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> wow.. our society really has a tendency to overcorrect regarding social issues

I don't agree. You're reacting to a one-sided, very partial critique of a policy change that no longer benefitted a specific group and the only tradeoff was a hypothetical and subjective drop of the hiring bar. This complain can also be equally dismissed as members of the privileged group complaining over the loss of privilege.

The article is very blunt in the way their framed the problem: the in-group felt entitled to a job they felt was assured to them, but once the rules changed to have them compete on equal footing for the same position... That's suddenly a problem.

To make matters worse, this blend of easily arguable nitpicking is being used to kill any action or initiative that jeopardizes the best interests of privileged groups.

Also, it should be stressed that this pitchfork drive against discriminate hiring practices is heard because these privileged groups believe their loss of privilege is a major injustice. In the meantime, society as a whole seemed to have muted any concern voiced by any persecuted and underprivileged group for not even having the chance of having a shot at these opportunities. Where's the outrage there?
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Why I agree with many points you make... let's keep Perforce out of it. The amount of damage that program done to my source code, and the amount of pain caused by it in daily use tells me that 10 minutes will not cut it.

Here's a simple example of how people shoot themselves in the foot with Perforce all the time: it makes files you edit read-only, and then you run with your pants on fire trying to figure out how to save your changes, because the system won't let you do that. And then you do something dumb, like copy the contents of the file you aren't able to save someplace else, and then try to incorporate those changes back once you've dealt with the file that Perforce wouldn't save. And then end up with a merge conflict just working with your one single change that you are trying to add to your branch.

I never regretted never having to touch Perforce ever again. Just no.
An actuall global event that killed hundreds of millions of individuals is a very different thing than what Musk is doing, without any such precipitation...

I do not agree that firing should have been on the table, however this is not an Apples and Oranges situation...
"Culture" means that it has become common and normalised. If there was a big uptick in pie attacks then sure, but there hasn't.
It looks like it is happening.

You are also seeing falling prices on second hand NVIDIA chips (like the h800 and h100) and cloud hosting in China.
Most of C# 1.0 for starters, given that it was born from the lawsuit and J++ extensions, J/Direct, COM interop, events and Windows Foundation Classes.

More recently, default interface methods, apparently the ongoing discriminate union design seems to now be settling on similar Scala/Java approach, I still have to spend some time delving into it.

Not delving now on the CLR, versus the various JVM implementations, regarding GC, JIT, PGO, tiered compilation, escape analysis,...
The US also has comparable hardware, and it had it for a while: Intel Gaudi. Similar perf characteristics, works very well for inference, costs substantially less than H100. The entire field seems to be drowning in money, so no one gives a shit.
> Assuming it is accurate...

Why assume with some random .com TLD source when authoritative data is both public[1] and direct from the cow's mouth?

[1] https://www.faa.gov/jobs/working_here/benefits#collapse5386
I don't disagree with any of this and I can definitely see this in the election results. But this has been the case for a while now. The US has lagged other developed nations on many indicators for a long time. Income inequality, life expectancy, education, you name it. There was a lot of heated debates and intense feelings during the Obama era too.

But this time around something seems to have changed, where his supporters are ok with trump and team doing whatever. Be a forever president, rip up the constitution, rule by decree.
I thought everyone here has subscription fatigue already.
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Ah, yes, the "Peace on Earth" future!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_on_Earth_(novel)
DrudgeReport is boring as hell looking and was successful for years. Even HackerNews is about as boring as it gets, and we use it because it works. I think the world is ready to move on from the whole entire internet being a massive "MySpace Page" of garbage.
At the risk of whataboutism, this is looking a little differnet now on the world stage with the US-on-Denmark threats. A second source for AI hw from China could turn out to be a good card to have even for western countries.
Luckily there is reader mode, the contrast is so low to make it almost illegible.
Use of weapons is only benign to you if you're not on the receiving end. Imagine your family being blown up by a rocket because an AI system hallucinated that they're part of a dangerous terror cell.

My point though is that this is the only use case for such systems. The common comparisons to things like knives are invalid for this reason.
I lived in both the US for a while (Bay Area), but I am now back in Europa. Quality of life in Europa is really high and you can certainly live quite well in most Western European cities from a typical wage for a researcher. Although many people would indeed not need to own a car (public transport is often very good, in many places you can also get around via bike or even by walking), most do and this easily possible with common salaries. There are places which are expensive, but many cities are quite reasonable. Universal healthcare, a stable society, low crime are among the many advantages.
It’s the same for Amazon, at least in the US. By law, if a retailer sells you a thing, liability first goes to the manufacturer, and, failing that, the retailer.

Amazon isn’t a retailer, they’re a “marketplace” or some other BS the courts buy, so they’re not liable if they sell you stuff that’s negligently dangerous. Good luck tracking down SGVEEESQRTS or whoever built the thing.
So aren’t you happy things got better?
There are protests planned for today (Wednesday) across the US
My guess is that a shitton of R&D labs will move out of the us now?
And this time, people don't seem to care about that anymore. Despite the right supposedly being the group that's all about the constitution and rule of law.
I could try emailing them or the labels, but the genres I listen to are mostly Latin American
I really have no clue about history, and what you say sounds very reasonable. I guess it is true.

But I think any person who wants to live in a democracy needs a bare minimum ability to detect trickery. Because there has not yet been invented a system where none of the politicians lie, and you can make good decisions based on taking them all at their word.

Now, maybe the level of subversion and trickery in pre-WW2 Germany and/or in the US now is beyond reasonable. I don't know. But in general, if "people were lied to" is a good reason for people to choose bad politicians, I don't think there is any hope for a good outcome, ever. The world just does not work that way.
Until we fundamentally change how the world works, wanting to make a lot of money is no better or worse than any other reason to innovate.
Mehdi Hasan and Hasan Piker are two different people.
Why is this a problem?

Typical HN downvoting because of “muh vendor lockin” without giving an answer as to why exactly this matters for the general population.

It is a fantastic business model.
I mean, he's literally gone on live TV, in an official briefing, saying he's going to take over the Gaza Strip. With no authority except his own. This is exactly how dictators across the world operate after they're initially elected.
Okay let's take another reference. You're applauding an emperor that has no clothes.
Back in the day, when manual testing was the norm, folks would spend ages crafting test specs in Excel and have someone else review them. But when it came time to actually run the tests, they'd often be short on time or things wouldn’t go smoothly. This led to fudging results since everything was manual. This kind of thing was common, and there were constant inquiries into why these fudging occurred and how to prevent them.

Now? Automating tons of tests and running them instantly is a breeze. I wrote an article showing how you can use an AI coding agent, GitAuto, to whip up integration test PRs in minutes, run those tests immediately, and keep them running continuously going forward. If you're in a similar boat, give it a shot.
You’re the main income source for the Netflix :)
Ah so the morality of censorship depends on exactly who your employer is. Got it.
Unfair title. How do they know the beavers didn’t take even longer to plan it?
Ah Riot.js, it was like Vue before Vue, yet it never took off for some reason, and it had component templates with locally scoped JS and CSS. I remember mentioning it to a few fellow devs when they were hyping up Vue and nobody ever even heard about it.
The article does not imply that they reduced standards in order to let DEI student pass.

Rather they added an insane biographical test that only DEI students could pass, with the net effect of dramatically reducing the availability of ATC's.

i.e. a minority ATC is just as qualified, but there are far fewer white ATC than there should be.
It is ironic that the most useful thing Musk and Trump will do is wake people up to the fact their house is on fire...
US Postal Service suspends incoming packages from China
But what’s missing is just a fundamental sense of scale. One can rightly think this is a bit ridiculous, while also understanding it’s not that big of a deal. Honestly, there are so many economic and social issues that have real importance on people’s lives, and half the country is wound up in a culture war over which words are considered polite or not.
A MAGA DEI hire
> And Trump won the popular vote.

Not in the 2016 election he didn't.

(And AIUI the last one is beginning to look a lot closer than first assumed, too.)
This is not a dark pattern, this is illegal. Even the US has introduced click-to-cancel recently.
Maybe you’re young, but git is better than all of the other shit before it.

Try to come up with something simpler than git, and you’ll end up with something like SVN or CVS that struggled with more than a couple of people working on the same files.

Try to make something that is more content aware, and you’ll find out how git got its name in the first place.
Hmm… maybe it actually can think?
Did you also tell them about “server side rendering” capabilities of PHP?
The question and this comment[1] help me narrow down my real question which is

I want to learn enough mathematics that will help me to understand and learn about ML/AI and newer research and furthermore quantum computing.

Is that even possible? If so which topics I can target first? That will help me refactor and rebuild my foundational mathematical knowledge

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42933232
You created this account 1hr ago, and are already 3 comments in on this topic. In all your comments you're doing mental gymnastics on a pretty clear-cut case. they have tapes.

Imagine, for a second, having tapes on someone saying "Our organization, he said, “wasn’t for ~~Caucasians~~ <insert minority here>, it wasn’t for, you know, the ~~white~~ <insert minority here> male, it wasn’t for an alien on Mars,” and he confirmed that he provided information “to minimize the competition.”

Would you still argue this the way you are doing? Would this still have been buried? Are you actually trying to argue this isn't a blatant case of racism?!
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Isn‘t this the classic gym subscription example? How many people have a subscription and actually don‘t use it. There is an episode of Friends about that.

About the fair pricing:
Would love to have this also for my car lease ;) But more on a weekly bases.
Most people assume "private" means something more
In itself not much. But that’s what the executive order to remove DEI is about, and this isa symptom of it.

I think meritocracies are good, and racism in all forms are bad.
Are you complaining that I failed to "avoid general tangents" or something? Because I don't believe swearing is against the guidelines... (and I agreed with your criticism of the swearing used by the person you initially replied to)
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Yeah, at this point, the surprise isn’t that it happened. It’s that people still pretend it’s not a big deal
Maybe he is going to take a hard look at why this service is subsidised bu the US tax payer...
Heya, this is Zac from Kagi.

We do not block Tor - in fact, we recently launched our own self-hosted Tor node[1].

We have had problems with GCP blocking VPN and Tor traffic (mostly the former) when we have made zero configuration to do so. It's quite frustrating, and we have been working with their support to improve this generally.

Haven't heard anyone having issues with Tor since we set up the node though :)
If you give it a try, let us know how it works for you.

[1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/accessing-via-tor...
The other side only sees a link. They don't even care which service that link originates from, they just press yes and that's it.

With all due respect, seeing anything more malicious is just extending your own emotions against apple to the topic.
Trump won his first term in 2016 because Americans were fed up with the Bush+Obama status quo of endless wars and wast

Does this include threatening Greenland with military action or does it not count as war if there is little resistance to be expected?
Also helps to scare with huge fines set up for the likes of Google and Facebook which any normal company can‘t pay in their wildest dreams.
And of course January 6, a literal coup attempt, was perpetrated by the Rs. Nothing remotely like that on the D side.
> That's a kind of lottery-mentality that Europe doesn't want to attract anyway.

It’s not lottery mentality, it’s risk taking. And it’s something that the EU should be fostering. The US encourages risk taking where failing isn’t even seen as a bad thing.
You’re in Australia?

If anything like that happens again, or something like you purchase a second hand car but weren’t supplied the signed registration paper / no receipt… need a day off work due to illness but don’t want to pay to see a doctor / telehealth etc etc

You can statutory declaration, a written statement you declare to be true, many professionals can witness them, teachers, dentists, vets, engineers, mostly anyone who’s practice requires they be a member of a professional organisation.

If you were to serve such to Anytime Fitness, either before you intended to leave serviced area, or any time prior to them selling the dept to recovery, they are obliged to cancel from the date they were served or the date you state in the declaration.

A Process Server can hand them the declaration, or you can in person, or registered mail to head office.

This also tends to work for parking ticket fines issued by private car park operators whereby you make a reasonable offer for the time you were parked there—eg ten minutes prior to the first ticket, so one whole hour of parking as a reasonable counter offer to their punitive ticketed fee—though these all tend to be electronically gated these days so mostly moot.

I tend to do a higher than average level of minor civil disobedience type behaviour, and tend to find it quite enjoyable arguing my point knowing I’ll typically win the argument.

Yours truely, Mr Middle Age Curmudgeon
He's not really forgetting monitoring (etc). You'll still need monitoring in place regardless of whether you're monitoring your own servers (colo, etc) or monitoring Cloud servers.

And "when stuff breaks" happens regardless of whether you've chosen Cloud or to run your own servers. It all breaks on occasion (though hopefully rarely).
You mean the Silk Road which exposed the real IP of the web server due to misconfiguration? Tor can be compromised (run a bunch of exit nodes and do traffic correlation) but Silk Road made pretty basic mistakes.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/09/dread-pirate-sunk-by-lea...
Safe C++ could still be a genuine improvement on Rust - if only because the community would be larger by at least one order of magnitude compared to present-day Rust. Though you would also need a viable C++ epochs proposal to keep the complexity from becoming totally unmanageable.
Anyone in principle can, but the elderly actually do.

There is a reason they don’t work anymore, and that they get frequent doctor’s checkups.

If you think the population from age 25-55 deteriorates as quickly as the population over 70 I don’t know what to tell you.
The myth BSD is more secure comes from the frequency of unreported zero day exploits. One of my former managers ran the platform for years... right up until the institutional router was compromised.

The lesson here is that if the device was made by an external firm, than the responsibility wouldn't have fallen on him politically. One may assume it is operator/administrative error, but this guy wasn't YOLO'ing by any stretch of the imagination. He was replaced 3 months later for unspecified reasons.

Critical systems are a different problem domain with different rules. =3
That makes me sad. Yet Google's shift here isn't surprising... It's part of the broader trend of big tech aligning more closely with government. But the real question is does this shift make AI development more accountable or does it just normalize AI's role in warfare and surveillance under the guise of "democratic values"?
I'd say about a good 25% at least of the global SaaS revenue is dormant "gym" accounts by now.
Your comment comes off as alarmist, but then I realized the content of the article, and think that you may be right.

I still stand by my point that most of our politicians have done this to us, on all sides of the political spectrum. And that we would be better off empathizing with our neighbors rather than any politician.

But the scale of the jump from previous actions to this one is enormous and shouldn’t be dismissed at all.
I'd argue WhatsApp is better positioned (globally).
Third time? SVN was a big improvement over CVS. CVS was full of UX blunders, kind of like Git compared to something with good UX.
Strange? That’s a classic gold digger-trophy wife relationship.
> I will mostly ignore homosexual interactions.
I hear you.

And the reason is "drumroll", people like Musk. How exactly, is it that billionaires have continued to do so well for so long while the working class hasn't experienced a pay increase since the 70s?

You know pays those salaries, right? Big companies and the billionaires who chair them.

Of course, good job f'ing yourself over further, that safety net you might have had? Gone under Musk.
Ah so is there a way I can magically get everyone to go back to `master`?
Well back then we didn’t have all of that memory for those fancy abstraction layers. Sticking your finger in the framebuffer probably wasn’t the worst way to do that!
All you need is a little “Just”(TM) and everything is possible.

Typical HN comment minimising the immense effort required to do %thing% due to their own arrogance.
I completely disagree with you. Very ideological people might be given to lie about or simply ignore things that challenge their ideology.
Sorry, but comparing the living/working standards of [developing country] to the wealthiest nation on earth is a silly 1990s emotional appeal ignoring the reality that, every society has to climb the ladder. And actively harms this process.

You do realize the default state of humanity is living in the dirt and fighting off starvation daily right? It takes decades/hundreds of years to develop an advanced economy and fight for the institutions that enable this not to be the case. Undesirable manufacturing jobs lead to desirable manufacturing jobs (as is happening rapidly there!)

Foxconn not being a rung on the ladder in China doesn’t mean locals suddenly get American living standards, it means they never climb the ladder and get stuck with even worse alternatives —- I don’t think you realize the history of China is basically constant mass starvation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines_in_China
Ethical pledges from corporations, especially ones as large as Google, are PR tools first and foremost. They last only as long as they align with strategic and financial interests
Technologists and engineers can be so damn arrogant. Learn some humility. You probably aren't that smart or valuable and people like you aren't the only people adding value to society.
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Never accuse this regime of hypocrisy, you'll run into apologists real quick on this platform.
Yeah I guess. If we could get Trump to nuke Tinder or something I don’t know that I’d loudly oppose it. It would be better for all of us for that mirage to go away, but the fact is women choose it. They do land the guy occasionally. Only it turns into a situationship, hot-cold, disappearing and coming back later, the illusion of him just slipping through her grasp (even if there was no chance at a real relationship from the start). I’ve watched as female friends have gone through it over and over. You wanna say something, but at the same time, we all have our delusions, and it’s especially hard to be real with yourself when an addictive slot machine makes money from your remaining deluded.