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Speaking of dishwashing and life lessons. When I was in college (20 years ago) and sharing an apartment with 3 colleagues, the guys were leaving their dishes unwashed in the kitchen sink. Initially I washed my own dishes after finising a meal, only to find out the colleagues happily used my clean dishes then let them dirty in the sink. I realized I'm washing them twice: once when picking them dirty from the sink, washing them so I can eat and secondly after I finished eating. So I optimized: only washed them once like all folks do: before eating.

Lesson: when in Rome, do like the Romans.

And P.S: no, you can't argue with the Romans and make 'em wash their dishes after eating.
Yes and no...

Now I help run a vacation rental/holiday rental software company -- so instead we help host people. We provide management/distribution for agencies. The original product was to just focus on a web marketing front-end software (so I suppose a little bit of "hosting" through our SaaS product). I started that business a few years after the above story.
Functional programming not so much- languages like Elixir or JS used functionally don't have this problem generally.
Well, that's not entirely fair. Identifying a difference between an experienced surgeon an inexperienced is not at all the same as assessing skill in some meaningful manner, but could end up being used as such.

While phrenology ended up really far into, or even outside the fringes of science, one could argue that it was "based" on a true fact. A zero volume brain is going to be less useful than a brain with non zero volume. Then some rather brutal extrapolations happened, and the results were both terrible, and disastrous.

I fully believe the risk for a similar repeat of history is very real. Not because science fails us, but because society still posses many of its old weaknesses as clearly shown during the last year or so. As the performance improves, it is becoming more and more likely that we'll have to outlaw functional brain scanning for any non-medical purposes, or it will be somehow co-opted by actors wanting money or power at any price.

I don't think I'm either malignant, or creative enough to figure out how, but someone will, because the tech will become endlessly abusable when it becomes - or seems to be - sofisticated enough.
I forget the policy on HN re: talking about paywalls, but incognito mode got me to the article without problems.
There are already good markets for a lot of ugly produce. They wind up in a lot of prepared foods. Good example - baby carrots. They're not "baby carrots", they're lathed-down cores of regular carrots that had the misfortune of being ugly - crooked, lumpy, or broken. And the stuff that gets shaved off in the lathe? It winds up carrot juice, or stock, or animal feed, or any number of other things.

Another example of reducing waste, though not ugly... one of our local co-ops recently started selling "pulled chicken" fresh in plastic containers, great for making dinner. Where does it come from? Their rotisserie chickens that don't sell by the end of the day. They reduce waste and get a valuable new product. (My daughter was raving about it while cooking dinner the other day - stripping chicken carcasses is one of her least-favorite bits of kitchen labor, and she's happy to be able to buy what someone else did for her already.)
> Stuff like 25km of under sea tunnel leading to a town with sub 2k population is quite a common sight there.

It's not really common. They only have one tunnel that's 24.5km ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tunnels_in_Norway ) and it's not under the sea. The remaining are 10km or shorter.

The longest undersea tunnel is 8.9km and it goes to a city with a population of 8,215. It goes to an entire island though, so a few more people than that benefit.

Your overall point is completely right, but might as well get the facts straight, so people can compare and don't recite wrong information.

Norway doesn't actually show up much on the list of longest tunnels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_tunnels
Affirmative action what?
That's exactly the point, yes. People just have to properly learn the language.
The obvious answer is they don't figure out what went wrong, they tweak the program until the problem goes away for a while.
don't forget gender neutral ones, half man half woman and the ones who feel inside white but have a dark skin. They should not be forgotten too.
I was more thinking about a runtime conversion from a Lisp style AST to RPN primitives rather than a more traditional compiling stuff down to a separate VM - but clearly not something I've thought through in that much detail!
It's not just about safety, but I think that the possibility of not paying attention when you need to is higher with an L2 system than standard cruise control.

Beyond safety, I think L2 accidents (which are already happening) will be VERY bad for the perception of autonomous driving in general, and will make it VERY hard on a regulatory level to get L4+ autonomous cars out on the road when they're finally ready.
Robotic assisted surgery involves the surgeon using an expensive console in the same room as the operation. As others have said, the systems require a fair amount of training to become accustomed to. The training requirement is offset by the additional capabilities that the robot brings that humans do not possess. In particular robotic tools have a larger range of motion than conventional minimally invasive instruments do.
You don't get lawyers knocking on your door some preset time after you get started. You get them knocking on your door when you become big enough to be worth their hourly rate.
It's funny how state regulation is considered liberal policy in the US.
most Americans don't want to do back-breaking manual labor for a living

Nobody from any country wants to do back-breaking manual labor for a living.

But the whole "jobs Americans won't do" is nothing more than a political slogan/talking point.

The reality is that Americans will do any job, provided they are fairly compensated.

More than once, it's been in the news that a factory/food processing plant/etc... has been busted for having illegal workers, paying its workers below minimum wage, or both. A week later, the factory has to hire legal workers and Americans for the previously under-paid jobs, and there's a line around the block of people willing to now work for a fair rate of pay.
Fair point. My particular experience was at Washington Mutual, about 13 years ago, which was not one of the "best large banks" by any objective measure. I left about a year before the collapse while they were still raking in money from shady loans... everyone there thought I was nuts for leaving.
Agreed. Also, the claims for environmental benefits were fake if those were never being thrown out in the first place.
"Our code is self-documenting. If you need documentation then the code isn't written well enough"

-Assholes who don't know what it is like to work with mature code bases.

- People who don't know how to write clean code
But they have a disproportionate impact on mindshare -- on defining what the limited supply of professional scientists and engineers perceive as the most interesting and important problems to solve. This is a zero-sum game: every minute a bright college student spends talking about rockets is a minute that she's not talking about ecology.
The other two marks of existence, emptiness and interconnectedness, are also pretty useful.
Nothing is real except for object impermanence
What happens? Are you asking what the government would do if Amazon gains a monopoly and abuses that power?

If so, there are lots of possibilities, including the break of Amazon into baby-Amazons like AT&T in 1984 or Standard Oil in 1911. They could install overseers like they did when Microsoft was found guilty of abusing their monopoly. It wouldn't be an unprecedented situation.
I think that conversation is actually rather straight forward. You can replace warehouse workers with pretty much any able bodied person in America, and Amazon would operate exactly the same, with no loss in revenue.

Who could you replace Jeff Bezos with? Do you think Amazon could just survive indefinitely without making any major changes and continue to be worth what they are?

AWS alone proves to me he deserves as much as he gets. An eretailer also runs the largest (and pretty much first) cloud computing company in the world. I don't there's a lot of CEOs who would have chosen to branch out in that way, but it's extremely likely that AWS will end up surpassing Amazon itself.

The warehouse workers had no impact on that decision, and that decision is a very, very large reason why they're worth as much as they are today.
"Solo" is also a term used in music and the last name of a popular science fiction character. Should those be changed too?
Because he can't being denied a position which wasn't legally available for him to have in the first place.
Any time I have some repetitive numerical calculation or procedure I am going to want to do multiple times (whether because it's a common task, or I want to try many different inputs in a row), I quickly throw an Excel sheet together for it.
One of the first episodes of radiolab was about this
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/91513-behaves-so-strangely
Is there any requirement in the law that the women on the board actually do anything other than be a member of it? Would anything stop a woman from offering to sit on your board and pinky promise not to vote for $1k a year? Someone could do that with a whole bunch of companies and everybody wins.
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I think the calcified disinterest in some of us comes from being raised in (and eventually leaving) a Western religious and conservative environment.
Depends on your interpretation of "headquartered". The article points out that many companies are headquartered in California, but incorporated in Delaware.
I'm the same way but I think people like us tend to be heavily over-represented on HN and probably represent a small fraction of the total audience. Similarly, I like to watch YouTube videos for specific technical content where the vast majority seems to prefer pop culture and cat videos.

A couple of other personality types / situations to consider:

1) Some people treat learning the way they treat a workout... procrastination is the path of least resistance. So metrics like course completion % 'gamify' it for them to give them the push they need to keep motivated.

2) In the business world, think of the times someone has said 'I'm not trained in that' (or something along those lines, often to try to get out of doing something) and the boss says 'well, go get trained in that.' Course completion is a thing that can be shown to said boss to 'prove' they learned something. While self-learners would tend to keep their mouths shut about not knowing it and say 'sure, no problem' and then go find whatever training materials were needed to learn said thing.
There is a real problem with underrepresentation of women on corporate boards. It's not hard to find talented women
If someone has completed a certification or course, it becomes a potential topic for discussion. It doesn't matter much to me whether they paid for it, if there's proof it was completed (a code repo or documentation could be an alternative to paying for a certificate).

I have certifications that people well below my skill level were also able to achieve, but I know I can speak to the topics much more authoritatively. It's not a binary signal.

I agree that certain industry certifications are more legitimate than most, although I think continuing education falls in a different but partially overlapping area. Nand2Tetris is the first MOOC I have paid for, because it seemed like a very interesting course that's recognized as legitimate by a substantial portion of people with whom I might enjoy working. Paying is also a good motivator to see it to completion.
Is there a legal definition for when transgender people count for legal purposes? I'm genuinely curious here.
I've noticed that with single-question responses such as Amazon's "why are you returning this" drop-down, and it makes total sense there. A consistently random arrangement means that users picking just the top answer will have no more influence on the overall report than random noise. Makes less sense when available answers are the same for each question, such that the user might have mentally cached them to avoid rereading.

However, n=1. The timing might have been coincidental.
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Headlines that make you angry are designed to make you angry. It's not about information that challenges your prejudices, it's about being intentionally provocative. I'm not interested in being baited.
Does that also mean that current all women boards have to include some men?
People are browsing in browsers created by american companies, compiled with compilers created by american companies, running on Operating Systems by american companies.
The easy surface problems (making websites and apps) has indeed started to be tackled by the rest of the world, but the US is clearly the birthplace of all the computing stack.
It's not surprising they are the first to tackle self driving cars.
+1 for using Crystal
Last submission of this news was sunk or flagged by HN moderators within an hour. Let's see if this one lasts.
I am stunned that the FCC is not conditioning the receipt of this money with targets (phased giveaway where completion of one task triggers the next payment) and agreement by the mobile carriers to have their rate plans regulated until this money is repaid.

If you're going to use government money paid to private corporations to do this then the private corporations should pay the government back out of the regulated rates. After that, the infrastructure is paid for, and so long as it's available under the same terms to others, go nuts.
Call me cynical, but I'm not sure this was about achieving anything other than political points. I doubt anyone cared about who they galvanize into disliking this genre of legislation.

Out of all classes who experience unequal representation on corporate boards, why were women chosen as the exclusive beneficiaries of this legislation? My guess is because a lot of the hot button social issues being discussed right now focus on women, thus there's a lot of political capital to be gained if one takes a radical position in favor of women.
This is largely driven by a US government programs and tax laws, which the Op-ed completely ignores: https://www.usda.gov/oce/foodwaste/resources/donations.htm

If those laws need an update, it doesn't seem like a huge deal. There's a lot of support for food assistance programs. I don't see any reason to villainize people trying to reduce food waste.
In a multi billion dollars company, there are many billion dollars pipelines and it's very easy for any single person to break one accidentally.
Being the only female board member sucks. A lot of people would assume this is the reason why you are in the position no matter how capable you are.
This policy is deeply anti-liberal. But “liberal” has lost all meaning in the US and now is synonymous with “Democratic” or “progressive.”

This sucks because us actual liberals are feeling more and more homeless in US politics.
The study I seen that measured successful by drop out rates compared loval paid students with other local paid students.

E.g. They were trying to see whether they save money that way.
That is extremely fascinating. Do you have any insight and/or speculations on why looser networked neurons end up benefiting you rather than harming in your particular case?
I appreciate you for saying that you don't store the text, but the fact that it has been sent, processed, and then returned means that this practice could change any time and I'd never know.

If I were to use this for work-related reasons it would need to live in a more on-prem / secured format where I could ensure this via controls.
That was really helpful, thanks!
Will this mean we'll see job postings in the future that state, "Men need not apply"?
> you're quick to assume bad faith, which would seem to support the first point you quote

I don't think that follows. If you start with "there's no point in good faith" (paraphrase), you can't say that someone taking offense at their approach has proven their point. It doesn't DISPROVE it, and I'm not claiming I have, but it certainly doesn't prove the point, because they themselves weren't doing anything that relies on that point (which is why they used it as justification).

> their suspicion of such a problem might be labeled a "chip on their shoulder" or a "hypothesis"

Suspicion is indeed a hypothesis. Conviction is more "chip on their shoulder". At that point of the document the reader is open to the hypothesis, but has not yet seen any evidence.

> do you think either of those parts is false or is irrelevant to what they're studying?

I think if someone is trying to persuade me, extravagant up-front declarations, name calling, and labels are not the way to establish your credentials as an objective judge. I honestly am in no position to know if their suspicions are false - presumably, someone reading the paper seeking to expand their knowledge would likewise be someone ignorant or at least unconvinced (Why else read it?) Coming across as someone unreliable due to bias is not an effective way to convince that audience - it's a way to build an echo chamber.

That said, I said I wanted to revisit and plan to, once my initial impression has died down to reduce my own bias.
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Fortunately, I think 1.10 is going a long way towards fixing this.
I learned the hard way than using a Macbook Air 11" for 10 hours a day during 1 year was a bad idea. I now have a small myopia and have to wear glasses.
> I hope this doesn’t become a thing

It's useful in that it's another way to find companies you don't want to work for. The whiteboard interview being another signal.
Notice that these "polarizing" and "misleading" sites are all right-wing sites.

Note only do people like that get free money from the Koch Brothers but they make a huge amount of money from ads because the oldster who visit those sites are natural born clickers.
I can't help but feel like this is falling into the trap of Goodhart's Law[1]. While granting that the relationship can be somewhat complex and potentially reinforcing, it feels like this is really primarily treating the symptom and not the cause.

This may be a good proxy for gender equality with regard to economic opportunities; however, forcing it to hit a certain threshold merely makes the measure meaningless without appreciably impacting actual gender equality (this only impacts a vanishingly small percentage of the overall population).

I strongly support efforts to increase gender equality, but I also believe they should be evidence-based and ideally on their face gender neutral (for example: banning gender-based discrimination is neutral, even though it would currently be far more beneficial to women than men).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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I'd like to introduce my new matchmaking service where you can pick female board members in foreign countries. Since board members don't have to be residents, they can skype in. They don't even have to vote. For the low-low-low price of $x a month, I'll pay a part time mom in India or some other country to be your extra board-member.

Anyone want in on a ground-breaking new web 3.0 business? I'll take 90% of the stock, and give you RSUs that you will never be able to redeem because I will sell my unicorn and you'll get nothing.

I'm not sure that is what the law intended. But I can smell money my friends.
Dont be a junior software developer... You'll never get the responsibility you want.
The 'Canadaland' Podcast, a Canadian media criticism podcast, did a fantastic episode on Petersons media strategy. It basically maps how Dr.(?) Peterson exploits his controversial reputation to sell his books.

http://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/canadaland-guide-jorda...

(As a side note, even though its Canada-centric, Canadaland is probably one of best things that has happened to Canadian journalism in a long time. Anyone even remotely interested should give it a listen.)
Dont be a junior developer!
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Frances Arnold received Millennium Technology Prize in 2016 (€1 million) and Draper Prize in 2011 ($500,000). Both can be considered as "Nobel's for Engineering".
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If you compare US cars to EU cars on average then:
- EU cars are much smaller
- hp of engines is much lower

> "skepticism" "It seems obvious"

Pick one please.
Input vs. Output. Does the person talk about how they're going to act more than they actually act? One of the biggest tells for me.
That's just the marketing, AC would have been 7 gbit/s if measured in the same ludicrous 8x8 160 MHz setup (though technically AC only specifies up to 4x4 it doesn't matter, clients are almost exclusively 2x2, even high end laptops). Even in a full greenfield ax deployment it'll be a rare sight to see your phy rate pop above 1 gbit/s half duplex as a client.

Like the parent comment said the actual felt speed gains in a real world situation are going to be from OFDMA allowing concurrent use at slower speeds.
> which wasn't legally available for him to have

That's exactly the problem- you can't create a state law that trumps federal law. The law itself is illegal, it's existence violates gender discrimination laws already.
Uh, the gender the person identifies with. That's all.
Well, a woman can be both gay and of any given race.
According to the bottom of the web page, they have over 2.8 million accounts. That is especially remarkable since an account is usually a company. Basecamp does not charge per user. The price is $99 per month --- although for nonprofits it's 10% off, and for teachers and students it's free.

They don't say how many of the 2,838,046 accounts are discounted or free, but I doubt it's a sizable percentage. For the sake of argument, let us suppose that it brings it all the way down to the equivalent of only 2.5 million full-priced accounts. That's about $3 billion a year.
This may come as a shock but people often have multiple backgrounds.
Electro cars are great, until you start count.
Ok, if Denmark population is about 5.7M and based on aerostat (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...) there're around 500 cars per 1000 citizen. It means country holds ~2.5M cars right now.
In general (based on https://www.worlddata.info/europe/denmark/energy-consumption...) every Denmark's citizen consumes 20kh per day. 1 of 2 citizen has a car. Electro car charging requires 50kh (average electro car consumption). So It means Denmark must increase electric production in 5!!! times. In order just a charge those new 2.5M cars. I'm now talking about infrastructure requirements for this signigficant electric consumption increase, I'm pointing to the basic knowledge (by wikipedia) that around 50% of energy comes from coal and all renewable are less than 5%. COAL! MORE COAL I SAID!
I presume the commenter was asking the author of the project to fix a bug. While the submitter may not have actually been said author, it sure seems like a reasonable request.

And yes, perhaps asking the commenter to contribute is also reasonable, but the tone seems unnecessarily adversarial to me.
Legislation seems like an absolutely terrible venue for a symbolic gesture like this. Unfortunately, you’re probably right that the measure will backfire, ultimately setting the cause back further.

I don’t know what the right answer is to fix the gender imbalance in boardrooms, but lawsuit-bait like SB 826 only serves to further muddy the waters while sacrificing public faith in the legislative process.
It turns out, the risk of terrorist attacks are much lower than some agencies want us to believe.