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> Take a look at this line

Extracting a single line out of a book that (like human communication in general) depends on the wider context of the diction, and then attacking the whole book as nonsense, is fallacious. Come on, l'arbitraire du signe has been well-known for a century now.

> You are finding "character, story, setting" only because you are ignoring any parts that don't make sense, then finding meaning in the rest. It's a form of pareidolia.

A number of commentators on the Wake reached the same agreement on the book’s character and general plot independently of each other in the years immediately following its publication.

In any event, even if the Wake were merely “inventing sounds” (which it isn’t), that still wouldn’t make it “Emperor’s new clothes”. Nonsense poetry has been an established literary genre since the mid-19th century, well before the era of modernism. That ranges from work that obeys the general syntax of the language even if certain words are nonsense, to poems that are outright written in what might as well be a foreign language unintelligible to the reader but attractive because of the words’ inherent musical quality to speakers of the poet’s language. Some of these poems, like Lewis Carroll’s "Jabberwocky" [1] or Sándor Weöres's "Kínai templom" [2] are practically part of their countries’ respective literary canons and commonly read in schools.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky

[2] http://www.okm.gov.hu/letolt/retorika/ab/szoveg/komm/kinai.h...
You've answered your own question. Supply/demand is not something we can negotiate or tweak to our liking. Teaching/nursing jobs need to be automated as much as possible if we want to deal with global issues like aging populations and educational inequality.
I find the that those who use this as some sort of argument against feminism often are ignoring the emphasis feminists put on social conditioning as an influencing and oppressive factor on the behaviour of each gender.

Just because a country, by law, affords women the same rights as men that doesn't mean it's a country which is free of the social conditioning which force certain expectations upon each gender. These are things that are inherited from previous generations and do not go away so easily.

People use these results to imply something like "when people are free to do what they want they tend to their 'natural' gender role". But I don't believe this statement can be justified as countries with "more gender equality" (i.e. better women's rights) have yet to shed themselves of societal idioms and culture that feminist theory would call oppressive. I.e. traditional gender roles in the media, toys etc.

I think a more accurate statement would be "when people are free to do what they want, they will tend to behaviours they're conditioned toward." After all, as we can see in the "less gender equality" countries, larger percentages of women in society can and do enjoy careers in STEM fields. What would be interesting is to see 10-20 years down the line how some countries progress and how these behaviours feedback into the next generation.
2 questions:

> The repeated encounters lead to a random walk that eventually causes close encounters with other terrestrial planets and the Sun.

What are terrestrial planets? I thought there was only one terrestrial planet; earth. Or is meant 'earth like' planets, specifically Venus, Mars and Earth?

> dynamical lifetime of the Tesla to be a few tens of millions of years

What is the dynamical lifetime? I'd think that with all the rocks out there the Tesla will get some dents from collisions. So many dents that I think in a million years it'll be toast. How does this square with a dynamical lifetime of tens of millions of years?
You miss the point that a satisfied person has little incentive for activism. Also, most conservative opinions tend to be met with anything from disgust to derision online, further disincentivizing counter-protest.
I'm not sure if I was clear earlier, but the simplest explanation for why you get downvoted is that you have a history of posting flamebait. When an account does enough of this it gets subject to software penalties as well. If you want to commit to using HN as intended, which means scrupulously avoiding flamebait, snark, flamewars, name-calling, and all the rest of it—then you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and let us know.
Most people care mostly about money. If the only reason you didn't appreciate her making that choice was because she was a woman, then you are sexist
<em>Claiming that men and women just have different criteria, and thus the problem should be ignored entirely completely misses the point.</em>

Can you read at all? OP did not say anything like that
The article never claims that areas of high gender equality do not have these negative forces.

In fact, my main issue with this article is how it defines "gender equality".

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

I never made any such claim - you have twisted my words in order to make me appear irrational and prejudiced. I claim that women do not participate in tech because they feel actively ostracized and unwelcome. More women would help alleviate this issue. Do not put words into my mouth instead of addressing the statements that I make.
My sister when to STEM instead on another field, because of campaigns. She hates herself for doing that, even now at 38 years old. It’s entirely probable that encouraging women to do things they stubbornly wouldn’t choose otherwise is making a generation of depressive mothers.
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Really? It's "self-evident" Visa fucked up? Yeah...I'll be waiting for the statement to that effect on visa.com

And then I saw this comment:
"Thats weird. I have a mastercard and was charged twice. So how is it Visas fault."
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> Yes. If you feel differently, and you are a woman then I highly encourage you to become more involved with activism because that is the only way to make your voice and opinions heard.

And what kind of social or career impact on their lives do you expect from such activism against the current flow?
There are more professions with skew than professions with parity.

https://www.dol.gov/wb/stats/occ_gender_share_em_1020_txt.ht...
I'm working (slowly) on a fairly flexible standard syntax and syntax tree. It's not going to be as simple as S-expressions or JSON, though. I need five kinds of lists to get a reasonable mainstream-ish syntax, and this seems a bit unwieldy if you're just using it for data.

I'm not sure what a standardized AST would really be. A standardized concrete syntax tree is doable, but each language is going to have its own statements and expressions (equivalent to special forms in Lisp). This is similar to how we can use JSON objects to represent all sorts of different types as key-value sequences with different sets of keys.

For an evolving language, the AST needs to change from one version to the next. When you add a new kind of statement or expression, the tree-walkers in the tools usually need to adapt. The tools aren't stable unless the language is stable.
There is the Western media mindset which is as brain-washed in its own special way as the craziest of religious cults. Most of the official government history is a lie, it has been one big fight for oil and other resources, not this 'war against terror' or whatever the clown in chief says.

To escape the Western media mindset usually involves being brain washed with something else. Or living in a country where the truth does not match the reality on the ground. For instance, Syria, people that live there know that what all is told on the news on the television in the West is utter rubbish written and presented by people who have made up minds and don't care.

The Western media mindset is cunning in that the better educated people that read broadsheet newspapers have indoctrinated themselves further into it, even if they think of themselves as being the educated, questioning one.

Most people do not have the capability to appreciate the criminality that has gone on in Washington, London and elsewhere over the years. So this criminality goes on and the Western democracies exist in their special lawless way, preparing for war and actively beating up the world for profit.

The funniest bullshit is the 'al-qaeda' nonsense. Not one person has ever met an al-qaeda person even if dead people in brown parts of the world are obviously al-qaeda. In previous wars you at least knew the enemy existed, now it is just fake news that you have to believe, on the Koolaid.
I guess I use R for the sorts of things I might use Mathematica for. Mathematica is kind of the opposite of J; with J you only have a few primitives. Mathematica is a swiss army knife for data and math. Python is fine; I was an early adopter, I just don't have any reason to prefer it to R (package quality perhaps).

Kerf was a tough slog, but Kevin and I landed on our feet. We'll do something with the code one of these days.
At least for software engineers, the idea that they have "relocated to the west" doesn't seem to hold up:

https://dqydj.com/number-of-developers-in-america-and-per-st...

Seems to be a healthy distribution of developers around the country.
yeah, ive been wondering if it was just me or if comments were starting to seem more reactionary?
As I recall he (mis)appropriated the term, as is his habit. It wouldn't be surprising if tomorrow he started talking about how "woke" he is and how that adjective actually doesn't mean what we think it means. "Fake news" was originally a term for news-like narratives from sources other than the news media.
This shows that girls are more inclined to have different interests than boys. There is clearly not equal distribution
in interests between genders. There is nothing wrong with that. We shudn't enforce equal distribution by some quotas. Instead we should allow everbody to have an equal chanche to achive their full potential.
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Nice writeup with coverage of both a discovery and fix. It makes me wonder where the best distribution point to this ends up. The most convenient, but hidden, is that it ends up in some embedded dev kit somewhere. But I suppose it might go into the FreeRTOS software, but then it seems like it's not globally applicable to the ARM platform, just the iMX.7 (and likely not even all variants of iMX.7).
Me too, to be honest.

Still, for example - I can see that dynamic types reduce a certain quantity of boilerplate. If you just don't make the kind of mistakes that make static checking necessary, then you could be more productive that way. I think a lot of boilerplate stuff is a bit like that.

I wouldn't be - but still.
couldn't agree more. perfectly put
> Yes. If you feel differently, and you are a woman

I'm not sure you understand the goal of gender equality.

> then I highly encourage you to become more involved with activism because that is the only way to make your voice and opinions heard.

I'm a software engineer. Every woman on our team is treated as an equal. Because they are. But apparently your experience = every experience.

Maybe, just maybe, the women that you speak of are in the minority?
local HAM radio group.

Perhaps being local creates more social cohesion.

I've seen plenty of these issues in online ham groups, including political and religious sniping.
Because that’s how capitalism works. Money follows value generated to society not individual perceived value. A teacher at maximum capacity can only deliver a tiny tiny fraction of the value that a software developer can.

100 students per class 8 classes a day 40 year career. You have provided value to 32,000 children all of whom have two parents so value to 96,000 people well say.
You're free to discuss men's issues in the numerous internet forums, boards, and communities that find this to be an important issue. However I was talking about women, so maybe we should stay focused.

My favorite is reddit.com/r/MensLib

Why must we respond to legitimate concerns with "but it's hard for us TOO". We can address both at the same time. This does not have to be framed as men vs. women.
Usually you get what you incentivize. If you go overboard on the equality of outcome, people will adapt to it, be it women or any kind of person.
He’s being downvoted because he’s wrong and rather than replying directly to the points made, he tangents off on one small detail and still misses the narrative.

Per Title 12 → Chapter II → Subchapter A → Part 229 → Subpart B → §229.10b(1), in general a bank shall make funds received for deposit in an account by an electronic payment available for withdrawal not later than the business day after the banking day on which the bank received the electronic payment. [0]

So reading that there are several observations.

- first, they say in general, emphasis theirs, and don’t define exceptions explicitly.

- next business day, so that means they are perfectly allowed to be two days delay for a payment initiated by Wednesday night, or up to five days for one initiated Thursday night (Thursday send, Friday received but held, Monday being next business day). If Monday is a bank holiday, then it could even be six days!

- in (2)(i) they further go on to state Payment in actually and finally collected funds. There are a number of reasons that could be delayed.

Ultimately, saying an ACH should always be by next morning is just flat wrong and no amount of experience with your own personal transactions negates that.

https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=b82e479da1df29eaa4...
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While it's heartening to see the Wikimedia Foundation abandon its opposition to net neutrality, it would be more heartening if this was accompanied by explicit stance of support for net neutrality.

Wikipedia, by contrast with the WMF, has always had strong support for net neutrality. WMF's opposition to net neutrality was a strong indicator of its lack of accountability to the community it ostensibly serves.
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Is it just me or is this site exactly what several other people in the comments here are proposing as a major part of the solution?

I’m not sure, since others are basically saying it’s too hard to do.

Cross referencing conditions and diseases along with the scientific and common names for things could indeed be very useful!
This comment most closely represents what women friends in tech have expressed to me consistently. I'd like to point out that even if it were agreed upon that women were less interested in STEM careers in aggregate, it would still be valuable to improve this situation for the women who are interested in STEM careers.
Those who’re spinning this narrative definitely don’t want the public to be immunized against all propaganda. They just want to be in control of the propaganda machine.
> Maybe I'm just getting old.

Well unfortunately nothing can stop that, but things have definitely changed. I remember thinking that too.
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> not about disrespect, unrightful criticism, and scrutiny in technical fields on the basis of sex.

Well since these are claims you can undoubted produce data that all of these issues are significant across the entire field?
Let’s not forget that dairy is heavily subsidized and created in larger scales.

There’s also ripple-nutritious pea milk. The unsweetened, original flavor has no carbs and factually more protein than really needed for a bowl of cereal.
>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.

A lot of the girls I meet in tech tell me stories of positive discrimination. One even said she didn't take a higher paid job because she didn't want it offered to her just because she was a woman (I believe the interviewer said that was why they offered it).

I didn't hear these kinds of stories 5 years ago but I do now.

It all kind of makes me a bit uneasy - I'm not sure this newfound enthusiasm for companies biasing hiring specifically to women is actually making things better for women in tech.
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I was upset she was wasting her talent going purely after money (she was a winner of math/programming competitions). And men are often way more idealistic, willing to endure hardships for ideas instead of cashing out whenever possible. She ended up programming in the end due to job market, but could have achieved way more than working for Accenture-type companies on BS assignments.
Whenever thinking of gender equality, I like to go back to Beauvoir. plato.stanford.edu's page [1] is fantastic, here's an extract:

"Before The Second Sex, the sexed/gendered body was not an object of phenomenological investigation. Beauvoir changed that. Her argument for sexual equality takes two directions. First, it exposes the ways that masculine ideology exploits the sexual difference to create systems of inequality. Second, it identifies the ways that arguments for equality erase the sexual difference in order to establish the masculine subject as the absolute human type. Here Plato is her target. Plato, beginning with the premise that sex is an accidental quality, concludes that women and men are equally qualified to become members of the guardian class. The price of women’s admission to this privileged class, however, is that they must train and live like men. Thus the discriminatory sexual difference remains in play. Only men or those who emulate them may rule. Beauvoir’s argument for equality does not fall into this trap. She insists that women and men treat each other as equals and that such treatment requires that their sexual differences be validated. Equality is not a synonym for sameness." (emphasis mine)

I find this paragraph particularly well written, but watch out, I've had an american writer read it and he understood the opposite of what is written. I had to make him read it again ^^

I don't know if it applies to this particular statistics. My personal interpretation of Beauvoir is that yes, this stat does make sense. In a gender equal society, you shouldn't find equal ratios everywhere because du-hu, we're actually not the same. But we should be equal.

That being said, I don't like talking about these things because I generalize to much, and the question is way too complex for me to approach. I like reading other people's take on it though. Anyway, I just wanted to share Beauvoir's thoughts and my rough interpretation of it in this context.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beauvoir/
The current explanation for anything in medicine is "Dunno, we tested it and it seems to work". It is a much better one than "The computer says so", but it's one the computer can tell you too.
Bryan Lunduke did an episode on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxNdQJSlg54
I'm writing a CoCoC before he attempts another CoC.
That paper doesn't provide evidence for a biological basis for occupational preferences (which was an online BBC survey for a TV show "Secrets of the Sexes," asking people to self-report how interested they were in 10 professions, many of which are strongly culturally gendered or "male-versus-female-typical" as the author puts it). It seems pretty likely that there's a biological basis for differences in base personality traits and a cultural basis for careers and gender norms; the fact that the author found that sex predicts three personality traits and one career preference isn't really an argument that all four of them are biological.

(Also I don't think a single paper counts as "exhaustively researched")
Not if the election wasn't won with a majority.
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Down that path, but I'm just not sure Erlang is enough. I might be a bit infected by the promise of Telescript[1] or a paper[2]. RPC over HTTP (in one or more of its forms) won over mobile code, but I think the concept of software agents actually has a bigger win in the building of complex systems that can be reasoned about in the small as well as the large. I also think that the ability to replace software agents in a large system would be easier than refactoring / replacing objects.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescript_(programming_langua...

2) http://robotics.stanford.edu/~shoham/www%20papers/AgentOrien... from http://robotics.stanford.edu/~shoham/
Just as with self-driving cars, you have to look at the counterfactual. We don't have an interpretable audit trail for the decisions made by human employees either.

So under the status quo, what happens in the case of an aberrant or problematic decision and how does society cope with this lack of interpretability?

We try to piece together a plausible, retrospective narrative by looking at fact patterns and taking into account the education, experience, actions, explanations, and rationalizations of other humans. (Trusting these accounts is further complicated by human traits such as self-interest, emotion, and cognitive biases.)

There exist entire professional specialties devoted to this problem (litigation, internal investigations, police detectives, accident boards) who spend a lot of time on this. Even so, much of the time we still don't really know why exactly people made the decisions they did.

This inconvenient fact does not stop us from employing humans, and society has not collapsed under the weight of the liability issues.
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Not sure if this has been posted on HN before but I think this is a much more interesting article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201707/wh...

tl;dr Girls tend to be more well rounded intellectually, with both strong math skills and strong verbal skills, giving them more options, possibly more lucrative options, beyond just STEM. Boys tend to be more lacking in verbal skills limiting their options.

A closely related theory is that girls outperform boys in both sciences and humanities, in HS, but they outperform boys in humanities by a much larger margin, and therefore see themselves as strongest in those subjects.