skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your theory is that, for example, turning people into property based on race was not racist? If so, I don't think there's much point in a discussion here.

Given that the enslaved had been so subjugated by others of the very same race, how could the institution itself possibly be called essentially racist?
>Org B likely has some issues

Or in the exact time slice you got the data there weren't any brown applicants.
I think we're in agreement here that you should create as many different changesets as needed, according to the operations you wish to support.
I don't mean to be rude, but I suspect by "MLK's values" you mean the sentence "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." as interpreted to mean support for racial neutrality and opposition to the use of racial categories in programmatic decision making.

It's fine for that to be the thing you believe in, but that is not a reasonable interpretation of "MLK's values". MLK scholars, his contemporaries he worked with, and his successors within his organizations would nearly categorically reject your characterization of that being his values. Like this is an entire area of academic study: what MLK said, thought, and wanted done.

Again, it's fine to conclude that MLK has it wrong and the left is wrong about race and social justice warriors etc. etc. etc. I don't think you should be made to care about what MLK thought or to study him. I am not interested in telling you you are right or wrong about any policy issue. It's just incredibly flip to engage so superficially with a guy who left such a voluminous archive of writing and thought and use him as a prop in the argument. I think if you are going to assert yourself as understanding what his values were, you owe it to him to spend a lot more time and effort trying to understand what they were.

This is sort of the equivalent of thinking you understand Nietzsche to be anti-religious because you half-remember the quote "God is dead" and although you've never read him you feel confident you know what it means.
Do you have an example? Most languages I've seen that do this seem to be deriving gendered word variants from the pronoun, at least as far as I can tell with my very limited experience.

Spanish has a lot of word variants based on feminine/masculine/plural subjects, but it's not really based on gender (otherwise inanimate objects wouldn't have those variants); as far as I can tell with my limited Spanish experience they're based on word agreement in the sentence with the pronouns or at most with masculine/feminine presentation.

Is there ever a scenario where, "el gata" would be correct in Spanish? "Gato" agrees with the "el" pronoun; it's not based on the gender identity of the noun independently of the pronoun, is it? Are there other languages that work differently?

This also seems like a problem that doesn't really require knowledge of gender identity as much as "do you want us to use masculine/feminine variants of words when referring to you?" -- something that seems easy enough to guess based on the pronoun or (when loading up a language translation that needs more advanced logic) to just outright ask the user.

I kind of hate the software trend towards "we need to derive everything we're doing from first principles"; I feel like a lot of these problems could be solved by saying, "when we encounter an edge case we'll ask what to do, rather than doing data collection up-front that will be irrelevant for the majority of users."
I don't think it's that much of an understatement looking at the table top CNC machine that I got off Aliexpress and upgraded so that it could mill aluminum. Same stepper motors, same Arduino type board, moderately fancier bearings. The main things I had to do were just beef up the frame with some plate and replace the dinky spindle that came with it. I'm not making precision parts with it, just fun hobby things and artsy stuff.
I’m missing FileNotFound (though NAME_NOT_FOUND comes close) [0].

The squid one actually seems legitimate to me. ;)

[0] https://thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_
What's more confusing for immigrants from ex-USSR (where the Caucasus mountains were located) the word "Caucasian" there is often associated (in a racist way) with "black" instead "white" because of their darker complexion (darker hair)
Do you think you could steelman this take instead?
Related story: https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/earth/mongrel.html
That's an interesting take. In my case, I'm proud of my past and have no regrets. I'm also incredibly excited for the future. But I'm displeased with the present and have to constantly remind myself of the "means to an end".

Currently stuck in a field that I don't enjoy, but I'm another year away from completing my master's in the field I would rather be in. But, I gotta pay the bills
Yes, it runs well on my Asus eeePC 701, even though the resolution is below the official minimum requirement. Even the wifi works.
You can in hindsight. What you said is meant to be about predicting market movements.
UniFi Dream Machine has been the best router I have ever owned by a mile. It just works and saves a lot of headaches.

If you truly don’t care, I would just get whatever router your ISP gives you.
I'd consider this a blessing, tbh. Just the fact that there's an attorney on call that I can ask questions of, and I can talk to my friends who also talked to the consultant instead of hunting down an attorney for myself -- or more likely not and just going it alone and reading the documentation myself (I know guys who do this).

There's a lot of benefit here for those who need guidance.
So then you get trousers. One made for a male body and one for a female body...
Is "retarded" back?
> Funny you said that since a microservice API is always dynamically typed and its usage cannot be checked by compiler.

Not true at all, I have a build system in place that when changes are made to Typescript, the JSON Schema on the endpoints is updated, and client libraries are updated.

Types are validated at both compile time and runtime.

This is just one of many solutions to the problem, there are a lot of ways to get type safety for service endpoints, at both runtime and compile time.
MLK, whose initials you couldn't bother to spell correctly, wrote a letter from Birmingham jail about people like you.
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Especially egregious when the HN posters could take a second to look up financials on Yahoo Finance.

Revenues: Tesla $75B. Mercedes $144B.

Op Income: Tesla $12B. Mercedes $18B.

Assets: Tesla $62B. Mercedes $260B.

But according to this guy, "it could happen tomorrow".
> Most of the time in the US race means skin color.

No, it doesn’t. In fact, most of the time in the US, “skin color” is code for race/ethnicity. Light-skinned Black people, White non-Hispanics, mostly-White Hispanics, Native Americans, and Asians can have very similar or even identical literal skin colors; but the Black person is still Black, the Whites are still White (except maybe the Hispanic ones), and the rest are neither White nor Black.
A hundred and fifty years ago, yes.

Fifty years ago, could be either.

Nowadays, no.
... so "asexual"?
To me Fight club is a boy meets girl story.

The whole Fight Club and later Project Mayhem id a complex digression he invents to avoid facing the fact that he wants to get close to Marla.
> Is it useful, though? Suppose someone enters "nonbinary". What is your Russian i18n team going to do?

No clue. But at least you have the data to use whenever you figure out what to do with it, and I imagine somebody tackled that question already, since this is not something that showed up yesterday.

In some languages like English you can go with "they" or such, in others there aren't good options that would be widely recognized. But that's just how i18n goes. Languages don't neatly align with the desires of computer programmers.
> The counterargument is to ask the plaintiff to explain why she thinks her gender was used as a factor in setting pay

The evidence the plaintiff brings can be as simple as "I polled ten people with my job title in the company." If the company hasn't tracked this data at all and can't produce it in its defense, then in a civil case the plaintiff would have the preponderance of evidence on their side and the resulting resolution to make them whole could be all the back-pay they are owed between what they made and what their peers made.

So even outside of the need to file EEOC-1, companies are heavily incentivized to track this data (as any competent employment lawyer would indicate); you don't want to be scrambling to satisfy evidentiary burden in a lawsuit.
> I now feel that Django puts you down a path for failure by naming the DB layer "models" and not giving users a decent place to put cross-model domain logic.

I think a lot of 'MVC-inspired' frameworks fail there, not just django. Rails... 'app/helpers' maybe? Laravel 'models' is it, and 'services' or a variation is something I see a lot of folks adding, but it's not an out of the box convention. I can't remember anything specific/explicit in the asp.net world either.
If they require the right setting, it's probably because they're not a miracle drug.
I've had at least half a dozen US visas (J-1, TN, H-1B, plus renewals, then EAD and now permanent residency). I would have appreciated this benefit if I'd been laid off.
This is plainly false. Here is the form: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf

Neither the words 'son' nor 'daughter' appear in it at all. The words 'dependent' and 'child' are present.

edit: even going back to 1950 we get "other dependent relative" https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/f1040--1950.pdf

going back to 1930 we get "person (other than husband or wife) under eighteen years old" https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/f1040--1930.pdf
> I am looking closely at this recession as I am trying to navigate it financially and professionally and I came to conclusion that it is to a large extent fiction

The recession was essentially caused by the "OMG inflation!!" moves by the US Federal Reserve and companies just raising prices "because we can" while increasing massive profits.

That it will result in millions of workers getting laid off & companies exiting the market doesn't even matter to those captains of industry & economy.
Yep, I rechecked it and seems Chrome/Fx/Safari all support at least 32k. I replied in another comment I'm considering a checkbox to allow even longer URLs, though, I don't know who would want to paste them for others to read. :D
These are not they told us though.

They promised for the highest bandwidth bands, and gave us the lowest tier.
I worked as a project manager for a telco construction company years ago and learning how to set up road constructions signs and warnings and whatnot was almost like learning a programming language. There are so many rules dictating how and where to put signs depending on speed limit, number of lanes, intersection type, etc etc. Then you'd send your plans to the DoT and they'd either approve or reject it with very little information on what you did wrong. It really was the most difficult part of the job.
The beginning of Covid was somewhat of a unique time. It made sense to accept wage cuts because the entire world economy was a big question mark at the time, and the likelihood of you finding another job at that point wasn't great.

My own partner accepted getting cut down to only two workdays a week at 40% of her pay, for over six months, before she finally found another job. She would have been better off furloughed like most of the rest of the company (they were in the events industry, the company made almost $0 revenue in 2020) because she would have been eligible for the extra unemployment.

But I think a 10% across the board wage cut is risky when you're not in the midst of a big recession/depression. You'll have your best employees that could have probably left and gotten a 10-20% increase elsewhere already, have now lost 10% of their wages at your company and now can get a 20%-30% bump if they leave.

People won't be loyal and stay just because you're hurting the company evenly. Speaking from experience, at a previous company we had frozen raises and removed 401k match and worse healthcare and we saw steady and significant attrition just from that. Cut salary by 10% would probably have similar results.
The only counterpoint that I can think of is that sex is public information.

If the form's request for sex is salient IRL, and the form-filer's sex will be apparent anyway, I don't think refusing or having an expectation of privacy about one's sex is reasonable.

This is not the case for most things, but I do think it goes beyond dating.
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This works only under the assumption that markets are rational.
The attorney may have even paid the company. Getting 1:1 contact with hundreds of recently highly-paid clients that need your services is likely worth not only doing free but paying the company laying off for the privilege. The 30 minutes is enough for the commercial, not the actual services.
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Search through images using arbitrary text queries
Going over lane lines does not happen inadvertently with any frequency to most people who are paying attention. If this is happening often enough and you're zoned out enough that this is something that might cause you to over-correct I question if you ought to be driving at all.
Genders are quite literally an imperialist western concept that I refuse to humor.
Masculine, Feminine, Male cut, Female cut, etc. Notably you'd ask this when the user is searching for a specific product, not during signup.
It sometimes helps to use the mobile versions of websites instead. There are also dedicated email clients and tools like youtube-dl for downloading videos.
>How is saving costs not a justifiable reason?

Most likely because you could justify any firing to be "cost savings" and thus defeat the whole purpose of job stability.

Think about a tech company.. they could increase their staff by 25% for a year, using that team to advance products, meanwhile the new employees think they have a stable career on their hands.. but then the tech company is just like "nope, you are all fired". And they benefit into perpetuity for what the employees did while the employees are getting nothing more from that company and don't have a job.

Yes I'm oversimplifying, but that is part of what these laws are trying to avoid. It's unfair to the employees to have these mass hirings and mass firings with mass information asymmetry. In theory it would create more of a culture of "we hired you for the long term".
> While I wish we could satisfy everyone, we ultimately have to follow the most logical branches on the decision tree. And as we all know, that naturally leads to one crowning answer. Indeed, this is the answer to the great mysteries of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The answer? Anthropomorphic animals.

There is a kernel of truth here. Whenever humans are used in board games, it inevitably leads to charges of misrepresentation, cultural appropriation, historical white washing, downplaying colonization, etc. The obvious solution is to not use humans. So, use animals, aliens, fantasy creatures, robots, etc. instead. Or just avoid using agents altogether. In Castles of Mad King Ludwig you are building a castle by adding rooms. No thinking creatures at all.
According to this, there can be economic justifications for layoffs in France. But it looks like there is a mandatory severance of 12 months.

https://www.safeguardglobal.com/resources/blog/terminating-a...
I realize my comment is way too terse to make sense to anyone other than myself, this should be a blog post!
wow. how do you police this? Take away everyone's phones as they enter? If it's like airplanes and they say "turn off all devices" but some people still keep it on...
Go for

0. Not known
1. Male
2. Female
9. N/A

Why? It's an international standard: ISO 5218.

And it suits everyone.
It's obviously for statistical purposes.
Hi, I am Hirak. I am a co-founder of Loti.

Loti uses state of the art facial recognition algorithm built with proprietary models. It takes into consideration a dozen facial characteristics in more than 1 angles to find matches from a collection of more than 50 million data sets. We keep adding millions of new data every month to make sure we don't miss out any privacy breach of your photo.
Talked to a friend there, they don't seem to happy about it. Apparently, you need GM+ level approval for a vacation of 4 weeks. They regularly saved vacation days for a couple of years then take a guilt-free, earned 6-7 week European vacation with the family over the summer break.

FWIW, I see this as a net negative (as an IC), it creates unnecessary stress.
It's in part due to the diversity of people in the US, which has historically had 30% of the population who are immigrants or the children of immigrants. Given everyone is at least a little racist at some point, the US encounters issues more often than the more homogeneous demographic countries.
There are other downsides. For example, actually finding a two-pole or AFCI breaker or, worse, a combination AFCI/GFCI breaker is not so easy.
The US has a fairly recent and abhorrent collection of very undeniable racist policies including outright slavery, Jim Crow laws, and redlining. There are ongoing repercussions from just these issues, ignoring any other institutional racist laws/policies that may or may not still exist.
Well, it's interesting that this is such a ubiquitous thing in the US, and so uncommon elsewhere. It's not an uncommon view in sociology that this can be self-perpetuating, though I could go both ways on this myself.

This preoccupation with race as a demographic discriminant is pretty uncommon in Europe.
The answer is multifaceted:

1) Because that's how people do it. Sometimes we all collectively settle on a standard that isn't the best, but that's just how it's done.

2) It allows for more easily expanding to multiple pronouns, e.g. "he/they" or "she/they", which indicate that the person is ok with "she/her/hers" or "they/them/theirs".

3) It makes it easier to state neopronouns (e.g. xe), by standardizing the form -- he/him/his is the same format as sie/hir/hirs or xe/xem/xems.

4) (My opinion) It feels more natural to say "he him" than just "he". "What are your pronouns?" "He." I dunno, it's a short enough utterance that it could be easily to mishear?
Let's say there's 15 people with visas, they're probably going to have very similar conditions. The company pays a lawyer for two days of work, one full-time work day to look carefully into what options people with visa have, and another day to spend 30 minutes with each person individually to explain the situation and answer any question they might have.

If each individual goes to a lawyer and they want the same treatment, it's not going to cost them $500, it will cost them significantly more.
Which is parent posts point. A lot of unicorns are “we marginally improve user experience via technology with a low barrier to entry”.

This was the .com era all over; people believed that the first company to own “pet food.com” would somehow corner the market on pet food exclusively.
Height is an inherent advantage to the game of basketball. It is also not a class of people protected by law.

Skin color is not an advantage when programming. It is also a characteristic by which it is illegal to hire a programmer.
The implication of your reasoning means that pronouns shouldn't be used and in a lot of cases names shouldn't be used because there are other ways to address the user.
Yes and that's a fallacy.

If females don't want to go into programming then don't make them.

There are really good female programmers, but males tend to be more frequent.

We all have different traits that make us good at different things, that's the beautiful thing about humans.
It's not. I used in place of "very close". It's a stylistic thing, though maybe misplaced here.
Duh! The cellular maps also way overstate service.
A board that you can buy will perform better than one that is unavailable.
This entire piece and author lost me within the first paragraph.

“and soon Google” links to a complete unsupported fluff piece from November, drawing a loose connection to an activist investors letter.
Eh it's just arbitrary convention we landed on. You're right that it's redundant (as opposed to just "he" or "she", for example).

You will sometimes see people write something like "he/they", but that just means that either are acceptable.
it depends in which pockets you put the money
Microsoft Transitions U.S. FTEs to “Discretionary Time Off”
Salaried Microsoft employees in the U.S. will be transitioned to Discretionary Time Off (DTO) as of January 16, 2023. Vacation was previously accrued throughout the year each pay period.

Vacation balance will no longer be tracked and all vacation must now be approved by a manager.

In the email, HR also notes that many companies including LinkedIn and Salesforce have already adopted this approach to vacation.
MIT's PDP-10 OS, ITS, was unrelated to TOPS-10 and in fact predated it (it was the first OS on the PDP-6). AFAIK, SAIL's PDP-10 OS, WAITS, was also written from scratch, as it started on the '6 as well. I DOUBT DEC every provided a PDP-6 OS anyway as it was a research machine manufactured in small volume mainly designed for LISP.

ITS's name, Incompatible Timeshare System, came from a prior MIT OS, CTSS ("Compatible Time Sharing System"). I never learned what it might have been compatible with as it was long gone by the time I showed up at MIT.

WAITS supposedly got its name as a joke on ITS, but you'd have to ask Les Earnest for the real story.
So you know how to refer to them to other people or in conversation. The order notes preference. So someone might use they/him, which means they prefer you use ‘they’ but if you use ‘him’ it’s okay.
where are you getting the rev figure?
If your point is that the US didn't invent racism, I agree. Again, read Kendi, who traces its roots back pretty well. But that doesn't mean the US wasn't hugely racist both during its colonial period and long after. And again, if that's something that you can't see, I'm not sure what the point of further discussion is.
Is there a way to view linkedin profiles without logging in?
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Interesting. Last time I rented a car, I had a choice of multiple SUV brands, and I ended up picking the Ford one because it wasn't too big, had Carplay, and had lots of physical buttons. It was a pleasurable experience.

However, we've owned several Fords in the past 30 years (Sierra, Mondeo, and Fiesta) and they all have had a few reliability issues, mostly electric. I'm not sure I would buy another Ford today. I hope you have better luck. But I must say that in terms of driving comfort and driver experience, they've all been great.