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DEI is truly division and exclusion. It is a euphemism for new types of discrimination. Hopefully Supreme Court rules on this soon as they did on affirmative action.

You cannot fix the world by implementing new types of bias and discrimination, even if it is being wrapped up and sold as diversity and inclusion or however else it is pitched. This should be unconstitutional and against the Equal Protection Clause in the Constitution period.

We cannot and should not ever judge a book by its cover. We must always focus on merit, ability, and equality first. However, I do think society needs to provide social nets to help people get free education that are not able to afford it if the education has promise to lead to great career opportunities.

From the film Lincoln, 'Euclid's first common notion is this: "Things which are equal to the same thing are equal to each other." That's a rule of mathematical reasoning. It's true because it works; has done and will always will do. In his book, Euclid says this is "self-evident." You see, there it is, even in that two-thousand year old book of mechanical law: it is a self-evident truth of things which are equal to the same thing, are equal to each other. We begin with equality. That's the origin, isn't it? That balance-that's fairness, that's justice.'

We are all homo sapiens and need to be treated fairly, equally. No one should be given structural preferential bias on a public or private level. We have fought so hard for equality in this country, DEI is a step backwards in equality by sanctioning new biases.
I wouldn't go quite that far. Disney was forced to divest the Fox Regional Sports networks in the deal because they already owned the ESPN channels and would have caused too much consolidation.

The economies around professional and collegiate sports are nothing to be ignored, especially with the legalization of sports gambling across the US.
Not to invalidate your frustration, but if someone rejected me based on the colour of my chat bubble in a messaging app, that would be decisively unattractive to me.
If it's just serving prompt responses I'm not sure if the IP protection is a huge dealbreaker for me as a downstream user. The most critical use case I can currently imagine is better predictive text for my keyboard, and that one seems pretty light on the IP violations (for me personally). The biggest thing for me here is E2EE if the text is leaving my phone.
Yes, hiring a no-hire engineer to meet DEI quotas is completely unacceptable, but who is going to risk their job to suggest that? A culture of fear has been created around speaking out against stuff like this.

Your coworkers probably agree with you, but conversations critical of DEI efforts in the workplace are radioactive as HR will come down on you for being racist or whatever.

Thus, the DEI bubble in any corporation is completely insulated from checks and balances or internal critical feedback.
That’s not what OP was saying. They were saying that physician salaries are a big part of the difference, which they are not.
I would prefer not to say very specifically, but I'm in a part of the US where electricity is less expensive than gas, which is probably the largest reason why people avoid gas around here.

Also, the majority of houses never had gas piped to them in the first place. Most people are used to electric and it's a nonissue for them, so there is little desire to use gas.
That's some twisted logic when I can't use steam on my hardware.
Sure, it takes two to tango, and some of the effect may be on the man's side as well. But if you're at all tuned into popular culture, it's pretty clear that from a dating/marriage perspective, a lower earning man is at a huge disadvantage. Whereas this isn't really the case for a woman. Setting studies aside, just look at what people say in the real world: https://www.reddit.com/r/dating/comments/154w09d/do_women_fi...
> Consider the opposite

Um, yes.

Watch videos from Waymo customers in San Francisco. There are plenty of them online. See Waymo cars navigate San Francisco. See them cope successfully with traffic cones, bicycles, cable car tracks tracks, double-parked delivery trucks, small animals, construction, and wandering druggies.[1][2] Totally automatic. Nobody behind the wheel.

Then watch videos of Tesla self-driving in a city, with the latest "beta self driving". Two manual interventions in the first minute.[3]

Waymo has real self-driving. Tesla has fake self-driving.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7LXFjQ7hHs

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBvce_eC28A

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDxjB6bFLRg
I feel like you should take some responsibility for your own resentment rather than passively saying another party has "fostered" it.

I'm not a fan of corporate and especially tech DEI initiatives either, I don't think they're an effective way to achieve their stated goals. But the hiring bar thing just does not match my experience at all. Some of the worst teams I've been on have been behind some of the most grueling & "selective" interview processes and some of the best teams have had lax ones. Given how poor we are at actually predicting who is going to be a good coworker we might as well allow some other backgrounds in.
This is solvable by using a more stable email provider, ideally with your own domain. And yes I know domains need to be much easier for the average person to use (and avoid accidentally losing). That's one reason I run a domain registrar, to try and make this more accessible.

Once someone has their own domain, it also opens up things such as hosting your own IdP (or paying a small monthly fee to have someone else host it for you) and sidestepping email entirely.
My suspicion is that someone like the EU made it clear to Apple that they would either interop or the EU would make them do so. They have finally relented to support RCS in the coming year.
Seems like a sort of win/win. Great for pushing new devices regularly and also good for reliability of the AI based functionality as well as privacy.
I think Apple is fully capable of getting there too. They have a high enough price point, and a loyal enough customer base, that even if getting there required additional hardware or shipping with more RAM by default, they could make it work.
Nothing is better than inferencing at the edge. For example, Apple now processes Siri locally on the Series 9 and Ultra 2 watches. That’s remarkable given the small size and power of these devices.
He used to own the account, now I own it. I've tried resetting the google account password and the like, there seems to be nothing I can do.
Reusing the outputs isn't universally possible because commands typed into bash generally aren't pure functions. You might have to run them again to get the current correct output. It's an interesting feature though.

Also, KDE Dolphin can run commands in the current folder.

You can get the history to last forever by appending history to a file.
I am fine with different competent people at the workplace. I am frustrated with having to forcibly hire a no-hire candidate to meet a diversity quota.

I am annoyed by the fact that DEI is not targeted by layoffs but ostensibly contribute less to the company than engineering. I find it ridiculous that no one can criticize these initiatives without being labeled racist and fired by HR.
In traditional painting, since hundreds or thousands of years ago, many drawing techniques relied heavily upon using different physical brushes. The properties of each different brush would make certain tasks easier for the painter.

In more modern times, as computer-based drawing evolved, that same principle became a basic feature of drawing applications - that is, the ability to change between different (virtual) 'brushes', each with different characteristics, such as shape, but also intensity and other factors which make the artist's job both easier and more nuanced.

In a way, your reduction of the idea to "a set of rubber stamps of sorts" is true, in the same way that a physical brush is equally "a stamp of sorts", if the artist chooses to use that brush in a suitably monotonous stamping action. But in digital art (as in physical art) the total picture is more about the skilful wielding of myriad tools and techniques, through multiple steps and recombinations.

To bring in another analogy - every wood worker uses basically the same tools, the basic claw hammer shape hasn't changed in a long time, the basic screw drivers, drill bits, etc. The same set of rubber stamps, in a way. Is that a constraint upon creativity and uniqueness? Perhaps, but not meaningfully.
No, I'm saying there should be a checkbox. That way, you can switch between two columns formatted like LaTeX and that font they always use, and one column with Helvetica / Arial.
They can, but nobody wants a ride except drunks. Which is one reason why taxis look so bad: when a significant portion of your clients are drunk (throwing up in the back, peeing on the seats and all the other things they do) you don't want a nice car. Nice taxis don't work those shifts. If there is a big shared car market (I doubt it) you will see cars for different times of the day as a profile for potential drunk rider.
Plaid is also bad.
Why not just ignore sites that use ads? If people find value in ad supported product they can use them and if they don't they can just avoid them and use an alternative without ads or nothing.
Do you really think that when a Honda Civic reaches 200k miles, $150k were spent on it?

And that includes overall age depreciation which I wouldn't count, because most people that consider taking high speed rail would have a car anyway that's already depreciating.
On a more serious note, what would be a (mostly?) sane way to do something like this on DOS? TurnoC? TurboPascal? What was the "web tooling story" of those toolkits?
So this is a good point. There is this issue for either outright volunteering information or being bullied into "volunteering". And this a trend that apparently was not much of an issue at the time (of the constitution or 4th).

Same for "constitution applies only to govt" - where now so many corporations or other groups wield comparable power. There is space for more improvements on the constitution - and then also perhaps now is not a great, constructive time to do that.
We put it in trash bins. Companies with contracts collect it. It get's shipped to asia or africa for recycling. Job done. Recycled ...
It is dumped where ever it is convinient for the contracting company

But I totaly undersand your point. For me, it would also be real work to not put waste in the trash bin, but to drive somewhere to dispose it
I wouldn't mind honestly. Seems like a good excuse to skip the social obligations.
If you can make the asteroid cross Earth's orbit 430 seconds sooner or later that's an Earth diameter.

Two approaches to getting that number...

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=diameter+of+earth+%2F+%...

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28430+seconds+*+earth+...

Granted, you'd probably like more than a diameter... but we're talking about it getting there a few minutes faster and it would be a miss.
I agree, but does Sisters of Mercy provide skilled nursing?
I still think LLMs displacing search will have hugely negative consequences for the heath of the internet. Yes, a lot of Google results are seo garbage now, but there's value in interacting directly with the source of a piece of information. LLMs alienate people from those sources, and that threatens the structure of the information economy on the internet. Why share anything if OpenAI is just going to train on your data and cut you out of the transaction?
IMO some topics can't be meaningfully discussed between a group of largely anonymous people, especially when the existence of... hostile interlocutors is always present. There are people I know offline who I'd avoid discussing these topics with, never mind millions of people I've never met, who's body language I can't see, and who's sincerity I can't identify.

As you said, it's tiring, and there are other things to talk about online that don't inevitably lead to the worst possible outcomes.
+ Sorted
I kind of love these cancellation scripts. I recently cancelled my cable because I switched to Fios. The 15 minute script took me through:

1) "I can't believe you're paying that much. You should have called us sooner for a discount." (Blaming the victim? Classy.)

2) "According to our database, you can't get Fios at your address." "I have it. I'm using it right now." "That can't be correct, our database doesn't show it." (Is this the same database that can't tell me what the monthly taxes are going to be when I sign up? It might be time for a different database vendor.)

3) "You really don't want to switch to fiber. Cable has a higher signal strength because it's electrical instead of optical." (I... guess that's true. 0 coulombs of charge pass through the fiber optic cable each second, which is much lower than any other technology!)

There was also something in there about how I don't really want symmetric Internet because asymmetric is better. That one I actually argued with; I have no argument for their database being out of date but them trusting it, or the signal strength thing... but uploading fast is actually important to me. I mentioned that I write software for a living and he didn't press me that much on it, which was nice.

This article reminds me that I need to write to the FTC. This is all flat-out lying, which should be illegal. Obviously, you aren't going to scam someone that's worked at 2 fiber ISPs, but someone less technical probably believes their arguments.

In the end, the 15 minute call was probably the most entertainment I've had in years. Very rarely do people confidently lie to my face, so it was a fun experience. However, if the FTC wants to put everyone in prison for this, I say that's a great idea.
Show HN: ArXiv AI Papers Radio
I wanted to keep up to date with the latest AI research but I don't like reading news articles or watching videos. Now, a radio, a radio I can have on in the background while I'm coding.

Papers Radio is a real-time generated video stream of the latest AI papers on arXiv with AI generated commentary and speech. It goes through summaries of papers and sometimes does a page-by-page discussion. There's the occasional daily summary show as well. I'm tinkering on it, so it's flaky at times, and I apologize for the pronunciation of names and acronyms, Tortoise doesn't do great on those.

If you need something vaguely interesting and educational to listen over the holidays, put it on a spare screen and tune in.
How can you be so confidently wrong? Clearly researchers at Lawrence Livermore think it’s a viable approach, or they wouldn’t bother with developing detailed simulations. Why do you think you know more than those researchers?
Previous:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38680912 (3 days ago)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38607276 (9 days ago)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38556188 (14 days ago)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38542253 (15 days ago)

There is a search box at the bottom of the homepage, but you can also reach it here directly: https://hn.algolia.com/
Proving they know full well what they are doing is illegal.
No the sub is not unstable, it’s just the sub is unique per client_id.

yeah I know that. We basically do both. You create the account with the email/upn but we also save the oid and than we use the oid for matching. If the email changes we update it. If you started your account without the provider and than somebody configured domain+tenant id we first match via upn and after the first login it will use oid.
User still uses upn to start the flow but the matching uses oid.
But we are only dealing with b2b tough.
And we have our own login site that of course needs a upn as well, thus the upn of Microsoft is the same as ours. If you change the upn on the Microsoft side you need to change the login upn on our side aswell.
Another solution would‘ve been to have a unique logon site, in this case it would be possible to directly go to the IdP, but it does not matter that much with login_hint.
Mmm... sounds like they're scared of what could happen if he fell into the 'wrong' hands.
It's me. But we still have a holiday period at the end of year - normally financial targets are hit and it's a 4 day leave to get 10 days off.
It is correct that it is bad practice to paste an nsec, but a lot of nostr services allow it. The login DOES support "login with extension" which is far preferred and much safer. Your private key is stored in a browser plugin and is not transmitted.

Experienced Nostr users will understand this, but I totally agree with your point about making it easier for non-nostr users. Also, they should (at least) strongly encourage people to use a browser extension / wallet instead of pasting their nsec, and provide a guide on how to do that and why.
to be fair they have their upsides, security and encryption, refusal to hand over customer info to government agencies that ask, refusal to comply with built-in back doors

this hasn't changed, has it?
Physics Girl – Dianna Cowern – Health Update #2 [video]
Ask HN: Why aren't all heaters computers?
This is kind of a silly question, but waste heat is waste heat, right? So why isn't all waste heat generated by computers?

Obviously I'm talking about electricity here. How do we have something like Bitcoin but then have electric heaters? Won't a Bitcoin miner produce the same amount of heat given the same electricity? You can use heat pumps for extra gains on either, right?

A Bitcoin miner is more expensive to produce and maintain, yes, but over its lifetime shouldn't it pay for itself? I guess it just seems silly that we have datacenters with cooling (which takes even more electricity), and then also heating for homes.
It's a cool feature because it makes the papers more finable, more easily navigatable, easier to read online and faster to scroll through.
I am also happy for blind people that they can more easily use ArXive with Braille readers now.

(I'm still a fan of printing the PDFs, because I annotate on paper and refer
to page numbers, but the HTML feature is in addition to PDF download, not a replacement.)

One thing that still sucks (not ArXiv related though) is reading mathematical formulae on the Kindle - wonder if someone with rendering expertise could have a look into the MOBI format.
> Some of the worst teams I've been on have been behind some of the most grueling & "selective" interview processes

By this process we should just drop hiring bars altogether. But for every team I've worked at, hiring bars clearly worked. We filter out maybe 95% of candidates and none of them would work for our team. Everyone on our team is incredible at what they do.

When I had to lower the hiring bar, it was destructive. We hired a person that was inexperienced and could not keep up with the rest of us. They did not have the domain knowledge others on our team had. They were eager, friendly, and personable, but they required a longer period of extensive coaching get up to a level we would consider adequate.
And climate change is making it worse. It isn't just the government's fault.
The attack works by getting the user onto a page you control that looks like a slack page that says, "we need you to confirm your email". User enters their email and gets a legitimate email from slack. User enters the code on the original phishing page and the attacker gets a link that lets them log in as the user. I built this exact exploit for slack in a few hours. It was trivial.

I've never seen a foolproof way to mitigate this. Best you can do is big warnings in the email telling the user never to enter the code anywhere but slack.com. You can also do fancy stuff like comparing IP addresses to make sure they're from the same region but the attacker can also do fancy stuff like detect where your IP is from and use a VPN to get an IP in the same area.
Preaching water, drinking wine.

Classic.
I thought more people already knew about this. It’s quite evident when you see their product announcements.
I love the art in quanta magazine
"Due to the current economic situation we don't have new headcount for our org however feel free to reach out if you have a diverse candidate that would be interested in joining"

From a director during a all-hands.

"We have already selected a male candidate for the internship so it'd be best if the next one was a woman"

From my manager's manager.

"Your no-hire vote should have more justification since the candidate is a woman"

The reality is that we need a strong legal ruling against these type of things otherwise it is simply too "problematic" to bring this up and the risk for retaliation is insanely high.
> > Okay. I ride bikes and EVs. Cornering on a bike (ie two wheels) is way slower and harder than what an EV feels like.

It depends on the type of bike and the skill of the rider ;)

> > petrol is better is just change resistance

Re-inventing the wheel should be done for the benefit of consumers, the whole electricity revoloution in automotive is a political thing imposed by the elites who have too much free time on their hands so they worry about how's the climate is gonna be 50 years from now, whereas normal people don't even plan on living that long.

> > Electricity is ubiquitous

So is oil, you need it for literally everything in a city ranging from cement to lubricants to asphalt and it's much easier to transport to the rural areas, quite frankly you and I would not be here if it wasn't the case

> > The model 3 is superior in almost every

Then why does the Model 3 lose every lap time comparisons in corner intense tracks like the Nurburgring or Laguna Seca or Silverstone, and not only that, the gas car will be able to do laps for the whole day, the Model 3 overheats and would leave you stranded

> > Most people do not keep their car for 1M miles

That's because they fail much sooner than that, in an industry which is 200 years old there is nothing left to invent (again if not for political purposes) so old cars seem extremely attractive, BMWs and Mercedes from 2003 have better UI and interiors than many new cars, especially Teslas

> > Tesla are Better and safer

Has Tesla ever achieved anything like Mercedes did in Laredo Texas back in long gone 2005? Video below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMRbV4pIdyc

I am sure not, because large mouth Musk would have kept tweeting about it, but such levels of reliability in extreme conditions are sadly way beyond the capabilities of the automobiles manufactured in his factories (or should I say tents?)
No intend of trashing (in marketing pages titles tend to be more flashy).

In any case I just updated it. Happy holidays!
That is super cool! Another thing I really like about fellow emacs'ers; they almost always use good copyleft licenses.
You typically send a .tar.gz of tex files (and, figures, .bbl, etc.) to the journal. And then you typically upload something very similar to the arxiv (I have an arxivify Makefile target for for my papers that handles some arxiv idiosyncrasies like requiring all figures to be in the same folder as the .tex file, and it also clears all the comments; sometimes you can find amusing things in source file comments for some papers).

Some fields may use Word files, but in most of physics you would get laughed at...

It is true that most journals will typically reformat your .tex in a different way than is displayed on the arXiv.
They acquired Altera in 2015, which in the tech world is when the dinosaurs roamed the earth. How much more time would they need to see a profitable synergy? Bearing in mind they can probably see what's in the pipeline for the next couple of years.

I'm not an expert... But in my naiive opinion it seems entirely reasonable to expect an acquisition to start paying off within ten years?

Would love to hear counterexamples
Conventional heaters are much more BTUs/watt efficient.

EDIT: By conventional I meant typical/normal, my fault for forgetting that conventional has a specific meaning.