skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's definitely possible for a stock to be overvalued. If you note my comment explicitly acknowledged this with the possibility that bad news could force a sale at well under the current price: the point was that there are very few possibilities where that value wouldn't still be a very large amount of money because there's a real business backing it and it's unlikely that the situation is going to change in a way which would cause all of their customers to disappear.
The difference is clear and equity is unwanted by many people. It is anathema to those who desire freedom.
I think it the late betas it was added to very recent Intel Macs.
No, we can't agree on this. If most boards reject this person based on one of these things, they may never actually do this work or achieve anything near their potential.

We've seen already in the US that culture trumps almost everything else. I've had people tell me that they'd rather their daughter marry a poorer white guy than a richer black guy.

That said, all this really ends meaning is that the all-white board hires a couple of tokens they provide no power to and make their lives hell. It's standard process.
Uh... isn't this anti-Semite?
As a libertarian, I'd be 100% in favor of removing the prohibition on private parties competing with the USPS in exchange for the postal service being overtly subsidized.

But since I recognize that that oligopolistic companies can be just as oppressive as de jure government (hence the small "l"), I can't see the ongoing political arc against the USPS as anything but an attempt by the private carriers to destroy the public institution such that they can better price gouge.
You're assuming board memberships are meritocratic. Don't assume.
If we were ever at the point where companies were hiring the best people for the job, this wouldn't be necessary as the companies would already have a diverse board.
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Quotas are good for increasing diversity, but lol @ thinking someone of a different gender or race will lead to a gentler kinder capitalism. This is a decision that will affect at most a few hundred or a few thousand people in a state of tens of millions. Those millions are suffering far more than bourgeois C-level aspirants one rung too low on the ladder for their taste.

Pure spectacle. We need workplace democracy and social services for everyone! Healthcare, housing, and integration on a local level. That's what it means to change society, not changing the paint on a machine that grinds people up and spits them out.

The country got worse thanks to Obama's presidency because he refused to even chip away at pure financial capitalism and let people get crushed in the financial crisis. His refusal to help people created the "liquidity trap" that strangles the economy because people have no money to spend in an economic system that requires a buyer and a seller.
The irony in that breach document that the first credit monitoring agency mentioned at the bottom is Equifax, having the reputation for one of the worst data breaches in 2017 spanning nearly 150mil American citizens.
> it's that the established institutions are unwilling to recognize based on merit

Example?
In NZ we had a period of lockdown during which colds and flus were non-existant and then we went completely back to normal life for a while.

In that winter after the lockdown we had an absolutely ferocious amount of colds and flus all of a sudden.

I had 6 back-to-back. It was 12 weeks of hell. Every other person I know had at least 2. Parents (such as myself) all had 4+ colds/flus in a 3 month period.

There was a lot of speculation that the spread was significantly worse because it got into a population entirely made of people who had not been sick for a while.

So you might have that to look forward to.
In which we make an implicit case that shallow mediocrity and bullshit is more a matter of will than anything else.
They've been playing a game of redefining terms for a few years now, at least since 2015.
People not paying attention (not wanting to be labeled with scary terms) basically fell for it and here we are.
Sorry to disappoint you but there are plenty of smart people who are not "progressive", they just have learned to not make it obvious.
I invested this week in $GGPI/Polestar, they are a swedish EV company that already delivered 20k cars. Valuation is $20b or 1/4th of Rivian: https://www.datocms-assets.com/11286/1632735805-210927-poles...
Yes it is. And that's what we've done as a society for hundreds of years in the US. That we are now attempting to fix that will obviously be seen as an attack, because losing privilege is never easy.
Worry not my brethren! The elite also have daughters they sent to elite schools.

Nothing will really change here in practice.
I don’t think that this formulation reflects the actual situation. Realistically you have a broad pool of near-identical performers (in a sense that your error in judgement is similar to difference in performance) mixed with some bad performers. The goal of the company is not to hire good, but to avoid the bad. So if someone isn’t bad then it’s fine to give preference based on some diversity metric, because you are just choosing between equivalent candidates (to within your ability to objectively measure).
It doesn't mean that at all. You can hire a black person and not fire anyone. They may choose to fire someone, but given these are board positions, and it literally takes just one person -- they can easily accommodate simply hiring someone.
Show me a rule that actually enshrines this.
It is shocking that one could be punished for hiring based on “wrong” color/gender. We spent decades getting past that, only to have it codified in law. “You’re great, but we’ll be punished if we hire you, because your skin is pale and you have testicles” is evil.
This is starting to sound similar to equity laws established in South Africa, which have not had good outcomes. Preferential treatment like this, not based on merit, is unfair and could breed a lot of resentment.
The funny thing is that any actually bigoted company has a built in out.

"Johnson, as the youngest member, the board has decided that you must identify as a woman for regulatory compliance."

What are woke progressives going to do, deny that a man can identify as whatever gender she wants?
> What a shockingly sad interpretation from most (all at the time of writing) comments here.

It's shockingly sad to see people defending state discrimination based on race and sex.
There is a transactional API for NTFS in Windows [1]. It allows transactional operations not just within a file but also across files or across multiple computers (to make sure something is applied to your whole fleet atomically).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_NTFS
Edit: deleted because original comment has changed.
Assuming skill is equally distributed by race.

Except that everywhere, including when admission is solely based on performance on a test you can study for, there end up being massive racial disparities.

Other races need to be shoehorned in.
I have an impression that HN readers are more libertarian than progressive.

The ambiguous part of this law that this is employment (or something close enough to employment) contingent on race and gender. Imagine a single woman of color on the board resigns and the seat must be filled. If the best candidate is a white male, he will be rejected based on gender and race.
See this recipe: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/scripting.html The core of it is to call "sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die" after you loaded the system, and the portable way across implementations is to use asdf:make, with 2 lines on your system declaration (.asd).
Fixing issues on multiple servers caused by a recently expired root certificate
Interesting, do you have any idea how that works. I thought Polestar was a brand/subsidiary of Volvo?
Scrolling through this I see a fair amount of references to subscription products as a long term growth strategy. HN sentiment seems pretty positive about Rivian so I'm curious what folks here feel about that aspect of their business?

In particular if one juxtaposes that strategy against what I perceive to be a general anti John Deere sentiment around here vis-a-vie subscriptions and their always-on products.
This comment ten years ago would be agreed to by almost everyone in the United States. Not anymore; it is now fashionable to be racist against Whites. No more!
They still lose a (very) competent candidate, and that candidate will do great work elsewhere (and not for the board)
These are board members. They are not hired in the first place, and generally need to be re-appointed every few years. This law has been slowly ratcheting up, so either people have simply been not re-appointed to the board, or they have increased the size of the board to include new members who were chosen from more diverse backgrounds.

No one was fired.
>"If you don't have diversity at scale, in so many senses of the word, your doomed to fail anyway."

That's not necessarily true. There are plenty of organizations all over the world that are not "diverse" but those institutions manage to succeed. Not every company needs to have a board room that looks like a university admissions pamphlet in order to operate and respond to competition.
Maybe it came out wrong (English is not my first language).

I did not mean to say that I believe it inferior or anything, just that I felt writing performant code in Lisp is non trivial to learn, while rust feels pretty natural (to me).

I’ll try again at some point, but I don’t think it’s a wise investment of time at this point, I’d rather be “fluent” in rust first, then maybe try lisp.
Genuinely curious how women would feel if they were given a job not based purely on merit and credentials, but their gender. Isn’t that a slap in the face? Like, “yea there were other much more qualified candidates, but we just have to fill this quota.” That’s what would be nagging me in the back of my mind if I was a women.
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The fact they're so desperate for drivers they'll willing to ask folks who haven't driven in decades is THE story.

On a related note there's a meme going around of Boris asking the Queen if she would drive a truck since she did in WW2.
The "change" was to leverage third-party cloud service providers, as Apple continues to do so today. These hyperscale providers generally have better expertise as regards commodity compute, networking, and storage than Apple itself–issues around which were said to be the root cause of the original MobileMe service outages.

This change (at the outset) also allowed Apple to develop significant expertise at the metadata layer, at which it excels today.
Polestar is Chinese owned brand(Geely), and their polestar cars are basically the Volvo xc40 ev version. (that's why their sedan is so tall/high ground clearance).

They have yet to build a fully independent ev first platform.
How will the state government legally determine whether a particular board member is or is not a white male? Is it just a matter of checking boxes on a form, or will there be specific criteria?
At a practical level, it means you end up with particular slots reserved for particular demographics. What happens when the person from $demographic_one retires from the board? Do you use an impartial search process? Or are you legally obligated to reject certain applicants based on their demographics?

I understand the appeals to equity vs equality. I'm saying this is a subtle distinction hinging on who is making choices and how. I don't want the government deciding who is diverse enough or historically oppressed enough or underrepresented enough. It will get it wrong far too often.
How non-white does someone have to be to qualify? Should it be based on self-identity? Should the race of corporate board members be determined by a state bureaucracy? While I agree with the goal, such a policy seems to raise questions like that immediately. And the more I wrangle with them the more intractable they seem.

> quite shocking that all-white-male boards are so common

Not if you knew the distribution of wealth by race (and gender) in America. Black people in America are poor after being slaves unable to own property for generations. Until very recently (in living memory) widely denied due process, access to employment, social and labour organizations, etc. that would enable building wealth. To this day, still disproportionately denied. There is less intergenerational wealth to transfer. Less educational capital. And so on. A different but cousin tale for women.

This is one angle of systemic racism, I suppose. But to my eye the solution is mostly to address the poverty by the transfer of wealth, not legislate representation among the elites. Especially when you can do wealth transfer to poor people without legal racial classification systems, which is a notion that immediately evokes opposition from many.
Yeah. Some of the most cruel and exploitative slaver I had as bosses were women, even had one asking why I needed to take a day off to be with my son at the hospital if I was married,”couldn’t my wife spend one more day? “
> When did you ever have a job that you didn't learn 90% of what's needed, while on the job itself?

The older and more specialized my roles get, the less I'm learning about how to do the job on the job, and the more I'm just learning the small differences at the current location.

I assume that's why CEO's are routinely hired away from other companies. I assume the stuff they'll learn at the new job is the specifics of that company, but not "how to be a CEO".

I would assume the same of some board members (as I understand it, they don't all bring the same things to the table).
I couldn’t think of a more Californian approach to fixing racial inequity. Instead of providing more economic opportunities for minorities to become executives, just make it illegal for the companies to not make them executives. Meanwhile, continue your state tradition of gentrifying diverse neighborhoods and letting techies take over San Francisco and LA.

I think a lot of these dumb laws get pushed through because few people are willing to speak out against them for fear of being mischaracterized. The liberal Democrats are riding the wave of the cultural zeitgeist.
As a poor Eastern European “white” male I must say, America is a weird place.
Can’t edit my comment anymore so I’ll just reply here.

I don’t see what’s obvious about the “but what about” categories for sex and violence. You could make the same argument about medical misinformation or hate speech — they’re obviously a separate category that social networks should censor. (You could also make the reverse argument about spam — who is Twitter to prevent Bob’s Viagra Store from promoting his business?)

The point being that it’s all in the eye of the beholder. Everyone has their own line, and if you want to convince others to adopt yours you’re going to have to do more than offer as an axiom that sex and violence are uniquely deserving of censorship.
Why go public with no revenue whatsoever? Unable to raise money privately?
How so?

If the state continues to allow a small subset of the population to discriminate based on race and sex, isn't that also the state defending discrimination?
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It's going to be one diverse person at a lot of those boards and they will get the stigma of being the person that was put there because the actual good candidates had the wrong skin color. No matter how qualified they might actually be, they can't escape the looks.

Plus, by making this a factor, you're just kindling actual racism by pitting white males against everyone else. The resentment created by rejecting someone for their gender or color of skin does not subside just because the attributes happen to be white and male.

I get the intention, but fighting racism with racism just doesn't work.
If you use MongoDB as a document store, arguably it's core functionality, you're not exposed to any of the shortcomings Jepsen rightly identified and exploited weaknesses in.

Transactions are new to MongoDB and they are not necessary for most. Structure your data model so you only perform single-document atomic transactions ($inc, $push, $pull) rather than making use of multi-document ACID transactions. It's possible, we're doing it for our ERP.

Sharding is something we've intentionally avoided opting for application-layer regional clusters. We specifically were avoiding other complexities related to shards that are not a concern for replica sets. Durability and maximum recovery time during emergency maintenance caused us to avoid them.
No, owned by Geely, which owns Volvo as well. It is an attempt from Geely to gain foothold in the western markets without being associated as a chinese brand, but as a swedish one.
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A national government requiring that hiring decisions be made on the basis of gender or race, and the response is "what is the actual problem with it?"
No idea but I will enquire ...

If you search for "salary HGV UK" you get £19-24K. That was probably last year and frankly wrong, now.

I'm an IT consultant and MD of the firm and now wondering if I should get my big rig thang on! OK, I can drive a 7.5 tonner on my driver's license and have done so, many times. I can also drag a trailer, according to my license.
Institutional racism, as this proposed, is not the answer.
So create a company full of passed over women and minorities and clobber the existing ones.
Let’s say a 10 person board is populated with 9 white male board members. They need to appoint the 10th board member. It can’t be a white male? So, for this specific role, they must make a hiring decision based upon the individual’s membership in a class, such as sex, race or color. That seems to violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
Followup: Proton has implemented a mapping for D3D12 DLSS to this new NVIDIA 470 Vulkan DLSS implementation.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Proton-6...
You might choose Postgres with JSON as an alternative to MongoDB though. There are plenty of people pushing the limits of MongoDB who are researching it if not just for access to a larger pool of DBAs who can work for them.
Oh gosh I didn't know "US tonnes" were a thing, that feels crazier than usual measurements. Thanks for making me discover this
The road to hell is good paved with good intentions, but I don't really see hell over the horizon on this one.

Demographics are funny because they're really easy to satisfy. People come from many backgrounds.

This is just one of many restrictions on individual choice we make for the sake of social cohesion. All of us might choose to work for below minimum wage, but there are real risks there, so we ban it. All of understand how one might end up with a board of all white men, but there are risks there as well, so now it's banned. It does not seem like a meaningful restriction for any serious enterprise.
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> If you don't have diversity at scale, in so many senses of the word, your doomed to fail anyway.

The market would have slaughtered tech firms if this were true.
Also a sign that things might be overheating
Worth reading the actual article, but for those who won't: The article is referring to the B/Yamagata lineage of influenza becoming extinct, which is only one of the four main lineages of influenza. The other lineages circulate in animals thus will be a bit harder to eradicate. Also, this lineage was also already on the way out, lacking the genetic diversity of the other lineages.

Still, interesting news!
Aren’t all big tech Delaware corporations anyway?
I'm not sure whether I agree with the CA policy. But this argument against it is extremely unconvincing. It's almost word-for-word what segregationists argued against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

e.g. https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2014/06/barry-goldwater-decla...

"The two portion so this bill to which I have constantly and consistently voiced objections, and which are of such overriding significance that they are determinative of my vote on the entire measure, are those which would embark the Federal Government on a regulatory course of action in the area of so-called "public accommodations" and in the area of employment--to be precise, Titles II and VII of the bill. I find no constitutional basis for the exercise of Federal regulatory authority in either of these areas; and I believe the attempted usurpation of such power to be a grave threat to the very essence of our basic system of government..."