skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This I guess is exactly what I was thinking. As a legacy from segregation (and ultimately, slavery), African Americans still are disproportionately poor. This explains the macro-statistic, that only 1% of Math PhD's are given to African Americans.

I don't doubt there is some personal bias that is at play too. As a PhD who isn't Black but isn't white or Asian, I face it too, but the personal challenges I face paled in comparison to the structural and purely economic challenges I had to overcome.
The issue is that code reviews are hard on people and good on code bases.

Dollar for dollar, code reviews are more effective at finding and fixing bugs than any other activity we can do, including QA tests. However code reviews are very hard on people, and can easily create conflict.

Which one matters more, and how careful people are, varies widely by organization.
I think part of the unpopularity of the generic brands was that, at least in the stores I remember, they were all segregated on an aisle full of generic products. So you had to specifically go down that aisle to see if there was a generic version of whatever you wanted, and there was a bit of a social stigma about being seen in that aisle.

I imagine they would have fared better if they had been mixed into the rest of the aisles the way store brand products are today.
The guidelines ask you to write more carefully as topics get divisive, but you're doing the opposite: talking about the "madness" of affirmative action is emotional language that does nothing but polarize the thread. Plenty of HN people respectfully and carefully disagree with affirmative action; if you can't be one of them, step aside and let them do it instead.
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afair peak of stress test on main network was >300TPS, on test network is was >1500TPS. there exists dedicated software to create wallets and transaction using GPU, just for stress testing.
No, that's true. They just suggest it.
People implement Doom in CSS. It's clearly more than just some style notes for the browser.
Here's one guiding principle I've thought a lot (and learned a lot about) during the past few years: learn to draw the line between how you allocate communications on the pull request and communications over chat -- don't be afraid to have a bias towards the latter. PR comments should be fairly light on a per line basis, and you may want to bring up architectural concerns if there are any, so that they're recorded there for posterity's sake.

But you want to look at it like an artifact that you'll later on refer to. Don't be a pedant and ding based on style. If there are substantial design flaws, politely note your concerns, and then hash it out over chat or in person. Your goal is constructive collaboration, and it's really important to use the right collaboration tool for the right job.

Often times, what happens in code reviews is that we find up front design that we neglected to do, or which was done in a way that has structural problems. That's fine -- in fact, the ability to do that incrementally is part of why lean works well. But that means that you've got to then do a proper design session (formal or informal) to get to a better ending place. If you really want to be cooking with gas, figure out a lightweight way to structure and record the results of these design sessions so that people will use and refer to them.

I've seen teams grind to a screeching halt over poor usage of these processes, and not because any of the engineers were poor individual contributors!
Money is fundamentally used for two different things, as currency to help trade and to store value.

Once it becomes too useful as a value store, it stops being used for trade, which hurts the economy.

So therefore some inflation is a good thing, it means the money keeps moving. If you want to store value you do that with assets other than money.
As a statistician or economist, I would actually be quite shocked if the proportion was often close. This rarely or never happens in other fields, even ones where there is essentially no possibility of such supposed impediments. Randomness happens.

Instead of stealing someone's thunder by putting them on easy mode, give them the opportunity to kill it.
App Academy was working on something like this, last time I checked. I believe it's more focused on people who've already been through their program working on getting the next-step-up job from their first so I don't know if it's generally advertised/ available
Apply it to Olympic 100m runners
What would you call the near-daily exit scams, pump and dumps and ponzi schemes in the "crypto" world if not "cheating"?
For GP, and for those in other comments who were confused about the phrase "token," this is it in a nutshell - having people doubt your accomplishments, and assume that the reason you're in a position is not because you're qualified, but because you have a specific identity.
Maybe debt isn't the best analogy...

Adding 30 floors on top of this building with no time to reinforce the foundations first? Sure, I'll call our team of developers, they do that all the time ;)
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Diamonds are more common because node unlike many environments is absolutely tolerant of them. Maybe this "wastes" some disk space, but otherwise this is not a problem. It is orthogonal to actual problems like bugs in particular package versions.
> It's really akin to picking your own poison.

As we are sharing wisdom in quotes, I have one as well: "All things are poison, and nothing is without poison, the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison."

So if you agree with Paracelsus here (and a lot of European countries do), picking the right bits and pieces from both capitalism and socialism might be the winning strategy.
> Probably already completed proof based courses in analysis, algebra by the time they completed high school.

Is this common?
In my country many university apply for European grants, one easy way to get more points is to include minorities in you research group, if by some chance you get a female immigrant african disabled student you are going to want to include her in every project you ever have.

The above commenter saw a place where from above there were incentives to hire minorities, it is not impossible to believe that at some point an administrator claimed "we need a diversity hire in the next 6 month" and they hired the only matching one.

Also the bigotry of low expectation is a real thing, where some people treat minorities as essentially stupid by default and then get magically surprised when they are normally competent.

I don't know if I agree with the commenter above, but the incentives of affirmative action and diversity hire are sometimes problematic.

(just for clarity, my personal opinion is to assume that everyone that got a job deserved it. Even if it is obviously false sometimes it is the most stable one, we should keep our culture in a place where that is a reasonable assumption)
You are really on the offensive here. The concerns you've raised here remind me of a time when I let news and social media pull me into that disgusting culture war on oppression, equality, collectivism, and individuality.

I still have my stance but I've found that people that get sucked in, on both sides, will get hypersensitive about detecting their opposition, and then they project all of the ideas they dislike the most onto the person in real life who exhibits a hint of it.

You might find that you are trying to find things to be angry about. You might feel very strongly that masculinity is toxic but you don't really have any examples in your life except for the two and a half times you got cat called. The "gamers" that hate minorities and women might be on the forefront of your mind, but only because you spend too much time consuming narratives online.

Genuinely how many people would be concerned about toxic masculinity if the internet didn't exist. How many people would be concerned about the culture war at all if outrage couldn't be shared.

As much as you might like to blame it on a particular skin color or gender, your happiness and peace of mind is your responsibility. If you are frustrated, angry, or sad about gamers, the gamers aren't the problem, you are losing control of your mind.
> People of every race and every gender have the capacity to be this kind of self-centered egotist

He didn't imply that women and non-whites can't be self-centered egotists, only that they're less so than white men. Despite the author of the article being Russian, a very different culture than the US.
> Have different standards for awarding doctorates based on race?

The point of the article, if you think about it, is this is exactly what is happening currently and needs to be stopped / reversed.
Maybe slightly out of context but: It should be highlighted in <h1> that Riot does not use end to end encryption by default. At least that's how I understand it.
It is a perverse effect on the profession as a whole.

In the silicon valley I have a fair amount of colleagues that expect of any dev to spend a fair amount of their free time grinding on even more dev.

No surprise that there is a lack of diversity in the profession as a result.
As far as I know, Turing completeness isn't essential for being considered a programming language.

SQL is one, HTML too.

They both tell a computer what to do.
I don't doubt that there absolutely exists prejudices in this case but I also wonder how many will also be created by one self in that situation just because how the human mind works.

I used to have quite a lot of acne and it really got to my head. It of course did affect how people treated me, especially girls, because acne is not very attractive however after a while I probably read into things way more than I should. That people who were treating me the way they normally would or just happened to treat me badly because they had a bad day did treat me that way because of my acne.

Being the lone black guy in a research institution in a country like the US with that kind of history must be easy to start falling down that hole. Especially if there also exists people who are prejudiced or racist and expresses that as well.
I can't really find a way to contact the people responsible for this article. There is no real way to answer except on social media. I found a link on the EC site, but no real email adress, only a page where inqueries had to be limited to 2000 characters. I did find an emailable press contact. Which was probably not the right contact for me, but neither was anything else, so I mailed them anyway.

FWIW this was their response:

I refer you to the fact that this Medium article has been removed. The official position of the Commission has been expressed in its press release
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-19-528_en.htm
Please note that the Spokesperson service is a press service.
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As a Gnome purist, I like Fedora. It's curated almost as strongly as elementary and Solus, just with a different set of software.

Ubuntu is always a reasonable choice; I'd recommend it if you don't mind a slightly clunkier user experience, especially around installing software. Compared to Fedora, it comes with a larger range of worse-curated software packages, aimed much more at dabblers rather than end-users. The breadth of documentation for Ubuntu is as much a curse, because it's now mostly obsolete.

(I've never actually used Arch Linux; it just has a very strong reputation of helpful guidance, but DIY and no babysitting.)
I'm sort of amazed at the cost of high-end cameras, especially when what separates it from a modern smartphone seems to be nothing but bigger/faster sensors and the ability to use big lenses. The camera manufacturers use the lowest powered CPUs they can get away with, running proprietary real-time operating systems with horrible UX and no third party support. For the price of a high end laptop. It really seems like something is off in the market - but there doesn't seem to be any sort of real change happening.

I needed to do some video work last year, so I basically followed Casey Neistat's suggestion for a Canon camera, only to find out it wouldn't allow me to export the video live via an HDMI cable without the camera's overlay on top. Turning all the elements off still left me with a red dot in the corner. Apparently I got the wrong model and the one $800 more expensive would do this. After a while I gave up, went back to the store and got a cheap video camera that could do it, BUT again, I had to get the more expensive version, because the same model in the cheaper option didn't allow this particular use case.

I was really surprised by how backwards this all was! Proprietary OSs, artificially limited functionality, anemic processors, interfaces out of the 1980s. It's crazy!

Has someone slapped Android on a decent camera yet?
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Since some of these examples seemed to be part of a documentation system such as Javadoc, Sphinx or Doxygen, I wonder wether the more complicated examples would not be better made as proper drawings. It may be nerdy to draw huge diagrams in the text editor, but they are error prone (sometimes due to bad visualization). Instead, with a proper UML diagram editor or with Inkscape, such diagrams are quickly exported to SVG/PDF standard and rendered as a nice picture within the given documentation system. Drawback: They are no more part of the source code.
there is another side; the one were companies actually hire people for numbers (I am not claiming they are common). for example in china there is a market of "white guy in suit walking around the office looking busy when visitors are present". I don't want to diminish your point as it is indeed a serious problem, but it is not the whole picture.
What exactly are your measures for success?
I find it baffling how much power Visa and MasterCard have over people's lives. I can't even imagine what it would be like to be banned from using or benefiting from one of them.
Hmm. Y'know, that's a great point. I could build a whole conspiracy theory off of that idea:

If I'm a FAANG, I'm simply not using my normal interview process to hire for the really interesting jobs. I reserve those ones for people who got the job by virtue of their publication history in the academic literature, or because they built some well-known cool thing, or because they got promoted into the position. Those people get shunted over into the "you didn't come to us, we came to you" interview process.

The seats I'm looking to fill with the more public interview process are mostly seats for the grunt coders who work under those people. My ideal candidate for that position isn't some rock star creative genius; it's a workaholic who is resistant to boredom. And what's something a workaholic who's resistant to boredom would be really good at? Grinding away on programming interview questions, of course.
There's an assumption here that the network will be used and valuable.

If the network is used more it will be more valuable, which means the reward value will increase as the inflation decreases. If nobody uses the network then it'll be worthless, which at that point it doesn't matter since nobody is using it.
> Well, you also didn't exist before you were born, for a very long time.. Does that bother you too?

I've heard that line before, and I appreciate the sentiment, but it doesn't seem to help in my case. I don't care that I didn't exist before, I care that I exist now and have to face the inevitability of not existing again.

Conversely, I realize that living forever is almost equally insane/terrifying depending on how you look at it. But personally, the end of existence feels worse from a conceptual standpoint. I've heard it put this way before: if you encountered an intelligent being who had no biological mortality, would you try to convince it to manually end its life to make its current moments more "precious?" Probably not. To a certain extent, the "appreciate life because of its fleeting nature" idea just seems like a pretty thing nonreligious people tell themselves to have a similar calming effect. I realize it's likely the only way to actually accept it and get on with my life, it just feels "fake," if that makes sense.

Regardless, I appreciate your comments, and yes, I will probably seek professional help in the near future.
What specifically do you think is the reason black people should not be expected to achieve demographic parity in academic math? And how does that relate to “blank slate-ism”? You seem to be implying that there is some inherent characteristic of black people that prevents them from attaining equal representation in math academia. Is this what you intended to convey? Please be explicit.
If so, please provide details on how can verify if my details are in there as well.

Slightly pissed of Swede who called 1177 just last week here. Still I'm glad this happened after GDPR, this means everyone who's personal details were compromise should have plenty of legal options right now.
Sure, yes, clean glass and aluminum are often easy cases. I don't think there is that much trouble with compost either?

The problem seems to be with many of the other things that are allegedly recyclable. Just because someone somewhere can recycle it doesn't mean your local recycling facility can do anything with it.
I think “meritocratic competitive default mode” is not looking deep enough. Putting aside any instances of, for example, rich idiots getting admitted to universities just because they’re rich, there is still a massive problem with admitting people to universities based “on merit”. People growing up in lower socioeconomic backgrounds are going to have had a lower quality of education prior to applying for entrance to university, and most processes I’ve read about don’t really take this into account. As a result, comparing everyone equally across the same (for example) entrance exam means that you end up selecting for people from higher socio-economic backgrounds.

I don’t know a good solution to this, but I think it’s something that needs to not be forgotten when discussing “meritocracies”.
I would bet that in almost every one of those categories, Americans of New England descent are over-represented compared to people of Christian Italian/German/Polish descent. (With the least money on the sporting ones.)
These are interesting points.

Just to clarify first, the exercise should not take more than 1 hour. And I mean it. It is not difficult, or tricky or anything. It is used 1) to make sure the candidate can do very elementary things, 2) as support for follow up during the on-side interview.

Regarding "getting the on site", if you don't do the exercise before you would get the "whiteboard" BS. And then you may be competing with people who spent 2 weeks reading "cracking the tech interview". How is that different?
Those who don't trust the government must already be assuming this is happening without their consent and taken the appropriate measures.

So I don't really see a problem, if it results in citizens getting informed by someone other than their paranoid neighborhood tech-obsessed geek that their negligence is part of the problem.

I've been that guy in the past, there's a substantial portion (majority?) of the American population that will pay far more attention to a government notice of vulnerability than a fellow citizen they perceive as a paranoid extremist dreaming up invisible threats.
Those courses are out there. I saw one for $5k and ran for, IIRC, 8 weeks, that covered the entire interview process.
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> Why can't "American" be the right cultural background, or better yet for math nerd kids, "mathematicians who are also musicians" (common), or "mathematicians who like drawing pictures" / "hate drawing pictures" (most depts have both)?

Because America consists of multiple strongly-cohesive subcultures that aren't as simple as "American", but go much deeper than hobbies. Of course there are no hard lines, but if we're being reasonable, we can see this to be generally true. It's human nature to compare yourself to those who are strongly similar to you, especially when those similarities take the form of life challenges having been faced.

> Instead we choose always to emphasise fault lines, and they are proliferating. How many years until it's important to hire enough openly gay (or muslim, or trans, or atheist!) mathematicians, for exactly the same reasoning?

Presumably this kind of "emphasis" will settle once things have balanced out - i.e., once diversity in a given field roughly matches diversity in the general population. In the meantime we skew our meritocracy a bit, but it should be a temporary situation.
No, we don't.

Bitcoin is one way to use energy. There are hundreds of thousands of other ways.

When you say Bitcoin "hurts the environment", what, concretely do you mean? Presumably, you mean it in a stronger sense than "using energy to produce food hurts the environment" or "using energy to run an ER hurts the environment".

That is, you think that relative to the benefit provided, the use of (harmful) energy to run bitcoin miners doesn't justify its environmental cost.

Which is great, but I could say the same thing of Ferraris for show-off producers in LA, or Hello Kitty backpacks.

What justifies focusing our attention on Bitcoin per se, and not those? Do you plan to publish a universal, agreed-upon list of things whose social value doesn't justify its environmental cost?

The real problem is energy users not bearing the full environmental costs of what they do.

The thing is, we have a well known solution to that: cap the total carbon emissions, or tax them in a way that reflects the harm.

Yes, Bitcoin creates an incentive to use energy. And it will be spent by miners who weigh the costs of the energy against the value of the Bitcoins produced. Like every other good on the market, it will respond to incentives created by laws.

If the damage of energy isn't priced in, then there will be too many resources spent on mining relative to the environmental cost. But this is true of every other good as well.

All Bitcoin does is amplify the problems of the existing failure to appropriately price energy. But this is true of literally every other energy-using good in existence!

There is no reason to single out Bitcoin. To blame it for environmental problems is special pleading or privileging a hypothesis.

"I don't want wiggins at my university. They cheat!"

'Well, a certain percentage of any demographic is going to ch--'

"Irrelevant! We're talking about wiggins!"

EDIT: Should probably add the disclaimer that I'm long Bitcoin.
I had a coding test once where I was given someone else's code with an introduced bug, and I had to fix the bug. To do so, you were basically documenting the code along the way as you traced your way through possible trouble spots. It felt far more meaningful than the typical "implement some list traversal algorithm that you won't actually ever use at this job."
So you believe your experience with acne could be a lot like people experiencing racism?