skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What this company is doing, trying to change attitudes early in life, seems like it has a much bigger net positive impact than going out of their way to hire female devs.
Calling women "girls" is more patronizing than looking for qualified candidates.
Anna paper itself says that Cassandra and Scylla are Linearizable per-key. Yes, obviously Scylla is not ACID, sorry for my loose usage of this term. I was referring to durability, i. e. "D" from ACID.
You don't seem to understand that terms like "toxic" are as arbitrary and subject to abuse as the word "obscene".

In fact, I'm not even sure as to what you're getting at. Are you seriously suggesting that what is toxic is somehow universal?

It does not bother you that dozens of serious contemporary, controversial topics, with severe consequences for our society, are regularly censored on websites like reddit under the guise of so called toxicity?

You aren't bothered by such vague conceptions of offensiveness being used by corporate giants to push their narrative at the expense of others? Of the danger of self-censoring group think on community moderated boards?
It's not so much that they're afraid of it, it's that changing syntax imposes a mental tax on them for no reason. Once you've been programming in a language for more than a few months, you no longer think in terms of tokens. Rather, your muscle memory now has constructs for "This is what a variable binding looks like. This is what a for-each loop looks like. This is what a method call looks like," and you can just think in terms of the desired semantics rather than how to type that into an editor.

A language with a new and unfamiliar syntax requires that you unlearn all these key-bindings and start thinking on the level of tokens again. It's understandable that given the choice, people who have already graduated from this stage would rather not repeat it.
It’s doubly hard when you are outside the “tech” hotspots. Any competent female is usually snapped up by the larger players often with relocation costs and a salary that is impossible to match. So long as ther is a minority of females in the industry this is going to be an issue.

I must confess in some ways to being jealous of the attention that females get in the industry. It worries me because I would like there to be as many camps and the like aimed at all children including my son and not just girls. Hopefully in time the gender imbalance will be corrected. People will probable hate me for saying that but I have a feeling I’m not alone in feeling like this.
"How else do you expect to get gender parity?"

If women aren't interested in the job, you've already got gender parity. Women are moral agents and can make decisions too, you know. This is also why no one is complaining about the lack of gender parity in sanitation services.
Your observation is shared by hosts of the ATP podcast.

Bug fixes do sell when paired with minor development, major impact features. Push the load to a couple of built-in apps to make them more smooth and focus on under-the-hood stuff.

The press will praise that as the best thing since sliced bread - a modern, polished and stable OS release.

Of course this would be a one-off thing and we'll get another major release with features, features, features!
I believe that they're in possession of Ayesha. Stephon Alexander credits her in his 2016 book for one of these images.
Interestingly a one time pad may be crackable. Its theoretical uncrackability is only true if a truly random number generator is used. Most cryptography is fine with urandom but a one time pad requires using something like radioactive decay to generate your pad.

This is one reason (among many) why it's impractical for most crypto purposes.
Learning new things is hard.
After reading up on it I'm so glad the implementation is transparent and I don't have to deal with it, but I'm also really dissatisfied with the discrete and imperfect nature of lookup tables and perceived brightness approximations.
So you want to lower your standards based on someone's gender alone just to check a box? Seems like a bad idea to me.
I remember math lectures from my studies. There were ~400 students and <10 females among them. Good luck hiring female engineers, if you find one.
To me that doesn't make any sense. If it is in the vested interest of a congressman to maintain the convention of gerrymandering then any action to the contrary is equally unlikely. A constitutional amendment is the least likely scenario since it requires majority support of the congress as well the senate and states.

If you cannot expect congress to act in the peoples' interest the only viable solution is through federal court action. In the mean time, since I am in fantasy land (as you call it), I will prefer practical solutions no matter how improbable in the real world over constitutional amendment which is even more imaginary.

Also there is no reason to expect increased seats in congress will have any effect upon gerrymandering and may even make it substantially worse. It certainly won't make law making more efficient.
PHP has an execution model that's /really/ bad for per-process requests. Even attempting to grab the parent pid is probably not sufficient as you can have execution contexts with no parent (ex: running php from cron).

On linux you can get the master process through posix-getppid (http://php.net/manual/en/function.posix-getppid.php) but this won't work on windows and has the same limitations as above.

Have you thought about having a linux daemon/agent that runs in the background and keeps the ENV in sync?
Pissing of people is not a problem. Pissing of _customers_ is a problem, especially customers who have a choice.

Contrast e.g. Equifax, Comcast, SAP, etc, who've pissed of plenty of people with little consequences.
I think what the author of the article meant to say was "hire" not "recruit". In that case, that line is absolutely valid.
Agree with all the comments here about how the actual statistic here shouldn't lead one to the conclusion that it may on the surface. But... Every time I've visited a big city of the last few years, "Uber" has been the verb for just grabbing a ride-share. My last 2 visits to a big city over the law few months, "Lyft" has been the go-to that people talk about. I'm pretty sure the tide is shifting in Lyft's favor, this specific statistic and its flaws aside.
I think moduspol was being sarcastic.
Why We Don’t Employ Female Developers

I will suggest that at least part of why no woman has ever applied is because your messaging sucks. This title is a terrible title that conveys that you choose to exclude women. This may not have been your intention, but that is what it signals. It sounds like you exclude them intentionally and you wrote this piece to justify it.

If you meant "We currently don't have a single female developer and we would like to see this change," well, you should have titled it that way.

People make decisions based as much on subtext, context, etc as on overt messaging. This is a UK company, but it sounds to my ear like it was written by someone who speaks English as a second language and doesn't grasp subtle differences that native speakers should grasp. I have no idea why that is.

But this article is rife with problematic language that suggests you don't want women developers and you feel entitled to exclude them. This is likely (at least part of) the reason not a single female developer has ever applied.
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Why would you want parity? And your have to force women into fields they don't want in order to get it, just so you can balance your little scale. Whether or not someone is female isn't a particularly interesting aspect of their personality of software development skill. If your company has way below or above the industry average then there's pribably some unfair bias going on, but having women (or any other categorisation du jour) just to tick a box is absurd.
Yet another reason to not fly through the US
> It should be important to specifically source and hire women.

I read this that you believe that an applicant's genitals or gender identity ought to be a positive qualification for employment. Am I reading you correctly/charitably?
Widespread totalitarianism is also relatively new. Until the last few centuries, most governments were far too decentralized to really call them totalitarian.
That is a big assumption to make
On the equivalence of modalities in machine learning
Why do we think we'll succeed at "detoxifying" the internet? To me it seems like wanting everyone to say things that don't differ from what everyone else says. That doesn't happen off the internet.

Off the internet, most people interact with those who are more or less like themselves, so there's less chance of disagreement. For anyone who differs significantly from you, you hold back your real thoughts and/or stew silently. We just have to accept that echo chambers are an inevitability on the internet with censorship and moderation, and discontent is an inevitability otherwise.

If people knew how to talk diplomatically or to get along, this wouldn't be a problem in the first place. Maybe that's something that can be taught, but it's not a problem that gets fixed on the internet, or is a problem caused by the internet- fix it at home; this may also take care of the trolling problem.
> We don’t employ any female website developers at 10 Degrees. There’s one very simple reason for that: we’ve never had any women apply for our developer vacancies. Not one.

> We know from industry networking that there are many female web developers out there

Maybe their job adverts are inadvertently radiating “nope” signals?

Just from looking at their site, they don't actually seem to be hiring at all. There's a casual “hey, maybe contact us if you want a job!”, but that's only gonna attract the Dunning-Kruger Dudes. (Men are disproportionately conditioned to be over-confident, because boys are rewarded for being noisy and cheeky.)

So I suppose if this is how they do hiring, that would explain why they're only getting men applying for their development jobs.
The dark capacity is dynamically scaled throughout the day to handle anticipated failover needs. Depending on the region and time of day, the live, dark (and total) usage increases and decreases. When not being used for live or dark capacity, the resources are utilized for other tasks.
Were these engineering math (DEs, linear algebra) or actual math classes (Real Analysis, Number Theory, etc...)

The ratio in my studies 10 years ago was much, much better in math degree courses than engineering courses.
Anecdotally I haven't found this HN-wide negative sentiment of Uber (and narrative of its decline) to be shared anywhere else in the US.

My extended family in the southeast and northeast US is familiar with Uber (without using it), but they haven't heard of Lyft. When I lived in Chicago, most of my peers had Lyft, but Uber was the always the first choice.

Does anyone else see the same trend? The bay area certainly seems to be Lyft-dominant, but I haven't seen that anywhere else.
Suppose this were an individual's own blog post:

"I was a racist prior to the 70s. Here's some articles where I show clear racism from that time. In the 70s I had a change of heart. Here's some articles from the 2000s where I clearly show that I am no longer a racist, but in fact the opposite of a racist."

This would not be an apology, because it doesn't stop at showing one's previous racism. It continues on to try to give evidence of current virtue as if that were a remedy for past racism. However, the real problems generated by racism are not cured by changing your position on race.

The NG article puts this in the proper context of intention:

>But when we decided to devote our April magazine to the topic of race, we thought we should examine our own history before turning our reportorial gaze to others.

Do they mean they are going to expose other magazines as being racist? While that might be historically interesting, it doesn't seem remotely professional. If they are planning to publish such exposes, then the current article is clearly an attempt to preempt the natural claims that NG was racist too.
Source with visas if need be. The majority of female engineers I've worked with have been from China, India, and Eastern Europe. For whatever reason women from those areas seem to be represented much more in engineering.
I read the article and obviously it describes in detail why they have no females developers employed, but... considering how many people don't RTFA these days, they really should have chosen a different headline. At least from a PR perspective.
I'm pretty sure ohf was talking about cultivating career ambitions in school girls. Yes, they are girls.
This is an insightful analogy.

To stretch it a bit, I'd say there's an important difference between a fire door and reddit. The fire door knows its job is to prevent people burning to death. Reddit... does it know it's job is to prevent outraged reaction?

I think this is one of the things that made facebook so problematic on politics, it can't tell the the good likes, comments and shares from the bad ones. I'm not sure they really had a concept of better and worse. Some stuff isn't allowed, but otherwise?

Imagine one post, where Mrs X invites neighbors to meet a local candidate at her house for revolutionary thoughts and biscuits. Another post, where Ms Y rants about Macron voters, Trump, taxes and kids these days. Both are political. One is actually democratic and participatory. The other is cheap, nasty, unproductive and divisive. Does Facebook, in any meaningful sense, value one over the other? Does reddit?

Reddit has its non-censorship values. I respect that. It's important that someone does. I also think they want to house the weird, and I respect that too. But, I think unrestricted speech may be an insufficient value, like nondiscrimination or atheism. It's not enough to build on. You need positive values too.

Free speech is also problematic, when taken as 'all speech is equal.'
Yeah that title is comically bad - it makes me wonder if it was intentionally bad to be controversial? Either way surprising that nobody noticed this before publishing it.
I'm unfamiliar with this aspect of Netflix.
What a flamebait title. Sure, don't hire someone just because they're a woman. Consider each candidate based on their merits. Etc, etc. But if you look at your hiring funnel and it's entirely men, something needs to change. Hard to consider the merit of women engineers if you don't have any women whose merit you can consider.
Sticks and stones can’t break my bones but words make me cry in the fetal position.
AI's small wins in healthcare start to overshadow its public failures
I don't think that the line is very long between "obsession" and "passion", as, from my point of view, I see obsession as some extreme form of passion.

Still, that's a fair point.
That's true, and a good point. And if someone tried to organize a movement to resist capricious border treatment, I think that would be laudable.

I'm less sure about an individual reading that advice and swearing at a border guard. Both Ghandi and MLK used mass resistance to achieve their ends.
The title is meant to be provocative clickbait. Most women I know will have the ability to choose jobs without being put off by "messaging" just as well as anyone else.
It's one thing to argue that an investment is a bad one. It's quite another to say that limited voting rights mean you're "getting nothing in exchange for your money". I don't think you've adressed that claim at all... So what's your point?
If Obama won the Peace Prize simply for not being Bush, I can't wait to see what Trump's successor gets bestowed upon them.
I'm pretty sure triggering folks like you is exactly what the author intended with the title. It's a statement meant to invoke an emotional response that gets your guard up so you can (hopefully) see the error in your thought processes once reading through the article.
Question, if assuming a multiverse to explain the exactness of the cosmological constant is a defensible position, is there any reason not to consider the deist view and say the universe was created with the cosmological constant needed for life to form as an equally likely outcome?
You can easily put a square or a rectangular utility cover into the hole, because the length of the side is less than the diagonal. This isn't possible with a circular cover because the diameter is uniform.
Correct. You can't just sit back and hope for better results without actively doing a lot to fix it.

My current company (not speaking as an official representative of them of course) is actively working to hire women, non-binary people and poc, especially to the devteam. We aren't there yet at 50% non-men; but we're actively trying.

We're sponsoring conferences, having people speak and doing a lot of active outreach. We also have great benefits and work is pretty flexible and understanding of family needs.
Yep, I've never used Uber because of the issues I've read about, admittedly I'm not the most informed person ever, just my experience.
Is it patronizing even if we also call men boys? And can you explain why?
Good points in your comment, I'd probably use the words impulsive vs. self-controlled (instead of reactive/proactive).

Asking people to build user-interfaces that promote self-control seems a bit naive though. There's a reason self-control is identified as one of the primary "fruits" of a Christian life (Galatians 5:22-23), since it's exactly the opposite of default human behavior.
I think they did actually mean “girls” — we need more kids tinkering with tech and wanting a career in it.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. If there are no women in your hiring pipeline then you're either not reaching women candidates or not an appealing place for them to work. You need to change something about your hiring process to get those candidates to apply.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't improve the other end of this as well, getting more women / girls into coding. Both are important.
Three suggestions:

1. Create an outline of all of the key points you want to bring up to the person you'll be speaking with on the phone. The outline can be as detailed or as sparse as you feel you need, but having something to use as a checklist of sorts, along with any additional details that are pertinent to the conversation, will help give you a boost when it comes to stumbling over your words. And really go over your outline, because familiarity with what you're speaking about will help you instill confidence within yourself, which will help you sound "smooth."

2. Work on leading the conversation without dominating it. There's a fine line there, but with time and practice you'll get get the hang of it. Your main goal here is to keep the conversation focused by sticking to your outline. This will help remove any awkward pauses.

3. Smile when you're speaking. Most people sound friendlier when they smile when they talk, even if you're not sitting in front of the other person.

Hope this helps!
I smoke cannabis and drink red wine am not overweight. Don't really exercise. Cannabis definitely helps alleviate built up stress.
I get the sense they wanted a shocking headline to draw attention. I take it as a shrewd move to hook people with their outrage-instinct and then get them to read 4 pages of non-controversial stuff.
I imagine there might be some circular hiring here too where if the founders are if similar cultural backgrounds, they might know people or groups that share a similar identity and reach out there when looking to hire. A homogeneous company is easy to achieve when it's small and growing fast if the initial hires aren't in connection with a diverse group that is signed with their business needs.

Similarly, if I'm evaluating a company and meet a group of ten people that seem like they have a lot in common with each other but less with me, I might see that as an opportunity to be unique or I might see that as isolating which could perpetuate the current homogeneous hiring.
I haven't read any of these, so I can only answer indirectly. All the other Packt books I've seen have been mostly crap. Badly written, poorly edited, not really worth your time.
(elsewhere in the thread)

Why do people jump to the conclusion that "specifically recruiting women" = "lowering standards". It is actually a logical fallacy.

Suppose you wanted turkeys at least 10kg in weight. Suppose that there are only wild turkeys, either white or gray, with a 90/10 population white/gray.

Well, since you need to find and catch turkeys, it turns out that catching white turkeys is easier just because they are easier to see! So you end up with 10 big fat white turkeys and no gray turkeys at all. Are gray turkeys slimmer on average? Worse? Different distribution? No. They are just harder to find.

After a while, all the big fat white turkeys are gone, because everyone is grabbing them up.

But hey there's whole population of big fat gray turkeys that you _can't even see_.

This is why it is rational to specifically recruit women.

Even from a purely self-interested point of view, it's an untapped market. It'd be stupid not to recruit women. In fact, not hiring women would mean that you eventually have to lower your standards _for men_.
The magic (and maths) of skating on thin ice without falling in
I don't think a small business like this has the funds on hand to hire someone from overseas just to meet some arbitrary gender metric.
That is odd ratio for math where did you study? It sounds even worst then CS gender ratio, which is super odd.

Then again, math is not development and they have little in common. (Speaking as female developer who always liked math.)
Hi there. I previously posted an essay on machine learning in this forum, this essay is an expansion of some of the discussions from that earlier post, with a closing science fiction section as a fun creative experiment.
I don't think T being infinite is a problem, you only need a cell, which is fin(it)e. But I don't like the argument with the halting problem: If you assume the halting problem as a given, it's trivial to show that there are uncomputable functions. Busy Beaver.

The halting problem follows from this automatically: The function gen_f cannot be correct and complete. On the other hand, if you could construct a function which solves the halting problem, you could, with that, construct gen_f to be correct and complete. So you cannot solve the halting problem.

Follow up question: Is the definition of T actually good enough? It's an infinite set, so are we sure that we can order the functions? Or do we need the axiom of choice somewhere?
Physically, gamma died with the CRT, but every LCD recreates it for compatibility.
Why? The problem is clearly not lack of hiring of female devs. It's lack of existence of female devs.
You're right; I kind of left that out since it's not (currently) possible to have a bare `str` anyway and there are more ways to work with one than just `&str` (`Cow<str>`, `Box<str>`, `Rc<str>`, etc).
What are your thoughts on requiring or at least encouraging verified accounts - somehow putting a verified name behind the poster?
It wouldn't violate thermodynamics in any meaningful way unless you could actually use that increased energy to produce work.

Every formulation of thermodynamics I was able to find is specifically about deriving work from differences in energy.
I'd like to see what impact posting limits would have. For instance, let every user make 2 submissions and 10 comments in a month. One of the issues on every forum is that it takes a lot less time to make a ton of low effort comments than it does to make one thoughtful post. Another is that a small minority end up making the vast majority of the posts (even when that minority is well intentioned).