed. Americans operate by and large on a zero-sum assumption. Many believe that if one group of people succeeds, it somehow will undermine their own success.
The two biggest flaws with building chatbots are a) the lack of good tools to express chat flows at a higher level (no, modeling it as a graph isn't good enough) and b) no Natural Language Generation that's good enough to trust in production.

The first one leads to subpar bots that can't respond to most things, the second means humans have to fill the 'long-tail' of potential responses by hand, which is impossible.
> Why does no one talk about the "pipeline problem," that is, encouraging many more people from "minority" groups (black, women, and so on) to pursue coding from young age?

This is talked about endlessly. Its a bit of a chicken and egg problem. Merely encouraging is not good enough when people don't have role models who are from the same background as you. Never seeing any black engineers cannot be replaced by 'encouragement' , neither can encouragement replace social inertia.
Average IQ required to be a competent programmer > average IQ of all people.

Average IQ of East Asians > average IQ of Sub-Saharan Africans.

Media keeps wondering why there are so many more East Asian coders than Sub-Saharan African coders.

Anyone honestly looking at the data knows the answer.
Yes but MS has now moved beyond Embrace, to the Extend phase...

Those of us that have seen this play before know what comes after Extend in the 3 Phases of EEE
I presume that the national level figure was Trump. Whose "nuclear sentence" has been much discussed:

“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”
but is any of those options "hackintoshable" ( to develop iOS apps ) in a reliable way ?
i have no idea if this use case applies to the original poster, but i would (seriously) consider a macbook 2015 for this purpose.
In my experience they always accept dialled numbers.
> Tech companies should sponsor universities or even create their own. I can see some of the major companies saying "hey, we have this university, which you can attend for FREE only if you work for us for 6 years." Sign up?

Who do you think would the tech companies recruit for these positions? I think you just described a large scholarship with strings attached. I don't think a company would be willing to foot the bill unless they think the investment is really going to pay off for them.
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Uber took some initiatives to address this issue.

https://www.uber.com/en-MX/diversity/uberhue

https://eng.uber.com/uncovering-genius
If the flowchart is so good, they should expose it in clickable form online.
Also pretty annoying when you can't find a place to rent, because the apartments start getting taken over by "enterpreneurs" such as your friend.
My rule of thumb is whatever makes my wallet smaller is what concerns me. So whichever inflation index includes that is the one I would use.
Chemical imbalances may possibly play some role in depression, but we have no idea of which chemicals or what the "correct" balance is.

Antidepressant drugs do work, but we don't really know why. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors appear to work. So do monoamine oxidase inhibitors. So do selective norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake inhibitors. We used to think that tianeptine was a serotonin reuptake enhancer, but we now think it's a mu-opioid agonist; either way, it seems to work as an antidepressant. Opipramol is a stone cold whodunnit of a drug.

Nobody really knows what causes depression. We know that there are certain risk factors, we know that there are useful treatments, but we don't really have a clue what's going on inside the brain.

The chemical imbalance hypothesis isn't particularly accurate or particularly helpful. Psychiatrists see some patients who are severely depressed for no apparent reason, but most see far more patients who just have lives that would make anyone miserable. Depression is emphatically not randomly distributed - prevalence rates are vastly higher in certain groups, for reasons that can only plausibly be psychosocial. The chemical imbalance hypothesis lets society abrogate responsibility for the fact that a lot of people are justifiably downtrodden, despondent and hopeless.

We need to recognise depression as a complex, multifaceted disorder with neurological, cognitive and social components. Antidepressant drugs have life-changing effects for some patients, but psychotherapy and lifestyle interventions are also enormously valuable. Some patients achieve complete remission within weeks of starting antidepressant drug treatment; others have tried four or five drugs with no noticeable benefit. If you're suffering from depression, you'd be foolish not to try drug treatments, but you'd be equally foolish to only try drugs.
It didn't solve the ActiveRecord is slow problem, it was marginally faster, but not a whole lot faster. What it solved was handling models over an arbitrary number of databases. Imagine billions of writes of a single model type across multiple databases. Imagine needing to join across databases and not knowing which DB a joined model would be in.
"lower their standards to hire more black workers." do you hear yourself? You have linked color with standard. Companies hire based on skill, experience and culture fit.
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So people want to use Googles platform but don't want to use their technology. This doesn't make any sense.
The site currently only works on PC/laptop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Presidential_Center

So $165 million, firstly $11.5 million directly from the local government, > 10% from foreign governments, and several high 6 figure "donations" from people he pardoned (on top of those people paying "consultation fees" to close family members of the Clintons).

I probably should have said "by the public purse, among others".
> Maybe 3 out of 1,000+ resumes were submitted by african americans

How do you know? I'm curious because it seems like you'd have to have a spot on the job application for applicants to indicate their race and you'd need to exclude a "prefer not to answer" option in order to be confident about this.
I'm not so sure about never.

Yeah, right now the home/echo/siri/etc seem completely worthless to me for all but the simplest tasks, but the idea is for the use cases to keep increasing.

Tools do get better and better. Automation and AI will continue to improve. It's more a question of why chatbots haven't gotten there yet and what needs to be done differently.
Not his job to do so.

His job is to fill a position, not create a new one and fill it.

Also, the applicants knew they were unqualified and didn't ask for an apprenticeship.
In Japan, citizens will punish you if you don't respect their law (e.g.: by not using your service). One of the reasons of why Uber had a hard time in there initially.
has swift made the leap to server side yet? i keep hearing mumblings about that.