skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The irony of this thinking is that if you do the whole "teams must be gender balanced" routine early on where you are getting the 5-1 or worse ratio of men to women applying for a software position you can often be the one passing over way more talent than the company with the toxic white-male dominated culture lacking diversity. If men and women are equally good at the job (and in programming there is no reason to think otherwise) and you have 1,000 men and 200 women applying and there is a uniform distribution of talent there are going to be 200 men and 40 women in the top quintile, and if you are hiring 200 overall that means you are passing over 100 top tier men for 40 second and 20 third tier women. And by trying to discriminate to correct discrimination you leave the ~66 men you would have on average hired instead if you went purely based off choosing the "best" candidates for the job in the same position as minorities historically rejected from work due to the inverse bias - they get declined from the position because of facets of their being they have no control over, not on their own merit for the job.

Avoiding bias in hiring can never be as hamfisted as "hire equal numbers of X always" without causing a ton of harm in the process. Especially when you start trying to always hire an equal number of men and women, every ethnicity, every religion, every spoken language, every sexual orientation, every country of origin, etc. There has to be a balance between being inhospitable to diversity and using discrimination to force arbitrary amounts of diversity.
Or how about they hit you with the reality that most of success is luck? https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-rol...

> In general [in the simulation], mediocre-but-lucky people were much more successful than more-talented-but-unlucky individuals. The most successful agents tended to be those who were only slightly above average in talent but with a lot of luck in their lives.

But hey, even if you are literally Superman, we all love Superman because he goes around boasting how great he is and how much everyone else sucks, right?
The funny thing is: If you are used to coporate speech, then immediately after you read the headline "A letter from Larry and Sergey" you know that there is a resignation coming up.
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Carl Sagan wrote in his book The Demon-Haunted World about a kind of intellectual laziness.

"instead of judging people on their individual merits and deficits, we concentrate on one or two bits of information about them, and then place them in a small number of previously constructed pigeonholes. This saves the trouble of thinking, at the price in many cases of committing a profound injustice. It also shields the stereotyper from contact with the enormous variety of people, the multiplicity of ways of being human"

He talked about the issue of stereotyping in science and the harm this caused his field, but it can really be seen as an insight in why people so easy start to do it once the culture makes it acceptable. It is easier. It does save the trouble of thinking. Looking at people as individuals is hard, takes energy and is prone to come back and bite you. Much easier to just reduce people to single bits of information and follow what ever the cultural accepted stereotyping (ie discrimination) that the environment allow.
There actually are no triggering images. I guess they want trypophobics to be able to read it.
Sounds about right, I have pihole setup which utilize opendns+google.
Threads are fine, but I would love if they defaulted to post to channel.
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I doubt the FAA got involved with IP addresses and BGP. They do care about airgapping , heat, grounding, electrical, antenna radomes and hull integrity, etc.
If he just said 'pedo guy' once, maybe plausible. Except then he started tweeting more, saying that he'd bet on it being true. Then even used the fact that he hadn't been sued yet as implicit proof that it was true. I mean, if Elon thinks that(and tbh it's not 100% ridiculous to suspect), fine, go your own path. But trying to backpedal it into something it's not later seems somehow more despicable.
Pivoting into entreprise from what? Microsoft always targeted entreprise first.
Well, what they did is install a "CEO" for the main business, so they weren't operationally involved in that part of the business anymore and focused on different side businesses. Now the crown prince takes over everything operationally and the founders move to the board ... No idea if that was the primary plan, but certainly one of the options considered back then.
I think a lot of "bets" are going to be canned after this. A lot of them were just toys for Larry & Sergey.
I thought he HATED Bill Gates too.
"TCL 49D100 49-Inch 1080p LED TV (2017 Model)"

It's an "ok" TV. The picture is pretty decent, but not great. The sound is fine. The refresh rate is usually ok, but isn't suitable for fast paced games.
It doesn't really matter if the SSD as a whole still works, because after 1000 years you'll never recover the data via the normal interface. Modern MLC flash is often specified for less than 1 year data retention, and even SLC is unlikely to make it to 1000 years. Attempting to read it will only make things worse ("read disturb"). The best hope of saving the data is with some future nanotech that directly probes each floating gate transistor and counts the electrons, and reverse engineering all the error correction and wear leveling.
It's definitely a real thing. I don't have it badly, but when I learned about tryptophobia it was satisfying to know why lotus seed pods had always made me feel somewhat uncomfortable.

(Google that only if you're reasonably confident you're not a tryptophobe. :) )
Not from reinvent, but similar bill latency problem ...

Many government agencies have to go through 3rd parties ("lowest qualified bidder", which AWS often doesn't bid on) to pay our bill... And the contractors themselves use 3rd parties to figure out how much to bill us... so things like AWS bill alerts are not possible (imagine the whole billing section being permission denied while using the root account user). In addition, 3rd parties do not always provide great tools to set up bill alerts.

We have 40+ AWS account and can't track our spend without 10 button clicks per account which can't be done in parallel due to the apps browser caching locking us to working with one account at a time or it corrupts the cache. The process takes a minute per account, if the website doesn't crash trying to process our records (which are >3 million line item records for some accounts)

All that said: we basically were screwed at monitoring our bill.

In the fun that is semi-server less, we had a container running in ECS and logged directly into cloud watch. It went into an infinite loop late one month. It didn't really take our bill out of the expected ballpark when it was processed by the third party and delivered to us 20 days after the bill cycle closed

Next month however, by the time we got the bill, it had run for the ENTIRE month in an infinite loop, and already 75% of the next month. It pushed 50,000GB of an infinite loop log data at 50 cents per GB ingested the first month (plus storage costs). (That's about $30,000 for month 1)

AWS did not provide assistance because it was paid for on credits, but it basically ate all or remaining credits after the second month bill came in.

After that, we got the contractor to simply give us a copy of the "detailed billing reports" daily and built a process to make our own bill monitors (which at that stage had markups from the contractor). We eventually got somewhat of a better monitoring system through the third party app as well, but we were not aware that was possible because it was not accessible without the contractor setting it up for us (hidden menu options to combine accounts)
Options don't exist in a vacuum. I had the option of signing up to the military, but my upbringing, preferences, and economic/social status made it almost certain I wouldn't. I had free will to make the choice but the outcome was almost foregone.

I think women in tech is a very similar situation. The article states that women graduate from bootcamps at a rate twice that of traditional CS courses. I'd say this is because there's less friction to join, so anything pushing them away is more easily overcome.
Are there details for what exactly was leaked? I don't mean to imply that you're wrong if you can't produce a list, and I agree that leaking another person's meeting information to the public is a plausibly fireable offense. I just can't find confirmation that that's what happened in this case, and the clearest details I can find seem to talk about 'leaks' and 'calendar access' as separate incidents.

Bloomberg article for example: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-12/one-googl...

"A Google spokeswoman said the company is investigating the employees who were placed on leave. One of them had searched for and shared confidential documents outside the scope of their job, while the other tracked the individual calendars of staff working in the community platforms, human resources, and communications teams, she said. The tracking had made the staff in those departments feel unsafe, the spokeswoman said."
Pretty few would take the risk, I bet. It's an interesting problem- we have "trigger warnings" and "content warnings" but not "content all-clears."
Unikernel or rump kernel would be better for that purpose
Nope. That would force them to pay taxes there, and that's the very last thing they would do.
But what demographics were used to target 50% females?
Most of the NUCs I'm familiar with are Intel mobile chips. I would like to hold out and see what 7nm APUs AMD comes up with.
looks like you rounded those a bit.

contextualized a bit: GOOG did 19.4% annualized during Sundar's term, and the S&P500 did 14.3% annualized over the same time. ish.
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Pumped for the day when Roko's basilisk comes this close to taking over the world's financial system, but is thwarted by crappy airplane wifi.

RB's up there excited, all ready to press the big red button after departing JFK in Air Force One, but can't because it forgot to download the mandatory app before take-off.

Foiled again!
They have parity because a woman who applies is 2.5x more likely to be admitted compared to man who applies [0]. I think this is probably reasonable, since more there are likely more qualified applicants than spots, so all of the admitted students will be qualified either way.

However, I think it should still be mentioned as one of the key reasons why they have parity, rather than claiming it's simply due to changing the culture and courses, especially if we're asking other institutions to learn from them.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/03/1...
This might be saying the same thing in a slightly different way. But does it also mean that if we plot "service times" on the X axis and frequency on the Y, then in the first quadrant we get something high on the left, getting lower as it goes right, and asymptotically approaching zero as it goes to infinity on the right?
> The third party cost tracking tools (CloudHealth/Metricly/CloudAbility/Cloudyn) are just a wrapper around what you can get out of the CUR. Their value-add is reporting and advisement, and giving recommendations on right sizing and reserved instances and savings plans. Though if your cloud team is sufficiently savvy they can do this themselves.

I work for one of the vendors you mentioned; and while you're not wrong - the data sources are all from the vendors - there's a fair bit of work that goes into actually making sense of it to the point you can give it to people actually causing the spend. Also there's work that goes into optimisation, so that we can bear the cost of your second point.

Your last point is dead on though. For anyone doing cloud at any scale, tagging is non-optional if you want to do any kind of optimisation, chargeback or the like.
The article points that specific entry points into the field are more biased than others. If you stop gatekeeping on these biased entry points, you will end up with a much more diverse workforce that correctly represents this "correct rate" rather than the biases of the industry.
> Facebook is hemmoraging users.

Source?

Last I checked, they were serving 2.37 BILLION M.A.U.s.

...That's literally like 30% of the world population. If you exclude babies and under 5, the number is probably more like 40 to 45% of world population.

> Facebook now serves 2.37 billion monthly active users, an increase of 55 million on the previous quarter.

Source: Q1 2019 Earnings Report https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2019/Q1...
It's not an AWS system or service at all though...

This is like saying that using React will lead you to be locked into Facebook?
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You can answer and the original post is shown below your answer. You can do the same with Slack by sharing the post, but other solutions make it way simpler, basically just one click.
> Google is starting to feel like the paperclip optimiser. I'm sure the way its products work is currently optimal for whatever metrics they set, but it's certainly not optimal for me as a user

This makes me think of Goodhart's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law)

> "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."[
Sundar sent an email encouraging employees to take part in this demonstration [1].

[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/30/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-sup...
He also led Android which is one of the few diversification attempts of Google that turned out to be successful.
What does?

Australia BTW.
Pretty neat, but unfortunately I cannot see a lot of business cases for this. I haven't worked with a ton of models, but especially if you are not dealing with pretty much solved problems like classification, the results won't be great.

First of all, which models are going to be used? How many combinations of hyperparameters are going to be tried? The combinatorial explosion is certain.

And then if you don't know how to prepare the right dataset everything is in vain.

Not really a critique to AWS, but to AutoML in general.

EDIT: After a deeper read it seems it's regressions on textual data only.
> an editor that works for all Slack users

That's a common pitfall many companies, including Google, seem to be falling into. Everyone uses tools a bit differently. Imagine that each feature is an axis in the space of all the ways to use the tool. Every person will be a different point somewhere in that space. If you try to enforce only one way to use the feature, you carve a slice in the useful space of your tool. And the more features you have, the smaller is the space defined by the intersection of all those "works for all" features, and the fewer users it actually helps !

The "one tool that works for everyone" simply does not exist. Thankfully they realized that this time, but it's more often not the case.
Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for. This gives me a sense as to where I stand relative to understanding this paper.
What's the formula for making more money by knowing queueing theory?

(Not the application to retail management, which is straightforward, but the application to getting a better job.)
daddy issues?
We do this, too, but I really dislike the thread UX.

Threads should behave like nested channels. Today, that works okay if you click on the "5 replies" link under a message, though it opens up a cramped sidebar instead of taking you to something that feels "nested".

But when there are multiple threads, the only way to juggle them is that "Threads" entry in the man sidebar. It leads to a weird page that doesn't behave like a regular channel. For one, new messages don't come in automatically; it just shows "1 unread reply" or whatever which has to be clicked. Secondly, if you have multiple threads active at once, the view crams all of them into a single scrollable pane.

Threads should, in my opinion, show up as separate entries in the sidebar. And Slack should support having multiple windows open for separate threads and channels, which would make it easier to have multiple conversations going on at the same time.
Don't get my hopes up.
That's where it is today, but the end goal is removing that restriction. It probably would have happened quicker if Spectre/Meltdown hadn't come out of nowhere. Like it used to be that KVM required CAP_SYS_ADMIN as well, but now that's been opened up to whoever has permissions to the device file. Start requiring "own the box anyway" privileges while the feature bakes, but open it up as it becomes more mature and attackers have a go at it.

It's sort of like how originally you could only jump forward, then the opened it up to any DAG, then they allowed probably bounded loops.

And there's been OSes that don't require root for their in kernel virtual machines, XOK and AEGIS being the prominent examples.
The most impressive thing is he did it in a friendly manner! Sometimes I'm pretty bad at correcting people without sounding like an asshole.
They've been spotted at sporting events together so I suspect the hatred doesn't extend beyond fierce business rivals.
Why is 50% the useful number? Why not 25 or 40 or 60 or 75%? Any number needs a justification, 25% or 75% alike, so why 50%?
We have 80% females in the marketing department and it is actually much larger than the IT department. Should we have 50%? Why? Actually we have a pipeline problem there too, not so many males interested in marketing. Is that a problem that needs to be solved?
note that Metaflow comes with a built-in DAG scheduler, so it is perfectly usable without a centralized scheduler like Meson.

Integrations to Airflow or StepFunctions are on the roadmap, depending on what seems to resonate with people outside Netflix.
I don't donate to any 'traditional' charities but I do buy clothes, books, etc., in their shops. I don't discriminate among the different charities I just prefer my money to go to pretty much any charitable cause than to increasing the profits of big chain stores like Tesco, Walmart, etc.

I have donated to Mozilla and Thunderbird simply because both provide products that I use and I want them to keep up the good work.
Your mistake is showing a channel list. Hide unread channels; it's the only way to use Slack IMO.
The generalization to 2D is relatively straight-forward.

My own interest in the subject has mostly been 1D signals which might also serve to explain my affection for that thesis... but it really is much easier to understand first in 1D.
I don't donate to any of them. I don't believe in charity.
Endorsement by browser makers is not enough, because browsers are far from the only software that uses the internet. We would need to rewrite every single one of these software to successfully make the transition. In an ideal world where legacy software don't exist and people would rewrite their software to adjust to new standards overnight, yes it might work but that's just not the way things are. Worse, things would break badly when we have different software using conflicting naming systems. I'm pretty sure nobody would want to spend time debugging that kind of mess.

Now, even if browser support is all we need (it's not), how can we possibly explain this to users? Many, many links, bookmarks, and URLs would break along the way, causing confusion and harm.
Capitalism is consensus. Even Europe, which experimented with soft forms of socialism in the 1960s-1980s, has settled back to various forms of capitalist welfare system with free markets, low business taxes, and reduced regulation. Tatcher, Reagan, Merkel, Clinton, Blair, Harper, Howard, Johnson-these people weren’t passing fads. They represent the consensus view of the most prosperous and successful societies in the planet.

I find it very difficult to care what privileged people from capitalist countries have to say about the problems of capitalism. There is a blueprint to prosperity. It involves free markets, property rights, individual freedom, respect for investors, the rule of law, and an abiding skepticism of radicalism or social upheaval. Countries like Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, etc., have followed that blueprint to prosperity within the lifetime of people who are around today. Countries like Bangladesh, where my family hails from, are seeing massive development by moving (imperfectly) in that direction. People like “Owen Jones” May be well intentioned, but in their nativity are a threat to the potential for a free and prosperous world.

We’re all on a boat. There are reasonable debates to be had about which way we should steer the boat or how fast to go. But the people espousing socialism (not like Macron welfare capitalist, but as contradistinguished from capitalism) are trying to poke holes in the boat.
This all being said, I'm a generally happy AWS admin... What happened really can't be blamed squarely on anyone... AWS can't show us a bill since they don't bill us.. the 3rd party probably could have helped with the bill alerts before the incident, but they did help after... Also couldn't really expect AWS to provide more credits to cover lost credits they already provided to help us get off the ground. Overall we really wouldn't be able to do what we do with any on prem solution.
sure there could, but that's utterly unrelated in practical terms to what i think we're discussing, which is ways in which eBPF could impact full-scale audio software rather than limited inline DSP.
Worth at least noting that this article is about distributed teams more broadly and not remote work specifically. You can be on a distributed team and not work remotely. You can even be on a distributed team and all share the same building. The advice in this article applies to all sufficiently large teams.
I was never a fan of their pseudo-markdown (it’s so close, but the minor deviations are annoying), but it’s a great to have it back instead of that other train-wreck of an editor. At least you can now edit text without regularly wanting scream in frustration.
People are dying. People did notice-- though not of quite as many as thousands. Action is not being taken to do anything about it, various states are considering passing laws to force google to take action as a result.