skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Peterson makes authoritative claims, it's important to recognize that he's only talking about Western countries. That's where his expertise is focused. Dowry is almost non-existent today in Western culture. Divorce rate is extremely high among lower status people. Single motherhood is alarmingly common.

Take a gander at his Biblical series. It's 100% about Western civilization.
Here is a fun one-liner quicksort in Python:

def q(list): return [] if list==[] else q([x for x in list[1:] if x < list[0]]) + [list[0]] + q([x for x in list[1:] if x >= list[0]])
> Many years later I learned that the Allied discourse of "the good and the bad people" was an heavy (re) writing of history.

I agree that that was heavily the case on the Eastern front (with the Allies doing heavy cover-ups for USSR genocides so that they are not associated with a "bad guy"), but how did that happen on the Western front?
> the survey had <300 responses

Given the repercussions that's a surprisingly high number.
I think we're in agreement on what the original author personally believes about diversity programs. But there is a difference between outright calling for the end of diversity programs at Google and wanting to discuss it further. It seems that the commenter I originally replied to in this chain doesn't differentiate between these two goals, which is why I said something in the first place.
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Strong doesn't mean it's the only explanation, probably different factors at play like in most things.

For instance for Germany (and maybe Austria?) major factor could be aversion to nationalism?
To chime in on that, the higher variance theory would suggest that there are about 50-150% more males than females with an IQ above 130 (and the same for sub-70 IQ's).
Or maybe its as simple as conscription, current or recent. Without it defense, or knowledge of what it takes, is essentially outsourced to a small group of people or NATO.

Out of sight, out of mind.
The 3 cores of Location Intelligence
And? Blaming everyone for "double speak" is rather counter-productive and a great way to destroy the discussion, as it ignores some people are actually interested in a honest discussion. What a wonderful way to create toxic environment ...

Having an open discussion means you accept that other participants may have very different opinions, and agree that honest fact-based discussion is the correct solution.
I asked everytime but never get an answer.

How did Unreal manage to evolve so quickly? If it was just one patch notes then may be just a coincidence, but they have manage to do it every time for the past months or years. I cant think of a single software / middleware that has this pace of development. And Games Development were suppose to be hard?
Two of my friends moved to Prague just recently. I heard it's weirdly expensive.
That's just incredible. Is this what you believe? That there exists discrimination against white males? What world do you actually live in? It just so happens white males have more opportunities and if a company actively tries to give opportunities to those who do not have it then you cry foul. You are not pushed down while they are raised up.
I'd assume the correct thing to do is a vector clock, where each blocks time stamp is nothing more than a offset from the previous blocks.

It's easy to get most machines in agreement with how long a second is, but it's very very hard to get all nodes in agreement to what the exact time is.

So skip it entirely.
Absolutely. Seems like modern compilers inline everything they possibly can, regardless whether you mark your functions inline or not.
I mean, the only good podcast ads are Bill Burr's anyway.
You are up against irrational emotion driven reactions and that in turn means anything that does not agree with a person in that state is automatically hateful, stupid, or worse.

My view is that is many parts of the fields I am in is that we are only beginning to see the benefits of women entering engineering and similar fields in significant numbers over a decade or more ago. There simply are not enough woman who came up through that process twenty plus years ago to have the experience many companies assign to a role; this artificial inflation of requirements also pushes out a lot of men as well.

So diversity for the sake of diversity is wrong. not acknowledging we have a shortage of qualified candidates is wrong as well but try to remember this is because it took so long for society to accept women in these roles that it may not have been a dream of many until the last decade or two.

anecdotal, I remember my own sister expressing an interest in science only after Sally Ride (hence the 80s). Seeing a woman in space was a big deal. Before the age of the internet young women only had TV for examples to aspire to and TV still had/has an influence of young people.
People will anyway.

You only needs the slightest derivation from one's habit and it's over.
> Only someone who is not a woman or not from a minority could say this.

This is a little presumptuous. I am a woman and I too would prefer to be hired without any diversity program. I am not inherently against them and think that striving for diversity is overall a positive thing, but when I compare the thought of being hired as part of some target female quota or active diversity push vs being hired as a "regular" candidate I prefer the latter.

Diversity programs I appreciate more are those less involved in the actual hiring phase and more in the teaching girls to code and getting them interested in the subject phase. Of course I'm privileged and lucky in other ways and understand that plenty of other women feel differently.
Seconded by another German (though I've never lived there).
>>And how would you right the wrongs that the caste system has done to countless people?

The modern day hard working people affiliated to a particular caste be punished generation after generation for a mistake some ancestor of theirs made some 5000 years back?

>>Even today people get ostracized because of their supposed caste, even though the system has been illegal for many years.

Strictly speaking caste affiliations today are entirely voluntary. You can by all means absolve yourself of any caste/religion. People stick to a particular caste/religion for various reasons many of which are cultural and not because they forced to. Also note caste isn't a binary classification. There are castes that go as deep as farmer, shepherd, cow herder, black smith, cotton weaver, weapon maker etc etc.

Some of them do it because of the explicit benefits like reservations that come along with it.

>>Your "hordes and hordes" who have been denied their "rightful chance of doing good in life" seems more than a little overblown when you compare that to millions of people who were denied the same chance for centuries due to where their families fell in the social chain at one point.

This my experience being born and living in this country for 3 decades of my biological life. The default condition for any body smart and hard working here is 'immigration abroad'.

Take any steps from your childhood. Attend any exams(which by the way decide your entire life direction), appear for any government job interview, parliaments seats etc etc. Reservations exist which will ensure many hard working people ever succeed.

The system actively brutally punishes smart, hard working merit people to a point most people are driven to migrate foreign lands to get due returns for their work.
Not into Gaming Development, but could anyone tell me why All Unreal Rendered Games Graphics look alike? You could literally tell it is Unreal engine if it has those Shiny Rendering Graphics on Metal or Rocks. And they dont look great. There is something about its Light Reflection rendering that i think is "Trademark" of Unreal. And they dont seems to have improved over the many iteration of releases.
No. If you want to suggest cutting down on something, suggest cutting down on it. Don't wrap it up on weasel words that never actually say "cut down on it". Governments, management, etc, are well-known for this tactic - they'll say "we're going to review this policy", and the next thing you know it's been diced to shreds, but the politicians/management involved never actually outright said "we're ending this policy" so they get off without apparently having ever said anything to alienate anyone.
I share the same feeling.
What really upsets me is that the attackers really don't see how bad culture this is, and how instead of promoting progress it actually alienates people and increases the divisions in society. Google's decision is just the epitome of it all.
There's a mooc on smalltalk on FUN. You should try it. You'll probably have a blast too.
I smell an infoleak. What version are you on ? See if you can recreate it with your history. The flaw might be worth something.
I guess its a really clean architecture- developed together with performance-senstive personal. The good architecture allows for fast movement, the performance sentive check ups, keep it from beeing slowed down from bad architecture decisions.

Its very rare indeed.
It could be a safety thing. In case of an emergency you want to be able to just roll into a station and evacuate the train as quickly as possible.
You imply bias in the the hiring process is what is causing the gender imbalance in tech. Indicators such university enrollment in CS programs show that this is unlikely to be the case.

If the author is wrong, that there definitely isn't some inherit genetic behavioral bias influencing job choice, than the bias is happening before students finish highschool.

I'm a proponent for an "early bias" theory because of far lower female graduation and entry level application rates to CS jobs. If less than 25% of CS graduates are female, which is currently the case, it strongly suggests that attempting to make the engineering team 50% female will result in a lower hiring bar for women. That means that the overall point of the authors manifesto, that programs designed to specifically increase the ratio of female engineers are unfair, is true.

We need to do something about the low number of women going into tech fields in school. Punishing companies for not hiring women when the vast majority of candidates are men is a perverse incentive that is biased against men and doesn't fix the real problem.

It's like punishing someone for taking more yellow onions at the market when there's 3 times as many nice looking ones as white onions. The right way to fix the imbalance is to increase the supply of white onions. In the real world, farmers would begin switching to white onions and the supply would increase. Unfortunately, our supply of women is governed by a mostly government run school system that doesn't exist in a world of supply and demand and likes to shift the blame for their ineptitude.

Fixing this at the education level would mean owning up to a mistake. It's much easier to just fine everyone to make it look like you're fixing a "problem" caused by inadequate regulations.
> the more cultural/social homogeneity the more willingness to fight a war for your country.

I guess the correlation is inverse, i.e. the more patriotic a people the less the diversities.
> No, my point is solely in response to that post - to say "we need to have an honest discussion" is quite specifically to say "we need to end/severely cut down on it"

That's not how I read it.

I read it as trying as carefully as possible to start a discussion about having a discussion about a topic by many deemed to be sensitive. And change doesn't have to merely be cutting something, as you suggest. It can be replacing something ineffective/unfair with something more effective or less unfair.

There's literally nothing in that sentence which says "we need to remove/cut down on all programs related to subject $x". I'm not sure where you're getting that from. To me, your response to this fairly harmless email seems overly defensive. Are you acting rationally based on what has been said, or are overreacting based on things you assume to be said?

Maybe this would be a good time to (re?)-read the original email[1]?

[1] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
A friend works at the European Commission, where there is a strict 50/50 male/female requirement for all hires and all positions. Apparently it is causing problems because too many women refuse to be promoted in management. So they don't have enough managers to start new projects.
I have in fact occasionally seen similar arguments used by right-wingers when someone complains there aren't enough black people, women, etc somewhere. It struck me as a nasty and cynical rhetorical trick when they did it too - and they didn't even go as far as demanding anyone be fired.
It's possible though it might backfire, just as conflict of interest disclosure may backfire: disclosure can increase the bias in advice because it leads advisors to feel morally licensed and strategically encouraged to exaggerate their advice even further.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/426699
The AI program would say "I think there is a 99% chance you have this eye ailment."

If that turns out to be wrong, the programmer will just point to the other 99 people successfully treated and shrug.
Ohh embedded friendly, you're spoiling me.
Of course it's passed on to the consumer.

Then some company works out how to do the same thing in a less carbon intensive way, and it's cheaper.

That's the whole point. This isn't fixable without pain, no matter how people pretend.
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Gnome 3 is the default DE I'll install. But I very much dislike the default setup: the combination of the top bar and the title bar and the menu bar inside the applications themselves. 3 horizontal bars which are quite ugly.

Inside bspwm I use xfce bar with the menu extension and I feel like I don't waste as much vertical space. (it looks like macOS or Unity, except I don't have title bars)
Yes absolutely, a good one is invaluable at helping the rest of the team be more productive.
Ctrl+F for the word 'fix' highlights 540 locations. Great they take the time to fix reported errors, but I wonder what their testing strategy is in the first place that led to this many problems being in the official release.
PLEASE DON'T SHOUT IN TITLES.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The drinking game I'm playing right now requires me to take three chugs.
Yeah, I havent seen any concise and rational debunking of any of his points.

I did see a lot of partisanship and accusation of misogyny that I cant find in memo at all.

To me this looks like some smart guy saying that google doesnt tolerate views that are not perfectly aligned with left leaning echo chambers, and getting fired for exactly that. Looks like SJWs at google, like thy often do, forced HR to fire him.

I have read that he was chess champion, so I would call this forcing your opponent to check mate himself.
I think he planned this since I am seeing this:

> Damore plans to sue Google; he had previously complained to NLRB and wants to argue that his dismissal was a revenge which would be illegal.
I think you are getting down voted because you seem to have replied to the wrong comment? What you are saying seems irrelevant to the points made.
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One thing I'd like to ask the women in this forum:

If you'd grown up back in the day before tech was cool and techies were (generally) just nerds with no money, would you have still been interested in tech?

My recollection from my teenage years in the UK in the late 70s and early 80s, emptying my Post Office savings account to buy one of the first batch of 10^5 BBC micros, trekking all over London searching for a Rubik's cube when they first arrived, and then later reading maths at Cambridge was that about 10% of the nerds were female.

The female nerds were just as good as the male nerds.

It's hard to say how much of that discrepancy was nature and how much was nurture.

If we want diversity of hiring across sexes for hard-core nerd jobs (as opposed to overall hiring at Google etc.) then we need to at least start early with the education of young girls.
I am European and I would not fight for my country, because it isn't my country anymore. It is a multi-something peace of land.
I took an unpaid intership, did my best and they started to pay me some bonuses (we were 4 doing the intership and only I got paid), at the end (after 270h) I got a 6 month contract and Im still working there.
As an example, I have a 4500 dollar deductible. That means until I pay 4500 for prescriptions, doctor visits, labs, ER visits, etc., insurance pays nothing, though I do get their negotiated "discount" from the provider. After that, the insurance pays 80% of the cost until I have paid out some even larger number, at which time they pay 100% until January rolls around.

This is a pretty normal plan, and the type the guy you're responding to is describing; older plans often have much lower deductibles and have copays, though premiums tend to be higher, but one they're hard to find now.

It's very easy to meet a 4500 deductible. I've already done it for the year without any major health events.
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I'm getting that from the fact that I'm reasonably heavily involved in politics in my country and I'm well aware of the wording used to wrap up ideas in such a way that they're going to be accepted by as many people as possible without ever actually explaining what you're about to do.

"We need to have an honest discussion" or the dreaded word "review" always prefaces dicing up some policy, usually without an adequate replacement.
Unreal and Unity ship with their own default PBR shaders and settings. So if the developer doesn't modify them, the lighting can make games look similar. Unreal's lighting reflections is generally considered very good though.
Arguing that unproven methods of fighting sexism/racism aren't as effective as everyone claims they are and that said methods are potentially harmful isn't the same as being sexist/racist. I feel like the author is attempting to make the point that such practices aren't really in anyone's interest except the outward appearance of the company.
Does having a professional military leads to fewer wars - the UK has had a preference for professional military for centuries and it didn't stop us invading a significant proportion of the world!
Dude, how the heck do you expect any sensible advice on your contract if you
don't want to disclose what laws are you subject to?
Can anyone with more knowledge than me comment?

This seems to be "The NSA (?history of elliptic curve hackery) added code to enable them to snoop on VPNs running on Juniper routers and juniper think they fixed it but didn't"

Are the routers now locked down? Will we ever know? How on earth did someone add to their binary?

Is there a bigger picture here?
Seconded for MATE. Used it when it was Gnome 2 - tried Unity, Gnome 3 and XFCE since. Settled back comfortably on MATE.
> the closer you are to a thread, the most willing are you to fight.

The most close to the threat is being the threat, so I'm not disagreeing.
The response to the memo is very frustrating to me; I suspect the original author wanted to start a conversation that involved Simpson's Paradox and got a response where people typed him as a misogynist.

This incident seems like evidence that attempting a statistics based discussion about gender programs is dangerous - if you are wrong in your interpretation & work at Google you will be fired rather than have your mistakes explained.

EDIT for clarity: not that the memo mentioned Simpson's Paradox at all, but that paradox illuminates serious risk around interpreting clear-seeming evidence. I think that those style of risks where were the original author wanted to push discussion.
Low effort comment, but I think it's hilarious how much the NSA has started to look like a Bond villain.

Just waiting for the day we find out about their secret lair inside an extinct volcano where they're breeding sharks with lasers attached to their heads.
Sure, if the world was different. There is a price to pay for companies that want to keep their employees living in the office.

When you want them to go to company parties, the company gym, eat at the company cafeteria, and in the case of Facebook provide company housing, and generally spend a lot of time in the office, then at some point the company is going to discover that their employees have a diverse set of political beliefs as well as beliefs about gender/race/etc, and they will want to express these beliefs over lunch, and at the gym, and at parties, and in social media. They will also want to express those opinions to their friends, which happen to be colleagues. Now you have the big political debates that used to take place in bars and other recreational areas happening in the workplace. That's the cost of the all encompassing office.

Another ingredient in this toxic mix is that a lot of younger people blur the lines between social and professional, and this has been happening for a long time now. As soon as a critical mass lets their work life bleed into their personal life, this is going to end badly and lead to more oppressive workplace structures, as the company isn't going to suddenly democratize decision making. That's why management needs to be very circumspect about the scope of policies they mandate for their workers.

This tearing down of barriers is happening everywhere -- people do personal activities on their corporate laptops, they use their corporate phones for personal calls, they do personal projects on company time and company projects on personal time. They use their social media accounts to talk about company projects, etc.

The only viable option is for the company to retreat from these spheres and to focus on doing your job. They should not ask for social media accounts in the hiring process, nor should they focus so much on "culture". But that's inconsistent with also making the job a lifestyle and keeping the employees working long hours. If you are going to have people spend 50 and 60 hours working closely with each other, then things like political disagreements turn into HR concerns, and are addressed with the same intelligence and care for worker rights as you would expect from a typical HR department.
Here's the document with the links:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
"Back in my day, no one cared about surviving in the overwhelmingly capitalist world economy."
Flash was the Future. #rip
IBM claims deep learning breakthrough keeping it ahead of other corp efforts
Is the idea oft this, that joints get adjusted automatically and I only have to position the last one?
Ask HN: What are some great DeepLearning/TensorFlow video courses for beginners?
I'd love to learn the fundamentals, and figure out how to apply TF to practical problems, quickly and efficiently. Can you recommend some awesome resources?
because you can't work with people who hate you no matter why.

They're firing him not even because of his opinions but because he's just bringing more "bad" than "good to the compagny.

At the end of the day it's not the "compagny taking a moral standpoint" but "solving a compagny problem" in the most simple way
How did you miss the article that was on the frontpage today?

https://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/NSF_Stemming%20the%20Tid...

This is specifically about why women leave engineering, with a number of incidental measures about the egalitarian qualifications across gender (for the studied population).

Of course, next up is arguing about the epistemology of what "everyone" means, which is how you would have started if you weren't trolling. -1