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People aren't fungible. Discriminating in favor of some women/minorities doesn't help other other women/minorities elsewhere who have been harmed by discrimination. The goal should be to reduce injustice, not to incur more injustice as a mechanism to achieve parity between arbitrary identity groups.
If it were this clear of an obvious win, why has the issue not been brought up when we have such high profile cases as the position for VPOTUS being reserved for a woman of color?
What do the scammers get out of buying your stuff with a stolen credit card? You get the funds, but what do they get?
Hey, your username reminds me of the statistical measure called p-value. I hope Save All will help people beat the odds and cast off the shackles of the power law as it's applied to the act of learning.
I believe yes, but circumvention of the Blu-Ray copy protection is not ...
Just wait: they will quietly add it back within the next two years.
Thank you! I recently read a great von Neumann biography (The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya) and I've thinking about the von Neumann probes ever since. Definitely agree with you on how von Neumann probes are typically represented as ships or machines, but I wanted to make the nibbles "cute", so I thought "why not make the probes organic little blobby things?" But I'm definitely going to pick up the "We are Bob" book this week - seems from comments below that it has a lot of fans!

Also, I have been writing one short story every week this year, as a project to get better at writing, and you can read them all here: https://f52.charlieharrington.com/

Some favorites of mine are:
- The Correctives
- Flynn's Arrow
- El Codigo de los Estados Unidos
- Plastic Man on the Moon
Many countries go further, but the EU does require a minimum.

- 4 weeks paid holiday

- 4 months unpaid parental leave, 14 weeks paid for the mother

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_labour_law is the best overview I can find.
Yea, definitely depends on the industry, but even at that point, just a very nice note thanking the implementation team feels good.
US companies follow those procedures because lawyers tell them they'll lose in court if they don't. Sensibility has nothing to do with it.
Depends what version python you are on and what work you are doing. Our application deals with user calendars and scheduling across multiple calendar providers (google, microsoft, zoom, you name it), so I deal with the full brunt of timezone complexity all the time.

I use the stdlib datetime.datetime with pytz, with a few in-house helper functions, and it's frankly kinda awful across the board but we deal with it.

Pendulum is really nice, and I want to use it as my daily driver, but I unfortunately found some timezone bugs [1] in v2 that make me hesitant to trust it for what we are doing in production (it screws up DST when doing `.utcoffset()`). If you aren't constantly dealing with data timezones from all over the world, it's probably fine, and it's the only one that the least surprising thing at each step.

Pytz has the whole .localize footgun.

The std datetime lib has horrible ergonomics and can't even cope with IANA timezones until the zoneinfo module was introduced in 3.9. Every single day it bugs me that the classes `datetime` and `time` are lowercase, and there is no consensus on datetime.datetime vs from datetime import datetime.

I tried using arrow and while I applaud them for moving away from the horrible datetime class, that makes it pretty much incompatible with any other time library, including things like pydantic and orjson.

I don't have much experience with dateutil.

1 - https://github.com/sdispater/pendulum/issues/655

Seems to have started in 2.x but is fixed in the 3.0alpha. You have to be specifically using utcoffset, which in general is probably not something you should do and use the timezone types to do conversions, but it was enough to give me pause
Might be possible to use DNS to point api.petkt.com to a local webserver and rewrite the API?

I can't imagine it has that many endpoints or that much logic. I would think the main issue would be potential encryption/authentication but if they're using plaintext HTTP for the phone app then maybe the feeders are using plaintext HTTP too...
Yes. Not to mince words, as others frequently do, but that's basically what's happening. The alterntive, so-called "pure meritocracy", is a farce because the implied implicit "merit" is, by the very nature of the systemic inequalities that exist, unequally distributed. And merit is transferred down the generations. Privilege begets privilege. Etc. This is the issue that we are rightfully trying to counter.

It is right to try to take systemic steps to equalize access to opportunity across the board. The best (but imho still incredibly flawed) way of doing this is to use "anti-biased" hueristics to increase representation of certain people. In school admissions, for example, this might mean prioritizing applications from poorer areas. In other places this means having minimum quotas for hiring certain genders or ethnicities.

Yes, to be utterly semantic, it is discriminatory. I don't know how this sits with me, but it is technically true. But, whether it sits well or not, it is virtually impossible to fiddle ourselves out of this quagmire of inequality without taking proactive _opposite_ steps. We need to somehow equalise the playing field, thus equalising access to merit, thus equalising the soundness of the so-hailed "pure meritocracy" that so many seem to uphold as the ideal.
> - there is a deluge of experienced, highly skilled people looking for jobs right now (all the people that fell victim to 10% layoffs)

How do you know this. I still see lots of recruiters pestering me for a 'casual call'.
I like the idea and sentiment of your comment. but it doesn’t line up with my experience. Sometimes I stay up really late, I make a sacrifice and I get a lot done.
I think you're hitting on something there. I think most of those big companies are struggling to provide meaningful changes because they are too big and there is no trust. Trust and actually knowing your sub-ordinates is replaced by tools and metrics. Those tools and metrics then drive exactly the opposite of the behaviour that you would want.

Large companies incentivise behaviour that overall make products worse and customers angry while showing super awesome metrics internally. While I'm sure such metrics are going to be causing some of the right people to get PIP'd and managed out they also disillusion the good people that were trying to do the right thing (or actually did do the right thing) but which didn't show up as the correct number on some dashboard that was used by the CTO and HR to fire the "underperformers".
It was a non aggression pact. They had one with Poland long before that. And another with Estonia and Latvia. Germany annexed Austria and both Germany and Italy marched into other places before Germany signed the non aggression pact with the Soviets and amassed troops at the polish border before anything happened.

I don't really understand why the German/Soviet agreement was considered the start of world war II and not the other annexations and aggressions Germany did before that. There was also the Japanese Invasion of China that happened 2 years before that treaty and yet that doesn't seem to have any meaningful impact on WWII.
Latest release was 2 months ago.
But the chaos created is for whom?
What is the assumption here? Marginalized groups will be hired even if they aren't the better candidate? Doesn't that Peter-Principle them right out of the gate? Are we sure that this leads to better long term outcomes?
"the whole world must learn of our peaceful ways... by force!"
My preferred method, but not sure if “most” is true? Also the problem with this approach is that the licensor may go out of business.
People that are for race based hiring generally consider Indian and Asian people to be overrepresented in tech so they’re not considered minorities.
I liked the article, I know people who plan travel the same way as described in the article and it makes travel sound like a chore. I also feel like you're not doing the culture justice if you're doing this kind of "drive-by tourism".
Transwarp v0.84 – 50x fastload system on plain vanilla stock 1541 (use with C64)
learn COBOL, lots of old contractors over here :)
Some leftists support “corrective discrimination”, as they are not interested in equality of opportunity but instead equality of outcome.
The article also states that he was "telemarketing worker" without much detail about his job duties. Was the company already recording his screen and voice (if applicable) interactions with customers?
Can you even make a backup without doing this? Which law takes precedence?
what did you think of the article?
prove it wrong then, because it's not pessimism, it's pattern recognition.
If you "purchase" a 4K = UHD file on Amazon, it's actually just them allowing you to stream the movie. Despite the name, the "digital download" doesn't allow you to download.
While quality of life in Europe is still great, EU GDP share of the world going down is starting to effect European people more (especially now with the proxy war between US and Russia).

I wish Europeans were a bit more business savy and corporate, and not see businesses as just bad things that are part of life, but of course when I’m in US I see the other extreme where businesses want to extract all value from me all the time, and it gets tiring.
Funny to see a bunch of (quickly flagged) comments that show a clear misunderstanding of what the German hacker scene is and wants.

Besides not being a monolith and this being amenable to labeling as such, it's still in many parts different from many other hacker scenes.

The CCC has always had the ambition (and backing credentials/skills) to be a political movement as much as a technological one. In fact that's the origin story of the Congress; Wau Holland inviting others to "do something" with these machines that were set to change the world. This political attitude always had a left and anti-fascist bent, IMHO something that Germany in the 80s, and nowadays, desperately needs.

The US scene in comparison (seen from far, just to be clear) looks much more comfortable with closeness to corporate and state actors. Having worked with the intelligence community seems to be more of a badge of honor over there?

In France in comparison the scene as I see it focuses much more on making things, while organisations like La Quadrature du Net are well known but small and not at all organized/supported in the grass roots way that the CCC is. Which is why they seem to enjoy the CCC events, it's always great to have them there. :)

I might be getting this very wrong, like I said I'm only seeing the US scene from "over here" and I only have shallow interaction with the French scene.

I'd also love to hear from other places and how your local nerd communities do in terms of taking political agency.
The state I live in is 85% white and the goal is to hire much less than 85% whites. So the goal is to create a diverse community that doesn't exist.
Also https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-paypal-policy-lets-compan...
Salaries between countries are hard to compare. You have to take into account that he and his kids have access to the NHS for exemple.

I’m a manager at a consulting company in France. My total comp is a bit shy of €70k which looks ridiculous next to an American but you have to factor in that I have a full medical coverage, access to free education for my family, unemployment insurance and retirement benefits plus a wide array of perks on top of that.
I wonder how long until we'll have restaurants where you "purchase" a license to taste their food, but they may - at their sole discretion - withdraw your access before it reaches your table ^_^
None of what you mention presents plausible evidence of your statement implying that CIA/MI6 have monolithic control over information regarding the camps. Not to say they aren't manipulating information or have no involvement, but none of the evidence you present backs up your claim.

Enforcing the birth of children and sending people to camps are two very different issues.

The content not being HD could be explained by them using less detectable drones. I would imagine that flying a military or HD drone over sovereign territory would be dangerous and an act of aggression, so it's within the realm of belief that someone, perhaps covertly, used a drone less likely to draw suspicion, not easily detectable or traceable to foreign interests.

Moreover if you watch the Frontline (the same source you cited above) documentaries about Iraq, you'll find they present people working in intelligence at the time explicitly told officials Zarqawi was sketchy and that the information he presented was not supported by the intel they had.

I'm not saying it's a certainty without doubt that the camps are everything what some sources allege them to be, but it's also not certain without a doubt that they aren't.
an exit path is one where you earn enough from your career to obtain passive income and retire - preferably early enough to still have mental and physical strength left to do what you are passionate about, without having to worry about finances.
I seen it so many times. Indian companies try to avoid hiring Indians whenever they can do otherwise (i.e. for better paying positions). There are good and bad explanations for that, but all of them politically incorrect.
I had the same thought. Great series.
Yes, some idiot keeps adding the "porn" tag to the site for some reason.

Anyway, the article in question is also available, trackerless and with "classic" formatting at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/better_off_with_pf.html - normally my WIP to show early reviewers spot.
Is there any evidence at all that women or minorities are in "unhirability loops"? Something like 80% of the managers I've had in my career have been Indians, and the majority of them were women. Every company I've worked at has many Indian employees, and I strongly suspect the male/female ratio was at least at parity with the hiring pipeline.

Moreover, if one woman was discriminated against, you can't make up for it by hiring a different woman in some other job because humans aren't fungible.
Airtags will get you killed without needing a gun.
Thanks! I will read on these things first.

You mentioned glucose -- actually i feel much less anxious right after i eat something sweet.
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I'm not making a pro or con judgement but it does help future women/minorities for current women/minorities to break glass ceilings and get into new industries/positions.

Just like the first black kids sent to white only schools during integration helped make things less terrible for future minorities.
In this case we're talking about Unix timestamps though, which count the number of seconds since 1970 UTC. Adding a timezone to it is nonsensical. The number is always the same, no matter which timezone you're in. It's in the conversion to year-month-day, etc. that timezone becomes relevant.
A cure for blindness may be first product made in space
Not really, mutual agreements are a thing. If you pay someone with one month notice 3 months worth of pay to leave on the same day, they would be stupid not to take it.
Comparative study of blockchain development platforms: Features and applications
Keep in mind that this is not about punishment but about damages. 75k goes a long way for an individual and afaik we don't have this system of punitive damages. The state might collect punitive money in a criminal case (not a civil case).

Sometimes I feel like it might be good to meet in the middle (i.e. some amount of punishment awarded to the plaintiff, also as compensation for having had to take a corporation to court and presumably spending months in stress), but then I'm not sure where the line should be. Or perhaps a criminal case should be joined onto this, where the same judge (already familiar with all the details) also decides on a punitive amount going to the state.
Source? Actually, low effort agit prop that could actually be done by NGOs. Moral grand standing by US is so tiresome… it’s an Psyop color revolution otherwise we’d see Saudi protests etc.
People shit on meritocracy until the planes start falling out of the sky and we're murdering sparrows for being capitalist saboteurs.
Show HN: Building a Git teaching tool that runs Git in the browser
Repo: https://github.com/thomscoder/harmony

Harmony was born as a tool to create and/or modify local files, on the fly, in your browser.
Few weeks ago I decided to try to implement a sort of version control system in it.
I think it would be cool one day to either use it for personal use or to teach Git concepts in a sandboxed area.
Harmony is powered by web assembly and it runs all the git related stuff in-memory.

In this release I brought an initial support for directories and the possibility to checkout to a particular commit
Were the background checks for a remote job? That would makes sense. Employing someone several thousands miles away in a foreign country requires a certain amount of due diligence, especially to keep the (tax) authorities happy.
"Sometimes" is vague. Is this: every day, every other day, once a week, or once a month?

The latter two sound reasonable. The former two sound like a recipe for a breakdown sooner or later.
The most trivial but clear evidence of the power of breaks for me is a really tough crossword clue. I’ll be wracking my brain trying to get the answer and come up with nothing. Eventually I’ll give up and do something else, and when I pick it back up a few hours later, the answer immediately comes to me and I can’t believe I couldn’t get it before.
All of which is deeply immoral. Racism is bad mmkay? Hard to believe this is still controversial.
What about raising passenger fees and use that money to hire back experienced staff at a premium? I know that the hiring process at airports may be lengthy due to extended background checks, but frankly at current rate of inflation in europe it's pure madness from company executives to try and keep wages low and still expecting to get anyone to do a stressful job for a non livable wage.
Folks, this is not difficult to understand unless you're deliberately being obtuse.

There's legal and illegal discrimination.

Some forms of legal discrimination do amount to discrimination against White people.

When we say "Discrimination is wrong" we are almost always talking about illegal discrimination.

Just crying out that "But.... but you said discrimination is wrong!" really isn't the 'argument' you think it is.
CCC often reveals new software vulnerabilities. I don't know if it's deliberate, but if they reveal those vulnerabilities at Christmas, they ruin the holiday of whoever is responsible for fixing them - quite likely someone working for a big corporation.
Screenshots are more reliable because links can change. You can also control exactly what will be previewed. Often I'll do a screenshot with the link
If that's how it is, then that's how it is.

And by most people's definition of good and bad, this can't be incorrect. Unless they don't believe in good or bad as truthful labels, which is fair but makes things more complicated.
Are you in the US? Legality is strongly location-dependent, e.g. "Now I've heard that it is technically easy to rip the iTunes DRM to recover an MP4, but that is likely illegal again." is totally legal in Spain where people have the RIGHT of private copy of their purchased media (including circumventing any restrictions).
I have been using git for almost a decade, I don’t see any issues and I enjoy it quite a lot. Is there something I am not aware of?
I tried twice; both times, the word "Inside" was dropped from the beginning of the title - don't know why.
For example, they now know that the CC number they purchased in bulk is authentic.
And it seems like they're trying to experiment with new legal ways to seize funds, like a $2500 fine for offensive speech: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33062320
If by "behave better" you mean "pay more"... it's probably be correct.

But when comparing overall US & EU working conditions, it's a very lopsided contest. US employees seem to be abused by European standards: at-will employment, no maternity leave, workplace surveillance, unpaid overtime for salaried employees are illegal pretty much everywhere - even Romania.
No kidding, what exactly is problem? Probably merge conflicts on binary blobs or some stupid shit.

Clunky, it is not. What was this guy using before? SVN!? That shit was go get a coffee or lunch slow.
Very specifically, I think they're interested in achieving parity between races, genders etc, and in their eyes, a totally valid approach is to give already privileged women, minorities etc even more privilege or to further disenfranchise already underprivileged whites, men, etc. Humans are merely fungible tokens of their identity categories. Identity groups are all-important; the individuals who comprise them are expendable. At least this is the impression one gets when looking at their rhetoric and the policies they advocate.
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Some people are running a marathon, half way through it is discovered half of them had been given weighted shoes that made them run significantly slower. The organizers and racers agree this is wrong and unfair, and so they make sure everyone has correct shoes for the rest of the race. Yet those half of the racers that had weighted shoes are several miles behind the rest. What would you suggest be done?
That's not necessarily true, right?

There are large costs associated with changing what we're doing and in absence of being able to actually control the climate, those resources would be better spent on dealing with the outcome.

If you're standing downhill from an avalanche that you set off when you clapped your hands, making sure no one claps will not be your chief concern.
You naively believe that quotas come from a desire to end discrimination, when in fact it comes from the “it’s our turn” mentality. It’s not liberal at all.
Start backwards. Let’s assume you can build the app. So which niche/group of people can you reach? Which group of people do you have a special insight to, or ability to create a large following? Start there, then build for them.
Because some societal imbalances are stuck in a local minimum, and it requires some artificial pressures to get out of it. The goal is to improve opportunities for groups that historically had less of them. Manually adjusting the workforce demographics is one of the tools to nudge things towards the goal, to help shift attitudes and education. It's not perfect, but it's not like market forces are going to do it.
This falls apart because it quickly becomes a question of who are the accepted minority classes, as we see certain groups being excluded.
I was paid my full salary during that 3 months. It was somewhat lucky in that regard, but I certainly did work hard to achieve that. That is a mode that works well for me - cycles of extreme effort followed by extended time off. I know it isn't for everyone but I seem to be able to find my flow state with this approach.
They definitely stick to it, and it might be that they build convenient narratives about it. Mind you that the energy use of climate simulations is not trivial, or do you think such machine can be fed with a typical electric installation from a regular office?
In the past Apple made old versions of their classic system available for free. Notably that included 7.5.3 which is what I use https://web.archive.org/web/19991002011823/http://download.i...

I would have to check about ROM files!
Almond chocolates aren’t unhealthy junk?