skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things some people have difficulty differentiating between:

- Being discriminated or insulted for being X

vs:

- Made fun or insulted with reference to X

Not getting a job, a promotion, or even simply heard by your colleagues because you're X is discrimination. Being treated worse because of X is discrimination. Being called anti-X slurs by people considering X being inferior is racism.

But being insulted or made fun of with reference to your X status might not be discrimination at all. Might just be an angry colleague or a colleague making a joke, and it might happen from each to every other member of the team.

E.g. if someone makes fun of an fellow British or German's or Texan's dev's accent, the team can just laught it off. Such jokes happen (or used to happen before fast-track-cancelling became a thing) all the time between young devs in teams.

But if the same is done with the same intent, but the person is e.g. Indian or Asian or Latino, many (especially outside the team or people new to one) make it all about racism and discrimination.

There's this idea that people must be 100% "professional", non joking, always zen-calm, all the time. That is, dry and passive aggresive.
That seems quite fair and even practical.
You can open separate Excel instances by holding ALT when starting it up (second time onwards). Not quite the same thing as you want, but think the undo behaviour you describe makes sense if you're working in two sheets that are linked in some way.
In this case, it isn't a neutral hypothesis.

Languages exist as part of culture. To extrapolate and assume that these Dutch results will translate into other languages, because languages are translatable and therefore equivalent, is to ignore culture.

For the same reason that what you know as "hand waving" is not neutral, the proposition deserves to be investigated rigorously in a way that isolates cultural signals from language, to the extent possible. That's a significant experimental challenge that warrants a scientific objectivity which is compromised by presuming the result.

But I may be reading too much into this, because I'm giving a reason why the results might translate. The original researchers don't even give that. They just say they think it will, without giving a reason. That's not science - it is speculation.

I'm fine with speculation and opinions. They have their uses and contexts. All I'm saying is that speculation and opinions are not science. The value of science arises precisely from where expectations are upended by experimental data.
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There was a time in the US when racist/cultural jokes about groups one was a member of were considered harmless and funny. But, for better or worse, that time is not now.

The set of things you can comfortably joke about at work is pretty small these days and almost never includes jokes about any kind of group identity.
The problem is not just a few hundred EUR if that standard is your core business, it's the 10's-100's that are roughly adjacent that if they were free you would just have on hand and use/adopt if it makes sense, but to have a price gatekeeper means you have to think about every single standard that might make sense to follow.
I wrote about my experience as a black developer not too long ago [1]. At first, you are shocked when you hear some insensitive comments made around you. Then you realize no one else even notices, so it must be something wrong with you.

Eventually you ignore it. When someone says something stupid, you rationalize it and move on. After all, you are only just here to do a job.

But then you get angry. You are angry at everything. No one understand why you are angry or why you blow things out of proportion. "Hey Carl didn't mean to offend you. It was just that one time." What they don't understand is that you've been hearing the same stupid jokes or comments for 15 years in your career.

In June of last summer, multiple companies contacted me to help them do something about diversity in their company. Here is what every company is excited to do: Diversity day, minority day, rainbow flag day, Awareness, BLM profile image, hashtags.

Here is what was incredibly hard to do: Hiring more black people. I interviewed hundreds of black people on their behalf, many highly qualified for the jobs. Not more than a 10 candidates got a reply for a follow up. So far I only know of one who was hired.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53180073
Sounds like a great idea. WOT did not work for general public, but scientists are very different.
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That's typical for London IME.
I tend to be skeptical of statistical analyses like this.

At the end of the day, it's usually someone who is paying or funding a task, and someone who will perform the task. The person performing the task wants to please the person funding it (in order to secure that funding). This commonly involves minimizing difficulty and giving optimistic estimates.

People who give straight answers (something like: this is really hard, it will take a lot of time, there are lots of unknowns, and might not be achievable given the budget) won't get the award. Those who overdo the bullshit and give transparently falsely optimistic estimates will not receive it either. So those who fall in the middle do end up getting the award.

TLDR being, model this effect Game Theoretically, where the "blowup factor" is derived from a Nash equilibrium between counterparties playing optimal strategies seeking to optimize their payoff.

Finally, take three companies:
Company A delivers a project in 50% of the time, and 50% under budget.
Company B fails to deliver the project, after consuming 100% of the budget.
Company C completes 90% of the project with 100% of the funding, and only needs 20% more money to finish it. The customer will most likely top them off, because they are so close, and it's a sunk cost.

Who makes the most money? Company C. Who is the biggest loser? Company A (despite being the best). Anyway, for my next trick, I'll explain why this same effect causes agile to make everything take longer, cost more, and make everyone more miserable.
Absolutely. Whiteboard interviews, as practiced by FAANG etc., are largely useless.

I've seen interviewers pose problems that took the likes of Dijkstra and Knuth years to solve the first time, yet somehow they expect candidates to solve two of them in 45 minutes. Unless you are actually Dijkstra reborn or Knuth you're unlikely to solve a problem of this type quickly unless you've seen it, or something very close to it, before.

So it's essentially selecting for some combination of how recently you took an algorithms course or qualifying exam, how comprehensive that course of study was, how much experience and success you have had in "programming" (aka algorithm puzzle) competitions, how much grinding you've done on hackerrank/leetcode/etc., and pure luck.

That being said, I suppose much of the content of medical boards or the bar exam has little to do with the actual practice of medicine or law, so I guess computing is not alone in terms of annoying hoops it makes people jump through. I just wish that algorithms qualifying exams were a standard thing that you could pass outside of a job interview and be done with, rather than something you have to suffer through repeatedly.
- Restaurants have to pay a big chunk of their margin to delivery apps.

- Consumers see increased food prices and other misc charges, greatly inflating their bill (sometimes up to 2x), and get a sub-par experience (long delivery times, cold food, incorrect orders).

- Drivers get no benefits, have to pay for fuel/depreciation/taxes, and sometimes end up making less than minimum wage.

- Uber Eats, Grubhub, Doordash etc. all lose billions of dollars every quarter (and are still valued in the tens to hundreds of billions).

I genuinely do not understand this industry.
> “In 60 years,” CFO Stuart Levy said on Thursday, “we’ve never made a dollar delivering a pizza. We make money on the product, but we don’t make money on the delivery.”

Domino's charges a $5.99 delivery fee whereas UberEats is charging me a $4.05 service fee plus a $3.49 delivery fee plus $2 CA Driver Benefits bringing its total fees to $9.54.
Easier said than done. The complete history of science is the human struggle to boil down the mathematical modelling of nature to its fundamentals.
PGP is the giant, the shoulders of which many modern crypto apps/protocols stand on. PGP was the implementation that brought proper, trustable crypto to the masses. It was a great solution, filling a void where there was no good solution before it.

It's time is done though, for communicating between people. There are many better solutions where you don't need to worry about having the public key of every person you wish to communicate with. You no longer need to unlock your key every time you send a message to "prove" you sent it. The world has moved on to better technical solutions to those problems.

PGP was brilliant for its time. It still is brilliant for a number of uses cases (like verifying your Debian .deb file is signed by a legit Debian person)

However, communicating with people is no longer one of them. People HAVE invented/reinvented how to communicate securely. And the world's better for them having done so.
> it still isn't racist

I said it was pointless, regardless of whether or not racism is part of the problem.
CSV is not interoperable as you lose the formulas.
>One manager asked me "What was it like growing up Native American? Was it hard? Tell me about how hard it was for you." It felt gross.

While "diversity via token hires", and "faux-diversity celebrations with folklore food, music, etc" are fake-ass and crinzy, I don't see the manager's question as gross.

It's a legitimate question a human being can make to another. We're not just individual snowflakes, we're also people with certain traits and members of certain cultures with certain histories.

It makes sense for someone to ask us about those aspects of our life.

Of course, perhaps the way he did it was patronizing or fake, or whatever.

But really, it's a question one might legitimately ask another they met at a bar or an airplane, or some such...
I feel that Google has messed up its Stadia offering big time by overselling the cloud gaming features and trying to do a lot too soon (stadia exclusive games etc.) but I was hoping that Stadia succeeds. The concept of cloud as computing platform to play games rather than locally owned consoles just makes sense to me and Google was in a unique position to implement as they have data center infrastructure in place along with experience delivering consumer facing products. Now I'm thinking if Xbox started at Google instead of at Microsoft then it would have been killed too soon and we would only have Playstation as a kind of monopoly in higher end gaming. I don't think Google would be so patient to keep investing for years to nurture that biz.
You can be the most resilient person to real life work/emergency/deadline pressure and stress and still get stage fright when giving talks or being in an interview.
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In a supermarket, yes (but they're moving away from this). Local shops tends to be better.
There are plenty that started in 2020. I cannot recommend any of them to you.
To be fair, that's not true everywhere, but it is true in many places. Though in some places where it is allowed, someone on the outside has to buy it for you. Not everyone has someone on the outside.
I used to think that I hated excel, and that as a DataScientist-TradingDeskAnalyst, python or R would save the world. Now I realize that my hatred for Excel has nothing to do with the software itself, but the way it is used for political motives. If your VP or Top Trader or Boss choose to keep everying on 'his' excel, its not for sofwtare quality. Its for control. You can run away with your excel-data-model on a USB stick. Not so true for SaaS. You can keep it on your PC, and not share it with others. You can put passwords without IT knowing about it. Excel = Shadow IT department with hidden political goals.
The problem you have described is a single-step problem, and the process you work through gives a satisfactory answer to the question you have asked. So my answer to

> Would you say that there is a problem with EUT up to this point?

Is no, not for this problem, and question.

However, consider figure 2 (and correspondingly equation 2) from the paper. It considers a problem very similar to the one you pose, but with a couple of important differences:

1. We maintain a stock of "utility", and are aiming to maximise this stock over multiple iterations of the bet.

2. The utility response is multiplicative rather than additive.

If we consider the expected utility of taking the bet at any point in time given some wealth W we obtain a positive utility (0.5 * 1.5W + 0.5 * 0.6W = 1.05W). However, multiplicative wealth is not an ergodic process, and so the expected change over time does not reflect that expected utility, and after T timesteps is something like (1.5^(0.5T) * 0.6^(0.5T)).

Of course, as mentioned in the paper, some processes are ergodic - in particular changing the utility response to be additive rather than multiplicative. Overall, the point is that one must consider the nature of the problem carefully.

> Would Ole Peters say that this use of probabilities to make decisions is incorrect because it assumes that I'm interacting with a copy of myself in parallel universe?

I think the answer to this is no - not in the problem as you have framed it. However, if we extend it in the way I have outline above then we clearly need to be more careful.
Here's the letter: https://www.plainsite.org/documents/242a2g/california-dmv-te...
The only time I've ever had a panic attack was when I was white boarding some basic stuff in an interview while I was hungover. Obviously being hungover is non-ideal and one wouldn't expect the interview experience to account for that but nonetheless I have always found it interesting that it took that combination to put me over the edge.

I remember leaving as quickly as I could and thinking that I had to find a place to sit down as soon as possible. I made it to Washington Square Park and just sat at a bench for about 30 minutes feeling like I was slowly coming out of a tunnel. Never happened before nor since.
This is very informative. Thank you for clearing some of this up for me. I didn't realize audio was this complex.
I think it’s interesting that libraries like Immutable.js, Immer and Ramda show that there is a real appetite amongst JavaScript developers to embrace a more functional approach, but at the same time languages like ClojureScript, Elm, and Rescript don’t see more adoption.

I suppose it’s all a trade off. The pain of jumping through hoops with the libraries mentioned above vs dealing with an entirely different language and having to hire/train for it.
Here's Coleman Hughes in an abbreviated version:
https://twitter.com/coldxman/status/1305959575930142723?lang...

This is the first time I've heard of this push-back.

I always thought that the words of Martin Luther King: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." was a good approach?
However, life isn't all about avoiding risk. Sometimes you should seek out risk to make you a better person. Or, if you're part of a company, to make you a better company. Telling people why they weren't hired / were fired helps them improve, and taken to the limit, it helps the entire society improve.
Societies which aren't/weren't heavily monetized (and did most of their transactions in kind) tended to not really understand most of the basic theories of modern economics. Merchants (like you just described) actually tended to be held in very low esteem precisely because they were applying the foundations of ideas like supply and demand - ideas that weren't well understood, and thus it just seemed like merchants were preying on you and providing nothing of value in return. tl;dr you can't just undo monetization but keep everything else intact.
That wasn’t the reason. I went to the ER with no insurance. While I was lying in a bed between visits from the doctor a woman came in and wanted payment for the ER. I asked in no uncertain language if it covered my ER visit and explained I knew the doctor would charge me separately. She said yes, so I paid.

I went home. The doctor billed me. I paid. The X-ray tech billed me (a surprisingly small amount). I paid. The hospital never billed me. Then the collections calls started.
Similar story here.

Came to London with my existing (traditional) engineering company.

After about 9 months (During COVID) got a series of offers from VC financed startups around London for a 90-100% raise,

so after that happening for about 2 months I interviewed at a few places, got offered a role and then buggered off to somewhere willing to pay me properly.

Exit interview with the old company

Them: "What can we do to keep staff",

Me: "Pay people closer to the market rates outside comparable companies...",

Them: "Oh we can't afford to do that".
Your overall stance seems to require the assumption that “diversity on paper” is the more common/significant outcome relative to “diversity of opinion”. Do you happen to have any info which might support such an assumption?
when people ask me seriously why i keep running my own mailserver i point them at stories like this.

on a more serious note, google is (in)famous for their non-existant support. if you're dumb enough to make most of your life depend on it... you kinda deserve it, in a way.

and to those that will come and downvote... remember when amazon booted parler and everyone agreed (me included, don't get me wrong) because amazon is a private company and owes nothing to parler? well, keep in mind that google is a private company that owes you nothing... even support, google does not owe you support (strictly speaking).
I'd love to hear your standpoint on the agile.
I wrote about it back when they showed off the first one here in Seattle. Not sure how much they've updated it but it's largely RGB cameras in the ceiling and weight sensors in the shelves:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/21/inside-amazons-surveillanc...
Neuralink is neuroscience theater (2020)
I cannot believe that smart people still repeat that argument.

Until you have something like the human brain powering the car you cannot just use "two eyes"
Where's the contradiction?

Things can be made non-profitable outside of government interventions like fines of tax incentives etc.

In fact, the parent's position is an 100% consistent libertarian position: they believe that such a problem will (or wont) be solved by the market itself, and that companies should follow such incentives not being forced by laws.

E.g. diversity would be good economically for companies, because else they will lose black, asian, indian, etc talent they could hire.
From my time working within an academic environment, I can attest this is absolutely true. Especially since the gatekeepers (older professors, etc) have a general interest to see these older articles cited more and referenced. It's not malicious, it's just a fact of how these things work. It's also why the general public's knowledge of how science works needs to be adjusted. Science is not a "100% correct" or "100% not correct" thing, and unfortunately I've seen too many institutions and individuals use that myth to try and push an agenda.

It's a combination of institutional momentum, combined with the fact that a specific narrative is politically expedient. The unfortunate thing is bad decisions, made off of bad science, regardless of the reasons external to the science, generally lead to bad outcomes.
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Mine gets between 50-150mbps, sometimes 200-300 down. Up is between 20-40 from the tests I have done. Exactly as promised. My ping has gone from 40-60ms, and now is regularly around 20. This was just in a matter of months, and also me fucking with it for hours to try to find the best placement.

I still have the occasional drop out... I can't make it through a video conference, or wifi call without a freeze up or audio drop. My Starlink app says "No obstructions" but also says "Obstructed for 4 minutes" on a regular basis. Many people seem to echo this. I'm not honestly sure if this is what to expect or not.

I generally switch to my 1.5Mbps DSL line for phone calls and video conferences, which lowers the quality a ton, but at least I don't have to ask people to repeat the last 30 seconds. Web surfing and downloading large files is blazing fast, and multiple people sharing the link seems to have no impact on the quality. Video streaming is fantastic. Another downside is that you're behind a CGNAT, so you'll never get a public IP address. Then their router puts you behind another NAT...

StarLink is better than nothing for sure. But if Comcast didn't want $25,000 to run 550 feet of cable to my house, I would probably use that instead. I now have to call in an arborist or someone and top some trees that I am guessing are causing temporary obstructions, but I'm not really sure. I have a lot of trees on my property.
> Let's say an interviewer reads your resume and is interested in a project.

That's not what they were talking about. The complex problem is supposed to be novel to the interviewee.

> In fact, silence is encouraged because the interviewer would much rather give you time to think over a spur of the moment answer.

Yes, they certainly say that. But for a normal person trying to figure out a novel problem, ignoring everything that's going on and sitting there silent for 30 seconds or longer while the person who single-handedly can determine whether you pass or fail - often depending on their mood - stares at you is incredibly difficult. And if their mood isn't good, they absolutely see the silence as not knowing the answer and push for you to move on. I had it happen to me on a Facebook interview. I personally can't concentrate enough to think through a difficult, multi-layered problem in that situation. It is in no way reflective of what I can do while working.

Online coding tests are more than sufficient. And a discussion afterwards about said tests is sufficient to make sure there was no cheating.
To put it in perspective, ~$1,000,000,000,000 USD is being secured by a decentralized system by using that much electricity. How much electricity/oil/other power is used by the US military to ensure the US government stays in power and the US currency retains its value? Surely orders of magnitude more energy than what is used for Bitcoin.

The number of transactions that are completed on the base layer is not the relevant metric. As the technology matures and as Bitcoin is more fully monetized, transactions will happen on higher layers. The "high" energy cost is necessary to secure the decentralized system.
Ah yes because any voiced criticism of Tesla must be rooted into big short money.
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Samsung TV software is horrible and laggy - true. But there is an AppleTV+ app for them as long as it's 2019+ release year.

But not for previous model years - which happen to be good enough for Netflix, Prime, Disney+, HBO Max and every other streaming service out there. .
Google image search cements national stereotypes of 'racy' women
I really like the juxtaposition of your HN user name being an alias and your 'artist' name being your real name. :) Like the first song Im hearing, listening to more now.
> a 3.5 month non-suspended sentence is not something that is handed out lightly for a white collar issue

Only a single American banker saw jail time from the 2008 mortgage crisis https://ig.ft.com/jailed-bankers/