skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think many people just don't realize that Udemy is a "marketplace"[1]. Yes, anyone can publish a course there, provided it meets some requirements. In the early days, Udemy's stated goal was to "democratize online education"[2].

There is an "Instructor Identity Verification Process"[3] which should make sure publishers own the content. No idea why it didn't prevent this case.

There is no "review by experts in the field". Whoever publishes a course is responsible for its content. If a course is inaccurate users will give it bad reviews and it won't sell. And in any case buyers get a 30-day money back guarantee.

There is an online form to report copyright violations[4], which looks simple enough to me.

[1] https://about.udemy.com/
[2] https://readwrite.com/2010/05/11/online-learning-startup-ude...
[3] https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/229234067-Instru...
[4] https://copyright.udemy.com/hc/en-us
Do you know at what age they checked that? I've seen prior research that suggests that the disinterest in stem appears in middle or high school, and isn't statistically significant before then.

This would heavily imply some level of social conditioning to be the cause for disinterest.
yeah, why don't you?

- man
Would you not? It would make you pretty popular for one thing, and much easier to get funding next year.
Again, wrong. If I own a property in a major metropolitan area, I generally can’t discharge a firearm in the city just because I do it on my own property.
Show HN: Iota.lib.cpp, IOTA C++ Client Library
Did I mention that all this amazing work is being done by a few forward-thinking people vs the bloated desktop crap we've seen from billion dollar companies for years.
> His argument proposed that women are biologically less capable than men to perform certain software-associated tasks

Could you please point to the exact sentence that says this? Because I did a quick search for "biolog" and I did not find a single passage that proposed what you wrote. What I did ̶s̶a̶y̶
find is sentences like "women are generally more cooperative and agreeable than men" which say nothing about women being less capable of performing any software-associated tasks.
Amazon paid $90M for camera maker's chip technology
The ins and outs of planning and building your own home NAS (2016)
Perhaps most that feel because society tells them to.
Interesting. Is it blocked for content reasons (i.e. it hosts political material that is offensive to the censors of the local internet infrastructure) or techno-political reasons (Medium-the-hosting company is banned from providing content in the area due to the company itself)?
Of course it does. Feminism is ingrained into the cultures of these countries. The data overwhelmingly shows that when you give men and women equal opportunities and the freedom to make their own choices, that men and women, on average, make different choices.

This shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody. Apart from those who buy into the world view that the only two groups in any society are the oppressed and their oppressors, which is clearly just toxic bullshit.
Escaping liberal Silicon Valley for super conservative Los Angeles huh? If it were Orange county I might buy it, but moving to Hollywood Hills...come'on.

Seems like a PR stunt.
Countries with more gender equality are richer.
Countries with less gender equality are poorer.
In poorer countries, you are more inclined to choose careers based on paycheck, less on personal preference.
In richer countries you are more inclined to choose careers based on your personal preferences and less on for the paycheck.

It's pretty easy.

EDIT: A good counter example to this correlation could be Japan. Low gender equality but also low female participation in STEM fields.

Why? Because Japan is a rich country.
> The problem is there is no common desktop permissions framework on Linux.

Oh yes there is, it's called polkit and it's quite nifty !
or dismissal.
That field met its Einstein with Chris Smith's epochal 2013 work.

Google "chris smith manchester toast" and persevere longer than I did to find the paper the newspaper stories are talking about.
> You miss the point that a satisfied person has little incentive for activism.

This is interesting - what do you mean by this? I'm not sure what you mean in this context, but in an overall, general sense I strongly disagree.

Certainly there is significant incentive for activism from a satisfied person. A person may be satisfied but that does not mean that there is not room for improvement or change. Satisfaction is something that is static, stagnant, and doesn't last forever. One day you may be satisfied with a product or political situation, and the next day you might not be even if it remains unchanged itself.

Activism is a method of creating change. Everyone is incentivized by it because everyone can benefit immensely from change, even the ultra-rich.

> Also, most conservative opinions tend to be met with anything from disgust to derision online, further disincentivizing counter-protest.

I have found the opposite to be true, actually. Depending on the online community, sometimes it is the conservative opinions that are the only ones deemed acceptable by the community (as is often the case here on HN), and in others perhaps the liberal comments.

But I have been a liberal commenter on the internet for nearly 20 years and I have found, time and time again, that the internet has little room for acceptance of left-wing opinions.
http://archive.is/Rb1Jf works for me.
In what country is it acceptable to not treat others with basic courtesy and respect? Which is really all the list is asking for.
Replace "engineers" by "people with the engineer mindset" and "the west" by "very populated areas".
Sure, give me a research lab and some funding. I don't know that there have been many rigorous studies across all of STEM that measure this effect and give an answer one way or another.

For tech in particular, see the Kapor Center's report: https://www.kaporcenter.org/tech-leavers/ (which, it should be noted, reports on people who have left tech: the percentages in that report should not be read as the fraction of people in tech who decide to leave).
Nope, not coined by Trump. I did a bit of research. I found "fake news" in this link from 2005 on democracynow.org: https://www.democracynow.org/2005/3/14/state_propaganda_how_...

I'm not trying to say that people who use the term now are using it in place of "pizzagate", but that media outlets, during the months of December 2016 and early 2017, used the phrase to talk around "pizzagate"; and now "pizzagate" has faded, but "fake news" remains.

I think propaganda is a more appopriate word, and we should just use that. But because of the way associations work, whenever I see "fake news", I am reminded of "pizzagate". And I know I'm not the only one.
Sort of. The civil service has lots of people with their own agenda which they push to the elected politicians when they ask the civil service for options on how to solve problems
This isn't true for me. The clicked on images, at least of high resolution, are data urls under 1 MP. Exactly like the thumbnails from the grid.
If the containers are sealed, how can they put out so many toxic fume clouds? Scary stuff.
Huh this is an interesting idea. Especially if you're willing to only do saving through the compiler, because then you could just save the AST and then when you load it your IDE feeds it to the compiler along with output language and you get it back in whatever you're trying to compile too. Harder to make this editor agnostic but the idea is fascinating.
Big rig for the same reason that I think repurposed cargo containers can be cool. They're not really that practical, but I just like the idea of repurposing things.

Also, you might be interested in electric cars, that might address your concerns about global warming. Don't worry, we'll have electric big rigs before we have fully autonomous ones. Tesla has already unveiled one, in fact. Not sure what a "belief in physics" [sic] has to do with anything either, but live your best life buddy.
I can't help but think that the article/paper are overstating a statistical effect here by attempting to reduce a multicausal phenomenon to a monocausal one.

If you look just at rich western countries, most of them occupy a fairly narrow strip on the graph. There are outliers, but they can go either way; Finland has a very low STEM graduation rate for women, Denmark a very high one (Figure 3b in the paper). Austria and Germany have fairly different outcomes, despite being culturally more similar than other countries that differ less.

This is sort of obscured by throwing in many countries that honestly have very different cultures, very different academic systems, and different constraints for people of different genders that seem to be difficult to reduce to just a single number.

For a simple example, there are countries where nursing is primarily taught at colleges and others where nursing is primarily taught through vocational programs. Given the gender disparity in nursing, that would affect the gender breakdown for STEM graduation rates (depending on whether you count nursing as part of the "M" in STEM or not, one way or the other).

I'm honestly surprised that for most affluent western countries the numbers are not more spread out. If I had to guess – and we really have too few data points for that – I'd say we're simply looking at a normal distribution here, especially as (with the exception of the UK) the larger countries tend to be closer to the midpoint of the 20%-30% range and it's smaller countries that are at the fringes of the range.
Something I've wondered: how is this reconciled with the notion of "ignorance of the law isn't a defense"? If you do something that's a crime but have no idea that it's a crime (and had no intention to commit one) then you can generally still get convicted because that's not a defense, right? So where does the guilty mind come into play?
You're right that it would be nice if the article would provide more evidence to back that claim up (especially given the article's content), however I don't think it's such an outlandish claim if you look at the facts. To greatly oversimplify (with the inherent dangers of oversimplifying), suppose 50% of the population believes news item "A" is true while the other 50% of the population believes "not A" to be true. There could be different reasons for such a scenario, but if "A" is something that can actually be verified with relative ease, then having such a high percentage of people disputing "A" could very well imply that way too many people are more interested in holding on to an opinion that suits their agenda (be it psychological, political or other) than to seek out what is true.
Wifi perhaps, have no desire to hear business types yelling into phones while on the metro.
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People who use dryer sheets and fabric softener are the worst. You can smell a block over, and even from such distance its enough to give me difficulty breathing.
> Could you please point to the exact sentence that says this? Because I did a quick search for "biolog" and I did not find a single passage that proposed what you wrote. What I did say is sentences like "women are generally more cooperative and agreeable than men" which say nothing about women being less capable of performing any software-associated tasks.

From his article:

On average, men and women biologically differ in many ways. These differences aren’t just socially constructed because...
I didn't get a chance to profile the app for battery consumption since my recordings were only 5-10s each but I'd assume that while the watch is recording the battery life would be significantly less if you had it on for an extended period of time.
lol what-I was looking at this list of people who do this-in fact a lot of them ARE machine learning researchers...including some in my department!
Men and women do have different criteria today. But how can you tell when they're cultural criteria, or when they're intrinsic and inherent gender differences? Are you assuming that the current differences in career choices aren't already artificially forced away from the middle by cultural biases and even perceived or real sexism?

Sure, it is always "possible" to do harm by taking action, but is it likely? There is widely acknowledged bias that is not believed to be a natural intrinsic gender difference by many scientists who study this, so is it better to do nothing, or to try and address the issue?

To me, this question seems a little like asking whether I should avoid erasing some files when my computer fills up, because I might delete something important. Yes, you could accidentally delete something you wanted to keep, but on the other hand, if you want to continue using it, you have no choice.
Terrestrial planets usually means inner 4 in our solar system, and "earthlike" elsewhere
Most of the downvotes that most people on HN will receive simply mean: "I sure hope that isn't true." (Even though you've cited a peer-reviewed journal and they've got nothing but hope.) So the more novel and significant the contribution, the better the chance of being downvoted into oblivion, in my experience.

But keep commenting, some will read it and knowledge that challenges prejudice (prejudgments) always spreads quite slowly at first. Then later nearly everybody convince themselves they've ever believed anything else.

Note that the above is true for most contributors, but most downvotes on the site are directed at a small minority of people who commonly comment without reading the article, or didn't understand it, or blunder through general ignorance or profound bias; so most downvotes are still legit.
It's not great, but it's open to everyone who "just" has money, reducing it to the previously not-quite-solved problem of giving capital to potential upstarts. As a Spotify competitor, you can't just sign up for Binge On, unless perhaps you have connections with people who work at T-Mobile.
> But apparently your experience = every experience.

I never made any such claim. Instead you're the one arguing that because your team has no issues, then clearly the women who speak out are in the minority.

I'm simply arguing that these women who speak out exist, and we shouldn't just ignore their claims without evaluating their merit. Instead, you say we should ignore them because they are
"in the minority?". Maybe it is you who does understand the goals of gender equality. A view should never be ignored because it is the minority - it should be evaluated on the basis of its own merit.
Yes, the serious crime indeed of having an opinion.
Once question is "would does 'gender equality' mean"? The OP article doesn't say
He mean public figure in the western world.
Great. He should get the fuck out then if he doesn't feel welcome. While some people might tolerate the kind of scum like Thiel, I think it's good that SV doesn't tolerate. There's plenty of other places Thiel and people who feel like him can move to. The area will be better off with people like him gone, IMO. Most open minded liberal people with half a brain aren't going to move to bumblefuck, usa for the same reason Thiel and others like him shouldn't move to liberal cities. There's a place for everyone in our divided society and are the very least, people like Thiel can afford to move, unlike so many others that would like to but can't.
> > On average, men and women biologically differ in many ways. These differences aren’t just socially constructed because...

How do you conclude "women are biologically less capable than men to perform certain software-associated tasks" from merely that sentence?
Yes and no. I guess I like the idea of the living space being separable from the vehicle. That way I could even try out different spaces by just swapping out the trailer. Could have a new living space built while I'm still using the old one.
What’s the purpose of a Code of Conduct? If someone is abusive and harassing others, you can eject them without having some Code of Conduct giving the community permission to do so, and if you lack clout to eject someone for actual abuse and harrasment, how will CoC help you? Do you think that without CoC, people in the community believe that harrasment and abuse is OK, and it’s only CoC that will make them change their minds?

Instituting the CoC is a power play. It allows you to increase your power and influence by pushing the boundaries of what counts as harrasment much further than it would otherwise be understood, for very simple reason — for most people, fighting against CoC is not the hill they want to die on, as nobody wants to be seen as defender of abuse and harrasment.

It is similar to child pornography legislation — you can go to jail for hand drawn pictures of specialized children, which is pretty stupid if you think about it, but most people don’t care: they aren’t pedophiles and so they aren’t interested in sexualized content featuring children, and the personal gain of feeling good about defending individual freedom and liberty is not worth the status loss from, you know, defending actual pedophiles.

With CoC it is similar — you are expanding your sphere of power and influence, and everyone opposed is just dirty defender of abuse and harrasment, and so basically a harraser herself, and thus we need to eject her for the good of the community.
He didn't 'wonder about this publicly', he wrote an argument insisting that women were less capable of doing engineering. Don't sugar coat his words, he is not a martyr.
As explained elsewhere, this is a copy, hosted at the request of the author, because Medium is blocked in certain countries. Your change means that people in those countries will, if they come to HN, no longer be able to read this article.

I'm not sure that's a good thing - did you take the other comments into account when you changed the link?
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It's such a shame that many of these standards ignore or are ignorant of the elementary and fundamental sum type. Instead I am left needing to employ some ad-hoc encoding using string tags or similar.
Please don't go into political battle mode on HN. If you do that, so will others, and then we'll have a big war, the people who don't want this will leave, and the site will go down the drain. If we're to keep HN as a place for relatively (emphasis on relatively) thoughtful discussion, we're all responsible not to let this happen.

The political issues are important, of course. Arguably more important than other topics. That's one reason why the above is the case.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
What are you on about? Are you unaware that the finance industry is dominated by men? That generally men are more wage earners and women are more homemakers, so men have more pressure to economic success than women?
> "Can you point me to an example of "discord" brought about by better rules of conduct? Or to this funding that you mention?"

Only my wife's anecdotal experience...she was a full-time software developer and the companies she worked for routinely tried to use her as an example in their "we support women in tech" PR. She hated it and said it felt degrading. Also, there were various "women in tech" groups that reached out to her, based on some of her open source work, for conference speaking engagements/panels/writing/etc, and they were pushy about it. When she was showing the groups to me, they were all operating off of donations from various Fortune 500 companies. The "discord" is that a lot of these "women in tech" groups, advocated in some cases by women who aren't even doing anything tech related, castigated my wife, on two various instances, for not wanting to participate. My wife didn't want to be a pawn for some corporate PR or for some "women in tech" group...she just wanted to engineer things in peace.
My perspective as someone not living in California: I imagine that if there is increasing pushback against conservative values it is because the liberal ideology has been suppressed across most of the country and more pressure is being released in the few places where it is still politically preferable. If democrats sweep in the next few years (I am not so sure that will happen) then I also imagine the atmosphere in SV will cool down a bit. However, the mix of capital and somewhat radical liberal politics increase the odds of strange outcomes.

The real problem is increasing polarization of the Congress since Gingrich. We are going to keep flipping back and forth between Republican domination and Democrat domination rather than slight right majority and slight left majority with great debates and comprises until some key issues with the electoral process and congressional procedure are fixed.

I think the end result is an overhaul and optimization of government by sensible, human-oriented technologists but that is a few decades and several bitcoin bubbles away.
I'm doing a dissertation on Russian propaganda, among other propagandas, so disclaimer for bias.

I don't understand not caring about it, even were I not working on it. I was having discussions with friends in 2015/early 2016 where we were looking at stuff and it was obvious what was going on. The day after the election, Zuckerberg was saying it is "crazy" that Russians could have been involved.

We've got something systematically wrong if the biggest tech companies in the world with all the data and resources either were oblivious to it (seems likely based on their reactions) or were aware of it but kept doing it because it made them money. By all accounts their ad tools actually made this especially easy.

No country, much less one that considers itself a superpower should be willingly letting a foreign nation spread propaganda. That big moat called the Atlantic and all those resources don't matter if you you're gonna let them in the back door. This kind of naivety/ignorance is too common in the power centers of the US. Consider Obama getting outwitted by Putin and Clinton getting beat by an idiot like Trump. Maybe they aren't so clever after all.

That Russia is doing that is annoying, what's offensive is that our leaders allowed it to happen, and what's disturbing is people either acting like it hasn't happened (evidence says otherwise) or just want to shrug it off. It's hard to say how much of the recent domestic unrest is being fueled by it.
So, in typescript a number is unsigned by default? If not, your typescript representation has lost some information compared to the JSON schema example, and would theoretically allow for negative ages.

Additionally, what you've chosen is a very simple example, and even in that case you're having trouble correctly mapping the types to what is expected. What about a slightly more complex one[1]?

{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-06/schema#",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"/": {}
},
"patternProperties": {
"^(/[^/]+)+$": {}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"required": [ "/" ]
}

1: http://json-schema.org/example2.html
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...or 1.5 panes on a different 16:9, or 0.7 panes on a phone screen.

80 character limit sounds like it makes sense for order, but depending on size & eyesight, a lot of the screen may end up wasted.

Personally, I hate nothing more than seeing lines wrapped like
this when reading
emails wrapped to 80 characters per line. This wastes vertical
space, making the
problem even worse.
I was thinking more of gender diversity than racial diversity, though the racial diversity of SV is not great. There are loads of female mathematicians, doctors, civil engineers, writers, journalists, etc. so obviously language and math is not beyond women. Programming is just language and math.