skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NO! I have noticed that many white Americans cannot fathom how patronizing and "otherizing" are many of the attitudes they take. "Oh my god, it must have been hard to grow up as a POC, you must be so strong". " I am fully aware of my privilege , I had loving parents and a functional family, I must not assume other people had that luck" . "Racists cannot understand that the expectations for POC must be different because they have been oppressed all their lives"

If the applicant was white, should the manager have asked them; "Oh wow as a half Italian/half English person , how was to grow up in the suburbs of New Jersey, was it difficult? Was it hard? Gee I cannot begin to imagine how strong you are"
'Predisposed to do job' doesn't mean 'better at doing job'. It means 'more likely to do job'. Which is what the linked article studies - the fact that as women get more choices, they choose STEM less and less.

Boys are unquestionably more likely to take an interest in tech than girls, and no amount of 'equality' or active enticement aimed at girls has been able to shift that balance. The only thing left is to set diversity targets and discriminate the way that is described in TFA. And it's condescending and harmful as hell towards women who are actually good at what they do in these fields.

Convincing society that every workplace should have a 50/50 gender split is one of the most nefarious things large corporates have done. They've doubled the size of the workforce while not paying a cent more for it. Which is why it takes 2 people working full time today to have the same lifestyle as one person could have funded 50 years ago. Feminism was subverted into enabling corporate greed.

The messaging was quietly shifted from 'all women should have the ability to work if they choose to' to 'all women should work'.
Why don't you reply to those comments with your criticism then instead of leaving us wondering?
There is also an option to have the computer read moves to you and you can make moves and query the state of the board by typing commands. Streamers use this to play blindfolded, while the stream shows the board position normally to viewers.
Many of the apps will actually batch multiple orders from the same restaurant to multiple near(ish) dropoffs.
I don't know where you are, but with so many medical workers now vaxxed in US, my impression is hospitals/etc are mostly eager to catch up on delayed non-pandemic procedures.

If your own nearest option is still slow or requires a personally-nominated donor, other providers offering the freeze-dried pills, perhaps even via telemedicine, might be an option. Good luck!
Show HN: Careful Clues: Matchmaking and timer for codenames [Svelte, Firebase]
Tell me more about these developers that don't know SQL. How is that possible? What line of work is this in?
The blue one with the dip around 2009?
Agile plays this scenario out every two weeks, instead of once per project.
99.99%+ of people are not willing to take that 2 minutes though
Thanks for the reply. I don't bias against backend development. Moreover, I am considering this option as one of the best. I haven't listed it because it seemed to me that already too many options on the list.
I think we need to make the clear distinction between "Science" - the application of the Scientific Method, and "Academia" - the set of institutions, processes, and people who should be applying the scientific method, but are actually just trying to make a living in a messed-up system like the rest of us.

Science is always right in the long term.

Academia can be very wrong for a very long time.
My wife uses Excel almost exclusively as a text layout tool. To the extent that while building an event plan in Excel she asked me, “What is 29 + 17?”
That's awesome, Navneet! I have heard from big hedge fund managers, and seen first hand working at "cutting edge" 401K fintech companies that spreadsheets are the backoffice workhorse in many many companies doing serious business and handling serious data.

I am curious about one aspect though: Debugging spreadsheets is seriously hard. How do you help customers verify their spreadsheet has the right things they are looking for, avoiding regressions due to a random change by some inexperienced person, etc.?

Also, at what point do you see companies move from spreadsheets to simply hiring developers to do what they want? It seems like beyond a point, spreadsheets can get in the way, and the company has enough resources to hire a team to build custom internal tools.

Good luck with Coefficient!
building that in Zotero would be great. I all ready like that they flag retracted papers.
Japan, Germany, South Korea, Sweden, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, and Taiwan all could've had their own nuclear arsenals by now. The reason they do not is that the US undertook to protect them.

Do you wish all those countries had nuclear arsenals? If so, I recommend that you read _Command and Control_ by Strasser: it is difficult the make sure the whatever nuclear policy is chosen by a government is actually followed.
It has to a lot to do with statistics, but is not usually classified as statistics per-se, but I think the entire field that includes Random Projections (e.g. Johanson-Lindenstrauss Lemma), Compressive Sensing and friends.

Statistically speaking, it says that regardless of the dimension that data is presented in, a random linear projection to (slightly more than) the intrinsic dimension of the data captures the underlying topology.
edit: As noted in your other comment, the expectation with a standard utility function is actually negative, thus the premise for part of the below is incorrect, and therefore so are its conclusions. A more faithful reproduction of Peters' argument is that EE recovers the correct solution without requiring the addition of an arbitrary utility function, and corresponding appeals to irrationality.

original comment:

Yes, you are correct that in the initial framing it is just a single gamble, but of course the point is that an individual's life is made up of many gambles. Expected utility assures us that this bet has a positive expectation, and so naively we might think that iterating it also produces a positive expectation sequence, but it does not, as we saw.

We can recover a correct answer by considering the expected utility of the whole sequence, but there is nothing in the problem to suggest that we should do so, unless we acknowledge the cause of the issue, which is that the ergodic hypothesis does not hold.

The point of the whole "parallel universe" thing is that even though the expectation in a single step may be positive, an individual never realises that ensemble average - they only ever realise a time average. Thus, the time average is the more useful object of study.
Will this benefit the Turkish side of Cyprus as well?

That would surprise me. Greek Cyprus and Greece aren't exactly friends with Turkey. To put it mildly.

Would they have a common grid on Cyprus? I doubt it.. There's so much unresolved bad blood there (thinking about Varosha).
The article is talking about annual CO2 emissions, not total CO2 levels. CO2 levels and their rate of increase are a lagging indicator; it takes many years for a reduction in emissions to show up in CO2 levels.

The models all assume that CO2 emissions will continue to increase; the main difference in the assumptions is how fast emissions are assumed to increase.
Was it the size that drove your hardware decision?

I know it's not as portable but I've been running Arch with i3 on my Thinkpad Yoga for several years now without issue. You're absolutely right Linux is not ready for a tablet only device but I find the compromise of getting an attached keyboard is worth it.
You're making the assumption that all wrongs can be corrected or made right, and that's often not true. We want to believe that everything can be magically fixed if we just come up with a clever enough solution. But many things don't work that way, and can't be made right, even if someone wants to do so. For example if you best friend sleeps with your spouse, you can forgive everyone, you can get divorced, you can move on, but there's no "making the wrong right".
Render looks very cool, thanks for sharing :)

Monoliths and serverless are not exclusive. Serverless applications can and should be built as monoliths and should be able to run as a monolith e.g. via a container. Any platform that prevents you from doing this is part of the 90% bad group.

Your knowledge probably mostly carries over. Stateless application architectures were around before serverless, Serverless just enforces most of the patterns. For example, Rails promotes a monolithic pattern that scales horizontally thanks to the stateless application principle of maintaining state inside the database (or separated data store) and only having ephemeral state on the server. This wasn't always obvious. But nowadays we know not to store images directly on the server's hard drive.

Rails couldn't have anticipated the computation or memory constraints of serverless, which is why it's incompatible. Serverless is basically just stateless application design within a cpu and memory constrained system.
COBRA is equally or even more expensive than private insurance at times. COBRA just guarantees that you get to keep the same insurance/coverage that you had with your employer but now you pay all costs out of pocket including employer portion which usually is a lot. To add to this, some employers charge an admin fee of 1-2% because they are managing this for you even after employment. So in total, you could pay upto 102% of the total cost of premiums.
I'd wait for evidence of no problems over at least 12 months of regular passenger flights before I'd trust that plane again.
> Just taking noisy camera data and turning it into a de-noised picture.

I think this is a huge simplification of the actual problem. Not only do you have to denoise the data, you have to use the data to generate models of 3D objects in space. Maybe you could argue that exact 3D models are not necessary, but IMO any neural network that can drive at Level 4/5 needs to approximate 3D space in some layer.

This is incredibly difficult; we have an entire region of the brain dedicated to for this exact purpose (the visual cortex). This region has the benefit of millions of years of evolution. We also have the advantage that we can predict 3D models based on everyday experience; we don't know how to encode that knowledge into a neural network efficiently. That's not even mentioning the latency requirements that driving in the real world would impose on such a network.
If it makes you feel better, all of the actual car stuff, ECU's BMU's TCU's, etc will remain not-smart for a long while longer. Worst case, your head unit bricks and the HUD flashes a bunch of lights at you
If you're a culture warrior, you have to force everything into being a cultural battleground.
In terms of interoperability, on the greatest things about Excel is Ole Automation. You can write a C++ or Visual Basic or C#, program that can programmatically drive Excel. You can pretty much do whatever you want.
How many times do we have to rediscover Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' and write articles about ideas that were well understood 60 years ago?
> 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?

I recently heard a radio interview where the guest explained that part of her character was "blackness", and she was offended by intimations that her character could be separated from her racial identity. (The context was a caller who had recited MLK's famous line.)

Taken at face value it necessarily implies a partial refutation of some of MLK's premises, and indeed of some of the premises behind the mid-century Civil Rights movement and even the American Experiment. Suffice it to say MLK can hardly be said to represent the sentiments of all black Americans, let alone all Americans.

That said, there's a ton to unpack there, and decades later many of the concepts that we as a society are implicitly discussing are quite different, such as what we mean by "character". (I seriously doubt MLK had a sense of self that was any less black than the guest speaker.) So the two sentiments may still be reconcilable. Certainly I don't think the guest's expression of her opinions would have been as well considered and articulated as MLK's. (Ditto the caller's.)
It depends on the role. I've always worked in sysadmin/devops, so a lot of programming is under duress of an outage. Even for the "regular engineers", I need to know that they can fix a production bug in real time, or at least figure out what to roll back.

And even for the non-duress situation, there are plenty of situations during normal work where a senior engineer will have to jump in and contribute to a problem they've never seen before.
There's multiple problems with a Rooney Rule:

1. You'll lose candidates to companies that close faster. In fact, you'll likely lose the best candidates.

2. Can be gamed by hiring managers. If they want to close a rec fast, they just find an unqualified member of an underrepresented group to interview to hit the Rule. Waste of time for everyone.

3. Demographic targeting (especially beyond gender) has a variety of issues (arbitrary definitions, unknowns about whether candidates are in what demographic, etc.).
It's better to have leftover fruit than to use plastic. Solve the leftover fruit problem with marked down bags if they can't be put to some other purpose.
What I’d Change About Different Philosophy Fields
Kind of disappointing that all the top rated comments here are about people's personal opinions about interviewing, and don't engage with the pdf at all. What I found most interesting was Table 1 - it shows that in the unsupervised interview the average score of women was 3/3, while in the supervised version it was less than 1/3. Small sample sizes, but still seems suggestive. (I CTRL-Fed but didn't find much discussion of it in the paper.)
Why stop reading there? No one is right all the time and the author is probably younger than you. But her experience is also different from yours. It would be good not to assume they are wrong simply because you think they misunderstood
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Interesting. I will retry the k's when I have the opportunity.
If something is driving you nuts, ask on a forum, because excel is EXTREMELY flexible and used in some pretty high volume environments and the original developers really paid attention to user input (for a long while that stopped).

In many cases you are just not fully up to speed with the features in windows / excel.
And here's the latest one, Deliveroo set to float with an expected $10bn valuation: Deliveroo: taste test [1], (non-paywalled version) [2]

From the article: That Deliveroo could not turn a profit in a year when sales were up more than half is concerning. It is operating in a ferociously competitive market. Deliveroo is proud of its gross profit margin — as a percentage of gross transaction value it is up from 5.8 per cent in 2018 to 8.8 per cent in 2020 — but it is slim by the standards of other industries.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/17dc510c-b396-4dc5-84a8-243a5bfa7...

[2] https://archive.is/i1Mor
Let's say your company has a workforce where the minorities are only 5% but they are let's say 30% of the population.
Would that be fair to assume that Color-blindness has failed? Or perhaps there is some kind of biais that was missed and the policies were not as color blind as they pretended to be? In that case, in order to address it, would you rather entirely ignore the issue of race (and fail again) or perhaps have policies that want to address this inequality?

Lots of people agree that color blindness would be the ideal world, but seeing that the world is not color blind, trying to advocate for it seems like a way to continue pushing an injustice instead of addressing it.
SpaceX, in the last decade or so, has:

* Achieved dominance in the commercial launch market, arguably with an even more substantial technology lead.

* Performed the first landing and reuse of an orbital rocket booster.

* Developed a heavy-lift version of that rocket that has the largest payload to LEO out of any currently operational launch vehicle. Also with reusable boosters.

* Delivered a new human spaceflight system to NASA, the first such system since the Shuttle ~4 decades ago despite decades of promises and plans to the contrary. Starliner, the incumbents' entry for the commercial crew program, has not yet flown and is not expected to until later this year at the earliest.

* Developed the first full flow staged combustion cycle engine to leave the ground under its own power.

It seems really questionable to bet against them at this point, and minimizing their accomplishments to date is really, really silly. Not sure why you have to involve the rover in your comparison, though—it's also a monumental achievement, but it's barely comparable to the domains SpaceX is working in with their launch vehicles.
[WARNING: unfiltered and raw] I'm in the valley. Have been here for 20+ yrs. Worked for FAANG+M and startups. I was a hiring mgr eventually turning into prgm mgr due to ceilings I met described below. Here's my 2cents raw.

The valley generally holds ppl with VISA hostage and they prefer cheaper caught in visa trap workers. Unless you bring extraordinary knowledge and skillset, in particular Sr dev/Scientist/PhD in AI/ML/CV. Coming here would be a disappointment.

You are in the "2nd" silicon valley now making good money. I would stay there and if so inclined. Best you find a position there of an American Silicon Valley based Co you could either move laterally or travel/visit. I think that's the far better way to see what's up here before leaping into the dark waters. Silicon isn't what it used to be.

The visa trapped people are generally chinese/indian. Low salary, stuck for years competing in cutthroat environment. Not to sound too racist, if you're 6' white male with ppl mgmt, then silicon valley maybe your calling. An almost guaranteed meal ticket to success if you can make the right connections. PS> I'm not 6' white male. Places you would be good for if you're 6' white male: FAANG+M and startups.

Much disillusionment here.

Your "problem" isn't so much making more. It's simply getting more and that is a typical problem one faces anywhere. Best you boost your skillset, move to another Co for more pay. That's the only way you make more regardless of location.

TL'DR: Again, if you're trying to make more money, best you boost your skillset and move to different company. Countless stories of people jumping co and in few years literally make double coming back to the same Co. One can easily boost 10-20% then move BACK to for another 10-16%. It's incredulous how you can make the earth move while at the company, but companies are unwilling to move your salary instep. However, you can move out increase your skillset a tad, then move back only get 20% more. Why? Because NO company will give you a 20% raise. NO company. However, you coming in from outside with bit more experience in new stuff. Some reason they will pay whatever you want.

PS> Didn't address your age. 35 is pushing it. here in the valley, at 35, your boss may be at least 5yrs if not more younger.

PPS> You must be single, regardless of age. Wife....ok, kids...you won't get hired

Do I sound bitter? Biased? Full of Resentment? yup :) If you're a minority w no EQ but plenty of IQ, there is a glass ceiling made of gorilla glass v99
I honestly wonder if we are not witnessing some embrionic state of "digital direct democracy" technology ...
I meant uniformity of rules across institutions. I don't have an issue with different rules for different types of prisoners. Just that those have some uniformity across the various places. Right now, you can do prison time in a county jail (yes, serving an actual sentence in jail), in a state prison, or in a federal prison. The state prisons, particularly, are all over the place on rules and environment. And those serving sentences in county jails are also typically getting the short end of the stick, as the facility rules aren't made for long-term inmates.
Some recent-ish research (I can't remember enough keywords to find it right now) has found that doing this actually hurts women's success rate a couple percentage points.
The branding seems mostly pretty consistent to me.

Amazon Fresh is just their standard groceries. Whether you buy online for delivery or visit in-person.

To me it would be more confusing if they had different names.

And Go is a totally different type of store, an automated convenience store. (I'll admit Go Grocery seems confusing together with Fresh but maybe that's a regional branding thing?)

Are Fresh prices really that high at their physical locations? I'm in NYC and order Fresh online because it's sooo much cheaper than local grocery stores, usually by 30% or more.
Over 10% of OWA servers hacked
One of my tasks as a young developer was to make a shell script faster. The systems engineers (who used this script to setup and configure large scale network management systems) were complaining that the "menu" took 60 seconds or more between selections.

Ok, sure, sounds easy. Then I opened the script... 9000 lines. After reading and understanding what it was supposed to do, I rewrote it in 1500 lines (still basic SunOS unix shell code), and with reasonable use of internal data structures for caching so only the first menu visit required a time hit. Beyond that, it was 1 second for menu selections. To say the system engineers were pleased would be an understatement.

My manager was pleased but also displeased, because he was the author of the 9000 line monstrosity.
It's possible they would build the "integration tower" first, perfect the catch, and only then build the launch mount.
I've seen this before with hiring for women. Ending up as a 'diversity hire' can be absolutely awful, especially if you are really out of your depth. Even if you aren't a diversity hire, the fact that it happens a lot can sew that seed in your mind.

I think you mostly have two scenarios:

1. An employer has some/much systematic bias in their hiring process and they use this 'positive' bias hiring practice to negate it. I suspect this is what most people believe is happening.

2. An employer has zero/little bias in their hiring practices, but the people most suitable for the job happen to not come from some minority (due to any number of reasons or issues). They then turn down the most suitable candidate to hire a less suitable minority to make an excel sheet somewhere look right. I suspect this happens all of the time.

A real life scenario is a police department in the UK who were slammed by management for having only one black officer in their local unit. When they went away and crunched the numbers, they found that the one black officer they had actually over-represented the percentage of black people in the local community.

As I've said many times before, we really need to make a decision about equal opportunity vs equal outcome. You can't have both. Unequal outcome is _not_ direct evidence for unequal opportunity. I think currently society pushes towards equal outcome under some delusion that eventually they will have both equal opportunity and outcome.
It's a few hundred for one person, but buying it for your whole company is so expensive they won't even tell you the price: https://www.iso.org/terms-conditions-licence-agreement.html#...
I used to work for Bernard J. Ebbers, have colleagues who worked for Sanjay Kumar, and friends who worked for Gaston Bastiaens. Take this article seriously.
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