skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Reading the title alone gives the impression that this is a change to appease the LGBT community or after receiving some similar pressure.

Because that's the real impetus behind the gender hypersensitivy in society lately.

> Using gender neutral pronoun when writing about people whose gender you do not know is simply being polite.

Sure. It's alsom polite to use genders when you do know it. But the point is that if 90% of one profession is male and 90% of another profession is female, then it makes complete sense for it to autocomplete to "him" and "her". For the few exceptions, you could edit "him" to "her" and vice versa.

> I wouldn't want Google to show me autocomplete suggestions for "do you want to meet him" when I'm writing an email to my mom or my girlfriend.

If 90% of your emails were to your father or brother and 10% were to your mohter/girlfriend, wouldn't you want it to autocomplete to "him"? And the 10% of the time, just edit "him" to "her" when you are emailing your mother or gf?

Besides, is your mother or gf going to go crazy if you accidently used the wrong pronoun? Wouldn't they know it was a mistake?
You're misunderstanding what the phrase "rent seeking" means. It doesn't have to do with how essential a product or service is.

The point of a rent, in economic terms, is that the person who is selling it does not add substantial value to the product or service. They just leech value.

The analogy is to someone who holds ancestral lands and rents them out unimproved. They get some chunk of the economic value that the land produces, without ever having put their own labor or their own capital into the transaction.

The argument is that the 30% fee that Apple charges on the app store is a rent in the software produced by other parties, with Apple adding little to the transaction.
JavaScript stack for startups, good idea?
What are you thought on building a startup using just javascript: Node Js backend; React Website; React Native + Expo for mobile apps.

Is a maerketplace
"Innovation" is a buzzword. It's so context-dependent that the word by itself is almost meaningless.

Values as people understand them are usually about neither profit nor "innovation". It's about people, morality, and goals other than money.
> Can this person do the job we're hiring them to.

Precisely. It's hard enough to find qualified people as it is, without disqualifying them for characteristics that don't even impact ability.
Actually, commodification of human labor is not new. Have you seen factory worker, dock workers, manual labor. If you are able bodied then you do your work, get your pay and go home.

As for human bias, I don't sue how it eliminates the bias. I don't even get why biases makes us human. Ultimately you are hiring humans and statistically like to hire diverse set of humans.

Unfortunately parents response simply comes as rant with some intelligent sounding words rather than any thoughtful objections to the OP.
Thank you, that is helpful. That is a very reasonable price and now I will register.

One way of being vague about a price while still revealing order of magnitude information is to compare it to a similarly priced object - "Fresh clothes for less than the cost of a dryer!", giving you some wiggle room while still letting your customer know it is not comparable to the cost of a car or house or sandwich.
My first paragraph I tried very carefully to avoid normative/"should" statements.

The identification of the issue is at hand. Consider Computer Science. Historically far fewer women go through the training for a variety of personal reasons and societal pressure. So, on the margin, blind/anonymous hiring ignores that upstream delta between females in population and skilled females in hiring pool. Whether this is desirable or not is not my point, only that this is "baked in bias" perpetuating down the line.

It's noble to build a society where we value blindness on characteristics irrelevant to hiring. Doing it piecemeal can result in furthering these baked in biases.

A better approach would be to split the skills validation (blind) from the move-forward decision (adhering to whatever inter-generational correction schema the society has decided upon) where the only pool of eligible move-forwards meet the established skills validation. In this way, you only get skilled candidates, and you can satisfy whatever other characteristics that need satisfaction.
Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision
SystemD was selected by the Technical committee, which was very far from unanimous in the decision.

SystemD caused problems at the time and there was no reason not to postpone the decision to Jessie+1, which is what Debian usually does in such cases: "more discussion needed".

Debian broke their social contract, showing that their priority was no longer with their users.
Forgetting Japan's bloody past as an imperialist power in SE Asia is convenient when Americans are dazzled by the novelties of samurai warriors, sushi, jujitsu, anime, zen, etc.
It’s a common bias to think that everyone I know eats organic, therefore everyone eats organic. From that point of view, it makes sense to predict the demise of big farms.
Probably not Facebook. Just check out this interaction between a NYT journalist and them.

https://twitter.com/sheeraf/status/1065988154308538368
Same, I have 2560x1440 at 24" at work and a 4K 27" at home, the Dell 24" 1920x1200 I replaced look terrible (and they where good in their day).
Haha I had the opposite experience. Growing up I always liked math, science, and programming but more and more I wish I could just spend all my time doing martial arts.
> the name, date of birth, address, mother’s tongue, gender and any other personal information [are] not included

[...]

> when much of the information in the application has been hidden, it’s hard to establish a clear picture of the know-how and capability of the applicant

So they base their assessment of know-how and capabilities on age, gender, mother's tongue, and other personal information that has been hidden? I feel like I must reading this wrong.
I mean this is basically done now, but with standardized testing as a proxy for what a "genetic IQ" would measure better.

That said, I don't think it will ever catch on because the associations with eugenics and the like is too strong.
> at least until the language is a lot more complete.

Or used in larger projects. Or used in environments where (a) dev's prefs cannot be nightly.
You don't know he's lying, you just assume it because he didn't cite a source. It's not the first time I've heard people make his claim, so it might not be baseless.
> Engineer here, and no, blind hiring will not bake-in any biases

Yes, it will: if you're born to a well-off family, you'll go to better schools before college. Due to this, you'll have a better chance at succeeding in college, have more resources to delve deeper into your field of study, better manage studying abroad, &c. All of these factors will make your list of skills more attractive to employers.

Compared to someone who was poor who went to worse schools, didn't study abroad, and couldn't afford to spend more time on their field of study due to having to work to pay for college. This will make your list of skills less attractive to an employer.

Right out of the gate, there is a bias against people who grew up poor in the hiring process.

> it aims to hire the best candidates regardless of their race, origin, religion, accent and other irrelevant characteristics.

It does so by devaluing repressed classes of people. This is a societal cost to benefit businesses.
I had a friend who waited in a line assuming it was something cool. ... It was the line for a food kitchen.
Ladies, if he:

- doesn’t return your texts

- doesn’t comment on your pics

- offers a draw in a clearly superior position just as his opponent gets into time trouble in the final round of the World Chess Championships

- says he “doesn’t care” at the press conference when informed that all chess playing engines, grandmasters, and rank amateurs could see that he had a dominating position

- was previously legendary for his ruthless fighting spirit, grinding out wins against supergrandmasters with much less to work with

- is Norwegian

He’s not your man. He’s reigning World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen, only one more misstep away from losing his crown to Fabiano Caruana.

#GoFabi
They knew they were joining a private platform. How could they not? If the walled garden is the de facto way people get their news, then as a media company you're just a fool to ignore it.
I take it you don't have a family? Because I don't see any time carved out for spending quality time with a partner and kids (if you had one or more).

I'm not entirely sure why the person you replied to got down-voted so heavily. Yes, it's possible to do stuff on the side, but it is exhausting and hard, especially if you are juggling a full-time job and family life.

As a husband and dad to two, there is a lot less free time available on any given day to pursue side projects and hobbies. I prioritize time with my family, and I prioritize time to take care of my health (work out), and that leaves very little time to devote to hobbies. Even with an understanding spouse who is okay with me spending my nights after the kids go to bed on study/hobbies, I get 1-2 hours on weeknights at best. I still build things, learn things and tackle new things, but it is hard, and it can be very exhausting if you try to sustain it over long periods of time.

But I like my job, my co-workers, and I like where I am at life, so I have no complaints. If I wanted to switch careers or build something substantial on the side, I would definitely recommend doing what the OP suggested, even though it seems riskier and harder.
Google is going to lock itself out of a quarter of the globe's GDP?
Stack – Reinvented internet launchpad for Web
"Who eats fifty boxed lunches?"
Google's motto used to be "Don't be evil", until Oct 2015. They were generally doing the good things.

I'm not sure Google has any values right now, unless somebody corrects me.
I’d like to think I’m more skilled in soft skills than others but I always demonstrate that at the on-site interviews.
How do you market those skills on a resume?
also a lot of computational fluid dynamics modeling (naval, aeronautical, automotive, etc.)
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/fiduciary-responsibi...
when i was checking things out a while back, it felt like every interesting library required nightly. it was a significant turnoff. :\
Stack is a reinvented internet launchpad, increasing the efficiency of working with the web by allowing simultaneous use of multiple apps within a neatly organized working environment & immersive split screen view
I feel like you just contradicted yourself. If a company didn't think innovation lead to more profits, then they wouldn't try to.
> However, I pretty strongly disagree. When evaluating a resume, there's no legitimate reason to consider the name, age, address, or gender of a candidate.

I mostly agreed, except with age. When I have two candidates who have roughly the same amount of experience or achievement, but one of them is far younger than the other, that tends to be more impressive.
Yea when it's usable to people other then me I'll open source it. But so far it's FreeBSD only and I want to get Linux and MacOS support going as well.
If these moral employees kept quitting, they'd keep being replaced by new employees which have increasingly bad moral compasses... And it would keep getting worse until it reaches the point of no return; aka Facebook.
What that amazing noise? Turn it up
It's funny that you mention slack's edge as history keeping, which is a premium feature you need to pay for after a threshold... Skype and many others will always keep all of your history for free
So go work for someone else! :-)

OH, you're getting a huge salary from Google, you say? Aaaaaaaah.
Fourth, your potential employees know what happened to your previous employees.
What's a "large project" to you, incidentally?

We know of several codebases that are over a million lines. To some people, that's big, and to many, it's not.

(Note also that this data shows a majority of people do use stable.)
"We no longer believe the company places values over profits". Ehm... has it ever?
Someone should do the same for MUMPS[1] if some Epic employee hasn't already done so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
> what I do is develop on nightly, and make things I want other people to use work on stable.

What do you do with the stuff you make on nightly? Use it only for yourself?

Edit: oh, I think I see: you don't use any new features when you develop on nightly.
*female undergrad
First, you're mistaking my characterization for Americans with my own philosophy. That's in error. I am a busybody.

Second, you're mistaking your own partisan lens for what constitutes busybodyness with the American Public's lens. Americans are radically middle, rebelliously centrist, and hate changes when they come from either side of the political aisle.

And so the busybody thing cuts both ways --

- It blocks your liberal attempts at busybodyness (trans bathroom laws, trigger warnings, political correctness)

and

-It blocks our conservative attempts at busybodyness (additional censorship in media, stop and frisk, morality laws).

Americans are/were against laws to forcibly open up bathrooms to everyone and marriages to same sex couples specifically because those things appear/appeared busybodyish. Both of those things are/were changes to the law. That makes them inherently busybody.

Taking the gay marriage debate: it was only when gay folks were finally able to convince America that new laws blocking them would be more busybody than letting the laws die in court, did gay folks win the public argument.

But changes are coming that are great for conservatives, as the left is starting to lose their title of the anti-busybody;

The university social justice wing has taken on the role that the Westboro Baptist Church played in 1990's American politics, the supreme busybody, and Americans are turning against them.

This is deadly to liberal politics, since being the busybody is the worst thing you can be in American politics.
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They fixed it already, it's called Instagram.
Exactly. They still are one of THE companies to work for, and throw so much money at people its hard to say no
https://web.archive.org/web/20181127073257/https://radiichin...
If that shareholder elects instead to sue, they will almost certainly lose, absent specific evidence of bad faith or of breaches of the duties of care or loyalty, for example.

The "business judgement rule" [0] compels courts to defer to the judgement of the executives of a business, on the basis that they have a bona fide interest in that business and its activities, and understand them better than either the court or J. Random Shareholder ever could.

"The business judgment rule is very difficult to overcome and courts will not interfere with directors unless it is clear that they are guilty of fraud or misappropriation of the corporate funds, etc." [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_judgment_rule

[1] ibid.
Besides the app store itself, and the process by which Apple grooms apps for suitability for that store, and the payment processing system that enables people to buy apps without busting out a credit card?
Then several infringement cases have to be opened, in each country according to its specific copyright laws. This may drown the author in costs and time spent to fight these claims that he/she may be discouraged and shut the business down. However this orchestrated "attack" would require coordination from the accusing parties. Further the complexity of such cases requires highly educated lawyers educated in law in cyberspace which means that they are expensive. That is why copyright laws cannot be solved easily in a decentralized way, if they are deemed to be a problem of course. I would claim even that there is no economic feasibility in such infringement claims i.e. there's no money to be made in them directly (acquired from the infringing party) and since the documents are public already, they hold implicitly no monetary value, thus even indirectly there is no money to be made there.
Vaguely similar observation from a previous employer in engineering: job health is effectively a derivative of the general economy. That is, if your job entails design/construction of something new, you job would be stable in an economy under flux, where clients have desire to hire your services. Not strictly just a growing economy, because effects like transition to new technology can also ensure stable job prospects. A stagnating or impeded economy, while possibly still ensuring stable jobs for other fields, would mean job reduction in design and engineering.
He's a straight, white male. Not a good choice.

/sarcasm
>The above statement is false. That's more clear than ever and geno-economics contributes to that clarity. If you live your life by this assumption you will get many important things wrong.

"It's bad to kill people" -- this statement is also false. There's no logical necessity that says its bad to kill people, it's only a utility calculation (whether you get caught, what the profit will be vs repercussions etc).

Still if you don't live your life by this assumption (that killing people is bad) you will get many important things wrong.

The basic moral imperatives should not be based on them being objectively true, but on what kind of world we want to live in.

"All men are created equal" doesn't mean "everybody is as tall" or "as strong" or "as smart". Obviously those who wrote it knew that already. It also doesn't mean a person without qualifications should get to work as a doctor just as well as someone with a M.D. diploma. They knew that too.

It just means that all people are equally worth, not to some utility function, but absolutely as human beings.
Here is their full checklist: https://www.gruntwork.io/devops-checklist/
The market has to value values over profits for this to matter. For all the talk and hype, I don't see it (yet)...
No Work for Amazon New York
It would be easily done by AWS SQS you can put as many elements to queue as you want (some limits apply, but may be easily lifted) and then remove items from the queue when the job is done, by tunning invisibility time-out you make work by your requirements. You can use lambdas (too short for your case) or ec2 or Fargate as your workes and it may scale up or down depending on loads. What is cool that you can create multiple shards if you could predict how long jobs would take so some could be done in lambda other using ec2 thus reducing costs.
The best way is simply not working full-time. Work part-time. I know you'll now come up with all sorts of excuses why it's hard/impossible. But hey, you want to do a creative project. That implies you are a creative person. So get creative. I assume the partial loss of income is not a problem. Can't be in our industry. So go negotiate with your boss. Negotiate hard. Your boss can't agree because he needs someone to occupy a desk - work half a day. Trade other benefits. Get your colleagues on board. No luck - change jobs, become a freelancer. Hack, you could even become a freelancer at your own former employer. There are plenty of options. Get creative!
Some people use nightly to actually build, but don't turn on any nightly-only features. This means that they get early access to bugfixes and improvements, but don't actually restrict their users to nightly.

(This may not be what your parent is talking about, but it is a use-case I've seen before.)
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> (1) console makers don't set the prices for games

Apple doesn't set the prices for apps.

> (2) console makers can't charge any amount of markup on the games

Apple charges a flat percentage; console makers charge a unit cost. I don't know what it is but it's likely in the order of $5-10 per unit. This is likely much higher for digital game sales, and probably includes a percentage component.

> (3) gamers have more mobility among platforms (can switch to PC gaming, for example).

Apple device users have comparable mobility among platforms.
Tracking users and showing ads is blatant harm.

Controlling the market and raising costs for sellers results in those costs being passed on to the buyer, causing indirect harm.
You are missing the fact that lugging an adapter is not a realistic option. I lived the dongle life for almost two years. By the end the darn thing had started glitching on me and you could not buy replacements. I'm lucky it didn't damage the charging port...

Not that it matters, I still didn't have it with me half of the times it turned out I needed it.

I actually considered buying like 10 of them. Now we are talking about 100 USD of the crap and a MASSIVE and daily inconvenience just because the manufacturer decided to save a couple of cents. This shit is just ridiculous.
Nope, copyrights are automatic in the US and EU and for any countries that adopt the Berne convention. It’s illegal to copy and redistribute something you don’t have explicit license for.

Example: https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#register
This is fantastic news. I am glad this showed up as the top comment for me.
> There is a reason that the console-dwelling set is often stereotyped as the guy in poorly-fitting jeans and neon sneakers and a hoodie with a shark high-fiving a sasquatch on the front... they often don't waste time on considering things like fashion or style or distinction.

So you go on a rant about 'us' stereotyping designers..by stereotyping us?

Bold.
Google has been the equivalent of an IT Gulag for a long time. I always pitied the poor souls working there thinking they've racked up some sort of prestige. Not worth the 7000 days in Siberia.
Yeah, I don't get that approach either. Is the parent comment suggesting that employers need to assess the opportunities given to a particular applicant and then weight them accordingly? Like if they come from a poor/disadvantaged background and still have 90% the skills and experience of another candidate, well that's more impressive? How does the parent expect an interviewer to come up with these valuations of opportunity?
I'm not sure what exactly you're referring to, but as someone who's used Google since back when it had a bunch of serious competitors, I'd also pick 2008-2010 as about the time they stopped even appearing to match words with actions and became just another company, from an outside perspective, at least. It surprises me that people are just now forming this opinion about them.

Perhaps not coincidentally that's about when the fundamentally-a-bad-idea service of Facebook started to get huge as it grew past college campuses, and showed it was really easy—like, incredibly easy—to convince all these new Internet users to give strangers tons of information about themselves, in gross violation of previous Internet norms of avoiding posting personal info anywhere, and that one could make stupid amounts of money by facilitating these poor choices.
Personally I think the problem is the over-use of analytics in page design. No one can compete on page design anymore because it doesn't convert well with focus groups or in A/B testing, so every page looks like a Bootstrap template. So they try to find SOMETHING that won't put up lower conversion numbers yet is slightly different so they can say their page is unique.
Yes. Who said those with the highest IQ should be educated with priority?

If anything, those with lowest IQs could use quality education some more...
>Giving someone credit for their ancestors' achievements sounds like nepotism

True, but we also punish groups for the actions of their ancestors as well as credit them.
This sounds bad, but racism and sexism in hiring is probably worse.
Thanks! And to jononor's comment below as well.

We're not exactly data scientists... maybe for next year we'll make some of these changes.