skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The former may require you to leave out candidates you think are qualified, the latter does not, for a start, which strikes me as an extremely important distinction in this context.)?

Incorrect. If you mandate that 20% of candidates be Y, but only 10% of candidates in the applicant pool are Y and 90% are X then on average you need to exclude 50% of qualified non-X candidates. If I have a pool of 90 X and 10 Y candidates and I have a quota of 80,20 then even if I include all 10 Y candidates I can only include 40 of the 90 X candidates. Sure, if I said that 100% have to be Y then all of the X candidates would be excluded. But even lower quota values still result in the out-group being limited.

> “2 of the candidates you interview must meet these gender/racial requirements” is a mandate, but it’s not a percentage mandate. I know that’s a little pedantic, but I think it’s important pedantry, because you keep using percentages:

Since there's a finite number of candidates it's still ultimately a percentage. The percentage is variable based on the total number of candidates, but it's still a percentage in the end.

Quotas and caps are two sides of the same coin. Instituting a minimum representation of one group, is fundamentally the same thing as capping the representation of those who don't belong to said group.
Vague, sure, but does physics have anything better to offer when it comes to quantum gravity? Granted I'm biased as a (lay) fan of ER=EPR. And I don't entirely disagree with you; the NYT is probably not helping here and maybe shouldn't have waded in.
> Not if the input data isn't known at compile time it can't

look at the idris example of printf (https://gist.github.com/chrisdone/672efcd784528b7d0b7e17ad9c...) for how to do this, the idris book has some really good example of how you can handle what you would think is "not known at compile time" but can actually be parameterized
China’s chip industry set for deep pain from US export controls
First paragraph is true, but then it veers into silliness. I’ve worked at plenty of companies that do peer feedback and never signed anything. If they want to fire you, peer feedback leads to a PIP which is the actual documentation the legal dept needs to make sure you can’t sue.

Having been in calibrations - managers need justification for their recommendations, both positive and negative. Quotes from peer feedback are one of the pieces they use. If they’re a decent manager, nothing in peer feedback is surprising, they just pull some quotes to back up what they already know.
Number of comparisons needed to sort a shuffled array: qsort vs std::sort
I mean, they seem to have a whole sort of manifest on client-side rendering, so this very much seems like an intentional decision.

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2018/01/26/csd-initiative/
22 years ago Putin said that he would not rule out joining Nato "if and when Russia’s views are taken into account as those of an equal partner".

I'm sorry, but it really takes a very special kind of eh, person, to interpret this the way you did. Have you at all paid attention to what he has done since?
The thing is, there are not many companies or jobs where you can save $1mil+ in under 4 years, especially if you’re Dual Income or pre-kids. Especially at a 9-5 where I am in pajamas more often than not.

Hunker down, leverage to the opp to do boring tech at an interesting large scale and and earn a mountain.

Find your non-enterprise, pure meritocracy Ayn Rand bonanza engineering experience at a pre-Series C.

I can’t understand why engs expect FAANGs to operate like anything but an enterprise now, and then complain about that behavior!

We can save $1mil in under 4 years while wearing pajamas. The blind spots of the extreme relative privilege in this job and anchoring on articles like this as serious grievances blows my mind.
I think that if he had to do the LinkedIn searches himself, you can conclude that his recruiters weren’t all that great. I’d be annoyed at them in his shoes.
I still host some things from home, but Linode, Scaleway, etc. are so cheap for tiny machines it might make more sense to build some APIs that the webserver can call on a machine running from your house.
Less clever than that. jaywalk's comment got it. You could put a link in your away message/status/profile and see which people clicked it and/or were "stalking" you.
"high efficiency" turbines are not all that efficient. Burning gas releases 100% of the available energy as heat. Converting that gas to electricity is << 50% efficient. You also lose ~5% just transmitting the electricity to homes.

Also, electricity from gas is relatively expensive. Other sources like coal or hydro are cheaper, which lowers the average cost of electricity.
It’s not weird to think it’s the best and that the best is bad. What is weird is to be angry about it.
No, it's not, What the GP said is true. as I responded to someone else, you really should study Thomas Sowell because he articulates this stuff better than anyone else. I would specifically recommend Black Rednecks and White Liberals for a discussion about negative cultural elements that trace back to rural areas of Scotland, Ireland, and England, were transplanted to the American south, and eventually transplanted to African americans, who themselves eventually migrated from the south for more opportunity. He also talk about how leftists exacerbate the problem.

Wealth, Poverty, and Poltics reads like a textbook, but provides a wealth of information about causes of disparity that have nothing to do with racism. Similarly, conquest and cultures talks a lot about disparate impact throughout history.

One of the foundational tenets of CRT is that all racial disparity is caused by systemic racism, and, therefore, that all racial disparity must be addressed by systemic change until there are equal outcomes. This idea is fundamentally wrong on a billion levels, and also insanely harmful to society. It is one of the main reasons, if not the primary reason, why CRT is so wrong and so dangerous. When you diagnose the illness so completely wrong, and then diagnose the cause of the alleged illness so completely wrong, then, your prognosis is not only going to fail to improve anything, it's going to make things worse for everyone!
The sec has carefully avoided cases where "is crypto currency a security" might be ruled on. Going in on one where the ruling would be on NFTs would... Courageous no?
Honestly, I think this is a great idea. It would probably cost next to nothing but would work well as a marketing ploy.
> So instead of discussing ways of making D&I work

Parent comment didn't say anything like that. Please assume good faith in discussions. They said that D&I efforts are more likely to work if focused on other parts of the education/industry pipeline, which seems at least plausible.
> nd yet their sample was incredibly biased despite it being large.

I gotta ask, in case what way is the sample of a few millions of people who want to date 'incredibly' biased?

Slightly biased I might buy, but how on earth can you make the leap that people looking for dates via a matchmaking site is not at least slightly representable of people looking for dates?
Seems like the same problem as Facebook for work.. If you are an EU regulator weighing any right to privacy (or to reject any ToS) as someone with limited control, like a worker, then the contents of a ToS from Meta is irrelevant because any claims they make are not credible.

Microsoft might have had a vague chance with avatars instead of video in the EU on its own, after a good dance for the the safe haven problems.. And that's before getting to the problem of user acceptance, hopefully Clippy can talk us all into loving this.
> Last year we had a great public example of why eliminating attack surface should always be prioritized over legacy support.

Earlier there was make and imake. Now there is make, imake, cmake, ninja, meson etc.
My impression is that modern SW does everything what it can to increase the attack surface.
You're totally right! If anything the gsutil's -Z/z doesn't align with rsync's -Z/z, and gsutil's -J/j is a better match for what rsync's -Z/z does. I added -J/j well after -Z/z was there so it's something that we have to life with unfortunately.
> a methodology based on genetics can answer some questions correctly

Sure, but can this? Just because the underlying mechanisms have validity doesn't mean any specific practical application does.
Ah that's right. I remember when it was still not widely known you could catch some people, but I think people caught on eventually.
I'd say its more "spiritual". U don't have to subscribe to any particular religion, you just have to believe in some higher power.
Private prison exist in many countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison
Serious question: I've worked with incredibly diverse (compared to the national demographic) teams that consisted mostly of Indians and Asians from various countries throughout Asia. Under the Microsoft D&I definition this would not count as diverse. Why do they define diversity in such an arbitrary way?
Who cares? We do not lack for space. We have way more land than we need to feed everyone.
One of the key insights I think people are missing is that for most roles, not having a diverse slate of applicants in a country as diverse as America is a "process smell." The smell is that you're not casting a wide enough net to even know whether you're getting the best applicants.

Some easy examples: if you're hiring for most programming roles and you don't have any qualified women applying, your pipeline sucks.

If your company is in California, and you don't have any qualified Latinos applying for most of your jobs, your pipeline sucks.

Et cetera.

If you're not casting a wide enough net to find qualified Latinos on the west coast(!), I guarantee you're also missing qualified white men in whom you would be interested. Ultimately, this is why Microsoft cares; they have an interest in their overall process being the best it can be.
When the software support is actually existent, it will be a competitor.
A puncture is a hole, and vice versa. These are synonyms.
why do you think theyd leave the ad money on the table?
You could change jobs, or move to somewhere with more opportunities
I think it started with Weston and Wayland:

"Høgsberg had the inspiration for Wayland while driving through the town of Wayland in Massachusetts, which gave the display server its name. Weston, the Wayland compositor, is named after a neighbouring town in the same state"

http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Wayland-Beyond-X-14320...

(As someone who lived in one of those towns it's always amused me when it comes up.)
This is all part of the public-private alliance between big corporations and left-wing politicians. They can't implement Marxism outright because of State authority to override, so they are using companies to do it and killing small business competition in return. This is also why some corporations get larger and larger without any real antitrust enforcement.

This is happening at every F50 company. If you are thinking "not my company" right now, you're just not high enough in leadership.
Interesting that what the author found contrer-intuitive correspond in my case to my prior. It’s well known in France for the competitive exams that in domains with gender imbalance interviewers tend to help a bit the minority gender, I would guess it’s the same for tech interview.

As for the difference of observed performance some explanations can be easily found (even if it doesn’t mean they are true). Men are far likelier to be on the autistic spectrum than women and CS is may be the most suited domain for people on the spectrum
Written, documented company policy?
While "to link up" is an idiom in American English, "to link <someone> up" is not. The phrase is intransitive -- even if the referent were a person, one would usually say "to link up with <someone>". Moreover, the phrase implies a casual social encounter, which wouldn't be appropriate here; a more formal introduction would be implied by a phrase like "get me in touch".
Google to Accept Bitcoin, Crypto for Cloud Services in Coinbase Partnership
> You will find -- unsurprisingly -- that most of them are not contributing for free.

Is that a meaningful distinction? I don't think the point was that the people actually writing the code aren't paid, but rather it still holds when you consider that the people paying them choose to allocate those efforts to a dictatorial organization rather than addressing their goals in some other way.
It is free for everyone
I get this

I’m currently in a situation where my large tech company has clear criteria to be promoted and I am already measurably doing all of the things the next level does

Despite this, my manager says I won’t be promoted unless the other two people at the level above me “like” me

So despite meeting our company’s exact requirements for promotion that they do to make the process “fair”, I am being held at my level indefinitely until two people decide they like me as a person

Just ranting I guess. Not sure if anyone can relate / has advice here
Researchers find ‘significant rates’ of sinking ground in Houston suburbs
It's not so much that you need to be a rich snob, but it's an opportunity for people to show off that they're a rich snob. For some people, that's like catnip.
> What does that mean?

Worrying that kids may not be able to get into a decent school because they're not diverse enough seems like a a nice problem to have--parents of "diverse" children have much larger worries.

> Just about anyone can get into a school, or get a job.

Wouldn't that mean that based on the equality of outcomes, it doesn't matter what type of school OP's kids go to, and therefore no reason to worry.
So, here's an example of what is confusing me:

> 37% greater pixels-per-inch. And 1.3x larger color gamut

> Full-color mixed reality, with resolution 4X higher compared to Quest 2

How can the resolution be both 4x higher and have only 1.37x the pixels per inch? Those number seem out of sync.

> slimmed down the optical stack by over 40% compared to Quest 2

What does this mean for me? Is it literally slimmer? Are the screens closer, or are there fewer (but thicker) lenses between me and the screens? I have no idea.

> Real-time expression tracking

Is this...running all of the time? Is it an option that developers can use? Is this running on the main processor? On a co-processor?

> XR2+ processor that delivers 50% more power

I did miss this line!

This processor was announced today, in concert with the Quest. One can make informed guesses about how this differs from the existing XR2[1], but it strikes me as odd to announce a new model with additional capabilities that also is using a new SOC without being specific.

[1] https://www.qualcomm.com/products/application/xr-vr-ar/snapd...
Habits and expectations of regular users of partial driving automation systems
It sounds like you don't live in the USA. No passwords here.
I shut my mouth at work and go along with this stuff because I have no choice. I have a family to take care of. I've accepted this. But man, why do they always throw in the line about striving to make the workplace a "diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self"? Everyone knows that's a goddamn lie. I almost want to cry when I read that - it makes me so angry. I haven't been anything like myself in the workplace for over a decade now and I'm sure I'll never be again. I live a lie when I'm here and so do many, many others.
Google Cloud and Coinbase Launch New Strategic Partnership for Web3 Innovation
There used to be a hack for getting integrated windows using Remote Desktop, but I can't remember the name of it anymore and Google isn't finding much :( Hopefully someone remembers (and it's still maintained).

Edit: Found it: https://github.com/rdesktop/seamlessrdp. Seems like there are probably more modern solutions now though.
The community decided to work on a fork of it and extend it further: https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl
> 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

Microsoft - Satya Nadella

Google - Sundar Pichai

Twitter - Parag Agrawal

None of these men is white or even born in the USA, and somehow they managed to arrive at positions of extreme power and influence through this system of "capital and clout".
I used to know a little German, but I'll admit I had to look up "ab sein" to get that. At least my dictionary claims it's colloquial...
There are lots of quantum gravity theories. Take your pick. The problem isn’t so much that we don’t know how to reconcile QM with GR, but that there are many ways to do it and we don’t know which is physical.
800000 incarcerated people being paid piss-all wages, taking those potentially well-paying jobs from 800000 free people. Foot, meet bullet.
A financial analysis is too abstract to reach the core of the issue. Materially, Britain has few natural resources, little remaining production capacity, particularly in heavy industry, and does not have a strong export sector for immaterial goods, such as software and music. Ultimately, this is a weak economic base that will inevitably lead to problems, both domestic and in international trade, regardless of financial manoeuvring.
TBF server is what discord calls it. And a discord server can contain a multitude of channels with fairly extensive individual customisation.

So it goes quite a bit further than “a chat channel”.
Why your next API should be GraphQL instead of REST
I'd guess you have to first convert markdown to tex with --natbib flag, then compile the tex (assuming the input is input.md and you want input.tex at the output)

`pandoc -f markdown -t latex -o input.tex --natbib input.md`

It is perhaps not unexpected that the capabilities of such a simple thing as markdown are not too overwhelming. Pandoc does not extend markdown as a markup language, it can only convert markdown to pretty much whatever you want. If you have rather precise requirements such as natbib for citations, it may be better to start with latex right away.

I usually use pandoc to produce simple short documents. Occasionally I use it to do the peer review for journals, when from a single markdown source, pandoc builds me a plain text file with latex commands substituted with unicode symbols, and also a pdf.

This all can be simplified with pandocomatic (a thing that automates calls to pandoc) and entr (a thing that invokes a command upon file update).

In the simplest form, `ls input.md | entr pandoc -o output.pdf input.md` will call pandoc each time the file input.md is updated.
Congratulations on typing

ΔpΔx=ℏ,

Whenever I see that in a physics video on YouTube, one more such outrage and it's back to a Marilyn Monroe movie. Same for a book on quantum mechanics.

If they have an application of Parseval's theorem, then be clear about it and trot it out. But usually the

Δp and Δx

are not defined clearly or defined at all. I just can't take such sloppiness seriously.
Make that 99%
Similar (in goal).

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/DLang?m=0
the slowdown is with 4k movies - all codec (audio/video) match so no transcoding, plex runs in a vm with 4 typically idle cpu's allocated, and disks are cached with ssd's on a synology.

still the slowest of the players I watch. you can use infuse, and often times it is much faster than the plex client against the same server.
The New York Philharmonic Orchestra introduced blind auditions due to racism concerns - in the 1970ies. New York Times launched a campaign in 2020 to put an end to blind auditions as the orchestra is not diverse enough.
The C# change is described in detail in the linked GitHub issue - one of C# devs left a comment explaining it.

TL;DR is that both "for" and "foreach" scoping fixes would be breaking changes, but "foreach" was easier to justify because it was already a C#-specific construct syntactically, unlike "for" which uses the same exact syntax as C, Java etc, and they were very sensitive to backwards compatibility at the time (esp. since the tooling didn't have the ability to target various language versions within the same project easily). At the same time, "foreach" represented the vast majority of breakage when they looked at existing code, perhaps because the scoping in classic "for" is more obvious due to the fact that variable mutation is explicit there.
"they're not what is needed to reach the senior software engineer level"

I don't really follow your train of thought. It might help if you could list one or two additional things, beyond what appears to be in the book, which someone should have in their toolbox in order to become a senior developer.
> The same is true of a black hole.

Yes, as I wrote in the second paragraph:

>> An object can take a hyperbolic orbit arbitrarily close to a black hole without falling in.

It occurs to me that in your various comments here you are thinking of the point mass (or divergence of the Kretschmann scalar or whatever) as the black hole. Conventionally, and for good practical reasons, practically everyone working with astrophysical and theoretical black holes define the horizon as the black hole.

It's frequently tempting to think of the point-mass in Schwarzschild as the generator of the event horizon. After all, it's usually described as being a surface at r = 2GM/c^2, with "M" doing the heavy lifting, if you'll pardon the expression. However, Schwarzschild is an eternal black hole, rather than one that forms by gravitational collapse. For the case where there is some matter and no black hole -> some matter + a black hole, it is the early configuration of the "some matter" that generates the event horizon.

If one, following Lemaître-Tolman <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lema%C3%AEtre%E2%80%93Tolman_m...>, takes a spherical shell of radiation with a total momentum-energy comparable to a galaxy all moving radially inwards, and starts the spherical shell at billions of light-years from the shell's centre, then anything already at the centre (even a small interplanetary civilization) is already inside the event horizon before the civilization's home planet formed. Barring faster-than-light travel, nothing within (or produced by) the "victim" solar system will be able to cross outside a surface near the trailling edge of the inrushing radiation: at early times all possible low-speed trajectories from the victim solar system ultimately recurve back to a (set of) point(s) within it and at late times all possible high-speed trajectories recurve inwards.

Near the latest time in the collapse, everyone outside the victim solar system can conclude the victims are inside a black hole, even though for hours to days (and much longer, if we make the total mass of the shell extremely large) the victims inside will still be going about their business wholly unaware (because "c") of their fate. Horizon = yes. Singularity = no ("not yet", perhaps).

Finally,

> 90% of the matter orbiting a black hole will never fall into it.

is probably wrong, especially if one takes "never" literally. The dynamical spacetime in the near horizon region is on its own probably enough for orbital decay of anything in close orbit (a few tens of R_{crit} ~ R_{Schwarz.}) and there are plenty of forcing functions on bodies in elliptical orbits at greater remove, particularly in galaxy cenrtres and globular clusters.
In the second video, the modulated voice didn't sound very masculine, which makes me wonder how accurate the results of this experiment would be. The video in the FastCompany article did sound more masculine, though, so maybe it's fine.

If you want a voice modulator to improve your odds in an interview, then have it filter out uptalk.
Renault: Mobilize plans ultra-rapid charging network in Europe
this is both awful and hilarious