skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Dr. B. H. Hoff's (2012, National Study CDC/DOJ) Report on the National Violence Against Women Survey (notice there's no report on violence against men as anyone who spent money on such research would never be funded again - that's not an assumption, it's spelled out in print), 42.3% of victimized men, over 2 million men, are subjected to "severe physical violence" every year.
Yeah I tried looking to see how much I would need to change to fix it, but I'm not too great in C which is what fontforge was written in.

Oh man I gotta look into the composite glyphs. I don't know much about fonts in general. Thanks for this bit of information.
I really like this aspect too. Even just flipping through the host's collection of books to learn a little more about their perspective on the world.

I've even had some hosts say help yourself to what's in the fridge. I usually don't, as that still feels a little weird to me, but generally it's really interesting to get to see how someone else that you don't really know lives.
> Will my views become equally offensive some day? I don't see why I would assume they will. And if they do, and I don't adjust, maybe I will deserve to be called out for it.

It already happened before in the past and it was directed against the left. Do the names "Joe McCarthy" and the "Red Scare" of the 1950s ring a bell?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

If Senator McCarthy and the Committee for Unamerican Activities had knocked on your door and condemned you for being a leftist, would you have sheepishly smiled and said (to paraphrase you own words), "Gee, Senator, maybe I do deserve to be called out for it." and quietly accepted the destruction of your life for holding a politically unpopular view? Is that truly what you are saying?

I give up. I can only hope that your movement is discredited and expelled from the left before it does as much damage as McCarthy did before he was discredited.
It would be interesting to do a measurement of inline vs non-inline to see how much of a speed difference it makes.
I swear you could become a millionaire simply by investing according to the opposite of investment "insights" on Hacker News.
The first two bullets combined can make it hard to parse the page reliably, but it's also making very hard the maintenance and using of any 'good' javascript and/or css too. Not worth the trouble usually.
Because tech is lucrative right now.
Fontforge doesn't have a function for loading svgs as glyphs from strings. Only files paths.
Ascension.run – public NetHack server
>hey will find a business model where their margins will be greater

That's not possible. Large scale retail can't be large margin business.

Innovation and productivity increases are directed towards profit making with small margins. Amazon is in good position of dominating markets with cost cutting and staying profitable with smaller margins than competitors.

The stock price is ridiculous.
Why would I choose something I can’t remember? There are a couple of scenarios: either someone has all the time in the world to crack the password, in which case it doesn’t matter how complex it is. Or they don’t have a lot of time and are typing it in by hand, in which case guessing 1223334 is fairly unlikely.
From what I understand, the levels exist across all job ladders, but the SWE ladder starts at level 3, except in rare cases involving acquisitions. Facebook is the same way, and Amazon starts at level 4.
I assume the name came from the select syscall, maybe unconsciously in your case :)

Hopefully something comes along to fill this gap officially. Channels are my favorite concurrency primitive by a huge margin. The more languages that support them, the better.
The 3D shape is there
He's trying to reason about why the aggregated trend in the world looks the way it does. He repeatedly points out that this can never be assumed to hold on an individual level.

You are saying women do not experience anxiety more than men? Do men not strive for status more than women? Women are not more people-oriented than men?
Arguably misleading. All of those commit lines except the very last look like bugfixes or cleanup to me.

I think it's a reasonable 1-sentence summary.
I moved out roughly four years ago, and no longer follow their news very closely, so take my response with a grain of salt.

When I was living there, I generally didn't feel unsafe. As long as you avoid dangerous areas, I think the likelihood of something happening to you is fairly low. Although I'll admit I feel safer in Santa Clara. Certain parts of San Francisco feel pretty unsafe to me. I'd avoid walking around Tenderloin at night just as much as La Perla.

I've been told that even though the murder rate is high, it's mostly due to gang and drug related violence.

One of my friends that lives in the metropolitan area told me that in recent years she has felt less safe than before. She claims that she has perceived an increase in brutality, and that criminals no longer give a fuck. This is a rough paraphrased translation.
I haven't seen Star Wars, in fact, it's so fascinating to people it almost always starts a conversation.

If people are not talking to you because you haven't seen star wars I hate to say they are either not worth your time or your breath smells bad!
Good luck with that. No really, I like the idea, and I wish nappers luck. They're gonna need it.
Because some people want to work, to be useful? Redditing is like shouting into the void, totally useless (hacker news is kinda similar). At the top of Maslow's hierarchy is where you find the need to do work that contributes to society.

I read this NYTimes articles about a New Yorker who was paid $5m to vacate his apartment for new development. He was the last hold out. It turns out when he was young he was in medical school but dropped out after he received a sizable inheritance. He was also quite good in school etc...

His regret? I could've been a doctor! Basically he felt his life was unlived and unexamined despite the luxury of money.

So if you rest and vest but spend 8hrs a day at work doing nothing... then what's the point? How long would you do it?
Noam Chomsky visited Google and basically asked this question.
Data center engineers, IIRC.
Nominal value of a stock means nothing. It's not related to company performance or valuation.
The less barriers to entry, the more women chose to stay away from blue-collar jobs. That's diversity. Forcing half and half irregardless of merit nor interests is madness.

I'm all for equal opporrunities and encouraging education path that go above and beyond the male/female stereotypes, but without forcing the end result to be equality of outcome.

That never works.
It always cracks me up how Torvald's "necessary, blunt honesty" is so frequently more verbose than a neutral, not-rude answer would have been.
As I said elsewhere, I wouldn't hesitate. I screen visitors well and I get 5 star reviews.

Any one star reviews can be explained away easily. I've never had to do it as a host, but I've stayed at places with some one star reviews where the host provided a reasonable explanation in response.
Thanks for writing this piece. This issue needs more substantiated discussion.

The video at the end though, of which the writer says: "If words don’t convince you, watch this video. It changed my life and my views on this topic forever." makes him come across as very naive. It's an ad. A politically correct ad. Everybody knows ads cannot be trusted at all. We don't even know if the girls are real.

If ads like this one change your views, you're not an engineer.
There are more important things than money to attract talented researchers. The cafeteria at IBM Research - Almaden [1] offered an "IBM Burger" [2]. (I had one, and they were delicious! A big hulking mainframe of a hamburger.) When Sun found out about that, they had their own cafeteria offer a "Sun Burger", in the hopes of attracting better qualified researchers. Cargo cult corporate research menu design at its best!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Research_-_Almaden

[2] http://kiranh.blogspot.nl/2006/02/
I've often wondered who are the people who have the ability and power to change the city? Is it a matter of the right people not caring, or is it beyond saving at this point?

Or maybe we should really treat it as The City That Care Forgot? Order another round, swing that doo-rag around the second line, and forget about the reality staring us in the face. Crank up the tunes man. Hey, at least WWOZ streams over the Internet now.
On Underrepresented Groups: “Black People Less Likely” (2015)
Another small margin business with lots of competition.
It's not that you can't design a product, it's that you may not even think of the special considerations required. For example: think of facial recognition apps that fail for dark-skinned people, or apps that aren't usable by the visually impaired or colorblind. Cars, mirrors, and countertops that are inconvenient for people of below-average (male) height. Nobody is purposefully excluding these people in these cases, but nobody is going out of their way to be inclusive either.
You’re right, I’m going to track him down and befriend him in person now that I know his passcode. That’s worth my time and money instead of, I don’t know, just beating him with a shovel until he tells me his password. Or picking a victim I already know. Or any other number of far more likely and easily executed schemes.
Fascinating. Neither were convicted of "treason", the requirements of which are, alone among crimes, spelled out in the main text of the Constitution.
Seems like the "google memo guy" just expressed many of the view points of the youtube famous psychologist and UofT professor Jordan Peterson. I'm not sure if its related, but Jordan's channel was shut down for a day for an unexplained reason, fueling many conspiracy theories.
I have noticed that taking a brief nap, 20 minutes or so, or going for a midday walk leads to an afternoon productivity boost. It's hard to do this in an office environment though, especially if you don't have quiet space. My closest office equivalent is a walk to the coffee shop. It's not even really about the coffee (or tea), just a mental lull to recenter my mind in executive mode and reconsider what priorities are important vs being immersed deep in code.
Every post I see on HM about Linus is about how cool it is that LT is an asshole.

What's with the skewed asshole-bias? Same people will bitch about "asshole people" on there own teams that are tough on PRs.
Who's to say what a neutral state is? And what mysterious conspiracy is holding back the admission office of universities and HR departments across the globe? I just think you're fighting ghosts.

Additionally, I don't buy that employing 100% of women is actually helpful. Children need a parent at home, and a mother makes more sense for younger children. We should be working towards decentralization of work, and allowing dads and moms to both have more time in the home, rather than racing to lock the entire human race in a cubicle.
There's an hour lunch break around all europe. Most napper could fit a 20min rest there without being reprimanded.
I have heard first hand that there is a general rule among psychologists that its wrong and unethical to diagnose someone with neurodevelopmental disorder when there are no signs of impairments to the individual.

So if a person has impairments and visit a psychologist, the psychologist might use several tests to aid and guide them towards the right help (or cross out wrong ones). The image test in the article might be good to do that (I would not know), but without the initial impairments it does nothing to imply if a person has autism or not.
For thousands of years men have run society and women have been homemakers. We are biologically wired with those roles in our DNA. Today we are trying to upset those roles, and It causes a huge amount of psychological problems. Women are not designed to run their own lives. They are designed to follow the significant man in Their life. Today since they are expected to be like men, they are completely overwhelmed and are now doped up on drugs like xanax to cope.

More freedom is not always a good thing. Studies show that with more rights women are actually less happy today than they were 40 years ago.
Same feeling all around.
You're just waiting for someone to roll out this trope. The answer is: yes, it's problematic that there are so few male psychologists, just as it is extremely problematic that there are so few male nurses.
Poor resource management model is my biggest personal turn-off. The post actually mentions it when it talks about everything-is-a-string - the problem with that approach is that handles for external resources are then also strings, and this in turn kills any form of garbage collection (both tracing and refcounting), because it is possible to construct a string that is a valid handle out of various bits and pieces lying around. Thus, you have to manage all resources manually. For a high-level scripting language, I consider that unacceptable.
Yes, but:
1) promotions are not particularly easy. they are approved by committee, ie not because a manager happens to favor an employee
2) Senior SWE itself is an Individual Contributor role (some say the optimal level if one wants to remain an IC). Only at the next level is leadership required
3) There is a HUGE jump in compensation between Senior SWE and the next level (Staff). Senior SWEs are not pulling anywhere near the $1M/yr referred to in the title
Napping at work is a great idea if you want to be more productive, learn faster and improve your cognitive ability. It's also a neat way of making your colleagues and management think you're lazy.
I'm a grandmaster napper. If you can't nap at work, go on a coffee break and take a nap in your car. People will jawdrop at your effectiveness. Ask Spain.
What I don't quite get is why the US government is so nonchalant about cryptocurrencies. The US owes much of its privileged financial position to the ability to siphon wealth from other economies by printing dollars. That's why it shits its proverbial pants every time China ever so slightly rebalances their reserves in favor of the Euro.

If, let's say, Bitcoin became an accepted unit of international money exchange, no one gets to ever print another dime. It's as close to a gold standard as possible without there being actual gold. You can't therefore dilute the balance owed, by quantitative easing or anything like that. And you can't pay back your debts with money you've just printed, because your ability to print is exponentially expensive
I’ve never been able to nap. I’m one of the people who takes an hour to fall asleep, always have been. Even if I meditate and shut down my active mind, I can lay there for an hour with a completely blank mind, completely at peace, and completely awake. So I tend to just take 5-10 minutes during the day and do a full mediation session. It’s enough to take me out of the day briefly and send all of my stresses somewhere else, which is what the point really is about, right?
I don't see the s word or any cuss words as being necessary. Short and blunt is just fine.
The highest paying jobs are managerial not technical. If anything emotional skills are much more valued in our society.
https://emailoctopus.com/
I always carry a pocket sized notebook and a pen with me wherever I go. It's still the fastest method to write something down, it always works and it's socially acceptable to use in all situations. Most people whom I meet, even in private, will see me take out my notebook at the beging of the meeting, taking notes occasionally while we interact. I don't think you could do that with a computer or phone and it allows me to remember important details and action points that I (and the person I'm talking to) would forget otherwise. At work I have larger, A4-sized notebooks that I use similarly.

One of the features that I appreciate most is that everything I write down is in chronological order and can be accessed very quickly. In seconds, I can go through last weeks notes and check if I forgot to do something, or even go back a year or more to revisit my thoughts on something that happened back then. Using a pen is also much more expressive, allowing me to highlight/format certain points as a discussion/meeting is ongoing and add illustrations, arrows etc. on the fly.

I've seen and tried some of the new epaper notepads and they're definitely getting closer, but for now they're still to slow, clumsy & fragile to replace paper for me.
My son was in the hospital recently and the head surgeon was a woman. Her primary assistant was a woman. The anesthesiologist and her assistant were women. There was a male nurse or two.

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have encountered this situation 25 years ago. I'm sure "biological factors" mean "most women don't go into medicine" because of the years of hard work separated from their families, and they aren't excited by the technical bits. Even if you wanted to hire women doctors, they don't bother going to medical school.

I'm sure a thousand male doctors wrote a thousand letters just like this one as they saw their workplaces changing. And guess what, it happened anyway, and the state of medical care across the world is better than ever.

The field of software engineering is still crawling out of the stone age.
As others mentioned, that's certainly not my experience, but the tactile nature of taking noted by hand still helps me remember better.

I've been half-heartedly considering learning shorthand. I still like taking notes by hand, but I often realllllly wish I had a mostly verbatim record of some meetings.
Sometimes just lying on a bean bag for 20 minutes, without any expectation of even light sleep, is enough to get me through the rest of the afternoon. This is even more true now that I have an 8 month old son.

The alternative is sitting at my desk pretending I'm not spacing out, which is good for exactly nobody.
Why share this? It's minimal-effort baiting; a few paragraphs of vague opinions and a "once you see it..." gimmick to boot. Not a good start to an important conversation.
Why do people jump to 50/50? Because that seems to be the goal of people pushing diversity: desirable fields like software should reflect the population at large [1]. I think the assumption that 50/50 is desirable is wrong, too. So far I haven't heard of any compelling reason that genders are equal in all jobs - only the opposite (in both directions - some jobs have way more women). In fact, how do these folks even know 50/50 is fair to women? What if it turns out that women are actually better at software engineering, and the ratio should be 2:1 in favour of women? How are they determining these numbers? Or are they just making them up?

He's also challenging the point that identity=diversity. Getting a man and a woman that were born in the same area, had similar wealth growing up, went to the same schools, have same "political" views, etc. is not nearly as diverse as getting two men from different parts of the country with different political views, differ in wealth, etc.

None of this should detract from trying to eliminate bias. Blind reviewing sounds great, for instance - perhaps they should do that for the first pass where it's feasible to hide the candidate's details. Or provide transcripts of phone interviews then have people rate them and see how biased things are. There's ways to do research on this issue, but it seems that even suggesting there might be differences is a way to provoke "outrage".

1: I see less outrage about low female representation in mining and hunting, for instance, or people demanding dentists stop employing so many females as dental assistants.
> They have the rule that you either get better and a promotion or you will be fired.

The conventional term for this is "up or out".
Not significant use. Use. I guess there's two questions; 1) does something work? 2) is it popular for a given case(s). This relates to the delta vs substitutes. In the long run.

1 is yes. 2, I believe it will be. We haven't seen 2 much yet b/c time hasn't occured.

A) wires are better, as far as I can tell. For speed.

B) traditional VCs are investing in token sales, today.

C) crypto hedge funds are open today.

I never claimed there was significant use. I would argue it's a functioning system & there are strong value props (better than alts).

You know there isn't significant use. You want to wait? Wait. I'm fast follower. I like to benefit from new technology. Startups/hackers. That sort of thing. I think other ppl can benefit if they have a look. 99/100 hype is bs. Sometimes though.

It's good to be sceptical. I was.
@maybetoocurious If you post a question to HN, it's customary to add the prefix "Ask HN: " to the title.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming...

Not too hard to find exceptions. IMO it's a pretty worthless law even if only stated for entertainment value. A lot of times a yes-no question, like above, is just used as a low-effort intro to a low-effort article but sometimes a yes-no question could act as a well-thought-out intro to a well-thought-out article. It doesn't take too much experience to understand when a title is just being vague to draw you into a bad article.
Study: Loneliness, Social Isolation Greater Health Problem in US Than Obesity
I am in the same boat. I've always envied people who can "nap". It's frustrating to read articles that suggest you "take a nap for 30 minutes!" when the implication there is that it doesn't take you 30 minutes just to fall asleep.

I've noticed I have a general "sleep momentum" problem. It takes me longer than average to fall asleep, and longer than average to wake up. On both ends of the cycle, I struggle. I wish there was a solution.
Same here. The one framework I never hated was Vue.js - chiefly because I was so preoccupied with hating React when I stumbled upon it. I stopped hating React once I saw Angular 2.
People usually do not have to proclaim things that the larger culture implicitly agrees is simply so true that "it goes without saying." You will tend to not be aware of such implicit assumptions, because they aren't typically overtly signalled, unless you, yourself, regularly run into social friction for defying cultural expectations. At which point it will be maddeningly obvious, and the thing that is most crazy-making is the degree to which other people act like you are a deluded fruitcake or radical feminist or something for stating the obvious.
You most definitely need better colleagues and management.
While the autism imbalance may play a factor, I 100% believe it is mostly marketing driving the gender gap. Early on computers were marketed to men, because they were tools which were a "man thing". And now still video games are predominately marketed towards males, and I would be shocked if there isn't a strong correlation between interest in video games and computers in general. So if I understand correctly, I am with you, its a pipeline problem due to historical factors which are rapidly fading.
Some MIT people in the 90s tried to do approximately that with a new language they called Curl. But it was proprietary until too late.
Yes. Paper data at rest is encrypted using 256 bit AES.
Regarding “clickbaity”, I clicked it hoping to hear about some interesting way to apply the concept of depth first search to machine learning. The actual subject, however, has nothing to do with depth first search: depth vs. breadth first has to do with the order in which links are traversed, but what the author wants is for machine learning to discover links it currently doesn’t know about at all (i.e. explicit textual references). However, this probably isn’t intentional clickbait; the author probably thought the analogy made sense. (Maybe it does somehow and I’m just not seeing it.)
The relative substance of the posts here never really make me feel bad for browsing so much. I've found publications like Nautilus and actually have paper issues coming.