skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s the “pipeline problem”—by the time an employee enters the workforce, their skillset is the product of everything that came upstream (education, family circumstances, living conditions, etc.) If someone spent their childhood living in poverty (malnourished, inhaling pollution, in a house filled with lead paint, attending poor schools, etc.), by the time they enter the workforce, the resulting deficiency in cognitive achievement will be dramatic and unsurmountable relative to someone who spent their childhood sans toxins, well-fed, and attending good schools.

Suppose systematic discrimination against certain ethnic groups “X” has made them disproportionately more likely to grow up in poverty, which (along with many other systemic factors) causes a huge cognitive deficit relative to other ethnic groups “Y” who have not experienced systematic discrimination. Some jobs’ skillsets are predicated on cognitive ability, so ethnic groups X will be disproportionately underqualified (and thus naturally underrepresented) in those jobs relative to ethnic groups Y.

Many DEI initiatives prescribe that the ethnic makeup of a company/institution ought to perfectly reflect overall population demographics. This will, by definition, necessitate lowering hiring standards for ethnic groups X, since a much smaller proportion of them have the necessarily skillset relative to their peers in ethnic groups Y, who haven’t experienced systematic discrimination.

A company's primary goal is to optimize its profit. At first glance, willfully hiring underqualified people in the name of DEI would negatively impact profits, so OP surmises there must be some ulterior motive that actually makes it profitable. OP's proposed motives sound plausible, but it could also just be that companies are afraid that not having a DEI initiative would hurt their image relative to their peers that have DEI initiatives—a prisoner's dilemma.
Why can't we all just agree that almost everything in life should be consumed in moderation?
Those looking for alternatives can take a look at my book which evaluates 15 different options:
https://gaalternatives.guide

I also have a google sheet listing the basics of each of those tools:
https://gaalternatives.guide/sheet
> American housing and zoning laws are overly focused on compliance with issues like wheel chairs that significantly drive up costs.

Most accessibility affordances have a negligible cost when designed in from the beginning and are significantly more expensive to retrofit. (E.g. designing a staircase with an integrated ramp is cheap; adding a ramp to an existing staircase often is not.)

Ensuring that everyone has equal access to society seems like a pretty worthwhile goal and I'd hate to see people locked out of it to save a fraction of a percent in costs.
Yeah, I don’t know how you could reasonably measure it and there’s lots of other stuff going on. I was initially pretty “meh” on notes, but a lot of the content that would have otherwise been boosted by algos and endorsed via blue checks now gets cooled off pretty quickly because Notes set the record straight.

Having seen this in action a few times, I wish it were around for the 2015-2020 timeline. I could easily see it being more effective than outright censorship at addressing Trump’s election fraud claims or the various claims about policing in America (particularly egregious information a la Michael Brown “hands up, don’t shoot” stuff). Probably could have reduced a lot rioting and cooled a lot of racial strife / election denialism. Of course, this is all hypothetical speculation and I can’t prove it.
This is a great summary thank you for providing it. The clarification that requirements must fit the job or serve the organizational interests seems key. The latter sounds like it has more wiggle room for Harvard in terms of building and maintaining a strong donor base. But perhaps there are more guidelines on this requirement.

I guess you might be able to argue legacy admissions might be more fit for the job (expectations, culture fit, etc) but that seems weaker and frankly not the real reason for Harvard admitting so many legacies.
> I think you’re missing the real reason they are leveraging instagram

Threads, a Facebook app - hel no. I would rather install the spying app TikTok on my phone than a Facebook branded property.
Yep, banks are notorious for this.

E.g., ING in Australia.
>has tanked its income

Income doesn't matter if you're not profitable.

>All the debt you mention? He saddled them with that.

No, Twitter was already in debt. The alternative was letting it die, which mind you I don't think would have been a bad idea, but if Musk's goal is to keep it alive then the huge amounts of debt would certainly do that.

>Unfortunately he did that at the expense of site stability & reliability.

The site did not have the efficiency or importance to warrant the number of employees it had.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04050

> We provide new estimates of an asymptotic upper bound on the entropy of English using the large language model LLaMA-7B as a predictor for the next token given a window of past tokens.

> Preliminary results from limited experiments suggest that our scheme outperforms state-of-the-art text compression schemes such as BSC, ZPAQ, and paq8h.
This is not true for the iPod, iPhone, iPad, or Watch.
I think there are probably some persistent differences between the superachievers and the normals but I am very skeptical in the ability of the former to teach (and of the latter to learn from the former).
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Put it behind CloudFlare free plan. You’ll get total uniques for the domain. No hosting or JS required.
No, you are speaking for the data.
> How do you know that the product you use was built from the provided sources?

Maybe you haven't heard of pass[1], but it's an open source project, and it's easy to build from source[2].

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1. https://www.passwordstore.org/

2. https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/
Usually not unless you did business under that name. Squatting a name does little to protect you. If you are selling something under that name first, in a given state in the USA, then you can fight off other people from using that name in that state… applying for a trademark or servicemark helps you extend it nationwide but still requires you to fight off people trying to use your name.
What does Apple's virtual monitor provide over the N existing virtual monitor solutions that you've waited this long? Honest question as this tech has been around for ages.
Curious if this sort of trained compression could radically reduce the size of log files / analytics storage (or if there exist simple methods for that which perform well already?)
Berkson's Paradox would be one potential reason.

Say you have some criteria like "potential future donor" and "really smart". They might not be connected in the general population, but when you select on the total donor+smart, such that only people with a high combined score are admitted, you get a correlation among the admitted population.

It's not hard to see why: either you have loads of money and thus only need a little smarts, or you have lots of smart and need minimal money.
SUSE does not offer support for RHEL but for their own RHEL clone (SLL, formerly and still internally SLES ES). This product has existed for a long long time.
I'm cutting out the middleman and just feeding fruit flies myself.
You should look into the story of XMPP and how it got killed by Google. The situation is pretty much identical to what Facebook is doing here, and the ending will likely be the same: once Meta gets enough users, they'll subtly break federation with ActivityPub, and everyone will just move to Threads because that's where all the content is. So, in the end, we end up with just another centralized app owned by a tech giant.
I guess it depends on your measures, but it's nuanced. For example, in 1900, Norway had the longest life expectancy in the World https://www.faktisk.no/artikler/z25rp/hvor-fattig-var-norge-...
Previously things would be censored that were legitimate statistical data. Data can't be racist, but the old Twitter moderation team didn't care.
Unless they did business under that name … then they can claim that name in the states where they did business first.
Maybe they promised him free rocket fuel and a launchpad where he doesn't have to care about safety. Complete speculation on my part.
Killed audience? Most certainly, but as far as revenue I do think he's making headway. The fact is once you start demanding money for things people leave. The idea that users = money has never been true.
Never found a startup on the premise that someone else's product will be inadequate forever.

The recent rewrite of github search has probably made sourcegraph irrelevant. If you may recall, original github search used almost the most horrible algorithm possible. It dropped all punctuation and spacing and just searched for identifiers. No patterns allowed, no quoting allowed. One of the only meta-arguments was filename:xyz.

Now that github has improved its basic search functionality, sourcegraph might be doomed.

I used sourcegraph at Lyft which (at the time) had unlimited money to waste on software tools, and installed the open-source version at Databricks but nobody cared.
Usable Magic Enums for C++
I have no science to prove this, but I think a lot of that energy went into weed and vaping.
I can make one that floats on water. Get me a headline[0]!

[0] does not hold charge
As a US-based company, they process (even if they don't store) the IP address. As such, the personal data of the EU users is transmitted under the control of the US Surveillance Act. No SCCs nor commercial contracts can shield this data.

You might have a legitimate interest in processing the IP, but because of the aforementioned issues, you cannot provide sufficient controls nor protection of Personal Data.

As such, using Cloudflare as your Data Processor, exposes You, the Data Controller, to DPA scrutiny. As always with GDPR/DPA and EU, whether it is illegal/non-compliant depends on each DPA.

https://medium.com/@christhaefner/shopify-illegal-in-germany...
I guess they made the math and the probabilities and figured that it'll gain them more money to do this and accept the inevitable fines that come from this.
Any good ones? i'm not sure.

But you can easily overcome the limit results on any search engine by tinkering with the date range(like on google you can get all available pages for 2023 then 2022 then 2021 etc...)
Hello, Semantic Kernel
> doesn’t really go into whether or not the professors opinion is a valid opinion based on factual evidence

It doesn’t matter.

If everyone is required to sign a statement saying the sky is blue, it is meaningless if there is “a valid opinion based on factual evidence” to the contrary. That there is a mandated view suppresses the inquiry that might generate factual evidence, whether in favour of the hypothesis or not.
Every country should have legislation in place that allows this.
> Who defines inappropriate?

The boss.
I think it was r/geopolitics (or maybe r/credibledefense? both?) where the author themselves have to make a submission statement as a comment summarizing the article and what it's about.
Profitable? Like what? Metaverse?

Meta is the kind of company to throw $25+ Billion into a vanity project and not really sweat it.
Duolingo uses AI to create lessons
For some weird reason, when im travelling with wifi calling, receiving sms messages is a crap shoot. I basically dont get them if theyre sent by a gov agency, bank, etc.

I do still get them from android phones. Its weird, i have no idea why.
Some things are definitely sayable now that could easily get you blocked before.
> BUT, we shouldn't knock them for trying; that's what startups are all about, right?

I am so conflicted about this sentiment. On the one hand, I’m a fan of competition. On another, I dislike the company that is (re-?)entering the market.

I guess I just wish an actual start up were coming in, but I guess that era is over. Consolidation has been successful, and now we’re in this weird world where 5-10 giant megacorps run everything we engage with.
More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck
Robocop...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REC-ZYWL1to
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The idea that knowledge can be expressed in distributed representations rather than sequences of symbols is a huge advancement in our understanding of intelligence. Obviously we haven’t ”solved intelligence” but now we at least have some idea of what the right questions to ask are.
Come on, the previous Threads was also Instagram’s standalone messaging service.
We don't have those kinds of beliefs for doctors and lawyers in part because the stakes are different -- a mistake in our profession usually means something breaks silently and nobody ever notices or is worse for it. Or maybe a site goes down or a user sees a strange error message or an app is slow. On the other hand, mistakes from doctors and lawyers can ruin or destroy lives and cause actual suffering. There are exceptions in our industry where the stakes are that high, but even in those settings there are often technical and operational controls to minimize risk and allow newer folks to gain experience safely

And it does seem that programming and some actionable amount of CS can be learned in some months. Maybe the same is true for lawyering and medical practice but I doubt it

Anyway, I find this attitude mostly to be condescending and pointless gatekeeping. It turns out that a CS degree doesn't imply that someone is a strong problem solver, architect, communicator, leader or has deep technical skills, as a college dropout who barely graduated from high school who has now mentored lots of folks with CS degrees
I read a comment on a forum where the user had a job to audit google home voice command and search result alignment. Meaning, did the google home user get what they wanted or not. The forum user made a side comment on how a surprising number of people have horrible diction. Makes me think, maybe low information density is the optimal design for the majority of users.
Realized 10+ years ago that the only way I could have my kids grow up addiction-free was if they didn't have a smartphone/tablet and the only credible way I could ask this from them was if I also didn't have one.

In hindsight one of the best decisions of my life, sadly becoming more and more difficult to maintain as banking, public transportation, restaurants, and all other parts of life increasingly assume you carry a smartphone.
Ask a generous donator for a small gift of a few billion dollars with no returns expected.
Making a Twitter-like service profitable is difficult. To attempt it, you need

(1) Network effects

(2) Infrastructure competency

I think Facebook can provide these faster at a higher level than anyone else who is attempting it. For profit, things that would help include:

(1) No need for profitability

(2) Profit synergies with an existing business

Again, Facebook is a strong competitor here. They can start at #1 and integrate to achieve #2

To get people to switch from Twitter to your service it helps to have:

(1) Brand recognition

(2) Also be a social network

(3) A marketing budget

However, I think getting people to switch is the hardest part for any network; it's affected by many factors. There is also the consideration of getting them to switch, stay, and not be pulled away by a future competitor.
Do you have any proof that AT&T are conducting mass-scale MITM attacks against their users?
>The economy is in great shape despite how many people try to cope a recession into existence

sure it's not like several banks have collapsed or anything...

>That was not good business sense.

I'm not in favor of letting nazis on platforms, but having your business decisions be beholden to advertisers is always a disaster in the making.
Same domain doesn't always mean your information won't get leaked to wherever. For example, Sentry supports sending data through a proxy hosted on the same domain used by the website. If you don't block it, your data ends up on sentry.io anyway (in most cases; some users probably self-host their own Sentry instance, but how many? It's quite painful from my personal experience.)

https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/troubleshooting/...
> starring Salma Hayek as Joan

Charlie Brooker has come a long way since tvgohome[1]!

> Hayek said that it gave her opportunity to [...] have "permission" to do "the most disgusting, grotesque things", though one such thing in the script made her question, "Do I really want to do this?"

Maybe not that far, in some respects, then.

1: http://www.ntk.net/tvgohome/
or simply add a colored indicator next to the download button. If an app collects too much info, it shows a glowing red exclamation mark; if it collects nothing, it's a green smiley face.
As a co-op student, I worked on a CAD system that was meant to run on the ICON to teach CAD/CAM fundamentals. Not sure if it ever shipped.

I do remember this "unix" variant being particularly painful to work with. One might even say spectacularly painful.
> Did you actually look at it and audit it? >99% of people aren't going to do that. They're just assuming somebody has.

That's a fair point. I certainly haven't.

But the great virtue of pass is that it runs locally, which means that it's much more difficult to attack than a SaS password manager.
Alot of it was from the acquisition yes, but Twitter was already in debt.
Possibly because rurban is very consistent about showing up to C topic threads, mentioning his own work, and using that kind of tone.
I have, pass is just a bash script with <1000 loc.
but you're throwing performance away. If you don't want cross-customer leaks just give each customer both SMT threads of the core
I'm signing up. Twitter is a troll farm. Sick and tired of its mess.
Take a minute to imagine more medical doctors without more resources. It is pretty easy
There’s drama on IG, but thankfully not among the people you follow.

Why? Pseudonymous accounts. They are huge on Twitter, necessary, and Instagram supports them.
> A question I have wrt memory access for CSR: is the access pattern suboptimal still? While there is less pointer chasing, I believe you are not guaranteed for the edge data of adjacent nodes to be adjacent in memory, thus there is still potential for many cache misses.

Yes, you still get cache misses, but much much fewer.

You can also lay the graph array order out to minimize cache misses. This is something I've been looking into, but haven't implemented personally.

For example, the Eytzinger layout makes binary search much faster than a sorted array order [1]. Similarly for graphs, depending on the usecase you have Reverse Cuthill-McKee:

https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.s...

You can also just embed the graph into 1d, then take the sorted (or Eytzinger) order of the 1d embedding values, which should minimize average traversal cache miss.

> Another open question is whether you can further compress the CSR representation. For float-based edge data I think quantization works well, and I believe you can further compress the ROW/COL indices (delta encoding for the former). Compression potentially helps here because you can fit more in cache and can shove more edges into the CPU.

Yes, that's fairly well studied.

[1] https://algorithmica.org/en/eytzinger
I’m curious what you’re working with that is significantly different from one CSP to the next. I put most of my effort into AWS, but when I get staffed on a Google Cloud project, there isn’t much that I can’t figure out pretty quickly, especially with IaC managing everything. As long as the CSP has good docs, I find it relatively easy to move from one to the next.

There are certainly some cases where that breaks down, but it’s usually in specialized areas that I’d have to do some upskilling on in my preferred cloud anyway.

The benefit of the cloud is its service and resource (i.e. building block) oriented nature. There’s a level of transparency to cloud-based services that just didn’t really exist before.
The headset is the early access product.
This is a new one I haven't seen before, could you go into more detail?
pjmlp is a C++ fan who consistently criticizes C.
It’s stunning that the left fought for decades for racial equality and free speech, only to do an abrupt about face.

But to stick to the current topic: these required dei statements are definitely ideological litmus tests, and the people promoting these are not “on the right side of history”, but authoritarians.
You obviously need some amount of homogeneity. I could rattle off opinions that are incompatible with any sort of community all day. "It is best if everyone actively works to make the group fail" as a trivial example. So obviously within some bounds diversity of opinions, skills, and backgrounds is desirable, but it's not unbounded and this isn't a contradiction. Without being specific about what "diverse opinions" you think should be welcomed you're just being naively contrarian.
It's all about the branded polishing cloth, obviously: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MM6F3AM/A/polishing-cloth
Need a category for design. Right now all design jobs are scattered around, mostly in product management. Also as others have mentioned, having to make all these decisions before searching is hard to get through without abandoning.
Hashing the IP is not enough by IMY's decisions, none of the companies are allowed to use GA going forward.

CDON used GA's IP anonymization through truncation, it was not deemed enough. [1] The IP itself becomes is not personal data after truncation but it's unclear if the truncation happens before it leaves the country. And combined with the other personal data (e.g. cookies), it is considered personal data. [2]

Coop proxied all calls to GA and use the same generic IP address for all users. [3] They don't get a fine but have to stop using GA.

[1] "1.3.15 Effektiviteten hos vidtagna skyddsåtgärder av Google och CDON" https://www.imy.se/globalassets/dokument/beslut/2023/beslut-...

[2] "2.2.2 Integritetsskyddsmyndighetens bedömning" https://www.imy.se/globalassets/dokument/beslut/2023/beslut-...

[3] "1.3.14.2 Coops implementering av server side container" https://www.imy.se/globalassets/dokument/beslut/2023/beslut-...
Now I wonder if that's the reason we ended up with 7-inch smartphone displays.