skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Openly... I'm not so sure. In our all hands meeting our head of HR consistently denies that diverse candidates are treated differently. When the Damore memo was sent out one of our senior VPs of engineering explicitly denied preference for diverse candidates.

But we do have tools for recruiters to cross reference applicant names with the US census bureau's data to infer race and gender. We give recruiter bigger bonuses for diverse hires and we set specific % targets for them in their OKRs (basically quarterly goals. They don't get fired if they go under this, so I hesitate to call it a quota). That, and the aforementioned practices surrounding interviews and non traditional backgrounds.

Looking deeper at the documentation, I think the company maintains plausible deniability by giving recruiters discretionary authority over things like number of phone interviews and initial resume review coupled with hiring targets well above the industry average (current target for women is 33%). So the company does openly discriminate, but it gives recruiters the tools and discretion to discriminate as well as goals that essentially require discrimination to achieve - after that it's "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil".

My previous statements about non traditional backgrounds and 2nd phone interviews came from recruiters themselves. I can also confirm that, absent a referral, I've done 2nd phone screens for diverse candidates and have never interviewed a non-diverse candidate from a non-traditional background.
sucks for your property value. No one with a $million home wants a camp near it, lets be honest. The govt can move the hot potatoes around until someone gets stuck with it. I wonder what this does for crime rates?
People: do whatever you want to do this summer. There are virtually zero barriers to entry for programming today. They've been minimal for a good twenty years now as it is.
When can we expect integration with VScode. Atom is too slow on my computer.
It's all about creating value for your customer.
"Don't give me some trend analysis, give me actionable insight ". Recommend watching this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2SdmYuMMIg

I earn $180000/year, recently raised my rate to $280/h and working 40h/weeks. Feel I create way more value for my customers than my cost, so I started several small projects in parallell the last months to move away from consulting. Most of them was about a week of work and give about $10000/year with minimum maintenance.

Started building webpages, but figured out that this in itself don't solve a problem I can't fix with some sitebuilder (all about value). All my value creation in now in gathering data from different (API) sources into and databases and generating custom reports on this data. The most important skills I need is Python and SQL, stuff I did not know under 3 years ago.

For the $10000/year examples I make some prototypes, try to understand the business I try to sell to and calculate something I don't think they already easily know that will increase their revenue way more that my cost. Then I make the cold call (<3min), just to ask if I can send them an email with some analysis. They almost always get back the next day with an email or call back for more details or some adjustments.

Hope to go all into startup in a near future, only focusing on this. Love the feeling of solving real problems and see people willing to pay for it recurring <3
The Super Models: The Bizarre and Exclusive World of $20k Toy Cars
Ideological flamebait will get you banned here. No more of this please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Men can talk to other men casually and get loads of useful information that is simply not accessible to me.

That is just hard to understand. If your gender is an issue, why even make it public in the first place? I mean, ever heard of the saying "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...
That's not exactly what OP means. What's actually going on is that we have certain expectations around candidates' behavior and the wording they use on their resumes and the way that they respond to technical interviews. These are behaviors that are ingrained for most white men but tend to be less ingrained for women and non-white men. So our hiring processes are subtly biased against anyone who isn't like us.

The interview process is all about being biased against certain candidates. But what often happens is that the biases we hold when interviewing and working with candidates don't matter to the job but happen to exclude people who would otherwise do quite well.

It's not like interviewers are all twirling their waxed mustaches and snickering about how many women they've excluded. But what they do is listen to how someone describes a problem or how they behave during a whiteboard interview and interpret that negatively simply because it's different from what they were expecting. And so they don't hire the person because they're a "bad culture fit." Some women have been trained by our culture to use less assertive terms to avoid showing dominance in a discussion. And they tend to wait for you to finish before they talk.

Or suppose that the people at the company tend to wear a certain gamut of colors because they're all white and blue-ish and grey-ish colors tend to look better on white guys. So when someone shows up with a redder shirt that person might be taken as "too flamboyant" when in reality they're just picking a good neutral color for their skin tone. It just happens to be a significantly different tone from the rest of the office.

It could even be as subtle as discomfort with inexact or flowery speech. I had a lead who would get very uncomfortable when I would talk in metaphor and use metaphors and different words to describe things in terms that he wasn't used to. He would try to get me to tone it down. But everyone else on the team was perfectly okay with it so I kept doing it. That's another form of useless bias, because I was understood and could do my job but probably wouldn't have been as hire-able if I had talked like that during my interview.

My point and OP's point is that discrimination is frequently not overt. We have to look past these superficial differences and really think about whether someone can do the job. And we also need to be exposed to more candidates who are not like this. So a program like this stuffs the pipeline and gets us more exposure, and it's now up to us to challenge our existing biases and try a more diverse array of people out.
> "pump and dump" scheme

you win.
To be clear, nobody is giving money to Lambda School.

Jessica is giving people money directly to help them be able to participate.

Lambda School is also making the course work available for free.

Lambda School is not being paid by anyone, and no money is changing hands, other than Jessica literally giving money away.
One thing I learned in interview training about unconscious bias.

"No one thinks they're immune to bias, but no one thinks in the moment that they're making a biased decision."
In things like University it probably holds true. But in my company women of any race (including Asian) are considered diverse.
Probably not the same thing that guy was walking about, but this is a cool project going on at University of Washington - it's made for biological science workflows but it's really quite flexible.

https://www.aquarium.bio
Word, you should check out the backing library I wrote too then.

https://github.com/monocasa/exefmt
> In this case, rather than claiming you disagree (which should imply understanding), you can just say you don't know enough about the issue to comment on it.

aidenn0 is making a subtlety different point: this form of rational argument depends on good-faith. If you think that has been violated, you would not say "I don't know enough about the issue to comment on it," but rather "I don't think this person is arguing in good-faith."

I agree with the principle of charity, and your claim that you should understand before disagreeing. But it is also true that you will encounter people who are not arguing in good-faith, in which case it is sometimes a mistake to even engage.
>Understanding of the hype cycle or not, the trouble is that our government is looking less legitimate by the day because it does not recognize and respond to threats such as climate change

The government doesn’t recognize and respond to climate change because the voters don’t recognize and respond to climate change. I would guess on a market cap weighted basis, most corporations are in favor of climate change legislation, there is not overwhelming popular support for it.
I work at a company that provides industrial laser measurement systems using robots. This is a niche where robots are far superior to humans because they're much much more repeatable. Our clients are specifying their manufactured parts with .001" tolerances, and a human with a hard gauge is going to introduce a lot of noise in the QC process.
So you’re in the “avoid using exceptions” camp?

I was trying to figure out if people are happily using unchecked exceptions, or not using them at all.
Reminds me of "Is That A Pita In Your Pocket?": https://imgur.com/sHeyip7
I feel that things like this should just get publicly attached to the viewers profile.

Eg Facebook public profile:

A. Person

- Watched terrorist live stream
- member of white supremacist groups

A. Nother

- member of anti Semitic group
- posted pro-ISIS video

Let them post a response to those notes, and suspend their account for 30 days so their friends, family, and coworkers can see.
This presentation was given with regards to a proposed "Bitwise Bitcoin ETF Trust" that the SEC is considering for approval.

Direct link to ETF research PDF linked from the thread:

https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2019-01/srnysearca2...

Interesting things to see in the hundreds of pages:

page 24: What Do Real Exchanges Look Like?

page 43: Trade Size Histograms For Suspect Exchanges

page 57: Applying All Three Analyses: BitForex

page 111: We Have Reached The Point Of Diminishing Returns For Improvements In Efficiency
Recent (funny) Observation, I hear more non-programmers trash PHP than actual programmers
Thanks for the tips! I'll look into them.
Did anyone yet use Redis streams to store actual logs? Like server logs, application logs, etc.

I understand that Elasticsearch is a common place to put logs, also because I assume that searching through logs is a common use case, but I wonder whether Redis has particular benefits for this use case. The data structure seems particularly tailored to it (but not so much to searching I guess).
Labor organizers share insight and tips on unionizing the game industry
Or talented with an enabler.
Jessica Livingston: Why I Started the Summer Hackers Program
I have applied for women's scholarships but not without feeling guilty. Why do I get a chance at something while as many eager men in need of financial assistance or technical mentorship do not?

I am appreciative of every opportunity I have been given and will continue to take advantage of any opportunity afforded to me, even if it is on the base of my gender. If an investor wants to help a certain group of people, I will value that they are providing opportunities even though I may disagree with the idea of providing opportunities based on immutable characteristics.
Sexism and racism in favor of a group which is usually hurt by sexism or racism. Or equivalently, sexism and racism against a group which usually benefits from sexism and racism.
I do not understand the bitterness on both sides. Yes, people will still find ways to need a car, it just happens like that. Not everyone lives the same life or are in the same geographical location. People still find uses for horses. On the other side, people find ways to not have cars. Just because you need one everyday doesn't mean my single friend Bill who lives downtown NYC needs one too. Everybody has their life, let them live it the way they want to.
I have seen harmless mashup music videos like "Saint pepsi - enjoy yourself" been removed. I think it is because the video featured the McDonalds moon guy character, which has been coopted by the far right.
Instagram is a really big part of this. There are so many places that are commonly photographed, my favorite examples being Antelope Canyon in Arizona and Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto.

When you see that amazing picture, what you don't see is the crowd of 100 people behind the photographer waiting for their turn to get the same picture.

Not only is it a bad experience for tourists, but it makes the locals resentful of what should be a valuable revenue stream.

It's not clear how to fix it. Most people who travel have limited vacation time and are making a logical decision to head for known interesting landmarks. There's no travel guide for how to find that one great off-the-beaten-path spot that you'll remember for the rest of your life while still making it back to your job on Monday.
That is why I am asking the reporter who reported his words. So he can ask the question to the general or to the Congressional reps that grill the general. He posted his email, so I asked him.

Reporters have privileged access to executive branch and interact with Congress all the time. They help filter out the noise and get to substance of matters.

Also, getting the media more involved in technical matters and getting them to ask more detailed questions from HN's discussion would benefit us all as a country (at least for us Americans and our allies).
I suspect that fixing the plumbing will require human-level intelligence. There’s a lot troubleshooting, strategizing, trial and error, trying to pinpoint problems in somebody else’s (undocumented) design etc. It’s basically like coding.
Recycling Is Garbage (H/T Cafe Hayek)
I spent the Christmas holiday solo split between Zurich/Dublin/Amsterdam a few years ago and i can not agree more. A lot of shops were closed, i knew nobody, and felt very isolated as a result. I spent a lot of time on the phone with friends back home. The open air Christmas markets in Zurich were wonderful, though!
Excellent point! Now let's hope the governments follow the example and provide a similar blockchain for their fiat currency.

That's what we need to do business here on earth, not volatile currencies lead by shady entities.
As someone who has never been super-impressed with the Zoom experience, I'm impressed.

Also, what is their moat exactly?
Why wouldn't this work like personal computers? You use them at work or encounter them in school. When they're prevalent in those places, people begin bringing them home.
I'm sorry to hear about your struggle. These things can be difficult and not every tool works for everyone. Keeping one's mind in balance and on track can be a lot of work. I don't know who James Fadiman is and I can't speak to the science involved, but from what I've seen in the experiences of people around me who have had mental health struggles, a mild form of mania can be a really useful state of mind for getting lots of work done. Mania becomes a problem when people get so wrapped up in the storm of thoughts that they can no longer communicate effectively with the people around them, but as long as people stay grounded and keep some empathy open, being in a state of mind where you feel full of energy and connected to the big picture really helps in motivating yourself toward productive action. Nothing lasts forever, people need space and time to rest and recharge, but nudging yourself a bit in that direction isn't necessarily harmful if you have some work to do.
Makes a lot of sense to me. It will also leave more components for building new cars.
Another 451 anti-EU block. ^sigh^

Here's the wayback link for us poor Europeans:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190322191045/https://www.sandi...
You’re just afraid of the truth
>Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To add another anecdote to the pile I love Seinfeld, Curb your Enthusiasm, and Alway Sunny but loathe Friends. I think the correlation is weak.
I think one general issue is that Google has an AI center in China, and I'm sure there is 0 doubt from the intelligence community that the information Google's employees there have access to, etc is being infiltrated by Chinese spies. Not to mention just general projects Google is involved in within China itself, and its willingness to pay a price for entry (which is Chinese custom for foreign companies.) So, Google is being a bit of a "useful idiot" in their aiding of the Chinese government, and I believe prior quotes from the Pentagon are saying their aid is "indirect."

People can say it's "not the same" because it's just an AI center, instead of a direct military application. But...that's not really how AI is applied, the AI from the AI center within China can be used for military purposes. And given that it is a black box that the US is not directly involved in (unlike China,) the general premise of Google's aiding of China seems pretty apparent.
The sunset comes for US hegemony for the same reason that China will not succeed long term, or even medium term, for that matter: Decision making that is oppositional to what technocracy would demand. I think that it's fine to take culture into decision making most of the time, but when your process turns a full 180 from what observation suggests is the proper course of action, you will run into long term issues socially, economically, and militarily, and both of these nations are going to run head long into those.

What I fear is the damage that they will cause in the run up to these failures.
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Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? They include: Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

(This is nowhere near the worst guideline violation in this thread, but it's such a precise one.)
Yep, there is a divide between the old people in power who know economics, markets and regulation but have no idea how "technology" works, and the young voters who understand the technology, but without an understanding of how the economics work.
is there a chronic shortage of developers interested in systems programming? I believe most programmers prefer to do systems programming instead of business apps.
As with most any subject of study, there is a wide range of personalities involved.
Do you believe that "conspiracies" do not exist? That's an untenable position to take. Yet you say that all "conspiracists" fall under the categories of "derivative, repetitive, delusional, stupid".
You may think Flat Earth is stupid. You may be right. Would a person ever say something she doesn't believe in?
You can ridicule Flat Earth and Anti-vax and any other ideas you find unscientific or in other ways displeasing, but grouping together as laughable dimwits the entire spectrum of individuals who seek to dissect hidden agenda and false narrative is fallacious.
If you haven't happened across it, I encourage you to take a look at "stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI)". You can find academic papers and official government statements on it, if you were at all inclined.
You're the one calling it an overcorrection. To me it is a weight scaling correction
There are a lot of his videos on YouTube.
No. How about a string that returns a Unicode character length?

That's not 'ignoring complexity' and it's pragmatic.

That would help in English as it's really hard today just to deal emojis.
Yes, precisely. The problem is what to do with all the currently built up energy. We know that a big one is coming, we don't know when. Before we can implement the program for slow steady release of energy, we will have to suffer through one big one.

Fukushima is in a better place today in that it's past the big one, and could try to release energy slowly.

Regardless, it'll never happen in the USA, given the anti-science political climate. Remember when they were about to launch the CERN LHC and everyone freaked out about "they're going to create black holes and kill us all!?" Now imagine California soccer moms and their Facebook groups spreading misinformation about "they're triggering earthquakes and will kill us all (and also vaccines cause autism!)" …
I’m impressed by their financials.

$330m total revenues and $7m profit.

Rarely do we hear these days about a tech company IPO who’s profitable.
I'm glad you apparently got off the street. I'm not talking about dismantling the current shelter system.

I'm leery of answers that entrench the problem. A lot of people want to "help the homeless," which is a very different goal than reducing the incidence of homelessness overall in the US. Focusing exclusively on "helping the homeless" has a tendency to entrench and even grow the problem by ignoring the need to solve other issues.

It tends to create a situation where the only way you can help is to wind up on the street and there is no help available before the problem is that severe. Lesser problems don't count or get any assistance.

I'm personally focused on those other issues.

I don't deny that we will always need some emergency services, such as shelters and soup kitchens. I just am very leery of cries for more shelters and more soup kitchens and more port-a-potties as the only approach to the issue, thereby not bothering to address some of the root causes.

I'm not trying to argue with you and I'm not trying to "win" some argument here. I'm trying to communicate my position clearly. I'm trying to let you know that my position isn't a threat to people getting the help they need once they are in crisis.

You can have soup kitchens and homeless shelters and also affordable healthcare and affordable (missing middle) housing. It doesn't have to be one or the other.

I just would like to see enough resources put into solutions like universal healthcare such that the homeless problem actually begins to shrink without anyone being "rescued."

I'm trying to step away from this discussion.

Have a great day.
Except the earth includes minerals we probably don’t want to drink like asbestos, arsenic, radioactive isotopes, etc. The concentrations are going to vary wildly. Basically I’m sure deep well water and water from the surface will be exposed to vastly different things. I know, as a lifelong desert dweller who's almost exclusively lived off well water, that well water quality needs to be monitored and treated. My alma mater’s town had to stop using one well when arsenic tolerances were decreased, for instance.
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Can you mention names of some such places there? Sounds like a good combo of factors for a vacation.
Thank you for sharing. We need more information like this to be made public before engineers make more informed decisions about where to work and companies feel some pressure to value engineers as much as they do managers.
This, I feel, is a disingenuous summary of the concerns with explicitly discriminatory policies voiced in the comments here. The issue is not that people don't want to make coding more accessible. The issue most serm to be taking is that many places are pursuing diversity by deliberately making it less accessible for undesireable demographics. See my company's policies for one example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19464944

I don't take any issue with boot camps that are exclusive to women, but I can definitely see how people are worried that it reinforces the general atttide that "white/Asian men in tech = bad, women & URM in tech = good"

Barriers aren't just being lowered. The're also being erected for some types of people.