skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been told that his first interview was actually with Jordan Peterson. The Stefan interview with simply the first to be published maybe, or widely seen.
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She's done some research since in this area, see publication list: https://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/psychology/abo...
Server under attack
My web server is being sent random URLs by some user right now. Is it possible to do something about it? It is more of a nuisance and I can easily lock the port but I could have spent the time doing other things.
I don't think this was an attack; rather, an example furthering the case of "too short".
Ano/pseudonymity.
If you have ADHD, everything you've ever accomplished was
done this way even if you don't realize it. How functional
you are with ADHD depends on its severity but also on
whether you learned, by chance, how to trick yourself. Some
people pick it up on their own but others need help. If they
don't get it, they just get left behind.

I'm one of the lucky ones who stumbled upon a compensatory behavior. Even as an adolescent I would consciously find some hook to latch onto in order to maintain interest in a subject or task; if I didn't _actively_ nurture an interest I had no hope of staying focused. Usually that involves going down the rabbit hole of some esoteric detail of a subject, or adding an "experimental" aspect to some task. The follow through is almost incidental to the compensatory device, but to others it looks like the polar opposite to ADHD--like I can maintain interest in _anything_. Well, I _can_ maintain an interest in anything, but I've spent a lifetime developing that skill because without interest I cannot focus.

This is probably also why I have a terrible time working in groups. When I'm working on a task I _have_ to be free to go down the rabbit hole on some esoteric detail. If I don't I may lose interest and then it's a lost cause. In a group you have to follow the direction of the group, which means I have to very consciously and deliberately maintain a keen interest in both the subject material and the group dynamic. That's 3x times the work--concentrating on the primary subject material, thinking about fascinating details of the subject material, and thinking about fascinating details of the group dynamic--and just incredibly exhausting.

Sometimes I wonder if so-called adult ADHD is simply what happens when someone who compensated well as a kid reaches the limits of those compensation behaviors. As responsibilities accumulate you have less time to nurture and pursue constructive, topical diversions.
There is a distinction between pyramid schemes and ponzie / multi-level marketing schemes. Pyramid schemes aren't implicitly bad - they just mean the last "ladder rung" of the pyramid will lose on the promise of the scheme while anyone who got in before the last profit.

You expect to make a profit on the foundational principles of pyramid schemes. Someone will eventually, inevitably, have to not make a profit because the market of bitcoin will be fully saturated. At which point the value of bitcoin has to be reconsidered - it no longer would be poised to grow through increasing scarcity, so it would need to derive value through other measures.

Whether that happens in a year or a century is the gamble.
You may be assuming that every employee of a company cares about the company's best interests. I find it unlikely that a janitor, intern, disgruntled employee, etc. would be unwilling to spill juicy details for a small fee or feeling of importance.
> Ignoring an argument because its source is "odious"ly biased is the political equivalent of using heuristics to prune a huge search space.

You're proving Damore's point. You refuse to consider his arguments because of your prejudiced, emotional reaction. This is patently irrational.

> It may not always give you an optimal answer. But then, climbing every ant hill to the bitter end may not get you to an answer in your lifetime anyways.

This is a strawman and an argument to absurdity, i.e. also irrational.

> So you can actually be pretty damn certain that without heuristics, you'll never find the truth.

You'll never find the truth if you irrationally dismiss arguments that oppose your prejudiced opinions--unless, of course, you've already arrived at the truth. But believing you've already arrived at the truth would be arrogant and closed-minded, right?
I've been experiencing language difficulties since I started programming more, usually during the workday, when I'm actually working on the code. I thought I was going crazy, but it sounds like you have similar experiences. Is this somewhat normal?
Because it obviously isn't either of that. Did you watch the video?
Time To First Byte?
Starting with the JOBS Act (in 2012), certain smaller companies under a revenue threshold were allowed to file their initial draft registration statements with the SEC confidentially. It was meant to encourage startups to go public and avoid the public eye while they negotiated their registration statements with the SEC. It all goes public before the IPO.
Apparently one of the things that prompted the memo is that google is not diverse. There are plenty of different skin colors and genders, butit's an ideological echo chamber.

Additionally people are not protected from offense in the workplace. They're protected from harassment and an abstract memo that doesn't single out individuals is not harassment.
Isn't a ycombinator blog dedicated solely for women sexist. Isn't "Ask a Female Engineer" sexist? If ycombinator only had "Ask a Male Engineer" wouldn't they be attacked for it?
I think "should have shared his opinion in a different way" is moving the goalposts too far. I think anything that would have placated critics on this point would have neutered Damore's position.

Can someone produce a "diversity culture" critic (for lack of a better term) who provides a good example for Damore? One that is well received across the board?
Now that's a good suggestion. Social pressure is a perfectly valid means of retribution that doesn't require the overwhelming threat of the law.
Politically correct satire, oh my sides! And no mention of man-whores, he-pussies, in fact not a single reference to Deuce Bigelow.
I've often been frustrated trying to put more than one asterisk (not italic tag) in an HN comment.

Serious question, what happened to WYSIWYG? The Web has supported it for like 20 years, why have we standardized on clunky in-line markup for rich text entry, pretty much everywhere?
some people get to work in a creative job (I think being successful in STEM is more creative than people generally account for). in which case all that human development is pretty important.
Tons better and much appreciated, thanks! The only remaining bit I see is "Did you even read the memo" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15023485) which is a common-enough insult to have its own HN guideline (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
The “correct usage” is what’s commonly used by people, not what’s technically correct.

If people use dwarves, then it’s correct to use it regardless of origins.

It’s the same thing with the whole octopus plural thing. Both octopi and octopuses are completely correct despite octopedes technically being the right answer.
They are wrong to worry about that. The world is dynamic, and human development, the way I interpret it, will help the students deal with the world they go out to.

Better people will deal with what comes their way. Maybe today it's a job, but tomorrow it'll be something else.

Students who were only thought how to build software, will have a hard time dealing with life when robots starts building software instead of them.

First have better people, then let better people be better and bring themselves to prosperity.
But they seem to be correlated with one another - look at the similarity between ETC, BTC and LTC
These stylized landing pages benefit from branding, and usually aren't a tremendous amount of searchable content (I doubt anyone will ever find onehostname.com with a search engine).

I'm not too worried about Google's algorithm changes. SEO is one "free" benefit of putting everything on a single hostname, but there are lots of reasons it's desirable. You get better speed (especially with tls and http2), more control, even vanity. What we're really helping people do is manage their stuff that's scattered across 15 different services and make sure they're all delivered to end users well.
Are you saying that the question, "Did NASA land on the moon?" is equivalent to the question, "Is the main reason, that fewer women work at Google, that men are sexist?"
Maybe he could eat only fruit while reading Hacker News Medical Doctors from a reading nook or abode. Mind over matter, bro.
I think it should be considered best practice to not only provide links but host a copy of what you are linking to.
It may have been lousy UX, but I suppose it also provided a social convention of not breaking the chain. Weakest links and all that. Relevant to the OP about linkrot!

Maybe a modern equivalent would redirect downed sites to the IPFS archive.
This is why projects to do with Internet archiving such as https://archain.org/ interest me, as imagine all of the dead links and data lost 23 years from now!
Forgot to mention most important tidbit I learned. Normally, you need to have your first colonoscopy at the age of 50. Mo matter if you have symptoms or not. But for certain ethnic groups, the probability is much higher. Your doctor may, or may not, tell you this (political correctness? Illiteracy? Not sure. In my case, family doctor was in denial even when he saw it), you need to do your own research. Find out where you belong, you may need it at age 30.
Please don't take HN threads further down generic ideological rabbit holes, or rather black holes. Nothing good comes of them and the thread never returns.
Significant time? I don't recall it that way. Had to find them via algolia.
The way I understood his overall point was that in a perfect world were there is not socio-economical bias and a large enough sample size, we would still not have 50/50 split in every single field.

Now, even with that being true, that doesn't mean that whatever percentage we have right now is equilibrium either, but from my understanding, he was trying to say that we should be careful pushing too much towards 50% split.
Yes, exactly this - the ratios are the same in Scandanavia as in the US (and surprisingly much better the third world over).
A side note: MongoDB now dominates the famous framework benchmark in the read benchmarks.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
Are you saying that there exist unbiased sources?

Who has the authority to determine which ideas are worth discussing? Are the rest of us obligated to comply with their judgments?
I was incredibly surprised how the author dismissed this symptom. Maybe I am just paranoid but if something like that happened to me I would go to the doctor's immediately.
Reading this article make me seriously contemplate my own mortality. The last thing you want to do after doing this is get angry at someone. I downvoted because this isn't the time for a discussion like this.
The knowledge I've learned in my brief time there has already resulted in some direct monetary benefits for me. So maybe you're right for newbies, but as an experienced engineer that can find many opportunities, knowledge is power :).
I get infinite redirects to profile.microsoft.com for that link if I load it in a browser with live.com cookies. Kinda sad, really.
I'm praying for you, Scott.
There's little doubt in my mind that the politics of Silicon Valley are nearly entirely a distraction from technology, which, as should be obvious, is the only thing that will matter in 20 years time.

Ironically I think the reason for the politics is that there isn't enough to go around, people get more political, more conscious of class, race and sex when they sense opportunities becoming fewer and the stakes higher.

The most interesting thing out of Silicon Valley in the last five years has been the evolution of Elon Musk's companies - very physical, real world stuff aided and abetted by software. What is he always banging on about? "First Principals".

There exists this enormous pile of problems the working class have and few developers in Silicon Valley are working on anything related to them.
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I think you're probably not in the target audience for a comic like this. It's meant to be light and fun, and appeals to people who already want to put all their stuff on one hostname. All the normal "what do you do? why? how?" questions don't really apply here, that's more what our homepage is for.
> Donations are really a 3 way tax break

That doesn't make sense given the sums we're talking about. If I give someone $100 million (non-charitable), I don't have to pay an extra tax on the giving, I only pay taxes on the income. You're referring to a very specific gift tax scenario.

The majority of the Gates Foundation giving is not within the US. The people on the end receiving should not pay taxes on that as it pertains to the US. Further, the Gates Foundation giving within the US will frequently end up taxed after the gift via income taxes on salaries (whether we're talking about scientists, secretaries or in the field workers receiving foundation dollars to operate as part of a charitable organization).

The scope to the triple tax premise is, in reality, dramatically more narrow.
Here's a comment that refutes the use of those "scientific" sources in the Quora post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15021735
Yeah, the time and place for "are you single" is when the conversation has already moved to more personal matters - or like you say, related to the "soft ask" about dinner/drinks/coffee sometime!
I largely agree, and can see some sort of governance model that's a mashup of cryptocurrency and Wikipedia editing, where political influence (and the ability to make significant changes is proportional to one's established credibility (not that this is beyond abuse either).
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>> First off, saying 70% nurses are women does not indicate discrimination.

Totally agree.

As for 70%, that's a completely contrived number in this case. Think of it as 90% or whatever line-in-the-sand we need.

So Damore was concerned the bar was being lowered, and was concerned the goal was 50-50 ("Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by
decreasing the false negative rate" - links to document I don't have access to) ("Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we
don't have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership."), which is where I came up with those elements.

>>> Or even just trying to hire more men to create an environment of more diversity among nurses.

I think we agree that it's probably okay to hire extra minority candidates, even for diversity sake. Not sure I'd do it, but I don't have too strong an opinion.

>>> A - Generally no, but if the memo was broadcast to the whole company and touched on this points due to the reasons expressed above - I think its ok for the company to take action in the way it deems appropriate.

This is where we go out of sync. It's my understanding that "broadcast" is a mischaracterization, as the memo wasn't sent to anybody, but posted on a public forum for open discussion. I also understand that google actively discussed such policies as diversity efforts, so I suspect he wasn't the only public memo.

And I also support the notion of at-will-employment in the abstract. That said, in practice when I think I see somebody saying X and getting fired because it's easy to misread X as Y, it scares me.

Regarding B, I guess my point is maybe those two propositions are close in your head ('women on average might not like engineering as much for biological reasons' VS 'women can't be engineers'), but they're miles apart in mine. And it's a scary world to me if you can be fired for saying something that isn't sexist, but seems like it leads to a slippery slope of sexism.
Yeah, right, the shame game.
Just trust me when I say that there's another perspective, just as valid; where you are the crazy one. And I've been you.
Or just make the entirely hiring process completely gender and race blind by hiding the name and salient biographical details of the applicant.

This solves two problems: 1) the hiring process is blinded and 2) you can demonstrate to the whole world that it's blinded.

As a side bonus, you get to eliminate other implicit biases that are part of the hiring process, like people preferring people who act like them.
That's animal abuse. Don't hit your pets.
I once tried to develop my own fast random number generate using nothing but bitwise operations. On the theory they were the fastest/simplest. I had a program generate thousands of random combinations of bitwise functions. And then used statistical tests to see which ones produced the most "random" seeming behavior.

It worked as far as I can tell. But I don't trust the statistical tests. Who is to say there isn't a very obvious pattern in the numbers that I didn't test for or notice? How do you prove a random number generator is good?
You might be right. It was definitely the first I saw pop up.
I'm telling you in plain mathematical terms that the way you go about hiring effects the distribution of candidates skill if you introduce any bias into the system regardless of whether or not its a literal or figurative bar or a bias on any parameter. I don't think anyone is going to disagree that biases exist on both sides of the aisle. Arguing about what google does or does not do is futile exercise I made zero claim about google and only believe they have introduced some biases in their hiring in some form.
I think Damore is aggrieved because Google leadership had chances to provide more constructive criticism, missed those chances, then resorted to a draconian resolution.

Also, I don't know why aggrievement needs to be exclusive. More than one party can be aggrieved.
Presumably: you might want to pitch Wordpress as a CMS solution for a nonbloggy thing.
You could put your site behind cloudflare and enable one of the antispam modes. It is intended for this purpose. They have a nice free tier.
Can't be that easy, right?

Has to involve nasty chemicals, radiation and flesh-cutting if it's going to work. Because, erm, that's what the profiteering psychos running this world are saying.

Is that the best you're capable of? Have you actually seen people in cancer "treatment"? What about your brain, what are you using it for instead?
Yes, this was a bit of a surprise for me to - "In fact, in general solving NP-hard problems in polynomial time with quantum computers is not believed to be possible"
Not to be harsh, but you probably won't get accepted. You'll need to do some CS nanodegrees first, or something equivalent (a full undergrad CS/maths degree is obviously ideal). I know people in similar positions, even one with a physics degree, who could not get in due to lack of academic experience.

Otherwise, I think OMSCS is totally worth it. It is hard though. Really hard. I have a family, significant engineering experience, and I find the workload intense. It puts pressure on my family at the same time because I'm not available as much. So I'm taking it very slow, no more than 2-3 courses a year.

It feels great to be 'back at school' after so many years. I love learning new stuff and the challenges of hacking away at low level things. The kind of thing you rarely get to do professionally unless you're very lucky (or not getting paid much). Almost makes me wish I had done a Ph.D.

I don't know if it will help me get a better job or whatever, but it definitely fulfills my own internal itch.
I'm observing that your attitude is defensive, as if the assertions you're refuting are personally insulting to you, as if they imply that you shouldn't have bought a Tesla. I don't understand why this is so.
I put a flic in my car so I can easily control my phone when the car's UI isn't being cooperative.
Thanks for clarifying and correcting my assumptions. I'm guessing the content of the article in addition to the domain led users to view this as a more productive contribution to the debate. Apologies for assuming that it was HN favoritism on the part of the mods... very interesting that this happened organically.

(While I'm replying to you, one super trivial and completely unrelated feature request... if comment forms are being submitted via JS, could you guys add code to prevent duplicate form submission when the enter key is held down too long? Very low priority and I know you're busy enough, but just figured I would pass along the suggestion. I've had to go back and fix my own accidental dupes a few times.)
Automattic is the company that runs Wordpress.com. Its founder, CEO, and president is Matt Mullenweg. Wordpress was started by two people: Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. Automattic was founded about 2 years after the Wordpress project was started.

So two guys forked an older OSS project, and a couple years later, created a company, licensed the Wordpress name to that company, and created an SaaS offering bearing the same name as the open source project. I guess that the author of this page has a problem with that, and thinks that other people should have a problem with it too.
If you search harder for them, the bar is lowered by virtue of letting them be less outstanding / noticeable.
how much confusion is there, really? developers already know the difference and casual users/bloggers will never care.
To be fair, from his perspective it appears he was trying to discuss discrimination taking place against him. I'd think long and hard before I told a woman to shut up if they were talking about the same. There's actually a reasonable argument that his document is protected speech and Google violated federal employment law by firing him.
In fact, the incredible Scott Alexander has also explained the point you raise in "Beware Isolated Demands For Rigor" [1].

[1]: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demands...
And I think it's important to point out here that this argument is probably wrong. It is one of the many examples where Damore cites research, but puts his own spin on it. One of the researchers Danmore cited is David P Schmitt. Here [0] David states:

"But it is not clear to me how such sex differences are relevant to the Google workplace. And even if sex differences in negative emotionality were relevant to occupational performance (e.g., not being able to handle stressful assignments), the size of these negative emotion sex differences is not very large (typically, ranging between “small” to “moderate” in statistical effect size terminology; accounting for less than 10% of the variance). So, using someone’s biological sex to essentialize an entire group of people’s personality would be like operating with an axe. Not precise enough to do much good, probably will cause a lot of harm. Moreover, men are more emotional than women in certain ways, too. Sex differences in emotion depend on the type of emotion, how it is measured, where it is expressed, when it is expressed, and lots of other contextual factors."

A lot of the science that Danmore cites is correct. But he goes beyond what the science says in his memo. He misinterprets it to prove his point. This is my main problem with the memo, and why someone may call it sexist.

[0] http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-...
All of these things.
OP, consider cryonics for the sake of your children -- at least they will have a chance to know you in he future.