skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is also the technical difficulty. There is huge variance and the number of variables to consider is also great.

A computer/database is a better tool for the job, of course, but the balancing act between false negative and false positives is extremely hard.

See, e.g. the (very) simplified case of base rate fallacy[0] ; There is an inherent information problem in doing diagnosis, that a large database and fast search do not address.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy#Example_1:_D...
I've been thinking about this a lot as news articles like this one[1] come up in my feed.

This whole anti-tech Russian backlash has me so down trodden. Like who cares if Russia bought ads? Who cares if Russia uses those sites and tweets or shares a photo or whatever. I learned long ago to tune out ads and not trust anything I read on the internet, or at least read with a hefty helping of salt.

I wish the outcome of all these revelations about how Russia (and I'm sure other countries or random people or corporations with various interests) was using facebook, twitter, instagram, etc, was for people to go, "oh, that's good to know. I guess I should believe whatever random posts I come across less." Not, "Uh oh! These services and ads are only for our certain, pre-approved uses, and we need to make laws enforcing that."

We could have used these as a nice ol' inoculation in the meme war and improved ordinary people's understanding of just how the internet works (and doesn't work).

[1] https://twitter.com/raju/status/965023245459214336?utm_sourc...
I don't know that HN can give a satisfactory answer with the information provided. For instance, does the traction of the business indicate the value will continue to increase (i.e., is buying out worthwhile to you)? Is the outside ownership shares or options; if options, do they have expiration? Are there opportunities to fundraise or sell? Is the outside ownership a problem to potential investors? etc
Paris has had it for a long time, but because it was implemented so long ago, it's often limited to 2g.
Maximizing shareholder value is a canard, not a law, not to mention that fiduciary duty cases against C-levels are so rare as to be irrelevant.

There is a choice.
Anyone can have "unfashionable" opinions. It's just that they can't also dictate how other people react to those opinions.

There's nothing more libertarian than holding people accountable by exercising free association, or in this case, freedom to not associate.
what did he say worse than that?
In those countries which lack gender equality, in many cases people do not choose STEM because it's really difficult to find a job otherwise.
As expected, this is the top comment on an article practically built for this argument.

It may very well be that men and women have different criteria, but that is completely irrelevant, and I find this line of argumentation very frustrating as it completely ignores the actual complaints at hand.

Women in STEM complain that they have less job prospects and feel uncomfortable in their positions. Many women feel they are disrespected, unrightfully criticized, and scrutinized to a degree unlike their male counterparts. As a whole, they have recognized that this is not the fault of individuals in their workplaces. It's "natural" to be more critical of the few women in your workplace because as a human, that's how your brain is built to work. Correcting that requires conscious effort on your part, and most are unwilling to correct themselves.

Instead, as a group women have decided that the best way to make themselves more welcome in STEM - is to have more women in STEM. This will slowly correct the negatives by causing more individuals to come into contact with women and have to learn how to behave properly. But these same systemic issues prevent many women who would otherwise enter STEM from doing so. No one is claiming that a perfect 50/50 ratio is all we need and then "we're done, pack it up folks". Simply that making efforts to get women into tech is actually a good idea.

Women are interested. Women want to do the work. Many that do are forced out for one reason or another, and this makes many not want to do it any longer.

Claiming that men and women just have different criteria, and thus the problem should be ignored entirely completely misses the point.
For those of you who have some form of access, this appears to be the actual research paper:

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797617741719

> The underrepresentation of girls and women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields is a continual concern for social scientists and policymakers. Using an international database on adolescent achievement in science, mathematics, and reading (N = 472,242), we showed that girls performed similarly to or better than boys in science in two of every three countries, and in nearly all countries, more girls appeared capable of college-level STEM study than had enrolled. Paradoxically, the sex differences in the magnitude of relative academic strengths and pursuit of STEM degrees rose with increases in national gender equality. The gap between boys’ science achievement and girls’ reading achievement relative to their mean academic performance was near universal. These sex differences in academic strengths and attitudes toward science correlated with the STEM graduation gap. A mediation analysis suggested that life-quality pressures in less gender-equal countries promote girls’ and women’s engagement with STEM subjects.

Their definition of "gender equality" is this:

> The World Economic Forum publishes The Global Gender Gap Report annually. We used the 2015 data (World Economic Forum, 2015). For each nation, the Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI) assesses the degree to which girls and women fall behind boys and men on 14 key indicators (e.g., earnings, tertiary enrollment ratio, life expectancy, seats in parliament) on a 0.0 to 1.0 scale, with 1.0 representing complete parity (or men falling behind). For the countries participating in the 2015 PISA, GGGI scores ranged from 0.593 for the United Arab Emirates to 0.881 for Iceland.

(One of the things I'd be curious about is whether that's just a proxy for Western cultural norms; the more commonly cited reasons for a gender gap in STEM fields in the US are things like harassment and misogyny, and it's certainly possible that those are correlated more strongly with Western culture than with cross-cultural structural inequality.)
> among the least diverse industries in the world.

If you count asians as white...

Also gonna want a cite on that. afaik sv hiring is about equal with labor market.
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Because some business organization recently invented it to push the opposite of Datensparsamkeit. Seems like it only took off used ironically, except maybe in clueless politician circles...
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This paper is from Disney research, and they have a more approachable write-up with a demo video here:

https://www.disneyresearch.com/publication/quasistatic-cavit...
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Women don't prefer non-STEM fields on average, this is an artifact of Western countries. There's no disparity in many developing countries including China. It's not about 50/50, it's about 100% of the population being literate with respect to complexities of modern economy.
> Clojure is a Lisp. One of the distinctive things about Lisp is that it has dialects.

When one of those dialects is completely source-incompatible with every other dialect (the rest of them share non-trivial programs freely), and doesn't share the same core features as every other dialect (like list structure), then why is it still a dialect and not a different language? Calling all the other Lisps that share core features and run the same code different versions of one language makes sense to me; I don't see the point in applying it to any language that borrowed a couple ideas.

If I have a large codebase written in (any) Lisp, will porting it to Clojure be significantly easier than porting it to Javascript or Ruby or any other modernish language? Not really; it's a complete rewrite either way. That sounds to me like it might just be a different programming language.
'The cutover to digital signals circa 2001-2002 meant calls would drop as soon as the signal faded.'

We get that even overground in the UK.
I wonder why tech communities need their CoC...

I'm a member of a local HAM radio group and we don't have any CoC and we don't have any issues at all. The male/female makeup is about 70/30 and there are people of various political/religious viewpoints, but I haven't once seen any issues over these differences. I've seen leftists amicably talk and work with conservatives because when we meet as a group it is all about HAM radio, nothing else. I'm not sure why tech communities have all these problems to be honest...it seems like there are groups that purposefully want to stir up discord because they make money (get funding) if there are issues...
Warning: handwaving ahead. Serverless just means each and every request from the client spins up a process on a cloud platform to handle the request. It is "serverless" in the sense that the actual hardware and OS running the process is completely abstracted away from the developer. You just tell the platform which functions should respond to which routes and the platform handles the load balancing, deployment, and (usually) spins up a container for each request on demand.
My apologies, I was quoting the figure "by December 2014, over 2,300 architectural and engineering professionals had signed the petition" and it states "According to the organization, the identities and qualifications of all licensed architects and engineers whose names are being published on its website as well as those of other supporters who are listed separately are subjected to verification before acceptance".

Usually Wikipedia is actually quite harsh on conspiracy theories. For example the Flat Earth article's 7th word is "archaic" (it begins "The flat Earth model is an archaic conception of Earth's shape as a plane or disk".) The final paragraph of the lead states "In the modern era, pseudoscientific flat Earth theories have been espoused". (The flat Earth theory has vigorous, albeit often troll, online defenders.)

So this explains my reaction - from the way the article was written I had thought thousands of architects and structural engineers thought there was massive evidence of a controlled demolition.

You may check out your cousin comment for a reply from someone who has looked into this quite a bit I think. That person (tedivm) seems to think it's a pretty massive waste of time so hopefully this thread won't include much more of it. Sorry to waste your time if this was the case, and thanks for your reply. :)
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Interesting, I wonder why. Stockholm's subway was built in 1950[0], which is a bit newer than NYC's. That may or may not explain why.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_metro
I thought the term was coined by Trump? And it seems like people who use it, use it in place of "propaganda" not "pizzagate"
This is extremely common, check out the book "How Buildings Learn", which has a few chapters on this phenomenon. The type of buildings you are describing are "Magazine" (buildings that get on the cover of architecture magazines)
The article posits that the affluence of a country (not gender equality itself, though correlated) affects how much the economic security that comes with high-paying STEM jobs is an incentive to purse those jobs.

That can explain a gradient between countries, and doesn't affect the original, purely gender question either way.
Alternative theory:

In richer countries the family and friends force/pressure girls to do "girly" things and study a non STEM subject, but in poor countries they can do whatever is necessary for survival and can choose a better paying field, like STEM if they want.

It's a difficult subject, because it's almost impossible to make a controlled experiment and distinguish which explanation is the correct one. (You can't get a million subject and create 10-20 isolated societies with a different level of resources and initial culture and measure the results 100 years later.)

I also would like to see the correlation with the number of "stay at home moms". In some rich countries is common that after marriage / the first child the mom left the work. In poor countries it's more difficult and both parents must have a paying work. Why study a long career if you are not going to work too long in the field?
OK, so you're saying they are misinformed? Fair enough. I don't mind informing them, as long as they have a free choice and are not coerced into selecting a career that is not interesting.

However, this very much contradicts to the paradox. Why should women in countries with greater gender equality be less informed about available options?
I am always surprised at the backlash against such codes of conduct. One can point to numerous cases of harassment, abuse, and inequality in the tech community. Who is harmed by a stronger CoC? Let's discuss an example where CoC led to a negative outcome for some group.
We've uncovered a potential ambiguity in the original phrasing of "free health service". Could the now-dead response to that comment have been highlighting this very ambiguity?
> I said "of wide utility".

And they are of wide utility, even though they may not satisfy your expectations to just how wide utility you want. But that is exactly the point - they're not meant to.

The claim I made, and that others here have made, that you've been arguing against is not about general purpose languages. I've pointed that out several times.

On the contrary the point is explicitly that there are benefits in isolating parts of problems and explicitly avoiding general purpose languages exactly because I agree that you won't gain much from trying to find weaker models for general purpose languages.

So when you keep bringing up more general computation, you keep arguing against a point I at least have not made.

I've never disputed that there is little to gain from trying to weaken the computational models for general purpose computation.

What we can do, and often do is to reduce the practical problems of working on these systems by lifting subsets of problems out of general purpose languages and into much weaker special purpose environments.

Since you keep bringing up regular expressions, for example:

> but if it has regular expressions then reasoning about it is also infeasible

... this is exactly one of the reasons why Sieve doesn't have them (at least not the base language) - it's limited to basic wildcards ("","?", specific strings). On top of that the implementation is allowed to terminate execution after an implementation defined number of execution steps, so it does not need to even deal with the worst case for a wildcard engine if someone tries to feed it pathological strings.

> I don't know what "a wide range of tasks" means, but even regular expressions are not limited enough for general reasoning. Anything that requires regular expressions and beyond is already infeasibly verified in the general case.

I've repeatedly pointed out that the entire goal of these languages is to prevent* general reasoning. That is a feature, not a flaw.

> No. I'm talking about arbitrary programs in whatever language you give me.

... in which case you're not addressing the comments of mine that you've replied to, and we're in violent agreement about something that is irrelevant to my argument.
I think it's more a case of everyone being so entrenched in ideological warfare that we've moved from discussion to brand management--downvoting wrongthink rather than engaging with it.
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> I wonder if it's possible that men and women, on average, have differing criteria for choosing careers

Not only is this true, it has been fairly exhaustively researched.

> Cross-cultural consistency of sex differences for four traits: extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism, and male-versus-female-typical occupational preferences. Men and women differed on all four traits. 200,000 participants from 53 nations.

> Only sex predicted means for all four traits, and sex predicted trait means much more strongly than did gender equality or the interaction between sex and gender equality. These results suggest that biological factors may contribute to sex differences in personality and that culture plays a negligible to small role in moderating sex differences in personality.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-008-9380-7
Here's another example: an AI, perhaps in a self-driving car, did something that caused harm to people and got the manufacturer hauled into court, and the judge issues a court order to "make it stop doing that."

How can the manufacturer comply, if they don't understand why the AI makes that decision, and how to change its decision-making process? This isn't just about accountability, it's also about the manufacturers' inability to control the behavior of a black-box AI system.

If the manufacturer explains to the judge that they don't really know what's going on inside the AI, the judge won't be inclined to cut them a break.
>I regret that it is necessary to have to make explicit what seems fairly obvious.

I don't think it was (necessary). Given the incident where someone tried to get a github user 'fired' from a project for 'transphobia' on twitter, I have no faith anything wrong even happened in FreeBSD's virtual workplace.
> as a group women have decided that the best way to make themselves more welcome in STEM

I missed when the voting took place. You mean a group of activist women (and men) assumed to talk on behalf of all women in the field?
I believe that Sway will be the key to mass Linux desktop adoption, once someone wraps it into a modern distro like Arch.

Unfortunately work on kmscon has discontinued. I'm currently using rxvt-unicode. I've been looking at exploring alacritty.

Is there any chance you'll be building your own console emulator? I've had this idea floating around, that in addition to supporting ANSI escape codes, of a terminal that supports a lightweight markup language for UI. I saw your recent activity regarding Vulkan support.

Your WM has just about all the components necessary to build these kickass graphical "console" applications.
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Should we avoid posting our faces online?

I'm increasingly wary about making my actual face the chosen 'profile picture' in Gmail, Facebook, Meetup, Linkedin and such.

It's just creepy that someone could be running a crawler and build a scrapped database, mapping real names to faces. Perhaps someone did this already, owning tens of millions of records?

Although, I'm not sure of what actual evil stuff could be done with such a database.

I can think of:

- iPhone X Face ID. Simply a matter of not using it.

- Deepfakes. Arguably not a real concern unless you are a celebrity or someone remarkably attractive.

Anything else?
I'm not sure that I follow your conclusion... enterprise support revenue is real.

Kubernetes is obviously very hot right now.

Mesosphere has built Kubernetes on DC/OS by the way. It's currently beta but should be GA in Q2.
All of these things have only minor impact on the average citizen. Trump's tax cuts have already done way more for the average tech worker than anything Hillary was proposing.
I think conflating data structures and objects is bad, and muddle the discussion. An app is mostly a pipeline of functions over an initial data structure.
I guess it's worth noticing the author of the essay is pretty weird himself in any number of ways.
This data entirely negates that claim. In countries with the highest levels of gender equality, where women are least likely to experience any of these negative forces, they simply self-select not to participate in certain fields (on average).

If you cannot participate in a field where not enough of the people look and act like you, then perhaps you have the problem.
>…indeed fear…

For someone like Thiel, as it pertains to their life and continued living in this world, what is there to fear?

You have multiple generations of people uploading (metadata) in real-time to a multitude of platforms they own/control to some large degree, that they continue to profit off of, and if needed could easily funneled to a tasking queue for metadata drone strikes if they so happen to go abroad (or legalized for domestic usage in the future, possibly with the aid of PMC's).

If anything the fear people are increasingly acting on in "public" will only make such future realities more certain as people feel that they need to go to extremes to address any actual or perceived injustice done to them.
Here in Warsaw you get cell reception and even LTE on both lines. From what I understand, the transit authority installed antennas along the tunnels and then the big four wireless operators maintain their BTS at each station directly, without any specialized underground operator.

It used to only work reliably on and near the platforms but nowadays you can watch full HD YouTube videos all along the line with minimal issues.
>> C++...this was easier to deal with for a large team

This was safer for pointy haired bosses :)
I never can tell if there really is an influx of insane, insufferable far left crazies, or if people who insist on remaining racist and keeping gays in the closet are mad that nobody is having that anymore.

That's because it's entirely a matter of individual perspective and experience. Everyone takes their own tiny viewport onto a region of millions of diverse people and attempts to claim "oh yeah SF/bay area is like this..." "Oh no I had a different experience so you see it's like this..."
I am partial to
Maximilian Schwarzmüller courses(Vue, React etc) as he has really good diction and screen presence besides being knowledgeable.

Then you have someone like Jonas Advanced CSS who is a great teacher but ridiculously monotonous.

Finally, I find most the courses really not worth even $10 on Udemy as the teacher might be knowledgeable but has neither screen presence nor diction.
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I don't like how there's not any charts anywhere. Numbers usually tell better tale than words.
As far as I know, all developed countries have birthrates that are below replacement values. Is it really so bad to think that motherhood is something that should be focused on? Of my family/friends that are women with children, every single one of them wants more flexibility with their work, because they want more time to spend with the children. Children certainly benefit from parental attention. Yet many workplace policies regarding childcare are downright draconian. Perhaps we should accept that prioritizing parenting is a good thing, and try and make it so that people can both work and have the support they need to help with their familial obligations.
There’s a difference between helping someone make a decision and actively trying to change their decision.