skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the interview with the author linked in comments above, he published it internally a month ago. The fact that it only got linked and went viral weeks later would indicate it was originally limited.
Yeah, that's what I was getting at.

I want to work on what's most important for the business and our users. Having engineers pick whatever they find fun to work on sounds broken, but I'm also interested in if and how that can be made to work.
Suppose I think my female colleagues can't be trusted to review and respond to my work, because their explanation for demographic imbalances among engineers is that white heterosexual men are racist, sexist, and homophobic. How can I trust someone who suspects me of being every kind of bigot will treat me fairly?
> I'm always tempted to downvote people who edit their comments, complaining about downvotes or demanding explanations.

Normally that happens because complaining about downvotes is in the guidelines. "Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." Personally I don't feel the need to police it, but the guidelines are clear.

> * They will almost certainly downvote this comment

Also in the guidelines: "Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or proclaim that you expect to get downvoted." You may get downvoted for ignoring the guidelines, rather than because of the negativity or speaking to culture.

> Gamification of conversation can be harmful to your mental well-being.

This is an interesting thought! I'd tend to agree, though I just stared to wonder if getting myself into arguments on Internet forums are the primary factor, and the gamification is secondary. Either way, my first thought is why participate in the gaming part if it's bad? I've never downvoted on HN yet, in part because getting downvotes makes me feel bad, so I don't like to inflict that on others. In part because they're unnecessary, I can upvote the things I like to make them bubble up, and I can use the [-] button to ignore threads I don't like. Anyway, "try not to troll" I agree with wholeheartedly, that's the main thing I learned during the period that I didn't have downvote privilege, and I imagine that was the intent.
- Steamed broccoli

- Chili

- Pot roast

- Carnitas

- Chicken stock

- Creme fraiche

- Whole chicken (from frozen)

- Hard boiled eggs

- Mussels

- Ribs

- Rice

- Pulled pork

- Butter chicken

Almost anything that doesn't require dry heat (baking) or a very high heat (steak) can be done in the Instant Pot.
Yeah, you all are being ridiculous. No need for tens of millions of motor cycles. Just get one and pass it around. The whole point here is that the owner won't be spending decades putting around the country!!!!!!
> But he feels the current solutions aren't working and are, in fact, causing bigger problems. They might also be illegal. That seems like a good reason to pause for a moment and re-evaluate if the current strategy is a good one.

In fact, he goes farther. He says this "Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, and bad for business." Where is the science to back that up?
So, what is your point? The financial system is actually going to collapse, and that's not a problem? Or the vulnerabilities aren't actually devastating, just bad? Or what?
There is a mistake in the wording of a sentence (the table is fine):

"If they both confess, then the payoff matrix says that the outcome is (4,4)."

Is actually talking about the scenario where neither Rob nor Ben confess.
When the corporation in question controls a major part of the spaces that have replaced the institution of the public square, so central to the functioning of a republic, their political actions deserve scrutiny. If they claim to be open to diverse opinions, yet behave in a manner that suggests otherwise, then citizens need to start paying attention.
Netflix and Prime effectively anticipated this by commissioning and owning in-house content.

If the whole industry turns into balkanized streaming sites that each only offer their own stuff, then the result will be that insufficiently popular studios will go bankrupt rather than being low level viable as B-list content on someone else's site.
How do they view the chinese?
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Machine Learning in Python
"The blockchain is an undeniably ingenious invention – the brainchild of a person or group of people known by the pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto."

It isn't even definitively known who invented blockchain, it is behind the pyramid scheme known as bitcoin and no, no way should that ever be used in voting system computers.
Your git history is very important for working out what the rest of your team did, when they did it, and why. Having a clean and linear history, preferably with informative commit messages and maybe even references to bugs or features, lets you understand what was going on faster and with fewer mistakes and false starts.

Why would you want to understand what was going on? Maybe for fixing a bug, maybe for working out why a seemingly useless change was necessary, maybe to understand the context of a code review building on previously merged branches, or maybe just because you need to catch up on what happened while you were gone.

If that's not important to you, then don't bother, but it can be hard to understand what you're missing until you've tried both ways.
First and foremost, use paper ballots. Before anything else. The paper ballots are the System of Record. If ever in doubt about downstream results, paper ballots can be hand-counted. (Additionally, use paper voter rolls. Mark registered voters when they vote, and track any same-day registrations on paper. The exact number of ballots cast can be extracted from the voter rolls.)

Second, never allow paper ballots to be handled by just one person, or by only members of one party - whether blank or used. Require that members of at least two political parties be present any time the ballots are physically touched.

Third, if using machines to read the ballots (ScanTron, etc), conduct spot counts of random machines, to make sure the machine results match the paper ballots. Conduct spot counts of entire polling stations randomly to make sure result totals match voter roll totals. Although this isn't 100% certain, it doesn't take a lot of spot checks to detect any sort of large-scale fraud effort.

Do these things, and it's exceedingly difficult to do statistically meaningful vote fraud, because we have a high degree of trust in the paper ballots and their surrounding process. From there, you can use automatic ballot reading and tallying to get fast results - the vote counting/tallying automation is derived data, not the System of Record.
Interrupting someone at their desk might take 20 seconds of your time, but it is easily a 10-minute interruption of their work.
Why is the FBI so interested in Paul Manafort?
> If they talk about how great it was to do their laundry during work hours, thumbs down.

That really just means they're a butts-in-seats company that doesn't have an office. Take this from a job listing of theirs[1]

> we don't care if you work at night, on weekends, in your pajamas, after class, in another timezone, etc. We do ask that you are available by Skype during regular 9-5 CST work hours

That's great if you can flex your work time, but if you have to always be available, that means you are either working or thinking about work almost all the time. This makes work even more stressful, unless you only work during the proper business hours.

On another note, the laundry thing is just ridiculous. That's a 5 minute task. People in an office environment burn 10 minutes at a time playing ping pong, foosball, or any number of time wasters.

[1]: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/building-better...
Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331” [2013]
So does another Ethereum hard fork mean we have:

ETC - ethereum classic, the 1st pre-hard fork coin

ETH - ethereum as it is now

ET2 - the post 2nd hard fork version of ETH?
Probably, vaccines were very expensive when first produced, as were anti-biotics.

Given we are potentially entering the age of unlimited power (i.e. via solar/battery tech), we should be able to grow ever more food. Combined with global population growth declining we will see basic quality of life becoming almost gauranteed universally. Then we'll have more and more people + AI working on advancing tech (as they don't have to work on manual things) so production costs should drop dramatically.
You'll love Apple's smart new "Touch Space Bar", which lets you continuously adjust the width, style and semantics of Unicode spaces from zero width, hair thin, various EM&ENs, to obesely fat, pregnant pause, breaking, non-breaking, numeric, oghamic, figure, ideographic, word, punctuation, visible, ␠ symbols, mathematical, poetic, scientific, pseudo-scientific, streaming, auto-repeat, lossless and lossy compression, deep, personal, safe, digital rights management, Mongolian vowel separators [1], etc, simply by swiping, tapping, crossing and snapping your fingers, while watching the mesmerizing colorful blinking graphical feedback provided by applications supporting the NSTouchSpaceBar API.

Microsoft also has a dog in the space race: see their "Space Characters Design Standards". [2]

[1] https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/spaces.html

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/fdsspec/spac...
> Evolutionary biology explains the way things are. Diversity measures combats that with the goal of getting us to the way things should be

Who specifically told you how things should be? I fear I am witnessing the birth of a new religion here and I'm not done recovering from the teachings of the imams I grew up with...
The difference between a procedure and function is so nuanced, in the 80s maybe it meant something, today it would just come across as a pointless trivia question.
Source for the $43 claim? I thought it was closer to $6 a month.
From the executive order:

Students whose skills assessments indicate academic support will be needed for successful completion of general education written communication or mathematics/ quantitative reasoning courses shall enroll in appropriate college-level, baccalaureate credit-bearing courses that strengthen skills development to facilitate achieving the appropriate general education student learning outcomes. Supportive course models may include, among others, co-requisite approaches, supplemental instruction, or "stretch" formats that extend a course beyond one academic term. In these approaches, instructional content considered pre-baccalaureate may carry a maximum of one unit and shall be offered concurrently with a college-level, baccalaureate credit-bearing course.

Taken at face value, this says that the academic burden will be increased for the weakest students. Excuse me for being skeptical (that this will work or that this is how it will actually be done; take your pick.)
It was bullying, sexist, racist, trolling back then too.
Now if you don't come up 5 times in a row with optimal solution to problems like how many possibilities there are for N companies to make mergers until only one company is left without caring about the order using dynamic programming and complicated combinatorics at each step, you won't be hired to write those boring JavaScript apps...
I wasn't disrespecting her work. In this discussion, though, her writing on the hard science being referenced is extremely valuable. Her giving a conclusive statement on the intent of the original author muddies the pool a little bit.

I keep hearing "well the scientists say so!", but it's simply not enough. For instance, I am enamoured with the work of physicists and their unique ability to explain the beauty of the "clockwork of the universe", so to speak. Outside of my personal sphere, I wouldn't consult a PhD Physics for advice on breaking up a fight between friends, necessarily.

Also, I didn't attack anyone here so please leave the ad hominem jabs at home.

edit: typo
My definition of the free market is the absence of coercion (ie all actors are free), not whether people should be allowed or not to sign contracts you think may distort it which seems pretty subjective. I think making people not free to sign no-poaching contracts they willingly want to would be the distortion here, the no-poaching agreements may or may not have a negative effect overall but that is not a distortion of the free market. The only characteristic of the free market is that it is free, not that it is inefficient or not. The theory is that free markets tend to be more efficient, but they are not always so.
I'd love to see this one.
Well, did you read it? He lists the following:

"* Programs, mentoring, and classes only for people with a certain gender or race [5]

* A high priority queue and special treatment for “diversity” candidates

* Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate

* Reconsidering any set of people if it’s not “diverse” enough, but not showing that same scrutiny in the reverse direction (clear confirmation bias)

* Setting org level OKRs for increased representation which can incentivize illegal discrimination [6]

These practices are based on false assumptions generated by our biases and can actually increase race and gender tensions. We’re told by senior leadership that what we’re doing is both the morally and economically correct thing to do, but without evidence this is just veiled left ideology [7] that can irreparably harm Google."

There are some hyperlinks that are presumably citations but they go to internal links so we don't know what they say.

So that's why he thinks that.
>For other systems, a disruption is just inconvenient for most people. Like if I can't use my credit card for a day, I don't care

Would there not be far more immediate and direct inconvenience if no one could use their credit cards for a day, than if they couldn't vote for a day? (Assuming the following day both systems were back up and running) What is so inconvenient about have to wait an extra day to cast a vote on who your senator will be for the coming years versus being able to buy food or medicine?
Thinking that the natural state of affairs is 50% of both genders [1] in everything is exactly the assumption that Scott shows to be unsupported by data. And just to be sure: unsupported does not mean 'false'. The 'opposite' assumption is not supported either.

If there was no sexism, no racism, no *ism, no history and no cultural predisposition towards anything whatsoever, it could still be that only 30% of all leaders would be women, simply because women would be found to be less biologically predisposed to wanting to be the leader and leadership would go to the best suited person that wants to do the job.

Some women argue that in that situation 70% of all leaders would be women, because everyone would recognize them as better leaders and would ask them to lead. I recognize and acknowledge that as a fully valid option. That could also be. The point is that we simply do not know.

[1] 'all identities in ratio of their self-identification'
That's funny because if you look at my recent past comments, one is a review on Sapiens. It's a very preachy low-citation work whose interesting parts are the early chapters, but which you would already know the content of if you had taken a college anthropology class.

To address your argument, there is no reason to emulate our pre-historical past, if we even could.
> A shrinking population can't hope to support the older generation.

Yes it can, it's just a matter of productivity.
Hammock Driven Development: Things you know and things you don't
This is a very interesting voice in the discussion:

> The bigger mistake in Damore’s memo is one I see frequently: Assuming that job skills and performance can be deduced from differences among demographic groups. This just isn’t so. I believe for example if it wasn’t for biases and unequal opportunities, then the higher ranks in science and politics would be dominated by women. Hence, aiming at a 50-50 representation gives men an unfair advantage. I challenge you to provide any evidence to the contrary.
> with all the advancement in health care

Some experts fear we might loose (some) antibiotics in the coming years. If that's going to happen then I am sure life expectancy will go down massively.
I was really glad to see this article specifically point out that proof-of-work schemes that allow for "specialized ASICs" to be designed to accelerate them--which in the high-level concept of proof-of-work is usually seen as a problem (as it creates an elite class of invested and thereby slightly more centralized miners instead of a diverse population of decentralized users)--has a game theory benefit that is related to proof-of-stake (as it incentivizes people to think past short term gains that can be made by cheating the system, leading to a form of loyalty to the one currency and even a fear of escalating tactics); this is something I (and I am sure many others) had noticed while analyzing the Bitcoin Cash debacle, but it has never really been well stated.
> You contract is "employment law" + "your contract"

I don't live in the US so these laws do not apply to me, I was talking about free market principles in general.
The Right is not fighting for the rights of corporations. They believe that a free society best protects the rights of the little guy
I dunno. It kind of looks like they just unified everyone against a new style fascist?
Good point. Something that annoys me quite alot tbh.
>Please define what's Regressive about plain facts...

I think they are saying that descriptive scientific observations have limited utility as prescriptive devices if we are to make progress because descriptions are based on how things have been rather than how things could be (or even could have been).

Especially in soft sciences, the /cause/ of what is described can be hard to reliably tease out. To assume the same cause is an unchangeable aspect of the human condition and that cause, even if true, will only ever lead to one end-state is often a mistake.
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That was the dream a long time ago, mainly in the 1950s-1970s. You'd work hard in school and hope for a good job at a good company like IBM or Ford, then you'd be the best company man possible to cling to that job and rise as high in the ranks as possible, then retire with a substantial % of your salary paid out in pension and generous benefits until you died.

It was real, but mostly only for the high born, the nepotistic, people in the "correct" church, and the backstabby. And of course white males only, hahah that almost goes without saying. It wasn't quite as amazing as people thought, but those who benefited sure did enjoy it.
Yes I concur.
I thought about admitting that i'm only referencing the author's blog posts was a bit "narrow", but it's also probably the best source for authoritative information on the subject. Literally "from the horses mouth".

There are the arxiv papers and some other reports (that all tend to link back to either the blog or arxiv) as well. Like you, I don't have a strong physics background, so find the published papers a challenging read.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.03449v1.pdf
The search for truth is fundamentally epistemological. There is a fascinating dive into just what science is, when it began, etc.

One might disagree with his language, but this post is remarkably insightful to begin such a dive:

http://fucktheory.tumblr.com/post/57633497486/in-which-steve...
>Actually, clearly the driver DOES benefit, if Uber is losing $9,000 per car.

The drivers that exit the lease early benefit in that they are able to without huge penalty. They didn't net much out of the whole relationship though. How much do they make a day after subtracting $17/day just for the vehicle, plus whatever fuel costs are, self employment tax, commercial insurance, etc?

For drivers that keep the car for a long time, the subprime terms eat into an already paltry income. That was the portion of drivers I meant weren't benefiting.
Good overview and I agree with most of it, but I think the power of the grim trigger is overrated here. In the monarchy metaphor, the threat of defection is death. In the crypto example, it's crypto collapsing. As long as the defectors can cash out to fiat before the collapse they are better for it.

This is roughly the dynamic that seems to have played out with BCH. Every exchange would be better off (according to the grim trigger argument) if Bitcoin never forked, but individually they can profit from being a place to exchange BCH. The fewer exchanges "defect", the more profitable it is to defect. So BCH is now #4 by market cap.
Would you be spending this much time and effort defending someone who used company services and company time to write about while male hegemony in the US and at Google and how it results in lower performing people being hired and promoted without proper regard to merit or capability?

Becuase I wouldn't.
Agreed but I feel like this is the case for any language.
are these maps using county boundaries? i would prefer something like kernel density or normalizing for county population or something... but still very cool. mississippi louisiana alabama georgia seem to be one pole, and everywhere else the other.
Seems like a lot of the controversy around these types of discussions comes from the consequences of bayesian inference.

If you know that men and women differ in a distributional sense with respect to some trait, that gives you a prior to work off-of when you meet a new individual. This is rational from bayes theorem, so simply saying "you should treat everyone as an individual" is not nuanced enough.

However, as you acquire more information about a particular individual (such as passing a difficult google interview, or knowing that they've succeeded in a reputable CS curriculum), this should quickly "swamp" the prior, causing it to contribute very little to the final inference.

The problem is the humans are not great at adjusting like this: we're not perfect at applying bayes theorem in our heads. We tend to overstate the influence of various priors when there are stronger signals at hand. Nevertheless, incorporating prior distributional information is NOT irrational, but generally overdone.

Therefore, it seems like the approach of some is to shout down information that would suggest biological distributional differences, to try guarantee that people don't overuse prior information.
Read the memo, James made this distinction numerous times.
What a tangled web we weave
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I agree with your sentiments, but to play devil's advocate grabbing music from youtube protects you from DMCA notices from your ISP, is always available (no having to wait for seeds/peers on more obscure music), and is much safer (for an average person) where content on public trackers has some risk of containing malware/virus/etc.
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And many would not? Do people who don't like religious institutions have an obligation to be more respectful than the average person or else their arguments are invalid?
I agree, I'm merely pointing out that suftware engineers who aren't focused enough on their immediate duties and instead stir up culture wars by writing manifestos would be fired by most companies not just google
This is precisely what I think about whenever the gigafactory is mentioned or wind energy is being discussed.

People want to be believe so badly we can reach sustainability and keep consuming more and more.
Germans have debit cards, which are also contactless. I never had to enter a pin when doing contactless.