skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a Chinese American and I have experienced this type of behavior during the college admissions process, and during the hiring process with larger companies.

During the college applications process, I noticed I was receiving vastly different responses than my girlfriend (wife now) who was African American.

Perhaps you could chalk it up recommendations or personal projects. But my girlfriend and I were both A students that made the varsity swimming team. She was African American and had 5/7 full tuition responses including Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. While I only was accepted into Columbia, with partial financial assistance. We both wanted to attend Yale at the time and this put a dent in our future plans.

I have also experienced a similar scenario in the "pre-interviewing" resume selection phase, right out of college with no experience. My friend group noticed comparatively that those who were not White or Asian tended to get faster and more initial responses to schedule an interview. (I will note that this occurred exclusively when submitting for large Fortune 500 companies, and not for smaller business such as startups. Perhaps some selection bias) However after a while with some work experience on the resume, this doesn't manifest as much.

It is my belief that university admissions and diversity initiatives need to focus more on individuals than race. The goal should be equality of opportunity and evaluation rather than equality of outcome.
Some of the difference may be caused by class, but it is definitely not all of the difference. Black men consistently end up with a lower income than white men even when comparing only people with the same parental income[1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-c...
> The SEC has consistently seen utility tokens as securities. The workaround, so far unproven in court, is the SAFT (simple agreement for future tokens).

The issue with all of this is that people are trying to fit a new technology into a series of boxes when it doesn't fit into any of them.

The problem cryptocurrencies aim to solve looks like this. I have a hardcopy of a book that I've finished reading and I'm prepared to sell it so I can use the money to buy a copy of another book. I am not keen on the efficiency of the barter system, so what I need is currency that allows me to sell the book I have and then buy the book I want.

But currency isn't a security. The rules for securities are much more strict, because you have to worry about people defrauding investors and engaging in stock price manipulations etc. In the normal everyday currency transaction where I exchange my book for a $20 bill and then go somewhere else and exchange my $20 bill for a book, there is never any paperwork for me to fill out. I don't have to give anyone my name or anything else to allow them to compile a database of which books I read or which social clubs I patronize or what kind of contraceptives I use.

The rules for digital credit transactions are also strict, because they were designed for credit transactions, where you have to worry about someone buying something on credit and then not paying, or taking out credit in someone else's name.

What's really needed is a digital version of cash. But there is no law designed for digital cash, so people keep trying to squeeze things that aim to serve that purpose into one box or another when the rules were clearly designed for something else.

What we need is for the law to more explicitly allow the internet to work like the real world.
You might find this interesting: https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_thwaites_how_i_built_a_toas...
Wow, this post gives me perspective.

I'm 53 this year, and I welcome the next few years ahead as I look forward to retirement. (I hope it's as good as I think it will be.) I don't recall ever feeling anxiety about an upcoming birthday. I guess I'd credit that to:

- A long-game mindset, mostly. Max out your retirement plan, save in tax-advantaged ways. You'll love to project your balances thinking forward. (You won't dread the years ahead.)

- Come to grips with your mortality. There are a lot of ways to do this, mine mostly has to do with religion. Find some way that works for you. Don't be afraid of death, learn to accept it.

- Find a good partner to age with. Go for a 'keeper' marriage and put in the proper maintenance.

Good luck!
Affirmative action is racism, not "reverse-racism". "reverse-racism" is a racist term since it is used to dismiss prejudice against certain races. Racism is racism, no matter the race of the target or the race of the perpetrator.
In terms of what you can visually resolve this is overkill; you only need ~300dpi at 18" to be beyond the resolving power of the average human eye.

But if you want to make a window you have to do something else entirely; your display has to show a holographic interference pattern at which point when it is illuminated correctly you can achieve a full parallax, full color, glasses free 3D display. In both theory and practice you can do this with an LCD but to start getting RGB capabilities you would need some incredible pixel densities on the order of 30,000dpi.
Hello! I'm an engineer at Civil.

While our TCR will not solve the economics of journalism on its own, we believe it will help provide transparency into the inner workings of newsrooms and increase media literacy in ways that could encourage more people to fund journalism organizations. Furthermore, we think it can vastly improve discoverability especially for smaller (but still ethical and reliable) news organizations.

From there, it's about giving newsrooms tools to run and monetize their business how they want. For some this might look like traditional newspaper subscriptions, for others we might see more experimental monetization schemes that are only feasible on the blockchain (such as bounties).

-- Nick Reynolds

p.s. - Have you looked into TCRs generally? There's a fair amount of overlap with prediction markets, you might be interested in learning more about the incentive system.
>It's all influencers (a word my dictionary doesn't even recognize), bots, hate speech, bickering, identity politics, and what have you.

I think the first two words are your problem. "It's all". The internet isn't "all" anything. It's incredibly diverse. If all you see is that stuff, you need to change your approach.

I spend lots of time on Twitter having very productive discussions in my field. I rarely if ever see bots, "influencers", hate speech. Occasional bickering, a bit of "identity politics", I guess - but that's because I chose to opt into it.

And there are lots of great Slack channels, and StackOverflow, and Github Issues for conversations about things that interest me.

I think the things you want on the Internet are still there, you just aren't finding them for some reason.
Well, that’s the pseudo- bit :)
You can adjust how many messages are saved in memory in the config, that may help
That’s off by default, so it shouldn’t be the cause
Sarcasm is rarely well-received here. Also, I think anyone reading any of the rest of the thread would see that you do have an understand of the issues, so no need to defend yourself.

Conversely, the parent commenter uses hyperbole to the point of appearing not to have that understanding.

For example, even without "fully robiticized" datacenters, there are remarkable economies of scale before that, including ordering servers by the rack (or maybe even row at a time), pre-assembled by a vendor.

Things really can be different, even though they can be the same.. even both at the same time!
More important than any of that, which you don't mention at all are the people who get caught in the middle and lose out. The victims of the move fast, break stuff attitude.

I care about protecting them far more than preventing an unfair playing field for the unfortunate startups that didn't break the law fast enough.
http://sites.psu.edu/christiercl/2014/04/02/why-stereotypes-...
> As such, they are not helping society to become post-racial - as must be our goal

Can you explain what's your definition of "post-racial"? I have seen it defined at least 2 ways: (1) Past the period the anti-racism laws were enacted (2) The period when the effects of racism are over. There are many ways to measure it. One possible way is to check if races that were victims of racism have proportional representation in jobs.
That board was run from a private home (originally on a TI 99/4A with the expansion box, and a 300 baud modem). It later moved to an Amiga.
Why Exercising Is a Higher Priority Than My Business (2015)
Even facetiously, that's a hard point to make. Cocaine has been illegal in the US for a very long time.
Think of instagram as an entertainment platform rather than a social network. Yougo there to kill time in the waiting room, or for some light entertainment after turning off the lights and before falling asleep.

Your friends aren’t interesting enough for that. So you follow some professional entertainers, influencers.

And that’s it. Now you can be marketed to.
There are better ways to do that than to suggest I'm in the wrong forum, I don't belong here and take it elsewhere.

I'm a woman in an overwhelmingly male forum. It's a big problem for me to try to find a reply in the face of that.

You may not have any idea. And it doesn't matter. It could have been someone LGBTQ or a person of color or any number of other reasons for feeling they don't really belong and aren't really welcome. Most people won't tell you their reason for feeling fundamentally unwelcome, but a fairly high percentage of people will feel that way.

I'm not at my best today. Maybe under other circumstances I would have been more able to rise to the occasion. So it's also not intended to simply blame you either. I'm muddling through as best I can, as usual.
Yep, and it is the US Supreme Court responsible for this semi-nonsense. At the end of the day, looking at a statistically large enough population, "one factor in a holistic evaluation" ends up looking exactly the same as quotas.
Huh? After visiting the BudgetDuo site, I’d definitely say that a traditional spreadsheet is easier and more organized.

Even more important is that I know my data would remain private and I would not have to trust a third party like BudgetDuo to be a safe steward of any of the data about shared expenses.
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This doesn't seem very useful. If you already have some agreement between between companies over how AIs communicate, you can create a registry for them and skip the handshake. Use http or something.
No, actually. In equity financings, the dilution's in the details.

Specifically there are two major ways I've seen pro rata clauses vary: How the percentage of the company an investor owns is calculated, and what shares that percentage is multiplied by to get the number of shares that the holder is entitled to purchase.

Basically, most investors will have terms that calculate percentage ownership off of amounts that include available but unissued shares of the employee stock pool, and will be entitled to buy a percentage of the shares directly issued for the equity financing.

Y Combinator pro rata rights specifically exclude available stock pool from the calculation for percentage they own, and include shares from convertibles as part of the percentage they get. This is better for them, of course. (And closer to intent in terms of preserving ownership)
I personally think the MBA system is a big step up from just choosing leaders based on how closely related to a powerful person they are. (I mean, I understand there is a lot of overlap between the two... I'm just saying that the MBA system is a step forward, not that it's good)
Exercise is actually a terrible usage of time. Many people who exercise injure themselves.

A much better use of time is to meditate, not eat, and sleep. Intermittent fasting and tons of sleep are orders of magnitude more important for health than strength and or cardiovascular exercise.
Do you think I should consider an ICO for a company

As soon as you said "for a company", it became an ICO the SEC would consider a security. Read the actual article closely.
It's only on by default in windows if your computer has a TPM, is instantGo compatible, and has a microsoft.com account. I don't think this combination is very prevalent.
> I only see the posts from my friends, so how would posts from these "influencers" influence me or other's like me? Why would I follow some random person I don't even know?

Everyone else is busy following other people that they don't know. Why? I dunno, ask them.

But keep in mind, other words for "influencer" would be "blogger", "streamer", "content producer". Have you never found a cool channel on Youtube that has enjoyable content? Maybe humour, or crafts, or lets play walkthroughs of video games? Boom, those are influencers. We're all spending time watching other people (be it a streamer on Twitch or a movie start in a blockbuster movie), and brands are willing to pay money to ensure we see their products while we do it.

My partner is learning how to make soap (surprisingly interesting hobby) so she follows a number of different soapmakers on social media to learn more about their recipes, tips and tricks, see cool designs. And also, if one of those soapmakers she respects strongly recommends some range of fragrance oils, or whatever, she's likely to consider them closely when she buys some. Think maybe a craft supply company would be willing to throw some money (or at least free supplies) at someone who will recommend them?

There's nothing new here; celebrity endorsements date back to ancient Rome if not even earlier; gladiators were paid to endorse consumer products. If people will watch it, someone else will pay to advertise in the background. :)
> but there has to be some form of normalization for students whose parents/culture/childhood environment didn't value education

You can't possible judge that unless you resort to stereotypes. How do you tell an Asian/Jewish student whose parents didn't put immense value on their education to one that did. You simply can't without making sweeping generalizations based on someone's appearance.
I still see influencer advertising in a better light than a brand's own ads.

Influencers, especially the more popular ones, help inform consumers about a product/service/experience.

The only thing an influencer has is their followers and most influencers really are careful to not advertise products that they don't believe in themselves.
> Telling the consumer to just not watch seems morally hollow in that specific case

Seems like big word for something which is not food, water, life saving drug or some such. Now people are free to consider entertainment as basic human right. But similarly other powerful people/institution feel free to take away more fundamental things from helpless people.

From where I am, government is more than happy to offer free entertainment produced by private parties while feel no obligation to clean up almost sewer quality water running through taps of millions of homes.
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You probably know of this page, but I think this has the clearest explanation for decoding errors:

http://rogergrambihler.tripod.com/BealeHoax.htm

although he doesn't notice his own mismatcc of "hith" instead of "with" (I haven't checked/reproduced his mapping in code, I intend to implement his decoding with quirks by adapting your .c file, if you wish I can send it over when done)
Board members Henry Kissinger and William Perry unwittingly admitted they were dupes ten months prior to the first Carreyrou article in a Dec. 2014 article by Ken Auletta in The New Yorker: [1]

Kissinger, who is ninety-one, told me that Holmes “has a sort of ethereal quality—that is to say, she looks like nineteen. And you say to yourself, ‘How is she ever going to run this?’ ” She does so, he said, “by intellectual dominance; she knows the subject.”

Board members are clearly charmed by Holmes. She is a careful listener, and she is unnervingly serene; employees say that they can’t remember an instance when she raised her voice. “She has sometimes been called another Steve Jobs, but I think that’s an inadequate comparison,” Perry, who knew Jobs, said. “She has a social consciousness that Steve never had. He was a genius; she’s one with a big heart.”

1: https://archive.fo/yhpXZ
We must.

Asians have not been systematically denied entry to the NBA for hundreds of years. I do not deny that there are ethnic differences or cultural priorities. But if a group of people has been systematically told for a very long time that they cannot achieve anything beyond being a slave, then that oppressed group would probably not bother to engage in technical or scientific pursuits, nor would they have time to pursue higher education because they were not allowed to do so.

Think about that: a group of people have been systematically given a chance to prove themselves, while another group was systematically prevented from doing the same. It's a systemic issue that requires a comprehensive solution. It must start with assuming the very assumption that you are questioning, since how else could start from a clean slate?

(1. And no, race blindness is not starting from a clean slate, it's denying the systematically-imposed disadvantages that already exists. 2. Your examples posing asians against blacks and asians rub me the wrong way, a bit like race baiting although I don't know you enough or the tone of your explanations to say for sure.)
It's practically a resume cover letter. People don't deserve to be told something is journalism when it is an advertisement. I'm not sure why you would even want to defend something like this, let alone be a lackey for someone else's rules.
On face value this system seems fair, the most capable students get accepted, regardless of ethnicity or race.

The problem with this is that a lot of students from disadvantaged minorities don't get the same opportunities growing up. They might be just as capable as non-disadvantaged students, but get worse grades because they had to work after school to help pay the bills, or didn't have internet access at home, or a variety of other reasons.

This is why in some systems, there is a different entry stream for minorities. It's been a while since I applied to university, but I believe that in New Zealand for subjects that have a grade cutoff for entry, Maori (indigenous) students have a lower cutoff for entry to account for this.

Of course, this is a blunt instrument in affirmative action. There are plenty of Maori kids who grew up in a middle class environment who are no worse off than white kids, but still get the same affirmative action as poor Maori kids, and there's white people who get left out because they grew up in a disadvantaged environment.

If you could come up with a model that works better than just bluntly delineating by race, that would be great. But it's hard to factor for every variable. Maybe you could base it on the median income for the zipcode of the school that the student went to, but then you'll be fooled by creative accounting and wealthy families sending their kids to poor schools.
The purpose of a type system is to allow the programmer to more fully express their intent in a way that allows static analysis to reject code which runs counter to that intent. Not to alter the compiled code.

That there's no difference between a const ptr and a ref at runtime is irrelevant, because there's a significant difference at compile time.
For some context in case anyone was curious, this New York Times article from 1991 discusses the collusion this post is presumably referring to: https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/23/us/ivy-universities-deny-...

(Note that the purpose of the collusion was to price-fix to avoid competition, which is the exact opposite of the example given.)
In addition to alluding to older literature, modern books also routinely refer to historic events, philosophy, developments in science, politics, religion, and just about everything else. So what, don't read any novels or poetry until you know the rest of human history and knowledge, inside and out, lest you miss a few allusions?

If we turn students off reading entirely, because we made them slog through the whole Bible (the ulitmate all-time most-alluded-to-by-English-literature champion) before letting them read something that might actually interest them, then what does it matter if they "get" the allusions?

By the way, not a slag on the Bible. I thought it was a pretty good read actually with exception of a few boring chunks in the old testament. But my humble opinion is that it will bore the shit out of the majority of high school students. I also wouldn't recommend Thomas Pynchon or James Joyce's Ulysses to high school students. They're great books if you come to them at the right time, but probably not the best tools for teaching literature.
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Is it more empty? I think it's easy to say something is empty when you're not the sort of person it's optimized to appeal to.

I just finished "Bad Blood", the book on Theranos. Given that it was a fraud, it was entirely empty. But it was designed to look substantial to Stanford deans and Valley VCs. Later the target shifted to other sorts of movers and shakers, including corporate titans and political bigwigs. They all got suckered, and some of them still don't know it.

I think Instagram influencers look shallow to me because their audience is people who value different things than I do. But I don't take that as a sign that I'm somehow better. Just that I have different weaknesses.

E.g., I spent years developing NeXT software because I drank the Jobs kool-aid. I didn't do that for hard-headed business reasons; I did it because the NeXT hardware and software was incredibly cool to young me. At the time, I would have smugly defended my choice as more rational than getting starry-eyed over a celebrity. In retrospect, I was wrong. I just fell for for something tuned for my weaknesses, just like we all do.
I used the figures from accidental only - roughly 12k p.a. is around 35-40/day. Rough maths.
Facebook will stop showing minors ads for gun accessories
True and jet engines didn't really become viable until the discovery/invention of the inconel alloy that could operate at very high temperatures.
Blocking EU users is completely beside the point. Youtube is already filtering this content because of US laws, not EU laws. There’s no point blocking EU users to avoid EU copyright laws when complying with the DCMA is just as bad.