skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously, if you implement a quota, the representation will rise. That says nothing about the side effects, or even the motivation of women to aim for higher careers in general.

As for the research showing higher profitability for diverse teams: a lot if it is about diversity of thought, not diversity of genders. But even if you take gender into account, you have to also consider economic trends. Businesses that flourish might simply be more able to afford women (who are more costly employees than men, if only because of the sick days and higher likelihood to drop out because of pregnancy). So the correlation would actually be inverse (success would cause more female employees, not the other way round). Or think about oil industry vs tech industry. Fewer women work in mining, but the tech industry was exceptionally successful in recent years. It might just be a random artifact that more women work in tech than in mining, and tech happened to be more successful.

If you look at such papers, always pay attention to the interval they use for claiming "more success". If they say "from 2009 to 2016 diverse companies were more successful", bet you ass that if you look at the data from 2000 to 2018, the correlation fades away.
HN is not a megacorp that forces websites to use an awful amp version of their own websites. HN only provide a simple link and heading.
The interminable pile of pop-ups on the EU web has become extremely annoying, and I don't blame ad firms and publishers for seeking to minimise the disruption to the user experience.

At the same time, the protections that the GDPR seeks to provide are very important and it's absolutely right to protect them in law.

But what value is there in constant boxes that users become accustomed to clicking through like trained monkeys? It devalues the whole point of the GDPR because no sane person would actually read the policies for every single website to see if their data is being used reasonably or not.

I personally think that there should be a limited, well-defined set of data that can be transmitted to ad exchanges under an assumed consent. Fully anonymised and broad demographic data (eg: age range, sex, city, etc) for example. Anything beyond that should require an explicit consent.

This should encourage most publishers to do the right thing, because if you're doing something that requires a consent pop-up, it probably means you're up to no good.
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I know what you mean about Matlab as a software engineer. But it seems like non-software engineers like aerospace love "autocode" to get their Matlab code in embedded systems. I know for a fact such technology has been used in spacecraft if it makes you feel any better.
I'm sure they do, and that's an axiomatic statement that can be horribly, catastrophically wrong but makes them feel better about their lives.

Never underestimate the very human emotional motivation of coming up with a pleasing rationalization. Just because someone earnestly says 'we are helping, so much!' doesn't mean they're correct.
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Exactly opposite. They are getting their traffic from aggregators (does not matter whether Google, Facebook or anyone else), they do not have brands with big enough recognition to stand on their own.

In the eshop part of the web, there are price aggregators and the eshops pay them for the traffic they are getting, i.e. exactly opposite as the news publishers demand. It would be nonsense, if the eshops demanded that the aggregators pay them, because they make use of data of their sortiment or whatever. Even Amazon pays for the referrals, it is not being paid by the referrals for the privilege of being one.

It was always that he, who brings the customers, is getting paid for that. Not vice-versa.
I learned about this stuff from the Robert Caro series. After reading these and the Power Broker, I find it hard to believe that it would be any different nowadays.
I don't know what the current methods would be, but why would we assume it's any better?

If it is better, it would be because:

(1) people are 'better' now - probably not true

(2) the preventative measures in place now are better - but we know the lengths that these people will go to perpetuate corruption, so I just assume they've probably found other roundabout ways.

The same goes for elections. LBJ bringing thousands of Mexicans over the border to vote in Texas elections and eventually stealing the his seat in the Senate. Why should we believe that there isn't similar violations happening now? I personally doubt the extent of corruption has changed at all, only that it is more sophisticated. I have no confidence in public elections or the sanctity of government as a result.
I'm completely disillusioned and I have no intention of participating at all.

FWIW, I'm not from the USA, but I believe the same principle holds across the world
Famed and Lesser-Known Shrines of Architectural Splendor in India
Privacy implications here are huge, and dnsmasq already has this implemented.
>At around that time, de Putron got involved in another legal dispute that foreshadowed his companies’ campaign against Xu. The year before, a group of five programmers and managers had left G-Research, then known as GR Software & Research Ltd., to start their own trading outfit. The company responded by first threatening a lawsuit, then, in 2011, by filing one. None of the filings suggested anything had been stolen, but G-Research argued that the five had developed their quant-trading skills at the company, and so any new platform would have to be similar and an infringement of its intellectual property.
Of the dark patterns I've found in this space, theirs is the worst so far. They hide away what they plan to do, and if you start digging in to try to find controls... well good luck, I haven't found any. You can get to all sorts of policies, various login pages and lots of spurious info, but as yet no controls.

Other dark patterns I've seen are -

A page attempts to put you off by making you manually deactivate hundreds of different services if you object to them (though they of course have a handy 'enable all' button).

A page gives you a big green "Accept All" button, and a 'reject all' option which looks greyed out and is smaller. When pressed it takes you to another dialog with a big green "Go Back" button and another, smaller, dimmer link for "Leave". The "Leave" link is the one that gets you back to the page, rejection preference intact.

These seem contrary to the spirit of the GDPR, I guess we'll see in time if they are deemed to contravene the law. The TC/Oath one definitely seems to be over the line.

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Missed one -
A page allows you to set various controls and sliders to reject its data sharing, but then sits for several minutes "processing" your lack of consent. When it eventually completes you get a message saying that they don't have a version of the page they can show you without the data sharing cookies, so sorry, please check again in a few months.
No Fake News: Yemen 85,000 children may have died from starvation
Stop thinking of Kubernetes as an easy way to scale ops for a single app, and start thinking of Kubernetes as an easy way to scale ops for non-trivial amount n apps.

If you're a startup with a monolith then sure, you probably don't need Kubernetes. If you're not using Heroku/GAE/etc. then you generate a machine image from your app, deploy it behind a load balancer (start with two servers), and use some managed database for the backend. That's pretty simple. You can scale development without scaling the size of your ops team (1-2 people, only need two if you're trying to avoid bus factor 1), at least until you need to outscale a monolith.

If you need to run a bunch of applications, made by a bunch of different teams (let alone when they don't work for you - i.e. an off-the-shelf product from a vendor), then using a managed Kubernetes provider makes this relatively simple without needing more people. If you try to do that without containers and orchestration, and want to keep a rapid pace of deployment, and not hire tons more people, you will go crazy.
> most load balancers are reverse of what makes most sense: the app servers ought to connect to the load balancer and tell it when it can service more requests, not get things pushed at it

Reminds me of Mongrel2
On a brighter note, wouldn't that in effect destroy jobs that have little human-added value?
Leaving us with creative jobs and UBI?
> Simply that quotas work and encouragement doesn't

I wonder what other outcome one might expect from quotas.
> Super! So we should Open Source Hiri tomorrow. And I would love to. But there is a serious problem with this argument. If we do Open Source Hiri, there is nothing to stop someone from forking it and selling it for less /offering it for free. We die.

Sorry, but it seems you don't know the landscape at all if this is truly your honest opinion. Open source companies making a profit and not being forked to death is not a new thing.

I can name almost every profit-making OSS project/organization ever to counter this. <project x> is open source, why are they still going strong, making money? Why has their project not been forked and sold for less?

It's not that simple in practice. As projects grow in size they require paid manpower to be competitive in terms of features, security, bugs fixed, etc, and implementation speed. While in theory projects can be, and in practice are forked all the time, they are rarely forked and undersold in the manner you fear, and if attempted, they will quickly lag behind your project if they don't have the necessary man hours and expertise. Most forks are hobby/personal, some form a small community, rarely do we see what you seem to think is a huge risk.

Another factor is the brand, the name and reputation you have built, customer relations, support deals, you can't just fork these things.

Microsoft could open source the entirety of their software today without financial risk.
In order to prevent additional illness.
> But what I didn't understand was that mostly we made money when other people lost it.

Where did / do you think money comes from?
I would like to have my own self-hosted bakery!
Vi is on every linux server.

Easy to move between words, sentences, pages.

Macros are amazing.

IDE's are really, really slow to load when you just want to edit one thing.

Sometimes the syntax highlighting errors that aren't there can be an eye sore, ES6 syntax on Webstorm for example.

So many things seem unnecessary in an IDE, I won't ever need some tab or button, so why clutter my screen with it? I would say it's also true for a lot of the features you get. You probably don't need most of them, but there they are distracting you.
Wooden bikes
Vim has macros[1] and other replay tools for occasions like that.

I think the issue with Vim isn't so much that things can't be done in it but more that the discoverability of Vim features is pretty poor. eg by the time you've searched the web for a quick way to do a multiline edit, you could have just done it manually. GUI IDEs tend to be better for discoverability (generally speaking).

[1]https://www.tutorialspoint.com/vim/vim_macros.htm
Two points:

* We have no idea of how to measure intelligence, and we have no way of deciding whether thing X is more or less intelligent than thing Y. (The article makes this point.) Therefore, superintelligence is perhaps a bogus concept. I know it seems implausible, but perhaps there can never be something significantly more intelligent than us.

* Nevertheless, mere human-like intelligence, if made faster, smaller and with better energy-efficiency, could cause the same runaway scenario that people worry about: imagine a device that can simulate N humans at a speed M times faster than real time, and those humans designed and built the device and can improve its design and manufacture.

In general, I see a lot of merit in the arguments on both sides of this discussion.
> Google News links duplicating the headline and providing a summary.

What summary? I only see headlines on Google news. Where is the summary?

Often there's long headlines, but that's just writers trying to get good at SEO. Not that I mind long-ish descriptive headlines, but it's not content, it's still just link text, and an editorial choice to cram it with an entire paragraph.
Personally, I prefer the prank in which the Hollywood sign read 'Caltech.'[1]

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/1987-05-19/local/me-1219_1_calte...
Only the "brain" on your analogy is extremely inefficient at locating resources, and the people that compose it are utterly unsuited for that responsibility, driven by amoral greed (with no thought to other considerations), and in that place mostly by a mixture of birth and luck rather than competence.
The link tax is an end to organic search results. You want to be found on google, then you’ll need to buy clicks using adwords. Google wins
> Since introduction of quotas, Italy saw women's representation soar from 8% to 32%

And how much of this is because of quotas?

Australia (ASX200) went from 8.3% in 2009 to 28.5% in 2018 without a quota system.
Prions are truly scary, this article [0] from earlier this year is a bit more in-depth and links to many other interesting sources of information. One thing that particularly concerns me for the future is a potential plague or weaponisation. Prions can be transferred through vectors such as the digestive system [1] and even via air [2].

[0] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/prions-ar...

[1] http://www.scielo.br/pdf/cta/v34n3/01.pdf

[2] https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...
Why $5 Starbucks gift cards and not $5 cash?
Just the other day I installed the latest lineageos on my original moto G, I think thats from 2013. And it works great.

Edit: actually, when I say 'latest' I mean 'latest available for the moto g'. I'm not 100% sure that's the very latest version that exists.
This seems wrong on its face: it conflates intelligence and consciousness (hence the various premises about brains being computable). You don't need a machine to be conscious for it to be intelligent, or superintelligent.
> That is, why is the unconscious so loathe to speak to us?

Well, if it spoke to us it would not be UNconscious.
Yeah, my current Emacs session is using 2 GB of RAM and that is considered low memory usage these days.
> In general, I see a lot of merit in the arguments on both sides of this discussion.

That's great news. One side is alarmist about a potential humanity extinction event, the other side is not. Even a small chance that the alarmists are right means we should take their view seriously, right?
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Ada Palmer / Too Like the Lightning is fantastic. The ideas are breathtaking, the characters are fascinating, and as the plot and the world is revealed, you can’t help but be in awe of the author’s storytelling.
How durable are wooden bikes?
>We are talking about a specific guy

A specific guy that got a lot of money anonymously and is an acting AG
It's 20 days in the UK. https://www.gov.uk/make-a-freedom-of-information-request/how...
>good bye and good riddance.

I use it all the time and would miss it. I have no desire for the EU to regulate useful, free, non profit services out of my life.
For an article that looks like typewritten pages, you'd think it would be perfect for printing. But it gets horribly butchered if you try to print it or save it as a PDF. Modern web development has robbed us of the beauty and simplicity of plain text.
You only have to read the policies if you are interested in sharing the data and this can be linked properly. I don't see a problem there (besides the fact that many pages are not even able to link to the proper pages of course).

The design of the wall of buttons is another topic. There is a design opportunity for a good solution there. Unfortunately what I see is the opposite. Pages that try to trick you into consent, pages who seem to link to other pages "checking something", "loading", "I'm sorry, try later", plainly not working buttons or no way to check all to "do not allow" but one button to "allow all". I really hope people who install those will pay and disappear when someone has finally enough of this crap.
I can't trust anything which based on Xen and doesn't have a battalion of paid engineers for support.
> But what value is there in constant boxes that users become accustomed to clicking through like trained monkeys?

There is none, however it seems to me that a lot of these are going to be considered illegal after a while, particularly the ones that default-enable a ton of stuff under the cover of a single OK button.

What would be really, really nice to see would be the web industry engaging with this properly, and changing their attitudes to private data, instead of effectively trying to hide behind multiple levels of disclaimer and implementing dark patterns to try to work around it.

> This should encourage most publishers to do the right thing, because if you're doing something that requires a consent pop-up, it probably means you're up to no good.

This is already the case, as far as a lot of privacy campaigners are concerned. If you're not planning on using my data in nefarious ways (sharing it with commercial interests for money), but only use it in ways that support providing me the service (technically, not financially) we're golden, and you don't need any consent.
TL;DR: don't sniff browsers, sniff features; check your stats to see where to make the cutoff.
> Yes it may cause some business models to disappear, but I feel it's worth it to take back control of our privacy.

Good, hopefully we'll see some real innovation, with wide spread micropayments, rather than brainwashing which costs the viewer of the site far more than the recipient of the site gets.
Lead Generation vs. Demand Generation
C. S. Lewis on interest (from Mere Christianity):

>There is one bit of advice given to us by the ancient heathen Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest: and lending money at interest — what we call investment — is the basis of our whole system. Now it may not absolutely follow that we are wrong. Some people say that when Moses and Aristotle and the Christians agreed in forbidding interest (or “usury” as they called it), they could not foresee the joint stock company, and were only dunking of the private moneylender, and that, therefore, we need not bother about what they said.

>That is a question I cannot decide on. I am not an economist and I simply do not know whether the investment system is responsible for the state we are in or not. This is where we want the Christian economist. But I should not have been honest if I had not told you that three great civilizations had agreed (or so it seems at first sight) in condemning the very thing on which we have based our whole life.
> maybe life is common, but sending messages clearly over interstellar distances is pointless and extremely expensive

It certainly is. I've heard that we wouldn't be able to detect Earth's most powerful broadcasts from a distance of half a light year. So expecting broadcasts to make it across interstellar distances is ridiculous. Tight beam signals might work, but then you've got to know somebody is listening. Nobody knows anyone here is listening, so nobody is sending anything to us.

But I thought the real paradox according to Fermi is not that we don't receive signals, but that they're not already here. If interstellar travel and colonisation is even the slightest bit possible, and spacefaring civilisations are somewhat common, then some of them must have had a millions or billions of years head start on us, which should have been plenty to colonise the entire galaxy. Why did nobody discover this fertile planet somewhere during the age of the dinosaurs?

The obvious solution here is of course that interstellar travel is so impractical that even in a million years, nobody will ever colonise another solar system.

That, or Erich von Daniken was right.
I hate gift cards. "Here, rather than crassly giving you actual money, I've spent that money on this company scrip that you can only use in one place. Aren't you excited?" Great idea, just brilliant. I'll add it to the stack of worthless iTunes cards and cards for restaurants that don't have a franchise within 500 miles...
Pretty durable. Better than carbon and can compete with aluminium – since the build is filled.
Can't over state how amazing the three body problem was.
Changing your political regime gives you UBI. That's literally the only way to get UBI. It's not gonna happen magically by itself.
The EU Terrorist Content Regulation – a threat to the ecosystem and user rights
This seems more like an empty threat and a bargaining position. If they wanted to shut down they would, not leak to the media incessantly about their intentions.

Why are they pushing amp on publishers if this content doesn't matter to Google? This is extremely self serving and then trying to play innocent is disingenuous and predatory.

There are no principles at stake here, only the exploitative business interests of a monopolistic business. The standard PR playbook of misinformation, lobbying, 'think tanks' and and 'helpful' opinion pieces is being rolled out, which is the predictable reaction of any well resourced interest hellbent on getting their their way.
The constant boxes are actually against the spirit of the GDPR and it's only a matter of time until they are banned as well.

The GDPR requires all tracking to be opt-in and to be completely optional. Blocking access to a page by requiring the users to tick one or more permission boxes is not opt-in. The same is true for many other GDPR permission forms (like Tumblr's) where all uses and parties were/are enabled by default and one needs to disable each one individually.

It's a matter of time before one of these big firms gets investigated for these practices and a fine is dropped. Publishers will learn to stick to the rules soon enough.
Thank you for the elaboration. Good point.
News sites complain about Google stealing their content, which is why the law came into existance in the first place. Which is, of course, ridiculous, because they profit a lot from the eyeballs sent their way by Google.

It's just plain greed, and I'd rather have Google shut down their news service instead of getting some unholy exemption which would stiffle innovation in the news gathering area.
AdGuard DNS
There seems to be a fundamental lack of understanding of finance in this thread, even from those that have worked in financial companies.

"First, Finance" is an extremely nebulous term, encompassing many subfields.

At its core, a financial firm like a proprietary trading company that invests money creates value by attempting to optimize the allocation of capital.

Do we give money to Google and trust that they will turn it into something more or do we give it to Elon Musk?

It turns out that this is really hard to do. If this were easy, pro sports players wouldn't go broke funding terrible projects.

While they don't have a direct hand in product design, creation, or sales, they have an indirect one.

Of course, there are firms that really abstract themselves from this process and basically just play the market as a game, with 100% technical analysis and short term positions and no fundamental analysis.
It’s just a bad user experience.

If Microsoft is an issue there are self-hosted options available like GitLab.