skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless it's 100% remote without any video conferencing, it would be a little hard not know race. The point is being forced to track it by self reporting they can't hide their racism. In this case they're asking about education status, marital status, whether you have kids and a zillion other (mostly protected) statuses. Protected ones you're not allowed to discriminate... now if you have a weird accent or bad fashion sense, likely allowed to discriminate.

Not measuring something doesn't make it go away.
The key is to remember that everything portrayed is a choice by the author or the director, cast & crew. Ask yourself, "why are they telling me this?" Make some hypotheses, then whittle them down (or add to them) as the story progresses. Try to determine the characters' motivations, the necessity of the setting, what virtues and vices the characters display, how they interact with objects and each other. Try to think if any of the characters, settings or objects in a story represent anything else or are allusions to other stories. For instance, Christ is an extremely common allusion, from Walter White in the finale of Breaking Bad to Bruce Wayne/Batman in the Dark Knight trilogy. And the One Ring to Rule Them All isn't just an ancient, magical object from a constructed myth, but has parallels that we should recognize in our world and recent history.

Many movies and books don't have a terribly deep meaning, and that's okay. I watched John Wick for the first time a week or so ago, and it was shallow but good fun.

I find that superb movies, books or shows leave me thinking about them long after the end credits or the final page (I stopped thinking about John Wick immediately when it was over). The best stories leave the interpretation up to you, the audience, and they also tend to give you more insight on repeat viewings or readings. Once the factual matter in the pages is known, it might be easier to see the symbolism (if it exists).
For US employment, collection of gender and race information is implied necessary by the Civil Rights Act (because if someone files a discrimination / wrongful termination suit, one of the first questions that will come up is "Well, what are the demographics of the organization in the first place" and if the organization doesn't know, that's an automatic bad sign.)

Some federal contracting also places requirements on a company's demographics.
Start with a monolith, that will take you VERY far.

When the organization gets big enough (AND ONLY THEN), add an additional domain oriented service. FULLY implement deployment and infra. Only once you do that can you think about adding another (using the pattern you just built out).

Micro-monoliths.

Organizations explode the number of services, half ass the infrastructure (the hard part of microservices), and then crumble under the organizational complexity.
That is a valid question if it's an online only service, but many things, for example banking applications can be online or in person.
Major use case is a unified Catalog for your entire environment and the ability to change tagging at scale through the Catalog without going into individual Terraform files to make tagging changes. This helps with consistency as engineers only need to remember the catalog key without needing to remember any particular tagging.
Inquiry: What do you suggest how a company would analyze if a hiring manager refuses to hire any applicants who are black?
Yeah doesn't make much sense right?

Some people think that affirmative action isn't racist.

But tell me what it is when you think like: "hey we have enough asians, exclude that person, let's find a black to get our quota"

Some people will defend it like a user said below:

"By engaging in deliberate anti-racism efforts to counteract subconscious racism."

But what is "anti-racism"? It's being racist in the opposite direction. You think Y group is being oppressed "subconciously" so you oppress X group as much as you think you need to, to "even" it out.

We should strive for equal opportunities, not equal outcomes.
What would an acceptable inclusion measure be?
How do you know the tech companies were overvalued at the old interest rates, and it wasn't just a due to interest rate changes?

It seems pretty obvious if interest rates are high, tech companies which make most of their profits far in the future were going to be worth less than value companies where most of their profits are in the short term.
I've had one job with "unlimited" PTO and I loved it, but like everything the devil is in the details. On the internet a lot of people have misconceptions and different ideas about how unlimited PTO is suppossed to work.

In our case, it worked exactly like PTO anywhere else. We still had to request long stretches of time off (say more than a couple of days), and our manager could still deny the request. In other words it wasn't "everybody does whatever they want and takes vacation all the time," which seems to be a common fear people have about it. As far as I know, most people used common sense, and most requests were granted.

It was really great for one offs, like taking my car in for service, handling family emergencies, unexpected problems around the house, etc.

Having said all that, I'd be skeptical about unlimited PTO at a very small company. Bigger companies will have procedures in place to make sure things are handled fairly, with HR keeping an eye on how PTO is actually being used, investigating if certain teams never take PTO, etc.
No disagreements on your points. But I think we're a small country with a few very pervasive news outlets —mostly controlled by right-leaning billionaires— and a few far-right commentators who get disproportionate focus through outrage. I don't think we're special.

It's the same trap that a lot of countries fall into.
I want that sort of information to be secret from both my government and my employer.

Like, why should they know?

I'm happy for them to have anonymized stats for decision making, but they shouldn't have it attached to a record with my name.
Yeah the main relationship that matters is the breaker to wire.

There is a fun semi related thing. Can you put 15 amp outlets on a 20 amp circuit? The answer is yes you can, but only if there is at least two receptacles, and a standard duplex outlet counts at two receptacles.
I'm not sure why this was voted down?

This is Personal Information and so the data processor must have a specific reason why they need it, and must take appropriate steps to secure it. They can't just capture it "In case we need it later" nor can they just store it haphazardly because it's not valuable to them, or refuse to update it because that's difficult.
That would be pronouns, not gender, right?
If they get inspected, accused in media, or sued, they can readily show that they actually employ some percentage of whatever minorities. I think there's no other practical reason.
I once worked at a place that went the opposite way -- "unlimited" PTO often translated to "nobody was taking time off and everyone was burning out", so there was a move to a "soft" (eg: you could take up to 2x your annual allotment without penalty and without requiring any extra approvals) limited PTO.

It worked, more people took time off and there was less burnout+turnover.
React is compatible to its first version :)

> The good news is that the tooling around the Web components is evolving

You mean web components are growing their own frameworks at the same pace :) With new APIs and breaking changes

In 12 years web components had:

- original lib, polymer. Breaking changes 1.0-> 2.0, then completely deprecated

- lit is 4 years old, already had breaking changes in each version update 1.0->2.0->3.0 (and "potential breaking changes" even in patch releases), and adds new APIs with every release

- stencil is 5 years, has already had breaking changes in 1.0->2.0, but is probably the most stable of them all

etc.

Looks on par with the rest of the industry :)

The sad thing is that web components as a standard don't allow is for actual iteration of ideas. While Solid, S, Marko et al are exploring granular reactivity, web components are stuck in 2010. And all the tools around them are doing what the rest of the tools have been doing for the DOM since time immemorial: invent new, better ways that are only hampered by the underlying platform.
There's journal articles going back 20 years that discuss indoor NO2, but from these comments you'd think that a cabal met last week to implement their new world order of a gas stove-less society.

And no one is even talking about outdoor gas grills or natural gas heaters, because those are ventilated. CPSC is asking, why not natural gas stoves? Why don't we require these to be safe? This seems completely logical to me.

There's even people who are asking if the feds are going to take their gas stoves by way of natural gas ban. Like, no one has busted down my grandparents' house to confiscate their lead paint walls in their basement. I feel like I'm going crazy.
> ...they also have an `update_changeset`, which I think is an anti-pattern.

I disagree that it's an anti-pattern. I'm already making a distinction between a "create" and an "update" changeset, as these may have different validation rules.

Of course, some situations may warrant separate changesets for operations on individual fields (updating an email address, updating a password, etc.), but in practise I rarely find this to be useful.

> Please don't do this. Just create multiple reusable functions for each check.

It's worth noting that these aren't mutually exclusive approaches; we regularly use both on my current project.
There's 2 applications on the same website. Globemallow is for a sustainable web development practice feedback.

Analytics and Ad Blocker is the ad blocking tool.

>I think most of the extra bandwidth and load times come simply for the large assets use

You are correct. Size does come from images, but page load times and CPU usage generally comes from the scripts and additional requests from analytics and advertisement scripts. When a page is just spinning waiting to load the content it significantly increases the energy usage of a website.
It depends on what you mean by a renaissance of small-scale manufacturing. I see CNC and 3D printers much more often now in prosumer and small-business shops. People are making professional quality casts, with some work. Yes, it's effort, but it's going to be effort regardless of if you outsource the work, or learn how to do it the right way yourself. Plastic injection machines can be a few grand on eBay now. A very reliable 3D printer is $800, a Shapeoko Pro 4 XXL is $2.5k. Very much in the range of a small business, or even an enthusiast.

I started off with a 3D printer for my shop and that was great for making slipcasting molds for ceramics, and then jigs for woodworking. I bought a CNC for the shop for flattening, carving, and inlaying, and the two have a nice synergy with traditional woodworking methods.

"Maker youtube" has been popping off for years. People love small shops and DIY.
In my experience when you get some competent pro on your site to do anything, it's minimum $1K.
Seconding this. Get Gephi, install as many plugins as possible, and dig into the plugin pages to find the underlying papers. Also true for Cytoscape, but that tool focuses a little more on connectivity to bio databases and extremely specific stuff like proteomics.
Also funny how fridges are required to have their own circuit, but newer fridges are increasingly vfd/inverter drive, and don’t have surge power draws anymore. They use a few hundred watts continuously and that’s it.

I’d be more quickly to find out my fridge died if the lights in the kitchen stopped working.

Not sure why fridges don’t just have a battery-powered alarm that goes off when the temperature gets too high for too long.
Apparently it's something people believed at one point in history; that the Caucuses region is where Noah's arc landed and is thus the region where white people originated. As a non-Christian, the term is absolutely ridiculous.
Well, the second comer is raising a bunch of VC funding too (iirc raised $25M so far and in talks to raised $250M more). VCs buy in because "this time, it's different" narrative. Or more likely because they know they can offload their shares to the next VC in the next round (who can then dump on retail).

It's a game of musical chairs with the ultimate goal of dumping on retail investors. If not that, at least dump it on other VCs.
They'll survive being addressed by their name. Much better than systematic sexism.
Thank you for your constant contributions.
I don't know OP but I would guess not.

In a lot of places (at least in the US), "guys" is not a gendered expression. My wife will often say "do you guys want to meet at 9?" to a group of 100% women, and nobody even thinks about it being a reference to gender.
I haven't thought about the origin of that word before, so just checked wiki and... Yeah, it's a terrible idea, I'll make sure not to use that. White is just fine for what people mean by it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race
AI is huge, but this one I think is about Reinforcement Learning. Udacity has a nice paced course that's possible to complete in 2-3 months without mental overload. It's focused on Reinforcement Learning problem definition, Dynamic Programming and hands on with foundational algorithms such as DQN, PPO, SAC and Monte-Carlo Tree Search.

Auto-encoders, Transformers and Recurrent models don't pop up much in RL except for advanced topics and cutting-edge research.
Fair points, but dances around the main thing rather than expressing it.

> he understands the very real crisis Cameron is facing and takes it as his role to push his friend into emotional danger.

I would disagree with this. I think Ferris didn't really know what to do or what he was doing. He was like the little drummer boy -- he only had one thing to offer (his joie de vivre), and tried to do so no matter how inadequate or inappropriate it might be.

In the end nothing Ferris actually did made a difference. It was simply the fact that he reached out with compassion and care that produced the circumstances that led to Cameron's emotional crisis, and empowered him get through it to a catharsis.
I hear people talk about this stuff as more CYA for companies than that they are actually taking meaningful antiracist action.
Huh I didn’t know that! So does it mean that websites internationalize even the salutations? Do they replace “Hi Joe” with “Good day Mr. Brown” in Germany?
At a base level, the cause of letting people go is volatility and unpredictability. Not just because of valuations popping or whatever. Good things or bad things happening is not, itself, the direct cause.

If you can say "18 months from now, the world will look like this", you can plan for this, good or bad.

Maybe you get to "we will run out of money" (or whatever) and have to let people go.

Maybe you get to "everything will be great" (or whatever) and you decide to hire despite things sucking now.

It is only partially relevant what the world looks like right this second. It depends what you can float, the risk of floating, etc.

But with things relatively volatile, you have to plan for unpredictably bad scenarios, or repeatedly lay people off if reality gets worse.
Even if you have some idea "the economy will get bad", that isn't enough when the error bars are so high.

In these situations it is usually better to overshoot than undershoot - overshooting is painful but "understandable" . Undershooting causing repeated layoffs is usually not.
> They _barely_ have control of _one_ half of _one_ branch of the Federal government. They can't pass legislation. They can't make binding rules for anyone. Their own power is literally being a giant pain in the ass.

They can, and quite possibly will, cause a default on the US debt. So we have that to look forward to.
How would you confirm that they aren't keeping track under the covers?
Thank you for the correction. I appreciate the info!
+1. I've benefited greatly from your content, e.g. your CNN lecture was incredibly accessible [0]. I still find transformers stubbornly elude my intuitions despite reading many descriptions. I would very much appreciate your video lecture on this topic.

[0] I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxfUGhug-iQ
Fun thing is that one of the authors of the MDPI piece doen't seem to realize that there's a problem if you add up a bunch of PAFs and get something over 100%.

How, exactly, does anything cause more asthma than actually exists without the stats being bogus?

https://twitter.com/bradytoday/status/1610639235505336322
Because those numbers are reported to the government. And if the government sees that your company of 1000 people located in Texas has 1 hispanic person and 999 white people (among which are only 2 women), the government is going to start asking some questions.

Tl;dr: it is less about the company being less racist on their own by knowing the race, it is more about the company having to report those numbers so that others could hold them accountable (in case there are any arising concerns about racism).
> The tech is very close to what's needed for 3D printing but it has a few added requirements like the need for a sturdier frame and accommodations for a fairly large and powerful motor.

This is a huge understatement. You also need large investments in consumable tooling plus metrology tools to do anything useful with metal. The entire operation is really loud, slow, dangerous and throws chips everywhere.

The whole point of the linked article is that CNC machining is a pretty awful fit for a hobbyist! It literally recommends finding alternatives with stuff that's easier to have in a home.
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Engaging in racism to fight racism is counterproductive.

And I consider almost all "anti-rqcism" to just be racism but against groups it's permitted to.

For example, asians and higher ed.
On the one hand, it's easy to be critical of herd behavior. On the other hand, when all (or most of) the other presumably smart people are heading in a different direction than you are, you should probably seriously consider the possibility that you're the one that may be wrong.
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I've only worked at places with fixed accrual based on years of service, but I would pose the following thought experiment:

6 weeks is 30 days off
8 weeks is 40 days off
Every Friday for a full year is 52 days, but in practice less since there are a few typically Friday holidays. Would a manager be ok with someone having a policy of taking every Friday (or Monday) off for a year? Would they be ok with taking off all but 8 Fridays? This would be acceptable (generally, barring regularly scheduled meetings) in most companies I've seen where people get 8 weeks of vacation due to seniority.
Thanks, I'm glad you found it useful.
> The whole point of a design system is not to have local overrides.

Are you unfamiliar with having-a-boss?
It seems you disagree with the author and all you got to say is that it's a stupid take. Maybe you want to give some evidence, as counterclaim to the author's " Layoffs are ... are not particularly evidence-based.". From my opinion, it seems it is you who are simplifying the current state of research, while the author seems a bit more knowledgeable. He at least has cited some reference for his point of view.
I also grew up in the Midwest and was just visiting home over Christmas. Groceries and other commodities seem to be similar prices, but everything else felt so cheap.
Yes there is. Why would you possibly need to know this? You think it's more important to gather personal data just to do some email templating versus respecting the privacy of your users?
Is it true that "Mrs. Doctor X" means "a wife of Doctor X" and not that the lady herself is a doctor?
They could just generate a random string, making it extremely unlikely that it will conflict with an existing name. And it won't be any less descriptive than most existing names in the C standard library.
Clearly you weren't using the right web rings.
Mainly, it lets you measure how racist/sexist/etc one's system is.

For instance, if you see that applicants that are otherwise equally qualified are getting rejected on recruiter screen disproportionally by race, you may have an issue with how your screening is done. And yes, this happens: https://eml.berkeley.edu//~crwalters/papers/randres.pdf

A reasonable goal is that race, gender, and sexual orientation should have no bearing at all on how likely it is that you get hired, promoted, or fired. So these inputs are typically blinded to hiring managers but available to HR in aggregate to let them perform these kinds of analyses.

I'll acknowledge this approach leads to some very odd interactions, like my school district asking what the sexual orientation of my five year old is. But it's not clear how else one can build a credible gauge for measuring and eliminating *isms from a system. (Open to hearing ideas!)
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how in the world would it make it less effective? that doesn't make any sense. If it's properly done, it's equivalent.
I graduated in May of 2008 and only managed my way into the bowels of a large bank due to the fact I had interned there over the summer and spring. This big bank was allowed under state law to pay us "premium pay", it was 50% of what we usually made after 40 hours, we were grinding 70 hours in 12 hour shift due to how badly the recon was after the crisis. By October of 2009, I had watched 4 or 5 colleagues with 25 year careers get carried off the floor due to the shock of losing their jobs. This stuck with me as I prepared for secondary school and decided to go with a master in applied technology, I was the only white kid in the program. Since then I've slowly accepted that I have a skill set that will keep me employed for years to come. Will it fill my pockets with the riches, not really, but it will keep me from getting the type of eviction notices I found on my dad's rental as a teen. Everything is relative - for those who do get laid off, I feel for you and want you to know that this too, shall pass.
The Indian version of Robinhood - Zerodha - reported a profit of nearly $250M on revenues of $650M last year. It never raised venture funding and never sold any crypto.

Bootstrapped businesses have the best execution.
A wood stove isn't a trivial thing to maintain or install. Sure we could require everyone to add one but that's a huge expense for a lot of people. After they have one, you need to manage your firewood which involves having enough for your needs delivered ahead of when you need it, you need to store it somewhere it will stay dry, you need to educate people on how to properly use the wood stove, etc. and that's not even considering the insurance implications and the guarantee that there will be a lot more housefires. Propane heat would be simpler but still costly to install.
Indeed, it's a bizarre over-politicization, and people don't seem to recognize how they're escalating rhetoric needlessly. Most of this seemingly because of a tweet by a member of the US Congress. Very strange.