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> You're ignoring that girls are socialized to think they're bad at math, science

That's a bold claim with zero sources. Consider this a "citation needed".
If you are seeing spoofed numbers from your area code/prefix, there is also a good chance that others in that area code/prefix might be getting calls with your number as the spoofed number.

I talked to someone who received such a call when he star-69'ed it.
Pretty sure the question was "why is this tech discussion board always focusing on women in tech and not some random other industry, and is this evidence that nobody really cares about equality and it is all just a horrible conspiracy to make people think tech has issues with gender equality?"
Old soviet infrastructure like this always reminds me of the STALKER games.
Please note that this is a comment on a specific remark, and is not meant to make it seem as though that invalidates the rest of the text - I’m mainly interested in the subconscious reason why things are the way they are.

> I wish more successful men in tech thought deeply about the advantages they’ve had

I think the reason many take annoyance with this particular opinion (at least I do), that men had it easy, is rooted in how “nerds” were viewed growing up, and how that has changed over time with public known successes such as Zuckerburg or Musk.

I’m only 24, and even I remember growing up with being interested in programming in no way being an attractive thing to be. If I revealed to people what I did I would be called a “nerd” with a bit of a disproving look. Luckily for me, I was quite good at socializing also, but many definitely didn’t have that and suffered social stigma for it. Even the friends I was gaming with didn’t quite understand my interest in that area, so I mostly relied on myself with few to no peers to discuss that particular subject with.

This is obsviously anecdotal and I would be interested in hearing how people had it growing up with these interests, from both sides obviously.

Now, that said, we are definitely in another age currently. These days with the success of Silicon Valley, Facebook, heck even The Big Bang Theory, our culture has shifted to a glorification of the field, and as such we have a clash of what the 24+ (or there about a) generation grew up facing, and them now being called privileged and being told they had it oh so easy, basically casting aside all those struggles they had growing up.

I guess my point is, with is a more general point, promoting equality by bringing down another group, is a fundamentally wrong way to go about things. You don’t get the bars at the same place by making it worse for one group, you do it by making it better for the other group (see they distinction?).

Anyways, I’m interested to know what people think :)
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Hey guys,

I've been working on an app, and I'm about two weeks from it ready to demo. I've always been confused about launch... Apple seems to favor keeping things a secret and building up to a big reveal, while the other camps touts release early and release often.

Should I be releasing a demo teaser or should I wait and do it all in one lump-sum? What is the criteria for deciding this?
So then the solution would be to search for ways to make more women graduate, instead of hiring more from a pool that becomes smaller every year (not sure if the decrease is in absolute or relative terms, it doesn't really matter if the end goal is a 50/50 gender balance).
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> I don't know if you can do that with $20B

You can't.

The NIH budget is ~$30B/year and we don't know the basic mechanism of action for many of the drugs we currently rely on to treat disease. It turns out biochemistry is pretty complicated.
"People involved with the private high schools liked to brag about the high scores their students scored on standardized tests – without bothering to mention that you had to score well on such a test to get into them in the first place."

Few private schools have entrance exams. Most only care if the tuition check doesn't bounce.
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I think this was the first issue of Byte I bought, I remember hoovering up every little detail at the time.
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I knew it was a bad idea to post 'getting started' tutorials that skipped all the security steps and replace them with a 'probably don't wanna do it this way in production' (and usually no documentation on how one should do it)...

Not levelling this comment at HDFS solely but it's about time people stopped with the 'hello world' style examples.
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Unfortunately for him, he did basically say that about African-Americans.

How else am I supposed to take it when a self-identity right wing person claims the left don't believe some science related to IQ in the context of a diversity memo.

What "science" could he possibly be referring to other than the Bell Curve BS?
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The fact that the dwarf fortress binary is just 'df' was asking for trouble. In hindsight seems amazing nobody reported this before.
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People are already stacking multiple layers today for memory, although the layers are always manufactured separately and then bonded together in a separate step.

I wouldn't be surprised to see more of that in the future, think caches on top of cores, but I doubt we'll ever see multiple layers of transistors produced in a single step. Technical challenges aside, the economics of trying to produce multiple layers at once are just always going to be worse: higher latency from a wafer entering a fab to finishing the wafer, and much higher rate of defects. (When you produce the layers separately, you can potentially test them separately before putting them together, which is a huge win for defect rate.)

It's possible that manufacturing multiple layers at once might eventually allow for a higher density of vertical interconnects, but I just don't see that becoming the deciding factor.
A bit like those temperature dials in hotel rooms.
The petite bourgeoisie is economically distinct from the proletariat and the lumpenproletariat social-class strata who rely entirely on the sale of their labor-power for survival; and also are distinct from the capitalist class haute bourgeoisie (high bourgeoisie) who own the means of production, and thus can buy the labor-power of the proletariat and lumpenproletariat to work the means of production. Though the petite bourgeoisie can buy the labor of others, they typically work alongside their employees, unlike the haute bourgeoisie.

I think "lower middle-class" is a reasonable apropos of this. That said, I don't think the Gateses would fit this definition either ...
GPUs are only useful if your problem is data parallel. The majority of compute intensive problems that are also data parallel at the same time have been shifted to GPUs and SIMD instructions already. A GPU isn't some pixie dust that makes everything faster.
What makes female engineers different from male engineers again?
The problem with this is how class affects the WILL to be good at school, SAT, college and so on.

If you're high up in the middle class, you have a high-paying job. That means one of three things:

1) medical degree

2) high-end engineer

3) varia (like climbed-up MBAs) (but this is a small group)

Now when it comes to groups in society, the picture looks very different:

Largest groups are non-working people, and workers and tradesmen (from factory workers and construction workers to truck drivers) (total of these groups is like 90% of America)

Both of these groups are famous for disrespecting education, telling anyone who'll listen how college and university degrees are worthless (and for their positions in the world, I'm sure that's true).

And ... surprise ! Their kids mostly don't care about education, and don't score well on SATs (except the ones that figure out they really DO want to in time). Could this be ... because kids believe their parents ?

The "problem" is the entire feedback loop running through society, which mostly is the people itself, not that "rich" people tell their kids to achieve things. You cannot fix this without separating kids from their parents somehow, and you don't want to do that.

The only thing you can do is to prevent the middle class from achieving anything, or anything worthwhile. Which is exactly what is mostly happening in these diversity efforts.

Even that is disregarding the fact that there are already too many college and university graduates to make sure such a degree is definitely worth it. This is a problem akin to "let's make the lowest 50% of the population better off than average".
What bothers me most about this article is how all of us, when we feel threatened, tend to close off our empathy for the other side which prevents us from seeing clearly that they too feel threatened. We both come across as selfish and uncaring to the other and are completely oblivious to the fact that we are doing exactly the same thing ourselves.

Marshall Rosenberg used to say that “all objectionable behavior is a tragic expression of an unmet need”. That’s worth thinking about because it points the way towards an actual solution to the problem.

The simple “nonviolent communication” method that he developed was designed to help people to break down the barriers of hostility and connect in a fashion that enables both parties to achieve a mutually satisfying resolution and a closer and more fulfilling relationship. I have found it to work very well in my personal relationships.

As a general rule, when the other person feels that you genuinely care about their needs and are truly committed to helping them to meet them, they are very likely to return the favor. At that point the hostility fades and the seeking of zero sum solutions on both sides gives way to both sides working together to brainstorm a positive sum solution that fully meets everyone's needs. This is really quite a beautiful process and I wish more people used it because I truly believe it could make the world a far better place for all of us.
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For me personally, my children went to daycare since they were 3 months old, but for people I know who stayed at home until the children were 2.5 or 3, it's the same. So from observation, I don't find your argument convincing.

I mean, let's be clear here - are you saying that if boys and girls would be kept in isolation, well at least not exposed to the outside world which would fill them with tradtional gender role behaviours, until they are say 3 years old, you're claiming that boys and girls would end up both playing with dolls and playing dressup, and play fight with sticks and climb trees, in equal amounts? Or at least that the ratio of boys/girls having a preference for one thing or another would be the same? Because to me that sound just as preposterous as denying climate change, and it requires a similar level of fact distortion to believe.

As to the second point, I'm not going to argue here what this google guy did or did nit say, I didn't read the thing and frankly I don't care much either. But if one would assume (humour me here) that men and women and not the same (as in, have different preferences - not morally or so), how would that not logically lead to some professions being more preferred by one gender? It would be an extraordinary claim that despite differences, the outcome would be that every profession had people to a ratio matching society in general, along many axises - gender, skin color, etc.

I realize that it's easy to spin my argument as saying that some people are good managers and others can run very fast and that's just the natural order of thing, but that's not what I'm saying at all, so let's all spare ourselves the effort of going there.

And then finally, if some people with certain traits prefer one thing over another, is it then not perfectly obvious and even inevitable that there will be more people of that group doing that thing, and just as inevitable that that does not mean that those who are not like that, aren't automatically unqualified? If you combine two normal distributions, with different modes, isn't the outcome then a mathematical certainty? Including an explanation for the statistically expected properties of each individual?

I'm not saying anything here about software engineering, just trying to establish a baseline to understand your argument. Because you seem to be saying that there can be no differences ever, which is so obviously non-intuitive and irrational that I can't believe this would actually be your standpoint.
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that pool become less qualified on average (because you fished out better candidates)

This rests on the assumption that hiring from a given pool exhausts it. It seems intuitive that hiring students from a university or bootcamp would have the opposite effect, as would hiring students from a particular academic background, since unemployment/pay metrics and prestige would drive more students there.

dishonest as in created to hide the discrimination based on sex

Since the clearly stated goal of affirmative action is to hire less of a majority group, it seems more likely that such a policy would be created to prevent imposter syndrome and "my male co-workers think I'm incompetent because of all the diversity hires" syndrome. With such a policy, nobody is a diversity hire.
Sorry for my ignorance but is this merely a technical distinction? I would have thought tax-credits, and non-deduction are effectively equivalent?
A cure that has been "well known" for centuries

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The trick is to make sure the raster image is as clean as possible. But yeah I agree, this is not its best feature.
Sure, because we only use computers to play games on...
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He uses this result to claim they are less able (on average) to deal with stress and that's why men have better paying jobs though.

I believe autistic people also score higher on that neurotic scale, so it's ironic someone who self-identifies as being on the spectrum would highlight that result and, given the general stereotypes, for it to be held up as a difference from other software professionals
It is a general problem with "cost plus" type arrangements though, that really always ought to have clauses to explicitly reward cost-cutting (by letting the provider keep a portion) and sound investments towards better care.
The article says that their solution is in house, and they don't seem to be using integer linear programming. My guess is that they start with a random feasible solution using a fast greedy heuristic, then iteratively improve it using a simulated annealing process.
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I want with my whole heart to believe this was intentional.
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You're putting words in my mouth, rudely I might add. I don't have time to correct you, read my other posts or my blog post about it.
> A blockchain, needing to be received by every user at the same time, is literally the perfect use case for satellite broadcasting.

I have never seen any interest from governments actually blocking blockchain data, or in general censoring bitcoin traffic. Using bitcoin via internet will highly probably stay the cheapest and easiest method in the future, unless really there is need to have millions/billions of nodes. Doesn't look to me like that, in fact I think quite many bitcoin nodes are just hobbyist nodes that don't actually do any payment processing except for few random personal transactions. So it is quite difficult to see the applications for this, unless made "just for fun".

These projects are just cool PR stunts. And they actually seem to work as such pretty well.
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I agree, this has to be allowed to be discussed about, it's literally about the product.

Haven't heard about OpenPOWER, I hope more people are made aware of alternatives to get funding and spin.

There are some ARM processors that live without blobs, I think Olimex produces what they call open-source hardware (OSHW), is this an acceptable product?
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Why not have a real discussion about the environmental differences that influence interests and expectations. American society has very clear gender roles and expectations. Why are girls by age 6 conditioned to think "math is hard". Why are men encouraged to "crush it" or "kill it" and promoted if they do so at work, and yet if a women took a similar approach she would be criticized for being too pushy or bitchy.
Why is this canard such a common response in discussions like these?

The only explanation I've come up with so far is that the people saying stuff like this are profoundly stupid, and I really hate it when my only explanation of a POV is that facile and self-serving. I don't mean to pick on you in particular but I'm hoping you can explain this to me and try to steelman this common refrain.

Free speech as a concept (or a spectrum) exists independently of its codification in our Constitution. It's not something the founders accidentally wrote down and now we're stuck with it: they did it for a reason that some people (myself and the parent comment included) find compelling in contexts other than simply "when the Constitution forces us to".

It's fine to disagree with its relevance to specific contexts, but what on earth compels you to think that "The Constitution doesn't force us to!" is a remotely relevant response to "I think free speech is a good idea in this context"?
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No, in our case they're all unique elements - unfortunately for me! That demo example is actually much smaller though (2k nodes).

Here's an example with over 150k nodes [1]. To be honest, we would normally doctor documents that had this many nodes to make the experience smoother for users. You'll notice that it's a bit sluggish when you zoom in and out, but panning is the same speed regardless of number of elements, and updating elements within the document is fast too.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/xf89s2txvp9jb3k/Big%20SVG%20%28150...
I think focusing on "current tech culture" is likely to misdiagnose the problem. There are way more women in investment banking than tech, and I really struggle to believe that Wall Street has a better culture than Silicon Valley, at least a long the lines typically being emphasised, including misogyny, micro-aggressions and mansplaining. If the prevalence of these phenomenon are repulsive to women to the extent that they will forego even educating themselves in a field, much less join top companies in it (the underrepresentation of women in tech go all the way back to high school, it doesn't start at the hiring processes, biased or not, of tech firms), we would expect to see many fewer women in Wall Street. Instead we see many more.
You're under no compulsion to refute the author or to engage them in a debate, except that you've taken issue with their statement of their position and you've chosen to attack it.

Do you feel that viewpoints that you disagree with should not be allowed to be stated publicly and remain unopposed?
> I didn't know Dwarf Fortress was packaged in Debian

well, goodbye productivity.

I wonder if I can run it on a production server without anyone noticing...
If you are roaming (for example, you take your Spanish mobile to the UK) and receive a phone call (from a friend in Spain) you pay for that (because your friend can't be expected to know you're abroad).
All you get now is power reduction. Performance is completely bottlenecked since 22nm. Peak computing!
just make injury insurance mandatory for tools like this in institutions, and have lower premium for safe tools.

Same could be done for guns.
> Apparently this startup has $55M in funding but if I was an investor I'd be wondering what the hell they're doing right about now.

Blockstream is quite a weird company in the bitcoin space. No one seems to have much idea what their business model could be. At the same time they are quite involved with bitcoin core development, which has caused people to make all kind of conspiracy theories etc about them. They probably put a lot from that VC investment to Bitcoin, so they probably have cash to do all kinds of funny things for quite a long time still.
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I don't think it's false and nasty. I was thinking the same thing ... quite objectively. There were at least two discussions that I thought were very reasonable, and they got flagged into oblivion very quickly. So I don't know why the YC link gets to be the exception. It feels wrong.

Maybe it is due to the users, but if that is so, it feels wrong enough to give me a pretty big loss of faith in the dynamics of the community.
And also the output png is sometimes unpredictable. I hate it when what's supposed to be flat-coloured in svg turns out to be this 'pixelated-swirl' in png. I also find minimising operations can reduce this effect.
they'd still need to query their stuff, I guess, so you'd need to trow in there somewhere something to aggregate logs and get the metrics they're tracking out of it - which can totally be done in streaming, without the need of going trough the logs every time, for most metrics.
Not sure if the propagation delay is sarcastic or not (hard in writing), but network latency is worse with satellite links. Which then doesn't matter because network propagation is largely set by verification worst cases.
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We have it specified by now at least with SVG 2, but browser vendors have made it clear that they don want to support it at all, presumably because SVG 1.1 works well enough as a vector image format and more complexity and features could just be added by scripting. It felt a lot like browser vendors don't care about SVG at all beyond the extent that it's implemented at the moment.

They also tend to break non-static SVG things all the time which further suggests that things like applications or animations built with SVG are definitely not a use case they cater for (or that those things are simply very rare on the top 500 sites they test).
As backwards and ignorant as I think no-platformers are, this isn't really a good example. There's at least a micron of self-awareness among people who support no platforming, and there are generally exceptions for things of historical significance.
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