skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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!)

Maybe institutions can afford to leave sexual orientation out of it until you’re talking about a body of people that is firmly within the age of consent threshold or has at least hit puberty. A lawyer might disagree but for him the remedy is to bend him over and remove the stick from his ass.
The best system I've seen is at a previous company where we had unlimited PTO, but also a minimum required number of PTO days you had to take. This prevented bad managers from never approving PTO, but also meant that you didn't have to worry about the details for taking time off.
Gathering this by employers is part of US federal law. It is also passed to your insurer, and used to do... insurance things invisibly.

Gathering this by companies is so they can better profile you and serve you tailored content (as defined by them.) E.g. If you respond "Man", they might want to send you fewer ads for tampons and more ads for razors or whatever. Note, I'm not saying this is a good thing, but it's the reasoning.
Son and Daughter refer to a sex binary, so non-binary non-physical stuff doesn't come in to play here.
-- $500 is a lot of money --
My favorite hard core nerd insult used to be "Your idea of a hot date is looking up dirty words in the unabridged dictionary," but now I'm going to use "Your idea of a hot date is looking up 69 in the Handbook of Integer Sequences."
I think it basically means they can’t answer visa related questions so anything they can’t answer gets punted to this consult.

It’s a consideration that they’ll have lots of questions that would have been “I don’t know, go find an attorney.” So now it’s “we paid this attorney to answer you up to 30 minutes.”

Visa holders are extra hosed during layoffs, but there’s not really any way to avoid this as you can’t favor visa holders to not be laid off.
For now. "He" used to be OK in English as a gender-neutral prononun also.
The civil war never ended. The same factions just moved to politics.

It also doesn’t help when political class is protected by foreign governments (USA & Iran) so change is unlikely also dangerous.

Our problem is that we’re too diverse and fixated on religion. I worry about America if they continue fixating on identity politics with race and genders
If you read Kent Beck's book Test-Driven-Development By Example you will find that a major theme is this idea of developer fear or reticence.

From the Amazon book description:

Quite simply, test-driven development is meant to eliminate fear in application development. While some fear is healthy (often viewed as a conscience that tells programmers to "be careful!"), the author believes that byproducts of fear include tentative, grumpy, and uncommunicative programmers who are unable to absorb constructive criticism.
It reminds me of all the "We care about your privacy" followed by a list of how we violate it. Somebody must think this sort of doublespeak works. Maybe there is a subset of people that is reassured by it?
Why should we trust your HR person who is allowing this happen?
We need to track it in the US now because we _used_ to track it. If you spend 400 years tracking ethnicity to use for systematized oppression, you have to continue to record it for at least the next few generations just to measure your progress away from that system.
I feel like this is a bit of a mask-off moment that reveals the narcissism behind the movement.

And yet people get lambasted on twitter for suggesting that there is an undercurrent of narcissism when people obsess over pronouns.
> I have someone on my team who took 12 weeks PTO last year, yet still created outsized value for the company.

Hypothetically, what if this individual was taking 12 weeks PTO and were underperforming? Would your business encourage them to take less leave next year to perform better? How much leave would be 'too much' for them to get back on track?

The thing is all of that requires a lot of trust in both directions, as you pretty much said. If I am a candidate for your company, how do I know that trust is there?

Recently I interviewed for a company which had unlimited PTO. They marketted this to me as some fantastic perk, and then when I got the contract they had a clause which said that they ask people to only take 'reasonable' amounts of time off. I asked them to define what is 'reasonable' and they could not. At that point, all of my red flags were waving and I walked away.
What changed? "Climate change isn't happening" ceased to be a sustainable political position in most of the world; even in the US it's moved from "climate change isn't a thing" to "humans can't cause climate change" to "it's real but we can't stop it". Same thing that happened to tobacco in the 1990s; the fossil fuel industry stopped being able to bullshit their way out of admitting the problem's existence.
You apparently have never read or listened to more than the "I have a dream" speech. King was very much about anti-racism, which is best termed "anti-racism". It's not sufficient to not add racism to the world, you should seek to counter it. And no, that's not the same thing as being racist in another direction. If you can't tell the difference, maybe you should go study what MLK actually said.
Reminds me of Knytt.

Is it more like Knytt than Celeste ? I didn't Celeste.
>Kendi

Maybe try suggesting some serious historical scholarship instead of ideologues.
Docker Support in Codesandbox
Deel Acquires Capbase
A whole house GFCI would ruin all the food in my refrigerator several times a year.
Email clients are still a thing.
> The second type of tech company is something like WeWork

Perhaps you can edit to find a better example? There is no more technology in WeWork than there is in a corner sandwich shop.
Well, yeah, the entire point of Tailwind is to not use CSS like it was supposed to be used.

Some people like this better. It reminds me of people that used to adjust the format of every single text area on Word instead of using styles. And on some contexts, that's even objectively better.

But most of the time it's just a bunch of developers arguing against generalization and encapsulation. I don't understand it either.

Anyway, just to add a bit:

> The only real limitations with CSS imho was just lack of variable support for easily passing in variables to set color schemes and/or dimensions etc.

Nowadays CSS has variables support that you can use for that.
And hopefully it won't get anywhere near dot bomb levels for tech.

I was very lucky to find a new (lower paying) position during that era and the company I joined subsequently barely got through some of the aftermath. But I knew a lot of people from technology companies who basically got out of the industry and, for at least some of them, their careers/finances never really recovered.
Or just ask people their weights if that’s what you really need to know.
You can't predict, and coming up with an explanation during the fact is very problematic. But it's certainly possible to explain things after the fact.
The answer is there are no good reasons, but one cycle goes like this:

1. HR gets asked by their employees for statistics on how many non-binary/PoC/women/<insert your label here> people in the organization are represented in management/executive/engineering/<insert your probably under-represented role here>.

2. The org at first responds "We don't know because we don't collect this data".

3. The question-askers respond "How convenient, that's because you know they're under-represented".

4. Company responds with typical "meritocracy" answer, then eventually launches long, drawn-out process because hey, "we're a data driven organization!"

5. Years later, after the original question-asker is long gone they share the data, ideally after a few cycles that show <current under-represented individuals> have grown from small percentage of total to slightly larger small percentage. Company loudly boasts on all social media platforms about wokeness and snowflake status.

6. Times change and society moves on, leading to questions of "why does the company care if I'm <whatever, it's now a non-event, progress!>"

7. Employees respond with lack of giving a sh!t or manufacture false outrage at the violation of their personal privacy.

8. the cycle continues, while data deteriorates, leading to some pretty hilarious options in drop-downs.
"Racism" can mean interpersonal ("I don't like black people") or it can mean systemic ("society disadvantages black people"), and lots of people in social studies focus on the latter. Because there's not really any systemic disadvantage to being white, that focus on the latter effectively defines racism against white people as non-existent (there's not systemic racism against white people, so there's not "racism" against white people). Given that, "racism against white people" is definitionally not "racism", hence "reverse racism".

Of course there are multiple steps in there which can be criticized, but within the set of terms they've defined, it makes the language less ambiguous. It's like how astronomy often defines "metals" as "anything bigger than helium". The terms have a useful meaning in the proper context.
Promotions would be harder - probably impossible - to anonymize, but at least you're working with a much, much smaller set of potential plaintiffs as compared to everyone who applied to the company. Anonymizing interviews is more feasible than ever, and it provides a very resilient defense claims of hiring discrimination. A straightforward way eliminate bias in orchestra auditions non-biased is to put a veil between the performer and evaluator. It's interesting to see proposals to do the same in tech getting downvoted.
> then if you know $CLOUD and bash why would you need to use Terraform to work with that cloud?

The utility of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) is not “you don’t have to understand the target cloud platform”, which is why cloud providers often have their own IAC solutions (e.g., AWS CloudFormation, and the additional abstractions–Serverless Application Model, Cloud Development Kit–built on top of CloudFormation); Terraform adds multiple cloud support on top, which is useful for people with workloads in different clouds or when working with a vendor whose in-house solution is inferior, but that’s not the whole point.

The utility of IAC is that you don’t have to write custom code based on the current and desired state for each state transition change. You write a description of the target state, and the engine handles determining the current state, what transition code is needed, and executing the transition code.
Are you willing to entertain the idea that other people have different priorities than you?
There being more male construction workers doesn't make it a sexist system.

Are you sure? There being more male programmers is widely used as evidence that it's a sexist system.
> 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?

Obviously I can't know one way or the other, but I laid out my personal belief in the original post. Essentially, many "tech" companies are just digital versions or existing business and products. In such cases, there isn't as much value to capture compared to unlocking massive amounts of human potential like a company like Google. The market, however, was valuing these two types of tech companies the same. Peloton is a good example. Peloton is a great product and can really make a dent in the home-gym market. But the home-gym market is already relatively mature, so Peloton really shouldn't have been commanding such insane multiples on any metric (sales, revenue, cash flow, etc.)
To your point, we don't usually ask for similar information like blood type in online forms. In the past, single/married was much more frequently asked. Are we at the point where gender is heading the same direction? For signing up for a library card or a Netflix account, no. But it depends on the context.
I can tell you what your options are being on a visa for free. You dont need a 30 min consultation with an immigration attorney. Better benefit is instead of severance, keep employees on visa on payroll through that severance period.
If your company takes a pile of CVs and randomly picks a bunch of people to hire, then yes, you are absolutely correct, there is something very very wrong with company B if a truly random process results in an unequal distribution of hires.

But hiring isn't random. Maybe all the "brown" candidates lacked necessary qualifications. Or needed visas which they couldn't get. Or a million other reasons other than "org B is racist".

My point is: you need further context. To look at that one stat as given above and conclude org B is racist is....unwise.
That’s the most plausible reason I’ve heard so far tbh. I don’t know much about Europe but I’ve always been curious about the dismal salaries over there.
For simpler jobs like installing an EVSE you can do the grunt work of dragging cable and hire a pro to wire it to the panel and pull permits.
Let us know how you get on and any feedback you have!
> Racism is a societal system where one race is systemically (and often systematically) elevated over others.

This is a definition of racism, and the one currently in vogue, but just want to point out that it's not the only one. Racism can also denote individually held prejudices, or isolated discrimination based on race.

> Anti-racism seeks to end that system.

This is indeed the stated goal, but (at least to me) seems to be self-defeatist. For instance, when reading through Ibram X Kendi's work, a number of ideas that seem flat-out wrong popped out:

* Racism against a group in power can't exist (because the redefined version of racism requires group power), as if racial power exists in a monolith.

* The only cure for past discrimination is present discrimination. (!)

* Thedesire for race neutrality is racist (not just its flawed applications)

* The idea that biology influences behavior is racist (not just the standard racist claims that some groups are inferior biologically)

I realize that these terms can mean a lot of things to a lot of people, but the above ideas of "anti-racism" definitely lead to more stifling of discussion and outright acceptance of discrimination than I've otherwise experienced.
Carta always talks about how it imagines itself as a sports team. When the team is doing badly, don't they usually fire the head coach? I guess they aren't willing to take the analogy that far, they just like the bit about expecting everyone to be a superstar.
Ignoring the legacy of racism is counter-productive.
I know at least one MVNO that's leveraging 5G oversubscription to lower customer non-interactive usage.

Guess who's vertical, untethered enough to do that...?
This is bean-counter logic, due to insufficient data.

How do you quantify the value of a neighborhood that is intolerant of theft vs one that is tolerant?
Flash Photography Kills Tuna Fish at Aquarium
Not the US. Just the far left of the spectrum that bought into Robin DiAngelo and Ibram Kendi's brand of racism. There is a large majority of the US that would like for nothing better than to stop talking about it but the left is really loud.
Allowing what to happen? I don't really understand your question.
I suggest that Martin Luther King, Jr is more than one phrase in one speech.
PixiJS is a bit lower level, it has some primitive shapes like line/box but we draw most things ourselves.
Passwords are the only "warrant-proof" encryption method we have. A government can force you to provide either "something you have" (e.g. yubikey) or "something you are" (biometrics). For those in repressive regimes that's extremely important.
To be fair, the deterioration of search isn't wholly Google's fault. The web has become less searchable, because people try to game Google's metrics, which leads to Google trying to get clever to provide decent search results, which leads to deterioration of core functionality. I don't really see a good solution short of taking all the "SEO" specialists and their corresponding blogspam and throwing them into a volcano.
If the company cannot afford the post, then you're made redundant. So yes you can quite easily get rid of people to save costs.
> So yes, they may have "ended" it at home, but they basically just outsourced their slavery to colonies.

This isn't true, if the American revolution hadn't happened then those slaves would have been freed peacefully already by 1833:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833

Or maybe that would have triggered an American revolution again because Americans love their slaves, I mean it happened that way as is...
The only example here where I imagine a legitimate use case is the (Canada only) one, where some idiotic beaucracy is in place to handle folks who need to update gender on government identification (like passports)
> Compel, no. Heavily incentivize, yes.

> "Your honor, my client was paid less than half what her male peers were paid."

> "Does the defense have a counter-argument?"

No. It should be more along the lines of "Prove it".
To come forth with such a claim carries with it the implication that one actually has /evidence/ for it, however (in)substantial. The response is NOT to automatically deflect to the defense in order to prove innocence.

> "Well, uh, your honor, we, uh, don't actually know the gender of our employees, so we don't, uh, have that data at our fingertips. We probably don't, we think, but we don't have the numbers to know one way or the other, and..."

Nothing wrong with that. Evidence can be procured on demand by court order. And even if it were discovered that this one individual female client were paid less than her male counterparts, you'd have to prove that it was because she was female. That means gathering evidence on what her female peers were paid, as well. This particular client could have been an anomaly (e.g. less hours worked, less responsibility, not exactly a peer to her counterparts, the lower pay was only temporary and/or due to some previous agreement, etc.) leading the courts to find nothing systemically wrong with this employer. Don't be so quick to judge, without evidence or context.
hmm I didn't play for very long or even notice my stats. I just checked it out long enough to get what it was and then concluded: game, waste of time. Not to say all games or your games is not worthy, just my own issues. I can never play games. I feel like I need to get back to coding and be productive.
I could be wrong but carta should have much better margins than the two you mentioned so it should be closer to traditional 7-10x saas multiplier. Sometimes there are tender offers for rsus but usually you have to wait for trigger event, I don’t think RSUs are worse than say NSOs
It may have been part of test, but I had free wifi on a Delta flight in December from Chicago to Miami. Probably OK for light http. Tried ssh and couldn't keep a connection up long enough to be useful.
What you've described is what most non-binary, trans, and many queer folks believe. (And many allies as well.)

The idea that there are "only two" genders is, imo, a bit of a 20th century lens, and I expect we'll move to disentangle gender from what anatomy do you have.

I agree that asking for gender is fraught. I am non-binary, and I constantly have to either lie or just choose "Not sharing". The best systems just take a string and leave it at that.
Or put another way, the native speakers have learned to stop following the formal rules and fall into slang, regional dialects, etc.

The non-native speakers only have experience with the more formal approaches. Over time you can see them pick up the local idioms.
What about "We have the money to pay you but we don't want to anymore"?

No idea about this case. But often it seems they're cutting cost because they think they can, not because they have to.
> Languages that compile to JavaScript

So that graphic excludes JavaScript itself.

But to your point, I get the impression every project is adopting TS in some form. It's now pretty rare for me to find an NPM library that doesn't have typings, and anecdotally I'd say at least half are provided by the project. And I've seen a lot of "migrated to TS" in project changelogs.
Netflix gets live streaming rights to SAG Awards in 2024
Mandatory HN lore https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
They know there is only grid lock because they are anti-anything democrat originated. This is more political theater to apease their constituents, especially the MAGA crowd. Nothing will come of it, just wasted tax dollars like with Benghazi. There will also be 2 years of committees and "investigation" of Biden that turns up nothing as well, and taxpayers will be out a few hundred million for no reason.
For me my job is just a way to exchange my time for money. Since time is the most important thing for me, my strategy is always:

1. work the minimum possible, doing my best every single time (e.g., "Requirements are not well specified; instead of just coming up with something quick and dirty that I will have to redo later on, I get everyone that is relevant to talk about the requirements and come up with something decent. I do not waste time"). The incentive here is: spend less time doing useless stuff. I used to work 8h/day and I used to waste around half of that time chit chatting and procrastinating. Nowadays I work 3h-4h/day fully focused (my contract specifies 40h/week, but I take that just as a formality)

2. earn the maximum possible. So, if I make X at company A, but company B is offering me 1.5X for doing practically the same, well, good bye company A

3. when it comes to finding satisfaction in my career, my lemma is "do it yourself". Do I wanna know about K8s? I learn by myself in my free time (which is a lot of free time if I do point 1. as I have described). Or if I have enough voice within my company, then I'll propose a solid recommendation to adopt K8s

Motivation should come from yourself (and from your loved ones, if any). Never rely on third-party entities like governments, companies, organizations to find motivation and happiness... you'll get hurt and dissapointed.
Most RSUs are double trigger and don't trigger taxes till an actual liquidity event
Those are Hitachi machines, not CAT.
Employee protection. Just because the management could not balance the sheet is not a good enough reason employees should suffer the consequences. At least in theory.

But if the company is shutting down a whole team without replacement, the employees should still get the option to relocate into another role. They can be let go only after that fails.
In truth they've been careful about introducing names and not breaking existing code. For example, when they finally did a bool type, they called it _Bool to prevent incompatibilities with nonstandard bool types. You needed to include <stdbool.h> to get a friendly, usable name of "bool".

There was a similar thing for _Complex.
Well, sure, cell phones took off everywhere in the 90's, and the ones out of Finland were certainly among the more popular. GGP was specifically about smartphones, though.
So you think me not agreeing the US "was hugely racist" is the same as me saying slavery never happened?

You don't think it's me saying that the US was part of a system that had existed long before it was even a country, even though I said just that?

BTW my bio is a homage to Socrates being persecuted for asking questions and going against the mob.
You're not aware of the differences between men's and women's T-shirts?
The easy example in English(though obviously borrowed) is the difference between fiance and fiancée. Granted, this is a very domain-specific case, but points out that yes, gender can modify words in English other than pronouns and titles.