skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't give men more options. It puts a lot of unexpected pressure on men to adapt.

And adaptation is a real challenge, because it may mean learning completely new technical skills as well as completely new social and political skills as well as being unusually creative and inventive - and most men have to attempt this after a very poor education and little or no mentoring or modelling of the possibilities.

In the past, men could get by fairly passively because the job-market was full of ready-made slots for them. They could turn up and fill a slot and money would start flowing.

Now the slots have to be invented before they can be filled. That immediately disenfranchises the 90% or so of the population who aren't particularly creative or entrepreneurial.

And even if a slot is invented, the odds of lasting success aren't great. Most projects fail, and failure isn't tolerated well.

So we've gone from an open job market with limited selection pressure and relatively easy rewards to a very closed and challenging job market which only works for maybe 5% of the male population - specifically unusually intelligent, creative/inventive, socially connected and/or wealthy, or just plain sociopathic men.

It's a huge, huge change, and I don't think we've even started to see the effects.
Yeah but it's only 1/64 of the Intertec Superbrain, available for only $11.000 at the time.
What is spam and what is valuable mail is more or less unambiguous.

Even if it's not easy to know algorithmically, it is very easy to know a spam message when one sees the message.

News on the other hand, especially on political issues with differing opinions, are not that clear. And the underlying facts are not that major a factor either, because journalists can lie with statistics, be selective, omit things, put a false spin on the impact of real facts, etc.

And even who measures the "facts" can be political (e.g. a researcher paid by some mega-corporation, a government agency that wants to make the government look good, etc), and seemingly 100% accurate stats (e.g. on the "level of unemployment") cannot always be trusted and sometimes differ to reality by a huge margin (e.g. the level of unemployment can be manipulated in 100 different ways, based on the definition on unemployment, and various countries play all kinds of tricks with that.
The title is a simple quantifiable assertion taken directly from the conclusion of the research [0] while your comment is just an opinion. I encourage you to read the conclusion to the paper and its supporting analysis - and then to argue with the data, or to at least propose something falsifiable.

[0] http://www.nber.org.sci-hub.cc/papers/w23173.pdf
You think it is men deciding not to marry, as in "no thanks, I'd rather be alone and unemployed than change diapers"?

The article said it is women making the decision.
Actually that's (almost) exactly how I did it joining Apple. I had already interviewed and been turned down with the group I wanted to join twice. Now I was coming in for another interview with a different hiring manager. I was willing to put up with another possible rejection because I really wanted to work at Apple. So I worked with one of the recruiters and had setup interviews with 6 other groups. I did 2-3 interviews a week and it was grueling but in the end I had several groups that wanted to hire me including the original team I wanted to join. They could only make one offer but nothing stopped me from interviewing until I was blue in the face.

EDIT: Another note, at least three of the roles I interviewed for had homework assignments. None took longer than 2 hours and I actually enjoyed them and the subsequent interviews much better.
Women marry up not down.
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Oops sorry. I thought I was responding to GP. His response was not very polite, dismissing my comment as a conspiracy theory and assumed (wrongly) I was sending exe files.

And then I was accused of being a dick. Perhaps I should detach before I give people more wrong impression about me.
Huh. It's interesting, because I come from a country which uses only metric units, so whether someone writes a single or double quote is reduced to meaning "this weird imperial unit". I definitely wrote 20' and 20" meaning a 20 inch monitor before.
Only if you're logged in already. Just look at their Facebook page during the S3 outage, on which Synapse relies on. That software is just a piece of crap.
The Dutch rule is basically, that the driver is liable if an accident happens, even if it's the cyclist's fault (unless you can prove that the cyclist deliberately caused the accident).

So there are not a lot of rules on what you should do. And this kind of passing is required often enough on narrow streets, that usually cars don't swerve if there is more space.

So that means that those self driving cars have to have a per country profile on how to behave. So if you have to do that for every country in the EU then that will make developing self-driving cars quite a bit more expensive than the current system where you have a common market.
Wait, you actually think that men are just so tied up in their gender role of "manliness" to enjoy the benefits of all of the reproductive success that low-paying jobs would afford them?
So basically, you think men are given the following scenarios, but are choosing option A?

A) Be a man, don't compete for women's jobs, drink beer instead of going to work, likely don't have a girlfriend or get laid because you don't have your finances in order...

B) Be less of a man, compete for women's jobs, drink less beer and more wine at dinner parties, bite your tongue about the manliness and receive willing girlfriends and sexual partners...

Anyone with any sense will laugh at this above false choice implicitly being promoted.
>You're deliberately highjacking a thread that's about a specific story with something completely different.

Where by "something completely different" you mean "with something of the exact same nature (people killed because of crossing a border) that still occurs often today"?

Conversations naturally expand to similar stories and greater lessons and perspective on things. Heck, a Rust announcement on HN will almost always expand to discussing type theory or static-vs-dynamic languages, Golang and C++ and same with everything else. That's what different threads are for.

What's inane is to artificially constrain a discussion, just to never break the echo chamber.
What are the options for men who want to have a family/live with their children?

I guess men who just want to have sex might benefit, because they can just sleep with women and then leave, and society takes care of the single moms. Likewise, women can have more sex with varying partners.

The downside is not having a family or having a stressful family life (as a single mom).

And for the absent dads, the state will try to get the money back from them, so their outlook isn't pretty. They'll bend up being poor and lonely.
My first computer as well. As there was no hard drive included, I had to save on audio tape the programs I was inventing or typing from UK 'Your Computer' weekly magazine.
Also, graphical definition was 64 by 44 if I remember well, meaning that imagination was welcome when playing 'games'!
Exactly. As a 15+ year vet, I love coding homeworks because:

1) I've been coding forever, and have faced code reviews in multiple professional environments. So your "6-8 hours" will probably only take me less than two, and my code will probably look better than yours to a reviewer.

2) I get tired of having to re-read "Cracking the Code Interview", because almost none of that is frequently used outside of academia. And dealing with smug 5-year journeymen interviewers, who are accustomed to asking 1-year juniors to traverse binary search trees and name all of the design patterns that they've memorized from books.

No matter what process your company uses, there will always be people trash-talking it on the Internet. "I refuse to interview at those places", "I insist on being paid an hourly rate to deal with them", etc. I'm sure that 99% of this is chest-thumping bullshit. But regardless, if you're going to filter out part of the candidate pool no matter which path you take... I'd much rather filter those 25-year olds who feel too entitled to write some code, and legitimately believe that companies should just glance at their GitHub page and then hurl them a giant sack of money.
My Dad was an alcoholic for as long as I can remember. A pretty serious one, but functional. But he held down a white-color job at a shipping company for which he was paid pretty well, and we lived a pretty comfortable lifestyle.

He always had a temper - he gave us lots of spankings. By some measures, maybe he was abusive, but he never hit us or left bruises with his belt. He just tending to give out those "whooping" at the drop of a hat if he'd had too much to drink.

Then he lost his job when the major job provider in town closed. He kept trying to find a new one, but it was never a good one. For someone that had spent 15 years making good money at something he was apparently pretty good at, working menial low-paying jobs was devastating to him.

His alcoholism got worse, and pretty soon he wasn't able to hold down even the menial jobs. Needless to say, my parents marriage fell apart.
This is ridiculous. There are so many changes in requirements there (asynchronous with push results being the biggest), that everyone is going to have to throw away what they wrote an start over.

Anything beyond 10-20 lines for the solution to this problem is pointless levels of abstraction and would be a huge red flag.
I think it boils down to money, which are a manifestation of demand (and thus existence of jobs). If you have money to spent, you can afford to take risks (take people in and then throw them away if they turn out to be bad), you can afford to train people on the job, you can afford to organize the work better (as a canonical example, look at Facebook Haxl - by building domain-specific languages that are easy to use to non-CompSci people, which they are then interpreted on a platform written by a comparatively small group of CompSci people).

Here in Prague, situation is a little different to US (from my reading). SWEs are locally in quite high demand, as we are on the other side of the globalization. So companies often take almost anybody (for a reasonably paid job).

On the other hand, if the demand is stagnant, you will try to get the best people by being very picky in attempt to lower the costs.
Feminism, the advocation of equal social and political rights for women? What does that have to do with wanting to form lasting relationships with unemployed men?
This is perhaps the real risk of AI. In the first wave, the industry is dominated by a wish to make a great product. In the second wave, the bean counters walk in and start to optimize everything. And then we start getting the behavior from Fight Club.

I don't see any way out of this loop except for penalizing bad business behavior (on an individual level) heavily while protecting engineers who fight them.
This bizarre excerpt certainly piqued my curiosity:

>The boys decided to set up camp on a nearby island, but in the middle of the night they woke to a scream. It sounded like a woman’s cry.
“We were sure it was a maniac or something. You could hear cries from different directions.”
The boys decided to leave the island in the middle of the night.

Wish I knew what that was all about! Too bad we don't know what island they stopped on. Are there animals whose calls sound like a woman's screams?

Edit: Some Googling tells me they may have been hearing a group of red foxes.
This bizarre excerpt certainly piqued my curiosity:

>The boys decided to set up camp on a nearby island, but in the middle of the night they woke to a scream. It sounded like a woman’s cry.
“We were sure it was a maniac or something. You could hear cries from different directions.”
The boys decided to leave the island in the middle of the night.

Wonder what that was all about!
8,000 years ago they estimate that 17 women reproduced for every 1 man[0]. In a society without work for most men, I suspect a similar ratio to arise again. Especially if we continue to tell young men to stop behaving like young men in order to attract women.

[0]https://psmag.com/8-000-years-ago-17-women-reproduced-for-ev...
Adaptation can take a while (particularly if its generational). Many things have to go right for it to happen smoothly. While society and people are adapting, there will likely be many workers who are unable/unwilling to re-skill to compete in other job markets. Many people will be without work as those markets will become highly competitive. They will also likely require years of university, increasing the economic load on society.

You seem to have a lot of faith in education systems in a capitalist environment. My own observations is that universities are just enrolling students in courses regardless of there being jobs available in those fields or not - as long as they are making a profit. I doubt governments can move fast enough to develop proper education systems to educate the population for modern day jobs.
Women are a lot more likely to go to college than men. [0] If you work in a factory, or planned to, you probably didn't go to college.

For all the attention that is given to the lack of women in CS and Engineering the story in aggregate for all majors is that women outnumber men at colleges. It's been that way since 2000 and the trend has continued in the past 17 years. Its to the point where women outnumber men two to one at some large schools like UNC which are, for example, 60% female. [1]

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=72

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/fashion/07campus.html
Also, it could easily be reduced to 2x3. Designers.. sigh
Humans are half-way between a tournament species and a pair-bonding species. Pair-bonding species certainly do select males for their ability to raise children. So to you I say, not all women!
It's not even an issue of feminism or any other -ism.

It's statistics and sociology.

The last time I saw data on this, that was one of the most common causes.
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So? Lip-reading is a very mechanical task, 100% pattern recognition.
Root cause analysis: is it contributing to failure to improve patient safety?
Then using a credit card will be the best bet as you can file charge-back.
No, because this ignores the cause & effect reality of nature. If people are turning to drug-based stimuli for the purpose of numbing and unfulfilled life of 1) no sexual partners 2) few job prospects, then we should not act as if the drugs are the first-tier causes of their predicament...

Anyone who has seen the upper echelons of society knows how many drugs are used up there too - and therefore knows that they are not first tier-causes (of being on the bottom) in every use case.
The Electoral College isn't much of a secret.
I don't even know where to start with that garbage article.

First, most everybody has a natural urge to have sex with a lot of hot people. It's just that some people (women, for instance) will face greater opprobrium from their families and communities for doing so. That doesn't stop all women though. Many do in fact have sex with multiple men at a time. I am open to talking about the statistics of how many men vs. how many women do this, but I would not make conclusions involving stupid plate-spinning metaphors as that article does. And actually, the only stats I can find indicate that women tend to engage in polyamory more so than men [1].

And whether or not you're personal preferred lifestyle is to settle down, it's pretty much irrelevant when you're speaking about men generally. I have had a very high number of sexual partners, but I chose to then get married and have a single sexual partner. It's not because I would have been unable to keep sleeping around. I get approached by women more now than ever before and I'm not lying to say that I could find a new attractive sexual partner every day. I don't want to though. So, my experience and attitude directly contradict that passage you quoted.

[1] http://www.advocate.com/current-issue/2016/1/08/polyamory-nu...
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Because traditional gender roles dictate that the man in the relationship to be the breadwinner and being a bum doing nothing all day long wouldn't bode well for the woman in the relationship and given that feminists are against the status quo and traditional gender roles, it would look hypocritical that they disqualify a male suitor or partner for a romance or LT relationship based on their LT employment outlook or prospects.
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interesting point, which raises the question of which structure works better at bringing inventions to market. Wasn't it Thomas Edison, credited with tons of patents and produced many actual groundbreaking products, who had an army of inventors working for him? Perhaps if the people with financial and management resources to deploy the organization behind the patents, are the ones who own the patents, this means a better chance of stuff coming to market? Xerox Parc, by contrast, seems to have been quite separate from Xerox itself, and so we have this situation where many of its amazing work was never brought to market properly by Xerox itself?
I spoke to a divorce lawyer and as someone getting married in a few months I asked him what made marriages fail. He said that "It's mostly out of your control, when men come in it is mostly because their wife has been unfaithful. When women come in it is mostly because the man has lost his job." He also said that women seem to tolerate a great deal of infidelity on the part of the man up until the point where he stops earning.

Sort of makes me glad that I met my fiancee while I was very poor, hopefully I set the bar rather low.
I think there are two main problems with software development recruiting:

1) Companies who are not Google or Apple like to read books about Google and Apple, pretend that they are Google or Apple, and imitate recruiting processes that come from Google or Apple. Which doesn't serve them very well, because they are NOT Google or Apple.

2) Candidates who are not "the folks who can walk out of Apple's machine learning department on Friday and into Google's on Monday" like to pretend that they are, congregate on Internet forums with other candidates who also pretend that they are, and exchange interview advice geared toward people who are. Which doesn't serve them very well, because they are NOT.
Oh right, traditional gender roles. I thought this feminism was the advocation of equal social and political rights, but actually this is something else on top.

I seem to be an appallingly bad feminist. For me, it's about equal social and political rights, but it turns out it's really all about a whole lot of crazy stuff I don't understand. It's odd that the people who most loudly understand what feminism really is seem to be those opposed to it, and people who simply label themselves feminists (such as myself) end up mystified by where all this extra junk comes from. Sometimes I wonder if perhaps people aren't conflating advocation of equal social and political rights with a whole lot of other things, but it's generally not worth the conversation.
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Good point but there's nothing that precludes these assigned/expected roles in a LT relationship from changing or evolving in the future and for persons in the relationship to adapt to the new dynamics and realities.
This may be true now, but there's a trend of women accepting that a man earns less (or even sometimes doesn't have a job) as long as she doesn't yet want to have a baby, and the man looks hot. It's still all about supply and demand.
>revisit one of the HN comment threads where gender roles come up and marvel at the unchecked support for the idea that women should be stay-at-home mothers.

As someone who's hung around this place along time, I'd love to see a link of a discussion with "unchecked" claims that women should stay home.
Yes, collision occurs on the same channel transmit.

You'll probably have to setup two different essids. Most devices I've used will keep using the same ap even when its signal is lousy and they have a great signal to the other ap
That's by the way among the only books I've bought due to the title alone, without knowing what it was about.

And it was an interesting read (basically about categories/measure words/collective nouns, "families" of meaning or "radial" categories, and rejection of the good old Aristotelian notion of definition as membership in a class together with some more specific boolean predicate, e.g. "a bachelor is a man that is not married").

Anyways, great title, great book. Interesting paper you posted, though I don't recall whether Lakoff actually made the case that Dyirbal speakers saw women as dangerous. The paper suggests that "there is no synchronic conceptual association among all of the items in a given gender class; in particular, the smaller subsets within a class do not need to be radially related to the semantic core. The overall class membership is motivated only diachronically, and even then not necessarily on semantic grounds." - would Lakoff disagree?
Out of topic but...

> This group includes Olivia Alfano, a 29-year-old single mother living in Evansville, Indiana, where she works as a waitress at Red Lobster. The money is pretty good, she told me: She drives a BMW and was able to buy a house last year.

Am I the only one who is surprised by that? (I don't live in the US)
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Rust was an introverted nerd, thats why he flew naively to Russia. It was just luck that he wasn't shot down. Strangely, his journey was though beneficial for Perestroika, as Gorbachev used the embarrassing incident to clean house and retire opponents in the military.

> He received only two and a half years in prison for that. The woman he stabbed nearly died. What the fuck.

I looked it up: At that time public opinion pivoted against him. His parents had sold his story to a magazine for a larger sum, which was seen as greedy and improper journalism, and he himself made very naive/weird statements in interviews (e.g. his claim about the russians drugging him). The media wanted him to be a hero and an attractive daredevil pilot, but he turned out to just be a boring weirdo. A socially inept and awkward 20 year old.

Regarding the knife attack he claimed that the girl rebuked his advances by calling him (I am paraphrasing the German here) "a loser, that he never will succeed and will ever be a loser, and the russia thing was just a stunt to make himself important". Rust said something snapped in him. A psychological examination saw this as triggering his neurosis. The court followed this and I guess judged the media stress as mitigating factor for his affect action.
(The girl denied saying that to him and indeed only survived because the stabbing was in a hospital.)

After prison Rust had an odd life. He was in Asia and abroad, he had two failed marriages there, he claimed to have been a professional Poker player and having won a small fortune with poker, which allowed him to be financially independent, but then he was caught trying to steal an expensive cashmere pullover in a store, something about check fraud, something about a Yoga school he wanted to open...

http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/kreml-flieger-mathias-rust-...
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Clarifying: I'm not agreeing because the point's unpopular, but rather, am publicly stating my agreement despite the status. My original wording bothers me.