skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Affirmative Action is always going to be a very controversial topic. Personally I'm for it, but I understand why people dislike it.

I do strongly believe that, even with Affirmative Action policies, it's still a lot harder to succeed as a non white male than it is as a white male, today. For example, no matter how you slice it, white Americans are ~3-4x more likely to become millionaires than black or hispanic Americas (source: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-millionaire-odds/). I think there's a TONNE of reasons for race and gender based inequality, but IMO most of them have to do with "momentum". If you grow up in a wealthy family, you've got easy access to great education, mentors, role models, capital, etc. If you grow up in a poor family you have way less of all of this. It wasn't long ago that racism and sexism were much, much worse than they are today (and there's still lots of conscious and unconscious bias today), so white families are a lot wealthier today than minority families, and that propagates to the next generation, and the one after that, etc. Slavery wasn't abolished in America until 1865, the Brown vs. Board of Education decision (ending racial segregation of schools) came in 1954, Rosa Parks was 1955, Jim Crow laws weren't really sweepingly overturned until 1965. If you're a black American in their 40s today, your parents were probably born in the Jim Crow era, where the impediments to their financial success were immense.

If, as a society, we don't try to actively help non white males reach an equal footing in terms of opportunity, it'll be really, really hard to close these "momentum" gaps. I view Affirmative Action as a temporary approach to narrowing these gaps. It's realizing that it's too hard to succeed financially as a minority in America, and temporarily giving minorities a leg up on hiring and promotions to help even the wealth/opportunity gap. Once the gap more or less goes away, you remove the Affirmative Action policies, but that'll take time. If you hire based purely on qualifications, education, experience, etc., the gap isn't going away for an extremely long time, because white families are a lot wealthier than minority families today, so a disproportionate number of kids from those families are going to have those advantages, and the gap persists.
Google has only shown time and again, that they cannot be trusted to maintain and support the platforms or tools they create. I just find that I would prefer to avoid them more often than not overall at this point. The things they do keep are monetized in such a way that it's become increasingly disturbing. Not that I'm an Apple advocate, but they're also going down this path now too.

When Microsoft is the least evil of the three, I think the game is pretty much lost, or at least it feels that way.
"We can't fix racism because of racism."
Is it a subscription or do you get access with your yearly developer fee?
congrats on shipping, OP. i also wrote a jr to sr book and it was one of the most rewarding things i've ever done. good luck!
Can I ask a stupid question in earnest? Is it bad for them to die out? Is the fear that if we lose 90% of this life that there will be complete collapse of the worlds ecosystem?

Maybe a better question would be: where can I find more information on the consequences of this?
Ah, good point. Didn't know that. The second paragraph still holds tho: mixing two arguments.
Kea can replace forbidden characters in DHCP hostnames, maybe that solves the problem you're having.
> I personally use an old laptop which is plenty fast

If connected on wifi to your router this of course solves the "kick a cable out" problem too, even if the battery is really old you'll almost certainly still have a few minutes.

> Then install unattended-upgrades, put admin panels (phpmyadmin, wp-admin) behind basic authentication

I'd go as far as protecting the directory to only allow access from local network, and use wireguard to reach the machine.

It's likely a server in the corner of the room will cost more than a VPS, certainly in my country. A server drawing 25 Watts cost more than the $3/month I pay. (That said I also have a pihole running on a 1B - my parasitic house load is about 100W for the fridge, router, wifi, etc)
It's not those with a disadvantage. It's strictly based on skin color. That's the problem. You have no idea if they are disadvantaged or not. There are plenty of middle-class and upper-class Black families these days.

Unless you think that all Black people are disadvantaged. To me, it's a "ruinous empathy" form of racism if you think "Oh look at that poor Black person!" without knowing anything about her background.
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I'd like to understand the motivation behind your question.

Complaining about the unobscured faces would start the conversation about training data and its diminished inclusivity. But, your comment focused on the perception a person looking at the result might have, given the incomplete feature set of this software. I am having trouble imagining the sort of visitor xrd would disappoint with the imperfect image, that he should want to have retained, that wouldn't complain when noticing the gap him or herself during testing.

Could you please elaborate ?
> a drop of 0.15% in colo-rectal death.

Where’s that coming from? I didn’t read the paper yet, but the article says: “A secondary analysis also offers another silver lining, Gupta said. When the investigators compared just the 42% of participants in the invited group who actually showed up for a colonoscopy to the control group, they saw about a 30% reduction in colon cancer risk and a 50% reduction in colon cancer death.“

> This completely breaks randomization and is subject to investigator bias

Yes, true. I agree with you. This is important when asking the question “how effective is recommending screenings”. But, voluntary opt-in also breaks randomization, and is subject to patient bias.

> you’d need to test 667 people to save one life. That’s a lot of pain for very little gain

Assuming that’s accurate (the article appears to disagree), I’d still be very hard-pressed to agree with this conclusion. Why is a once or twice a decade doctor’s visit spread out over many people amounting to enough pain to let someone die? How much is a life worth? Is the colonoscopy really so bad that you’re willing to risk a greater than one in a thousand chance of dying? That risk is comparable to many extreme sports.

The problem with this kind of sum up the cost and make it look large is that you didn’t do this for anything else and compare it for reference, which makes this framing prone to cognitive bias. We spend billions and have laws for keeping drivers safe, for example. You could make it look insane by adding up the billions of dollars and people-years people spent bucking and unbuckling seatbelts, but the truth is that it’s a teeny inconvenience per person for a sizeable gain in safety and reduction in the accumulated secondary costs of accidental death.
Armory's (YC W17) Continuous Deployment helps scale your organization
> "they should fix their broken recruiting pipeline"

This is trying to treat the symptoms, not the disease. You yourself say "they tried for months and were still unsuccessful at finding a single one". Why do you think that is?

Whatever you're trying to solve - the "issue" starts decades earlier, at home. It's about how people are brought up, their access to education, their social environment. Culture actually plays a role, too.
This comment gives more FUD than the parent. Your comment really adds nothing to the discussion, whereas the parent you’re dismissing is contributing.
It doesn't take a business degree to repeat what I told you in the last comment.
> Have you ever used an Oculus Quest before? Between the full-screen Apple Music pop-ups and "suggested apps" when you search on the App Store, I think my Quest actually has less advertisements than modern iOS...

The GP was saying what would happen in the future. iOS v1 and v2 had the same amount of advertisements as Quest.
==covering employment costs due to lower demand, and to cover costs due to being shut down.==

Except that there wasn't lower demand across the whole economy, only very specific industries. Most businesses were not shut down. Lots of businesses continued running, and had increased demand. They still got forgivable loans.

Perhaps the perception it has more to do with who signed the legislation (a Republican President and Senate) than whether it was actually "socialist" (it was)?
If those are your requirements for the websites you host, the point of this article is not relevant for you in that context.
And if you struggle with Xcode claiming large amounts of disk space:

1. Use DevCleaner[0] to remove old/unnecessary device support files.

2. Remove platforms you don't develop for, e.g.

- rm -rf /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/Watch*

- rm -rf /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/AppleTV*

DevCleaner freed up 10G+ for me the first time, the two rm commands above free up ~3G each.

[0] https://github.com/vashpan/xcode-dev-cleaner
I'm going to charitably assume that a self-described "coffee nerd who owns a coffee company" has slightly more expertise than this.
I do this, I host my website on my desktop. It's nice to have just a single computer instead of many. http://catern.com/computers.html
I agree it's not the same as mods literally removing content or banning users but it still yields the same result. People observe what type of thought gets upvotes and repeat those views/opinions over and over. This of course is exactly how reddit works too outside of mods.

> hopefully means that those downvoting are somewhat good citizens.

Definitely not. It only takes a few flags on HN to completely remove something from the front-page. It only takes a few downvotes to grey it nothingness.
Amazing news! InboxSDK is amazing and now it's even more awesome.
Before I got married, I would always offer my dates a gamble when the check came: both of us put our cards down, and the waiter chooses one behind their back. That person pays for dinner.

I've never had a date refuse, and in the long run, I came out ahead (better than 50/50). It's egalitarian, sporting, and adds some excitement to a failing date.
Anyone know any similar resources for selecting sources based on humane fish slaughter methods? I understand the method of catching them is important, but I am looking out for ways to avoid suffocation/freezing death.
>... may not be impaired by ill-treatment, by fatigue, by physical intervention, by the administration of drugs, by torment [Quälerei], by deception [Täuschung] or by hypnosis.

Has there ever been a documented case of a suspect hypnotised by law enforcement to (rightly or wrongly) confess? That would be an interesting story.
> How common is this scenario?

It's getting more common the more people discuss it, and learn that 'Hey, you can do that?'

> Do you think this is a growing problem in the industry?

It's been around since forever. There's also different forms it can take. Slowdowns[0] etc

> How are employers handling these situations?

Since it's usually done stealthily by employees, nothing much can be done apart from being a good leader and leading by example.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowdown
GCC has a similar feature: named address spaces

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Named-Address-Spaces.html
They aren't going to answer you here.
Except no one wants to write drivers in Forth.
> what stops us from just buying Twilio credits, getting a number through them

I was considering exactly this, or potentially getting a second mobile number via eSIM on my phone (which feels a bit more "permanent" but that might be delusion...)
Lets not kid ourselves, the main reason HN is much higher quality than Reddit is because of the users. It could all change tomorrow if they find out about us.

People forget that Reddit used to look a lot like HN does today in like 2006-10 before the Digg exodus. Today Reddit is almost entirely kids.
That video doesn't include the quest pro
Sure, they also share them on their socials and are vocal about it.

But even besides that, if you look at any time this situation happened in the last ~3 years, you'll always see more users being vocal about the preferring the official sub than the community one in comparison.

Reddit's demographics changed, and it just exploded over the last couple of years with "casual users", "went mainstream" or what ever one wants to call it.

Most users these days don't even know that "official subreddits" were something that was super unpopular and uncommon on Reddit.
Call me old fashioned, but yes, you (men) should pay or at very least give a sincere offer to pay.

If you invite the other party on a date, then you should pay. You presumably controlled the choice of venue after all.

If the other party invited you on a date then you should offer to pay (the full amount) given first impressions and societal baggage.

The only excuse (IMHO) to not pick up the tab is if the other party is clearly uncomfortable with that and offer more than token opposition to the notion.

I'm really talking about the first few dates here. Once you strike up a real relationship and understand each others preferences and resources you can sort out who pays for what. I recognize that my views might be old fashioned and are based on me typically being in a much stronger financial position that the average person I might have met.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33166634

But yes I'm on Windows 10, Firefox 105.0.3, and even in private mode, no extensions enabled, the page does not load for me.
I can't imagine boring business apps are any more usable with two VR controllers or with blurry text.

Nor has anyone ever wanted to spend $1,500 to be able to use.. Adobe Acrobat.
Gross generalizations don’t really help prove a point
wow... do you mean... there are fake news about this conflict??? (accute and severe irony)
The author also ignores the obvious fact that only 1% of candidates being "diverse" is the root problem being addressed...
Here you go. May be the WSJ is also biased.

“Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt.
A program known as XCheck has given millions of celebrities, politicians and other high-profile users special treatment, a privilege many abuse.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-files-xcheck-zuckerber...
It’s also really heavy - any amount likely to even light up a lightbulb for an hour or two would collapse a house without major reinforcement. Which would far outweigh any value of the storage.
The impression I got is that his tone sounded like someone giving a speech or presentation. Rogan sounded more natural.

I suspect a large part of the training data was Jobs giving presentations in front of an audience so his AI voice sounds like public speaking. Whereas Rogan's data would be most likely be conversations from his podcast so his AI voice sounds more conversational.
from what I can tell, nobody knows how to interpret the civil rights acts and nobody wants to have a discussion on how to compliantly do so.

all you have to do is start recruiting in places that were overlooked. just stop obsessing over Stanford pedigrees and recruit at the same Tier 3 universities that the intelligence community recruits from.

fund your own coding academies and executive workshops and create your own pipeline, physically located in neighborhoods that have people you want representation from.

everyone is going to keep messing this up and discriminating on the hiring process, without a framework about how to do it.
It's also dangerously creating racism. The more we tow some kind of line of lets end racism by only hiring minorities, the more racist this country will get. Watch it. The moment you step back and let people hire the best candidate, you will find different cultures mixing and moving forward together.
Sure, but a black percentage of ~13%, which is actually exactly in line with the ratio of black americans to americans.
That strikes me as genuinely insane. I don't understand why anyone would care what journalists have to say anymore.
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33161167
These kinds of policies are also massively unfair to the exact people you are trying to hire. I know lots of engineers who would fit into the cliche "diversity" categories who are skilled and deserving of their job. But now they have to wonder if they were hired for merit or to meet some sort of a quota.

The whole thing breeds resentment and drives teams further apart, in fact it creates the exact problems DEI is purported to solve.
> Get rid of private schools

"I am so, so tired of socialists who admit that the current system is a helltopian torturescape, then argue that we must prevent anyone from ever being able to escape it. Who promise that once the last alternative is closed off, once the last nice green place where a few people manage to hold off the miseries of the world is crushed, why then the helltopian torturescape will become a lovely utopia full of rainbows and unicorns. If you can make your system less miserable, make your system less miserable! Do it before forcing everyone else to participate in it under pain of imprisonment if they refuse! Forcing everyone to participate in your system and then making your system something other than a meat-grinder that takes in happy children and spits out dead-eyed traumatized eighteen-year-olds who have written 10,000 pages on symbolism in To Kill A Mockingbird and had zero normal happy experiences - is doing things super, super backwards!" ~Scott Alexander
This is awesome news!

My team built the first version of the Pipedrive Gmail extension [1] and Inbox SDK was [2] instrumental to getting it to work we wanted to: among other things we used the routing mechanism heavily to give contextual views depending on where the user was within gmail.

Thanks for your work, and thanks for making it open-source!

[1] https://www.pipedrive.com/en/blog/pipedrive-gmail-extension

[2] I don't work in Pipedrive anymore and I don't know whether Inbox SDK is still used at this point in time.
MSFT is not private, it's public. It's responsibility is to create value for the shareholders. Part of that deal is to hire the best talent.
I agree, all of this further emphasizes the importance of allowing third-parties to develop their own OSes on hardware they own.
Yeah if "there nothing simple about coffee anymore", either you are a chill, or you belong to the 1%.
The majority of managers at Microsoft remain white, and male (page 13):

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/a...
But crucially, you can sideload, you're not tied to an app store.
They were, in fact, out of fuel and unable to operate heavy industry, and faced disaster. That the generals had personal opinions they were empowered to act upon did not change the objective fact that as a nation they could no longer wage war, nukes or no nukes.

The emperor wanted to negotiate a surrender. They ended up with an "unconditional" surrender, but with an under the table promise to allow the emperor to keep his title.
20 minutes might just be interview anxiety, especially if it’s a first question in the interview.
More importantly they want to own a platform which won’t make arbitrary rules that upends their entire business model.
Can you please prove in any way that this url does not exist?
The norm in Silicon Valley is treat D&I with an inordinate level of skepticism, if not reject it outright as "anti-meritocratic." What we have here is not explicit racial segregation, but a system operating via capital and clout that has elevated a small group of mostly white men into positions of extreme power and influence over the most vibrant segment of the American economy. This creates huge bind spots and carries the risk of building systems that reinforce oppression.

>D&I may very well be operating at the wrong end of the pipe.

Then that should be the argument at hand. Not rejecting the idea outright.

>she was pressured into hiring an incompetent person

That there is no system in place for addressing concrete performance issues in any employee is the failing of the organization. The requirements for any role you hire for should be clear, expectations should be set and when they are not met there should be consequences. If this is not the case at the organization she worked at, she was bound to burn out, irrespective of the DEI objectives.
This seems like a very large leap in logic, if I follow… are you saying the parent is communist for using the term reactionary?
One funny thing about situational awareness is that when you lose it, you don't always know, because, well, you've lost your SA.

Put differently, something you consistently find when you postmortem incidents where people have lost their SA is that they thought at the time they had full SA. They only notice they've lost it when things are clearly going downhill.

So it's important to regularly re-ground yourself with reality even if you think you don't need it. That's a critical component of maintaining SA.
Most of the compatibility issues I've seen around Windows apps that fail to work seems to be changes/updates around security. A big one that I saw in the past around XP or 7 was that your general applications could no longer write to their Program Files location by default... there are many others over the years. MS has made a fair effort to maintain compatibility, but don't underestimate the power of developers to hard code something out of convenience that bites them in the rear once security contexts change from under you.
> but still have to prove themselves qualified for the job by doing well in interviews.

This notion of "qualified for the job" is really blurry in our field though. For example, is someone fresh out of a three months bootcamp qualified for a job at Microsoft?
Think of the cost savings. Instead of cubicles now we just pack everyone into a warehouse with VR goggles?
So even if we have aggregate statistics showing how certain groups of people are disadvantaged, the fact that the rules do not apply universally means we should just ignore them?
Slashdot had (has?) meta-moderation, where you are randomly selected to re-moderate decisions
Zuck Fires Shots at Apple
This is how literally everything in corporate America works. You start with a good idea. It gets turned into a metric. Targets for this metric are assigned at various levels in the management hierarchy. Bonuses are made dependent upon meeting the target for the metric. Eventually everyone forgets the initial objective and just focuses on managing the metric. I work in consulting, client satisfaction is obviously very important, leadership made the determination that NPS is the best way to measure csat, we all have NPS targets, our bonuses are tied to them, so what does everyone do? They only send NPS surveys to specific clients they know will give a good score and then they spend time and effort to make sure the client follows up and does in fact give a good score. Everyone manages the metric, same as with the DE&I stuff.
A small fund wagered big that Elon Musk would be forced to buy Twitter
>It's one of the reasons places like r/politics became such an echo chamber dumpster fire.

The day after election day 2016 in the US, it was actually possible to post non-leftist comments/articles in /r/politics. Basically, the mods and bot owners hadn't been given their new marching orders, and didn't know what to do.
You're about to get downvoted to hell but I'll add in that I love when big, fat, ugly White people think sees a Black person that may have their shit otherwise together and go "wow they really need my help and compassion." Because that's not racist lol
And now ironically, companies that keep their inventions secret use the patent system to hinder open development of protocols, file formats, and software.