jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Maybe one could do an experiment in online job marketplaces: change the gender of a large number of work providers and observe how payouts change.

Do you really think that the problem is that enough studies haven't been done?

The linked article mentions a study on the gender pay gap in academia[0], the results section of which includes

"After   accounting  for [ underrepresentation of women at the full Professor level
allocation of faculty members across departmental units, and experience]  there
remains  an unexplained  female  pay  disadvantage  of  about  $3000.  This  finding  is
robust  to  alternative  specifications  of  the  gender  gap  decomposition."

and later

"... the  female  salary  disadvantage  found  in  the  study  can be  interpreted  as
a  lower  bound."

There is a similar study based on results from the financial industry, which if anything is even more extreme[1]

"The gender pay gap for annual gross earnings in the sector is 60 per cent."

"There is a gender gap of 80 per cent for performance-related pay"

"The gender pay gap in finance sector companies cannot be explained away as a
historical legacy. Analysis of salaries for new recruits shows that in 86 percent
of the cases reported to us, women have lower salaries than men."

"In 63 per cent of cases more than half of all job grades/categories exhibited a
significant gender pay gap."

[0] http://www.facultyassociation.ubc.ca/docs/news/GenderPayEqui...

[1] http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/uploaded_files/financial_...
Sorry, I meant the original Taler paper: https://git.gnunet.org/bibliography.git/plain/docs/taler2016....

>but there is nothing forcing that.

Regulations can never be forced into a technology, they can merely be adopted. PCI-DSS exists as a regulation in different jurisdictions, but there is nothing forcing it either - its the contract your processor signs with their bank, and other many agreements similarly.

An exchange exists to convert Fiat to Tokens. A merchant can only accept tokens signed from an exchange. The Fiat<>Kudo transfer happens on an exchange and requires traditional regulated finance rails. Could you build a cash-backed exchange? Yes, but then merchants accepting that specific exchange will need a way to exchange it back to fiat, and that doesn't work.

There isn't a separate digital virtual currency in Taler. Taler is an electronic payment system that uses existing currencies (such as USD/EUR). Kudos is only used for the demo, but in a real deployment, it will be USD/EUR/etc.
This shouldn't be viewed as a Zcash decision vs. Taler. I think this should be more viewed as full centralized Chaumian e-cash (with more flexible privacy choices) vs. Taler. If you're telling me that Taler's "value transparency" decisions are driven by technological scaling limitations that can't addressed any other way, then that's an interesting discussion to have. But it's not a discussion about Zcash.
cheers, a vivid and lucid description of the dynamics.

i’ve been thinking along these lines in relation to business and economy, toward a conclusion that our economic policy should be principally geared toward encouraging medium-sized ($10-50MM) and focused businesses, which provides plenty of reward and economies of scale while avoiding the corrupting forces and negative externalities of behemoths and conglomerates. same with personal wealth - encourage people to get to ~$2MM (where you can easily live comfortably without working again) but progressively discourage (not prohibit) wealth accumulation above $10MM (e.g., make wealth be put to work harder and in more provably positively-externalized ways to accumulate further).
I think these are reasonable. I should highlight, though, that 1, 3 and 4 are true for sign languages as well -- 3 and 4 doubly so (given how large a component individual expressions and gestures play in communication without sound).
Ok.. so he’s still transparent about how he won. I’m not even going to google the specifics about what happened because judo is hardly something he legitimizes his image on. He’s not “judo champion” Tim Ferris.

Be that as it may, judo is pretty fierce and legit. I used to work as a bouncer with an ex multiple black belt judo champion. Not world class or anything but this guy was crazy, I’ve seen him take out pretty tough guys like it was nothing. If Tim Ferris could force him or someone like him out of bounds then colour me impressed.
> In a gold rush the big winners among the shovel makers will do worse than the big winners in the resource owning tier (those that own the gold, mines, land or oil).

That's true, but what's the expected value for each? It's obviously better to be a big winner in the resource owning tier, but how likely is that outcome relative to being a big winner in the shovel maker tier? How does a moderate winner in the shovel making tier compare to the moderate winner in the resource tier?

And you're right that high tier positioned companies like Pepsi or Coca Cola are strictly better off than the aluminum can manufacturers, but how do you know without hindsight that Pepsi and/or Coca Cola would be the big 2 sugary drinks, when the game started in the late 1800s? The aluminum companies were going to succeed no matter who won the sugary drink race, but picking the winner of the sugary drink race is like picking the right race horse.

MySpace operated on a sufficiently high level on the pyramid value (and were the first movers), but it would have been foolish to bet everything on MySpace. Likewise, Bitcoin is one of hundreds of crypto tokens, and it wasn't obvious to a lot of people in 2010 that Bitcoin would even survive by 2021, much less grow to be the biggest.
I'm not sure on the "very specific" part. We use some general, non-specific signs ("OK", "good" [thumbs up, depending on your cultural background and situation]).

We, the hearing community in my country (UK), use gestures too of course.

Could you give a few examples of signs hearing people use where you are that you consider "very specific"?
Piumarta's COLAs work, and Maru, does not get enough attention. I only understand maybe understand 30% of the COLAs paper but one can intuit that there is real power there.
So nice you posted it twice?
An interesting article, if a little incoherent. It seemed to bounce around a bit much.

There are some reasonable means of local git sharing, by the by: the old gitjour project was fun and more recently there's gitosis and gitolite. You could also leverage Dropbox or similar, or actually work with individual repositories.
Imagine we can put a number on quality of life. If the poor person starts out at say 1 and is at 10 after 10 years (as has happened in many developing countries). Does it matter that the rich person also is 10 times better off or even 100 times better off? I don't think so. That poor person now is healthier, has better opportunities etc than before.

The question on the table, though, is whether it's worth knocking the rich person (or maybe all rich people) down from (on some "quality of life" scale) a 100 to a 99.9 in order to lift the poor people from a 10 to a 20.

If you just look at that wealth distribution, you'll realize how little the rich have to suffer in order to help the poor a huge amount. And that's even before taking into account logarithmic utility functions...for all the arguments about how taxation reduces the incentive to make money, it's oh so rare for libertarians to explain why the rich still keep trying to make money even though they derive far less utility from it due to logarithmic utility functions than they could ever lose from a modest taxation rate.

In any case, here's where most of the disagreements stem from: most people that are against redistribution are concerned with optimizing the long term dollar value of the entire economy, so they want to keep wealth in the hands of those that are good at turning it into more wealth, even if the wealth that's created doesn't benefit those people directly at all (give $1 million to Bill Gates and he won't even notice; give it to someone on welfare, and it would change their life).

People that are for redistribution are concerned with optimizing the short term utility value of the entire economy, so they'd rather put wealth in the hands of the people that would benefit from it the most rather than in the hands of the people that would create more of it.

Taken to the extreme, each of these positions is absolutely indefensible and leads to a ridiculously inefficient and/or cruel economy. So we should always summarily discard any argument that does not promote some balance between the two sides.

Sadly, it's been a long time since I've heard someone present an argument that actually supports a stable balancing point, most people just argue blindly to push in one direction or the other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_On_Chip
Check out the open source Stanford Parser (Java) http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/lex-parser.shtml

I also wrote a free open source javascript API for the Stanford Parser if you want to play around with NLP in JS. http://nlp.naturalparsing.com/browserparser/parse (it is a bit slow at the moment, someone is using it to parse all of wikipedia).
Why the JVM? Why not run your own bytecode, or even use Redcode straight up?

edit: Perhaps I should explain. I dabbled in rec.games.corewars a few times, and what I found most rewarding was all the tricks you could play with the bytecode. I've never found the Java variants as fun, as one fun part of the game seems lost. I feel like I'm missing something.
Oh dear, I had the exact same idea near the top of my list. Glad to see it is being well received, and nicely done, too. Good speed to you!

When I use the test file, it makes all fields required. It should probably accept empty/unknown values, no? (I just saw you commented on that elsewhere)

In my experience, the manual validation feature is not that useful for most use cases, where the sheets have lots of rows. My clients have always preferred to have a list of validation errors / row numbers, modify the source spreadsheet itself using all the power of Excel, and reupload.

I think the true value of this tool will be in how well it deals with messy data. A common problem is character encoding. At the moment, when I put in Polish characters in the file "EACĄŚŽĄĘĆĄ", it gets displayed as "EACÄ„ÅšÅ½Ä„Ä˜Ä†Ä„" - need to fix that.

The validation could be more robust. Common data types (age, first names) could easily have their own specific rules. At the moment, you can put negative or out of range values for the age, or special characters for the name. And what would be really valuable is detection of outlier values - to tell the user if a value is three times longer than other values in the same column, contains unusual characters, etc.

As for features, I would like a PDF import (you can just take one of the open source pdf2excel libraries, then write a bit of smart code to detect&strip the headers and footers - took me 3 days to implement last time and the client loved it ;) Doesn't need to cover all cases to be very useful.

And of course, file upload is a must, ideally allowing multiple columns IMAGE1, IMAGE2, etc.
This is a great feedback! Thanks so much hobarrera.
Every time I followed a link on twitter to Meerkat, I got the stream is over message. I would be that I'm not the only one and wonder if this might be the difference in the end.
Someone actually started an "anonymous Reddit" app about two years ago. But the sole developer was then hired by Google, I think. I don't remember the name of the app, but it was kind of alpha mode and pretty slow.
>I find the idea of millennials not driving simply due to aspiration sets a little nauseating

Not so sure. For me it certainly was a lifestyle choice - I opted to rather spend more on rent and be within walking distance of well...pretty much everything I need.
“You want to learn from experience,” says Warren Buffett, “but you want to learn from other people’s experience when you can.”
Um, what? Can you cite the law they "know" to be breaking?
That reminds me of using Docbook to write the book, then using the various transformation engines to turn the docbook into PDF. I setup some docbook documentation that just used xsltproc to generate HTML and PDF from the same source. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2615002/how-to-generate-p... has some notes about the process.

For my part, I enjoyed the semantic markup it gave for something as big as a book, with auto-generating index and glossary as well. It's a lot of work, but the output reflects it. Looking at the HTML in the first chapter there, the spans with "term" and "menuitem" make me think something like docbook is going on behind this too.
There's an error in line 1024. The transform strings are not the same length.

I'd like to see more sed programs on HN instead of the usual Python, Ruby or Go offerings.

I wrote a sed version of the the Python script "youtube-dl". This way I don't need Python installed to download YouTube videos. And it's easy to edit if YouTube suddenly changes their "API"; no need to wait for someone else to fix their Python or Lua script. In truth, it's not pure sed though. It uses sh (not bash), sed and ftp (or any other http client that handles 302's).
sshhh stop telling people about Austin
Not that the whole story isn't appalling, but why would you assume the break-in was without a warrant?

"This guy set off explosive detectors at the airport. He claimed it was because of chemicals he used while moving. We'd like to check his story out by searching his place." Looks to me like that could convince a judge.
As other people suggested, they may see it as more likely that a state that allows someone to put a gate up on their property that leads to a public beach will allow them to put up a fence around their yard, or cut down a tree on their property, or demolish a building on their property that they do not want.
One thing I love about lifting is the stats. Being able to track my progress in the main lifts, and seeing the small progressive improvements add up to big changes overall is very rewarding.

I’m also the kind of person that started off saying, “I’d like to be able to do a body weight pull-up” which soon became, “I’d like to be able to do 4 body weight pull-ups” which eventually became... you definitely get addicted to the gains and even if you plateau in one lift or another, there’s always another muscle you can train.

Once you start moving real weight there’s also a euphoria to hitting those big PRs which you can work yourself up for and then it’s a blast when you finally hit them.

I lift 3x a week - push, pull, legs. I do 6 week cycles of 12 reps, 8 reps, 5 reps (for the main lifts). And at the end of each 5 rep cycle I test my 1 rep max on bench, deadlift, and squat. 14 weeks ago I just missed adding those up to 1,000 lbs (a big milestone) and fully expect to exceed 1,000 when I test again in 3 weeks.

I was never a weight lifter / body builder. Aside from a brief stint trying CrossFit I had basically never touched weights aside from a class in high school. If you looked at a picture of me 5 years ago I was a completely different person. It took 2 years of cardio and yoga just to work up the inner strength and basic flexibility to feel like I could safely approach weights.

I like that it’s the number one priority for one hour, 3 times a week. The rest of the week you never ever have to think about it. Well, you will feel it, but it takes no mental strain. Then you get in and get it done and feel awesome that you’re just a little bit better than last week, and go on with your day.

The most important thing is doing it right, doing it effectively, and most of all doing it safely. Getting injured will set you back hard.

Pay a trainer once a week to do one of the three workouts with you, critique your form, and tweak your program. Go for the big milestones when you have a pro watching you, and listen when they tell you stop. Best investment of time and money I’ve ever made.
I personally am definitely of the opinion that those who develop and train AI should be held responsible for the actions of said AI. That's the only way to ensure that such systems are kept in check. Case in point: the various YouTube "algorithm" fiascos that have taken place over the past several years. If AI systems you've put in place discriminate against certain demographics, you should 100% be held accountable for the same.

Same thing when it comes to improperly trained/developed AI causing accidents or loss of life.
They probably care more about bad publicity than fines, especially since they're already under public scrutiny for their treatment of warehouse workers.
I've learned something recently that I wish I learned long ago:

That it feels really good to move.

A sedentary programmer I will no longer be!

I walk to a local yoga studio to practice for an hour every day now and have literally never been happier in my entire life.

I literally break out into a wide smile every single time I begin preparing to go to yoga... and trust me... I was never that kind of happy go lucky guy.

It's no surprise that moving makes you feel good.

Science has documented countless examples of exactly how it does that.

Endorphins are released as a direct result of moving.

Moving is my favorite nootropic.

It's easy to get stuck sitting in a chair day after day.

It's just as easy to keep the momentum of movement going if you can get the ball rolling.

I really wish I knew that earlier, but I am happy to know it now.

Get out there and move around HN!
All these book publications seems to be orchestrated around starting of Disney+.

Recently Bob Iger (Disney CEO) published his autobiography..

Ride of a lifetime

https://www.amazon.com/Ride-Lifetime-Lessons-Learned-Company...
I started with only bodyweight exercises first, following these progressions: https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommend...

After like 6 weeks of doing that and improving a lot, I bought some dumbbells and started throwing some lifting in to mix it up, target weak spots, and work on muscles that the bodyweight stuff doesn't hit as well. I've found that the combination of the two really accelerates progress and improves recovery too by changing up the movements.

This has been working well for me, but of course there are many ways to approach it. Personally, I really don't like the gym vibe, so working out outside in the sun (with bodyweight) made it easier to get started and stick with. You also don't need to buy anything, and you can build up a base level of strength that makes lifting weights feel more approachable.
That's what I thought.

Maybe it is about the state showing what it could do for Amazon in the future, should they build their HQ there? Or maybe it is more about saving the image of the company then the actual fine?
From "Muon by example" [0], the for loops look pretty natural/intuitive subjectively.

for i := 1; i < n {
temp := a
a += b
b = temp
}

> `for` works mostly like in other imperative languages. For convenience, the 3rd term can be omitted; in that case, the index variable is incremented by 1 at the end of each iteration of the loop. The index variable is scoped to the loop body. The variable can be omitted if you want to use an existing index variable, e.g.: for ; i < n; i += 1 { ... }

With arrays:

for x in arr {
sum += x
}

for x, i in arr {
sum += x
}

for arr {
sum += it
}

> A secondary loop variable may be specified which holds the index of the current element. If no loop variable is specified, the name `it` is used.

[0] https://github.com/nickmqb/muon/blob/master/docs/muon_by_exa...
It's a shame Java (TM) is required to use some elements of the page.
Yea, suburbia is expensive. You need to drive everywhere. A tank of gas is $50, and that's a lot of money even if you're not "poor".
If "a website" is a resource intended to be opened in a modern web browser, the answer is yes. In this case developers can safely assume the three integral parts - html, css, and js - are enabled and available for use.

If a website - a blog - just displays some text, a raw/plain version can be provided along with it, not necessarily on the same web address.

When a website displays/formats/filters some data, an API can complement it.

But sometimes, a website is an app where no alternative representations would make sense. Then the answer is no.

It's all about needs, requirements, possibilities, and common sense.
There was a C64 "luggable", though: The SX-64:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_SX-64

(I've only ever seen one of them; they were crazily impractical)
create a vending machine which only accepts $100 bills. Then instead of vending anything, simply spray the face of the buyer with cold water. Watch, as they kick the crap out of that vending machine.

Would that really shock people? It might shock the first person who used it (although it would probably just anger them), but would it shock the people watching or someone who just read about it? I very much doubt it. If you read about the piece you described in a newspaper article about the latest exhibition at a local museum, would you be shocked? Most people would probably just roll their eyes at the banality of it.

Shocking or even genuinely and emotionally engaging with an audience at any real level is really really hard and doing so in a novel way that we haven't seen dozens of times before is an order of magnitude harder again and that is where the true challenges of contemporary art lies. And I'll be the first to admit that most artists fall very very short.
I think this is just utopian thinking...

Of course that would be amazing if it had any chance of ever existing, but it's just not possible in the society today.

Companies with money will build stuff and lock you in, and companies trying to unify everything either don't have the money or don't get the big players in, because they're not interested in shared markets, they much prefer monopoly.

The same thing happens in messaging, music, OSes, video content, etc.

It's the unfortunate truth of current times.
Barbaric methods of violating private property, kewl?

Thanks Mao, but everything is relative. Maybe what you need is a nice fat doobie. While you're lighting up next to me, know that I as a proud simpleton, find cans of _diesel fuel_ to be "technically impressive". Imagine that?

> Piece by piece, you cease to exist. It takes about half an hour to vanish someone, completely.

https://news.vice.com/article/how-a-mexican-cartel-demolishe...
> cross-platform messaging was new.

when was cross-platform messaging ever new?

... IRC, AIM, etc ...
If you're got a lot of valuable experience, and have a network of former colleagues the can vouch for you, try consulting or contracting.
Try to avoid the job shops since they will severely cap your earnings (they basically take half). I have nothing against them, but if you can contract direct, you can literally double your gross income.
Typically when tenure is mentioned, it’s only referring to the people who were hired and left (not people who are still working)
FWIW, I am aggressively anti-partisan-duckspeak. I even wrote about it on my blog.

I know it's just anecdotal, but I think it's valuable to say that the loudest aren't a fully representative sample.
You can be easily disabused of this ignorant view by reading the wikipedia page for the historicity of jesus. Jesus mysticism is a fringe, crackpot view in historical scholarship. People adopt it because it suits their priors not because it has the weight of literally any scholarship or investigation behind it. It is , simply put, a ridiculous proposal in the light of what is known about the NT.