skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you say "I paid my proprietor this month", nobody will understand what you mean. It's simply a different word with a different definition.
Yes, just as that is the standard treatment for hemochromatosis. Just because it is the wrong treatment for most things does not mean it has zero therapeutic value in specific circumstances.
It's actually in Ocaml
When the same kind of people banned "master" branch for being offensive I was surprised. Not so much now if I think in their logic
There's two (relevant) kinds of consumers here: Those who want access and those who want ownership.

Netflix was on a path to successfully serve the first kind, the only remaining problems being region locking and an incomplete catalog. Demand for piracy went down. Then the industry got greedy, made one of those remaining problems much, much worse, and now the demand for piracy is on the rise again.

The industry spends a lot of resources making life worse for the second kind, in a misguided attempt to both satisfy them and fully prevent the possibility of piracy. Instead they fail at both. The result is an increased demand for piracy.

> You're directly responsible for sucking the quality of life away from people who make your entertainment and reducing the desire to make things you enjoy. You're going to end up with shows that are AI generated CGI sponsored by Mt. Dew and Chevy trucks.

So here's the problem: The only way I can spend money to encourage the production of content I want is to buy a terrible, abusive product I don't want. It only plays in 720p, it's only available through a shitty app, it may disappear from the platform it's on any time.

All of it is just a wrapper for content. Please sell me the content. Whatever file comes out at the end of the production process, sell it to me.

Instead I spend my money in other places. Streamers on Twitch want it. YouTubers want it. People on Patreon want it. Developers want it. Somehow they manage not to abuse the people willing to give them money.
YES it IS easy. Any kid or grandparent could do it - don't underestimate them. This isn't their nerd-blindness, this is your normie-ignorance.
> In the US - Cleaners are not well paid. I am not sure why men want to join this field.

There are some well compensated cleaning jobs in some (definitely not all) hospitals and schools.
For me, it's that I want a significant portion of a piracy set-up for things that I can't get at all (4k actual original Star Wars trilogy, certain shows with the original soundtrack rather than a worse replacement, some obscure pieces of media) or for things I consider likely to disappear any time (YouTube videos) so if I'm going to have it anyway, I may as well also use it to avoid the "where the hell can I watch this?" shuffle. I do also pay for several streaming services.
I've also seen similar behavior on interview loops. I also would love for there to be fear of engaging in illegal discriminatory behavior for companies.

However, as an individual person, the cost/benefit equation on whistleblowing just seems so so bad. It just doesn't seem worth it as an individual. If these illegal things are going to be pushed back against, it seems like it'll need to be a coordinated/collective action.
Oh, I have OPINIONS about why this might be, as someone who was one of the teenagers on LJ back when this weird ideology (the bastardization of intersectionality/identity politics that's taken over all non-right discussions) started. I'm a disabled lesbian, so I get a front row seat to how some forms of discrimination 'matter' more than others.

It boils down to a few things:

1.) A lot of this identity politics is coming from upper-middle class people of color OR white queer people, who are using it to make money and boost their careers. The disabled are, in America at least, far less likely to have careers to boost. This is why the type of disability activism you see in identity politics is usually limited to mental illnesses.

2.) The disabled, to some degree, disprove some of the ideological underpinnings of modern identity politics. Modern identity politics is based on the idea that if we change society/fix discrimination, then everybody (all groups) will have the same rates of success. But even if social discrimination didn't exist, those of us who are disabled literally can't do things able-bodied people can do. There's an undercurrent of 'discrimination is bad BECAUSE all these groups can be normal/productive/participate in capitalism' and the disabled make people confront that they don't actually believe all people are equal. They believe all PRODUCTIVE people are equal, but they can't say that, because then they sound like those 'horrible' right wingers.

3.) Fighting on behalf of the disabled doesn't make people feel like they're 'on the right side of history'. I've experienced a shit ton of sexism and homophobia from right-wingers, but most conservatives would be horrified at insulting me for having MS and agree that I should get help if I need it. They just disagree on how it should be done. That's harder to fight about, which means it's harder for the media to turn into a frenzy, and that's where people on both sides get their 'marching orders'.
> But because of this the interview process can get lengthy and white male candidates maybe tire of waiting and go elsewhere. So in some sense its not fair to the white male.

Isn't it equally obnoxious to everyone? I'm not sure why only the white males would be put out by the wait. The wait, while due to the lengthy interview process, isn't due to them being white males. Unless you interview the white males first for some reason.
Hybrid makes a lot of sense to me for these reasons. In person can be so much faster and simpler for heavily collaborative tasks. Five people in a conference room for an hour will accomplish more than those same 5 in a zoom call, and it's less likely for unnecessary people to be part of an in person meeting. Spending 4+ hours on Zoom/Teams calls in a day is also one of the most draining experiences I've ever had as well, full days of meetings in person are far more tolerable.
I don't have any 4K screens, so I like to just buy used DVDs off of ebay or local thrift stores and rip them.

Theoretically you could then resell the same discs if you don't care for copyright law, but I'm too lazy.
> "the only remedy to past discrimination, is present discrimination"

this is probably the dumbest sentence I have ever read in my life.

Is present slavery the only remedy to past slavery?
Freedom & freedom of speech aren't equivalent ideas, and most of us Indians do not correctly identify the subtle difference. Hence speech and opinions come under vicious attack instead of productive participation.

India sees journalism taking camps (since the era of Mrs. Indira Gandhi' premiership). There are national newspapers & media channels who very overtly align with the political parties. Speaking your mind out comes with its own consequences.
I don't doubt that it's not the full picture, but I'm skeptical about your theory. My $0.02:

Regarding (1), it only expands the labor pool if the pipeline for "diverse" labor hasn't already been exhausted. Instead we seem to see employers competing for "diverse" labor, including in some cases foregoing technical qualifications for "diverse" qualifications. This is only in the company's best interest to the extent that it's economically advantageous to appear to be striving for diversity.

Regarding (2), I really don't think most companies are to the point where they're deliberately stoking racial division as an anti-union tactic, at least not in the FAANG space. Seems like it would be a lot easier to push the political divide button which is pre-primed on account of the media.
I've heard things similar about Seattle specifically that line up with what both you and the parent commenter are saying.

Maybe Seattle just sucks?
> "But Twitter is a private platform" is entirely a way for Democrats to wave that in their face.

So inconsistency on matters of equal treatment and individual freedom is due to cynicism and political expediency? That doesn’t sound good
A black person could not have been born and raised in a Russian city?
Reads very emacsish
There's a ton of posts on here completely unrelated to programming, why not this one too?
The article was a rather neutral reporting of facts. The facts should be embarrassing to India, but that’s not the newspaper’s fault.

The Guardian often reports on similar issues occurring within the UK. Here are just two examples:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/14/transgender-...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/04/gender-criti...

So you are utterly mistaken.
> If your objective is to make it harder for folks

I know (at lest presume) you wrote it that way just rhetorically, but: no, of course that's not the objective. :)

It's just that - rushed hence imperfect formulations aside, that can also happen of course - if a relatively complex idea is to be expressed, its form will follow. When I wrote «actively», it means that I craft the expressions - if you wish, that I check and vet and adjust the expression, until I find it well constructed. (And yes, this also means that implicitly I do verify whether it is understandable - but implying, "by somebody who actually intends to do their part in understanding it".) James Joyce once got furious against some editing of his work, (rightfully) stating that "he chose those expressions very intentionally" - that is an "active use of language", adopting some effort, in a conscious process.

Yes I do speak this way too. :) I have been told that to listen to me requires extra concentration - but that was by professors during oral exams...

...so actually, it's "/may/ require": it depends on the expressed idea really. I guess that certainly you would not find all of my posts "hard to read". Probably, "not all lunches are soft and buttery Big Macs" - sometimes "you have to chew" (because such is the material).
The list it is on is about what words to use in external product documentation and marketing.
Not some "if you use these words internally the word police are going to come after you" list.

I'm going to be charitable and suggest this person is just accidentally leaving out context, rather than deliberately trying to rile people up because they disagree with something :)
You Never See Inverted Loops on Roller Coasters
*If a 1:1 ratio served the consumer. There is a key difference.

In OP example even the 1:1 request is based on cost of goods, not consumer utility

Steve Jobs’ mythologized demands were in service of the consumer, while shouldering the manufacturing burden inherent in them
Geometric deep learning: First steps
Actually, it is generally understood that the owner/proprietor of a bar is the business owner (aka license owner) -- and that this in general is not the same person who owns the bricks.

A more clearcut case of semantic confusion I can see a crappy AI creating out of the blue would be:

"My proprietor said if I didn't pay the rent soon she was gonna ..."

Which clearly has a very different (and basically nonsensical) meaning than a the more natural formulation using the now thankfully forbidden L-word.
While I generally agree the idea that it's not harmful enough to stop a transfer, I disagree with the basis of the argument.

We could also say that given a choice between death and HIV, the blood recipient would still want the blood.
35% is almost 3x the share of black people in the US population (assuming you are talking about a US company).
I don't think it's "lost." At least with regard to racial preferences in the workplace, they remain unpopular even among the very groups they seek to help: https://www.vox.com/2019/5/9/18538216/diversity-workplace-pe... (Black people oppose "taking race and ethnicity into account ... in order to increase diversity" 54 to 37, and Hispanics oppose it 69 to 27).

Separating people into groups and giving preferences and demerits based on skin color is social engineering mainly being championed by the same people who have always favored social engineering: affluent, college-educated white people. Those folks hold a lot of power in some circles, but are routinely defeated at the ballot box: https://thehill.com/opinion/education/526642-hispanics-shock...
This is a very ingenuous take, trying to shield the wrong doings by Current Gov.
First, Illegal encroachments were not bulldozed. People had valid documents proving the legitimacy of their houses.
Also, the Supreme Court ordered for the demolitions to stop, but the houses and shops of people were still razed to ground.
The Rabble rousers were people who were undertaking religious processions with swords and guns raised in front of mosques, mocking and troubling Muslims. They even hoisted saffron flags over the mosques.
Rabble rousers are those who are continuously giving calls for genocide of Muslims in Dharm sansads, publicly.
And PM of India has stayed mum all through out.
What Guardian said is absolutely right. It's not flame-bait.
Such is Democracy, I guess.
The lead author has no credentials in this field, so there is reason to be on your guard.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Seneff
The "talking between friends" works great when it's something everyone is watching, or there's only a few channels available, etc.

Once everyone is split into various streaming camps, the talking between friends begins to drop.
How could either one of these viewpoints possibly come up during a job interview?
So many websites depend on cloudflare that it would be difficult for them to justify prioritizing it and (iirc) Netflix uses fast for content delivery
Because it promotes wrong and harmful thinking. And must therefore be extinguished.
aka 'wageism'

if you don't need a rocket scientist, you don't pay for one...
grunt work is grunt work.
Not OP, and I wouldn't quit over a single message, or single bot.

That said, it is a red flag that the company ok with spamming the employees to virtue signal. It is likely that it will be accompanied with other annoyances and has an incompatible culture.

Better to get out before you go crazy or get fired.
Slavery was horrible and should not be forgotten. Erasing all related words so that we can all comfortably forget it ever happened seems … wrong? That’s another way of looking at it, anyway.
minecraft is going to have a field day
I don’t think it is loyalty. By your 40’s your pay is high enough that new offers to get another 20% come much rarer. The effort to find a new job has less upside.
> An especially admirable thing about the way Garrett has approached this mess is that he's managed, as far as I can tell, to reliably avoid taking the bait on the drama about the project's founder...

Well, your link shows that this statement is false:

> ...But Curtis is more than just a bad reinventor of things. He is also Mencius Moldbug, a prolific pseudo-intellectual influencer of the alt-right. His politics worry me much more than his coding style. And because of my personal dealings with him, I am not sanguine about his ability or that of his followers to separate the two.

It clearly colors his thinking, as he admits, to some degree.
LGBT people or trans people?

I'd bet the theater kids gave CS a run for its money. Or the art kids. Just fewer gay men and lesbians in CS.
I produce enough shit when working. I don't need to constantly produce. The idea that I should always be doing something "of value" is toxic and soul crushing. If I want to produce something in my non-work time that's my choice. It's also my choice if I just want to read a comic book. I work to live, not live to work.
Current Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States
I have a nano-spun PET hardshell. It is so breathable that I can honestly say that I find it to be more breathable than the cotton t-shirt I wear underneath, while also being waterproof.

PET can be made to be much more breathable than common natural fabrics.
> But if we have no problem hand waving discrimination away as self-selection when the exact same conclusion is drawn for other groups

We're not hand-waving away discrimination as self selection. If we saw higher call back rates among male applications as compared to identical female applications then there would be a case for discrimination. When we study the call-back rates in tech companies, the results typically show no bias and sometimes show bias in favor of women [1].

What's happening is that people are alleging discrimination on account of nothing except for disparities in representation in tech. You're right: tech shouldn't be any different. Do we conclude that veterinarians must be rife with anti-male discrimination because they're 80% women? Why do we make the same arguments about tech?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25069644
The Dream Machine is easily one of the best-written books I've ever read. Really gives a good overview of how many people are involved in various ways in the evolution of computing.
Viewpoint diversity is very, very important. But for a large contingent of the workforce, their viewpoints are already represented in the numerous implicit and ideological supports that our society has developed, without them even needing to be present: this is called "hegemony".

If you do not acknowledge this is the case, then DEI efforts can seem very unfair. But one should be careful not to allow emotions and sensitivities to creep in, to do the ideological work for you. Your status is not threatened by people of different backgrounds coming together and critiquing the processes and pathologies that dominate today (and that white men typically grow up in, and so are already comfortable navigating to the point they assume that it is the natural way of things). It will make everything better for everyone if we take the time to put effort into including (injecting) the diversity of viewpoints that you find so valuable, and that is precisely the aim of DEI.
The first line opens with the problem.....tiktok...social media....those platforms as they are are horrible..... anti social media.....
Yeah, my first thought was "holy shit, maybe finally an actual justification for regular bloodletting as a health practice!"
2015? I think there’s a date missing on the page.
I just checked the LinkedIn of the individual whom I consider excellent, and his title is actually Database Architect. I feel that is fair considering his skills and the projects I know he handled.

Everybody in that engineering org worked with big data and could design the data store system for a regular startup easily. However, this individual’s role was to optimize our multi tenant PG cluster design to build some complex CDP functionality on top of it.

I now work for a larger organization and when I run into the individuals that own shared database resources all they do is impose contrived read/write permissions. However it makes some sense since I work with PII in some cases.
Modern videostreaming is such a poison pill. Where the rights come and go arbitrarily. So Netflix decided they were going to do their own content because they couldn't rely on production studios. Since they don't have to pay royalties on their own content the streaming apps intentionally push the homegrown movies and obscure the slightly better 3rd party content. And it was not always like this. In their early streaming days the AAA titles (The Godfather, The Matrix, etc) were front and center. The recommendations engine was actually useful. And there were few competitors so AAA titles would stay on their platform for years.

I've been using their service since 00s when they were shipping DVDs. I barely recognize the same company even though they are wildly successful.
But isn’t the first iron man movie more like the old school comics than what he describes?
I am 100 percent okay with it. One entity has provided the fee for service (and afforded me 1/100th of an avocado toast, thank you very much) and is not in their ownership to do as they like.

That they want to share it is their business, not mine. If it's good, those friends will tell other friends and someone along the way will purchase it again, and I'll be even closer to my mortgage busting avocado toast

The hypothetical argument against that is "what if I get 100 friends, for 100 nights to watch it." Sure, hypothetically you could but then it'd be pretty expensive for you and added wear and tear on your home and a pretty big headache to deal with. THe only way to justify it would be to start charging, which at that point, would be stealing. So it always comes across as a thought problem, but I find it's not a real problem.

I don't mind if the town throws a movie festival once a month and plays my movie. I mind if they all get to go home with the luxory of having it on demand and the ability ot share it with everyone they know without providing the service fee requested.
After the meeting in Istanbul, everyone in Russia and Ukraine had hope for an early peace (even the stock market speaks about it), the next day Ukrainian air forces attacked Russia (Belgorod) for the first time. This is was a clear sign, that UK and US has no goal to complete this was as soon as possible. The real goal is to get stuck Russia in this swamp for as long as possible. The model of Soviet-Afghan war.

My motives are not pro-Kremlin, but indeed I live in Russia and consume pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian propaganda. However, I can also read popular Ukrainian Telegram channels (> 1 mln.) and I see the mockery of corpses of Russian soldiers in every second video. Ukrainians are happy to savor photos of disfigured bodies. I quite often see videos of Ukrainian women and men with bare bottoms tied to poles because they are supposedly looters, and if there are such videos, then it's scary to imagine how many did not get on the video.

I see how the Ukrainian government contributes to the process of dehumanization of Ukrainian people. And I know why this is being done.
When I worked at an IBM Fab, I remember seeing these during inspection under the 1000000x microscope. There were many, I wondered if each engineer had their own they'd embed.

Both were impressive!
> Amazon Prime is abysmal. They don't even group different seasons of a series together. Here in Switzerland, it's even worse, I get a mix of French and German stuff recommended.

I haven't noticed this in France. For a given series, there's a "season" dropdown that has all the seasons, even some which may be unavailable.

However, I hate dubbed movies and series, and I hate that I can't filter out those titles that, for some reason, only offer a French dubbed version.
No, it's not economic at all. You've repeatedly failed to grasp this in this entire comments section. It's about convenience. It is actually more convenient to pirate the handful of movies or TV shows people want to watch than to maintain a dozen subscriptions or activate just the one for the handful of shows or movies they want to watch at any given time.

Steam and Spotify have made it incredibly simple to just get what you want without having to juggle or manage any kind of bullshit.
Unfortunately I think the more likely scenario is that OP gets sidelined at work until he leaves. Most importantly (to the company) though, he's no longer involved in hiring.
> why doesn’t everybody do this?

Just a guess, the directors of the company might prefer, from a fiduciary point of view, to invest the cash in capex or sales, rather than re-acquiring options for the option pool.

Although, if you're acquiring at cost of exercise, the stock is probably more valuable than the cash you're paying for it. I could argue it either way, curious how you've valued the opportunity cost?

If your company doesn't have a significant sales+marketing department that can always seem to justify soaking up excess capital in exchange for marginal growth, your technique seems like a no-brainer! Smart idea.