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>Because of the hierarchical cultural context in which we are in, I am not going to criticize Info systems majors for making fun of CS majors, nor will I criticize startupy, non-fancy degree holders on HN for making fun of the fancy degree holders.

Sure but then we're just replacing one form of hierarchy with another, where we replace company tiers with school tiers, and job titles with degrees.

> The problem is that the common, pro-fancy degree perspective comes from a very hierarchical perspective that just isn't true at all.

You don't think there's any truth in that an Ivy League school is more selective than a community college? I'm not saying that it makes sense to say that Harvard > Stanford, in all ways, or even that these schools have a fair selection system, but it seems to me that this has become a black-and-white affair (pro-degree vs. anti-degree, pro-hierarchy vs. anti-hierarchy) rather than a nuanced issue.
The latest version of slack BETA solves the CPU issues on OSX. I have been using it and its _so much better_.
You seem to be skipping over the part where he says "I feel vital when it resonates with someone else". Even with art, the end result is valuable because of its impact. Unreleased music has little value. Unreleased software has even less.
Guess they are pretty slack in terms of resource usages.
Very true. Or things like "download and install git".

Oh wait you're on a mac you need Brew. But you're on windows? You're gonna need X. You're using linux and still don't know? (e.g. Parent installs linux on a computer for their child to learn programming on (e.g. buys them a rpi) )

Lots of "setup" stuff needs to be explained or at least guided through for a from scratch approach, but also needs to be easy to skim and skip if the person learning already knows how to do it.
Thank you Christian. This is what I was trying to say. I think I could have better job at making my point more clearly. But you got it.
I understand that. But we also have apps like Adium displaying their chat messages using HTML with no issues, just because they want to easily customize the themes.

Point is, native or not native, this should not matter for a well optimized code. We are not talking about a AAA game here, it's just a chat app. It should not be burning cycles when inactive.
I have this habit of checking Twitter in the morning. Lately it's become a kind of Russian Roulette: is my timeline going to be 90% people screaming about whatever horrible thing Trump did today? Sometimes I join in that screaming, too.

I keep on trying to shift over to Mastodon. It's not quite at critical mass of enough of my friends being there, but it's slowly growing.

Mastodon has a system of 'content warnings'; a user can mark their toots to be hidden, and give any arbitrary reason. 'Politics' is very much considered to be one of the reasons you should put a content warning on a toot, along with other reasons like 'NSFW', 'moping', 'spoilers for the latest episode of Gamey Throney', or 'raw unadulterated shoe-lust'.

It's also got a 500 character limit, a distributed architecture, a tendency for people running servers to crack down on jerkwaddery, and is pretty much supported entirely by Patreon right now rather than pouring venture capital down a hole while trying to chase advertising dollars.
I wouldn't say “have to”, but it would fit the pattern of compound (proper and otherwise) nouns formed of a simple noun followed by an adjective, such as “Postmaster General" (pluralized as “Postmasters General”.)
Absolutely true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
It's almost as if you could make a whole OS out of Chrome. Someone should look into that. ;)
Which edition/translation are you reading?

EDIT:

For me, the appeal is in the interplay of the ultra paranoid and cynical life in the Stalinist USSR and the supernatural and goofy exploits of the Devil and his entourage who happen to visit Moscow.

The love story between the two main human characters is just the icing on the cake, but in my opinion not that important.

Not to mention that the "book within the book" about Pontius Pilate provided an entertaining intro to one of the fundamental Biblical stories for the atheist me, although now I tend to skip it when I re-read the book every once in a while.

EDIT2:
Forgot to mention that the style it is written in (in Russian) is unique; it's very tongue-in-cheek: respectful to the established order and authorities on the surface but derisively satirical underneath. Nobody else wrote like that.
Thanks for the straight feedback and sharing the accessibility tool. Agree we have to work the accessibility for Low Vision (constrasts, rezicing, colors). For now it seems to be working very well for people using screen readers. We are also enhancing it on the go with feedback from people who find new things. Thanks
Sure, I think organizing the peer review process has some merit. I don't have an opinion if that's the optimal way to do it. Thus I wrote that older papers should be available for free. If not hosted on the journal servers then available free of copy right issues elsewhere.
Yeah, I'm definitely going to see this thread on n-gate.

"One hackernews points out that the problem in tech isn't endemic sexism, but that male engineers are just so much better than all other men."
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Tell me about it :-) I do the headlines for pieces I write and obviously no one's going to change them on my own blog. But I do write for other venues as well--and I admit I'm not the world's snappiest headline writer--and they do sometimes get changed to things that don't quite match the content of the article.
Energy impact isn't a percentage. It doesn't have any units. I understand that the author is trying to prove a point -- and those points are valid, but it's not that Slack is consuming 63% of your energy. It's an arbitrary measure. [0]

> So, in conclusion, on 10.10 and 10.11, the formula used to compute “Energy Impact” is machine model-specific, and includes the following factors: CPU usage, wakeup frequency, quality of service class usage, and disk, GPU, and network activity.

[0]: https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2015/08/26/what-does-th...
Lots of people mention strings, but for a concreteish example: you have some code which reads bytes from the network, say "cookie", and uses that as a key into a dict. Later you try to access the stored value with headers["cookie"].

This works in python 2. It silently fails in python 3 because b"cookie" and "cookie" are different keys. Not really related to whether the original code supported Unicode or not.
The model for the interaction has already been figured out by all of these tools that people are trying to create, hasn't it? Point a probe into the world and get back a signal that corresponds to some geometric property of the world - distance from the probe, edge-detection, etc. It's like virtual reality: replace the world with a rendered scene and the lidar range detecter with something like a Vive wand.
Yes. My friend is a Canadian lawyer who does class action lawsuits. When it's a big corp screwing over thousands or millions of customers, usually none of the customers can afford or are willing to front the money to fight Big Corp in court. So they take a cut of the winnings instead. (There are special loans and insurance they can get for this sort of thing.)
There is this joke: how many partners should a company have? The best is to have an odd number of partners, and 3 is too much.
Really enjoying this little bubble of Raspberry Pi content; it's close to my heart. Keep it up HN!
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yep. i wasn't looking down on a 'fancy degree' at all. in fact, i'd love to have one!
On the other hand, there are ways you can risk your health for money, where the reverse trade isn't possible for any amount of money. So, getting back to the article, retiring early seems like a good trade.
Stubborn partners with a lack of ideas
I really don't like having to voice a query, I'd much rather type it out.

If Elon Musk sold a neuralink brain wi-fi device I'd be first in line for it. These voice activated search devices though, pass.
Wow that's really awesome, I'm just skimming the site at the moment, are you planning on selling the pulser boards etc. out of interest, if so roughly how much do they cost?
Been using it for some months now. Awesome!
I'm sure you've noticed the news that the industry has a bit of a harassment problem, right?

As for the "never experienced" - you're lucky. Or just didn't see. I've worked at openly sexist companies, I've worked with teams that had a regular lunch at a strip club, and I've seen a lot of the "oh, girls can't code" bullshit. I've seen black and latinx people completely excluded from team activities.

A lot of the people doing that weren't aware of what they were doing, but that doesn't excuse it. And if you look at things like the Petri Multiplier[1], it will help you understand why minorities are more affected by this than majorities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrie_multiplier
I also gave up running the Slack Mac app, and now use it exclusively on a browser/iOS.

One issue I haven't figured out in Safari specifically is that it suspends tabs, which is why its so low on energy impact. A few min away from the Slack tab in Safari means that I'll disconnect and appear offline.
Textual 6 supports inline images and chat history.
I agree. Recently started learning to code and I could see how tutorials aimed at beginners assumed I would not only know, but be familiar with stuff like terminal/console, repository, IDE, etc
the problem is that liberals in the tech industries loves to pick and choose what constitutes as diversity while pretending that it accepts everyone.
Discord performs pretty badly to be honest. I have it idling with no chats open and using as much resources as other chat clients with 50+ chats open.
I love it, very nice. Clean, modern, concise.

Are there plans for translating it in other languages? I'd love to have time to translate it to spanish, but almost no free time..
I feel like this is a ridiculous stretch.

Had you googled for or browsed trousers?

I think it’s safe to guess that most people buy trousers; could be coincidental.
And for the curious it was that the nvidia framebuffer kernel module was loaded after the default vga framebuffer module so that first module took precedence.
Heuristically, eating actual fruit (like a normal healthy primate) seems to be fine, but our metabolism isn't as ready for the man-made sweetened foods (e.g. juice, cake, bread, soda, etc).
While I don't know about religion, I personally love to think of electricity as "magic" or "mana" more specifically. It is the magical fuel that powers modern-day magic. We etch arcane runes (circuits), pump mana (electricity) through them, and generate magical results.

Raw mana can also be projected to inflict damage, heal, generate light, heat, etc.
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>A few months ago, I made a sexist statement here on HN about women and the fact that they don't think logically.

For the future, if you're actually contrite, you should probably stop referring to that belief as a "fact".
Can you share the name of that cloud storage company in Switzerland?
On my desktop, Slack's footprint looks pretty similar to Atom's, hardly shocking given they're both Electron apps. Its 4 pids aren't using much CPU (less than 1% each), and about 800MB of RAM combined. Sure, that's kind of ridiculous for what it's doing, but it's about 1/20th of my total resources or less...
Yeah his company doesn't do that kind of real time messaging
If you read my comment as saying men in tech are superior, you got the wrong message.

Edit: By that, I mean the traits I pointed out above are debatable in terms of desirability. Things like self-sacrificial and feebleness definitely seem like flaws to me at least. I am somewhat surprised that you interpreted these descriptors as superior.
Very cool. There was something on HN about a year ago about why ultrasound machines are so expensive. This might provide some background on why something low cost makes sense.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13230741
I had never heard of this. Interesting. It looks as though this is built on Electron too.
I definitely wouldn't assume that a JS newbie knows the http fundamentals. That definitely wasn't the case for me when I started learning. You can get a lot done on the web without really understanding what you're doing.
Ah, I'm not quite sure, it's an Audiobook from Audible.
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Slack is a heaping pile of shit.

I understand it lets you conduct text chat.. and basically works for that.

But I don't understand the fawning.

It's a massive resource hog. People have inadvertently DoSed my browser by pasting a message rate that any native application like irc or jabber would yawn at.
So... You want to mollify her point by saying, "Not all tech?"

I'm just confused, because this seems like such an obvious statement. Of course not every workplace is this bad. Why does that have to be said here?

The author seems to convey a frustration with what she feels is an industy-level problem. Given the events of the last 5 years and the general statistics for women in tech, maybe that's not unreasonable.

Both your point and hers can coexist in the same narrative. It's just that your point seems a bit like you're mad the article wasn't copy-edited to avoid pedantic objections about implicit quantification.
> Which industries do you think are MORE meritocratic than tech?

None of them are, but tech isn't any better.
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Fair. I was considering my own usage where I have very few desktop applications and tend to prefer web products. Apologies for the overstatement.
Ok great! Expand on what spedifically makes it less appropriate and what makes alternatives more appropriate.
> It's the same girls scouts doing something different

Alternatively, it's a change by scout leadership which broadens the set of interests to which the Girl Scouts appeal, increasing the diversity of the population the scouts will be able to recruit and retain.

Hence, inclusive.
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Some of the data is clearly wrong and should probably be excluded from averages. Do you have any checks in place on the calculations. For example exclude data where total comp < salary ?
I think you should get back to Venezuela comrade. Maybe we shoud take your assets and "democratize" them?
Previously I ran the Slack desktop app on Windows/Mac/Android and for IRC Hexchat on Windows, Textual on macOS and nothing on Android (I couldn't find a good IRC client). A ZNC instance on the server was keeping these IRC clients in sync.

Using Slack over IRC would have been interesting but then I would lose the rich inline previews of links/media on Windows because Hexchat doesn't have these and I don't know any other standalone IRC client for Windows which has this feature.

Then I switches to IRCCloud and now I use it for both Slack and IRC:

- Better synced state across clients compared to ZNC

- The Chrome tab needs ~600 MB RAM which is less than Slack + extra IRC client

- Unified chat UI across Windows, Mac AND Android :)

- inline previews like Slack

Running my own ZNC instance on a server was not a big hassle but its buffer replays where annoying and depending on the settings it would DOS my IRC clients for several minutes because they where busy processing the incoming buffer backlog.
Back when Apple was looking over Blekko this was something we tried to point out to them (and the Siri team). You can't dialog what you don't know. Indexing the web really helps with that because not only can you pick up a lot of documents you can get a sense of which ones humans think are more important than others. To this day I don't know why Apple doesn't have a search engine team and crawler.
That's always been the refrain for why released software doesn't perform well, and it was a problem traditionally mtigated by software testers with a wide variety of hardware. You see the same thing on the web with slow-loading sites that clearly weren't tested outside a first-class first-world 4G or wi-fi connection.

Props to Facebook for mandating low-bandwidth testing
Is the translation that important? I'm writing a piece of fiction that occasionally quotes M&M, and consider using a yet another translation if it's so controversial...
https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/36408
Oops, there's a twist ending? I might just skip this thread and come back in a few days, then...

I'm afraid I haven't read much other Russian literature, as I prefer scifi, so the closest I got to the Eastern bloc is Lem...

I think my main problem with Master and Margarita is that I don't know much about the context of the era, and it feels like most of the book is subtle jabs at the society and political climate of the time.
> The homeless and lower class are, almost by definition, not people who are achieving a ton.

:(
I agree that tech has been a haven for some who would be outcasts in other areas. Specifically the LGBT community.

To address your other points:

* I don't buy the pipeline argument. I've seen huge bias is how the tech community treats blacks. For example, I've seen a few black colleagues try to transfer into software engineering and get huge amounts of push back. Ironically I did the same thing (transfer from product management to dev) and I was supported. Why was I treated differently? Probably because I'm Indian so I am supposed to be a developer. In all the interviews I do, people assume I have a CS degree and lots of experience even though my resume says the complete opposite. I benefit a lot from the assumptions around my skin color while a black person gets the opposite experience.

* I get why people don't like offshore centers but that doesn't mean they should assume there aren't some very talented H1B developers. I have seen many. India has some of the best computer science programs in the world.

* I don't understand your comment on the homeless but the point I was trying to make was that verbally insulting poor people, the homeless, or old people is not inclusive or meritocratic. I've seen many examples of that in the tech community. I'm not asking people in tech to give free jobs to the homeless I'm asking people not to verbally insult them.
So, I cannot reproduce his findings. My system (same setup, Slack native app on macOS) is consuming 1.6% CPU, about 0.6 GB memory, and has avg. energy impact of 3.22 with current being 0.0.

The memory is high, but a lot less than Chrome and nothing near what the author is seeing.

Only differences I can see:

- I'm signed into two accounts while the author is signed into 11.

- The author is CEO of a competing messaging platform.

More experiments might be needed here.
Hey! Theres a link for tindie in the doc. It's quote expensive, high voltage being the main reason, but I'm planning on reducing the costs and have a cheaper on-board extension for the pi once this hardware stabilizes
What do you consider the best industry for women?

None?
If only there was a way to write apps that could share an instance of Chromium, and access native resources the way they can with Electron. Oh wait: https://developer.chrome.com/apps/migration
Seems like there should be a better solution than making every slack user read that document.
According to the article itself, they did not worship electricity - they used electricity as a metaphor for other things they worshiped.
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As an owner of four Echo / Echo Dots in my house, I can say that Alexa is terrible at answering questions outside of a few common areas (weather, store times, etc).

With that said, I think the true power of Alexa's ecosystem is it's smart device integration. I'm sure Google will catch up soon enough, but at the moment I feel like Alexa still has a sizable lead.
What is your point? I said that it's _not always_ appropriate, not that it is _always not_ appropriate. And the ability to do it is not the sole deciding factor on whether it is appropriate.
> Solo founders, almost by definition, are going to be much more gregarious and stubborn.

Stubborn, perhaps. Gregarious though? I think there would be many solo founders who are not people-persons.
Lessons learned from making 100 games in five years
It's not one corporation, it's at least two. Joyent did basically the reverse thing. They took KVM, a Linux-derived GPL module and put it together with the CDDL illumos kernel. They lawyers analyzed this situation and vetted it okay.
I wonder how much this comes down to Alexa and all the advertising/promotions that surrounded their AI?

I don t think we will see this often repeated so I would not stress over this one report.
Thousands! Little typo over there. Hopefully soon they will be millions :-)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14538984
I see there's a section on Environment Setup[1] though personally I might be tempted to just link to other tutorials instead (which the author also does, I see).

1: https://github.com/bpesquet/thejsway/blob/master/manuscript/...
In many fields, this change is a reflection of the shift in costs and responsibility for publication. I'll speak of conference proceedings in CS, since that's what I know best (but these are roughly the equivalent of journals in other fields - peer reviewed, 10-20 pages per article, etc.)

20 years ago, the process involved the creation of a physical artifact -- bound paper, handed out to participants, mailed to subscribers, etc. This is a fairly non-trivial undertaking, certainly costing quite a few thousand dollars.

As of a few years ago, the last of the major conferences in my area stopped creating printed proceedings. Along with that goes away the need (desire?) to ensure precise formatting rules, etc. -- the job of the typesetter is gone. We just submit PDFs, and everyone does their own.

The other "costs" of a journal or conference were already borne by the research community -- most of our conferences and journals are all-volunteer. It's a decentralized cost spread across the salaries of everyone in the community.

In our model, at least, the role of the publisher is greatly diminished. They provide some hosting, some indexing... and not much else.

Not all fields are like that. Science and Nature, for example, have paid editors. Fine. Happy to pay for that.

The shift in costs happened a while ago - the costs are probably in the range of $10-$100 per paper now, compared to quite a bit more before.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14868355 and marked it off-topic.
you don't even have to besiege LA. just close I-5. done.
Exactly this. The "Memory" tab in activity monitor is next to useless. It doesn't give you any idea how much of that memory is shared, exclusive to the processes, paged out, etc. Each of those processes is using some fraction of the amount displayed in the 'Memory' column.
Nah man, we don't talk about our genitals at work, that's just basic level professionalism.

Also, do you really think that's a funny line? To me, it sounds like the type of joke where the room rolls their eyes and cringes. It's not at all clever or original, it's the type of joke made by people who think they're funny but everyone actually thinks they're annoying. I mean shit, at least make some kind of allusion to your genital size through inference, just coming out and saying "LOOK AT THIS BIG THING, MY DICK IS THE SAME SIZE AS THE BIG THING LOL" is about is unfunny as it gets.
GP comment seems like a troll. There is no formula as simple as "always use 3 and don't bother with 2". Not all python2 modules have been ported to python3 and python2 modules are unlikely to be future-supported as long as python3.
There are no female coworkers on an all-male team, you just rejected such jokes on principle.

And no, I'm not from SV. I think many developers from all over the world, particularly of the sort hanging out at HN, will consider your stance somewhat crazy.