skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't explicitly choosing based on their race also making the same assumptions? That there aren't enough minority candidates, and thus they need to explicitly force more of them in? After all, why would there be any bias if selections were completely merit based (that is, blind to race and sex) unless the pools being drawn from were themselves biased? The best way to get around biases in the hiring process obviously being to avoid informing hiring managers about the identities of candidates, instead of emphasizing it even more.

My assumption was that not enough qualified minority candidates exist, obviously there are qualified minority candidates, just not enough, thus why they aren't as equally represented in the field in question.
As user interpenetrate wrote, two-thirds of the world's population have the bacteria, and most don't get ulcers or other symptoms.

A more complete telling of the story may be that researchers ingested a volume of the bacteria that was more than their immune system could easily contain, and got ulcers.

Given that stress is well known to be a cause of immune system impairment, this could still be an upstream cause of the bacterial outbreak that then leads to ulcer formation.
One website.
Well good luck with your broken path, we tried them all in Europe. Don't forget we have literally two thousand years of experience.
Reading articles online in social media has evolved into social and collaborative effort where most people don't have to read the article itself.

HOWTO for (de facto) collaborative and delegated reading in the social media:

1/ You can upvote and comment articles based on the title without reading the article itself. If the subject is interesting, you agree with the title or you want to know more, upvote. When the article gains enough popularity and attention, the collaborative reading happens in three batches of comments.

2/ First batch of comments is from people who didn't read the article but want to say something or steer the discussion. They either use the title as writing cue to write what they think, or try to guess the article content and comment on it.

3/ Second batch is comments to the first batch from those who skimmed the article and correct the misconceptions the first batch of commenters had and provide information from the article.

4/ Third batch of comments comes from those who read the article or are subject experts or both. They correct the first and second batch comments and even correct errors in the original article. Sometimes the third batch never happens and the quality of the community reading suffers.
I wonder if it's not just the logos but the layout/design of the home page. Maybe the logos look better in isolation (as on the twitter feed), then all together with their edges jammed together? Maybe they'd look better on the home page with some separation/margin between them?

I dunno, you should probably get more feedback than two random people on the internet!
>Violence is a result of fea

Violence is a means to enforce ones will on another. It is only one of such means. It is the mean by which the entire legal system falls back on. It is the mean by which Americans won their independence. It is the mean by which bad people do evil things.

>This is the famous quote of Mao Zedong (毛泽东). "Power flows from the barrel of gun"

And it is the truth, especially if we see take this to be an analogy for strength (before guns, it was swords, before swords it was sticks, before sticks it was fists, these days it might not be guns at the national level, and one day it may be something else entirely).

>It's not a sacred thing, there are many places in this world way more safe and peaceful without the second amendment.

Generally with the backing (perhaps unwillingly) of the nation that has the second amendment, and even those places still use guns to enforce their will on those who do not play along. The smarter areas use it as a last resort and not the first response, but they still use it.
There's quite a lot to be said about the cultural significance of that particular mushroom.

Consider these folks: https://ambrosiasociety.org/

Who believe (among many other surprising things) that the legend of Santa Claus involves reindeer for this reason and point out that he wears red and white because so does that mushroom.

The bits of their ebook that I've read are less kooky than their website would make it seem.

There's also a video showing how to remove the neurotoxic component so that the other psychoactive component can be enjoyed. No urine or reindeer necessary.
`a` and `b` would explicitly be cast to any, which is forbidding in strict mode, which is TypeScript's default and recommended mode.
Which you can only use compile time - not dynamically. That said I recall the sqlalchemy orm reject fields that it did not recognize. A decent IDE (pycharm) will hilight these for you on the Django orm. Having now used both the Django orm and SQLAlchemy extensively I prefer SQLAlchemy a lot. The Django ORM is usable, but many of its behaviours are odd and I agree that writing more complex queries gets ugly fast, unlike with SQLA where you can write some really hairy sql in a composable manner that makes it just so much more legible.
Every technology created at Facebook is meant for internal use. The wider community then goes through the pain of making it usable. Microsoft's mission on the other hand is pleasing developers hence VS Code and TS.
Machine learning: go full stack or go home
I love Regexcrossword. For anybody just learning regex, to to regexcrosswords as soon as you’ve completed your first tutorial!

After that, keep regex101.com handy for testing and checking your regexes.
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China has far too much to lose to back down on this one. One could argue the HK protests threaten the survival of the Chinese Communist Party.

Far better for them to lose HK and be condemned globally than lose the all of China.
EBS Snapshots don't just protect you in case of a failure to recover to something, they actually reduce the chance of failure[1]. Assuming that the S3 storage has no data loss[2], you lower the data loss possibility for your EBS volume to only those bits that have been changed since the last snapshot.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13576363/does-taking-a-s...

[2]: Yes it's a big if but S3 for durability against data loss is like the US Treasury for risk free returns on T-Bills.
Mozilla is not a democracy.

You donate towards their mission and you are probably not informed enough about the back-stage politics of their foundation.

I like Pocket because it provides features I don’t find in other browsers. I would happily pay for it especially knowing that this is the money that may also be used for the development of the browser engine.

It’s like donating to Wikipedia, but only donating toward articles about Biology. The issue is that you are donating towards infrastructure, not the actual articles written by someone.
Saudi women's rights activist – Loujain al-Hathloul
The most pragmatic reason to use TypeScript is for gradual typing of existing codebases, and that all JavaScript is valid TypeScript. You can introduce TypeScript over time and if it doesn't work out for your group, you can delete the TypeScript-specific annotations and go back to Babel. Or you can keep TypeScript to only specific parts of your application/library.

The most pragmatic reason not to use TypeScript is because it is static-only. And that is easy to forget. That is, within any arbitrary function X you have no guarantee the parameters passed to X are the type specified in TypeScript. There isn't a ton you can do about this except for to code very defensively where it matters.

I've used TypeScript for a number of projects professionally, introducing it among developers familiar and unfamiliar with static typing. I'm not really interested in going back or finding alternatives for now. It is a huge help in development and refactoring without a huge cost.
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Accidental commits/pushes do happen, too. Keys, connection strings, even just mildly embarrassing comments that might show your penchant for Taylor Swift lyrics. Impossible to remove those completely, as far as I understand it, from existing repositories, but new clones it is possible, and it's a damn sight preferable to a commit with message "oops, didn't mean to share this" which _duplicates_ the accident.
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why the bloody fuck don‘t we get a new, clean thunderbolt bus — as it was invented by apple/intel — and leave the usb folks play their mindless games?

jesus.
When I ditched my 5Dmk3/fast-zoom setup for weight/size reasons, Fuji was high on my list for the replacement system. But in the end I went Micro 4/3rds. I think Fuji made a misstep by choosing a 3:2 ratio for the X sensor. X lenses are still pretty big and heavy in order to project that big imaging circle over that elongated ~24x~16mm APS-C sensor. I think they'd have been better server by something like 20x16mm sensors.

But I gotta say, the Fuji X bodies are beautiful, both in handling and aesthetics. I played with a friend's X-T3. I don't think I've ever enjoyed using a camera more. My Panasonics are fantastic from compactness/features/quality/lightweight standpoints, but Panasonic ergonomics and handling is pretty, uh, "workmanlike".
Ok, I did not read the specifications yet and just refered to the other comment. But your quote gives no indication of (prototyp or classical) inheritance?
I’m not following....

In the US, employers pay part of some taxes, with the employees themselves responsible for the rest. Self-employed folks pick up both halves, so the government gets a similar amount of money either way.

Does this not happen in the UK? Otherwise, it seems like it would be fairly easy to audit Uber (etc) “contractors” and to collect that money.
In the 80's the Chinese navy was using warships to smuggle insanely profitable sedans, coastal cities have secret private workshops which was punishable by the law until 2009, students marched in Beijing to protest againt crony speculatiors including sons of party high officials, city population is 20% of the country, farmers need application and strickly controlled permits to work in cities. Even in the early 2000s farmers aka "blind migrants" were still being rounded up in Shenzhen and arrested.

So I don't really know if you are fk superior.
Oh god, this reminds me of ... what was it? 2004? with CGI and streaming HTML with multipart?

Glad to see that what was a horrible hack back then is now at least a proper standard. Thanks!
More details on the Google GDPR workaround are included on this page [1]

[1] https://brave.com/google-gdpr-workaround/
depending on the cost, i could dump all cheap cables and replace them with high quality ones that can handle everything.

that one cable to bind them all.
That's interesting. My old phone was the OnePlus 3 (I used it up until a few days ago) and it had a Snapdragon 820 running Lineage OS Pie. I can't say I really noticed webpages lagging too bad but I use Firefox with uBlock Origin so that could be it.
Two levels of things here: Google/Doubleclick and the GDPR and then this particular "push page" issue.

- GDPR instructs that an organization maintain control of people's data. "Control" in the legal sense of it where you know who is getting the data, what their data handling practices are, how it's going to be used, etc.

- Real Time Ad bidding is the process where you land on a site and then that site has a JS snippet which passes your information (it can be more than this, but lets just say your IP address) to an Ad Auction where advertisers bid on showing you an ad. They do geolocation, company lookups, check retargeting cookies, etc. and then whoever offers the most money to show you an ad gets their banner on the page you are looking at.

- Google's Doubleclick is one of the largest Real Time Bidding setups.

Side Note: a frequent comment I see on HN is that "IPs are not personally identifiable" which is true in the abstract, but they are identifiable enough that advertisers are willing to spend significant amounts of money on ad bids.

You may immediately see the problem here: it's impossible for you (the person browsing) to give meaningful consent to share your information with all these companies participating in the ad auction because the site you just browsed to has zero flipping idea who they are and in any case there is a constantly churning audience of literally tens of thousands of companies participating in these auctions.

All of that is the context then for this newest development: push pages.

Google/Doubleclick is attempting a bunch of different approaches to deal with the fact that the GDPR shatters the current privacy destroying setup of anytime you land on a site with their JS include that your information is sent to several thousand companies unknown to you.

They're trying to implement psuedo anonymous identifiers [1] they're trying pull back on cross site matching, etc. all of which hurts their bottom line. So what this "push pages" looks like is an attempt at a technical workaround to some of the legislative hurdles raised by the GDPR. By moving the JS+Cookie setting to the Google domain they're able to say (in some context) that it's a 1st party cookie and not a tracker and able to do more sophisticated matching.

Side Note: another frequent comment I see on HN about the GDPR is that "It's too vague, why doesn't it just say what I can and can't technically implement" and this is exactly why: if the law is laid out in technical terms instead of intentions and actions it's easy to find loopholes (aka moving some aspect of tracking from a site to Google's page).

1 - https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en
I don't see the issue - you're asking it to support a feature of one database on another, something it never claims to do. You need to use the same database for testing that you use in production.
The problem is that this labelling does nothing but infer potential profitability.

1. Notice how the author mentions the term "tech industry"? However, when most people talk about "tech companies" they refer to it as an industry. It's not.

2. People get lost in the semantics and just think companies are a binary "tech co" or "not a tech co". I disagree. Tech is actually an operating model which can help propel a company into high gross margins. When we analyze businesses we usually put them on a spectrum of "IT Support Business" -> "Tech Enabled Business" -> "Tech Lead Business" (with the latter synonymous with that people call a "tech company").

3. A "Tech company" and a "software company" is nothing more than an investors way to imply underlying business fundamentals, which usually translate into high gross margins. It can often be used to cloud judgement about the actual underlying fundamentals.
That's great, but I have two kids and I don't get how people just up and leave their job to do things that earn little to no money? Thanks for keeping the dream alive, but for the most part I just don't know what else to do to make money.

In 2017 I tried to 'retire' from SW Dev and basically what I found out is that pretty much all the other jobs I qualify for are $15/hr nothing burger bs that don't pay the bills. Without going back to school and spending a fortune on retraining, there's no way out of this shit for me. I'd be willing to re-train for something else, but I'm 46, I already have an MS and a PhD, and even with re-training I'd be in some $25/hr job doing workaday crap in a worse field with less vacation and worse benefits. Same shit, different day, so I guess I'll stay a little longer and suck up the horrible people and horrible politics. My kids aren't going to be developers, no fucking way.

I can fully understand why seemingly rational, successful people go nuts, pop off, and end up hurting innocent people. Not that I would do that, mind you, but I certainly do understand why. This country just drives people insane.
I would recommend the Fuji X100's for this reason. They are very good cameras, yet compact enough to fit in your pocket or in a backpack with ease.
This article makes me feel a little better about my life decisions. I started programming at age 12, but as my major I chose mechanical engineering because at the time, there was a lot of talk about the US software industry crashing and it all going to India.

I'm not going to try to portray mechanical engineering as all roses - the pay is a bit lower, and the chances of becoming a break-out rock start are much lower (think of the capital investment needed to build your own business). But the work weeks are a true 40 hours for at least 90% of weeks in most places, the work is much more varied (office, shop, lab, travel), and mechanical engineers with grey hair don't seem to have problems finding a job.
You said: “violence can never be a solution.” Your studies do not prove that. They prove that non-violent resistance is usually more effective than violent resistance. That doesn’t mean that, in any given situation, the non-violent solution will be superior. For example, it’s possible (even likely), that people only resort to violence where things have gotten so bad that political approaches have failed. Such situations are of course less likely to result in change than situations where people felt non-violence can work. That doesn’t mean that in that specific situation non-violence would have been more effective. (C-sections have a higher mortality rate than natural birth. That’s because C-sections are disproportionately used in more dire circumstances. But in the same given emergency situation, the C-section could well be more effective than going forward with natural birth.)
FISA courts issue warrants, which are court orders. All US courts have the power of the writ which means they can issue further orders to effectuate an order or ruling. So a court can order a company to assist the government in the execution of a warrant. This is pretty long-settled law.

The fact that some government agent applies for the warrant does not alter the fact that the warrant, once granted, is an order nor does it remove the power of the writ for further orders to effectuate the warrant.
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How do you propose you firewall your database access and only allow certain IP addresses when you need access from lambda when the lambda is always run from a random location on AWS’s network?

A lambda is never run “from within your VPC”, it’s attached via an ENI (or at least it was).
wow, our ad targeting is vastly different. Mine is mostly nerd related shit.
Societal trial and error.
Some sites need NoScript disabled to work. Even using the "temporarily trust everything" option doesn't work. Since it's easier to just paste the URL into chrome than disable a plug-in and remember to re-enable it later, I do that.
Fair enough, I think the semantics of metaphors (especially in technology) is a challenge.

Your point makes sense when the full functionality of the phone is taken into account. I was viewing the argument as phone camera vs dedicated camera.

There's a whole other rabbit hole when you get into the discussion of whether the camera or the lens is the primary driver of good photography.
Not everyone has nefarious plans. Some people want to simplify the process for both parties. You have valid points, but there's no need to be so aggressive.
Yes so we agree that H. pylori is the cause.
Well I think the title means to say point and shoot (built In lens) cameras falling sharply. Interchangeable camera sales are on the rise, which of course makes perfect sense.
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It looks amazing what you have done is a short period of time. Congratulations!!
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Aren’t enzymes proteins that aren’t absorbed? Maybe they’ll break down thiamine in the digestive tract, but they shouldn’t really break down the body’s internal stores, right?
But in most restaurants, the chef will chose which item to put on the menu, no ? They may repeat themselves every day but they get to change the menu from time to time.
Not that, but him still being considered a national hero despite his having a different political philosophy.
Good point, along with the blocking on many corporate networks. Fixed!
Does a manager deserve to be condemned if he lowballs a man, because he thinks he can get away with it?
I’ve seen at least 3 variations of the problem you mention, where power failover caused protracted downtime requiring rush delivery of niche replacement hardware. (That last is big: I’ve seen 8-figure enterprise hardware spends down for a week because it requires flying someone in to fix it, whereas AWS/Google has 24x7 staffing along with redundancy).

Anyone thinking this doesn’t happen with private data centers is either very green or selectively excusing problems.
My wife is a part-time pro photographer in her 40's. She's looking to go mirrorless because, on long shoots, the weight of traditional cameras takes a toll on her neck and shoulders.
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He is apparently on tour again this year, is anyone going?

http://davidhasselhoffonline.com
Amanita Muscaria can be consumed safely (with no tripping) by parboiling for 10 minutes and discarding the water. Repeat this process at least twice. It's got a lovely nutty flavour.
Because they can threaten the people in charge of holding them accountable:

> To be clear, the decision of whether to indict a corporation, defer prosecution, or decline altogether is not one that I, or anyone in the Criminal Division, take lightly. We are frequently on the receiving end of presentations from defense counsel, CEOs, and economists who argue that the collateral consequences of an indictment would be devastating for their client.

> In my conference room, over the years, I have heard sober predictions that a company or bank might fail if we indict, that innocent employees could lose their jobs, that entire industries may be affected, and even that global markets will feel the effects. Sometimes – though, let me stress, not always – these presentations are compelling.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/assistant-attorney-genera...
For comparison the yellow vest represented not even a percent of the population during the biggest event, and barely a few thousands most of the time in a country of almost 70 millions. They didn’t represent the majority at all and while Macron approval rating may seem low at just above 30% it’s still the highest rated party leader left or right wing. It’s a long going protest of a vocal minority (which doesn’t say anything about them being right or wrong, but the government cannot completely change its stance because a small minority blocks the streets and ask for it.

At their highest the HK protest had like half the population in the street.