skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They solve some problems:

I remember carrying around physical reference materials for my ti84+ because back before smartphones there wasn't instantaneous access to stuff like that and the calculator's memory got cleared too often (and was probably too small, not to mention the horrible screen) to hold it for me.

They're like knives: in the hands of someone with self control they can extend what you're capable of but they can also be abused by the owner and the people around him.

I taught myself my first instrument last year and being able to look up reference material while my laptop wasn't around was super convenient. At night I watch OCW lectures from math and physics classes I can't afford to take, and I have instant access to an incredible collections of art, music, and literature.

The problem with smart phones is due to the misalignment (almost inversion) of profit incentives of application developers and application users. This wouldn't be such a problem either if it weren't for the increasingly popular idea that application developers need special training and the computer configuration should be left to special experts (in the name of security or DRM or whatever) which severely limits the creation and adoption of community maintained software that is more likely to serve the user's interests.
The reason drug traffickers are billionaires is that they are drug traffickers. In the absence of that, they would have no money and no power.
Funny how "Get large amount of funding" solves most problems in most fields ...

Glad it worked out for you, but "hit the lottery" is, unfortunately, not a viable strategy.
You need two for peace. Only one is enough to start a war.

Finland has done everything it can to be friendly with Russia but Russia want's to play the role of a bully. Just few years ago Russia started to intentionally violate Finnish airspace. Finnish Air Force had to increase preparedness to the level where drivers sit in the cockpit and scramble to intercept.
Today Russia is fighting constant propaganda war against Finland within Russia and inside Finland.
> Forgive me, but isn't this what Google Wallet was, at one point?

Not exactly, as it includes things that were never part of Wallet.

> Then at some point Google Wallet was split out into Android Pay. And now it's Google Pay?

Android Pay was a renamed acquisition that was originally intended to be merged with Wallet but was kept apart (but Wallet’s NFC payment feature was retired as Android Pay was brought online, which made it look like Wallet was being split up.)

But Google Pay seems to merge in a number of other siloed app-specific Google payment features as well.as Wallet and Android Pay (these clearly have been integrated behind the scenes for a while, since their “pay with Google” feature leveraged payment methods you had registered through any of them or Wallet or Android Pay), so this looks like the UI and branding catching up with backend integration.
Ok, I'm not trying to be snarky, but journalists aren't scientists. The article cites statistics that re-confirm what we already knew - that women are highly under-represented.

But what seems to be missing (and what I had hoped for) is research showing that "the consensus is that biological sex differences are not that big of an effect, certainly not enough to explain the gender disparity in tech." I feel like the article should be overflowing with references to this if it's a consensus.

It turns out that even this article admits that

> there’s very little scientists know for certain about which behaviors are due to biology, and which are because of society’s expectations of both men and women

The article essentially concludes that men are competitive.

Maybe I missed something in the article. Which citation really spoke to you and confirmed this consensus?
You could use the same logic to ban all sorts of things for adults. And many governments do, to everyone's detriment. Alcohol prohibition says hello.

It's exactly this type of generalized authoritarian philosophy that keeps the War on Drugs going strong.
You gotta know that not all people are like you, hell, I would say most people aren't. Like yourself, I'm also mostly self-taught. All the useful and profitable skills I have I mostly have learned on my own thanks to the internet. I did go to school and have a CS degree, but I did that because I pushed myself to get better, and managed to pull my self away from all the distractions. But, like I said, most people don't take advantage of the real benefits that the internet have, and fall into the trap of the rest of the more trivial and "useless" stuff. So, I do think that completely banning smartphones is too radical, but at the same time think that we must do something to solve the problems that this article describes.
It doesn't have to be. I'm just rebutting Radim's suggestion that since living things and non-living things are both made out of atoms we should expect that the difference between living and non-living is only of degree rather than kind.
Ok, I'm by no means an expert, so if I were you I'd research it a little more through other sources. It shouldn't matter how much you eat, with the given minimum amount of exercise. The things you list seem ok to me. Two things come to mind: you are still not exercising enough; or you are producing too much insulin for some reason. Don't be alarmed; perhaps talk about it with your doctor, get some blood tests done (?)
That’s a very harsh statement. I was the only person I knew with a Mac when I started using them in 2002 (coming from OpenStep on an x86 machine, so hardly the prototypical ‘switcher’). It's probably fairly typical that in the very late 1990s or very early 2000s some high proportion of switchers (particularly those working outside of certain lines of work such as DTP or video editing) found themselves in contexts where they themselves were the only person on the platform, these people are literally those that jump-started the gradual shift towards the Mac as a revived platform.
The most Google thing to do would now be to deprecate Android pay, no longer support merchants who don't upgrade their point of sale systems, and provide no contact line for support.
They were given the go-ahead to release the patch by the author of the vulnerability.
I remember one of my professors who'd been behind the iron curtain back when there was an iron curtain saying the one thing the commies definitely got right was banning most advertising. Said when they crossed back to West Germany it was like every surface in every city was yelling at him.
"Both federal and California law also protect your right to discuss labor issues - even in a non-union workplace. This includes conversing with coworkers regarding wages, working conditions, and expressing your preference for candidates who support favorable labor issues such as higher wages for hourly workers."

This will probably come up.

https://www.employmentattorneyla.com/blog/2017/06/can-you-be...
Do you have evidence for that claim? You know your parents said the same about you with your computer games. In reality, yes you played games, you also learned more. The truth is you used more of your time than they did and some of it was productive, and some of it wasn't. VSauce has a good episode about how every generation thinks this about the next, and there has never been any evidence for it being true about any of them.
XP and WMP might pre-date the iPod but they were useless in terms of media management and music syncing. For one, WMP default to the .wma format for audio which didn't work on any portable player at the time. You could switch it to use MP3's but you had to install an MP3 codec in order to get that to work and most users had no inclination to do anything of the sort.

I think the OP's point was that, while you could do this stuff on Windows, it wasn't nearly as functional, seamless, or simple as it was with an iPod and iTunes or even MusicMatch (which really, really sucked, at the time).
> Because you could have the answer to nearly any question at your fingertips, and yet it's arbitrarily taken away?

There's a person there, usually in the front. They have the answers in their head. It is their job to put those answers in your head. To transfer those answers you can ask them a question. It's what they're there for.
Well, whether you disparage it or not, grouping Joe Rogan and Milo together doesn't seem very accurate.
Doctors and scientists who bothered to conduct even the most cursory research on this topic have known that the chemical imbalance hypothesis, aka "serotonin hypothesis" is bullshit. There is no evidence for it and never has been. This mirrors the claims of the sugar industry telling us to eat sugar instead of fat. Completely unscientific advice becoming mainstream to the point where doctors are committing malpractice en masse and actually believe the stupidity they failed to verify. There should be some class action lawsuits based on this. The proponents of this idiotic, unscientific, unproven, unsubstantiated theory have ruined countless lives. Who knows how many people they have driven to hopelessness and suicide just to make money off of them? Just from personal experience, I know it's not zero. These are lives lost that didn't have to be. All in the name of profit. This is the kind of society we live in and we wonder why a huge percentage of the population is depressed?
Also, the ability to say "yes, I know, DJI, my local government is requesting that you deny all flights in the area, but they are literally shooting innocent people and I would like to document that" is nonexistent by design.

Which, fair enough - Chinese company. But the fact that such a sentiment could also, from the point of view of the software, be something like "I need to deliver life-saving medicine and the bridge is out" does not factor into their decision-making.
You don't need to go any further that "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's." to see the principle of separation of church and state laid in a religious text.

Not that it was ever followed in practice in the centuries that followed.
just do what politicians do. apologize as vaguely as possible without calling yourself wrong.

"Mistakes were made, and I want to move on with my life....", no details -- just pandering. He won't necessarily be dishonest if he limits the context of the apology.

(I don't think one should apologize for opinions and ideas that go un-enacted. Knee-jerk reactions to opinions you don't like tend to blow them up, and that's why James Damore is a name we recognize now. Isn't that opposite to everyone's intention of minimizing his point of view? Ironic.)
Yeah, some US companies actually trialed NFC and Chip+PIN years ago on some of the higher end cards (my friend had one of these, but I can't for the life of me remember what card it was. I think it was issued by Wells Fargo or Chase) but reverted back to the "standard" Chip+Signature when all other banks were deciding on this platform.

I saw a clerk's mind blow when my parents used their Canadian cards to tap to pay. It's sad that it's such a stretch to see it happening because it shows how incredibly far off the US is in terms of payment technologies. I miss having NFC on all my cards. :(
This was part of "Operation Solomon". If the Wikipedia article is to be believed, there were actually 1,122 passengers on board.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Solomon

Either way, an impressive number!
OK, but continuing with your analogy, what about if you write a script that drops tables from a database it's pointed to, for internal use, then someone else runs it against the production server? And then you, not whoever ran it, get fired.
This thing is one of the biggest scams I've seen in my lifetime. Also comparing it to Bretton Woods is hilarious. A monetary system that lasted what 10 years before it failed?

Maybe that was intentional.
https://www.imf.org/external/about/histend.htm
We all think that we write our code so other programmers can read it, and we believe that because while we have the code in our heads we don't have any problem reading it.

I don't question your intentions or abilities, but the fact remains that a whole lot of programmers find almost every piece of code they didn't write hard to read. Or they say that -- I think they mean they just don't like the look of it, or they can imagine writing it differently.
>Ability follows as a result of preference. I am a terrible architect because I chose to become a software engineer. That does not mean that if I had chosen to become an architect, I would be terrible at it. If most of the people from my hometown made the same choice, then most of us would be less good at architecting due to that preference.

See everyone I talk to about Damore only tries to defend the preference portion. This isn't the only argument Damore is making. He believes abilities, not just preferences, are distributed differently between men and women. That's what I'm asking you to defend.

>Personally I think it's almost entirely culture. I couldn't say how much is what, but it makes no difference. The point is that it undermines the incumbent narrative, which is that sexism and oppression are the only significant causes.

It doesn't really undermine anything. When we move to salads it's super obvious that almost all of the effect is cultural not biological. So some burger stores start an initiative to get women to worry less about the cultural expectations placed on them and eat a damn burger but disgruntled Wendy's employee Damore writes an internal 10 page memo explaining that women don't eat burgers because they are biologically predisposed to salads. He digs up research about the vitamins and minerals contained in leafy greens, spends a ton of time tip-toeing around what he means to say, and couches everything in "distributional" language. At the end of the day it's obvious that this memo by a layman about why women prefer salads biologically is (1) ridiculous on it's face (2) not scientific and (3) actively harmful to his employer's goals.

But put that way it's obvious why he was fired and Damore looks less like a free-speech hero and more like bigoted faux-science dweeb.
> I do think that men and women are biologically different and, it likely does contribute to a lack of interest in tech from women.

The history of women in tech completely contradicts your belief. The lack of representation is a real problem, we can debate how to fix it, but to claim it doesn't exist is baseless and harmful.

https://hackernoon.com/a-brief-history-of-women-in-computing...
People like you should be prosecuted for spreading misinformation.
Engagement is a trap, it fools us into thinking we're doing something. Instead of evaluating what I'm doing in terms of vegetating vs. engagement, I find it helps to classify my activity into consuming vs. producing. Am I actually making or creating something, or am I passively consuming?

- Netflix: Consumption
- Video Game: Consumption
- Facebook: Consumption
- Web Browsing: Consumption

(I give up, how do you make a list in HN-text?)

There are holes in this classification. I'd say posting to Facebook/HN/blogs is probably garbage activity too, but it's not entirely consumption. But thinking this way is better than making ourselves think we're accomplishing something by beating the next boss in the game.
Exactly this. Even the title is misleading as "damaging" the brain, certainly there are changes, but jumping to the conclusion they are damaging and not beneficial to the human race in the long run is near sighted.
Never needed customer service for Android Pay or Wallet, but Google Express has excellent customer service.
His comparison to literature falls short in another way: he only considers the great writers. Sure, Dostoevsky is hard to read. But most writers aren't Dostoevsky: some writing is just hard to read because it's bad.

I think a better comparison would be to undergraduate essays. Most of the time the essential points are there, but if the author doesn't know how to write coherently the result is confusing.
Don’t you get it? The fact that they’ve done all of this with it just makes it a very Google thing to do. Therefore, Google Pay.
The problem is that you're shooting fire at Google, who isn't the one who originated the lawsuits or threats of lawsuits that lead to Google's policies. If anything they're victims of the previous lawsuits. This may achieve the desired effect of getting them to lobby to get laws changed so that these lawsuits won't be as effective, but it's a morally muddy game.

I'm a libertarian who supports Damore in sprirt, but I don't love this lawsuit for the reasons given in the grandparent post.
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There was also google managers talking about having personal blacklists on twitter.

It's why I think this google will settle with Damore for a very high amount, because discovery will not be good for them.
What? He actually does say that...

> 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.

[...]

> This is all part of a politically driven agenda that destroys everyone trying to question the unique, politically-correct acceptable way of thinking.

This is nonsensical. He wrote bullshit, he caused a problem at his office of employment, he was fired. End of discussion. If you end up pissing off most of your co-workers it leads to a hostile environment so you remove the fewest amount of people to fix it. It doesn't even matter if what he wrote is or isn't correct at that point.
I assume he meant as a passenger.
I believe most of the people living in SF are renters. Getting rid of rent control will never happen, politically.
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Thanks! I really appreciate this.
1.) Start slow, you can start with something as short as 12hrs fasting (sleeping time counts) and just add an hour to that every week or two. Personally I added an hour as I get used to it. 14 hour fast and still not hungry yet? I'll add an hour to it this week. Now I generally just eat one meal per day unless I'm very active. 16hours fasting, 8 hours feeding window is the most common spot for people to stop.

2.) This is exactly why people who do intermittent fasting are often eating keto, which is a low carb, moderate protein, high fat diet. Carbs spike your blood sugar. Then it comes crashing down and puts you in a relative "low", so your body craves more of that quick energy and boom you are hungry/want carbs again.

Fats and proteins on the other hand give you a more stable energy level by not spiking your blood sugar as much. You stay full. The reason for only moderate protein is because excess protein is also turned into glucose through gluconeogenesis.

For the record my boyfriend is a black hole when it comes to food. He's fairly muscular and active so he gets hungry pretty quickly. But if he eats keto macros he can handle 1 meal a day too. He actually gets a bit sick eating carb heavy meals now.

I've seen people do it without doing keto and still get weight loss success, but a LCHF diet of some sort is the most common diet I see. Also the article mentions specifically keto diet linked to longevity.

Read through the sidebar info on the keto reddit if you want an idea of where to start.
Your argument sounds nice, but does not offer sufficient proof for your rather strong statement "so the natural biological differences are irrelevant". This is a claim which could be scientifically tested. For example researchers could develop two rudimentary tool chains, one for women and one for men. Then they could investigate if in fact they can generate any statistical difference in participation.

It would actually be a rather interesting theory to test, and I would hope someone does test the theory. However your claim is not currently known to be true, rather just a promising theory.
Interesting. Personally, I enjoy living in a world where my friends have overcome cancer, where I can spend < 1 hour a day focusing in food, and I am able to travel halfway around the world to experience machu picchu and be back by then next monday. At what point do you think we stopped productively progressing? Have you considered joining an Amish community?
Well, it's not exactly a payment processor either. They're like a payment initiator. They funnel the payments through your processor in the end, according to their docs: https://payments.google.com/solutions/onboarding/
Of course it is. It artificially limits supply due to long term rent squatters taking advantage of the system
No offense, but I don't think it's especially surprising when people support one set of political views when it affects other people, but deviate from it when it affects their own bottom line. See for example the powerful in Silicon Valley, who are mostly "progressive" until it comes to economic issues that affect their personal finances.
Enabling that supra-Mac growth of iPod sales was precisely the reason why starting with the iPod 3G Apple shifted from FireWire to USB and began supporting filesystems beyond HFS+.

(Off topic, but not that much: my sister grabbed her first iPod as a windows user approximately 12 hours after the 3G became available on the shelves here in Italy, mainly because she had been so envious of mine... so anecdotally there was quite a lot of pent-up demand, and they were smart to bottle it up to the point of explosion and then harness it.)
Gee, I wonder if having the largest consumer of drugs on the northern border contributes to this dysfunction.

That same northern neighbour whose ambassador is attributed as having a key role in the assassination of the ideological leader and president after the last revolution, and brought the country back into 4 more years of violence and fighting [1].

Or that same northern neighbour who swept in and took almost half its land after Mexico had just come out of a war against Texas and another against France.

Historically the US has been the prime benefactor of not only Mexico, but all of Latin America being dysfunctional, which is why the CIA has been involved in destabilizing the region for years.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lane_Wilson
"If you spend a lot of time railing on "SJWs", and comparatively little time advocating for an alternative path to a more egalitarian social order"

I mean, if you want to debate, I'm happy to do so, but I'd prefer the debate be rooted in reality and not hyperbole.
Curing Alzheimer's or any other condition is the wrong approach. It is way more profitable to treat the condition and turn it into something that is merely manageable rather than making your revenue stream disappear entirely. This is the most humane approach to improve the quality of life for shareholders and the health of executives' bonuses.
> Creates other problems. Similar to almost any intervention in free markets. Sometimes the cost of intervention outweigh benefits, sometimes they don't.

Unless the intervention is addressed to a market failure (and rent control is not), the cost of intervention almost by definition outweighs the benefits. I.e. the value gained by cheaper rents for early residents is more than offset by higher rents for everyone + dead weight loss from distortion of economic incentives.