skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read the titles: S.F. ‘tech bro’ writes open letter to mayor: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, and despair of homeless people’, ‘riff raff’ and Exclusive: Here's The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google [Updated]

A news story presents novel recent events, given context by a narrative. The title of a piece informs the reader of that narrative.

It is a given that when Breitbart posts an article about a shooting in Chicago, it's not about the shooting, it's about the narrative: Black people love doing murders. When people complain about right-wing media pushing crime stories, they're not saying that the crimes didn't happen, but that they object to the narrative being advanced.

Here, the narrative is that "tech bros" are sexists, and that SF companies are filled with tech bros, who make racist products.

(The Atlantic hot take explicitly states this: "The kind of computing systems that get made and used by people outside the industry, and with serious consequences, are a direct byproduct of the gross machismo of computing writ large. More women and minorities are needed in computing because the world would be better for their contributions—and because it might be much worse without them." Google has to have minority programmers, because otherwise Google will make sexist websites. This is something of an odd assertion-- you would figure that it would be much more important to change Google's management, but Brin, Page and Schmidt are important DNC donors, so the Atlantic can't suggest that their shares be seized.)

An anonymous essay, on the other hand, would be one where the author doesn't identify himself as a white male Google employee first, and instead just talks about the actual issue at hand. Just look at the thread here, and the one earlier, about the essay itself. Many people agreeing with the author, and yet none of them are being roasted alive on social media. Why? Because nobody's started their comment with "I'm a VP at Microsoft, and I think that..."

Without a hook for a narrative, the story would just be "sexists exist on the internet", which is very much not News.
It seems that USA's War On Fire has had the same results as its other Wars, On Drugs and Terrorism: more fires with more harmful results.

We will be the laughingstocks of history, if humanity somehow survives us.
The only way to avoid that would be to highlight the parts of the discussion that hadn't been studied or couldn't easily be replicated. In my experience, most heated arguments are based on perceptions where there is a gaping hole because science either can't or hasn't completely answered the question yet.

That stuff gets fueled by articles leaving out certain numbers to show a desired conclusion.

True or False isn't the problem. The problem is avoiding key points that you have to already be knowledgable enough to realize what's missing. That's how people end up with "facts" that are still wrong.

You leave out important information to reinforce a bias and it will get reshared as "fact".

Happens all the time with any topic that's even a little heated.
Debatable in a world that is (also debatable) overcrowded and lacking resources.

But in general sure; maybe OP has been to a lot of birthdays (as have I) where people stare at you like you just told you are a serial killer. While in reality you just don't want kids. That goes away when you go over 40 though. Then some people even start to envy you for your freedom. Generally better not care what other people think. It's a tiring and pointless thing.
I agree, Ethereum needs better reading material. I bought an Ethereum book by Henning Diedrich and it's pretty light to be honest.
>> I personally enjoy PyTorch a lot

Why?
Indeed, and both models are in development by different groups. I was responding to dietlbomb's comment that kite power proponents "never address" the problem of power transmission in the tether.
I think the connection is loose at best. Personally, yes, I'm wired so I can mostly turn more hours into more progress. That's great when I'm working alone. But I don't think I've ever been on a paid project at a company where the bottleneck was straight-ahead serial work. It feels like teams have a way of divining when's the absolute latest they can deliver something, and will pad any length workday with slacking, as needed.
He is referring to this paper https://research.googleblog.com/2017/06/multimodel-multi-tas...

Where they used one model to do image recognition, speech recognition and translation in the same network.
Ofcourse, but he said 'want'. Want to me implies something that is not automatic. Or maybe i'm reading that wrong. And where is that 85% from? Must be per country because in some countries it must be far lower.
It highly depends on the complexity of the code. The most reasonable way is work by hour not by lines of code.
Can anybody explain the fundamental reason behind "resistance/support lines" in technical analysis?

I'm guessing it is a self-fulfilling prophecy (everybody believes in it, so it becomes true), but perhaps there is a logical explanation that I'm totally missing.
You don't seem to understand the difference between a proposition and its converse.

"If a person wants to get married, s/he wants to share his/her life with someone" is (more or less) true, and is the premise everyone is working under.

The converse of that proposition is "If a person wants to share his/her life with someone, s/he wants to get married." That is what you for some reason appear to believe is the premise we are working under. But it's not.
I have the understanding that no one expects residential real estate rental to be cash-flow positive with a full mortgage. It's extremely rare and basically a complete no-brainer if you can find a property that is cash-flow positive with a mortgage. Generally, one looks at equity and tries for net-worth positive. Which is simple to say, but is made more complex by older mortgages giving more equity for an equal payment.

Of course, with an interest-only mortgage, yes one would need to be cash-flow positive, because there is no such thing as gaining equity. Again, my understanding is that such properties are extremely rare.
Bitcoin's intrinsic value lies in the system that can securely, verifiably, transferably and trustlessly store numbers, assign them to password-protected wallets and keep the sum of those numbers below a constant (21M). Due to these traits, such a system is suitable for representing value just like gold (but BTC is more easily transferable). It is pretty hard to create such a system, therefore it is valueable.
Same-site scripting:

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2008/Jan/270
> Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, and bad for business.

He's telling this to a $650B company. And then just to cover for himself, he says:

> I strongly believe in gender and racial diversity, and I think we should strive for more.

And then:

> My concrete suggestions are to: De-moralize diversity

But my favorite is:

> Stop alienating conservatives.
Maybe I'm wrong but wasn't a property of NP-hard problems that you can verify them in P time but find a solution only in >P time? (As far as we know)
Maybe I'm getting old, but you saying Microsoft is brilliant at compatibility made me smile ruefully
One neat trick to improve data science projects
Ugh. It doesn't matter how good your math is if your model is wrong.

Here's an outline of what I believe to be a useful model, and some useful questions to ask, and experiments to run in real life to change things.

+-------------------+
| |
+ |
+---->X1+---+ |
| | |
| +-->Q |
M+------+ | + |
| | | v
| | +--------+W
| | ^
+---->X2+---+ |
+ |
| |
+-------------------+

M = male / female
X1 = math ability
X2, X3 ... Xn = other factors (analytical ability, ability to work in teams, ability to understand real problems, etc, also bias of interviewers against women)
Q = performance on interview questions
W = performance in real life work

The slides, and most peoples argument is based on the model where there is only one factor math ability, which is why people go 'oh but that doesn't account for it / the disparity is so small'.

The important question is how do all the factors ADD UP?

Now,

If Q does not correlate with W, fix your interview questions first.

Then, if you want more women to do well in the interview, well, ...
-- the wrong approach is to compromise the integrity of the interview, which compromises the company's business, and which is demeaning to women, although you could use this as a proxy to make the interview more comprehensive
-- the correct approach is to investigate X1, Xn factors and train to remove these discrepancies earlier on way before the interview itself, if we decide that we want to. biases in the interview processes are only biases when removing them improves the correlation between Q and W

Another thing to do is to change the nature of the work itself. In which case the factors and interview questions will change accordingly. Play to peoples' strengths!

The nature of the work must include the performance of the team including the individuals as there may be a benefit to representation when it comes to solving problems of a crowd with varied people.

Interestingly, the Google article covers a lot of this, and even suggests some changes that can be made.

A large number of factors can quickly add up even if the individual factors as small.

I welcome comments from the more knowledgable, but I feel that a lot of knee jerk reactions here are just taking individual statements from the argument and loudly saying NO, or saying well there's no difference here.
ISTM that nothing would have been as good a firebreak against the beetle onslaught as actual firebreaks left by uncontrolled fires would have been?
Your method is easily exploited by a malicious miner. Clocks across the network are going to have some inherent amount of skew. By forcing blocks to have incrementing timestamps and also by refusing to accept blocks in the future, you have made it easy for me as a miner to commit abuse. Instead of picking the exact current time, I will pick a time that is as far in the future as the network allows (taking full advantage of the wiggle room).

Because other miners are required to use a higher timestamp for their block to be valid, they have no ability to correct my outlier time. You have essentially allowed me to put the blocktime permanently forward by the allotted wiggle room, and also you have allowed me to consume all that space you allocated for miners who have clock skew.

It's overall a small attack, but highlights that even tiny decisions can have consequences that impact security. Bitcoin accounts for this by requiring that timestamps be greater than the median of the past 11 blocks, and that's enough to prevent one evil miner from forcing the block times forward for all blocks.
What does biology/evolution/whatever have to do with the goals that you choose to set for your own life?
Besides doing all messaging in PGP?
Side note, recursion would be slightly easier if the concept of a base case were applied to all functions as preconditions. The idea of a base case really has more applicability than just in recursion, it's just that we don't call it a base case in other situations.

Function heads in ML and Erlang make this explicit when used correctly, and I agree.
Edward Kmett, “Efficiently Coding for Modern CPUs”
In production, I have a horribly designed schema running couchdb 1.6 and node. It is serving a few thousand users, but has serious architectural issues.

I started in freelance php web development, then switched to Ruby/Rails in 2006 and haven't looked back. I'm now thinking mobile access, unreliable networks, and global connectivity so it was time to re-survey the land. My MVP was with Node.js and CouchDB 1.6, but now I'm almost ready with a much more robust and well defined rewrite in Phoenix 1.3 and CouchDB 2.1

I agree that the 2.0 release was subpar. I actually needed to beta test against master because of a bug in the 2.0.0 release. But even with the rough patches, cutting Node.js and going all in on BEAM/OTP - I'm hoping will pay off for the next decade and then some.

As far as CouchDB, I agree nothing is a magic bullet, but after better learning the entire CouchDB API surface, I was much better off at schema design and where to put logic in _design files vs application layer. I actually run a conflict-free schema now, and still benefit from master-master sync and first class offline support. I'm not saying the concepts are trivial, but when done in the correct CouchDB way, and getting all the benefits that come with that, I cannot imagine what it would take to manually handle sync logic with Ruby and SQL, which is why I asked.
I have not yet seen books titled "advanced X" that are actually grokkable, but my university courses called "introductory X" were exactly the hardest ones.
I won't argue it can't be improved, but the process of growing & coming to know yourself involves a certain amount of failure. There's nothing wrong with meeting a lot of people you are a bad match for.

Of course I do understand the tedium of endless strings of dud matchups, and we can't ignore the out-of-pocket expense! But IMO that's an issue with the pool, not the algorithm.
Just to summarize your post, you ask why it all isn't obvious yet and cite no evidence.

There are plenty of reasons for your questions with answers ranging from historical oppression, lack of early education in STEM for minorities, class differences, and more. Not to mention that not all that is true is obvious. You also seem to be ignoring a lot of people in various communities who are trying to communicate all this, writing them off as having an agenda against yours.

"Well maybe its wrong because it's not how the world is currently" is a terrible argument. Go back in time X years and say this about things the way they were. It's not going to sound good.
Well so is eating meat everyday or looking at a screen 30cm away most of the day or not dying from an infection or having hot showers...

Who cares at this point, just live your life, you owe nothing to "evolution".
50-50 IMO

One example: http://store.steampowered.com/app/581200/Nash_Racing/

This is literally just the demo for https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/advanced-tuning-car... being sold for money. It's unmaintained and runs like crap.

Some of the ones that are obvious beginner games that aren't really polished have their place in EA/ex-GL, with people actually passionate about it and trying to build a product. Kudos to them for trying and good luck. This is a great thing, provides visibility for these creative minds, and all that.

And then you have http://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Tero%20Lunkk...

This publisher deserves to be removed from Steam completely. It is not beneficial to the platform or to the players, and would probably cause increased refund request support load / chargeback or dispute load.
It's already been done: https://git.daplie.com/Daplie/localhost.daplie.me-certificat...

Which I find to be a very practical solution for connecting to localhost over https, it frees you from having to install a self-signed certificates/CAs on your machine.
> If there were factual inaccuracies in what the author wrote, why not discuss them? Why not use high-quality sources to validate your argument?

In essence, because it's a 10-page document chock full of cherry-picked data and nonsensical conclusions - that's a ton of work to debunk. Moreover, it's just one of many such documents (though this one going viral means it probably deserves special attention).

The problem is true of fake news and alternate facts in general. From Alberto Brandolini: "The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."
Does it matter if it's a bug in the client?

Make it work like expected.

Especially when changing infrastructure like IPV4->IPV6 - don't break existing userbase code! (This is a fundamental precept of Linux development.)
You gave an example, I gave you 10% of my trading floor. You can say what you want about rules and regulations, but if people don't PRACTICALLY enforce them, the rules are irrelevant. The SEC just needs a poster child every now and then.
I'm sure you looked and saw how many arrests there have actually been. I'm curious, how many people doing it would make you believe that arrest is statistically insignificant?
Regardless of an example, there are also large players clearly manipulating the markets on the various exchanges, unhindered by regulations applies to both.
Spring Boot 2.0 Features
Same here with the replacements. Synonyms appear on the fly, even when reading aloud at ''full speed''.
GeeksForGeeks: a computer science portal for geeks
Cool citation
I see that you said "compete". Testosterone has effects on competition, so there could still be bias there.

Competitions are overrepresented by people who think they can win. We are taught that confidence and overconfidence skews male.
here is what i usually do:

-identify weak people in the team with a stinky attitude, those who dont learn and are toxic, do your best to get rid of them.

-next identify those mediocre people doing 9-5, maximise their output during those hours, don't give them no slack.

-finally identify your super stars, cherish them, buy them coffee/lunch and give them a lot of slack.

for this is a meritocracy, no damn Disneyland.
Not sure if you've ever been to parts of Australia where "fire-stick farming" [1] is still practised?

It's really amazing to witness being performed. These places don't seem to ever have wild damaging fires like other parts of Australia, due to a lack of fuel build up, and the environment in these places always look "immaculate", almost like a freshly cleaned apartment. The smell of these slow burning fires through winter is really nice.

I've spent a lot of time on the East Coast of Australia too, where the "bush" is managed the European way, and there is a lot of problems with wild fires, invasive species (introduced) and a less healthy looking landscape.

The hazard reduction burning in Australia seems to be more about establishing parameters to protect property more than anything else?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-stick_farming
You need to check two things. First you need to check that this block had a timestamp higher than the median of the past 11 blocks (it's a consensus rule). Second you need to check that the timestamp is not unacceptably far in the future. For historic blocks, it definitely won't be because the timestamp will be far in the past (as the block was created far in the past).

Latest block or not, it just needs to follow those rules. That does mean it's possible for a block with an invalid timestamp to become valid after some time has passed. But if it is invalid, nobody will be mining on it, so it's unlikely to remain part of the longest chain.
They are (for some values of deep) - KPS is looking at deployment offshore, where the tether will be less of an issue, they can go to scale and the wind is more reliable.

The kites are expected to be cheaper to maintain and install than traditional turbines, and can be mounted on old turbine bases.
That's kinda whataboutism though. Yes there is a disparity in nursing, teaching, garbage collection, whatever. How is that relevant to tech?

The issue in question is that women (and minorities) are underrepresented and sometimes experience discrimination/unfair treatment in the IT industry. Why is that, and what are some solutions to that? Do we need solutions to that?

If the nursing profession addressed gender disparity in some way that can be applied to tech, then that is worthy of inclusion in this discussion. If not, it's not particularly relevant.
I appreciate you sharing, but you need to realize that your own, internal experience is guaranteed to be unique to you. This is why studies have to be done; otherwise, we all go off our non-generalizable* personal experiences.

* I mean, some part of it is generalizable, but which parts and how?

> beauty is in the eye of the beholder

I have (and am actually currently) feeling my brain changing its opinions on human aesthetics and forms. This is far from the first time. It is actually a distinct feeling that I quite enjoy, and it's very different from the "acquired taste" feeling from, say, whiskeys.

In other words, although I have no idea how many people share this experience, I have a direct, personal experience of beauty being in the eye of the beholder.
From that perspective it's also wrong not to want to impregnate other men's wives on the sly and have them raise the kid for you.
I set up an RPI camera without any of the echo stuff:
https://blog.thekyel.com/?anchor=motion

It was fairly easy, but there were a few gotchas. It does a pretty good job, but I do get some false-positives with changes in light.

Now that I see this project, I really need to put a video together showing how mine works....
Where are you talking about? That isn't true on the plains of North America. The plain was very treeless, save next to water, where there are plenty of trees. Man has created far more barriers - roads, wind breaks around farms, etc. East of the 100th meridian, most land is divided in a perfect grid with roads along section lines in both the US and Canada. Further west, the lines may be further apart, but there still are plenty of roads compared to pre-1860s when there were none.
In much of Europe, metro systems will shut down for maintenance for appropriate periods. This is massively cheaper than working around a live railway (especially underground), where safety would necessitate many more staff required and more interruptions to work -- if it's even permitted in the particular location.

The period depends on the city. Here in Copenhagen, where the metro runs all night, they tend to shut part of a line from 00-05h on a Monday-Thursday night, and put on buses instead. Cities with bigger metro systems might not need the buses: this was the case the last time I visited Berlin, and a central section was closed overnight.

London sometimes closes parts of lines at weekends, and every 2-3 years or so there is major work on a line (closed entirely) on ~25-30th December.

(To be clear then: the "absolute worse case" is closing an entire line for around a week.)
In theory. In practice, as we see, building things like new subway lines take decades. More money certainly helps but build a few skyscrapers of residential housing over the next decade and you might get incremental subway lines to support that in fifty years or so.
You aren't wrong, but (at the risk of stating an obvious strategy) perhaps you'd be happier in the long run investing that effort into making yourself an attractive match, instead of making a bad match bearable?

Double-bonus in that investing in yourself leaves you better off & happy, with or without a match.

Personal experience, after devoting my soul to my degree, I graduated a likable, intelligent, boring person. It took many years of purposefully expanding my horizons, to get beyond that.
I taught myself to be comfortable writing recursion through practice, practice, and practice, but I feel like things clicked at an entirely different level when I could trace something in assembly and see that the arguments were actually being stored in different locations as the stack pointer increased.
I haven't done it, but speed dating seems like the best approach. It puts you right in front of a person and, imo, you're less likely to dismiss him/her outright than you would be on the mentioned apps.
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