skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not get the point of someone telling me what I should do wirh my investment, home, or property of any kind.

If I do NOT want to put MY money somewhere actively that is not discrimination.

In fact it is denying the freedom to choose.

I do not care they hire all indians or no indians. Same for any other combination.

Because they are incurrimg the cost of doing so.
Did you read the linked article?

she was asked by the Bengaluru-headquartered IT company to avoid hiring people of Indian origin

This is a claim by a fired former VP.
I don't understand your point. Are we talking about recycling plastic spoons or washing reusable spoons? Are you suggesting using plastic spoons and discarding them is better than washing reusable spoons? And are there no costs at all in disposing them?
You told me human endeavors in which "diversity" (which again, means nothing) fosters innovation.
But that wasn't my question. I asked what kind of diversity fosters innovation, not what kind of innovation is fostered by diversity
Thanks. Oddly enough I never noticed the 'chat' link before which has the details.

https://lobste.rs/chat

UPDATE: Actually I don't see it on the home page, so maybe not so odd I never saw it. I found it this time via Google.
I see... yes I think such a mechanism could be used to finance the purchase of an NFT. So, I'll admit that I was wrong. You can do financing with a smart contract, although from what I gather you'd be limited to buying NFTs. Not terribly useful, but congrats on coming up with this example.
Why is it that Google Analytics is often listed in “strictly necessary cookies”? I’ve never known that to be a requirement for handling cookie based seasons or logins.
There are plenty there who could find dang at his worst moments as well. Moderation is hard.
I personally have found interfacing with businesses dysfunctional at best today. Auto-mated prompts that send you in infinite loops, email and text services that create async communication making it 10x as long to address my query. The idea that speaking to someone on the phone should cease is laughable.
The marathon is infinitely long and we rank people on their positions every 5 miles.
The commonly held definition of 'diversity' needs more diversity - to mean more than skin color quotas.
Easier to change a few power plants to cleaner sources than every vehicle on the road.
It would be turning a really bad API that is a constant source of errors into a slightly better and less error prone API. It's totally possible that "pythonic" means "error prone", but that would not be something to tout proudly if so.

I think a better API would be to have a different types for timezone- naive vs. aware datetimes, and a canonical way to convert either of those types into an instant in time (requiring a timezone be attached for the naive type). Then the instants in time could be compared with the equals operator without confusion.
When I did my BSc in CompSci (2000ish) there were around 10% women at enrollment, and down to 4% at graduation. It was kind of sad to me (male), and part of the reason I delayed joining the industry.

It seemed like a cultural issue to me, like it was just too boyish and bro-ish for women to want to enter the programme. Sausage party effect.

Judging from the department photos of graduates from past years, you could see that there were way more women in CompSci the 70s and 80s.
If you’re only aware of blurry videos on Twitter, I’d recommend you do a deeper dive and look at additional reporting on this matter. You don’t have to look very far [0] (just a single example).

At least you acknowledge the gigantic leap in your argument.

How does one go through the ascension process?

- [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/extra/85qihtvw6e/the-faces-from-chi...
The problem I've seen is that there's two groups of people that are generally involved in a conversation like this

1. The group of people that think git is powerful, but the CLI makes it difficult to do anything that is even slightly outside the box (which, for example, makes fixing a mistake difficult).

2. The group of people that think git is powerful, and the CLI is easy to use, and refuse to acknowledge that it's difficult for some people; rather, they blame the people for being wrong.

I've been using git for 10+ years and I fall into the second group. Every time I get into a situation the isn't the normal workflow, I have to google how to fix it. And I need to check and double check what I'm doing because, if I do it wrong, I need to reclone the entire repo to undo my mistake (and heaven forbid I'm trying to correct something on the origin). I get it, my git skills are not good enough... but by this point they _should_ be, just by using the tool. The fact that they aren't says something bad about the tool.

And that being said, the people in the second group will still say that git is fine, and it must be a problem with me. Admittedly, I'm not perfect, but neither am I incompetent. It shouldn't require a decade plus (and lots of dedicate study) of use to become proficient with a tool.
Trello was a danger to Atlassian, thus it was bought. Basic capitalism, don't allow a competitor
I agree. It isn't reasonable to point to climate change as the cause of any single event. Once records start getting broken on a regular basis however, it is necessary to accept that as evidence.
I'm guessing that the Boeing fiasco was because they were trying to meet quotas, then /s
That's not what they are suggesting. That's what you came up with as a solution for the problem which they presented. You're arguing against your own conclusion.
Or you move the affected runners up to a position they would have been in.
Infosys wants non-Indians for sales positions, but Indians for code-monkeys, scrum masters, project managers, etc.
I find it catches a lot of design mistakes for me which I would put in the non-trivial bugs category. Many bugs that result from design mistakes are less immediate, like hard to spot edge cases (a better design makes them impossible) or code that lends itself to becoming messier and more bug prone in the future as it's changed/extended (a better design makes this less likely).
They'll collect eventually, and Chetu will have to pay interest on the late payments on top of it all. The longer the process takes, the more they pay.
> I have been using Git since college and for a few years since I began my job, can't say I have had any problem that I couldn't find a solution for oneline

I agree with this, but I don't think that's strong enough evidence to conclude that git's interface isn't clunky. Being able to find solutions online is worse than being able to figure them out on my own, and being able to figure them out on my own is worse than just not having them. Obviously no software will ever be free from issues, and most can have some sort of issue that isn't able to be figured out without searching online, but I'm not convinced that git does a particularly good job about minimizing the potential for these types of issues. Overall, I've learned to use git effectively for my work, and I've often helped teammates when they run into a git issue they don't understand, but this is mostly due to the fact that I've run into issues enough before to know how to avoid some of the pitfalls.
Perfectly fine when you are at clone, pull, push, add and commit level. Even stash isn't bad.

But then you make mistake and need to figure out how to fix something even worse if stuff goes to remote...
The same happened with Google and Youtube. They used to have pop-ups with large and obvious "Accept" button and a clicking game if you wanted to reject tracking. The EU put a pressure on them and now the popups have two equal "Reject" and "Accept" buttons.
I like lobste.rs because they have a lot more technical links than HN. Have not interacted with the community much though.
I highly recommend date-fns instead as that uses the native Date object. It doesn’t use a wrapper.
No law requires those banners.
I think you meant to write TypeScript.
Yet another reason to use Brave Browser.
>Discriminating in favor of some women/minorities doesn't help other other women/minorities elsewhere who have been harmed by discrimination.

This line of thinking seems logical but is missing out on the human experience part of the equation. It doesn’t address why things are the way they are today. Affirmative Action, for lack of a better phrase, does a lot of things:

1) It provides representation for the future. “Mom went to college so so can I!”, “Wow, if Susan Wojcicki can run Youtube, then I can do something like that too!” Seeing people you can identify with being successful affects how you view yourself.

2) One of the reasons diverse teams are more productive is it helps stamp out the “oddball” feeling. If you are the only person in your peers that looks like you, it can have a chilling effect on how you interact with the team, how your success is measured, and your mental well being. If you don’t believe this, go to a club where no one looks like you and see how much you feel like standing out even more than just existing there.

3) It normalizes it. The only reason we are talking about it is because people in these positions are extraordinary. Normalizing it reduces implicit bias, gets other, previously discriminated against people back into the conversation and is the path towards it being a nonissue. The most powerful force for gay acceptance was Will and Grace because it was primetime gay people just being there and it being normal.

4) Last, resume vs resume can be apples and oranges because it cannot account for their path to that. Was there significant harassment, discrimination and other social tribulations to earning whats on the sheet of paper? The stronger candidate may have unseen potential because of the social barriers they had to climb.

There are important reasons for these sorts of hiring decisions that have lasting consequences. And if we want to make the issue disappear we have to start at the top, not at the bottom.
Given the recent split between the USA and Saudi Arabia over crude oil production targets, I wouldn't be surprised to see similar hacking of Saudi news feeds by 'domestic protestors' and a new US State Department focus on 'human rights and democratic reforms in the repressive Saudi dictatorship' coming up pretty quickly.

This would be a radical shift from US behavior during the Arab Spring, when the USA gave a wink and a nod to Saudi tanks rolling into Bahrain to crush the pro-democracy protests there.

[edit] Here's a story about Saudi Arabia, hijabs, and death threats to women (2016). Let the revolutions begin!

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1251171/saudis-call-execution-w...

> "A woman in Saudi Arabia has sparked outrage after posting a photo of herself on Twitter without an abaya or hijab, and is now facing calls for her execution."
> Many of them just can't speak English correctly. Only a small percentage of the individuals who speak English at a proficient level of those who do, they predominately come from very wealthy upper caste families and now you have a new problem.

There is something very confusing to me in this paragraph.

You put forth as a premise (at least if I am understanding the logic of the paragraph correctly) that fluency in English is an important skill for doing a job properly. You also say that it is the wealthy part of the population that will have access to resources to train their children in that skill. All good so far. But then you say that it is a problem, and this is where I am lost. Are you suggesting that money should not buy good education? Assuming good education is a scarce commodity, that would go against the principles of markets. Or are you suggesting that English fluency (or other consequences of good education) should not be considered when screening for a job in a tech company? But that goes against your initial premise, and also makes one wonder what purpose a good education has if not getting one prepared for a high-skilled job.
I just lick it clean and put it back in the drawer.
Stripe only requires you to drop some JavaScript on your page…
10 months without work? I mean this as a sincere question but…how do you afford to live?
> ...long term view of where the company is going...

IBGYBG

I'll Be Gone, You'll Be Gone.

Currently, shareholders of large and even medium companies do not recognize that there is so much embedded capital of all sorts in these organizations that all sorts of business anti-patterns can get away with gaming the incentivization metrics so much and for so long before it becomes apparent at the shareholder level, even if someone were scrutinizing every SEC filing by the organization assuming it is a publicly-held company.

As much as business and engineering types fetishize data-driven decisions (and younger me was definitely guilty of that!), above a certain complexity level it really comes down to a judgement of character. The only reliable formula to find good candidates I have found for that is one-on-one interaction over a long period (7+ years) of time, and knowing yourself really well.
After a decade of having to craft precisely my commits, manually syncing, choosing between easy merge and clean history, and using tons of additional tools to make git bearable, I'm finally tired enough to give a try to fossil.
I'm sure that will be a great comfort to the Asian kid who was born in poverty, got bullied in school, struggled all his life to achieve the grades and stats to qualify for a top school, then got rejected in favor of a rich black American kid, since he was born with the wrong skin color.
“Sextortion”: The Numbers Show That What We Have Is a Failure of Education
The "Sextortion" spam is in technical terms mind-numbingly boring, following the same patterns as other spam to a fault, distinguishing itself only in the embarrasment approach to extortion.

Interestingly, this piece seems to be bot-labeled as "porn" for some DNS based blocklists, so the author has made the text available here too: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_numbers_show_we_have_a_failur...
Regarding 1, even after whites-only schools became illegal, little changed. Previously legally whites-only schools stayed in-practice whites-only, often with explicit discrimination by racist parents and teachers to discourage any black people from sending or keeping their children in the school, but other times simply as by-product of housing inequality. It was hard for people in a black neighborhood - itself created by now-defunct discriminatory laws that had huge long-term impact - to send their children to a school in a farther away white neighborhood.

The fix was to forcibly integrate schools: explicitly mandate not just that black students be allowed, but actually that they are integrated in significant numbers, including by providing special facilities (school buses) to take them to the better schools that were farther away from their homes - the policy known as "busing" [0]; a form of (positive) discrimination.

Of course, as the article notes, this can also have negative consequences, so any such measure is far from easy to apply.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing
That’s not an accident.

Although I don’t think any country should be obligated to take in foreigners if their situation doesn’t warrant it (such as being a small island nation).
What about the third group who don't want to touch a cli? Who want to push a button on a gui and call it a day.
There are several cultures that include some versions of tossing a portion of a meal away in thanks from tossing salt over your shoulder in luck to burning meat as a sacrifice to the gods.

I could easily see such a tradition developing around foraged food independent of conscious knowledge that doing so directly causes them to grow. It might start as simply as never harvesting all of any one plant in an area. With more effective versions of the traditions eventually getting closer to farming as we would think of it.
I love how only some are providing the protection of not being fired for following the law. Can they order you to organize a coup, some terrorist acts, or a murder in the others?
Is there a better name for this "arguing past each other" or "arguing from a blind spot"

The use case for a single use plastic implement is very different from a reusable metal implement.

1. A plastic spoon is safe, sanitary, and very low cost. 2. Many can be industrially composted now, and have renewable sourcing.

Sentence one describes primary reasons why I would choose to use a plastic spoon. Sentence two has nothing to do with my use of the spoon.

To be clear, I have a strong dislike for single use plastic. Single use plastic is a scourge. I hate it when I see a plastic bag or bottle or implement in the park or a waterway. It's disgusting.

At the same time, plastic is a miracle. Most of the time, a reusable spoon makes more sense than a plastic spoon. But plastic spoons opens up food service options.
You just need a single person on the team to learn the other commands. If you are good at fixing bad merges make sure you don't let anyone know.
> I've had a very different experience than yours with the Typescript codebases I've encountered, which were mostly well designed.

Agreed. And in fact, the founders of a project having explicitly chosen TypeScript is often in and of itself an indicator that the team cares about code quality and writing style.

As you say, you can write poorly in any language. But people who care about quality choose TypeScript.
That really depends on the industry. If your idea of tech is web apps and mobile apps, then yeah, most candidates would do the job.

If you're working on cutting edge technology, then finding ten adequate candidates is actually pretty tricky, because by definition the applicant pool is very small. Doubly so for fields that have high demand compared to the supply.
I find jira great, but we use it to track a task by adding comments to it, sometimes assigning it to ourselves, and then eventually closing it. Nonsense such as states and workflows and resolutions and priorities are meaningless distractions.
American companies are not as innovative as they think- they just want to turn back the clock to the 19th century.
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The climate being warmer on average is perhaps better understood as the climate being more energetic. More heat energy in the atmosphere means more and stronger storms, greater flooding, heat waves, and so on. It's not just that things are bit more comfortable now.

We can't grow more food when one food growing area is innundated or torn up by hurricanes while another is crushed by drought.
It shouldn't be easy to rewrite history but it should be easy to change the email of the author retroactively
I suspect the article meant teleworking
> English is the simplest Latin based language.

Any sources for this? The lack of certain complex features (eg. gendered words) does make it seem true, but English borrows from a lot of sources and is very inconsistent.

A comparison I like to make is that Japanese is one of the simplest to pronounce languages. If you learn the kana, you essentially learn all of the phonemes (there's a bit more nuance).

I'd like to know what the simplest languages are on each dimension : pronunciation (has to be Japanese), grammar, overall consistency, vocabulary complexity, writing, etc.

It would be awesome if we gradually evolved English to be easier to learn, such as in [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_refo...
Also potentially just the unlucky selected person for a forced rank/yank exercise when everyone is doing their job, but some percentage is selected to oust.
Indeed. They may not be at the top when you sort countries by their metrics, but still great to live in.
Absolutely this. You need to make sure they're clean, fed, safe (physically and emotionally), and are able to play (learn). Beyond that, choosing to parent on hard mode just gives you more stress for no benefit.
Is that why Infosys HR was directed to NOT hire Indian origin candidates? BTW what are these development countries?
A brilliant example of political BSing. To be studied to pick apart how the shuck gets eased in.

Make no mistake, this same process is deployed in the West. We are Managed Populations. How does fully half of the US electorate come to vote systematically against their own interest, and for the interest of particular billionaires?

Even billionaires at large do not benefit from delaying action on looming climate catastrophe. But a few think they do, and that seems to suffice. Lately, promoting nukes is a favored means, because starting a nuke, or even planning to, means a good decade more of fossil dependency in that market.
> So 'reverse discrimination', when applied correctly, can help to break those structural inequities.

Can the irish apply to get priviliges? Or is the only factor here the persons skin color?
> force the EU to reconsider the current law and modify it.

That's like bank-robbers demanding that the law against armed robbery needs to be modified.

I like the law. I don't like the bank-robbers throwing up banners in the hope that the blame will stick to GDPR.
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Nobody is justifying racism, just explaining identity politics that unconsciously makes us biased towards someone who shares similar values with us. It's more obvious in the USA as it is a multi-cultural country made of immigrants, who generally tend to feel insecure and thus tend to turn to their own community to feel more secure. Unfortunately this insecurity is often exploited by right-wing politicians and used by them to create an us-vs-them mentality that leads to things like racism and discrimination.
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Liberapay was the smoothest payment experience I ever had, but I don't know if you have to be a non-profit to be listed there or something.

Other than that, I always appreciate when one can simply fall back to a bank transfer, then I can choose to just give them 100% of the money without risk to either party (no magic fraud detection, no cut going to paypal) at the cost of waiting a few days for the payment to be confirmed. So basically, just post your IBAN on your website please and offer to tick that as a payment option. No third party needed besides the bank account that you already need for running a business.
On ADHD
I like TS as a language but the single threaded nature of js will eventually weigh you down.
What? “Delete a word” is much more declarative than “delete whatever I just dragged over”.
Taiwan is not part of China. There’s nothing for the US to split.
>once you know that you are not

Making my point for me - the usage is "undo a commit" or "undo a file accidentally added to a commit", what you mentioned are implementation details that are leaking up to the interface.

If I'm doing cp file newFile, I don't need to know anything about ext3, APFS or anything about hard drives to operate on files.
>Yes. Not to mince words, as others frequently do, but that's basically what's happening.

Any data to show this is happening? From what I have seen, the primary benefactors of diversity initiatives come from the upper crusts of society(mostly upperclass white women, white lgbt, and some asian sprinkled in).

I have yet to see a diversity report that bins by intersections instead of broad categories. There's a reason for it.