skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been the calm person in the middle of crisis.

And yes, I did my freak out later. And boy, did I freak out.

I think that's a typical pattern for some people.

I think the real trick is -- can you get back on the horse after your freak out?
As a trans person, I have read that changing the hormones changes the brain shape quite a bit towards the cross sex sizes.

It will be a very interesting experience...
True the stock is at an extreme price. But it's here to stay. Amazon has shown that they can expand their vision outside retail. I suspect that in time they will find a business model where their margins will be greater. It's a long shot but many people are hoping they find it. Hard to bet against Bezos.
Stocks all over the world are now valuated on the hope that someone else will pay more than you. Not on any intrinsic cash flow of the businesses. This is the new normal.
I guess that depends on where you're flying from. The only airport in the last couple of years where I've even had a boarding pass was RIX, otherwise it's always just stored on the frequent flier card.
So, autism diagnosis is based on whether or not you can parse an optical illusion? What kind of over-diagnosis fad-medicine quackery is this? When did personality types become diseases? Sure, there are some people with real mental illness who need help to function in society, but I think it's actively harmful to slap a pathology on someone who's not as sociable as others in a moderate way.
Depending on a page and data it can make life a bit harder for the spider, but all that can be taken care of.

IMHO the best way to stop spiders is to control access to your pages. Require users to register and then login each time to see the data, and then have some pro-active monitoring & counter measures in place, monitoring the patterns per users, and per IPs, and across the whole system for an unexpected increase in activity or bot-like behavior (moving too fast or at unusually uniform speed, following links too sequentially, etc.).

If it's not an option, the next best approach is to make it hard for spider to fetch the whole dataset. Don't let user just browse all the pages, instead force them to use search, it makes it much harder to cover everything (and it will not affect normal users too much). You can, for example, return just the 100 products at once, and ask user to refine the search if there's more products than that. Then you can create some monitoring system to watch over unusual search queries that look like dictionary attacks. I've actually built a system like this for one client and it worked fairly well (combined with a few more tricks they were already using).

Of course, all of this can be tricked too, it's all a game of cat & mouse, trying constantly to outsmart the other side.
HTe original was pure conservative (oh I'm sorry, "classical liberal") circle jerk about how poor (er... upper middle class) white males are being discriminated against and are such victims nowadays. Pepper in some dog-whistle sexism and little digs at the left and you have a nice manifesto.
Amazon is also on the infrastructure platform business that powers various multi-billion business like Netflix and Dropbox.
Sad to see tech giants not recapturing carbon with their unlimited money.
Comments in this thread and similar threads on Reddit make me dispair for the future.

"America's fetish for privatization promotes rent-seeking"

"Not having single payer healthcare is the single biggest reason we have so much rent seeking in healthcare"

A society with fully socialized means of production is not free of rent-seeking. On the contrary, every single job in every organization in the economy is rent-seeking in that case.

Anyone with experience in Indian public industries pre-liberalization, will tell you.

Human beings in large organizations will often try to act in their own interest as opposed to the organizations interest. It is up to the organization to build up structures and culture to fight this innate tendency in humans.

The problem is, organizational cultures tend to drift over time. Though an organization may be founded small, with a lot of idealism, and selfless workers, in the long run, political players will infiltrate the upper ranks ... you soon see people trading influence for their own benefit.

The worst aspects of this are seen in India still, where people get a job, and then use whatever powers the job grants to extract rents from co-workers, the public, etc.

The market plays a role in preventing this.

The market is the ecosystem which provides predators which hunt and kill the decrepit organizations that have too much rent-seeking behavior internally.

When a government company is full of rent-seekers there is no solution except to wait for some revolution to occur, because its never politically feasible to fire so many public sector workers.

In the case of private companies, unless the government intercedes, an organization that is inefficient and full of rent-seekers will soon be overtaken by spry rivals who focus on consumer benefits.

Let me give you some concrete examples. Have you ever read about how labor and management used to act at General Motors? There used to be jets for the upper level managers. Special dining rooms for them. Separate bathrooms for them. The company was struggling, and the employees (the managers) were giving themselves all kinds of cushy perks.

The relationship between the board and the shareholders was terrible. The shareholders couldn't do anything against management and the workers. In ordinary cases such a company would have gone belly up after shareholders lost faith and committed capital elsewhere. Instead, the government propped up GM with defense contracts, government contracts, and finally a bailout. It was government intervention that allowed rent-seeking by individuals to continue.
> It's called the "autism spectrum" because it's a spectrum, not a binary. People can share some autistic traits without their rising to the level of a diagnosable disorder. If a person is described as nerdy, introverted and eccentric, they probably are further along on the autistic spectrum than most, while not necessarily having full-blown autism.

I thought it was called a spectrum because of the variation in severity and symptoms among people with diagnosable autistic disorders. As I understood it, if you don't have such a disorder, you're not on the spectrum.
This is a very good point. The only problem would be if people with an ASD are highly self-selecting into the technical field, thus being a significant influence.

Below is what I could find in academic journals.
TL;DR it is not significant.

There are 2 studies I could find which found that:

- likelihood of autism (or being on the spectrum) is 3 to 7 times higher among maths students (Cambridge university, 1.85% vs. 0.24% in the control group)[1].

- [2]: People with an ASD (autism spectrum disorder), "have one of the lowest overall college enrollment rates", but "young adults with an ASD who attend college are most likely to pursue STEM majors".
It is noted in the analytics section that those with an ASD have a 34.31% enrollment rate in STEM fields with a heavy bias towards maths and CS. This compares to >32.6% in the general population [3] (data from 2012).

So, it looks like the percentage you listed are correct, with a potential of it being quite a bit lower due to hiring practices within the industry.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26181845

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3620841/

[3] https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/sei/edTool/data/college-08.html
For the 336k people who live there I'm sure what you say is true.

It's different for the 300+ million of us that live in the US (where this forum is based thus my reasonable presumption that we're not generally conversing about a small isolated island nation).
Because it matters. There is no red you cant meassure red we will never experience red axactly the same way. One of the biggest mistake humans make is thinking that experience or qualia is what it represents itself as. Its important to understand that we simulate a reality not the reality.
I have to agree. When it comes to quality and quantity, it feels like we are in a golden age right now.
Tell that to the crusade of people who are fighting for "better representation" in tech, and are happy to enforce non-official quotas.
(IANAL) I guess the fact that they were out of the country complicates things a lot. The Wikipedia entry about the act does not mention seizures, but talks about preventing them from entering the country and using the banking system which the government already has lots of discretionary authority over.

My guess is that it is theatre. The US could already kept those guys out, and freeze the bank accounts without new legislation, but legislators wanted to be seen as doing something. And if the naming of individuals is out-of-order, then they can rely on those individuals not bothering to challenge it in the US courts.
The most recent commit is 4 hours ago so it looks like the guy is still working on it. I tried installing the thing under developer mode and it installed but didn't stop the hijacking on the page I tried it on.
>His main point is far less interesting than the points I outlined.

To me, it seems like you aren't able to respond to his claim (suppression of views at Google), therefore you won't do so.

>It's like phrenology all over again

Comparing modern science to phrenology is a false equivalence, because phrenology was invented 200 years ago before the implementation of established scientific protocols, statistical sample sizes, and significance testing, peer review before publishing. The same issue applies to psychoanalysis, it's not backed up by statistics.

>He's using statistics an research as a tool for making excuses for the current situation.

The glaring problem with your view is that these scientific studies:

* Are performed using well established scientific methods

* Have very large (N>500,000) sample sizes

* Meet the standard for statistically significant by orders of magnitude

* Were subject to peer review

* Passed peer review and were published in reputable scientific journals

* Are replicated in other studies done by independent scientists using their own sets of data

I.e. they're well done and follow the modern science method, the same methodology we use to find drugs that cure diseases or report the discovery of new atomic particles. It's extremely well established, and agreed upon by tens of thousands of scientists. And if you do read the scientific papers, they do strongly support the conclusions of sex-based differences in the brain.

His position is backed by science. Yours is not, and you now you have resorted to claiming the science is irrelevant. It's very sad to see educated people make science-denial claims like yours.
Am I supposed to see the shape or not? If I take the shapes separately yeah I can tell the shape exists, but my mind can't really "see" a 3D object there.
You're right. I'm sorry about that.
I attended Caltech in the era that Feynman was a professor there. I heard he was paid XXX a year. I opined that was ridiculous, who could possibly be worth that much?

An upperclassman laughed and told me that Feynman was worth that much to the university even if he did nothing. Attaching his name to the university brought in donations, grants, and top talent.

Of course, Feynman being Feynman, worked like hell anyway.
If he's not convinced he shouldn't have pulled imho. Reply like this before pulling and see what they reply
This aphorism is called Hanlon's razor for the curious. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
I've been there: burned out from writing code, feeling like you've plateaued on your particular skillset of choice, but not having another skillset that you're particularly interested in acquiring.

I view software as means to an end, and that end is solving a real concrete physical problem in the real world.

It's hard to look at a specific vertical / domain and try to guess what kind of app you can build for them that would make an impact, as an outsider looking in.

So, become an insider by getting a job and doing real hands-on work in an area outside of programming. For me, since I figured I got the "hacker" part down, I wanted to get the "hustler" part down, and I joined a very early stage startup and did all things customer-acquisition, in charge of the singular goal of bringing in money. A hardware company at that.

Then, military has always fascinated me, so I sought to get an insider's perspective.

Now I've got additional perspectives that has been constructive in helping me understand where else and how else software might be able to make an impact, which is helpful when you're looking for opportunities to ... make something people want.
Weird blog post. He never really attempts to answer his own question of if gender imbalance is a good thing. He just seems to be making the point that autism is imbalanced in sex distribution, and engineering is appealing to autistic people, so the imbalance in engineering is expected due to autism.

FWIW, as a woman on the autism spectrum myself, I actually kind of agree that some level of imbalance is due to this. But people on the autism spectrum make up such a small population of humans and software engineers (we are over-represented compared to other industries, but in my experience we are still very much a minority overall) that it cannot be nearly enough to account for the sex-imbalance numbers we see today.

Anecdotally, I've convinced two NT (neurotypical) women to switch from bio/chem degrees to CS (they are both software engineers now) and the reason they hadn't considered before was b/c nobody ever talked to them about it. Neither grew up playing video games (though one said she asked for a console and the parents put it in her brother's room for them to "share") and there weren't any mandatory programming classes, so they just were never exposed to it as an option, even though they are both highly logical people (thus the chem or bio degree paths before switching).

So I guess I'm still firmly in the "Its a pipeline problem" camp. Until we account for cases like the ones above, tech is going to lose out on some talented women, and some of those women will miss out on tech. I think mandatory high school programming and networking classes are what will really help.
The thought is that the cards aren't currently just falling as they will, and instead they're falling in a biased way due to prior decisions (and current ones!) that disadvantages certain people. The over-eagerness towards diversity programs and such therefore is in effort to push things to a neutral state so that the cards can indeed just fall as they will.
When the explanation for women being paid less / having less power overall is that men have superior bodies for tasks (from athletes to programmers), it does seem to come off that way.

It's little help that women have better verbal and emotional skills if they do not appear to be valued in our society.
Thank you for reminding us about externalities. Currently they aren't priced in the market. So if you want to do something about it you either have to price them in with the govt (not likely to happen) or you have to invent something better.

I'm saying, pull requests are welcome.
If there's one thing that I've learned from living through the first internet bubble is that there's no such thing as a stock price that's "too high" or "overvalued". Some people will pay anything as long as they think they think they can sell it for a profit to the bigger fool.
Yeah, I guess if you've built your life around TV this would seem amazing. But if you only watch at friends or a few series a year... and waste far more time online- HN and blogs, it seems like talking about your latest diet. Mobile seems like a much harder habit to kick, and even that you can do by going on vacation. Of course all this assumes you have the money, time, and attention to spare.
So if the implementation of a HO function is a for loop then then an HO function and a for loop are equivalent. Thus proving my original point: It's the same thing. Using HO functions in an imperative language is not much different from using a for loop, it's all sugar.
FWIW, the diagram wasn't intended to be a TEST to determine if one is autistic. It was a test to indicate one's inclination for noticing certain detail.

Indeed, as another comment states, girls have historically been under diagnosed with autism, for a variety of reasons. (That's not to say males aren't more likely to have the condition.)

Simply put, employers need to do a better job of ensuring that those with talents (some female, some autistic, some minority, etc.)-- who are under represented in IT, are given fair opportunity to put their talents to use. I wouldn't get too caught up in worrying about how giving opportunities to one group takes away from another. We're all on the same team. It's not too different from how Affirmative Action (which I support) has its place in society.

Also, I was confused by the constellation bit. The spectrum descriptor is quite apt and just as generally accepted in the community as the idea that it's genetic in basis...well, unless you're an anti-vax kook. I've only heard the term constellation in the sense of describing the various symptoms. (As the adage goes, if you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism...no two are alike.) I'm actually in the middle of reading Steve Silberman's Neurotribes, which I would highly recommend to anyone who wants to know more about autism.

(Contrary to what the article says, Sasha Baron-Cohen (of Borat fame) is the cousin, not brother, of famed autism researcher Simon Baron-Cohen.)

- Guy w/ Asperger's
Does this account for the fact that women tend to be underdiagnosed?

Loads of people go undiagnosed:
https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-undiagnosed-adults-...

I know people in tech have a tendency to try and break things. But I think everyone should give professionals in their respective fields just a little bit of benefit of the doubt.

Remember, these studies probably talk about averages and populations NOT individuals. And that test was just 1 example of the problems they give.
St Ignucius bless his heart
Reading this full article was a treat. Many would compare Trump to Nixon for character traits and alleged collusion with a foreign power to sway an election but I don’t this illustrates a similar situation here.

If anything it shows how political foreign affairs are both externally and internally. Indeed by provoking peace talks and indicating favorable negotiating posture with LBJ, the Russians then just as now we’re trying to influence an election to their benefit.

It shows that foreign powers both friend and foe will influence in ways they think will be beneficial to them. Russia likely went beyond legal means, Israel in some ways showed a support for Trump and in turn Trump showed support for Le Pen in France’s elections.

As much as we wish it wasn’t so, elections are all about influence and foreign powers some times have as much to gain as a country’s own population - none of this happens in a vacuum.
Ghana can launch south into polar orbits.
You're right and I should have added more details. fontforge only accepts file paths and not strings sadly
All the smell of a scam. The journalists at various papers that are disgorging this thinly veiled PR release as if it's news should be put on your shortlist of garbage journalists.
Done. God mode stuck on now.
Why not just open the package and inspect it yourself? Then reseal it? It seems like you would get in way less trouble for opening a package given to (and you're not even a common carrier so does the non-opening law apply?) you than getting caught trafficking drugs.
Of course no one is going to claim that and expect to be taken seriously. But as a fellow girl, in my years socializing in groups I have certainly experienced this sentiment. There seems to a tacit agreement that girls that are good at something traditionally male-dominated, like programming or math, are an exception to the rule. In other words, there is a rebuttable presumption of mediocrity in these areas. If you excel at them, good on you, you must be a true whiz to do so in spite of your gender.
It crashed ;-(.
Made a few small changes and it's back up.
A smartwatch won’t fix what’s broken with Fitbit
Euro Lesbians fuck a double dong until they cum
The fall in numbers of male teachers is causing concern, at least in the UK:

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-37552056

- https://www.teachingtimes.com/news/primary-schools-male-teac...

- https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/mar/23/male-teach...
Autism in females shows itself differently to autism in males, it tends to be a lot less obvious because the traits that they display are unlike those displayed by autistic males. Further they tend not to cause academic issues and as such are not picked up by schools. I am no expert but I have a friend who has an autistic daughter and both her and her partner are child psychologists and we had a discussion about it only 2 nights ago, which was the point that I learned that one of their daughters was on the spectrum (she is approx 6 years old) comparing this to another friend of mine who has an autistic son and the signs that he was on the spectrum were apparent even at the age of 2.5 years old.
God mode is now turned on without an option to turn it off.
All those people telling me that boys and girls have the same interest in tech, and clichés is all that keeps girls from reaching their potential...

- Doesn't match with my observations of girls around me. My goddaughter was educated in a sexist way (barbies) by her mother. Men (me) have tried to interest her in tech, but what do you want! I'm not the role model! I can tell you it's been immensely frustrating for me to spend hundreds on Lego, take her to superfactories, make her visit workshops, teach her math and chemistry, and she still $&@" identifies to her "I don't get science" mother. Men are powerless here. Plus I still get told off as a machist by HN.

- Doesn't match with logic either. Women can get a job in IT and be promoted to passionating human jobs like management, just by participating in "I'm a woman" programs. Why would they work on their skills? Every single woman I've met in programming was utterly incompetent in technical skills because they weren't selected on their technical skills. So, yes, it's a bit painful when they're promoted as your manager "because [insert hand-wavy reason like people skills]".

The worsts parts are:

- I've done my part in being feminist in the early years of my career, and I'm unanimously recognized for the scientific education of my goddaughted despite the other directions given by the 7 women around her;

- And despite that, it's forbidden for me to discuss the reality I'm facing (=what's above) on social networks, including HN. I expect to be censored in a few minutes, but I'll wait for dang's actual actions to demonstrate what will happen to me. In real life, after I started recognizing the pattern that women are not competent when they're hired based on gender, I've been fired from a few places.

So, this misogyny problem that belongs to my parents' generation? We're reproducing it.

And I know I'm not alone, because, when I say it with careful respect, facts and fewer generalizations, I get a dozen upvotes.

Future won't be nice with this censorship.
I think you are getting into a map/territory issue.

We think of it as a spectrum because we observe a spectrum among people with diagnosable autistic disorders.

However, we do not have a fundemental understanding of what autism is, or a binary test to detect it. This would imply that in reality there is a spectrum that extends beyond the diagnosable region(s) we have.
Who is to say what's overvalued? A class-A share of BRK is 200x a single share of Amazon, last I checked.