skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s also a community around a python hpgl library called “chiplotle”:

http://sites.music.columbia.edu/cmc/chiplotle/

They’re involved with plotters as part of interactive art displays.
As a man, I'm clueless on how to help.

The single most powerful thing you can do is engage women as serious professionals.

My biggest frustration is not with the guys who want to talk to me to hit on me. It is with the countless others who will not engage me in a substantive manner for fear of it being misconstrued. They de facto leave me alone with the creeps, trolls and assholes and are, on some level, equally guilty of treating me as nothing but a vagina. It gives far too much weight to my gender and far too little to my education, skills, competence, interests and character.

Whether a man is talking to me solely in hopes of a hookup or avoiding me for fear of offending or something, he is equally guilty of treating me like the single most important thing about me, the thing that drives all social decisions, is what bits are between my legs. This is the essence of sexism.
> This presents an antiquated and naive view of trolling as harmless banter that begs rather than illuminates the question.

It's unclear what you're disagreeing with. Are you disagreeing with my definition of the word "troll"? Or are you accusing me of not thinking trolling is harmful?

Note that I do think trolling is harmful. It's just not "manipulating a presidential election" harmful or "hiding a genocide" harmful. And when you refer to manipulating a presidential election or hiding a genocide as trolling, you're downplaying the gravity of those very serious problems.

> For context, my working definition of trolling is 'malicious shitposting.' Where shitposting is 'posting nonsensical or absurd content for general amusement' trolls do it specifically to rile up people for the entertainment of the troll's peers. This has absolutely become weaponized in recent years and there is a significant overlap with propaganda, like it or not.

Can you point out an example, preferably from the article, where one of the people described was doing this? Were Israeli Defense Forces posting to entertain their peers, or were they posting to affect view of their conflict with Palestinians? Was the Kremlin disrupting Ukranian relief efforts and spreading misinformation for the entertainment of their peers? Do you think that the IDF or the Kremlin were just posting nonsensical or absurd content, or were they posting content carefully crafted to support a narrative? Please explain how either of these so-called-trolls fits your definition.

If you really are concerned about the behaviors you describe as "weaponized", why would you insist on describing them with a word you assume people associate with "harmless banter"? That seems like an inept usage of the English language to achieve your goals. Referring to propaganda as trolling definitely does not communicate the gravity of the problem.
> Most wealthy and successful people I've met are intelligent, confident and likeable people.

This is the wrong metric. Are most intelligent, confident and likeable people wealthy?
I was initially bothered, particularly with the rounded corners. However since the X has nearly the same size display as the plus phones, really the area that is rounded off is just extra pixels. I'm not missing out on anything by having rounded corners, or the notch, rather I am gaining the extra display area over the plus phones. That changed my attitude about it.
That's not true, IBM has way more Ws than Ls over it's history. Now the last few decades, that's a different story I think.
I live in one of these 'more advanced countries'. The system is bad, expensive and has many issues, but that doesn't matter for this discussion. What matters is that in these more advanced countries, for example in the one where I live, it's actually very normal to tell your manager about this so they can plan for that - and then there are no issues on either side.

BTW the paid leave is not paid by the employer, it's paid out of mandatory government insurance.

EDIT: please reply and discuss before downvoting. Downvoting adds nothing to the discussion.
Thanks for taking the time to write such a comprehensive reply - much appreciated. "ML is maths" is something that I'm getting used to now. I do have some real uses in mind for what I'm learning' both in my job and some side projects, particularly image feature recognition, and I'm looking forward so seeing how it all works in out. Thanks again!
That's good, but they should go a step further and stop listening on all addresses by default.
JuliaDB, a package for working with large persistent data sets
We managed to scale the internet from dial-up to broadband without needing any hardcoded bitrate parameters imposed across the whole network. Bitcoin Cash seems to be doing just fine with its 8 megabyte blocks.
I'd use some italic variation, probably. If you insist on something cursive, some form of business writing would probably be better.

Of course, to each their own... (I love penmanship, and I'm fluent in several scripts, but I do my coding in Emacs, thank you very much!)
No other company... like HughesNet, ViaSat, Inmarsat, Intelsat, etc. Maybe you were led astray by this terrible TechCrunch article.
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To add to the list of failed (at least initially) payroll systems, we have New Zealand's Ministry of Education and their Novopay system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novopay

It cost $180mm and was borderline non-functional, and then cost another $40mm to fix to its now functional state.

The same company that did Novopay also did the payroll for NZ Post and had similar issues.
2B$ for a gun registry?
Seriously???
That's a good idea! How do you use your computer/laptop? What about eating? And how long did it take for you to get used to not having furniture?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
Twitter has a CEO??
You can interpret "pyramid-shaped" how you please. The way I interpreted it, was that businesses that are not pyramid schemes per se, nevertheless pay off early investors with later investors' money.

Having a successful public company involves recruiting investors, and being successful in franchising involves recruiting investors.

And, if you have a successful business that is just a family business, maybe you want to sell it at some point...

As I wrote, you can define "pyramid shaped" as you please, but if nothing can be "pyramid shaped" without literally being a "pyramid scheme", then the term "pyramid shaped" has no reason to exist - that violates normal assumptions about reasonable discourse.
Is there any way the link could be changed to the original? https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-finds-a-large...

NASA > Phys.org
Seriously. Ever used internet on an airplane? You're using one of those companies geostationary satellites. The article is ridiculous.
Yes, and the existing agency (the FTC) and the public dealt with them. Worrying about fast and slow lanes is needless.
NN is a solution in search of a problem, and more than likely an excuse to usher in an actual tax on the internet.
Worrying about your megacorporation ISP vs your shady privacy VPN provider is not really a great tradeoff.
This happens any time a company’s pays its employees. The only difference here is that the payment is in equity instead of cash. It’s really not notable.
We aren't sure if we'll have time to build it ourselves (vs finding external contributors to build support and upstream it) but this design should handily address the long-standing requests to wait for async data during SSR. We thought about it.
My meditation practice started with Vipassana meditation:

https://www.dhamma.org/en/about/vipassana

After dabbling for awhile with nothing but a pillow and my psyche, I participated in a 10-day silent meditation program by Dhamma. They do them in many places; they're free -- the food was great, the instruction, and the accommodations were excellent. It was powerful.

Daily meditation is a slow, gradual process. A couple years of consistent practice in most case should result in a noticeable change in perspectives. I enjoy Headspace for the routine but philosophically Andy never gets too deep. That can be good a general audience, but for the intellectual, perhaps not.

I mentioned Ayahuasca; I know this is not everyones cup of tea and hesitate to recommend it to due to the amount of New Age dogma and legal ambiguity that surrounds it. But in my own personal experience, I had something deep, a knot in my spirit that needed to be unwoven.

My Opa (German for Grandfather) was conscripted in WW2, work-camps, forced enlistment, combat, murder, torture, the whole wretched shabang. He escape, to Canada, had a family. He was, as a result of his environments, understandably terrorizing. He suffered. My father suffered. My brother suffered. I suffered. Born into it, like I mentioned.

As a busy etch-a-sketch becomes a clean slate for new art, so did my mind, body, and spirit after Ayahuasca. It was only when that knot had been removed that the tools I had learned through meditation could take me, day by day, into a beautiful new narrative where I am content and fulfilled.

Perhaps you need something to get that knot out. I truly hope that you find it, and give you all my love and empathy, dear stranger.
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> ... things are great for women in high tech.

Why do so many people keep insisting on believing that the problem is specific to the technology fields? Women face these kind of problems everywhere that they have to interact with men.
Reaction to your edit with a cyclist, I have no idea how that relates to this case. That's an accident, something that no one knew will happen, and everyone understands that. On the other hand it doesn't seem nice to purposefully not tell someone information that might be extremely important to them and might even mean if they do or do not lose their business.
I can literally do that with my DigitalOcean droplet. I can destroy the instance and run a bash script to provision a new, identical machine in around 3 minutes.

It’s a lot of hard work to get every little detail working automatically. Probably 10x as much as just manually setting things up from scratch. But in the long-term it can pay off.
The study does not demonstrate what the headline claims.

The study shows that a simulation where randomness plays a major role can produce similar wealth distribution to what's observed in the world. But that doesn't rule out a more deterministic mechanism.
If you dump a bunch of people into the low end of income pool it's going to move the distribution curve.
Seb explains the reason here https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/7942#issuecomment-2...
Same issues as IRC are same ones XMPP suffers from... Decentralisation becomes confusing and the benefits are not obvious to regular end users. They just want to be on one network and download the "app" for that network. Slack and Discord fulfill these roles. IRC and XMPP have a dozen clients and no default server to join. I still think a well intentioned IRC client could do wonders for IRC.
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak

> US$100 million

That's good enough for me.
Well I can tell you a story about the other end of spectrum for self-reinforcing thoughts.

I don't know if you have a social anxiety but after an embarrassing social incident you ruminate on your behaviour right? Well take that to its ultimate level and you are constantly being possessed with thoughts about not thinking about a thought that is driving you insane.

Just a small idea of the feedback loop: think about a thought. Now try not to think about it. Well you probably can do it but think that you are so anxious that you actually cannot do it. And the act of thinking about it makes you anxious so there's really no way of exiting the loop. Anxiety makes you anxious so to say and you feel fear so terrible that it makes fear you even more. You wake up thinking about it and you fall asleep.

Yeah it might not sound relatable but were you to discover the feeling that I mean. Oh boy. There exists emotions inside of us so terrible that you'd wish no human would have to discover. What cured it or well stopped the loop was distracting myself long enough for the anxiety to dissipate and not to remember the feeling (and therefore not to reinforce it). If there was a similar way to do it but for a happy thought I'd be all for it.
My take is and has been for a long time that the right solution is something like a key/value store on the backend + a SQLite4-style frontend, with a Lustre-style lock manage co-located with the k/v backend, and key/value pairs distributed by key ranges. This is... a lot like Spanner I think, though I don't know if Spanner uses a DLM like Lustre or if it does something else for synchronization.

This way you get the scalability benefits of a key/value store with all the benefits of a SQL, and you get always-consistent, and even ACID semantics (depending on how many failures there are at once and how many you design to).

EDIT: Oh, and check out https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/ .
Neat idea! You could use the npm package serverless to make it easier to deploy. If you don't like the node dependency, you could include a Cloudformation template that takes the github token & location of the lambda zip and does the iam/sns stuff.
If you would take a look at bay area, it's a very good example of what happens when you give a lot of people bigger income - rent, housing and prices will automatically go up and net average would be the same.

I don't understand why people are pushing for redistribution of income rather than redistribution of goods like we pretty much did with utilities, public transport and, to a certain degree, internet.
> What message do you think he sends to women? What messages does he send men about women?

20% of his audience is women, and that's not a small number, so it's probably better to ask one of them. He relays a lot of science about statistical sex differences, none of which has really been controversial in 40 years (in his own professional field) until recently becoming politicized. Just coming from the point of view that this is the reality you need to navigate.

Another message he sends is to be a lot more careful and respectful about sexual relationships than current social norms suggest.

> Does he argue that the dominance of men in society (in the sense that the small group of people with power are mostly men) is natural and thus acceptable?

In his own words, no, he is not saying that at all. :) He explains his position here pretty well in the Cathy Newman interview. It's much more nuanced than the common caricatures of him are.
I don't think the tech industry can really change unless it makes gender balance a priority.

How many tech CEOs will stand up and say: "I have an 80% (or 90% or a 100%) male tech team because there are not enough qualified women to achieve gender balance."

No CEO will be caught dead saying that explicitly but they are saying it implicitly every single day with how they are staffing their companies.

From reading HN it seems like a large percentage of people here believe that the gender gap is due to a qualifications gap and they might dump on people like James Damore for being dumb enough to say it in public but most of them believe it and the way they act shows it.

The bottom line is that if you are not achieving gender balance on your teams what you are telling women and what you are telling the world is that you believe men are superior to women and that women are not qualified for these jobs.

Actions speak louder than words and as long as the actions of companies and individuals reflect this attitude no amount of words is going to change anything.

Achieving gender balance in tech is possible and is only a matter of choice.

There are more than enough qualified women to fill tech jobs in roughly equal proportion with men.

It doesn't happen because (among other reasons):

1) The people doing the hiring are overwhelmingly men and set rules and standards for hiring that discriminate against women

2) Companies believe that young men are more profitable employees and so they do nothing to seriously discourage discrimination

Unless this changes the experience of women in tech will be a negative one.

All a woman has to do to know that she is undervalued and seen as an inferior is walk into a company that has a overwhelmingly male tech team and that is most of them.
Visualizing Russian US Election Trolling on Twitter
> what happened in Ukraine

Unprovoked military invasion, and forceful annexation of territory, that’s what happened.

> just like asking Ukraine to join EU/NATO

No one has asked Ukraine to join NATO, because Ukrainians were strongly against it. Before Russian invasion, Ukrainians was slightly pro-EU, and strongly against NATO, i.e. 20% for, 65% against.

The public opinion has changing as the result of the ongoing war. Now in Ukraine 60-75% are for NATO, and just 10-25% against.

P.S. Even here in Montenegro, the annexation of Crimea has changed public opinion towards NATO, less dramatically but enough to make it a majority. We joined NATO in 2017.
Agreed.

And in many cases the relationships we co-create when wounded are co-dependent and so those "worriers" who view emotions as a burden ultimately can't help us anyway -- if they haven't made peace with their own despair, for example, they will never be able to make room for us and will only amplify the pain.

Once we take responsibility for our own pain, we are less drawn to hide out taking responsibility for others instead of dealing with our own. And that allows us to lovingly empower others to take responsibility for their pain as well.

Of course, we can model what that looks like, we can help them feel pain that they are afraid to touch, but once we show them it's safe to hold, they will reorient towards it quite organically in my experience.
I'm personally really interested in living in spain for a while, I already speak spanish and only need 2 years to got citizenship due to living in iber-america. How hard do you think it is to get a job in spain?
Yes, but I have a tool for making images on my computer, too.

The handwritten bound notebook cannot be searched, diff'ed, or versioned. It is strictly inferior to the plaintext file in most ways that are in any way relevant to writing software.

Its nemesis, of course, is and has always been the mathematical equation, whose notations confound the plaintext writer at every turn. For those, you can write it to an image, or use LaTeX or MathML.
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It's that 80/20 rule... I'm sure Canada saw monotonic progress in their payroll system over the last 10 years, too. But with cars, the 20 can kill, not just screw up paychecks.
No, the copy is generally done every time. In-place writes cause all kinds of problems with atomicity, ordering, torn writes, etc. Also, for ZFS/btrfs/bcachefs style filesystems the pointer contains a checksum of the block and thus it needs to be updated on every write.
the bug is still there. 2.3 can still crash after creating a new entry and reedit the password. I will try to reproduce the error with a new kdbx and report the bug.
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> Ironically, it's when we heal ourselves that we can actually be of the highest service to those who are hurting.

Beautifully said. After creating my own healing, I feel compelled to give back in some way. Anytime I see a thread like this, it's a reminder how much work there is to do.