skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't agree more. If I went to a software job and started reading that stuff I'd get moved into hardware :)

I suppose that's a credit to all the engineers who build all the middle layers that allow software engineers to float along at an abstract and more productive level.
Same here, my grandmothers and great aunt raised me when my parents had to work. In the late 80s...it’s not uncommon, especially in immigrant families. It is seen as a good thing, not something to be ashamed about.
I suspect this varies highly with the jurisdiction, and the ownership's management of the site.
This is the sad state of most content sites. I usually am fine with it as well, but not when I get loud ads where I cannot tell what it is coming from. That is the straw that breaks the camel's back for me.
This should be matched with a lowered purchase price, because they're almost certainly going to be equipping cheaper tires w/a correspondingly low speed rating.
We should destroy phone numbers instead, not only for spam, but for privacy and security. You might as well wear an RFID on your collar.

Replace phone numbers with DNS and spam blocking. Change it when you want instead of asking your provider. Tell people to contact you through your website.
Or more realistic: Would a reasonable person accept $1000 a month or a 10% chance of a million dollars?
Now women will start justifying why they deserve that overpaid salary.
I apologize for being too negative about the tobacco, you are absolutely right. The paper concludes that it is hopeful for improving grain crop yields:

> We are optimistic that similar gains may be achieved and translated into increased yield in C3 grain crops because photorespiration is common to all C3 plants and higher photosynthetic rates under elevated CO2, which suppresses photorespiration and increases harvestable yield in C3 crops.

However, does not refute the other papers I have linked about C3/C4/CAM photosynthesis that suggest that C4 may not be universally beneficial, but an optimization in certain contexts only. I do hope enhancements to plants in agroforestry settings, or restorative agricultural practices in general, are also possible. Those are badly needed if we want to regenerate topsoil and perhaps even make food production a net carbon-sink.
Can't wait to see how Jordan Peterson uses this one...

[edit: minor wording change; why am I being downvoted? I'm seriously asking]
On the one hand I think women in general deserve this. The burden of raising our children falls disproportionately on women in our society (all societies?). The moms deserve a lot more than this in fact.

On the other hand, the idea of children being stuck in a daycare all day every day because both of their parents have to work full time just to survive breaks my heart.
I figured that was the answer for the hiring manager and all regular employees in the hiring chain, and wasn't implying that anyone might go digging in violation of the rules. (At least not since the early days where stories like that abound.) Wondering more about the HR department doing it under direct authorization of senior management. I assume that Facebook like most companies runs background checks on prospective employees. They must at least be tempted to include their own vast database as part of that background check. I could imagine an automated "security check" process that could be run on a profile without actually seeing that profile, and if it turned up red flags (keywords, high number of reported posts, etc.) HR goes digging further. Maybe not, but certainly wouldn't surprise me.
>I guess the though is that people are more likely to pick up if the number looks familiar? For me, it's just an indication of a robo call that I won't pick up.

That's probably good for the robo-callers. Just like with horrible spelling/grammar errors in spam emails, they don't mind if the smart folks can figure out their pattern. They are after the suckers born every minute.
Oh I feel so bad now. And I like the way you made it a class thing (used cars go just as fast as new cars by the way).
I recently turned on "do not disturb" mode on my pixel phone once I started getting about 400% more robocalls than real calls per day. It's actually nice because now my phone only rings for people in my contacts list. So I'm in whitelist mode.

However, it's insane that I have to do this. At this point, having a phone with actual phone service seems basically pointless. It's one of those things that I pay for because I'm so used to paying for it.
"I think it would quite quickly turn into yet another source of conflict between employees. "

there are plenty of environments where salaries are known and there is not more conflict than anywhere else. For example Congress staffers' salaries are public, there are huge pay differences for the same position but it sill works.

I think most arguments against transparency are spread by employers to keep the information asymmmwetry.In most markets the party that has more information will have the advantage.
Unable to Post Bail? You Will Pay for That for Many Years
I would actually be surprised if big corps didn't try to pull in more diversity from H1Bs, American universities are particularly bad at producing gender balanced graduating classes.
thanks! in the case of the cement market, carbon nanotubes have been used in 1% concentration to improve the lifespan of cement. 4 billion tons of cement are produced every year. If carbon nanotubes where used in all new cement mixtures, that would be 40 million tons of carbon nanotubes per year, which would consume 148 million tons of CO2 per year. But perhaps more importantly, carbon nanotubes would reduce the replacement frequency of cement structures. cement production is one of the largest industrial sources of carbon dioxide emissions.
Pretty sure this is a troll but if it's not then I Disagree.
I like to imagine (although it probabbly isn't true) that then I'd get less recruiter spam for jobs where they want to pay squat.... like "Did you check my salary and think you have something to offer? If so, let's talk."

Granted, that probabbly wouldn't stop recruiter spam and of course there is MUCH MORE to a good job than pay.
It's different because then not every "number" will result in a call being placed. Determining whether a number is valid requires making a call, which ties up robocallers.
Alphabet’s Chronicle Finally Launches–It’s Like Google Photos for Cybersecurity
Reuters said that google employees have also signed a letter protesting the company’s building of a censored search engine for China
If zoning and construction were sane I think something like prop13 would be a good thing. Nobody should be forced out of a home they could otherwise afford just because the taxes went up.
Solve.Care leverages Lyft to improve access to medical care
> the mother would be taking more time off while the husband works in the overwhelming majority of families

> Painting this as a "deepset cultural issue" and not a matter of practicality and biology is either missing the point, or intellectually dishonest.l

What part of human biology dictates that "the husband works in the majority of families"? That should like a deepset cultural issue to me
Reminiscent of Simpson's Paradox, the most famous example being a gender discrimination lawsuit alleging UC Berkeley discriminated against women in admissions (57% men vs. 43% women).

It turned out there WAS bias - in favor of the women!

"The lawsuit triggered a study. The study results showed that not only were women not discriminated against, but that women had a statistically significant advantage!

Here’s what happened. Some departments had high acceptance rates and some had low acceptance rates. Women applied to more competitive departments. Men applied to more accessible departments. Taken on the whole men had an advantage. When broken down per department it was women who were more favored."

https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/my_favorite_paradox/
CoreDNS: The DNS for cloud-native computing
"Uphill both ways"
Contacts-only whitelist with some work:

Default ring: silence, no vibration. Custom ringtone for everyone you actually want to pick up the phone and talk to. Yeah you gotta spend some time setting it up for your existing contacts, then spend 5s selecting a ring when you add a new contact.
A lot of people's pay at big tech companies is based on ability to negotiate at time of offer, not on job performance at the company. I know some women in the same role as me that got better initial offers because they were in a better position to negotiate. My assumption is that women that are underpaid because they didn't negotiate, or due to some other bias, or just due to random factors, would also want men in similar situations to be compensated equally.

Ideally two individuals in the same or similar roles, with similar performance over time in that role, should have the same salary regardless of background or negotiation ability. The major issue with this is that you can't reduce pay of rockstar negotiators (who may or may not be rockstar performers), and a correction that pays everyone as much as the highest earning equivalent employee might be hard for even Google to swallow.
You’re correct but that doesn’t stop them being useful.
I'm almost certain that's a troll or else someone that forgot a "/s"
Microsoft Lumia 950 got incredibly close to being a "desktop" phone. Continuum was ahead of the curve. It was really cool being able to Miracast to any capable screen and expand the phone out onto a larger screen, even if you still only had access to "mobile" apps on that larger screen, most just worked fine. Add a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse for even more of a "desktop phone" experience.

The interesting part too is right now people are playing with Windows 10 on ARM on the Lumia 950 hardware (which is supposed to be a generation too old in ARM processor, but seems in practice to work just fine). The latest Windows 10 on ARM builds have x86 emulation and Win32 support and suddenly you also have access to 32-bit Windows apps going back forever on the device. (One video has someone load up even Steam and Fallout 1 on that hardware.) So they truly are "desktop" phones today, just maybe too late for that to be useful to phone market.
> Are men really less performant than women on aggregate?

I don't think that's the conclusion being reached here. What I'm getting at is performance is a VERY hard thing to quantify to everyone's satisfaction (after all, I doubt anyone thinks that they aren't a valuable employee, and everyone has numerous examples of "well this other guy sucks, I'm much better than him"), but it has a major impact on pay.

But for this specific case, there's one of two things happening:

1. As another poster said, "men" is code for "men working under H1-B visas."
2. In an effort to not look sexist, Google let the pendulum swing the other way and pay women more out of general principle.
I feel like you're glossing over several factors. In your scenario:

1: Person must have physical access and control of your phone.

2: Person must have Phone pin-code or password, in order to unlock phone and access either SMS, banking app, or password app. Or somehow brute force password or decrypt phone contents.

3: Person must have either password for banking app or password to Password App to gain banking password.

If you're not using passwords (and different ones at that) for your phone, password manager, and banking apps, then that's the whole in your security, not from using SMS as a second factor.

There are issues with using SMS in 2FA, but it's not the issues that you've brought up.
Well it depends on the field. What is the ratio of male to female CS graduates? A quick check seems to say that in 2015 is was only 15% female.
> according to workplace experts

The media really needs to stop this practice of just saying "experts say" without any attribution.

I suggest when reading any article, when you read, "experts agree" or "sources say" or "critics have said" or "others are saying" -- just replace it with, "I, the author of this article, think ..."
I didn't see that in the article.
As someone that recently moved a couple thousand miles... This is... perfection.
Erasing Women in Tech: How 60 Minutes Ignored Women’s Voices, Stories, Expertise
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maybe because speed limits are arbitrary, inconsistent, and they change. why not just remove speed limits if your goal is to "solve 99% of speed 'crime'"? that's easier and a more consistent solution.
No need for dichotomy here. Both types of pollution (heat trapping molecules and plastics) are waste from a consumption culture that doesn't think long term about material life cycles. When we make progress as a species, we will realize that all environmental impact is interrelated and needs to be assessed well before we "move fast and break things"
Off-topic: Why almost all words in the title begin by an uppercase letter?
> direct comparisons only work in jobs that are essentially assembly line work

Counter-example: pay on commission. Salespeople are "directly compared", but are not doing exactly the same work. Still, the work they are doing is fungible—you can compute the value in dollars both of closing one big account, or ten small accounts, and compare those.

This is essentially how a very small subset of IT people get paid, as well: vulnerability researchers, who make a living off of bug bounty programs.

Attempts have been made to expand this approach. Some FOSS projects have bounties on each issue, where whoever submits a PR for that issue (that gets merged) gets paid the bounty.

The question is how to scale this approach to work that requires more than a single person to complete. (I.e. how to distribute the "spoils" of a bounty among a team.) There are historical examples one could look at of bounty programs where the entrants were teams (e.g. the Netflix Prize), but IIRC in none of them were any of the teams really motivated by the bounty above all; rather, they were just in competition with the other teams to be the first ones to solve an eminently-achievable-but-challenging problem, and it was competition for competition's sake—essentially, a sport.
You can do satellites and ISS with a feng though. Don’t have to go across or round, up is good too :)
Sorry, but i cannot see any good reason to trust the word of anyone from Facebook.
This company has shown that it is routinely deceptive and lying. Why woud this be an exception ?
I miss when Amazon was just a retailer, not a marketplace (or at least when it had the marketplace adequately fenced-off from its own retail). It had a lot more value to me as a consumer then.
I counted that as “repeat”, given that’s part of how this problem was first discovered.

On reflection though, that only works when you know roughly how many negative results get published: part of the problem with unreproducable results is that negatives have been difficult to publish, biasing publications so that entirely competent and honest mistakes are much more common than one would expect from just the p-value.
It's not a contest of who is more underpaid. This would indicate that Google systematically underpays, regardless of gender. THAT is the real issue here.
Add Xinjiang to the list of current ones - from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/world/asia/china-muslim-d..., flagged off the HN front page: "Decades of migration by Han, China’s dominant ethnic group, have transformed Xinjiang, fueling Uighur anxieties. Uighurs, once the majority, are 46 percent of the region’s 22 people million people, Han are 40 percent and Kazakhs 7 percent, according to government estimates."
Not sure that the article does a good job explaining this.

In my company, they do provide this (or a similar perk). As an employee, you are responsible for "regular" day care, which I don't think is being discussed here. What is being discussed is backup/emergency daycare. As an example, my kid goes to some kind of school/preschool. But things happen (bad weather, etc) that causes the school to close on a given day. One option is that I stay home and take care of the kids, but then it becomes a gray area: How much of my time at home am I actually working? Should I use vacation time for this? So the "perk" is that I come to work, and arrange for some kind of "emergency" day care just for that day. My employer will pay for that.

I think at my company, this is mostly optional. However, depending on your job function, you may simply really have to be at work for some reason on that particular day, so the company pays for the daycare for that day.
> Kelly Ellis, a former Google engineer and one of the plaintiffs in the gender-pay suit against the company, said in a legal filing that Google hired her as a Level 3 employee — the category for new software engineers who are recent college graduates — in 2010 despite her having four years of experience.

> Within a few weeks of Ms. Ellis being hiring, Google hired a male engineer for her team who had also graduated from college four years earlier. But he was hired as a Level 4 employee, meaning he received a higher salary and had more opportunities for bonuses, raises and stock compensation, according to the suit. Other men on Ms. Ellis’s team whose qualifications were equal to or less than hers were also brought in at Level 4, the suit says.

This feels like a part of the issue, but could be really hard to analyze easily.
What version of DC/OS were you using? There have been a lot of improvements recently. (I work at Mesosphere)
While you cannot sell them (if this happens) then they are worthless (value is market-intrinsic, not an inherent property).

Gold is worthless in a famine.
I pay t-mobile $4/month for their advanced spam-call blocking feature, and it works very well. I now get maybe 1 spam call every 2 weeks, compared against my worthless work number that has no such blocking which gets maybe 6 spam calls a day.
It's really not difficult to understand that women are systematically paid less than men, and also that minorities (men and women) are systematically paid less than non-minorities. And that beyond pay disparity at a given job title, there is also an issue with higher titles underrepresenting women in general, as well as minorities.
Thank you very much for this informative answer.
Hey, I just wanted to let you know that I'm not immune to satire (as opposed to apparently everyone else who replied just to vent their offendedness) and I understood your critique of the typical American 'work or die' mentality.

I thought we had it pretty good here in Austria, but this 75%-time deal in Sweden sounds great!

It's almost as if their government decided that happy lives matter more then happy stockbrokers.
As someone who used to work for a telco, please be aware that they could solve this at any time. They choose not to. I wonder if they have a secret list, though, of numbers that should never get robocalls. Aka congressmen.
tinywl is now tracked in the wlroots tree and receiving conservative updates to follow wlroots API changes:

https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/tree/master/tinywl

Good luck!
people here complaining about the wasted packaging. EOD accounting probably will still show it is net waste, but remember that Japanese people will reuse and repair everything.

They will actually consider the first 2 R's much more than Americans do.
I think this is countered specifically here:

> Men account for about 69 percent of the company’s work force, but they received a disproportionately higher percentage of the money.

So they were compensated out of proportion with their demographic makeup of the company--they made up a larger share but needed more money to "catch up."
It's a combination of the major metro areas (SF, LA, and SD) being boxed in by mountains, and of these areas supporting major globalized industries (tech, entertainment, and biotech/military, respectively) where per-employee revenue is high, productivity is high, and wages are correspondingly high. Fixed & limited housing supply + high incomes = very high house prices. Prop 13, as mentioned by other commenters, doesn't help.

Everybody outside of one of these industry hubs always says "Well, why don't major companies just move to areas with lower cost of living, where they can pay their employees less for the same work and be more competitive?" It's never that simple. Flip that comment around and ask an employee in a low-paying industry in a low-paying hub "Well, why don't you just learn data science, get a job at Google or Facebook, and move to the Bay Area so you can partake in these $300-400K/year salaries too?" You'll probably get a response that mentions some combination of family & community roots; it being hard to develop tech skills without mentors and teachers; not fitting in with the political & cultural views of people in Silicon Valley; and difficulty convincing employers that you do in fact possess those skills in the face of stereotypes to the contrary. Now multiply those difficulties by 50,000 employees and you see why corporations don't do this. Companies in knowledge industries are webs of highly-specialized human capital, each of which often has their own family & community roots in the local area and is reluctant to uproot their life just because their employer wants to save a few bucks by moving their headquarters elsewhere.
In my experience, the robocallers are more likely to leave voicemail. You just get the first 10 seconds of their recording chopped off and the rest in your mailbox. So now you've just moved your issue from live calls to having to check your mailbox periodically to see if there's anything important mixed with the spam. Plus the added possibility that a legit caller doesn't leave a message, and something important gets delayed due to an inability to contact you.
As I compare Rust and Go, the one thing that keeps me indecisive is that the Rust compiler is slower. Was that ever an issue for you?
> 1 hr before you have to go to bed and do it all again tomorrow

This is very real. Sometimes I sit to do some more work before bed and think wow, I'll finish this... Go to bed... And wake up as early as I can to work some more. Then my son will wake up, and I'll be with him until 6 or so in the evening. While he naps I work more. Rinse and repeat. It's a gauntlet.

Things being on pause isn't really a bad thing at all, but it certainly feels bad in the moment. I have two 9 year olds though, and it's true. Eventually they want to read before bed on their own, they want to play on their own during the day, and the pressure is off. There's a lot more time.

I also have the luxury that on weekends, during the day my older kids will play with the baby and give me a bit of a break. Sometimes even for an hour or so. It's usually an opportunity to catch up on work, but it's often badly needed and a big relief.
Indeed, there are a limited number of hard-hitting topics that are definitely must-haves:

* Rough latency timings

* Caching

* Prefetching

* Sequential vs. random access

* N-dimensional layouts (row/column major and arbitrarily strided)

* Design of cache-oblivious algorithms

* SIMD-able access patterns

* False sharing

* Instruction cache & code size

* Branch prediction and speculative execution

I'd be curious to hear what else folks would put on (or remove from) this list.
> Men account for about 69 percent of the company’s work force, but they received a disproportionately higher percentage of the money.

If women were underpaid, things are less equal on average. If men were underpaid, as the study suggests, things are more equal on average. That said, would it be fair to keep underpaying some people in order to keep it more equal on average? I think not.