skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They actively sought tourists. Made them believe the system was safe, sufficiently enough to persuade them to get on board and pay $250k.

Had the company not be deluding itself and be more responsible, they would never have opened the sub to the public.

A test pilot or an astronaut are highly technical people who really understand the risks they get into. And they know that dying is not an unlikely event.

Expecting a 16 year old to be technically competent to know he shouldn't have boarded that death-trap is disingenuous.

You can only be capable of judging the risk of something if you're told the honest truth about the actual risk, or if you have enough inside knowledge to assess that risk. Dying because you've been tricked -lied- into thinking it's safe enough, is a high price to pay for anyone. Saying it's alright to die because you've been tricked is pretty callous.

With a company owner who shrugged off safety to the point of deluding himself, do you think the passengers had any honest way of knowing how unsafe that sub really was and make an informed decision?

It's easy to say they should have done due diligence after the fact. It's like blaming passengers from boarding a doomed flight with a maverick pilot who thinks loading the plane by 300% is alright because nothing ever happened before.
That's where things fall down, though. I've done some admissions work (I am not professionally in admissions or HR or anything, I was just an academic mathematician). A lot of "qualifications" are experiences you can buy. You can buy volunteer experiences here or there, whether as literally as flying your child to Africa to volunteer or as simply as not asking your kid to contribute to paying the rent and letting them tutor for no cash. You can buy your kid test prep classes -- yes, the poor kid can get an SAT prep book from the library but the rich kid can have a tutor take their child by the hand and cajole/harass/massage the kid through test prep. You must pay pay pay to have your kid participate in traveling soccer league, dance team, lacrosse, etc. Remember travel soccer and similar activities are a way of divesting from the public schools, ensuring that this money and coaching benefits kids whose parents can pay (the right kinds of kids, the kids you want your kid to marry). What else? The music lessons, the robotics contests, the school district that has a full suite of AP or IB classes rather than just a couple, but in which houses start at $425k...

I sure as shit am buying qualifications for my kid, fully recognizing my role in participating in this flawed system. Kid's in robotics, language classes, gets to travel. We switched the kid's school to go to a school with higher standards. We teach the kid both reading (100 Easy Lessons...) and writing (workbooks from the non-US country with better public education) -- small expenses in $ but nevertheless expenses. I'm sure someone will happily tell me that the last part is just good morals on my part, or something, but you can't tell me that $100/day for a robotics summer camp is just good morals. I am buying that kid qualifications.

And then someone will tell me that's not race-based, but look at the perpetuation of wealth disparity thru US history, from chattel slavery on through the robbery from the Freedmen's Bank to the riot that burned down Black Wall Street to the fact that Black servicemen couldn't get mortgage assistance or GI Bill college assistance after WW2. Follow the money.
Liability waivers have a lot of standing in court, they just aren't a blanket exemption from liability like some believe. Under the law of tort, prior to injury, the specific risk must have been known to and appreciated by the plaintiff in order for primary assumption of risk to apply. Liability waivers serve to establish that the risk was known and appreciated.

For instance in CA

> Releases and waivers of liability are usually enforced in California. They are considered contracts that, if properly drafted and executed, are recognized as valid agreements that limit your rights.

> There are four ways to challenge the validity and binding effects of a release or waiver of liability:

> ... Gross negligence or recklessness: The California Supreme Court recently held that releases are valid only to protect defendants from being sued for negligence. They are invalid if you can prove that the other party's conduct was more than negligent, e.g., gross negligence or recklessness.

https://archive.ph/20120911003148/http://www.sports-injury-l...
Stepdaughter was just in an accident at an intersection. Officer, when they did show up: "Did you have a green light?" "I believe so." "Okay." Walks over to the other driver, then walks back to her with a citation in hand. "He says he definitely had a green light, so you're being cited for failure to obey a traffic control device."

The conversations with both parties amounted to less than 30 seconds, each.
I do know that 25 years ago or so there considerable weight given to gender in sciences and engineering. I do feel like all talk of it has disappeared, and wasn't sure if it was because it was no longer a factor or because race became the dominant talking point.

From the data you present I suspect that there is weight still given to gender. I wonder how much energy there would be to investigating this? I wonder how many guys who get rejected from MIT CS will now do Tik Toks about how a girl took his spot, since he can no longer say it was a black kid?
Remember the bonding exercise of the synthetic phylle, in the diamond age? Basically a mixture of trustfall exercise and Russian roulette. Fascinating concept to engineer trust among strangers regardless of politics and personal bond.
Either breakpoint() or setting sys.excepthook to call the postmortem debugger.
Less dependency on Visa / Mastercard I'd guess.
There's a saying in my country. "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread."
Also regarding international policy - good luck getting Chinese citizens to pay the US AI tax. Effectively you'd be nerfing anyone under US jurisdiction
To preface: I don’t really have an opinion on affirmative action per se:

That said, the elephant in the room is that institutions like Harvard and UNC aren’t really about education. They’re “ivy leagues” for preserving class inequality having been marketed as schools.

To the extent that race is a distraction from class, the fact that counteracting racial bias in admissions has failed to uplift the poor just puts too fine a point on this arrangement.
This still reads like a failure of governance to me.

It’s up to Chemours whether to hold themselves responsible for not meeting their internal guidelines (from what I read here they did/do). Of course it’s less than ideal they keep everything silent but their incentives probably point them that way.

If the government also knew, and chose not to do anything (and indeed, apparently wrote that it’s not financially feasible), then that’s a fault of government. The company won’t close itself if what they’re doing is morally dubious but legally perfectly fine (especially the people working at that location have a great incentive to not make waves, even if they’re the ones drinking the water).
the more likely explanation seems to me that not all panels were hit by a sufficiently large hailstone to cause an initial break. once the structural integrity of a panel is broken, smaller stones can damage it further that wouldn't have otherwise..
Remember the Supreme Court upheld the legality of affirmative action in 2016 in Fisher v. UT-Austin, and two lower courts upheld the legality of affirmative action in this particular decision.

What changed is the make-up of the court; otherwise, apparently affirmative action's unconstitutionality was just realized like a revelation from God and every previous court (federal and Supreme) was wrong.

Racial rancor, and racism in general -- anti black racism in particular -- has probably increased since 2003; at least in the public sphere - hopefully this ruling is not a part of that milieu.
The other day I wanted to make a quick Venn diagram as a joke, and I was sure hundreds of people have made a simple tool for this and put it on the web.

I did a search (on kagi) and all the top results wanted me to sign up or subscribe. The joke I wanted to make wasn't worth it for that.

I was reminded of google in present times, loads of results that are almost what I'm looking for, but filled with frustration instead.

I don't feel entitled here, but I do know that in the old web, back when I fell in love with google, I'd have found some hobbyist site that did this without trying to get anything from me.

Anyway I then clicked "non-commercial" and was instantly teleported to the old web, the first result was a free simple tool from some hobbyist.
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we use investor tools like harmonic.ai to find great companies, scrape their jobs, match you with them, then fill out/optimize the application for you using AI + humans. the goal is to just get interviews in your inbox!
> So the surviving panels must have just been meaningfully more robust than the others.

Or the variability was in the hail -- panels are designed for this kind of weather to some degree, but sometimes you get a storm on the edge of the design limits.
> is that I can compile Java 4 code using JDK 17

https://stackoverflow.com/a/33240753 ?
From your source

> In addition, 70 percent of Harvard’s legacy applicants are white.

From US Census:

> Race and Hispanic Origin

> White alone, percent

> 75.5%
It doesn't surprise me at all. The customers of such policies are quite wealthy and have no actual need of life insurance. Rather, it's an estate tax dodge because life insurance proceeds are tax free.
But it's not just auto-update. I can disable auto-update in the Google Play Store, but at least I easily see if updates are available and can still selectively update apps with the press of one button.

For me, the better solution would be F-Droid. Easy update process but the apps are mostly open-source etc.
Our politics are really, really ugly these days, with no room for this sort of nuance anymore. It's really sad.

Talking one on one with people though, it's easier to find common ground. And sometimes make a new friend. But it's hard for sure when the elites are so insistent on a divide and conquer strategy.
It is already illegial to consider all of the characteristics you mentioned.

Historically, there was a specific legal exemption 14th ammendementment allowing racial discrimination.

This ruling closes the exemption for racial consideration. Discrimination based on other protected statuses remain closed

>Any exceptions to the Equal Protection Clause’s guarantee must survive a daunting two-step examination known as “strict scrutiny,” first whether the racial classification is used to “further compelling governmental interests,” and second whether the government’s use of race is “narrowly tailored,” i.e., “necessary,” to achieve that interest. Acceptance of race-based state action is rare for a reason.
Additionally we had issues where banks were being prosecuted for not giving housing support to primarily black neighboorhoods all the way still to STILL IN 2023! https://apnews.com/article/city-national-bank-redlining-sett...
I don't understand (and don't see answers on Google) about how an "offline digital euro" would work. Unless the EU comes up with some magically unhackable hardware/software combo, or the 'offline' transfers are explicitly not trustless (ie- I can see your digitally-signed transfer of 5 euros, but will only be able to verify that it settles when I eventually get a connection)
I would imagine that the other white candidates for the positions that you got the offer for feel quite differently
Hands on example of ChatGPT as a programming tool
Outlook's UI design by itself really is terrible. I don't know how so many people accept using it. I have a single business account I used Outlook for, switched to Thunderbird, and it is vastly less painful to use. I can find, read, and sort emails at least 3x quicker than with Outlook.

Modern commercial UI/UX design really has drifted far away from "good." Photoshop suffers the same problem - 10 years ago the UI was quick, responsive, and efficient. Now it feels like wading through mud.
> Affirmative Actions seems to just be reversed racism. I.e. in the end more-or-less still unfair.

It's not even reversed racism, it's just plain old racism. The only difference is the targets of the racism are European descended and Asian descended people instead of African and Latin American descended people.
Do we need race based affirmative action though? Couldn't we have needs based discrimination? What makes a poor hispanic immigrant more deserving of a hand up than a poor ukranian immigrant?
What do these waves look like as they pass through us? Acoustic-like compression and expansion of particles as molecules temporarily reorient toward a “down” that is ever-so-slightly off from the Center of mass of the Earth?

Also, I assume that these waves are very gentle sinusoids? Could the opposite — a high-amplitude gravitational square wave — be possible? What would it do to the things it passes through?
I have not downvoted you but not relevant to topic you seems to be pushing some kind of agenda for no obvious reasons:

> But, then I’m a 50+ year old white guy, so unqualified to speak.

> Now, it’s a woke smack down. Sad.

Why?
Why not just put a wire mesh cage above them? You only care about hailstones larger than a certain size, so the mesh is going to be pretty open and won't have much impact on collection. Galvanized steel is cheap and will do fine, no recycling issues either.
Oh wow, you're one of the guys from LineageOS right?
> If you have an Asian Medical Doctor, they are AAA. If you have a multiple minority Medical Doctor, they are not necessarily AAA, they could be As.

> Which one do you want to do brain surgery on you?

I have no strong opinion on affirmative action but this is a dishonest way to frame this topic.

Affirmative action doesn't mean an institution can produce unqualified doctors. Both doctors should've gone through same examinations at medical schools, studied same textbooks and have similar training.
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I wanted to ask why not the more simple form:

echo '"foo","bar,baz","boo"' | awk -F"\",\"" '{print $1}'
"foo

echo '"foo","bar,baz","boo"' | awk -F"\",\"" '{print $2}'
bar,baz

echo '"foo","bar,baz","boo"' | awk -F"\",\"" '{print $3}'
boo"

Realizing that I have to strip the quotes that remain.

Edit. formatting.

EDit, again, from your link, the following is more terse and too my taste (still needs strips):

awk -v FPAT='("[^"]*")+'
I see them all the time.
Here’s an example on drudgereport.
https://imgur.com/a/hOl9x2m

I am using an iPhone 13 browsing via chrome. iOS 17.0
Sounds a lot like the reasoning that lead to the Challenger disaster.
But ChatGPT doesn’t spit out verbatim from the blog.
Asians are the poorest demographic in NYC, and yet score the highest in testing. So, activists will probably eschew this method as well because it will give Asians preferential treatment which they are loathe to do.
$200k from selling Google Sheets tutorials
the US$4000 JavaScript Interview Question Nobody Could Answer
> not being able to subsidise user growth

You're ignoring that Kagi runs on subscriptions, so this funding is not all there is. If the subscription covers basic user costs (which it should, because they just adjusted the pricing) or at least covers most of them then the 670K can be used for growth.
How privacy-friendly is that watch? It looks great on paper.
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(Not Mine and submission without a biased opinion) introduced by a friend and his team.
If you don't like the original Thunderbird UI, try the new Thunderbird Supernova - https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/download/beta/

They are updating the UI, and doing a good job
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/thunderbird-115-superno...
You don't need to leave software dev on that basis. Just change to somewhere which was mostly remote before covid.

I suppose some remote first firms went through covid, watched their competitors stumble as they adapted, and afterwards concluded they'd like to cripple themselves to match. It's hard to imagine any of them would still be trading at this point.
Microsoft has been dismantling the desktop UX for me over the past few years. I think they’re migrating the entire UI into the browser. The Office macOS UI appears and feels substantially worse to me than its Windows counterpart. I had to migrate from Windows to macOS because I was no longer feeling comfortable on Windows. My UX with the Apple office suite is by far better. Put formally, the set difference between the features of Word and Excel and the features of Pages and Numbers is empty for my use cases. Same with PowerPoint and Keynote. Outlook used to be good, a proper PIM, it never had been excellent, but it used to be good, even a decade ago. The only thing I regret now is that I’d extended my Microsoft 365 by three years before I realized what they’re up to.
I could see various legit reasons for this. He's obviously very attached to the topic and would skew discussion. Or maybe he'd be too into it. Or maybe it's like a judge recusing themselves. Whatever the reason, I wouldn't read too much into it.
This post reeks of smugness. I hope you aren't from western Europe, as you can easily see that there is discrimination based on race with regards to eg policing- where crimes committed by certain individuals of a protected status aren't even allowed to be reported on. And FYI- equality is also enshrined in the US constitution, but constitutions are (universally) subject to interpretation
The Supreme Court has a long history of overruling prior Supreme Court decisions, and has done so over 200 times.

https://constitution.congress.gov/resources/decisions-overru...
Nah, I just want to have a fair chance in any industry I go into, rather than being measured on a different meter stick.
Some people were born to be serfs
Please God, please end the DEI Industrial Complex
What if Group X has their own country where they will get that preference but Group Y is native born and gets a taint? The top class of Group Y will be fine. It's the lower ranks of Group Y who lose out to Group X and the higher ranks of Group Y who cement their own status by cutting off their native competition.
I'm going to assume positive intent on this and that it's not a troll comment.

Race in the US is horribly complicated and tied into so many parts of life here in the US. Full Stop.

HN comment sections aren't really the place to go into the very fine details, especially just one comment like mine. and the fine details do matter. Ok, all that out of the way, now to the questions here.

Let's take a small micro-example and explore a bit:

You are an African-American woman experiencing preeclampsia at 30 weeks gestation. Preeclampsia is a very serious medical condition and can cause death to you and your baby. You go into the hospital not knowing what is wrong with you, but you know something is wrong.

Like it or not, many medical professionals still believe that African-Americans don't feel pain like other people do.

Like it or not, many medical professionals still believe that women over-react to pain [0].

Like it or not, many medical professionals do not believe the above if they are African-American women.

So, as a worried mother-to-be, you get a doctor assigned to you, likely at random. If your MD is not of the same race or sex as you are, then your experience is likely to be less positive than if they were. From what I have heard from African-American women whom I am able to talk with about medical care, the experience is highly likely to be a negative one unless they get someone of their own race or are lucky.

So, having more people that are of diverse backgrounds in the medical field leads to more positive outcomes for patients of every race and sex.

Meaning that you have to get more diversity into the med schools to begin with. Which means that you have to get more diversity into colleges. Which means you have to get more diversity into Secondary education, and in primary education. Which means you have to get more diversity in pedagogical training. And round we go.

Yes, we could solve this by untying med school from college. Yes, we could open up the med schools to more than just the select few we already have. Yes, we could have more nurses and RNs that accompany MDs. Yes we could make medical care a single payer system and try to solve this from there. Yes, there are a million other ways to fix this.

Hopefully you begin to see what a complex mess racial issues are in the US and how at each and every level, race is a contributing factor that affects everyone. I haven't even come close to any of the real issues here, and there are so many spider webs that tie into each sub-issue. Look at this Supreme Court Decision itself, the first black supreme court justice, a Harvard Grad, voted to end it. Thing get really really squirrely.

[0] I have personally experienced this with my SO during labor, BTW. The attending OB-GYN, a man, remarked to me 'How can you stand the screaming all the time'. I threw him out of the room. No joke, this really did happen.
> I assume the intent is to help disadvantaged people have opportunities that more priviledged people have already.

I don't know about this. Like about 1000 undergraduate students are admitted to Harvard each year, Harvard being named in this suit. Affirmative action at Harvard being necessary to help anyone seems like a stretch. Is Harvard really the only way to help people? It's an elite school so I think the stakes are different than helping people because the applicant pool is very elite already.

I think in reality the US is embroiled in ethnic conflict and people are fighting over spots at elite schools for their children and a lot of this is political. There are other countries where affirmative action is used and a similar thing happens. Like in India for example, the child of a billionaire from the OBC designation has a much higher chance of getting into IIT than the child of poor Brahmins. The OBC designation has expanded over time for political reasons to form coalitions, as I understand it.

> Would the goal suddenly not be met if poor smart white kids get into good schools, too?

Ironically the SFFA case argued that specifically white kids were being backdoored into Harvard at the expense of Asian students[1]. So yes, the goal would not be met. Although I need to read this case closely because the official decision mentions more about Black and Latino affirmative action.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v...
Present Perfect:/
> The question in that decision was whether political spending by corporations was part of the free speech right. There's no question more broadly that corporations can put out a press release saying more or less anything (truthful) that they want.

The "political spending" in the case of Citizens United was the production and dissemination of a propaganda film. If the release of a film can be restricted, why not a press release as well?

From wikipedia: "Broadcasting the film would have been a violation of the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, which prohibited any corporation, non-profit organization, or labor union from making an "electioneering communication" within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of an election, or making any expenditure advocating the election or defeat of a candidate at any time."

If the law bans "electioneering communication", could not an electioneering press release be considered such a banned communication as well?
Speaking as someone who recently installed solar panels on the roof... you get insurance! Not a big deal.