skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of these are discrimination in the narrower sense that it's usually understood as.

1 and 4 don't actually ban those people, they simply don't provide any services that those groups of people would want.
3 is choosing not to hire people who don't actually fit the requirements of the job.
5 is paying for usage - obviously a reasonable concept, though specific policies may turn into discrimination.
2 is a reactive policy to something you have complete control over: your own behaviour. They don't care about any characteristic of you, except that you follow the rule of being polite to their staff. If the rule to follow becomes discriminatory then you'd have an argument - but that's not the example you brought up.
This UX review video is awesome and hilarious, and also illustrate the competitive advantage of combining general design expertise with specific domain experience.
Is functional GUI programming possible? [closed]
I'm glad they aren't vetting who can use their platform based on arbitrary ideological whims, but I'm still salty about them caving to demands to change the default branch name to something other than "master".

We really need to stop this sort of mob thought policing that has taken over the internet and bullies corporations and individuals into conformance. This is not new, but it seems particularly egregious right now. But how do you stop/mitigate internet mobs without "streisanding" even bigger mobs?

> As Friedman spoke, dozens of employees expressed frustration and outrage in a company Slack channel with more than 1,200 people, according to screenshots reviewed by The Times.

We are letting small minorities (dozens out of thousands) amplify their outrage and impose their demands on everyone else. Same thing happens on Twitter, and I really don't like that. It's like that one xkcd[0] except instead of "the people listening" being rational and reasonable, "the people listening" are an angry minority on social media stirring up everyone around them into a blood frenzy.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1357/
> Two unnamed executive are included in the complaint that had roles above Baugh.

eBay just released a statement[0] which alludes to both the Chief Communications Officer and the CEO (!) having been involved.

edit: Another article[1] provides more details, including that "an eBay executive told Baugh that he wanted to 'crush' those responsible for the newsletter while another executive told Baugh to 'take her down.'" One of these must be the "inappropriate communications" by the CEO, Devin Wenig, mentioned in eBay's statement.

edit 2: Still more details in another[2] article, including quotes from communications between "Executive 1" and "Executive 2."

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ebay-inc-issues-statement-reg...

[1] https://natick.wickedlocal.com/news/20200615/6-former-ebay-e...

[2] https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/15/metro/six-former-ebay...
Because of Rappler’s arrogance.

https://twitter.com/abscbnnews/status/1272120272993353728?s=...
Are there any videos of morons destroying private property, looting, stealing, burning?
Potentially keeping AMD as a partner is graphics on the high end is a good point- i.e. iMac Pro/Mac Pro.

But since its 99% likely that all the other Mac's will be SoC with no Windows driver support for any of the underlying silicon, I'd find it very surprising if Apple went to the trouble just for the high end.

That said, I thing Intel Mac Pros will be a thing for a long while, even is a 256 core ARM variation came out, just to keep the pros happy until they can comfortably transition to the new stack. Apple has spent too much human capital recently on the pro team to make me think otherwise.
ICE has done unethical things, but...they are also essential in many of their roles, and every country has a similar agency. Why not use the platform and power you have to push for changes instead of just severing ties? It doesn't really accomplish anything.
The Civil Rights Act is not the supreme law of the land -- Congress is free to pass bills that do not respect the conditions of title vii, or even to amend or revoke title vii. Having contradictory language in another law in a different domain is totally acceptable, especially as national origin in immigration is pretty essential (that is, in the sense of someone from the US vs. someone not from the US).
Dammit I got called to the head default room again...
This is for data collection. Your hand wouldn't be very good for telling you how many centimeters of rain fell.
I no longer support the IA. They are a few people who needed a “mission” in life. But they aren’t true librarians or historians.

They waver between flighty utopian idealism and arrogance and self-justifying activism.

It’s getting old. For every “practical” use of the IA, there are just as many concerns.

No one really needs the old internet or all the old Geocities website and first design interactions or personal blogs. There’s no market for it and no one would pay for it.

If these folks had to hand-copy items or make photocopies, they would have quit a decade ago.

They use scraping and cheap hardware to “brag” about their massive knowledge base in the petabytes. Honestly, no one cares.

Outside of the circles of other digital borders and some tech circles, everyone else is playing with their kids, mowing their lawns, reading books, and such. Try to get your neigbor to go look at an IA website from 1996. They’ll just go watch Netflix instead.
Ah, but Gorsuch is not liberal - at least, he was installed by the Republicans, and looked up to Scalia a lot, and was proposed by the Federalist Society.

That's what makes this decision such a welcome surprise to me. Maybe textualism isn't a lie.
> The real impact would be on GitHub themselves, as they would lose any opportunity to help guide policy or technology at ICE or any other government agency.

There's about a 0% chance that a government agency would change anything about their policies based on what GitHub employees say. Companies that work on government contracts get "report cards" detailing the agency's satisfaction with their performance, and any other government agency can view the reports for that company, so it's in their best interest to try and get favorable reviews by doing what the agency wants.
Agreed the Medium paywall is not good. But technically, I don't think Indie.vc wrote this post. It's on the marker.medium.com publication and was written by a freelance journalist: https://marker.medium.com/@jennifer_7809
I am really interested in this and would love to read a technical blog post on how you built Squawk. Was it in Electron?

Especially, how do you maintain all connections so users can listen to all channels at once.
Not really, at least not until recently: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-private-equity-asia-break...
> appeal to authority is not a fallacy when the authority is indeed an expert.

Sure it is.

The point of the fallacy is that an argument should stand on its own merit, and has nothing to do with the person making it. Guess what - experts can be wrong too (e.g. hand washing).
> Given that the best approach is pre-allocation

GC languages still support stack allocation, you don't have to pre-allocate anything you can stack allocate. (That's where .NET Core has been especially burning rubber in recent releases. Span<T> is a stack allocated, GC-safe "pointer", for instance, that is doing all sorts of heavy lifting in .NET Core performance-critical work these days. It's still early too, as not everything has moved to Span<T> that can move to Span<T> and family.)

But also, not everything needs to be pre-allocated for the "best approach". There's some work to get used to the feel of any specific GC, but most modern "VM" GCs (.NET and today's Java, not yesterday's) are multi-generational and there's a lot you can do in strategies such as "focus on the nursery and the LOH" (using only [potentially many] small short-lived objects and a few, mostly stable "very large" objects, avoiding the intermediate generations).

> why carry the overhead of the GC at all?

Safety. (Why wear seatbelts?) Rust's borrow checker is great but it still requires a lot of manual adjustment and it's still possible to miss something (it's not easy, certainly, but it is possible); a GC gives you safety by default, with no manual intervention required to guarantee safety, and requires manual effort to write unsafe code.

> The important thing is avoiding language patterns that encourage needless allocation.

That's where we agree and why I'm very adamant that though some of the tools ("knobs") look scarily different in performance optimization for GC versus non-GC languages, the vast majority of the tools are the same: know the O(memory) of your algorithms, and make smart trade-offs regarding that O(memory), avoid allocating what you don't need, know your trade-offs between pre-allocation and allocation only when necessary, etc.
the problem is not police violence. the problem is what they are legally allowed to do VS what they are not.

the notion of "resisting arrest" allow police to do pretty much whatever they want from the moment you said "no" to one of their asks.

Hell even getting out from your vehicle when a cop tells you to stay in it is "resisting arrest".

this is the main problem. if you give people a way to be legally violent you are responsible for the deaths. its is beyond politics, democrats or republicans allowed these laws and procedures, the neck restraints and other dangerous things for decades.
How is GitHub supposed to change ICE's policies by working with ICE?

"Hey, you see this part of the code where you sort through the parents, to separate them from their children? Maybe don't do that?"

ICE is going to ignore any unprofessional suggestions, that's not what they hired GitHub to do.

In fact the usual argument employers give when you don't do exactly they hired you to do - "that's not what we hired you for" - is pretty strong. And unless GitHub sabotages their own work (which they won't), then their work will simply be in service to ICE's goals. There's no room left over for contributing non-work opinions.
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I agree with this, but fashion happens in cycles. The trend shifted from the classiness of Facebook, to the quirkiness of Insta or TikTok.

Somewhere towards the end of this cycle, we’ll probably want something a little classier again (a new classy, not the old classy).
If only people cared this much when tech companies contract with or kowtow to arms of openly racist authoritarian governments abroad.
>Did anyone believe that the number was exact and accurate for all people? Are there people who think, "Oh, I've only gotten 9,500 steps a day this week; my health will begin to fail." ? 10k steps a day is not a myth, it's a goal.

No, but that's not the point.

The point is that it's an arbitrary (and potentially discouraging) goal. If 5K steps are fine, then you shouldn't try to go to 10K just because somebody mentioned is a goal.

That's regardless of if you think 9.5K is just as good, or you think 10K is some hard magic number.
Interestingly these drives are on sale on newegg.com right now.
Looks like that is effectively a borrow checker. So, the reason to need one still seems valid.
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Master means too many different things to remove it from English. For example: Master of Arts Degree in African-American Studies

Its usage in git is inrelated to the master/slave metaphor. There are systems that use that metaphor and they should chane. Git isn’t one of them.
"By accepting the ICE contract previously it was political."

Just a reminder that government entities like ICE are executing the current laws of the land.
It's time for legislators to legislate. Many of our current problems can be traced back to our legislature failing to do anything. They always rely on court rulings or executive power. Usually because everyone is scared of losing their next election or their future role at a cable news organization. Even the people that do put forth legislation often poison pill it, so that it will never pass. So they'll never have to be held accountable if it fails or have their name on the vote count.

I know it sounds counter intuitive, but I think getting rid of the line item veto has helped to cripple Congress even more. Because it used to absolved members and let them vote for something they didn't like, knowing it would not make it into law.
The crux of the argument is: "Pretend that you could magically change a person to the opposite sex but leave everything else the same. If that changes your decision to fire the person, it's sex-based discrimination."
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There is no bifurcation. Your submission did not gain any traction, nobody is commenting there. It's long gone.

The oldest entry in /newest is now at 19 minutes ago, your submission was two hours ago. Nobody is going to stumble upon it anymore.

I get it. You feel the karma "belongs" to you, because you were faster to find out about that decision. But that's not how it works here. Sometimes you're lucky, but very often you're not.
The idea that all corporations are political is obviously quite true, especially insofar as potentially-everything is political.

What's interesting is erosion of the norm that corporations should not be particularly political (picking and choosing customers based on politics, touting allegiance to one specific side). This was once a somewhat stronger (political) norm that has fallen by the wayside as the nation has grown more bitterly divided.

I would be happy to see it come back somewhat; I am not convinced that corporate CEOs having an outsized influence on politics is going to take our nation to a healthy place in the long term, either politically, economically, or intellectually. I also expect that the demands of the new orthodoxy will get much, much worse before the situation gets any better.
Pushing for legislative and political changes would very much be the right path to go.

As far as ICE goes I think people are understandably shocked by ICE's actions that have been extraordinarily cruel under the current administration, so ICE gets a lot of attention.
IMO I find Alito's argument interesting, but dubious:

> Last year, the House of Representatives passed a bill that
would amend Title VII by defining sex discrimination to include both “sexual orientation” and “gender identity,” H. R. 5, 116th Cong., 1st Sess. (2019), but the bill has stalled in the Senate. An alternative bill, H. R. 5331, 116th Cong., 1st Sess. (2019), would add similar prohibitions but contains provisions to protect religious liberty.3 This bill remains before a House Subcommittee.

> Because no such amendment of Title VII has been enacted in accordance with the requirements in the Constitution (passage in both Houses and presentment to the President, Art. I, §7, cl. 2), Title VII’s prohibition of discrimination because of “sex” still means what it has always meant.

Unless I'm missing something, I can't see how this principle can be consistently applied since there are so many laws that have been passed, that may not pass if the current iteration of the Legislative branch were to vote on it, eg. First & Second Amendments (as is), New Deal, etc. It seems like a more roundabout way of saying that the US has strong status quo biases baked into its system, but that's about it. IANAL, so shrug.

EDIT: I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted, I'm making an argument affirming the majority decision and attacking the logic of the dissenting opinion.
Unless things have changed recently, AMD GPUs still require proprietary firmware and thus do not work on a fully free system. I bought an AMD GPU a few years ago to try it out and it didn't work.
The mob may leave after the destruction, but that doesn't mean that the police don't later conduct investigations, arrests, etc based on tracking/video of the members of that mob.

I'm curious how many protestors or rioters keep their phones on them (with location/COVID apps or otherwise.) Even if they don't, plenty of others are taking the videos.
I have no data but I bet it's far more than 10%. Your mother-in-law doesn't need a fancy iMac or $2,000 Macbook Pro.
There is a pretty good argument around fully disbanding the police; and it appears to be the stance that Minneapolis is taking.

The idea being that for the roles you'd traditionally want police to cover (response to violent crime), they've successfully received case law that doesn't require that to be one of their duties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
And nearly everything else is better handled by social worker like positions addressing the root issues. Police shouldn't be mental health professionals. It's just cheaper to give homeless housing than constantly fine and jail them. The war on drugs has been a policing failure, just like alcohol prohibition was. Low level traffic infractions tend to just be an extra revenue generation scheme aimed at the poor. etc.

We've also got data on the idea that the policing causes crime, from when the NYPD went on strike 2014-2015, and the crime rate plummeted. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0211-5

And we've spent decades trying to reform in place, without much progress, because structurally they don't want reform and kneecap the reforms at every opportunity. Better to dump the whole system and it's nomenclature, and rebuild what pieces we want with new roles.
> But to expect that a _federal agency_ will be denied service from a private entity, especially for essentially political reasons, is lunacy.

Um, think you've got this backwards. Private entities shouldn't have to take on anyone they don't want as customers (for whatever reason - do you have to justify who you do or don't want in your livingroom?), but publicly-funded institutions shouldn't be able to deny service on political grounds.
The spacing seems way too small on some of these, and there's no coherent relationship between the different amounts of it. The web is basically 99% text and spacing, so it's important to get this right.

Apart from that, it's pretty clean, and I like the logo.
How do you figure this won't work?

The article mentions the indie.vc "mortality rate" is 10% whereas for VC-backed ventures it's 44%. Granted, just because a company is alive doesn't mean it's making the investors much money.

I imagine having more companies around for longer would ultimately mean a lot of little payoffs that cover their own investments rather than one big payoff that covers every other investment.
My first thought was - oh that is what people with these bizzaire job titles do
Interesting. I’ve been thinking of trying to find a decent projector that operates off 12V for hurricane season. Something cheap because we’d not use it too often. DIY might be an option. I don’t have access to any way to make the metal panels like this one has though.
I have been using GNU Guix for over 4 years now on a modern Dell laptop (exchanged the WIFI card to keep my freedom), two older thinkpads, home server.

Since three years our development team at work uses Guix; the reproducible offload builds are awesome. Extending the package graph with your own version of packages is very helpful. Since about a year we also use server(s) at Digital Ocean running GNU Guix.
> "Main" & "Secondary" has been proposed, enabling reusable interpretation of the remaining acronym labels for connecting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology)#Term...
That is an amazing paper, a great result and new neutral architectures are long overdue.

But I don't believe that this has any significance in practice.

GPU memory is the limiting factor for most current AI approaches. And that's where the typical convolutional architectures shine, because they effectively compress the input data, then work on the compressed representation, then decompress the results. With gated linear networks, I'm required to always work on the full input data, because it's a one step prediction. As the result, I'll run out of GPU memory before I reach a learning capacity that is comparable to conv nets.
Maybe it's a spectrum thing, and everyone has a line they don't want to cross. There are people and organizations that don't align with my beliefs, but sure, it's cool they use my tools.

However, would you be ok with Hitler hosting code on your service if it contributed in some small way to genocide? That _does_ make me feel ick. Tacit support by large numbers of "not really effected" people is what made the holocaust and slavery and jim crow, etc, possible.

I'm not comparing ICE to Violent White Supremacy... but it's worth staying informed and revisiting our own boundaries as the situation changes.

Skin color, nationality and ethnicity are playing a huge role in how we're treating people right now, and the spectrum of human<>inhumane is getting wider and wider with tacit support :-(
I buy a ton of things off eBay. This is seriously making me not want to do business with them again.
I’m not sure why this thread is giving so little focus to the logic of the justices who voted in favor. Their argument makes sense too.

The claim is that you can’t discriminate against LGBT employees without discriminating based on sex. If I tell my boss that, as a man, I have a husband and he fires me over it, he’s firing me because he thinks a man should not be in a relationship another man. He would not fire a woman for doing it, only a man.

The court is saying that that is discrimination based on sex, which is covered by the language of the existing law. To me, that makes sense too. It’s not like the justices are making up reasons for one side or the other. Both sides had a point. That’s why it made it to the Supreme Court. And six justices interpreted it one way, and three the other and now we have the court’s decision.
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This is a good question. SCOTUS is split 5-4 by "party" (President appointing), so with Thomas dissenting, there would have to be at least two "liberal" judges supporting this decision, since only four judges need to approve hearing a case.

However, the order was unsigned, so we will probably never know.
Great! This seems like a perfect example of (employment) markets working in a good way. If the employees want the company to act a certain way or take a certain stance, or don't like a contract the company is engaging in, they can first lobby the company to change, and if enough are dissatisfied with the response they can vote with their feet and leave. I realize it's not always so simple, but I see this as a positive sign of workers using our market power.
Replace ICE with "the SS" and see how your comment reads. I was working on a DHS contract and quit the second I found out they were putting children into cages. I'm under no obligation to work at a company that contributes in even a tiny way to an atrocity.

A company I work for is free to take the contract, and I'm free to tell them I don't want to work for them any more because of it.
I used to be much more of a packrat than I am now. I've slowly been winnowing out stuff liked used computer equipment and enough books so that they all fit in my existing bookshelves (more or less). And I've slowly been digitizing more and more things.

I'm probably still at least something of a digital packrat but a lot of that is it's just easier to hold onto stuff than expend the mental energy to figure out what to keep and what to delete.
If you are concerned about the business that your corporate employer engages in, there is a simple solution: quit your job and become an activist.
Wow. I've never seen a paper like it. At the surface level -- if you kick a core hard enough with enough neutrinos, sure, it'll probably initiate -- the argument seems plausible. My expertise doesn't let me go deeper than that.

The moral implications of such a device are fraught. To use it is to detonate the very weapons that one should not detonate.