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No, the problem is really about politicization and more specifically the fact that in most US tech companies there is an enormous bias towards those on the political left, and a believe that those who lean left are more “scientifically educated” or intelligent or well-read, etc.

As one example you can see it in the way you can make hostile comments about “straight white males” and nobody says anything, but if you were to make a hostile comment for a perceived racial or sexual minority you’d be fired before even finishing your sentence
Thanks, I will look into it!
Generally anything highly polarizing and political that doesn't provide anything new to the debate is flagged, because it just descends into predictable political argument, which isn't what HN is for.

In my experience this pretty much applies to anything related to affirmative action around race, gender, or political affiliation. Also all of politics generally is off-limits unless it's related to technology.
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It confers benefits based on race. Legacy college preferences are fundamentally identical to the “grandfather clauses” enacted during Reconstruction, which created onerous barriers to registering to vote while exempting people whose grandfathers were registered. The intent and result was to disenfranchise Black voters. So too with legacy admissions — they are rooted in attempts to continue segregating the student body after de jure discrimination became untenable.

It’s true that not every white applicant has a legacy status to benefit from. But if you look at the racial breakdown of students who benefit from legacy preferences, I think you’ll find far more white students than the in the overall student body.
So the path forward is to use "male actors" and "female actors" instead of actors and actresses? Doesn't appear to be a net positive for society, is just making them longer to write and pronounce.
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I believe the original EFF post is outdated. Much of the complaints about the bill have been deleted in the current text.
If you're willing to be judicious about which libraries you use then you can absolutely pick up Scala directly from Python - a lot of things you'd write in Python translate directly into Scala, particularly if you were already writing map/filter style code.

(I like OCaml too, don't get me wrong)
In order to determine whether a certain race is disfavored, you need to look at admissions data. The data for Harvard was staggering [1]. Non-ADLC Asian applicants in the 90th percentile were half as likely to be admitted than non-ADLC Black applicants in the 60th percentile and as equally likely as Black applicants in the 40th percentile.

There are definitely valid arguments in favor of Affirmative action, but the notion that this doesn't amount to substantial racial discrimination is nothing less than counterfactual.

1. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/10/04/does-har...
I just checked. All of mine are us made! Thanks for the info, very useful!
That's the point: it is disgusting that you consider strangers part of your "group" just because of the color of their skin.
Questions for @bvallelunga, @tompic823, @rgmvisser

What is your philosophy on determining what behaviour helps to improve developers lives?

Does it involve leaving out or misrepresenting facts, pushing people away from making decisions based on pure data, or trying to blindly go full steam ahead with an idea over evaluating and responding to flaws that become known?

What do you think of a secret management tool, whose team leaks credentials in their marketing material but asks people who don't know them to trust they'll do any better once they are holding all their keys? Would you use this tool, knowing the people building it would rather hide and bury their mistakes than be transparent about them?

Should a product be enticing on its own, or should it need to name drop companies where their team may have worked in the past (which even those companies' ethics are regularly headlines)?

How did you decide this was a tool that need to be made? Were you the ones operating the existing tools at your previous companies, or did you read one page of those tools' docs and decide they were too hard?

Who should be in control of a company's secrets? The company, or a stranger who has done more to cause distrust in them than prove they can adapt to challenges and admit mistakes or poor decisions?
I interviewed at Stripe a few years back and they were extremely rude in the interview. I was still early in my career and I’ve never forgotten it. Even still, I’ve applied a few times and never heard back. Definitely seems like a company that’s going places but also has a bit of an ego.
You're overlooking the fact that even if easily breedable pool of foreign species existed along H. sapiens, given enough time they would either be purged or become common ancestors to everyone by now.

Since they were purged and exist as remnants in individuals' DNA.
check how the community is doing relative to communities of similar age
Developers will not be shopping around, making the decision to buy a ‘global manufacturing suite’ like DELMIA Apriso, whatever that is. If they are, they will have the documentation made available for them.
What is the end game for this look like in people's mind? do they think that these universities that people are fighting over will start accepting Asians in bigger numbers?. These universities have only one thing of value and that is their exclusivity.

If they lose that they are no diffent than any other school. I'm torn on this issue, not because of any injustice against Asians or whites... I couldn't care less about them on this issue, most of them have been groomed since children with tutors, classes and activities to "look good" to these universities.

I'm torn because this might be a step towards these places losing their precious exclusivity and become just like any other but I doubt they will let that happen and if this does not happen then whatever happens will not be any good for society.
I can't believe how unbelievably little people like you know about law and free speech. Are you the one seriously arguing that it's illegal to lie on Twitter? Or to lie a newspaper?
Of course faking a document is perfectly legal as long as it's not used for fraud. Tricking people on Twitter or at a newspaper isn't fraud unless they're contractually paying you for authentic documents and you deceive them for monetary gain.

Is this really that hard? The Onion fakes documents all the time and claims to have quotes from police officers and government officials on a daily basis.

Free speech is the most essential of all freedoms, and you'd trade it away for a song and a dance out of sheer ignorance.
Username checks out :)
I am not sure what Facebook could have done in such situation in those days.
Maybe I'm missing something but it seems like you're just independently inventing the concept of a vaccine.
The quickest route is as problematic for a rideshare, because the trip was priced upfront.

If they take a suboptimal route, you as the rider aren't charged more.

The incentives are also better aligned, since the driver now would always prefer the quickest route, since they get the same payment regardless of the route.

> If I didn't, then the price was specified--$X from Zone A to B and $0.Y for time spent not moving.

That's...exactly the non-upfront pricing that got taxis killed. Upfront pricing is $X to your destination. It's not route and time dependent as almost all taxi pricing was.
You can disagree about the methods to achieve the thing while still agreeing about what the compassionate stance is. We would likely agree that moving people out of poverty is a compassionate thing, even if we disagree about what the best way to do that is.

No one is asking Coinbase to take a stance and say that the police must be abolished, or that the way forward for Black liberation is X policy. They were simply asking them to acknowledge that racism exists and Black lives do in fact matter.
Not according to the current text of the bill. The EFF post is outdated I think. The commission no longer has teeth. This bill will probably die.
Your analysis assumes Lidar is going to remain expensive. That is likely not the case...
$288k and Apple has only paid them for roughly half of the vulnerabilities. They expect the payout to exceed $500k.

Well worth it for Apple and a decent payday for 3 months of spelunking.
Yeah... and back then Intel was committing so many anti-trust violations that its a miracle the DOJ didn't litigate them into oblivion. Fortunately, they were paid up with the right people, apparently, and the DOJ was laser-focused on Microsoft.
And this is fraud... how? Because a guy made up fake stories and gave them to a newspaper for free? Or because he posted untrue things on Twitter? I guess the folks at The Onion better expect police knocking at their door any day now. They make up documents and quotes from "government officials" all the time. Better arrest them!
How so? Brian Eno owes his fans nothing.
So does height, in that if you’re 5’6 you won’t manage a very convincing Lincoln. But it’s not generally worked into the job name.
Good question. Most people don't really need it, as systems work quite well for long enough time without it and no visible corruption happens. But if you are tech enthusiast who knows a thing or two about errors then you want it, because it makes your system "serious"-grade. It boosts your confidence in quality of your system, and thus self-confidence, ego and bragging rights. Also, it makes your system more professional-grade, where you can monitor ECC errors and, if needed, replace RAM modules or motherboard.
> No

You're speaking from a personal experience. I'm not minimizing your experience with my comments.

But if you have time to browse Social Media or enough time to get into extended hostile discussions (about ANYTHING), then your manager isn't doing their job. Full-stop.
> Some quick searching brought me to a thread on a web forum where people were discussing the built in spectrum analyzer feature used for diagnostics

I tried to search for this forum thread, but my google-fu must be failing me. Does anyone know where it is?
Insects have way more compute than anything we can fit on a drone right now.
Do have to wonder if 5950X is that much better than 5900X in GCC?
> purple-striped people

I Googled. What does it mean? Is it some American reference, or you picked a random race/region neutral analogy?
Ask HN: How many tabs do you have open?
I'm curious if the number of tabs has increased over the years.

Check your tabs now - how many do you have open?
How many do you average?
Do you go looking through your tabs regularly, or start a new one?

If you have chrome + a mac, click on 'Tab' and you can see!

Thought of this from...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8163788
Just because a game uses threads does not mean it can magically get rid of Amdahl's law. The CPU workload of games does not scale anything like compilation.
Or, just... actors? Like, most of the time when you talk about an actor the gender isn’t that relevant.
Yep. "It would set such terrible precedent for the industry that nobody even thought to ask the question before" doesn't imply it's not what the law says.
I don't think so. For instance, coronaviruses are among the causes of common cold. That one seems to have been with us for a while.
This reminded me of the abuse internet fans are subjecting GRRM to. Probably also because he used to be involved with the online communities.
Wikipedia's built-in search is always difficult to use, especially, its "Did you mean..." is useless for correcting anything but basic typos. To be fair, it's a simple function anyway, there's no PageRank or NLP. Using site:wikipedia.org on a real search engine works better.
> You are an example of the problem.

So, I would be on your arrest and prosecution list. What a surprise.

And I guess highway designers who choose to make the speed limit 65 mph instead of 3 mph also need to go to jail, right? After all, they KNOW WITH CERTAINTY that a 65 mph speed limit will contribute to many more deaths than if they limited cars to going 3 mph on the highway, but they chose to do it anyway.

While we're at it, why don't we prosecute the mother who bought a $18k Honda instead of a $300k tank even though the $18k Honda exposes her children to more risk of serious harm in a car accident? The mother is knowingly risking her children's lives in order to save money!

Get real and cut the rhetorical hysteria. EVERYTHING in life and the real world is about tradeoffs. And acceptable vs unacceptable tradeoffs change with time as we gain in economic prosperity. If you want regulation, pass CLEAR laws. Don't use weasely rhetoric to pretend that regular businessmen are murdering children because they sell soda.
Now that we've covered both ends of hyperbole, it's maybe worth noting that a lot of CPU parallel tasks can be well accelerated by ISPC, which can make reasonably effective use of AVX512 (with the aforementioned clock speed caveat): https://www.mail-archive.com/ispc-users@googlegroups.com/msg...

Also, AVX512 is a much nicer (orthogonal) ISA than SSE or AVX2.

While there are some niche applications that need larger amounts of memory than GPUs can offer, it's worth noting that this speedup comes from making the CPU act more like a GPU, and they aren't as fast as GPUs acting like GPUs (which are essentially many 32-wide vector units, rather than AVX512's 16-wide).
Hardware costs will go way down. Lidar @ 100$, cheaper chips, cheaper sensors, etc.

They are still in a learning phase -- they charge enough so as not to distort rider behavior, but they expect to lose money on each ride.

Apart from that, why build cars when you can sell the system to everyone?
It's 2020. "Privileged" is Newspeak for "envied".
> I introduced a credibility system for every user, similar to Reddit's karma so people can see how trustworthy the user is

But theres a problem with that: people create an account, build up their reputation for a while posting credible reviews then when they're large enough and have a good rep/trust, start taking money for their reviews.

A similar thing happens on Reddit -- people build up an account to have lots of karma (sometimes they're literally just bot accounts reposting tons of posts), build it up for a few months, then sell the whole account off for money after the account has 100s of thousands of upvotes/karma.
As a customer of Stripe too, I almost[1] couldn't disagree more.

Running a global online/SaaS business is hard. So much complexity everywhere. I wish Stripe would handle MORE problems & complexity and would happily pay for it.

Just a few examples Stripe could handle:

- Checkout + Portal is a great start, but it still takes too much (expensive) design+dev brainpower to create the entire experience of a high quality trial-to-paid and existing-customer billing management in a SaaS app.

- Running a SaaS company at any scale is full of Support headaches that Stripe Dashboard simply does not handle well - stuff like tweaking a billing date, and doing combination (e.g. wire transfer + credit card) payments, "can you re-send my invoice but with my VAT ID on it this time?" and many more. At any scale, lots of effort is spend on custom billing support tickets and building internal tooling even if you use all of Stripe's features.

- Are you a SaaS company selling all over the US? Good luck being complaint with all 50 states in terms of sales tax reporting without expensive legal/accounting help. Did you hire any remote out-of-state employees? Good luck -- now your financial compliance got even more complicated.

Stripe doesn't do any of these things well today. And if they did, it would likely be much cheaper than the in-house solutions everyone is coming up with instead. I think Stripe should handle 10x as much complexity for a SaaS company than it does today, and of course they should get paid for doing so.

[1] I agree it would be amazing to see Stripe come up with smoother flows for supporting payments that bypassing the expensive card network's fees.
The best thing I read was Australian regulator capped cc interchange fees at 0.5% and allowed merchants to charge as an extra fee over the price. I guess it'll never happen in the US but maybe Europe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee#Australia_and_...
> But if you have time to browse Social Media or enough time to get into extended hostile discussions (about ANYTHING), then your manager isn't doing their job. Full-stop.

What you describe is a sweat shop, not knowledge work. You can have downtime while still getting your work done and acting like an adult with colleagues. If you don’t have this skill set, make the effort to cultivate some tact and decorum.
Too late to edit, but here's a screenshot of the editor in question:

https://i.imgur.com/65Y4yLC.png

If you're familiar with the game, you might even be able to guess what this logic is for. :)
I'm afraid I'm no historian, so I'm not going to be able to draw up a comparative history of counter-racism approaches vs help-the-poor approaches, at least not beyond the obvious examples where an oppressed minority suddenly gets power, seeks revenge, and it inevitably ends very badly for both sides.

I'm an engineer. Systems theory is how I interface with these ideas. It has notions of "gain margin" and "phase margin" -- i.e. how hard you can push (or how long you can delay feedback, the two are somewhat interchangeable, which is often under-appreciated) before your attempt to build a self-correcting airplane wing, power delivery circuit, rocket that points up, etc stops being self-correcting and turns into a wildly oscillating self-destructive mess that you should count yourself lucky if it only destroys itself without taking its surroundings with it.

In society, we can't calculate gain margin and phase margin, but we still have to decide how hard to push and if we push too hard, the system will still punish us. All of us. Nobody likes to hear "push more softly for the cause you believe in." I sure don't. But having screwed up this choice in an engineering context, I respect the possibility of screwing it up in a social context, and I see it as a strong argument for exercising restraint.

> What does it mean exactly to stomp it out where you see it? How do we see it and how do we stomp it out? What if it's hard to see, or difficult to stomp out?

We've stomped out most of the blatant, obvious racism that was easy to see, so from here out it's largely going to be difficult. That is: option B, above. That's how we go after the systemic racism: ensure that the system shrinks the influences of the past rather than growing them. In particular, we need to figure out what kind of support is necessary to give the next generation of kids a fair shake at life and give it to them. Even more specifically I'm thinking about federally funded health care, housing, and primary/secondary education. It's going to cost a lot. It's not going to let us indulge in fantasies of somehow canceling out the racism of yesterday. But it might let us fix tomorrow.
> where you can tell yourself a story about the millions of dollars you could make

It’s not about the dollars you could make. That’s probably pretty hard to get away with.

But the damage you can do? That’s a whole different thing.
It is unacceptable in theory, in practice it sounds like most of the ghosted in this thread would gladly work there, given the opportunity. Money and visibility (and beauty) make many sins forgiven.

I had terrible interview experiences (rudeness, ghosting, and making zero sense) with Lyft, Airbnb, Twitter, but if they make the right offer, I might say yes (although I have quite a strong memory).
I've been struggling with this, even though I've been following all the guidelines.

I'm ~30 years old, which puts me at a ~.2% (?) chance of dying if I get it. On the other hand, I've spent 1% of my remaining life under lockdown so far, and expect to spend an approximately equal amount before a vaccine. At what point is it not worth it?

I've thought a little about this in terms Quality-Adjusted-Life-Years, let's say "Covid lockdown" gives a discount factor of half (maybe should be less, but been feeling kind of shitty recently). In these terms, I've already spent 2.5X more QALY from lockdown than the Micromorts I'd get from Covid and expect to spend another 2.5X more before this is all over.

Other factors are A) I’m in a pod with older family members, so I'd have to exit the pod. B) If I got sloppier, I’d increase the chance that somebody else got it, which feels like a dick move. C) The long term health effects are not known, and even if I live it could fuck me up for life (this could be worked into the QALY).

How are other people dealing with this?
Well I found Justice Breyer's argument, in the article, which compared APIs to the QWERTY layout of keyboards much better than Googles.

Imagine if you copyrighted the six sided bolt head? Or the TORX screw. Making screw drivers or wrenches that loosened or tightened them would be copyrightable. How about copyrighting which side of the street people drive on, or the width of driving lanes. Do we get to charge a "usage fee" for cars that adhere to the lanes available on freeways?
Current setup seems to work on existing cars. They can just sell conversion kits for a few years -- it will be like an aftermarket stereo. They don't need to own all the cars.
Your just being deliberately obtuse as always.

I make a statement that countries have realized that the free market is harmful in certain spheres and you go on about the economy as a whole instead, which I have never claimed to not be capitalist/market economies.

I make a statement about the vast difference in worker benefits and welfare and you go on about the labor's share of income instead, which I have never claimed to be higher.

> I write software that's used by insurance companies to process claims and price fees

Insurance companies should play no role in healthcare, and they certainly don't where I live.
Exactly. They are huge in the server / enterprise market. Good luck convincing your boomer boss switching to anything else than the overpriced "enterprise-grade hardware". And that's not even mentioning their compiler.
This looks more like some anarchists

https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1314267058339819520
I tried to get in touch with Eno once. And I had a good shot at it. I knew someone who knew him personally and agreed to forward a message I had for him. It was regarding nontrivial software I had developed which incredibly and unexpectedly he had more or less invented 20 years ago in a conversational email message. Thought he'd like to know it had come to fruition.

Knowing his reclusion I wasn't expecting to get a response. Which was good, since I didn't receive one.
If we're being pedantic, the whole point of the admissions process is to discriminate. The question is, discriminate on what basis?

Undoubtedly they discriminate on the basis of grades and test scores, but also on the basis of things like extracurriculars. Whether or not race should be a part of this equation is the heart of this debate.
so iterate this 50 more years (rules inevitably are both applied and no longer applicable) and law/society collapses
The intersectional view is that 'real racism' requires a power imbalance - which is actually a fair point.

It would be unfair not to recognize that some groups have considerably more power than others.

That said - it's still racism one way or another, discriminatory etc. and in 2020 it's getting really hard to talk about individuals as being a function of their race.

So while it's worth reminding ourselves of the intersectional issue ... it doesn't really justify bad behaviour one way or another.