skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Trying to be racially equitable" is a loaded, political term. They don't appear to be "trying to", they appear to be actively enforcing racial equity.

Equality of opportunity (equality) is good. Equality of outcome (equity) is only possible if you deliberately handicap the most competent and most productive people of the group, because humans are differently abled.

I am not mad that the NBA hires a massively disproportionately large number of African Americans, for instance, because small differences in average height (African Americans are taller, on average, than Caucasian Americans) result in much larger discrepancies at the extremes. If you're playing a game where you need extreme height, you'd expect an overrepresentation of African Americans relative to whites.

If you're playing a game that benefits players with a different extreme stat that Asian Americans score better in, on average, than Caucasian Americans, you'd expect the highest levels of that game to have an overrepresentation of Asian Americans relative to Caucasian Americans there too.

And the result is good. Watching a bunch of pudgy, (comparatively) short Caucasian Americans playing basketball interests me a lot less than a bunch of 6'6"+ African Americans who are objectively superior at the sport playing.

I'd rather listen to music made by the world's best band than by the world's most racially equitable band.

I'd rather get surgery at the world's best hospital than the world's most racially equitable hospital.

This is why we have social hierarchies stratified by competence, rather than by racial equity.

We should never be denying anyone the opportunity to try their best at something just because of their skin color, but we shouldn't expect perfect equality of outcome on that front either.

Note this also applies to gender. I'm a fat, heavy person, if I'm in a burning building, I want my firefighter to be able to carry 300 pounds. I'd make an educated guess that there are a lot more men than women who can carry 300 pounds.

I read a study a while ago that said women are 77% less likely to die in a car accident. By that same logic (and personal anecdote), I much prefer female drivers to male drivers when I am a passenger.

That's not to say there aren't women who can carry me, or that there aren't men who drive responsibly, but equity in either of these fields would probably lead to more deaths, because different types of people, on average, are better at different things, and an economy which encourages everyone to do what they are best at brings out the best in all of us.

An economy in which the most competent are artificially handicapped and the least competent are artificially boosted is worse for everyone.
If Google uses it as a noun, it is a noun.
I think hardly anything should be conflated with diversity tbh. About 5 years ago nothing was really attributed to diversity, except maybe in some remote areas. The new push to call everything anti-racist is making everyone very racist. It's a very weird moment.
Yes, I understand what the words mean, thanks. The question for me is how empty the words are.

Compare that with, say, CEOs who take pay cuts during downturns: https://www.google.com/search?q=ceo+takes+a+pay+cut+-price+-...

Between the two sorts of CEO, it seems pretty clear that one is more serious about taking responsibility for their mistakes.
> What makes you trust someone who says they aren't taking race into account when that same person okayed having objective racial biases baked into the hiring process?

To continue the analogy:

Your company is growing again and your boss continues to hire a bunch of people from Country X. HR contacts your boss and tells him that he can’t just keep interviewing/hiring people from his country. Your boss responds that he is hiring the most qualified applicants.

After several months of your boss hiring people from Country X, leadership steps in and says that he must interview people from other countries. He starts interviewing to a wider group of applicants, but funnily enough, he persists in mostly hiring people from Country X. He swears that he is not biased and is only picking the very best candidates.

Leadership steps in again and says “Look, you need to start hiring other people. I don’t care how impartial you claim to be. There is talent all around the world, and narrowly hiring from Country X is becoming a liability to the company. We would like to see at least Y% of your new hires need to come from places other than Country X.”

Your boss contacts the media and files a lawsuit. After all, the company is explicitly, actively discriminating against applicants from Country X, right?
It’s Somebody Else’s Problem.
And what did your post contribute?

Never mind then, I’m sorry I bothered.
Great job! This has a lot of information without making the UI overwhelming.

I have a bug report I got "1.5e+2% of your annual heating."
I'm sad to see that nobody has mentioned Peertube here.
> with inflow cheap labor and outflow of jobs

We could use a little inflow of cheap labor about now. It's one reason why our inflation rate is currently so high. We were able to export inflation ~30 years prior to about 2019 via wage arbitrage and immigration - but that started to end even prior to the pandemic. Repatriating jobs was always going to be inflationary. Add in the pandemic and restrictions on immigration and it makes it even worse. I'm not arguing whether or not it was a good idea to bring jobs back to the US, only that doing so was always going to be inflationary, at least for a time, and we're experiencing some of that pain now.
I still don't understand. If an employee had over-hired at this scale, that employee would have been fired along with their over-hired staff. Or maybe, at least, demoted.

So what does taking responsibility here really means?
OP said prices were creeping up & I only shared a reputable source showing that’s not true. OP did not say “gas prices will start creeping up for <reason x>.”
Cannot recommend as I'm not working in the field. But I picked up a development board and started to write some programs for it. I think the most difficult parts are 1) How to bit bang a peripheral with only a datasheet available, and 2) All those analog stuffs (where and how to put resistances/capacitors/etc.)
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>No. Abolish the Republican Party. After Jan. 6, you can get it declared a terrorist organization, freeze its assets, whatever.

So after you seize the party, what happens when the people who make up the republican party form their new party representing exactly the same thing?

Obviously, more needs to be done?

>That won't turn a two-party system into a one-party system. We'll just have it so that the Democrats become the new right-wing party and someone else -- the Greens, say -- take up the left wing. That will bring the USA's Overton window in line with the rest of the developed world.

So right wing parties wont be allowed to exist?
Maybe that's what Google should do in the EU. Refuse to licence the play store.

If they did, then I'm sure Samsung would develop an app store to compete.
Reminds me of leaving FaceBook 10 years ago.
The YF-23 was better in some ways, worse in others. Compared to the YF-22 it was faster, longer ranged, and (probably) more stealthy. But it had a smaller weapons bay and was less maneuverable. Both aircraft met the ATF program technical requirements. The final selection was based primarily on the Air Force having greater confidence in Lockheed over Northrop in being able to run the program on schedule and budget. The notional production F-23 would have been quite different from the prototype.

https://youtu.be/_MUK241uZHM
> To anyone who ever has to do lay-offs: this is a masterclass in what not to write.

The stock being up 10% today would like to disagree with your statement.

There are no words that will make firing 11% of your workforce humane, so, yes, bullshit corporate newspeak is 100% appropriate.
That’s not relevant to the factuality of the claim that prices are creeping up presently, is it?
> Many companies don't even employ any engineers or design their own products. Many audio execs would be totally lost reading threads here, and have the critical listening skills of a shriveled potato. They're in the role for business, not functional reasons.

As for most companies in most industries. It's still worth repeating over and over again.
Crowdsourcing for machine learning is certainly possible, and it's one of the things we've thought about a lot. One issue that current Deep Learning algorithms, for instance, have with crowdsourcing is that they require periodic communication between devices to sync neural network weights. This is typically not an issue when devices are physically located in the same place with little network latency but becomes a bottleneck when the devices are scattered across the globe. With that being said, there are a few startups I'm aware of that are doing this sort of thing.
Oh hey, another turbo pascal starter. If you don't mind, can you elaborate on why you feel that way about it?

In retrospective, I am happy about starting with it, and remember it fondly. But I cannot really make any good point for why, and I definitely remember cursing it out very hard at the time.
If we look at a 1 year old black child, and a 1 year old while child, the average household wealth of the white child is around 10x higher.

What did the white child do to deserve this? How much better could they possibly be at drooling and crawling to have so much more wealth available to them?

So I guess your belief is that household wealth has no impact on children?
Also some Azure Services support it.
I think they're getting downvoted for mentioning a politician on Hacker News. From the HN Guidelines [0]:

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

and

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies, generic tangents, and internet tropes.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't think it is in Illinois, although the state sends people to MSF class "graduations" to do official tests.
(disclaimer: I am seriously interested to learn and understand here)

Reading the situation objectively between Twilio and Patreon yesterday, it seems there have been a number of companies who have over-hired and now need to make a correction.

Faced with this, the companies then decide to do things like extend exercise windows, accelerate vesting, provide outsized severance packages, i.e - try to soften the blow

The predominant feedback in this thread and the other thread yesterday is about "taking responsibility" and calling for the heads of the CEO's who ultimately made the decision. This is the part I don't understand.

Is the blow not softened enough, i.e additional compensation? Should the leadership team have had a crystal ball and not hired? Was there severe mismanagement of resources? Were the wrong people laid off?

Or, is the negative feedback centered literally around the phrase "taking responsibility"?
I'm surprised that Delphi isn't available on other platforms.

Lazarus-IDE is... I've run it on a Raspberry Pi Zero W in the past.

I've just switched to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS as my daily driver, and am installing Lazarus here as well.
What was funny?
No, thumbnails tend to look more like actual thumbnails; a frame in the middle of a video sequence, or figures from a scientific paper, than an excerpt from a tabloid paper.
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Holy shit.

This is also the case for a lot of companies. It's going to be a bloodbath out there.
And a month later he posted this.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/uk-births-in-england-colla...?

Common internet debate confirmation bias to grab the first thing you think supports your point after a quick scan, link to it like it is a slam dunk, and read no further.

You sounded like you were genuinely interested in learning more, saying you hadn’t seen most of the data so I posted some links to get you started. There is a lot more there than the link you posted.

I don’t think Chudov would say “unfounded,” even if it is temporary that is still a scandal almost beyond words.

“Take this shot you don’t need, that we’ve either
terrorized or coerced you into taking and it may permanently or temporarily impinge on your ability to reproduce or cause a host of other maladies “

No part of that is acceptable.
And even if it is temporary after one shot, how temporary is it going to be if the shots continue to be pushed and mandated, and each additional shot increases the effect?

The University of California system has just announced they are mandating yet another shot!
It is madness and criminal.
I love when people make broad sweeping assertions of impossibility, they are often proven wrong.
All newborns in California since 1966 have also had their DNA stored. You can request the destruction as a parent or for yourself here: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CFH/DGDS/Pages/nbs/nbsconse...
I definitely recommend listening to that podcast. They make a really good point that insurance is an industry that benefits hugely from advertising, because the competitor products really aren’t all that differentiated from each other.
I built the IT infrastructure for one of the largest hardcore porn sites out there.

When we did a complete rebuild of it (because it was in horrible PHP code), we tried to do a redesign and the CEO of the company made us change it back.

Why? Because it was too nice and the UX was too good.

He told us that his customers actually appreciated a more 'dirty' and 'raw' feel to the site. It is porn after all!

So, we went back to the drawing board and did just that... many of the changes we made to the UX were reverted to intentionally make things a bit harder to use and make the site feel more 'dirty'... which is funny given the content was already super dirty.
Every large process using vfork/posix_spawn/io_uring_spawn instead of fork would eliminate one reason to keep overcommit enabled.

I think there are at least some niche cases in which folks would still want it on. For example, some processes may rely on anonymous mappings being cheap until first write via Linux's "empty_zero_page". IIRC, they once tried to remove this concept but put it back in. Some context here: https://lwn.net/Articles/340370/
Then, this should be agreed before taking the CEO role.

If a company decides to reduce my compensation mid way, I will be freaking flipped.

In this case, they could reduce the CEO's salary, but then it would go into the situation whether twilio would be better with a new CEO given the current CEO's performance in the past 10y. The answer would be a huge no.
The incentives here are wrong.

During the early phase of a company the goal is growth. Hire. Scale. Build. Win the land grab at all costs.

Years later when growth has slowed it becomes important to transition to operational efficiency. For many startups that means lowering headcount some just from attrition, but right now it seems layoffs is in style to accelerate the transition.

Regardless, investors pushed the CEO to grow fast. Under the current model it isn't fair to punish the CEO for executing on their mandate. I acknowledge it isn't fair to the employees either. Just offering a different perspective.
Sure... today. People remember 2019, though. And they remember who was pushing the mask mandates.
> And who would pay for Premium non-Pro? The situation really isn't comparable because YouTube is already available for free with ads. Paying to get less ads isn't a great value add.

To get Youtube Original content like Kobra Kai (it moved to netflix in the end)

https://deadline.com/2020/06/cobra-kai-moves-netflix-youtube...

Or for non-premium user will get 5 ads before start of video whereas Premium user will get 1 ad before videos and get youtube originals, background video playback, download videos, youtube music etc.
And Youtube Premium Pro users will get all other benefits of Premium users with one extra feature of going completely ad-free.
Still, there is a shocking shortage of women in highly technical engineering roles. I'm a board member of a local college's Women In Tech group, and have donated a few thousand dollars of my personal money to the group. There are just not as many women as men who are interested.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Free Software is actually GNU/Free Software. GNU/Free Software is not an ecosystem unto itself, but rather one component of a fully functioning GNU ecosystem.
I'm sorry your language is extremist and coming from the crazy point of view that the other side can't be right at all. Has the mere color of reasonableness but is totally biased. I don't blame you. It's a crazy trope of the discourse.

It's language that doesn't admit the possibility of anything but the extreme rightness of your position and the wrongness of everything else. It's the exact "authoritarian war" you merely pretend to be against. Merely dressed up in some fancy rhetorical garb, that manages to dupe.

Again, I don't blame you. This isn't originated by you, merely coopted. I understand. It's compelling to be better than everyone, soothing to be centered in the certainty of your core unquestionable rightness. But it's not from you, it's a poisonous trope of the current discourse.
Others have mentioned a lot of the problems already, so yeah, those.

Perhaps the two most glaring are:

1) Auto-play previews. I'm browsing the unintelligble and randomly sorted lists of cover art trying to find something that looks interesting. If I pause for 2ms too long, like to try to read the title inamongst the graphics, it starts blaring the video at me.

2) I want some idea of what a title is about to decide if I want to watch it. The cover art and an auto-playing preview aren't it. Why can't I read a synopsis of it? See who stars and directed it? Even see the genre? Auto-playing the beginning of the film tells me absolutely nothing about it.
Are they contract agents, tho, as in, you (the developer) employ them to find you a gig? Or are they staffing agencies, as in, you work for them, they invoice the client and pass the income minus their fee to you?

I've seen plenty of the latter but hadn't heard of the former before.
> 1. We shouldn't have CEOs, in which case most businesses today wouldn't exist.

There's over 30 million businesses in the US [0], and 200,000 CEOs.

Is it really impossible to imagine another structure that doesn't involve a CEO or chief?

I don't personally think it'll change anything (nor do I have any hatred for CEOs), we'll just hate whoever made the decision. It's just easier when it's one human-with-out-of-fashion-attributes who makes a lot of money.

[0] https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2019/04/11/number-of...
[1] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes111011.htm
First impressions are important. We rely on them to filter out a lot of information and reduce options when making decisions. For example, a bad first impression will result in no second-round interview, no first or second date, a lost sales opportunity. I don't think it's unfair to extend that to events such as this. Especially because it's still ultimately a tool to promote Digitalocean services.

If it were up to me, I think I'd modify the site title and social media card data to properly reflect that they've made changes to reduce the negative impact of their promotion on the public. "Hacktoberfest 2022: Lessons Learned Edition" or something slightly tongue-in-cheek and self-effacing. The way it is presented now makes it look like it'll be more of the same.
Yes.

It matters why they're being let go. Here's where, "I take full responsibility for:" is acceptable.

"... dropping you because we automated your job away." <-- acceptable.

"... dropping you because, frankly, you're not very good at your job." <-- extremely acceptable. Hell, I was even told this when I was 16 years old and working at a shitty second-rate Lowe's clone called Sutherland's (and he's right, I wasn't good at my job, I didn't give a shit about stocking shelves - I was always helping people).

"... dropping you because I fucked up on judging the market and I gotta make sure the company stays attractive to investors." <-- not acceptable, also fuck you, also, you step down and appoint someone else. YOU fucked up. Not them. That's what "full responsibility" looks like.

Responsibility isn't, "Oh I made a booboo, here's 3 months pay and some other shit..."

Love him or hate him, Dr. Jordan Peterson is correct with some of his "rules of life", one of which is, "Tell the truth, or at least don't lie." When you say, "I'm taking full responsibility for this problem," that means you incur all negative consequences - and I do fucking mean - **ALL** negative consequences. Otherwise, just say, "These cuts are not ideal; unfortunately, they have to be made because I'm beholden to certain aspects of modern capitalism."

That's what people want to hear. They don't want to hear platitudes that don't even make them feel good, but assuage the other person's conscience. If your conscience is bothering you, it's because you know what you're doing isn't right. You may still have to do it, but don't fucking be a shitbag about it. Don't spout out some lines that "sound" good at a cursory glance. Tell the truth, or at least don't lie.
It's believers in the cause (either genuinely or performatively) trying to rise above one another in moral status. Sometimes it sticks, sometimes it backfires as it did with Twitch: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56251452
Then do it without "claiming responsibility," whatever that means. If you're responsible you should face consequences. If you're not, then don't claim responsibility.
You refer to the original/early version of CRT.

In the 90s and beyond, CRT has expanded substantially in scope. It has also changed focus in terms of how it is utilized.
At the risk of _going there_, I think if you are optimizing a system, freeing resources that are most easily rescheduled is a globally optimal solution. Senior engineers can be slotted into nearly any task.

It has the added bonus of enabling wage suppression over the long term. Disadvantaged workers are less likely to leave an org.
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Are you also planning to offer other GPU-intensive tasks (e.g., Stable Diffusion)? Seems like an obvious expansion.
I guess she had some integrety and loyalty to her proffesion. She like everyone else had been told that this was a registry for research and screening, and absolutely not the first step in some police state wet fantasy.

She hated that they had made her into a liar.

The registry is an enourmously valuble asset for the medical community but parents have to consent to the blood sample, so the police getting access was problematic to say the least.
The greatest minority is the individual. "Reverse racism" harms people too. Let's stop pretending it doesn't. Discrimination based on race is bad no matter the source. When can we start looking through an individual lens?

Edit: I concur with parent comment.
"Switching to a heat pump, you'll save $67.53 per year"

also

"Total savings over a 15-year period are up to $37,000"

I must be missing something cause that doesn't add up.
5x+ better but effectively the same?? What does that mean?
They're being downvoted because it has almost nothing to do with the linked article, and is essentially a political rant.
If it's using brake pads, then it's still a partially mechanical suggestion. The comment at the top of the thread was suggesting doing away with brake pads entirely!
For me to have stolen something, there needs to be less of a product in the store between the time I arrived, and the time I left. In this scenario, CVS' inventory stays exactly the same.

You are in "you wouldn't download a car" territory, so nothing I say is likely to convince you. These points have been argued since time immemorial, i.e. 2000, Lars Ulrich v Napster. Youtube isn't any different.
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