skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see your point, but is it even possible to build a study demonstrating what would happen if the pay gap disappeared at scale ?

Any study that would for instance focus on a microcosm where women earn as much as men wouldn’t be isolated by the rest of society’s effect on the individual’s value system or image of success.

What I mean is culture is influenced by reality, movies like Pretty Woman weren’t setup that way by pure imagination, the authors still wanted a somewhat realistic starting situation.

Same with parents raising their kids, the culture they foster depends on their experience of life. If for their whole existence women couldn’t build a family without their career getting in the way, they’ll hedge their bets when raising their daughters.

I don’t think the author’s proposition will easily pass in the current political climate, but I’d see the value in trying to change reality first, to have people acknowledge that the game has changed, and think for themselves better strategies for their life.

I’d compare it as how family values have changed in countries where elderly get government help. While for centuries they’d clinge to their kids as the primary source of retirement support, once a generation or two actualy saw that they could mostly get by by themselves, kids/parents relations changed, culture changed.
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actually it was columns, he just put “rows” to give you the same unknown feeling
No. We can have the philosophical and biological discussions without useless moralizing. I have been vegan most of my life but I question whether animals emotions are as similar to ours as many seem to be implying here.
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Just curious - why is a video with a bunch of slides a better way to present these ideas than a monograph or essay? Guess I'm just old-fashioned, but I prefer print because I don't need to click a pause button in order to think when something interesting comes up.
Harder but not beyond us. Per https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/230973/how-can-w... at this point we would be able to pick up Jupiter and Saturn around another star.
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> There's a reason we call it beef and not cow.

Yeah, the Norman conquest. Other languages don't have this division.
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Religion is a philosophy, and philosophies are the models we construct of reality in order to explain and predict. It seems undoubtable that many animals construct models of reality, and indeed we have seen them display behavior consistent with models we would associate with religion. Elephants, for instance, appear to practice some form of reverence for their dead by visiting and touching their bones.
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dogs are so socially adept. =)

while she has anxiety issues at home (probably abused before), my dog is a social butterfly when we're out. she knows who might give her treats and who might be a threat, approaching the former happily and the latter cautiously. she can get shy/awkward dogs to play with her while keeping aggressive dogs from getting too amped up. i still have a lot to learn from her.
Oh sure – the first few years of my tech career involved a lot of scraping data from the websites of enterprise tools because their APIs were either incomplete or nonexistent. It was annoying, but never unexpected.
I'm suggesting a system where you prove that you know a secret by exchanging a token. You're proposing a system where you prove you know a secret by telling everyone who asks you for it and hope they forget it later. (And somehow think that this is a workable long-term system that resolves the problems of the values we have now which work exactly the same way...)

There's nothing about the former system that requires the things you are stuck on. (And I honestly think you're just being stubborn for some reason, because I'm pretty sure you understand the idea I'm conveying.) You could do it over the phone using a touch-tone system. You could do it through a website. You could do it with an app. You could do it with a hard or soft token. You could do it with a smartcard. The only requirement is that you are capable of telling your secret to the central authority in exchange for a token, in a way that it is very difficult for others to observe. Or, alternatively, to have come to an agreement about how to generate such tokens offline.

But the important part is that in the system I'm talking about, you get a secret value from a central authority. And then you don't tell anyone that secret except that same central authority. Everyone else sees temporary values that are useless if saved -- no pinky promises and laws required.
I had something like this happen to me while getting a phone plan. I have great credit, and was working for a well known silicon valley tech company with great pay, but because I couldn't remember the exact month I started a job over 25 years ago, I could only get a prepay plan. It was almost amusing.
The smart young coder needs to plan for being tossed on the trash heap somewhere between 35 & 45. So live frugally and build your "on the trash heap" fund.
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Right. This has been my preferred solution to the paradox as well, for the last several years. More and more evidence seems to point towards the Drake Equation simply not sufficiently accounting for uncertainty [1].

There are a few planets and moons in our system that have or had the potential for life, but upon which there's been no evidence for intelligent life, if any life is to be found on them at all: Mars, Europa, Ganymede, among others. While this would seem to increase the probability of life in other solar systems, seeing observable life on only one of the worlds in our system really has a negative impact on the overall odds of life in the universe.

Whether a moon is necessary or not for life on Earth [2], it remains that a stable tilt is currently thought to be critical for the development of complex life. We also had the benefit of an asteroid that obliterated the dominant species of the planet and changed the environment sufficiently to allow for new species to take their place. Hundreds of millions of years of flourishing life also provided us with the abundant, cheap energy sources in the forms of coal and oil that we needed to build civilizations.

There's also an open question as to whether evolution necessarily leads to intelligent species. Earth had large, complex lifeforms for 165 million years, and none of them appear to have developed civilizations. Human societies have existed for just 50,000 years if you take a very liberal definition of "society". Research has found an evolutionary fluke that fed lots of oxygen-rich blood to hominid brains [3]; other research has suggested that intelligence is not only not an evolutionary advantage, it's a disadvantage, due to the much higher calorie diet required to sustain it.

And finally, our universe may not have been hospitable to advanced civilizations until only (geologically) recently. It took a billion years for the universe to form galaxies and stars and planets [4]; it was a more chaotic, hot, radiation-rich universe before our solar system was born. Any civilizations which developed much before our own solar system may have met a premature end by radiation or cosmic debris.

Given the empirical lack of observable life in the universe so far, and that continuing research keeps growing rather than reducing the number of special cases that led to human civilization on Earth, it seems likely to me that even if there are other intelligent civilizations in the cosmos, they are approximately as young as we are, too far away and technologically primitive to make contact.

[1]: A good paper on this from last year: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02404.pdf [pdf]

[2]: https://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/the-odds-for-life-on...

[3]: https://theconversation.com/how-our-species-got-smarter-thro...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_universe
Reminds me of this: http://time.com/5412458/are-dogs-smart/ "Your Dog Is Probably Dumber Than You Think." Dogs are about as smart as other mammals like cats or pigs. Most anecdotes of dog intelligence are blown out of proportion by doting dog owners, especially those in this thread. Articles about dogs are millennial bait.
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We've been using golinks.io for a few months now at my current employer, and it's been very well received by folks, with both technical and non-technical users adopting it quickly.

Variable links are very useful - links like "go/monitoring/alpha", "go/monitoring/beta" (with a template "go/monitoring/$1 -> $1.example.com"), make it super easy to keep things up to date.
We have a usable energy constraint.
On a related note, this recent article explores the idea that life may be inevitable. (An idea going back at least as far as Ilya Prigogine.)

https://qz.com/1539551/is-the-universe-pro-life-the-fermi-pa...

"According to the inevitable life theory, biological systems spontaneously emerge because they more efficiently disperse, or “dissipate” energy, thereby increasing the entropy of the surroundings. In other words, life is thermodynamically favorable."
I think you missed the point, this is more vegans by choice or conscience, as Bruce the shark would say "Fish are friends.".
Why would you want to avoid the Visual Studio debugger? Can anyone enlighten me? I personally haven't encountered a better debugger yet, so I'm puzzled.
IBM Cloud Foundry Enterprise Edition [1] "IBM Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment uniquely unites two powerhouse open-source projects: Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. The enthusiastic adoption of Kubernetes in the cloud market merited a closer look at how customers could leverage both platforms (one focused on applications and the other focused on containers as the primary units of business function) to build coherent cloud solutions."

Eirini [2] "Run Cloud Foundry Applications in Kubernetes"

IBM Cloud Private (self-managed K8s) CFEE [3] "Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment platform brings the same level of application capability that you experience in IBM Cloud and IBM Cloud Dedicated to your data center. It runs directly on IBM® Cloud Private by using Kubernetes containers."

[Disclosure: I'm an IBMer and CF Enthusiast]

[1] . https://www.ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2018/10/ibm-cloud-foundry-...

[2] . https://www.cloudfoundry.org/project-eirini/

[3] . https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSBS6K_3.1.2/...
One way to generate a sequence of heads and tails is to start with either heads or tails, then randomly choose how many of those to use before switching to the other. You're sampling the length of runs. e.g. Heads, then choosing 12113 would translate to HTTHTHHH.

It feels easier to ditch some of my biases generating a sequence this way.
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Sounds like you are describing FIRE -- (Financial Independence, Retire Early).
I sorta agree. The vast majority of people that I know are incapable or lack the discipline of working from home while staying 100% focused.
It doesn't help with cost of living, but it does help open the door to a new pool of founders that can't/don't want to live in the Bay Area for any number of reasons.

If there are enough quality founders and enough quality investors, it seems reasonable that YC could provide value to a new region by filtering for quality and facilitating new connections within the network
I would expect there to be very marked jump between the rockness and the computations with the simplest consciousness, that will allow to assign them to different classes instead of having a continuous spectrum going to zero with temperature.

Kind of similar to the way how behavior of cellular automata changes between the predictable patterns and chaotic ones. (But i wouldn't bet all my money on it, only the half:)
Our understanding of exoplanets is analogous to a 3 month old toddler exploring the world. It's _way_ too early to be making definitive statements about it.
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Really? I can’t think of a more empowered group today than software engineers. You can work at a large company and get predictable compensation. Alternately, you can work at a startup with the promise of a multi million dollar IPO. I’m each case, you can leverage multiple offers to negotiate higher compensation in equity or salary.

If neither of those appeals to you, you can start your own company. There are ideas that generate predictable income comparable to a day job, or you can go for your own start up home run.

If you think the Lyft founders are undeserving, then go out and start your own Lyft!
Sam finally too far off the deep end
In early 2001 when I was laid off from a startup for the first time, the CTO told me "Don't worry, it is __always__ for the best," which I took to be an empty platitude at the time.

18 years, 4 layoffs (and 1 walkoff) later, I can reflect back and say that he was only being emphatically honest. Each departure led to generous advancement, the sort that does not seem to come, these days, from loyalty to one's company or present role.
Everything you mention is a byproduct of one factor: density. Density of people determines housing and economics and transportation and everything else that makes a suburb different than a city. And while I agree that there is a continuous spectrum there, the dichotomy is anything but false. The noisy, dirty, cramped city might as well be on a different planet from the quiet, disperse suburbs 30 minutes away. The lifestyles and experiences of the two places are very different.
yes, our tilted tax system let them do that without any repercussion. not only can they keep doing business as they always have, they get extra incentive on top. let's just equalize the tax treatment of individuals and corporations already.
Did you consider the possibility that not all prison guards are awful human beings who'd like to punish inmates for wanting to communicate with people outside?

You don't need to be incompetent or corrupt to be okay with this, you just need to be human.
I live by salt water. Salt water destroys everything. Sometimes quickly but always eventually. Ok, maybe not fish.
No, that's actually exactly what you do.
Well, sure. I don't think anyone who's encountered an angry cat can deny that cats are capable of anger.

Equivalently, you could say our emotions are the subjective experience of our ancient animal instincts.
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To me, this feeling comes from knowing where the bottom is. This is different from person to person. For me, the bottom is being beaten by my drug dealer in a run down building with nowhere to go. I have never visited this place, but I know people who have. The further from the bottom you are, the more you get to live it up.
All of this boils down to the same thing. Labor arbitrage.

D&I benefits those trying to increase the supply of coders and via supply and demand reduce the rates. Older engineers are going to want more money etc.. Of course a nice benefit with the movement (for those who want to exert downward pressure on the wages) is that many D&I initiatives also tend to be ageist. IE: accusing the previous generation for enabling bad behavior, stating that the majority of older workers are white/male anyways etc.. Older workers generally are more skeptical of the D&I efforts. The D&I supporters have a penchant for getting people fired etc. for expressing any dissenting views against the cause...even if the person expressing the dissent is an under-represented person.

For the ones trying to reduced labor costs it kills two birds with one stone. They get an expanded pool of labor. Plus the D&I crowd does most the dirty work for pushing out older workers. Now rinse wash and repeat with importing workers from low cost countries. The rich get richer and the rank and file engineers get caught up in the battles as either active participants or collateral damage.

It has very little to do with doing things that are morally right and all about money. The moral outrage distracts everybody and keeps the infighting going so that the labor does not organize and target the real problem.
I'd be interested to see aggregate demographics for software engineering, but I don't think that two, primarily SV, companies accurately portray our industry/field.
At this point in the game you should simply admit that whatever it is you're arguing has absolutely nothing to do with Adam Smith.

Because it doesn't.
On the contrary - GAAP earnings give the most accurate picture of cold hard cash. That is the reason they exist , and securities regulators are specific about its definition.

Paper gains are notoriously easy to stretch.
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> We’re talking about 31 million lines of data here (all lines with Swiss email addresses in the leak). On our workstation, reducing this to the distinct email addresses (approx. 3,3 million) took a mere 10.099 seconds (4 + 6 + .099).

That's just 700MB of data... On my 5 year old middle-class PC this took 12 seconds with sort and uniq.

$ wc -l email30m
31000000 email30m

$ time sort email30m | uniq > email30m.uniq

real 0m11.498s
user 0m33.833s
sys 0m0.933s

$ wc -l email30m.uniq
2172320 email30m.uniq

This automatically split the task into all available CPU cores.
The 90% I am talking about is a 12~ mile stretch of poorly maintained highway near Detroit usually in stop and go traffic and yes I am paying attention.

I wouldn't quantify the value in real money. I would say the main benefit provides is that I have much less decision fatigue and am less stressed after my commute. I also don't care how fast I really get there anymore since I just optimize for less stress, and my trip is enjoyable.

The other main value I commonly see overlooked is safety from distracted people. If we can assume people are going to keep texting and driving ( they are ), would you want them to do it while actually driving or with this system engaged?
Yeah, it is pretty remarkable. I consider it non controversial at this point that many of humans favorite meals are certainly capable of a lot of suffering.
I think csv (with a separator of your choice) would be ideal.

It wouldn't require special tools but it could work with them.

You could save the column headers, types and separator in extended attributes.
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> Uber has a lot more leeway in how it can reallocate resources if one local competitor decides to spring up in some random market, just from its sheer scale

So, the end-game is driving competitors out of local markets, by using profits from other markets?

This sounds like a great argument for Uber getting broken up, as a monopoly - if it actually achieves this endgame.
This is really bittersweet news.

On the one hand, this is a huge loss for YC. Sam's energy and vision helped herald in YC v2.0. His leadership will be sorely missed.

On the other hand, I'll sleep better at night knowing he's dedicating himself fully to AI safety and the work of OpenAI. There's no one I'd rather have leading the effort to ensure AI development doesn't lead to a dark future.
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by Darwin, Charles

Publication date 1873

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.43657/page/n3
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I learned what you did. But, I also learned a lot of users are not seeking those things too.

Now, they get to do them, us, us. No worries, but it's kind of a shame.

We've got a smart crowd, and do hobble ourselves more than we need to.
It's hard to decide based on the article whether she's guilty or not, but I wonder if the school will be required to furnish strong evidence if it hopes to collect on the loans.
IIRC they were concerned about having retractable legs beneath the heat shield so in terms of complexity the water landing is safer.
If you own a MacBook Pro with Touch Id I highly recommend https://github.com/sekey/sekey. It generates ssh keys in the secure enclave (mini HSM chip) and allows you to login to remote machines with Touch Id. The key can never leave the secure enclave.
God said it was cool.
See previous discussion of this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18939913
That's using the end user's cores. Using something at programming-time could be something like static analysis. Then there are entire tests the programmer doesn't have to write and bugs that never get pushed.
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interesting work and (not cs graduate degree here) good output for MS thesis i'd say.

however it does seem to ignore other parallelism / userspace / packet processing efforts in other systems (freebsd netmap/negraph, netbsd bpfjit, the original BPF itself, etc) and 'confuse' layers of kernel vs userspace and pkt forwarding vs vpn - for example if userspace vs kernelspace networking stack is a 'solved' performance problem for custom applications, should not the focus be on comparing this toolkit with several kernel or kernel-bypassing mechanisms? that said, the comparison does seem 'complete' internally w/r/t the linux platform, so perhaps i should be less critical - esp since not everything can be done in a short time as for masters paper and this is more than I ever did:) . I suppose but given the amount of research and tools out there, some rationale as to the 'selection'/'combination' of presented aspects and a nod to these other areas as at least existing in the literature and having been considered in the topic i think would make this stronger.

still a good read and definately very well written/tested within the topic area, the instrumentation and using fast dynamic languages for prototyping and attempts to quantify vpn performance w/r/t packet processing & cpu i think is great from 'methods'/'theory' perspective.
i only want to back up a few git repos, so i use aws' git hosting service, "code commit". it costs me <= $1 / month -- i suspect it might actually be $0 / month and the $1 charge is from some other aws service i am using.

i have other repos stored for free in private github or bitbucket accounts, but i prefer to be a paying customer for storing some things that i feel are more critical.

edit: it looks like aws code commit storage costs are 0.06 $ gb^{-1} month^{-1} -- about 10x the cost of the wasabi storage mentioned elsewhere in this discussion. but the first 50 gb month^{-1} is free.
I would gladly pay more than a cab to continue to have the convenience of being able to get a ride when and where I need it.

I remember back in the pre-rideshare days, trying to call a cab ahead of time, and having them simply not show up, with no warning or notification.
He's right. Is there any better way to quantitatively measure one's judgement than to make public bets on future events against people who are willing to put money on the other side? Yeah it comes across as smug, but 19-0 is 19-0. I think your response is unproductive and dismissive without directly addressing anything, and is therefore annoying.
I am curious about this as well. Was the propulsion the problem? Did they just want a water landing? Did they specifically want an ocean landing to increase the acceptable margin for error in the splash down location? Is there some specific property to the salt water like buoyancy that is important? Would a landing in fresh water like the Great Lakes (or Lake Victoria if they need something more equatorial) meet NASA's requirements and allow the capsule to be reusable?