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> I am 100% against affirmative action on the basis of race.

The problem with your statement is that affirmative actions is not based solely on race, so it appears that you are attempting to or have mistakenly fallen into perpetuating an offensive myth that the main beneficiaries of it are Black/Hispanic.

The group that has benefited the most from affirmative action are White/Non-Hispanic women.

White Women and Affirmative Action
https://www.racismreview.com/blog/2014/03/11/white-women-aff...

White women benefit most from affirmative action
https://www.vox.com/2016/5/25/11682950/fisher-supreme-court-...

> My wife and I came to this country with a few hundred dollars...

That's a great story, how you came up, after immigrating to America from India and were able to take advantage of the opportunity. However, very important points that you have glossed over is the history of slavery, redlining, Jim Crow (and other laws), voting suppression, etc... of Black Americans who are the descendants of slaves. They (and other ethnic groups) were being shut out of opportunities, and the courts were attempting to alleviate this in some way. The original purpose of affirmative action, was to help those that were being actively and consistently discriminated against.

As a more recent immigrant, you are benefiting from laws and polices, which are the result of historical issues, court battles, and actual battles in America. Many Americans fought, died, and were jailed to get laws changed.

The context of why affirmative action was created, should not be skipped over, as if it applies simply to one person's situation and benefit. That you don't need something, is great for your situation, but that doesn't mean that's true for other ethnic groups and their situations.

"Affirmative action laws are policies instituted by the government to help level the playing field for those historically disadvantaged due to factors such as race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. These laws typically pertain to equal opportunities in employment, education, and business."

What is Affirmative Action and Why Was it Created?
https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/what-is-affirmative-action...

> For my son, keeping everything else the same but simply changing his race from Asian to Black/Hispanic increases his chances...

That's gaming the system, for personal benefits, and contrary to the purposes for which affirmative action was created. That would be like a guy saying that if he writes down he's a different gender, he can now cheat his way into getting something he should not (by pretending to be female). If anything, you should arguably be against people falsifying documents or trying to present themselves as something they are not.
This is a conflict between the “customer is always right” mentality among US corporations and claims by a single FCC commissioner—not he entire board. And consumers have spoken by adopting TikTok in big way. Unless many other government officials decide to intervene, Apple/Google won’t do anything. The Biden Administration has been proactive in challenging China in many ways (eg the recent actions on chip companies and employees). But they have chosen to not touch TikTok, possibly bc they recognize they TikTok is far more popular than any politician, Republican or Democrat.
When I was in 11th grade, an Egyptian-American had a future scholarship rescinded because she was not African American.
Chrome Banishes Photo Format That Could Save Space on Your Phone

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/chrome-banishes-photo-fo...
> The unique thing about OOP is objects with mutating state that communicate with one another.

In what way does C++ have this but Rust doesn't?
Whats next? Not building houses out of cardboard?
No, it's a thinly veiled advertisement for a company that facilitates... cash-equivalent bulk gifting.
Everyone learns how to sideload apps.
This is exactly equivalent to saying that all existing C++ coders should be demoted or fired.

It is, among worse things, damned rude.
While it was intended as a joke about the workplace, you raise an interesting perspective. Indeed, establishing bonds with a homemaker is increasingly considered a risky activity, particularly for men, primary due to the courts establishing precedent for ongoing support payments even after services are no longer rendered. Perhaps increased rates of male virginity really is the result of increased scrutiny?

Certainly in the workplace we've seen increased rates of job vacancies, yet employers will do everything in their power to try and avoid hiring you. This is especially apparent in tech (at least until recently) where companies couldn't hire fast enough, but also put the Leetcode screws to you to ensure that they couldn't find anyone to hire. This does suggest that we're becoming increasingly risk averse or that the stakes are higher.
The headline is misleading. One of the five FCC commissioners said this, not “the FCC” as suggested by the headline, and in the same interview that commissioner said “as an FCC official, his own capacity to regulate TikTok is limited; CFIUS, the Commerce Department or the Federal Trade Commission may have greater legal authority over the company” and “he has not met with CFIUS member agencies or the White House to specifically raise the issue”. See https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/tech/fcc-commissioner-tiktok-....

It’s a guy thinking out loud. He’s an important guy, but on it’s own this changes nothing.
And it'll stay unsupported until those flags come on by default.
You don't know me, writing about high caste and whatnot. I remember having $30 in the bank, sleeping in my car in Detroit, and being awakened by gunshots near Wayne State Univ. The reason I'm grateful for what we have is that I'll never forget those days.

I forgive you since you wrote out of ignorance.
Everything he said resonates with me. Here's the magic sauce that nobody talks about though: Having one magic document that explains everything isn't good enough. Everyone "should" this, "should" that, isn't good enough.

For this stuff to work well, you need real leadership. Leadership should not build consensus, take polls, or let structure grow slowly and organically. You know what structures grow organically? Mold. Know what doesn't? Steel. Don't grow mold; build steel. Use the precise amount of material, at the right temperature and pressure, follow the right workflow, and inspect the result, then ship it with confidence. Don't hope it gets done; ensure it.

Leadership needs to force everyone to use the one magic doc, to follow the one magic process, and take training to be able to immediately and effectively work with them, without wandering around wondering how to do what's expected of them. Otherwise your teams/org will forever be slow, inconsistent, and buggy. Systems are a result of humans doing work. The better organized the work, the better organized the system.
As if either Google or Apple cares about privacy.
Does not work on Samsung Galaxy S10 (Chrome, Samsung Internet, Edge). It seems to work for half a second and then continuous red marks on the graph. Seems like some sort of blocking?

Edit: Nvm it is because of https: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33446511
So nice to see gfblip and cake together again at long last.
What a wonderfully fun and dangerous thing to find during the workday.
that looks really nice, very sad that Edge chooses to go another route here. They use chromium code... if Edge starts supporting AVIF I'll start using AVIF.
Counter point is that hundreds of millions of people use these products across the entire world, with thousands of corporations relying on them to work 24/7, yet the total number of global employees would barely fill half of the Chase Center.
I don't remember claiming otherwise. You just can't use it on web today, that's it.
A hiring freeze finally comes to Amazon Web Services as spending slows
The goal is just plain wrong. You don't optimize to shorten ur sleep, u optimize to improve ur sleep and rest pattern which might happen to shorten ur sleep.

> 7-7.5 hrs is actually good spot. Mostly 8 hrs is recommended.

That is correct. The goal is to find ur best. Not defining a number and going backwards to justify it.

Glorifying sleeplessness is extremely bad. The author might be in sleep debt himself. Also we need to consider the throughput as the performance varies. When I was tired I would not be able to code as efficient.
Bytedance lost Russia

If they lose the US too thats a significant part of the world, and US action will lead to many other countries replicating the US action
> There are numerous studies showing that diverse teams come up with better solutions.

There are also numerous studies that show diversity has either no effect or even negative effects on various measures of group performance - the academic literature on this issue is a total mixed bag. Here's how the OECD's [1] summary of the literature on diversity and firm performance:

> "Contrary to the often assumed, direct positive impact of diversity on business performance, research shows that at the firm level, the business case for diversity is not particularly strong. However, while the impact of diversity might be small, there is a strong economic argument against discrimination and non-inclusion based on the sizeable cost associated with it. Finally, the chapter notes ethical reasons for fostering a just and equitable labour market alongside the economic argument for diversity."

The literature also suggests the effects of diversity on group performance, whether positive, neutral or negative, are situation specific, depend on your measure of 'performance', and your definition of 'diversity'. Again, from the OECD:

> "A number of studies make a difference between ‘highly job-related diversity’, such as educational background, job position or function in the company, and diversity aspects that are ‘less job-related’, e.g. gender, ethnicity or age. Measurement of team performance includes multiple indicators, such as efficiency, creativity, innovation and productivity. Findings are somewhat mixed, but impacts of gender, ethnicity or age diversity are found to be either very small or insignificant. Some meta-analyses find no significant impact of gender composition, ethnicity or age on team performance (Horwitz and Horwitz, 2007[19]; Schneid et al., 2016[20]), while others find negative, but very small impacts (Bell et al., 2011[21]; Joshi and Roh, 2009[22])3. Most studies do, however, find a positive relationship between team performance and having teams with different professional backgrounds and other task-related characteristics (Bell et al., 2011[21]; Horwitz and Horwitz, 2007[23]; Joshi and Roh, 2009[22]). Overall, these findings from meta-analyses seem to suggest that team diversity in terms of gender, ethnicity or age do not matter much for team performance. However, there is some evidence that demonstrates the importance of situational settings by examining under what specific conditions diversity dynamics may unfold and how."

[1] https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/5f8c1531-en/index.html?i...
https://archive.ph/T7MXw
TikTok says staff in China can access UK and EU user data
How is this better than creating a reminder in a calendar app or something?
> You don't give "worlds best dad" mugs to your kids.

True, I gave them all "world's luckiest kids" mugs, it's far more appropriate.

It also matches their bedroom decor... https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2005-12-04
that is a dismal ratio. I would set cake to turn on the ack-filter in this case on the upload. Also try comparing cake besteffort with your fq_codel implementation. MOST likely, from your report, you have some higher priority (via diffserv) traffic than blip going, and cake is actually doing the "right thing" by prioritizing that over the test.
Also when people use a mobile app frequently, it increases their chances of interacting with other services in your ecosystem more often, e.g. making purchases, viewing ads, etc.
Banning TikTok reduces the need of taking out the phone frequently during the day for many people.
Facebo... I mean Meta looks like a good target :)
Chromium is an extremely large C++ code base and I don't think they would reject libjxl only for that reason. That said, as an author of the first significant reimplementation of JPEG XL format (J40), I think a Rust decoder would be a good addition to the format and has a long-term plan to make one [1].

[1] https://github.com/lifthrasiir/j40/issues/10
Nah, not on iPhones they don’t. Barrier to entry (and risk of breaking their phone) of jail breaking is too high for ~99% of iPhone users.

Android might be a different story. But not THAT different. People REALLY rely on app stores.
Ask HN: Is the cultural practice of the weekend even necessary?
These days companies and people are discovering that more working hours does not equal more productivity, and in fact fewer hours might even create more work, along with better worker satisfaction.

But apparently no one has stopped to analyse this paradoxical result. Because no system whatsoever creates more work the less it operates. So how do people break physics?

The hilariously obvious reason people are more productive with fewer hours is because of sleep. Every 24 hours we start afresh and hopefully rested. Every 24 hours we top up in caffeine, affection, calories, and get a few more chores out of the way. So it makes no logical sense to cram as many hours of work in a single day if you can leverage the restful effects of sleep and having a circadian cycle.

Taking this idea to its extreme, why do we even have weekends? Why do we cram all our creative efforts in 5 days and hope that we recover over two of them? This is not how our body works. I posit it's just a concept borne from modern employment structure and the Judeo-Christian idea of the Sabbath and Sunday, not an actual physiological need.

I know many of you with families or salaried employment have good reasons why you might want to have some time for yourself over those two days but, assuming you are working for yourself and are free from the strict rules imposed by an employer, my question is:

Would it not make more sense to spread your work over the full week, and have more free time for everything else every single day, rather than fit work into 5 days a week and then fit all your hobby and family time into the remaining two days?

Would it not make more sense to work 8-1 every day, have time for your hobbies, the shopping and quality time with loved ones, than 8-4 (with 1h lunch break) Monday to Friday? Would one not prefer having one hour for their favourite hobby every day rather than binging on it only on weekends?

Any search result for "work a little every day" or "work 7 days a week" is totally useless to explore this idea further.
I'm always interested in packet captures of observed misbehavior.
It cannot be eliminated soon enough.

Leap seconds, likewise. A pox on all petty time tyrants!
If I were a college application reviewer, I would filter for helicopter parents in an attempt to find kids genuinely seeking education as opposed to parents pushing their kids to unhappy places.
I would be weirded out by a pocketknife. What would i even do with it? I dont live in the woods.
I think what you describe is indeed a classist society and not a racist one. Maybe what you lack to see through it is the experience of a cultural milieu with different skin colors. I have studied, worked and am friend with a lot of people with North Africa origins, usually from wealthy families, that are now doctors, engineers, academics, … and clients mostly don’t care because we belong to the same class, what matters is how we dress, how we talk, and the countless other things that signal we are of the same class. Skin color is very a strong correlation with poverty, the latter being the true causality.
It's funny how you have to argue on HACKER news against government overreach and you get downvoted. It's actually not funny. It's sad. I remember a time the hacker community was very weary of the government. Today they seem to defend it no matter what.
Exactly, the subtext here is that it's a large adversarial nation state collecting the data, rather than Tik Tok being an exceptional privacy violator, which they are not. Most large tech firms and apps on app stores are just as egregious.
This is a valid argument, but which of the contenders are using Rust or similar security minded languages?

WebP appears to be written in C++, perhaps because underlying video codec is also written in C++…
apple's location services have cost me MUCH grief in developing newer versions of fq_codel for wifi, until we figured it out.
Tim was CEO when I personally noticed the keyboard issue on my own devices, and I admit I wasn't paying much attention before I started having problems. I really don't know if Tim made that call or not, I only know that he was around to blame when it affected me.
> all of this extra discipline you're imposing on yourself just goes away.

I think the extra discipline is just shifted to the PR in that case instead of the commits. What's lost is the ability to make code contributions of related changes together in a PR which can be more efficient than making many small PRs.
It's as the article says, a pittance. If you go above and beyond by some amount, you want to see that rewarded proportionally. Yeah, it's > $0 … but was it commensurate with the effort?
Chrome does not directly generate revenue, doesn't mean Google will simply axe their entire team. Similarly there will be other products just to mitigate competition to protect the primary profit generators.

And sometimes simply the 10% of operations requires the support of 90% of the operations to generate 90% of the revenues. Its a large team effort.
>The Supreme Court would be doing it to enforce laws against racism.

You missed GP's point

The Supreme court decides which cases it will hear.

It does not decide what cases should be filed in Federal courts that may or may not end up on their docket.

Whether or not GPs assertion is true (I don't know the facts of the case or the hearts/minds of those who brought it, so I make no judgement there) doesn't make their point moot, or your ignoring of their point less relevant.
World productivity increases 3-5%
So happy to see so many sqm and cake users here.
A company I know gave all their employees company branded beach towels, sunscreen, water bottles, and bucket hats for Christmas when it was making record profits. Being in the southern hemisphere, beach paraphernalia is seasonally appropriate, but I suspect they would've preferred just being given their share of the money that was spent on company branded products. Or, you know, a bonus because, well, record profits.

In maybe an unrelated note, a few of those employees later stole from the company.
Anyone who thinks countries and states don't have the right to control their borders has lost touch with reality.
https://wkoury.github.io/harvard-admissions/

There is a huge difference between the Admission rates for Asians Vs African Americans. In fact the admission rate for Asians is lower than Whites!

It does not matter that the current percentage is 27% when Harvard itself admitted that it would be 40% if not for AA. We should always consider admission rates for a particular student.

And finally I do not understand where this degree of faith in Harvard is coming from? This is the institution that systematically gave Asian significantly lower "personality scores" without even meeting them. Even while their own alumni rated Asians similar to their peers. Is this not an explicitly exclusionary policy?
Prop 15 would have made all business pay the same rate. If you think there should be a lower rate for minority owned or small businesses, that's fine, but a subsidy based on the age of your business is not good policy.
... which is totally in keeping with the war on drugs' track record. Efficacy was never quite their strong suit.
> All it shows me is large breasted women and “crystal polishers” (which I never knew was a thing)

It shows me an endless stream of cute kittens. It's amazing.

I'm also confused by the security risks listed, I just checked the iOS privacy report that shows which sensors and data apps used, and TikTok is not even on the list. I'm also struggling to understand things listed in the article such as it accessing texts on the device(?) - like... it can't do that, at least not on an iPhone. As far as "voiceprints" and "faceprints" do they mean it video/audio content can be uploaded to it? Like thousand other apps?

If anything there should be an argument that by default the apps should be better sandboxed and permissions to be an explicit opt-in, this current approach just seems like fearmongering.
Post war interventionism included energy utilities, which in many cases were rebuilt from the ground up, but also transport, rail in particular, telecommunication, extractive and heavy industries - and it happened in economies with a much smaller tertial services sector.

I don't know what the equivalent contemporaries would be, but in any case we would need to see public spending or nationalization on a scale incomprehensible to the current neo-liberal european business climate, not just some puny guarantees & price ceilings, which are not very sustainable anyway.
It's not that the idea the Chinese government _could_ be involved. The Chinese government _IS_ involved (as in it's an indubitable fact), this is also true for any other Chinese mainland corporation. Some even are part of the government itself (like Tencent).

If the involvement of a communist dictatorship that's an enemy to the USA having millions of data points on US citizens and it's allies is a problem or not, that's another discussion (IMO yes but I'm willing to hear others opinions on this).
so nice to see so many using cake.
My understanding is that when things progress naturally, the mother’s body and mind should be in a state that helps them cope with the pain, but it doesn’t reduce it or help you forget anything.

My wife remembers every instant of all of her births.
For sure. I relate. Like if I'm not a big money making guy, am I even attractive to women? Intimately tied to this question, is the judgment I make of others. Ye old projection ;)

Is work all you've been doing for many years?

Personal theory: I think a person needs several pillars in the foundation of their life. One will inevitably be in disrepair at any given time, but the others support you. For many it's.. family, friends, partner, a physical practice, and career.

When my career is frustrating me, I walk away from my computer and have dinner with a friend or call my old man and see how he is. When a girlfriend dumps me, I work 60h weeks :) Putting all of yourself in one pillar is devastating when it falters, which it eventually will.

Jobs are pretty important, even if big picture we all die and wish we worked less. Practically, it's central to the life and identity of a modern human. So you're not struggling with nothing, despite what spiritual teachers (pseudo, or otherwise) try to tell you.
Yeah right? If people don't want viruses, just don't download them!

My point is that ordinary people don't know that TikTok could be even remotely bad for them, and when they do know, they will think that it is not that dangerous.

And Apple/Google dialogues about data transfer and all that will be dismissed by the user the second its pop-ups.

The user I am describing above is "the crowds". That's why TikTok is so massively used even though their security problems.
I was fooled too.
This is the tech industry. Lots of people are paid enough that they would be paid more than $5 in the time it takes them to pick up the card.
https://archive.ph/jHvdd
A new incentive to steal cars then. Steal car, harvest battery cells worth $20k+, ditch the rest of the car. No silly VIN numbers, etc. Just anonymous 18650 cells (or whatever they use now).