skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Day 6—What if this becomes an alienating experience because the rest of the world has changed? What if I make time for social connections that can’t happen, because there’s nobody left to connect to?

I was afraid of this race-to-the-bottom scenario on campus at my university (and probably any university across America).

People would bring their cell phones into the dining halls and the student center. This isn't a problem if a few people do it, but it almost seems contagious to me. When people disconnect themselves from the public, while they are in public, it destroys the whole purpose of being in public. They become absorbed in their phones, which eliminates any possibility of meeting a new friend or starting a conversation. That in turn causes other people, who would have done those social things, to turn to their phones so they may go to the only place they may now communicate: social media.

It all seems so silly: hundreds of students in a student center or other public space, all heads down focused on their phones. Then what was the point of having a student center in the first place? I feel bad for people who struggle with forming new relationships, as the public space is decreasingly helping those people meet others.

My university president even mentioned in a "fireside chat" video that a great challenge our campus faced was a student engagement problem. I wonder why? Not like the university did anything toward that effort... in fact, they installed even more televisions in all the dining halls across campus.

I'll shamelessly admit, though many would disagree with me, that I hope one day in the near future public store owners, campus owners, etc. all ban screens (phones and TVs) in public spaces. It's fine to use them in your home, but I believe it's destroying the social fabric when everyone is always glued to a screen, even in public.

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Also relevant: when I was young my mom was concerned that I was addicted to the computer. She wasn't wrong.

But at least my addiction is limited to the private realm. It would be impractical to lug around a desktop computer everywhere I went to extract every precious minute of entertainment possible. The stereotype of the guy playing World of WarCraft in his mom's basement is at least limited to that basement.

Today we have the equivalent of those guys and girls playing WoW in their mom's basement, but it's not in the basement... it's everywhere.
Thanks for that (as you surmised, I meant "senior" in the broad sense). For those following along, new college grads usually start at Level 3 ("SWE II"), and "Senior SWE" (Level 5) is considered "high enough". Explicitly the guidance for L5 is that: "All Google engineers are expected to reach this level".
It at least highlights the potential ineffectiveness of monetary sanctions on changing the political climate, which is the point of the Magnitsky Act.

I pretty much disagree with this point, however, until banks and hedge funds offer services denominated in cryptocurrencies. The Act is still a hurdle for those named to do any "legitimate" business in the West, hence Putin's relentless campaign to repeal it.
Could you flash a "Correct" or "Incorrect" notification before moving to the next question? Having to keep an eye on the scoreboard to see if you got one right or wrong is a little distracting since there's no feedback otherwise.
i mean if they want to have some legal weed(and gambling) there is primm in the same amount of distance from the off ramp that you would be taking anyway. 10 miles on a small road vs. 10 miles on a freeway to primm.
It's not even the first African-designed and -built satellite, which was NigeriaSat-X. In fact, Nigeria has had a space program for some time, starting in 2001, with satellite launch plans as early as 1976:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Space_Research_and_De...
A sealed greenhouse can be very water efficient by recycling the water.
It's not nitpicking, it's called connecting the dots. His main point is far less interesting than the points I outlined. He's using statistics an research as a tool for making excuses for the current situation. I don't believe he is genuine. It's like phrenology all over again.
Point being, if the aircraft is looking at private residences using sensors that reveal things that couldn't ordinarily be perceived by humans, its activities may be legally iffy.

But that's what parallel construction is for, I guess...
11 California Counties Have More Total Voters Than Citizen Voting Age Population
How do you find integer solutions to x/(y + z) + y/(x + z) + z/(x + y) = 4?
The game seems paused and I mostly just hear some soft creepy music
On most Linux distros, /tmp is a ramdisk.
Because it can be subject to a vesting schedule.
Depends on how cheap it is. 400 cycles could be enough if the price was proportionally cheaper than the lifetime of lithium.
I've posted before that I suspect this is the trouble with a lot of Google services that don't always seem to get the love they deserve. People who are well on their way to vesting just aren't hungry anymore, and can't be bothered to care. Not limited to Google of course.
Wow. To me that's definitely in the realm of "fix this if you need to run this program more than once" inefficiency. After looking at the implementation, it doesn't seem like it takes advantage of TTF's "composite glyphs" feature either, which would be the most straightforward way of generating a font like this --- once you define the box and the digit glyphs, each character is then composed entirely of references to the box and the appropriate digit glyphs.
Yes, but the Wall Street CEO's are sooooo hard working. Give me a break. I once worked for a company whose CEO completely ran the thing into the ground and eventually got fired but got paid millions anyhow. I jokingly said I could have ruined the company for half what they paid that meathead.

I think the real scandal is the ridiculous amounts of money CEO's get paid for doing nothing in a lot of cases. The money these "high paid engineers" are getting is peanuts compared to the sums these CEO's are getting.

Sorry for the rant, but it just stuck in my craw a little.
People hitting F5 on HN/Show/New is a great place to find people interested in promoting their side projects. Well played :-) (and thanks)
How did you find that example gig? Like , would one just walk into every distillery they can find and ask the cashier / manager about their software they are using ?
The brain is a physical, biological organ just like the heart, eyes, etc. So yes, just as there are minor physical differences between men and women in other ways, there are minor physical differences in the brain as well. Across a sufficiently large sample set, men will on average be slightly better at some things, and women will on average be slightly better at other things.

For the reactionary crowd, please note I said "minor differences" and "slightly better". There's a ton of overlap and much more similarity than difference. Also I want to be clear to separate biological differences from culturally trained differences. The things we do and are exposed to growing up certainly have an effect on brain development, just as they do on the rest of the body.

To further that last point, IMO it is almost certain that culturally assigned gender roles have played a part in our evolutionary biology. So this is not a discussion that can really be separated from the role of culture.

I hope that continuing research in this field helps educate people to see that men and women are far more alike than different.
I'm glad you are happy with your investments, but that seems entirely beside the point we are discussing.

To review, gray-area suggested Bitcoin could be a speculative bubble because there's strong exuberance and weak fundamentals. You objected to that phrase, claiming that "it works". I said that "works" is too low a standard for strong fundamentals; for that you need significant use driven by a user value proposition stronger than the alternatives.

You claimed, as best I can tell, that significant use is occurring. I am asking you for data demonstrating that. I have been asking Bitcoin advocates for that for years and never received any. You haven't given me any either. Do you have it?
But evolution does work via purpose, whereas mutations that aren't fulfilling a purpose will not create an evolutionary advantage. So the antropomorphism is just a sylogysm.

Maybe eg. the dying of species, broadly taken as an evolutionary mechanism, doesn't seem to serve an advantages purpose, although maybe it's just a mutation of (local) state all the same, so maybe or not that's advantageous for the universe.
Uber essentially was illegal and still is in many places, cab license and all. It needed to get so big, so fast to make it a fact. A typical Harvard MBA with a suit and tie would have failed. IMO they still need a guy willing to break the rules
Working the bureaucracy is often much more difficult than the engineering part. In my company the tech leads spend more on figuring out what documentation to produce and how to store it than either writing documentation or producing software.
Health insurance in San Francisco which according to my quick research using Blue Shield[1] is some of most expensive.

Most people who work at tech companies in the bay area don't pay for their insurance, or pay very little. It's just considered part of benefits.

I think they'd be shocked if they had to pay full retail price for it. Also, the government subsidies only apply if your making less than 50k a year, so most likely everybody would be paying full retail price if not for their employer.

[1] -
Blue Shield monthly cost for Silver 70 PPO
Downtown San Francisco $462.54
Downtown San Diego $388.22
Santa Barbara $372.58
Beverly Hills $342.53
Goldilocks zone for this kind of stuff.. it's a bit simpler, most of what you need is in the base system, and a lot of people are doing the same type of builds.

And for self-support, the freebsd-scsi and freebsd-net mailing lists will get you in touch right away with the people that understand the firmware, protocols, drivers, and systems engineering. You will probably get a response from a kernel and operations aware developers from Dell Isilon, SpectraLogic, or Netflix within the day that commit the code you are using. You probably wont transcend customer support at other organizations in that timeframe.
> Try to spot the bottom figure within the coloured diagram.

So if I spot it then what does it tell me about the spectrum?
I'm pretty sure they don't specifically mean the space race from the soviets and the US, it's just a generic term for achieving access to space.

It would help if we were all a little less pedantic about things that don't really affect the bulk of the article.
Or just say "I've never seen that, what is it about?"

There's no way you're going to know any reference, just ask, there you go you started a conversation.
You must be a very slow typist :). I can write on a keyboard much faster than on paper, and I'll bet I can outpace any regular person in this way. One could try and compete by employing some stenography shenanigans, but at that point I'll just enable abbrev mode in my Emacs and beat them again.

Where typing fails me, though, is anything other than writing regular, linear text. The moment I expect needing to write a lot of math formulas, or drawing any kind of diagram, I get my paper and pens. Writing by hand is amazingly flexible.
>	Is America Encouraging the Wrong Kind of Entrepreneurship?

Question titles like this fall under clickbait. Also HBR is awful...as illustrated by their clickbait titles and fluff for content.
I do agree, thank you for sharing!

Humanity has made plenty of strides in democratizing technology that improve the length, quality, and self-sufficiency of many peoples lives (internet, medicine, clothing, water purificiation, food production etc)

Many people have been "lifted out of poverty" by technology, yet this has led to renewed and different types of conflict.

Many more remain in dire straits.

I'm not sure that moving to Mars would solve 4 billion people's problems, but I guess it's an idea!
And what if I can't find it, yet I know that I'm in that spectrum?
That, sir, is a total waste of time. You have my sincere admiration!
You sound like my colleague Michael. It is you? ;) Essentially we were doing Coursera stuff together.
Are you using AWS for compute (ec2) only?

Because if so, there's plentiful of cheaper option where you could easily reduce your cost by 60-80%.
Japanese-US funded effort, not quite the same thing.
Amazon is the new Walmart
So... what is the proposal? Every time I read one of this articles about gender in IT I feel that I didn't get to anything new.

This guy tell us that it is because companies look for certain profiles more common in men. Ok, cool, I'm totally fine with it, but I don't think that will be appealing to all this people that is talking about discrimination against women.
http://www.panarchy.org/engels/freetrade.html

"But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade."
While I have not yet changed careers, I have thought about it a lot. If or when I do, here is how I will likely go about it.

First save money and change lifestyle to handle the pay change. Coding pays more than many careers, and you might want or need to move to an industry that you have little experience.

Next, be open to moving. There are other places outside of the big cities that can often be open to people from different backgrounds as they don't have all the big city fun.

What do you like or have experience in. Making a slight shift is a lot easier than a large one. Perhaps you coded something for a newspaper, that will make it easier to get a job doing something else for a newspaper. This might mean doing a double jump. Get a job coding for the industry you want to be in, then move toward your desired career in that industry.

Best of luck!
It's going to get a lot worse, now that these people have been forced out of power in goverment, they will turn their eye to other things.
Congratulations on actually having a profitable product, and thanks for the help, I'll definitely drop you a line soon.
> this
Think you mean Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan) and my opinion is that they can't. They would likely lack the real-world experience to take highly important decisions under pressure. At that level it's not all science, knowing the right people and people skills in general are very important. His public appearances are quite good also, a very good speaker.
I'm reading it now and it comes off as another (very well off) conservative complaining about how they are oppressed and discriminated against. It's no different than the narratives peddled about white genocide or christian oppression.

> I consider myself a classical liberal and strongly value individualism and reason

I am so very shocked by that.
That probably speaks to Baron-Cohen's point about it being a constellation rather than a linear spectrum.
That's definitely one way. I'm not sure if that happens intentionally at my company, but the severe lack of documentation lends itself to creating a culture where a select few who have been around for 5+ years tend to know exactly where to find everything, who to talk to, etc. And that's very valuable in that climate, even if they do little coding themselves.
Ok, let's do that:

1	1	Java	12.961%	-6.05%
2	2	C	6.477%	-4.83%
3	3	C++	5.550%	-0.25%
4	4	C#	4.195%	-0.71%
5	5	Python	3.692%	-0.71%
6	8	change	Visual Basic .NET	2.569%	+0.05%
7	6	change	PHP	2.293%	-0.88%
8	7	change	JavaScript	2.098%	-0.61%
9	9	Perl	1.995%	-0.52%
10	12	change	Ruby

Of TCL's brethren

Python, BDFL

PHP, BDFL

Perl, BDFL

Ruby, BDFL

The rest (even though you wouldn't compare them to TCL cuz they're not in the same niche) have/had huge corporate sponsors and/or are entrenched industry standards and have also had iconic/notable figureheads (Gosling, K&R, Stroustrup, Hejlsberg, Eich).
I'll piggyback on this and note it seems like you're self worth is tied up in some sort of uber coder thing. I can relate to a point. After I'd read Fred brooks and some other literature (specifically Weinberg) that talked about 10 or 100x programmers, and tied that with Paul Graham's beating the averages, I had this idea that a true uber programmer could reimplement some significant thing with enough cleverness, and suitably powerful language. A concrete example would be some 100x-er recreating Google in 6 months or something (this specific example is a bit flawed due to hardware and storage requirements but meh).

There are a lot of flaws with this line of reasoning, but mainly the activity of writing code becomes secondary to defining the problem domain and solution.
And the part that the harvard MBA culture plays in all of that financial engineering.
This is a false dichotomy, and derailing from the conversations about women in tech. Even the most generous estimates of autism prevalence put it at 1-3% of children -- you could hire every man and woman with autism and it would have an entirely negligible effect on gender diversity in the tech workforce at large.

On top of that, if you take ten people with autism spectrum disorder, not all of them will end up getting jobs at Google and SAP. And of the ones that do, the women with autism have to deal with both the barriers introduced by their autism and the barriers of sexist treatment from their peers.
On most operating systems you can use part of your RAM as disk. Format it like a regular disk, mount it and save files on it.

The data is gone if you restart tho.
Technically speaking, the first African-designed and built satellite, albeit one that never flew, was South Africa's Greensat, which began as a military reconnaissance project in 1985 and was converted to an earth observation satellite in 1993.[0]

Beyond that, Stellenbosch University's SUNSAT (designed and built entirely by its students and professors under the SunSpace spinoff) went up in 1999, 18 years ago, and 12 years earlier than NigeriaSat-X.[1] I'm not saying this to score points, only to establish the proper context for why this piece is inaccurate, in that African countries have been sending up indigenous satellites for decades.

Basically this is just incredibly lazy reporting. It could've been an interesting story about how Cubesats are enabling space access for scientists, students, and engineers in nations like Ghana which lack the resources of their richer global and even continental neighbours, but instead TechCrunch went for the easy way out.

[0]http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/greensat.htm
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUNSAT
The Russians, the Chinese and the African tin pot dictators want their money out because they know it can be seized by the next government. If you end on the wrong side of Putin, you're shipped to Siberia and everything seized to pay the billions in tax debt, you all of the sudden owe.

Plus, now that they have money they want to be able to get some respect. What good is money unless you can spend outside Russia in places like Greece, Monaco...
I'm getting more and more confident as time goes on that a machine could perform his duties. It seems Bridgewater (for example) agrees with me.
This is probably why Apple, a hardware company, has operating margins that are higher than Google and Microsoft (even though their gross margins are almost half of Google's and Microsoft's).

The only person I can think of that might have this arrangement at Apple is Scott Forstall. I think that's why he's been radio silent until very recently (or he could just be very loyal to Apple). Maybe Katie Cotton when they changed their approach to PR from wartime to peacetime, but that could just be a regular retirement.

I mostly don't understand how Google and Microsoft employ so many people, or what they even do.

>"I've actually had a number of people, including today at Google X, ... send me pictures of themselves on a roof, kicking back doing nothing, with the hashtag 'unassigned' or 'rest and vest.' It's something that really happens, and apparently, somewhat often," the actor Brener told Business Insider's Melia Robinson last year.

Called it a year ago [1]:

>I've speculated for a long time that basically anything interesting Google says they're doing is essentially meant to be a jobs program to keep employees from leaving, PR for external stakeholders like investors, media, being attractive to potential employees, etc. They seem to have lots of formal ways to keep employees from leaving/close as well including investments off of Google's balance sheet (not GV or Google Capital) into ex-employee startups and just flat out paying people not to leave (which is the arrangement I'm guessing that Matt Cutts is under). It all seems very Microsoft of old.
Can anyone at Google (or ex-employees) tell me if this is true?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12410662
I used to have this fear too, of telling my friends what I was working on, especially my programmer friends, before I realized there are two types of scenarios:

1. A person is that headstrong and passionate about your project and will steal it. They steal your idea and become successful.

2. The person says, "Oh that sounds awesome. Good luck with that." Then they move on with their life and I move on with mine.

In most cases, #2 is more likely and logical, isn't it? How many people have you heard of doing #1? The only time #1 may occur is when you've already established the business and your business partner breaks away and enhances upon your idea.

I don't mind telling people about my ideas or brainstorming because its most likely: I know what I want it to be like, they don't.. they just have a vague idea. They are probably not as passionate about you as your own projects.

Thus: Get to it. Don't let that hold you back. In fact, embrace the times where people actually listen to your idea and give you feedback on it. It really does help.
> So if I spot it then what does it tell me about the spectrum?

Depends. Did you spot the rotated versions too? What do you want it to say about you?
Well, as someone who can not sit doing nothing, I accumulated a lot of knowledge. I did Coursera courses, studied some courses at university, studied for a total of 5 boat- and radio licenses (Europe...), I did about 6 IT certifications that I prepared for at work, set up complete mail servers and recently dove into the topic of data science.
AWS for ses I assume
The issue is that from what I can see the people-oriented jobs I could get in my area (as in, they don't require lots of experience or education) would barely allow me to afford rent, so as much as I'd like to it's just not possible at the moment.