skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be to take the example of the sites that have achieved it or are in the process of doing so.

https://www.craigslist.org/

https://www.spacejam.com/1996/

There is a principle of internet standards called 'don't break the web' which may be useful to you.

https://danburzo.ro/dont-break-the-web/
"Can you actually prove that people are in any way capable of measuring merit, especially for leadership decisions, which is pretty squishy to begin with?"

I'd love to hear answers for this. In my experience, it seems ratings are just the boss's unverified opinion.

However, I disagree with the conclusion that adding another flawed metric shouldn't be concerning.

"They mention an increase of from 3% to 5% of membership of senior black leaders. Do I think those senior black leaders earned it?"

The biggest thing is that this metric is meaningless. They don't define what the target is and why. They don't dig into the how of the increase either. If it was the policy, they have not taken a systems thinking review of it to see if it's working as expected or causing some other harm. I see no inclusion of the root issue - a pipeline of diverse candidates via schools. If the numbers are underrepresented in school, then they will be in industry too. Maybe you can juice your own company's numbers, but that simply leaving less for other companies. Figuring out diversity discrepancies in the talent pipeline (school, mainly) is the first step. Then figuring out if it's an actual problem and what the proper metrics are, is a step that seems to be glossed over. Without understanding these, there will be no meaningful progress.
I don't know about the mass shootings being linked to dating apps but I thought about this too.

I think the fundamental problem is that more men always sign up on these apps than women. That would be true of a government app also. It seems like this ruins the experience for both men and women alike. I am speculating here because we don't really know much about how these apps work since no one releases their user data. But women I have talked to complain about married men, copy-pasted pickup lines, and men treating women like prostitutes. With my own experience men complain about fake accounts, having to do all the effort and getting nothing for it, and for both, meeting people, going on dates, and then after you've become attracted to each other you find out how deeply damaged and incompatible the other person is because they hid all their baggage.

A lot of this just seems like it's exacerbated by the use of an app. I think the apps drive decent people away. This is all speculation.

I somewhat think the whole proposition of online dating was doomed to fail. I don't know if a non profit/government office could fix this leaving aside how politics could affect it.
Technically you don't, there's an unauthenticated endpoint discovered recently that lets you grab their tools without requiring credentials. But it's annoying to use :(
I enjoyed the (brief?) times when the client would do string interpolation on the URL and tell you the screen name of the person viewing it.
Your sarcasm would work better if anyone understood what the hell you were trying to refer to. You seem to ascribe "technological and engineering progress" exclusively to teams of young, white, nerdy men in this comment, which is clearly something only an idiot would do, so I presume you are trying to make a different, better point. Feel free to let us know what that might be.
"Black holes" absorbs light, so they can be reasonably thought of as "black" (despite lighting effects as it interacts with surrounding matter), and anything that gets too close falls in, like a "hole" (or a cavity).

Compound names mostly come from associations, not careful logic.

Names in general are arbitrary symbols, not definitions.
Companies that want more diverse workforces need to grow them through, education and training. Remove the barriers to learning in these POC communities and map out clear pathways to knowledge.
Yeah, all of A) stimulants B) hot beverages and C) bitter taste are appetite suppressors. Both coffee and tea work great in my experience, but really high tannin tea can make me nauseous on an empty stomach.
That represents the population at large, not the percentage of job applicants. Without knowing that number, you can't know how reasonable such a rule is.
this looks like it has AR I can't wait to try developing for AR boxing I really liked the thrill of the fight but I believe AR boxing is where its at
My friend works at PayP[redacted] and as a white female, _she_ was the minority hire. Somehow, in the SF Bay Area, almost all of their recruits that get to interview are [country of origin redacted]. It sounds like blatant discrimination, BUT if no one's complaining, is there an issue?
Not sure exactly what you mean, but everyone can choose to either download Xcode via MAS or https://developer.apple.com. I think I tried it with MAS once about 7 years ago and have never done that again since.
Tested hands on impressions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6AOwDttBsc

Funny thing about the $1500 price point.

If the Quest Pro could replace my triple monitors, $1500 is a bargain. It's basically a laptop with 3 monitors that appear out of thin air whenever you want. Amazing.

To do this it needs to be comfortable enough to wear all day and it needs to be high enough resolution to stare at text all day. It's at least plausible the Pro is comfortable enough for some based on early impressions. But the displays are not cutting it.

I don't think it needs to equal the DPI of a monitor at human viewing distance, but 2160x2160 is still way to low. Maybe 3k would do it with super sampling. Oh and the Quest Pro would need to run any Android app, or else it would only be useful tethered to my computer and lose a lot of the appeal.

So if the Quest Pro can't handle this use case, $1500 seems crazy expensive. A luxury. They have to hope they have a killer game or app that somehow gets people in.

During the height of the pandemic I would have almost paid $1500 if this had a really good 'virtual couch' experience where you can hang out and watch Netflix with friends, passively socializing in a way that felt comparable to the real thing. People love doing this in but it's always so janky.
I myself have to mark a checkbox saying "Hispanic OR Latino". I'm Latino, but NOT Hispanic. But I can also check "white". One is a skin color, another is ancestry, and yet another is geographical location...
> The issue(s) I need the most help with revolve around generating revenues that don't involve advertising, subscriptions, dark patterns or racing to the bottom on pricing. The AppStore model makes it very difficult to use some of the techniques that worked in the old days of shrink wrap and direct online distribution; trial periods, version upgrades and other concepts that don't fit into the AppStore buy it once and get upgraded for life.

The part that bugs me is that Apple could fix these issues but is choosing not to. Rather than adding upgrade pricing (something developers have been asking for since 2009), they added and have been pushing for subscriptions :(
It is a scoping problem IMO. In JavaScript variables are block-scoped, i will be out of scope after the loop.

It would be better if Python could support block-scoping too. (Maybe it is time for inventing a "strict mode" for Python)
That was a really bad comparison.

Moderators on Reddit can be biased in different areas, they might let a comment pass or have a nervous breakdown over something they don't like. It's not clear and never will be but you still have the freedom.

Facebook algorithm does not miss. It does not overlook things or understand context. All it knows is someone said something they're not supposed to and that is the difference.

I'll take Reddit over Facebook anytime of the day because at least on Reddit, I can say controversial things (if any) on my own feed without the fear of the algorithm deleting it and banning me for a month where I have no voice, only a threat to be confirming to Facebook ideals that I have no idea what they are.

So yeah, both are censuring but Reddit allows more freedom.
Forget geothermal, I'd love an air-exchange system for the summers where I live. It's not uncommon for the low to be in the 50s, with the high in the 80s. If I could just store some of that overnight cool in water and then run it through the central air system, I almost wouldn't need AC.
There are lots of industry groups that do PR to benefit the whole industry, even if members of the industry compete with each other day to day.
MS gives higher compensation for diverse hiring, it is not a far reach to believe it also affects promotions. Especially if you contributed to your boss's bonus
Well I suppose it's one answer to the energy crisis.
100% agreed. The /r/cycling subreddit is unexpectedly one of the worst offenders, from what I've encountered. Many removed comments and posts. Anything remotely seen as critical of any aspect of cycling (even coming from avid cyclists!) is immediately removed.
I'd argue that in the case of AdS/CFT correspondence, they've been mathematically proven to be _possible_. Doesn't mean that it is true. We also don't have all of the answers to AdS/CFT questions to prove a holographic universe theory with utmost certainty. I would, however, agree that evidence could have been presented in the article, but I'm guessing the target audience for this piece may have never clicked into an array of academic papers.

The classical wormhole as an extreme fold in spacetime is mathematically _possible_, but given what we've observed in the universe, extremely unlikely to naturally occur.
> It is only one logical step to go from one to the other. The idea that the promotion process is so random that the introduction of an additional random factor (D&I status is totally uncorrelated to performance) can't make it any worse would nullify anyone's faith in performance incentives.

It is only one logical step to assume the opposite as well, that a company that thinks holistically about the hiring process, and questions whether or not managers are acting in a truly meritocratic way will give people confidence that cultivating their abilities won't be for naught if they have a racist/sexist manager.

The article states a lot of things based on feels but the one tangible point they make is that HR is not in fact insisting he hire someone based on an "additional random factor" just that they considered all the candidates.
I don’t appreciate the casual racism in your post.
Wasn't Louis the impetus for the "right to repair" movement? I have always thought he was a primary driver in getting these companies to allow people to repair their own devices for a long time.

Am I right to assume, he's always been the most vocal about this?
Not really. In fact, if you put aside the standalone features, this is arguably a worse piece of hardware than Valve's Index. If you do consider the standalone functionality, the internals are hardly an upgrade over the Quest 2.

Meta doesn't seem to be betting on a future where people overly care about specs or prices though. I think they want this to be the Macbook Pro of VR headsets, the sort of thing that Metaverse-enabled companies buy up without a second thought and distribute to their employees because it's "enterprise ready". It's definitely not the sort of strategy that will succeed in the B2C model, but they've already got a victory there. Now they need to scale the technology up for businesses, and that's the interesting part (for me).
I said it should be a hobby. And complaining about your hobby espresso machine taking up too much space in your kitchen is like complaining about your model railway taking up too much space in your basement. No one is forcing you to have a big thousand-dollar espresso machine, and writing a WSJ article about it just oozes some kind of pretentiousness about the way you drink your coffee.
This is pretty much exactly what I was going to say. I think it's a gimmick for now, but as soon as the pixel density gets high enough it becomes more interesting.

> Two and a half is being able to navigate without a mouse and keyboard, and preferably no peripherals, but I think I'm able to wait for that.

I can't imagine that. I think it'll end up being a normal desk, mouse, keyboard painted into the VR world by using the passthrough cameras.

Something else I've noticed when I put on my Quest 2 is the lighting. I don't like the way the lights in my office feel like they glare in my eyes. Putting on the Quest 2 and hitting a virtual environment gives the feel of indirect lighting and I find it much more comfortable. It's like being outside.

That comfort doesn't last very long, but if I could get away with it for 2h at a time, and have high DPI virtual screens, I think I'd at least try a virtual office.

They also need to make it so I can drink a cup of coffee with the headset on or the whole thing is DOA. Lol.
> extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences in order to strongly disadvantage its competitors.

But the one qualifying bit for the EEE strategy to work is to remove the open source option, replacing it with something that can only be provided by them.
And systemd is open source as far as I know, So the extinguish phase isn't possible in that sense.
Security mainly - a site I do not trust
I'm a VR enthusiast, but will never buy from Meta! (I had the Oculus Quest previously.)

I'm waiting for my next gen headset.

Apple might release next spring. Pico hardware for sale in Europe is interesting. Looking forward to seeing if they ship the the US. Several indie hardware plays out there (lynx-r.com, simulavr.com, etc)
I don’t work at Microsoft, but another large corporation, and have been told by my manager that right now it is difficult for a white male to get promoted and that we may need to do some strange maneuvers to make it happen if I’m interested in a promo. Was kind of taken aback by the bluntness.
While parent's comment was certainly to some degree tongue-in-cheek, they are likely agreeing with you. Investment in your parents AND likely a higher than average weight on "a good life" being grounded in employment, education, and certain values are contributing factors to the end results
When I do an interview, and someone can complete a simple coding exercise in 2 minutes, I feel very good about my ability to say they are better than someone who takes 20 mins on the same question. If you want to argue that it is impossible to judge merit, it is you who needs to provide proof.

And even if you were right, doing promotions based on coin flips would be better than on race.
Do you know Mr.Stop as well ? He 's almost old as Ali in Turkish scene. He has been reversing bits and bytes though.
This is optimistic - I certainly hope it works out this way. I think a recent problem is that all the "free" or nearly free money has completely disconnected many operations from actual market forces, so they are not incentivized to build something good and their attention can wander to fitness signaling type activities
> right, but that's the old, divitis way of doing it. using grid this way let's you set all the children to the content width and then selectively break out of that with just a class on the child element (without extra divs).

I think you may have misunderstood my comment. I’m saying you can use the grid technique described in the article and nest the technique to achieve similar results within sub-sections. Note that I used the classes defined in the article. My stated use case is exactly “usually just for the background”. My HTML only differs from the article’s example HTML by adding the content class to the full-width element, and a class which would hypothetically add the background to that element. I didn’t add any extra divs.
I work in Northern Europe. Someone at my company decided it would be great to introduce the so-called "Facebook for work". It's literally the worst of all worlds: you get the distraction you don't need while working, no fun, artificial corporate virtue-signaling and just plain department-flexing. After a few months
everybody stopped using it but I'm sure we're still paying for it.
fall into a black hole and find out :)
Anybody know (or can make an educated guess) about how the expression tracking is supposed to work? How can it read your facial expression from on your face? Seems like a very difficult angle to work from. Or are they leaving out the part where you have to use a separate camera to get that? Even then, some of the specific things they mention, such as eyebrow raises, are covered by the headset itself. I'm really skeptical about that feature, unless "tracking" is complete false advertising and expressions are triggered some other way.
I would. Espresso drinks were a "yuppie" drink before Starbucks (80's early 90's). But Starbucks expanded the market so that people who were drinking Folgers at home now drink espresso based drinks.
I had a big data loss event back in 2008ish when someone found out, I'm guessing, that they could upload a PHP file to an upload-anything form on my home server. I thought I was keeping it secure by disallowing ".php" files, but I think some MultiView option I had set in Apache allowed them to upload .php.somethingelse and still have it get executed, blowing away, sadly, all my Subversion repos. Switched everything I could salvage to Git after that and never looked back. Also I no longer trust Apache to directly serve user-uploaded files. :P

Long story short, someone apparently went to a non-zero amount of effort to hack my homebrew file-upload form.
The pipeline is clogged for everyone. Lack of diversity is an industry-wide issue which needs to be addressed throughout the industry and beyond, not a problem with recruiting at any single company.
> This results in some people (mainly white men) feeling like they are being left out when they really weren’t the best fit but in the past may have picked over someone else.

There would be merit to this line of thinking, if the diversity initiatives came in the form of anonymizing resumes and interviews (which is easier to do with remote interviews). But that's not the case. More often than not, diversity initiatives come in the form of quotas or penalties for hiring or promoting too many "non-diverse" people. And those penalties often kick in at levels of representation lower than "non-diverse" people's representation in the candidate pool. This is why I'm not irked by over-representation of Asians in tech. They're not advantaged relative to whites, if anything they're penalized for their race (at a past company asian males were categorized as "ND", Negative-Diversity even more undesirable than white males).

However, this is often not how diversity initiatives work. More often than not, they're not aimed at eliminating discrimination, they're aimed at mandating it: attaching bonuses to hires and promotions of particular races and genders, or achieving specific representation numbers (AKA quotas). This isn't eliminating discrimination, this is creating it.
I have Comcast Gigabit Pro which comes with a 6 Gbps symmetrical fiber connection and a separate 1 Gbps symmetrical ethernet connection, each connection having their own block of 5 IP addresses. I've been considering moving my colocated server back home and putting it on the 1 Gbps line, my only hesitation is that the IP addresses between the two connections are so similar. If I was only serving https traffic to the public that wouldn't be too much of a concern, since I could just stick Cloudflare in front of it. However, I'm also hosting game servers on there, and those don't seem as straightforward in masking my IP address. Should I be this paranoid about that? They would be completely separate networks, there's no route from the publicly accessible server into my home network.
> this reasoning also applies to "infinity"

"Infinity" applies to the reasoning of what a hole is, but not to what a black hole is. A black hole is not not something. It is something, yet a hole is not something. Unlike a hole, a black hole is defined by its inherent characteristics, mass, spin and electric charge. A hole can only be defined by characteristics of what it is not, the empty volume of missing substrate.
LOL, now I love my Italian Bialetti even more.
This kinda of crap makes me laugh. We have companies desperate to get people back in the office because they say working from home ruins morale or creativity, etc. and at the same time we got companies saying the future is that people should commute into the office to put on a fucking VR headset to have meetings in a virtual office. Jesus wept.
Not the OP, but for a small local network it is easy enough to sneakernet hosts files around. (On a USB drive if not a properly classic floppy.)

Also, somepcname.local mDNS works on most operating systems today (once you grant firewall permissions to it; for instance, on Windows setting your home network as a "Private" network for instance when it asks Public or Private).
> They mention an increase of from 3% to 5% of membership of senior black leaders. Do I think those senior black leaders earned it?

I'm still unclear as to why we're even bothering to ask the question. How many blonde leaders are there vs. brunettes? Are brunettes poorly represented in corporate leadership? Does anyone care? Why should they.
Yes, but if you are looking at the population of rust dev with a background in system coding, or telecom engineer with ciso certification, the stats don't look like the ones of the general population at all.

In my university, in the whole class, we had 0 non white, and a single woman.

Now, you may argue that we should fix that.

But that's another debate, the thing is, people are hiring from the pool we have right now.
“I spend $600/mo taking women out for dinner”: Do men always have to pay?
True, this is actually happening as we speak. There will be a bifurcation, once enough flywheel speed has picked up; ESG funds will see competitor funds that will outperform. No wasting money on greenwashing or other ESG bullshit. Totalitarianism has to fight a war with reality and facts. It is unsustainable (pardon the pun).
President Baugh – the self-proclaimed 'dictator' of a micronation in Nevada
Pretty damn cool - need to check this out!
Tiger parenting is one way of investing in your kid. I agree, there are multiple ways to invest in your kid.

>More likely is that filters for immigration are very high
Don't agree with this, there are lots of ways to immigrate and I don't think most of them have a sort of wealth/education filter. For example refugees.
This takes me back. My dad worked for IBM and had access to many broken thinkpads (mostly broken displays) so he would bring them home for me to tinker but in the end I installed debian on them, installed ISPconfig and rented out webspace from the laptops running under my bed.

Laptops are awesome for servers since they have built in UPS's and are not very power hungry

It was a fun experience and got me started on my road to becoming a MSP
The article is a lot more than just complaining about D&I policies, for example you'll notice that the manager spent several months unsuccessfully trying to get even one qualified diverse candidate to interview with Microsoft. What's up with that?
I don't think it is a good practice to capture it in lint tooling, instead of by the language itself.
As of 2022, the only protected status one is allowed to discriminate against without new acronyms or hashtags or any uproar is age. We tend to hire people we want to befriend, which means people similar to us, which leads to a lot of this discrimination. See: "culture fit".
OP says they sometimes down a 12-pack, so this comment is less than useful.

"But, but, but what if I drink only a thimble-full?"
Does anyone know if we are facing similar ecological collapse on land?