skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure why men go to happy hours with alcohol or go to social events where the chances of stepping over the line explode exponentially. Going out and hanging with your co-workers over a beer might have been a good idea six months ago but is no longer a good idea.

Why?

Any of those things you said or did, could be construed a million different ways. Was that one thing you said flirting? Did you say that one thing that offended someone who went thru this particular experience as a child you were unaware of? Did you talk about that actor you really liked that turned out to be a child molester today and now makes you look less than acceptable?

Your past behavior carries weight today. What was once acceptable might not be today and there are consequences today. You will lose your career and job over even the faintest claim. Here is the money paragraph:

> Still, some workers said they were starting to follow “the Pence rule,” which was formerly known as the Billy Graham rule, after the evangelical preacher, but is now named for Vice President Mike Pence. Mr. Pence has said he does not eat alone with women who are not his wife or attend an event without her if alcohol will be served.

I would even arguing going to those "game zones" is all potentially risky behavior. I know I am not being politically correct, however just doing your job and leaving is a better solution. It is better than losing everything over it.
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> In an idealized "intellectual-only" world, humans would be Spock-like and be pure rational actors.

I used to think more along these lines. I heard someone recently talk about Spock and Captain Kirk and their approaches to different situations, and he said that most people think Spock must always be right due to his logical side. He then said that many times Kirk’s more human emotional approach actually worked out better in the end. Obviously you need a balance. Things should be logically thought out but sometimes you need to act out of empathy and sympathy towards others even when it might not make that much sense.
Germany also has strong protections against international competition and public/private enterprises like Airbus to keep all of those trades-persons busy.

Do that in the US, and we'll just end up with blue collar wage slaves instead of white collar ones.
"Conservative politicians can't survive that sort of scandal"

Alabama is about to elect a senator in the middle of 5 under-aged sexual assault allegations. Times have changed!
No, incorrect. I have more than enough money to not worry about paying good salaries for a year or so. We're not in the US though, so we're definitely not paying inflated US salaries. Other than that, we're generally slightly above the market rate.
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So is the lesson here: be sexist just to be on the safe side?
> so I just play it super safe with everybody

Yes, except not with everybody, you don't play it super safe with men, as you pointed out. That's the whole problem.
I'm curious: would you call a man sweetie?
Putting finance first means making solid businesses that solve peoples problem. If you don't capitalize on the innovations happening you can't help fund the next innovation.

It's not that there shouldn't be innovation done but you can't build a market only on that.
I treat all interactions with coworkers (male or female or otherwise) as if I were under surveillance by the KGB or Stasi, and any sort of misstep would mean imprisonment or death. I also refuse to ever drink with coworkers. It's worked out so far.
Why wouldn't you treat everyone the same?
There is an work around, download it via iTunes. You don't have to sync via iTunes to do it just use the same account. Apple still makes the previous version of iTunes that allowed you to download apps available to download.
This is a met-analysis. The majority of available hippocampal data was processed using FreeSurfer, an outdated and generally inaccurate segmentation method for the hippocampus (Lee et al., 2015; although FreeSurfer is good for cortical thickness and surface estimation). However, given large potential changes due to age-related atrophy, that particular method might be sensitive enough in aggregate.

I've seen lots of older brains in the MRI, and it is not pretty. A lot of atrophy is probably due to cardiovascular-related disease and degeneration. Seeing enough of those brains finally got me off my chair and jogging. I feel great because of it too.
A woman at work constantly speaks in tones of sexual innuendo, when she comes over to someone asking for help or whatever, she leans over you and places her hand on your shoulder or thigh. As a man in today’s climate the double standard is painfully obvious. Follow her example and you’d be on your ass fast.
I looked and looked but couldn't find it online. it was just called Zen Buddhism but the author had a very western name. The book had a pretty big impact on me but not in a religious or hooky "one with the cosmos" sort of way. More like it just sort of clicked with me, which is as good a description of the concept as any really. I may still have the book somewhere, if I find I'll post it here.
Well that’s not actually a problem if Google controlled the hardware (or a hardware standard, at least).

But they don’t.

So while you’re absolutely correct from a technical perspective it’s still a consequence of Googles strategy, and a problem for us all.
A variation on this that I love is Tim Urban's "Your life in weeks" visualization.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

This is a progress bar, not a countdown clock. Personally, I find it super helpful in keeping perspective on the value of my time.

I do not mean to detract from OP's work (which is cool), I just thought others reading the comment might enjoy this other article too.
I thought this was talking about the band, singers of the timeless "Land Down Under."
Apparently the huge response had some impact as EA is now dropping the price of some of these characters.

http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/11/13/ea-to-reduce-star-wars-...
No just like I wouldn't call a girl bro or dude or m8.

I see no issue in saying that to someone and have never had any problems saying it to the women I have been working with or know. I am well aware of when to do that and when to not.

Yet now it's suddenly become an issue because some consider it sexual abuse.
Exactly this. There is a lot of unmet demand in trade labor in even "low rent" places like Las Vegas.
What do these scientists suggest we/I do?
How is a degree requirement racist?
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> This however misses one important point. They build it using taxpayers' money. So, if I give you money and tell you "please build me a shed" and then benefit from the shed, of course I keep all the benefits - after all, this shed was built for me with my own money!

If we used land taxes like the georgists proposed, this would be an apt analogy. As it stands though, the property owner is paying, but so are non property owners as well as property owners that aren't benefiting from improvements. It isn't much different from a lottery: the benefits are concentrated, but the costs are diffused. Did the lottery winner pay for his payout? Sure, but so did all of the lottery losers that didn't get anything.

> This is probably not true either. The primary reason why some land is valuable, usually, is location, location, location. It can be close to natural things or to things built by people (e.g. a house within 10min drive of Google campus is probably more valuable than a similar one which has 2hr commute to the closest source of employment). Government-built infrastructure is important too, but usually secondary - nobody would build schools or transit systems in place where nobody wants to live, and people rarely move somewhere just because of sewer and transit system.

There a billions of miles of beautiful coastline in the world, but people generally build coastal homes where there are roads, and don't where there are not. There are billions of locations where google could have built their campus, but they chose a place with plentiful government funded infrastructure. They even payed more for the privilege. Why would anybody choose to live or build a business in a place where there are no roads, potable pipelined water, electrical grids, schools, sewers, emergency services. Government isn't a secondary determinant of land value, it is primary and foundational. The private markets may build upon the land values that the government created in the first place, but take the government away and everything else will go with it.
> For a man talking to a man, all of the above are just plain fine.

Really? I wouldn't do most of your examples, personally. I'm curious if I'm the weird one here.
Trade apprenticeship + cultivated curiosity in tech = exactly what hold industries need.

Unfortunately, old industries tend toward new "talent" + degree in something cool sounding in hopes of disruptive "yahtzee". they, or at least mine, largely ignore the ones who know the business rules/needs the most in gavor of who "should know the future best". Oops.
That's not true. Both had RSS up until 2012 or so. They were hidden to the average user though.
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I think the issue with your line of thinking is that we aren't at an "equality for all, everyone treated the same" stage yet, we are still very much at the stage of having to strongly promote women in the workforce and champion their cause specifically - as the wave of celebrity assault reports has demonstrated. There is a much bigger problem of women being treated improperly in the workplace by some people, rather than finding that perfect balance just yet.

I also disagree with a few of your bullet points, if I didn't know one of my male co-workers particular well, I definitely wouldn't say 6 of those bullet points you mentioned out of the 7.
I’m 30+ too. When I discussed with my 70+ grandma on this topic, she laughed and said it will be decades, not just years passing by in a click, starting with 40-50+. We actually crossed our subjective time equator pretty long time ago, dude, no matter how healthy we are.
Very much not new, but newer... sure
Those aren't really Youtube though. I can go on youtube to listen to music or watch a video on rebuilding a carburetor self-published by some random guy, or catch a movie trailer, or even publish my own videos.
The article objectifies and abuses its targets (which is what the author's motive is, per their own about page). The way bullying and abuse work, especially in the Internet age, is that people find a target they feel is justified or merely vulnerable (because everyone else is attacking them) and viciously act out against them. Having a crowd do it allows humans to ignore their better sense and to do horrible things; it's an angry mob and people hide in it as they act badly. As most people on HN probably know, there are many, many such incidents; the abuse does real harm to real people. Hurting other people is wrong; engaging in it for some self-righteous motive is obviously a bad, as is doing it because of 'something I read on the Internet'.

> We should not allow liars to go unchecked.

There are many ways to address deceit; none of the good ones include abusing people. No matter what these women did or didn't do, I think the people that abuse them, including the author, are doing much worse. Where is the check on them?

But more importantly, this article is just 'something I read on the Internet', by someone who announces on their about page the intent to abuse people the author thinks is "stupid" (an ironic statement). Surely we are well beyond trusting such things by now. Where is the check on the liars and, more importantly, the abusers of the Internet?

> Allowing that to happen would lead to a society where fantastic lies are the norm and you’d never know if you could trust anything anyone would say.

A great point.
Yup, and many STEM jobs that once provided on the job training and needed a bachelors now require a PhD.
Are US salaries inflated, versus are other markets not caught up yet?
I don't think it is helpful to pretend there is no gray area. Talking about how to avoid grey areas is good. Pretending they don't exist is potentially dangerous and strikes me as toxic and blamey.
In this paper, we find 99.9% of the gradient exchange in distributed SGD is redundant, and propose DGC to greatly reduce the communication bandwidth.
> so we're definitely not paying inflated US salaries

If you are hiring a remote developer - what prevents them to earn an "inflated" salary from a US company?
> Researchers are investigating how the United States can become more competitive in the manufacturing industry in the age of artificial intelligence.

> Manufacturing employment has fallen in both countries, yet in Germany, manufacturing's value added has stayed around 22 percent in the last 20 years.

So Germany has done well even before the age of AI. But are they well prepared for the AI disruption?

Because currently the article seems to be relying on past data from Germany to predict a future solution.
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> never, ever comment on their appearance, including new hairstyles, clothing, etc.

That it's come to this is really sad.
4. Hope no one takes further something that is a misunderstanding?

I dunno where we are going here, and I'm not sure all this stuff isn't confirming the exact opposite of everything people are hoping for.

I'm not sure why the next Harvey Weinstein won't act the exact same way ("You mean, I get to sleep with beautiful women for 30 years and then get outed worth 100s of millions? That's seems like a great deal")

I don't think anyone has any idea how this will shake out, but I won't be shocked if it is a bad outcome all around - from reduced funding for female startups to less mentoring to more gender apartheid in workplaces, to China's inevitable rise to world's largest economy and most influential country.
Yup. And I wouldn't be surprised to find out that members gambling and video game industries even exchange notes on how to attract and coax money out of whales.

Gambling isn't really my cup of tea, either. But I suppose I also shouldn't be surprised if I were to go to one and discover that some portion of the people there are loudly complaining about what a rip off everything is, but not actually leaving the casino to go find something else to do.
I don’t consider these things just plain fine. I’d consider many of them somewhat offensive even if they came from a friend, regardless of gender:

* Telling someone a very funny, yet lewd joke that you just thought up

* Telling someone they should dress better

* Telling someone they are too uptight

* Telling someone that, if they were nicer, they might get ahead more

I guess people are different...
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Thanks for such a detailed answer, I will be checking 2600hz for sure, the only downside I see so far is that we will still need to use a SIP Trunk provider to connect to the telephonic network and register DIDs.

But it seems like a good option for sure, thank you for taking the time to point me to the specific parts of documentation related to the functionality we need to implement.

I will be checking the viability of using this service and contacting sales for a demo if it seems like a good fit.
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What double standard? If a female co-worker did that to me I'd bring it up with HR.

And – I'm making the assumption that you are probably in tech and therefore probably in a male-dominated workplace – unlike a woman in your situation, you can almost certainly call out the individual in question with zero fear of consequences to your career. Without knowing specifics, my prejudice is that you are in no position to complain. (My assumptions could be wrong.)
> The metoo campaign IM basically allowed anything from actual abuse to catcalling be called sexual abuse. It expanded the definition of sexual abuse to basically align with only the most extreme feminists.

Are you implying that catcalling someone, in or out of the workplace, should not be considered sexual abuse?
I'de have no problem saying any of those things to another man.
Why the downvotes? Debacle is right.
> And where there isn't stigma against entering such a field?

This isn’t true. Germany is the second most credentialist, title obsessed country in the world, with a class structure as obvious as in the UK, if different.
You have no problem telling another man you don't know that they should dress better?
I don't see the nuance.

You're giving me your conclusion ("men are now by definition guilty") without supporting evidence.

Could you give more concrete examples?
Many factors. Most US companies want to have on site engineers. Many of those who work remotely with overseas devs already know they can pay a lot less, so the market is adjusted and those working remotely for US companies are rarely paid the same as if they were in the US.
Sure I am concerned and am pretty well-versed in advanced cryptology myself and protocol/stack weaknesses/exploits. Frankly, Android lost me when I once bought a new phone and after installing a few apps from play store it was spamming me like crazy and discussing stuff with servers in China. Since then I use all Android devices for harmless stuff like browsing while in bath/sauna, controlling my DJI drone, navigation device on my bike, watching edX/Udacity/Coursera/Udemy etc. but never for serious stuff. For serious stuff I use Sailfish on a recent Jolla phone instead with customized security stack compiled from sources (security by obscurity as well).
I sometimes think, with deep regret, that most people living at or below the poverty line at 30, their chances of rising above that are quite low. At 40+ it's next to zero. This may also be very generous. The amount of education, training, and opportunities would have to line up perfectly for someone to pull themselves up. Multigenerational, the odds appear much better.
The double standard is that she still has her job but a man wouldn’t.
Asynchronous, easily configurable at runtime, and an exemplar of Python code by one of the creators of Django. Quite a treat.
I am saying that there is a context to these kind of social dynamics which can't just be considered binary. It depends on the situation.

All that get's lost in the panic.
Definitively inflated. Whenever I visit the US, I notice how everything except food is overpriced. The taxes are insane, you need lawyers and tax accountants for every cough you make and the quality of life is hardly the same as in Europe or Asia. If anyone's got any catching up to do, it's the US. No offense - I like the country (visiting), but it's just unreasonably expensive. How can anyone choose to live there is beyond me. Right now it's the opposite of freedom, unless you're insanely rich - then you can feel comfortable.
Damned no matter what you do?
cardiovascular disease causes brain atrophy? whats the mechanism supposed to be?
In a theoretical sense... I guess. In a practical sense with real-life electricians, not so much.

Unlike college, becoming an apprentice electrician isn't terribly costly or time consuming. People climb that mountain all the time on their own dime. The problem is that they run back down once they see the view.

Electrical work is hard, stressful, and sometimes dangerous. Jam a bunch of innocent kids through trade school instead of college, and we'll probably still have a shortage of electricians.
> Personally I think the concept of "particle" needs to go away completely.

For those who haven't already seen it, "There are no particles, there are only fields" is a good paper about this:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4616
OK - sorry I misinterpreted the tone of your comment
not everyone shares this aggressive need for touching that you seem to be describing.

if human beings matter to you, hopefully you can see this.
Men don't write articles in newspapers about their male bosses harassing them?
I had an edit where I added:

4. Treat people like individuals.

But I didn't want to needlessly extend the list, even though that's the most important advice you could give anyone about interacting with anyone else.

Most people who commit sexual harassment aren't Harvey Weinstein. Most flirting is innocent, and in my experience either slightly awkward, ignored, or well received, but rarely uncomfortable. Most male/female relationships (or any relationships for that matter) in the workplace are healthy, friendly, and beneficial.

There is a vast difference between inappropriate social interaction due to ignorance, and predatory social interaction due to malice.
If you think credentialism is bad now, wait until the only thing stopping people getting Master’s and doctorates is their parents’ willingness to pay their living expenses.

Separate college’s education and credentialism functions. If the US government says it will recognise anyone who passes X test as having a Bachelor’s degree in X, for some value of X, there will be a reasonable number of people getting four year degrees in three, two or one.
Wait a minute. Actual abuse and catcalling are both abuse. The metoo campaign had flaws—I think it badly hurt some men who’d been sexually abused or harassed—but the line of what’s appropriate didn’t seem to move there.
I think the key here is that you're hiring remote. The market rate is global salaries. You might look at around $25 (junior/South Asian) to $60 (senior). Even developed countries hiring someone in a poorer country stick to close to these rates for long term contracts.
But why are the good developers demanding more money? ("fuck you, pay me".. what else could this mean?)

It's definitely not because they don't want to work for anyone... they're out there searching for work, talking to employers. They definitely want work.
I can be wrong but I think the problem is two fold::

First this - I'm paying.

The unfortunate consequence of paying out of pocket is that we tend to look for a perfect soludtion - decent cost, at least as per us, while being the best.
But market is not like that. Good people need good pay.

Second this - I would quit this whole thing and would just retire writing code myself

I am sorry that comes across as you not really believing in the product and currently doing it only for your co-founder. And this is a vibe which you might be giving off to a developer.

If you can't convince yourself, how do you expect to convince a developer that the product is good and they should consider lower salaries with say a decent equity?
You might appreciate the Deep Learning for Coders courses from Fast.ai. It's basically ML as a practice subject rather than theory as you suggested.

I felt similar to you when I first started learning ML but their code first approach really helped it click for me on an intuitive level. Then you can go back and dig into the maths behind it.
Bullshit. Tens of thousands of men who sexually harass women get away scot-free day in day out.

The men you mention lost their jobs because the women they harassed spoke out (and almost always, they did so under fear of reprisal). It didn't just "happen". Have you spoken to HR or your boss?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baKdHa5TlYM

We did it.
"Fuck you, pay me" is not about how much money they demand, but about the attitude. I definitely sense the attitude.
Agreed, but how to get it on the agenda?