skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jeff: "Hey Bill"

Bill: "WTF do you want Bezos"

Jeff: "Nothing just calling to see how your charity is going"

Bill: "Im sure you were, its going good...yadayda"

Jeff: "That sounds great Bill, ive gotta run... Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, im wealthier than you now, K BYYYYYYEEEEE!"

Jeff: hangs up

Bill: murmuring, "that fung Bezos"
Weird team, weird culture. That kind of shit is definitely not how it is on all tech teams, including the one I'm on.
IRC rules are still quite relevant, and "don't ask to ask just ask" is also still true.
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Was he?

The only things I read from him in the last 2000s were how he hates social media and its users.
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Where do you work? This is unacceptable. They should be publicly shamed.
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No - it's saying don't extrapolate your personal experiences to an entire industry. That's not that crazy.
> Kind of the opposite, sci-hub isn't really curated at all. Its goal is to have a PDF for everything that has a DOI, more or less.

Side-stepping the politics and legality for a moment, I find it interesting how this is a very natural example of the fault-tolerant design of networks.

A 'DOI' is a resource locator. There's a 'fault' in the network in that some people cannot locate the resource when providing the DOI. Sci-hub has sprung up to route around this fault, and provide people with the resource.

Practically, there are real people making decisions who are involved in this process, but on an abstract level it feels like this is somehow inevitable? It feels like an emergent behavior from any sufficiently advanced network, and any attempt to stop it seems futile.
> Just think about the good that some of that could do for the country.

It already has. Bezos has created value for millions of people and businesses, generated huge tax receipts and completely revolutionarised entire industries.
This sounds like an HR issue.

Does this company have a HR department? If so, what was their response?
It is not realistic. Look at NASA - do they mindlessly go 'you must have X DNA' or do they do testing, like the women astronauts?

> Maybe that's short of maximizing the potential of the tech, but it seems like a genuine consequence.

It's not, because you get literally the same consequence by not genetically testing sperm/eggs at all and simply screening by motility and donor health etc - people who don't do that have kids with more defects. And 'short of maximizing the potential' is exactly my point. A world with perfect genetic prediction and too-cheap-to-meter sequencing simply will not look like that. Some healthier kids are the least of the consequences of generations of society-wide embryo selection with perfect prediction and universal sequencing.

> Because they'd have automated it all?

Yes. Assuming it's still even an issue.

> but that's just to save the viewer from having to be told "oh, 'janitors' now just press buttons and visually inspect the work of machines".

A movie is nothing but what it depicts.
It sounds like your coworkers are man-children. That's not even just sexism, it's more a general level of extreme immaturity. I wouldn't work with idiots like that.
That requires everybody that uses my module to use a patched interpreter. Type comments work fine.

Also, that doesn't help those of us stuck on Python 3.4, the last version that supports Windows XP (don't ask).
You should read 'Against Empathy' by Paul Bloom. It talks all about this issue.
How do you know if the brick and mortar store has real Birkenstocks? You essentially have to buy Birkenstocks from the producing company, or the store could open up their finances so you could see the receipt of the store buying directly from Birkenstock.
Oh dear God why do you hate my eyes. Tiny sans-serif gray body text is of the Devil and should be grounds for irate and overbearing truculent curmudgeons to whine about on online forums.
Fav from that list is FermatsLibrary, always love their visualizations.
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It's great that you've never had similar negative experiences but stories like these are common and, while not exclusive to this industry, very prevalent.

You might think the entire industry would be disgusted but stories like these keep coming out, from high profile tech companies to small firms so it seems pretty clear this is a problem.
Yeah setting up AWS instances is a PITA. It still confuses me when I look at it.
For what I know Bezos was a wall street worker, probably wealthy but no near millionaire. He borrowed 30k from his dad to start amazon.
Thank you for sharing. This is a wonderful story/example of what a microagression is and how hurtful it can be even though it was not a targeted attack.

I believe these stories, as they're shared and read, are making a difference which will end up being a better industry for all sexes. I believe that because stories like this have educated me and my intuition is that it's educated and influenced others too. Which means more change is coming.
There are many great places to work. In my 20+ years, i've never ran across that toxic attitude.

Maybe it's time to publicly shame those workplaces.
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Don't leave tech -- Leave this trash fire of a company.

All the best to you.
Normally I'm not against blasting companies based on a single data point/experience, but if this is really how those colleagues acted I would be shouting this companies name from the rooftops.

It sucks that this is able to happen. It's even worse that its common enough to be thought of as an industry standard.

I don't really have anything to add (for op) other than leave that company immediately, shame them, and move on.
I'd say the Dao hack and fork was a very serious question, getting right down to the entire point of a blockchain itself, immutable or not. And the fact they are now able to work side by side (eth/etc) on some code issues is a very good indication on how the dev community there works differently.

During that crisis it got quite ugly though. Maybe it could be argued Bitcoin is going through a much larger, multi-year ugly period, and that things will settle down and cooperation will happen in another couple years. But many of the people claiming leadership and some of the core developers are outright toxic, and that 'trickles down' into the community.
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No, it's sort of the opposite. "Not all men" in this case would be "not all companies have cultures like this". The response to "not all men" is "but (practically) all women have experienced harassment". So in this case one might say "even if not all companies do this, all employees have experienced it". And mod's comment is that at least one employee has not.
How is this different than prefixing variables with var in JavaScript?
Sure, but imagine a stereotypical American family with three kids, two cars, maybe a dog, and both parents working professional jobs. I don't see how you could consider it abnormal for them to spend $2000 a month to rent a house in the suburbs. If you're talking "globally normal" that's one thing, but by that standard nearly everyone within a thousand miles of me is in abnormally large and expensive housing.
You almost left tech because a bunch in tech are socially awkward weirdos who don't give a crap about other people. Period. It's not about being a woman... it's that the tech field is full of anti-social shit.
For each chunk of on-disk data, the fs stores which devices it is stored on and the used parity configuration. You can take one such chunk of data, and clone it into a new chunk with identical contents but a different parity configuration in the free space of the devices that are part of the file system. (Just like you'd allocate new chunks for storing new files in the same parity configuration). Once that copy is created, all references to the old chunk are changed to point to the new chunk and so the old chunk is now free space. Repeat this process for all chunks in the file system, and the whole file system is converted to use a different parity configuration.
If someone were to post a link to a pirated version of one of my academic publications in a Hacker News discussion with me, I would be relieved that I didn't have to do it myself to let people see it.
It's been demonstrated time and time again that this is an issue that is rampant across the entire tech industry. Just because you personally haven't experienced this doesn't mean that's not true.
This is a reflection of your coworkers not an entire industry.
Interested to hear more about the tech - how this differs from existing products? Is there a reason this product does not exist (if it does - what makes yours better?) The IP on this kind of things goes +25Y back.
So, to recap:

OP posts an article on French Slack about sexual harassment. Some team member replies with "don't give a fuck" meme.

Team has a performance review in which reviewer makes callous and childish comments about his sexual organs. "Our app is big, like my dick." Are French people really this retarded?

OP hasn't quit this toxic workplace yet.
And one of the comments on the page is simply "Grow up." Which seems like part of the problem. But I don't want to judge someone out of context, so I clicked on their Medium username to see if maybe I'd misunderstood. It turns out every single comment that user has made is on seven different stories they can make negative comments about women and their accomplishments.

This nastiness is pervasive, and often carried out by people so blind to their own participation that they deny what they themselves are doing.
You should publicly denounce this company, in your article and here on HN.

Grab as much evidence of the unacceptable behavior and put it online for all to see.
While I question the need to make this an entire website. I completely agree.

I have people who do that all the time on Skype. Say hello first then I need to say hi back and wait for them to actually ask their question. It is such an absurd waste of time.

Just include your question in your first message! Please.
> I’m kinda bummed out that Python devs decided not to backport Python type hints in Python2.7.

Can't comment on the site itself, so: PEP 484 - Type hints ( https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/#suggested-syntax-f... ) does suggest Python 2.7-compatible type hints, and PyCharm, and probably other IDEs, do support them (e.g., https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/type-hinting-in-pycha... ).
This will be a catalyst for open-access
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The funniest thing is that many of the people on HN are this type.
Provide evidence. If it's so prevalent it shouldn't be hard. We all know about Uber, come up with something original. You are accusing the entire industry as a whole after all from little firms to giants.
"Micro aggressions", rape, lives being "destroyed", "emoji-induced tears", and violence undermine the point of the article. Tragically comedic hyperbole.

Pro tip: The next time someone offends you, call them on it. Stand up for yourself. We need more people talking and less "retreat and blog".
Cynical reading: "as it" meaning simultaneously, not causative.

Second your doubt. Much more likely that the system just wasn't adding value or was an experiment with a planned end date.
Of course, this all breaks down when you have a cartel :) I recall in one of the major prisoners dilemma tournaments, the winning entry was actually a coalition of users who would use the first few moves to establish a code for membership in the cartel, and then one entry was the master while the others were slaves. The slaves always cooperated and the master always defected, to their victory.
I don't think they ever confirm he has the heart condition, just when they screen him as an infant there is "~99% chance" he has it. Part of the plot is that the main character and others like him are never given a chance at anything in life because genetics have become viewed as destiny. They have futuristic advanced medical technology that probably could give everyone a good, meaningful life. He lives at the best time in history to survive a heart condition and yet he can't even get into daycare because the insurance won't cover him.

The society in Gattaca has used their advanced technology to imprison themselves and eliminate social mobility rather than expand it.
I've no axe to grind, my daughter did Tae-kwon-do and had no real interest in soccer and my son is special needs and wouldn't be participating in either. I'm not really a football fan, grew up in Indiana where basketball is king.

So if I have something wrong here, please educate me. I am willing to learn. And see my other comment, n isn't a sample size, at least not in that paragraph.
This work was also published in PLDI as "Simple, Fast and Safe Manual Memory Management" (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...). The presentation from the conference is also online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C07s5LTuTmE
What is the angle/spread of the sensor? eg if you point directly in front of you, then at 2 metres away how wide and tall does it detect things?

In the video you can see someone duck out of the way of an overhanging branch. I'm curious how much they had to move the sensor to figure that out.
Ask HN: Amazon tracks information of what you buy outside
So this happened today.

I bought a trouser this afternoon from high street (paid cash since it was a round figure) and then bought a meal in KFC which is also in high street just few metres away (this time I paid from card). And importantly, I don't carry a smart phone (so no amazon app, wifi triangulation, etc).

When I open amazon at home - suggested items are trousers!! I haven't made any search in amazon relating to trouser or men's wear.

How can Amazon make suggestions without tracking my payment on high street. Im guessing KFC payment data reached Amazon from which it has inferred I was in high street and so on or it can be cellular tower data ? )

Has anybody else noticed similar behaviour.

edit: minor correction to sentence.
> I had studied women in tech for two years as part of my master’s in Sociology degree

I think the author has more than her personal anecdote to back up her statement.
A few things I didn't like about pass:

* It does not encrypt metadata.

* It performs delayed clipboard clearing instead of preventing further coping after first use, which is technically possible to implement, though I am not aware of any small standalone tool that does something like that.

* If you don't have something like YubiKey, password protection of gpg private key is not particularly impressive compared to the state of art.
I agree. Most serious companies today have policies in place to prevent stuff like this.
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Thanks for providing yourself as a great example of the problem here.
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Not if you keep doubling the blocksize every time blocks fill up.

Also, would you pay $20/mo for a credit card? That's a big expense to participate in a financial system.
Meh, only by people who consider any weird beliefs to be a cult. They are just an online forum and dont have any of the other aspects, like an isolated compound in the woods.

And their beliefs have become a lot more mainstream in the past few years. At one time AI risk was pretty obscure and no one took it seriously. Now there are best selling books on it and its entered popular culture. I see it discussed seriously here all the time. That's all because of Lesswrong and Yudkowsky.
I hope you can find a company where you are treated as an equal. I can honestly say I've never worked for a company like you describe, so it sounds more like an issue with the company and not the entire industry as you seem to suggest.

As a male, I wouldn't stand for this type of behavior from my colleagues. Personally, I'd be going up the corporate ladder or human resources until I found someone that make this type of behavior cease, and if it didn't, I would be gone. I can't even imagine being on the receiving end of something like that.
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The dick comments are definitely out of place. That's not a professional work environment...
Not directly related, but screen readers are very interesting. It is amazing just how fast they can run, sounding unintelligible to most. There is an excellent demonstration in this youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92pM6hJG6Wo

I wonder if feedback could also be given by such a quick spoken voice (eg describing the scene in front of you as you walk).
This isn't the premise of the simulation at all. It explicitly says that the agent replacement phase is an abstraction and could just as easily be interpreted as agents changing their strategies.

"Note: you don't have to wait for people to literally die & reproduce for culture to evolve -- all that's needed is that "unsuccessful" behaviors go away, and "successful" behaviors are imitated."
Kind of a strange request, too. CDDL predates GPLv3 by a few years. If they care so much about license proliferation, they should argue against GPLv3 too.
That thread is long, and there are a lot of users reporting the issue, but at least one of them claims that it still happens even with ECC memory.

The one I'm talking about is comment #338 in the AMD community thread:
https://community.amd.com/message/2813391#thread-message-281...

That in turn links to this LKML message:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/25/1295

which says: "this problem happens with ECC memory and memtest86 clean memory".
And since this is a totally new kind of story that hasn't been in the international headlines repeatedly over the last 5 years and a general topic of discussion for the last 25 we should ignore anec...

Hey wait. It IS those things. Gosh maybe we should listen then?

This urge to tell people anecdotes are not data is very very stale, when it comes to this topic. We have data and it's consistent with this anecdote. A woman being harassed in the workplace appears to be plausible and backed by data.

So why does anyone feel like immediately posting a not-all-tech-orgs helps anyone buy the tech org you're representing?
Lightning implementations exist and are fairly usable (although I've found there is some disagreement on e.g. public key format for peers). Check out the following:

* Lit: https://github.com/mit-dci/lit
* Eclair: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.acinq.eclai...
* lnd: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd
* lightning-c: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning

Do these projects have the nicest UX? No. Is it fairly trivial to hook up a shiny UI to their RPC interfaces? Yes.

It's going to take a bit to roll out the infrastructure necessary, but a 1.7 MB block size is good enough until then. Especially if miners stop using ASICBOOST and mining near-empty blocks.
Most stories like the OP's can be summed as follows:

1. Some insensitive asshole was lacking respect or maturity or professionalism in general.
2. Women, who are generally more conscientious than men, naturally react more strongly to said assholes.

I think if you could magically make every employee not act like an asshole, reports of sexism would drop by 99%.
These two articles went around a while ago (Microsoft, Pinterest):

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/18/11262888

[2] https://qz.com/659196
The post mentions startups running afoul of minimum wage and overtime laws. The linked PDF mentions that anyone who owns at least 20% of the business can be considered an exempt executive. How exactly do startups wind up running afoul of these laws? The minimum pay is under $25k/year, surely if the startup is covering each founder's living expenses, then it shouldn't be too hard to meet that especially with vesting stock.
and it's better than all of their websites!
Obviously this is over the line and totally unprofessional conduct by those mentioned in the story.

Can anyone come up with a story or things that could be taken as sexist towards a male? I have a hard time knowing if I'm right in that I think I'd be fine with this as I don't take this extremely juvenile crap as seriously or if I'm just really having a hard time being empathetic because I just have never, nor can I fathom, anything rocking my sense of worth so hard.

Maybe I need to experience being marginalized due to my sex or race or whatever to be empathetic? I dunno. I'm sure there's more to it that can cause someone to break down like the person who wrote this. I want to understand.

Do I need a bunch of women to joke about guys with small dicks are worthless or something? Is that comparable? Should I be extremely offended and be willing to quit over that, like the world is against me because of it?

I'm honestly wondering here. Please help me understand. I'm serious. I just don't know what it's like.
Jeff bezos had 2 engineers working with him from the beginning. Maybe not the same as co-founders, but having a team and support structure can help.

Aaron Patzer, on the other, was truly on his own.
Interesting, is there a law or algorithm/equation for that?
I'm an academic and fully making research open access. But when I read discussions like this I always wonder about the people who work at journals. The process of peer-review, copy-editing, and online publication is not something that can be done for free.

Granted, the current journal publishers spend too much money on overhead, and I certainly don't support the for-profit ones like Elsevier that rake in huge profits. But I also don't see much allowance made for the fact that publishing research in a peer-reviewed format involves labor which should continue to be compensated in some way (incidentally, it's not entirely true that researchers themselves aren't compensated - publishing offers an indirect benefit but a real one in the sense that publications are directly linked to salary increases down the line).
Get ready for a wave of replies attempting to criticize and shame you for undermining the anti-male narrative.
My friend who is blind uses an iPhone and a PC with screen reader software installed. She's a writer and is on Facebook all the time.
I don't think you can describe some of the actions as simply by those that are "socially awkward". Her director asked her to move to make room for his big dick. That's inappropriate whether you are introverted or extroverted.
I guess I would need to see an analysis of whether there's been any change in human allele frequencies. I suspect there hasn't.

But to your example, one issue with the farmed fish is that they now constitute a closed gene pool - we can easily explain their decreased fitness with the likely rise of harmful alleles.

With the explosion of population, I don't see much relationship between the salmon and humans.
Sure... but are you just making a distinction, or are you arguing that the average young person working in retail has any of those things? I agree with the distinction, I'm just not sure it makes any difference in this case.
Postmark treats their free users like first class users. But they only give 25000 free emails.
I live in a post-Soviet country - maybe one of the best in terms of GDP. Compared to the US it's basically the opposite end of the spectrum in terms of how much money you need to live - healthcare is free, you can rent an ok apartment on not much more than minimum wage, unemployment is below the EU average, transport is cheap (and public transport is good), food and entertainment isn't expensive.

Yet people still like to complain about how everything is too expensive and how they have no money. People here are miserable and we have one of the highest alcohol consumption and suicide rates in Europe.

I'm not really sure what point I'm trying to make, but as you say happiness is complicated. Giving everyone $X/year more isn't suddenly going to make them happier.
What in the actual hell makes you think anyone at Google will read this or give a single shit?