skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This used to happen to me as well. Every new place I started, at the beginning it was fine, but after while I started to feel uncomfortable with some of the people and feel like not belonging to the group anymore.

What fixed it for me:

- Changing jobs also getting a higher salary / more to say over other people.

- Challenging myself to just do the things I fear. Just walk through that section, just do it, overcome it. No need to talk. Just walk there, look out of the window if there is one there with your coffee in your hand. Relax.

- Not putting too much energy into talking to people if not needed. Better to talk less than too much.

- Socializing more outside of my job to become more certain of myself. No need to go to disco clubs or bars, even going to hackatons and meeting new people will help.

- Learn to represent myself better and being aware of my looks (ask friends or family to help).

- Not taking things too personally.
I used to regularly see advice shared around that if you got an SSL warning in Chrome when trying to visit Facebook, to just type "DANGER" in the keyboard, and everything would work again. I believe Google changed the workaround after a while because it was never intended to be used as a way for people to dismiss critical warnings without any real understanding of the risks.
I mean, you can't escape politics on Instagram if you're actively searching & subscribing to the topic. I think the point is, even if you just follow close friends on Facebook, your news feed is almost still guaranteed to have daily political posts/memes/ads. The lack of ability to post links & easily repost/share on Instagram deters those types of groups from posting clickbait in the hopes to drive people to their ad-heavy pages. Instagram is a refreshing break from it in that regard.
If the countries themselves were not communist dictatorships, at least the architects that led the efforts were influenced by communist and authoritarian ideologies.

At least in Brazil, the biggest name in Brutalism, Oscar Niemeyer, who brought us atrocities such as the Metropolitan Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro [1] and the whole shitstorm called Brasilia, has always been an avid communist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro_Cathedral#/medi...
I'm a woman. I didn't know what I wanted to do when I went to school so I chose CS on a whim. My life did not live and breathe code and I'm not someone who "appears" to be a programmer.

However I too am self motivated and have built a successful tech business simply because I like getting good at the things I do. I absolutely love it now but I was pretty confused in college.

Not sure if this answers any part of your question. I certainly have no problem with frat culture but I in the past I enjoyed work environments that were not too focused on any particular culture.
To be fair, the Internet blindsided the entire consumer computer industry right about 1995 or so.

Apple's love for it's highly limited and slow AppleTalk protocol didn't do it any favors either.
Fundamental problem : Electricity is not sufficiently costly to induce people to figure out how to consume less.
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They've done their best to abide by SEC guidelines here - they've only sold to accredited investors by US standards and placed a lot of KYC/AML restrictions on it.

Now, I'm not sure if that'll be enough or if they'll be held responsible for the secondary markets which will surely pop up once it's released.
I liked most of the podcast except for this specific part, I did think the interviewer had a point, he was asking if there's any exciting consumer use case.

I think as the inventor of IPFS he would have thought a lot about these things so he should at least have a few interesting consumer use case but he gave 0. I'm guessing because it's all illegal ideas. Instead he said it's more about B2b (or something like that) and about people making money from sharing their drive.

Just to be clear I still think IPFS is awesome. Just like how i think BitTorrent is awesome. They will have the same problem if the leader doesn't have a clear picture of how it can be used. Most successful platforms started out NOT as a platform but as a single application and then expanded. He's obviously not trying to build an application but an equivalent of the Internet itself, but then we have the problem of how are you going to make money and how are you going to get consumers excited? And this is something they do need to have an answer to.
Being generous, there is state sharing between cells via (1) the filesystem and shared memory (e.g., /dev/shm), and (2) the C code in cells could link in some common code. Since C starts up quickly, this could still be pretty useful.
Not quite food, but we found a bottle of Bailey's in my grandmother's basement that was maybe 20-30 years old. It had turned into Bailey's cheese.
What exactly is a Robot?
Unfortunately, I've had the misfortune of working with horrendous programmers who write functions that are hundreds of lines long, duplicated all over the place, and are a pain to understand and maintain.

As a maintanance programmer I had that misfortune very often. But I don't believe it's really so relevant to the article.

Having short-functions and DRYness is indeed prone to abuse, but it still works as a general guideline.

It doesn't, it's more of a heuristic and, as such, a way of detecting that you might be doing it wrong, not a sound rule to apply.

The problem is exactly that one: people that use "write short functions" as something that you must do. I've suffered such a fool as a boss and it was really sad. The man believed that two lines function (and the calling spagetti that followed) were a superior system to ten lines functions that accomplished a definite goal.

In general the problem is people that use general rules without understanding them.
But Bitcoin is an asset as well. And savers don't generally like buying assets, especially not if they're very (very, very) volatile. The average joe could've bought stocks, in 2009, yet mostly didn't. And for those that didn't, then they probably wouldn't have bought Bitcoin either.
> there are people commenting who say they have visited the site for a decade and got bored of it

I think that people's memories are flawed enough that the "it used to be so great" arguments are all pretty suspect. I tend to think that it's more like "I used to not be familiar enough to realize x" combined with "I feel like I've seen these arguments before". I have the same feelings about HN plenty of the time.
> Any principal can lead to bad results when taken to an extreme, or badly implemented. Thus leading to people declaring that-principal-considered-harmful, swinging the pendulum to the opposite extreme, and beginning the cycle all over again.

This summarizes perfectly the whole OOP vs FP debate.
Maybe it's early and I've not drank enough coffee yet, but what benefit would this provide? You'll be in effect doubling the DNS lookups needed to connect to a website adding latency to time to first byte, with seemingly zero benefit.
The nouveau drivers are so bad,might only be about nvidia or nvidia & ryzen combo on linux, i know for sure that with an antique AMD card i never had these problems.

On my 1800x and GTX 760(waiting for vega™) i got similar results, upgrading your kernel also makes you re-install the video driver.(or at least it did for me).

I'm not sure about why your w10 crashed, i never had problems on windows besides undervolting while also increasing the CPU freq.(Which was expected)
Is this a joke? Regardless whether the concept has any merit, at this stage of idea/startup we would normally be talking about seed level funding round so small sums of money to get a small team and build a product.

Almost 200 million is obscene as a seed funding. If this isn't the proof this is tullip mania then I don't know what is.
so it's yet another way for people to play pretend-stock-market but using a different model of wasting computational resources? That's about what I expect from cryptocoins at this point.
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So if I am personally bearish on the entire "alt-money" movement, how do I turn this into a potential profitable bet? Any tips on where I go to "short" coins?
It's still around:

https://livecode.com/

They used to have a really perplexing pricing model, but I think you can use it for home now mostly unrestricted.
> The euro/USD exchange rate has varied between roughly 1 and 1.6 over the past 10 years.

This low range variation is only possible because of government monetary intervention that doesn't exist on CryptoCurrency.
I and I'm sure others here would be delighted to hear those stories about the crap you found. Those are often the most interesting kinds of stories, fire away!
Again, you are inserting your own political prejudices. This is of course fine, but it is not Google to do. (Bourgeoisie is in fact a term that is broadly used in social scientific writing. While it is particularly associated with Marxism to refer to the class that owns the means of production, it is both more broadly used and arose prior to Marx). And to compare the analysis being made with flat-earthers is ridiculous. Google's new search algorithm had a direct and immediate impact on a broad range of left-wing and progressive websites. The VP more or less said what they were doing--combating "fake news," as part of a campaign supported by the state and the corporate media--and then the results came: a fall in search traffic to left-wing sites. The conclusion is fairly self-evident, in my view, but in any case it certainly is not unfounded.
Just this guy. And anyone else who barnstorms a country asking to be in a position of power. Asking for vote? Show tax returns, thanks.
I call shenanigans. Lambdas can easily lead to leaking call backs as your implementation.

Similarly, monadic style can leak if you are sloppy with it. Just see coffee in Haskel where the IO Monday has infected the entire codebase, and not just a boundary.
This isn't even a good faith argument. You're well aware that most people aren't eligible for medicaid.
scrutiny surely, but since they only accepted accredited investors, and likely under 100 of those, probably would not run afoul of regulations. though as someone in the DC cognoscneti told me once, any Fed prosecutor can make a career by going after a high profile target - win, lose or draw
It does not matter if 80% of engineers are men, it matters if 80% of engineers interviewing with your company are men.

The company can try to attract more women to interviews thus changing the 80%. Then you will hire more women, still selecting best people for the job. And it's not "hiring women intentionally" on my book.
Will my Windows 10 Workstation still give me ads for Minecraft and Candy Crush?
You know that BS is much, much more than a grid right?
Very much like. I want to say I recall somewhere seeing an interview or similar in which Pratchett mentioned fruitcake as an inspiration for his dwarf bread, but I can't find a cite for that, so may misremember.
Which is why I'm arguing that it's a shame Rodgers was...
man, the mainstream media is busy and desperate.
It was either that or "stamped".
Very true. When I see things like the contacts app reappear, I know it's time to go through the privacy settings because Microsoft invariably resets many of them.
Didn't add much to the discussion, unfortunately.

The post is just material copied from Hooked (which is a creepy book worth reading!), plus observations that have already been made (social media causes us to compare ourselves to everyone else's highlight reel), followed by a bunch of generic, currently popular fads/lifestyle advice (keto diet, exercise, meditate, stoicism).

A far simpler solution is available to all of us: stop using Instagram.
This basically boils down to 'bad code is bad'. DRY and short-functions are supposed to be guidelines, not rules, and when you find yourself violating them, you're supposed to question why. Sometimes there's a good reason for it, often not, and it will help newbies get to the point where they can answer these questions themselves.
Yeah you're right it is a possibility. Overfitting was definitely a problem in this project. I think just a larger dataset and maybe adding some regularizers would have helped.

Luckily I dont think I have too much compromising information in my dataset LOL
You don't. The todo app is a handy example because you have the CRUD operations and local state. It's meant to show you how to get to grips with a library so you can use it for a real project. The todo app itself is just an example.
Filecoin seems at the top end of the scale when it comes to following these regulations (from my laymans perspective), e.g. only selling to accredited investors. I guess attacking them would make it even clearer that all ICOs are a potential target, but there are going to be a lot of targets in clearer violation of the rules.
^ Exactly. If you don't make it user friendly, especially Windows users will track down a user-unfriendly way to do whatever they feel they need to do. Now you've got end users playing in your registry and group policy, to accomplish a thing that should've been doable with a dropdown select.
Same, but with a Spanish keyboard, and non-blank keys.

In fact Spanish keyboards are physically like UK keyboards, so slightly different from US keyboards, so the layout I've now gotten most used to is nonexistent.

Note the different shape of the Enter key, and the additional key on the bottom left:

https://d25rq8gxcq0p71.cloudfront.net/language-guide/758/es-...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/KB...
> But you're claiming that this historic context is the sole explanation for all observable difference.

I'm not claiming that, I don't know! And neither do any of us, at least presently. That is my point. We're effectively as far from falsifiability with my statement as yours. We don't know to what extent that systemic history exerts an effect, and to what extent it doesn't. Maybe given an equal history, women would be better! Or they'd still be worse.

> My claim is that it is _possible_ that biology explains the difference in observed chess performance between men and women.

Sure, it's possible. It's also possible that given an equal history where women were the advantaged gender, a women would be here arguing the same thing in the opposite direction.

We can argue a million things are possible, to what end? When it's all just speculation, the argument feels more like a philosophical exercise that challenges the fitness of one subgroup more-so than it an honest engagement of a meaty topic (fairly or unfairly). That's because it seems to normalize the idea of genetic mental weakness, even with acknowledging the lack of proof. And while it doesn't speak to any one individual, it can serve to create a perception that individuals from those groups are less capable as an a priori assumption. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be discussed, but it does make it challenging to do so, and people have their guard up for totally understandable and contextually-appropriate reasons.

> And people should not have their life ruined for trying to discuss this.

I agree with that.
>At one time, it was a social consensus that blacks and whites were segregated. At another time, perceived socialists were pushed out of the labor pool just because of their viewpoints on what a society should be. Social consensus is a terrible metric on whether or not something is right or wrong, and people who raise legitimate questions on the current social consensus(that only seems to reflect the cultures of the east and west coasts of America, btw) shouldn't be fired or forced out of the labor pool for discussing those norms in a polite, rational manner.

This. Society changes fast relative to a human lifetime. Creating a society where PCness becomes the target metric is an invitation to return to the practices of casting people out based on hearsay and rumors like was done in the McCarthy days.
Who dealt Rome the most damage?

Spartacus and the Slave Wars

Hannibal and Carthage

Bar Kohkba and the Judaic Wars?
The goal is, I think, to draw exactly that conclusion by highlighting the difference in how modern western civilization thinks about the role of civilians in war and the value of civilian life to the way ancient civilizations thought about it.
Maybe born the same, but looking at the people around me that sit down 14 hours a day and eat "modern food" our physique certainly is different to their great grandparents, it wouldn't surprise me that brains differ too.
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Nice writeup! Definitely seems to be a lot more realistic than my bot LOL The parser is really helpful too
> Only if requiring a relevant degree is a sexist employment practice.

One, there's a difference between necessary and sufficient. You can get a degree with a 4.0; you can get a degree with a 2.0. It seems entirely plausible to believe that (especially if, as argued by James Damore, men are attracted to tech because it's a high-status field) the number of men who are good at their job is a small subset of those who have a CS degree.

Two, if we believe that the 80/20 ratio begins in college and is reflective of biases and not actual ability, then it's at least reasonable to argue that requiring a degree is a sexist practice. (It might not be, too, but I think it's not 100% clear that it isn't.)

Here's a report from HBR on why women interested in studying engineering in college leave: https://hbr.org/2016/08/why-do-so-many-women-who-study-engin...

If there is a social effect from a sexist culture that discourages women who are struggling with their engineering classes from staying with their original choice of degree, but doesn't equally discourage men who are struggling with their engineering classes, we'd definitely expect to see the phenomenon I suggested above where more men receive engineering degrees than women, but that's not reflective of men being better at the work on average.

(Also, the HBR report points out that internships and job prospects have the effect of pushing apparent sexism back down the pipeline into college. People are smart enough to tell that they're better off picking a different field if they'll be unhappy in their current one. So causality can certainly be such that sexist practices in industry hiring create visible gender imbalance in college degrees.)

Three, plenty of tech companies have quite loudly proclaimed that a CS degree is not something you need to get into tech. Peter Thiel literally runs a fellowship encouraging people to drop out of college. Lots of famous founders are college dropouts. It makes little financial sense to go back and get a CS degree if you didn't make the decision to get one at 18; requiring one doesn't seem like a high-quality hiring practice, even leaving demographics and discrimination (in whatever direction) entirely out of the question. You'll have tons of false negatives.
The thing I found most hilarious about this is that the author of this post previously worked at Grooveshark, a company that was only remotely successful because they flaunted copyright the entire time they operated.

That he's now using the DMCA (incorrectly) to protect his business model is the height of ridiculousness in my book.
That's not entirely true. Philando Castile, for instance, would not have been helped out by simply believing he was not a victim. In situations like job interviews and office experiences, it's certainly optimal on an individual level to expect (pretend?) that you'll be treated fairly -- it helps you carry yourself with confidence and increases the chances that you will be treated fairly. But it's irresponsible to put all your chips on just believing that you won't be treated unfairly.

For instance, I was recently confronted with an upcoming medical procedure in which 90% of patients in the US are treated with what I believe (and the evidence supports) is a riskier procedure than necessary, with longer recovery times. Simply believing I wouldn't be treated that way would be foolish -- it's hospital policy most places! So I did the work to find a place where I could be treated in the way I wanted, according to evidence-based guidelines. That was not trivial.

Looking at suicide rates is really interesting, although one should look more broadly at life expectancy. (Suicide rates do after all have a paradoxical relationship with some kinds of danger, like war.) Life expectancy for US men has decreased for the first time in recorded history outside of times of war, and it's almost solely due to drug overdose ("accident" in the data). The data tells some very interesting stories; when I find the study I'll add a link here. Anyhow, Native Americans win the "hardest lives" award by miles if we look at suicide or life expectancy, but white men have recently moved up in the standings, which might explain some of the current zeitgeist.
>what is it that we're worried about?

To give a concrete example in the US, the male/female narrative concerning who has power and who is a victim had led to a deafening silence discussing sexism in the justice system. One of the issues Hillary spoke about during the 2016 US election was how poorly the justice system treated women, she (or at least her campaign website) purposed a number of changes to make it easier on women.

So the victim narrative not only led to us ignoring an issues of sexism, but of making it much worse, because the actual victim of sexism in this instance isn't the victim according to the narrative. It also leads to an issue logical inconsistencies like how socially acceptable certain statements are.

Consider the following statement:

Men are over-represented in prison because they are more violent than women.

Now, switch from sex to race, keeping it inline with actual data, and measure how socially acceptable the resulting phrase would be.

I think of this as a significant harm. No, it isn't as bad as a world war or genocide, but it still leaves to countless lives being ruined.
Well, for starters, I currently live in the UK and I don't know anyone who lives in a building with a basement. They are just not very common here. And second of all - even if you do have a basement - do you have any supplies in there? Air filters? Fresh water? It's cool for a day or two, but if you have to stay there for two weeks then it's just not good enough.
In 2001 if you said that the Internet was going to be worth $1 trillion dollars, you were correct. But 99% of investments on internet companies in 2001 were bad investments.

That's where we are today with ICOs. Cryptocurrency is going to be absolutely massive, and it has some very intelligent people doing amazing things. But the vast majority of ICOs are going to flop. Look at the rankings in 2013:

http://web.archive.org/web/20131218060943/http://coinmarketc...
>Abraham Lincoln’s second term was viewed as the tightening of federal authority to excessive levels that ultimately led to the American Civil War

By Lincoln's second term, the American Civil War was already underway.
> And part of me does think that I prefer the majority of the clueless end users to be forced to update. Having to support outdated operating systems and browsers is pretty horrible. And making it harder for botnets to spread is also a pretty good thing.

So make it updatable without a system reboot? Why does Windows need to reboot for standard security updates? Hell, most times when Windows says I need to reboot, simply restarting the service(s) that have been updated accomplishes the same thing.

It's not like Microsoft doesn't have control over the entire codebase. Unix applies security patches all the time without restarting, and has for a decade. Why can't MS make this work? TBH, to me it feels like good old laziness. A system reboot has been the go-to to address Windows' lack of stability and quality since freaking 3.1. Reboot reboot reboot, that's all MS ever has for a solution.