skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't matter if they were hiring 50 people or 500 people. If your policy amounts to "we have N headcount candidates of any background, plus M headcount that's exclusive to X races and Y gender" then that's denial of employment on the basis of race and gender. Regardless of what the values of M and N are - well, unless M is zero.

If a company institutes a hiring policy that amounts to saying, "99% of our headcount is off-limits to Asians" is it correct to say "no Asians are denied a job, under any scenario"? It's technically correct in that Asian applicants could vie for the 1% of headcount that's available to Asians. But how many Asians would have been hired absent this headcount restriction? Probably more than 1%!

Okay, what if it wasn't 99% restricted to Asian, but just 50%? Can a company just say "half of our headcount is off limits to Asians"? Does that lower percentage make it okay?

No, of course not. It's not okay if it's 99%, 50%, 1%, or 0.01%. It's denial of employment to wall-off any proportion of headcount on the basis of protected class.

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In case you need an explicit scenario laid out to see how candidates are denied employment because of Dropbox's "opportunistic hiring" policy, here it is:

The company has already exhausted its non-restricted headcount. An Asian male applied. He gets rejected automatically because the only remaining headcount is restricted to women and URM. A woman applies. She's allowed to interview because the company still has that "opportunistic" headcount, and unlike our Asian male applicant her gender makes her eligible for this set-aside headcount.

If all headcount (including that "opportunistic headcount") were available to all races and genders, our Asian male would have been able to get hired.
The Old Bailey with Britain's last court reporters
I think he's asking more about which funds, but coincidentally I have 401ks at the same 3 places.

Everything is going towards a target date fund in vanguard with a low expense ratio. This should manage the risk for me. I am also contributing pre tax, since I expect to be in a lower tax bracket when I retire.

Oh also, I plan to eventually transfer the other two accounts into my current vanguard 401k. This is different from rolling over into an IRA. I think 401k is better since it has more legal protections
Tylenol is my favorite drug in this bucket
I haven't found Debian to be as slick an experience as Linux Mint. For a non-techie, Debian requires more tech help. I work in IT and ran my own Debian web/email/etc server for 15 years, and it was a great experience, but even I prefer Linux Mint on my desktops and laptops.
You don't even have to be running a webmail service, the instant you use any service to send an email with even one user-controlled field (even something as innocuous as their name) you already have a problem.
Tldr; other papers simplify muscles to the molecular level. This one explores how it acts as an engine in various contexts: human neuron contraction, insect hydraulic contraction, and shape of the whole fiber throughout the process.

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Interesting stuff
But it shouldn't. Like we know we have a limitation on the size of things at launch, so why not have a tried and true method of unfolding things in space? Pretty much every thing launched into space that requires solar panels does this. JWST did it for the primary mirror. Unfolding should be something that is just part of what we do when going to space. Unfurling heat shields like JWST is not something that we would need for the vast majority of things.
http://archive.today/iadPh
Kedr Programming Language
The Shining has so many reasons why it "has stakes". While Duvall was definitely an amazing part of that, it seems unfair to deprecate the rest of the creative folks involved in the film.
Wow this one hit me with major nostalgia.

I remember hacking away at the X Config files for a long time installing slackware on my 486 laptop and some external displays in 1995-1996 and being super worried about breaking stuff.

That was kind of before you could look stuff up easily on the internet, plus you might not have had the modem or ethernet card working in linux yet either.
Yes, it is not a technical necessity to store these messages. But there is the option to do it (and some people are evidently doing it). The point is that for one-time-passwords, it's not even an option, not matter how hard you try. You simply cannot make this class of mistake. Unless you try really really hard to fuck up and, say, for some very weird reason, exfiltrate the one-time passwords generated on the user's device every few seconds.
I will look into fixing it!
I don't think the root permission ban is for the website. In most cases it's about how your phone + the bank's app has become the new hardware token / key generator. Before smartphones I could log on to the bank's website but any transaction will have to be authenticated using a hardware token (presumed secure). That's moved into an app now.
Well one does wonder, where did the icons like BK pick up their own craft? Surely there were no programming books before computers. Which shoulders did our giants stand on?
A bash script for postprocessing the sorting is certainly slower than just having sort do it correctly in the first place.
Convex, the backend-as-a-service, just released a native auth solution (based on Auth.js).
Ike jime: Traditional Japanese slaughter technique to kill a fish using a spike
10PRINTCHR$(INT(RND(1)+0.5)+109);
20GOTO10
Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All but Dead, Market Analysts Say
> Actual instruction encoding is horrible. If you’re arguing that you can write a high-level assembly over the top, then you aren’t so much writing assembly as you are writing something in between.

One instruction in x86 assembly is one instruction in the machine code, and one instruction as recognized by the processor. And except for legacy instructions that we shouldn't teach people to use, each of these is not much higher-level than an instruction in any other assembly language. So I still don't see what the issue is, apart from "the byte encoding is wacky".

(There are μops beneath it of course, but these are reordered and placed into execution units in a very implementation-dependent manner that can't easily be optimized until runtime. Recall how VLIW failed at exposing this to the programmer/compiler.)

> padding a cache line, avoiding instructions with too many uops

Any realistic ARM or RISC-V processor these days also supports out-of-order execution with an instruction cache. The Cortex processors even have μops to support this! The classic 5-stage pipeline is obsolete outside the classroom. So if you're aiming for maximum performance, I don't see how these are concerns that arise far less in other assembly languages. E.g., you'll always have to be worried about register dependencies, execution units, optimal loop unrolling, etc. It's not like a typical program will be blocked on the μop cache in any case.

> APX 32 registers and more normal shorter instructions

APX doesn't exist yet, and I'd wager there's a good chance it will never reach consumer CPUs.
A very big part of art (probably the biggest part) is the meaning behind it. AIs have no internal "experience" or novel ideas so the art is ultimately meaningless, or only as meaningful as the idea behind the prompt the person put into it. This is why you can have an incredibly slick, high budget movie that is universally considered bad because it's soulless. If AIs become "conscious" or something and we actually have an interest in how they see the world I think their art could be interesting. Even without the consciousness I think that we can have interesting "art" that comes out of them based on how they see the world, which brings to mind things like the old Google AI Image generator hallucination/dream images from a few years back.
We would love help developing a Ruby SDK! We programmatically generate our Python, JavaScript, and C bindings from our Rust library. Check out the rust-bridge folder for more info on how we do that.
This sounds reasonable and I’m with you, but compelled to ask, which studies, can you provide links?

Knowing those sources could help us find more recent ones citing them, and see how this strategy has held up over time.

Here’s one:

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/14/9/409
Why do you think such students should have been in SE instead? Because it aligns more with their goals?

Perhaps you are right, but I am thankful for my CS background despite being a SWE myself.

Understand that I am also close to the intelligence level of crayon-eating compared to most on this site. I felt like my unspectacular public state university level CS degree wouldn't even hold a candle to some of the people's education in this very thread like the one commenter who studied at MIT.

However, I still believe what I learned was extremely valuable. In fact, I am sadden by my level of understanding and I wish I knew more CS. Just because I do not apply pure CS every single day does not mean that my decisions are not influenced by what I learned. At worst, my knowledge has never been a hindrance.I refuse to believe that knowledge can ever be useless. Not applicable != useless.

Genuine question though, what would a software engineering program provide that a computer science student would struggle to understand?
^ Likewise if certain foods set you off and those foods are actually "good for you". If you feel like crap after eating a ball of grease, that's one thing, but it turns out leafy greens aren't supposed to give you a nuclear-level stomachache.
Former Twitter Employees $500M Severance Suit Dismissed
Vanguard, but instead of using target date funds I choose the index fund allocation manually. The target date funds basically just hold 4 index funds. If you are in a tax advantaged account, it's pretty trivial to just update those allocations once a year to pay lower fees.
You can totally use an existing postgres database. Just make sure to install the pgvector and pgml postgres extensions and it will work!
Just to be sure, I'm speaking below about application/system logs, not as "our event sourcing uses log storage"

Yes, you probably don't want to store debug logs of 2 years ago, but logs and metrics solve very different problems.

Logs need to have determined lifecycle, e.g. most detailed logs are stored for 7/14/30/release cadence days, then discarded. But when you need to troubleshoot something, metrics give you signal, but logs give you information about what was going on.
Several financial institutions I work with require 2FA with SMS, and do not offer an option for HOTP/TOTP. FML.
Unfortunately the pgml extension does not work on AWS RDS so there is not.
Library of Congress Recommended Formats Statement
With its 9m fairing Starship could nearly double JWST's collector area with no folds.

Big rockets solve a lot of problems.
I hope they decentralise for their own protection and open a few more.
How to prevent shadow AI disaster
I made the mistake of walking into a maze at Burning Man, and as I was walking in there were people begging us if we had seen the entrance recently. I didn't think much of it, until I understood just how "fiendishly" designed the maze was. It wasn't very large, maybe 150 foot square, 8 foot tall plywood sheets, so you couldn't just climb out. At the center of the maze was a ladder you would climb up to a platform where you could see the whole maze except the part under the 20 foot square platform you were standing on. And that was the tricky part. It seemed that when you went through the center part of the maze you would end up in an unexpected part of the maze, and even though we could see the maze from above, none of it made any sense to how we might get out. It took us about 30 minutes to get to the platform and another hour to get out. I will never go into another maze again.
> Unfortunately it means that all banks use SMS

This is not true, I have used multiple financial things where they have different codes for different uses (Raiffeisen, K&H) or apps which have a server sent event and local approval showing the transaction (wise, Fineco)
There is more than layout / tile schedule in FA. For example, first, to be able to fuse all these together [0] at all, you need to "decompose" the softmax to make it combinable, which requires maintaining some extra statistics. Won't gonna repeat the math here as the original FA paper is already very clear.

[0] so you can avoid materializing intermediate matrices and still being able to compute in blocks.
The US once thought it needed to prevent Soviet nukes from appearing on Cuba, almost started WW3 over it and got what it needed.
Connected Scatterplots Make Me Feel Dumb
Watermelon Cupcakes Kicked Off an Internal Storm at Meta
Oh yeah, I'm not blaming them at all, it's just you can't really compare Europe's wilderness at all to places like the US' or especially Canada's. I think a lot of Europeans aren't even aware that what they consider pristine nature would be considered low quality second-growth forest in other countries.
> I think LaTeX is a far superior choice, yet the author pretty much dimissed it as a possibility.

Learning curve is a thing: I've never touched LaTeX, and I don't anticipate using it in the future. If I wanted to automate a thing as a learning project, I probably would rule out LaTeX unless I had a reason to want to learn it.
You can also get the same result by declaring the function's type:

* (declaim (ftype (function (fixnum fixnum) fixnum) fx-add))
(FX-ADD)
* (defun fx-add (x y)
(declare (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0) (debug 0)))
(+ x y))
FX-ADD
* (disassemble 'fx-add)
; disassembly for FX-ADD
; Size: 6 bytes. Origin: #x552C81A6 ; FX-ADD
; 6: 4801FA ADD RDX, RDI
; 9: C9 LEAVE
; A: F8 CLC
; B: C3 RET
NIL
100% SCHD.
There’s a difference between a point in physical time, and a coordinate on a calendar. UTC works great for points in time, both past and future. So UTC is very appropriate for logging, including of financial transactions, where often what matters is the exact point in time something happens and not how that maps to someone’s calendar or the time zone on a server.

But UTC doesn’t work at all for a calendar app, where a calendar entry could for example span a calendar day, in some specific time zone, especially if it is in the future and there is not yet a mapping between that future date and UTC.
Great question! Making calls to external services is not something we plan to support. The point of Korvus is to write SQL queries that take advantage of the pgml and pgvector extensions. Making calls to external services is something that could be done by users after retrieval.
The idiot child from "Married with Children" who was eventually abandoned on a street corner when they got tired of him?
Video Ethnography of "ICARUS" on the Xerox Alto [video] (2017)
It doesn’t cut both ways because I’m not making that argument at all. You interjected your own argument that you’re now arguing against.

I’m making the argument that “usefulness” extends outside of Linux use. I’m not saying it only extends to a specific group. Point me to where that is even implied.
Consider this scenario:

- I get into a spacecraft, go into orbit around earth.
- Once in orbit, I start accelerating until my clock ticked faster for long enough to be 1s ahead of earth.
- Once I'm 1s ahead of earth, I capture transmissions my buddy sent to me of the stock exchange rates.
- My buddy, on the ground, has a telescope and is ready to invest or sell stocks depending on whether I stop or keep accelerating.
- My buddy now has knowledge about the future, I land and share the money we stole from the future with him.

My intuition says this should be impossible, but it seems that I got the "why" wrong. Or maybe everything wrong.
8 users are online right now but nobody fits my match criteria with 20+ interests in profile.

PS. I hope it beeps somehow from the background of my browser if someone fits me eventually.
"There is a very large group of people for whom they do not work"

- many people are unwilling to wait the proper amount of time "4-6 weeks" for efficacy to manifest *especially* when for the first 2-3 weeks you many times feel much worse than baseline.

First month on Effexor made me feel miserable. More anxious but much, much more irritable and depressed. Then one day a month in I'm sitting at my desk and I suddenly feel high as a kite lol. Melting bliss.

That feeling too fades and then you just feel better than baseline until you build tolerance to current dose. Raise, rinse and repeat.

Better than having to be near an exit whenever inside a structure!
Slightly silly question—did you actually check the validity of your solutions? It would be extremely funny, and certainly the type of thing I would have done as a kid, to just assume the path I’d found was the right one, haha.
Divided lights come in simulated either sandwiched in the glazing or installed outside of the glazing!

My house had them outside of the glazing (Andersen windows) and I removed them all.
Why Schwab dividend equity etf?
Terminal Madness (1980) [video]
So a couple of things are happening here: most important is that the budget for multiple launches and physical spacecraft to do the same mission just isn't there, hasn't been there since the 1970's. Viking and Voyager each got two bites at the apple, but since then NASA has decided that their reliability is good enough to get away with one actual launch. And so the easiest form of reuse is off the table. And then since every mission is different, you end up needing different things for components.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Observer is what happens when you try and reuse components without fully taking into account the differences in mission. This was an early 1990's NASA Mars mission which failed because they reused an engine from Earth orbiting satellites which would always fire the engine shortly after getting into space. Probably its fuel tank failed because it was expected to lie dormant for months of travel and then fire. So the environment that HST, JWST, the Parker Solar Probe, and Juno are expected to operate in are enormously different from each other and re-using a component and having it fail because it was designed for a different environment would be really bad.

Oh, and building a new JWST now would be pretty expensive, because a lot of the cost is in testing and certifying that it will do what it's supposed to do, and all of the people who built and tested the JWST have moved on and changed jobs, so all of that workforce would have to be re-created, and that's where the money goes, to pay people. If you wanted to build 8 JWST's at once, the cost wouldn't be that much more than building one JWST, but building a single new one now would be expensive.
Also "brain zaps". Highly recommend listening to your physician with a proper roll off period instead of cold turkey. Also be wary of taking certain recreational drugs (Molly, X) due to seretonin syndrome.
Does living in America's wealthiest communities make you safer?
You have to first see a doctor who will prescribe the medication followed by a pharmacist.

I don't see a claim by OP that their experience generalizes absolutely. I'm also having a hard time seriously believing you don't think people are aware that folk can have varied reactions, people become aware of allergies as a concept usually well before psychiatric medication.

Just to be clear - I don't mind you adding in that additional context/reminder, I think additional perspective like that is frequently helpful, but I do resent you demanding others add it in your stead like they've missed an obligation or made a mistake.
If I drive a car across country but it breaks down, I refer to that as being stuck at whatever location until the car can be repaired. So yeah, trapped might not be the most accurate word, but it's not that far fetched in every day parlance with how common exaggeration for effect is used in daily dialog. There's only so much that can be "examined" while this thing is docked in space.

Essentially, the Starliner's astronauts are waiting for the AAA tow truck to come help them, so they're trapped from being able to do their normally scheduled itinerary. You can mince words all you want, but the egg is on Boeing's face already. Having Dragon come get them would just be the mercy killing of the wounded animal that is Boeing.
Bitwarden supports, may be beta. Passkeys are usually controlled by corporate controlled devices—why I haven’t used them yet. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39698502

Keeping the storage separate (or not) from the device may not be important to you but keys are useful to some, for that reason.
In "The Three Most Important Things in Life," Harlan Ellison refers to "the improbably-named Briony Catling."

I think he was onto something. Never heard of either of those names in the real world.

[edit]
OK, so I had to check and I was wrong. Must have been one of his other essays. But for the uninitiated, here you go: https://harlanellison.com/iwrite/mostimp.htm

You're welcome ;-)
I'll be the first to admit I know very little about acetaminophen, but what I know is that it can be good for breaking fevers and allegedly it's useful for pain relief (not my experiences)?

I try my hardest to avoid it due to the associated hepatotoxicity which, to my understanding, is less likely/not observed in other NSAIDs.
Super interesting question.

I didn't, but found this [1] 2001 paper without much difficulty. Getting much out of it is more difficult. As I understand it, the complexity measure they propose is somewhat related to the difference of arctans of turns to take "forward" vs turns to take "backward", summed up for every fork and scaled with some length measurement. There are definitely plenty of other complexity measure though (e.g. number of forks, number of incorrect paths, etc) -- correlating that to practical difficulty is less straightforward.

[1] https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-213.pdf
OK, this looks great. $15-60 for plasmid sampling!
Speaking of burning men, how do maze organizers typically handle fire safety?
quickwit's big advantage is that you can target it at something that speaks S3 and it will be happy. so ideally you delegate the whole storage story by hiring someone who knows their way around Ceph (erasure coding, load distribution) and call a few DC/colo/hosting providers (initial setup and the regular HW replacements).
Intel is coming out with an improved x86 instruction set that removes a lot of the cruft, called ‘APX’ for advanced performance extensions.
Just because `os.path` is accessible through just `import os`, doesn't mean that you shouldn't import it explicitly. As the Zen of Python says, explicit is better than implicit. After all it's documented separately at https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html

If you see `os.path.basename` what could `os.path` be? It would be a module most of the time because it's written with lowercase. `itertools.chain.from_iterable` [1] would be a notable exception.

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#itertools.c...
If true, potentially a securities fraud case.
If you just rolled your money into vanguard directly, you would avoid the .25% annual fee which is a lot of money compounded over time
most people publishing a website either cannot or do not care to host the ad server on the same domain, they just want to monetize the site.

things could get a lot better, but this self hosting suggestion in particular will never see wide adoption unless major hosting providers build it and host for their customers.
most people don't even bother to self-host/bundle stuff like their fonts and JS libraries unless they have have a JS framework in the loop doing it for them.
Nope I checked. I was wrong a couple of times but it was rare.
Any idea how this works? It seems crazy that a generic engine can outdo a language-specific LSP server.