skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I built a distributed system, I wanted to avoid the terms "master and slave" for the "coordinator and worker", so instead I chose something I thought was relatively less controversial- daimyo, honcho, and peasant. Only later did I realize I had merely recapitulated the power structure of feudal japan.
Yep, I understand this could backfire and thank you for pointing it out. It's probably best to let it simmer on HN.

It's just my anecdotal experience with this kind of mentality that the people looking to enlighten us simple minded folk are also using any questioning or opposition of their enlightenment as an opportunity to shame those people that question or oppose. Some kind of twisted competition I guess.

(not to say I don't support enlightenment of certain issues, I do, but with limits)
Include debugging in the interview process
> There are biological reasons for this, since males are more disposable than females for reproduction. Think of one rooster for a dozen hens - this is still a viable flock, even if the other roosters get eaten.

Note that birds do not have mammalian sex chromosomes - males have ZZ and females have ZW - and females have been measured to have greater variability in birds.

So there is not really a biological reason as you say -- it just happened to go one way or the other in the past, and now different trees of species are stuck that way.
Good point. I don't mean this as a slight against retdec. Simply, retdec was proprietary for quite a while, and it escaped my mind.

retdec haven't tagged (or built) a release in a couple years, unfortunately, but there is recent activity on their repo.
I don't watch or read news, and I feel pretty knowledgeable about my environment. I feel that if I actually engage in my community I am much more plugged in to my environment than if I try to read about it on the news.
This means anybody who gets a blood donation is getting a nice dose of forever chemicals.
Why is it scientists would have us believe that they know everything definitively regarding covid, covid vaccines, climate change, etc?
Most computer programming is still borderline clerical in nature.
Damn.. that dude caused more mayhem and destruction than genghis khan..
You're kidding but this is exactly the problem.

Boys are taught they are "toxic" and young women outperforms women academically and on the job. Women in their 20s make more than their male counterparts - and then they complain they can't find a male partner who earns more than them.

The media tells them "the future is female" and that their behaviour is "toxic masculinity"; meanwhile, men are the most likely to kill themselves, to become trans (which is itself linked with a high rate of suicide, with or without transition), to die in war, to die on the job.
What if 6 people watch it for one purchase? Does it become theft then?

How about a college dorm hosting a movie night? Maybe theft?

What if a million people watch it for one purchase? I know you think that's theft, but I'm not sure where you'd draw the line.

I think the reality is that 90% of the population won't pirate because it's too much effort and legally ambiguous. If your content becomes popular through piracy, you will absolutely reap the rewards of good content creation.

If a billion people pirated your content because it was that good, you'd have absolutely no problem monetizing. You'd be a household name. When Disney loses their copyright on the Mouse, they're still going to be a huge company capable of monetizing all things Mickey.

If we get back to a state where everyone is pirating because the content services suck, then you need to petition your content distributors to lower friction and provide an experience worth paying for, but we're nowhere near that.

Gabe does it with Steam. I used to almost exclusively pirate games, and now I almost exclusively buy them, because Steam has value adds (achievements, friends, online play, tournaments, workshop content, etc).

Also, you have to understand that many people who have large collections of pirate content see themselves more as archivists than viewers. I'd guess most pirated content never even gets consumed, just downloaded for a "later" that never comes.
A lot of research shows time spent outdoors protects against depression and other mental illness.
Stop fighting your computer. It's your machine and it should only be doing what you tell it to do.

There's one rule you need: absolutely no non-free software in the house. It doesn't matter how pretty it is, it doesn't matter how useful it is. You can do without it. No iPhones, no non-free Qualcomm bullshit, no non-free software.
The Almighty Dwarf: A Trojan Horse for PL Research
Isn't USDC a token on Ethereum and some other blockchains? According to this it is 99%+ ETH: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/data/decentralized-finance/st...
That's not what a protected class is. A protected class is something like "gender", "race", or "religion". It's not "women", "black people", or "Jews".

Discriminating based on gender or race, regardless of the gender or race in question, is illegal in most (probably all) states in the US.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group for a lot more details.
The issue isn't necessarily that they lost users this time, even though that's what all the headlines are about. They projected continued losses of subscribers, even after the one time event with russia is through.
> said, that they need to come up with a higher-risk, higher-reward instrument

Why bother doing that when they can give you money and you can invest it in lottery tickets, beanie babies, bonds or Google yourself?

Except in the event of a startup, where you don't have the ability to buy in yourself to such a high-risk, high-reward outcome yourself.

But there isn't be much difference between Google offering you RSUs and just more salary (assuming the 'more salary' also vested)
Once the pool for some jobs gets large enough, the self selection of those who apply for it can become a problem.

From what I understand from rumors in the area, is those who couldn't become police (for whatever reason) would then go apply at the prison, and those who couldn't get a job there (and it appears they take anyone with a pulse) would go work for TSA.

Perhaps the "public servant" idea should be taken to a larger extreme, and some positions picked by lottery instead.
> Even if we think that we should describe mothers as birthing persons

Mother definitely does not mean birthing person. The easiest example is adoption.
Would would you call the mother in that case? Adoptive Female Parent goes again against the 'rule' because it has female in there. Parent 1/Parent 2? no it has Hierarchy.
is it even AI? They claim it's a language model analysing human bias but it's blindingly obvious that it is just a human curated blacklist.

Maybe they're using a language model for part of speech tagging or to suggest alternative words with similar meaning but there's no way an AI decided that "motherboard" is taboo.
Incorrect. The protections against employment discrimination by protected category are at the federal level, and are not tied to any specific race/religion/etc.

> Under the laws enforced by EEOC, it is illegal to discriminate against someone (applicant or employee) because of that person's race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.

https://www.eeoc.gov/prohibited-employment-policiespractices....
MLK was a leftist - and arguably a "far leftist" for his time. If you're going to use him as an example, you may have to concede that this is not a "natural outcome" of leftist ideologies in general, but rather the outcome of some other selection pressure that rewards diversion from initiatives that actually affect peoples' material conditions.
I'm not at all sure that learning about computer history and learning about how computers work are the same thing. For example, looking at early microprocessors would give you the idea that instruction set architectures are completely random when in fact their designers were faced with a limited transistor budget and very short development times. Often, microprocessors were offered as a replacement for discrete logic, rather than as generally programmable computing devices.

The history of computing is replete with really dumb ideas, from addition and multiplication tables in memory (IBM 1620) to processors optimized for Ada that ran too slowly to be useful (Intel iAPX 432). There were really smart ideas, too, such as cache (IBM System/360 Model 85) and RISC (too many systems to mention). What you want is just the smart ideas, I'd say.

If you want to get an understanding of how modern computers work, and given your CS degree, I would recommend David Patterson/John Hennessy's Computer Organization and Design, any edition. A lot of universities use this book in a second-year architecture course.

In terms of relating this information to the overall hierarchy of computer systems, I would also recommend Nisan and Schocken's Elements of Computing Systems.
The mental model of how you use a certain branch could indeed be best expressed by the word "main", so no one can say the word isn't the best one for you to use.

But a master copy or version of something like a master recording or gold master for pressing records is different from merely "main".

Applied to software they are similar but not identical concepts, and neither is in any way wrong or harmful to anyone.

It's a small enough issue that it's not worth fighting very hard over, but, the rationale for the change, and especially for anyone trying to tell anyone else they have to do that change, is still invalid and the word master actually applies better if that's how you're using that branch. It has nothing to do with slave bosses.
History is also full of people like you who claim a moral authority to say X is your truth, not my truth, and that there are not objective truths. An example is slavery. Good luck objectively saying "it's your truth that slavery is wrong, but in the south where I come from, it is my truth that it is OK, so stuff it!"
I started using Sketchup in 2005, I think, and got pretty good at it, even doing some paid projects. I found it's approach to 3D modeling intuitive. I have yet to find another 3D modeling tool that works this way or is nearly as intuitive (Tinkercad comes closest for me). I don't use SketchUp enough to justify the licensing fees they've been wanting for many years, now. $119 is close enough I'm tempted, but having to use it in a browser when I'm using it for the purpose of 3D printing does not sound fun.

Anyone have any recommendations for similar apps—i.e. apps that are focused on architecture/industrial design (not character modeling) that don't expect you to do CAD as soon as anything gets interesting?
> It's kind of ageism-adjacent, but I wonder if some of it is a bias that expects that past 40 you shouldn't really be needing to apply to jobs by resume drops any more.

I really wish people would stop this. I don't really keep in touch with many coworkers due to time. My friends tend to come from outside of work and they're not software devs. It definitely is age-ism adjacent; having to "network" to get a job is much harder after you get older.
Intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, exam results etc, is not just a product of genetics.
But we're old enough we don't need the "faux" vintage - we have the real deal (well, not the murderer part, but old concert/band shirts).
> There is no debate about these "woke" issues.

Uhhh isn't this thread a debate?
Bit of an odd article, man makes defamatory and false tweet, gets arrested for defamation, cries free speech?

Making such a remark is equivalent of calling someone here a nazi etc. Hardly newsworthy
Yeah, Jeopardy could be self-selecting based on a sex-specific mental trait.

But you seem to be ignoring the test scores. Why is that?
What jobs are hiring individuals anonymously?
Also, a related book by the same authors:

https://algorithmsbook.com/optimization/
I also had an "irrational" fear of donating blood and needles, and being encouraged by my girlfriend, also started doing it. Well, I did it once a couple of months ago and almost passed after some minutes (they had to stop). Apparently, this is not uncommon for young skinny males. But maybe my excitement also didn't help. Will try again :D
Also known as picking your battles and reducing your surface area, fight one fight at a time.
Ask HN: Human capital due diligence service
Hi there!
Imagine that you are an investor. You invest in startups at pre-seed and seed stages.
Companies at these stages have no strong results because there are no sales.
We all know that the valuation of such startups is the founders' valuation.
And there are risks of disharmony between founders and investors.
And perhaps the most critical question is: will this particular team be able to create a future unicorn?

Usually, the decision is made after an interview (or several interviews).
I think that there is an element of subjectivity and bias here.

What would you say, as an investor, if there were such a service that gives an assessment of founders and teams about the risks of investing?
This assessment is based on the coincidence of the values of founders and key employees.
This assessment is done using validated techniques and tests and helps the investor make a more objective decision.
Do you think such a product would be helpful for founders and investors?
Ah neat, yeah that's exactly what I need, thanks!
You might be that rare breed of manager that knows how to manage their subordinates without micromanaging people and gets a sense of accomplishment out of seeing your organization of your reports resulting in tasks being completed rather than lording over a sea of butts in seats.

If so, kudos.
> As in she's the "lord of the land."

But she wouldn't be; she'd be the "lady of the land".
“ Instead of producing two mediocre shows and an algorithmically designed movie every single week, they could make three excellent series and three much-talked-about movies every two months and scale back on spending from $17 billion to $10 billion a year and actually grow — and maintain — their subscriber base.”

I think it’s inevitable that Netflix will sell to one of the media behemoths. They simply don’t have the time that it will take to make the kind of major pivot mentioned above.
Call me a nerd, but that's be an acceptable cost to being a colonist on another planet for me. 9/9/6 would be a cheap cost for insuring the success of the human race.
> Our society just doesn't have the concept of racism it seems because of the exceeding rarity of people who aren't European or Asian.

"Slave is an Ephebian word. In Om we have no word for slave," said Vorbis.

"So I understand," said the Tyrant. "I imagine that fish have no word for water."

-- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
My wife works for a company that does tons of business with a FAANG company. They’re putting together a presentation for the client about how diverse they are (“we have all of the sexual identities!”). They also told a Mexican guy he wasn’t diverse enough to give the presentation because he was (1) a man and (2) his accent wasn’t thick enough—it might not be clear that he is “diverse”. It’s over the top even by post-2020 standards.
My guess is that the person who needs blood cares more about getting the blood or plasma than the small amount of PFAS in it, which they likely have already.

If this causes more people to donate, it's probably a good thing overall, even if the people doing it are doing so in the hopes of cleansing their own system of these chemicals.
I think this is sarcasm. But I can’t tell anymore.

As a white guy with a really not white name, I will note that things seem to go better when I’m seen.

There seems to be a lot of complaints and outrage from people that have it pretty good.
So, the solution to pollution REALLY IS dilution.
“Social” media
Everyone knows a great way to get anyone to give up powering willingly, is to make them feel more at risk and make fun of them for it
Interesting thing about the chromosomes - in other species where the chromosome situation is reversed, like birds I think, the female is the one that displays more variability.
OpenTTD?
I guess instead of donations we could bring back the idea of bloodletting or just swimming with the leeches.
I may missing something but it seems plain enough in the thirteenth amendment? “ Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
Also if you're in prison and refuse to work, what are they going to do, send you to prison prison?
That's a bit reductive and I don't agree with the characterization so maybe I overstated my point. Point is in general I find even purely consumption based entertainment hobbies are usually framed in a way that it's constructive (e.g. prestige TV and how it shapes your world view, consuming fine arts that heal the soul and inform, etc) in conversation when trying to impress.
I initially misread your comment; I thought you were recommending a visual comparison tool for icon sets. Like those side-by-side font comparison tools.

That could be cool, right?
There are very concerning patterns developing at the moment in the DEI space. DEI efforts, and often those leading them, are increasingly the most biased and close minded parts of the organization. Spreading selected stereotypes and often solving concerns about “discrimination” by being very biased and inequitable.

For example at my last company a report showed that slightly fewer of a certain minority were promoted. This was pointed out and discussed extensively. However when someone pointed out that the same data showed that there were zero of the same minority in performance plans and that everyone on performance plans was a white male, the conversation was shut down. As in it was incredibly important we address this very minor statistical gap on one end, but when the same data suggested that we might be biased against older white males the same DEI department (which had no older white males by the way) shut the convo down immediately.

DEI can’t just be about selected DEI that meets a certain biased definition that is, ironically, not inclusive.
Google denies it unblurred satellite imagery of Russian military bases
That's because it is insane: how come most processors are big endian, how did they manage just fine?
You're ignoring the part of my reply where I respond to your point about test scores. Why is that?
Seems like the airplane owner would sue the owner of the car who should be covered by the insurance for some property damages and the car insurance might go back and sue tesla to recover funds given how unusual the situation is
> I never had faith in society, but I had no idea we fell so low.

I can see an argument that tolerating discrimination in the universe direction as part of a scheme to deal with the lasting impacts of a long history of discrimination against certain groups is flawed, inadequate, of incomplete progress compared to the period of discrimination.

I can't see the argument that it is a fall, though, unless one views the preceding discrimination as a good thing in itself.
Just FYI, it's Master as in Master record. This is different from database terminology where there is a master and slave.
Hoo, boy. If true, there must be a staggering shortage of men in the software design biz. At least judging from the stuff I have to deal with. Maybe being an asshole is a Y-linked trait?
You can't get from an is to an ought.
Food for thought. Read through all of your comments and count how many of them are condescending. I mean across all your throw-away accounts. Really think about the answer.
Yep looks like it & has an up to date collection of all its 1919 SVG icons
> why not just get regularly blood tested?

Volume.

A blood sample is at a stretch max 20ml. A blood donation is about 300ml.
Yeah, it's a continuous process, called ‘euphemism treadmill’ (not a technical term though): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Lifespan

However, personally I'm pretty sure that the US is overdoing it.
Main is offensive because it sounds like man and spells like man.

Here you go…
> More like a recipe for an omnipresent gerontocracy

Sounds like the thinking of a Tier 0 civilization in regards to the ruling class of a Tier 2 civilization (if one day we can prove that such civilizations exist
The relevant piece of legislation is not state-by-state but the Civil Rights Act of 1965. It defines protected classes, and it defines them as attributes that you cannot discriminate along, not groups; whites and blacks are (de jure, not necessarily de facto) equally protected by race's status as a protected class.
I don't think that's the situation, but if you are irreversibly committed to a technology, you have an interest in seeing that tech continue to advance. Being stuck on a dead tech is even worse.
To add to your list:

- referral bonuses, but only for diversity hires

- hiring freezes, except diversity hires
I think pandemic rebound is probably part of it, but honestly I just think Netflix has gotten cheap. Whether it's in-house or licensed, "woke" or not, whatever, the quality of in-house content and the availability of outside content has really gone downhill.
Defeating law school and its evil spell
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I'm not sure they wouldn't be on the forefront of coming up with new words to add to the lists.
Glad you did this. I started working on something myself in January as I was dabbling in it but the whole scene was evolving so fast I was like, by the time I write it the piece will seem like a time capsule. The survey/history style is good and educational, maybe this will spur me to put out the effort and do my own..
inside driving the cars
Mariupol Computer Museum creator finds a new war-time calling
> I am not sure why men want to join this field.

Because having a job is better than not having a job. You could say the same thing for being a dishwasher, say. Just because people typically don't want to make an entire career out of a job doesn't mean that discrimination isn't problematic.
A vocal minority unfortunately, and hiring is so driven by the fear of hiring the wrong person that just about any pushback is given a large amount of credence generally.
It isn't irony, it is hypocrisy. And they have considered it. When you put the thumbscrews on them, they say things like "You can't discriminate against men" and talk about punching-up versus punching-down, etc. They have a bunch of thought-terminating cliches in place to deal with this already. They will talk about the "larger context" of society, and "every day is already men's day."

There's a pretty funny picture of the HuffPo team at one point and it is just ... young white women. That's it. That's your diversity.
The official PC term is now “birthing person”, “birthing people”, “people giving birth” and similar.

Think of that what you will.