skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had the pleasure to work with Patrick on a couple of occasions and can attest to him being an amazing developer and a great person both in and outside the office.

Most of all he's great at deep diving into complex problems and situations and come out with a good solution.
Well yes, it's total compensation. That's the only number that matters at the end of the day. $150k remote job with no bonus or stock is still less than half of a $400k total comp package.
The Harvard Ruling Misses the Point
Well, the difference being that white males hold institutional power in the United States, whereas that isn't true for Asian males (or females).
So I have a slightly different take. I actually prefer take home tests (that are time bounded to say 3-4 hours at most) as that gives me the ability to think "naturally".

But, I would only do this for companies I am desperate to get into (Ironically FAANGs for 'now' as they are the ones who are least likely to pull a WeWork/Uber/Theranos on me) and if I was pitched this by someone puritanically Id show them a finger. I do take my job search seriously and any hint of a company devaluing my personal time is a huge affront to me (and my family).
Unlike college admissions, the Supreme Court has since 1964 never upheld the idea that race could be an acceptable element of hiring practices.

Hiring =/= college admissions. Just because they both contain 'discrimination' in the complaint doesn't mean they are logically all that linked.
Nearly half of white Harvard students are athletes/children of alumni/donors
Pandora’s Briefcase
Something tells me the machines at the frozen pizza factory have been making more than 300 pizzas an hour for a long time.
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This. Left my job and traveled for almost a year.

Part of me wanted to push updates to Facebook and Instagram to get the dopamine rush from likes. I pushed myself to not post any updates others than calling//emailing my close friends and family and after a couple months I didn't miss it at all. I felt like I was living for myself in the moment without the need to publicize what I was doing.

Coming back, I still have my social media account and go there maybe once a week. I usually come out of it a bit burned out with the feeling that everything is fake. But overall cutting out social medias has been hugely beneficial.

I'm convinced that Social medias are a negative to humanity and overall causes more depression and anxiety than anything else. It must be extremely difficult to be a teenager in high school without the mental strength to resist that fake world of social medias nowadays
This is somewhat useful, but it would be more useful to know what percent of the total college-going population these racial groups make up. And what percent of the 1600-SAT (for lack of a better proxy) population they make up.
A quick google search says that grad students are 6 times more likely to experience depression than the general population, so that is something to keep in mind!

And a survey at Berkeley (your rivals/colleagues across the bay) found nearly half of Ph.D. students showing signs of depression.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Grad-School-Is-Hard-on-Men...
They give you a VM with an image you choose. It may be an image you prepare or one they provide. But no modifications to the file contents since creation.

Drama would come from the same place as "we shouldn't trust rdrand". That's still avoiding the issue of: sometimes can't write that seed in some configurations.
Yeh good idea. B Corps do have a mark via https://bcorporation.net/, and these companies are pretty active at promoting it. Not so much for social enterprises
> And over-population also seems to have largely been solved as well.

Huh? I always thought over-population as the leading cause for global warming.
If I upload the right HTML to github, can I get you to move to Portugal and become a cod fisherman?
Kushner graduated Harvard in 2003. That wasn't a generation ago.
and kitty is better then putty.
It's pretty clear that Harvard's selection process is more about letting in wealthy and legacy students. This population tends to be more successful in life.
I remember seeing several videos from different companies with their own version of a "pizza robot". Just look at this ad for a pizza vending machine from 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyrav_9Pbsc
You don’t get to define what other religions should hold themselves to, even if they did in the past.
And its citizens are the ones who suffer. Those poor souls have been forced to live in an even worse poverty relative to other countries on the continent simply because of the dysfunction and heavy handedness of their government(s)
The Nazis started their power grab in earnest after the arsoning of the Reichstag. Even before that incident, public opinion was actually already firmly against the communists. To this day there are debates on who exactly arsoned the Reichstag, but it was suspiciously convenient for the Nazis so they could blame the communists. Soon after this incident, laws were passed that effectively abolished the constitution and granted the Nazi the power they required to establish their rule.
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My point is that case law vs an explicit statement of law is not the same.

Judges in the future may rule that tech companies can pass strict scrutiny if they are discriminating against Asians in favor of other races, using similar arguments to those in education law.

This area of law is slippery because the text of Federal civil rights law doesn’t allow for discrimination, but case law (and arguably the original intent of the law’s authors) does.

There is currently a large movement in favor of “diversity” programs in hiring and I can see judges upholding them.

Absolutely reading the decision will be informative to everyone though.
That's because Americans fixate on Ashkenazi.
Original report: https://www.france24.com/en/20190926-airbus-hit-by-series-of...

Link to the actual source, please. This is a rehash (abhorrent blog spam) of a proper news report.
Yeah that's a terrible response. Of course it's out-of-scope, just like someone's pro-vegetarian paper should have "considerations of the impact to American cattle farmers" out-of-scope. It's just not what the paper's about, and trying to use that as a rebuttal speaks to the weakness of Harvard's response.
What are the implications of positive/negative answers to these questions, and/or what else aside from "because it's there" motivates answering these questions?
Lots of money to be made selling equipment for those.
Other big differences are identity and profit motive.
axe was my first thought too k:O

a friend also started a similar project to translate goethe's observation that "Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own." but i don't think they ever put it online.
Methane clathrates in the Arctic sea floor.

Methane from decomposing formerly-permafrost in Siberia and Canada.

Methane.
How about Christians, Jews, or... miscellaneous
I think you both have some good points.

Escaping death and disease with technology is a slippery slope. If that technology disappears or is unavailable, it puts a species in potential peril. Selection pressure keeps the fitness of the gene pool resilient, although at a cost to many individuals. This is relevant to all species, human and otherwise.
It's like the bulked-up Cartman of key-value stores.

Edit: Nope, it's a relational DB
Slightly off topic: Going to take a moment to shoutout Sunny Singh and his hate5six project, archiving punk live performances! Awesome project. You can be a techie and still be punk!
Sonos products have existed for years before Google Assistant or Alexa even were a thing.
China has 56 ethnic groups. When you say something bad about China, you're talking about the nation. So if you want to play a card, it's either the nationalism or xenophobia card, but not the race card.
Do other (Silicon Valley) companies do the same?
In early 00s I had a popular videogame forum. One day I made a backup and, bored, I started looking in the image folder. I found pics of a naked girl and in my naivety(I was a minor) I thought we got hacked (we got hacked sometimes because I didn't know anything about programming or web security). So, I searched the database to try and find the origin (which was really painful since, as I've said, I didn't know how to program), and I found out the girl was a user sexting using private messages.

Never said a word about the incident, but added an advice in the rules about images not being crypted.

Good times.
This is what happens when liberal politics gets involved. Its not okay to discriminate the liberals say, but that's all they do.

Liberals have a protected class and this includes african americans, hispanics, women, and homeless people. They get special treatment and many of them get to break the laws everyone else has to follow. Its ridiculous and nothing other than discriminate and special treatment. That's the liberal way and no one can argue against that with a valid argument.
That’s exactly why UBI is the right answer and a “guaranteed jobs” program is 100% the worst answer and terrible!
It is the price that "white" identity demands. It is a subtractive identity, ie it abhors identity complication.

You basically have to strip every complicating element of your true identity safe for the absolutely benign forms (ie "Kiss me, I am Irish" tea shirts).

If you pay attention at least in American you can observe intriguing examples of this tension with white identity playing out. For instance being LGBTQ and white presents a problem for many. In fact there are examples now of white gay men who claim to hate "identity politics", what they really hate is that LGBTQ identity jeopardizes their "white" identity and they recognize this, so it is easy to pretend there are no other "blemishes" to their "white" identity....It is a fascinating phenomenon if you pay close attention :)
Slippery slope arguments preclude judgement.
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Why set a minimum bar at “qualified”? If you try out for an NBA team they won’t say “you are really fucking good at basketball, you’re not as good as these guys but you’re diverse so you’re hired.” You get scarce positions by outcompeting people, not by clearing a bar and then getting selected for your race.
> We really should be having an urgent conversation on how to handle this and what the responsibility of those that own the means of production will be (if any) when this occurs.

The problem with that is the people who would be in a position to make change don't feel the constriction of the immediacy of it and those who do are rarely invited to the table to talk.
I'm sure you could have said the same thing about cars before the production was heavily automated, or even cell phone manufacturers before they went all-out mass production.

i.e. if they can make more per hour, they'll sell more per hour.
> While about 8 percent, or about 530, of Harvard's undergraduates were black, Lani Guinier, a Harvard law professor, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of Harvard's African and African-American studies department, pointed out that the majority of them -- perhaps as many as two-thirds -- were West Indian and African immigrants or their children, or to a lesser extent, children of biracial couples.

> They said that only about a third of the students were from families in which all four grandparents were born in this country, descendants of slaves. Many argue that it was students like these, disadvantaged by the legacy of Jim Crow laws, segregation and decades of racism, poverty and inferior schools, who were intended as principal beneficiaries of affirmative action in university admissions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/us/top-colleges-take-more...
Getting around AWS IAM, or making it into a standard all cloud providers could adopt. As posted on HN a while back: https://forrestbrazeal.com/2019/02/18/cloud-irregular-iam-is... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19742038).
> The mouse is not a "clumsy" input and there are plenty of situations in which the mouse allows more efficient usage than the keyboard like when navigating through 2D space. For example it is clearly more efficient to place your cursor at a certain arbitrary point in the document using the mouse than to navigate there using keyboard commands.

Have you ever used emacs? If not theres a mode called ace-jump, which I'm pretty sure beats every interaction with a mouse to get to a certain point within a document. I'd wager that, if we'd start at the same time, I'd be at that point before you actually touch the mouse with the hand that you just lifted. Honestly, it's worth checking out. There is a lot of things that emacs and vim are brilliant at, they had tens of years to figure things out after all...
I imagine this is for people who frequent McDonalds, Taco Bell, et al.
This is a direct quote from the headline:

"Harvard Admissions Process Does Not Discriminate Against Asian-Americans, Judge Rules"

I'm not sure what "the right reasons" are - my understanding was discrimination was prohibited based on race and ethnicity.
Are you considering remote-working international candidates?
Indeed, Harvard's own internal study determined that if academics were all that mattered, 43% of admitted students would be Asian.

The major factors pushing down that percentage are legacy admissions and the vague "personal rating," which seems to be the knob Harvard admissions turns to get the demographic ratios it desires. Asians are systematically given a far lower "personal rating" than other demographics.

Source: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/harvard-admissio...
Already available on Chocolatey:

cinst putty

FYI, kitty, putty fork has some better options

cinst kitty

https://chocolatey.org/packages/putty
https://chocolatey.org/packages/kitty
Should job seekers be allowed to use prejudice to choose which company to work for?
Sampling bias. The small percentage that put in the effort would be the ones applying for jobs at top US companies.
I don't think complexity is the reason. The abstraction levels also keep growing higher, and that keeps the ability to hack alive and well.

So much money has pushed into IT and 'innovation' that you are seeing Wall Street types in the field. We are now in a "PUNK IS DEAD LONG LIVE HAIR METAL" phase.
What's funny is listening to these teenagers in 1966 is just like listening to old folks today - who are indeed the same people!
> Having a special court isn't "extra-judicial"

One that has no president or case law is. One without the ability to contest (your award) is. The moment that you leave special masters rather than experts before a judge you end up with a very different set of outcomes.

> None of your examples even relate to the FDA approval process which seems robust.

I didn't question the FDA approval process for drugs, or biologics. I just said it is different and you need to approach the situation with a very different mental model. There is good and bad in the process and consumers should be aware of what they are putting into their bodies.

If you want to question the FDA, and on the topic of biologics, then look no further than Chiron corporation. The UK government had to shut down their plant, and the FDA knew what was up. Peoples lives are on the line and a "miscommunication" by the FDA is an unacceptable excuse.

The examples I listed had NOTHING to do with the FDA, and everything to do with the players involved, Doctors and large corporations. History is a good indicator that we have problematic interactions between these groups and science that harms profits or changes long held (and sometimes wrong) beliefs.

> That was a good example of the ideological forces I was talking about though..

I didn't say "big corporations are bad", I didn't say "science was arrogant". Sciences has its problems - reproduction, trusted elders, corporate interests and the ego of humans. I think science is aware of its issues and is the tides are shifting on punishing and replication, money and ego's are harder to solve but the former will do much to address the problem. Again history is a great indicator of how we treat change when money and long held ideology are on the line, it is a place where we should be MORE cautious not less.
How about: who cares? Isn’t this hacker news? Aren’t we all supposed to be hackers who are upending the existing system?

How about we build our own Harvards where anybody who wants to study can come and learn whatever they want? And the network comes from being surrounded by other people who cared enough to learn.

We don’t need these places anymore. We’ll find our own funding and do our own research and screw the system. We’ll build our own system.
A lot of the responses here are talking about ethnicity or Jewish identity, but I think when it comes down to it, Jews are considered white mainly when other white people want to consider them as such.

I would bet that your average Ashkenazi Jew (it is worth noting there are multiple different Jewish ethnic groups) has more genetic commonality with an average person of Ukrainian descent than that Ukrainian person has with someone of Irish descent. So why are the Ukrainian and Irish person both white while the Jewish person isn't?

And also let's point out that there is no distinction for any other group of Middle Eastern people. They instead have to choose between being Asian, African, or European.
https://yokota.blog/2019/09/23/building-a-relational-databas...
I particularly liked this item from the "b2.html" page:

> The call stack grew from lower addresses to higher, making it less likely that a buffer overrun would damage a return address pointer.

I believe that's from Jerome Saltzer's 1974 paper (https://multicians.org/saltzer-pacisim.pdf) but I can't for the life of me find it in there today. I know I've read it in the past.

Two things about that:

1. They knew about buffer overflows, and had them despite writing everything in PL/1 (or whatever). Buffer overflows may be endemic to C programs, but they're not limited to C programs.

2. HP's "HP-PA" RISC architecture had the same stack up/heap down behavior. I found HP's software to be so old that development on HP-UX was a chore, but maybe someone who has done more could address how many buffer overflows became security problems.
This is one of the things about affirmative action that bothers me the most. If it's known that people in X subset of students are held to lower standards, then in a Bayesian sense it hurts the people in X subset who would have got in if held to the same standards.

Harvard is notorious for glade inflation, but at other institutions the same phenomenon can hurt people's ability to complete harder degrees. I remember reading a paper claiming that affirmative action resulted in lower minority graduation rates/higher transfer rates in STEM because it put people in academic environments that they weren't prepared for; they could have likely had more success completing a STEM degree if they had attended an institution where they fit more of a median student academic profile
Imagine the uproar if you had instead said

> Whites should just boycott Harvard. Overall quality of Harvard grads will drop and Harvard will become nothing.
The author is seemingly stuck at the end between the work flexibility the stock payouts. I'm curious as to why the author didn't consider a third approach-- just go do it anyway and see if there really was a way forward to get both.
Yeah, tons of board game discussion (gamers, designers, and publishers) migrated over to Facebook Groups. I don't mind it too much because Facebook will let me know when anyone I'm friends with posts to one of these, which includes local gamer friends and people in the industry.

I actually kind of like it, since I only have to check what they posted and can respond to them, and not have to check and read every single thread in a forum to see who I know has posted.
Yeah, so while creating it, they seed it. If you don't trust that, you install another OS yourself, with a kernel your trust, and seed it yourself when installing, from whatever sources of randomness you want. I fail to see why this wouldn't work.
What is a race exactly for humans?
About 10% at Harvard. Not negating my argument.
What is interesting about this entire issue and the discussion is this. It's what I will call the 'Sophia Loren without a nose is not Sophia Loren' paradox.

If you have a University like Harvard and you have it whereby students are admitted strictly on merit and further if you have more people than can be accommodated by merit then is it still Harvard?

If you have a celebrity that is admitted to Harvard (or any 'top' school) is it possible that that person provides more or a better experience in some way to other students then someone who was raised or related to a less notable person?

Pretend for a second you attend school with the daughter of a US President or the son of the head of a major corporation. Do you think that that would provide in itself benefits to other students than in the environment they were raised in? Indirectly in some way?
> In 1966, it was nuclear winter;

Actually, in 1966 it was just the perspective of being killed by blasts or poisoned by radioactive fallout.

The popularization of the idea of nuclear winter came later, late 70s / early 80s I believe.

Ahh, 1983, here we go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter