skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Field guide for protesting Facebook while boosting your privacy
I sure would
I thought 8.3 filenames were obsolete, even on Windows? Do your juniors even have any idea what you are talking about?
You understand human fallibility and limitations, but somehow trust us to create perfect and impartial robots?
I'm sorry, but some random nobody at Google having some wrong ideas about diversity policy does not deserve to be national front page news. James Damore is about as meek and mild as it gets. He's not some David Duke monster. None of us should have ever heard his name. This was a public assassination of a powerless nobody for cheap political points. That's the part that I have a problem with. I have no problem at all with Google firing him. I have a problem with the way the national media and general public behaved.
> Can't they make an APL "look like Python" but using the same concepts, etc?

Perl 6 has some APLish array-oriented features in something arguably closer to what is common syntactically. Of course, it's not an APL with alternative syntax, but an extremely multiparadigm language with that as one of many influences.
You don't have to rollback for meltdown. The read can be masked to zero. There is already logic to do things like cancel page walks, so this isn't a very big fix.

I think specter should be fixed in software with some assistance from hardware, but overall with ooo, a process shouldn't expect privacy against itself.
Exactly. Glad this irreversible transaction exists. Paypal doesn't serve all needs.
Frankly, I think we would need to know what software engineering looks like, outside of the spaces where engineers (like, ones with PEs) more than developers own the project, before we start teaching it to novices.

I mean, I've been getting paid for this for going on fifteen years now and I'm not an engineer. I try to build resilient, reliable systems, I try to test heavily and comprehensively...but I'm not an engineer, and most of the time I'm worried when somebody calls themselves one.

What "software engineering" is, in the context of a web app or a point of sale system, rather hard to define. Worth taking a crack at. But we shouldn't put the cart before the horse.
> I'm not sure if they escape the Palm oil there as well.

No it's palm oil as well in Europe.
It is entirely uncontroversial and well-supported to say that there are many more extremely stupid, or criminal, or violent, or genetically ill men than women at the bottom of the bell curve.

Why is it so unbelievable that there are more men at the other end with extremely high ability? Just the fact that we have two different chromosomes X and Y is enough to increase our genetic variance (because if a gene on the X is faulty or extreme, we have no backup).
So do you think washing with soap prevents you from sweating, or what?
Barely anybody uses them though.
The more they pay, the more they value it
I'm fine with one candle or wax melt, in fact I love them. But walking into a soap store or soap aisle (or laundry detergent aisle for that matter) will leave me gasping for air, eyes watering, itching in sensitive areas, and with an oncoming migraine in mere minutes. And when some people hear "migraine" they think "bad headache", but a migraine is complete debilitation of your brain's functions. You can't think, can hardly walk, let alone drive home from the grocery store.

I do wish people would think more about the scents they use, and for the love of god stop putting the unscented laundry soap in the middle of all the scented ones!
Wow, I love this! Great creativity and execution!!!
A bit off topic but, what are "bath bars"?

I don't think I've heard of them before.

The soaps I know are soap bars and as I understand it, they are basically made from fat and lye (or their modern equivalents).

What are these bath bars made of?
I agree Damore's sources were unconvincing, but I've searched for sources disputing one of his most controversial claims (that women are more "neurotic" - an unfortunately named Big Five personality trait - than men) and haven't found any.

Do you know of any?
I agree that you can claim it as a replacement for some sub-domains. However if I can't do embedded programming then it's not an all-up replacement.

Much if modern C usage is in this space even if it's not as visible to the average developer.

GCs have a host of problems like needing a 2x working set, pauses and the fact that you can't control allocation locations for better cache usage. Go may be fast but it will never unseat C/C++/Rust in performance for the reasons above.
Agreed. Also, incorrect charge? Call the utility. If that fails, call the credit card, and ask for a “charge back”, and tell them you called the bank. Problem solved, and the bank extracts a cut of the reversed charge from the vendor. (In the US)

Also, you probably get cash back on the normal payments, and other bill pay methods let the utility pocket that (plus the credit card company’s cut).

Having said all that, I wish the govt would ban credit card transaction fees, and provide a secure anonymous alternative, but I don’t make the rules, and, as a consumer, I pay the 1-3% transaction fee tax either way...
Wait, what?

Damore's memo doesn't mention intelligence or IQ at all [1], not even in the abstract or as distributions or as averages.

--

Using the version of the memo cited on the wikipedia page
https://web.archive.org/web/20170809220001/https://diversity...
Always use a throwaway account for third party services with debiting privileges and keep no money in it normally. Yes ACH has a trail but why take the risk of having to fight it out.
Damore did not specify that all his coworkers were qualified.

Damore believed Google lowered the bar, hence the statements I've made explaining how he offended his coworkers.

It is reasonable to believe Google _hasn't_ lowered the bar, and if you did, you would be offended by a long document warning about gender-biased consequences of lowering the bar.

I'm not sure how productive this thread is. I'm very surprised by your repeated assertions that there's direct textual evidence I'm mistaken, yet you're willing to accuse me of bad faith repeatedly, instead of just correcting me.
I think what this Advice memo is about isn't the idea itself, but how he poorly he handled the idea. The disruptive way he handled the idea is not protected from being fired in an at-will employment company. Google even worded that in the termination:

>Your post advanced and relied on offensive gender stereotypes to suggest that
women cannot be successful in the same kinds of jobs at Google as men. I want to make clear that our decision is based solely on the part of your post
that generalizes and advances stereotypes about women versus men. It is not based in any way on the portions of your post that discuss Google's
programs or trainings, or how Google can improve its inclusion of differing political views. Those are important points. I also want to be clear that this is not about you expressing yourself on political issues or having political views that are different than others at the company. Having a different political view is absolutely fine. Advancing gender stereotypes is not.
Honest feedback: I don't like videos, I prefer textual explanation!
I love how all of a sudden the problem is obvious - so obvious it's existed for a decade with no known exploit, while speeding up processors considerably.

Intel should have hired all these really smart people on Reddit and HN. Imagine how much safer and faster our processors would be!

It's a screw up in the most complicated devices humanity has ever designed. It's borderline magic that they even exist, let alone the political stability required for 50 years of constant gains in processing power per dollar.

But nevermind that, they're a bunch of "LOL #YOLO" about security types, we should sue them because your data center power went up and now our dumbass 'world changing app' to look at random kittens as a subscription service is no longer profitable!

I think humanity doesn't deserve scientists and engineers.
> I'm sorry, but some random nobody at Google having some wrong ideas about diversity policy does not deserve to be national front page news.

Claims of anti-white-male discrimination in tech are man-bites-dog stories, and naturally get more attention for that reason, plus, Damore immediately sought out media with political biases to maximally promote that kind of story. It becoming national front page news and getting the degree of attention it did in part just novelty, and in very large part the foreseeable result of how Damore soguht to promote his story.

> This was a public assassination

No, it wasn't. It was public, but there was no assassination.
If your card was anything with "Geforce" in the name that was certainly the best choice. Even before the Geforce era, 3dfx never had anything except problematic OpenGL "mini drivers" which worked okay with Quake-based games but not much else.
That says nothing about the abilities of his female coworkers who are already working at Google and who are already in the minority there.

He's saying that going full steam ahead trying anything and everything to get to 50/50 may be impossible without lowering the bar for women which is bad for everyone.
See Odlyzko-Tilly, "A Refutation of Metcalfe's Law".

https://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/metcalfe.pdf
Didn't that include a ';' and version number too? (Or was that later - RSX-11M on a PDP 11/23)
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I'm sorry, this statement is extraordinarily confusing to me. Why on earth is the null hypothesis that there is innate equivalence? This seems so precisely backward that I'm going to need you to justify it before I can agree. A lifetime full of thousands of interactions with both men and women on a daily basis have consistently shown me that there are huge differences between the sexes.

The fact that we are all equal does not mean we are all equivalent. I suspect you may not be making this distinction.
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Yes, I had forgotten about that case.
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Also account for palm oil as cattle feed. I know for a fact that my dairy farming uncle uses palm oil in feed.
All the fake accounts, Nazis, racists, alright, tea party, and other right-wingers have boycotted Twitter mostly and went here http://gab.ai/ instead.

Those left on Twitter are either bots or puppet/troll accounts.
There's a big green download button on github repository pages with an option to download the code as a zip file.
What modern C libraries do you have in mind?
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Prediction - there will be a Harvard Business Review about Facebook's adventure with licensing. My unproven hypothesis is that they hurt their software's adoption rate because of their licensing.

Personally, I believe MIT is correct. I had moved my company away from React when they had the licensing problems. To me, it feels like they are coming back to the community now.
Cool, I tried it and it worked.

I do think a week would probably be a better default setting.

Can I take the hash out of my profile?
Was Damore "well-meaning but unaware" before his post? Did he, in good faith, attempt to "start a conversation and learn"?
In his book Behave[1], biologist Robert Sapolosky explains the issue as follows:

> Heritability scores are relevant only to the environments in which the traits have been studied. The more environments you study a trait in, the lower the heritability is likely to be.

He goes on for several pages, describing the ways the surrounding environment can change an organism's gene expression, and I think this quote best summarizes his point:

> Here’s a rule of thumb for recognizing gene/environment interactions, translated into English: You are studying the behavioral effects of a gene in two environments. Someone asks, “What are the effects of the gene on some behavior?” You answer, “It depends on the environment.” Then they ask, “What are the effects of environment on this behavior?” And you answer, “It depends on the version of the gene.” “It depends” = a gene/environment interaction.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Behave-Biology-Humans-Best-Worst/dp/1...
As someone who was an actual classmate of Damore, I can attest to his lack of character in this regard. I understand that the tone of his memo made it appear to have come from a thoughtful humanist, but this was a careful deception. In every social or professional encounter I've had with him, he's at least made somebody (particularly women) uncomfortable. In several cases these incidents led to meetings and reprimands. I am certain that he was already fully in the alt right camp, and did not say so aloud because he is a smart person capable of recognizing bad PR.
PHP (Laravel), JS (Vue + Vue Router + Vuex), MySQL.

Keeps things simple.
We like to think programming is hard and that there's a barrier to entry that we somehow surmounted because we're oh so smart.

But does anyone here actually know people who learned to program within the last couple years?

My co-founder's girlfriend taught herself enough Javascript and React to help out on our front-end in a couple months. Had no experience except for dabbling in Wordpress. Now closes issues for us.

My buddy learned enough Python to create a GUI for an old card game. Built it to completion enough to challenge himself against the computer player. Hasn't programmed since.

Neither of them had any experience before. These posts really underrate the resourcefulness and intelligence of beginners. And my suspicion is because we like to think it's hard.

People here act like installing Homebrew to download python3 is somehow hard for a beginner when there are hundreds of tutorials online telling them how to do it. Hundreds of tutorials are exactly what I didn't have when I started programming Basic even though the hello-world was a little simpler.
I asked Damore whether he expected the memo to blow up in his face, implying that he should have. His reply to me indicated he barely understood the question I was asking him. I got the impression he was naive, and a bit too eager to share his Jordan Petersonisms. I really don't think he knew. However, later on, in his Rubin Report interview, he did know exactly which excerpts got him in trouble.
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So which is it then? You're going from "He didn't say that about women" to "He said that about women but he didn't mean that about his women coworkers" - i.e. no true scotsman.

Even so, Damore did not specifically say that about "non-coworker women", he said it about women.
Because he wasn't actually saying anything particularly bad.

Careful there. What you mean is he wasn't saying anything you personally consider particularly bad. This is not the same thing as "objectively not bad". This is not the same thing as "something no reasonable person could object to".

And jumping from your personal opinion that it wasn't bad straight to "a breathtaking level of authoritarian ideological adherence" is, well, quite a leap.

Finally:

he was terminated on the emotional reaction to what others imputed he was saying

The issue with the original "diversity memo" was that there was absolutely no way to read it with the principle of charity in mind and also end up with the interpretation of it his supporters wanted (in order to support the "he didn't say that" narrative). So much of the "he didn't really say that" boils down to ambiguity in the text, but if we assume he had some purpose in mind that he thought was important, and that he was making what he believed was a rational evidence-based argument, and then try to figure out "what important thing is he arguing in support of here", well, there aren't a lot of possible conclusions to end up at.
That is true. But I ask you this: do companies hire less technically capable engineers to boost diversity numbers? Do you believe that it does not happen at all, in any sense?

If you think that this does not happen, then how do companies boost the numbers of non-traditional candidates?

Google, as smart as they are, should be able to easily and conclusively prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this does not happen. Yet they resort to silencing.
The famous question is "why are manhole covers round?" Manholes being artificial, this leaves some room for speculation about why the shape was chosen.

"Why is a pothole round?" is a more objective question.
Again I would urge you and others to be specific. Where did he claim intellectual superiority of men?

This memo was written inside of Google, yet you seem to judge it as if it was written to the outside world. Why would you do that?

Even if he was misguided (as far as I know he was a top performer), then by what standard do you mean that your interpretation as an outsider is more relevant than the intent of the memo (which was feedback as encouraged by HR)?

Why should I read it in the light that you want me to look at it in (he is arrogant and think he is the pinnacle of human cognitive ability) rather than the one he intended which was to raise his concern with their hiring process?
I gained ~50 kg after quitting tobacco. But I'm not sure that it'd work the other way around. I do recall that "feeling hungry" and "needing a cigarette" were quite fungible. But then, smoking is obviously a huge cancer risk factor. Maybe vaping isn't so bad.

And for what it's worth, testosterone supplementation disappeared my prediabetes. Also less white hair, and better muscle health.
but to everyone else, the implication that differences in IQ variance between men and women lead the "top of the curve" to be naturally overpopulated with men is exactly what it sounds like: a claim for the intellectual superiority of men. Sure, there are dumb men; maybe they're even dumber than the dumbest women! But if you're looking for the best, that logic says, you're going to end up mostly with men.

The claim is that there are more extreme outliers for men, both at the top and at the bottom. So there are more very stupid men. This is borne out by the research, and by the prevalence of Darwin Awards winners who are male. I don't think this makes men inherently superior, overall. I think it makes men more prone to specialization at the expense of other areas of attention, like social graces. My "lived experience" would seem to bear this out. Nerdy guys are more obnoxious in certain ways than the general populace, and currently express this in way which would tend to affect the preferences of women.

I work in this field, at a pretty deeply technical level, and when I hear other people in it make arguments premised on the notion that what we do demands the pinnacle of human cognitive ability, I just want to hide under a rock from embarrassment.

We've talked about this before, and I did and would still agree that the Bay Area/Silicon Valley's view of itself is overblown. Taking such a view actually deflates the notion of male superiority instead of inflating it.

Re: the online challenge which your company had online for recruitment purposes -- was it gender neutral in its presentation and availability, and what was the gender distribution of the successful takers? What was the gender distribution of the hired population?
That's effectively Appeal to Consequences fallacy, though in both its usual (false rejection of an inconvenient truth) and inverse (false support of an appealing falsehood) forms.

That's a useful counter-bias to have, though not an infallible one.
I think what I've been missing, and trying to do a better job at, is understanding the awesome power of existing and mature solutions. Things like postgres's LISTEN/NOTIFY and so on.
They’re welcome to assert what they want, but that’s not the intervention they created.
I actually think programming is pretty easy. Programming well or in constrained environments is hard. It's easy to learn and hard to master.

I've been coding for 22 years, and each year I feel like I can look back to the year before and say, "Wow, I sucked at programming then."
I would save enough to be financially independant. That gives you true freedom, then you don't even have to work. But it would also take about £500k GBP to give you 20k/yr for the rest of your life. This might take another 5-10 years, so do a fun vacation somewhere. Then you are set forever.
Wait, they're getting rid of the patents grant?
The Big Five is getting outdated. It was a popular method in the 90's, but doesn't hold up today for biological factor analysis because its lexical nature opens it to social biases:

>And that is what the Big Five represents: a consistent model of how humans reflect individuality using language, no more. There were no considerations of findings in neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, experimental psychology, observations of behavior of people or animals in real situations – none of this was used at the research stage leading to the development of the Big Five. 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.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3903487/

The big five can still be used for self-reported correlational analysis, but Damore used it in an argument against social constructs, when the method itself can be heavily biased by the social constructs he's arguing against.
I can't think of a reason a dev server should be remote instead of on your machine, unless you're working with large, live data sets that you can't download...

Can you explain the setup a bit more?
read through the OP and scanned a few examples on the J Project Wiki

i suspect that, to capture the full value of J, one needs to already know the array-oriented paradigm (or at least have a strong motivation to learn the two in parallel)

knowing the AOP paradigm also helps understand the programming patterns as well as the syntax

still, the dense syntax has extraordinary power

for instance, n-queens in J (from Rosetta Code) is just 4 short lines:

perm =: ! A.&i. ]
comb2 =: (, #: I.@,@(</)&i.)~
mask =: [ */@:~:&(|@-/) {
queenst=: comb2 (] #"1~ mask)&.|: perm

a fundamental AOP patterns is evidenced here:

line 1: create the 2D array (n x n chessboard)

line 2: populate the array with candidate solutions

line 3: eliminate invalid solutions ('mask' them)
You're right, I dropped a zero.
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You can see just by that link that the link itself is confused. It begins:

> [A Protected Class is] A group of people with a common characteristic who are legally protected from employment discrimination on the basis of that characteristic.

You'll immediately notice that "women" are a group of people with a common characteristic (sex) who are legally protected etc etc. "Sex", despite being listed further down the page as a "protected class", does not meet the definition, as sex is not a group of people. Rather, it is a characteristic which federal law protects.
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If you don't mind my asking and if you are at liberty to say, what was the basis of the original class action suit?