skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All I see is circular logic: you're citing the lack of women in tech as evidence that they don't want to be there

If this is all you see then you did not get the underlying point I'm making. I provided evidence that there is the least representation of women in tech in countries with the most gender equality and gender freedom. The countries with the least gender equality and most restrictive gender roles have the most women in tech. The evidence lies in the inverse relationship between greater gender equality and more flexible gender roles with the percentage of women in tech. If all you took away from this was that women are underrepresented in tech worldwide, then you did not see the evidence I was actually referring to.
China banned 23M people with poor social credit from transportation in 2018
Can't you essentially fabricate this statistic by controlling for the amount of time that counts as "before", assuming the inverted curves happen more often than recessions?
That's a very abstract and dismissive take. Having a job isn't a "privileged position" and deciding who gets to be employed based on race and gender is more than "rebalancing scales". It's discrimination and people who have their life and family on the line aren't going to just smile and take one for the team while people push for them to be unemployed.
I just opensourced LFortran that provides a REPL for Fortran, among other things: https://gitlab.com/lfortran/lfortran, only a subset of Fortran is supported for now, but it's a start. Here is a demo in a Jupyter notebook: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/certik/f1d28a486510810d824....

The motivation is precisely as you described. In fact, Julia was my initial motivation too: but I didn't want a new language, I wanted the modern interactive environment for Fortran.

In order to get first users and before full Fortran 2018 is supported, I figured out how to parse GFortran's mod files and can interface to GFortran's array descriptors, I am now integrating it in the interactive compiler / REPL. After that is done, for a subset of Fortran, I think this will already be usable (one could use GFortran to compile production code, and use LFortran to use parts of it interactively) and I will announce it more widely. I think this will happen in the next few months.
I'm thinking that if it becomes long term, isn't it then a store of value?

I might be arguing semantics but if you put dirty money in to a box, and 5 years later it spits out clean money. That's different to a box where you put dirty money, it immediately spits out clean money, but you leave it there for safe keeping.

On the other hand, if you have regular movement of money through a system, it becomes easier to trace the start and end points. If moneys just sitting there, you cant follow it.
Yeah, I don't see how the example of medicine is anything except further reason to encourage women to join tech fields.
> Some of the comments in this thread is a master class of how discrimination and gatekeeping work not just in our industry but in society as a whole.

You might not realize it, but this is a strawman without linking to specific comments or providing some kind of examples.
Trolltunga is a very popular travel photo. Here's some random site showing what it looks like on Instagram, and what the lineup for the Instagram photo looks like. It was pretty funny the first time I saw a crowd photo as opposed to the dozens of versions of the single traveler on the edge that I'd previously seen.

https://besthike.com/2018/08/23/hiking-the-troll-tongue-norw...
The technology already exists to show lifelike avatars of meeting participants. https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-oculus-codec-avatars-vr...
And no non compete? CEO's are one of the few employees where a non compete could be enforceable.
Could be a couple of things:
1) Growing native app usage
2) More users starting on pinterest.com rather than google
There is a 3DFX Mesa/Sage port

http://dk.toastednet.org/Q2DOS/

No Glide though, so it won't run under emulation it needs an actual 3dFX card.
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Well but that is the point isn’t it. Women in poor, unfree countries go into tech because it makes a huge difference to their personal finances and comfort. In Scandinavia everyone lives in freedom and comfort, so you can work with something you actually enjoy instead.
Yeah, this is undefined behavior and your compiler might bite you for it.
It's very niche but has grown significantly, both for the willing and unwilling.
>To accurately judge someone else's competence, you have to be at least on their level

If you want to be as accurate as possible, then yes. But there is a whole spectrum of accuracy in-between those two options, and being "somewhat ok" (which is what this program, I assume, is supposed to help the attendees achieve) is better than "completely guessing, because I have zero relevant knowledge"
This has also been formulated even more succinctly/pithily as

> When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

(Unknown author.)
Why would they spend another penny on servers for a game they see no future in?
Oracle spaffed $30bn on buybacks the past 9 months, analysts warn it can't last
Women tend to be more risk averse in part because they are capable of getting pregnant and women are generally expected to put their kids first. A man puts his career first and hardly sees his kids, he's a good provider. A woman puts her career first and misses a birthday party, she's a bad mother and a monster.

In order to raise a child with someone so you can make parenting a priority, you need to put their career first. In order to raise a child alone, you need to make so much money that you can afford a nanny and that still is tough because good childcare you trust is tough to find. (A US senator recently gave a speech about how the challenges of finding good childcare nearly derailed her career and her aunt resolved it by showing up to do the childcare.)
> Most notoriously, the airlines, after the hijacks to Cuba in the late Sixties and early Seventies, made sure that Congress and the FAA did not require hardened cockpit doors and stronger latches on all aircraft, costing a modest $3000 per plane. Then the 9/11 massacre happened, a grisly consequence of non-regulation, pushed by right wing corporatist advocacy centers.

This is a curious and very sad bit of history I was unaware of.
Seems like activision acquired and is now axing it. I can’t imagine it isn’t profitable, so it’s really going to be activision deciding that it’s not profitable enough to meet some metrics. Frustrating.
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Hi, author here.

The unnecessary writes I care about are to my cloud VM's small block device, which is I/O limited. The best way to not wait for those is to not do the writes in the first place.
True, but once self-automated racing cars are a solved thing, marble racing will still be more interesting to watch.
It's still bias to against some men to correct for previous bias against some other women. Still unjust.
But that is social-science fiction on top of science fiction - the chances are slim.

Larry Niven predicted flash mobs. But instead of teleportaion, we had/have it through telecommunications technology.
Given that I travel all the time with several different SIM cards, I live in fear that I might lose a SIM (they're tremendously easy drop, break or just fall off from wherever you keep them) and have to wait for weeks before getting back home to get one.

Or, you know, just travel to a jurisdiction where I can't get SMSs from my home SIM.

By comparison one-time pads have been substantially easier to keep around and protect.
Assuming the energy input is constant that would be impossible. Why is the energy input non constant?

Is static/dynamic friction even a semi-accurate model for plate tectonics?
https://github.com/melling/ios_topics/blob/master/README.md

I usually use the first ViewController in Main.storyboard.

Here's a no Nib example:

https://github.com/melling/ios_topics/tree/master/NoNibAllCo...

Usually, you'll just have lines like this:

let vc = ViewController()
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(vc, animated: true)

Make sure your first controller is embedded in a NavigationController or that push won't work.
We've blown up nukes all the way to 50Mt. But granted, the underwater tests were in the kt ranges.
Sacked IT guy annihilates 23 of his ex-employer’s AWS servers
that page looks empty with uBlock origin...
Even if they just tamper with immobile, non-fragile objects...

Like stubborn, sedentary spouses?
I don't think it comes down to anything nefarious, I think a lot of people have dealt with union workers who really took advantage of their protected status to do a pretty bad job in exchange for too much money because they've managed to make it a requirement to use one of their members, no matter how badly you don't want to. And it leaves a really bad flavor in your mouth.
> They're forking a new process for each request.

Hm, I don't think they are. I think they one persistent process managing the state of each document, and many requests might interact with that document, via stdin/stdout channels on that document's process.

Makes the case for the rest of what you said all the stronger, though.
Are women disabled or needs special attention when learning to code?
From my experience, Kafka has the best api for handling read-once, distributed streams. Almost every other streaming solution, like Redis in this case, has a non-ideal or non-existent way to coordinate stream consumers in a way that prevents double-reads. And lots of streaming applications need to ensure read-once (think about what a double read ends up as - maybe a twice-sent message, or a duplicate metric), so I'm not sure why they all struggle so much with just copying kafka's pretty simple consumer api
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Possibly.

o_O
Why would the monthly payment be lower than renting? People are usually willing to pay more on mortgages than renting, since they get a house after 30 years or so (and of course, the person who is willing to pay the most gets the house).

Let's say 3 people are willing to pay $1500, $1600, and $1700/mo in rent. For owning, they are willing to shift an extra $1000/mo from saving in the stock market to home equity, paying $2500, $2600, $2700. There is only one house available.

For owning, the seller can charge a price where the mortgage works out to $2700/mo. The person willing to pay $2700 gets the house, and the others are priced out.

Now lets say a landlord comes in. He offers $2800/mo to buy it to rent.

The max he can rent it for is $1700/mo, so he does that. The same person gets the house, and the same people are priced out.

In every case, the price that is charged is determined by who can pay the most. Unless people are willing to pay less to own the house, I can't think of why the monthly mortgage payment would ever be lower than renting.

What a policy prohibiting renting actually seems to do, is force people to shift their (monthly) savings into real estate speculation as a condition of living there. There are some downsides to this. If the local economy is bad and you lose your job, it's likely your home value may not be good either. And people without substantial monthly savings to shift will be at a disadvantage.

The biggest argument I've seen in favor of encouraging home ownership, is that people cut back on spending in order to make their mortgage payment, and as a result save more overall (by building home equity savings instead of spending). But that's a pretty different outcome than making housing affordable.
Parent linked to their policy, which contains this:

"1. We only accept applicstions from candidate from non-traditional backgrounds if they're diverse. Diverse is defined as any of the following: women, black, Hispanic, or native American - maybe also veterans but I'm not sure. Non-traditional background means coming from a coding boot camp, or majoring in a non-computing related field. I think after 3 years industry experience candidates are considered traditional even if they came from one of those two.*"

Note that this isn't impacting those well represented in tech; a white or asian man from a middle or higher class background.

It is instead rebalancing the priorities of those lacking in representation. A white guy who had to drop out of school to take care of his family? Not interested. Asian woman who decided her previous field wasn't for her, and does a coding bootcamp? Come on in for your interview.

I'm not saying I have an answer, but this is a legitimate concern. Responding with a generic platitude about how OP is merely feeling the effects of losing relative privilege is I think quite belittling and inappropriate.
Boeing's design process was a shady mess for sure, but safety goes all the way down and up the stack. Every failure mode should have some level of redundancy and double checking.

So, yeah, a manufacturer tried to game the certification process to save a few bucks (and months) on a new aircraft design. That's a failure. But it's not an unforseen one!

The safety value for manufacturer shenannigans is supposed to have been the certification process itself. And I gotta say the worst failings here are with the FAA. At any point someone could have looked at the process and seen:

1. They changed the engine

2. They had to move it because it was too close to the ground, but they couldn't stretch the landing gear and keep the type certification.

3. So they moved the engines forward and up

4. But now the aircraft was less stable, and they couldn't change the tail design and keep the type certification.

5. So they did software-managed stability augmentation instead

6. But (that's right) they couldn't change the autopilot and keep the type certification.

7. So they did it with the trim, which had never operated under autonomous control before.

I'm sure I have a few of those details wrong, but the point is that any bureaucrat familiar with the aircraft could have seen that this was a ridiculous house of cards they were playing with the type certificate. I mean, one change with one workaround, sure. But a cascade like this is just obviously a perversion of the process.

Yet no one said something. Or if they did they were overruled.

The way the built-in incentives work, it's not feasible to rely on 100% forthright and honorable manufacturers. So we have a regulatory body to catch those failures for us, and it failed.
Sounds like you're conflating automation and robotics: not necessarily the same thing.
For those who don't seem to understand what Pinterest is aside from appearing on search results in Google, it's essentially a more photo-centric version of sub-reddits. If you're not into arts, crafts, design, or curating things, you probably wouldn't really use it.
> Vectorized algorithms frequently implicitly rely on this for short reads

This is extremely processor-dependent and you should not be writing C if you’re relying on this.
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Once someone controls your phone number they can recover your email account then use email to recover all your other accounts. In practice it's not multi-factor.
Quake 2 is one of the most difficult FPS games to play competitively. I played the game for 10 years, 1998 - 2008. I can tell you're looking at the game from a different perspective (I'm assuming you're referring to its singleplayer), however - its multiplayer component was nothing short of amazing. Game actually takes a huge physical toll on the player due to complex controls (strafe jumps, circle jumps, doublejumps, circle-strafes, occasional rocket / grenade jump), and the movement aspect combined with aim and general awareness made it one of the best games I had honor to play.
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> May I ask you what gave you the confidence to say you "would not have a problem getting a quant position"?

A lot of contacts , some of them I could activate at any time. For instance, one of the first students of my advisor owns a fintech company today. He actually offered me a job some time ago. One guy I shared my office with started his own fintech startup during his PhD. Basically 10-20% of my alumni hold a quant position, with or without having a PhD. It's seems to be a common career path in Germany for mathematicians.
How the hell are you being downvoted for this?!

Have people gone insane?
The author has some of the highlights in a Twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/amir/status/1109103146964381696
That's a good point. We'll add this to our long list of things to do :)
If women have surpassed parity in other (far more demanding), more prestigious and better paying fields, why do you think that at the same time, the trend went in the other direction in our field? Do you think the tech workers of Silicon Valley - probably the most left leaning white collar professionals in the most left leaning part of the country simultaneously put up barriers for women at the same time that doctors and lawyers were taking them down? Do you think that demographic became more sexist from the 70s to the 10s to the exclusion of women?
This doesn't account for recessions before the creation of the Federal Reserve.
I've done [tech] interviews for engineers out of Oracle and haven't been super impressed.
I've been using code-server[1] for a month now. These are early days for both projects. Can somebody comment on their Theia v/s Code-Server story?

[1] https://github.com/codercom/code-server
They have 1702 employees and $7.6m profit (net income) on $331m revenues for 2019. Their financial statement shows that of their $263m in 2019 operating expense, $186m is in sales and marketing. $33m in R&D. And nearly $2m of that $7.5m in net income comes from interest income and other income.

The gross margin figures (82% for 2019) are defined as "revenue - cost of revenue". And cost of revenue is:

> Cost of revenue primarily consists of costs related to hosting our video-first communications platform and providing general operating support services to our customers. These costs are comprised of co-located data center costs, third-party cloud hosting costs, integrated third-party public switched telephone network (PSTN) services, personnel-related expenses, amortization of capitalized software development costs and allocated overhead costs. Indirect overhead associated with corporate facilities and related depreciation is allocated to cost of revenue and operating expenses based on applicable headcount.

While I do like that they are profitable and have a plan for profit, unlike the other glitzier tech IPOs, it does seem like the return on capital is low. They have received $146m in funding to date (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zoom-video-communica...) after all, and in the end, $7.6m/year is not much to show for it. This is really a bet that in the long term, the costs in sales, marketing, R&D, and General Administration can be cut severely so that the revenue can be realized as mostly profit. Hard to know if that day will actually come.
Sure, in a language where you can't easily extend semantics they have to be baked into the language to be practical. However, with Lisps you can trivially create new semantics as you need them, and whenever something becomes cumbersome it can be addressed by the user as the need arises.
> the US has never had a recession that wasn’t preceded by an inverted yield curve

This is incorrect. Most recessions in the post WW2 period have been preceded by an inversion of the 3m/10y UST curve, but it did not precede a few recessions in the USA during the first half of the 20th century.

[0] http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2011/07/yield-curve-and-pre-ww2-...
Meet isn't exactly a rebrand, it's an enterprise-oriented product variant. It includes a bunch of extra features that the consumer one doesn't have, and isn't free.
Well, those very same strengthened doors actually also caused around 150 deaths.

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/26/europe/france-germanwings...
The evidence is not the small proportion of women in tech, but that it gets smaller when you compare countries where women have little freedom to decide for themselves to countries where gender equality is enshrined into law and women earn as much as men. So individual freedom appears to lead to fewer women choosing a career in tech.

That doesn't necessarily mean that no discrimination is going on. For example, both medicine and tech could be discriminatory, but medicine slightly less so, and women choose the better one. But any possible explanation needs to take into account that women do have a choice and they choose differently from men.

Offering scholarships might be able to tease out the difference, although it would have to be applied at much larger scale. If every student of medicine were offered a scholarship to learn programming instead, how many would switch?
I've been living in a shuttle bus I converted for almost two years. I'm fortunate enough for it to be a choice, many aren't as fortunate. I'm better equipped than an RV, hot and cold water, toilet, shower, 1600W of solar, AC, standing desk workstation.

I'm very respectful of others. I never park overnight in front of a house and don't like parking in one street spot for more than 12h. I often pick up trash in the area I park.

For those who complain about us, keep in mind there is a minority of assholes in every population. Don't judge everyone by the assholes.

Feel free to ask me anything.
Yeah, but I don't think that was short term thinking. They didn't have to mess up their long term prospects to do pull that off.
This reminds me of Fluid from 2007

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=93381

https://fluidapp.com
Those match my extremely anecdotal observations in this arena.
He/she is probably talking about single-page apps

If you want to be pedantic about it, sure.
True, my statement needs a big asterisk :-)
It's generally always the same groups that receive these advantages, and other groups that never do.

So this is helping those who are already privileged, while the actual underprivileged are ignored once again.
It may have predicted ten out of the last seven recessions. That is, sometimes the yield curve inverts and the recession doesn't happen. So it's not quite a self-fulfilling prophesy - though it still may be a sometimes-self-fulfilling prophesy...
Presumably so that the pilot can be blamed for not knowing the procedure to manually disable the automatic system that is flying the plane into the ground.
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Anyone here used Magma? I was University of Sydney grad and I have fond memories of using Magma.
Is there any evidence of a "general attitude" that white and asian men are bad in technology? Because if they are, they must be incredible at what they do as they keep getting hired in droves. I think the view is they're overrepresented, but the "bad" part of that is the overrepresentation, not the race or gender.

For example the American Association of Educators is trying to encourage more men to become elementary school teachers, where women are drastically overrepresented (It makes tech look like a utopian melting pot). By doing so, they're not saying women are bad, but they are saying the profession would benefit significantly from more male participation, particularly when addressing concerns specific to young boys who are more likely to struggle in school.
The general idea of "A Modest Proposal" is to hunger by eating babies. Its one of the most famous works of satire, although it is several hundred years old.

Basically, anything titled "a modest proposal" will likely be treated as satire, at least to anyone who has studied that essay.

Its basically the historical English-literature version of Colbert's "Truthiness" skit. You pretty much can't use the word "Truthiness" in today's political atmosphere without invoking an image of satire. Or if I said something about Chocolate Rain, or Sneezing Pandas. Some phrases just have hidden meaning to some people out there...