skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quoted line about distribution of talent does not imply that women are worse than men at engineering. In fact, due to the way standard deviation works, the average woman could be better than the average man at engineering but the average of the top 5% of women could be worse than the average of the top 5% of men at engineering. Yeah, that sounds weird, but it's completely possible with the right standard deviation and average.

Example: average ability score of 100, standard deviation of 16 and average ability score of 90, standard deviation of 32. The 95th percentile cutoff for the first group would be about 164; the 95th percentile cutoff for the second group would be about 218. So even though the average member of group 1 has a higher ability score than the average member of group 2, an organisation which hired the best 5% of all candidates would have disproportionately more members of group 2 than group one.
I would say leave the average in but also show standard deviation and 95th percentile average. Of course it is still very unlikely that Azure Functions would come out on top in this case.
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> It's because he's just another brogrammer

ugh.
Transistors weren't anywhere 100 years ago. The first practical, working transistor was in 1947. The theoretical foundation (quantum mechanics) wasn't particularly solid until the 1920s. So to get from where we were 100 years ago to where we are today, there were both changes in the known laws of physics, and also practical advances.
> Part of it I think is we have to focus on productivity and providing value because the hardware couldn't render high end experiences.

Constraint drives creativity.

Early web development had the same principles...you could only expect the user to wait so long for a page load on a dialup connection before you lost their attention, so the goal was to make each and every one worth the wait.
I thought the tools were the programmers. Which one is it? Programmers are much more dangerous than any gun and using the "it was just my job" cop out to excuse atrocities like killing people is still immoral, regardless of what tools the people who do so use.

People aren't tools. No person is a tool, period. That's the point of my original reply. You can't excuse atrocities by saying people are tools and therefore not responsible for their actions. You also can't excuse atrocities by claiming people were just following orders. People are moral agents except in very extreme circumstances (such as lack of mental capacity, which the law does deal with). Programmers that helped big pharma ruin thousands upon thousands of lives are most certainly partially responsible for their immoral actions (working for big pharma) just like the Nazis who ran the concentration camps were partially responsible for the Holocaust. Hannah Arendt tackles this subject in "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil."
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Retail employees don’t care about marginal lost profits of the corporate on individual interactions.
I have a generally positive view of Ron's work, but there's been some tragic missteps of late. This is a trashfire of a piece justifying incredible incompetence by Google[1], and suggesting a major vulnerability 'isn't a big deal': https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/pixel-wont-get-krack...

[1]Google had months of notice under coordinated disclosure, and it took them a couple months after it went public for the fix to finally make it to Pixel devices (which is to say, most other Android devices still aren't patched). Since ROM authors fixed this in like two days, the fact that Google couldn't do it in five months is inexcusable. I actually suspect this may be part of why the Android Security Lead just shifted to a massively less important position at Google around the end of the year.
I‘m pretty sure Apple won‘t do that, because they want you to buy your kids their own iPhone.

Why doesn‘t the iPad have this sort of multi-user mode? An iPad is the perfect device for sharing. But no, if you don‘t want your kids to read your emails, you need to buy them their own iPad.
Which is why I stated that they are right of center... I agree, classical liberalism is basically right wing / conservative / libertarian. America generally is right wing, going back to it's founding.
To be fair, GP did address that point: the current renters of a city have votes [in local government], and the future renters do not.
Americans had zero to do with political violence in Argentina prior to 1976, and going back decades.
I don't see any support for [2] in the page you linked (maybe because I am on mobile). There may have been efforts to recruit that were directed at women (e.g. sending employees to Grace Hopper), but ultimately the bar was the same for everyone.
My vote is on quantum levitation. Wings, jetpacks and mini-helicopters are all already hitting the limitations of their physics and still far away from anything you would casually carry around.
Clearly there was pent up demand, my main argument is that "integration" wasn't the reason for the demand, as evidenced by the huge spike of iPod sales, rather than iPod + Mac sales.

I mean, I had a iPod, but I used 3rd party software to load it since iTunes was mess.
Yes! Another thing you could do is including the reasoning for a law, and have the review address that.

Like-- let's take on Oregon's statute banning self-pumping. Most of the reasons are safety related: https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/480.315

It'd be cool to have a system where a private citizen would be allowed to file a lawsuit if they thought the justifications didn't have evidence. So the case would look at the justifications, and if the state couldn't prove that self-pumping wasn't more dangerous, the case would immediately remove the law.

One justification for banning self-pumping gas is that it's a jobs program. Except that that reason was never included in the original policy. So under my "challenge the law" framework, that couldn't be used as a defense, unless the Oregon legislature actually amended it.
the irony is that the subcultural current with which damore sympathizes is generally pretty anti-union as well, but being represented by one probably would've provided him some protection.
I'm not surprised there's yet another rebranding in Google world. You can pretty much track rebranding, not based on features or coherency, but rather someone being promoted. And on top of it, the Peter Principle has been thrown out the window so we get shit that's constantly being replaced with different shit, because when you're not improving Ux the only thing left to make your job relevant is to make the Ux different.
Would you mind posting civilly and substantively instead of “edgy” one-liners?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What do you do when you need to know something? (recent example: my toilet stopped refilling, I had no idea what was wrong and found the information on the internet). Also, which podcasts do you prioritize?
"rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city – except for bombing" - Lindbeck
African here. Apart from the Bay of Pigs I don't know much about the events you mention. What I can tell you in Africa similar stories are shared. All coups are allegedly plotted and carried out with support from the CIA. I am not naive enough to believe that the CIA is innocent of everything but I often wonder why my fellow Africans betray us at the behest of the CIA. I get it often there is lots of money and power at stake but it saddens me to see some of the atrocities we commit against each other. There will always be a foreign power waiting to take advantage. It could be China next or Russia.
Yeesh, out of all the choices available, I had to pick the worst example, eh? Feel free to substitute "Live Mesh" or "FolderShare". :-)
They screwed them up in pretty impressive fashion. Years ago, Google Groups used to be a great interface for searching Usenet archives. Now, it is near useless.

As an example, I wanted to do some research on early language features of Python (e.g. around 1993). The info is in Usenet postings of that time, surely present in Google Groups years ago. Now, I can't find anything useful. A advanced search using dates doesn't return anything. Their user interface is horribly bad compared to what it used to be.

Another example: I did some research on Deep Blue and Deep Thought, after reading Crazy Bird's book. With the old Google Groups, I could follow the discussion of the Deep Blue tournament, in chronological order. There was all sorts of interesting things like computer chess programmers speculating on how Deep Blue worked and people posting analysis of chess positions. All that is now gone or at least not searchable.

So sad that all of this knowledge has apparently disappeared. There was loads of information shared on Usenet and the storage space required to preserve it would be trivial.
I've come to the conclusion that hiring isn't broken, per se. Rather, it's doing what the interviewers intend.

These aren't interviews for engineers, for people interested in contributing to the solution of big, complicated systems problems. They're interviews for code grunts and people who aren't interested in reaching beyond the comfort of their CS 4xx trivia or the equivalent in systems design.

It's one reason my interest in continuing on the tech ladder wanes daily. Another is the relatively worse pay.
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Why don’t you prove it and delete the 60 unnecessary apps.

Goodness knows every single one is tracking you in some way or another or waiting to trick you with some dark pattern.

This isn’t meant to be sassy or to criticize you. I have similarly trimmed back all of the apps I don’t regularly use or rely on.
Housing is the main cost, and it scales with average take-home income — which is why two-income-no-kids families aren’t as well off as one might expect from looking at single-income families from the 1960s. If you can somehow disregard housing as a cost, and have health insurance anywhere except the USA, 20 hours per week is fine.

I’d manage on 10 hours per week minimum wage in the UK, but that doesn’t really count because the UK government effectively subsidies everyone earning less than (I think) £24k/year with things like NHS healthcare and a functional police, fire brigade, and army.
> I recommend actually reading the memo

I recommend you start realizing that people can read something and interpret it in vastly different ways.

Of course then you might have a revelation about this whole thing.
> Low voltage distribution networks in data centers.

3.3v (or lower, for modern chips) requires big cables. I doubt that's worth it.

> 1000s of 80% step down converters become 100% efficient.

How does this happen? Are you excluding the efficiency of the central step-down converter?

> Superconducting ring storage of electricity.

Can you actually fit a meaningful amount of energy in there before it saturates?
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It's not too late. The Rust standard library has what's called the "prelude", which is a set of items (functions, types, traits) that are imported by default into every Rust program. So for example the complete Rust program `fn main() { let x = String::new(); }` works despite the fact that at no point did we import any type named `String`; this is because Rust programs implicitly link the stdlib by default, and the stdlib publicly exports the items in the prelude (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/libstd/pre...).

So in the future when macros are namespaced just like every other item (which is actually already designed and largely implemented, see my other comments here for links), all that needs happen is to export the newly-transitioned macros from the prelude and all will continue to work as usual. As for potential collisions with third-party macros, the old system already requires anyone who wants to import macros to stick a hacky "macro_use" pragma on their import statement, and old-style macros are specified to shadow rather than collide so there will be no need to be cautious with updating the stdlib. Third-party libs will be free to update to "macros 2.0" at their leisure (though the need to have users explicitly import macros will require those libraries to issue a breaking change when they do so), and old-style macros will be supported for quite a while though eventually they will be deprecated and discouraged (and presumably removed in some future epoch).
I use Google Pay all the time, even the little hipster coffee shops in my neighborhood support NFC payments.

The only places that I go to, that I can think of at the moment, that do not accept NFC payments are:

My Employers Cafeteria

Any gas pump

7/11 (I wish they would support NFC payments)

Costco

The little grocery store on the corner (They use Square and they have not upgraded their gear yet)

Just about all restaurants
BTC ASICs could be re-purposed for any coin that uses the same hashing algorithm of BTC.

PoS doesn't reward the rich for being rich any more than a savings account rewards the rich for being rich by letting them make more money off of a given interest rate.
The thing I really, really love about having a Google Pixel phone is the camera, and its with me all the time. I was riding my bicycle to work on Friday and saw the sunrise...it was quite beautiful: https://www.realms.org/pics/IMG_20180105_072614_1.jpg

Besides that, I have very few apps installed on my phone. I basically use it as a mobile web browser from time to time.
For practical purposes, I believe 4th Gen Intel (Haswell) was the first to implement PCID. The 2015 15" MacBook Pro uses Haswell.
Room-temperature levitation with permanent magnets.

A diamagnetic material repels external magnetic fields. Unlike other materials, superconductors have very high diamagnetic constants. [1] This is why one can float a magnet over a superconducting plate (or float a superconductor over a magnet).

If we had room temp superconductors, we could tile a floor with them, mount magnets on carts and float the carts across the floor. Or highway. Or whatever. Lots of uses for levitation that consumes no power.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamagnetism
I recognize that, but it was evident that GP didn't read it in the first place.
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If you need to come armed with facts:

https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages...

Scroll down to "Among the AAP recommendations" for the tl;dr.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16100505

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098676 <- Discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16099111

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16099523

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16100026
Can PCID (like HyperThreading, full L3 cache, or extra PCI-e slots in the latest i7s and i9s) be enabled with an update that blows those (e)fuses.
Probably not as you have to manually remember to check in on it, there are no notifications for comment replies, and no real reward system for participating.
you are correct. I was on my second HDD-Based mp3 player before the Ipod came around. I Also had the Nomad and replaced it with the Zen. Googling I see dozens of models, but I believe it was the Zen Xtra. I still have it in a box of old electronics.

I recall it being very difficult to explain to my peers what I was carrying. Thankfully the nomad looked like a CD player.
It's at the bottom of the page.

> Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.
this is absolutely not a function of Azure vs AWS, the perf diff is completely between .Net Framework (which was used on Azure) and .Net Core (which was used on AWS). This compares Apples and Watermelons.

https://www.ageofascent.com/2016/02/18/asp-net-core-exeeds-1...

http://codinggorilla.domemtech.com/?p=1499
Also women aren't going into "high stress jobs" because they are too neurotic for them.

oh and diversity programs are bad. for some reason.
Loggly is joining SolarWinds
I brought a little metal chain into a trip once. Then a couple hours later, while we were all sitting in the dark hallucinating, I started absentmindedly playing with the chain. Everyone heard the sound and thought there was a dog in the room, which convinced me there was a dog in the room, and we all spent a good couple minutes trying to figure out who had brought a dog with them before I realized I was playing with my trip chain.
Not sure about with laws, but similar things have been tried with regulations. See http://redtapereduction.com/BC_Reg_Reform_Model.aspx but in brief:

* Around 2001, voters in British Columbia elected a government with a specific campaign promise to reduce "regulation" by 1/3.

* Initially this was accomplished by among other things setting a rule that for every new regulation introduced two existing ones had to be eliminated.

* Then the status quo was maintained by mandating a 1-for-1 rule (each new regulation requires elimination of a existing one).

* In 2015, the government of Canada introduced its own 1-for-1 rule.

There are obviously complications around what constitutes "one regulation", which neither my summary nor the linked article completely capture.
> cards listed are only viewable as huge generic CC images and you can't customize either the image or even give it a name.

The generic images are only used for cards that do not participate in Android Pay, and that use the fallback mechanism for unsupported cards. Participating cards get fully branded images from the participating bank.

> When making payments there is no quick way to select which card you want to pay with.

You can apparently make app shortcuts to individual cards, if you have the Pixel launcher or a third-party launcher with similar features.
The initial public record is not that relevant. More importantly, during the 50s scientists had already begun to agree global warming is a serious, occurring issue.

Compared to other issues, however, like the depletion of the ozone layer later on, measures against climate change have had to deal with the oil industry the entire world is still relying on.
And thus ensure in another 2 years, another person will be promoted to the Google global payments VP, and another product manager will think he's god's gift to solving the payments problem, and will have another product and rebranding cycle.

Mark your calendars.
If one wants to do a silly experiment with a Google account, it's a good idea to create a new Google account just for that, and not use the regular and important one.

If one has done some silly experiments in the past, it may be reasonable to create a new Google account as the "regular and important", and get email old redirected to it.

This kind of online hygiene will only become more and more important as online identities calcify.
Buying kids their own phone is what this leads to. The kid only knows the kid-mode PIN for their own phone.
Can you do this without having a phone at all? Or does it have to have an iPhone "base station" to check in with at home?
Tested restores with at most 59 minutes of data loss for prod clusters within 90 minutes after order. 30ish minutes of downtime. We could even inspect binlogs for a full restore afterwards on a per-request basis for our big customers.

Cryptolocker on prod is not my primary issue.
> The Berlin Brandenburg Airport is a wonderful example of that

BER has always been a program to transfer as much cash as possible into the private sector. The profit the building companies siphoned off (and will keep siphoning off!) is enormous.

Unfortunately the city of Berlin has had to slash staff numbers in the last decades, so there is no in-house expertise to oversee that project... and external consultants don't have any incentive to actually do their job so the client has a benefit. They will want to drag out the BER build as long as possible, same as the building contractors.
Each buyer that refuses to bid on an inner-suburb house drives the market price down by some real, but infinitesimally small, amount. Symbolic, sure, but I can't in good conscience bid some split level in a 1950s Levittown development up to $600k.
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Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but is this library a way of merging multiple HyperLogLogs together and still have a reasonable cardinality estimate?

What sort of loss do you see the more HyperLogLogs you merge? As in, if you had Set1,2,3,4,5.....n
> I'd be happy to add any feature requests to our roadmap planning.

Love the concept, seems to work well. I personally use the 'media' specification of Google often (mostly: images, videos, pdfs, scholar articles, and Google patents). I didn't see a way to filter on Million Short.

...and if you could find a way to filter content that is not behind paywalls that would be amazing. As an engineer I'm constantly searching standards/specs (e.g. IEEE, ASTM, ISO standards etc.) some of which you can find free copies of for the previous revision (which are still pretty good), but you have to dig deep through top-ranking paywall sites.
That's what I was thinking too.

When I think about failed predictions, the flying car almost immediately comes to mind. You could see them regularly on 50s-60s pop-science and SF magazines covers.

Back then there was the idea that flying machines would soon become affordable on an individual level, and that most people would want to buy their own helicopter or small plane. Quite a few SF novels assumed it was a definite possibility, with the inevitable abandon of cities.

And it made a lot of sense at the time. I remember reading City by Clifford Simak as a kid, which is based on this premise, and thinking that it would soon come. The concept was very tempting.
Ask HN: If Bitcoin is a store of value, what is Ethereum?
Bitcoin is deflationary in nature, so it's price should be going up. What is driving Ethereum's price higher? Are there "real" smart contracts being driven by Ethereum, or is the price rise purely speculation?
Well, yeah, it's pretty hard to take seriously the idea that Plato adhered to an injunction against writing (given how we have access to his written works), but quite plausible that Socrates did (since we have access to him only through Plato's written works.)
Google bought Deja News and turned it into Groups.
This happens on my desktop/workstation as well (w/ NVIDIA cards) but only when using UEFI. It doesn't occur when using legacy/BIOS mode.

I've got two ThinkPads sitting here as well and it doesn't happen on them. One has Optimus (Intel+NVIDIA), the other just has built-in Intel graphics; both are using legacy/BIOS mode. I haven't tested it using UEFI.
Totally agree. How in the world could you have Damore on a team with women after the memo is out and people know he wrote it?

I have never bought into this is some social political thing but rather just basic human decency. Never understood how the right wing got a hold of this and my only guess it was Damore or someone from the right wing that wanted this rather obvious HR issue as some social political issue. It is not in reality. Any company would have diciplined Damore including firing. A manager is responsible for everyone including the women.