skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gender equality paradox is one strong example. Contrary to the narrative that women don't go into tech because of restrictive gender roles, the countries with the greatest amounts of gender equality, the highest male child rearing participation, the most generous parental leave, the smallest wage gap, etc. actually have the lowest rates of women in tech. By comparison the countries that have the most restrictive gender roles and worst gender inequality have some of the highest percentages of women in tech. The Scandinavian countries have 10-20% women in tech. Many gender- oppressive middle eastern and southeast Asian countries have a figure in the 30% or even 40% ballpark.

Edit, here's an article explaining this since judging by subsequent comments I may have done a poor job: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article...
I'm curious, why are you concerned about 2gb of ram? What do you plan to do on the iPad that requires more than that?
Hangouts has been a miserable experience for me. My CPU fans spin up instantly when I start using it, and as a multi-account user I'm often greeted with "There's no one in the meeting" messages (not "you don't have permission for this meeting", just a false "no one here") because I forgot to put ?authuser=1 in the URL to switch to my work account.
I have used zoom and it is by far the best experience for teleconferencing .
Why do you care who else is in the restaurant with you?
If you continue to take HN threads further into flamewar hell, we will ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: actually, you've been breaking the site guidelines so badly and so consistently that I've banned this account until we get some indication that you sincerely want to use HN as intended.
I've used PHP (pre 7) at $JOB. It's not bad for hacking a project together. In fact, it's kind of ideal. (Though I would personally pick Python.)

It is bad when working on a business-grade product with more than a dozen engineers. Bizarre language choices and an intrinsic tendency towards non-encapsulation seems to make even more spaghetti code than you'd find in Ruby, Python, Java, etc.
Looking from different angle, if Google hires a bunch of Chinese AI researchers to do civilian tech research. Wouldn't that cause a brain drain from the Chinese military and other Chinese companies?
VOIP (on the provider side) has let you do that for ages. Services like Twilio, etc. let you set up normal numbers people can call.
Kindle is awesome for books, but I use my S2 8.0 for reading the internet / PDFs and watching movies. Which isn't as practical on a Kindle :)
I agree in essence, the judges are making decisions based on their opinion of fair compensation. They feel the patent developer deserves the wealth not the person who happens to be born with X.

Bu there is no consistent way to reconcile this with idea of property since "extreme enrichment of persons born with X" is an inevitable consequence.

I don't think this will be allowed to deteriorate into slavery but there was a claim that body parts can't be owned due to slavery concerns.

This is clearly not the case because under the current law 1) organizations can own modified body parts originating from a person who can't own them and 2) verdicts on the matter are inconsistent in every way except one: sending wealth to the "right" parties in that particular judges opinion.
The stack exchange has nothing to do with whay I'm getting at here, and I apologize if I've been unclear. Let me say for example, in a 2004 survey... "Women were also employed in higher rates than men in environmental engineering (9% to 4%) and chemical engineering (7% to 4%). However, they were less likely than men to be employed in mechanical engineering (8% to 17%) and electrical engineering (12% to 18%)". [0]

Does this mean that chemical engineering is less aggressive of a field than mechanical engineering? Or that computer science engineering is more aggressive of a field than environmental engineering? Or that chemical engineering is the engineering field with the most amount of doll-like objects being interacted with?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_engineering_in_the_Un...
Java EE? Yeah, I did not enjoy that at all. The current blend of Spring Boot, Micronaut, Vert.x, or especially Quarkus.io? I love it!
Would the costs and development be much lower and easier if the focus was augmenting humans strength in physical work? Would that still qualify as a robot company?
This reminds me so much of when I started (almost 5 years ago now). My then boyfriend shared his interest in design and development and I ended up taking some programming courses for fun. I had no clue wtf I was doing for so long but I liked it...I also made a little app and made my brother click a button that spit out the text "You're stupid".

The courses and self teaching went a long way. I started at a crappy digital design agency and now work at a company many people have heard of!

Good luck to your girlfriend! I'm inspired by her.
Browsing the web?
Here is an article on why costs rise even when prisoner numbers have fallen in California : https://reason.com/archives/2017/06/09/prison-unions-punish-...

[..]The higher costs are driven by escalating pay and benefit packages negotiated by unions that represent prison guards and other staff. It's an example of how powerful public-sector unions keep the state from getting spending under control, even when the need for such spending plummets.

That example comes from a new report by the Vera Institute for Justice. "Despite a decline in both its prison population and the number of prison staff, California's prison spending rose $560 million between 2010 and 2015, primarily because salary, pension and other employee and retiree benefits continued to increase, also a result of union-negotiated increases," explained the New York-based think tank that promotes criminal-justice reform.[..]

[..]California is unusual from a national perspective, per the report. Thirteen states have reduced prison populations since 2010, but they've also cut their prison spending by $1.6 billion. Seven states have increased their populations, but have managed to decrease their prison spending, (by $254 million). Fifteen states have increased their prison populations and also increased their total prison spending by a half-billion dollars.

California is in an ignominious group of 10 states that saw declines in the prison population since 2010, but which increased spending by $1.1 billion. Furthermore, California's spending increase accounts for more than half of that number. California has by far the costliest system of incarceration in the nation at more than $75,000 per inmate per year—more than triple the average cost of the 18 states with the least-costly rates.[..]

[..]The study focuses on the 2010 to 2015 period, and some major prison-related laws—e.g., 2014's Proposition 47, which reduced many felonies to misdemeanors and resulted in further reductions of prison populations—got started toward the end of the study period. Yet, if anything, these disturbing spending trends only accelerated in the ensuing years.

"Gov. Jerry Brown's spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1 includes a record $11.4 billion for the corrections department while also predicting that there will be 11,500 fewer inmates in four years because voters in November approved earlier releases for many inmates," wrote Don Thompson for The Associated Press. "Since 2015, California's per-inmate costs have surged nearly $10,000, or about 13 percent." That's a whopping increase in a short period of time, and even more amazing given that state just raised gas taxes because it claims to be out of cash.[..]
The saying goes bitcoins on an exchange aren't yours. All exchanges (that I know of) allow you to pull tokens into your private wallet, at which point they belong to you. It would be sort of foolish for the exchange to execute trades on the real blockchain because it would be slow & expensive. Makes way more sense to do that part with database transactions.
> Forming a union is a great tool—for marginalized workers. Unions are historically intended to protect vulnerable members of society,

Is this really true? Every union building site I see has mostly white guys. If I see a site with lots of other ethnicities its probably non-union.
It's good for accessibility...
Yeah, that's what I meant by foveated rendering. You can spend your samples where they are most valuable based on where the user is looking among other factors.
Agreed. I'm a big fan of Next.js and haven't had any major problems with it. While there have been some quirks and nuances I had to learn[0] it still provides the easiest platform for SSR out of the box.

[0]: https://leerob.io/blog/things-ive-learned-building-nextjs-ap...
> It’s never been tried paying people to not commit crime...

Your suggestion was to pay convicted criminals not to repeat offend. That is not quite the same thing.

> ... it’s not as if there would be no consequences for repeat offenders or people who took the money and carried on breaking the law.

There would be only positive consequences for first time offenders so people who might not otherwise commit a crime would be highly incentivized to do so.
There's some evidence of gender preferences here, that, broadly speaking, women prefer people, men prefer things. This post goes into it more (see section 4): https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagge...

> What is this “object vs. people” distinction?

> It’s pretty relevant. Meta-analyses have shown a very large (d = 1.18) difference in healthy men and women (ie without CAH) in this domain. It’s traditionally summarized as “men are more interested in things and women are more interested in people”. I would flesh out “things” to include both physical objects like machines as well as complex abstract systems; I’d also add in another finding from those same studies that men are more risk-taking and like danger. And I would flesh out “people” to include communities, talking, helping, children, and animals.

> So this theory predicts that men will be more likely to choose jobs with objects, machines, systems, and danger; women will be more likely to choose jobs with people, talking, helping, children, and animals.

In there, there's a link to a study, though that link appears to be dead right now. Here's the study's abstract and a different link https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1751-9004....

> How big are gender differences in personality and interests, and how stable are these differences across cultures and over time? To answer these questions, I summarize data from two meta‐analyses and three cross‐cultural studies on gender differences in personality and interests. Results show that gender differences in Big Five personality traits are ‘small’ to ‘moderate,’ with the largest differences occurring for agreeableness and neuroticism (respective ds = 0.40 and 0.34; women higher than men).

> In contrast, gender differences on the people–things dimension of interests are ‘very large’ (d = 1.18), with women more people‐oriented and less thing‐oriented than men. Gender differences in personality tend to be larger in gender‐egalitarian societies than in gender‐inegalitarian societies, a finding that contradicts social role theory but is consistent with evolutionary, attributional, and social comparison theories. In contrast, gender differences in interests appear to be consistent across cultures and over time, a finding that suggests possible biologic influences.

Anyway, while it's not an open and shut case, it's very hard to explain why these preferences are stronger in more egalitarian/less sexist societies, rather than weaker, using conventional social progressive thinking. If the idea behind these preferences and decisions is "well, that's because of societal sexism", why are the least sexist societies doing the worst there, and the most sexist societies the best?

I'm socially progressive on most issues, but I find much of the arguments and reasoning from other social progressives for this topic to be fairly disingenuous. They often strongly give the impression of having decided that basically all strong gender preferences must be because of some kind of oppression or stereotyping, any scientific inquiry that indicates otherwise is morally unacceptable, facts be damned.
Although I hate to imply that I'm anything near as great as Ken Thompson (I'm most certainly not), I do share his approach to "debugging". I've also long thought it weird that so many engineers that I've worked with think this is somehow an exceptional thing to do.

It only makes sense to me, although it does require you to actually understand what the code is (trying) to do.

I do sometimes use the standard debugging techniques, including debuggers, logging, etc. But I end up doing that only when I'm working with code that I don't fully understand, or if I'm totally at a loss as to what's going on. I'd say that covers 10-20% of cases.
Unions tend to equalize rewards because of their one worker one vote mechanics. Union representation will probably bring up the compensation of the worst workers and lower the compensation of the top workers, so senior employees are right to fight the unionization effort.
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It's not quite true to say tech startups are made up of predominantly white men, but also men of East Asian and Indian descent. So you can't just use "white men" as a euphemism for the dominant culture of tech start ups.
It's probably both to some degree.
That's so strange to me, how do you define equal opportunity when you directly affect that opportunity based on third party factors out of someones control.
you hit the nail in the head. Companies like Cisco only thrive on acquisitions, there has not been a single decent product launched from within.
>CoinBene is reported to be the largest bitcoin exchange in the world

I literally never heard of this exchange before today. If some random exchange popped up and overtakes all of long time "legitimate" incumbents (eg. coinbase, bitstamp, kraken) combined, I'd be suspicious of that too. The same applies for most of the other exchanges near the top of the list on slide 22. In reality, I don't think seasoned traders are affected by this, only newcomers and the occasional journalist.
The main advantage of server-side rendering of client-side templates is cutting your initial load time to a bare minimum (not having to wait for scripts to load/compile, taking advantage of page caching, etc.). However, this usually only matters when you're afraid of users getting impatient and bouncing, which tends to be true of sites that mainly display content and don't have a ton of interactivity, and sites like that usually shouldn't be using client-side rendering in the first place.

So you have two buckets: web apps that don't care too much about shaving milliseconds from the initial load, and content sites that shouldn't be shipping heavy JavaScript in the first place. The target market for hybrid rendering is the tiny slice of sites in-between those two, so it's a minority of use-cases. Though it is also used by sites in the latter category that are shipping heavy JavaScript anyway and having regrets.
I haven't used it in years, but Tom Liston's "Labrea" tarpit is an interesting take on this concept: https://github.com/Hirato/LaBrea

It listens in your unused IP space and both tar-pits scanners and creates actionable intelligence about scans against your hosts.
Surface Go?
The article was about California. Here in CA, inmate population has gone down due to prop 47 while costs have increased.

https://reason.com/archives/2017/06/09/prison-unions-punish-...

[..]California is unusual from a national perspective, per the report. Thirteen states have reduced prison populations since 2010, but they've also cut their prison spending by $1.6 billion. Seven states have increased their populations, but have managed to decrease their prison spending, (by $254 million). Fifteen states have increased their prison populations and also increased their total prison spending by a half-billion dollars.
California is in an ignominious group of 10 states that saw declines in the prison population since 2010, but which increased spending by $1.1 billion. Furthermore, California's spending increase accounts for more than half of that number. California has by far the costliest system of incarceration in the nation at more than $75,000 per inmate per year—more than triple the average cost of the 18 states with the least-costly rates.[..]
[..]The study focuses on the 2010 to 2015 period, and some major prison-related laws—e.g., 2014's Proposition 47, which reduced many felonies to misdemeanors and resulted in further reductions of prison populations—got started toward the end of the study period. Yet, if anything, these disturbing spending trends only accelerated in the ensuing years.
"Gov. Jerry Brown's spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1 includes a record $11.4 billion for the corrections department while also predicting that there will be 11,500 fewer inmates in four years because voters in November approved earlier releases for many inmates," wrote Don Thompson for The Associated Press. "Since 2015, California's per-inmate costs have surged nearly $10,000, or about 13 percent." That's a whopping increase in a short period of time, and even more amazing given that state just raised gas taxes because it claims to be out of cash.[..]
Important update about the Gmail service
I would expect cloud providers to easily detect crypto mining activity and to shut it down: https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/comments/9b31b7/how_to...

I would assume hardware and electric outlets that are not professionally supervised to be most vulnerable. If you find your way into some type of NAS, then you've probably found a homogeneous environment: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2490759/hacked-synolog...
Why would mere agreement be enough, after repeated requests to improve behaviour have been made and ignored? Sounds like a demonstration of improvement its about the right bar...
Baby monkey is first primate created using sperm from tissue transplanted to dad
So, I've been working with Clojure professionally and this is simply not the case. Vast majority of the code is pure with side effects and state being pushed to the edges as a thin imperative shell around the functional core.

There's a great presentation discussing Pedestal HTTP library for Clojure, and one of the slides notes that Pedestal has around 18,000 lines of code, and 96% of it is pure functions. All the IO and side effects are encapsulated in the remaining 4% of the code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0if71HOyVjY

This is a completely typical situation when you're working with a functional language.
I've never once felt like the iPhone browser (mine has 2GB too) lacked RAM.
I agree they are heavy, and even more heavy than the bus chassis they are built on top of, but I see that as an engineering problem right? There are bus depot parking structures where unused commercial buses are parked. And my civil engineering friends are fond of saying that with enough steel and concrete you can hold up anything :-). So as a mental exercise in scaling density by going vertical, in my sketchbook using lot "sizes" that were similar to a KOA RV campground as a baseline (about 30' x 60' per space), an 8 story parking complex on a 5 acre lot could hold 250+ spaces.

Ok, and the idea isn't even original, see this: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/mobile-home-skyscrape...
No one got the reference. Unfortunate.

(for those looking, it's to the movie The Hunt for Red October)
Every feature added to JavaScript since 2015
Discrimination benefiting historically under represented or discriminated against groups.
So 40-45% of the population gets the shaft is what you're saying. While I understand a desire to have a more diverse company in general.. the overall population is definitely not 1:1:1:1 for each ethnic/gender group... And every tech hiring study I've seen seems to indicate a bias in favor of women, meaning the issue is either self-selective or generally in education circles, which is driving the issue.
Helix: Improve the Performance of Rails with Rust
Citations of arrest statistics do not distinguish whether the homeless are actually more criminally inclined than the homed, or more targeted by police who may also have some political motivation to encourage them to go exist in someone else's jurisdiction.

As with the lessons learned from public housing projects in big cities, it is better to spread the poverty out more thinly across a larger area of the city than to concentrate it all in one place. A homeless car shelter would be a disaster of epic proportions. Double the number of reserved parking spaces, spread more uniformly throughout the city, would still be burdensome, but far less so.

One Randy Griswold in Clark's driveway is more tolerable than row after row of them, for as far as the eye can see.
I love that the mini has been refreshed with the retina display - though was hoping for the new form factor (no button + smaller bezels)
For the local national economy, an oligopoly seems possibly worse. On the international stage, it seems blindingly obvious that breaking up your local oligopoly to compete with larger foreign oligopolies or stated owned corporations is worse.

Fundamentally, this is all about negotiating power, and the whole point of breaking up a monopoly/oligopoly is to reduce its negotiating power. But that's clearly a problem when interacting with foreign companies not subject to the same anti-trust action, and will have much greater negotiating power.

This is complicated, and the argument is not a fallacy.
http://cultstate.com/2019/03/15/The-Robodollar/

"Now you’re starting to see the brutal minutia of robotic labor tally up into a considerable challenge."
It blows my mind that so many people are still unaware of the gender equality paradox. People constantly bring this up, constantly ask that same question, constantly get the same response. Women self-select into certain fields at higher rates than others, men do the exact same thing. Can we move on now? There is no problem to solve.
1) What do you mean by server-side rendering of JavaScript? It sounds like you mean executing JavaScript on the server that otherwise is destined to execute on the client-side. I execute JavaScript on the server/terminal all the time and don't call it server-side rendering.

2) What is your motivation? What problem do you think you are solving with server-side rendering?
I don't find it bad at all. I see print / debug statements almost like tests. They are always there. Where as debugging with a debugger is more ad-hoc.

Plus, debugging is way less useful for web development where you have a bunch of different levels of technology at play. Also, most editors can't even be configured to work nicely with Docker.