skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Faceraiders was great! It's a shame it didn't seem to go much of anywhere though for later games, it's a shame it and the Vita's more odd features didn't get more use.
You're not wrong about its protracted demise, but people still paid money to get on the Sears boat based on good faith that the previous captains may have sucked, but the current one wasn't hellbent on ramming it into an iceberg, collecting the insurance money and leaving the passengers and crew to drown in his wake.

The little people whose pensions and funds are either wholly or partially dependent on Sears are hurt by such malfeasance. That's not what the CEO of a company is supposed to do. It's unethical (for what little that means anymore). You might as well question how an IVF doctor implanting his own sperm in unsuspecting patients is harmful-- they wanted to get pregnant, right?

I haven't read it, but I doubt that plan was enumerated in the Sears prospectus when Lampert took the helm. Letting such behavior go unchecked undermines faith in the economy-- the growth of which is fueled by peoples' ignorance of everything being out to fleece them.
Electric cars are not massively more expensive than regular cars, for those of us in touch western countries. A tesla is, but a nissan leaf is not. And sure not everyone can afford electric vehicles and solar panels, but if everyone who could afford them made the switch we'd be doing a lot better with our co2 emissions
Slowing down a hurricane
fact check:
Pensions in the US are only allowed to invest in the absolute worst returns options

Investopedia reports : ERISA does not regulate a pension plan’s specific investments. ERISA does require plan sponsors to operate as fiduciaries. No conflicts of interest between plans and any people or entities related to the fiduciaries are allowed. Investments are to be both prudent and diversified in a manner that is intended to prevent significant losses.
( https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing-strategy/090... )
Bringing over the markup for monospacing would actually be really nice, yeah. It is irritating that code can't be inlined and requires an unusual input like leading spaces to mark out.
Which is the same circular buffer. Great if you can spare the memory, it uses twice as much if you want to scroll in one direction or four times if you want both directions.

On the C64 that’s 8k which is a lot if 16k is all you get (the video chip only has enough address lines to address 16k).
Can we please have blockquote syntax now?
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A Chrome extension that ranks HN users using the USA military ranks badges + a dark theme.

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Looking back I wonder if iTunes might have been the secret sauce for the iPad to work, rather than the iPod itself.
Why date-fns decided to get rid of Moment.js-like tokens in v2
I know - but that wasn't the argument being made
> consumption of energy is

Yes. That's the "waste" part. The only product of spending the energy is a proof that the energy was spent. This is obviously wasteful because there is no relationship between the absolute energy spent and the utility of the network. The higher the difficulty the more energy wasted in order to maintain the status quo. Perhaps the most obvious sign of PoW's wasteful nature is the fact that the introduction of more efficient hardware into the network increases overall energy consumption because everyone else without cutting edge ASIC technology has to increase their energy output to compensate for the increase in hash rate.
> Why all the wasteful discussion about gender politics?

As pointed out downthread, the way we get out of such wasteful (meta-)discussions is by not starting them.
> Crime as at generational (multi-generational?) lows. People are solving a problem that no longer exists.

Crime rates are decreasing, but they're still very high.

Glasgow at its worst had a homicide rate of 63 per million.[1] In America, homicide rates are generally reported per 100k - so that's 6.3 per 100k.

In 2015, San Francisco had a homicide rate of 6.1 per 100k. Pittsburgh, which I hear is trying to become a tech hub, was at 18.6 per 100k. Pittsburgh! We don't think of Pittsburgh as a hotbed of crime. But Glasgow was notorious - with a third the homicide rate!

[1] https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12447424.Murder_rates_at...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
> At the undergrad level, it often does.

Even introductory economics classes don't do this. One anecdote about a friend of yours who's an inexperienced instructor notwithstanding, if you look at any of the most widely-used and reputed introductory textbooks for undergraduates, you'll see discussion of rationality and the ways in which those assumptions can be relaxed.

Just as people study Newtonian mechanics under idealized circumstances before they learn about friction and Van der Waals forces, people learn about the outcomes of rational behavior first, but it's ludicrous to judge an entire field by an outsider's perception of the topics covered during the first few weeks of an introductory course.
dang works for full-time to moderate HN as per https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac...
I've seen this issue in Firefox Nightly when trying to perform the HSBC UK credit card verification, so it makes sense not to roll it out to the wider public yet.
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You're right, nobody thinks men are smarter than women. And it isn't true.

So, let's think about why we see gender roles in employment. Why are there so few women software engineers? One possible explanation is that women just aren't smart enough. If you don't believe that (and I don't), then you need another explanation. Maybe it's because of sexism. But if you don't want to believe it's sexism (as the OP implied), then what is it? They're not too dumb, and the hiring process isn't sexist, so why? And that's where hands come up empty.

That leads to nonsense like the person on this thread who said women are "wired differently", which presumably makes them less suitable. Which is just a polite way of saying women are too dumb to program, without facing the reality that that's exactly it means.
But execution before the "market" is ready for the "product" can lead to failure when better timing would've led to success. Perhaps we could look at drawing attention to the problem as a sort of "demand generation" or "marketing", preparing the market so when a product (solution) is offered it is more readily embraced? Maybe we could think of it like moving people from looking at the solution as a "vitamin" to looking at it as a "painkiller"?
Also, there is `once_cell` that seems to be a more general form

https://crates.io/crates/once_cell
> My co-worker who lives in the city says that it's dangerous to go 2 blocks from his house at night, but thinks that's normal.

It’s probably completely safe. These kinds of stories are normal for people. If you ask indigenous people, the dangerous cannibals are always the tribe living two valleys over from this one, but never themselves or their immediate neighbors.
Every major fraud vendor has an AML offering. Be it SAS or FICO or startups such as Feedzai. I am building a startup as well but it is hard to determine how effective these products are. Till date I haven't found data that shows how many money laundering cases were caught by these products and how many of those cases were prosecuted. It's not a very transparent industry, so it's super hard to take on the incumbents. This is just based on a few weeks of conversations I've had with some AML and strategy team members, so by no means this is a generalization.
> you can trade them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from anywhere in the world with an internet connection, in any currency (theoretically) and on no fixed exchange

This describes securities, generally. You and I can transact to trade shares of Uber in renminbi on a Saturday. We can transact, over the counter and using a broker, to trade shares of Apple in Canadian dollars the following day. The Apple trade would need to be reported to the national ticker, for transparency purposes, but that’s about it.

We concentrate public equity trading into fixed windows and currencies to increase liquidity. It’s a convenience. Privately-negotiated trading is still common for large blocks of public securities.
The problem was it wasn't an "attack" in the classic "hey we're at war" sense. Russia is pretty good at fostering conflict on its borders without being blatant enough to make nuclear retaliation palatable.
Did you lose any developers during this period?
Yes. There is a bonus to being a woman in this situation, all other things being equal.

Silicon Valley did a good bit on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dek5HtNdIHY

It's funny because it's true.
Recommend buddying-up with some friends and subscribe to Great Courses on ROKU if you want some additional intellectual stimulation. Runs around US$180/annum but app channel can be shared among (I believe) 5 other remote sites. I subscribe, use it on three separate ROKU boxes, and allowed registration from online acct to a relative living a couple of miles away and a retired neighbor who was pining for some mental stimulation - also got her away from the damned news channels :)
MacEwan was in the midst of constructing the $180-million Allard Hall: a state-of-the-art building boasting music studios and dance halls with room for 1,800 students

Why does a college need a building that costs a large fraction of a billion dollars? Early this week we had an article about college education costs being one corner of the "Bermuda triangle" of personal finance. Out of control spending on new, shiny things is part of the problem, I think.
1. With no fossil fuel-based energy available, global food production will plummet, and distribution of what food exists will become prohibitively expensive. Millions will starve to death.

2. Go, tell the farmers they are not allowed to eat their chickens' eggs. I will wait for you to report their answer. Or do you intend to enforce your decree by force?

3. If you are allowed to tell other people how many children to have, I am allowed to tell you how many children to have: You may have none.

> also, with 1 and 2 in place, we have prolly no need for the one-child policy. we'll have food and land plenty!

I wonder if you actually believe what you say.
Empty buses do create a wasteful perception. However I would argue that most cars you see on the road are single occupant, i.e. mostly empty, and thus hugely wasteful as well.
"The politicians are too smart for that"

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/09/austr...

Good luck with that.
You just perfectly described my hometown, Davis CA. The busses are nice but besides the heavy student traffic in the morning and afternoon they are pretty empty.
> other than those who jumped in without doing their due dilligence?

Diligencing private securities is expensive. Getting information is expensive, the legal work is expensive, the negotiations are expensive. This is fundamental to the lack of reporting requirements and standardisation. Small checks simply don’t make sense in these markets.
I don't think that's quite true, I think this is more of a nurture vs nature thing.

My father got me into programming, and my colleagues who are women also have a backstory with someone supporting their interest in development.
No, of course not, you just need to convince others that it's good for _them_ to do it. It's like elections: your single vote is nearly worthless, convincing others to vote the way you want is not.

Although I believe what GP meant is that nothing _anyone_ can do will improve the situation, so do what you can to prepare, e.g. learning to grow vegetables would be quite useful in case of food shortages.
According to this link posted in another thread:

https://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/edmonton/2018/10...

The email was sent containing the email address "accounts.receivable@clarkbuilders.us" and the name field "accounts.receivable@clarkbuilders.com"
I'm not saying you personally are anti-science, but Gallup surveys in 2018 point to 35% of Republicans believing that global warming is caused by human activities vs. 89% of Democrats. [0]

It's difficult to attribute something as vague as pro or anti science to a large group of people. I wouldn't want to get into that flame war on HN. However, OP has a point that Democrats are more likely to be concerned about the real impact of climate change.

[0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/231530/global-warming-concern-s...
>I spend 8hrs a day in an office with my colleagues (sometimes more than with my wife & kid) and the ones I can't stand is about the only thing wrong with my job.

There's plenty of people I would never ever spend time with outside of work, and try to minimize my time with at work.

But that's fine, because 'cthalupa would like to have a beer with you after work' isn't part of the requisites for doing a job on my team. The 'Finding people that fit in with the culture'/'Finding people that I don't mind being around' is how you get monocultures and a lack of diversity in your team.

>If we can't even see the person's face over some gender bias hysteria then I wonder how the hell we got here.

Gender bias is a real thing, a big deal, and certainly not hysteria. There's a lot of ways to reduce it. It doesn't necessarily require never seeing someone's face - though I think automating "skills" related interviews could be a good thing - because you can start with having a structured interview program where you have specific questions to ask and a specific rubric to grade against. Making sure you have solid, unbiased questions, and measure the answers evenly against the same rubric solves the majority of the problem.

>People should just get over the fact that men and women are different.

Well, of course men and women are different. But even for jobs that involve heavy labor, this isn't actually significant - while the average woman has less physical strength than the average man, the type of woman who applies for that sort of job has self-selected into it, and is almost certainly more capable of doing that sort of work than the average woman - meaning it's still not a good indicator even for areas where the differences are largest.

For a white collar job, like the type we're discussing? It's even less relevant. There are extremely few times where you should ever care about gender when it comes to hiring.
This seems quite simple to accomplish - compare the name and email address in the email header and flag based on even regex matches/mismatches. Perhaps a Chrome plugin for gmail to test out ?
You think it's easier to believe that The Sunday Mirror paid someone at Heathrow to deliver a USB stick than it is to believe that lots of people at Heathrow are using USB sticks and one of them dropped it?

And you think The Sunday Mirror lied to the Information Commissioner’s Office about the data provenance? That is, lied that it was found by a member of the public in Kilburn, and/or lied that it was viewed by that same member of the public on a public library computer before handing it over to The Sunday Mirror?

I don't. I don't see why you do. I don't see why we should regard your interpretation as "simpler".

Especially when (according to the linked-to report), Heathrow Airport Limited's own investigation could figured out who lost the stick, concluded that the USB stick was likely lost during commute-time transit, and showed that there were serious information security problems at Heathrow, with 'limited data protecting training in place' and no technical methods in place to keep data from being transferred to unencrypted or unauthorized sticks?

The report disagrees with your doubt, saying "The Commissioner has made the above findings of fact on the balance of probabilities."

How do you end up with a different balance? What scenario are you thinking of?
I'm confident the Volkswagen unit test system would become very popular: https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen
Most folks that are here illegally are by overstaying a visa, which is not actually a crime.
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AFAICT, that's a block level duplicator. The ones I'm talking about let you copy individual files. So everyone has their own SD card, and you turn to your buddy and say "damn that's a banging tune", so you guys head down to the village tech store and the guy there lets you copy the mp3 from your buddy's card to yours using his fixed purpose file copier.
> License everything to everything

Nothing more annoying than false supply limitations on content by service, exclusives, country, various availability windows.

This is the digital age, we have little time for entertainment and need our content on demand. I should be able pay and get what I want to listen to or watch without a false supply constraint to create manipulated demand.

I get why the content owners do it this way, content is king, it is just majorly annoying.

When movies are available on content services I end up not being into the movie at that time, then when I want to watch it the movie is only for purchase. So even with 4 streaming services I end up buying on iTunes or other.

For music, Spotify is doing a pretty good job of having almost everything, but still there are albums that you have to go buy or get.

The friction is so much less when pirating, just go get what you want, I'd pay for a service I could just get anything anytime with no restrictions, so I end up buying lots of movies especially.

Usability and access still favors pirating in many cases which isn't wise for the content industry.
If you honestly believe that there is such a thing as "unbiased" and that this article is an absolute objective demonstration of that, I don't know how much higher your horse could get. When someone gets paid or invests time in anything, whether it is to build, use, market, or sell a product, then that person has become biased. Anyone who can convince themselves that he/she is immune from this is delusional.
The article didn't specify how they labeled resumes for training. You're assuming that it was based on whether or not the candidate was hire. Nobody with an iota of experience in machine learning would do something like that. (For obvious reasons: you can't tell from your data whether people you did not hire were truly bad.)

A far more reasonable way would be to take resumes of people who were hired and train the model based on their performance. For example, you could rate resumes of people who promptly quit or got fired as less attractive than resumes of people who stayed with the company for a long time. You could also factor in performance reviews.

It is entirely possible that such model would search for people who aren't usually preferred. E.g. if your recruiters are biased against Ph.D.'s, but you have some Ph.D.'s and they're highly productive, the algorithm could pick this up and rate Ph.D. resumes higher.

Now, you still wouldn't know anything about people whom you didn't hire. This means there is some possibility your employees are not representative of general population and your model would be biased because of that.

Let's say your recruiters are biased against Ph.D.'s and so they undergo extra scrutiny. You only hire candidates with a doctoral degree if they are amazing. This means within your company a doctoral degree is a good predictor of success, but in the world at large it could be a bad criteria to use.
Could this lower motion perception threshold explain male dominance in e-sports?
> Debian is so "stable" that I can't install newer software through the provided packages anyway, so that's trading off one failure over another.

I've already addressed this, it's pretty trivial to recompile most major software packages. You can also pull those packages from testing or unstable.

> but for non-FOSS it's not even on the table.

Sucks to be a proprietary software vendor. You have to do all this hard work for people to not buy your product anyway.
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One of my favorite features of Bandcamp is how you're allowed to listen for free and after a certain number of listens to a track you're prompted to purchase the music, since you've obviously been enjoying it.
So which company is one of the "good guys"?
But aren't Bitcoin transactions slow and expensive?
Huge reduction in meat-eating ‘essential’ to avoid climate breakdown
What magic computer are you using where reserving a chunk of memory doesn't necessarily mean that no other process can reserve that chunk of memory?
Hofmann is also believed to be responsible for a “mule” 1959-D Lincoln cent with the wheat reverse[0]. (1959 was the first year of the Lincoln memorial reverse, so no more wheat cents should have been made.) The coin surfaced in 1986 and was authenticated by the secret service, yet no one in the coin business will either condemn or authenticate it. The coin has been sold several times since then for larger and larger sums of money.

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[0]: https://www.pcgs.com/news/the-mystery-of-the-1959-d-mule-lin...
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>Do we see this effect in species other than humans?

You can always find a difference between humans an the other species that explains the absence in the latter.

>Is this effect more pronounced in individuals descending from ancestors who were more prone to hunting?

Same.

Evolutionary psychology is ... not popular with cogsci depts...
It especially doesn't make sense if you are a venture capitalist who now faces competition.
This company Pinscreen fakes results in academic publications which their former VP of engineering documents:
http://sadeghi.com/dr-iman-sadeghi-v-pinscreen-inc-et-al/
I would also ask: why are "useless" majors so popular? Ostentatious elite uselessness?
It's wrong even if their model doesn't output a certainty (not all classifiers do). Almost all ML algorithms optimize the expected classification error under the training distribution. So if the training data contains 90% men, it's better to classify those men at 100% accuracy and women at 0% accuracy, than it is to classify both with 89.9% accuracy. Any unsophisticated model will do this.

gp: "The number of women and men in the data set shouldn't matter (algorithms learn that even if there was 1 woman, if she was hired then it will be positive about future woman candidates)."

This is false for typical models.
It's about motivation. NYC already has a subway and while it desperately needs upgrades, fixes, and expansion, doing anything is unbelievably complex. You've got to be really, really motivated to cut through all that.

In "poorer cities" they can just get things done because they don't have the same layers of process. Building a subway line in Nigeria is trivial compared to dealing with the multitude of parties, all of which have significant political clout, that is Manhattan.
Their primary product is still proprietary, and if that's not bad enough, it's essentially completely spyware at this point.

You could say the same about Google......
>you are telling the women who do like programming (which, let's be real, is most of them on Hacker News) that they're in effect not real women

woah what? no that is not at all what he's saying. If someone tells me "most american men like the NFL" and I don't like the NFL, I would be insane to take that as someone telling me "you're not a real man" and think they're trying to "tell me what a real man is." I can see how someone who is perpetually trying to be a victim might take such a hardline stance, though.
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