skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am always amazed by the stories I hear. It's a common yet toxic mentality where women are told they can't or shouldn't do something, or aren't cut out for STEM because they are female.

I recently saw this surface on HN in the basement of this thread, discussing the appointment of Jennifer Widom as the dean of Stanford Engineering. Many posters speculated, without knowledge of her credentials, that she was unqualified compared to her male peers and only selected because she's a woman.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13779165

I don't know how it escapes them that this attitude is the literal definition of sexism, and that women in tech have to fight this constantly.

I saw it happen all the time in engineering school. I even occasionally see it in workplace. So many of my female classmates and coworkers are talked down to, discouraged and have their skills written off by their male counterparts (nevertheless, they persist). No wonder the share of women in STEM fields dwindles, the culture can be absolutely toxic.

I don't doubt that many people are honestly being unintentionally sexist. But it's on everyone to constructively call out this behavior and support a healthier culture in the school and workplace. At the very least, why would one want to write off the ideas and talent of half the population?
I don't really know much about functional programming. How can a variable not change?
I thought of Foucault's Pendulum.
I think wearing a seatbelt is a great idea, and if I'll refuse to drive a car unless all my passengers are wearing their seatbelt first. My partner is from a country where it's not enforced at all, and I have insisted she always wear a seat-belt when I noticed she didn't wear them routinely.

I personally rarely drink alcohol, don't smoke, take drugs etc etc. I still don't think any of the above should be forbidden. I've found it's a good idea to me - cheaper, better for my health, better for my mental state. Somehow I'm able to follow this without the state compelling me to do so.

Should we ban alcohol as well - as that is how "society works"? It does a lot of harm in many countries.

I don't understand why every good idea has to be enforced with a law.

(As an aside, I'm from a country where bicycle helmets are mandatory, despite their dubious safety benefits, and the fact as soon as the law was introduced cyclist numbers plummeted).
All of its residents.
As others have said, the idea that "normalizing" has any meaning whatsoever for a man who ran as a presidential candidate for a major party and won the office is absurd.

Supporting Donald Trump and his policies is normal. You may not agree with the man or his policies and that's perfectly fine - and also normal - but to hold the position that they are not "normal" makes no logical sense.
You lose your job, family, future, if you join these groups. Just like in oppressive regimes. During the Soviet United it was same. I know because I come from there, they didn't send you directly to Siberia for everything, but no university excepted you, you couldn't work in positions that you wanted, because I you were the event of state, etc. Just like you can't work in SV when you support Trump. Unless you have money and are Thiel, if course.
It is when the whole framing of the piece is to equate a) flouting Senate rules for equal speaking opportunity with b) resistance to sexism.
>I use vitriol to convince in casual conversation, because it works.

>I like peer pressure, sarcasm and shame.

Interestingly, when you read influence/negotiation books, all of these are listed as tactics that create resistance, and all recommend not using these tactics.

One of the golden rules is to criticize the idea, not the person.

>Even just a tiny cheap laugh can dislodge all but the most strongly held beliefs if those laughs come from their close peers.

Agreed. But the reason you have so many anti-vaccine folks is that their peer group thinks like them.

If you say it works for you, great! Not been my observation, and definitely not the observation of folks who do this stuff for a living.

>I have no regret caller anti-vaxxers idiots

This comment speaks to the reason I went off in this thread.

Who is asking you to feel regret?
How about the point where you don't build a multi-billion dollar industry based on undermining exactly that kind of agency and body responsibility?
Teamwork with the Compiler: An Interview with a Functional Programmer
yea but the implementation is extremely hard.
A well-executed single-payer system would make California even more attractive for entrepreneurship and increase labor mobility for everyone. Life would be much easier if we could start companies or switch jobs without worrying about healthcare.
> Cows don't understand what's happening to them

I don't believe this is as true as you seem to think.

Supposing someone proved to you with some future subjectivity-detecting tricorder that cows do understand all they go through, will you change your mind about the humane bullet method?
It's worth noting that Cloudflare followed this advice (whether or not they knew they were) and did not roll their own parser, and still, there was a bug. I'm pretty sure that parser correctness and program security is mostly unrelated, and you can show this both theoretically and empirically.
We're at a point where there is so much technological, cultural, malicious disruption that people don't know how to live anymore and are trying to find their way on the fly or based on some diet/lifestyle du jour.

Yes personal responsibility and all, but we've made it awful easy to fall into this trap.
So…how much is "too much" concerning these "cancer-causing" chemicals? You can find "cancer-causing" agents in the air we breathe, the water we drink and many of the foods we eat. The question is, how much of this chemical is dangerous to our health?
You know if Postgres can just get some better distributed/elastic support it could do some damage.

I switched from Cassandra to citus + pipelinedb (and I'm JVM guy). Postgres is such an awesome platform. I'm planning on looking into some logical decoding.
Sans illegal aliens.
We are doomed.
BMI is not always a valid gauge. It does not take into account above average muscle mass. My BMI says that I am obese. I have, maybe, 20 extra pounds on me. If I lost that, I would be abs-in-your-face shredded (or very near it).
And if pirating music involved breaking into the office of a record company and stealing a CD off their shelf, the comparison to piracy might be valid. But it's not.
> But this election was not won by Trump as much as it was lost by Hillary.

But both Trump partisans (who want the credit) and Clinton partisans (who don't want the blame) have an interest in the Trump team's unusually tactical genius being seen as the cause of the outcome.
I don't think anyone considers vmklinux independent, and indeed vmklinux is itself open-sourced (in a kludgey but compliant way):
https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=ESX...

The debate has always been about whether the vmkernel is itself a derived work of vmklinux or Linux.
> You can't ask for our sympathy when your words, freely given to the newspaper of record, have an impact you didn't intend.

I don't see sama asking for your sympathy here. He explicitly said he's not particularly interested in avoiding criticism.
I think this is great. California gets to experiment with a single payer system and I, as a Utahan, get to watch and see whether it works or not. Unless it completely fails, then we'll all need to bail Cali out. Can we try this in North Dakota first? ;)
You've struck at the core of the issue here.

"Do whatever you want regardless of of the negative ripple effects you cause" isn't exactly an ethical philosophy, but it sure can be effective.
The customer will notice the difference when the TB3 device only works on one side of their laptop and not the other. This brings us back to the fallacy of USB Type-C and the idea of One True Plug.
How is it fundamentally any different than Uber failing to provide insurance for their drivers until mid-2014?

1. Do something on the edge of legality
2. Get called on it
3. Change your actions going forward as little as possible to overcome legal resistance
https://github.com/ralphbean/mattd.core
Supposedly according to internal accounting the sovereign wealth fund is worth $2T as in Trillion. If they are able to capture and sell their oil reserves accordingly.
Why would you do it that way, rather than:

1. Pick a target MD5

2. Make whatever cutesy animation you want showing that number

3. Append collision blocks to the resulting gif to make it match the target MD5
Firefox on Windows XP: End of the Line
A blog post of Vultr performance benchmark of $2.5 plan
https://www.yeool.com/blog/2017/03/performance-benchmark-of-...
What you eat make harder or easier to eat less.

It is not just genetics and it is not just self control. If you eat more fat and no carbs is much easier to eat less calories in total.
Yes, but it's a gross oversimplification! If I asked you "what's the secret to getting rich?" and you said "earn more than you spend", it would be true, but it wouldn't be very helpful.

The fact is that different calories affect our brains differently. Some cause us to crave more food, some cause us to feel satiated, etc. I hate this modern trend of saying "calories in vs calories out" as if it's a magic cure.
In Sweden most of the national pension system [1] is a Ponzi scheme, in the sense that there are no invested funds: money flows straight from working people's taxes to retirees pensions.

So far it has worked fairly well, but I guess that's what they say about all Ponzi schemes. :P

1. All except the so-called "Premiepension". See e.g. https://www.pensionsmyndigheten.se/forsta-din-pension/om-pen....
I feel like you know the answer.
Welcome to the rest of the civilised world.
When your body is breaking down simple carbohydrates, it causes your blood sugar levels to spike, and during this period you're packing away more fat than you would otherwise. Combined with a sedentary lifestyle it's really bad. It does matter where you're getting your calories from.

This is why poor people have greater obesity problems than the rest. Potato Chips, white bread, pasta, and of course sugar feature prominently in their daily calorie intake, these are the cheapest calories you can make a diet out of.
In theory they could have a problem with really sick people moving to California for the healthcare, raising their costs. But that takes time, so maybe before it becomes a big problem, other states will do similar things.
>Russian info space, apart from this "protecting russians from nazis" war propaganda, is also full of serving-your-country/patriotism propaganda. And it's ridiculous how far reaching it is. Some russians even take pride in not hiring people, who didn't serve. So, this is where your views come from.

Only I'm not a Russian. And apart from occasional checking out of RT (as I do of Guardian, Al Jazeera, NYT, BBC, and dozens of other outlets, being a reading junkie) I don't have any exposure to the "Russian info space" (whenever that means, probably a derogatory word for "their" media and websites, who obviously aren't as worthy as yours).

So there goes the BS theory. As if only Russians, and propaganda victims of some "info space" would ever be patriotic.

In fact, visiting the US, one has the impression it's the most patriotic place on the western world.

Nowhere in Europe do we have as many (or any at all, for that matter) flags front and center, or BS "support our troops" stickers on our cars, and heart-felt soap opera news about our "heroes". Or so uniform support of wars, from all sides of the parliament. And our Presidents and PMs seldom talk to God.

(Oh, and referencing a different thread on conscription etc -- a little stalky).
Well, even illegal immigrants pay taxes one way or another if they have a job or buy anything.
Have you tried keto? Works for me™
Harvard Business Services out of Lewes, DE ends up being the lowest priced and tech friendliest I've found so far.
The secret is eat less calories than you burn. What are you talking about?
If we're on the hook for paying for their health coverage, then being authoritarian about what people can consume starts to make a lot of sense.
Of course, they also pay lots of taxes too, including sales tax, and presumably some of that, directly or indirectly, would offset the costs of this kind of program.
I have to admit, my initial reaction was about the same as yours. But after a minute or two of thought, I did know how to do it, even though I haven't ever (directly) used a binary tree in 30 years as a professional software engineer.

I don't think it's out of line to expect a senior person to have the breadth of knowledge to be able to work, at a basic level, with basic data structures. To have memorized all the details of stuff they don't use? No. To have a basic knowledge? Yes.
California tax payers, obviously.

Perhaps the bulk of it will come from folks (and companies?) who have driven real estate prices up to the point no working class person can afford to buy a home in any major city in California.

There may be some negative consequences to that, as well, in the form of some companies or people moving out of California. But, hey, maybe that'd help solve the housing crisis. And, it's also a competitive advantage on some vectors, so maybe it would have a net positive impact on economic growth in the state.

I, honestly, have no idea how it'd work, especially for a state that has managed to have a budget crisis seemingly every year for decades (but, maybe this is just me having a selective memory). But, the CA economy is very, very, big (the biggest, and bigger than many other states combined). If any state could do it, it would be CA.

It'd be interesting, anyway. Somebody has to go first.
Seems like a bit of a work in progress...?
Dammit, never thought about this - but as the alps are only a 1h drive away, most of the people I grew up with did learn to ski at some point in their life. Alas, it's not London.
Simply raising prices on bad food would not be enough. Food education and getting healthy food choices to be more affordable are key. There are huge swathes of people who have no clue what eating healthy looks like. And eating healthy is more expensive.
I congratulate the senators on proposing universal health-care in a way that in federally Constitutional: that is, through the states!

Though I'm usually skeptical of government overreach and innefficiency, I do believe a minimum of preventative care would save people and the system a lot in terms of money, time, and life. So go for it, and let the rest of the country see how it goes.
Got a code snippet?
No, it's the individual's fault. I was severely overweight a year ago and lost 80lb doing nothing other than eating healthy, exercising, and...being patient.

The deferment of responsibility and lack of self-control is the problem. Of course, companies–and more specifically, their marketing teams/firms–know people are weak-minded and as a result, can more or less control people's habits (read: greed outweighs public concern). It doesn't help that the culture has tilted toward justifying poor health in the form of all the body image propaganda.
> top ultrarunning athletes aren't winning the races actually running in their shoes.

I recall 1993 when Rockport sponsored the Leadville Trail 100. They released a specialized trail-running shoe called the Leadville Racer. At the same time, someone invited the Tarahumara to give the race a try and Rockport offered them their fancy shoes. They changed back to sandals at the race's first aid station.

Then the next year they set a race record running in the same sandals -- the ones they built out of leather straps and discarded tires from the Leadville landfill.
Why would you as a Utahn need to bail out California? You know that CA ran deficits for years?

Be happy - just like MJ legalization, this is true federalism at work - states rights and all.

Of course, as a CA resident, I'd be happy that people here have an option aside from the horrible individual insurance market (which, despite Obamacare, is still very expensive).
> Ironically, rarely are there examples from private industry who screw up as much as governments tend to, especially in safety-critical missions.

Governments have the power to compel individuals under threat of violence. Private industry does not.

People can choose not to do business with a company, limiting the impact of that company's actions on their lives and the lives of others. Individuals have no choice in government.
In functional programming the entire program is literally a single expression. This is essentially what functional programming is. A variable in a single expression cannot be modified.
No, the areas will still have restrictive height caps that will stave off tall buildings per that HALA overview doc, we need these areas de-zoned, not rezoned.
I think alcohol is a thorny example because of status quo bias stretching back thousands of years. Based on what I know of the physical harms of alcohol, I think if it was invented today it would be illegal.
Here's a nice map of the US showing the adult obesity rate in each state: http://stateofobesity.org/adult-obesity/

Note that you can select earlier years using the controls below the map. Some depressing observations:

• In 1990, the highest rate was 15% (Mississippi) and the lowest was 6.9% (Colorado).

• In 2000, the highest was 23.9% (West Virginia) and the lowest 14.5% (Colorado). Note that in a mere 10 years, the lowest was almost equal to what had been the highest.

There are plenty of other charts on the site. There is one for physical inactivity. That shows two interesting things:

• The states with the highest obesity have the most inactivity, and the states with the least obesity the least inactivity.

• However, for each state the level of inactivity has remained fairly flat over the last 10 years, even though the obesity rate has risen in those states. Inactivity might explain why some states are more or less obese than others, but it doesn't appear to have anything to do with why we are getting fatter everywhere.
So, something is happening to our genes to make the percentage of obese jump over a dozen pcnt in a generation?
Fat is approximately 3500 calories per pound. If you are gaining 15 pounds per year you are overeating by 3500x15/365 calories per day. If you would like to instead lose 30 pounds per year, reduce your caloric intake per day by 3500x15/365x3 = 432 calories/day.
A conversation about effective code reviews [audio]
Ommmg, smart dancing shoes that teach you to dance
As much as people like to jump up and down about public health issues like cigarettes or even guns, what I find interesting is how few people seriously talk about the car being one of the biggest public health crises to originate in the 20th century.

There is of course the direct effect of the hundreds of thousands of vehicular related deaths per year (globally) as well as serious injuries but there are a bunch of other effects.

One of these is the change in urban planning where life is centered around the car such that Americans, in particular, walk far less than people in other countries [1].

There's a big difference here between walking and needing to walk. People in NYC for example pretty much need to walk. I'm not saying it's impossible to become obese when your daily life requires you or even just encourages you to walk more but it sure makes it more difficult.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/life/walking/2012/04/why_don_t...
Would be great. Also would be great if two states could join up and offer single payer together.
Microsoft is releasing a version of Windows client (not to be confused with server, which was todays announcement) for ARM with an x86 compatibility layer.
If that's accurate, you need to go see a doctor very soon. Something is likely very wrong.
A valid concern considering the state is projected to be running on a deficit before long [1]

[1] http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-brown-budge...
In mathematics, variables don't change inside expressions -- they define a family of expressions, each with a different value. For example, in the function

f(x) = x^2 + x + 1

the value of x in the right-hand-side expression doesn't change in the same sense that variables in imperative languages change. But it allows the single expression "x^2 + x + 1" to have a value which varies by the value of x. For example, f(2) yields the value 7 while f(3) yields the value 13.
It's comments like this that fuel my drive to earn HN points so I can get the downvote button.
The point is that there's a whole lot of complexity hiding behind "calories in" and "calories out". The behaviors of eating, the psychology and physiology of feeling full, of being active, exercising, etc are all very complex. The simple equation is hiding immense complexity.
Note that this bill, in its current form, has no substantive effect; it would only "make findings and declarations with regard to the availability and affordability of health care coverage and would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would establish a comprehensive universal single-payer health care coverage program and a health care cost control system for the benefit of all residents of the state."

The actual legislation establishing single-payer health coverage and a cost control system has not been proposed.
Great work! There are several directions where you can make your work more substantial. For once it would be interesting to see what's the marginal benefit of iterative minification over iterations (can be represented in a graph). Does Remynification approach an asymptotic size value, will further minification actually increase the size instead of decreasing?
Also, it would be interesting to take screenshot using selenium as suggested by sbierwagen and see if Remynification actually preserves initial layout.
Lastly, it would be interesting to see a theory proposed as why such method work, and what can future minifier learn from this.
Consider seeing a doctor or dietician (not a "nutritionist".) All else being equal if you consume fewer calories than you burn you'll lose weight, end of story. So if your weight is staying the same... sounds worth finding out if all else isn't equal. Probably also worth consulting a professional before replacing 100% of your diet with soylent.
> It is good to encourage women and other underrepresented groups to enter tech-just imagine how many awesome programmers we are missing out on

I don't follow the logic. Someone who enters tech through such an intervention is someone taken away from another field; why do we need another awesome programmer more than we need another awesome salesperson?
Postgres is a completely different type of database, there's not much comparison with cassandra/scylla at all.

It also has a way to go with just scale-up performance before it even gets to scale-out.
> I don't understand why people freak out about birds being killed by wind turbines when vastly larger numbers are being killed by buildings and cars. Nobody is yelling about saving the birds by getting rid of buildings and cars.

Because they don't care about the birds. But they do hate anything that smacks of clean energy.
Silicon Valley Gets Behind Australian Student's Unloseable Specs
Australia ran one of these campaigns recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXxgclr7J9g

The content of the ad includes someone looking at someones trash, seeing some common chemicals and assuming they are making a bomb.
Ben Carson and the Power of the Hippocampus
Not true. A loop and a stack can achieve the same thing!
Just had an aha moment, where I realized that I might have been using "cultural fit" as a proxy for "work ethic".

Then again I don't think we've ever used the exact term "cultural fit" in my team.
I wonder how this fits into Pintrest's other businesses? Is this just an attempt to diversify?
West coast single payer?
s/their/our