skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a picture of their staff. It looks reasonably diverse: http://www.ticom-geo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/tgi-grou...

Remember, legal immigrants (from Mexico or anywhere else) tend to be among the strongest opponents of illegal immigration.
There is a difference, Harvard (a private institution) enacted an affirmative action policy and was sued and won.

This is the government FORCING affirmative action and is most likely unconstitutional.
Police begin operational use of live facial recognition technology in London
China Open Sourcing the Wuhan Coronaviruses Genomes
> Especially when they're backed up with the use of government force

Goldman Sachs?
Using always-on speaker phones (or equiv) during critical periods is pretty great.

I'd be keen to try misc variations of your telepresence strategy. From lowest to highest tech.

I'm also now intrigued by a walkie-talkie, CB radio (push to talk) style approach.
>> A good soldier behaves differently. A good one wants to [blah blah]

The article and formulation smells of entitlement as bad cologne across the room.

You don't question your boss, you lowly peasant. Know your place.
Okay :) It sounds like you have sufficient information to make an informed decision.

The only takeaway for me is that a fridge upgrade has to be at least 50 kWh/year more efficient, or it's more likely than not a complete waste of carbon.
Nah, the California law that would fine them unless they do this.
Agreed. I don't think law enforcement concerns are a factor in the decline either (else Ring doorbells wouldn't be flying off the shelves etc.)
I think to be maximally inclusive, Asians get a negative diversity score, right?

/s. This is whack.
There are real benefits, but they’re not direct. Basically some companies and government agencies won’t do business with you if your management is insufficiently diverse.
This DNA testing stuff intrigues me but there’s too much shady stuff going on with the data afterwards for me to want to give it a go. A lot of this “consumer grade” DNA testing may go down in history as a great product foiled by doing shortsighted dumb stuff with people’s data.
Hmm and in English?
Oh sure, I've no doubt there were individuals and some businesses quite badly affected, but look back at the overall growth, national and regional statistics and the periods with strikes or lock-outs are simply undetectable if not highlighted for you. Sales and growth figures weren't noticeably harmed. No doubt if you were new to an area, didn't yet have a local or just weren't a pub goer, you might have had more trouble than most.

The article also notes the steady stream of people going down to the local department store and other larger shops once a week, to cash their wages, or a wages cheque to pay their factory workers. Pubs were accumulating cashed cheques from regulars and some making smaller loans.

The real surprise for me is how smoothly they coped, and how little fall out there seemed to be when banks reopened. Though of course there were some of the millions of cheques doing the rounds that did bounce. I've seen far less about knock on effects after reopening like that, but it's usually described in a way that makes it seem "far less than you would expect".
The insane architecture of Burning Man 2020
When I find something interesting I add it to a daily email digest I send to myself.

Subject line: 1/24/2019 Rk Digest
Body: all the links, plus a description

Not the most efficient, but gets the job done for now. Thinking of a better way to do it, perhaps some sort of digital garden.
To be fair, you can printf debug anywhere (Debug.Trace module). I'm the "print to debug" kind of guy, and I can debug in Haskell just like in Python using this.

I think the issue you have stems from the fact that people can't transfer the knowledge from C/C++/Python/wtv directly. One of the standard way to build programs in Haskell (mtl-style) allows you to perform IO actions almost anywhere, provided you're willing to play with monads. But this is so different from anything most people have ever seen that I understand why it can be frustrating.
Once you go to multidimensional vector spaces, you don't need order. For example, the classic rock-paper-scissors can be modeled with 3 points in 2d.

This has fundamental implications, as many activities do have this cyclical parts (see also such decomposition for vector fields, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_decomposition).

Vide Reinforcement Learning for StarCraft 2: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/AlphaStar-Grandmaster-leve...
Using carbon isotopes to fight the rise in fraudulent whisky
And this will never exist because of money laundering and KYC. Cash is just easier.
In serving big company interests, copyright is in crisis
>>> Thanks to developers’ trust in our core infrastructure and their recommendations, we’re fortunate to have a constant and growing inbound flow of leads and net negative churn, meaning the value of usage-driven upgrades outweighs the loss in revenue from subscription cancellations.

I’m glad they clarified what “net negative churn” means, that really cleared things up.
Everything is being done in pretty strict accordance with the law.

US believes he committed a serious crime and as such it's expected they would seek extradition just like with every other person who does so.
The article contradicts itself. It calls for an end to status games and at the same time holds up the class system as an easy out for determine status because the class takes care of it for you. That is still a status game.

The class system does not substitute individual status relations for an institutional approach, it just ignores them.

I lived and worked in London for 5 years and used to an individualistic perspective I found it very difficult when you spend years sticking your neck out for people and doing the right thing is rewarded with institution incompetence and staff that will let you down you for a broken system and marginal personal gain.

The society becomes so stratified that any reasonable increase or decrease on your hierarchical position means to completely change your social circle and living circumstances.

Hearing a coworker show off by misnaming the area she lived in so she could self correct multiple times demonstrating how close she lived to an area slightly higher up the chain than she really lived is something I could do without.

With individual status and addressing you know where you stand with people. The class hierarchy leads to slavish wonderment in the presence of the higher classes even if they spit in your face or verbally abuse you.

Please sir may I have some more? No oliver, not today.
I agree with you on the "cheap" side: if I could buy a few cheap motor vehicles, I'd use the smallest one for daily commutes and chores, and keep the big one for longer tours.

If motorbikes were cheap, people could even buy two of them and use one between home and the local train station, and the other between the destination train station and work, thus reducing enormously the door-to-door time of the bus-train-bus combination. Imagine how much less traffic would flow on the highways, if people could use mass transit for the long part of the commute and private, fast transit for the first AND last miles...
I thought it would be a story about the elusive nature of the Google Cloud management people.
I'm a huge bike advocate. I also have the luxury of working from home, but when I didn't, I took a combination of bike/train to work.

But- I'm having a kid and I have two huge mutts that I adopted. My wife and I like to go camping and hiking with our dogs. So, that means my wife and I need a car and we need a big one. But we have been essentially a single car family for around 4 or 5 years or so.

I think a more realistic target would be families moving down to a single car lifestyle. It isn't a huge adjustment but - given the amount of single occupant vehicles you'll see on a given day on the highway - it might take a lot of convincing to get people to carpool.
Sure your one proposed hyperbolic alternative is significantly worse than cash. That doesn't mean that there doesn't exist an alternative that is better or not significantly worse than cash.
Or even race, for that matter. What if you have someone who’s 1/1024th diverse like Elizabeth Warren? What if you have someone who’s “transracial”?
How do we know if a board of people are straight or gay? Does everyone have to be out of the closet?
You know what? I'm not going to let people gaslight me into believing that a stereo system needs to be integrated into the "cloud" and rely on some third party service to function.

I have HiFi equipment literally from the 1970's and 1980's that will continue to operate well beyond the lifespan of any cloud-connected web-app-configured third-party-controlled WiFi Sonos type bullshit.

It's not like there have been really ground breaking improves in speaker technology since the 80's anyway. Maybe some material improvements? I'm pretty sure my B&W speakers from the 80's can still hold their own against a decent stereo today...

So what are you paying for? WiFi connectivity? Is that even really any more convenient? How about when it stops working?

God, I'm triggered.
"Taking away screens and reading to our children during the formative years of birth to age 5 boosts brain development. We all know that's true, but now science can convince us with startling images."

We all know that is true? All my alarm bells go off. It all sounds very logical and may be exactly what we expect and want to hear. At the same time I wonder what happens to research that show benefits of digital gadgets to the development of kids.
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I’m at the point now where I’m pretty sure neoliberal-types do this on purpose to push people towards bigotry. No leftist with any coherency to their politics would advocate Goldman Sachs do this (let alone even exist).

Anyway, always worth revisiting the Fields’ sisters book, “Racecraft” about how racial identity is not inherent to people, but imposed as post hoc justification for the socioeconomic order:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/233136/racecraft-by...
What about a photon? If I use light to transmit information have I given it mass?
Harvard was also not an employment case (right?). So a different law. Right now as I understand it California and federal laws conflict.
IMAP takes the same amount of time to set up for me as POP does.

And I have it on my phone, laptop, and desktop without any issues, giving me access to all of my email everywhere. Even when I'm entirely offline.
I'd say that there isn't as big a language barrier in understanding Indian politics. The English language media landscape in the country is thriving and there is a massive, vibrant internet presence.

India's democratic roots also mean that information is far more transparent.
It is hypocrisy to a certain extent. Cash only works because people accept it. It depends upon enough people accepting it, because only then enough of physical cash will circulate in order to make maintaining all the infrastructure (printing it, putting ATMs up, offering cash handling for merchants etc.) cost-effective enough for it to be done.

If suddenly 95% of cash acceptance was dropped, a lot of that infrastructure will vanish, forcing the remaining 5% to drop cash acceptance as well...a death spiral, ultimately ending with the elimination of cash and thus also the elimination of the very fallback that these stores mentioned by the OP relied upon.

Consider the cost of accepting cash an insurance premium against technical failures in the electronic payment networks and your POS systems.
There is your problem right there. These static type gurus live in an alternative universe in ivory towers far removed from where the rest of us simpleton programmers live.

Frankly I think it is an intellectual cargo cult. For all its sophistication these languages have not delivered that much. Look at language like Go, which these guys would laugh their butt off. Yet Go has produced usable software for a lot more people and made a lot more developers happy than Haskell ever could.

Coming years after Haskell Julia seems to be doing a lot more for science than Haskell has ever managed to achieve.
Whatever happened to merit?
Fair enough. The article was amusing though.

The comment was more so to highlight the equivalence of the KKK and a board with only white, straight males, which would suggest the board have a : 'sexual disposition' requirement in the application.

But okay, lets be serious.
Samsung Galaxy Fold review: The future is an ugly disappointment
Both the Foreign Office and the US State Department appeared to accept that she no longer had diplomatic immunity, and she wasn't a registered diplomat anyway -- she was the Intelligence officer's wife. Or at least that's what the Foreign Secretary was claiming at the tail end of last year. The surprise is either of them getting immunity for an airbase intelligence role outside London in the first place. I've seen several reports questioning whether the immunity was valid at all.

But having returned to the USA there is no longer any immunity. A crime is still there to be investigated and prosecuted, an extradition could proceed.

Additionally US-UK extradition agreements both under Thatcher and later under Blair have been notable for their imbalance, but that seems rather academic here.

A balanced discussion of the issues underlying: https://www.diplomacy.edu/blog/sacoolas-affair-diplomatic-im...
As a white-cis-straight-male I think my opinion on the matter carries little weight. However, the downsides seem pretty minor compared to the opportunities it might open up for the members of those groups.

That said, if I was to put myself in the shoes of an entitled white male CEO I suspect it would take me about 5 minutes to realise that installing a puppet female, gay or minority member of the board would cause almost no real change. I might even make them Chief Diversity Officer or something.
In Germany it will take 15 years to build a hospital. True bureaucratic hell on planet.
sounds about right?
If he had been tried in Sweden in 2010, and there were no political machinations, he'd have been out probably by 2013-2015. Sentences in Sweden are short across the board - you can find even convictions for violent rapes in Sweden that results in sentences no longer than that.

But that rests on a lot of assumptions, such as that there wouldn't have been an earlier US indictment if he'd been conveniently accessible.

And of course it rests on the assumption that Sweden would have been as "capable of resisting" extradition. Which is a big question - one of the results of "Cablegate" was that we know that years after the Swedish government found out Swedish police was complicit in blatantly illegal rendition of two political asylum seekers who were afterwards tortured after being handed over to the government they were fleeing, the US was chastised secretly by the Swedish government after Swedish military intelligence caught Swedes assisting illegal rendition flights via Sweden. Nobody were ever tried for either incident. So it's not clear whether or not Sweden is even capable of stopping the US from unilaterally doing as it pleases, before even consider whether Sweden would want to.

I'm inclined to think the oddities in the Swedish case was down to domestic Swedish issues rather than US involvement, but at the same time I know for my part if I had feared US prosecution, I'd much rather stay in the UK than go to Sweden.
Was discussing this with a pal yesterday: blockchain-based IPOs just got a whole lot more interesting.
Remote work doesn't need a “virtual office”
Those pictures are fake.

Not sure how, but other than brain damage two brains wouldn't look different like that. We don't have the tech for registering the difference in smarts even if it existed between reading and screen time.

I know the pictures are a mix of the children, but don't understand how?

It feels like the researchers have picked a technique that will give two different pictures, no matter what given a mix of kids aka a pretty picture for the media.

I'm sure in the journal article they have not lied. But I can't understand after reading it what the pictures are. Clever.
A quick google suggests the government has done this before, (Executive Orders 10479, 11246). Admittedly I've done very little reading around the subject, so I'm unsure if it's relevant in this context or not, but figure it's worth adding to the conversation in case it is. Please shoot it down if it's not!
> Lawful protest will be unaffected. Unlawful protest involving criminal behavior will become much more difficult. Good outcome.

What is perfectly legal today might be criminal tomorrow. Criminalising lawful protest is one of the first things a despot would do.
I read through this statute at some point awhile back. To my understanding, one way businesses get around this is by charging money before the product/service first--essentially putting themselves in "debt" first. By not providing the product/service until you pay, you aren't arguably in any potential form of debt and a business can dictate the form of payment they want.

If you pay after receiving a service, then you could loosely be considered in debt. Usually, that doesn't hold enough water from what I read and it really means, until you go to court and have an established debt, you're forced to pay through whatever mechanisms were agreed to in the transaction. Only then does it have to be payable by cash.

It's interesting to me because the transactions you're most likely to have cash on hand and pay for are items most would never have to go in debt for (a coffee, lunch, etc.) whereas large transactions you may need to go in debt for ideally use some other non-cash medium (loan, cashiers check, etc.).

Basically makes cash useless (why I rarely carry more than say $50 anymore).

More interestingly, you'll see businesses adapt quickly to accept cash when their electronic payment/management system goes down for a day. They're incredibly resourceful when it's convenient for themselves. I've had this happen at a coffee shop that was cashless that suddenly decided they'd accept cash when the other option was to not make money.
Not sure if this startup is only doing 1-to-1 or it's 1-to-n, but if they start allowing 1-to-n, they'll likely run into problems.

A walkie-talkie system will likely fail for larger group sizes (e.g. >8) or more due to cross talk that will build up on a common channel. In the marine environment where ‘walkie-talkies’ are still in use, folks have worked around the problem by monitoring the common channel, 16, for interruption and then negotiate a switch to a less common channel to complete the conversation. In the long run, maritime folks will likely switch to TCP/IP to address, route and communicate more efficiently rather than the walkie-talkie system.

This sort of thing crops up in the office when a scrum master says to take it 'offline' in a standup, or when an open office gets big enough to have a din of conversations all going on at once.
> The car has the car seats, books, toys, snacks, diapers, etc in it at all times.

Basically, your car is an extension of your home. And you are, rightfully, not inclined to share your home with strangers!
Firstly she was not a diplomat so it seems difficult to claim diplomatic immunity.

Secondly, the US have already established a precedent that seems very relevant to this where they claimed that a foreign national did not have diplomatic immunity relating to a much less serious traffic offense https://autos.yahoo.com/owner-of-beverly-hills-laferrari-doe...
NRA can hire Bruno on to their board.
I am a software engineer. I just have the confidence in our community to believe we can use our skills to tackle hard problems in the world. My point is that other communities of engineers in the past didn't shy away from solving hard problems just because they were hard.
The world we live in
Hacking a job search with fifty dollars of free LinkedIn credit
Doesn't federal contracting explicitly favor people on the basis of being female / minority / veteran? It always seems that the people who make the rules get to break the rules, so long as they can string together a plausible argument, which is a very low bar.
> In my experience, forced diversity is a good way to shoe horn people into roles they won't be successful in.

Ideally, this forces people to expand their search/search harder for qualified people. Simply "ticking the boxes" would probably be risky for the company, as you have no idea on if they're the right person.

Right now though, it's too easy to say "we found the most qualified person" while not putting in any significant effort to look outside of the easiest pool of candidates. The easiest pool of candidates isn't distributed equally over several axes (like race and gender), so you're less likely to find candidates from marginalized groups there.

To fix that distribution issue, there has to be a forcing power that requires people to look outside of that easy pool of candidates.
A product could already have the engineering bits in place but without a landing page calling out that very feature or usecase, sending traffic to a mismatched page is a diservice.

People click an ad to learn more, if they are presented with a specific use-case but land on a generic marketing page they will click the back button.
a lively recent discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21926666
I am laughing harder than I should really
We are dime a dozen lol.
This mindset brings such a peace of mind. You can't impress me with anything payable in money, empty statements, family credentials etc. Only your actions define your relationship with me. If you mess it up, I will act with you accordingly. If I will consider you a bad influence to my kid, you 2 will simply not meet, even if you would be his grandparent.

To make things even easier, I apply this to absolutely everybody, friends, family, colleagues, unknowns. For some reason, not many people are willing to do so, and always have double 'meter' for ie close family. Maybe I am a bit broken with this, but damn it makes life simple, honest and steady, relationships are crystal clear. My opinions on persons don't change, unless they change (which they don't because frankly nobody really does, at least not enough to change overall attitude).
AA is the same thing, surely. Creating opportunities for people based on some identity characteristic is invariably the same thing as denying those opportunities to others - resources, positions, and opportunities are in the instant zero sum games (not in the long run, but decisions on how to allocate opportunities aren't made over the long run but in the moment).
I think that you don't fully understand the concept underlying diplomatic immunity. Diplomatic immunity exists to ensure that countries cannot use the local legal system when no crime is committed in order to put pressure on the diplomat or his family, not to go away when a real crime is committed.
A lot of countries will wave diplomatic immunity when a real crime is committed or will prosecute the diplomat in their local legal system. The only countries refusing to do so are rogue or third world countries.
Totally agree - I wrote a rebuttal to the concept of "virtual office" tools for distributed teams a few minutes ago:

https://www.friday.app/remote-work-virtual-office
What is value? What is money! What is energy...
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Goldman Sachs makes token motions towards diversity in an attempt to redeem themselves several years after shitting the US economy.

Not sure being "woke" makes up for fucking the US economy, but hey, Twitter seems to bear a disproportionate weight, so I'm not the best arbiter of value.

But this seems like blatant window dressing from a predatory firm.
What. The. Fuck.

This is literally insane as a "law" and erodes trust in law.