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If tech companies hire globally, shouldn't their racial demographics mirror the world demographic stats?

In my 15+ years of experience in SV, majority of my colleagues were from Asia, which accounts for 60% of world population. Rest were evenly divided between Europe and North America, and some very tiny fraction coming from Africa and South America.
In that case, isn't it expected that blacks[1] would account for 1-3% of workforce, since USA itself accounted for 10-15% of the workforce? If Democrats are open to immigration, then a consequence of that is going to be an under representation of blacks and Latinos.

[1] black is hard to define in many places. Eg. Who is "black" in Asia?
Thanks for your insight! I'm curious to know if you believe that the lack of physical presence affects your working relationship with your remote works and how that aspect is facilitated by Donut and stand up meetings?
The PBR shader has too many features and I'm convinced they all have "math" bugs. I can just drop a model into unreal or unity from substance painter and it looks close enough. Not so with Godot.

Lots of random Physics launches where out of nowhere my character is launching up into the air.

Random screen stuttering on a scene with no geometry and just basic movement code in the physics update on a gtx 1080 system.

Those are the bigger annoying ones but the more you hang out in the community you come to see there are tons of bugs in just about every system. You have to fix them yourself, work around them, or hope someone smarter than you fixes them. Most big bugs are stuck in the "hope someone fixes them" stage.
>The NEXT trap is to realize that your time is limited. You can't learn everything and you have to be very, VERY selective on the set of tech you want to invest your time in. Don't bangwagon on stuff -- ask yourself whether it's likely to be a selleable skill -- if not, don't waste time on it.

As someone with limited health and daily brain power I struggle with this. I have played with a number of programming languages and have made a bit of money with programming but I'd like to have deeper knowledge of a language and it's ecosystem. I have been struggling to decide which technology I should focus the most to be both more employable and work on my projects. Many of the projects I want to do involve websockets.

Should I focus on something like react/node/socketcluster or react/phoenix?
Focusing on only Javascript might seem like the right answer on the surface but the documentation for node is quite poor and fragmented for things that are not the standard express + mongo stack. Node looks harder to learn when compared to phoenix and elixir looks like the best tool for the job. On the other hand there are a lot more jobs for node and almost none for elixir.

I'm currently thinking to focus on javascript for frontend and elixir for the back so I'm both able to find JS related jobs and work on my websocket projects while having an easier time with documentation and working with an exciting and pleasant language.
Why is the provenance of the concept more important than the execution
You don't need wall conduits for low voltage cables. The 'boxes' for them are just meant to hold a cover in front.
Even with virtual windows, I think knowing that I can't directly see outside would make me extremely claustrophobic, and I think a lot of people would feel similarly.

All in all this is a cool concept, but I don't think it will be executed well. What happens when my "window" inevitably breaks (as technology is apt to do) and the illusion of being able to see is broken? What about annoying dead pixels or color banding? I can't imagine the displays being used are very high quality.
He doesn't want a perfect robot. He wants someone who can thoroughly review his own work. He is training the employee to be fastidious on something trivial so when it's not trivial, he can do it on his own.
I don't know enough about American English to "explain", unfortunately. I just notice that American speakers sometimes use one form when the other would be required in British English. For all I know, from an American point of view, perhaps British speakers are failing to make a distinction. However, something seems to have happened to those verb forms, and I think the change must have happened in colloquial American English because in this particular respect it's colloquial American that is different, while formal American, formal British and informal British all seem to agree with each other, as far as I can tell.
But why is it a problem? Why should we impose quotas? People are people, all distinctions just exist to divide us. If you're hiring based on qualifications and ability to do the job, you should not feel bad.
> They do expect you to change that posture if Autopilot does something you think is dangerous, though.

Their lawyers and their marketing departments are contradicting each other.

Their legal department will always insist that your hands must remain on the steering wheel. If your hands are not on the wheel, and the car crashes, they will mention this clause and implicitly blame the driver.

Their marketing department (like this webpage) say "This car can drive itself!".

And the car itself? Well it has a sensor that detect hands off wheel situations (plus point from the lawyers' "cover our asses" side), but it allows a few (/lot of) seconds of that situation before it warns you (their lawyer must've once screamed "Why the fuck does the sensor tolerate this situation!").

For a stupid analogy, it's almost like a bar owner advertising his bar as a smoke joint, but saying "you're not allowed to smoke in here, and I can spot anyone smoking" but still tolerating a few minutes of lit cigarettes.
Unintelligible grunting works too. After a few "I'm sorry, I didn't get that" it always transfers me to a human.

The most annoying part of the experience to me is the menu items are always ~25 things I can trivially do on the website. No, I'm not calling to check my balance, pay a balance, update payment information, etc. I'm calling because your website specifically said that function isn't available online and I need to speak to a representative.
A cool JSON editor (with table mode)
Yes. Indeed there appear to be Airbnb-management companies that help you to ignore it, by inventing fake "host" personas to list your property under and changing it to a different host every now and again. Airbnb themselves don't seem to care if you do this so long as it doesn't look as if it's their responsibility.

(We have been having problems with a neighbouring flat that is being run in this way. The details are murky but it appears to be intentionally managed like this)
Adaptive Code via C# Book Cliff Notes
The best one I have seen is going to start beta testing later this summer.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bd1mEm2Fy08
Google Duplex Demo from Google IO 2018 - YouTube
The reason the productivity of CLIs was often extolled is because throughout most of interactive computing's lifetime, CLIs and scripting have been intertwined.

It was possible and commonplace to invoke parameter-oriented CLIs from another process, and use the CLI as a perfectly adequate API, while other interface paradigms like TUIs and GUIs never quite achieved such ease of programmatic manipulation.
Somewhat offtopic, but related - Any else remember Yahoo Messenger (new beta) being an evangelist for WPF in the mainstream? Which didn't pan out iirc, infact did any mainstream commercials apps, thus excluding internal LOBs launch, even make it on to WPF? ~2009
I'm willing to accept there is racism in the tech industry, but I'm not willing to accept that it is the ONLY variable keeping black folks from tech jobs.

This problem needs a real, statistical, multivariate study. Any publication casting judgement on the tech industry while remaining unwilling to pony up the dough for such a study should be properly criticized for playing the race card and inventing false narratives to gain readership.

Telling me there aren't many black folks in tech is not enough. I need a data-driven explanation of WHY before I accept it's mostly racism, or it's mostly a pipeline problem, or it's mostly a primary education problem, or it's mostly a cultural problem, or it's not a problem at all because black folks don't want tech jobs in the first place.
Has anyone ever went the opposite direction (e.g. tech into investment banking) at a later age, and if so how barrier-absent/non-ageist did that prove to be?
The chatbot graph is secret because its purpose is to discourage certain actions, by making you sit through a humiliating hold period with brain-melting repeated announcements, until you reach a person who has strict orders to not be reasonable.

They already have those online, in the form of FAQs and knowledge bases that don't tell you anything new.
Enough to pay for less than 5 engineers a year? Okay.
The prompt appears when a 3rd party control wants to access the Storage Access API. See https://developer.apple.com/safari/whats-new/
[0A] https://allura.apache.org/
for those of us willing to run a self-hosted alternative...
Apple's Mapkit JavaScript Demo App
I actively use chatbots on Telegram, but not so much on messenger. Telegram bots are predictable compared to messenger which relies heavily on NLP.
A single hard-coded STUN server is a big face-palm for a "serverless" chat app. `ipfs.io` could at least host their own STUN server. As long as they disable TURN, it shouldn't require much bandwidth. It's not like very many people are actually going to actually use this...
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> I see what you're getting at, but I think the reason that suicide is linked with mental illness is because it goes against our very nature as living beings.

This is not really correct. There is in fact an evolutionary advantage in depression leading to suicidal behaviour, and it can be found in animals as well.

The theory is that every member of a species generally consumes from the same pool of resouces. If one member deems himself as a non-contributor, it is better for the species as a whole if that individual perishes. I don't have any references right now but there are recorded instances of animals 'giving up' and refusing to feed and or care for theirselves, leading to death, usually after a series of unsuccesful mating seasons. It makes perfect sense from an evolutionary standpoint.

This explanation helped me significantly in being able to overcome certain emotions. It's not an 'illness', and there is nothing wrong with me. It's a natural thing, and I have the ability to resist it, just like I have the ability to resist other natural urges.
It would make sense for it to be used by people. In Romania there was no big marketing campaign for it, so it basically spread just based on word of mouth reputation. It beat out MSN, ICQ, AOL quite handily. It was kind of a memory hog for the time and relatively unstable ocasionally but the set of features was great.
I can see that.

Would you be so kind as to point me in a direction to get more infos on this?
You can get clear primer for water PVC. If the inspector trusts you he will let you use it. However if the inspector has any doubts about your abilities he will demand you use the purple stuff (including rip out all your work that is probably perfectly good just so e can see you used the primer). The purple is just a dye, it serves no purpose other than to inform the inspector that you used it.

The reason you don't need primer on electrical is the connection is only required to be mechanically strong - water leaks are just fine. If there is any possibility of water getting into pipe you are required to use wires that have a waterproof insulation.
>China or U.S. having it, same difference.

I think there's a big difference here.
im talking about somebody that does not run a node accessing it via "old internet", im assuming the OP has this in mind with his comment
My mother committed suicide 8 years ago, and this is something I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about and trying to understand (in part to ensure I never suffer the same fate).

For anyone who has struggled with depression or severe anxiety, if you haven’t read the book The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, I encourage you to read it as soon as possible — it’s one of the best, most approachable, resources out there to understand not only many of the roots of depression, but many strategies to actually overcome it (it’s very different from traditional talk therapy, which is mostly focused on getting people to cope with their past trauma rather than resolve it).

https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/01...
What you see there is the different between open source and Free Software

Free Software is a ethical movement and position around software and information

Open Source is a business model for collaborative development where most often the end product is not open but the tools used to create the end product are. Thus you can not use Copy-left Licenses if you intend to close source your final product.

Free Software is about Developer and User freedom

Open Source is about developer freedom exclusively

Ballmer's Microsoft disliked both Open Source and Free Software. Today's Microsoft sees the profitability that can some from Free labor of open source, but continues to be Hostile to Free Software
I've known people who have tried to get into coding, where it was clear that coding wasn't a "calling". And they struggled horribly and suffered alot of anguish trying to figure out why it was so hard for them.

And my answer was always: learning to code is fucking hard. For everyone. Staring at code for hours not sure why it's not working is something we've all faced, but those who find coding a "calling", who find the process of coding so magical and alluring that it's almost an addiction, they see the roadblocks as part of the fun. Because at the end of every obstacle that is overcome is a little endorphine hit, and is another leveling up of our problem solving ability, of our general skillset.

Without that sense of calling it would be easy to give up, to chalk it up to "not being for me". But in the end, the draw wasn't great enough to compensate for the pain.
I've always shared a fairly deep connection with Mr. Bourdain for two reason...number one, I actually look enough like him that when I travel I am constantly being asked if I am him, or do I know that I look like him etc...

The second is that we were both functional heroin addicts for some part of our professional lives.

His tell-all book "Kitchen Confidential" hit home to me like a 20-oz T-bone and a good bottle of red. His unafraid discussions of his addictions were a breath of fresh air in the otherwise stultified environment of talking-about-work.

There is little doubt in my mind that his struggles with addiction are related to the suicide, at some perhaps never to be known level.

He entertained the shit outta me, so he will be missed...cheers to you Anthony we hardly knew you.
What's new in this release? I couldn't figure it out by looking at the page.
What was he trying to accomplish with that speech? Educate a classroom of college students? That's what lecturers are for. What was he trying to accomplish? He was trying to win a political race. He succeeded. It's annoying when people act like Trump is an idiot. (Or GWB before him. It was EXACTLY the same pattern.) Hate him a little or hate him a lot, he wouldn't have become president if he were an idiot. One could strongly argue part of his success is due to people underestimating him so much.
I'm helping a friend with a site which needs some 'cleverness' (by my lowly standards) playing audio whilst pages are browsed.

Checking out a competitor's site, I was flabbergasted to see its source was about 8 lines of HTML, one of which linked to a Mb's worth of entirely inscrutable and indecypherable Javascript, leaving me with no means of working out how they did what they dun.

Coupled with crap like Instagram with it's locked-in walled garden content you essentially need to sign up for to view (and then, practically, install an app to update (yes, i know there're workarounds!)) we've somewhere over the last few years encouraged a large chunk of the internet to become quite obnoxious and antithetical to everything I understood it was supposed to represent.

Bah blast and humbug!
> Where do you see the profit motive?

I never wrote anything abut profit motives. You just made the same leap of logic again.

Do you know factually that , "Microsoft is committed to losing money from now until they cease to exist to continue GitHub as a going concern."
Applications they will not pursue include those "that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms." That's some fancy gymnastics there, Mr. Pichai. Well played.

I was wondering how or if they were going to address this. It saddens me to see that Google considers collecting as much data as possible about all its users to maximize ad revenue an international norm. It saddens me more to see that they're correct.
I see someone chose to down-vote without commenting - presumably not one of those self-described straight-talking Northern Europeans?
Would not say the Google one is shitty. We started with an echo and it did require more rigid language but the Google home is pretty good.

Not perfect but good enough that it provides value.

I now use voice a lot because of the quality with Google tech.
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>Not the OP, but higher availability of guns is correlated with higher suicide rates (most notoriously in US mountains states like Wyoming), because it makes it easier to act on impulse when people hit their lowest points, rather than muddling through because they don't have easy means.

Or you know, there might be a third variable there... Something about declining rural areas possibly.
And gained 40.
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Unfortunately, in the context that Fortran is likely to be used, this seems to be true specifically for Research Software Engineers.
Same here Berlin, and it's even illegal mostly.
I agree those features sound great.

But it's difficult to practically use AVX-512 when the turbo boost throttling prohibits breaking even with an equivalent AVX/AVX2 workload. I had a small project that would trivially scale up to AVX-512 register sizes. Despite doubling the vector width, it was actually much slower than the AVX/AVX2 version in practice -- just because it had such a low turbo boost ratio when running AVX-512 instructions.
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This would imply the Linux Foundation are greedy shills. I somehow doubt that.
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Embracing open source means contributing to open source and using open source. Buying a company to take advantage of open source has nothing to do with embracing open source.
> ...no better features than a menu system, but you had to guess what the menus were.

This is also true for CLI interfaces. It illustrates the popularity of GUIs - much to the dismay of CLI enthusiasts everywhere.

Edit: Yes, a -help or "help" command can be used to list the menu. But then this command has to be known beforehand. What if a clever designer decides to use -assist or "assistance" instead?
There are still a few Yahoo! Groups I'm a part of that are resistent to moving on to greener pastures (such as Groups.io). That and Flickr (which will be free of Yahoo! soon enough) are the only two reasons I still have an account.
> Microsoft is the heart of corporate America, it's a facepalm to imagine that any dollar they spend isn't in their own long term interest to make money. It would be illegal for them not to. You can apply that to any large corporation but the problem is by definition how Microsoft makes money.

Feel free to show me which part of the criminal code "not making money" falls under. You want to rant about EEE (irrelevant for decades now) or some other silly plan to undermine open source development, feel free. But expect to be called out for your pointless drivel at the same time.

I'm fine with being cautious about Microsoft. I think at this point it's no longer necessary, but sure I can understand that. But the EEE plot-line is a 20 year old joke. It's not funny anymore.
I have used pretty much all investing apps out there but I've recently settled on M1 Finance.

I created my own portfolio which consists primarily of stocks and index funds I picked. I have at least 20 different securities because, you know, diversification.
What I like about it so far is the amount of time I don't have to spend on the platform, plus the fact they're free (they used to charge a fee but they got rid of it a while ago). Fractional shares is nice as well.

I scheduled a recurring deposit and they will invest it for me in the stocks I want without having to do it myself.
If you don't want to pick your own stocks you can use one of their professional made portfolios.

I still own an account in Robinhood because trading can be fun from time to time.
as an engine mechanic for a midsize automotive repair chain, I catch my management pulling stunts like this all the time. A few that come to mind:

- The Michelin inflatable that actually cost us business because it was too big for our mid-town location and consumed all available parking.

- advertising that we inflate tires with Nitrogen for performance with every new set of tires installed. Management runs us out of shield gas for welding and has to cancel a major mechanical job for a fleet customer. Management furious to learn shield gas is much more expensive than air.

- on site oil recycling which was basically how we tried to spin managements asinine decision to not pay the state oil recycling fee. Fined by the state EPA, fined by the federal EPA, forced to pay six figures to a haz-mat disposal company.

- Free battery testing and AC testing cant fully be expensed in the system because its too old, and results in an accounting imbalance that gets our owners audited by both fed and state.
> why do people immediately link suicide and mental illness?

There is a very strong relationship between suicide and mental illness. If someone decides to end their own life, it is overwhelmingly likely that they are suffering from some form of mental illness.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12701661

>Why do we stand in judgement declaring it wrong to decide ones own fate?

Most people who survive a suicide attempt do not ultimately end their own life. Most people who have suicidal thoughts eventually stop having those thoughts. If you think that you'd be better off dead, I don't think that you're in any way morally wrong, I just think that you're probably factually wrong. You might think that you want to die, but if you go on living, it is overwhelmingly likely that you'll change your mind. To use an old cliche, suicide is a permanent response to a temporary problem.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0004867060117274...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016503271...
It's easier than that. "My uncle and I are both smart and understand the power of nuclear. The media deny how smart I am because I'm a conservative. I wasn't there when we negotiated the Iran deal- someone weaker was, who by the way didn't recognize the intelligence of females, and that resulted in additional American prisoners and the US getting a bad deal.
The people that I know that heavily use chatbots are teens on discord and they use them a lot. They are more versatile than the old bots on irc, use them to play games, stream audio, images, access wikipedia... one bot we use actively translates between different languages across different channels. And they are popular! I think this is a case where the media sees possibility but adoption takes time.
Microsoft is one of the largest open-source contributors in the world AND they bought an unprofitable, but widely liked company that supports a significant number of open-source products.