skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's take gender, race, food preference out of the equation. Say a person with qualities A and another person with qualities B both interview at a company. Turns out that at the company (and in the industry in general, type Bs are a minority), and there's a movement to hire more of type Bs.

If type A did better in an interview than type B, but the company ended up hiring a type B because of the whole diversity thing, is that considered a bad thing? Wouldn't that be considered preferential treatment? Why are there company initiatives or programs for B but not for A.

As someone who is of type B, I feel offended that there are 'initiatives' that help me get jobs at companies. I dont need my hand held or the job given to me just because i'm the only B applicant in a pool of 10 applicants
The point is that when novice investors finally know about it and get in, all the good investors have already been in for a while. At that point, there is no one left to buy. If there is no one left to buy, the stock quits going up. Of course then people will start selling, the smart ones first.
> Can't we just examine the existing literature and add our own thoughts without suggesting some grand "rewrite"?
Uber-for-breakups YC 2018.
Treating other people's opinions as ludicrous might work as a strategy to an extent, but in the long run that approach will only create further division and ostracism.

Tear apart the ideas with friendly, well-reasoned arguments, yes! Ideas are fair game. Fight fire with fire, not gasoline.
Except for the fact that it implies that men are in higher, more well paid positions because of inherent biological traits.

If you truly believe people are equal and deserving of equal treatment then you must see a society where white men are the most powerful, most privileged class, as a failure of society.

The author cannot claim to believe in equality and then go on to justify inequality with biological traits.
Then Google itself doesn't "get it", given how their interview process values technical qualities above all else.
_The more you learn, the less you know_ --ancient wisdom
You might have misread or misinterpreted the opening paragraph. I don't see where the author classifies the trace of a matrix as trivia, though she does refer to some linear algebra concepts as "basic".
saying that women are biologically worse engineers would be the primary candidate
It's a product of the left/right divide in modern American politics. It's mostly a dog whistle so the other side knows he is ok to unperson.
> no one is obligated to spend their time to refute your bullshit.

I agree wholeheartedly! However, others would like to. I'll be over there talking to them; please find your way to the nearest safe-space where kitten and puppy images await you.
I think you've just supported my point.

You cited a single example of somebody using their phone on a bike, several years ago - and yes, I agree, that was a pretty silly risk (and I hope that person is OK, and didn't do it again).

How often do you see a driver of a car using their phone?

I see it several times every single day in Sydney. I'm pretty sure most people would be lying if they told me they didn't see it either.

Heck, if you want stats - sure, here's the CDC and NHTSA's info on distracted driving:

https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving
https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/distracted_driving/in...

Car drivers often don't like to be confronted with how bad a driver they are - but the statistics don't lie. We as humans are shockingly bad at driving (and I drive as well, and I'm well aware of my limitations).

And regarding your SUV vs bike example, may not happen often? I think that's stretching the rules of incredulity. I'm not going to make any assumptions about your background (e.g. you may not have a technical background). - and I don't have a physics background either - but I believe the basic equation is:

F = m * a

So you take a 2,000 kg SUV.

And a 8 kg bicycle, combined with a 65 kg person = 73 kg.

Even if they were travelling with the same acceleration (doubtful) - the SUV would impart around 30 times the force on the cyclist versus the other way.
Yup, we still have the same basic CRUD, except now phones are faster so more JavaScript to make it look pretty.
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Mods, you can have all of my points if you'll unflag this story. It is extremely well written by someone who could well have been in the OP's chain of command and who knows the company culture.

Edit: thanks mods, the article has been unflagged.
The big investing fad now is all about indexing. That's what everyone recommends, including Warren Buffet.

This means that with less than $1000, you can own a representation of the S&P500, weighted by market cap, either through ETFs or mutual funds. Weighted by market cap means that you're putting a larger percentage of that $1000 into the bigger companies, versus the smaller companies.

When a few companies start to dominate the market, everyone can be overweight a few stocks in the same way, and not even know it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/17/four-tech-heavyweights-make-...
Some people just enjoy thinking about stuff for no particular reason other than curiosity or as a form of mental play.
> It may not be ideal, but even a helmet that only meets those requirements is going to _reduce_ the force experienced if you land on it. My dad was in a crash with a car (impacted the side of the vehicle, went over the top and landed on the other side) - his helmet was cracked into three pieces, but he was fine.

From [1]:

>> The principal protection mechanism in a cycle helmet is the polystyrene foam, or styrofoam, that covers the head. When this receives a direct impact force, the styrofoam is intended to compress and in this way spread and reduce the force that is passed onto the skull, thus reducing linear accleration of the brain.

>> However, it is common for helmets to break without the polystyrene foam compressing at all. A major helmet manufacturer collected damaged childrens' helmets for investigation over several months. According to their senior engineer, in that time they did not see any helmet showing signs of crushing on the inside (Sundahl, 1998). Helmet foam does not 'rebound' after compression to any significant extent. If the styrofoam does not compress, it cannot reduce linear acceleration of the brain. The most protection that it can give to the wearer is to prevent focal damage of the skull and prevent minor wounds to the scalp. It is not likely to prevent serious brain injury.

[1] http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1209.html
> back when it was harder

Is this true?

Or is it the old "machine code is harder" idea?

How many people here programmed assembly language in middle school, but would have been stumped (or at least strained to the max in comparison) if made to read say, the Design Patterns book?
> buy into the tribalistic pressures around us to simply act like everyone else

Does anyone else appreciate the delicious irony that parent is hitting all the right notes for an appeal to the tribe while at the same time criticizing tribalism?

1. Establish an 'us' vs. 'them' distinction ('I presume on sites like this')
2. Subtly denigrating outsiders ('draws many people outside the superficial social norms.')
3. Establishing higher common values ('That conflict causes a choice, we would seek to do the "better" thing')

Trying to be original, individualistic, and nonconformist what everyone is taught in the US from an early age.
You're getting downvoted for now, but you bring up an interesting point that's worth making more explicit.

If some set of ideas is so repugnant that quoting it, even in a rebuttal, "normalizes hatred", then why try to rebut it at all? Shouldn't it be enough to simply use social norms to shame the author into submission without addressing his arguments? Nobody feels the need to write rebuttals against NAMBLA, because we as a society live within a consensus that pedophilia is wrong.

The usual response is that ideas like the ones expressed in the "manifesto" are still widespread enough that they need to be addressed. But if a set of beliefs is that widespread, then by definition, there isn't a consensus and social norm against them. As a result, you need to address these ideas straight-up, even if you personally find them repugnant.

To dismiss them as "hatred", unworthy of being quoted even in rebuttal, just means that you've giving up on convincing anyone else to your point of view. And at some level, that's fine. I personally choose to isolate myself from people who don't believe in things like vaccines or climate change because I don't have the patience to deal with them.

But if you want to actually change people's minds, you have to deal with the fact that some people hold opinions that you personally find repugnant, and you have to address those opinions in an intellectually honest way. That's the table stakes for writing any kind of rebuttal, and once you've bought into that, there's no reason not to go all the way. In their famous debates, Lincoln thoughtfully listened and responded to Douglas's points, he didn't just rant and rave about giving Douglas a podium to speak from "normalized hatred".
as i wrote it elsewhere already regarding the original "manifesto":

i am curious, if this person is ok with questioning their belief in "traits" that are defined on the level of sex. after all they are the one who says that "some ideas are too sacred to be discussed" and when i bring this up, i often find that the "differences" between the sexes are exactly one of these ideas.

the reactions to this talk are a good example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqR4cw9Amlg
>citation needed
The manifesto author is arguing for equality of opportunity.

It's possible to have this and end up with different outcomes because of differing abilities or priorities.

Also, Whites are _underrepresented_ in tech relative to their percentage of the population.

edit:
The parent edited their comment to remove the "white" qualifier from "men".
The stock price is always at an equilibrium between buyers and sellers, i.e. the number of each is the same.
I'm not sure. I think roofs are triangular mostly to make water/snow slide down, while arcs are architecturally stronger, i.e. they can support more weight.

So hexagons are better than triangles, and dodecahedron would be even better, etc. but nature tends to simplicity.
I'm surprised the article makes no mention of theory of mind, and I'm also surprised that one might discuss the capability of attributing emotional states to others and not mention the broader ability to attribute different mental states to others.

I'm also surprised to hear that there's scientific consensus that thought does not have an inhibiting effect on emotions. I wonder how that comments on Daniel Kahneman's observations of interacting system of cognition (System 1 & 2), where one may block the other? Is the author also saying that beliefs can't be changed to ultimately have a causal relationship with emotions?
NFC Ring
> They are motivated both by an urge to help lift Puerto Rico out of its quagmire, but also by a profound attachment to the island — its beaches and countryside, its friendliness, its intimacy and the tug of family.

They're probably more motivated by the complete lack of federal income tax[0]. Funny that this wasn't mentioned once in the entire article.

0. https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2014/07/04/hate-taxe...
Lol, I'm not even sure how that even works. How exactly does one changes gears or brake, whilst typing on a laptop?

I'm a pretty good cyclist, I commute every day, but even I would probably struggle to use a laptop whilst riding...

I mean, a bike has two wheels, if you stop holding the handlebars, you kinda...topple over?

On the flipside - cars make it pretty easy to use your phone (or heck, laptop, as you say).

I see drivers using their phones several times every single day in Sydney. I'm pretty sure most people would be lying if they told me they didn't see it either.

The CDC and NHTSA's has webpages devoted to this trend:

https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving

https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/distracted_driving/in...

We're talking several thousand deaths and several hundred thousand injuries every year in the US.
Whether subjects are asked to rank all letters of the alphabet, rate each of the letters, choose the letter they prefer out of a set of two, or pick a small set of letters they most prefer, on average people consistently like the letters in their own name the most.

Second sentence of the first paragraph.
> it's one group of people who consider other humans biologically inferior, and therefore less deserving, than others.

That is an extreme mischaracterization of the views of those who believe in differences between the sexes. Nowhere does the manifesto author say that women are inferior or less deserving of their equality in terms of their right to pursue whatever career option they find interesting.

The belief in question here is that there are differences, that they are measurable, that they have been measured - and you can find the data, with remarkable consistency over a hundred years of psychometrics research. This doesn't mean that anyone should be treated badly, nor does it mean that it would be reasonable to have discriminatory hiring practices.

What it means is that you mind find more men interested in, and excelling at, particular fields compared with women, who have complementary interests and excellence in other fields. And then there are fields that both seem to do well at. When you discover your field is not in the latter camp, you can either socially engineer it into being artificially equal, and reap whatever consequences you get from that, or you can accept things as they present themselves.

> If your beliefs are about restricting the rights of others when you have those rights yourself

Where does the manifesto author restrict anyone's rights? Why do you need to put words in his mouth in order to have an argument?
Google's interview process is to guarantee basic technical competency. However you cannot reliably gauge social competency in a 4-hour interview: that's why Google will later look at the evaluation by your coworkers to determine your promotion.

Before joining armchair HR quarterbacking, it might help you to consider that Google is one of the most successful IT companies and the post you read is by a successful and well-respected ex-Googler. If you can think up something in 30 seconds, they've thought about that.
One of the ideas of cap weighting is that it has minimal impact.

If company A is worth 10x what company B is worth then I can buy 10x of company A and 1x of company B to spread my impact as evenly as possible.
The concept of a worn physical authentication token, along the lines of a historical signet ring, has struck me for a while as a probably ideal direction for identity / authentication to go.

It turns out there's product in the space already. (And a few earlier HN submissions, though little discussion.)
If you are talking about IQ the data would support you, the problem comes when you look at standard deviation and we see men have a slightly higher standard deviation which leads to the extremes on both sides being overwhelmingly male. It's not something we need to worry about much in day to day interactions because you wont notice it but in hyper selective environments it might become an something people notice.
Don't look now, but you're alleging the "believe every victim" (with scary air-quotes, no less!) in discussion of a story which alleges the problem of refusing to believe the person the university said was a victim.
I didn't see that at all. What I understood him to be saying was that on average (across society), there are various biological differences. I don't see any insult there, intended or not.

I thought his only intent was to argue against institutionalized discrimination.
if your IPs are in a contiguous /25 , they can all be blocked with a single firewall rule. And detection is also easy. It only helps with rate limits.

To avoid a block, you need a list of good socks5 proxies
I like very much how you describe this thing with words like "triggers" and "disappearing into network", that feels exactly this way for me too.

Where is this place, where you can hike for a week without seeing any other human?
But if everyone does that, that inherently pushes up the price of company A a lot faster than company B. Which reinforces the feedback loop of the bigger they are the more you buy. This is all done without anything needing to happen to the actual value of the company. Only active traders and institutions would sell individual stocks to bring that value down. Selling the index keeps the market weights even.

The minimal impact of cap weighting is actually that you don't have to rebalance your investments to keep them tracking the same. By them going up and down, they keep the same percentage by market cap weight.

What you seem to be saying is good is diversification, which it is, but you have to make sure you are well diversified.
I think you might be vastly overestimating the technical competence of a lot of people in non-tech management. In my experience, a lot of people really do believe those nonsense phrases we hear in response to a disclosure - "our system has been audited, so we know it's secure", "we use military-grade password encryption" etc. To the average user, this stuff is basically voodoo.

Imagine that you got a letter from a stranger, telling you that the locks on your upstairs windows didn't work properly. How confident are you that you'd take it as a helpful suggestion, rather than being completely creeped out by this menacing weirdo?

I think that negative responses to disclosure are generally grounded in a mixture of fear, mistrust, misunderstanding and arse-covering. Someone who discovers a vulnerability is seen as inherently untrustworthy, because why else would they be snooping about and trying out the locks? We think of computer systems as inherently insecure until proven otherwise, but they see their systems as fundamentally secure until someone comes along and breaks it. If you're fearful of technology, it's easy to hear "excuse me, I think your system is vulnerable" as "nice system you have here, it'd be a shame if someone broke into it". Denials and cover-ups are often the default corporate response, because being the bearer of bad news can be a career-limiting move in many organisations.
The Greeks really do have near-mythical origins, ancient DNA reveals
Link to full Nature paper, "Genetic origins of the Minoans and Mycenaeans": https://t.co/8hNao9XFTt
Which he did not say. The discussion on gender differences was providing possible reasons why women may be less likely than men to pursue engineering careers. It says nothing about the relative ability of women who do choose that path.
Surveillance of publicly visible areas is not the same as search and seizure of your person, house, papers, or effects.
> "Helmets provide a 66 to 88% reduction in the risk of head, brain and severe brain injury for all ages of bicyclists. Helmets provide equal levels of protection for crashes involving motor vehicles (69%) and crashes from all other causes (68%). Injuries to the upper and mid facial areas are reduced 65%.

There has been criticism of that study, some of which is listed in [1].

[1] http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1131.html
Intended in fun only. Hope I didn't give offense :-)
Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Self Driving Augmented Reality Blockchain Startup as a Service...

Can I call 'bingo' yet?
IANAL, but it (probably) depends on which license Canonical is using for the ZFS plugin.

If they use CDDL, then I can't see how Oracle would have a case.
You don't. It's entirely possible to write not-at-all-functional code in Scala. One of the many reasons I dislike it.
And a Gini coefficient (.531 as of 2011) between Guatemala (.530) and Colombia (.535). Italy and Spain are at .319 and .359 respectively. The US as a whole is .475.
OpenMined Introduction: Encrypted and Decentralized Artificial Intelligence
What, the .js file for the globe itself is 43 thousand lines of code. Was this a weekend project? How do you find the time? Very well done my friend. (https://github.com/arscan/encom-globe/blob/master/build/enco...)
Good science relies on tested data- and this tested data stays the same. The rules derived from it, may become more detailed - or in some cases even completely overthrown with a new ruleset, which will provide a reference frame that can produce such data.
Best example for science is the Newton Physics, which allowed for pretty close calculations on planetary movements.
The data gathered stayed the same, but the unexplained edge-cases and small deviations, where better explained by Einsteins theory.
Overindexing of the public market is certainly a potential issue for consumers of investment services. That said, if and when it becomes an issue, it likely won't be an issue for very long. Should index funds start to consistently underperform high-management-fee actively managed portfolios, investors will simply move funds there over time.

Of course, that's little consolation for those who lose out during the correction period - so your point stands. But AFAIK we're well below the danger zone for too much public market capital being passively indexed.
Which language/tools were they using? Serious question. I highly doubt your statement.
I was recommended "High output management" and found it pretty bad. Some of the insight at the end was ok, but most of it was very boring and obvious.
Free tools for designers and developers
Um, no, just trying to encourage civility. (Calling others' words BS sounds insulting to me at least.)
I have this thing about reading footnotes first:

"I consider myself a classical liberal and strongly value individualism and reason."

I miss the days when libertarians weren't ashamed to admit so. But back then, they could debate the difference between von Mises and Hayek.

Today... not so much. Ideology isn't Book Deep, it's Google Search Deep.
That's what the one I saw was!
I'm having a hard time understanding why you'd say that the net cash flow is zero. If a person who previously owned no stock buys a share from another person at a price above it's current market price, that's a net cash flow.

Buy bids/orders being matched with sell orders/bids would imply zero net cash flows only if prices were constant.
Is this the same plane flying around Vancouver, BC, Canada as well? Mention of an army plane(s?) kept appearing on r/Vancouver today.

Although I could be very well mistaken and its a coincidence.
To be clear, after the headline, the first line of the article says that $63B went into stock funds (as opposed to stocks).

To make this more concrete, let's imagine how this actually happens. Joe & Jane send $10 to a stock fund. The fund places a market order to buy stock. The market matches the buy order with the lowest sell offer. The fund sends the money to the seller, and the seller sends the stock to the buyer. At the end of the transaction, both the amount of money is conserved (J&J are down $10, but the seller is up $10) and the amount of stock is conserved (J&J have one additional share and the seller is down one share). Money did not move "into" the market. On the opposite side of every buy, there is a sell. For every dollar that J&J sink into the market, sellers are pulling exactly that many dollars out.

As the article you link says, there can be net inflows into stock funds. But that's only possible because there are entities besides stock funds that have equal and opposite outflows. In aggregate, buying stock cannot put money into the market because every purchase is also a sale.
> if your IPs are in a contiguous /25

They're not.

> To avoid a block, you need a list of good socks5 proxies

No; furthermore, that leaks your data to a third party and introduces significant latency.