skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I have had someone high on the leaderboard tell me he just does not see women treated differently here. I am clear I have been treated differently"

I noticed. Women, if name indicates a woman, are definitely treated differently here. I can't assess how much as most comments seem to focus just on what they say. What they should focus on. I pick up on changes occasionally, even in my own posts. I try to force myself to be unbiased in how I respond to anyone here.

" It ends up being maddeningly difficult to get other people to see it."

Your blog post on how men react to women entering a tech forum was a nice start. I immediately remembered instances of what you described. Your name might also bias how they perceive you but you already know & wrote on that.

"Yet, the reality is that I am a very prominent woman on HN and I remain extremely poor."

This is sad. It just has nothing to do with being a woman online. That you learned to get upvotes on a tech site takes a different set of skills than real-world success. In the real world, it's usually who you know, how you're perceived, what you can do, and hustling for more. How you present yourself vs what those in the locale expect is one of biggest criteria in whether you'll get desired or hired. Sexism certainly becomes a factor, esp if a woman has a strong, independent personality.

"No one seems to even notice the glaring example that the highest ranked woman here is desperately poor and homeless while the highest ranked men are all quite comfortable and I am reasonably confident that at least two of them are self-made millionaires.'

I'm highly-ranked, white, male, and very poor. Few opportunities in my area close to family. Under or esp overqualified for most roles. I know a lot of people in my situation because I spend more time around real-world people than online. Similar effect where expectations of appearance, social circles, "right" experience, and so on are used to discriminate. They all do it regardless of what their race or gender is. It's the baseline with sexism, etc layering on top of that.

"then you can tell me that remarks like the one above -- which is, happily, currently flagged to death-- are not an expression of sexism."

I've read online forums and dealt with the general public for years. All kinds of women have made similar comments. Sometimes it was looking for a date but other times (most?) they just wondered what someone looked like. I didn't accuse them of sexism because that alternative, common explanation exists. The main problem I saw with comment you referenced is it added nothing to the discussion and led to a big tangent unrelated to new hire. So, I'm done with it at this point.
So long as you have the right and the ability to ignore that private company I agree... the company's choice in no way erodes your rights.

BUT, if merchants stop accepting cash, and only a handful of financial companies control your ability to accept and spend money, THEN it's no longer irrelevant. Have you read the stories about payments being stopped because the memo field happened to contain the word "cuba"? Have you read articles about how difficult it has been for Marijuana companies to operate in US states where it is now legal because banks refuse to provide them with support (no loans, no credit card processing, etc). What if that kind of moralizing were targeted against guns, doing an end-run around the 2nd amendment because it's technically not the government doing it? Or for that matter, what if ANY right that isn't particularly popular were targeted in this fashion?
Yes. But as that link point out, it was years after (and a consequence of) the Einstein–Szilard letter. When did Einstein say nuclear fission was impossible, and how was it Fermi who "promptly proved him dead wrong", as madaxe_again wrote?

Edit: jsnathan at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12326618 found a 1934 quote by Einstein expressing an opinion that nuclear power wasn't possible. This is after fission was already demonstrated.
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All characters are pronounced "shi" in Mandarin, with 4 different tones, leaving 4 distinct pronunciations.

In other "dialects", such as Cantonese or Teochew, the characters are pronounced as 7 or distinct syllables, with 6 different tones, leaving more than 20 distinct pronunciations.

Mandarin has very few available syllables compared to other languages (not only, say, English, but also older Chinese "dialects").
Introducing OpenStreetView
There's nothing stopping you from writing Python types that separate these different senses of "dynamic". You can write a sequence type that doesn't let you change the number of cells, but does let you mutate existing cells. Or you can write one that lets you add new cells, but doesn't let you mutate cells once they are added. You can even write them as C extensions if you want the same speed and memory efficiency as the built-in types.
Most people skipped Windows 8 or tried it and quickly switched back to 7. And, because Windows 8 wasn't a hostile creature trying to take over your PC, it was pretty easy to choose not to use it. Windows 10 is pretty much just Window 8 excepted it's being forced on users.
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So do I. I prefer to type out `=` three times, for a simple reason: while not being more verbose than the `setf` example (3 additional tokens in both examples), it makes all 3 lines the same, which is more regular.

We could make all 3 lines the same with `setf`, but that would be a bit more verbose:

(setf x 10)
(setf y 20)
(setf z 30)

In a program that heavily use the assignment statement, I vote for the shorter form, `=`.
Great soundtrack, too, by Jóhann Jóhannson: https://open.spotify.com/album/2I4uGgkMgN3UGE8ZQjCMjB
Like this: http://www.hurryupandwait.io/blog/certificate-password-less-... ... probably.
I agree that the former is more elegant in that the syntax is helping more.

But LISPers prefer the latter, because its elegance is that it's a single expression, and the same sort of expression as everything else. Which makes it easier to extend, compose, manipulate, etc. That's the tradeoff of LISP's syntax--you get extreme flexibility and customizability, at the expense of being constrained by its syntactic simplicity.
I'm pretty sure steady 1G acceleration brings the subjective travel time within a lifetime for a lot of journeys. I haven't done the math myself, though, just heard it from others. Of course, the technology to apply such acceleration to any reasonable-sized ship is rather fanciful at this stage.
I agree. This is one of the least compelling Lisp things I've ever read - because, aethestically, I really dislike Lisp. From a design standpoint, I want to love it. The elegance of S-expressions and the simplicity of it all call to me! But in practice its just too ugly!

:(
How about the Alcubierre drive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive)? Yes, there are many unknowns and in filling in those gaps, we might discover warp is impossible after all. But we could also discover the opposite. The reality is that there are potential work arounds that fit our current understanding of physics -- potentially -- and our current understanding of physics is incomplete. In filling in the gaps we might discover more workarounds. Or we might discover that our existing workarounds were duds.

The truth is we won't know until we try. And trying requires the firm belief that we could succeed.

It doesn't do us any good to be pessimistic and announce that we know the physical laws and the physical laws make this impossible. Instead, we should be hopeful and say "Well, here are a dozen things that may or may not work. Let's take a moonshot and see if we can make one of them fly."
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I don't think that's true, I think you're still limited to the range of < c * lifetime, about 390 trillion miles. If you think this is wrong, can you post some links?

Edit: nevermind? The equation here does indicate that length contracts to approach zero as velocity approaches c

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_contraction
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If the clang guys cared that much about it, they would have invested some effort since 2012 to make it well known outside the chocolate factory.

As it happened the only truth that we in the outside world were made aware of, was what Apple was doing regarding Objective-C support.

So yeah I was wrong, but maybe clang guys should blog as much as VC++ about what is happening.

Another example is the ongoing support of the core guidelines.

I do follow all presentations from LLVM meetings, can you give me a link to any that I missed regarding modules post 2012?
At $2 billion, it would be an expensive shut-down for Uber, but probably worth it to kill their only serious competitor in the US and keep the network / data / et al. out of other hands. If Uber could give them equity as payment at a $60 billion valuation, that would easily be worth it.
I think there is no best, but there are technologies you want to avoid.

Like my lastest rant will be against Angular. First load is usually with ugly {BLABLA} everywhere, last version breaks everything, ugly performance compared to vanilla JS or react, unnecessary complicated, academic mindset...
I was thinking the same thing -- the Chrome Store has been a huge boon for my product (https://write.as). But a lot of people are on Chrome OS, and since they're keeping apps there at least, I don't think this is a terrible thing. And it makes sense from a product perspective: the store stays focused on the platform it was originally built for, and doesn't try to extend its reach to a storefront for the entire web.
Japan's property values haven't risen in the last 20 years because their economy is in the toilet, they're struggling with deflation, and their population is declining.

When the economy was growing like crazy in the 80s, Japan had the most expensive real estate on the planet, and the same zoning they do now.
As an advertiser, I could see this happening if you started looking at headphones on mobile, but purchased on desktop. Unless they are using a cookie onboarding service (I'd be mildly surprised if they weren't), they wouldn't have a great way to fire another tag for adding you to ask exclusion list for that product.

Of course ecomm audience management at their scale is super hard, but these are challenges most etailers face.
The Apple-Google shift
I don't think reading let alone debugging crash dumps is a viable option for most users
One of my goals in life is to introduce Khoisan words into common English use. We need more clicks.
An anti-torpedo torpedo
Many thinks that conciousness has nothing to do with brain. Brain can be considered the hardware and conciousness the software.
You have completely missed the point. I do not deny that people say terrible things. I don't even deny that men say terrible things to women more often than other gender combinations, or that women in tech get discriminated against. It is still a very long leap from there to "the principal cause for my chronic poverty is my gender."
And most retail shops use a POS system for their checkouts, what is your point?
I not familiar enough with rust, but my point was that adding those feature to C lessen the need of a borrow checker (not that rust don't have those features.)
Why Your Brain Hates Slowpokes (2015)
That is retargeting and can be extremely effective. Often times it takes multiple touch points to get someone to purchase, so display ad reminders can aid that.
Designing a machine that still works in 31,600 years seems a pretty tough challenge. Even remembering to listen for a signal in 31,600 years is probably already a hard problem.
Because it is a brilliant introduction to a difficult foreign language, for most of us.
"Ghoti"
Will rust have a canonical IDEs ?
They're not common results, but they're still real, and every woman who dares to get uppity online has them in the back of her mind. The fact that they're not common isn't relevant; the chilling effect is very common.

I note that you turned the subject around and with a passive-aggressive overtone made it about me. No comment.
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Or go part of the way and stop.

Interstellar space is riddled with bodies. Sol's Oort cloud extends out to a light-year or so, but the fringes of it mix with Alpha Centauri's. It's mainly composed of cometary nuclei and ejected rocky masses, so it's rich in low-mass elements: hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen... all the elements of life. The total mass is on the order of tens of times the mass of the Earth, except unlike Earth, all that mass is accessible.

Finding estimates of the separation between objects is pretty hard, but the ones I've seen very from ~5 light seconds up depending on where you are and how big a body you're interested in. About half a light year out, it seems that there's likely to be a decent sized body (10s of kilometres across) within 30 light seconds. Larger objects are less common, but here's an estimate of there being about 10^5 moon-sized objects per star: http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2687

It's surprisingly hospitable out there, too. The environment never changes, you don't really need to worry about radiation (except for the occasional supernova), and cooling is easy. Travel is easy, too: space is nearly flat, so you don't need to worry about transfer orbits: boost in a straight line, then decelerate and stop. Travel time is solely a function of how much energy you want to put in. Most objects are moving pretty slowly, too, way under a kilometre per second.

You need to be able to fuse hydrogen, of course. Or engineer yourself to use less energy.

It would be entirely feasible to build a ship, travel six months to a year, and then settle on a decent sized body and found a colony there. A few generations later, your children head off again. Eventually your child civilisation has hopped rocks all the way to Alpha Centauri, but of course by then the idea of living near a star would be utterly alien to them.

Personally, I think that when we discover proper alien intelligences, it'll be here: probably in the form of computational nets of bacteria-like organisms, living very slowly and efficiently, spreading via spores from rock to rock in the darkness. So much safer and more reliable than the fast, hot, dangerous worlds down on the edges of the solar fire...
(defun move-ball (ball distance screen-width)
(zapf (ball-x ball)
(mod (+ distance %) screen-width)))

In TXR Lisp:

(defun move-ball (ball distance screen-width)
(placelet ((it (ball-x ball)))
(set it (mod (+ distance it) screen-width)))

Trivial exercise: zapf macro expanding to the placelet form.

TXR Lisp's anaphoric operators like ifa and conda use placelet, so that their "it" can be a place referring to the original:

;; decrement (ball-x ball) place if it exceeds 15:

(ifa (> (ball-x ball) 15)
(dec it))
I'd like to see a service that lets people play with grammar specs interactively, with working snippets.
You can use the Storage Transfer Service[0] to automatically move objects past a certain age from one GCS bucket to another.

[0]: https://cloud.google.com/storage/transfer/
Sorry for the confusion, I was at G prior and the "SWE" nomenclature never really dropped for me. SDE/SWE is pretty much interchangeable in my book
The article does not discuss the history of MySQL. MySQL existed for 5 years before it went GPL[1]. Understanding what license was used for the first 5 years of the company and whether that impeded success would be useful.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20010601152026/http://mysql.com/...
Having programmed many substantial projects in both worlds, I have to admit that I much prefer S-expressions over any other syntax -- without complicated macros that introduce some sort of keywords or other tricks. With S-expressions, there is basically just one syntax to learn for every construct, so you can focus on the semantics. (I do prefer Scheme's way of dealing with functions, but that's another matter, of course.)

Unfortunately, I otherwise prefer strongly typed systems languages with a strong focus on compile-time, zero cost solutions such as Ada or Rust. My ideal language would be a very fast, statically and strictly typed language with a modern incremental garbage collector that can be switched off and without type inference, but with an S-expression syntax.

However, if such a language existed or I'd develop it on my own, it probably wouldn't gain much popularity... ;-)
Apart from completely defeating the humanitarian aim of world peace, it's not a reliable strategy. Assad brutally cracked down at the first sign of protest and it backfired into a civil war he's barely surviving. Lots of repressive regimes get overthrown.
It's so far an academic tool created by a research lab and not used much in the wild [?]. So it needs more funding, or someone to adopt it for regular real-world usage:

Some related things are discussed here:
https://github.com/psal/anonymouth/issues/6
I'm not suggesting that we should have just jumped to nuking Moscow... As it is now, the threat would have been sufficient. Preventing the expansion of the totalitarian Soviet empire was a moral imperative.
For normal user behavior you will rarely encounter a problem. But build systems tend to update/create files very quickly. If there was a workload which would break ReadDirectoryChanges, it would be this one.

Reading the code for Realize, he gets the directory watching facilities from https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify. That library seems to drop the 'buffer overflow, please reset your assumptions' message. So if it did happen, I don't think the user would have a good experience.

If you do ever depend on ReadDirectoryChanges, you do need to fallback to stat-ing files if you get an overflow. Otherwise, your milage may vary.
As a "corporate" sysadmin using Powershell everyday, I was always surprised that PS is not so used in the malware industry.

By the way, I find that this article[0] linked in the original post is much more interesting if you want to know more about how brazilian malwares work (BHO injection, 2FA bypass, etc.)

[0] https://securelist.com/blog/research/74325/the-evolution-of-...
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>> Is that really the consensus for small artists on Spotify?

It's not. I don't think there is any consensus with this stuff and there doesn't need to be. You need to do what's best for you. If you can't spend most of the year touring then ignoring streaming and focusing on bandcamp is the way to go. If you want to tour and grow your audience Spotify is essential imo, especially if you're targeting a younger demographic. It's amazing how quickly your music spreads when it hits a playlist (even just a regular users playlist that their friends follow).
But that's the point, top parent was suggesting this as a replacement for commercial escrow. Most people wanting commercial escrow would not be satisfied with this.
Have you actually managed ecomm campaigns where you've done this? If so, how were your tags set up to facilitate this, particularly solving for the obvious cross device challenge?

I'm genuinely curious because those of us that are experienced in the hands on management of this stuff know how hard of a problem that can be in some circumstances.

Fwiw exclusion lists can be very effective if you can properly cookie someone at the appropriate time or leverage a data broker to pipe in CRM data. But it is by no means an easy thing to solve for.
More symptoms of Terminal-Stage Keynesianism.
There's no current plans to have our own special IDE. There's not a lot of agreement about this in the Rust community; many people don't use IDEs at all, and there's not a lot of coherence on either side: vim, emacs, VS Code, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, Eclipse, the list goes on and on. So we're interested in supporting the editors people want to use, rather than trying to get everyone to use the same one.
Even if that is the case, then I don't like the privacy implications.

I don't feel great about the Eye of Sauron seeing every single thing I do with my money.
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It is absolutely more verbose. The Lisp form can store N constants into N variables in 2N+3 tokens: two parentheses, plus the variables and constants and one symbol. Assignment statements require 3N tokens: N vars, N constants, N assignment operators. That's assuming they don't need some mandatory separator or terminator like a semicolon. We break even when N = 3. For N > 3, 2N+3 < 3N.

Anyway, this is hardly the main point of the article (and probably detracts from it).
It seems worth pointing out that credit for the name zap should go to Arc. (Unless it already existed somewhere else even before that?)

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/15481f843d/arc.ar...
When you submit to Nature and they reject the paper, they suggest you try again at Scientific Reports. Resubmitting there saves you some steps if you had reviews for your Nature submission.
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I would think a tool that can quickly do high quality building extraction would end up displacing the efforts to add buildings to OSM.

Such a tool would have a couple of advantages; the capture dates of the imagery used would be well known and the coverage would be consistent. The projects to add buildings are often hasty and involve lots of people of varying levels of experience (and diligence and so on).

Of course, there seems to be a widespread (and incorrect) mindset that working with OSM only is somehow vastly easier than working with OSM plus some external data. It's nice that data added to OSM automatically shows up in lots of places, but it is usually quite straightforward to use other data alongside the OSM data.
Modern computing has transformed intellectual activity into an exercise in eye-hand coordination.
You need a lot of goods to feed many mouths.

Two or three of something is a pretty common pattern in kanji. Two basically implies "several", while three implies "a fuckton". Two suns, for instance, is "bright". Three suns is a sparkling crystal.
Shen is probably the closest you'll get. http://shenlanguage.org

It's strongly typed, but not a systems language, and very much not zero-cost.

There are some systems lisps with no GC. I just wish I could find them...
Supposing that next year we get viable coldfusion and that em drive thing turns out to be actually real somehow it would seem feasible to move the planets, but how would you move the sun? You can't very well put an engine on the sun. Maybe a Dyson sphere, but that requires a lot of material, probably more than is available in our solar system, so we'd need to start significant extrasolar mining operations before we could move it.
Are you talking about HN or Quora?

What's "the bubble"?

> This would jive with his above narrative, but many other stories could explain as well.

Are you saying you don't assign a high probability to your story being correct?