skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The parent post? Evidently, for whatever reason, male applicants and coworkers are a problem for their organization, so they go out of their way and invest in "additional resources" to hire female candidates from the hiring pool. They're not hiring on merit, but on gender.

How exactly do you hire for female candidates without discriminating against the "overwhelming" body of male applicants? I would be really interested to know how this goes on behind the scenes: do you have open positions but cherry pick female candidates while disregarding male candidates from the get-go?
Germany's Hauptbahnhofs are awesome. I saw a circus troupe preform inside one. They setup on the bottom floor and did acrobatics and you could watch them from the main floor a couple levels up.
Oh, right, I'd forgotten about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 It's definitely comical in retrospect for not even understanding the state of the technology at the time.
TSMC: First 7nm EUV Chips Taped Out, 5nm Risk Production in Q2 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_computing

Wikipedia's definition primarily focuses on the local/IoT version as a distinctly different from utilizing a CDN.
Yes, it's a political problem. And one solution is to build nuclear power plants. We need a few thousands of these worldwide to get around 70 % of energy production from fission, then solar, wind and hydro can cover the rest. I really don't understand why we're not doing this.

25 % of emissions are from electricity [1], and 21 % from industry. Industy would quickly start using more electricity once it became cheap. Transportation (14 %) will take time to electrify, and the 24 % of emissions from agriculture and forestry is harder to remove (increase meat prices, thus lowering demand and production).

China, India, UAE and South Korea are building lots of reactors now.[2] I really hope Europe, the Americas and Africa follow.

We have a solution! Yes, it costs money, let's do it!

[1] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...
[2] http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and...
And behold, it is :)
Not to mention that his/her comment does not represent a rebuttal to the Marxist critique, only a critique of marxism itself.
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Interesting. My band mates and I decided not to turn on that feature. It seemed like it would be rather annoying.
Sleep: how much do we really need?
Well, that sounds about right, then - every proposed solution to subtle, unconscious bias inevitably turns out to be explicit bias in the other direction.
This is funny; the site this is posted on is where I generally throw stuff that I don't really want to promote or anything, and accidentally copying the word "Boring" from my subhed does a nice job of supporting that goal for me. :)
yes ... mostly :) I'll give my own example ... I work for a team/company in another state. So on most days, yes, I work from home. However, part time, I go into a local co-working space. This gives me a chance to get out of the house, socialize with other technical people IRL, etc etc. If I didn't have a co-working space available, I would probably try to band together a few folks and rent a small office somewhere to similar effect.

So, while for many people yeah it means working from home ... it doesn't necessarily have to mean working at your house :D
I mean, how is making libel unlawful not censorship of future speech under your definition, or making threats unlawful censorship of future threats? How is this different?
I think you need to read the comment again. The author's reply was to your comment saying "if people would just let them", not what the ML algorithm does in the article.
True or false isn't necessarily something I think you could say in debates about human genetics, yet.

For now I say it was "handled" in that not only did he fail to demonstrate that female disinterest in engineering, compared to male, is due to inherent psychological differences, and I quoted a couple people far more qualified than me that reached the same conclusion (their statements are in the article. The Wikipedia page is another good summary)
Senators demand answers over Chinese 'spy chip'
How is vinyl more durable as far as physical media goes than a CD (digital format)? Vinyl can easily warp when improperly stored, degrades every time it is played, and even a small scratch result in audible imperfections. A CD at least can be scratched heavily and still be identical to the original thanks to forward error correction by Reed-Solomon codes.
OIN doesn't cover the kernel only. So that's why I'm asking. I'm not sure what exactly is covered.
If you're interested in this sort of thing, check out the book Essence of Decision, by Graham T. Allison.

It analyzes the Cuban missile crisis under three different models for understanding how organizations make decisions, and talks about how one might make sense of the facts in light of those models.

It's a fascinating read. The situation comes out feeling like a particularly operatic Kurosawa movie. Only the whole thing actually happened.
I know it's fiction, but the show "Ozark" on Netflix shows as interesting adaptation of money laundering through casinos and real estate.
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There seems a like a simple fix to that.

Charge more money for people to get off at certain places.

Make it 10 dollars to stop off at a high income area to avoid undesirables from taking transit there.

Use that extra money to subsidize even further for where you want the undesirables to transit to.
Cars cost resources and energy to produce, but right now new fossil fuel cars are being produced every minute. We don't stop that process by continuing to drive a car that belches out CO2. Sure, if everyone continues driving their 10 year old Volkswagen and all car companies stop production tomorrow it might have a more immediate short term effect than changing to EV. But even in this impossible scenario, long term all those cars are still emitting CO2.

I do take your point that transportation is not the whole picture, but we can't do anything on a personal level to close a coal plant, other than write to our local representatives in government.

It's also worth pointing out that if all the power for EVs is generated from coal it's still less carbon than petrol and diesel cars on the road, because of how power plants are run at optimal efficiency, where as cars have to speed up and slow down, idle in traffic etc
This is a great point. This summer, I took my family for a week of beaching, boating, and snorkeling. I also worked the full week ... of course my boss knew what was up, as I'm up front about everything. But it was great being able to just modify my schedule, go snorkeling in the morning, come back, work, dinner, and then work a few more hours at night. All you gotta do is make sure that the place you're staying has wifi.
> How does UBI lead to capital accumulating at the top?

It all depends on how you fund the UBI from different households (and their holding-companies, trusts, offshore bank accounts, etc.) versus how well each of those groups can recapture it from the economic engine.

There are probably scenarios where the UBI could be used to cause a net-benefit to the top 1%, based on net-losses among the 90-99th percentiles. That the bottom 90% see a minor benefit would just a side-effect.
Sweden tried it. It failed.
Google Privacy Upgrades Could Jolt Gmail App Developers
I believe gender related traits are on a spectrum just like autistic traits. This means between individuals you can't make any assumptions about how they compare on specific behavioural traits or abilities, but as whole groups some of these are clustered enough make some assumptions.

I also think that just like people on the autistic spectrum can develop coping strategies to help 'fit in' and appear 'normal' to neurotypicals, so can people develop coping strategies to make them fit in better with people of the opposite gender or in a generally more gender neutral society. These coping strategies means it's harder work for them than just acting on instinct and inherit passion, but the results can appear the same. That said I think it's quite good for society to have such a variety of different mechanisms, natural or developed, around specific traits, behaviours or activities.
Once I worked for a startup selling fresh human baby milk to mothers who couldn't produce milk. I was contracted to write a supply side AI that would find people willing to sell the milk they produced to us. The AI had the exact opposite bias as the one in this article... it showed extreme bias against men.

I also wrote a similar AI for finding surrogate pregnancy candidates and it also showed bias against men.

Goes to show how AI can fail and be incredibly sexist.
Using an IQ test in order to hire is actually illegal. If only the laws were that simple..
I was talking about Estonian companies, they don't have corporate taxes.
This. The overwhelming majority of machinists learned the trade on clapped out old Bridgeports. Competition shooters started out on 10/22s that had a bajillion rounds put through them. There's no reason to give a student something nice if the student's ability is not yet limited by their resources. Even with crappy facilities and equipment the student's ability is almost always the bottleneck.
You won't take heat from me. I think this is a very rational response to all the steps they've been taking.
There's a presupposition that the natural distribution of intelligence is gender-neutral. Which suggests that the unequal distribution of software engineers by gender has a cause other than intelligence.

So what is the cause, then? Is it biological, or social, or random chance? "Random" doesn't seem likely, especially given how many other professions are male-dominated, and the relative economic and social power of those roles, compared to female-dominated professions.

"Biological", if it doesn't map directly to intelligence, needs another cause - something that can be measured. Do you have a suggestion for this? I don't.

"Social" is the most likely reason, but how is "social" different from "discrimination"? How do you define a social cause for men dominating the industry that can't be readily interpreted as discriminating against women?
Yeah, and you can also get an AR-15 and try to shoot your way in getting a raise.

The idea was some things are easier than other (changing jobs is likely easier than divorce)
Malcom Gladwell is also very good a pushing interesting, well-told stories with spurious scientific basis.
From a recruiter standpoint, that answer is easy - there are literally orders of magnitude more Indians applying.

So the bias against women due to decades of societal conditioning leads to less than 50/50 representation because less are applying, which companies are trying to patch by leveling the playing field, making their internal population breakdown identical to the external one.

Seeing shitloads of Indians is a passive effect of that internal/external thing - there are around 1.2 billion Indians...
> suffering from mental illness and taking daily mediation without a prescription

The reality, given what we know about Nixon, is likely simpler: he was drunk.

https://www.alternet.org/drugs/huge-role-alcohol-has-played-...
That's the first thing I thought of, granted, there must be so many factors involved in that one ... FYI it wouldn't just be 'e-sports' - it would be 'all sports'. Everything from football to downhill skiing requires that kind of hyper aware processing.
That same argument can be used for other inventions. Why is pharma an exception just because you added "absurdly high" to it? It is possible to fund pharma research through the government just like how much of current pharma research and plenty of other types of research are funded. And the good thing about being fully government funded for pharma research is that you get the sell the resulting medicine for very cheap.
You might be surprised. Seritage is a public company (stock ticker is SRG); check out their SEC filings and investor presentations. They list several names of new tenants who've been taking up their redeveloped floor space.

I think the desirability of the former Sears stores varies dramatically by location; some of them are hopeless ghost towns, but many of them apparently have bright hopes for non-department store tenants. Check it out.

There's a reason Warren Buffett bought into SRG. This part of the strategy is working well.
If you think "give up on .COM, .NET, .ORG, .UK, .IO, .CA, .AU, and .NZ" is a reasonable response to this problem, why stop there? Virtually everyone agrees DNSSEC isn't a great protocol; had it been designed in 2010 rather than in 1994, it would for instance take advantage of online-signing, like every modern cryptosystem does. Why not just go all the way to something like NameCoin? You've already given up on, basically, "the Internet" as people know it.

I'm not even opposed to that! (I'm not a fan of NameCoin, or any-coin at all, but whatever). I just think, be coherent about things.
MAD ( countervalue ) was discontinued as a policy under President Carter when Poseidon & Minuteman III made counterforce viable.

The Soviets made a similar transition, moving away from city-crushing 25MT unitary warheards to much smaller silo-busting MIRVs.

MAD did its job through the 60s but faded away as technology improved.
Do you have a source for your second statement?
I'm not saying it isn't inertia. I'm saying that Thaler is right in saying that is a semantics issue. Call it what you want, the actual behavior is real.
Or the opposite, that people will unknowingly transmit data over untrusted connections without this.
Looks like they might need a formatter to beautify their README too.
This seems pretty obvious to me once you say it, I guess I didn't understand what you were trying to say. It seems like that goes both ways, too... what I'm trying to say is that the amount of reconstruction work increases as the encoding size increases. You're offering suggestions for how to accomplish that work but it doesn't change the underlying fact that wider encodings require more work for reconstruction.

And that really was all I was trying to say... you don't make encodings arbitrarily wide because the space savings must be weighed against the reconstruction costs.
> DNS TTL is a lie. Even though we have TTL of one minute for www.dropbox.com, it still takes 15 minutes to drain 90% of traffic, and it may take a full hour to drain 95% of traffic.

Interesting, awhile back both Google and AWS engineers replied to a HN thread[1] saying TTL of 30 seconds or so works pretty responsibly and can be trusted and used. Seems to be some disagreement on this.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17553043
The year to year vehicle excise tax increases where I used to live almost always were on the same order of magnitude as whatever boondoggle project the taxpayers were refusing to fund.
For sure. I had a Rio player and an iPod. iTunes + iPod = music search, discovery, purchase, download, and transfer to device, all at once. For the Rio player I had to do all those steps manually.
It's unreasonable for a building to last only 20 years regardless of price. I work in a nearly 100 year old building and live in a 120 year old house. Even a modestly-priced building of that scale should last many decades.
What is 'drafting" exactly? (like a Lawyer or more like an Architect?)
If anyone is interested in reading a modern, hopefully fictional take of a similar situation, I recommend the 2020 Commission Report by Jeffery Lewis.

https://www.amazon.com/Commission-Report-Nuclear-Attacks-Aga...
There's always a little breadcrumb of possibility in HN posts. Bitter vetch works as an appetite suppressant, and might have uses in the health food industry:

http://www.bitter-vetch.com/

But looks like it must be cooked first or can be toxic (so could be a potentially dangerous weed for livestock in certain places):

http://thepoisondiaries.tumblr.com/post/30390306446/lathyrus...
No, because SMTP "accounts" are trivially spoofable as well. (Edit: Although you wouldn't want to spoof that if you need to get replies, so maybe there is something the client can do here.) Maybe you could try to do some kind of trust-on-first-use on the chain of Received headers but that's going to generate false positives.
This was interesting:

> found a tunnel that emerged among weeds in a vacant area near Otay Mesa after 30 people, most from China and a few from Mexico, appeared out of it early one morning.

Are tunnels from Mexico being used to transport people from Asian and countries to the US? Or is there some other context missing here?
A look at how we built the Emoji Scavenger Hunt using TensorFlow.js
Show HN: White Hat Bot for crypto recoveris
Hey,

We built a White Hat Bot called Robinbot. It is a white hat protocol which "recovers" crypto currencies lost when distracted developers push their private keys and mnemonics to public Github repos.

Robinbot: finds private keys and mnemonics like the bad hackers, but..... we are nice people. We let you know through email that we have moved your funds to a secure wallet and send you a pin code that allows you to recover your funds.
You can't guarantee a decent existence, nuclear weapons or not. We certainly didn't have one before nuclear weapons existed. It seems to me the peace we have obtained in the last seventy years or so throughout a lot of the world is due to nuclear weapons, not despite them. It's almost certain the US and USSR would have fought a war if it weren't for their presence. Same with a lot of other countries. Seems to me like there is no going back anyway so we should be thankful for the relative peace that exists now likely due to their presence.
Okay, so TWO generations. Big deal. It still dismisses the "born that way" nonsense argument.

"'programming' as a profession used to be regarded as an offshoot of secretarial work, which was dominated by women". Which begs the question of why women dominated secretarial work (and still do), while as programming became a more respected and better paying profession, it became male-dominated.
This is a little like saying that it would have been fine if Libya had simply been granted a root CA loaded in everyone's trust stores; after all, CT would detect the bad certificates.

The difference is, when a CA mis-issues, browsers can kill the CA, as they have done repeatedly in the last few years, to some of the biggest names in the business. You cannot do that do a TLD.
it's one of these two

http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2015_08_19-ubuntu_slaughters_k...

http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2015_11_23-the_cantrill_strike...

(I think the second one)
What about SPF and DKIM? Virtually none of the world's SPF and DKIM records are signed with DNSSEC.
There is less blue in trafic lights as they switch to LEDs because green LEDs are i) dirt cheap and ii) don't require the coloured filter that the older halogen heads did.
Are journalists that were given early previews released from their NDA obligations? I'd be really curious to hear some of them explain if the released product is indeed what they were shown.
Show HN: White Hat Bot for crypto recoveries
Hey,
We built a White Hat Bot called Robinbot. It is a white hat protocol which "recovers" crypto currencies lost when distracted developers push their private keys and mnemonics to public Github repos.

Robinbot: finds private keys and mnemonics like the bad hackers, but..... we are nice people. We let you know through email that we have moved your funds to a secure wallet and send you a pin code that allows you to recover your funds.
It really depends who your clients are. If they are servers, 30s can work okay. If they are end users, caching happens all over. It's a huge PITA, especially since you'll run into podunk ISPs that have their own custom caching setup, but you have a customer with a shop there. Not that I'm still bitter.
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When you say "some people don't like DNSSEC", you're sort of dancing around the fact that the people who don't like it are some of the most important organizations on the Internet; to wit: all the major mail providers.
I think you are seriously overestimating our current understanding of the universe/physics. For instance we don't even know if our universe is finite or not, if it's infinite then your point is moot and you literally would have access to infinite compute.

I disagree, I have seen research indicating that it's reasonable to have a computing system with on the order of 10^69 bits. There doesn't seem to be anything magical about this thinking at all.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.03394.pdf
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I disagree. Taking email out of the loop is a technical solution to a problem that is inherently social, not technical.
The person they're asking said that they dedicated a extra resources to try and hire female candidates because the office was all males. That implies that they were hiring specifically for gender, not for any specific skillset.
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Note that in this particular case the email in question had a signed document attached. So the scam could of been done with regular mail.The problem here was the lack of verification, not the medium of communication.

The ease of forging emails is more of an issue where the spear phish email is trying to disguise itself as coming from inside the company.
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"Untapped market of engineers" yes it exists. The majority of my female friends with STEM degrees ended up as high school teachers. I had several older people suggest to me that teaching should be my preferred career choice because it was more flexible than a programming job (wtf...)

"every tech company would be taking advantage of it" - nope, no one is. I don't know why but my guess is its hard to admit you're doing hiring wrong, hard to hire people who think differently than you, etc.
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Libya is an especially good example, since it had a fairly advanced nuclear program at one point but gave it up.
So fuck it, let's let the United States Government cast the tiebreaking votes when we're not sure?
Does it corelate with performance?
Is it really bad in the US or really good in Canada? I have a friend who has moved to Canada from Europe some time ago and he was complaining how it's not so efficient and you need a car eventually.
For #2 you can click a comment's posting time, and from there repeatedly click "parent" to see the conversation history.

You may have already alluded to this as it's not exactly "easy and quick"; though as it's arguably both, I'm commenting in case others haven't discovered it.
The process isn't reserving memory, it's reserving ranges in its virtual address space:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_address_space
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