skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>When I walk into my job at a tech company, how do I know which of my colleagues thinks I’m an outlier among women versus someone who was hired because I’m female that doesn’t deserve the job they have?

Damore never said he thought this way; this is merely an implication of something he did say.

What he did say was that he believes that - even though there are 4 times as many men as women at Google - the men who are there deserve to be there as much as the women. This implies that, were you to utilize quotas to achieve gender parity, then this same equality would not be true - men would now "deserve" their jobs more than women.

Conversely, if you think that gender parity through quotas would bring about equality of the sexes, then that implies that you think men employed right now are less capable then women. Men around you should then ask themselves the inverse question: how do they know which colleagues think they were hired purely because they are a man?
Yeah, so the node names now apparently refer to the "smallest feature size", which is some random thing on the M0 metal layer. Source - from a former Intel engineer for more than a decade
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I'm personally really excited for TockOS. I'd love to start seeing some comparisons of these new embedded OSes.
Considering this is one of the most explosively discussed topics on HN and in the industry I would say he's been wildly successful at starting a discussion.
Women aren't interested in tech because they grow up with social blockers, such as his memo. That's the point everyone seems to miss. Imagine a girl interested in tech when only a handful of her peers understand her interest. Then, she reads such an article and bullshit social studies passed on as evidence and gets socialised that tech really isn't for women.

Until you remove social blockers that prevent women from entering tech, you cannot claim legitimacy of any social survey in regards to that. This letter belongs to a time when a generation of women are equally pushed to enter tech as men. Then we can debate whether it's their lack of interest of not.
This showcases what's wrong with SVG: It does way too much!

To be useful as a vector image format, there should be strict rules (and less cruft). Why is there no libsvg like libjpeg or libpng? Why have interaction as part of an image format?

SVG lives in an uncanny valley between jpeg and flash/js.

I think there is still a big need for a real vector interchange and display format. Right now people pick a "good" subset of SVG. Or even fallback to fonts.

My dream vector format:

- Pixel perfect across implementations at 50%,100%,200% renderings. At least grid aligned lines.

- Lossless roundtrip across apps. Start in Illustrator, edit parts in Inkscape, other parts in Animate, untouched things stay exactly the same.

- Standard zero dependency C reference implementation: Stream in, bitmap out.
Diversity Crisis in AI, 2017 edition
I believe this is how Hashicorp's Vault does it.
I don't know anything about US Nazis. But, maybe they exist -- I would not deny that they do. And, if they exist, then, sure stabbing people might be part of what they do.

Stabbing people is illegal, and we are awash in law enforcement to deal with that. But the law they broke was stabbing people. Being a Nazi may not actually be illegal. So, we don't lock them up for being a Nazi. We don't say, "Nazis stab people so that being a Nazi is reason enough to lock them up."

But, whether Nazis want to incite violence or not, IMHO too many newies essentially do, that is, are so outrageously irresponsible that they do incite violence.

Look at Trump's press conference today, at Trump Tower where he had just had a meeting on US infrastructure. Then he had a press conference. It's at YouTube, and I downloaded the MP4 and watched it all.

The newsies were totally out of control, kept shouting questions about essentially only the riots and interrupted Trump during his answers. Their goal? Somehow get Trump to say something really stupid, say, be really critical of some particular groups or persons, and, thus, get a battle going, start a fight, make some people A who didn't like what some people B said be more willing to attack people B, etc.

Then the newsies get to cover what Trump said, cover the maybe violent results in the streets, and then blame Trump. And a lot of Democrats, as already, will take this political opportunity and make the most of it. So, in effect, the nasty newsies want to stir people up, raise the temperature of the issues, and, hence, essentially incite violence. Trump tried to lower the temperature.

Look, 85+% of the whole riot situation was deliberately just to get it in front of the newsies so that they could raise the temperature and get more violence.

Net, the newsies want violence.
Yeah, 7nm doesn't mean anything now. Refer to them effectively as product names.
Intel is really no better.

The "7nm/10nm" transistor fin pitches are something like ~50 n, and the length is something like 100-150nm
As I did mention a month or so ago in a post related to robocall I decided myself to tackle a solution to help fight those calls. I am still working on it as a side project, and 90% of the backend system is done, and probably 50% of the iPhone app done (considering to add Android support later).
It will add a twist on the way to fight such calls do it has at least a feature that differentiate it from similar apps.

If anyone will want to help beta test when it is ready (require an iPhone with iOS 10 or 11), ping me! (Email info in profile)
I wonder what would happen if some startup started using public Yelp reviews.
Just a landing page and no info on who is working on this service... doesn’t make me confident.
They're all marketing, Intel is no exception. At 40nm and over, the Intel node names were larger than the industry average, now it's the other way around.
I like to pick up so I can decide for myself if it's a spam call. If it is, it gets blocked and reported (Android). Not sure if Google does anything with the report but at least it is tagged on the next call in.
I have had the same phone number for 15 years, and I have been getting A LOT of robocalls lately.

I tried stopping them with NoMoRobo on iOS. It worked OK, but it can't match "Unknown caller" or blocked numbers, which made it kind of worthless for me. Sigh.
well, the easiest way to refute is to call him racist, sexist, and ageist, all the while beating the "FIRE HIM NOW" drum.

it works rather effectively.

(seriously, the dh0 "u r a fag!!!!!!!!!!!!" is a terrifying force, when seen and used as in a group or mob.)
Lenny - Recordings of an hilarious spam-buster. Great way to pass the time:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduL71_GKzHHk4hLga0nOG...
I don't think that the GP meant "optimize by gradient descent." I think the intention was in saying that a problem that is differentiable (or sub-differentiable, if locally convex, say) gives a lot more structure to the program than a general non-differentiable one.

Yes, while optimizing both might still be NP-hard (e.g. an ILP vs. an arbitrary polynomial, say, both of which are non-convex), we usually don't have nearly as much problem optimizing differentiable programs of the same size as some combinatorial optimization problems simply because the structure allowed by the differentiable one is so much nicer and we can find local minima without a problem (which is usually enough for most practical cases).
> She wasn't spreading bullshit. That example - a black roman soldier in roman Britain - actually happened.

It was featured along with a caption describing it is a 'typical' family, making it ripe for mockery. A responsible historian might weigh in with something like "the scene depicted in the cartoon was improbable and definitely not typical, but not not completely outside the realm of possibility." Instead she weighed in with "pretty accurate, actually". Total BS.

> In this example he used bullshit of "we don't see the genes" - a point that got nicely debunked in a few places.

Did it? Link?

> But those books are pop books. Why did he become unhinged after she called his pop books pop?

In the context of the conversation "pop" is clearly a slur, inviting the sort of response it got.
Is it greed exactly? Wouldn't the saws just cost more?

I suppose the R&D on building the components into their current products is something they don't want to do, so maybe that's the greed aspect?
Same thing happens to me at least once per week. They spoof the Caller ID to be the area code and first 3 digits of my number.
> I did not get any aggressive tone from his paper. I thought he was as polite as he needed to be and made the necessary caveats.

I agree with this too. There were issues of perception since the Gizmodo version had no sources, links or charts. Later leaked version had the charts and a full version was put up on diversitymemo.com (which no redirects to Damore's official website).

So a lot of people didn't get the full version, even if they read the whole thing. Overall I thought we was pretty tactful and did his best to express what he knew would be an unpopular viewpoint.
What on earth are people doing on spreadsheets that needs GPU acceleration??
I do wonder if this is an issue of misaligned incentives. If a person has workers' comp insurance through their company, why not give a reduced price to the company if they deploy this tool? The owner can show they reduce the risk of high payouts. The insurance company should, rationally, drop the bill by 50-100 a year. Even 30-50 could make the price difference of the saw worth it then.
Now that Intel got competition again with very competitive new AMD CPUs, Intel is releasing "new" CPU to the public that waited in their basement for some time. AMD CPUs are a lot faster than they hoped, so Intel has to skip one generation.
Check out RethinkDB, a competing product which had exactly this happen earlier this year. I don't follow the project closely, but the Linux Foundation picked up stewardship and development appears to be continuing, if at a reduced pace.

MongoDB is pretty popular, so while it would certainly be disruptive in the short term for the sponsoring company to go out of business, continued community development is all but assured.
How is that relevant to the question?
think it is a bad fit and a bad time for an IPO, their market just isnt big enough and their losing a lot of steam as of late.

most importantly in terms of numbers, there is nothing going for them. they arent exactly redhat level in terms of support, nor rackspace level for subscriptions, and nor snapchat level in terms of market reach.
this looks like some last effort cash out sort of deal to me. weird to say that its somewhat of a sad outcome for an once promising opensource company.
Let's try a compromise, how about multithreaded programs? Or how about programs utilizing less control flow so that static processors (yes, like the infamous VLIW) can extract ilp?
Ask HN: Anyone know how to get a tour of Tesla?
Sorry, I've always been relatively quiet on here, sometimes contributing. I'm currently on vacation from the UK and would love to take my children (14 and 10) and wife to see the Tesla factory but I gather that it is only available to owners. Does anyone know any way to get a tour as my eldest son loves engineering and has read everything he can about Tesla. We're staying with relatives in San Jose 25th, 26th and 28th so if anyone can be of any help it would be much appreciated. I understand it might be stupid asking on here, but I thought I'd try!
Nomorobo has been hit/miss for me. 75% on catching robocalls, and I've had a false positive that belonged to a caller I wanted to talk to. I'm not enthusiastic about the results, but will be continuing to use it.
I don't think his position is right, I'm pointing out that it's not dishonest to omit irrelevant details. That said, others don't need to change their opinions in order to become a more diverse, tolerant workplace, they simply need to not go out of their way to shame and intimidate those who are different from them.
If you think that lithography is challenging, your brain is going to invert looking at the litho technology for 7nm and onwards :)
Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund
I don't get the revolution to the n'th degree thing. Companies in the modern world are ripe for really deep chnage (weird oasis of top down dictatorships in a democratic society, centrally planned economies trying to espouse free market thinking)

Ronald Coase' theory of the firm tells us as organising anything gets easier firm sizes will shrink - and the Internet should make organising anything easier - the blockchain being a great low cost such technology.

But - why the total war approach. Why "no leader, no management, totally decentralised". I think we shall see "Programmable companies" arise but this extreme article just seems silly - we will get revolutionary improvements - be happy and be prepared don't moan it's not enough.
If saying that female applicants are given preferential treatment is harmful to female employees, then surely the people doing the preferential treatment (HR?) are the ones who are actually guilty, not the messenger? Why is there no complaints against those practices? Are they not real?

He shouldn't be criticized for raising concerns about discriminatory hiring because, right or wrong, he had a legally protected right to do that without suffering retaliation. If people don't like those ideas being mentioned, they should try to get the law changed because this is one of the very few things Californians can't be fired for yet it seems to be the main point of complaints against Damore.
They talk about members voting on external contractors. This is not really a new concept and it's basically how governments work too. And we know stuff like this is still susceptible to curruption and bribery. The difference is that with a DAO there's nobody to take responsibility, so these problems will be amplified. I don't really think it will work in general. There may be some narrow, specific things that this will work for but it can't replace actual corporations.
This type of discussion is protected by law, which is why Damore is suing Google. Also he didn't leak the memo, merely posted it on an internal board which has the intent of discussion; someone else made it public.
What disqualifies it as being warranted? It's from the article for this thread.
> but I certainly don't know that it will be more, equally, or less productive with these culture changes.

Nor does Damore.

In Damore's memo, the table of left vs right bias was ridiculous, even if we agree on those biases, which we don't, I'd argue why use those, and why pick n number of biases and leave out others? This isn't a rigorous paper.

The toy hypothetical following the table is such a overly simple contrivance, are we supposed to be taking this seriously? So many assertions...

Perhaps the bar is too low at Google.
Note: I find it interesting/disturbing/sad/telling that I've been sitting here for a long time contemplating if I should even submit this message since I use my real name here.

Thank you. I have been noticing this for the past year, both here and in almost all other online forums. And it's not just the ability to troll or make a comment that you know might push a few buttons.

It's questioning whether it's even safe to post a logical argument against any of the narratives deemed sacred these days by the left.

The fact that the worst offenders in this new witch hunt are the same ones who have massive amounts of data on all of us is terrifying.
I think there's something wrong with this argument. Companies don't recruit randomly from a big sea of 80/20 applicants, they recruit from a chosen set of pools, where the average of every pool they could possibly recruit from is 80/20.

Choosing to recruit only from pools where the proportion of women is greater than 20% isn't quite the same as lowering the bar. The bar is at the same height for men and women, just with a skewed population. You're artificially excluding pools of people who would make good candidates, but since both women and men can bypass your outreach efforts by going straight to you, you're not refusing to hire anyone who is both qualified and motivated enough to apply directly.

I think proponents of the google diversity programs are arguing that they do this. I'm not sure whether they do. I think the real situation might be a hodgepodge of systemic factors and biases in both directions that sum up to something unpredictable, plus a few largely ineffectual diversity programs, and a massive question mark around why there are so few female CS grads in the first place (biology! sexism! gender roles! c64 ad campaigns! inertia!). Nevertheless, it's a bit more complicated than just lowering the bar for women.
TL;DR Don't pick up calls from unfamiliar numbers.

It did help confirm a sneaking suspicion I've had, which is that robocalls spoof a caller ID number with your area code and prefix, to make it seem more familiar.

Stories about people who manipulate telemarketers are amusing, and mobile minutes are mostly no longer scarce, but who has the time? Time and attention are the scarcest resources.
> The US concept of free speech protects citizens from government retaliation.

This is true, but California presciently has other laws in place to protect workers that want to discuss potentially illegal behavior in good faith. This is why Damore is suing Google, and why it's quite likely that he will win.
You might still loose partial datasets (especially when the database is not 100% perfectly constrained) and not all software handles such sudden halts perfectly. Making a snapshot of any working dataset of any software without the data corrupting or loosing parts of the working set is a pipedream.
Every single image I've seen of this has been overwhelmingly young males, the personal experience of everyone I know in the affected areas has been that they are overwhelmingly young males. In most cases cases "overwhelmingly" is an understatement, because they are all young males.

The data on that map is from 2015.

If you want to read about migrant/illegal border crossers from Africa in recent years, italy has been bearing the brunt of it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=italy+migrants

Here's a recent video from a spanish beach that looks like some kind of absurdist theater.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA02zZCGTdk

I also have some issues with what qualifies as "mass societal disruption", but I guess that's mostly a semantics argument.

How about pre-meditated and coordinated sex attacks with 1000+ perpetrators?

This was hardly an isolated incident, just one of the more shocking in scale and brazen in execution.

https://www.google.com/search?q=new+year%27s+eve+cologne

Societal disruption needn't be limited to large scale events like the above, just the steady flow of increased crime disrupts and degrades society.
https://www.google.com/search?q=migrant+crime
"Boss" a weird way to spell employment
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You're forgiven. <3

On a different note, Damore chose to include mention of "leftist protest" because Google's culture is left-leaning – he's explicitly saying that Google is very left, while not so left as these violent protests. Mentioning "violent rightist protests" wouldn't be germane to his statement about Google here.
Meanwhile, the addiction rehab industry is lobbying hard to make kratom illegal on the state level. Make no mistake, they are sociopaths preying on addicts that will do and say anything to keep them addicted.
Dude's just saying live your life to the fullest.

Love your family and friends, don't sweat the small stuff
> Poor feedback UI

All of Apple's network-related software has this problem where they always assume nothing will ever go wrong and all networks are perfect. And then when something does go wrong usually there's not even an error message - simply nothing happens and you're left mashing buttons wondering if it even got your command.

If you're really lucky you'll get a generic "server error". I wasted an hour yesterday trying to log into my wife's MacBook Air using the iCloud login fallback before I realized the "server error" was actually the clock on the laptop being reset so the HTTPS negotiation failed since the certificate was not yet valid. Had to use the Terminal(!) in the recovery boot to fix the time.
Super-yacht IT: life as a nautical broadband specialist (2012)
Firstly I'm really sorry you felt I was being pushy. I don't feel I have anything to gain from what I shared, which is how I interpret proselytizing: my child died. Six weeks ago. So yeah, I'm on a lot of pain, and reading these texts are what have helped me through weeks of tears. Maybe it's inappropriate for me to share that so casually here, but I truly hoped it may help someone else going through death, or being around it. And you're right, I can continue to practice empathy. And for me, these texts point to how to do that... maybe someone else would find it helpful too.
With inkscape?
Interesting is that all Google related news (in the last two weeks) got flagged/hidden ("it's the algorithm", "it's the user", blabla). And now HN had time to post their own opinion piece - this one stays.
Right, that's why I said it depends on how the interview process is done. Some companies do thumbs up / down by round.

On a reread, Damore actually implies that Google's policies as applied to their interview process are "decreasing the false negative rate" for minorities. Whether this is harmfully discriminatory or not is open to opinion, but what I think is clear there is that the statement is favorable and understanding of his minority peers - the policies did not let anyone through who should not have been. I certainly don't think he should be fired for having given that statement.
There is https://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/ which is a subset of SVG without scripting, without CSS styling. Not sure why it never gained more traction.
Loved this article. It presents a compelling case that most colleges are providing near-equivalent education, and that the variance is mostly in selection bias. My only objection: at the end, the author takes issue with the fact that it's nearly impossible to get people to take selection bias into account when choosing where to send their kids. However, there's another possible factor that I think parents might be considering: the network of connections that I build when I go to school X. Even if Harvard gives my daughter the same educational quality that, say, Florida State gives her... if she's likely to form a network of friends that are all approximately 100x higher in net worth, then if I care about her long-term economic outcomes, I'd still try hard to send her to Harvard, no?

I'm not saying that's ideal, and it's most certainly an outcome of the exact selection bias you're talking about... just that it's a semi-rational choice for the parents, because school choices can often be about non-educational effects.

Just my two cents, though... I could be way off. And regardless, thanks for the article.. definitely made me think about the topic more than I had.
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You believe that making your state’s high school graduates more competitive in college admissions is a key aspect of improving the economy of the state.
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Well there's your problem. The link between educational attainment of a country and productivity is weak at best. (Switzerland being a good example of low university attendance and outrageously good economy)

Ha Joon Chang was quite persuasive on this - and suggests that the imaginary governor of the article should look to fix his states economy with focusing on improving the eco system of the economy - longer term more patient capital, regulatory regiemes that force longer term investment and behaviour, picking winners and protecting nascent growth industries. All the bad things.