skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sexist? The assumption itself would be slightly. But in this case assuming it would also be unscientific. And I feel that it's weird they didn't do even a quick check (walk the streets in the morning, or ask people - get a valid sample). Then they'd both have better information and avoid the weird wording.
Except the Big Five has been debunked as being too lexical for biological differentiation.

Thanks for that. I find that reaction much more informative than the name-calling sent at James Damore.

In this sense we can say that the Big Five does not represent the structure of temperament or the structure of biologically based traits, even though lexical perception reflects some elements of it.

Well, one should expect that something based on self-report surveys to be about that disconnected from underlying biology. "...lexical perception reflects some elements of it" -- where {it} == {underlying biology}

As per usual, the reality of what goes on inside us is probably more complicated than our mental model of it.
No way! Your brain grows and develops when you challenge your body physically. It's established science that strenuous exercise builds new neurons in your brain.
Quoting from "How We Die" (1) by the late Sherwin B. Nuland:

the muscle cell of the heart is one of those that cannot reproduce — as it gets older, it simply wears out and dies. The biological processes that throughout life have been making replacement parts for dying structures within each cell can no longer do their job. The mechanism by which a newly generated piece of cell membrane or intracellular structure can take the place of a section dead of too much use finally becomes inoperative. After a lifetime of regenerating spare parts, the nerve and muscle cells' capacity of rejuvenation gradually shuts down. The tactic of continuous renewal within each heart-muscle cell is then defeated by the overwhelming strategy through which aging is achieving its ultimate objective of destruction.

There is a gradual decrease in the cardiac output while at rest, and when the heart is stressed by exercise or emotion, its ability to increase is less than required by the needs of arms, lungs, and every other structure of the body. The maximal rate attainable by a perfectly healthy heart falls by one beat every year, a figure' so reliable that it can be determined by subtracting age from 220. If you are fifty years old, it is unlikely that your heart can manage much more than 170 beats per minute, even under the most extreme conditions of emotion or exercise. These are only some of the ways in which the aging and stiffening myocardium loses its ability to adapt to the challenges presented to it by everyday life.

1. https://archive.org/stream/HowWeDie/How%20We%20Die_djvu.txt
Aveine Aerator’s wine gadget decants wine in an instant – The Verge
Anecdata indeed. I've seen women shovel snow all the time
Let's apply that same logic to refugees (red-lining, migrant workers, or really any topic of im/e/migration). Current citizens have votes and decide that refugees aren't welcome, refugees don't have votes and so cannot be welcomed.
While this is just anecdotal, My wife and I have a very different style -- in heavy wet snow, I take a full shovel load before tossing it, while she takes much smaller shovel loads. This is probably a factor of me being larger and stronger than her, but it may also be a safer shoveling style for her to follow.
>I'm having some difficulty understanding your statement.

Heh. I rest my case.

But, to respond directly: of course, I'm speaking colloquially to suggest many Americans.

I specifically mention Americans because this discussion is about an American suing an American company, in a kerfuffle over American ideals (and law) of sex nondiscrimination. American education norms seem to leave even bright people susceptible to deep confusion when claims are based on statistics.
And I'd add that there's evidence (and plenty of anecdote) that the men who most object to diversity are not so good at what they do. Which makes sense; they are the ones who have the most to lose from an increased talent pool. [1]

Personally, I'd be very interested to see Damore's code. We already know that he lied about both a PhD and being a chess master. [2] I would not be shocked at all to find out that he's not good at programming.

[1] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjourna...

[2] https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/18271/is-james-dam...
I'm an above average runner (fast enough to qualify for Boston anyway), mid-40s, been running about 15 years. I've run dozens of marathons and a few ultras, some over 24 hours and/or 100 miles. I also did CrossFit for about 15 months a couple years back. So I'm in pretty good shape and I have a pretty good idea of physical exertion levels, both aerobic and anaerobic. With all that said, I've had to shovel snow a few times, most recently last week – it is (or at least can be) as strenuous an activity as I've ever done.

Shoveling snow should not kill you, but it's a mistake to underestimate the level of effort it requires.

Then again, I was raised in Florida so maybe I just suck at it.
> Not doing the Valsalva maneuver means that you break your spine.

This is only anecdote, but if I fail to do the valsalva when exercising I just don't have as much power. I haven't broken my back yet.

The valsalva is useful at max effort, but doesn't seem necessary for a sustained activity such as shoveling snow. If they find valsalva is a problem, the answer may be not to shovel so much snow in one push.
Private Packagist synchronization
Cold constricts blood vessels, increasing blood pressure. Combine that with the fact that shoveling is mostly strenuous on your arm muscles —- where upper body exercise causes an increased HR and BP as compared to lower body exercise [0].

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4183232/
Isn't the toilet paper there meant to dry/clean your hand after you used the latter to clean your downstairs area using the water that is also near the toilet?
If I have money, why do I need a credit card?

I’m guessing you’re American: much of Europe doesn’t bother with credit cards, myself included.
Can't use a snow blower on wooden decking.
He must have panicked when he realized his fame clock had already reached 14:59.
From https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs...

2.2 How do I apply for a new gTLD?

Any established public or private organization anywhere in the world can apply to create and operate a new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) registry. Applicants will need to demonstrate the operational, technical and financial capability to run a registry and comply with additional specific requirements. Please refer to the Applicant Guidebook for detail information on the application process, including the application questions in Module 2, attachment 2.

Please note that applying for a new gTLD is not the same as buying a domain name. An applicant for a new gTLD is, in fact, applying to create and operate a registry business supporting the Internet's domain name system. This involves a number of significant responsibilities, as the operator of a new gTLD is running a piece of visible Internet infrastructure.

The application window is expected to open on 12 January 2012 and close on 12 April 2012.

The evaluation fee is US$185,000. Applicants will be required to pay a US$5,000 deposit fee per requested application slot when registering. The deposit will be credited against the evaluation fee. Other fees may apply depending on the specific application path. See the section 1.5 of the Applicant Guidebook for details about the methods of payment, additional fees and refund schedules.

When the application round opens, candidates will apply via an online application system called TAS – TLD Application System.
Building a Distributed Log from Scratch: Scaling Message Delivery
Google launches Preemptible GPUs for low-cost processing in the cloud
GoPro is exiting the consumer space and decided it couldn't compete with the professional space, which DJI completely dominates.

I personally think it's a smart move by GoPro because I don't see any growth potential in the consumer space with flights being banned anywhere interesting.
I'm aware. Either way it's still censorship.
I wonder why you think that we've reached this point of progress? It seems like every day we're learning more about how consumer tech is killing us mentally, physically, and emotionally.
Is flagging the same thing as clicking the [-] button? Is this explained somewhere? My flagged comment has +2 points, and my unflagged version of it has -2 points. Very confusing, and if I did something wrong, nobody is telling me what it is. I can't find any documentation for HN, which is a little ironic...
I did at 36, Went from 250lbs to 185lbs in 7 months.

I have a spinal condition so no heavy weights (nothing over 35kg) so lots of reps, pull-ups, calisthetics and eating a 1500 calorie a day diet (which sucked but I adapted remarkably quickly), I've kept the weight off for 18mths and I'm still 185.

It's a lot easier to maintain fitness than lose it and get it back.

Going from a 44" stretch back to a 32-34" (depending on brand) waist in jeans was a nice feeling but the main improvement was energy levels, once I binned the sugary energy drinks and got use to drinking a few cups of coffee sweetened with a tea spoon of honey my energy levels through the day leveled out and I started sleeping better as well (which given the spine stuff was a major win).

I'll stay in shape for as long as I possibly can do.
Get back to us with some stats on relative likelihood of a black man and a white man going to jail when found with some weed, and see if you can figure out why that could be related to both lack of capital and single parent homes.
This bit is a little buried, but it's the biggest win IMO:

> With Google Pay, it’ll be easier for you to use the payment information saved to your Google Account

On the web/in Android apps this allows you to pay with any credit card stored on your Google account. If you're on an Android device you can use your Android Pay card as well. Both with the same API for an ecommerce website or app.
Oddly enough, even here in central Indiana a snowblower is only needed about once in one or two seasons.

Yeah, I forgot that before we moved that it didn't seem to snow as much as it used to. Grew up spending entire winters cross-country skiing across the fields. Not so much as I got older. Wanna hear an old man's stories about the Blizzard of '78? :-)
public class A

{

private int exid;

private string M;

public A()

{

M = "The result is:";

}

public string y(int u, int v)

{

return M + (u+v).ToString();

}

}

public static void Main()

{

Console.WriteLine(new A().y(1,3));

}

Now add hundreds of lines of such code and you'll get unreadable code. It is not in the eyes of the reader, some code is just unreadable.

This is an extreme example though.
Interesting idea. Funny that it removes ads, too.

> I guarantee you'll never feel like you miss your feed. Nobody even has to know you've unfollowed them.

I just have messenger on my phone, right now. It's a nice solution to most of these problems for me. But most of my facebook tags happen directly in Messenger vs. someone's post that I have to go look at.
Being ~38 combined with my wife eating better is what changed my ways... one day I decided I was tired of getting fatter while my wife get healthier.

I swore off pop/sugar/processed foods and lost 50+ pounds in a year (kept it off for a year too). Still more to go, but man what a difference.
Businesses cautious in installing patches to fix chip flaw
I'll offer a contrarian view: longevity research, as in the current scope, is about as accurate and useful as Ray Kurzweil's predictions from the 90s.

Let's take caloric restriction, for instance, which is all the rage. Trouble is, all of the evidence we have is in mice or lesser animals, and the comparison is animals on caloric restriction against animals being force fed to the point of obesity. Let me repeat that: in research that shows caloric restriction increasing lifespan in animal models, they are not comparing to animals on a normal diet. So it's entirely plausible all this caloric restriction research findings is just confirmation of the fact that obesity shortens lifespans.

This isn't even touching on the point that correspondence between animal models and humans is abysmally bad. It's the best we have, but there's a very good reason drugs need to go through three stages of human testing after it's been proven successful in animals. With caloric restriction, we don't even have consistent positive results in monkeys, only in rodents.

Has any of this longevity stuff ever been tested in humans? Obviously not, since it would take many decades.

Some pointers for further reading:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089158491...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3765579/
I tried this once and I think the algorithm just readjusted weights or something because I still see friends on my news feed.

For desktop I have used the social fixer plugin though no longer do

Still haven't found the answer tbh

My most recent approach is to start blogging. If I like writing about interesting stuff I might as well do it properly.
Your last use-case is sort of covered by Android's screen pinning feature[0]. You have to enable it in settings, but it's useful, and seems to work well.

[0] https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6118421?hl=en
This link is for Nexus, but I think it's included in all version of Android since 5.0 Lollipop.
James Damore v. Google
Food pantries in multiple new multi-million dollar facilities with twice the number of administrators as 30 years ago. I just can't put my finger on how they could save money instead of trying to get more taxpayer funds to pay for these.
U.S. airport immigration computers go down temporarily: agency
+1 yes, pcid makes a big improvement (I've been testing the KPTI patches with and without pcid).
Dunkirk Re-Edited as a Silent Film – The Power of Visual Storytelling
Keep it man
Thanks, is your explanation all PowePC specific then?
Care to illustrate your point with an example? I’m wondering what kind of “unnecessary complexity” you’re talking about.
If people got on with their neighbours I am sure one snow blower between 20 houses would suffice. Maybe the 'storer' gets their share for free. Could issue an ICO token for the share, for a laugh.
Why is 11 am and 1 hour == 12:00 pm?
They've become powerful because they turned to crime, rather than starting out that way by inheritance or corporate affiliation.
When the bad blood is completely impersonal, maybe it is fair to say "It's been ten years, google should be required to forget". Especially if they're willing to repay the debt.

There are hundreds of millions of people at neutral with google. Letting someone reset to neutral doesn't harm them.
I have no investment in this username, so I wouldn't care.

And "significantly depended upon" doesn't make sense in your example, but is relevant in terms of a package in a registry.
I guess I am confused was to why there is both an ASID and PCID for x86 then?
It's useful to hear about your background, and based on your article, it's not too surprising. I'm beginning to believe that there's no such thing as a "typical" programmer (no offense!). I know people who write software for aerospace, political dissidents, major web services, healthcare, weekend hackathons, embedded systems, etc., and all of these have completely different kinds of requirements.

Brooks' book is on my shelf (it's one of the N=1 cases!), but I've come to the realization that I'm the only one who actually believes what he says. More than one manager has had it sitting on their desk when they told my team "This project is at risk of running late, so we're adding some additional people..." Never have I ever worked for a manager who agreed to implement anything in it.

Conceptual integrity is an attribute we really have no metrics for (AFAIK), which means it will naturally suffer as a project grows. That's probably why so many managers have no problem sacrificing it for short-term speed. It's a tragedy of the commons. You get credit for adding features, and for creating a new project to replace an old one, but you never see the downside from the gradual removal of conceptual integrity which caused the creation of the replacement project in the first place.

It's also a dramatic difference from literature. When George R. R. Martin is late with the next "Game of Thrones" volume, nobody suggests adding more authors to hit an arbitrary deadline. We'd rather let the schedule slip by a few years than sacrifice any conceptual integrity.
I disagree on the Pandora analogy and hostile incumbents.

In corporate IT the mighty dollar rules the day. MySQL and Postgres had hostile incumbents, Linux and open source in general had hostile incumbents, commodity hardware for the data center had hostile incumbents, AWS (or Google Cloud) had hostile incumbents, Splunk, Cloudera, SalesForce and any other SAAS company had plenty of hostile incumbents.

Yet end of the day they were able to show cost savings, and either sell it at the CTO/CIO level to existing companies or enable startups with much more rigid cost base, which in big companies quickly got the CIO's attention.

There's nothing particular about blockchain tech that I can see that introduces a major game changer on the cost savings front. Launch two identical startups today, one on top of blockchain, another on top of MySQL. Will the first one have lower operating costs 1, 5, 10, 20 years down the road?
Almost all of the discussion about this focuses on what Damore did/said.

This is an interesting document because the lawsuit will be mostly about what Google did and said. This document this tells one side of that story.

Importantly, this doesn't just vaguely talk about "discrimination", but lists many specific instances of it. It's worth a read.

Also, twenty pages of memes...
So are you denying the existence of individual acts of racism today, or praising them as wonderful examples of true diversity?

In the US at least, it pretty fucking explicitly does dictate one moral paradigm above others - ever heard 'we hold these truths to be self-evident"? And then there's something about people being equal and having rights and stuff. An entire moral paradigm.
Another data point here. In my general neighborhood who was shoveling mostly depended on who was up or had to go to work first.
Right, exactly, but this chip is still as far away from a software perspective as a discrete card would be.
You guys should look at the "steak and eggs" diet. This is the best diet I did. You loose a lot of weight, feel amazing, no brain fog, you do not get crazy hungry. It's amazing!
It depends really. High temperature superconductors were incredibly hyped when they first came out, but the problem is they had a limited critical current and critical field strength so applications were(and to some degree still are) limited. These are the maximum current and magnetic field a superconductor can carry before superconductivity breaks down. If room temperature superconductors turn out to have a high processing cost and the critical current/field strength isn't that high, then the applications are going to be limited.
It seems pretty obvious that he and his fellow complainant were fired for the quality/content of their ideas, not their class.

To me, there is a large difference between discriminating against someone because of their beliefs vs. their skin color.

Would it make sense that a pharmaceutical company needs to keep working with a scientist that only believes in homeopathic treatments? Does a construction company need to keep working with a engineer that the believes the earth is flat?
> They have not displayed that great ability to invade. To be real, neither has really the US either.

Russian and American forces successfully invaded German-occupied territory and Germany in the second world war.
In an ideal world you'd run the experiment and see how it goes. In the real world you'll probably be stuck with it regardless of the outcome, because there will be a concentrated group who will be strongly against ending it, whereas the negative consequences will be diffuse.

That rent control is bad is not exactly a new finding. This has been known to economists across the political spectrum for decades.
There's violence across the region, even in countries that have little or nothing to do with the drug trade. Bad governance is more responsible for violence than anything the US has ever done in countries like Venezuela and Argentina.
So all it takes for a unicorn to exist is somebody buying a billionth of a company for $1.
Good question! The thing you're referring to is "quench."
Answer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnet#Magnet_...
Are there that many people in rent-controlled apartments for this to be a serious enough issue or cause of traffic?
Original HN Post and discussion.	https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16092975
The major issue is that the market is NOT free. This market can't ever be free. There are building codes, zoning, planning, approvals, etc. All of that red tape related to building the level and quality of housing that an area needs already distorts the market.

Thus the underlying issue is that there has not been proper correction and guidance from the governance structures established by the people in the area; mostly because the rising home prices and status-quo of neighborhoods generally benefit those people.

It's going to take state or federal level correction to fix this issue and the "best" way of doing that would be to sour the use of housing as an investment.
Well, it is what Damore claims google did.
If you feel like a failure and that the damage is done: I'd say you are damn near rock bottom. If you're at that point... there is truly no way to go but up.

You have many many years left on this earth. Do you want to spend them feeling this way about yourself, or do you want to give yourself a second chance and see how good you can be?

Put together a mental image in your mind of where you want to be and start taking the baby steps to get there. BABY steps. First, you need to start eating right. I say this for two reasons: 1, No amount of exercise is going to outrun a bad diet. 2, once you start to see positive changes in your body it will be like a snowball effect. You'll feel better about yourself, your confidence will rise, it will be easier to stick to it.

For me, I am a huge proponent of the ketogenic lifestyle. tl;dr - high fat, low carb. You might want to try the whole30 challenge to get things started.

Then you begin introducing exercise, again, with baby steps. Don't start crazy. If you're completely sedentary and never move: start walking. Get a dog and walk that sucker EVERY day!

After a few weeks and months of eating clean and moving every day, you will naturally start wanting more. You'll be able to explore gym routines with confidence and excitement. You might like weightlifting, or martial arts, boxing, rock climbing, crossfit, all of the above.

Once the snowball is moving, it's hard to stop. That is when you reach an inflection point in your life and it isn't a diet anymore: it's a lifestyle. You WANT to go outside. You WANT to go paddleboarding and hiking on vacation.

Baby steps. Do it right now, you can only get better!