jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
AFAIK gender balance quotas are no longer in effect.

Gender ratios are widely tracked within the industry, though, e.g. (https://ylw.yale.edu/top-firms/). Also clients for legal services often have their own diversity requirements (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/02/business/dealbook/faceboo...).

If you're looking for a historical reference,
(https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...) is 26 pages and covers the history of women in law from 1920 to 1970. Cynthia Epstein's Women in Law should cover this topic but I haven't yet read it.
Thanks Firat! Congrats on your show HN as well, looks slick :)
Did you read the origins of their zoning code? "Protecting" the city by attempting to limit Black people to certain areas. Not a great look.

A lot of zoning code is based on similar ideas, even if most people are not dumb enough to say the quiet part out loud these days.

You do still hear it on occasion: Bend, Oregon, where I live, passed a similar change a few years back, which was then superseded by Oregon's HB 2001, which effectively eliminates exclusionary zoning in our cities. At the local hearing for the Bend rule, there was a woman who was really upset that "renters" might be able to live in her neighborhood. They're dirty, messy, and "don't care about where they live", according to her testimony.

It's economic segregation, plain and simple.
They are the high end in the global market.

Only in very rich countries $100/hr could be considered "normal" or not high-end.
Have been using a Sculpt keyboard since around 2015. One thing that seems to alleviate the problems of missed keys and the keyboard going to sleep (at least on Windows): in the Device Manager, look for the connection dongle (it should be connected via the USB Root Hub) and edit its Power Management settings to disable "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power."

I haven't had any issues with the laptop going to sleep when it's told with this setting enabled, and afaik battery life is unaffected (still haven't changed batteries in the keyboard after 3 years).

Regardless, I'll still be checking out this mod. I didn't even know this keyboard had LEDs in it.

Suggestions for Microsoft product developers if they ever read this or care:

1. Fn keys have got to be like the rest of the keys. Like other users here, I get F5 (which I use to run code in Visual Studio) stuck probably greater than 50% of the time.

2. Separate Fn key, or separate media keys. The switch is stupid, and I never use the non-Fn functions.

3. Take the calculator key off the main keyboard; it's a duplicate of the key on the numpad, where it is actually useful.

4. I'm ok with the backspace key on the numpad, but the top 3 keys should be regular keys, not microswitches.

5. Better power management and wake-from-sleep. This thing should never be dropping keystrokes. Ever. I'd trade battery life for this feature.

6. Make wired optional! Almost everything has a charger these days...why am I given alkaline batteries for this? This also potentially opens up the gamer market, given the latency reduction shown in this article.
http://archive.is/TJRq6
Repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26246435
Forgive me for invoking Godwin’s law, but it is relevant.

El Popa here behaved exactly in the same monstrous actions as Nazi Doctor Josef Mengel.

Had this article been about Josef Mengel, and I said this about Nazis instead of Abrahamic cultists, would I still be a bigot in your eyes?
What rights do you own with an NFT? Say I bought a digital piece, can I print it on a million t-shirts and sell them? Or does the artist still retain the copyright etc.?

I've seen people minting tweets as NFTs - again, how does the copyright work here.

Genuine question - seen NFTs come up a lot over the last fortnight - don't really understand it at all (which makes me feel old!).
Is the call just so they have a window to upsell you?
Eh, it's not industry-dependent so much as industries have specific reductions. A cache is long-term storage. The weapons industry would expect it to be filled with weapons, and maybe some body armor. A scouting party would expect tools for equipment repair, rations, and maybe some minor comfort gear. A computer scientist would expect it to be full of bytes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cache&allowed_in_fr...
Is that what those gentlemen in shorts are doing at the Vuvuzela concerts?

(stolen from esoterik@reddit)
I don't know about that. If he worked for AMD/ATI or nVidia, he might have gone bonkers, as the innovations over the previous ones seem so intangible, since the platform is basically an incrementalist arms race: benchmark scores, umpteenillion transistors, superthreading. The mobile market could have been the same, but Steve Jobs stepped up the PR game. It is unlikely, but not impossible, that the people in the graphics industry could apply the same communication strategy, but I won't go into that.

A lot of people on this site often tout the Android phones' hardware specifications' superiority over the iPhone, since X has Y GHz or MB more. What a lot of these people do not understand is that this is not at all what the beauty of the iOS PR is about: it is about features and achievements. These represent tangible milestone that do not come across as uninterest incremental updates: "why would I want a 2GHz processor over a 1GHz" the average consumer asks himself. "It is Xer", the other bloke says. Faster, bigger, better, but to what end; to use the same logic of comparative adjectives as arguments, it's also more expensive. This is why buying a complete desktop Windows computer is incarnate nightmare of an average user.

I mentioned features and achievements and how the constitute tangible milestone and selling points; nobody gives a damn about three-hundred-something DPI (what is DPI?!). The current iPhone has a number of DPI, and this new number is obviously higher, big deal. But there is an achievement; the pixel density surpass the resolution of average human vision, so the screen will be like a physical object---not a digital one. You could go on about a "post-pixel era" or something like that, but the point is that we have a feature and not a number anymore. This is a milestone to prospective users as well as the employees at Apple who have now breached a frontier and defeated a barrier in digital computing.

You are feel to chalk up his views on the larger products as "dissatisfaction", but if his focus is in the features and achievements, there is much to be ecstatic about.

... if you do not lapse into the world of nonsensical numbers and incrementalism.

(Sorry if any of it is incoherent, but my allergy is killing me today.)
Also, the two separate images probably won't integrate into a single 3D percept (it will still look like alternating viewpoints), but your spatial perception will be stimulated enough to give you a fixed, coherent sense of depth, i.e. even though the image is clearly changing, your depth perception of the scene remains constant.
Part of why the Segway makes you look smug is because you're standing up.

This thing has you sitting down so its ok... Closer to other riding vehicles
But you asked permission first. And you were told "no". That's the point of the article. Do not ask for permission first.
"Hi we did a site with a very bad concept, we did it in an afternoon , to surf on a meme that seems to be expanding around very fast lately. It has a sleek web 2.0 design, no content, and most of the site space is taken by advertising and links to social media sites. At least it's a bit fun, for a few seconds"

Ha i'm just jealous i didn't have the idea myself ;)
You print vertical black lines on a transparent sheet of plastic, and attach it to a 10mm thick piece of transparent plastic, and attach all that to your monitor for a cheap and easy DIY parallax barrier. From the proper distance, your left eye sees a different set of pixels than your right eye. Add photoshop, and voila, 3D.

(random example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu92wwR1b1g )
American TV's not ALL bad. Certainly mostly bad, but there are a few gems.
It reads to me like he is embracing a belief in a fact, not a rhetorical exaggeration. YMMV. I think the whole article is idiotic so I am perfectly ready to believe that the author has other stupid beliefs as well.
It seems to me like developing maturity is in part tied to the responsibility you're given. Nowadays kids aren't held responsible for much, even after they turn 18, so maturity comes later and slower.
Appendation: The feed link on the site's page didn't work, because of the unusual feed:// URI [ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Feed_URI_scheme... ]. Naturally my phone choked on this "resource".

Originally: feed://readablefeeds.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3A//news.ycombinator.com/rss

Fixed: http://readablefeeds.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3...
The value of a Harvard (or any elite college) education is not in what you learn but in the brand name. That is what people are willing to pay a fortune for. And the brand name does have a value associated with it - it cuts down on the friction of getting through the initial stages to an interview at which a hiring decision will be made, for example. Is this right or wrong? Well, if historically graduates from a certain college have been a safe bet, then there is value for an organization in continuing to hire from there (even if only in time saved). If historically access to an alumni network is valuable, then that has value. Etc, etc.

That's not to say they don't offer a great education, and a great experience of being immersed in a world where everyone is smart and ambitious for a few years. Similarly that immersion is part of the education. But that is another little secret: elite colleges only admit students who would succeed regardless.

I attended an elite college for undergrad (which one doesn't matter) and viewed from that side, it's hard to see if it actually made a difference in my career vs any college. I've never explicitly seen an interviewer be impressed by it. But behind the scenes, for example, I don't see if there were a hundred applicants and mine made it through the initial screening because of that.
The last 10 years bailouts have been raining like crazy and few people noticed. Let's hope this is going to change.
Knowing multiple languages, to maximize your options.
If you mean me, you're right in that I've been working with C in varying capacity for just about 10 years (Not that I believe that "years" is a good unit to measure experience). On the other hand, I miss from your comment what exactly is wrong with my argumentation, and I feel that the arrogant comment is not mine but yours (assuming you have 20 years or more).
Communication never hurts. Being able to distill ideas down to their actionable core and spot miscommunication before it derails things is useful in any context.
develop a flare for barter and trade.
learn how to provide the things people actually need.

general construction trades and adhoc engineering.

farming. hunting fishing.

veternary skills surgical skills midwivery dentistry.

localized /offgrid/on site power generation.

production of fuel from raw materials.
To be clear, I didn't really mean "spam proper", moreso the flea market / carnival barker language, eg "REAL 100% HD VIDEO BRAND-NEW CANON REBEL 5T QUICK SHIP WITH ORIGINAL LENS KIT", that often obstruct the info I'm actually searching for.

I'm sure folks who use the platform consistently either know how to avoid that content or are much more efficient at sifting through it (or my anecdata of its frequency is way off!). I agree in my limited experience there isn't much in the way of "true spam" itself.
I'd love to do a write up on the issues to guide the Julia team towards focusing on production and robustness, investing most of their efforts in a solid debugger support (Juno - totally incapable tool), and stopping all new features and "optimization" projects before getting these things sorted out. I am just too beaten, too bruised and injured to have the mental capacity to write an article. :( I am sorry if I am too harsh.
Cool! Looks like a lot of fun.
Interesting. It still seems like these respirators would have been earmarked for industrial use, but I didn't realize they could normally be used in healthcare at all.
The issue is not necessarily whether this is happening now, but whether this is feasible in practical terms. If it is, then you need to have a very strong sense of trust that this capability won't ever be used against you in the future. There are many examples throughout history where this trust was eventually abused. In the last few days 1.2 billion text records of "enriched" data about people was found in a publicly-accessible Elasticsearch instance. How long do you think it will be before those records contain facial recognition?
Thanks for these links! They're very helpful.
that is a poor analogy at best. Everyone is intuitive on the amount of friction it takes to get content onto broadcast or cable TV. No one is delusional.

There is relatively zero amount of friction for a twitter user to post political content to twitter. The fact that people are not posting political content, is not due to insurmountable friction.
Not necessarily, because it could give a hint. It is possible to get from various higher dimensional gauge groups like SO(10) to almost the standard model. But the left over particles often couple in unfavourable ways and lead to proton decay for example.
I've gotten feedback from two recruiters and a little from one interviewer. Most of it was generic. The interviewer suggested adding more skills.
Let's also add the PVLAS anomaly, the white dwarf cooling hint, the 'too big to fail' problem, the cusp/core problem, missing satellites, the DAMA/LIBRA anomaly, the MiniBooNE excess, the Valentine's day monopole, the reactor neutrino anomaly, the Hooperon, the AMS positron excess...
I used it so I can better cope with autism.

Has it actually worked? Your post outlines all of the bad things you've experienced, but has it, on the balance of things, been worth it?
Learn to love solving problems instead. Accomplishing goals and seeing a finished delivered product is more fulfilling than a single fun coding component.
Steel has been in mass production for well over 100 years and people still make the same mistakes today with new mechanical systems. Flaws often seem obvious after the fact, but that’s when your looking at actual failures. If it never occurs to you that something could fail, well good luck.
Sounds great. Why not just use the nano technology to let me move around the USD in my bank account?

Why do we have to invent an all new currency for these technologies to use? There is no good reason, other than to make early adopters wealthy, which they would like very much.

What's stopping the US government from taking nano and creating a USD-backed version?
There are! We believe in the power of community connection, so when it is safe we have plans to have "studios" in certain cities so that our community can come together even more!
That's a fair comment. I don't use Transferwise, rather just wire money via Chase Bank to an IBAN account. You are right that there is an intermediary bank involved in the process.

Also yes, within Europe, an IBAN to IBAN transfer is pretty much instantaneous. However US is not in the IBAN system, so that's a different story.

There are probably multiple reasons why the transfer takes a week, but the spirit of my comment was that an hour long (at worst) transaction time for BTC is actually very fast if you look at it through the international money transfer lens.
For something that "makes absolutely no difference in my life", you sure are whining about it a lot. Do you have a dog in this fight?

If what you said were actually true, and you didn't care so much more than everyone else, then you would have never said anything about it in the first place, and you CERTAINLY wouldn't keep replying to everyone's messages, beating a dead horse, trying to stir up your own mob, making a big deal out of nothing, and telling other people that they're overreacting, when you're the one who's overreacting to something you claim you don't even care about.
> This one has a ton information of information, but still fail to satisfy because it has a low point/information ratio. It just rambles on with data points and examples.

On his front page, this article appear in this section:

> Research + Updates

> Material for future essays + updates to earlier essays

It honestly reads more like notes than an article.
Cool. But why not just use the nano technology with a USD-backed currency instead?

Cut out all of the alternative currency speculation and just let the technology do the work on people's money.
they never said that, but it's basically abadonware. look at the commit history: https://github.com/slick/slick/commits/master you can also look at the contributors page: https://github.com/slick/slick/graphs/contributors the guys who primarly contributed to it basically left lightbend, and in 2019 he shifted his priorities.
it only had 28 commits since 2020 (including merge commits and changes to the build process) it's basically dead until somebody steps up.
Unfortunately, that just leads to 5 pages of "FIRST!!!" before you get real content.
You don't have to use a JS MVC framework just because you built your core logic behind a JSON API. You can just as easily have a server side rendering app talk to the JSON API instead of the directly to the datastores. You get to stick with 'what you know' while still maintaining flexibility for later.
Let's face it, they are waging a war on the Internet first.

The two most important aspects in war are casus belli and plausible deniability. China has the latter and github lacks the former. Thus github would lose by default in any 'war' against the Chinese government.
You may be inferior to them in term of skills, but let me write what I think of your situation: You would be in the same exact miserable state even if you were 10 times better than all of them combined.

I think the big problem here is that your co-workers are assholes, no skills level can change that.
Apples and oranges. In situations where Haskell can do the job well enough, I would recommend Haskell over C, because it's just more secure. However, they are still completely different beasts. You use different tools for different purposes. Try Haskell in an embedded environment, for example.
> unable to tell...

Really? Might it be that we purify memetic procreation of its inefficient dependency on support systems engineered for DNA-genetic procreation?
Yes. And in fact we can even use kernel threads most of the time.

However, there is one thread you don't want to block: the UI thread. We do need ways of getting things to the UI asynchronously.
Interesting perspective. Looking at things this way, I can say I definitely have no problem of being aware of industry trends, startup culture, as well as having a constantly broadening perspective on the art of programming itself. It's something that sounds like what a good employee should be doing, but I know that for many it's a chore. I do that because, well... I just like it. No actual planning or effort involved.
Perhaps they had to patch some critical vulnerability like the one that exposed 533M personal records and did the right thing by pressing the red button™
On BSD systems, the ports collection is simply a directory tree containing some fairly small text files. The various text files in a given port (subdirectory) include Makefiles, patches, description files and checksums. When you run `make` in a port subdirectory, the target software source code is downloaded, patched, built, installed into a "fake" directory tree emulating a target system, and then finally all of the stuff it just installed is gathered up into a compressed "package" archive. In short, the ports are used to create packages.

If you're new to BSD systems, it's much easier to use the pre-built packages.

https://www.freebsd.org/ports/

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html
And that's assuming you tear it down afterward. Last year I met several builders who had been in other events, and I expect to see many of them again this year.
>we foreign people are just fair game for targeting

That's not exactly true in that not every non-U.S. citizen is an interest to the U.S. Government.

To your broader point though, the idea that a state's Security, Defense or Military arms are singularly focused on foreign "threats" or potential threats is a fundamental assumption of nearly every international relations theory. Why would you think it would be otherwise?
I agree with you. I think everyone should have a chance at what they'd like to do, without being blocked because "people like them" (in whatever way) tend to do poorly.

That said, age matters. Very, very few people can start programming at 18 and progress to the top 20% of the field. I can't think of anyone who's done so, though I'm sure there are exceptions.
> Going uphill on mountains means you're going downhill

Not if the mountain's big enough. You might only go an appreciable distance downhill on the way home.
These days you can do it (relatively) easily by using wordpress docker image on kubernetes (or any other container platform). e.g. using Traefik for load balancer, a mysql container or an external mysql db instance (aws, google and do now offer managed mysql), and storage provider that can be mounted from multiple nodes (nfs, glusterfs, ceph, etc) and you're done! You can throw in an sftp container that mounts /var/www so you can manage the wordpress installation using an sftp client.
A label reading “Property of XYZ Law Enforcement Agency. If found, please return” on the device, plus a failure to return it IMO is the bar to make a theft charge in this situation.
This just in folks, we can't actually condemn an action until the entire field of ethics is solved. There is actually zero difference between good and bad things dril tweet etc.
Except when it keeps paying off, it's not so much "hoping" as just "being big enough to throw so many things at a wall that has such a high payout, anything sticking means winning the lottery. Again. And again. And again"...

Google can literally _afford_ to kill off highly profitable ventures because something else will make them _more_ money.

(which in itself should be reason enough to judicially split this company up, but that's apparently no longer a thing we do, so here we are)
I'm trying to better understand Shapeshift's business model. How do you make money?
I would suggest watching Adam Curtis' Hypernormalisation (British spelling). It's mostly about Putin/Gaddafi-style mass confusion as a means to power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUiqaFIONPQ
I'm under the impression that he is speaking for the French Investigation of the incident. His statement is reasonably measured:

The most plausible interpretation is that the co-pilot through a voluntary act had refused to open the cabin door to let the captain in. He pushed the button to trigger the aircraft to lose altitude. He operated this button for a reason we don't know yet, but it appears that the reason was to destroy this plane.
It's actually just the renderer. If you want to run it in a browser like environment, check out https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell
> How the world has changed...

Was this before of after the release of Windows XP Embedded?
Energy Density of Gravity storage is too small to work with smaller installations. Investment is high.

The future of renewable energy is obviously Solar PV, with Wind and other offsetting to some extent, but Solar is predictable, cheap to build and easy to maintain.

I really wish there was more thrust into carbon capture and conversion to fuel with Solar power.
> ...and makes them unimmunizable...

Is there any scientific basis for this hypothetical?
Same user (alphamacaroon) also posted this as text earlier on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25653478