skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know why anyone pretends that these stats suggest that companies are being racist about hiring.

That isn't anything I said.

I don’t know why you insist on being so adamant about how hiring works.

That's not what I'm doing. You latched onto that as a thing to argue with me about in a way that ignores everything else I say and is a tactic that looks very bad faith. It looks like it is hand waving off known widespread racial bias in the name of "this one detail you said is inaccurate."

It's like attacking someone over a misplaced comma to imply they are stupid without bothering to engage anything they have said.

What I originally said is just that this is not shocking and talked about generally known statistics and you are latching onto "This woman knows nothing about hiring and I am going to dog her to the ends of the earth about that while pretending it is a good faith argument and overlook how shitty and racist it looks to deal with her in this fashion."

This is a routine thing that whenever racism, sexism and similar come up, someone wants to go to town and nitpick something in a way that looks extremely dismissive of the very existence of the problem because they want to argue they aren't guilty of something. Some people have an expression for that along the lines of "moves to innocence" -- in other words, it is vastly more important to most White people to insist "I'm not a racist and I don't do that and that's not how hiring works" than to actually talk about how racism does work and how to remedy it. Defending their own claimed innocence is their highest priority rather than working on understanding how racism persists and what needs to be done to remedy it.

"Last hired and first fired" was very much a known and standard thing for a lot of years and you have not provided any citations and I haven't gone looking because this style of arguing is so bad faith I don't want to engage it by agreeing that I need to "prove" that long-known practice remains true.

There can be lots of ways that still happens without any hiring managers intentionally discriminating against Blacks. There are lots of ways that someone can be effectively removed from the pipeline before it gets to the point of applying for a particular job which is one of the things that contributes to people fighting over the few qualified candidates who do apply and have certain traits.
At the very least, every company hosted on AWS should be evaluating whether they are liberal enough to stay in Amazon's good graces.
Read what you just wrote 3 or 4 times over. Who is the mob? Stripe? A billion dollar company who has one small board of directors who made this decision?

What am I underestimating? The power of a company to deprive people of their income? Oh, you mean every single company on earth?

History is riddled with stories that start just like this? Yes, history has one example of a story that starts with a fascist mob invading the government, and then the liberal mob banned them and then... wait a second that's not how the story went.
The problem here, and I am not disagreeing with you or blaming you for this, is the Republican Party spent four decades telling us ceding control of things to the marketplace and private industry was going to make the world better. That they are now hoist by their own petard is something for a better person than me to not laugh at.
Freedom of speech was created when there were many distributed newspapers. If one newspaper decided not to publish your piece, you could go to another. There was not a cabal of newspapers that controlled 99% of information distribution, like do Twitter, Facebook, and Google. This is not something the founders ever could have foreseen.

For all intents and purposes, freedom of speech has flatlined in America. What will bring it back?
Can you actually point to even one specific instance of Trump calling for any of this?
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The whole "unquestioning obedience" thing is what freaks me out the most. Truly people are right when they say that religion is fundamentally about control.
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Stop downplaying a literally terrorist attack on the nation's Capitol.
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Stripe hasn't been around that long. I'm sure they can find another payment processor.

And if they can't, well, we all know Republicans don't trust filling out documents (i.e. ballots) when it isn't done in person. So perhaps the best solution is for supporters to drive to their local GOP office and hand deliver the cash.
I have zero thumbnails/previews in some of the GTK filepicker instances, but not others. Signal Desktop shows previews in a pane to the right. Thunderbird shows no previews at all.
The standard answer of calories in and calories burned is scientifically accurate.

Processed foods created and delivered by grocery chains and by restaurants are the culprit.

Ultimately, our appetites will be reprogrammed by the same genetic technology used for miracle cures.

You will be able to have your cake and eat it too - but you will have no appetite for sugar.
Yes, first Alex Jones, first Gab, then Trump himself, then Parler, then the Trump’s campaign. Among the other examples of conservatives being censored by bit tech peppered in.

Are sure this is a good example to use against it being a slippery slope?

FFS, I’m not even a conservative but I have backbone and know I would be furious if this was the other way. Why is ideological consistency so rare?
> Without an uncensorable currency, any political adversary -- especially an incumbent -- can just coerce payment processors into blocking payments to their opponents through threats of imprisonment or violence against a handful of executives.

How is this a good faith argument. You’ve jumped a situation where somewhere is being deplatformed and banned from various services for encouraging violence. To someone will use violence to kick someone off platforms. Coercing payment processors in that manor would be illegal. So, how exactly are we on the path to fascism? This is absolutely wild to me, that a textbook fascist being banned from things is being spun as... fascism.
> Challenge there is that it doesn't fit the narrative that Tether give about the demand being from "institutional investors"

Market makers and trading shops with 7-8 figure funds playing with riskier cryptos or trying to tap worldwide volume.

It's not MicroStrategy and Mass Mutual Insurance using Tethers
They are worried they won't be lent the money and the purchase will fall though.
This is the default, but some media sites have made autoplay videos _the_ next-gen whole page popups, so I gladly switched to block all.
It also saves a lot of bandwidth.
http://www.zachtronics.com/shenzhen-io/ <-- more fun
> Tax-exempt status in the US prohibits donated money being earmarked.

Is that true? According to for example [0], a donation earmarked for a particular individual is not tax-deductible, but a donation earmarked for a particular purpose can be. I think a donation earmarked to an open source project sounds more like the second than the first – they are free to give the money to any developer they wish, so long as that developer is going to use that money to work on the earmarked project.

[0] https://charitylawyerblog.com/2015/07/02/donations-benefitin...
Actually it's fraught with issues. "Hate speech" was used to stop the republishing of the cartoons that got the Danish guy murdered.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/why-im-withdra...
I have a feeling that at least half of people here are using the free market argument ironically. Because until last week it was usually republicans who advocated for the free market, no government regulation, and believing that markets sort themselves out magically. And now they are angry when the free market is going in the direction they don't like.
> Where was the outrage in June?

Good question.

Like with all the mainstream media that 'reported' in front of the federal buildings and businesses that got looted and burned down, the shootings in the CHAZ/CHOP areas and the continuous riots and chaos all over the summer last year as seen on Twitter, they told me that there was 'nothing to see here' and it was a 'mostly peaceful protest' which everyone knows is absolute BS.

Both the GOP and Democrats instantly condemned the Capitol riots, but as for the summer riots, but not a single condemnation from the media of those events or even the Democrats disavowing the summer riots in June that are still continuing to this day.

The outrage did not fit their narrative. Neither did it fit their definition of what they think a 'mob' is, since the main culprits behind it were BLM and Antifa, as usual.
Not everyone you disagree with is a nazi.
Irony?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
sure it is possible, these people all just agree that parler and trump are a danger to the country and want no part of it anymore. the combination of the riots and trump losing the election means there is both more motivation to jump ship and less risk from doing so. if trump had won the election none of these companies would take the risk.
Holy crap. It reads like a parody written by someone who read this thread and article. I was thinking it couldn't be as bad as people we're saying, but it's worse!
If Visa is a "utility," why are we clutching pearls when Trump is banned by them, but not Pornhub?
> In fact, large companies and enormous capital are required to take things from a "disruptive innovation" to a household name, to say nothing of providing an exit for SV startups.

I think this is becoming less and less true, unless one is competing with the tech giants directly. In the past enormous capital investment was required to build out the minimum viable capacity needed to serve larger customers or market segments. Today you can rent that capacity. In the future more and more types of capacity can become rentable, such as logistics, compliance, manufacturing, etc.
Did she tweet anything more than Pelosi being removed from the chambers? If so you could see it as trying to tell the mob to basically back off because they wouldn't find her.

The other tweet (about 1776) is more concerning but it's a different issue.
Lol. This reminds me of the cases where parties have someone run for election with a similar/identical name to the opposition and thereby split the vote to win.
It might just as well lead to an angry right wing mob throwing you in jail, because you have given up fundamental principles for short term political expedience.

Twitter is currently suspending lots of left wingers, in order to maintain a semblance of neutrality.

Once you allow deplatforming as an acceptable tool, do not be surprised when it gets used against you.
I’d start with Spring Boot and maybe just a simple CRUD web service.
...and after winning they promptly put down another attempted revolution, then passed laws against further violent revolution and working with foreign governments against the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_rebellion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_sedition_act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act
Labelling average Americans as fascists is the reason why Trump got 75 million votes.
As a radio hobbyist I found this fascinating.

There is a large amount of literature on the design of old-style radio circuits (MF and HF, eg shortwave), but surprisingly little available on the design of modern VHF/UHF consumer electronics.

In particular I found it interesting how the manufactures coped with the crazy proliferations of different TV broadcast standards around the world.

The authors home page at https://www.maximus-randd.com/ looks like being a huge source of interesting reading for RF enthusiasts.
Look at beach photos from the 1920's and 1930's.

Back then, processed food was a loaf of bread or a glass of orange juice.
If I accidentally cut-and-paste from a text document, the absolute worst case scenario is that I lose the contents of the text in that document. It's a bad situation, but the damage is limited and contained.

If I accidentally cut-and-paste a file or directory, the damage could be immense. Years worth of important documents, records, photos, etc... could be gone, because the user's finger slipped and pressed CTRL+X, rather than CTRL+C.

Whether or not the operating system should be protecting users in this manner is fully debatable and a matter of opinion, but Apple's approach here is definitely safer (at the cost of being a bit more annoying)
You are free to create your own far-right payment bank and payment system. The fact that sites like 4chan and Stormfront continue to exist is a sign that no one's speech has been stifled, only inconvenienced.
In China WeChat (controlled by Tencent) refuses to open links to Taobao (controlled by Alibaba), giving some fake technical failure message. It has been like this for half a decade.
Please do not spread these unfounded conspiracy theories. If you are a developer and you don't agree with direction changes, you don't have to work on them, you can work in the direction of your choosing. AFAIK there are numerous forks of GNOME over the years that are still going.
I just set this up today and found that one also must install the xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-kde packages. I then added GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 to .profile and relogged.
> Linux still does not know how to deal with it other than 100% or 200%.

I've been using fractional scaling for years. I had to learn how to use xrandr, but it works great. Better than windows or macos in the end, I can specify exactly what I want where.
Shouldn't people be held accountable for their own actions at some point? Everyone should know that murder is illegal, even if <insert popular figure> says to kills someone, you should know not to.
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> If Visa is a "utility," why are we clutching pearls when Trump is banned by them, but not Pornhub?

Visa is not a utility.
I would be open to debating whether they should be one.

The flip side of such a designation is it would likely require the government indemnify Visa against fraud losses. The line between deplatforming for fraud risk (the ostensible reason for Visa’s aversion to porn) and for objectionable content is difficult to draw.
But looting is ok? As is pulling down historical statues and monuments?

Who gets to decide to the line? Do we get to vote for them?
Yeah looking at the PRs they're improperly marked as closed instead of merged because the contributors seems to merge manually.
You’ve hit on the unspeakable. No public figure can give a credible answer to your question while remaining logically consistent and in power.

“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” - George Orwell

Which is why so many factions in Washington are putting so much effort to undermine potential challengers as the American destiny is to be number 1. The moment another group becomes more powerful, they know that what you describe will occur.
Maybe I'm being naive but it seems like a larger problem is being ignored here that I feel I should call attention to.

This is going to piss people off and some of those people are going to be real, nothing-to-lose extremists. Actions like these though seemingly harmless in the short-term are going to radicalize the exact person/type of people that you do not want to radicalize.

Because a lot of high-ranking SV folks (and patrickc) are on here, please, for the sake of stability in the country, do not continue down this path.

This may seem innocuous now and purely a matter of principle, but this is a match to gasoline (in a multitude of ways).

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Please do not read this through whatever political lens you occupy, but instead through the lens of civility.
are you under the impression that the hollywood studios published an actual blacklist and openly admitted to collusion?

They didn't do that, just like the tech giants are not doing that now, as they take the same action at the same time against the same target.
It's easy to donate cryptocurrency to other people. From there getting it into cash can be a problem, but I can think of a million ways of doing it. Privacy technology helps a lot.
The mobs were not comparable.
It's entertaining how the left was so critical of the use of the word "terrorist" when talking about the War on Terror, but then immediately started throwing it around when it politically expedient.
Ask HN: Can farmers deny food based on the political beliefs of customers?
I've been given thought to the idea of companies denying service based on the political beliefs of customers, and it made me realize: conservatives control nearly the entire food production industry.

What would happen if conservatives set up a "conservative only" food supply? i.e. stopped selling food to areas that voted for Biden, etc.
In each case, you don't interact with or think about Indian classical music or whichever music you don't see as equally good. The only difference between the two is a vague, undefined abstract hierarchy that has no effect on behavior. In other words, a trivial, almost infinitesimal difference. In the end, the actual choice and action to pursue certain things is a far more definite statement as to what a person actually values and respects.
It's not a slippery slope because they're all saying the same things. The examples you listed are not a spectrum where it's leading to milder and milder forms of extremism.
Yes it was. MS seriously f'ed up with its firt iteration of Windows on ARM. And didn't commit hard enough on the current one.
This is terrifying. They'll be coming for Trump supporters next. Gmail dropping anyone who receives Trump spam? Anything is possible now.
This quote is deeply misleading. It's not completely clear but I think Rudy is talking about Biden, Trump and himself staking their reputations on the outcome of a fraud investigation.

The transcript and the speech is available here: https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/rudy-giuliani-speech-tr...

Over the next 10 days, we get to see the machines that are crooked, the ballots that are fraudulent, and if we’re wrong, we will be made fools of. But if we’re right, a lot of them will go to jail. Let’s have trial by combat. I’m willing to stake my reputation, the President is willing to stake his reputation, on the fact that we’re going to find criminality there.
Is Joe Biden willing to stake his reputation that there’s no crime there? No.

There is also a pause around the trial by combat comment that is not evident in the transcript so its probably worth listening to the speech to get the full context.
>Some of the good remains (code & documentation transparency)

Not after the infamous need-to-know memo.

Team docs visibility defaulted to "only to people I explicitly share with" for almost a year now.

It's only a question of time until code branches follow suit.
please quit equating terrorism with “differing opinion”

trump caused his followers to believe the election was a lie, and when they came to protest he egged them on to the capital building where they beat a police officer to death with an american flag while singing the anthem.

they beat him to death with an american flag and trump called them patriots after.

beat him to death sir, these patriots, our president said. wearing nazi tshirts, sir.

differing opinions? maybe you can find a better way to communicate your idea here
Antifa's not an organized thing like you keep saying it is. The Proud Boys, on the other hand...
True, they're different things.

But if a pol is good at their job they shouldn't get pushed out; we just need to find ways so that they don't remain by inertia alone.
Microsoft claims otherwise:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/internet-expl...

_Internet Explorer is a component of the Windows operating system and follows the Lifecycle Policy for the product on which it is installed._

Some of their sites are like Office365 will drop support, but only on 2021-08-17.
> And diving into complicated cloud infrastructure with a small business, if you're not already an expert on it, is a very uncertain endeavour in terms of whether you'll get everything set up right

I do not agree. The entire point of using cloud offerings as opposed to rolling your own, is cloud offerings are usually several orders of magnitude easier to configure. Using Event Hub, as an example, means that you're getting a similar experience to Apache Kafka, but without having to scale/configure everything yourself.

Sure, you have to become proficient with Event Hub, but becoming proficient with EH is probably 1/100th of the difficulty as becoming proficient enough in Kafka to support the same scalability/workload.
It’s not like the United Nations would stop existing. It’s also not as if interstate trade would stop (I mean, unless a state tried to literally enslave its population, that’d stop interstate trade really quick).

If South Africa couldn’t manage Apartheid due to pressure from other nations, there is zero chance Louisiana could magically reinstate slavery. This is an absolute straw man.
There are plenty of comments on HN in opposition to Visa and MasterCard stopping to work with Pornhub. Volume might not be the same, but that's hardly surprising.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25381920

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25379213
> One hallmark of the existing protected classes is they are somewhat objective

Another hallmark is they tend to be mostly immutable, or unchangeable voluntarily. Society generally doesn’t accept that it’s reasonable for a person to change their gender, sexual orientation, race, age etc in order to participate in all facets of society.

I don’t think political affiliation meets that standard. Although I imagine that some might consider their political affiliation to be as core their identity as religion.
You forgot the internet.
It seems like every single application had bits and pieces of what is needed but no one has still been able to offer the entire package.

- Zoom definitely has mastered the ease of logging in whether you have the application or not as well as the ability to see multiple people, but obviously they have had their privacy issues.

- Teams seems to have good screen sharing and chatting integrated as well as some other small features here and there, but if you dont have the application, it takes some time and the browser based isnt bad but could be better.

- Google Meet- All sorts of improvements are needed...

- Jitsi - Definitely has its positives but I have always had connection issues for whatever reason.

Would love to see Apple do something more with Facetime...