skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't. Seems to me that the author is cashing in on his ability to fear-monger rather than providing something of substantial value.
So what do you do now? Btw some men in tech are also over 35 and tired of hiring rituals.
While it is not perfect, the other examples have been shown to basically be fraudulent. Different levels of flawed.
Good job supporting artists!

I bet they really care about about the software license for the source code for the store you buy their music from...

Maybe try just enjoying music for musics sake and not thinking about where it comes from to much, you might enjoy it!
> Among U.S. progressives, the complexity of sex differences seems to very important

The problem is that (some) progressives tend to have the extreme opinion that all differences are due to societal influence, the so-called blank slate theory.
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> By contrast, TSMC’s second-generation 7 nm manufacturing technology (CLN7FF+, N7+) will use extreme ultraviolet lithography for four non-critical layers

As in, "like everyone else, we haven't really figured out EUV shot noise yet".

Nice marketing though, lolz.
Not if you want mouse support for Vim or descent font support.
The article never mentions what form of supervision Amazon used for building this model.

I can easily see a bias towards a particular gender arising, even when a team had intentions to do, simply because of how the data is selected.

________

Case 1 : They used similarity statistics between candidates that were hired and applicants.

This is the easy one. No need to label datasets. The approach is semi-supervised.
It will also 100% cause a bias towards employees with similar profiles as those already working at Amazon. (ie. men)

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Case 2 : They manually labelled/ranked a dataset of resumes and assigned them scores. (more likely)

Here the implicit bias of the mechanical turks / rubric would be visible. If higher scores were assigned to traditionally masculine activities, then male resumes would stand out.
I doubt this was the case though, as people at Amazon are generally competent enough to not make such a trivial mistake. Also, gender only gets mentioned in non-technical skills (mean's team, women's club, etc), which in general are not the most relevant part of the profile anyways.

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Speculation:

1.

> Instead, the technology favored candidates who described themselves using verbs more commonly found on male engineers’ resumes, such as “executed” and “captured,” one person said.

I wonder if this has anything to do with gender at all. All good resumes that I've read use action words irrespective of gender. Maybe type A personalities use words like "captured" more often than type B ones, and the % of men in type A categories are greater. Would discrimination against women in such a case be unfair ?....Maybe.....Maybe not.

2.

Extracurricular activities are more prominent on weaker resumes than stronger ones. So, the model may be weighing down resumes with too much extracurricular fluff vs technical skills.
Men's activities are rarely prefaced with the word "men" in it. (they would just say Football team, Chess team). Women's activities on the other hand, always have the word "women" attached to it. If the extracurricular activities were penalized, then the words inside of them, including "women" would also be penalized. Thus, the model learns a latent gender bias without any bad intentions.

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In ML, one of my favorite statements is : "The model is only as good as the data it is trained on."
If the data is not sufficient, rich enough or prepared in the correct manner, then unintended consequences are nearly guaranteed.
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Thanks for posting this. Its crazy how I've noticed the difference at work when I worked out in the morning compared to the days that I skipped the gym. Doing 15 mins on the stair climber seems to put me in a positive mood/pattern for the day.
> And that's where hands come up empty.

Except they're not, they're only empty if you haven't done any reading in this field.

> That leads to nonsense like the person on this thread who said women are "wired differently", which presumably makes them less suitable.

That was your supposition, not the only intepretation of those words. In fact, the weight of the evidence seems to support his statement, but similar to Damore, people like you are just fond of attacking reactionary strawman interpretations of the words actually employed.

> Which is just a polite way of saying women are too dumb to program, without facing the reality that that's exactly it means.

No it's not. "Wired differently" can mean many things, only one of which refers to competence.
Ideally the school offers no facilities so the students don’t need to pay anything /s

That was the upshot of the second paragraph of my post - in Canada, students don’t pay an absurd amount, so it’s not really a problem.
"One of the societal ills of the 21st century is that we're running out of big clear cut things to rebel against but are continuing to rebel with the same intensity while directing it somewhat aimlessly all over the place, and now mostly just at each other's rebellion itself."

Yeah but the key phrase is clear cut. We have plenty of big institutions and one can see them do terrible things. It's just they fade into each and so challenging a single one becomes a dubious interest. Health care is a mess but blaming say, insurance companies in particular, is problematic. The environment and global warming are huge problems but blaming single institutions misses the point, etc.

Moreover, large institutions are adept at harnessing issues-as-social-signal and directing them according to their interests. One can fight all this but such a fight doesn't follow the path of least resistance. And boy, are people trained, today, to follow that path, whether in rebellion or conformity.
> If the article is supposed to be an _unbiased_ comparison between cloud hosted Kubernetes providers, I'd say it's a bit of a fail. For some it would be completely different experience because they have experience with Microsoft technologies. And those people might as well quit if their company moves to AWS or a non-Azure platform.

Azure services can be flaky, and slow, and the "blades" UI is a bold design choice that doesn't really work in practice. No amount of experience with Microsoft technologies can help you with those problems, unfortunately.
Even when maintainers are super nice, it's work to get a patch into an acceptable state for a project, and at least to a certain extent it's not clear why that work should always fall on the person who's making the patch for themselves.

If a forked repo solves a problem and keeps it Open Source and available, and their solution genuinely is good and useful for the community, then there's nothing to prevent the original repo from pulling their code and reformatting it or adding tests. Upstream maintainers are totally free to go downstream looking for patches. They don't need to ask anyone's permission or convince somebody else to make a pull request. Just copy the code upstream if you care about it.

I've done this in the past with public projects -- fixed a problem, left a quick note on the original repo saying, "hey, I have solution but it's just for me. You're welcome to adapt it if you think it's worthwhile." I've also done the opposite and worked really hard to get something accepted. I've also walked the middle line, where I coordinated with upstream to contribute to an official API, but at the same time made it clear that my downstream fork was going to diverge and stay specific to my use-case.

It's nice for patches to get merged back upstream, and it's nice for patch writers to put in the effort to do so, but part of the point of Open Source is you don't need to wait for that to happen.

I have no qualms whatsoever about maintaining a personal fork of someone else's software. If I'm patching something to solve one of my problems, I'm going to search for a solution that solves it as specifically and narrowly as possible. I'm not going to worry about what your coding style is or what you'd like the API to look like. Then once my problem is solved, if I have time, I'll think about broadening it or altering it to fit with the overall community.

But that's a separate step that doesn't have to be specifically my chore. Anybody can do it.
Is the die mask one of the biggest challenges for the 5/7 nm chips? I would of assumed it would of been the uniformity of the wafer process.
> It's absurd to think that there would be no gender-related neurological differences

Surprisingly enough, that's a widely accepted hypothesis in sociology.
The obvious question is whether that actually matters all that much for securities, since the broker/exchange adds negligible risk and overhead for the buyer relative to the trust in the public company needed to buy a stake in it and the costs of meeting regulatory requirements for public companies.

Anybody who's more worried by the potential complications of T+2 settlement when purchasing blue chip stocks than the Wild West world of ICOs shouldn't be investing.
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Can you point me to a blog where a well know surgeon pushes the medical community to use some novel techniques he devised and supposedly uses but that have not been peer reviewed at least once?
Are you thinking that "pirate" is a dysphemism dreamed up by industry propagandists? The first software pirates named themselves that. The industry would rather call them "thieves" or "criminals," something with less of a quaint, romantic feel in the modern day.
Brand impact: If you think you use SSL/TLS certificates from "Thawte", "GeoTrust" or "Verisign" those are all Symantec. You need to pay attention and go read instructions from your reseller or issuer to find out what you need to do. Do it today.

In a few cases your systems might desperately care about those magic brand names, and DigiCert (who now own all these brands) can sort you out if this is the case. In most cases you don't need to worry, just follow instructions.
In my opinion, because women have less need for high salaries, and also because women might more often be socially able to become teachers, compared to men. Also, women and men are different and have different preferences on average.

There is also the aspect that teaching is much less technically demanding.

What makes you so sure it is discrimination? If it was discrimination, why don't these women just found all-women companies?
The president always has the option to dismiss any of his cabinet secretaries, so it's not really a breakdown of the democratic order.

On the scale of the presidency not carrying out some particular bombing raid is like some minion in an office setting not complying with an order from his boss because he knows it's the right thing. You're somewhat risking your job, and if the boss really cared he could get it done with or without your malicious non-compliance.
I agree, there will be many other factors, like fine motor reaction time, and the most important is probably being able to outguess one's opponent. But a small gender-specific edge could well be sufficient to make the top ranks homogeneous.

I don't know that it would apply to all sports. For soccer, more inertia and bigger muscles at play might mean that that edge is insignificant.
Linux has won the server and HPC room war, there are many other kinds of deployments.

On mobile there is iOS and regarding ChromeOS and Android it is only an implementation detail, lets see where it goes if Google is serious about Fuchsia.

On game consoles we have a modified BSD on PS, Windows variant on XBox and Nintendo's own microkernel.

Then on IoT space BSD licensed OSes like mbed, Zephyr and RTOS are on the rise.

And then there is the whole mainframe and high integrity computing domains.
I personally stick with plain old argparse for 90% of my command line python apps, but when I need something with more utility/higher abstractions I reach for Click as the author mentions. Click is in a sweet spot in my opinion.

A new package that is interesting is Nubia, by Facebook. You can create interactive shells or use it as a traditional CLI. However, it currently supports only python 3.6/7, I believe, and getting started with it could be challenging as there currently aren't complete docs. The source code is fairly easy to read, however, and it's intuitive after a point.
Using an invention to create a product is a way (maybe the most popular way) of making the invention public knowledge.

The dream of licensing is not a perversion of the patent system, it's part of the point: to get inventions out of people's heads and secret workshops, and into forms that benefit the public at large.
I've never heard of a code formatter called a "syntax beautifier" before. The phrase "syntax beautifier" sounds more like a compiler plug-in that actually changes the language syntax to something more beautiful.
> However...

I don't understand what you're trying to communicate after this point.
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Sure, you can convert, but the whole point of converting is to do things that violate the C standard. In theory, a standard-conforming C implementation could have the bits of a pointer be encrypted by the CPU. There is nothing meaningful that you could do to those bits. Rounding pointers up or down for alignment is impossible in standards-conforming C code.
I think it serves the artist if you buy the music, however you buy it, and it doesn’t serve the artist if you pirate it.

Apply your logic to any other purchase and it falls on it feet. Do you only buy food direct from farmers? Clothes from factories? Do you only use supermarkets that use open source payment kiosks?
You have a number of issues with your narrative. "Quit the profession or go part time in order to raise kids". So what other reasons do women have for quitting the profession, other than because men are too victimized to be stay at home dads?

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edit: fwiw, I googled stats. According to the American Association of Medical Colleges, 2017 was the first year ever that female medical school enrollment was greater than male medical school enrollment. I also went to graduation by year as far back as 2002, and it has always been more men than women. So yeah, your statistics are bullshit. Care to offer a source?
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And mind you, being a stay at home parent is considered a low-prestige, low-pay role. To the extent that it's discouraged for men, that's a result of a sexism that puts men in a dominant role and demeans them for doing "women's work".

The idea that men aren't teachers because the media paints them as sex-crazed is absurd. The gender disproportion of teachers existed long before the media mentioned such things at all. And you offer no evidence whatsoever for the assertion.
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This studie should be added to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_cognition
Behavioral Economics is applying knowledge of human behaviour to economics. There is need to go to the opposite direction. Economics analysis of applied to human behaviour.

Biases are are not always errors. They can be cognitive shortcuts and optimizations that may be reasonable heuristic.

There Is More to Behavioral Economics Than Biases and Fallacies http://behavioralscientist.org/there-is-more-to-behavioral-s...

> A widespread misconception is that biases explain or even produce behavior. They don’t—they describe behavior. The endowment effect does not cause people to demand more for a mug they received than a mug-less counterpart is prepared to pay for one. It is not because of the sunk cost fallacy that we hang on to a course of action we’ve invested a lot in already. Biases, fallacies, and so on are no more than labels for a particular type of observed behavior, often in a peculiar context, that contradicts traditional economics’ simplified view of behavior.

>The conversation around biases is almost uniformly negative: they screw up our decision making, or undermine our health, wealth, and happiness. However, biases evolved with us, and for good reasons...
This is very cool. One thing I wonder about though is whether small companies will be able to compete with large ones like Google in ML in the future. One reason Google's translator is better is because they have way more data. In the past they digitized tons of books so they have an excellent dataset that has been translated by professional, human translators. This data collection is effectively cross-subsidized by Google's primary business: advertising.

Since most competitors to Google offerings aren't going to have a hugely profitable core business with which to fund all the data collection and normalization that goes into building a high quality ML system, the future for poorly capitalized competitors to compete seems bleak to me. This seems to support some of the growing rumblings about enforcing antitrust laws against the large tech companies.

Edit: better, not bigger.
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Much less than my Android devices.
The word "contract" is a bit misleading. On Ethereum these scripts are used for all sorts of things, including the on-chain parts of second-layer scaling solutions.
In other words, several other (non-friendly) countries have their own NSA. Live by the sword and all...
> just to prove that men and women have different brains

Well, we do have different brains. I don't think it's a problem and I'm sorry this fact is offending to some, but there is a whole branch of science related to that. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_difference...
This has to be HN at its worst. Reducing a complicated file sharing and collaboration tool to an insecure and highly technical protocol.

Dropbox: I can upload a file super easily and share a simple & secure link with someone who just has a web browser.

FTP: I can upload a file to an FTP server I've either configured on my server or rented online. I'll then provide an FTP url to friend with instructions on how they should login and what FTP client they should use on their chosen device.

EDIT: This could be sarcasm, if I didn't pick up on then feel free to downvote me to hell.

EDIT 2: Thanks to the comments, this is sarcasm. I messed up. Sorry rakoo.
Microsoft welcomes scrutiny of tech industry
The laws need to change. The SEC should only get involved when someone defrauds another party through misrepresentation. Mandatory disclosure, registration, and KYC requirements are all infringements on the right to privacy and free contract.

That the poorest households spend 9% of their income on state-run lotteries, yet people can't try their hand at investing their own money in businesses/projects that haven't been vetted by a centralized government agency, shows the opportunistic and disingenuous appeal to virtue that's used to sell the public on the need to be controlled.
The fear part most likely. Depending on what year the quote is from there's a chance that they literally couldn't find a replacement for a programmer. Or want to soak the costs of training one on the job.

Nowadays a lot of developers I know, myself included, work where they do because they like it and it pays somewhat better than the other guys. If I lose my job oh well. I'll throw out my resume, take a week off, and there's a good chance I'll have another job.

It isn't that it won't suck, but it's not going to cripple me or really interrupt my life. The question of "Are they going to fire me?" becomes kind of a joke.
Maybe Mozilla is hoping to get some people to try Firefox when Chrome does not want to visit their favorite website.
I was once asked in an economics lecture what I would do in a particular situation. So I told the professor how I would try to proceed, only to be told that I was wrong--I would instead do this other thing that hadn't occurred to me at all.
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E.g. Poland

Reference: https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/observatory/faqs-o...

I think this reference is partly inaccurate; I was under the impression that the legality of the original copy doesn't matter (and Polish Wikipedia seems to agree: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dozwolony_u%C5%BCytek_prywatny...)
So the node scaling was standardized (before ~28nm). It very literally meant MOSfet density (as 28 nm was 1 MOSfet + gap for the next MOSfet). The IEEE had a road map about what to expect out of X sized components, and when those components would be out base on historical data.

But when we hit 20/18/16/14nm that went out the window and it became a marketing term, not so much a literal description. A lot of this was driven by moving to FINfet's which are really MOSfets, as they have lower leakage at smaller sizes, but they also aren't square which makes generalizing a singular node to density a bit wonky.
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The first software pirates named themselves that. The industry would rather call them "thieves" or "criminals," something with less of a quaint, romantic feel.
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I did not know about this. I'm pretty inexperienced in this area, so I appreciate the heads up about that.
Microsoft and Oracle are both deservedly hated for the same reasons.
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I feel that more and more people feel that the existence of the minefield becomes a problem in itself, and that disarming these mines is an important part of the process that makes progress possible. If we avoid conversation or make it one-sided, what kind of result can be achieved?
Good find, I like this pattern. I could see a niche startup or open source solution providing this as a service, similar to statuspage (acquired by atlassian). It could also help keep the layout consistent, for user familiarity.
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