skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not racism, as for it to be racist it would have to support the idea that people of one race are inherently superior in some form or another to another race.

Adjusting representation is not making any claim whatsoever about ability around members of any race, it's attempting to adjust for those kinds of claims that have already (falsely) been made.

Nobody who is implementing these policies in any of these Ivy League schools thinks Asian students are smarter or that non-Asian students are dumber.
My guess (hope) is that orgs like Red Hat will vet it a bit before putting it out, since they'll have to dive into the code and apply or reimplements it for multiple past versions of rsync.

That actually covers a lot of companies using it. Paying (or at least relying on) another company to take care of that for you is what most places do. Honestly, that's better than tens of thousands of people wasting time on the same thing IMO.
AFAIK, most of the FUD around Mongo came from this article (and the subsequent "telephone" game that followed it): http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never....

In practice, Mongo is a solid-enough database with its most valuable asset being its query language. I've worked on projects where it handles millions of records without any issue. Reaching this size of footprint is difficult unless you have a massive user base or you're working with transactional data. FWIW, the project in mind has a disk size of ~5GB which isn't much at all. Imagine most projects won't even get close to testing the limits of MongoDB and base their opinions of it on hearsay.

Disclaimer: I'm a developer not a full-blown DB admin so I'm sure there's a specialist who has more details about specific performance issues.
> You know what’s slower than setting innerHTML? Doing just what setting innerHTML would have done, but bit by bit.

This used to be conventional wisdom, but it’s less true today. Think of what innerHTML does:

1. Parse HTML

2. Create a document fragment or similar detached DOM root

3. Build the resulting DOM subtree

4. Append the subtree, potentially replacing an existing one

Skipping step 1 is potentially faster, sometimes significantly. It really only depends on how efficient your manual construction is (<template>/importNode is your friend if you have a lot of repetitive structure for instance).

That said, this is all fairly academic for most non-benchmark usage. Both approaches are unlikely to have a significant performance impact in real world apps.
It has its moments but you have to assume Garry Trudeau is a phenomenally insufferable person.
I have a few other comments in this thread on this. Can you define what you mean by diversity (background or thought or something else)? Also, how do you measure its improvement?

My speculation is that, because these are hard terms to nail down but easy to say, this becomes a perennial topic.
One might say he was in the offing for a while towards the end.

No need, I’ll get the door myself.
Why not be honest and outright auction those slots for highest bidders. Pay x number of millions and we guarantee access to Yale for x number of years.
We have the same in the UK with the term "gammon".
In the old days, when Ford manufactured cars in the USA, employees got a discount called the X-plan. If your parents, grandparents, brother, whatever, worked for Ford, you could use the X plan. You could also combine this with whatever other offers Ford was running at the time.

You'd often get $8-10,000 off a vehicle, and even more off if you bought a full-size truck.
Hm, I just yesterday read a post where someone stated that they could not get their account fixed while they themselves were a SWE at Google (I think), so especially 5 is not in any way guaranteed.
If a conservative Supreme Court were really drunk with power, don't you think the Ivy League institutions would have changed more than this?
I'm reminded of https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526975113597489154:

Yale is the epicenter of the woke mind virus attempting to destroy civilization.

Paul Graham's immediate chime of support shows it isn't just a piece of random silliness on Elon Musk's part. And other things I've seen (eg the harassment of Amy Chua) certainly fit.

This amicus brief speaking up for racism and discrimination (as long as it is against those funny looking Asians) is a minor piece of the general pattern.
If you care about security, you should not rely on a perfect code. Consider compartmentalization instead: https://qubes-os.org. Works for me (or so I hope).
>Why do we suddenly have a problem now that it's advantageous?

Something about judging someone based on the content of their character, and not color of their skin.

I never really understood why we couldn't reach our societal goals by simply focusing on class, instead of race. A poor black American has much more in common with a poor white American, then with an affluent black American, especially as it pertains to access to academic opportunity. Put another way, it isn't clear what problems we're solving by focusing on race, that we couldn't solve better by focusing on class.
Comments like this make me wonder if other posters are living in an alternate universe from me.

The engineers I've known and worked with were more likely to judge someone as being "like them" for their usage of Emacs vs Vim than their race, and everyone is always trying to recruit more women.

The ageism is more tied to actual technology things. The young engineer thinks the latest blog post they read about how to do async programming or manage deployments is the greatest thing in the world and only wants to hire people who think the same. The elder engineer recognizes it all as slight tweaks and rehashes on older ideas, frameworks and systems and is more ambivalent and not as excited to dive into learning their hundredth new way to accomplish the same task.

If management cares about business outcomes, the elder engineer is great. If management cares about vanity metrics and using the latest, coolest frameworks, the younger engineer is great.
Once a platform is past a certain size, they should no longer be allowed to permanently ban a person without due process.

See for example the people whose lives have been affected because they were banned from Facebook for absolutely no reason, and they could no longer access Facebook Marketplace. I think it's very dangerous to create a new type of second-class citizen that can no longer access certain online services, because naive algorithms were allowed to go rampant, without any checks and balances.
According to who? You don’t have perfect information to know the reasons.
So, even if it did work, the SC expected it to be dropped by 2028?

"But it doesn't work, so we should keep doing it forever!" seems to be the colleges' position.
I type them in manually, and bought the desktop version specifically to make this easier. It's painful, but since there's decent data export options, I'll hopefully never have to do it again
This is why I'm finally slowly starting to self-host things. It's not really convenient compared to *aaS, as it's a whole lotta new stuff to learn with great consequences for an error (because of the security issues), but I would be absolutely screwed if I needed customer service for any of these "customer is the product" services I use (e.g. everything Google). That alone is worth the hassle.
It's a chicken and egg problem. Who's going to stick their neck out long enough for "everyone" to get in on it?
The Focus ST and RS should have been sales monsters but ADM from dealerships ruined those products. Really quite sad - America hasn't had a good, popular UDM hot hatch in a long time.
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Not to mention the middle boomers are entering retirement age right now. This exact scenario of boomers leaving their jobs and creating an employment vacuum in their wake is something I've been hearing about for 30 years.
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This is the danger of focusing on equality of outcome instead of equality of opportunity. In my opinion, the former is not possible anyway, it's not a good goal. People are different and they're going to have different outcomes, even if only considering chance. But they should have the same opportunities regardless of race, gender, etc. Making policy to address this is tackling the root of the problem instead of the symptoms.
Sure, it starts with due process for the customer and spreads like a cancer to the employees...no thanks. Democracy will not be tolerated here. --Corp Overlords
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How can it be known with certainty that a group will be diverse, and thus have the benefits of diversity, simply by using race as a datapoint?

Is every individual of a particular race innately imbued with some magical ability or perspective?

What if you have a Chinese father and a Russian mother and you grew up in Kenya?
> I wish they'd just get rid of dealerships already. @Someone1234

Dealerships are a direct result of our Federal Government stepping in to protect consumers.

Vehicle manufacturers, before dealerships, would setup a lot to sell vehicles and then disappear several months later leaving citizens on the hook to attempt to resolve damages, repairs, or warranty issues.

The US Federal Government had enough complaints from citizens across the country to propose dealerships as a resolution. These car lots would become responsible for repair and warranty issues directly acting in the place of manufacturers.

In order to remove dealerships, one must first propose a valid remedy for these issues that dealerships are currently liable for.
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Did you mean besides COBOL?

There's CLU. Speaking of which, get one.
It's early and I haven't had my coffee yet, but anyone have a source link for this interview? I'd like to listen/read it (with proper paragraphs), it sounds really interesting to me (a literal gray beard).

Edit: paragraphs.

"I'm 51 and I've been active in this industry since I was 14. I watched it grow from computers with 4k of memory to having a supercomputer in my pocket. I was learning in the age of Apple II and the Commodore PET.

When I realized that I could create an explosion of data with just a few lines of code, I was hooked forever. It was such a magical thing. I found some other guys in my high school that were also into computers and we started meeting regularly on Fridays and Saturdays to... Well, to do some things that were, perhaps, not allowed.

Since then, I've started three companies, and I don't think I could have found the same satisfaction in any other industry. I am mindful, these days, that I'm 51 because I know ageism is a thing in tech. There's a moment when you walk into a room and people think, 'Oh, he's a greybeard.' I don't have a beard, but you know what I mean.

But when I start to talk about things and find solutions, that disappears. I can't change my age but I am in full control over what I do and what I read and how much time I carve out to write code. I can still see myself doing this when I'm 60, 70 years old. Even older. Because I want to keep doing meaningful things."
Remember Abigail Fisher's case against UT in 2016? Thomas, Alito, and Roberts wanted to strike down UT's race-based admissions policy then. Kennedy and Ginsburg, two of the pro-affirmative action voices from that case, have been replaced with much more conservative justices. This might be where we finally abolish race-based admissions.
You are not wrong at all.

That said - I would only state that myself, and more than a few users here I imagine, have been in situations where we did nothing untoward and were banned, suspended, had a corporate automatic system take negative action for us that was undeserved.

I think most folks are willing to assume a corporate "banality of evil" because they have seen it.

You are 100% right though, this could be warranted.
Markups are just scalping with fewer steps.
Mongo FUD has more to do with the fact that RDS...es work better with almost any line of business application. The ONLY application I have ever seen Mongo, or any other key:document store work well is integrating with form.io for custom forms. And even then, RDS might have been a better choice.
>as for it to be racist you would have to believe that people of a certain race are inherently superior in some form or another.

I don't think that's the standard definition, I think treating people differently because of their race is usually considered racist, even if the discrimination is of the "separate but equal" variety. Especially if the difference in treatment is due to stereotypes and prejudices.
How did I, as a white recent immigrant, physically abuse anyone? I had 0 advantages over others that were born here
Ask HN: Direct method to get support at Clover?
Does anyone have a direct method to get support from Clover?

We're working on integrating their payment terminals for a client and have a developer account there. When we try to log into the developer account now it goes into an infinite redirect loop between clover.com and developer.clover.com. I have tried different computers and browsers with the same effect.

Unfortunately their support model is completely broken in this case. All support options tell you to log into your dashboard, something that is impossible for us right now. Trying to phone gets either a "Please leave a message for sales" or requires a merchant ID to talk to their merchant support. Neither option lets you get through to a person.

Emailing support@clover.com gets an unmonitored email box reply saying "Log in to your account". Emails to other common emails have never been replied to.

Anyone have any other ideas or experience getting support from them? Thanks.
Gosh, yea. There were a ton of these little editors that popped up around that time. I can't remember the name of hardly any.
I saw that your Recorder works with Playwright, but it seems that the main product is only for Cypress? Am I missing separate instructions for Playwright?

Also, minor typo in HTML title: Cypresss -> Cypress (3 s')
Looking at the strips in the article, it looks like he is still doing what he always has: satirising work-place culture by exaggerating it. It just happens that work-place culture in many places is "woke" culture now. Perhaps it is one sighted with where his focus, though I can't judge that based on a cherry picked selection of strips such as this.
After reading this article, I was wondering if a similar approach could be used on cars? Could the braking energy be used in a similar way? What about for trucks?
Nope. Multiple small servers.

1) you need to get over the hump and build in multiple servers into your architecture from the get go (the author says you need two servers minimum), so really we are talking about two big servers.

2) having multiple small servers allows us to spread our service into different availability zones

3) multiple small servers allows us to do rolling deploys without bringing down our entire service

4) once we use the multiple small servers approach it’s easy to scale up and down our compute by adding or removing machines. Having one server it’s difficult to scale up or down without buying more machines. Small servers we can add incrementally but with the large server approach scaling up requires downtime and buying a new server.
> You could start a civil case

Good luck winning any kind of lawsuit against Oracle also. Their legal dept (like their sales dept) is famously aggressive and well-staffed.
I've always wondered about this. You'll see cities with very high real estate prices and rents, and the median salary will not be sufficient to afford either. It makes me wonder why this is sustainable?
You can't just generalize all PoS as being the same code and execution. ETH is quite different from the rest. Furthermore, none of the other blockchains have even close to the level of value (not just $ amount, but also fame) tied up in them.

As for rollback... that's what created ETC, but this time, it is different... with PoS, the 'stake' is tied up in the network. It isn't external, like it is with PoW and isn't as easy to just fork. You're effectively now forced to convince everyone to follow another canonical chain, but you don't have an external way to do so. Forking becomes a lot harder. It also becomes a lot more complicated and hasn't even been done before... how much 'testing' has that gotten?
> more governments have invested time, money, and regulatory effort into the crypto ecosystem than have banned it

Lots of chatting. Looking at actual dollars and laws, we're weighing the elephants of China, India and increasingly the EU against...Singapore, El Salvador and Malta?

Outside young men, disproportionately minorities, crypto has a limited beachhead [1]. It was an easy money phenomena with historic comparison. We're now seeing the regulatory mood shifting decisively against it with limited competent pushback.

> a16z is a large investor in the space and proponent

They're notable for where they're prominent and where they're not. Aggressive fundraising followed by SoftBank/Tiger style deployment. Tweets and blog posts galore. Yet middling returns, even on an internal basis, and absolutely zero presence worth mentioning in D.C.

I'm no greybeard. But I've worked in finance long enough to see the game they're playing.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/11/11/16-of-ameri...
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It seems to me that everyone involved is taking a chance offered by other events, like China knowing that the US is helping Ukraine with weapons and would never want to be involved in two (indirect but potentially real) wars on multiple fronts, Russia knowing that the US is already committed to help Taiwan but don't want to piss off their allies China too much to avoid a direct military conflict, and the US knowing that Russia is in the worst possible economic shape and couldn't sustain an attrition war for much longer without risking either its collapse or resorting to nuclear.
That is their stated reason, because the only legally acceptable discrimination is for bona fide educational purposes. That is, they cannot discriminate to right historical wrongs, but only because having a diverse student body is part of the education.

I have doubts that this is the real reason, but legally they need to cloak it as that.
I don't know what Parliament is, but as the name suggests it must have something to do with shelf stable dairy products.
My wife some months ago totalled my car.

So I went to buy a car urgently...

It was my first time buying a car by myself, the one that was totalled was a "hand me down" I purchased from a relative.

Dealerships were a nightmare. New cars sucked and were ludicrously expensive. I found out some older cars were good for reasonable prices, and went looked for one.

One dealership had a google review about how they allowed a car for servicing get stolen and didn't notice until police shown up to return the car. That same dealership tried to sell me a car that was obviously repainted in a shoddy manner and had literally misaligned parts while claiming the car never was crashed. And later a private seller complained to me unprompted that the same dealership despite being the official leadership or his vehicle, put the wrong oil in it.

Another dealership had very pushy people that didn't listen and kept attempting to sell me weak cars (0.8 liter 3 cylinder) when I kept explaining my house was on a giant hill and I had more powerful cars stall on it before.

Another one said some parts for the potential car were imported and expensive and I wouldn't want them when I asked the price... instead of just telling me the price. (I ended wanting the parts anyway, from another store obviously)
I get your confusion on the topic. But your approach fails to consider that the removal of privilege of a socially preferred group feels like discrimination to members of that group. This means the nuance is a distinction with difference.
I was gifted a book by that guy for my child. I opened it up and it literally told my child to "confess" her "racist ideas." Why is Kendi calling out for my two year old to confess to her racism? She has caretakers of every race and I've never seen her react to them differently based on perceived "race." It's almost as if he's trying to program her to be racist. Needless to say I never read the child the book.

Perhaps Kendi can take a visit to Africa and witness that there are more slaves today in Africa than any other continent, food for thought for a target audience while he writes his next book.

Enjoy some of the earlier writing of Kendi while he went by his previous name (Rogers):

>Caucasians make up only 10 percent of the world’s population and that small percentage of people have recessive genes. Therefore they’re facing extinction. Whites have tried to level the playing field with the AIDS virus and cloning, but they know these deterrents will only get them so far. This is where the murder, psychological brainwashing and deception comes into play.

>Nevertheless, other than not wanting hate to be the weed that stunts my intellectual growth, I don’t hate white folk because I’m a Christian. How can you hate a group of people for being who they are? Similarly, how can you hate a turtle because it won’t keep up?

http://www.thefamuanonline.com/2003/09/09/living-with-the-wh...