skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the point of criticizing the criticism of "it's a pipeline problem" is that, wherever you try to improve the pipeline, you cannot expect to make things better than they are at the input of your pipe segment. Working near the end of the pipe, you'll quickly hit diminishing returns. If the input at your segment is biased 4:1, then you can't improve past it. Sure, if your output is 8:1 then it's bad, but you won't get it better than 4:1. You definitely won't achieve parity, despite what the people screaming "it's not a pipeline problem" the loudest would want from you. For further improvement, you have to work on earlier segments of the pipe.

EDIT:

And another point: moving through the pipeline takes time. So e.g. if you're working on university recruiting and trying to fix the input bias at the high school->university interface, you can't expect to see improvement at the output (university->job) earlier than in 3 to 5 years. But the "it's not a pipeline problem" activists rarely have that kind of patience.

EDIT2:

"you cannot expect to make things better than they are at the input of your pipe segment", unless you're willing to start doing corrective discrimination - i.e. throwing overrepresented people out from the pipeline.
Smart TVs have been seen connecting to any open network automatically, like a neighbors.
Your cultural beliefs and intuitions ARE personal issues and biases. They are challenging to overcome. Racist people don't get to being racist by reading a blog post or two; they develop and internalize it over time like any cultural trait. Same goes for these anxieties people of color feel.

It's ignorant to not realize that all of these things are mental. Duh, therapy helps. Trust me, every single person of color who works in tech and sees a therapist talks through all this stuff with their practitioner.
I don't understand why people deliberately hire people of certain group. Be it women, or black, or whatever. Why? Why can't you just hire the right person for the job?

To me, this is just as bad as actively discriminating against certain groups of people.

Why must everyone be absolutely and uniformly represented? It just doesn't make sense, that's not how reality works. It will never be so, and all you end up doing is crunching the numbers to "make it work on paper".

Are women or black or whatever group we discuss equally represented across all jobs across the whole universe, everywhere?

It's a ridiculous concept, I don't understand who came up with it.
yep - and some of us are working on that
I would think the opposite. More males are in trade schools programming than females. Females make up a higher percentage number of college students compared to males.
>As for bias in interviewing, I think it's really hard for non-POC to understand the more subtle parts of what sucks about interviewing. Even tho I grew up in the states and have been around white people my entire life...there is something about the way most caucasian Americans telegraph (or don't) feelings and communicate during a technical interview that put me totally on edge. I get anxious with the 'Zuck' white guy personality type and somehow these feelings of being poor, being bilingual, going to a shit public school, etc bubble up in my head while I'm trying to rotate a binary tree. The two times I interviewed onsite at Google I couldn't escape the feeling. It felt like the 'whitest' place ever and that everyone I spoke to was Linus Torvalds or James Damore or someone like that. The fact they didn't seem coached to be friendly added dramatically to that effect.

You've described me perfectly. Except that I'm an anxious, pale-skinned, Jewish guy from rural Oregon who was bullied throughout high school for being, I dunno, skinny, pale, and awkward. This has resulted in a lot of self-worth issues, social anxiety, and major depression, which I struggle with to this day, nearly 15 years after high school. I have been interviewing for high-level companies for the past year and...have not secured a single offer, probably because I suck at interviewing, but who the hell knows?

Anyway, I get what you're saying about the "Zuck" personality type, and that's refreshing for you to mention. I, too, am pretty intimidated by some of the people you describe. I am sorry that they make you feel that way. They probably don't intend to. Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that there are a LOT of "non-POC" people, AKA Zuckerberg-looking folks, who are incredibly anxious and just want you to smile at them and try to get to know them as a _human being_. I don't want to be grouped together with all the people in this country that have light skin. It's not fair to me.

I suspect that some of the "non-POC" people (why don't you just say white people?) COULD wrongfully see you as an intended "diversity hire", and need to "prove your worth" accordingly, which is racist and wrong. But the problem is that the narrative you're putting forth is encouraging companies to take measures to make the workplace more diverse. If you follow this idea down the rabbit hole, I think it will hurt people that look like me, who have no acceptable "race card" to play. And that's OK. But down the road, it's going to lead to more racial friction. I don't want to be put into a racial box based on my phenotypes. What if there was a form of affirmative action that led to more anxious and depressed people getting better jobs? For a few minutes it sounds awesome, but it's probably the wrong way to go about things, because I think it would lead to animosity between neurotypical people and, to use a woke term, the "neurodiverse".
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Can't you do that with an Amazon Wish List?
Hey Justin, you have some great experience! Take a look at layer9.ai venture-backed stealth-mode startup working in the Data Privacy space, operating at the intersection of Microservices Infrastructure and Machine Learning. Would you be keen to chat more?
Are you supporting or refuting my thesis? Assuming the latter, just because photons as particles don’t “interact” (by which I presume you mean they are bosons) doesn’t mean you can’t get interesting multi particle quantum results with photons. See for example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong–Ou–Mandel_effect
The home office of course - but working safely has been an ever-present pressure at every company I've ever worked at.
Hi – thanks for the feedback. I’m Marc (disclaimer, I work at Cliqz). The goal of the collaboration was to jointly build a better, more private search engine. Don’t forget that every major browser today sends every keystroke of the Omnibar to either Google or Bing. No privacy mechanism in place (and don’t even get me started on all the tracker madness). We wanted to jointly replace that. Cliqz is building a new search from ground up with privacy by design. In the end the collaboration didn’t work out (for many reasons, lack of privacy was not one of them though). Firefox changed back to Google as search provider. Coming back to your point: There are many services that can’t be built without data. Search is one of them, without data you will have a very bad search engine, impossible to compete. We explain this in detail here: https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-02/is-data-collection-evil.htm... . We took maximum scrutiny, and this article about Human Web is exactly there to explain how we collect data that is needed, without the side effect of collecting personal data. We are so transparent about this, because we want the scrutiny. Our business does not depend on collecting personal data or actually any data. But our product needs a lot of data. Denying anyone to collect data – even if they are as open, transparent, and without any interest in personal information – just means you support those that are the incumbents and have no interest in privacy.
It just means you are not a Psycho:

https://vinepair.com/booze-news/if-you-are-a-fan-of-ipa-scie...
You're going to find any stupid choices in a wide enough pool. That's not representative: I know boot camp grads at FAANGs.

At smaller companies -- like mine -- it's not that we won't hire out of boot camps. We do, and have. But we're very conscious of search and training costs. Search costs can be somewhat fixed with money by using internal recruiters; training costs are horrific. Bootcamp grads are nearly useless in a professional environment without enormous amounts of senior / staff eng time.
I too hate the term LatinX but it's become the preferred term around so many I know that I'd rather just conform than argue about it. Just cause I used it doesn't mean I endorse it.
Even an inlined function only has value if our goal is to open the door to implementation changes in the future. But because the current implementation is zero-cost (an inlined no-op), any behavioral change will necessary compromise performance.

Otherwise (if we want to retain the zero-cost guarantee of converting to a C string), directly accessing the member variable is: functionally equivalent, simpler, more concise, more readable, more explicit.
> You can only verify.

What are you talking about? Verify what?
Please. Nobody is unsafe at their cushy office job because somebody looked at their calendar. Those words are cheapened every time they are wielded as political weapons.
Yay! Thank you!
I don't think it's reasonable to expect anyone to match the demographics of the entire US unless they have a uniform presence across the entire US, such as one might find with Wal-Mart. It's a big country, and the people tend to aggregate into clumps.

Alphabet keeps about 1/4 of its people in Mountain View. In terms of the demographics of San Francisco metropolitan area, those diversity report numbers likely only slightly overrepresent whites and Asians. Statistically, it is unlikely that Alphabet/Google has a racial bias in hiring, but it certainly has a geographical bias for California.

I might bet a dollar--other than my bottom one--that the offices outside of California all feel like a small town in Silicon Valley.
That does seem to be the key point, but it directly contradicts the catchy headline "there really is a pipeline problem." This reads like the author is complaining that there's no way to improve hiring diversity without....significantly changing the hiring process. Well, yeah?
Sorry to hear about your bad experience, StavrosK.

I think this perspective really depends how you're trying to use IPFS. For example, the ease of use of running a local IPFS node has improved a ton with IPFS-desktop & companion, and tools like ipfs-cohost (https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-cohost) also improve usability and tooling for shared community hosting. I think this has actually seen a ton of progress and end consumer usability has improved significantly in the past year (and is now even coming out-of-the-box in browsers like Brave and Opera!)

I definitely hear that running a beefy IPFS node for local hosting/pinning still needs work, but pinning services like Infura, Temporal, and Pinata have helped abstract some of those challenges from individual applications like this. From a developer perspective, there are a lot of performance improvements for adding, data transfer, and content resolution coming down the line very soon (https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/6776), and there's also been a lot of work improving the ipfs gateways and docs to support the dev community better. I definitely think there is still lots of room for improvement - but also lots of progress to recognize in making IPFS usable to exactly these sorts of applications. Check out qri,io - they're doing collaborative dataset hosting like this and it's pretty slick!
Datastax was undeniably a beneficial force behind earlier cassandra, and I initially thought the Apache board pseudo-ejecting them from the project governance was foolish, but I do think they were starting to mess with cassandra a bit too much.

They can probably support their product line atop this just fine. They really make their money on integrating cassandra and a bunch of other big data frameworks in one neat little package.
Actually the problem in this kind of conversations is often the lack of the "standard litany" initially:

https://jdebp.eu/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html

if - from the start - either:

1) sshd was mentioned as tried (detailing exactly how it was tested) but not working

OR

2) sshd was not mentioned among the (several) attempts made

it would become perfectly acceptable to not reply mentioning ssh in case #1 or "Did you try sshd? in case #2.

What commonly happens in real life is that sshd was actually used, in a wrong way, and not mentioned, so when you - after having thought a bit on the problem - propose the "Did you try sshd?" you are perceived as either "obvious" or "condescending" anyway and you get a reply like "Sure I tried it, it didn't work!", without any detail on how exactly it was used, so you also exclude it as a valid possible solution even if (used correctly) it would work.
"craft" malting is becoming a thing now too with smaller producers showing up: https://www.rootshootmalting.com/home and https://coloradomaltingcompany.com/
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Gesture control

video chat (many models had Skype a while back, as far as I remember that was shut down though)
I like this idea, but what makes it different from a phone call? I avoid video chat whenever I can. I don't want to see myself in the screen. When I can just speak to an interviewer on the phone, I do better.
I make most of my rent drawing comics and getting via Patreon and I’ve never had any use for their app. YMMV.
I recently became a mullvad customer and used wireguard for the first time. Maybe this is a windows thing, but it's so, so much faster than what I was used to from openVPN, ike, etc.
So the idea is I feed all of the content for my website to Kendra (hosted in cloud) and whenever a user performs a search on my website, Kendra will return results to me via a REST(?) call and I can display sorted results back to the user, right? Is the index going to live locally within my ecosystem for faster retrieval of results and Kendra can do updates to the index via some push mechanism? To be honest instead of bootstrapping a solution with Lucene/SOLR-esque, this might be not be bad idea to ride your search on the shoulders of Amazon AI search giant.
I worked on the relaunch of Cloud9 --> AWS Cloud9 and there was an extensive naming process shortly before the launch of the service, both for AWS Cloud9 and for the term "environments" (which was previously workspaces).

I can tell you that there were lots of managers, PMs, directors, etc involved and they considered tons of naming options. They took into account third party services/products, first party services/products, and other things that might have overlap. This was likely the situation here and they accepted this as a drawback.

That said, you're free to disagree and that doesn't mean it was the right choice, just wanted to point out that this was not an oversight.
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What kind of technology they might be using for this ?
Mullvad is 5€, slightly more
Were your spikes all p999 impacts from GC?

I'm hoping rocksandra will solve a lot of that.
> We have agreed to disagree on whether this is outright hypocrisy.

At the very least the game company doesn't have the power of the state to force their shitty loot box gambling on people where CBP et al do. That is CBP /will/ use the tools Company X develops on anyone and the video game you can not buy. They may be ruining a game you want to play but no one is forced to play the Gashapon MTX Slot machine games.
> at my workplace we try very hard to hire women programmers and we are at about 10% - 15% which is still quite low but better than other companies around us.

Are you actually counting how many of you are woman and conclude based on that, that you are better off than other companies?

It's not low, or high, or medium. It just is. As long as you are not rejecting perfectly capable women/females (just because they are so), you are not doing anything wrong and you are not worse off.
I think it’s something you can develop as a team. One of the best teams I’ve ever worked on took blameless post-mortems very seriously. If a decision you made lead to an incident, then you had to attend a PM, explain what you did, and why you did it. Most people got pretty stressed about their first PM, but would pretty soon come to realise that they were actually quite positive experiences. The team knew that failure was something that was completely unavoidable. You can continuously improve the resilience of your systems, but you will still have failures every so often. As such it’s not ‘your fault’ when you cause a failure, it’s just something that happens, and the only thing we can do about it is learn from it. People would figure out pretty quickly that everybody on the team wanted everybody else on the team to succeed, and that that’s what motivated all critical discussion. This team had succeeded in building a trust that everybody had everybody else’s best interests in mind, and because of that criticism was given openly and without creating conflict or feelings of judgement.

That said, I’ve also learned a lot from giving misguided criticism on PRs. I’d point out something I thought was wrong and the author would come back to me and point out some misunderstanding I had. This sort of work environment is one that naturally maximises personal development, and eliminates a lot of the anxiety people have about making mistakes at work. It takes a lot of continuous effort, but imo developing that sort of culture is far more valuable in the long run than developing social conventions around sugar coating criticism.
That's not at all what I said. I related a very personal set of anxieties (largely irrational) that I feel as a minority.

Plenty of white people are uncomfortable around minorities. Do they all love that feeling? I'm confident most feel intense guilt about it and never act on those impulses in any way. Just having a 'racist' feeling doesn't make someone racist.
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> Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.

Indeed, what an intellectual tragedy..

> In August 2010, Google put out a blog post announcing that there were 129,864,880 books in the world. The company said they were going to scan them all.

That seems like a surprisingly "small" number.

Well, in trying to picture a physical library with 130 million books, maybe that's a realistic estimate. But compared to, say, the recently discovered data hoard of more than 2 billion online identities, it's miniscule.

SciHub and LibGen are truly the modern-day Library of Alexandria. The fact that they're being called "Pirate Bays of Science" - and that providing free and open access to all books in the world is illegal - just goes to show that our civilization's priorities are misdirected.
The problem with your stats is that not very long ago, the term "white" essentially referred to a Protestant European. Didn't actually apply to Italians, Greeks, Jews, etc. So if history tells us something is that this will also change.

Also Google's CEO is noticeably anything but white.
1. I refuse to say "smart TV". It is a "sly TV"

2. Sly TVs never get Internet access in my house. I don't plug Ethernet into them, and I don't set configure their wifi. If I must give one access because it needs a firmware update to fix a bug or something, I temporarily set my guest wifi network's password to something random, configure the TV to use that, apply the fix, then reset the guest wifi password back to the old value.

3. I trust literally any other video device in my house more than a sly TV. While we use Apple TVs, there are plenty of excellent alternatives that have reputations for being decent about privacy. Apple hasn't been sued for spying on my TV watching; Vizio has. The FBI hasn't warned me about Apple.

4. All sly TV OSes are junk with terrible apps. Seriously, slap an Apple TV (or Roku or Fire Stick or ...) in the HDMI jack and your viewing experience will be better in every way. I'm not suggesting you make your TV worse, but to make it much, much nicer.

I don't want to come across as paranoid, but sly TVs have a history of one headline after another of reporting your viewing habits, injecting advertising, and otherwise bringing spyware into your living room. This isn't some big new explosive revelation, it's a normal Tuesday in the news. Don't put up with it! There are much better alternatives.
HR is far more of a nepotistic clique as regards as hiring their own for race and gender, and they often wield power over everybody else on those terms.
All of the above is more private than eg google analytics because of the lack of cross domain tracking... I'd consider it a big improvement vis-a-vis google's product suite.
> A certain class of men (sometimes women, but it's almost always men) get interested in something and then desire to make it part of their identity. That in turn means they want to convey that they are more into it than other people. Their passion expresses itself as competition.

Absolutely! I'm seeing the same thing in chocolate, where people chase cocoa %ages, and spicy food, where people brag about how many Scoville Units they can handle.
We do a shared code editor and VoIP. It really helps to not be able to see any facial expressions IMO. I've done like a hundred or so of these interviews.
Considering `less` is at version 551, they still have quite some time left.
Almost every IRC channel I've ever joined had users who logged the chat 24/7. Sure, it wasn't centralized but at no point is there any tacit agreement that public chat channel isn't being logged. I don't really see a difference in this and Discord giving the entire history of the channel the user is joining.
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Yes - I understand the chart. But maybe I'm missing something - you've said the article is lacking substance but haven't really substantiated that yourself? The only statistic pointed out is one you initially mentioned. If you have more data (I saw a neat SA link below), I'd like to take a look myself.

The author in two consecutive paragraphs states that a number of government and private orgs are sounding alarms, and then proceeds to say the danger isn't immediate. He echoes this sentiment throughout.

I think the over-leveraging has to be considered on a case by case basis, as it's hard to make that assertion across the board, especially given how much of a borrowers market its been for years.

The article to me reads as a warning that this is unprecedented so we should probably be careful, but only time will tell.
I personally don't trust dynamodb's mat views/secondary indexes since they never explain how they maintain index coherency behind their black box.

If they do have better tech for that, I also hope they can solve the mat view problems in cassandra 3.x
Given connected home appliances are about the only things with worse update schedules and practices than home routers/wifi, I frankly don't trust any of them... I'd rather use my NVidia Shield TV or a Fire TV device that at least gets regular updates.
But that's not really what it's built for. It's an internal company search. Not a search function as a service for websites (as provided by Algolia).
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I think that was his point - "the fancy name schools will get female-dominated".