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IBM is famous for charging people for the privilege of talking to them, even if you're trying to sell them something.

This strategy makes sense if you consider that even in it's heyday Watson was 95% data science consulting firm and 5% actual valuable technology.

I really think Watson is one of the biggest tech marketing bamboozles of the 21st century. Through Jeopardy they really had a segment of the business world and the general public convinced that they had cracked AI, but behind the scenes it was all one-off custom solutions under one trademark.
Exactly. Don't try to change the system, just worry about yourself and your friend's/family's wellbeing. Even if the country goes to shit, you can certainly live in a nice gated community while those who aren't so fortunate raise pitchforks.
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Did you read the comment? It was pretty clearly either a joke at someone else's expense or a troll
" In order to make those attributes truly irrelevant we have to correct for the massive, obvious influence they have in human decision making"

Which is exactly what blind-hiring / blind-auditions are meant to do. The problem, from my perspective having tried to implement it, is that it requires a real cognitive leap from people who are most successful for their social acumen and don't regularly make decisions based on hard evidence. Often those kinds of people have a title with Manager or Officer in it.
Apple's Most Questionable Design Decisions in Recent Memory
I worked in one particular tech company where this went on for promotions as well as hiring, but nothing was ever put down in writing.

It was all handled in back room meetings at a manager, director or VP level, so they could meet diversity quotas and get personal share bonuses.

First be 100 percent sure you've got something in writing to back up what you are claiming, then, bring it to the US Dept of Labor.

But you won't get everything in writing, and it's a dangerous short term career move, even though it might be right/moral/legal thing to do.
So can it detect if I replace the cells myself?
Systemic racism is one form of racism, but not the only one. Just because you don't experience systemic racism doesn't mean that you don't experience racism at all.

I would say that only hiring non-white people would be prejudice if and only if you consider that only hiring white people is prejudice and not racism too.
Orchest/orchest: Build data pipelines visually
This gives me hope.

While everyone says we just need to assume that privacy is dead, that we can never truly know or trust our hardware, I disagree. This shows it's possible - not all that practical, but possible, and practical can come later - to make computer systems ourselves.

It's not that unfathomable to make a 100,000 gate device with the progression of what he's doing, and that's all it'd take to make a real, proper m68k processor capable of running a modern OS and any modern software with 100% verifiable source.
There is a world of difference between a US ship building company outsourcing to India and a US tech firm intermediating that transaction:

- A US intermediator can know the climate in India and navigate the cultural differences because they do this day in day out.

- A US tech company can properly vet whom they're subcontracting to because they have engineers in-house

- A US tech company will have a contract in US jurisdiction. If there is e.g. a data leak, there is liability through US courts. A step down from that, a US company can have US-based oversight and escalation mechanisms

- Social networks and relationships matter too. If you're working with Bob from the golf course, and his company messes up, you'll see Bob again next month at the golf course and chew him out.

... and so on.

I'm not suggesting you or I (personally) should subcontract through IBM, but for a US-based non-tech firm, it can make a lot of sense.

To flip this around, whom would you rather hire to do your accounting (presuming you're not an accountant and know nothing about accounting):

- A US company which outsources to India

- A random company in India

I would go for the former, since I know there would be liability if they messed up, and they'd make sure the US tax code was properly complied with. There's nothing wrong with the latter, but I'd have no way to vet them, and if they messed up, no recourse.
"public examples" don't scale.
I don't see the contradiction. There is, after all, no one true utilitarianism.

What you're not allowed to do is say, as the article did, that X has the highest utility when strawmanning a utilitarian, only to turn around and say X sucks once the strawman is over.
This is why the Solana model is succeeding.
I used to do that too. Then I got accused of not being a team player or whatever. OK, fine.

Turns out sitting on my ass and listening to something useless pays the same.
I am confused by what you mean here. My best interpretation is that your are comparing the US dollar creation process with Bitcoin's? The processes are different indeed but I don't see how it contradicts my original point. Also, the federal reserve creates money out of thin air, there is no labor or production involved (more efficient than Bitcoin mining for sure).

If your meaning instead was that the US dollar is backed by something (e.g. "labor/production"), then I'd argue this is incorrect. In economics, when X is backed by Y, it means that there is a guarantee that X can be converted for some known amount of Y. This is not the case for the US dollar although it's true that in practice, it does behave a lot as if.
Just another attempt to exert power over others by (an attempt at) imposing a definition used by one group, on the rest of society.

The common understanding of the term is not “incorrect”.
I see competition often being less about the startup and more about which other competing big tech company could buy the startup to consolidate an existing market strategy. I’d more charitably call it “revenue protection” to preemptively acquire them.

Startup acquisitions, in the absence of astoundingly deep due-diligence should probably be placed in portfolios where a 5:1 failure rate can be tolerated. I’m not sure how such an acquisition would be compensated.
Because better than deterrents, based in punishment, is to create a non violent society. That can be accomplished by regulating weapons, reducing poverty and exclusion, better education, etc.

Punishment is very limited as an education tool. It has some uses, but positive incentives complement it and, in the end, are more powerful.
People also went to the pubs much earlier, and then then went to house parties, instead of going home at 8pm, having spend the same amount of time in the pub.

Also the pubs had limits on number of people to a table, table service only etc.

On the other hand a lot of people just didn't bother going out due to the early closing time. For a lot of people going out earlier wasn't an option.

So hard to say if it was a net reduction or increase in risk.
Well, you would say that wouldn't you :-)
In general, people assume they won't get caught. This means there is in most cases no deterring effect from any punishment. The human mind simply does not work that way.

There is however an effect from people being basically lazy and doing things that make sense only in the spur of the moment, without thinking things through. If getting a gun meant a headache inducing amount of work and waiting time, only people who really want a gun would have one.

This is basically the situation in the rest of the world. There are guns, and criminals that want one have no problem getting one on the black market. But even so, most criminals don't get a gun, because the day to day situation simply doesn't give you exposure to them.
I mean Bosch left the battery business years ago. What the manufacturers care about is to limit risk under the constraint of government regulations. That said the E-Bike business is too small to come up with a bold move there but in electric driving there seems a lot of experimentation going.
> condo tower residents mostly stay behind their doors.

Where I grew up, where apartment buildings are very common middle class options, kids often socialised in the common areas - gardens, swimming pool, etc. Where I live now it’s a concern to buy where my daughter can have a nice community of kids to hang out with (we now live in a rented house that has a large common lawn connecting the backs of the block and kids play in this space all day long).
True. Personally I generally like the smart punctuation though, and will rather work around the few cases where it does something I don’t want.
I can see two ways around the low probability problem, for RNA abiogenesis:

1) The crystal gene hypothesis of A. G. Cairns-Smith. As a clay crystal grows and splits, the info in the crystal's defect structure is replicating with impressive fidelity, and those defects also interact with the surroundings. So you get the Darwinian game bootstrapped pretty much for free. Later on, the crystals start using organic polymers; later still, the polymer technology is developed well enough to take over from the clay. So this might make abiogenesis reasonably probable on one planet.

2) An observable universe is just any epsilon size patch, on an inflationary universe. The space-time curvature of our whole observable universe is too small to measure, hence the radius of our inflationary universe is a large multiple of the 13 G-lightyear radius we can observe. So abiogenesis could be highly improbable in any observable universe, answering Fermi's paradox, yet be probable within the much greater volume of an inflationary universe (maybe this is what TFA said? TLDR [Edit: yeah, it says that right in the abstract]). And there could even be a large number of inflationary universes, for all we know.
> don’t recruit anybody without having considered multiple genders and/or ethnicity before making the offer.

There are downsides to this approach as well.

My previous company had such a policy (no offer could be extended until at least one female or under-represented minority had been interviewed) - and we had someone who interned with us twice while in school and he was amazing, everybody on the team thought he was great and wanted to bring him on full-time once he graduated. So as he neared graduation our manager got us an open req and we extended him a (verbal) offer without interviewing him but HR blocked us from extending a formal offer because this exceptional engineer had the misfortune of being born male and Indian. HR told us we could extend an offer to him only after interviewing (on-site) a female or under-represented minority. And so we brought in and interviewed a female applicant wasting five hours of her time and ours as she had virtually zero chance of getting the job.

Generally it also meant female candidates were almost guaranteed to make it to the onsite, regardless of how they performed during the phonescreen because if you tried to pass on a female candidate you'd get pushback from the recruiter and/or manager, because with this policy we needed to interview at least one on-site before extending an offer to anyone.

I do genuinely applaud efforts at increasing diversity in tech, but I don't think policies like this are the right approach. We should probably be looking at other historically male dominated professions that now have gender-parity like medicine and law and emulate what they did to increase diversity (I have no idea what that is/was, but I'm guessing it's not what we're spinning our wheels on, since as far as I can tell we've barely moved the needle despite a very concerted effort).
If you seriously need legal advice talk to an attorney, not HN.
Agreed- I was really interested in the facts cited at the start, less so in the citation-less analysis later. So I looked into the report cited many, many times- it's from the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology. Looking into them, influence watch says "The organization primarily reports on bias against conservatives. CSPI provides research grants of $2,000-$15,000 to applicants to study incidents or trends of bias against conservatives."

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/center-for-study-o...

On a side note, I'd really prefer not stating something as fact, then linking only to a 200 page report without any hints about where to actually find the info.

Edit:
I'm not thrilled with the linked report in general, but:

The author says

> Nearly a quarter of American social science and humanities academics support dismissing colleagues who have unorthodox views in areas such as immigration or gender differences.

From page 24 of the report, I see where the author finds this information, but it's worth noting the support for dismissing academics comes almost entirely from the topic "women and minorities lower organizational performance"- more conventionally conservative topics don't seem to have anything like a similar rate.

I can't find anything obviously like the 4 out of 5 PhD students discriminating against right wing scholars.
Do you have a centralized hiring committee? If so then you might be able too to "blame" it on them for not having too many "ideal" candidates in the pipeline?
Gun control and restorative justice approaches seem to be the trick. From the outside it appears a militarised police apparatus isn't working for the US and would be a great target for substantial budget cuts.
So you pick one linux variant which doesn't follow my statements, then presume I'm conflating?

Just because ubuntu is terrible, and uses snaps, does not mean all distros do. You should have taken the high road, and debated what I was discussing here.

In Debian proper, you can read the source code of everything too. After all, old school distros like debian are they very reason you have such freedoms. They've been fighting the good fight for decades, working to keep OSS running pure, untarnished from closed licenses!

The very idea that you think Linix distros are less audited than npm, and have less accessible source code, is, to me, incomprehensible. It also shows how little you know about OSS, while you use the very tools giants crafted for you.

This doesn't make me mad, it makes me very, very sad.
Switzerland is also heavily armed country. It’s not an argument here.
I know you're probably not looking for a SaaS based on your message, however, I recently migrated from ProtonMail to mailbox.org because of reasons, and I really think it is worth using over self-hosted solutions.

A big reason for not going with self-hosted setup is because of the exact reason you mentioned. I just wasn't in the mood to manage everything myself and keeping my IPs in good standing. On top of that, the only place I could host it is on some cloud (I live in a small apartment in London, so self-hosting isn't very feasible), or worse, some smaller provider that potentially has low to no accountability. I felt like I'm just moving the trust from an email provider (who can arguably do a better job than I can) to a cloud hosting provider.

For me, mailbox.org has been great, better than PM. I got the standard package, which is €3 per month. It allows me to use both of my email domains (using a catch-all), and allows me to send emails from any sender (combined with Thunderbird's customisable send field, it's great!). It has full integration with any email client, as opposed to PM which requires either their app, or ProtonMail Bridge.

The initial set up was a bit weird, and definitely not as refined as ProtonMail's but in the end it worked. I'm able to use one of my domains as a 1 email per website, and the other for professional communications. They've also got an option to encrypt all your email using a PGP key, which you can combine with Thunderbird's PGP integration, or MailVelope.
I just want to know where they’re getting these things. Is there some dodgy bike shop which sells the bike and then sneakily delimits it under the counter?
HN and Reddit are already walled gardens today, in the sense that they are in no way federated with other sites, and they both reserve the right to delete content at any point. There isn't much different between a blog that links to a Facebook post asking people to "discuss this post on Facebook" than doing the same with HN or Reddit.
They have a very big consultancy business. Probably has a much better brand name than say Tata consulting. Plus their products like db2, websphere or openshift have thousands of businesses locked in.
Minority is often not used in terms of numbers, but in terms of "privilege scale". In that view, women are less privileged than men, and thus get classified as a minority.
Something along the lines of making American great again? Or the other side of the pendulum? Seems like society stays in the middleground between these opposing forces
Somehow I think the practical lesson should be about more than learning to take cover when a gunfight breaks out. I'd like to think there is a better discussion to be had about how to prevent this from happening.
You can say guns don't kill people, people kill people. But people without guns cannot knife the passenger of another vehicle on the highway or stab 15 people to death within a couple minutes.
Parts of it are indistinguishable from the 3rd world. Parts of it are high trust and high culture. I've spent a good portion of my 20s doing urban exploration photography and traveling.
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There are too many guns out there now and no one has the political will to reduce them, just like climate change/carbon taxes.
https://archive.is/4MOk4
I'm not sure I buy your premise -- `make` is a DSL for a very narrow set of problems, and I've never encountered Prolog in production use?
What you do is find the root causes and work on eliminating them. A lot of this stuff is just caused by poverty or mental illness. You can just eliminate those and be done with a large part of the problem.
I'd be VERY careful here!

Please evaluate YOUR OWN downside risk vs upside risk.

Your supervisor has asked you discriminate.

Politically, under current administration, almost EVERY enforcement body will not actually take action here even if its clear cut discrimination. Ie, they won't care.

Out in the job market, if you are anti-diversity / take any steps to undermine a diversity initiative - that can follow you now for a very long time.

Wilberg, who recruited candidates for engineering and technology positions for YouTube and parent company Google, also alleges in the suit that for several quarters Google would not make employment offers for technical positions to applicants “who were not ‘diverse,’" which the lawsuit alleges Google defined as women, black and Latino.

The lawsuit said Wilberg complained about this to his managers and HR. He was fired in November for, among other things, “not meeting goals” and “talking too much in meetings,” reasons that the lawsuit called “pretextual.”

“Plaintiff was an exemplary employee and received positive performance evaluations until he began opposing illegal hiring and recruiting practices at Google,” the complaint asserts.

The reality is that to get diversity anywhere close to what Silicon Valley is being asked to get it too, pretty significant steps like this will need to be taken. The company may have evaluated that the downside of NOT having women / minorities in positions is too high.
How is this bullshit?
I did a similar year long migration off Oracle. What helped were all the automated integration tests that had been built previously. It made it so much easier to verify that everything would work after the migration.
IBM identified back in the 70s their core asset and were very explicit about what it was. "No one gets fired for buying IBM." Their key strategy since then has been to monetize this asset in a variety of creative, and mainly very effective ways.

Thinkpads were a great example of this. Laptops which promised decent quality and support for a high price. When the laptop market was demystified and commodified, IBM correctly got out of it - for a decent price.

If some random start-up, or even Google, had built Watson, it would have correctly been seen as a gimmick. Instead it sold literally billions of software consulting to people who thought they needed AI but actually just needed a search box with dynamic autosuggestion. Would you rather get some junior guy to hack something together using open source tools, or would you rather pay IBM 50 times as much? If you chose the former, you're simply not in the target market.

The hybrid cloud is exactly the same game - as is made quite clear in that ad, it's pitched at middle management who don't want to look like chumps for ignoring the cloud, but don't want to fuck up by moving to it.

Reputation is a difficult asset to monetize - effectively you make money from it by degrading and then destroying it. After all, if you carry living up to your good reputation, you're not extracting any advantage from it. IBM can't sell their reputation or their name to the highest bidder. All they can do is keep trawling for business lines where it gives them a comparative advantage.

It's easy to see this as unscrupulous - but their customers genuinely do get a benefit from the confidence they have in IBM.
Because it’s harder for the user of the API to know what the default is.

It’s boilerplate that distracts from the purpose of the function, this getting in the way of readability.

It’s also just more code prone to a programmer screwing up from time to time, despite how simple it is.
Not sure why this guy is downvoted. His comment is 100% true in at least some contexts. In a past life I worked at a state university. Greater than 80% of positions during my tenure were filled by nepotism. Friends and family of a currently employed person. Every time they would post the job, bring in 2 poor sobs to interview alongside the friend or family member, and then hire the friend or family member even when they were glaringly weaker (the most egregious example I remember was for a position running a copy center for one of the colleges and one of the passed over interview candidates had 10 years of experience at a local Kinkos like shop. The actual person hired had been a stay at home mom for the last 10 years, and worked in retail before that. She was also a close friend of one of the people at the college where the copy shop was located. Both were asking for commensurate pay.)
What's the max/typical read bandwidth from an SD card on a Pi? Even if the storage space is there, you might still get perceptible latency improvements with order-of-magnitude smaller binaries.
You can throttle (including completely disable) the internet per tab via devtools in most modern browsers...
> The shooting happened early Sunday morning

> the sound of more than 30 gunshots coming from an apartment complex directly behind Shepards

> The shooting appeared to be a random act involving individuals participating in the reckless discharge of firearms

How can this happen and keep happening?

It is not only about the number of weapons around in the US: the households with weapons in the US are 42% (2017 data), 37.9% in Finland, 16.6% in New Zealand, 28,6% in Switzerland (2005 data). But stuff like that in the US is in the tenfold to hundredfold when compared to similar episodes in any other country that is not bloody poor or a war zone.

Why is that?

data: gunpolicy.org

RIP
DEI came out of no where. It was as if 2020 happened, and then, suddenly every company in the country had a DEI consultant directing hiring and compensation practices. It reminds me of a party commissar, embedded in every organization telling the organization who, based on the politics of the day, to hire.
Guns are not the problem in themselves. Other countries do just fine with free gun laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_Switzer...