skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been at a particular company for 20 years. For most of those years our main focus was our core mission, but over the past few years D&I has risen to be our main focus. I've seen people hired who clearly are not qualified and often are not trainable to become qualified. An example is a woman who refused to take any hard assignments and usually made no progress on the easy stuff she was assigned. She was certainly able to do the work, but just didn't do it. Then she started taking standup zoom calls from the ski slopes in winter and hiking trails in the summer. Well, you would think this would be enough to at least get her onto some sort of remediation program, but nope, HR said we could do nothing to her. So she basically earns a six figure salary and does absolutely nothing, other than fulfill a D&I quota.
Most of the apps are owned by Match.com, and they've slowly migrated to the same mechanism, the only difference is the demographics they cater to.
In the U.S. millenials just overtook baby boomers to be the majority of the voting population 2 years ago, so we're still pretty early on those people (myself included) being able to dramatically influence politics. It'll take even longer for them to become elected officials themselves.
> Depends on the "some" being "harmed."

How does harming anyone help? No it does not depend on the some.

Life isn't a zero sum game. Pull people down and you don't distribute their value to others, you only destroy it.
When you try to install git it forces you to install Command Line Tools for XCode (whatever the f that is) which can take an unknown time to download, force you to accept a license and breaks, and force you to reinstall them at least once a year (or randomly the next time they break something)
The answer to your question is yes.

They are more likely to be convicted, and are given longer sentences when they are:
https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/demographic-d...

They are 7.5 times more likely to be wrongfully convicted:
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/report-black-people-7-5-ti...
Well, people at Okcupid. Back then. We don't know how well it generalizes.
If you live in Seattle and order omakase at a Sushi restaurant geoduck is virtually unavoidable.
I actually think pixel density is one of the easier battle to win. Getting a cheap, lightweight, strain-free device to users is the real requirement.

For now, I can't handle more than ~30 mins with any VR/MR/AR device, but if I can actually wear one for several hours and be productive using one - I will be convinced we've turned the corner on this tech.
The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. Meanwhile 5 years ago in China they're using cameras to monitor pupils in the classroom to see who is paying attention [0] and more recently intrusive desktop monitoring [1] also something used by some of the gig workers like Upwork [2]? The demand is there, people like their shipping updates with packages. It's pretty bleak tbh.

[0] https://www.engadget.com/general-motors-ultium-battery-more-...
[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-Big-Story/China-s-tech...
to-limits-by-surveillance-software
[2] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/upwork...
Sounds like a post on it's own! Do you have a blog somewhere?
I once ran some GNU/Linux distro on Android, and then Tomcat on it :)
Please don’t reduce Asian-Americans to the myth of the model minority. The truth is more nuanced. The income gap between poor and rich Asians in the US is the highest out of any ethnic group. One reason for this is that recent Asian immigration has selected for largely been wealthy and/or well educated populations. So what you call “Asian culture” will have a natural bias towards the preferences of people who value money and education.

Also, stereotyping “Asian culture” as a culture which values education implies (in a racist way) that “other cultures” (hint hint) don’t value education. I don’t think you were intending this, but it can be viewed as veiled white-supremacist rhetoric.
> And men care about both money and technical things much more than women

Stop this. These arguments are not only making massive assumptions but they are historically and factually wrong.

In the history of computing and computer science women formed a large chunk of computer science graduates and programmers. This decline started in 1984 when the culture and advertising shifted to market computers and such as being for boys. They were the pioneers of the computer science world and in an era where things were incredibly technical without the resources we take for granted.
Ah I understand your argument now and can agree we are on the same page. Can't say I know of any empirical/observed evidence either. I don't believe AdS/CFT can be used to make predictions of precise accuracy beyond serving as a toy model to reshape other physical observation.

To get off the tangent, I've backed up the comment chain and am thinking about your original comments on the harmfulness of articles like this. At first I shared OP's sentiment that it is generally harmless, but the more I think about it, the more I take your stance. Curious what your thoughts are on exposing more people to theoretical physics sans popsci buzzword articles?

For anyone else who's following this thread, I would recommend checking out "The Trouble with Physics" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108939.The_Trouble_with_...
Don’t some battery chemistries have much higher self-discharge rates as they get older? If so, it might be uneconomic/wasteful to try to use old batteries.
> So yes, absolutely temporary and cache files should be checksummed. If that data is corrupted, it will cause crashes of the software using them and downstream corruption after all.

...no? I don't care if a video in my browser's cache ends up with a few corrupt blocks when I play it again a year later. Video codecs are designed to be tolerant of that. You'll get a glitchy section in a few frames, and then hit the next keyframe and everything will clean up.

In fact, most encodings — of images, audio, even text — are designed to be self-synchronizing in the face of corruption.

I think you're thinking specifically of working-state files, which usually need to be perfect and guaranteed-trusted, because they're in normalized low-redundancy forms and are also used to derive other data from.

But when I say "caching", I'm talking about cached final-form assets intended for direct human consumption. These get corrupted all the time, from network errors during download, disk storage errors on NASes, etc; and people mostly just don't care. For video, they just watch past it. For a web page, they hard-refresh it and everything's fine the second time around.

If you think it's impossible to differentiate these two cases: well, that's because we don't explicitly ask developers to differentiate them. There could be separate ~/Library/ViewCache and ~/Library/StateCache directories.

And before you ask, a good example of a large "ViewCache" asset that's not browser-related: a video-editor render-preview video file (the low-quality / thumbnail-sized kind, used for scrubbing.)
Ancient 'black garlic' recipe found by farmer (2014)
But here you have a multi-national corporation, with offices globally and ability to hire from any culture on the planet - and despite waiting months, actively searching for a "diverse" candidate, they were unable to find a single candidate who was "diverse" enough.

What conclusions do you draw from this? That "people are racist"? That the pipeline is broken? This feels like ignoring the elephant in the room.
Orbital rings like circular skyhooks that are much easier to schedule pickup on, and have much friendlier structural stress characteristics, seem not to be written about as much as they ought to be.

If by orbital ring you mean a band girdling the planet and rotating well above orbital speed, magnetically coupled to and supporting stationary structures that reach ground level... I don't see any value in discussing those in this century.
~95% of the sentences spoken by the RoganAI are nearly indistinguishable from Rogan's real life inflections and podcast persona.

The JobsAI is trained on his presenter speaking voice, so ~95% of his inflections sound noticeably unnatural in a conversational format.

So, I guess it depends on what you're focusing on, the imperfections or the achievements.
> high enough for acceptable text is already possible

I don't understand this. I code and read in VR almost every day. With proper aliasing, it's extremely acceptable as is. Font characters per degree has to be increased, of course, but Quest 2 is about the same as a 720p virtual monitor.

Have you tried reading in VR?
I'm mostly interested in 4 details: cost, performance, energy usage, and open-source drivers.

I think it's likely that some RDNA3 cards will be on that Pareto surface.
They did this last year too.
Because Meta bought Oculus. It's not the news feed guys designing the next gen VR hardware.
Why do you feel the need to bring this up?
If I’m working somewhere and they make VR mandatory I will be handing in my notice immediately. I may even refuse to work a notice period if they insist on me working in VR throughout it. If it becomes the industry norm then I will find another industry to work in, even if that means a significant pay cut.

AR glasses that are identical to normal glasses but with some useful information overlayed, that I can live with. VR, absolutely not.
They've made moves that telegraph limiting this. There are now warnings every time you run a sideloaded app that doing so for reasons other than active development is against the terms of service.
From my observation of the devolution on the SD Discord and reddit, that "spam ring" might just have been his user base.
thank you for this insight.

it might not even be that hacky to be honest. in some ways modern log aggregation isn’t that different, just insulated by more steps and safe guards. less moos though.
Some departments are indeed not as affected, and if you are looking for a product owner, a project manager, or sales, numbers don't work against you.

But there are departments where they do, even outside of IT. Accounting are mostly white males, HR are mostly female, etc.

So if you have one policy that is general to the whole company, some departments will have a hard time no matter what.

Case in point, one of my clients has a hard time finding a good dev matching diversity policies, but they have no problem finding analysts. For some reasons, good analyst profiles already are pretty diverse and the team is rocking people from all over Europe and Africa, also achieving gender parity without even trying.

Yet it's the same hiring pipeline, and we are all working in the same office. They are not excluding people, in the office, 10% only are locals! But it doesn't work for some demographics, and the general dumb rule is killing their IT projects.
My journey is Windows -> Mac -> Linux. I hope to stick with Linux (or at least OSS operating systems) for the remainder of my career. My computer is mine, and it's never felt more like mine than it does now.

It's not without its bumps and warts, but I highly recommend it.

Also, gaming isn't perfect, but it's really quite good for the kinds of games I play (mostly indie games on Steam).
> Discrimination in selecting who to interview is absolutely a form of discrimination.

Exactly. That's what the parent comment is saying. But they are thinking about the entire funnel, not just the end of it. By the time a slate of candidates reaches a company's hiring process, there has already been an immense selection bias against minority candidates.

Two people growing up in different places (not different cities, but different neighborhoods within the same city) have lived in completely different worlds. Their schools are different; their health care is different; their safety is different; their opportunities are different; the people they know are different. And much of the time there's a stark racial difference in the makeup of those places. Historically this was very much intentional; but even if it were no longer intentional, the effects won't dissipate for a long time.

So when you get a slate of candidates that all happen to be white, it's not just a random coincidence. Imagine if a slate of candidates were all black. That would seem kind of odd, right?

Now obviously the best thing would be to fix all the other environmental factors that led to an all-white candidate slate. But that's not going to happen any time soon. So a good thing to do is apply some pressure on the funnel to elevate candidates that just barely miss out. In other words, candidates that are strong, but, say, don't know anyone that works at microsoft (no surprise there... two worlds) or perhaps don't think they're good enough.

The article points to a rising black employee population has some kind of evidence of injustice, but, if the company works harder to find qualified black candidates then obviously the percentage would rise. Unless we think that skin-color is a predictor of performance (ugh, I hope no one actually does) then improving a hiring process would result in an employee population that more closely matches the demographics of the population at large.
Err, maybe I'm mistaken, but this seems different than the above discussion.

From what I know, Apple takes 30% of paid app sales in the app store. In-app purchases, though, drop to a 15% take after the first year (or that's my read from the article).

Contrast this with AppLab, which takes 30% of paid app sales, but doesn't take a cut of in-app purchases.

I'll retract the "much" lower point since I assume this results in roughly the same final take. Games on non-mobile have a higher initial cost, which probably balances the lack of post-sale revenue.

Regardless, I don't think this makes the Oculus more locked down than an iPhone, since you can always bypass their store and sideload or run apps directly from your PC, which Apple isn't offering.
Ooo that looks promising! I will look into it, thank you for the suggestion.
>The discrimination faced by Black Americans is because of their skin color, not their socio-economic status.

They're a self-reinforcing loop. A lot of racism is affecting socio-economic status (redlining, no generational wealth) and the bad socio-economic status then fuels the continuation of the disadvantaged status alongside racism.
The apparent Microsoft policy is that every interview pool “must include at least one external African-American, Black, Hispanic, or Latina/o and one external female candidate”. Your counterexample is “every interview pool has to be entirely white.”

I was originally going to write that you’re playing the “I’m technically correct” trick here, but I don’t think your argument actually rises to the level of technical correctness. Setting aside the debate over whether the former policy is desirable, it is clearly not the same as the latter policy. If Microsoft had said “everyone interviewed cannot be a white male,” or even “most people interviewed cannot be white males,” then you could more credibly try to make the case you’re aiming for. But they simply didn’t.
It is easy to feel like we have a target painted on our backs with this diversity thing. It is a sentimeng generated by our reptilian brain. (It does not help that some hotheads at LinkedIn say that every black hole in the universe is blame of the white man.)

But this is a feeling that must be let go. Privilege allows people to reach excellence and excellence is scarce, so no, privileged people that do their homework won't suffer because we are trying to do the right thing, allowed by our current stage of civilization that generates so much surplus.

Not picking up the capable people and letting them reach their level of excellence is a big problem in our society, and everybody would be better off if this was fixed.
To satisfy my conscience I humbly make this post to save tomcam’s life. Stay with me! ;)

My findings include artifacts that are carved from stone and shell along with relics fired from clay with items that date back 10,000+ years per sources. Off topic and therefore not previously stated I only mentioned pre modern man artifacts given the discussion however I have located so much more. I live in the Eastern coastal mid Atlantic region of the United States of America which has a very long and documented history of human occupation, aka people losing things.

For those reading this that have wanted to find such an artifact I can assure that such things are everywhere however one just needs to invest the time to look and comprehend one's surroundings. Just as the article concludes "There’s more out there to be found, but they have to be looked for".
does TOR work ?
Apparently fulfilling the D&I quota is worth 6 figures to the company.
Probably TOS. My ISP provider technically bans running any type of server, but it hasn't been an issue for me.
The author does take a wild ride into the world where, via Hawking radiation, the interior is NOT causally separate, yet quantum-ly entangled.
Does make you wonder if heavy-handed affirmative action breeds imposter syndrome among its beneficiaries.
It also gives you a nice warning saying your Facebook account might get banned for using a pirate copy of Beat Saber.
I'm not sure if there is a well-trusted authority on this akin to MBA but it is certainly a leading issue in the seafood industry. More governments are codifying an acknowledgement of animal sentience in various ways [1] and there is a lot of active research into the various slaughter methods used for ethical and quality reasons [2]. You can find a lot of research into existing and novel methods for "stunning" fish (i.e., rendering them unconscious to then slaughter), even the use of things like EEG to measure brain activity of animals [3]. This is not my area of expertise, but I think that the overall conclusion is that we could be doing a much better job of minimizing the suffering of animals in farmed and wild fisheries. The good news is that people are realizing that and working on correcting it.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/08/farmed-fish-fe...

[2]: https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/fish-producers-benefi...

[3]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/are.14857
its a lot easier to buy domains than phone numbers sadly
This is already possible with Quest 2. Supported keyboards are tracked and show up through a "passthrough" window, where you can see the camera feed of them and your hands.
You're trying to argue axiomatically and I'm relating an empirical fact: Microsoft hires from elite engineering schools, and many of those hires wash out. It's not improbable that there are coding camp people who would perform well at Microsoft. I have seem people with similar backgrounds perform well in other elite engineering environments (cryptography engineering, kernel software security, to name two).

"Technically qualified for the job" isn't some ineffable abstraction. Most programming jobs at Microsoft are quite well defined, and qualifying people for them mostly means extracting solved problems from the work and presenting them uniformly to a pool of candidates. You don't need science to figure out how to do this, although if you want it, it was all worked out and written down in the 1950s.
Lots of trial and error for us web developers before Firebug and Chrome Dev Tools.

I’ve lost weeks of my life fighting bugs in IE 6.
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> Forcing rich people's kids to go to school with poor and average kids will ...

Cause rich families to blanket refuse to live anywhere near neighborhoods with poor kids and contribute massively to the segregation between well off and impoverished neighborhoods.

Just live in a place where every home in a 45 minute radius is over a million dollars to purchase.
honestly, if you need an account at all it's still in internet-of-shit territory and could be unilaterally degraded at any time.
I’m on comcast and self host. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I read somewhere there’s market failure too. Electricity price is largely proxy of gas price. While uk gov subsidises has they don’t electricity…
This doesn't solve the problem. Spacetime itself is a hole, so you're saying a black hole is a hole within a hole, and we can designate an infinite number of holes within a hole.
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Not the point I was making. Stimulus allowed people leverage to push for change. The decline in real wages this year has little to do with that stimulus and has been happening over the last 40 years.
> In the last version of my site, selected elements – images, code blocks, quotes – were made wider than the page content area using negative margins.

Yes, negative margins are often (not always!) a bad idea. Especially for something like a full-bleed layout. The other way around makes much more sense and does not need Grid. Make selected elements narrower than the main section. That has worked for a long time and still works today.
Iceland has the cheapest electricity in the world. They run heat under their roads so they don't need to be plowed. Aluminum is shipped to Iceland to be smelted just because the energy is so much cheaper.

Iceland's electricity usage per capita is 4x that of the United States, and more than 2x the next highest country (Norway). They're the largest producer per capita as well. The population is not large, mind you, but it's noteworthy.

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

The rate for businesses is 0.066per kWh vs 0.128 in the US.

All of which is obfuscated by taxes and subsidies of course.
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Iceland/electricity_price...

Technically it may be cheaper in some small petrol states but that feels misleading.

Mind you I'm just regurgitating a quick google's worth + tourism fun facts.
"Wild caught is probably better than farm raised death wise."

I would be curious to hear your reasoning or evidence for this. From what I know, the ability to control conditions and processes is much easier in the farm context.
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Depending on charging strategy, LFP batteries can do 4000 - 7000 cycles. 1000 is way too conservative, for any kind of EV battery.
> Modern Windows cannot account for all possible APIs, DLLs and hacks/workarounds that were used by every developer 20+ years ago, including non standard libraries and APIs,

> Microsoft can't be expected to ship every single outdated and insecure 20+ year old DLL and undocumented API with every copy of Windows,

This is not the point. The point is software using the _official API_ of that operating system. It's not about software which was using undocumented or 3rd party libraries. That's a strawman.

> And the excuses are not bullshit

They may not be bullshit, but they are literally valid for every operating system. I don't care what the argument is when my complain is that Windows is becoming worse in backwards compatibility than literally Wine itself.

> The 32 bit C++ executables I wrote in highschool for windows 95, still run right now on Windows 11 out of the box without any patches or issues. So backswords compatibility exists on windows live and well against your opinion that it doesn't. End of story.

And you started your argument about "black and white" vs "shades of gray"....

"My C++ executables run" is quite the low bar. I can also run my a.out executables from the 90s in Linux, and I'm assuming a similar level of compatibility with macOS . The Tcl files from my thesis in the 90s still work without a problem, too, even the GUI...

But I complained loudly when my Loki games stopped working on my Linux DE, and I complain loudly when my 2000s games stop working on Windows 8/10, and trying to justify this by saying "Security! Bloat! Tradeoffs" is as absurd on Windows as it is for a Linux desktop.