skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

"It should be noted, though, that the largest study to date included nearly 1000 children (9-14 years old) and found no effects.9 This latter study is of particular interest, because it included adolescents, whereas most other stereotype threat studies were carried out with university students. If stereotype threat discourages girls from pursuing math-intensive STEM coursework and careers, its effect should be evident in high-school. The fact that a large and well-designed study could not find any effect, in our opinion, suggests either the effect does not exist or it is unmeasurably small."
GMail does the same - it looks like an industry wide trend.

Basically smartphones are there to destroy all the gains in privacy and security made on desktop browsers (such as they are)
Yeah, at the very bottom there's a link to my twitter, but you're right, it's not the most approachable way to collect feedback. Sorry about that!
Great article!

I believe I've heard about their sporadic use in medieval Europe before, but certainly never in the context of humiliation of ones enemies.

This really supports the whole "reality/truth is stranger than fiction" trope, as we would probably dismiss a novel or movie set in medieval western Europe with scenes that depict people paraded around on camels as "unrealistic".
Just because you provide sources doesn't mean your sources are relevant to your argument or good sources. Go look at his memo. It is paragraph after paragraph with his beliefs on the matter and then a link to some source which you are supposed to check out. He often doesn't bother explaining how those sources are relevant.

That's why it is bad. Just because you've got sources doesn't mean you are saying anything useful and I'd argue the discussion proves that. He's got sources, which is somehow supposed to mean he's correct. He's blessed his argument with associations with academia, but doesn't really make compelling arguments.

This article explains in great detail how that is not the case in any significance and there are even examples where men and women have been socialized oppositely and still end up choosing typical gender interests.

> some inherent difference between the sexes

Yes, men and women are different.

It doesn't do it at all convincingly. If sexes have been socialized differently for tens of thousands of years (and they have), and one of the sexes has been intentionally limited by the other for long durations of this time (they have), then how do you say what is biological and what is sociological? He never bothers with this.
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While true, there's just no way you can infer the opacity from those frame grabs.

On the one hand he says he says he used the whites of Shaq's eyes as a reference and on the other he states that the design of the glasses hugs the users head to block out ambient light getting in from the side.

There's a slew of issues with this derivation. To arrive at a number like 15%, without showing his homework, is as questionable as the marketing claims of Leap themselves.

I'm not saying he's wrong but it does sound like a lot of bias.
> I'm a frog, and I've been boiled slowly.

That is a myth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
I would disagree with the generalization. Consider the following set of propositions:

1) The placebo effect predicts that believing I'll get over a bout of the flu quickly increases my chances of getting over the flu quickly

2) I believe in the placebo effect and would like to get over the flu quickly

3) Therefore, I choose to believe I will get over the flu quickly.

There is no reason besides practicality to believe proposition 3), but if propositions 1) and 2) are accepted, proposition 3) follows naturally. To my own way of thinking, some beliefs are self-justifying, but I'd be interested to hear how your worldview deals with this example.

edit: spacing
Indeed, there is a lot more in brexit/trump story, but not everything causes the Congressional Hearing on the foreign hostile state meddling in the 2016 election.
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It’s funny. All I hear about in my social circles is people complaining how PC everything is now. It seems like it’s rather PC to complain about political correctness.
I feel like I'm getting the occasional bedbug bite at home but haven't been able to spot any yet to prove it.

The bites are itchy but not like mosquito bites.
Or we could attempt to see the bigger picture (money distribution) and fix that instead, that was my point.
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Surely if you AirBNB your home you've got a good chance of getting bed bugs?
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I was suggesting that you reduce the number by merging all the policeing type orgs into one FBI, BATF, TSA,DEA etc and merge all of the domestic contra espionage into a new MI5 analog
I'm a PhD student at a UK university. From what I've seen in my department
(Engineering) there are about 3 women for every 5 men, both in staff and
students, a not unreasonable ratio. However, I struggle to remember more than
a couple of women who are British or from an English-speaking country. The
majority come from India, China, the rest of Europe, the Middle East etc.

I've also seen this in the six years I worked in the UK as a developer, before
starting my PhD. Of the women developers I worked with, (in this case, not so
many) the majority were Indian or Eastern or Southern European. The same goes
for the students in my data science Masters (also in a UK university).

Other women I've discussed this with, have similar experiences. In particular
Greek women (like myself) don't remember any perception of a strong bias in
numbers against women in STEM subjects. I have a fair few Greek women friends
who have bachelors or master's degrees in computer science.

All this is of course anecdotal but it makes me think there is some sort of
bias that is not explained by "interest in things" vs "interest in people", or
any such difference between the sexes, because it is particular to specific
cultures, rather than to the sexes around the globe.

In any case "gendered interest" sounds like a convenient oversimplification
that seeks to confirm cultural bias as natural and spontaneous, rather than
an attempt to understand it. Instead of answering any questions it passes the
buck; it leaves someone else to wonder why girls and boys are interested in
different things (e.g. fire trucks vs barbie dolls). The same goes for
academic performance in school: that is also an observation that requires an
explanation- not an explanation in and of itself.
So many vaccines work beautifully in mice.

Must be comforting to be a mouse facing health issues.
Plus, it offers messaging without the Messenger app.
This is a very common misconception. While Turing complete computational models "suffer" from the halting problem that makes arbitrary "reasoning" uncomputable, that is 1. not quite the problem that makes reasoning hard, and 2. that does not mean that reasoning in weaker models is feasible.

1. What makes reasoning hard is not quite the halting theorem as normally stated, but a generalization of it that's sometimes called "bounded halting", and was used in the proof of the time-hierarchy theorem, possibly the most important theorem in theoretical computer science. Bounded halting roughly states that it's impossible to know in under N steps whether an arbitrary program P would halt when operating on input X in fewer than N steps. A simple corollary also shows the impossibility of generalizing the program's operation from one input to another. In short, this theorem means that it's impossible to know what a program would do for any input any faster than running it for every input. It can roughly be stated as saying that the verification or "reasoning" complexity for a program with a state space S of size |S| is θ(|S|) (where theta is like big-O, except it roughly means "no more and no less than", whereas big-O means "no more than"). Most importantly, this theorem does not require the programming model to be Turing complete. For example, it applies directly -- using the same proof -- to programming models that only allow primitive recursive functions.

2. Even the simplest computational model -- the barely useful finite-state machine -- is already too complicated for arbitrary reasoning. Its verification complexity also happens to be θ(|S|) (but with a different proof than that of the bounded halting theorem), where |S| is usually at least exponential in the size of the program. In general it can very easily be shown that if your programming languages has nothing more than boolean variables and the ability to write loops of length of no more than 2 or, alternatively, it has subroutines even if they cannot be recursive and there are no first-class subroutines -- reasoning is also infeasible (it's PSPACE-complete) and you might as well be Turing complete, as that won't make the worst-case any harder in practice (it makes no difference if the worst case is truly infinite or "just" much longer than the expected lifespan of the universe). The above fact means it is provably impossible to create a programming language -- no matter how limited -- where every program would be easily verifiable. To make a language feasibly verifiable in all/most cases, its state space must grow slowly (polynomially) with program size; this means that not only must the programming model be weak (basically just FSM), but the language exceptionally inexpressive. Regular expressions are pretty much the farthest we can go, and even then some simple questions about regexps are infeasible (such as whether two regexps are equivalent; I believe that problem is PSPACE complete, even though there are heuristic algorithms that work in many instances).

For further discussion and complete results, see my post: https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity
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I don't get it. Why is equality of outcome not a desirable goal, especially in science and technology? These authors only try to disprove theories which potentially explain the inequality and then conclude that there is no injustice. This is logically flawed in my opinion. In order to justify the inequality they would need to come up with a plausible theory why the inequality is inevitable and then support it with sound facts. Otherwise social pressure from "feminists" is well justified.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted (language maybe? But we're all adults here) but you're exactly right. Fastmail is a company that provides a service for a fee, it would be insane if they didn't have a TOS enumerating their rights regarding their customer relationship. If they didn't have the right to terminate service, the customer could do whatever they wanted (use the service to send out spam or engage in illegal activity) with no risk of losing service.

If GP wants an email service that will let them sidestep the law, as you said, they can roll their own. I can't think of any other reason someone would be turned away by a sensible TOS.
What is groundbreaking about Brave?
Because you (the customer) dont have to think about them. It's similar to PaaS, or rather between PaaS and SaaS as a finer granularity model.
It's the security and privacy implications that come to mind for me.
That claim in Damore's memo shouldn't be controvertial. Here's what Deborah Soh (PhD in sexual neuroscience) had to say about it:

> Within the field of neuroscience, sex differences between women and men—when it comes to brain structure and function and associated differences in personality and occupational preferences—are understood to be true, because the evidence for them (thousands of studies) is strong. This is not information that’s considered controversial or up for debate; if you tried to argue otherwise, or for purely social influences, you’d be laughed at. http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-...

More from her about Damore's memo and scientific research in this space:

> Despite how it's been portrayed, the memo was fair and factually accurate. Scientific studies have confirmed sex differences in the brain that lead to differences in our interests and behaviour.

> As mentioned in the memo, gendered interests are predicted by exposure to prenatal testosterone – higher levels are associated with a preference for mechanically interesting things and occupations in adulthood. Lower levels are associated with a preference for people-oriented activities and occupations. This is why STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields tend to be dominated by men.

> We see evidence for this in girls with a genetic condition called congenital adrenal hyperplasia, who are exposed to unusually high levels of testosterone in the womb. When they are born, these girls prefer male-typical, wheeled toys, such as trucks, even if their parents offer more positive feedback when they play with female-typical toys, such as dolls. Similarly, men who are interested in female-typical activities were likely exposed to lower levels of testosterone.

> As well, new research from the field of genetics shows that testosterone alters the programming of neural stem cells, leading to sex differences in the brain even before it's finished developing in utero. This further suggests that our interests are influenced strongly by biology, as opposed to being learned or socially constructed.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/no-the-google-manife...

EDIT: I wish I understood why I've been downvoted so that I could improve my comments in the future. Is the problem that it's too verbose? OK, I've tried to shorten it and replaced the links to three studies with a link to Deborah's article above.
I downvoted you for being arbitrarily rude. From the guidelines[1]. You're new here, so I feel it's worth pointing out that sort of incivility isn't generally accepted here.

> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The first few launches of a new vehicle are risky. Even some of the most mature launch platforms still fail 2-10% of the time after hundreds of launches, but a new platform needs a period to discover all the failure modes that they didn't hypothesize. Usually for the very first proving launch, commercial customers don't want to send anything, and insurers refuse to touch them.

So launch providers typically send a block of concrete, or something similar, and call it a 'Mass Simulator', to prove that the launch vehicle can function with a load that heavy.

Elon Musk literally thought 'Hey, the Tesla Roadster I've been driving would be a cool thing to send into space as a mass simulator.' And so he did. With a mannequin inside a production Tesla spacesuit. Blaring David Bowie the whole way. Aiming roughly at Mars and burning until the propellant runs out.

Starman will be in heliocentric orbit indefinitely.
> Quite some cryptocurrencies use a mining algorithm for which making specialised hardware is impossible

There is a GPU miner for Monero (actually, there is a GPU miner for everything) which turns in-browser mining into not that profitable idea.
Would it be really feasible to use either Bluetooth or WIFI as the connection between glasses and the CPU/GPU? Sounds like quite challenging setup if you want to provide a smooth user experience. There's a lot of data coming from the sensors on the headset and graphics data going back and much of this is pretty time critical.

With iOS, you will likely also run into issues with background processing. On mobile phones, the battery life is always an issue if you plan to do CPU/GPU intensive stuff.

Sounds much better approach to make the glasses smart and capable of working to some extent independently. Then you can have a higher level protocol between the glasses and phone.
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Does suggesting that feminism, the civil rights and the LGBT movement are actually jewish-marxists plots to destroy American capitalism in a memo about diversity you distribute at work count as "being wrong"?

I mean it is wrong of course. It doesn't even make sense. Which gender Tim Cook prefers to see naked seems unrelated to running an efficient supply chain for one of the largest corporations on the planet.

But generally, I'd say that suggesting that people you work with are actually committing treason by asking for fair treatement under the law should be outside of the political pale. Apparently those days have gone though.

He does seem like such a nice, well-spoken young conspiracy theorist though.
Have you tried meditation?
I can't even begin to fathom how someone would be able to do this. Wouldn't they have to perform many (100s?) pixel-perfect actions in order to get everything exactly as intended?
Would it be possible to simulate Conway's Game of Life inside Age of Empires 2??????
Does lightening address coinbases incredibly long and arbitrary delays in deposits to an actual bank account?
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Compared to heating and cooling, and a bunch of other stuff it is negligible.

I guess you could complain about the usefulness of mining.

Well, people do a bunch of useless stuff that has magnitudes bigger carbon footprint than mining.

Let's not optimize things that are insignificant.
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Independent non-family women lead to less children. Thus society as a whole has motive to lead girls towards this specialization.
I've had a look at the Naneye you linked - I couldn't find the reason why the camera would not be optical. Optical in the sense of "has an optical system with a detector that registers photons close to the visible spectrum" (in contrast to microwaves).

I can imagine it's got a pinhole and a CCD, which is why there have to be four powerful LEDs illuminating the vicinity for it to reach the 44fps framerate without everything being just noise.
"simply implement" may be an understatement, but often enough, rewriting/reimplementing IS simpler (and cleaner, and more maintainable, etc etc etc) than keeping a legacy system going
Why do you denigrate your own work so often, though? Most of the time, when someone posts your articles, you reply "does this guy ever shut up" or "this post sucks".
the article does address this topic. I think the implication is that these effects are lower in the Scandinavian countries, where children are given less bias as their societies are more equal. The article suggests that these effects are very low.
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Opting in to in-browser mining is either stupid or theft. CPU mining costs more in electricity than you get out in currency. If you pay for your own electricity, you'd be better off donating directly. If you don't pay for your own electricity, you're donating electricity from whoever is paying for that electricity. This may or may not be theft, but is definitely morally dubious.
Or, better:

Give them this nice graphical scripting mechanism on one tab.

In another tab, give them a small IDE labelled "RESULTING PYTHON CODE"
This applies to virtually any algorithm with a known bound. Any such algorithm can be carried out by primitive recursive functions. However, contrary to folklore, this makes absolutely no difference in verification complexity (see my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16383436). This can be easily shown by noting that we can assume -- with no loss of generality -- that any program is primitive recursive by implicitly adding a counter to each and every loop/recursive call, that counts down from, say, 2^500, and halts the program if it ever reaches zero (in fact, this is much more limited than primitive recursive as we're happy with a constant bound). As the counter will never reach zero in our physical universe, there is no change in program semantics, and therefore we can assume that all programs are written in non-Turing-complete languages if that were to help us in any way. Alas, as my other comment shows, it doesn't in the least.
Yes, but I'm not interested in works where researchers are trying to validate a hypothesis like "stereotype threat discourages girls from pursuing math-intensive STEM coursework and careers". I'm asking about what these adolescents are actually saying. Raw answers, perhaps in two paragraphs, to a simple question of how they think they would choose.

edit: and then of course, such dataset should be anonymized and made public, so anyone could see what we are talking about.
Making story-driven indie games with no budget -First video like that,be nice ;)
It's not a scientific paper, it was an internal memo shared with a few colleagues. Also that's how evidence works, you make a narrative and support it with references. What else would you do?

No society has lasted tens of thousands of years and many were in complete isolation which already says something about how the same roles formed again and again. Also we see the same thing in animals.
If it's done correctly, the Caavo should effectively make your other boxes "disappear".
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Their batch processing is definitely an interesting case, as it how it processes failures (had them as a customer of mine a couple years back where I was working on improving their responses to failed jobs (and accelerating the time between reruns)).
Or cool dude teaching them at school. More men at education -> more positions in tech for women. As well as more women looking for these positions.

Can't wait for the next campaign to make men 50:50 in kindergardens and schools!
Is this style of diagram in common use? The ones in the second half of the article, I mean, showing course length as a function of average speed...? I can't make any sense of it.

Isn't usually the purpose of drawing lines between the data points to let you infer the approximate value of the function inbetween the data points? But here the lines go backwards, giving conflicting values of the function, so how do you read it?
Perhaps this has been discussed in the past, but it would it be reasonable to mark reviews/promotions as such? It’s certainly clear once landing on the page, but I still went in expecting a discussion of the title, rather than a nudge to read a new book.
He starts by writing dozens of bytes to check if the written bytes are correct or not (along with other side effects for bootstrapping), and some more to see the exact bytes to be written before applying them. And then finally 300+ actual bytes are written. Not as difficult overall, but initial steps would still require extreme patience.
I've made payments to merchants who acknowledge that the price can change over the process of sending a payment. The Bitcoin price is fixed at the point that the transaction is acknowledged in the mempool, so any fluctuation during the time taken for transactions to reach their required verifications is ignored.
It's possible to exchange between cryptocurrencies without trust by utilizing time-bound multi-signature transactions. You can't do that when there's a non-cryptocurrency involved.

The fact that the latter is riskier says a lot more about non-cryptocurrencies than it does about cryptocurrencies.