skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind that the electric section of the overall car marjket is just 1-1.5% right now. It's just not a significant market right now. Making an electric car is only good for building know-how.

In the industry, the Chevy Bolt is expected to be the first electric car to end up being profitable. Next year's Audi Q6 e-tron quattro (what a name...) is expected to be the second. They are the first specimen of a new generate of electric cars that are for-profit mass production products from the ground up. By 2025 virtually every car manufacturer will be competing seriously in the electric market.

This generational change is happening because as batteries and fuel cells are getting cheaper rapidly. We are coming up on the cross-over point where an electric car can be made profitably right now. But this also means that there was no point for the likes of Mazda to even work on electric cars before now.
YellowLab complains about the number of webfonts in my CSS file, which us just stupid - fonts aren’t loaded if they’re not used, so why are they a problem? Because of the three lines of CSS needed to include them?
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So they're extremely good at providing low-quality blockbusters and rehashed kid movies. Great.
> I'm glad they have a job. Their families probably need it very much. I hope that their hard work allows the next generation of Congolese to live in greater prosperity.

It's hard to figure whether this comment is sarcastic or just ignorant of the whole situation with child exploitation in Africa.
It's surprising how different people interpret post-1980 decline of women in computer science differently. As the article suggests, introduction of personal computer is one of the best candidate. My interpretation is that this data supports "interest, not ability" thesis of Damore, and personal computer amplified pre-existing interest difference.
> When I stay at an Airbnb I'd like to know that my host isn't a KKK member. I'm sure most of Airbnb's customer's feel this way.

I've got some bad news then: you don't know that. Unless the host has swastikas on their forehead or explicit tells people then neither Airbnb or it's customers know that. Every single time you book there is a chance you'll be staying in the home of a KKK member.

But as shown by recent hot topics, most people prefer to be blissfully unaware.
Clicked on this link expecting to see an expose on police-state expansion of x-ray usage into subways.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/the-nyp...

Glad to see this awesome subway-station depiction instead.
The only way I found to actually get 1080p for all content on Netflix on a PC was to use the Windows 10 Netflix app. In any browser, some of the content would be 720p or 480p otherwise. Edge gave 1080p sometimes, but Firefox and Chrome maxed out at 720p in all cases where I looked at it (Ctrl+alt+shift+D to see the actual resolution).
AFAIK drafts are already viewable (if this is what you meant?), ex: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/climate/docum...

With the public draft already released, I think it would be especially surprising if the administration tried to impose non-trivial changes to the document.
Thanks for the tip, it looks really interesting.
I really enjoyed reading the The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about the state of mind of the population during Stalin leadership. He relates the story of a conference of the party where nobody in the room dared to be the last one to stop applauding in honor of Stalin.

After a while everybody started to realize how stupid the situation was, yet they couldn't stop clapping because they all knew that this would be a death sentence for the first one to do so.
My opinion after years of work is quite simple. I am disappointed by the way software is developed and by the people who contribute to it (leaders managers and anyone involved). When I was a teenager and I was eager to learn computer science and one day to work for a "cool" company doing good stuff I didn't focus on the "human" side of it. Big mistake. I should have already known that working with computers doesn't actually mean working with computers only. It involves 70% of human interactions and somewhat 30% of development. Which would be fine, if teams were always on the same wave. However group dynamics play an essential role here. Then there is the thing about the company's structure. Some are more or less hierarchical. However not everyone allows you to implement some ideas, as they don't fit the business. Then there are people who are simply not capable of managing, and I have to say that a lot boils down to this, not because it's easy to blame the management when you are at a bottom layer, but because it's difficult to be a good one - a manager.

Lying, witholding information, lack of communication, faking the cool manager just to show the atmosphere is open etc., how many should I still count?

So, the role of sw dev has to deal not only with the fact that it's not anymore about writing algorithms/data structure/rewriting the OS from scratch (which are super cool things to do), but ... also to deal with some incompetent people who under normal circumstances would not do certain things, but in the real world they are pushed from all sides and therefore behave quite bad. This is the reality I have seen so far, just because people don't take their own role seriously, tend to delegate as much as they can, etc. A lot like politics where nobody is really to blame, which creates a lot of frustration and people change "flags" quickly.
I'm not seeing the bit about where he says he'd understand about the people punching him in the face? In fact, he's saying that he wouldn't assign people to work with him for fear of that - which I would take to mean he disagrees with the action.
N.B. This was from 2015 and there's a previous HN item [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10787812
Nice work! I just ordered both physical copy and ebook from Manning.
I never heard of deepstream. But now I hate if for spamming the product camouflaged as opinion. Both on the medium article and here.
We have screen walls (~2 meters) around teams of 2-4 people. I think 2-4 people is a decent compromise, you get friction-less cooperation with the people you work with but you don't get to overhear 20 different conversations about what someone did on their weekend.

I am still bothered by other people's conversations across the screen-walls though, and I prefer to not listen to music all day.

Our CEO is sympathetic to the issue with open offices and maybe if we move to another place it will have a different layout, but converting an open office to separate rooms is not that easy. Does anyone have any suggestions when management would actually accept taking measures to avoid the negatives of open office plans?

Are there 4m high screen walls, with doors..?
Now that there'e even a book about Nim, what kind of production-level code do people write with it ? As a Python lover, Nim looks very nice on the surface...
May piracy burn them into their senses
I'm not sure, I see there are a lot of people who would pick the file sharing side over copyright enforcement according to their moral compass. The piracy is theft argument does not really fly (like the adblocking is theft) despite suits can threaten people over it.

From the producers pov fencing off is inherently harmful to their garden's brand/reach/discoverability battling for consumer attention.
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Technically you can convert to a tail-call form (such as CPS) but regardless, you can't get away with consuming O(d) space where d is the depth of the tree.
Please read the first article I linked. It's written by an employment lawyer! "Hostile work environment" is not a mantra, it has a legal definition that our justice system has been workshopping for decades. Please consider that this is actually a complicated area that many smart people have been arguing about and refining for years and years. The famous "fire in a theatre" example shows that there are limits to free speech, maybe this too isn't speech worth defending.
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> First of all, isn't failing the placement test prima facie evidence that you need remedial courses?

No. An anecdote:

In my tenth grade science class, they had a quiz where you have to memorize the name, atomic number, and atomic size of the first 20 elements of the periodic table. You then fill in the blanks on a table with each of these fields in the columns, and some elements in the rows. I passed this test.

In the first week of my eleventh grade chemistry class, we were presented with the same quiz. I knew I had previously passed this test, so I didn't study for it -- and got an F (~40%, IIRC). My Chemistry teacher -- concerned about my poor performance on this "placement pre-test", asked if I was sure I wanted to take his course. I replied yes, and went on to be the second or third highest mark in the class (an A).

(Of course, then I went into Software Engineering in University, and the lack of labs in our Chemistry courses completely ruined my passion for the subject.)
Honestly we don't need this kind of drivel right now, either. The discussion we should have been having this whole time is way more complex than you're making it, and you appear to be oversimplifying on purpose to make a political point. If you are, kindly stop.
As I mentioned earlier, for the company I was part of, that was an explicit goal, and then I watched them hire a less talented woman over a more talented man a couple times. My impression is that this is exactly what diversity initiatives are designed to do.
I think as you do on this matter.

I wish I knew how to get in touch with you.

Meanwhile, there’s always the Society for Italic Handwriting, to which I belong: italic-handwriting.org

Kate Gladstone
CEO, HandwritingThatWorks.com
DIRECTOR, the World Handwriting Contest
handwritingrepair@gmail.com
Interesting info about the Propaganda

Game theory is more advanced than the prisioner's dillema, but unfortunately that's what's discussed in 99.99% of examples. And yes, it is a toy example.
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There are some challenges, especially in written communication, and especially when it involves large audiences. Many times there's no comprehension, yet communication happens anyway. That's when we say people are "talking past one another"

For instance, you said "I would want a teensy bit more nuance before we decide to stake people out as corrupt."

But I never said that. I said it was a vile and corrupt system. I also explicitly said that I had faith in people. I believe if they consider these systems (that I believe they created in good faith) they would realize that they are hurting mankind, not helping it.

I also believe there is a difference between "wanting to be right" and "wanting to have a difficult conversation" I have no desire to be right. Like everybody else, I believe I am in the right. But one person or group of people wanting to be proven right is not what this is about.

Jacques and I probably disagree on this particular Google issue. I don't know. I am a right-leaning libertarian and, I think, Jacques leans left. But I'm okay no matter how this shakes out. The reason I'm speaking out is that there is a innate conflict between efficiency, usefulness, and attractiveness of the public square and tolerance of dissent.

Mankind solved this problem and it gave us all of the technological miracles we see today. But now the concept of "public square" is primarily being owned by multinational corporations or governments with no knowledge or desire to hear or apply those lessons from our past. They just want a more attractive and useful public square, not one that encourages and tolerates difficult conversations.

The irony here is that this one conflict is driving what many perceive to be the greatest technological danger to the species.

The system we have created in response to this conflict made sense at the time. But it was short-sighted. By trying to compartmentalize troublesome people and conversations, oddly enough, it is contributing to a vicious cycle where the net swings wildly one way or the other. It is a vile and corrupt system. I continue to believe the people who created it are not.
I think you missed the point of that one. He doesn't want to hurt other people, but realizes he won't know all the ways he could do so accidentally.

So, in the interest of not hurting people, if he is unsure whether something will or not, he'll defer to smarter people about what's appropriate behavior.

If you don't care whether what you say hurts others, you need do nothing, need defer to no one any time, ever.
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He said "being a nerdy male might not make me “privileged”—that it might even have put me into one of society’s least privileged classes".
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2091#comment-326664
I TAed at a Cal State and worked in the math tutoring center. If the tests were like other standardized tests I encountered there, they probably were not a very good measurement of anything. And the remedial courses, best I could tell, did not help.

Some people seem to be interpreting this as lowering the bar. That position supposed that these tests are more accurate measurements than grades and SAT scores. I believe you are putting way too much faith in these tests. Also, the plan of "stretch" courses seems like a better one - motivation is a large factor in performance, and students will be more motivated in classes that count towards their degree, and don't tell them they preemptively failed.

K-12 education needs lots of improvement. But the Cal State system can't affect that. This is a change they can make, and it seems like it will help bring the kids who need it up to speed faster.
> He wrote about a subject he knows little about, didn't seriously research, and one that he actually doesn't seem too interested in studying at all

He has a Master's Degree in Systems Biology from Harvard. How do you reconcile that?
Record cleaning machines have existed for a long time (dare I say as long as records have existed?). The best kind use vacuum and a surfactant to lift and remove dirt and grime. The cheapest manual ones just use brushes and liquid.
Looks to me from image 3 at the bottom of the page that the whole unit unthreads: http://www.mahle-powertrain.com/en/experience/mahle-jet-igni...
What is the tangible benefit of providing a Qt build? Do you expect them to support both a GTK+ and Qt backend?
The Khan Academy is a great resource for those students. Ideally we would fix the system, but in the meantime we can point them to how they can use software to catch up with (and eventually surpass) their peers.

Fixing high schools for real would require us to get engaged with politics -- that's at least three more years of hard work ahead of us.
yeah, but he was very clearly casting the whole thing as an "emperor's new clothes" situation with the implication that the unpopular opinions were self-evidently true but unmentionable.
I’ve never seen evidence that cursive has more value, in that regard, than any of the other forms of our handwriting. Studies I seen cited on the matter — when I looked up th3 originak studies, not merely the second- and third- and fourth-hand reportage in the news and social media — turned ou5 to support cursive over any of the other ways we write by hand.
Lol. I opened a random src-file and started to wonder wtf this is.

Source: https://github.com/amark/gun/blob/master/src/state.js
That's a great point. It's certainly possible to design a bad placement test.
Disney probably took that into account, and decided that the demographic buying DisneyOnDemand (or whatever they call this) isn't going to overlap much with the demographic visiting yohoho.warez.se
What does this tool do that others haven't already done?

* https://tools.pingdom.com/

* https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

* https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/s...

* https://observatory.mozilla.org/

* https://securityheaders.io/

* https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly

I'm sure there are a lot of others...
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may be galaxy on itself is a living creature, and we are just like neurons in it. or cells.
What's the connection between the AlphaBay takedown and Bitcoin mixers? According to the complaint, suspected AlphaBay co-founder Alexandre Cazes allegedly "included his personal email address in one of the site's welcome messages".[0] That could be parallel construction, I admit. But still, why conclude anything about mixers?

0) https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xa7mz/europol-he...
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I don't think you need something as serious as an oppressive regime to get into this state. It sounds like an instance of the Abilene paradox - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox
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Declaring that some human beings are not “full humans” is a very bad idea.
A problem with this kind of analysis of the situation is that everyone thinks they're in the "subtle and qualified" camp.
Thank you for writing this.
If you do open office plans then everyone should do it including the executives
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So the answer to the question: Could you quote exactly the line where he 'attempted to do the same with women who work at Google'?

is, "no, I cannot quote that, because I just made it up."

> It's implicit in the thesis.

You lie.

> It's there in the very first fucking line if you use [0] source.

No, it's not. You have no rebuttal, and you're just making things up. You're wrong, and you're attempting to conceal it with lies.
The two biggest problems (Europe has) with the integration of Muslims in our society are our societies prejudice and the forming of parallel society by the immigrants, leaving them isolated from the greater society they are supposed to join.

How do you address this issue? After all, this app could be seen as reinforcement of the stereotype that Muslims do not want to mix with non-Muslims.

And, to be honest, having "Islamic, sect, and ethnicity filters" - this sounds just wrong to me. Do other dating apps have ethnicity filters, too?
You are the gift that keeps giving huh. More strawmen.

Those are not arguments they are facts you can educate yourself about them which is obviously not in your interest.

Furthermore I would suggest you learn the language of the country you live in. None of those quotes mean what you claim they mean.
It is neither sarcastic nor ignorant. Open your mind to the possibility of differing viewpoints.
His main point was that MORE of them were biologically UNINTERESTED in it, not that MOST of them were UNSUITED.

And to your point... yes?

If someone said a profession mostly working outside in the desert has less gingers in it because most of them are biologically unsuited for prolonged sun exposure, would you really take offense?

This isn't phrenology we're discussing here. If you're discussing real, tangible biological differences backed while proper scientific research, while taking care to treat people as individuals and avoid generalizing based on the distribution mean, then what's actually the problem here?
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who increasingly been thinking of doing something in Africa
> Maybe when I am 60, 70 or 80 the film industry will get their shi* together and finally agree on a solution that has long been found in the music business.

Except that the music business continues to shrink each year.

The only reason there was a slight pause in this is because suddenly vinyl sales, of all things, took off.

Somehow I don't think you are going to find many takers in the video industry for following any music model.
That reason isn't consistent with popular ideology. If it was valid, you could also make the same argument for AirBNB banning gays and say "well, gays can make their own GayBNB if they want. Let the market decide!" No. That wouldn't be fair for gays to be sidelined to the necessarily inferior minority service. Most customers won't use the GayBNB as a political gesture. Just as most Uber users didn't really switch to Lyft when they were angry at Uber because, well, they kind of liked the cheap and available rides.
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I'd be wary of saying the psychologists (especially the EvoPsych dude) are "scientists in the field" because he was quoting biology and they are 100% not biologists. Dr Soh is really the only one qualified to comment here. Also the other three are ... privileged white dudes with track records of being anti-SJW/"snowflake", etc.
As I said, I also believe it's much more common. I meant "odd" in the sense that it might lead to unintuitive situations if we only consider the preferences of the people involved. For instance, there might be situations where not a single person in the room might be in favor of the status quo, but not a single one of them dares to say it either, all out of fear that one of the others might be.

Of course, it isn't "odd" if we also consider the incentives involved.
If we're throwing around theories without evidence, what do you think about the fact that nerd culture, exemplified by movies from the 80s like Revenge of the Nerds, welcomes and glorifies young men who don't know how to talk to women? If women are less interested in computers than men, could it not be because we have created a culture that is unappealing to them?
they also dont have a car industry so nothing to loose
And then you start learning about the different distribution of ownership and access to personal computers among boys and girls, and it looks like the personal computer actually introduced the interest difference. The book Unlocking The Clubhouse has a bunch of discussion on this topic, if you're curious.
Please read your own postulate. Why is the mans physical abilities important?
If you're working for a much-desired company rather than building crusty wordpressers then that "home 10 min bike away from the office" is going to cost you more than half your salary
> Your own link talks about how the drink was boycotted across campuses.

Didn't change much.

> Doesn't justify anything of course but Coca-Cola wasn't the only company doing it

That's my point, though. Plenty of companies have engaged in abhorrent acts, with little meaningful consequences to them. The market is not good at solving these types of problems.