skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I seem to recall a certain young engineer who wondered about this publicly not long ago, without concealing his identity. It impacted his career.
This part really struck a chord with me: “It’s really important to distinguish being silenced and being challenged,” she said. “Leaders in Silicon Valley who believe in building a diverse, equitable industry have not only a right, but an obligation to challenge others in positions of influence who undermine those goals.” ---- because, I don't believe that blackballing someone, boycotting them, signing petitions to get them fired and kicked off of board of directors of companies is "being challenged" -- that's just outright trying to run someone into the ground simply because they don't have the same political views as you. That's what much of SV did to Peter Thiel.
No, you cannot wonder. /s
Don't worry about me, I don't work for Google.
Because we’re Reddit now!
I think the logic here is a nontrivial portion of the women who "fall out of the pipeline" do it for reasons other than lack of enthusiasm for the subject. If indeed there are girls who want to pursue math/cs but run into extrinsic obstacles that put them off, we should try to identify what those obstacles are.
Elon Musk Is Not the Future: Tech CEOs are out for themselves, not the public
> I don't understand why we should try to make somebody choose a subject they didn't choose to do.

If they didn't choose to do a subject because, for example, they had their high school teacher(s) tell them that he "does not expect female students to do as well as male students" (I have seen that happen few years back when I was still in high school), then it surely is an undertaking worth considering.
It is possible. But it's also possible that it's not skewed, or even skewed the other way. It's as though someone should investigate this question before embarking on programs to shift the distribution to arbitrary places.
Metastasized cancer spreading to more and more projects these days. Who benefits?
> we've like already imported most lisp features into modern languages anyway

It's one thing to implement all kinds of features and another thing to integrate them well. You can bolt wings onto an existing ship, but it won't fly well.
I’m always surprised to see that myth trotted out here!

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/06/26/the-shareholder-v...

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/harold-meyerson-the-...

https://www.marketplace.org/2016/06/09/economy/price-profits...

https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?refe...
Oh, really? What a groundbreaking idea! This sounds like heresy.
Just wait until this article finally makes it to Hollywood ... I'll be these worms grow to an enormous size too (Eye worm versus Godzilla?).
Societies that willingly forego privacy in order to allow things like social credit scores will have a large competitive advantage. The effect on social interaction and interaction with the state will be similar to the effect that tripadvisor has on restaurants, or that uber and lyft have on taxi customer service.

Our historical models of losing privacy emphasise the state at the centre of the panoptican observing all citizens while remaining hidden themselves. Correctly implemented, technological tracking of services and employees and bureaucrats has the potential to be much more like true transparency, with everyone having a more accurate picture of everyone else's history of behaviour.

Whether you think that this is desirable or not is really about values and preferences, not an objective question. But I think it is objectively likely that a society like this would enjoy a competitive advantage in terms of organising its economy and society.
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Before 'Star Wars' and 'Alien,' There Was Alejandro Jodorowsky's 'Dune'
This is so incredibly condescending. People need "counseling" because they don't choose what you think they should choose?

How about just respecting people's choices??
No. In AWS Lambda at least, the container your application runs in lives through multiple requests until some period of inactivity passes and it is shut down. It isn’t “running” in the sense that your code is in control, but long-lived things like database connections do not need to be re-established on every request.
However, small deltas around a particular X correlate with corresponding small sigmas around the corresponding Y.
I've found I can get nutritional yeast comparatively cheap from the local co-op bulk bin. But full ACK that not everyone has such an option.

But... you can also get it online for fairly cheap! Here's a pound for less then 12 dollars. IME a pound goes a long way. https://www.amazon.com/Frontier-Co-op-Nutritional-Yeast-Flak...
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Dropping G Suite
My values aren't "everyone should be able to say everything in every space everywhere without any consequence!", and I don't think even the most radical free speech libertarian would believe that. In either hackernews or at Google, if you started arguing for Holocaust denial, you can bet you wouldn't last long, no matter how hard you defend yourself with "free speech". In all spaces, there are rules of acceptable and unacceptable discourse. I am no more pro or anti free speech than anyone else, I just have different ideas of what the boundaries of that speech should be.

What concerns me most is equality of all people, and liberation of all people from systems of oppression. James Damore furthered an oppressive system (patriarchy) by perpetuating sexist ideas that attacked and hurt women at Google. With all the stuff about free speech or whatever, the opinion that he wanted to advocate for was nothing more than old school sexism: women are on average worse engineers because of their biology, so any discrepancies of outcome is a result of their natural inferiority, not broken social and economic structures. Is that really a valuable, constructive opinion that should be inside the marketplace of ideas at Google? What kind of company culture does that lead to? One in which discrepancies and injustices can be rationalized and justified through "innate differences" and where women who experience sexism and discrimination would feel more uncomfortable expressing their concerns.
Systems like this must have an extensive quota-and-limits system. It will disallow overlong runtimes or excessive memory use, and if you keep doing that will run out of quota (which is usually attached to billing.)
Give me a break. They didn’t bring up Trump, the person they’re responding to did. And it’s intellectually dishonest to claim that you can’t be outraged no matter what level of harm or danger or betrayal of your values is occurring, or that means you’re a media puppet.

The better question is: why aren’t you outraged like so many others?

And if the answer is that you don’t care or you agree with the policies in question, then perhaps the outraged people should justifiably ignore your condemnation of their outrage.

It’s ridiculous for me to claim that all conservatives were only anti-Obama’s policies because the right-leaning media whipped them into a frenzy, and it’s just as unfair and intellectually dishonest to do that to the left today.
In the 1990s you could carry on a conversation on the "analog" cell phones (AMPS vs CDMA/TDMA) in the cut & cover lines in NYC (lines which are 12-20 feet below street surface). The signal would fade but wouldn't drop.

The cutover to digital signals circa 2001-2002 meant calls would drop as soon as the signal faded.
A bit offtopic, but whats the reason you would like to move away from them? I just created a dropplet for a nextcloud server and the experience was painless
> What if I return after lunch, click "Get messages", and then Thunderbird highlights new comments in orange. But I don't read all of them, instead I go for another errand. Later, I return ... and click "Get messages" again. But now the orange marks from after-lunch will be lost, right?

As far as I know, the thread overview pane will still show the unread message in a bold font, but the indicator that you just retrieved the message would be lost for the messages that you retrieved right after lunch (though it would then show up for messages you retrieved after you returned from your errand).

In either case, it would still be obvious which messages you haven't read as of yet which is something that HN doesn't really show on subsequent viewings of a given comment thread.

Perhaps Thunderbird could be extended to show a different symbol associated with each message retrieval so that, in your example, you would have one symbol for messages retrieved after lunch and a second symbol for messages retrieved after you return from your errand.
To your first point: The detriments of that kind of COC remain to be proven as well. But why even bring this up? Even a perceived benefit to a marginalized group is worth it. Do we imagine the status quo as somehow harmed by stronger anti-harassment policies? There are numerous examples of sexual harassment online and in person. The potential chilling effects of stronger guidelines have to be weighed against the actual chilling effects (trauma, non-participation) of those affected.

To your second point: The BSD guidelines address content ("comments") and physical meetings, which I assume apply to conferences and hackathons. I don't see the distinction you are making between "content" and "human behavior," as content is human behavior online. There is good research on moderated communities. Anecdotally, I am talking to you here and not on Reddit because of stronger guidelines (and the resulting, to my mind, higher quality of discussion).
I appreciate it in a very simple way. I am very much average IQ (the absolute top of the bell curve!). I read a lot. For a while, I read 120 books per year. Now, with a daughter and a full time job, I read maybe 2 books a month. Once in a while you will meet someone that will say Ulysses is their most favourite book. About half the time, that is literary posing.

I actually forced myself to read Finnegans wake (which as we all understand is easily translatable) in a language that isn't my own (english). I did it for two reasons. The less important one is that I can actually say I have read it without giving up. Giving up is very much in my character, so it was about proving myself to myself.

The second reason is very childish. Sometimes you meet literary posers. You know them when you meet them. They never left the teenage phase of identifying with geniouses just by being able to namedrop them. It has given me great pleasure about 3 or 4 times to be able to say "Ulysses is a nice book, but it is but a mere warming up for a greater piece. Which of the interpretations do you find most in line with your own".

Childish. I know.
I wonder how much of this is related to parental leave policy versus generic social safety net. Countries with a strong safety net also have generous maternity leave but are behind on paternity. I imagine that at a large scale this does make many companies slightly less likely to hire women, and families much more likely to have the mother take time away from her job. The ultimate effect, albeit in a warm and fuzzy way, could be to deemphasize women’s careers by normalizing the idea that it’s best if you stay home with the kids.

I don't suppose that this could have a larger effect than the gender inequality in many countries lacking a social safety net, but it could be a contributing factor.

The idea that women, given the choice, generally would rather prioritize motherhood seems totally plausible. If that's the case, it could indicate that we need to think about diversity differently.

But I'm uncomfortable with a side effect that some of these policies could have - subtly pressuring women to focus on motherhood. The solution is complicated though if the mere existence of a good maternity leave policy encourages sexism. Hopefully general parental leave can help address this.
...and the working conditions are generally...sub-par.
> Helping drive up the numbers of women and other underrepresented populations in CS should be a major priority for developed countries.

What if we try to respect womens choices and work to get them better pay for the very important work they actually do, first?

Why is it that nursing or teaching should be paid so much less than software engineering?

Or even worse: why is it so much cooler to be an engineeer like me than a nurse or teacher? The pay can partially be explained by supply/demand (qualified nurses are in high demand but buyers don't seem to be able to pay, at least not here.)
I think the iMac Pro is just another validation that the latest MacBook Pro machines are not "Pro" at all. Where is the touch keyboard for the iMac Pro? Why does the iMac Pro have an SD Card slot? If those are indeed "Pro" features, why then were they changed on the MacBook Pro?
Most of the "human behavior" described in the FreeBSD Code of Conduct is speech.
> The takeover by the proscriptive far-left

Americans have a very weird conception of what "far-left" means. Liberal feel good minority appeasement by billion dollar multinational corporations is as far from "far-left" as you can get.
Residential solar is cheap, but can it get cheaper? Paths to $0.05 per kWh
I'll probably face wrath, and hell's fury for this, but maybe, men and women are different. Has forcing STEM upon the female population, driven any more of them towards the discipline? Taking the sampling size of every woman I've ever went on a date with in my 37 years, none of them were interested in anything related. The vast majority were teachers, psychologists, and nurses. Occupations based around nurturing others. One, was a designer/artist. None of the women in my huge family, sister, mother, none of them care about technology fields. My father, and male cousins on the other hand, are in various fields of tech and engineering.
>The thing is, if you like private property and private contract, this is what can happen to you. If you think any company is within its rights to police speech, then you agree that it's fine for Google to exclude conservative or libertarian speech.

Then why do people go on so about the so-called "Hollywood Blacklist" whereby private entities refused to hire people who supported Communism?
Maybe they are just not oblivious to the fact that there is a lot to be outraged about? Sometimes the outrage is not manufactured but simply a response to lies and criminal behavior in the halls of power.
Rare skills tend towards the expensive, either in money or time-to-recruit, or both. It can sometimes be worth it for specialist tasks, but I'd be cautious.
NO. Far from it.

I can't work on a codebase with a colleague, me writing/reading the code in Scala, he/she writing/reading the same code in Java or Kotlin. I can't code a project in Clojure, then hand it over to a team of programmers that see it and work on it as Java code.

JVM languages are too different from one another (and the "common language" underneath, whatever is it called, it's waay too low level to qualify, practically no one writes/reads it). Different syntaxes would mean need to share a different semantic common to all to have seamless translation. (And yeah, apart from some academic experiments I think we're far from abstract syntax independent semantics in any production used programming language.

To actually be able to treat the multiple JVM languages as syntaxes of the same language with a "seamless" experience you'd need code analysis tools of almost-superhuman intelligence. By that point we'd be out of job anyway ;)
Has anyone ever looked at it from the network effect angle? I’m a software dev because I didn’t like being a CPA and my friend was a tech guy who got me into it.

My wife went into the medical field because her sister turned her onto this speciality that was easy to get into and paid quite well.

I tried to teach my smart wife to program and failed miserably because that’s not how our relationship works.

Most people in even your industry are not die hard passionate live and breathe the code lifestyle types. They show up, work, and go back to their lives.

We all know that ‘in general’ in the USA at least but I’m sure in other countries as well the genders tend to self segregate their peer networks. My close friends are men. Her close friends are women.
For now, when adopting FaaS, you must be vigilant to adopt rigorous monitoring and
alerting for how your system is behaving so that you can detect situations and correct
them before they become significant problems. Of course, the complexity introduced
by monitoring flies somewhat in the face of the simplicity of deploying to FaaS, which
is friction that your developers must overcome.
- Designing Distributed Systems
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Well... $1K/month probably isn't enough to live on, so the question I would have would be "what can you do to scale the thing up, or find additional ways to monetize it"? And does the answer to that get you to a place where it makes enough money to support you? If so, I'd be thinking hard about the "quit and work on it full-time" thing, although that would obviously depend on a lot of other factors (savings, etc.)

Other things I'd be asking:

Do you have other features or aspects in mind that could make the site even more useful / appealing? Are you planning to say purely ad-supported, or do you have any kind of subscription model in mind? Are there any useful partnerships you could explore? Is an "acqui-hire" scenario a possibility?
Unlike Gates and Musk, WeWork is inextricably dependent on the VC industry, which provides the money that unprofitable companies pay WeWork in rent.
Are women more status-seeking than men?

Are women more money-seeking than men?

It seems to me that the assumptions which gave rise to your comment would imply that Wall Street traders should be dominated by women. Why is this not the case, in your opinion?

Would increasing the pay and status of a job increase, or decrease the percentage of women?

Should CEOs be paid more to increase their percentage of women?
And also, if someone were to start a Wikipedia competitor it would also be on an uneven playing field.
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http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0956797617741719

Wonderful. Yet another publicly-funded research project with implications for public policy that is behind a paywall.

I guess I'll never know the details of how "gender equality" was operationalized, and therefore never have an informed interpretation of these data. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Where I come from, it is extremely standard for high school students to receive friendly counseling about what they want to pursue in college. Most young people I know do not sit in isolation deciding what to do with their lives, without discussing it with any adults.
It didnt say- oh, btw you can use js functions and packages as library in lua.

https://github.com/PaulBernier/castl
'Good healthy' is not always what it seems, there is a disease of orthorexia and 'clean eating' that is notionally very healthy - everything is juiced into kale smoothies (cellulose the body still can't digest...) - and people don't do too well out of it.

As a vegetarian I have had to my own perspective on mankind's obsession with protein for a long time, really it is over-rated as the body makes the proteins it needs from amino acids, not from protein eaten from i.e. a sausage made of pig gristle and shoved in an oven. Or from these whey powder things.
Agreeing with 46% of the population is mainstream? Okay...
Have you ever noticed that that phrase "I may not agree with you, but I'll defend your right to say it to the death!" (heard it a lot after the 2003 Iraq Invasion) is almost universally applied from Right to Left and almost never the other way around? That to me is a great indicator for which side is much more authoritarian.
He said worse than that, IIRC. But his lawsuit will maybe bring more clarity on what he really thinks vs. what might have been mis-written or mis-read in various versions of 'the memo'.
Yup. Works for you, but happens not to just work, without deliberate effort, in NYC.
> On a moral level, Trump is literally one of the worst human beings on the planet

Oh come on. I am far from a Trump supporter but this is ludicrous. How many people has he killed?

Trump is a horny old silver-spoon doofus with a knack for telling people what they want to hear. I can't stand him but Stalin he ain't.
Yes, it's best to use nutritional yeast for savory foods. It really does bump up the umami flavor pretty well, and I think it tastes good, but I actually use it more for the flavor than for any nutritional aspect. Common uses in my kitchen:

- Using it with salt and water makes a kind of chicken broth'y flavor.
- Butter or margerine on toast, then sprinkle nutritional yeast on top. Doesn't sound like it'll be good but a friend introduced this to me and it's one of my favorite snacks.
- Add to tomato sauce for a "meat drippings" like flavor. For an easy and cheap spaghetti bolognese use TVP, nutritional yeast, a dash of tarmari, and your usual tomatoes and oregano and basil.
- Of course, a lot of people use it as fake cheese... you can make a "nacho cheese" type flavor out of it easily

Tons more uses.
>Arguing that women naturally prefer non-STEM fields is sexist

While I agree with the entirety of your comment, I don't see how this is the case. If the physical differences between human groups cause one to prefer something over the other, how is it disparaging to attempt to validate this hypothesis?
The actual title is 'A gender equality paradox': Countries with more gender equality have fewer female STEM grads.

The findings only present a paradox if you believe that gender equality requires equal representation in all fields.
Often the reason motivating people to make statements like this is that they assume a systemic reason as to why a given group are not choosing a particular choice. An illustrative example would be asking why fewer men participate in cheer squad. The answer is derivative of the context - maybe football recruits more vigorously and has masculine traits which appeal more to young men. The follow-up question, if we were looking to have more boys in cheer, would be to ask what can we do to appeal more to those traits or appeal to things which no other activity satisfies.

The quote proposes looking at the context within which girls who show aptitude choose not to pursue STEM and see if there is anything the government, who wants more women in STEM, can do to facilitate this. It isn’t about removing the choice, it is about making a particular choice more appealing by better understanding the fundamental drivers behind particular choices.
The original title is "Engineering against all odds, or how NYC’s subway will get wireless in the tunnels". There's wifi + LTE coverage in stations today. I don't know if it's part of this program or something else but there's LTE coverage from Verizon on the E from midtown down to about Penn Station.
FreeBSD wouldn't sanction the poster for that comment for several reasons:

1. The CoC committee acts on reports -- someone has to be bothered by it.

2. It isn't an insult.

3. It isn't sexist.
I realize this is an anecdote, but one of my long-term clients is a tax/accounting office run and staffed almost entirely by women. When I started working there, I fully expected to find it tedious and drab. It turns out that it is surprisingly fun- they get clients that run all kinds of small businesses, we meet, talk about things, see what we can do to help them... Knowing the tax code & GAAP is important, but they turn out to be only the means to a far more social end. Really changed my mind in a positive way.