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(I'm assuming you're speaking in good faith, though I don't yet understand your reasons for saying everything you did.)

I appreciate your intent in trying to re-balance against prejudice.

I also appreciate you helping out candidates with good advice, when you do it. That's what we should do for all colleagues, before, during, and after interviews, as mutually-supportive people of goodwill. And doing it more in some cases makes sense.

I'm concerned about a pattern of racism you allege, and that sounds like something to investigate. I believe there's ample data that could be looked at. I don't know about your organization, but, some places, it would be politically safe to raise this important concern with your manager or HR. It's not a happy thing to look for, but looking for it, and figuring out how to fix any problems that appear, is the right thing to do (for the organization, and for greater society).

The other side of that concern is that you seem to be singling out another labeled group, and stereotyping over them. That doesn't sound fair to that group, nor to all the individuals within it. I think that good practice for fighting injustice includes striving to improve things everywhere, including root causes -- not thinking only of the injustices with which we are most immediately familiar.

The automatic stellar feedback might be a concern. I'm sure there's room for subjectivity, discretion, and holistic assessments, and maybe your stellar feedback fits within that. When I've given boosts to less-advantaged candidates (for various reasons, including "undiscovered diamonds in the rough"), I've been upfront with my peers and superiors about that. A big part of our job as engineers is to give characterizations and counsel, and, when we have something important to say, we want to be respected and taken seriously.
Maybe you shouldn't be projecting moral judgements on cultural differences.
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Specialization says just the opposite. That everyone should specialize in a combination of what they are good at and there is a demand because it is much more efficient and trade those goods and services that they specialize in for goods and services that they don’t. In the modern era instead of trading directly, we use money as an intermediary.

Economics 101 says just the opposite, that you create inefficiencies when you don’t specialize. Why is car maintenance anything that everyone should know and not plumbing, electrical work or carpentry?
And just hazarding a guess, I suspect women transfer out of the group at the first opportunity.
One person’s “confrontation” is another person’s “collaboration”.

From the other point of view, never interrupting is a fundamentally standoffish way to interact.
This falls apart when you have an interrupter who thinks they know everything, but really doesn't have a clue.

They don't let you explain critical detail about something because 'they got it they got it' and when they inevitably screw up its your fault for not explaining it right.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f05NYU3kmFs

I'm such a fan of these tiny homes!
I would suggest researching how to invest your savings, otherwise it's being eaten away by inflation, and there is no savings account that has enough interest to match that rate currently.

It's harsh to say it, but that statement is a demonstration of your ignorance.
Did not see any genetic engineering of somatic cells using viral vectors. I guess that's just too extreme.
This thing is more common with opiates though, and with mood stabilizers rather than SSRI.
(Especially quietapine, risperidone and haloperidol.)
The side effect is commonly called reduced affect (bit different) or dissociated affect/dissociation or emotional detachment.

It's for some reason rarely mentioned as a side effect.
Your claim that the interviewers wouldn't pass black applicants "under any circumstances" is much stronger than any media report I've ever seen. Were you exaggerating?
I find myself speaking briefly, only because I'm expecting to get interrupted. It happens every time. Some people have said I'm very Zen by how quickly I can get a point across in few words. I tell them "it's the only way." I leave out the part about being constantly interrupted. Being a Zen woman in tech, I figured that went without saying.

If I have something complex, I have to write it out, if only to prove my work/logic. At least text tends to last longer, spread wider, and be more useful than any conversation.
Not for everyone, as thecleaner pointed out. You are assuming your requirements are universal among other users. Also, you are assuming the policies can be simplified to a weighted average of their parts, which is not necessarily the case.
Supposedly QAT is built into the chipsets of Skylake and above now. I've never seen anyone try it, though.
Absolute favourite is Animoog - The interface is just so perfect for a touch screen device. Of course Loopy HD for looping. SampleTank is great for quickly creating beats and loops (and so is Figure for creating a random loop to build on). Bebot is just a heck of a lot of fun.

I use Amplitube for a virtual guitar amp and it works really well with little lag. I've got a bunch of keyboard synth app, of which my faves are: Arturia iSEM, iMS-20 and Magellan.

I know these are mainly old apps which have been around for a while, but I have hardly bought new apps these days because these ones have served me for years.

For a sample of Animoog plus SampleTank - https://soundcloud.com/cyberferret/in-a-bad-moog
From what I recall, the chelsio cards only support a mode of encryption suitable for storage devices, and it's not something you'd use for streaming media.
Sorry - by “unexplored” I meant “not a topic I’ve seen discussed at length with regard to this particular issue”
I posted my problems with it as a response to a sibling comment. Since this was four or five years ago now, maybe all of this has been fixed, but that's not something I'm going to depend on in production any time soon.

Also, the MongoDB users you list must be taken with a grain of salt. For example, you list Facebook on that page. Nope. The description is "...adapted the storage engine API, extending MongoDB into new workloads and new capabilities." That is, Facebook acquired Parse, which used Mongo. Facebook ported MongoDB to run on RocksDB. Facebook shut down Parse. End of MongoDB at Facebook. You list Google, and the mouseover is basically that you can run MongoDB on GCE. I'm not saying that Mongo is unusual in this behavior. It's how most people listing "who uses X" build their lists.
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My guess is that it is a cultural thing. Black/Hispanic parents don't push their kids toward tech careers. Similar to how black/hispanic parents (in America) don't push their kids to learn to swim. The reason their cultures are this way are complex and span generations.

Indian parents, on the other hand, aggressively push their kids into tech. Heck, a lot of my Indian co-workers don't even like programming but their parents basically forced them into it.
Why not use DPDK? All of these problems go away, and people have reported hitting 1Tbps on a single node.
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If you're calling the mitts I linked boxing gloves, then yes. They work just fine for turning the car on/off, steering, shifting, operating the stalk instruments and adjusting all the knob-based controls. I've got Raynaud syndrome (as do a number of my family members), and the alternative to wearing "boxing gloves" in the winter is very uncomfortable.
Ask HN: Ideas for exploring computing with youth 11-13?
Last week, I spent some time with about 10 youth, aged 11-13, just answering questions about being a programmer, and a couple different areas of the software industry.

They've expressed desire in doing a little more to explore programming and computers.

I'm looking for any good ideas on how to spend 60-70 minutes with them giving them a brief/light/fun/positive/enlightening experience wit computing.

I know some kids like to do hour of code or Kahn academy, but I'm looking for an idea that is more group related and doesn't require everyone to have their own computer.

One thing I've toyed with is some simple cryptography stuff where we demonstrate with very simplified public key encryption stuff, do some of the math by hand with secrets they want to share with each other, and maybe a little python on a projector to take it up a notch. But any ideas/experiences are welcome.
The most corrosive part of this that affects the quality of the music is this:

...songs are becoming shorter, and artists are front-loading all the catchy bits to keep a song’s skip rate as low as possible

As music consumers become more single-oriented and running an attention deficit, everthing is getting hook fronted in the first 30 seconds of the song to keep people from skipping. Now, that might be interesting for a while if it makes artists experiment with verse-chorus-verse pop song structure but I'll bet the long term effect will be a race to the bottom in terms of lack of complexity and a lot of pop music is going to sound samey very fast.
There's also the important bit where VRBO attempted to comply with local hoteling regulations and AirBnB just ignored them or even actively encourage hosts to ignore the law.
It's not a meme, at least not in this case. If you can unlearn to identify with the monkey mind it probably means this is something you learned.
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Or interrupters who interrupt not to complete your thought, but to say whatever they don't want to wait their turn to say.
Snapchat is a weird edge case because they've claimed they intentionally made some features difficult to find in the UX to encourage conversation about the app.

Don't know if it actually pays off positively for them, because I also find it confusing. But there's definitely been many moments of "Whoa, You can add a friend that way? You can do this by holding that button down?" etc
> The Valuations Director will be primarily responsible for determining the fair value of investments for quarterly financial reporting and providing valuable and timely insight to management on our investments.
tl;dr Talk to a lawyer. Many startup lawyers will do early structural stuff for free in hopes that you'll continue to use them. You likely need less than $1,000 of legal work regardless. If you can't afford that, you probably can't afford to start a company.

1. There are explicit tax exemptions for this, but you have to file extra forms to take advantage of them. I don't remember the specifics. Talk to a lawyer.

2. If you take investors, this probably won't be possible. Professional VCs are likely going to prevent early cash-outs like this. I think this is less an issue of legality and more one of whether you raise money and how desirable you are. If you're growing explosively, you can get away with a lot more.

> several of these banks do paid trials for $50k or so

I have a lot of direct experience selling to banks. The sales cycle is years, not months. From the time you have start building your product to the time you get your first check is likely to be years. I hope you have a ton of cash. It will take 5x longer than you think.
Every tech company I've ever had anything to do with (which includes IBM) has bent over backwards to hire minority engineers. This ridiculous narrative that the tech world is prejudiced against black people is ridiculous and unproductive. It needs to end. There, I said it.
Well, sort of. They're Linux's interpretation of a superset of VID/PID combinations recognized by the USB-IF. The USB-IF doesn't allow product IDs to be resold, as was (and still is) done by MCS in the $16D0 VID range, or to party on abandoned/unused IDs like C&T's at $420, as something called the "Celly SIM Card Reader" seems to be doing.

Linux is under no obligation to follow the (absurd) policies of USB-IF, so they basically have to maintain their own parallel list.
If my check engine light is on, it shows up right on the panel, I take it to the car mechanic. How much do you have to “know” to see a light?

Most problems with cars (except maybe tread), you get some combination of an indicator light, something smells funny, sounds funny, or your car drives differently. In either case, you either take it to a mechanic or if it can’t be driven, you get it towed.
Thanks for providing insults rather than enlightenment.
If you're struggling and an SSRI is effective for you, I highly doubt this will bother you anymore. You will be too busy living your new life to care.
He's not referring to the net worth of all of those households combined

That's exactly what is written; it's not ambiguous. You can try to argue that he meant something different.

What do you make of the other points he makes?

It's already proven wrong.

In areas with commerce but no parking, the "parking" demand is just externalized upon others, mainly in the form of "double parking" (stopping in traffic lanes).

Those carfree San Franciscans are still using Amazon and Doordash and Ubereats and Chewy and grocers etc. like crazy, creating more vehicle trips (and of larger vehicles) than if they drove and picked up their own purchases in combined trips like to/from work.

It's like Leonardo DiCaprio and Roger Waters flying their private jets across oceans to give speeches about how everyone else releases too much CO2.
I meant: how many sites are already de facto so polluted that they require deep cleanup. May be decades before we find out.
Hard to say. There are so few Black software engineers working or even interviewing at the companies I've worked at that I've never encountered racism against them. Though I've heard insensitive comments about other ethnicities casually thrown around.

Personally, I find a more damning pattern is that in some companies, engineering teams lead by first-gen Chinese/Indian managers have disproportionately large number of Chinese/Indian engineers.

People are just more comfortable working with those they share a cultural bond with, but that's distinct from racism specifically against African Americans.
I think all that matters is if a transit system has exclusive right of way lanes that doesn't interference from the general road network is what would make it fast. If it uses busses, light rail or heavy rail, the difference is only throughput.

For many people although LRT means a train sharing the road, sometimes, which make them as slow as busses, for a lot more money for something that doesn't have the same throughput demands, which I agree when I've tried out sf muni.
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You've never heard of parents that might shout down any misplaced utterance, have you?
Wow, what a trip to see this name at the top of HN. The author was a good friend of mine in high school, and one of my favorite people I've ever known. If you're reading this, Sam, I hope you're doing well.
This doesn't fall apart, as they're providing feedback about exactly how they're misunderstanding you.
So when those people are supposed to express their position? Prepared statement is another way to say that some thinking was put into it vs. just blurting out the first thing that comes into mind. So, the former is rude while the latter is respectful?
I'm sorry for initially claiming that you DMed me a harassing ancient aliens meme in response to my comments regarding the Bloomberg hardware implant story.

I recall it being you, but it must not have been.
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Lucky you, still living in the 90s.

In our timeline, things are not looking that great. There was a big terrorist attack on US soil in 2001 and a series of wars in the middle east. We have computers that fit in your pocket. Scientists discovered something called the Higgs Boson and landed a probe on a comet. Microsoft released a lot of their code as open source. And Linux has achieved almost total supremacy over the server, mobile and supercomputer markets.
I don’t understand what you are getting at. Can you elaborate?
Pro tip: as you speak, after each message (sentence, couple of sentences) make sure your interlocutor understood that part - verbally or not.

It's not the same as using short sentences - personally I don't expect/allow to be interrupted (my friends know me for that).

By ensuring your messages are understood, you also make sure you are having an actual conversation, and not a mutual brain dump (which tends to lead to having a strawman POV of each other's point).
ML model predicts chemical reactions with much higher accuracy than chemists
That one would be more of a pessimisation, I think.
Not really, but the government may freeze all accounts of a person in all banks in the world.
Is there any reason to think women are less likely to be interrupters than men?

I'm thinking of this in the context of my mother, who is let's say a well-established interrupter.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21045550

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i have. "Parity" is an AGPL on steroids and "Prosperity" is trialware. both appear to be intended to force users to seek commercial licenses (and the L0 software facilitates this)

for a user that chooses to go beyond the free terms, neither guarantees any limits on what terms the owner can dictate. my license was intended to address that uncertainty, eg max prices and right of resale.

thanks for taking a look - your comment sparked some thinking, to the effect that my terms might be useful as a fall-back for an AGPL (or Parity) base license which had never occurred to me before
1 So it looks like DoorDash still hasn't done anything about it.

2. "The company isn’t releasing all the details yet, but the key change is that “Dashers’ earnings will increase by the exact amount a customer tips on every order.”"

Why does it take months to strategize this out. If it were as simple as, "we're not doing our previously crappy behavior" it seems like they'd announce it in that presser. The fact that there are "details" leads me to think they're just looking for another weasely way to keep the same behavior.
AudioKit Synth One is fantastic, and it's all open-source too.
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To be more realistic, you'll never find out.

I'd challenge anyone who thinks we know all of them in the USA.

It doesn't even take the corruption that a big employer in a small town automatically creates to have a 'hidden' superfund site.

It only takes the lack of dedicated professionals testing everything all the time. Tracking sources and types of pollution is _not only_ difficult, highly technical work that requires a lot of infrastructure- but it also _requires its own R&D to keep up with new industrial chemicals_. This means it's fiercely expensive, manpower-limited, and that it takes a long, long time.

What country is going to dedicate that amount of resources to find problems that'll cost even more money to clean up (or possibly can't be cleaned up at all)? Maybe Norway. Maybe.
Although there is already pretty unanimous consensus here, one side note is that administrating mysql is always a headache in my experience whereas postgres seems to just work.

Every time I start a new project and I see it's using mysql i sigh a little bit knowing that I'm going to end up spending hours fighting some dumb configuration issue.
I've had my eye on a turing tumble set for a friend's kid in the same boat.

https://www.turingtumble.com/
>There's just not enough scientific truth to go around.

There's plenty of truth, just not enough resources. It's learned behavior, the scrounging and sensationalization, that has developed in response to larger forces driving societal investment away from academia.
Volatile is, well, volatile. You can basically only rely on the fact that the compiler respects source order and keeps all reads and writes (instead of hoisting and reordering).

I believe msvc used to put in memory barriers. Not sure if it still does. These days you are better off ignoring the entire keyword and using the properly specified atomic stuff.
I see this a lot online, but this is not good advice. Savings are meant to provide liquidity in an emergency. If you have $20,000 in a savings account, you can walk to an ATM and withdraw some of that immediately. If you have $20,000 locked up in mutual funds, well... you’d better hope your rainy day has some lead time.

Investing is great. Put $10,000 in something diverse and passive and sit on it. But also keep a savings account for immediate emergencies, and keep some cash on hand for even more immediate emergencies.
Yeah, I went through that process. I realized I am just the result of a biological process, in essence much like bacteria in a petri dish.

There is really no separation between the mind and the body.

We still don't fully understand consciousness, but we know most of our decision are taken unconsciously well before the conscious mind is aware of it. There are a myriad of books about this, but this wikipedia article is a good introduction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will
There are so many mechanics that will do free or low cost inspections for things like that, why wouldn’t I do that before going on a long trip?

Speaking of which, that’s yet another thing we pay for other people to do. If it’s a trip longer than about five hours we are flying or if we are being cheap and it’s not too far (around 6 to 7 hours) and if possible, taking the MegaBus.
They could be there as a guardrail for a worst-case scenario, without them being particularly needed for the average use case.
That seems to fall under "Barkers"
> you don't like the way this is done, i suggest you take it up to your congressmen.

I wish they would listen. Everyone in congress right now supports an unconstrained federal government that does things like freeze your bank account without any reason or due process. Both parties are hellbent on expanding their power at the expense of liberty in the name of safety or security.
I was also there on Thursday and agree. The talks were actually observing that cloud giants do alter the business landscape for open-source, but there are always innovations and possibilities. There were one or two talks on alternative licensing schemes, but the most interesting talks to me were alternative virtuous cycles that are available for supporting open-source while allowing any company to benefit.
Part of it is the difficulty of the spread out suburban living situation. Growing up, most of my parents friends lived around 15-30 mins away by car. If they lived on the opposite side of town, an hour drive or so, we basically never saw them outside of big events like graduations or weddings.

In college, it was easy for me to maintain a lot of close knit relationships. No one was any farther than a 20 minute walk, usually half that, which made drinking pretty painless too. Bars, movies, food was all in between, and cheap.

Now I live in LA for grad school, and getting people in my classes to hang out on the weekends is like pulling teeth. As dense as the city is, it basically functions as one massive suburb from back east. Everyone is at least 20 minutes by car in every direction, there is zero parking, one of the worst bike lane networks in the U.S., and rarely a transit line. There's also the costs of doing literally anything. A night out could be $30 in ubers alone, and it doesn't help that I've yet to find a well drink in LA for under $10 that wasn't watered down. It's a recipe for apathy. At least hiking is free.
Arguably we should just have lower perf fallbacks for the broken nets so there would ve pressure to get them fixed. I think QUIC would have been in a good position to do this.