skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to back this up and I am going to use a really bad example - the movie "Back to the Future". When they went from the present back to 1955, the world looked a little different. When the went back to 1885 in "Back to the Future 3", it was a different world. People were running around in dirt streets shooting each other.

Granted these dates are a little different. I would consider the 100 years more from 1900 to 1950 to 2000. In the earlier half century the got the widespread use to electricity, radio, TV, automobiles, airplanes, and in the healthcare we got antibiotics and vaccines. I'm sure someone else could make a much more impressive list than that. Someone from 1900 transported to 1950 would not recognize the world.

We didn't have nearly the same advances from 1950 to 2000. Cell phones and the internet are huge, but that didn't come until the very tail end. Those areas would look like science fiction. Other than that, when you place someone from 1950 in 2000, it just looks like everything got a little better.

Maybe starting with the computers and the internet we will start another big change, particularly with artificial intelligence and automation. But for a big part of those 50 years, a lot less happened than in the previous 50 years.
Men are worse at understanding the overlap in response to those two variants.
That's still twisting his argument. I've read an article that argued that while highly intelligent women are equally capable of doing STEM, they're _more_ capable/interested with regards to interpersonal relationships, so they're more likely to go into fields like medicine, politics, marketing etc.
The free version will come with ads. That you can't turn off. I'm not counting on a silent mode.
If I was the firm I would. For google's intended audience it's basically free advertising.
Yeah, but those early WMP versions were just simple media players with really awful, clunky, slow syncing support.

Microsoft took about 5 years to catch up, no small part due to USB 2.0
good! If googly butts were SMARTER than they pretend to be, they'd actually offer him angel funds to start up a completely NEW platform to COMPETE with their frankenstenian perverted still a butt buddy collectivista broken search engine legacy! But then they'd have to go up against the TRULY evil giant bully in the room which is PALANTIR! Bwuahahahahaha. We're gonna gitch ya anyway, no matter WHO you scapegoat you holire than thou fucktards! Good Luck James! Hope you win a tidy sum that easily funds your creativity and passion and that you are able to provide the world with what Google et all promised but sold out to the most evil [wealthy] bidders.
But is he not saying that fewer women end up having the skills for engineering because of something in their biology? When I read the memo I thought that was his whole point...
> For anyone curious the main font used for this website is the "IBMVGA8" one.

I feel like I should point out that it even says so in the upper right corner -- and there you can variate between 6 fonts for the website, too.
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Is there really a difference if you believe the reason women "wind up" lacking the skills for X is due to biology? Asserting biology makes it essentialist, it's the same as saying "women are worse at X."
I tried to explain this in a blog post. It also irritates me why this is so consequently misinterpreted, as it makes for quite a big difference for the overall narrative. Because of course if someone would claim that an individual woman cannot be as good as an individual man in engineering (or better), that person would be an idiot.

"Misunderstanding statistical distribution"
https://medium.com/@martinweigert/misunderstanding-probabili...
It'll get settled first to avoid discovery, I suspect. Class action makes settling more awkward, but still, Google has more financial interest in avoiding discovery than winning the case.
It was more about the timing. The memo came shortly after Trump was elected, when many women and minorities were feeling defeated. It was not the climate to try and hold reasoned debate.
Apple has basically replaced the SMC architecture with a new architecture that is the equivalent of an Apple watch. From an integration perspective, it makes sense. Apple no longer has to source an SMC/arm chip from another supplier, they use their own.

All Mac users have at some point had to reset the SMC on a Mac. The MacWorld comment that the iMac pro because of the T2 chip is unlike another Mac, is only half the story. The Functionality that was handled by the SMC (which was an arm based architecture), is now handled by a more beefier arm chip T2.

It's a cost savings for Apple, and allows for more advanced functionality. In the Interim , the T2 is doing exactly what the SMC used to do.
Seriously. That particular section is describing an average inherent distribution of career preferences/abilities due, in PART, to biological causes. However social (mainly), economic, and tons of other factors can come into play here.

Given there is a section in the memo with similar verbiage as the article's quote, I would give some slack to the author if the sentiment remained from the original. However the author's quote changes the meaning of what Damore said quite a bit.
Well, it misses at least half of the meaning of the statement you quoted when it writes it all off to lacking natural ability(which is a negative), and nothing to do with 'distribution of preferences'(which is neutral).

So no, I would say the original quote is not a good summary of the quote you quoted.
Google's PR Nightmare? Honest question: Don't you think that the one with the PR nightmare is Damore?
Just to clarify, is he stating he was fired due to his gender/political views? I would assume the literal army of attorneys will point to various violations of Code of Conduct or Employment Agreement Damore undoubtedly broke.

He openly published a memo condemning his employer, tarnishing the brand and bringing the company under considerable negative press. I figure there must be some clause in any employment agreement stating that you can't actively cause damage to the company.

Edit: Looks like the memo wasn't intentionally released to the public, but it still caused damage. If I drop tables unintentionally on production, I'm not surprised if I'm fired- even if it was an accident.
Looking only at the section you sight, that's not what he says. In fact those sentences have so many degrees of freedom they hardly say anything.
The way I remember it is that KHTML and Mozilla worked perfectly fine if websites followed the real standards instead of MSIE's defacto standard. Which, back in the early '00s, was often not the case.
As someone who really wants to use my iPad for everything, I really really tried to use coda for development. But it crashes soooo much. It’s sad because the potential is there. The iPad is so powerful but we need apps to utilize it fully.

Also, relatively unrelated, I await Apple to release Bluetooth mouse support. The touch screen ergonomics aren’t good for long perdiods of hackin:-)
That's interesting. Unless I'm being forcefed, then who else is to blame? I have free will after all.
I don't much like what Damore appears to say but in fairness that sentence does not say "less capable". That he uses "in part" and "may explain" means that it doesn't say much at all while appearing to say something, to me at least.
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"...employees of Google who’ve been discriminated against due to their “perceived conservative political views by Google"

Is that really illegal? If someone was not hired on account of his being a White supremacist, would he have any basis for a lawsuit?
I'm not a conservative (far from it), but I think it's a ridiculous misrepresentation.

He spoke to the distribution of preferences and abilities. Turning this into an absolutist simplification should offend anyone with a brain.

The science seems to state that nature rolls the dice more with males than with females. We know, for instance, that there are far more very low IQ males than females, and this is understood as fact. This doesn't mean that you or I are therefore low IQ, despite the distribution increase. And the stats seem to say that nature also varies on the side of high IQ more with males.

That says nothing to whether a given male or female are either low or high, and only applies at scale. Scale that is meaningless when assessing a given candidate, but is certainly pertinent when talking about representation across an entire industry or large organization.
For flights out of Melbourne (Florida), the choices are Delta or American (and all the AA flights connect through Charlotte). I just happen to like Delta slightly better.

Depending on where I'm going, if I can find a non-stop flight from Orlando, I'll drive to the Orlando airport. Surprisingly, that doesn't happen very often.
“Distribution of...abilities” suggests “women are worse.” If the quote merely spoke of skills I could see your point, but it speaks of abilities and points to genetics as an root cause.
Lost was good for much longer than that. I'd maintain that it still contained good elements right up until fairly near the end. On a small scale the writing and acting was still good.

What got worse was the larger scale structures that were meant to keep your interest over a long period of time. A story made up from fragments that never form a greater whole is usually unsatisfying no matter how good the fragments are. (Exceptions to this rule can be found - an exercise I leave up to the reader)
Since another replier gave a book for 100 years, here's one of those... http://ageofem.com/ Though I imagine 50 years has a small but non-zero probability in Prof Hanson's distribution, and he's pretty careful of not seeming overly certain: "Conditional on my key assumptions, I expect at least 30% of future situations to be usefully informed by my analysis. Unconditionally, I expect at least 10%."
XP shipped with WMP 8, but WMP 9 was the landmark release that brought more ripping options, star ratings, a quick navigation screen, and essentially made WMP into the product that is familiar to many from the XP era.
Thanks - reassuring to know.
You're flagging an article because you predict trolling? Does that mean that you expect HN to never be used to discuss potentially divisive news?
It is libelous to say that someone said something that they did not say (assuming, as in all cases, that what you say could hurt their reputation in the community). There a spectrum of behavior: one the one hand, there are straight up misquotes—where you attribute a direct quote improperly. On the other hand, there are synthetic statements, where you 'sum up' what someone has said in a distilled way.

In this case, TC would argue that they are distilling his memo by using the phrase "biologically less capable of engineering". Personally (and as a former lawyer, but not a libel lawyer), I think this position is not especially strong, since he focused mostly, if not exclusively, on inclination-type evidence. If you're going to give a one-sentence summary of the memo, you probably shouldn't refer to ability instead of inclination.

And given that the person they're talking about just sued Google, I'd say it's unwise to use a characterization like this—even if it is ultimately legally justifiable. Why not say "biologically less suited for engineering", which would encompass the possibility of both ability and desire?
This is the very next sentence from his memo:

> Many of these differences are small and there’s significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions.
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He says "it might", then he proceeds to state very assertively that any actions taken to figure out whether that's the case or not are "discrimination" against white men. What do you propose is a sane course of action, considering there's a clear wide gap between "biological differences might affect behavior" and "Google is discriminating by reaching out to women"?
I understand the deprecation of the iPod classic [0] but i don't for the life of me know why Apple still hasen't increased the iPod touch storage space to 256gb.

[0] https://www.geek.com/apple/ipod-classic-discontinued-because-apple-couldnt-source-parts-anymore-1607952/
You had three cars??
The upper class wants the fruits of being wealthy, they're generally not in it for the "subjugation" aspect. With sufficient automation and efficiency/recycling, everyone could be what we call "upper class".
Dont know if your old enough to done military service in Sweden, but as the saying goes, all guns points the east. There is no confusion about why we are rebuilding our defense for in Sweden. We have +3000 KM coast line in Sweden, large part in the Baltics, so we too share a border with Russia.

In any case if you forgot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_S-363
Publix is a great store, but I can generally only shop there when they have an advertised special and I have a handful of coupons. And you really have to stick very tightly to the pre-planned list.

Generally, my staple stores are Kroger, Target, and Costco. Wal-Mart, Dollar General, and Aldi fail on one of two fronts: you can't buy everything you need from there at the same time, or the things you actually want are not really cheaper. In both cases, the cost-per-mile of making the trip determines whether it is worth going.

The grocery business has a lot of local variability, though. In a lot of places, even some near here, Wal-Mart actually would be cheaper, to the extent that I would put up with their goods that are not quite what I am looking for, with little ingredient substitutions that nickel-and-dime you on the quality. It's like how chocolates that used to have cocoa butter in them are now "chocolate candies" that have palm oil in them instead. Sure, they're cheaper, but they're no longer edible.

Wal-Mart does that all over. The garbage bags will be a fraction of a mil thinner. The chicken has just a tiny bit more brine solution added. The reconstituted juice bottles have just a little less concentrate and a little more water in them. Sometimes, a major national brand will go missing from the shelves for weeks or months, then come back with less shelf-distance allocated or a higher price, stocked immediately adjacent to the store generic.

I would almost rather make not shopping at Wal-Mart part of my diet. I can't eat calories that I can't afford to buy, so the ones I do eat have to count for more. And then I can remind myself how making X myself instead of buying it at lower cost from Wal-Mart is actually accumulating significant savings out of my stress budget. But I have plenty of competition to choose from. If it was a choice between Whole Foods and Wal-Mart, I know which one would not bankrupt me.
> Pragmas are always a bad idea. The Ada community has learned that the hard way. Whatever the pragma does, it should be part of the language standard and never be implementation-dependent.

> It's time that language designers include language pragmatics in the core language. That includes for example big O information about data structures, packing of structures, alignment properties, memory access information, etc.

So pragmas are "always a bad idea" but you should have them "in the core language"… Don't you feel your comment is pretty contradictory?

A pragma is a directive for the system (mostly compiler), that's orthogonal to it being implementation-specific.
Shadow DOM – No noticeable performance gains found
I recently implemented the option to make "shadow components" in a library I'm building (Zam: http://zamjs.com), and I've found no performance gains -- contrary to certain claims.

I'm speaking about rendering in particular.

I built 50 components with shadow dom, and set the style of a single parent node of one of the components to

transition:all 1s linear;
color:red;
font-size:100px;
background-color:blue;

I did the same thing for 50 components without shadow dom.

I found there's no significant diff in performance times.

Which makes sense to me, because the layout root is always #document. It's not like the shadow DOM has its own layout root.

But these sources suggest there should be a gain in performance.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36012239/is-shadow-dom-fast-like-virtual-dom-in-react-js

https://meowni.ca/posts/shadow-dom/

Am I missing something? Has anyone else done performance tests with the Shadow DOM?

Maybe if I did 10,000 components I would notice a difference?
Probably something like "Women are more interested in other fields, so they end up working in these fields instead of tech."
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What should be ones exit plan if things don't go as planned?
Supremes asked to mull legality of Silicon Valley privacy 'slush funds'
I personally hope we can avoid this attitude by and large on HN. The idea that this community needs to be proactively stopped from discussing a topic because a small subgroup decides that the larger community can't handle it maturely seems to be an abuse of flagging, to me.
He doesn't have a choice really. With the PR mess he got himself into, no big company will ever hire him. Imagine the possible headlines "Microsoft hires the James Damore, the male supremacy advocate fired from Google". Nope, regardless the technical skill or his actual personality, his public image is forever ruined.

So he realistically has a choice between becoming a paid speaker for fringe ultra-right organizations, trying to sue Google and retire off the proceeds, or leaving tech and becoming a noname blue collar or a freelancer forever hiding his face.

I hope they will settle for an amount sufficient for retirement and the dude's life won't get ruined due to a stupid political game he didn't even realize he was playing.
He's beloved by a certain right-leaning or libertarian bent portion of the tech world, and everyone else except for maybe Google's lawyers have forgotten about him. So it seems like he is in a better place now than simply being a midlevel employee in MegaCorp
I touch-type, so I alternate left and right depending on which letter I have to capitalise, i.e. I tend to use right shift for left-hand letters and left shift for right-hand letters. Except that being right-handed means I favour the right shift and use it also for letters typed with the right index finger.
And what biological differences would those be?
Yes, discrimination against men, and or white people is illegal. They can show though that they hire plenty of white men. You are correct in California you cannot discriminate against employees due to politics, however I'm sure they'd be able to show they hire plenty of republicans. It is also an uphill battle for Damore since he'd basically be claiming that he was discriminated against at the same time as arguing that they shouldn't do more to balance the apparent discrimination against women. Whether or not any of that is true, it's going to be a hard sell to a California jury
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Very interesting research, but trying to derive actionable recommendations for humans seems a bit laughable at this point. Still seems tough to become immortal these days. Harvesting young blood, a rigid diet, castration and starving yourself occasionally - lots of effort your self-absorbed wealthy investor with a desire to live forever has to go through.

But then again, Sam Altman recently praised China for having fewer ethical concerns in that regard, so maybe they will get some longitudinal human studies going. The population scale full-genome analyses that are currently underway might also be helpful.
Really? You're implying I'm scared that it's true women aren't as good at engineering as men because of biology? I'm a dude. That makes zero sense.

I label it repugnant crap because it is. It's not based on scientific evidence or experience or anything except for pure misogyny.
http://archive.is/gE8kw
https://www.employmentattorneyla.com/blog/2017/06/can-you-be...
This is called speculation...
I think it's quite obvious. :)
Apparently not completely - and now they’re profiting from it.

http://www.businessinsider.com/taliban-control-of-heroin-dru...
Because the press loves polarization. Hitting sensitive nerves is the perfect click-bait. There is no sensible discussion possible anymore on this topic, so it is low hanging fruit.
The article seems to have it correct to me?

From the memo:

"I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership"

preferences and abilities he says.
> illegal hiring quotas

Whether or not this is illegal, or true, this is an anti-pattern. If you want representation (and PR) hiring quotas are great; however, if you truly want to empower they work against your goals. At the end of the day any person who walks into a job because of a quota will question, "did I get this job because of my gender/race/creed/orientation?" While you have provided them with opportunity it would be very difficult for that person to fairly evaluate themselves and especially determine whether they are making progress in their career.
20 or 21, I'm 44 now.

No chance I would have grown out of it, everyone in my family suffers from it to varying degrees throughout their lives. They've all self medicated and pharmacologically medicated themselves for most their lives.

I still deal with depression, but not as acute as throughout my childhood. Looking back I was depressed from 1st grade onward. Not many kids in elementary school look back at preschool with melancholic feelings, at least not that I am aware of. I lived my life reliving every prior moment and the interactions. I'm on the autistic scale as well, so I'm sure that has something to do with it.

I also did therapy and many other medications throughout my life as well. LSD was the only one that seemingly helped, in retrospect, beyond their initial dosing.
On a related note I was glad to see this strange artefact of the internet was still in existence. I contributed a small amendment probably nearly 10 years ago: http://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/
>openly published a memo

False. He published a memo internally for other Google employees in a culture of internal openness and intellectual discussion which had been implied to exist inside the company for a while.

His memo was then leaked outside the company, possibly by an ideological enemy. Hard to say he was "actively causing damage to the company".
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Not at the national level. In California the Fair Employment and Housing Act has a few nebulous clauses regarding political affiliation, but not enough to make a real case. For the most part political affiliation is not a protected category and in some cases an employer is allowed to explicitly discriminate based upon political affiliation (e.g. the CA Republican party can decide not to hire you because you have been a registered Democrat for the past decade, etc.)
That's the problem: living through it and adjusting to changes.

How do you feel about the chance of living twice as long as your current life expectancy?

Sounds great right?

Does it also feel just as great that you already have twice the life expectancy of 140 years ago?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/die-ano...
What a ridiculous comment.

(a) There is no consistent world view for tens of millions of people distributed across the globe, (b) there is no research, none, that specifically states that women are genetically predisposed to be less suited to engineering and (c) there is no clear rules about what aspects of our biology are required to be a great engineer.