skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When statistics show a over-representation for a disadvantage for men, its men and male culture fault.

When statistics show a over-representation for a disadvantage for women, its men and male culture fault.

It must be that it is very convenient to blame men and male culture, but honestly I have a hard time seeing any truth in that. Suicide is connected with depression, culture and unemployment. We know from studies that men are more often misdiagnosed when it comes to depression, with experiments where doctors rate identical profiles more correctly if the name is that of a woman. We also know that culture has a major impact on suicide rates with a strong link to gender expectations, the same gender expectation that researcher suggest is causing misdiagnoses for depression in men. We also know there is a strong correlation for increased suicide rates for men when unemployment goes up but not for women, again pointing towards gender expectations as the culprit.

If we ignore that, at least make a study and look if men who do not express emotions is a valid predictor for suicide. I expect it is not but it would make for a interesting validation to read.
Here's a summary post:

https://medium.com/@wtfmitchel/the-political-nature-of-indus...

I guess I would read some of his books: Profit over People and the one on Media. He has a 1997 talk at northeastern on youtube where he addresses it a bit during question time.
They could be acquired by Walmart, or Target, or any number of other retailers.
It's hard to shop around when you're having a heart attack.
You can literally sign up for D-Wave Leap and run problems on a quantum computer immediately. It's not gate-model, but it's a real quantum annealer that functions and can compute useful things.
I think that you would have to correct for socio-economic status, which is strongly tied to health outcomes.
Yeah, well the NY Times is not a good publication.
It was also in this list:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18415031

> Genetic algorithm is supposed to configure a circuit into an oscillator, but instead makes a radio to pick up signals from neighboring computers
People can want things other than money, like the satisfaction that their work is going towards doing something positive for the world.
I was going to mention Amazon, but I had already reached my character limit. I've applied there twice in the past, once in the UK and once for their Seattle office. My recent application from a few weeks ago was rejected.

Amazon certainly have that reputation, but there has been a time where many of the other companies have had a similar reputation. I applied to Google, Twitter and Facebook during the time where they were pushing to hire more employees than ever before, and even then I couldn't get past the initial screen.

Regarding my focus on startups, that was mainly to highlight that my experience isn't purely Web Dev at digital agencies. To be perfectly honest my main reason for working for a FAANG-level company isn't because I'm in love with them, or because I want to work for a big company. It's mostly because the interview process is challenging, and because it's an opportunity to work with the top tier of talent on hard problems.

You're right, though. Some of those companies have a reputation for aggressive hiring, and the fact that their recruiters seem to want nothing to do with me indicates that there is a problem. I have absolutely no problem getting interviews anywhere else in the UK. Hell, Reddit offered me an interview a number of years back, so it's not a location thing. You say my startup experience isn't relevant to them, but if Google will fall over themselves to hire CS grads to graduate schemes or recent graduates with a few years experience for interviews, why can't I even get the time of day from a FAANG recruiter?

The whole situation has really soured my opinion of these companies, which is a real shame because I would love to work for them. Ultimately, there's only so many times you can be rejected before you become resentful.
In a free market, there would be cheap generic alternatives. Epinephrine itself isn't expensive at all (around a dollar a dose), and the autoinjector was patented in 1977, making it long-expired (though modifications of the design are covered by newer patents).

There are other examples, such as complex surgeries that would illustrate the point you're trying to make better.
Well I don't want to get into a full-on argument in the comments here, but I 100% disagree with your definition of a quantum computer. If a computer uses quantum logic gates then it's a quantum computer.
They need this for the AirPods then. Everyone I call while outside in NYC says the microphone is super sensitive and picks up all the surrounding noise.
"We're world leaders in automation & optimization. We know our shit."

Ha, brave language!
But seriously, what are your motives in defending Facebook so much?
I wouldn't say it's the fairest thing we know, but it scales the best. A centralized market system could be extremely fair, if there's only 7 participants. With 7 billion, there's just no way. At a national or global level, we need decentralization.

At smaller scales, we do use other systems. Within a company, essentially nobody uses a free market system.
You want a shere/distance/minimize maximum curvature.
We (my family) grind our own wheat and make real 100% wheat bread all the time. We get it to rise and be fluffy just fine FWIW. And I don't like soda or white bread nearly as much as water and wheat. Sure maybe I'm not typical, but I don't think we can attribute our culture's like of soda to more than, well, culture.
I hope you don’t consider your children to be some twisted karmic balance for working at Facebook.
I can certainly think of possible cases where the mental help needed might involve more than a help line or support group long term. Heck there might even be cases when physical health help is what is unavailable in the long term -- chronic illnesses considerably raise the risk of suicide. (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170612094032.h...) A help line is probably not going to resolve a chronic illness.

I know the original comment was at the individual level, but from a big picture perspective I do think "money" definitely matters. Specifically, the United States health care system lacks compared to other rich nations when it comes to coverage and accessibility. Based on an ecological study I found (https://europepmc.org/abstract/med/16669716) it seems like there's a definite link between suicide rates and this issue -- factors like funding for mental health and insurance coverage matter a lot here.
Fairly late, but I must read eight or more Medium articles on a heavy day. The only thing I ever get is a modal prompting me to "make it official" and create an account.
From a quick glance, isn't this somewhat similar to what Nano is doing? Nano does balance-weighed voting on conflicting blocks via gossip until the network arrives at consensus. https://nano.org/en/whitepaper
That's merit, even if it's not the particular merits that content creators would prefer.

It's quite a broken concept of merit. It's the kind of concept of "merit" where an offering with superior content and UX could come along, but it wouldn't matter because of network effects.

The fact that so many content creators so badly want a different platform than YouTube to come into being (or for YouTube to change their practices) but can't afford to move -- this circumstance is very telling. Likewise the number of users who despise Facebook, but can't afford to leave.
As a Googler, Facebook would certainly be a place I would consider if I wasn’t at google. You’re right, of course, that it is a better than fine employer.
Could mold grow inside of a dehumidifier as well? I mean, water is constantly passing the components inside. Or does mold need organic material (such as the paper inside the DIY filter) and thus will not grow on the dehumidifier that consists largely of plastic and metal?
I worked on a job rolling out a virtual ISP service for a bluechip telecoms company around 15 years ago.

The project manager was in his fifties and had not only never used a website, he had never touched a keyboard or mouse.

That was secretarial (female) work.

The three things he did in his job was to dictate documents, have meetings and cause utter chaos.
Lol I can still remember when Microsoft was the big Bogeyman.
How about Linux? Shouldn't be that much more of a lift.
The lowest bottom of the Challenger Deep encircles the Everest. Think of the "outside" of the circle being the deepest point, and the "inside" of the circle being all rest of the Earth.
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Up to 3M kids' GPS watches can be tracked by parents and any miscreant
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The site and content redesign may be great, but I’m not sure I’d take this week to praise the VA’s technology transformation, since the department’s backoffice systems are now failing to properly calculate and disburse veterans’ benefits, while the replacement of VistA with Cerner has been so troubled that Cerner’s president lashed out against “fake news” not long before he left the company.
You mean London and Switzerland. Excepting London, the UK on average is even more low wage than Germany, to reuse your expression. But London, just like Switzerland has an impossible property market if you want o buy something no matter how well you're paid.
You mean, fb/google have monopolistic power over the advertisers and since advertisers are generally not our friends, then go for it, let them pay up?
This is incredibly hard to do, especially if the culture seems ingrained in the policy decisions of the other 30,000 employees. Sure, it’s possible to join a company and change a couple of small things, but usually if you go against the company’s culture for long enough you’ll end up on your way out: either because your life will just be miserable, or because someone will fire you.
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This is an extremely misleading statement. Quantum annealing is most certainly not what quantum computing is about (it is not particularly "quantum" either). At most, you can argue that it is an important first step (which is also doubtful). Most of the interesting hardware currently being developed has nothing to do with quantum annealing and most researchers are fairly annoyed at D-wave for originally pushing this nonsense (D-wave is the company that started selling quantum annealing machines, which are little more than a classical analog computer).

See the ion traps developed in the UK/Maryland or the transmon qubits at Google/IBM/Yale for some well known prototypes of quantum computing hardware (which are admittedly quite far from being practical or usable).
I'm lucky to live in a city with a bakery that is devoted to whole heritage grains. They will their flour sourcing from local producers.

Seylou in Washington DC.

http://www.seylou.com
And yet there's Messi https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/lionel-messi-is-impossi...
Not in this case, because the probably being estimated is "the chance a single page could contain a typo" and not "the chance the rest of the book could contain a typo."

To do the latter, you'd need to know the length of the book, yes.
Ah I see what you mean. Yeah you’re right
Tracking and snooping on a million kids
Your arguments are examples of the false equivalence fallacy. [1] Sorry but I don't have time to provide any more comprehensive of a rebuttal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

(This is why I don't think labeling is a rebuttal.)
If they continue to raise and add Amazon competitors as customers, they'll be in a similar position as Instacart. Selling to anyone whose in competition w/ Amazon
Why do we need Q#?
What I do with my RPi 1, is to put the rootfs in a USB drive and have the SD card read only, with only kernel on it. This has always been possible.
That strikes me as a misleading read on AB 425. It expands the existing exempted activities which don't require a forestry management plan, like temporary road building:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

The ability of "private citizens to cut down trees on their own land" doesn't turn on AB 425. The code already has specific provisions for firebreaks, and AB 425 doesn't change them one way or another:

https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/public-resources-code/prc-sect-...
Facebook mostly hires inside the “Valley bubble”-so it’s pretty important to discuss salaries taking that into account.
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I don't think I explained my point well enough.

If the Manhattan Project is a useful comparison, then we have to take the totality of the people working on project, including the one person who quit, for moral reasons.

He 'believed that scientists should always be concerned with the ethical consequences of their work'.

In other words, yes, we should apportion some blame to 'the scientists of the Manhattan Project for dropping the atomic bomb'.

(For that matter, Philip Morrison was one of those scientists. He helped load the atomic bombs onto the planes that made the two bomb runs. Certainly there's direct blame there, if blame is to be placed.)

Certainly the rest of the scientific staff did not have the same views, or at least, didn't place the same weight on the different aspects of the ethics.

Even then, remember that Oppenheimer remarked that he felt he had "blood on my hands" because he and others of the scientific staff thought the bombing of Nagasaki was unnecessary. Truman later told Acheson "I don't want to see that son-of-a-bitch in this office ever again."

Regarding your point, and quoting from the WP page on Rotblat: "Rotblat continued to have strong reservations about the use of science to develop such a devastating weapon. In 1985, he related that at a private dinner at the Chadwicks' house at Los Alamos in March 1944, he was shocked to hear the director of the Manhattan Project, Major General Leslie R. Groves, Jr., say words to the effect that the real purpose in making the bomb was to subdue the Soviets."

I interpret that to mean that Rotblat would have considered using the bomb against the Soviets in the way you summarized it as being sufficiently unethical that he would not work on it.
1. No, it's not reasonable to assume a technology-sector investor isn't going to be able to help techie friends find jobs.

2. The "slander" was supported by an anecdote. And this is a comment section -- opinionated statements will be found.

3. What might be closer to slander is the fantastic assumption that the other commenter is shilling for a short position in Facebook. That's a mind-boggling assumption to make on the flimsiest of evidence. Even setting aside that trying to promote your short in a random HN comment is laughable

4. You're curiously silent on your own bias, well noted by pantaloons
I've read the front page and FAQ section but I'm still not 100% clear what this product is. Is it an active noise cancelling app that listens to your environment around the laptop and cancels noise out (like Bose QC25/35 headphones)? Serious comment - I think you need to explain this better on your site.
Its not meant to be an analogy.

We also will not attempt to generate all quantum states on a quantum computer. As with classical monte carlo, we will only ever generate a tiny fraction of the possible quantum states/distributions, and will also sample from a fixed distribution (whatever the quantum circuit outputs, we measure it in a fixed basis and always draw samples from that single, fixed distribution).

We will also achieve robustness against the tyranny of the real numbers in our gate parameters in a very similar way that a classical computer does when it approximates some idealized Monte Carlo algorithm.
Really sorry to hear that.

Sorry to ask, but I’m not really sure I got it right: Do you think the DIY air purifier was the cause of these health problems? Or did it at least contribute by letting the mold come back (inside)?

As others have noted, a dehumidifier could help. But what prevents mold from growing inside these dehumidifiers as well? Sure, they’re mainly built from plastic and metal, so no paper as in your case. Will that be enough to prevent mold (or bacteria)?

Otherwise, a dehumidifier could turn into yet another health hazard over time.
I know a fair number of people who had fun, interesting careers in their 20s. But when we talk about investments and saving, they all seem to suddenly realize that time is limited, and if you’re going to trade it for money, it’s best to get as much money for your time as you comfortably can.
This sounds a lot like ASP.NET with Razor. Split out the pieces into Razor partials and dump them in where needed with Html.Partial().

I haven't really had much chance to play with it, but the newer Razor Pages are probably an even easier way to build a simple website.
A very insightful comment. I have no idea to what extent your hypotheses describe reality, but the elegance of your line of reasoning deems this path worthy of further investigation.
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Welp, grocery shopping in real life is about to get even worse. Instacart to the rescue.
> flight computers (I don't know the proper term)

avionics?
I find it frightening that a big Perl project is still being maintained. The roster of folks who can parse that code is getting smaller and smaller with time. It would be nice to see someone spark up a neural net based spam filtering project that leverages a more modern language like Rust or Go.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_succession

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_problem
I use AirTable. Impressive product.

It feels to me like a successful implementation of Lotus Notes for the web.
I remember casually looking at Facebook back in 2010:

I was invited for lunch; I liked their campus, but it just had the "freshman year at college" vibe. Even though I was still early in my career, I felt like I was already too old for that.

Later, when I started the interview process, they demanded that I sign a broad NDA. That was the what really pushed me out. I don't sign broad NDAs to interview for a job.
Nvidia Gives Lackluster Forecast on Inventory, Shares Plunge
Is the consumer responsible in this world of always finding someone to foot a bill for a disaster?
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I think its M&P grades i.e. Professionals as well as as Managers.

When I did it I was Plant Shaper Chair for my top 3, later I did it at British Telecom the course leader said so you work at the Labs (aka UK version of bell labs) :-)
You'll be thinking of them til 2024, kiddo.
My assumption with mission statements was that they were always bullshit made up by a marketing team or some exec and I wouldn't expect them to have much relation to reality. Was I in the minority?
This was quite good at filling in some intuition.
Some online food/delivery ordering services (Grubhub comes to mind) have widgets that restaurants can embed into their website to display their own menu and allow visitors to order for delivery or pickup. Combine that with a static site or a basic CMS and you’re most of the way there.
Sure sounds like it to me. Of course, they won't even release her name because she wasn't "accused of a crime"
" Or maybe it wasn't even physics, but rather carpentry. "

That's the quote of the day.

My father was a carpenter, and every day I think software has more in common with carpentry than computer science.
Apologies, my irony meter is malfunctioning today. I read it twice but I'm so used to reading this serious comments similar to your sarcastic critique online these days, it didn't read as sarcasm.
Amusing historical note: The same arguments were made about classical computers and a similar theorem (by Von Neuman) exists there.
Ask HN: What was wrong with SOAP and WSDLs?
I’m a new grad web developer and I’ve pretty much exclusively worked with REST apis as everywhere seems to preach their benefits.

The other day I happened to work on something that involved an old Java EE app that was using a SOAP based API.

I was blown away.

It seems like with SOAP the API is so well specified. I can read a single file and know the exact request and response types down to the exact types of the data structures?

Not only that but I can automatically generate client libraries for my API?

This might be naive but SOAP seems worlds better than REST from my impression.

REST feels so wishy washy and undefined as if no one actually understands how it should actually work. I’ve seen otherwise really good developers put verbs in the resource paths, and some operations feel really awkward to model in REST.

Furthermore it seems to rely on the developers to write good API docs which might get out of date easily.

To me it almost seems like REST vs RPC is like JavaScript vs a strong typed language. It seems better at first but falls apart when you start needing stronger structure and guarantees.

Now with that said, I wanna know why SOAP is actually terrible.

I’ve heard a lot of hate towards it and seeing as it sounds like it was abandoned I’m assuming I’m missing some crucial flaw here...

Was it about interoperability?

I can see how it’s easier to setup a quick request to a REST API in any language compared to XML but I’d have thought generated client libraries would solve this issue.
Yes, they can do that [0].

But it's a crappy enough move, it's not certain they would.

However, the easier option is to just scan for the right EM waves on the ground and go after the people using the illegal network.

So someone just has to figure out a way to hide the uplink.
No ammount of voting makes the government liable to foot a bill. Government has no money of its own, it takes it from someone else.
To clarify, I meant you'd learn more (in a general sense) from activities other than watching sports.

If you're looking to build expertise in a given sport, I agree that watching it is probably one of the best ways to do so.
Can you elaborate on your reasoning for that?
You conflating political rhetoric with government policies is predictable but no less disappointing. Throughout this thread you have moved the goal posts, begged the question, and strawman'd in circles, all to signal to presumably someone just how virtuous you are. Pathetic, really, but again expected.
I’d argue that most people are aware of the working environment at Apple (which has changed, by the way-I know many people who 9-5, though many of those close to deadlines still do work more) and the gaming industry, just as they know what it’s like to work at Facebook.
> I like to call this Michael Jackson Syndrome.

Uhh I definitely wouldn't compare Michael Jackson to a Zuckerbot/Sandberg (the latter were raised in seemingly wholesome suburban families and just seem to have ego/greed issues, while the former (not being a saint himself or anything) was the victim on an abusive/oppressive childhood). Don't really want to get into this, as it'd be an unrelated tangent.

TLDR: this is a horrible attempt at drawing a parallel
I wasn't aware of the assistance programs. I'll have to look that up and see if my state has that and pass along that info, if the service is available.
I was using this particular case as an example of why those of us in the U.S should be grateful for the First Amendment.

You understood that from the beginning but it rubbed you the wrong way for some reason. Let me guess, you think that offensive speech shouldn't fall under the protection of the 1st Amendment? That would be a real shocker.
I am not making an argument about an idiot minister, I'm objecting to the notion put forward by the GP that only those with explicit previous experience of a process can manage people performing it.
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