skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Original paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.08910.pdf

The entire premise of the research relies on the fact that the resume samples were well matched: in other words, the quality of male candidates was equal to that of female counterparts. In the paper, it says

Specifically, we perform 1-1 matching without replacement such that for each male resume, we find a female resume that is within 2 years of experience, has the same degree, field of study, and has a resume similarity score (i.e. cosine similarity of resume vector representations) of at least 0.7.

I am not sure if this method is sufficient to create a match dataset. In other words, it is entirely possible that the (legitimate) experience or quality differences in resumes may act as the signal for the ML algorithm.

It would be interesting to see descriptive analytics on male and female applicants. IIRC men and women have differences in self-selection for precisely things like this. It is plausible (or even probable) that such difference in self-selection crept into the dataset despite the research's resume matching process.

(As a clarification, this is a critique on the research methodology, and I am not claiming one gender is less qualified than the other in general.)
I work for a large company and even before remote working, all company laptops had to run CrowdStrike, this sounds very similar. However the rules where very clear, no using non-company laptops for work, this included contractors etc...
My favourite example is that if you have insufficient permissions the CLI may just give you a detailed but completely random and incorrect error. Eg if you are setting MFA Delete but you are not root, the error message it displays is the one for Dev Pay which is a nice way to waste users' time.

Eg https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45602558/devpay-and-mfa-...
Yes, of course. I would expect the US to be ahead of some countries in some places, and behind some countries in some places. My point is that it's perfectly plausible that in this very particular area India could be worse than the US just as, say, the EU is generally ahead of the US. And, in different areas India could be way better than the US; this isn't "good countries" and "bad countries", it's "different countries place differently on whatever metric you pick".
it does come across as arrogant. A humbler way to put it would be "Macros cannot change Nim's syntax because they transform the AST after it has already been parsed"
At first I thought, OK, they’re letting us focus on storytelling—role playing! I too have a romance for the gnarly mechanics (love 2e) but it’s the collapsing of richness in the worlds and characters that dismays me. Now it’s clear we’re marching steadily towards a Marvel superheroization of the experience.

More widely appealing, bite-size, far less varied. Far less interesting. So it goes with mass-market culture. The good news is there are plenty of more interesting artifacts out there…but now we have to do the work of looking for them and sharing them when we found them.
Any links for references to this work? I would have thought it too important to secrete away in a pay-walled magazine.
Thanks.

But if one just needs to send or receive money does one need to share one's cell phone number to this 2nd party?
There was a Star Trek episode about that. Some cyborg there said (I'm paraphrasing) :

"We are the Oligarchical Collectivists.

Lower your attentiveness and surrender your thinking.

We will erase your biological and individual distinctiveness to conform our own.

Your culture will adapt to service us.

You will be undifferentiated.

Resistance is futile."
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> but refuse to make a lot of assumptions

You can try but a lot of the assumptions are unconscious, unknown to you.
I disagree with Cummings on a lot of issues (e.g. Brexit, the importance of international law, etc.), but I don't recognise that description of him. He's certainly not an extreme libertarian. By all accounts, during the pandemic response, he was very much in favour of government intervention. Johnson was far more laissez-faire, even to a ridiculous degree.

I actually think Cummings is an interesting guy and worth listening to, but I don't think he should be anywhere near the levers of power.
Depending on the location, oh yes it is. In the recent Serbian elections there were photos of "gift baskets" from a party if you voted for them ( of course they can't know for sure if the election is properly held, but afaik it isn't).
There's a bunch of doctors who realized that doctors were ending up on Wikipedia a lot, and who try to keep the medical pages on Wikipedia somewhat sane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine...
Honestly, reddit. I moved to Berlin last year and wanted to buy some coffee making equipment. This was still the height of the pandemic, before vaccines were readily available here. So I hit up the local subreddits. And now I have a small list of sites where I can buy both good equipment as well as some great coffee. Of course now I can also go in person if I want to.
The next OS vendor might.
RFC 6238? It can be implemented on any hardware.
How advanced warehouse management system overcome warehouse challenges?
agreed. Actually browsers can help in this direction by incorporating a lot of the javascript UI elements into HTML. Most websites look the same anyways nowadays, optimized for mobile, rounded corner buttons, the same animations over and over. Web UI should be enough to replace all the apps in your phone nowadays
You have a good point, USA healthcare has the worst kind of regulation: it did lots of damage and helped very little.

But Western European countries (which you probably compare to) had an immense, unspoken advantage: an incredible supply of highly educated, unexpensive health care work force - the Eastern Europe.

If you want to truly compare the healthcare of USA with Europe's please include countries like Bulgaria, Ukraine, Serbia, Romania, Moldova and so on. Yes, it's cheap. But you truly get what you pay for.
And to add, when I was hired I was also "first employee from country Y". Still wondering if I was a diversity hire
This is not true. Side effects are not binary (you get them of you don’t).

A manufacturer could say “you run the risk of temporary paralysis of no longer than 1 year” (based on observations to date), then patient has paralysis lasting 2 years so they sue because “manufacturer understated risk and severity of paralysis”.
We tried quadratic voting for internal organizational stuff couple of years ago (using dApp on Ethereum). It was okay and refreshing, but in that case it didn't work well, because of the number of options (there were like 20 or 30 options). By the time you reach 15-th option, you depleted all your points and you have to go back and recalibrate your votes just to return back to 15th, and then discover 17th option that's even more important and so on. So I guess it requires by nature either good prior knowledge of all options or just having few options on the table to work well.
To be fair it reads to me a Unicode problem rather than macOS.
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> I wish I was as optimistic as you.

I think if everything is laid bare - facts are proven to be facts, and lies are exposed as lies - yet the electorate _still_ vote it in, then that's fair. I'll emigrate.

But the biggest con about Brexit (as a particular example) is that _everything_ from the Leave campaign was bullshit and not one claim, pledge, or promise from the Leave "side" was ever checked, questioned, or since held to account and, in my opinion, it is _that_ which stinks the worst.
That lawsuit was in 1991.
It's time for the antitrust, isn't it?
Pornography, of course. Porn funded much of the Internet's growth. Eventually people found other uses for the Internet but the porn is still there.
What no?
My business, and my family business both run off the ability to make upi payments by just giving a UPI Id, amount and everything your pin.
Quite often, i settle accounts with my friends over UPI. One of them pays for coffee, and i just upi him his share.
And we work with our own personal savings accounts.
We invited an AI to debate its own ethics in the Oxford Union
I see nim being compared with the same languages as zig. Does anyone has any opinios regarding how nim vs zig?
I have started collecting useful snippets of code in Notion, organized by library/language/category so that I could search and find them the next time I need them; this has proven to make me productive so that I don't have to Google the same thing and going through the links every time.

Also, Copilot has been immensely useful in boosting productivity, especially when working with the libraries that I am extremely familiar with; sometimes too much of code is just 'grunt' work.
I miss-understood your initial comment then, apologies! You have a good point.
What line? Can the regulators not consider two drugs in parallel? They should consider hiring a 2nd clerk to stamp the paperwork.

Drug & vaccine testing should be highly parallelisable.
Not sure if I’m alone in this but at this point I’m just assuming there are new Android exploits on a rolling basis so if I did read about one I probably wouldn’t consider it news-worthy.
And if they say "No" you can ask them if this means you will earn less in 5 years than you start with now, at which point they probably realize that this isn't an attractive offer and either change the conditions for you, or don't take you.
Each contract has it's own terms, one of the cause for delays within the EU was due to some of those legal terms. USA and UK waved a lot of responsibilities.

If it's shared liability, for example, in the EU it would be both EU and Pfizer that would back this up.
> churn so high, that hiring talent has become the bottleneck.

It was a matter of time for that to happen. Amazon is infamous for having a firing quota, and infamous for Hiring managers to hire people, to fulfill said quota.

As long as these practices remain, the situation will only worsen for Amazon
Rust should be able to elide more checks than most other languages without impacting safety.
> If this is really the kind of things this company would do…

Because, until last week they didn't.

Now I have to figure out if I'm just an unreasonable, stubborn old guy, or if this requirement is out of band.
+ 2fa + sensible rotation of keys and passwords (especially if you use say github for personal / work / multiple clients) - they can have the password at that point and it is of limited use.
So how does this work? Features are delivered then another team adds capabilities to the cli/console?

Say the eks team responsible to deliver a cli/console tooling?

It's an interesting problem to solve. Any insight on how to go about managing this is greatly appreciated.
Disgusting. And you are okay with it.
ha that's a hoot.

What a horrible injustice for an HR team to try and bring some diversity to a company that mostly hired white males.

If white males weren't so busy looking for drinking buddies under the guise of a "culture fit" for the last 2 decades this wouldn't be a thing.

Diversity stats for our industry are a boondoggle, most of the diversity is concentrated in a few large companies, and it takes the bare minimum of exposure to tech to realize this.
It seems that JavaScript is required to read this post?
It is absolutely just another form of discrimination. In the past people thought they had reason too.

If you want compensatory justice and you are male, the only thing you could do is to resign and give your job to a woman. If you demand the same from others you are just as bad as someone that discriminated in the past.

There is no higher motivation behind this. HR just follows laws though, so you should boot your legislators for this.

Additionally it very much influences work relations for women far more negatively than for men, so they don't even profit from this aside very few selected high earning positions. But those will still have a problem with authority.
The old problem of data-driven decision making: you tend to only measure success with easily observed metrics. # of features launched is the new # loc.
> demanding that I install an "agent" from a company named "Drata"* on my laptop.

If a company sends me decidated hardware, including an LTE or 5G modem to connect to the internet, they can install on that whatever they want.

Their hardware, their rules.

My hardware, my rules.
Yeah. Though it really depends on the system.

Some older filesystems, like HFS+ would normalize filenames. In APFS Apple decided not to normalize file names, but this caused a lot of issues. Later they have made APFS normalization-insensitive (so you cannot store two files with the same name, but different normalizations). Different normalizations are handled transparently by macOS frameworks.

On Linux with btrfs:

$ touch schön
$ cat $(echo -e "scho\u0308n")
cat: schön: No such file or directory
$ touch $(echo -e "scho\u0308n")
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 daniel daniel 0 Dec 17 12:00 schön
-rw-r--r-- 1 daniel daniel 0 Dec 17 12:00 schön
$ ls | hexdump -c
0000000 s c h o 314 210 n \n s c h 303 266 n \n

Unicode, loads of fun :).

Edit: updated to make this copy-pastable.
Drat.

One of our clients at $Day_Job is a laboratory - subject to arbitrary (from their viewpoint) rules for certifications, etc. If the certifying agency says "round this value to 3 decimal places" - it doesn't much matter if $Client hates that idea, or if it is (science-wise) wrong. One can argue with them...if done wisely, that occasionally works.

I'd be tempted to look into the SOC 2 stuff. Especially real-world accounts of how the AICPA interprets and applies the rules. There can be wide gulfs between what the written rules (plus "reasonable professional" logic) say, and the standards which the auditors (with their own mindsets and habits) actually apply.

Hmm...does the US startup you're working for have someone really familiar with SOC 2 certification working for them? Or just some energetic manager-type, who's zealously trying to apply his own interpretation of the written rules?

Best wishes.
Counter Counterpoint 1: AOSP gets a security update per month and system component updates through the Playstore

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin

Counter Counterpoint 2: You are right
IMO in this case the documentation is what sucks. AWS works if you know how. The problem is precisely that, make it work.
It is crappy to think you got a job not because you deserved it/good at it but yeah... Well if you need the opportunity I guess that's nice.

I have played the poverty card before regarding student loans.
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I think the key insight is that the humans the AI replaces were probably also cargo culting. They'd just get a bit more defensive if you suggested that.
I'm nowhere near important to be attacked this way but I always wondered if doing a factory reset on your phone would wipe these away.
If he doesn't have sterelising immunity, how can he have recovered from COVID? He'd still have the coronavirus.

For a body to fight off cornavirus the immune system has to have reached a state of sterelising immunity, otherwise the coronavirus would just keep jumping back and forward between family members. And that immunity will probably decay at about the same speed as any vaccine.
I would call it "pattern recognition" rather than "cargo culting". Cargo culting is an example where pattern recognition fails.
Honestly I think Google's biggest misstep was removing Google Labs. If it was in Labs you expected it would either flourish or get shut down

Now they just sort of launch/buy things and then shut them down

It looks like they call that sort of thing Area 120 now. There's a difference between branding things as experiments and branding them as internally incubated projects. I can't place my finger on the actual difference, it just feels lame. Too corporate? Too official?

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They were on the right track, but again the too many cooks part borked the whole execution, now we have lots of tiny kitchens each managed from one of those cooks trying to sell their special dish going forward.
Yes. In my experience developers work much more than they say they do.
If I couldn't trust my company on my home network, why would I work for them?
Not necesarily, because it could have given more value for the wrong reasons.

Imagine a misoginistic, but horny, boss, that only hires good working ugly men and hot dumb women, specifically looking for these traits in order to have a "playing" field. If the AI got in here it would be constrained to the same parameters, af if it was looking for good workers of any gender it would prefer men.

An the thing is that although this boss is part of history (we hope) the influence they had on the workforce at large was enormous, and it'll be a long time before this is reversed.

And this without taking into account all the coworkers that could hinder your job because you are not part of their cadre (gender, football club, fortnite clan, whatever).

We really should exepriment with equality, or even the opossite extreme, before considering one gender "superior" than another for a given role. And even then there would be exceptions.
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According to the article this is completely different and waaaay more advanced tech.
Depending on what country you are in, this is illegal no? Not hiring someone based on their ethnicity who is otherwise qualified/the best candidate is racial discrimination, regardless of what that ethnicity is.
The there are differences in human learning and knowledge and machine learning, one being the kind of errors machines makes compared to humans. A human is unlikely to confuse the side of a truck with the sky (tesla), or the image of an item with the actually item. Humans in turn get effected by stress, metabolism and other biological factors.

For an AI to actually predict which employees are going to benefit the company, it need to understand both how the company has evolved over the data period, how it will likely continue to grow, and that some employees that have successful careers are not necessary the people that contribute to the success of the company. An AI might think nepotism is a great indicator for a highly retained and employable employee, but a human would recognize it for what it is but may accept it as an acceptable level of corruption. It would be the same conclusion (ie, hire the person), but for two very different reasons.
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You are just a racist and sexist. The problem is you, not other people.
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Hi, Windows Phone fanboy here. I've posted most of the below before. ;-)
The sad truth is, that the new Metro UI introduced with Windows 8 specifically for Phones was pretty efficient and slick. A mid-tier WP phone was running circles around a mid-tier Android phone in 2014 when it comes to smoothness. Then we got another reboot of the whole mobile endeavor with UWP for Windows 10, which was more resource intensive, continuing the megalomaniac idea of having a unified mobile and desktop experience. And I don't think it's impossible to create this somehow. I just think developing a nice Phone UI and forcibly bolting it onto a 30 year old desktop OS that mostly evolved in gentle steps before was... stupid.

Anyways, the ironic thing today is that that whole UI mess Windows is in was caused by something that doesn't even exist anymore. These two disjoint worlds that lead to these jarring moments where you're thrown from that modern flat-clearly-coming-from-a-mobile-design-paradigm settings window into another dialog coming straight from the 90s. The new one wouldn't exist without Microsoft's botched attempt of re-entering the phone market!
Without WP, we could have simply gotten more thought-out iterations and improvements to the plain old Windows GUI, with a desktop-centric approach, but more modern design philosophies. But now we have a mobile-first UI that is being spent lots of effort on to make it usable on a desktop OS.

And sure, I'm over-dramatizing a bit here. We got more touchscreens, convertibles, yada-yada that still benefit from these changes. But it was approached in a really twisted, stupid way, and I still don't know anyone who prefers UWP apps. Especially my old folks are rather confused by this and would prefer Windows still looked like XP or 7. Younger people might not care so much but spend all of their time in a browser anyways if they don't use their phones. Everyone else is a professional, and professional software doesn't exist as UWP apps.
Have you ever tried to tell an ML engineer that their model is biased (or even worse sexist). I think the defensiveness is about equal.
I’m curious - what personal experience with poverty in the USA do you have?

I’ve found that shapes people’s perspective on the topic significantly.
You don't need to - you can also share your unique UPI ID which is text like username@bankcode
Exactly this. When I caught covid, I used that opportunity to catch-up on tv series I have been wanting to watch :D #Expanse
They did a follow up randomized experiment where people jumped out of planes (at 2ft) with and without parachutes.

https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2019/02/breakthrough-resea...
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My ISP provided router responds to homerouter.cpe with both IPv6 and IPv4 address of its router webui.
Yes they might suck, but that's because of its success and the complexity of the problem - it'll get better over time.

However aws-sdk doesn't need to be 70mb, the console doesn't need to be slow and they don't need over 10 unique services to deploy containers.

We're working on a much improved dev ex for cloud providers and Kubernetes at https://northflank.com - with a fast real-time console, a well documented and useable API with auto generated CLI and API clients. 30 seconds of fun - can I get a production ready CI/CD setup for a repo(s) in 30 seconds? Can I get a HA Redis, Postgres, RabbitMQ provisioned and connected to my code in 30 seconds? These are the questions and solutions that developers will be asking for more and more.
Just the general disdain for crypto here at HN.
The experiment design is ready and waiting! The participants are all lined up.

Just have to bribe the ethics board!
This article is a waste of time, just spouting the same blind hate for the web that's so common right now.
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> Do you object outright to spyware, or to the client wanting to run their spyware on your equipment?

I don't know for a fact that it is spyware. For now I just think of it as an "hostile agent".

I object because a) I don't want frustrations at work. I want to focus on the problems I am there to solve (which are quite interesting), b) I don't want a hostile agent from a company selling data to "targeted marketing" in my network, c) I don't want such companies even to know my real name, d) I take security seriously - I hate security theater.

That's what I object to.
<sarcasm>Pretty sure that's imposter syndrome<sarcasm>
> Actually browsers can help in this direction by incorporating a lot of the javascript UI elements into HTML.

Unfortunately, none of the browsers want to or can do that. Chrome is mostly interested in fire and motion, and the other browsers can only do so much to keep up with it.

And while attempts like https://open-ui.org/ are admirable, we'll never see it in the browser.