skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> areas with primarily male coworkers, and creepy bosses

This describes basically every tech job I have ever had. Real life engineering woman here reporting in.

In 2014 I joined a series B startup as engineer #15 and was the only woman in the office other than the admin; food delivery dudes often brought things to my desk, assuming I must be the office mother. When I was late to work one day after being groped by a strange man on Caltrain, my supervisor questioned my commitment to meeting deadlines. When I moved on, they returned to being a 100% straight white male company.

In 2015, I was the first female engineering hire at the new office of a growing mid-size tech company. A second woman wasn't hired until we'd reached a headcount of about 20. Men, especially clients, often forgot my name. E.g. Janice vs Janet vs Jan (none of these my real name, but you get the idea. The point is that I wasn't important enough to these men to remember.)

Fast forward a few years. Now I am by far the most senior of four engineering ladies at the satellite campus of a household name tech company. Total headcount at this office is about 100 engineers.

I have never had a female manager.

For those keeping score, I have never worked anywhere with more than 5-10% female engineers. For my entire career, even as a noob, I have been the most senior female engineer I know.

I count myself lucky because I've never had to deal with anything resembling actual harassment. (It helps that I am not conventionally attractive). But there is a psychological burden of always feeling alone, always being the first or only, worrying that your actions will be taken to represent all people of your kind, and wondering if assholes in your midst think you've only got where you've gotten because you're a woman.

Your dismissive attitude toward women's supposed advantages is as common as it is damaging. Whatever unfair advantages you think your women colleagues have, unless you are black or latinx, it is unlikely you will ever experience the feelings of isolation and otherness that most women deal with throughout their tech careers.
The shortfall represents the money not present assuming that Google DOES move in.

If Google moves in, and they maintain the current tax rates on people currently living in that municipality, then the shortfall is about 15k per Google head. If Google DOES NOT move in, there is no shortfall at all.

Of course, they can just increase the taxes on people already there in residence. But again, rural area. Not a lot of money. So I expect it'd be more likely for them to try to get money from the state coffers to cover the shortfall. Not really sure what the plan is to cover the shortfall in the event that Google moves in using the subsidies outlined.
WebGL, which is now supported by all modern browsers, with WebGL2 (more flexible, fewer restrictions) around the corner. Most of the professional level tools as exhibited by the OP will be using a custom engine built on top of it.

For smaller projects, the excellent Three.js [0] is an easy way into creating 3D in the browser.

[0] https://threejs.org/
About a year ago, I was driving in the far right lane going 80MPH at 2AM in the morning. Wife and baby child were sleeping in the car. In my rear view, I see a car flying up. He was in an express lane. No clue why, but as he catches up, he cuts over the solid white line separating the express lane, then the far left lane, and finally passes me in the middle lane. This idiot was going about 130-140MPH. I was absolutely livid and the only thing that stopped me from chasing him down was my wife and son.

So stop with this b.s. I'd much rather drive on a road with someone drive slower than an asshole who thinks everyone is going to slow. People weaving through traffic, going 80, 90, 100MPH while everyone else is doing 65, are FAR more dangerous, than the elderly driver doing 60 in the far left.
I'm not sure, but you seem to be asking many questions in a pointed manner on this topic, while offering no answers or even interpretations of your own.
Public servants. Sweden. Buffer.
Can you recommend a book or course that can help me understand stats on clinical trials (if not a stats book with emphasis on clinical trials)?

I feel like I am of those that can easily be fooled by misleading claims.
That only displays the reader; it's not persistently applied to every page on the site.
Remember that the federal government doesn't tax states, or give (most of) the transfers to states - they mostly go to individuals. The state aggregates are a convenient number for people trying to make a political point, but it doesn't really support what they are suggesting.

This change is a redistribution from people who pay a lot of taxes to people who pay less taxes. Because the US tax system is already progressive (increasing rates with increasing income), this change makes it MORE progressive overall. It could be better targeted at just high-income/high-wealth people, but it generally does pretty well by that measure, because high-income/high wealth people pay most of the taxes.

Low-income, low-asset people will actually get a tax reduction, because of the increased standard deduction, even if they live in a high-tax state. That leaves people with a lot of income and/or a lot of assets - people paying over $10,000/year as STATE income, property, or sales taxes (excluding federal income and payroll taxes!). Various measures show that 88% of that deduction goes to people making over $100,000/year, and only 30-40% of filers even in those rich/expensive states take the deduction today (a much smaller/richer percentage would exceed the $10,000 limit).

If you're really wealthy in any state, you're going to hit that limit in one or more of those areas. You just hit it faster in high-tax states. Take Wyoming for example: "red state", no income tax, low property tax rate, 4% sales tax. Your 2 Bedroom home in Jackson at just shy of $2 million is going to put you over the property tax exclusion. https://www.jacksonholerr.com/PropertyDetails?mls_num=18-305... (there are cheaper 2-br homes in Jackson - and much cheaper homes not far from Jackson)

This also illustrates that the people most hurt by the change will be the "house poor" - moderate income, but own a house in an expensive area, so they have high property taxes. They may also get dinged by the reduced mortgage deduction ($1M debt to $750K debt).
I stayed home with my kids until they were in their teens. I did so in part because I was molested and raped after my sister left for college and my mom began working, leaving me unprotected from a predator.

My kids were never molested. It was crystal clear in my mind that the single biggest thing I could do to protect them from predators was simply be present. They spent little time in daycare or home alone.

I am often reluctant to talk about that. Stay at home moms are treated like unambitious losers mooching off their gainfully employed husbands. Self proclaimed feminists are routinely really ugly to me and other women like me. Talking about the importance of a parent being there gets decried as being a misogynistic dinosaur advocating for women to be barefoot and pregnant.

I also have been told that my presence at home is not why my sons were never molested. I was merely "lucky" and I'm wrongfully trying to take credit for some random roll of the dice when I didn't actually do a fucking thing.

But I'm quite clear that civilization is mostly nurtured quietly by "thankless jobs" and the celebrated heroes are often a symptom of a failed system, so celebrating them sometimes strikes me as part of the problem, not part of the solution.

My sons understand the things I've done for them and they routinely tell me "You're an awesome mom and I'm so glad you raised me." But the rest of the world is pretty bad about making me feel like a total fucking loser with nothing of value to offer who doesn't deserve an adequate income and should stop whining about being poor.

So it's driven home to me daily that the world terribly undervalues quiet maintenance type work.
Have you tried this? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/
Wow, indeed they do. [1] Do any other companies? The original comment indicated that such policies were not common at software companies, but Amazon is obviously a software company...

1: https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/amazon-parenta...
Thesis, antithesis, synthesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic#Hegelian_dialectic
This is literally what the 'management' types should be doing, and then prioritizing this work along with feature work.

The support org should have enough staffing to be able to 'train up' and start tackling more and more issues themselves. Even if they're not writing the software, they can often work to get reproducables or get you most of the way there "null pointer deref of x caused this bug" etc.
> What I really want is a keyboard centric power user browser. I don’t think any of the big browsers could even turn into something like that at this point. Power user feature like keyboard shortcuts are an after thought.

https://www.qutebrowser.org/
Much can be said of Ayn Rand and her books. That aside, I find the money speech of Atlas Shrugged [1] far better at conveying the point than the self speech of The Fountainhead.
1: https://www.capitalismmagazine.com/2002/08/franciscos-money-...
Got some felling these robocalls mostly are a USA thing. From France where I happen to currently live, unsolicited cold-calls unrelated to my whereabouts are really rare. I've no idea if there's some law leading to such differences.

I've only once in my life been harassed by some polling company that really wanted me to answer lots of questions. Eventually felt strong enough to go through the process, last question was "would you be open to participate in future polls we may have?" → HELL NO! and never heard from them again :)
It isn't--which means that you do end up having to pay a decent amount of money if you get arrested and want to post bail even with a bondsman. A bail bond is basically a secured loan, and the bondsman's profit comes from what's effectively an interest payment on that loan. "People who just got arrested" are sort of a high-risk category of borrowers, so it can be a decent amount of money.

The bond is secured by your person--i.e. if the bondsman can apprehend you and take you to county jail, he gets his money back--but it's expensive and risky to do that.
Serial/Parallel have commonly accepted technical meanings in the context of data interfaces which aren't necessarily intuitive.

Parallel refers to taking a raw bit stream and sending N bits at a time down N wires to a receiver who reads N bits at a time and reconstructs the bitstream. This was a common technique in the early days of computing because it is very simple to implement and low clock speeds meant it was often the only practical way of increasing the throughput of an interface.

As clock speeds increased, keeping each of the N signals in sync became increasingly difficult. This eventually lead to parallel interfaces falling out of favor and serial interfaces becoming dominant.

The defining characteristic of a serial interface is that the data signal itself also serves as the clock signal which keeps sender and receiver in sync.

Modern "parallel serial" interfaces like USB 3 consist of multiple serial links which are multiplexed using a framing protocol of some sort. So from a signaling standpoint they are still considered serial interfaces, even though data is in fact being sent in parallel.
Thanks for the tip, I will try that!
There's a third possibility: men and women really do have different interests. Further evidence for this comes from the observation that:

The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
I very much agree with you. I've deliberately avoided USB-C for this very reason. It's not that hard - I don't buy new gear very often, and I'm still using an old 5th-gen iPod every day - but there will be a day when I don't have much of a choice anymore. Bluetooth headphones, external hard drives, game controllers, media players, phones...

The worst part about USB-C is that it can be implemented so wrong it bricks your device! A Google engineer for a while was testing cables and not infrequently they worked poorly, not at all, or outright fried devices. Granted this was years ago, but now with DisplayPort and Thunberbolt 3 over the same connector, the situation has become even more vague.

https://plus.google.com/+BensonLeung/posts/jGP5249NppF

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/3robzo/google_spre...
Help me understand.

If Google moves in and pays property taxes, the county will see an additional $15MM (over 20 years).

If they move in and don't pay property taxes, the county will not see that money.

If they don't move in at all, the county will still not see that money.

Game-theoretically, how is the county better off if Google doesn't move in?
I like how this was solve for USB A/B connectors by color coding the inside. I'm curious why this wasn't brought over with USB-C, it seems like such a simple solution, though maybe there are just too many variations / combinations for it be of practical at all.
It's interesting that you use "Republican" as this is one of the rare cases where you can actually use conservative.
Reminds me of Electroconf. A GitHub conference where they did blind selection in an effort to avoid biases. Everyone selected ended up being male. Someone complained on Twitter and they had to cancel the whole event.
That doesn't seem like a third possibility — it sounds like the same thing as "The groups who haven't traditionally been in power are in that position because they are innately less capable."

It's theoretically possible that women just generally suck at computers, but if that's someone's argument, I'd prefer they come out and actually make the argument instead of throwing around smokescreens about "equality of outcomes vs. equality of opportunity."
So the first video is that framerate is better than resolution for gaming. Not relevant to this discussion. The second is mostly about how screens and eyes work, I'm not sure why you linked it at all.

8K is useful for crisp lines and text on a big close monitor.
Everything is optional.

USB-IF is for manufacturers, most of whom want to do whatever the cheapest quickest thing is. The user experience absolutely comes second to manufacturing cost and marking convenience.

The naming confusion exists because cheap manufacturers don't want to be branded as the "lesser" product or be offering a "lesser" computer. The confusion aids them. They can ship a slightly cheaper computer or device but market it as USB 3.2 Gen whatever, despite it basically being a USB 2 device.

All features will be optional because mandating features means the chip costs $0.02 more, the cable they slap in the box would be more expensive, etc and they don't want to pay it.
You are a retard.
An Exploration of Variable Fonts (2018)
It is very true that one should try to find out why so many people share a different worldview.

However, reading the 1000th climate change proponent or opponent won't help in this goal, "because they follow stereotypes".

And I never claimed to explain the different world views with "because they follow stereotypes", I explained my own behavior with this statement.

Finally, "because they're dumb" is not insightful. But "because they were lured by simplifying propaganda, and this is because they haven't learned to analyze complex situations" can be a valid explanation.
Japanese apartments are a tighter fit than you'd find in most US homes and apartments. The guys are careful, but that wall protection is there often to allow for intentional rubbing on the way in and out. I really appreciated that attention to detail.

Edit: also remembered, some of the protection is also noise abatement for the neighbors. Soft padding to absorb the noise.

Edit edit: also notice the moving guys aren't wearing their shoes inside. They are taking them off upon entry, carrying stuff (sometimes really heavy stuff) and putting their shoes back on when removing stuff. That's the part that shocked me.
I wonder how much the proliferation of start up failures has to do with this very fact versus a poor product/model/founder/execution/etc.

Not saying that the employees are to blame but I'm sure there's plenty of good ideas out there that just don't have the right people trying to implement it.

Or that's such a small amount that it really doesn't contribute.

Really just wondering what that number is.
I didn't like the body of content above the readme as well, and you got me thinking about the positioning.

I was thinking maybe the "Overview" section of the page could be collapsible. By default, it's expanded, whenever you navigate to the repo from GitHub or direct URL. But since many links to GitHub are appended with "#readme" (for example, some package managers like npm/yarn autofill the package URL to be the GitHub repo + #/readme when generating the manifest files), instead of sending the user halfway down the page with an anchor, it could default to having the toolbar collapsed instead.

I think that would be especially better in mobile.
Would I be willing to invest any of the surplus cash I would get from a FANG-style salary in something as risky a startup? Definitely not. Just considering stock options as a cash investment (as opportunity cost) drives me so hard towards not taking them it's silly.

Of course I would have an information advantage as an employee, and also perhaps a possibility to slightly effect the outcome. But at the same time I'm locked up at the startup, and putting my salary and equity in the same basket.

(Maybe this has been covered in other comments, but couldn't find it)
Similar for me: ~160-180 km/h in Germany and ~130-140 km/h in Switzerland is my limit since always, if the highway is in good condition + weather is good + traffic is low + I'm not tired + etc... .
The Social Security website has limited operating hours.

https://imgur.com/KYSOqUn
OK this is is fun but can anyone describe a scenario where this is actually dangerous...?
I think I prefer dynamic systems view. We're oscillating. We've been under the target, overcorrected, and we're above the target now. Like always in (widely-understood) politics, this will be met with another overcorrection; all we can hope for is that there's dampening in the system, so that we'll converge on target at some point.
Wow, what timing.

Late last night I had a conversation with someone explaining that Hacker News is not your typical message board -- it's owned and operated by YC and sits atop algorithms developed by some of the pioneers in spam and anomaly detection [1] [2], and it's is also an open dataset -- analyzed and scrutinized -- used by hackers worldwide to train and test bespoke AI.

HN is a live MNIST [3] for anomaly detection.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

[2] http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/07/paul-buchheit-man-b...

[3] http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19292382
Odd that somehow medicine doesn't count as STEM. Too many women would distort the narrative?
SoftBank Invests in Small SolarCell company Exeger from Sweden
You are probably right. What affect will 3D printing and the internet have?
You need to remember the password though. Quite more possible to forget the password than losing your mobile device.
>> Alas, this extra precision was not appreciated by reviewers, who very explicitly requested that variables named uu__123456 be eliminated whenever possible.

It's been a while but I used to use Simulink to generate C code and they had the same naming problems. It was hideous. They also solved the C99 types issue independently and generated their own target dependent header files that defined INT16_T in a target dependent way. I asked a couple guys from that company to please just implement a C99 target which is more portable - best if it actually produced code using the C99 types instead of renaming them.

So many issues with auto-generated code, but sometimes it's really useful.
I think the difference is that equity has the potential (even if it’s a small chance) to create a major qualitative change in your life. If you stand to make a million over 8 years anyway, another 400k is nice but won’t change your life that much. Maybe you buy a slightly bigger house or you retire a few years earlier. But a homerun outcome in a startup can mean complete financial freedom and never needing to work again. It’s the long tail, sure, but given that there are other benefits to a startup (learning more, more influence, etc.), a lot of people prefer that long shot to the certainty of being marginally wealthier.

I also don’t think it’s really comparable to the lottery. It’s like playing the lottery if you could easily afford to have a 1-5% chance of winning... in which case it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to play for many people.

Different strokes for different folks and all that, but I do think it’s wrong to imply that it’s always wrong to take a calculated risk like this when given the opportunity.
Possibly? Or at least in the social pressure at school that stops boys from dancing, and/or the way that dance is taught.
If I were automaker I'd consider allowing bursts above the maximum speed limit for a few seconds.
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Imagine if you drive near this software-limited speed and suddenly need to speed up a little bit more to avoid a dangerous situation. You simply can't. This may dangerous specially if you don't have in your mind that your speed is limited by software.

But imagine that you had this 5 second burst and you used it to pass a truck, but you misjudged and you actually needed 6 seconds so your car drops back down to the slower speed, that sounds worse.

I doubt my car can go much over 90mph on a flat road (if it can, it'll take it a while to get there, since even getting to 80 is slow), and I've never had a case where I felt a burst of 100mph speed would get me out of danger.
New Google custom ASIC for machine learning
You've downgraded 'demand' to 'discuss' there, haven't you?

'Discuss' can just be met with a 'thanks no'.
I’ve set up a DID that is just a voicemail box on VoIP.ms.

All unanswered calls get forwarded to it.

I get an email mp3 of voicemails.

They don’t get deleted. And I can still access my voicemail easily if i’m Overseas or need to reference them in the future.

Costs about $1/month.

And for people I really don’t like... I just hand out that straight to voicemail number.
This model feels very mechanical in the rigid $50 million cutoff between "low exit" and "will make you money."

Truth is, niche companies with small burn rates can yield nice payoffs to investors even if the exit is $20 million. And cash-hungry dream-chasers can yield almost nothing to insiders even with a $80m to $100m valuation.

I'd like this model more if it had a second slider that let you move between "thrifty bootstrap" and "costly moonshot." Over the years, I've seen friends get surprised on both sides of the supposed $50m divider.
Ask HN: Is there an equivalent of OpenNVM for off-the-shelf SSD storage?
EU Copyright Directive Censorship
The EU commission retracts an article accusing opponents of the directive as bots. Fun fact: at least with Chrome from Germany i am unable to access the archive.org version which still shows the retracted article. It works with TOR, though.

archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20190216035603/https://medium.com/@EuropeanCommission/the-copyright-directive-how-the-mob-was-told-to-save-the-dragon-and-slay-the-knight-b35876008f16

"Now" link: https://medium.com/@EuropeanCommission/the-copyright-directive-how-the-mob-was-told-to-save-the-dragon-and-slay-the-knight-b35876008f16
> It's bad because it creates an incentive for the state to tax in a particular way that may not be optimal. Income taxes...

But SALT isn't limited to income taxes, it includes sales taxes (which you can more easily track with credit card purchases [than you could in the past]), property taxes, car registration taxes, etc.