skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does anyone have a strong rebuttal against DEI issues being a "pipeline problem" in tech?

Yes and no - this explanation is partially correct, in that the impossibility of hiring the kind of demographic distribution DEI advocates want causally precedes any decision made by tech companies.

However, "pipeline problem" incorrectly implies that the reality of hiring demography is the result of some kind of process failure (e.g. in early schooling) rather than a natural outcome of culture, biology, etc. (which high-quality research is fairly unequivocal about, although most people would never know this as it violates core dogma of the American state-secular belief system).
“Programmable Ink” Talk at Strange Loop 2022
>At least today society is notably, collectively, smarter.

Intelligence has gone up, Wisdom has declined
Kind of useless in isolation. Who knows how competitive the CS classes are at the places they were rejected. I mean CS is probably the most competitive of any Major currently and they were rejected from arguably the top undergrad programs in the world. Out of state students are also at a disadvantage so that didn't help their case. Also seemed to lack any CS related extra curriculars, when they're applying against kids who won IOC's or have been building software since they were 12. Probably would have done fine applying to USC, Duke, JHU and other elite privates or in any other major.
"We are too comfortable letting poor areas have underfunded schools."

Explain Baltimore.

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2019/comm/larg...
You need less ressource (metal) per GWh with a nuclear power plant than with solar or wind.
The Uranium waste for a French person is about 10gr/year (France is 70% nuclear when it comes to electricity).
> I don’t understand why folks default to laptops for development.

I think there's a lot of cost/benefit that comes down to: depends on what you are building. I had lunch with a VR dev last week. He needed a big machine for huge MS builds. I do a lot of web and network programming, and a $1200 LG Gram (i7/32GB, 17" screen) is way more than adequate. The important thing is that employers understand that slow computers cost them a lot of money when they hobble developers with them.
Can ordinary citizens without millions of dollars even access the basic torte system against somebody bigger than themselves? The legal system is effectively unavailable to most citizens outside of small claims court because of the combination of precedent (ie, the need to spend a million dollars researching to know what the law is), and the stalling/creating expensive burdens tactics etc
Except local property taxes only pay for about half of k-12 education. The other half comes from federal and state governments and the way they give out funding is to selectively counteract that misallocation such that 47 states actually allocate more per-student funding to poor areas than to wealthier ones on average according to this article [0] and it has been this way since at least 1995.

[0]: https://apps.urban.org/features/school-funding-do-poor-kids-...
Swap "CS" for "auto repair" and parents who know how to drive but don't know how a car works. Buying them a new Fiat isn't going to change anyone's interest.

Your passion is not their passion.

And if you got into computers despite their non-interest, thank them that they let you have your own passion and did not force theirs upon you.

So you don't. Either they are interested or not. They have had an entire lifetime of adult money and could have made computing a hobby any time.

Good luck.
I thought about buying a desktop again after almost 30 years, bury it in some room at my home and use my laptop as remote desktop. I work in different rooms as seasons go by (so no air conditioning), sometimes even morning vs afternoon. Not a common use case I guess but that's exactly the point of the article.

I think I'll keep using my laptop as primary and only machine because many of the scenarios in the article also apply to me and what if I have to visit a customer? It never happened again since the pandemic but it could.
It's probably a combination of things that exist today, that did not exist when Vine was around, which did have influencers and still failed.

Tiktok started as a Chinese only service. China has restricted access to the global internet, so having their own video social media platform was a big deal. It built up a huge audience.

When it went global, it had a built-in audience of viewers and creators. Yeah, they may be Chinese, but an American or British or what-have-you outside of China person posting a video on there and watching viewer counts go brrrrr makes you want to do it some more. It attracts other users and creators.

So a combination of timing, exclusivity to a region with restricted global internet, and simplicity in the design makes it attractive. An excellent trojan horse to collect data on a massive number of people around the world.
If you haven't noticed, we're living in an era of rising authoritarianism: https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2022/global-ex...

Companies are held accountable via market pressure, public relations pressure, investor pressure, and government/regulatory pressure. Governments, just via voters. Given that authoritarians of various stripes are working hard to neutralize or delegitimize voting and election results, yes, I think that giving Facebook to governments that are or may soon become authoritarian is absolutely at risk of reducing total accountability.
You aren't the only one here who grew up in a Southern Baptist church and buddy I see you over there pretending the 700 club isn't a thing. I've seen fist fights break out during funeral services on more than one occasion so don't piss in my pocket and tell me it's raining.
> People can’t get all the information they need to make good individual decisions in a complex environment.

The issue is that groups (at any size, and worse when turned into hard-to-change institutions) have their own unique disadvantages even beyond the flaws & shortcomings of the individuals that make up the group.

And it's precisely that inaccessible, dispersed knowledge that's crucial to operating an economy. Complexity if anything overwhelms government. They're usually far too slow & old to even begin to effectively regulate complex aspects of society.
IANAL, so take this with some salt, but I don’t think Meta is directly requesting the documents, and Meta is probably never going to see them. I don’t think they get to request everything and pick through it to find a defense.

Subpoenas come from the court (which is how they’re able to be legally binding, i.e. you can be held liable—-in contempt—-for not complying), so my guess is that the court will review the various documents for evidence that Simula is or isn’t a competitor, so as to decide both whether they fit the bill as a competitor, and whether they’ll be needed during a trial. I imagine that the court can even decide that Simula does not provide evidence in either direction, so they’ll uninvolve Simula.
The real world is not a monoculture so why would you want your child to socialize in one?
No that hypothetical scenario can't be right. I understand the reasoning behind why not wanting to delete the comment.
"No"? Are backronyms somehow illegitimate? A term can be a backronym and also, over forty years later, be considered generally accepted parlance.
Is there a social problem that is not wicked?
I bought a Kepler GPU in 2012, and it's been my most valuable technology purchase ever. It can even handle 3D game development in Godot. I only run free software on my desktop, including firmware, and nouveau works really well. Now I see that Kepler is even in-scope for the potential next-generation drivers, which is really considerate of the developers toward all the people who have stuck with it to avoid signed firmware.
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Yes. The one improvement that has happened has been the advent of fast chargers… but that has always been rolled out as a backwards-compatible upgrade that is negotiated between the phone, charger, and cable.
I did consider replacing the screen, but the only source I could find was China with 60 day delivery by boat, and I decided to find a workaround till the screen arrived... The screens now arrived, but the workaround is so good I can't be bothered to fit it.
A bit less cynical take on this is that reliably assessing if you are in outage situation is hard. First of all not so easy to define. Secondly, hard to model in the monitoring. In classical attitude to monitoring you can always err on the side of bit too many alerts (oncalls may take a few false positives).

Having said that, AWS has surely the brain power and capacity to do that right. Maybe they just lack motivation.
I have had the same experience, although I've only been out of school for two years. So far my daily work stream has me doing ssh to a Linux box and then doing my work there. All the CI/CD, version control, building code, and storing the code is done remotely.

So far it's been great (again, I've never had an alternative) and the power of virtualization has really come in handy. A couple of times in the past I accidentally borked my Linux box and started to figure out how to fix it, but then I had my d'oh moment: just scrap this one and get another!

There's no "it works on my machine" and most importantly, I can work from anywhere, with a stable internet connection (even using a phone to do USB tethering worked fine), from a Mac, a Chromebook, windows, whatever computer.

One caveat is that I program backends in C++ so a lot of the issues mentioned in the article don't really apply to me. Regardless, it's been great!
We need to make that more clear. Right now we only index ~4.6k packages:

https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+repo:%5Epyth...

Adding to my list: https://github.com/sourcegraph/community/issues/36
This. It is more about end-to-end encryption and the government wanting to have the certs to decrypt stuff if necessary.

I was in Dubai twice earlier this year, and among other people I met with Dr Marwan Alzarouni, who helped create the first certificate authority in UAE many years ago. And their group have now released an app that has all your info and you choose what verified credentials to present.

https://community.intercoin.app/t/qbix-and-intercoin-around-...

Monaco and Dubai are “police states” if you will, with cameras everywhere and end to end encryption technically illegal. Many people (tourists, businessmen) seem to like that.
> Apart from anything, you should be using these most popular technologies if only for the sake of recruiting.

There's actually a tricky tradeoff here. Many startups working on hard problems can benefit from making one weird technology choice, if it offers them some kind of significant leverage on a previously difficult technical problem.

But when it comes to recruiting, it can actually be an advantage to be using a slightly obscure language. Often, these languages have communities of very skilled early adopters who wish they could use their favorite language at their day job. And especially if your company has a strong remote culture, this may make it possible to hire some extremely talented people.

I do agree that, on average, a company's overall tech choices should be mostly boring. But knowing when a lesser-known tool will offer a big advantage is an art, and it can pay off.
> The challenge for large and heterogeneously diverse nations like the U.S. is to offer an educational system that provides access to quality education regardless of parental involvement.

But don’t your stats show that we already do?

We “provide access” to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn’t matter how much the parents pushed the children.

If your argument is that the system should push the children harder, how do you propose that? Give less hard working kids lower grades? I think we’ve tried that and decided it’s unfair.
Per his homepage it “never appeared”. Which would mean never finished, I guess.

> Part II, which never appeared, was to have had some Lisp programs for algebraic computation.
No, Guix does not refuse to support macos and not for ideological reasons either. Where do you get your info?

There is no way to build the package graph on macos. There is no glibc port for macos, and there's no free toolchain we could legally use.

There is little value in building Guix when we are forced to use a different proprietary toolchain, a different C library, and throw away the from-source bootstrap in exchange for Gigabytes of proprietary blobs. You might as well use Guix System in a virtual machine on macos.
Right, i was going to suggest pfizeritis? 1st post ;)
Just sent one to spam for putting "Urgent" on the email title and then outright lying or at least making misleading claim right in the first email.
There are anti-SLAPP laws but those are for more for protecting freedom of speech:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...

but you can be labeled a "vexatious litigant" which causes you to be radioactive for representation (nobody wants to disbarred):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexatious_litigation

(IANAL but I enjoy watching them on TV)
"Omitted variable bias" is what is going on here and is a statistical term that everyone needs to understand because it is causing so many race issues in America. The feature that is missing in this simplistic model of intelligence is cultural values. I am definitely not a racist but I am a "culturalist". Some people have a set of personal values (culture) that express themselves as doing better or worse in standardized tests and in life in general. If you were to add in the average weekly time studying variable into this model I can guarantee you the race effect would get washed away. Anyone who has a basic understanding of statistics know about omitted variable bias and it is frustrating to me that society breaks down these issues into simplistic race terms because they are too dumb to do any kind of root cause analysis deeper than the color of your skin.
Wait, so you're saying most entrepreneurs aren't creating new things just to change the world, to make a difference, to put a dent in the universe, to fulfill a deep vision, and/or because their team or their userbase is like a family? I find it hard to believe that VCs, would-be billionaires, and their extensive PR teams have been lying to us all these years.
That stood out to me too. For all the self-appointed power that higher education institutions have given themselves to balance the proverbial scales of justice, I wonder if they ever take the time to consider the moral hazards of their decision making.

Will the presidents, chancellors, board of governors, or deans of these institutions ever have to compete for these seats? Obviously no, and their own children will likely benefit in some form, whether it is legacy status or academic nepotism/networking, from their parents’ existing positions of power.

So on whom does the burden of balancing the scales, not in theory but in practice, fall? Not white students at the nation’s elite schools, whose enrollment numbers even after various forms of affirmative action have been implemented have remained steady. Not black, latino/a/x, or Native American students whose enrollment numbers have benefited from targeted recruitment. Not international students, whose full-tuition payments have ensured their enrollment numbers have only increased with the decline of public funding (in the case of public institutions) and budgetary restructuring (in the case of private institutions).

From a racial dimension, the primary group paying for higher education’s experiments in educational racial composition have primarily been Asian-American students, among whom there are prospective students (as we can see in the linked comment) with top-percentile scores in their respective areas of study, high-level achievement in non-academic pursuits, and a widely dispersed range of target schools.

For all the moral certainty that higher education likes to presume, they have a dumbfounding lack of self-awareness when it comes to the moral hazard of making others pay for the consequences of their self-appointed mission.

This is, of course, assuming they aren’t fully aware and satisfied with the results they’ve produced.
Actually damages would not be capped at $1B. The $1B penalty is failing to close through no fault of his own, ex he's unable to secure financing. That ship has long since sailed.
This is why I encourage all my south asian friends/relatives to not identify as asian when applying to jobs/universities. Even mixed race is better, hispanic and african american makes things easy mode - I get interviews guaranteed wherever I want.
I have Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+, but I spend most of my streaming time on YouTube.
It's not like commonly targeted groups have been saying this for years or anything, though.
> The USPS doesn't seem to have much power and other shipping companiea do alright.

Last I looked UPS and Fedex are legally barred from competing for letter postage and can only ship parcels (so the hack is the overnight envelope which packages your letter in a parcel.

Bonus: The postal service can arrest you and prosecute you. Last I looked, UPS and FedEx cannot.
Baltimore has stronger challenges to overcome, so funding it more makes sense. It can be the case that we're paying a lot for Baltimore students and also that we're underfunding them.
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I'm not sure I fully understand the exact timeline from the article, but is it possible that age indirectly played a factor in the students' unhappiness?

His mind for organic chemistry might still be sharp as a tack. But at 84 years old, if he was the students' teacher during the initial part of the pandemic there's probably a chance he struggled with the digital adjustments to doing so many things online and delivered a subpar overall experience. If nothing else, perhaps eyesight and hearing fades a bit with age and makes trying to do stuff through Zoom and other online tools something very difficult for them making office hours and other things a challenge everybody resisted. This means that these students were far behind other years students.

By the time they all resumed in-person activities, the teacher might have thought that his students were at the normal level he was used to through decades of experience, but he misread how far behind they were.
This might be obvious, but it's worth checking out git commit --amend. Then you can be regularly committing, but to the same commit.
Lol it looks like one of my first 3dsmax models. I should still have it somewhere
At my job, our main software is a multi-million line c++ codebase. It takes most devs 45 minutes to an hour to compile without a fresh ccache, and this is a workstation with 8 physical cores. On my laptop, a fresh compile takes over 2 hours. This can be brought down to under 10 minutes with enough cores. Partly due to poor internal dependency management, it's pretty common that every git pull or rebase requires recompiling ~1/3 of the codebase and waiting multiple minutes to compile in an edit/compile/test cycle is common.
> The argument could be made that it worked pretty well for over 20 years. Russia played fairly nice with the west pretty much up until they invaded Crimea.

20 years is actually not a long time for an idea like we're talking about. This isn't human-scale stuff.
> so it's a disengineous point to bring up.

In the public eye, Meta is particularly unethical. It's a large part of their current downfall. So I don't agree with you that it is a disingenuous point.
> only pay for about half

That's a lot. From your own link, a vast majority of schools are regressive, i.e poor people get less.
Can you elaborate some more please? This is blowing my mind right now, -0?
That comment is wild, and as such -- remember, don't believe everything you read on the internet. Who knows if this is accurate or not. Disinformation campaigns and anger-boosting campaigns (aimed at both sides of the ideological aisle) from all corners of the internet are very sophisticated these days.
Well true but this is just a starting point!
green name has a point though.
Why should that break user programs?
What makes it not fair? Arguably if we can't hold a company to be ethical, wouldn't the individual concept of "fairness" also be off the table?
That's exactly it. Instead of tasks going "1, 2, 3" in my head, it was more like "1,...,1,...,1". I had to keep reloading every task into my working memory, with lots of brief pauses to think "did that click register", or "when I typed those words, was the context on that text box?". It's a truly torturous level of friction.
> "I haven't seen any obvious competitive advantages from choosing a non-mainstream language."

Just look at the market cap of YC companies started over its first 10 years and group by initial back-end language choices.

It wasn't dominated by companies using Java, .Net and PHP. On the contrary, those using Ruby account for over 50% of the valuation. Those using Python (a far less popular language then than now) accounted for another 17%. PHP, JS, Java and .Net combined were at under 5%.

https://twitter.com/logicmason/status/1371255029412233218
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Heart attack at 47, and he looks reasonably fit too in that linked video from 2019 (age 44).

What to do with this information? I don't know. Maybe work on cardio, stop coffee?.
physics has its own class of problems in that theoretical physics can spout any nonsense it wants as long as the testing to verify if it is correct or not is suitably expensive as to ensure it doesn't happen and the math is reasonably complex. it's not on the same scale of rampant bullshitism that is going on in the arts programs, where thousands of people have made entire careers out of generalizing marxism from the domain of labor to all the other domains of social interaction, physicists would have gotten that done in a flurry of papers over two weeks and moved on to something else more abstract and difficult to verify level of truth.
This is a very simple use case when you are working alone. Think about a team of people and hundreds of potentially conflicting changes to review manually.* Sometimes a tangible divide between online and offline is extremely useful.

*) Unless you believe this can be resolved by software - I'm afraid we're very far from that point yet.
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