skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don’t have IT specialists you don’t have people administering your PCs professionally.

Given that your stated alternative was home users, you seem to have excluded just about the entire world of small businesses with that definition. They might not have dedicated IT staff, but they still need to be able to administer their systems and in many cases a designated person will still be responsible for doing so. They just need to be able to do that as well as fulfilling whatever obligations they have in their primary role. Issues like privacy and security apply just as much in this context as in a large enterprise deployment with a whole department of dedicated staff to run it, but they need simple, transparent mechanisms for setting up the office network, deploying updates to the OS and installed software, etc.
In certain areas, the risk of forgetting to lock the door after returning and having someone unwanted make their way in to the house is higher than the risk of getting locked out after forgetting a key.

There is a larger group of areas where this is perceived to be true, even if it isn't.
If I'm starting out from nothing, I prefer video content.
I use the combo Mac Mini and PC tower at home. The crucial piece of software that makes this work for me is Synergy. It allows you to share a keyboard and mouse across Linux, Mac and Windows (and support cut-n-paste of text across all three). It works like a charm.
Is there any reason to believe it would be happening now if he didn't exist?
My point wasn't about hope, I "hope" to live a life without years of agony. Living through years of chemo on to live a diminished or slightly less-painful life with a looming chance of the cancer re-occurring isn't a life I "hope" to live.
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Euro-centric historic chauvinism never ceases to amaze. It is always worth a chuckle to hear for example how "Rome conquered the known world" and your bon mot here how "Mathematics was nowhere in architecture, engineering or technology before the renaissance." It is truly astounding.
It’s interesting to imagine a hypothetical. Suppose a company chose an ad targeting segment with perfect 50/50 historical probability of a viewer being of either traditional male / female gender identity given they are in the segment.

Now suppose through some weird fluke, the ads are actually only delivered to people of one single gender classification.

Has the company done everything required of them by trying to target an equal mix along this particular characteristic dimension that society attaches a legal criteria to? Or has the company failed to do what is required because they merely tried to target 50/50 but failed to guarantee that it actually happened?

Then flip it around. Suppose a company targets an ad segment that is 100% male because they are actively discriminating against women. But through some fluke of ad delivery they actually show the ad to a 50/50 mix. Are they free of committing a crime because nobody ended up being discriminated against? Or have they committed a crime merely by trying to target a certain subset of the population with a disapproved set of characteristics?

To me it begs a question of whether the company’s legal obligation occurs at the level of defining who to try to target, at the level of who is actually targeted (even if it is executed by a third party), or both?

A further interesting question is that if this applies to one type of resource (jobs) does it also apply to others like plain old goods and services?

Suppose a sporting goods company knows that only 100% males have ever bought their merchandise or expresssed willingness to buy in market research.

Is the company legally obligated to still show ads to women?

If not, what is the underlying criteria that supposedly separates job listings from product listings?

Another interesting question is whether accidental correlation with mix of the targeted audience also results in blame.

What if you target a set of people with behavioral characteristics A, B and C. None of them has any obvious connection to gender, sexual orientation, etc., but it turns out they are heavily correlated and (honestly) nobody knew ahead of time (maybe even the correlation is seasonal and prior data could not have shown it). Does this make the company responsible?
One of the commenters wonders why we can trust a proof assistant more than a
human:

>> if one needs a program to check all the proofs, who’s gonna check that
program? Another program-checking program? And a
program-checking-program-checking program, etc.?

To which Buzzard's reply is that, well, computer scientists have done a
thorough job proving the correctness of proof assistants:

>> To check that Lean has correctly verified a proof, we don’t need to check that
Lean has no bugs, we just need to check that it did its job correctly on that
one occasion, and this is what the typecheckers can do. This is a technical
issue and you’d be better off talking to a computer scientist about this, but
they have thought about this extremely carefully.

Reading this as a computer scientist whose field of study is buiilt on
automated theorm proving and logic programming (not what proof assistants do,
exactly, but close, and some proof assistants even use resolution theorem
proving, I understand) this is placing way too much trust on computer
scientists. Every bit of theory on automated theorem proving that has ever
been published is like maths: theorems are proved by hand, on paper, by
humans. And some proofs can be quite convoluted. There's nothing approaching
the complexity of the mathematical proofs that make Kevin Buzzard worry, but
still, the proofs are not trivial and there is plenty of scope for error.

So I'm afraid that even with computer-aided proofs, we 're still building
castles on sand.

Which is quite shocking if you think about it. We think that, maybe we can't
trust our minds to know anything with any certainty, but we can trust
computers to be flawless in their computations. But how do we know that with
any certainty, if we can't know anything with any certainty?
Stating the name in a snide way to imply ignorance on the part of people criticizing it reflects poorly on you. It's illegal to target some kinds of ads this way, so tough luck.
While true, its a bit of a nitpick and misses the point GP made.
When you're discriminating illegally, it doesn't usually matter whether it's possible for someone to subvert your discrimination.
The targeted ads in question relate to employment, which is governed by standards for what kinds of discrimination are legal and illegal.
There is a difference between trying to sell someone something which can be targeted to inviting people to sell something to you which should not be targeted to only specific population.
I mean, Crystal would be my next go-to. If you have never written Ruby (like me) the appeal isn't the Ruby-like syntax, it's just a reasonable syntax with a very pragmatic type system and niceties (like classes, which are more open to hacking / composition than in other languages). It's like Go++ in my mind.
LOL! Making the Internet readable again!
I would love to see more guides on how to do plain text email newsletters and emails in general. But I guess that ship has sailed a long time ago and HTML will stay in emails.
Couldn't really take much from this article, other than I should read that book, it sounds so interesting
Or did they...

https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/09/afghan-offic...
There was a movie, Good Kill, that came out a few years ago. Its plot dealt with similar topics.
So they earn the same then.
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I don’t doubt that either people could do better elsewhere or that someone makes a million dollars, but it’s disingenuous to claim that “If you publish a major conference paper, 7 figures is pretty easy to attain” when this is not true by most measures. It might happen to some people but “pretty easy” implies most fresh PhDs could do this.
$50 a kilogram makes it almost cheap enough that immigration to the moon would be practical. Certainly if a large enough group wanted to band together and pay for the launching of their own infrastructure and passenger rides, they could do it. Forget "just" the start of a new Space Race. This would be the opening of the space version of the Oregon Trail!
Most startups fail, so it's not surprising many of his initiatives have also failed. Regardless of his career path, at least he's now trying to do something worthwhile with his wealth.
I'm not sure this means much. LA is considered a mega city. All it means is lots of people. It says nothing about density
I don't think the original comment was asking about employment discrimination specifically. I've seen a lot of people get confused on this topic, and end up thinking it's illegal to discriminate by gender on any advertising at all.
The Power of the Dog series by Don Winslow, read by Ray Porter.

Porter is a master narrator, using different voices for the sea of characters in the trilogy that really immerses you in the story. I listened to all the books -- The Power of the Dog, The Cartel, and The Border -- and am worried no other books will match Porter's deft acting.
Not every keybase user has a stellar attestation. When it happened to me I think I had to take some action. I don't remember the exact language. Anyone have that detail?
Has someone calculated at what n I will sort faster than my PC?
Pillsbury rolls come to mind. The tube is under pressure from the leavening agent, and you apply torsion on the tub until the can ruptures along the spiral seam.
Hold on, I'm confused.

This isn't allowing anyone to arbitrarily add any Stellar key to somebody else's profile or anything, is it? (And thus redirect actual money?)

It's just generating a new Stellar profile/key for each Keybase user automatically, and affirming that it belongs to each Keybase user?

Hardly seems like a backdoor, just a mildly annoying/unwanted marketing partnership. Actually not even partnership -- since Stellar is now funding Keybase, just cross-product promotion? [1]

[1] https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-stellar
>why settle for JSON

Because I'm not writing code in a vacuum, and JSON is what everyone else is using. JSON is chosen for simplicity & interoperability.
pretty good as a reference
I've used it for almost 2 decades now. The general rule is:

Don't write tests until you're sure about your design and interface. If you're doing exploratory coding, you write tests later. If you're adding features to something that already exists, you're more likely to write tests first.

The end target is roughly the same: 80-90% test coverage. But you'll waste a lot less time throwing test code away.
I think intelligence isn't involved in riding a bike. Understanding the theory about riding a bike is a different story, and that understanding is a knowledge graph.
Very interesting how affluent people still rent. I noticed the same in LA in a high end building. What is the reason? Having more money to invest in different asset classes instead of the biggest chunk being in real estate?
I have mixed feelings about this. I am absolutely aware this can be a means to intentionally exclude specific groups due to prejudice and can be a polite way to do terrible things. I get that.

But the reality is that the modern world seems to seriously suck at figuring out how to help people find the right kind of job for themselves or help employers find the right people for the job. I keep thinking "Surely, there must be a better way than what we are doing currently."

Maybe if we worked on solving that issue we would see less of this issue. Like if it is a job for writing HTML and you write HTML, there are ways to find you based on that and it won't matter what your gender or age is.
I would be willing to pay up to 10 usd per month to be able to create an account and run my news feed under my domain name.
For what is worth they are optimized out with -Og (if that doesn't count as debug build I don't know what does).
No, I think it's saying that your client only does this at the request of the keybase server to create an initial XLM address for the user, not that it will on-demand add random stellar addresses to the user's profile.

EDIT: See malgorithms's comment; it doesn't even do this much
Agreed. There was a time where the system-level virtualizer was "the hypervisor", but I was still in school then. ;)
Many of your AC devices are actually DC after transformer.
I think what we are seeing is people with different moral values that thought they wouldn't have a problem having a problem, so I'm not sure your suggestion would help (and you may want to consider that before volunteering yourself for something that might affect your mental health).

I can't help but view this as similar to someone offering to work as a nurse "because they don't get sick".
John Krafcik, Waymo CEO Self-Driving Keynote Speech – IAA Auto Show 2019 [video]
are basic languages good though? the amount of go concurrency bugs I've dealt with has been outstanding and quite brutal over the last few years; I feel like many times the same sort of c "i dont make mistakes" programmers are attracted to go and they also don't make mistakes there as well...
Extensive discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21077195
A linked article has examples.

https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-advertising-disc...

Here's one: https://assets.propublica.org/images/articles/20171121-faceb...
For real. I wonder how much innovation really exists because the engineers have read golden age sci-fi 25-40 years ago as kids. Could be also that human aspirations are predictable, but I do believe this link should not be ignored. Musk himself acknowledges it some by naming Space X barges after sentient spaceships from Iain M Banks "Culture" series. Or maybe not Musk himself, but whoever named the barges.
Perhaps a better example than 10x10 chess would be bughouse chess [1]. That's a chess variant played between two teams of two players using two sets and two clocks. It's a common break activity between rounds at amateur chess tournaments. Human chess players of all levels pick it up pretty fast after they play a handful of games.

[1] Detail on bughouse in this comment from an earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20831586
Penn Jilette is the biggest star in juggling that I know of. He seems to make pretty good money in so far as one can infer these things.
Images Composed of as Many Pixels as There Are Animals Still Alive
The other comments about the details rendering are great and an example of how much depth of knowledge you can find on HN (and all this is now well beyond my experience).

What I'd be curious about here, though, is what this says about large scale software engineering. Text rendering has to be one of the most common activities within a large number of computer program sorts and I know pieces of the text rendering process are common examples in texts on object oriented programming, indeed the different of rendering processes seem to suggest objects and interface readily. Yet the standard pipleline the author describes seems leakier than anything I saw twenty years when I dealt with such issues - nothing is solved on the software engineering side, the mess just grows.

Obviously, this is a product of adding new languages and new display models to the text rendering process, as well as standardizing the process so it accommodated different font approaches and etc.

But object orientation as well as related models promised, some time in the past, something akin to "encapsulate the process and adding complexity will be easier". Object oriented programming has lost almost all luster but what alternatives? Could the pipeline be less leaky in functional programming or something similar or something different.

It just makes me curious.
Offering less features was literally their goal in which they succeeded
Have we considered maybe _not_ killing them?
While he was writing poems, America and the EU were building Empires and the wealth divide took off...just saying
this should NOT be publicized. hundreds of people's lives are at risk and there are no workarounds for GA
The language is simple, the implementation is anything but.
> “Where a disparate impact is shown, the plaintiff can prevail without the necessity of showing intentional discrimination unless the defendant employer demonstrates that the practice or policy in question has a demonstrable relationship to the requirements of the job in question.[3] This is the "business necessity" defense.[1]”

I wonder if you could argue that advertising in a particular way is a business necessity because without doing so, the business cannot maintain competitive viability in reaching necessary candidates.

Just for a devil’s advocate example, suppose that travelling to university recruiting fairs to recruit for computer science job listings has a disparate impact against female candidates, because the gender composition of university programs in computer science are heavily skewed towards male applicants.

But university program graduates may be the only qualified type of candidate for the position, so simply not targeting candidates in the male-overrepresented way (i.e. not attending these university job fairs) would be debilitating and hugely damaging for employers who require those qualified candidates to be competitive in the market.
> affirming that it belongs to each Keybase user

Falsely/fraudulently affirming, using a cryptographic signature silently and non-consensually generated, yes. Those keys it claims are mine are not; I have no knowledge of them. The claim is incorrect, unlike each and every other item on my profile page, which I explicitly signed.

This is the same concept of a backdoor as when a messaging app signs a wiretap key without the user's consent or knowledge. The same thing has happened here.

It's one thing to get "their username on GitHub is 'x'" wrong. It's another thing entirely to say "you can send real, actual money to this person at AN ADDRESS THAT BELONGS TO THEM, 'x'", when I have no knowledge of the keys for that payment destination and no desire to receive such payments; it is blatantly fraudulent that their software has used my private keys to sign and publish such a statement.

Would you tolerate an email client that silently changed your checking account or routing number on an outbound email before PGP signing it?
Your points are all very handwavy, but to answer. There are good public schools in my district.

The state is currently building a huge new high school a block from me to cover upcoming demand.

I’ve gotten a bed whenever I’ve needed one in hospital. Perhaps that one is not even everywhere and can tend to be an issue in rural areas, but not where I live specifically.

Public transport here is good. It’s congested, sure, but nowhere near as bad as other cities I’ve lived in. The state is currently building several new transit lines.

In terms of tax, I pay roughly the same overall as my US peers. I do earn a bit less, but that’s because it’s AUD.

I don’t even know what to make of your comment about old people. That sounds completely weird. I certainly don’t know any of my older (70+) friends who do that because there are lots of social programs and activities in my local area.
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I can't imagine the kind of quality control you have to have to have to achieve a useful yield, performing a lithography operation one hundred times on the same piece of silicon.
Edit: My comment took at face value the OP's claim that the Stellar account was generated without their knowledge. Obviously, if that claim is false, as Keybase's official response indicates, then my comment is invalid.

Original comment: It does seem more than a bit questionable that the Stellar account is added automatically to the user's profile among a list where every other account/key/whatever in that list was manually added by the user. (As pointed out by the OP)
Thoes companies in particular expend capital on platforms to purposefully try to get at least more diversity in job applications so if anything it seems counter productive.

(Disclaimer: I work for such a platform)
> Any cop would be in death row for pulling something like this in American Soil.

That’s a dubious claim.
Oh bs, it’s associating a new XLM address with your profile, and giving you free money. They gave everyone $20 USD worth. When PayPal started they gave away $5...
Wow what an incredibly substantive comment. I remember pretty clearly he said that there would be a single seam weld. Maybe I’m remembering wrong. Or maybe they’ll seam weld multiple rolls into a really wide roll and the only weld required to turn the final roll into the shell is that final hotdog weld.
I’m getting the error:

> Too Many Requests: 60 per 1 minute

I visited the site twice...

It looks interesting, but I am curious what are the implications. I.e. how does everyone’s interactions change.

Also seems kinda weird I have to login to be honest...
Most ESPs offer some kind of html -> text rendering. Most suck.

Mandrill's was OK, and so far, so has Postmark.

But nothing beats a hand crafted text template.
Yes, and the very assumption in that statement -- that those clicks/impressions will be low-converting -- is itself discriminatory.

The conversion rate for each demographic is irrelevant in relation to the protected classes. Every person has an equal right to see the adverts and apply or not, according to their decision.

That is what it means to be an Equal Opportunity Employer -- it is the employers' responsibility to bear the costs of giving every person an equal opportunity.

And, frankly, not being an equal-opportunity employer, especially in times of high employment rates, is simply stupid -- you bypass a lot of available talent for no good reason (& no, your biases and assumptions are not good reasons).
Serious question: How is that relevant though?

Here is how I think about it:
If my intention is to discriminate against men and publish an ad in a female magazine, sure, I cant control if a man buys and sees the ad or not. But discrimination was my intention to begin with regardless of how effective my efforts were. Besides, those efforts will be pretty effective. Instead of magazine advertising being 100% effective - as is in the case of FB targeted advertising - they will be just slightly less effective (lets say 90% or w/e number you want to put here). That´s because in the magazine´s case we know for certain that that vast majority of female magazine consumption is done by women - That´s literally what they are made for.

So in a sense, we are arguing about degrees of effectiveness rather than the nature of discrimination. Not only is this a slippery slope, but imo it flips everything in business on its head as having a target audience for your product or a service will be considered discriminatory!
Welcome to war. Bad intel kills good people.

I would be more concerned with the classification of any male over 16 killed in a strike as an automatic combatant than a single given operation gone wrong. This is an unavoidable aspect of war.
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not really, because people are aware of the fact that they're going to find say, women targeted ads in cosmo, so they can seek them out. The 'discrimination' in this case is simply aggregate consumer preference, every individual outlier still gets precisely the content and ads they want.

If facebook displays housing ads only to white people a black person is very likely not even aware that they're being discriminated against in some specific way, the entire control is in the hands of facebook and the ad buyer, and intransparent.

The situation would be equivalent if facebook gave you complete control over their algorithm and let you choose what type of ads you want to be exposed to. Which would make discrimination much less of an issue. Or the other way around, the current facebook situation would be akin to the store owner quickly cutting the housing ads out of cosmo as soon as black people walk into the store.
When did the Taliban sign on to Geneva?
Steel has been used before.