skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hahahaha, this is comedy gold.

I have no idea how important the disclaimers really are, but they are definitely popular. Maybe just paranoia.

Edit: it was funnier before you edited it and made it more serious...
Is this different from software companies specifically targeting women and certain races? Some companies even have specific internships that are dedicated to women and certain races.

When software companies do that, it's usually seen as a "legitimate" way to increase the number of certain gender and races at the company.
> So you can't provide a single example of a company whose downfall was due to shorts?

How is someone supposed to prove that in a specific case? It would be the case for a company that failed by a specific margin whose total borrowing costs were increased by more than that margin. Which requires speculating what their share price would have been in the alternative, calculating the resulting effect on their contemporary borrowing cost (which data is available where?), then evaluating their entire business to determine how much additional capital they would have needed to survive.

It would take hours to calculate and be subject to unlimited debate about the reasons and margins by which they failed.

But if you really want an example based on pure speculation, Kodak. They made their share of mistakes but if it had been easier for them to raise funding to compete in digital markets once they changed course they might not have ended in bankruptcy.

And I still haven't heard any argument as to the flaw in the general principle.
If the teachers make $24/hr, that means they're working 11.25 hours per day, assuming a 185 day work year. Since a school day is just around 6.5 hours, that seems like a lot of after hours work.

If we assume they make all their salary in 8 hours/day, that's more than $34/hour. In a non-school work year that translates to about $70,000/year.
> the court found for the plaintiff on a technicality, but they upheld the principle that disparate impact could be sufficient to support a claim.

No, they didn't. The majority opinion did conclude that disparate impact is cognizable under ADEA, but it specifically addressed whether it would apply to the claim in that case and found that it wouldn't. There was a technicality (no relevant practice identified) but the court went further than that.

> Turning to the case before us, we initially note that petitioners have done little more than point out that the pay plan at issue is relatively less generous to older workers than to younger workers. They have not identified any specific test, requirement, or practice within the pay plan that has an adverse impact on older workers. As we held in Wards Cove, it is not enough to simply allege that there is a disparate impact on workers, or point to a generalized policy that leads to such an impact. Rather, the employee is “ ‘responsible for isolating and identifying the specific employment practices that are allegedly responsible for any observed statistical disparities.’ ” 490 U.S., at 656 (emphasis added) (quoting Watson, 487 U.S., at 994). Petitioners have failed to do so. Their failure to identify the specific practice being challenged is the sort of omission that could “result in employers being potentially liable for ‘the myriad of innocent causes that may lead to statistical imbalances … .’ ” 490 U.S., at 657. In this case not only did petitioners thus err by failing to identify the relevant practice, but it is also clear from the record that the City’s plan was based on reasonable factors other than age.

> [...]

> Thus, the disparate impact is attributable to the City’s decision to give raises based on seniority and position. Reliance on seniority and rank is unquestionably reasonable given the City’s goal of raising employees’ salaries to match those in surrounding communities. In sum, we hold that the City’s decision to grant a larger raise to lower echelon employees for the purpose of bringing salaries in line with that of surrounding police forces was a decision based on a “reasonable factor other than age” that responded to the City’s legitimate goal of retaining police officers. Cf. MacPherson v. University of Montevallo, 922 F.2d 766, 772 (CA11 1991).

> While there may have been other reasonable ways for the City to achieve its goals, the one selected was not unreasonable.	Unlike the business necessity test, which asks whether there are other ways for the employer to achieve its goals that do not result in a disparate impact on a protected class, the reasonableness inquiry includes no such requirement.

> Accordingly, while we do not agree with the Court of Appeals’ holding that that the disparate-impact theory of recovery is never available under the ADEA, we affirm its judgment.

The opinion is very approachable, I genuinely encourage you to try reading it.[0] I don't know where you're getting your facts from but they're objectively inaccurate.

> That's very hypocritical of you.

You're right, I'm sorry for that.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1160.ZO.html
>I think you're looking at the re-design from a user-experience perspective, and this is probably wrong. Think of Reddit as a for-profit company, and then consider what that company might want out of a re-design.

But I am a user, how is it wrong that I don't prioritize the business goals in my assessment of the redesign? Their goals are obvious, and the person your replying to already acknowledged them anyway.
Yeah, simple as that, Levine is a trained lawyer. Whenever he talks about his rules of insider trading, it's peppered with "now this is definitely not legal advice, but..."
By that interpretation, he misspoke when he said the DNA is sensitive. What he should have said is that the _body_ is sensitive _to_ the DNA. That was my point.

And I only point it out because, given he's an expert on the topic, it's always possible that he actually meant to say it this way and that I, being a layperson, missed something that would explain it.
It's better than not having it at all, I would think.
Right.. the government actually requires discrimination in its contracts through affirmative action....
Thanks for the google maps link - one of my stars is <14 KM away. I met a lot of Canadians while driving in my cab. A good number have second homes here.

My Canadian friend just said she'd taken her horse across the old bridge, which was replaced because water flowed over it during the spring melt. Saskatchewan has a lot of agriculture - they grew wheat, canola, barley, oats, peas, flax, etc.

Met this one post-taxi driving. She'd bought a trailer and parked it in Yarnell, just before the hill fire [1][2], and found her way to the rural part of Arizona that I'm currently living in. She has interesting stories and anecdotes.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3829920/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarnell_Hill_Fire
That said, couldn't you just do a differential speed? Measure radar to the car, and from the car to the bike? With some extra math, I'd think you could easily establish her speed.

Though...I also don't think the radar is necessary. Just rpm of the tires would suffice. No?
Ionic compared to what
For my site I use a backtracker to find a large number of single solution puzzles (rather fast). Those are used as a test base for my "human" solver (pretty slow), which are used for scoring and difficulty levels. I find that it's a nice balance.
> my naive Rust was ~32% faster than my carefully implemented C.

One thing that we have noticed in our work on our Rust AV1 encoder, rav1e, is that Rust autovectorizes a lot better than C. In particular, it does a better job of proving that slices have nice sizes (e.g., multiples of 8 or 16 elements). That allows it to leave off all of the boilerplate for handling odd sizes. Rust also does not automatically promote every arithmetic operation to an int. That makes working on 8- or 16-bit types a lot more efficient. The stronger type system, memory safety, and the preference for idioms that avoid bounds checks mean the compiler can successfully autovectorize a lot more code than C, too. We used to joke that the only C code that gets autovectorized is the initialization loops that run exactly once and just set everything to zero.

It's still not as good as hand-written SIMD (maybe within a factor of 2), but it's a lot better than no SIMD.

That said, it makes it hard to do straightforward performance comparisons with C, especially for code where you know you will write the hand-written SIMD, but you just haven't gotten to it yet. There is a lot of code like this in a freshly-implemented video encoder. Rust is using a tool, autovectorization, that it won't get to use when you manually vectorize, and C isn't. That threw off a lot of our early attempts at benchmarking Rust vs. C.

Of course, most things are not video encoders, and most code won't be manually vectorized, so the better autovectorization is an absolute win in the real world.
I'm in Australia. I'm don't know what the law is here, I guess what they said it was.
Do you have a source for the POST thing? I can't find anything by searching.

Yeah, I agree EV has some potential for users to distinguish. If we add mechanical way for the browsers to enforce it, that could help increase website adoption, and thus also help users to notice it more.
Let’s write a Kernel with keyboard and screen support (2014)
> In terms of public policy you have to decide what you're optimizing for and that decision can't be made with data alone because it does not help resolve questions of value and fairness.

Not to mention that matters of value and fairness also change the availability of, and interest in, research itself. For example, if some people don't like the results of your research (despite presenting no challenge to the facts or methodology), they can now apparently replace it without notice after publishing it in a journal (and do so in a manner which is intended to make it difficult to publish it in other journals). [0]

The academy is the wrong place to direct politics, because politics already direct the academy.

From my perspective, a more likely overall improvement in the ongoing quality of policy would be a requirement that all policies sunset reasonably soon by default, even if they don't seem divisive at the time they're passed. As it regards controlled substances, this would lower the bar for repeal to "nobody particularly cares to renew it" from "nobody particularly cares to do the work to repeal it".

[0]: https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-p...
There's definitely a fearless aspect that comes with youth. I recall mine vividly and there were certainly times I gambled with my life. It's helped me grow as a person but I could never recommend such recklessness in hindsight. Perhaps some things can be learned but not taught.
Browser vendors don’t control drivers or hardware support on the different OSs. VR is pretty much a Windows game today with limited and experimental Vive support on OSX and Linux. I’m sure that Mozilla in particular is eager to support linux.
I'm kinda curious, do rental rates change for people who own their own car versus people who just have a license? I mean, you definitely have to buy the insurance coverage then, but is that coverage itself more expensive because it's assumed you're not going to be quite as good a driver as someone who does it every day?

Edit: quick google search says some companies might refuse you, but you should be able to pay $15 or so extra per day to get full liability and comprehensive coverage if you have no insurance of your own already. And check your credit card because some of them have limited built-in coverage you can leverage.
There is a plethora of "diversity" internships that not only advertise to specific gender/races but also are stated to explicitly target certain gender/races in their job ads that the ACLU can go after.
Do these people go nuts after getting rich, or is being crazy not an impediment to building a large company?
iPhone 4S doesn't support iOS 12–it stopped at iOS 9. iPhone 6 Plus is slow because it had to drive large display after downsampling, and it just wasn't all that much more powerful than iPhone 5S.
Facebook needs to stop posting illegal ads, even if users request illegal ads. It's not my problem to decide how Facebook ensures that they obey the law -- it's their problem. Even if its really, really hard, it's still their problem. If it's impossible to achieve with technology, Facebook should leave the advertising business.
I wonder if the neck injury thing is just because a "lesser than" injury is actually getting reported? I haven't seen anything in the article about it, but for example iirc there was this hullabaloo about motorcycle helmet data indicating an increase in back injuries for helmet-wearers, until someone pointed out that dead-on-site riders would be reported as simply "dead," with their injuries unaccounted for.
Artists and Machine Intelligence
At least kids seem to be getting better about helmets. It’s really really rare that I ever see a kid not wearing one when mountain biking, at least where I am.
I love camping, away from everyone else. If you made me camp with my coworkers I would not be happy either.
It would sting, but I doubt he would find it that hard to start again in another country if he had to.
Evernote did one thing extremely well. I remember being in the Valley a few years back and saw this huge Evernote building from the freeway. I was stunned, this entire building for my simple note taking app! What happened in a quest for growth is they bloated the product. It was no longer a simple elegant note taking app anymore.

Evernote from the outside appears rudderless. The founders gone and it's clear that the MBA's running the place not only don't have a passion for the product - I'm willing to bet they don't regularly use it.

I'm still convinced with the right leader it can be salvaged because so far there hasn't been a compelling product to seize its market.
All ISPs, as a rule, oversell. They oversell at a ratio of usage in part due to how networks are structured (8-10 times bottleneck bandwidth is seen as "good" service, source: I am in the industry). There are bottlenecks in almost every network. The problem is when they oversell at an unacceptable limit for regular usage. Bottlenecks can be mitigated but that costs money and like almost every rent seeking business there is no incentive to spend any money or invest until there is risk of a losing enough users to be unprofitable.

The economics of ISPs suck which means ISPs will suck pretty much as a rule.
VR is a new kind of media you will be able to embed in a web page. Like video or sound. Browsers have to be able to render it.
> "Canadian standards" as an excuse for why it fell down.

It's a bit like here in US some construction companies will advertise they "build to code". That sounds scary to me, as all I hear is they would really like to cut corners, but it's those pesky building codes getting in the way.
Sounds like you might want to move on. I've been at kinda crappy startups for 4 years now, not being paid much and working hard. But like, Idaho hard. 55ish max hours a week. And I've stuck to it because I have so much agency. I live a very modest life, but work flexible hours from home, self-direct my work, make my own decisions. There are things I miss (e.g. working with other engineers), but the work is valuable, meaningful, and mine. I like it and from what people are saying in this thread I seem to have it made.

I understand it's not always simple to make the change (which is why I've kept my standard of living relatively low on purpose). But it can be done, there are places way out in the sticks that need good talent, and even if you're not architecting realtime distributed systems there can be interesting projects on tiny teams.
I didn’t know there was a name for this. Speedbombing...Like another commenter, aged 10 I took on the biggest hill in the area. 30 years later, I still bare the scars and memories of the pain at being cleaned up by a very unsympathetic nurse at the hospital. Which was more painful than the crash, as I remember it.
AppleScript is still around, as part of OSA, which now includes JavaScript support.
Thanks for the link! Seems neat!
Companies absolutely do this, it's usually just not explicitly stated. When cost of living goes up the minimum compensation a given person is willing to accept goes up so salary ranges go up. If you mean companies don't adjust for CoL for current employees well... yeah, wages are sticky.
The GP was most likely referring to motorcyclists riding without helmets.
> Practically no systemic analysis is done within government

This is so far from being true, it undermines your point and your post.

The Federal Reserve does no systematic analysis? The U.S. Treasury does no systematic analysis? The Bureau of Labor Statistics does no systematic analysis? The Congressional Budget Office does no systematic analysis? The Centers for Disease Control do no systematic analysis?
Inspect a machine learning model, with no coding required
On the fence about this one.

Whilst targeting individual groups can certainly lead to inequalities there is the problem of tailoring ads to an audience. One way a company may wish to make their ads more appealing is by showing relatable people in adverts.

If a company is running two variations of the same job advert, one featuring women and one featuring men, distributing coverage across the two variations evenly, then is there still an issue? I would argue not, yet introducing a non-gender targeting rule would make this impossible to do and could in fact have the opposite affect to what was desired by the regulation.
You would be surprised at how much reshoring and US factories automation have occurred in the last few years in US. It will increase in scope after this current round of tariffs.

Here's real manufacturing output:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS

Here's durable and non-durable goods manufacturing employment:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PRS31006013
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PRS32006013

Notice they are lower than before the 2008 recession. The recession that is now a decade old.

In comparison, here's imports of goods and services:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IEAMGSN
And here's imports of goods from China:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IMPCH

Reshoring? I'm not so sure about that overall. It's great that US manufacturing is recovering though.
I think the excitement in the negativity is because Musk behaves like a petulant manchild. I like Tesla and want them to succeed. I don't like Musk and don't want blowhards like him to succeed.
It seems that WeWork is interested in the cultural trappings of big tech, even though it isn’t tech at all.
Ugg, I know. Sometimes I get too involved in explaining a concept, and that ruins the joke. Ive Editted it back.
Generally, hashing pointers in C or C++ is a bad idea anyway.

Unless, you have a particular love for debugging non-reproducible behavior that is.
How is no analysis just as good?

It's hard to believe that the percentage of successes with no analysis is GTE the percentage of successes with some analysis.
>>>We never considered Java/JVM because although it's high-performance, it doesn't feel fast: slow boot times, high memory usage. These factors are all malleable to a degree (e.g. JVM client mode allows faster boot times, memory usage depends on GC tweaks) but I've never seen a JVM application to be tweaked in such a way that it feels as snappy as a C++ application. To users, feeling fast is just as important as actually being fast. And then there's also the issue that JVM has very limited integration possibilities with an existing C++ codebase.

Most of the principles apply to C# as to their Java dismissal
likely done on disc wheels so no spokes
I'm worried that the opposite will become true. Autonomous taxis will drastically reduce the cost of taking a car ride. The benefit though might be that we get rid of the parking lots since a much higher percentage of total cars should be made up of vehicles that are shared and those shared vehicles should have much higher utilization than personal cars.
That barely qualified as a bridge before it collapsed.

They'd be better off with a portable "launchable" bridge from the US military:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M60_AVLB
Are you saying that zero middle ground exists?
A friend of mine was interning as a creative at an ad agency, and they wanted a webpage done for waaay to little money. I was currently just living of my savings and had nothing better to do, so I did my best and took the project on. It was hell, but eventually my first webpage ever was done!

Now I’ve been freelancing for eight years, doing quite the variety of web and iOS projects. Never did I really need to find customers, friends always directed enough work towards me.
Or we could do what they do in the Netherlands and physically separate bikes.

Edit: phone auto-"correct"
Thanks! To be honest, mea culpa, I didn't look anything up before asking that question. Glad I did, though. Care to expand on the lessons learned?
Sure, here's the pricing model for the SaaS startup I work for: https://www.aha.io/product/pricing

Our Enterprise+ plan is the one for our largest enterprise customers -- the extra features are:

- Antivirus scanning for attachments

- IP access controls

- Custom tables (an advanced feature where you can create your own record schema and link the records to canonical records in our product -- for example you can create a table of "customers" and link each feature to the customers that want it)

- Account backup (obviously we do our own backups, but this feature lets you easily dump your whole account to JSON so you can do your own backups too)

- Some advanced features around managing licenses within your organization

- Our concierge service (which includes support for security/operational reviews plus some sessions to guide you in rolling out our product within your organization)
Systemic, not systematic.
yup just got the email earlier today too
> If the "20% volume" is from these necessary activities, it's not so concerning, and (for example) forcing them to use someone else's market for these activities would be silly.

I don't agree, if they need to hedge spot for their index there is huge value in being the one that operates the venue. The activity is trading crypto and there is always an incentive to do this at the best price (doesn't matter whether you are providing liquidity, or hedging some exposure). Right now we can only assume they do this "the fair way" (eg. how we can trade on their platform - with the same information we have). But how do we know they are? For all we know the guy that needs to execute these trades is sitting next to another guy that is monitoring the exchange and everyone's stops / margin liquidation prices.
I didn't downvote you :(
The thing is, it's adversarial: the more you "punish" your student-as-writer peer (by revealing their text to be bereft of meaning), the higher you score for your editing job.
From what I recall, he didn't like the aesthetics of the license plate (to which I can't really blame him).

It's also because CA DMV is a bit of a shit show - buy a car and you won't have plates for MONTHS, so seeing cars with no plates (at least in the Bay area) is super normal.

As an ex-NYer (where such things are strictly forbidden, heh) it was a bit jarring to not have a plate for 3-5 months.
We very nearly had a ranch fountain at our wedding but decided against it...
These chips, like GPUs, are optimized for parallel processing, but they are also designed for lower precision math which requires less memory and fewer transistors/operation and hence are considerably more power efficient.
Publishing an app in Chinese App stores
I'm looking for practical advice/experience sharing on publish an Android app in China, and ways to promote it, given all of the recent legal changes over there.
Which city is that?