skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also wondered a long time about why would an attorney defend someone which clearly seems to be a criminal.

My understanding of this is that if someone is an obvious criminal, it will be easy to prove in court, so the attorney will not change the outcome.
Diversify your crypto portfolio.
No, that would be Cascade Lake-X and Cascade Lake-SP.
More likely C: They won't get fired for a post on HN.
If Google would not have such diversity program in the first place, none of that would be happening. Reason why female engineers might have anxiety about what male engineers think about them is exactly result of having such program in place.
No one said anything about possessions, you're projecting. We're talking about survival here, not consumerism.
Do you route based on anything except distance? Obviously you can't deliver to people at 2AM, and drivers want to get home by a reasonable hour, but what about other stuff like weather and road traffic conditions, priority or late parcels, etc? If so, how do you weight these competing and probabilistic concerns?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_routing_problem#VRP_va...
There is nothing natural about a dung learning to navigate using the stars. Nothing that great either. A creature will always try to figure its way using objects as a reference point.

An incredibly complex network of structures is more proof of a higher order.

Enjoy your belief in a perpetually self-correcting field of science and a perception of the world that never ceases to change. By definition, you'll never find peace.
Yep. No one is stopping them from having personal black list and refuse to work personally but they were claiming to ruin people's career inside and outside of Google and they were proud of it which is scary. Also someone was proposing public blacklist...
I'll say this if it's just for "fun" for someone I don't think it would work that well. I took the first PT bootcamp (I paid) and that was a HUGE undertaking. They are only going FT in the near future until they can figure the other options time wise, so if that person has a day job that would make it tough and if they didn't have a day job I would imagine "most" people aren't going to complete the whole thing anyways. I'm sure a couple of people will squeak through but I don't see that being a huge issue with the course work being on the more difficult side of things especially for someone coming from a non programming background.
I'm saying there's not enough context in the released messages to declare this unambiguously bullshit, and provided a reason why they would record the intersection, as parent comment asked "why in the world would they be taping it".

The number of Uber's violations could have been communicated previously, or could have been implicit in the context of the conversation (at least 1 violation, causing the investigation) - either of these 3 explanations seems equally likely.

Considering how dangerous this is, I really doubt they would run a red light SIX times through the SAME intersection purposefully, risking the life of REAL PEOPLE around them each and every time.

Uber's management and engineers may be irresponsible, but I don't think they're that evil, and I would hope no self-respecting engineer or human being would go along with that. "Oh, that's funny, let's try that again" works for software development, it's emphatically not how real world testing involving danger to life and limb works.

As to "why would this be important enough to text back", that's pure speculation, but if I was tasked with investigating this, I would be pretty relieved to see that this is a location that's confusing human drivers as well, not just my software, and would be pretty likely to communicate that back to my team.
Ice Lake has been delayed from 2017 to 2018, so I'm not sure what competition has to do with it.
> Those who disagreed with Damore already won the battle.

No. Not yet. women still tend to be underpaid. Women make 72 cents to a male's $1 of wages for the same job.

As a white male, I don't care to "discuss" if women are my intellectual inferiors - which is exactly the point Damore was making ... and the point that YOU are making.
Oh sure, the updates are current, but the feel of the site itself and the fun vehicles depicted are quite retro! (And satisfyingly so, I should add.)
So, Amazon is still selling Mein Kampf.

Going by the No Platform argument mentioned a lot in this thread, or by the right to choose how to do business, people should be putting pressure on Amazon to stop selling it.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mein-Kampf-Struggle-Adolf-Hitler-eb...
Again, all easy things to worry about when you're not trying to just survive as most people are. Most people are worried about far more practical things that being "better people".
Twice so far and it was 12-months each.

Btw, that was personal runway - i.e. didn't get paid for that period. Rather than raising 12-months of getting paid.
The negative bias was the apparent opposition to some government funding. Whether government funding is appropriate is a matter for discussion, but for another day.

When I see or hear people saying "I wish I could force people to do blah blah blah", it has always been an indicator to mean that they only regard their own opinion as having any worth. If on the other hand, they say something like "this is well worth reading for the following reasons, blah blah blah", then its an indicator to me that there is a viewpoint that can be looked even if you don't agree.

As I do on a daily basis, I may encourage people to look at specific things and I can argue with the best/worst of them. But if someone has no inclination or desire (for whatever reason) to look at specific subjects that is their choice. I'll state my piece and if they are not interested then that's where it ends.

Ranking of schools has been attempted before and as far as I can tell, it hasn't really amounted to any valid standard test or measure. When I was in senior secondary school (many decades ago now), our deputy principal was heavily involved in the development of a standardised testing regime for all schools (private and public) in the state. As students, we had the opportunity to pin him to the wall and find out how it was supposed to operate. The upshot was that the system could be gamed in both positive and negative ways and that its sole purpose was to provide a measure by which students in the state could be culled from the higher education market. The comparison he gave was to compare what was happening in the USA at that time and how to prevent the worst aspects of the USA education from ever occurring here. In some senses that has been successful, but only in some areas.
Damore literally said they were "lowering the bar". You can't have it both ways here.
Thank you. As a psychiatrist, Scott ought to know better than to cite these things as gospel...

"the more progressive and gender-equal a country, the larger gender differences in personality ... become"

I suggest you read Lippa's papers and survey paper and draw your own conclusions. These inferences are drawn from very limited observations, and generalizing so far from the observational context is totally unconvincing.

What do Rhesus monkeys have to do with CS graduates?

The CAH studies I've been able to unearth are very underpowered. Maybe there are better ones, though. Also, CAH affects genitalia, which affects gender identity, which affects socialization. Not at all surprising that some CAH females would exhibit masculine characteristics, through socialization alone.

> why do they only affect CS and not other high status/high paying jobs (like being a doctor)

Outside SV and similar areas, CS has nowhere near the same status as medicine. How many TV shows can you list about software developers? How many about doctors?
There are still more qualified women making it through university than Google could possibly hire. Google just has to try a bit harder to find them.

Example: Men and women are equally qualified by nature, but the graduating class contains 800 qualified men and 200 qualified women due to unfair "thinning". Google needs to hire 200 people, so they hire 100 men (1 out of 8 in the graduating class) and 100 women (1 out of 2 in the graduating class).
> The message is unacceptable. That person is done, that person should be done.

This sounds like willfull ignorance, no matter how true something is you aren't allowed to say it because it might hurt some feelings.

I'd prefer to acknowledge reality.
Glad to see this problem getting visibility. I worked briefly for a rebilling company that specialized in rehab centers in SoCal. With the right billing codes, those places could pull incredible incomes.
A registrar or caching provider withdrawing service to a customer is essentially sending a message, and from that perspective the action should be covered by free speech. So I would argue that yes, if GoDaddy or Cloudflare were offended by Breitbart, they should be able to cut them off.

Note that in this case, the provider would not be infringing on the customer's free speech, because there are myriad other providers they can use.
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I'm gonna hack on it a bit tonight before I go to bed. Here is the link: https://github.com/tomschlick/request-migrations
Have you looked at the BAT project? Seems to me that something along these lines could bring such a vision closer.

As in, your browser blocks tracking / identification by default (integrated TOR?). Sites can offer you a bit of tokens if you agree to share your identity / if you let them track what you're looking at. It's a bit of an extension of what BAT aims for, but I think their vision goes in such a direction.

I could see such a thing taking hold, just like AdBlock Plus and co. have become a thing that advertisers / publishers need to work around.
I watched the video. You asked "why would they be taping the intersection", I gave you a pretty obvious explanation, not sure why you are so vehement about it.

In turn, why would any sane person run a two ton piece of gear through a moving intersection, endangering pedestrians and cross traffic through a red light where it is known to have failed once already, not once, not twice more, but six times in a day?

Why would you, as a responsible person, not immediately tell your test drivers to avoid this intersection until the issue is root caused, or, more likely, suspend testing for that day entirely?

Or do you just assume every engineer at Uber is a cackling mad scientist blinded by their quest to create our new machine god?
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Really?

I don't have discussions at work or at the bar wondering if women are inferior.

I really do think women are my intellectual equal.
Rare and catastrophic events like this that can severely
shorten your life are ones you should not plan for.

If you have dependents one should at least think about purchasing term life insurance. It's relatively cheap because the risk is small.

OTOH, because medical science has become so good at extending life, it's an even better idea to purchase disability insurance. That's something I still keep meaning to do. But it is more expensive as a not insignificant number of people become disabled, at least temporarily, in middle age. For example, disability insurance will pay for the time you're getting chemotherapy and unable to draw your normal salary. It's basically an income guarantee.

Note that employer-sponsored policies--especially term life--are crap. They're structured as a tax dodge for the employer, the cap is usually much too low, and in any event the policy is only good for as long as you're with that employer. Basically, it's a bad deal. The sooner you buy a private policy the cheaper it will be; don't wait even if you already have an employer-sponsored policy!

Apropos HN, here's a good startup making it easier to buy these policies: https://www.policygenius.com/

I used them for my term life insurance policy and was very happy with their service. I plan on using their service again for disability insurance once I have the budget.

AFAIU term life insurance is much like auto insurance--the policies break even but the issuers profit from the float. I used to think these things were bad deals. Some are, like, arguably, State Farm, which charges a huge premium because they invest so heavily in advertisement and an army of insurance agents. Or those issuers that specialize in selling policies to the elderly. But most traditional issuers quote fair prices and the industry seems generally very reputable.
About 12 months, but it's easy to spend much faster than you expect.

Although if I were giving advice to someone else doing a startup where it's difficult to get immediate traction (e.g. hard tech, enterprise SaaS, hardware, etc.), I'd remind them of the Jason Lemkin rule that it typically takes 24 months to get anywhere[1].

[1]: https://www.saastr.com/if-youre-going-to-do-a-saas-start-up-...
https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/blog/little-help-bill-gates...
> papers with truly novel results will suddenly be hundreds of pages and tens of pages of setup.

We're already there with Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-universal_Teichm%C3%BCll...), the entire mathematical field singlehandedly created by Mochizuki to prove the ABC Conjecture. Mochizuki worked in isolation and astounded the world by revealing all of this at once.

Now, the world's top mathematicians have been so impressed with whatever they've managed to understand from Mochizuki's papers that big efforts are being made to unravel it, getting Mochizuki to teach lectures, etc. As best as I know it, the entire thing hasn't been independently verified -- it's such a tall stack of novel mathematics.

Now: we can chastise Mochizuki for not playing within the ordinary rules of math research (publish ongoing research, etc.), or acclaim him as a genius having produced fundamental, discontinuous advances in his field... or we can do both.

I wouldn't blame people for holding off on "using" Mochizuki's results (they're too abstract for that, but anyway) because the whole thing is so obscure still. What's more: I wouldn't hold skepticism on Mochizuki as an example of academia being too self-referential. The academic rat race is supposed to keep these things from happening by imposing some structure on the production of knowledge.
I have a small, child's/sewing type Fiskars scissors from a number of years ago. Made in U.S.A. -- even then, they'd grown beyond Finland. It's held up quite well.

But I needed a larger model; the "generic" office scissors I had in that size didn't take long to become fairly useless. I happened across a Fiskars model while shopping for other stuff. It even has a non-stick coating -- might be useful when cutting tape, something that's been gumming up the generic. I took a chance and bought it. We'll see, but on the package: Made in China.

P.S. It's just been my observation with numerous brands and products, that when manufacture has moved to China, quality has declined.
One of the basic contexts of the debate is the question of whether tech workplaces are hostile to women. The tone of the email making claims about women in the workplace is relevant.
you might be interested to read this article where author touches on societal variation a bit: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...
I agree then; but it's partly out of the fact that we're using centralised technology to share ideas. It's right to be concerned when the discourse is controlled by a small number of peoeple who act out of the desire for profit, which is what's happening here. The quicker we can dispense of the idea that the "popular" Internet offers a "free market of ideas", the quicker we'll see people losing trust in the controllers of the "popular" Internet, from Youtube to domain registrars.

Reddit and HN don't help either; they propagate this idea that if your comment is with a negative score (disapproved of by two or more people), it's not worth listening to. They do this by taking measures to obscure your comment, such as making it hard to read (on HN) or hiding it below a button (on Reddit). The idea that an idea is only worth listening to because of its popularity is only less pernicious to the idea that an idea is only worth listening to if it brings the messenger profit.

Truth is being commodified.

(I'm the person you replied to but this is my alternate account, because the HN moderators have put a flag on my account since many months ago which stops me from commenting too quickly; it activates if I comment more than 3 or 4 times within half an hour, and then stops me from posting more than twice every two hours. How ironic.)
I think it's very ironic that males took over the discussion that intended to seek our female opinion.
Perhaps they are, perhaps they aren't; I'm not a Doctor of Education, so I can't and won't claim that I know the answer to that question.

My question to you, is applicable regardless:

As an industry-destined BSCS student, in what ways does my future improve as a result of my education, except for career path and earnings? And if there are such (nontrivial) ways, then why should I care about them?
> I do miss Flash's editor for these types of content, though.

It's still here! It's now branded Animate CC[1], and (naturally) focuses on other output formats.

[1] http://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html
> I'm still making up my mind on this one, but for the sake of argument, I'll disagree with you.

OK :)

I think some of Damore's complaints were, on the surface, about Google. But they're all rooted in some old and incorrect ideas.

Damore advocates against Google's diversity programs, arguing that diversity programs can't be fully effective because fundamental biological differences between women and men are responsible for the gender gap, not social or cultural disadvantage, and further that these programs are discriminatory against men.

This is an old idea. Women's rights activists have heard this time and time again, whether it was for the right to go to school (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_education_in_the_Uni...), the right to have a job (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_rights#Equal_employm...), or of course, the right to vote. The argument, every single time, is "women and girls aren't really interested in reading/writing/working/politics". But in each case, we discovered that women were discouraged (and often outright punished) in strong, varied, and complex ways from being involved in these things, and when we investigated and removed those impediments suddenly the "interest gap" disappeared.

The "discriminatory against men" argument is essentially a reverse discrimination argument, and I'll leave it to Jamelle Bouie to explain why those are wrong: https://www.thenation.com/article/race-millennials-and-rever....

But the main reason that Damore's argument is outrageous is that the arguments about interest and fundamental biological differences have been used to hold women and people of color back since the inception of the US. Reverse discrimination belittles and dismisses the experiences of women and people of color by falsely equating systemic sexism and racism with isolated incidents, or in this case with gender-conscious diversity programs.

I'd also like to address the free speech issue a little. The US concept of free speech protects citizens from government retaliation. It doesn't mean I have to tolerate speech of all kinds in my home, and it doesn't mean that businesses have to tolerate speech of any kind in the workplace. With that in mind, it's obvious that you can't say whatever you want at work even though e we may disagree on where the line is.
yeah all the different settings can be a little overwhelming. I'm constantly in awe I'm able to take photos of stuff that basically ten years ago+ you needed a damn helicopter for.
Oh interesting. That's a pretty detailed report.

One thing jumps out at me,

> This is where fleet learning comes in handy. Initially, the vehicle fleet will take no action except to note the position of road signs, bridges and other stationary objects, mapping the world according to radar. The car computer will then silently compare when it would have braked to the driver action and upload that to the Tesla database. If several cars drive safely past a given radar object, whether Autopilot is turned on or off, then that object is added to the geocoded whitelist.

Relying on whitelists seems like a hack. Then again, I'm not building it =)
So sorry to read that.
Good luck to the author. I'd love to read a happy follow-up in 10 years.
I think the real issue here is that our schools are somewhere between liberal arts and vocational, so they do a pretty shitty job at both
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If that's the case, then yeah definitely a problem
You pay at the beginning of each semester for the classes you'll take during that semester. It's not a lump sum.
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For what it's worth, he addressed your first point in a reddit AMA. More or less, he thinks smart women are more verbally gifted, so they have more viable career choices on average. If that's true, they may they pick apparently nonverbal jobs (programming) less often.

https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesDamore/comments/6thcy3/im_jame...

"For high achieving women, they tend to be good at both quantitative and verbal skills. For high achieving men, they tend to be good at quantitative skills and proportionally not as good at verbal. Thus, high achieving women have more choices of careers (like being a lawyer), while men may have fewer."
But that was part of point in the memo, he was proposing how to change tech culture to make it more appealing for women. Like one of his proposals was to introduce part-time jobs into Google among other things. He wasn't claiming to have all answers but wanted to start official conversation on this topic and figure out what is truly feasible at Google...
1. Decentralized cryptos certainly do help evade oppressive authorities. It's easier to discover & seize a bank account than to discover & seize someone's memorized warpwallet password. Compare that to Chinese using VPNs to evade the GFW. Sure, the GFW is pretty good at blocking VPNs (see my experience: http://blog.zorinaq.com/my-experience-with-the-great-firewal...) but they certainly do help evade it.

2. I think your are being pedantic on the definition of "absolute". For all practical purposes, in the entire history of Bitcoin, its users have had absolute control over their money. There has never been a single documented event of a protocol change to block, or miners colluding to block a particular transaction (except obvious bugs like the 2010 int overflow where someone created X billion illegitimate bitcoins.)

3. Again, decentralized cryptos certainly do help evade censorship, compared to traditional centralized financial systems. A bank account is trivial to seize. A Bitcoin warpwallet, not so much.

4. No I don't assume that. I had more in mind the example of a user wanting to donate to wikileaks, and credit card companies deciding to block these transactions. Bitcoin prevents this from happening.
If only I could upvote twice, this is an excellent analogy.
> Are you that afraid of God?

People who are talking about science and don't want to bring God in the mix generally don't want to do so because they believe gods are silly superstition; you cant' be afraid of things you don't have any reason to believe exist.

> Honestly though, the more you break apart and put together the world through science, the stronger are the signs of a higher order.

Not remotely true.
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