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I made a reasonable argument and backed it with referenced facts. Besides the downvotes I received, my main posts were flagged and are now invisible. On top of that, I get low quality comments that add nothing but dilution to the discussion ("Hey did you know I am black?"). Those posts did not get flagged. It's quite clear that the thought police will not allow any discussion on these matters to take place here.
The population will never be high enough for neo-Tokyo to exist, barring some kind of widespread program (public or private) creating babies in addition to those conceived normally.

Even Hong Kong eventually found its Kowloon Walled City unnecessary. Humans prefer not to live so densely if they don't need to.
And this "technology" is banned for the right reasons.

It is demonstrably harmful to the enviroment, physical and mind health and the society in general.

I'm all for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtSf69vjrVM
We've tested so many video conference solutions (Cisco, Starleaf, Skype, Google Hangouts, etc) and landed on Zoom. Nice to see this!
Really, I do like Rust, but you should adopt another strategy to win the hearts of C++ devs than throwing such jabs.

Show them to create a secure COM component to integrate in .NET can be easier than writing it in C++/WinRT | C++/CLI, using the same VS/debugger integration while being safer, for example.
I think the gist of things like this is - at the risk of using a silly gaming analogy for something really serious - a "catch up mechanic" to bring about more equal representation sooner than just being genuinely fair and waiting for things to even out.

There are philosophical cases to be made that the wrong must be righted asap, or that this approach is an instance of two wrongs not making a right.

For me, assuming good intentions, I choose other things to be upset about than people being selectively nice or helpful to others who are dealing with a problem.

I can understand the concern that leaning too hard in to this kind of thing can get out of hand, so as with everything, probably best to do our research and decide case by case.
Expressing Business Flows Using an F# DSL
I'm sure Venezuelans agree with you. /s
If you find your interlocutor's position ambiguous in some major way, then you should, firstly, tell them, and secondly, ask them to explain. Otherwise confusion may ensue as to what exactly is being argued for and against. If the ambiguity is incidental, then the principle of charity is not really doing much. I take it that your example - about a phrase admitting a valid and invalid inference - is of this kind. Though I do agree that we shouldn't jump upon those kinds of slippages.

If you read carefully and allow the conversation to unfold, while prompting your interlocutor to explain what remains unclear to you, then generally you can get a fairly accurate impression of their views. More often than not, the problem is not ambiguity, but an unwillingness to listen, and engage thoughtfully with others, through a genuine dialogue.
Her username here is Doreen, and I assume that's her name. Why should she have to hide it?

If she has to hide her sex in order to get meaningful answers, that right there is a huge impediment us men in tech never have to experience.
Endlessh: An SSH Tarpit
Oh no, the ponzi is running out of rubes.
prop-sets: Generate and test every possible instance of a component in React
Yeah, I cannot think of a single way that this could be abused.
I don't see why this is that big of a deal. It's basically saying that there's a bunch of nothing in between collections of items we define as "universes". It's not saying that there are alternate timelines in our own universe or something. It's just one of those concepts people like to make seem more controversial than they are.
So, how much is a child with healthy relationships and a strong sense of community worth? Because the job relocation might not make up the difference?

At a certain point, you stop being able to form healthy relationships after you’ve been severed from so many.
I'm confused. This reads like you're trying to convince me not to do graffiti. I've never done graffiti in my life. Maybe one time I scribbled over a particularly misogynistic bathroom stall tag, or I wanted to but didn't have a Sharpie with me, I don't even remember.

Lots of graffiti sucks? I'm not advocating vandalizing the Sistine Chapel like your sibling suggested? I'm just trying to explain to grandparent why street art would be "ok with so much of Western culture", because society is just not that absolutist about private property, because things tend to be socially acceptable roughly in proportion to how harmful/harmless they are.

I didn't know the city fines property owners for not cleaning up graffiti on their property, which they obviously didn't want in the first place, that sucks. Of course I empathize. That's not the kind of graffiti I would describe as "ok with so much of Western culture" though?
Same could be said for MIPS or RISC-V or indeed any piece of silicon.

As an embedded designer I know for a fact that CPUs used in embedded systems get so much scrutiny on their I/O messages all the way up the stack, it would be real good subversion to hide something like this and not be discovered in all use case scenarios. More likely is some sort of back door when you can access the hardware. Disclaimer I only work on the smallest MIPS and ARM embedded chips not those with full MMU's
Xendbg: Modern Xen Debugger
> The gender disparity in software development is well documented, and should be fixed.

Why should it be fixed? Is there any evidence to suggest it's because of discrimination? There's been special treatment for women (such as this one) for so long now. Have you ever considered that maybe women just don't want to sit in front of a computer for hours on end writing software?

Also, I walked past a building site the other day. Full of men. They work through the night for not much money. Where's all the special programs to get women in to back-breaking overnight construction work?
When you deal with complex telecom chips on 28nm and smaller on a daily basis, it's hard to imagine that a resource savings of just 512 FFs (the difference between RV32E and RV32I) is worth the trouble!
Equal opportunity? How often do men get free programming lessons IRL?
I've been really happy to see all the nice personal sites and blogs that people have been creating on .dev domains, this included. It feels like the Web of the late 90s that I grew up in.

She can send a oneliner PR to get her site included on https//fullname.dev if she wants, and if she hasn't yet started using GutHub this would be a good learning opportunity for it.
It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, because it destroys the intellectual curiosity that is the reason HN exists. If you would please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I have the conversations you say do not happen with female developers and engineers every single day, online and offline. I've mentored and developed male and female engineers and technicians for decades, without any discrimination, harassment, or asking for their phone numbers.

I don't care one whit about what gender an engineer or technician is, nor do I even know all the time online -- sometimes I find out years later, sometimes I never find out, but I've never cared.

If you want to learn to code, join one of the free Udacity courses, or MIT or Harvard's free EdX courses, and learn, and write your projects. Nobody's going to stop you. Information is free. And you got a whole stack of useful responses to the post you just linked.
At the risk of simplifying your problem, what's stopping you from just not announcing your gender at all on these forums or chatrooms? Why make your username your full name at all? I've been joenot443 for as long as I can remember, and when given the option, I never volunteer my gender because I just don't think it's usually useful for that discussion.
Andy’s argument is both illogical and naive ad absurdum.
I think it's one of many confounding factors that detracts from the ultimate conclusion "violent crime is down." As others have pointed out better trauma response could also be a factor in this trend.

In fact, the suicide rate in the US is the highest it's been in decades.

https://psmag.com/news/the-suicide-rate-is-at-its-highest-in...

I know at least one instance where there was a lot of controversy over the police ruling it a suicide and stopped the investigation there. Not everybody in the victim's family agreed but they decided not to challenge the police.
It's not necessary for everyone to be able to verify that no one is cheating. It is only necessary for everyone to be able to verify that the TTP isn't cheating.

Whether or not such a system exists is mostly orthogonal to the question of whether or not cash exists. Cash can be eliminated whether or not it's replaced with a reasonable alternative, and the reasonable alternative can exist without eliminating cash. The nightmare scenario is the elimination of cash, and replacing it with an insecure, inefficient system run by a bunch of rent-seeking oligarchs. (Sadly, that outcome also seems to be the most likely in the U.S.)
> ...but if we have access to published architecture specs/layouts, it might be easier to audit the chip design...

there are no "architecture specs/layouts" provided by RISC-V. it's an ISA. companies making RISC-V chips can put whatever they want in them, and don't have to document any of it.
Wow, this thread is funny as hell.
There's a difference between being political, and divided across party lines in the US. Similar to how the 'torches of freedom' campaign associated cigarette smoking with women's lib [1], by tying anti-environmentalism with the conservative identity, the polluters assure the debate remains hopelessly divided, and nothing gets done. The reason the environmental debate is so divisive (in the US - I haven't noticed the same in Europe), is because it's profitable to keep it so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom
Why a New CERN Observation Has Physicists Popping Champagne
The EEOC absolutely investigates discrimination against white males.

https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/initiatives/e-race/caselist.cfm#re...
Is it? Citi had started one in July 2015 [0]

[0] https://blockmanity.com/news/citicoin-in-the-dump-as-citi-gr...
> and punitive is much cheaper for those of us with high moral character.

I didn't understand this assertion. Could you expand on it a bit?
> What a refreshing book, especially in a category that was (and is) dominated by publications and institutions that are invested in making you want expensive and exclusive accommodations and attractions.

That was mainly a problem of the US market, though. In the 1990s the American travel guide market, i.e. the sort of guides you would find in any mall bookshop, was completely dominated by Fodors and Frommers, which aimed at those with rather high budgets. So, Rick Steves could offer an alternative to that within North America. Meanwhile, however, in the UK and Australia Lonely Planet and Rough Guides were more widely available. (Not to mention some of the travel guide series in the German- and French-speaking world). Those guides opened up travel to even lower budgets than Rick Steves could.
RPA startup UiPath raising $400MM at $7B valuation
Which barriers are gender-related, though?
I've traveled all around the world (~60 countries) including plenty of third world countries and honestly, I feel safer in pretty much all of them than in San Francisco.

Even in other American cities known for crime, I feel safer than in SF, because at least those cities' crime is more contained to "bad neighborhoods" whereas in SF it's everywhere and extremely concentrated downtown.

Granted I haven't spent a ton of time in US flyover country… I hear St. Louis, Tulsa, Baltimore, etc. aren't too nice…
Spin-Momentum Locking in Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductors
While I disagree with most of the exoduses you mentioned, I do think that having minimal moderation is important. I want to see and hear what people really think, not what they want the outside world to think they think.

I don't want every community to be like that, but I want there to at least be some.
But if you always apportion work according to strengths, how can anybody ever fix their weaknesses? There have to be other criteria too, right?
Theia: A cloud and desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript
malloc allocates aligned memory [1], so technically it's correct that he writes past the allocated memory, but technically it's also impossible for that write to fail or for that write to overwrite something else.

[1] bonus point: for what kind of alignment? (The minimum is quite well specified, for C standards)
Zoom is great, have been using it for a couple years now. Congrats to the employees at Zoom!
Looks great. I'll give the demo a test ride.
not a moat per.se. - seems they have powerful enterprise sales team. Ability and luck in building it is a kind of a quasi-moat ( that for example Google still can't cross in their enterprise endeavors like the Cloud)

That sales team makes them (at the current multiples - see Mule, Qualtrix, GitHub, etc) into a $4B public or a $6-8B acquisition (my bet is that somebody of a big ones will snatch them before the IPO).
All kidding aside, hasn't this always been the case? Being an artist, a historian, a novelist -- these have always been much easier for people who were already independent and financially secure. Virginia Woolf made this point a century ago.
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If it’s anything like their old Wudaokou office, there is a huge firewall between the work done in that office and the others.
I don't need to live in a van, but I have thought about building out a van that I could drive around the country to different cities and then leave there and fly home. This way, if I ever wanted to fly out to that city on a whim I'd already have a place to stay. Might even be useful to have two such vehicles on opposite ends of the country.

I'd probably keep some cameras hooked up so I could drop in and see what's going on around the van remotely, and maybe a server I could ssh into and run some commands for the vehicle.

Only question is finding suitable places to park it that don't require a long commitment.
Totally agree– I was responding to "crackpot theory" which sounds more like wild conspiracy theories that people truly believe, rather than arguing in bad faith, but after re-reading, I think that is the point aidenn0 was trying to make.
Similar scenario that was sadly disturbing. It is quite advantageous to have an ethnic origin as a Pacific Islander.

However some people I have met from southern Asia coming from a farming family background likely have had much worse conditions growing up. But they get lumped into the Asian mass where you must truly excel to get noticed.
The Mathematical History of a Perfect Color Combination
Looks like this article has been posted on multiple blogs -- the oldest one I found was on glassdoor's blog.
And some of the comments on this thread is a master class of virtue signaling as well. All sides seem well represented here.

Also, who is putting up walls? Be specific please. I too come from a low income "unprivileged" family and got my first computer in high school.

And the tech industry has always been diverse. It has been the most diverse and the most meritocratic industry for a long time. It's the industry where minorities and immigrants like Jerry Yang and Sergei Brin can thrive unlike more establish industries like news, media, oil, finance, transportation, etc.

Why are you painting a false image of what the tech industry is like? There are no barriers to programming. It is the most available and meritocratic and fair industries around.

Also, your entire comment had no relevance to the article. You just went on a stereotypical virtue signaling rant.

Also, do you really want diversity, or do you want a "diverse" group of people who all think like you?

I just can't handle the hypocrisy. All over HN, you support H1-B visas and claim the tech industry's success is due to diversity provided by H1-B visas. And elsewhere, you claim the tech industry is not diverse and the problem with the tech industry is the lack of diversity.

Which is it? You can't have it both ways just to suit your agenda. Be consistent.
How did this shutdown came about? It sounds to me it is a top down decision to shutdown basically the entire island and all its economic activities for six months. I wonder how many people gone bankrupt due to this.

What exactly is the environmental rehabilitation being done? Why does it necessitate a shutdown? Would the return of tourists eventually undo all the "rehabilitation"?
The cost of creating bitcoin is dynamically adjusted so that a fixed number are created in a given period of time based on the hashrate. You'd have the same number of bitcoins regardless of the price of electricity and ASICs.

So in this case, the price determines the cost, not the other way around. People will invest money into creating bitcoins until their cost of acquisition equals the price they can sell for, and this effort purely drives up the cost without generating any additional bitcoins.
A toolbox built on top of TensorFlow that enables machine learning without code
blows my mind that video conferencing software with such low switching costs can be worth so much.
That still doesn’t negate dragonwriter’s very valid argument.
>non-white men

I assume Asian men are actually "white men" for the purposes of your example?
Was my favorite vacation spot for years until I moved from the Philippines in ‘99. The water and beaches were beautiful. Even at that point, however, the coral was mostly dead and the marine life mostly gone. It was sad and it’s too bad that the place has largely been thrashed. :-(
Zoom is objectively a good software solution but being de facto forced to install yet another piece of software just to take business meetings has left a sour taste in my mouth.

It's objectively impressive that they managed to "force" me to install software. Hats off... but I plan on ditching them as soon as a viable alternative appears.

I have no real point here, other than this: I wonder if my sentiment is general, and whether or not this might bite them later down the road? Probably not.
Advocating learning CS properly.
Looks like they are running their own data centers and colos?
PyRDP – RDP MiTM Toolkit for Honeypots
> They excitedly started telling me about how they were doing all this work to groom their young son (age like 6) to go into tech.

Does this actually work though? My whole life, I've been weakly encouraged, mainly by my parents, to study economics and/or law, and discouraged (weakly by my parents, and strongly by society and bullies) from being a geek / programmer / mathematician... But in the end, I picked the latter.
Since it was brought up by @CydeWeys, here is Natalie's GitHub repository of this website: https://github.com/nataliepeterson/coconut. PR's (and issues) are welcome :)
Well, I did try to leave any kind of bias aside, so my apologies if I didn't succeed. I hope I didn't misunderstand you, but

> it is not an independent entity

This really is debatable, depending on the term "entity". Given that this is in-vitro fertilization, an embryo here is likely a couple dozen cells grown from two gametes, in a test tube. It is physically distinct from the parents.

My remark was going in the same direction as yours. What "schocked" me is that some parts of the linked article read as though the author forced an ideology/views upon the reader. I was expecting to get raw facts from this article, so that surprised me a bit.

Regardless of what I think of the author's viewpoint (which I didn't state, by the way), I expressed having trouble logically following the arguments that are being used there, and suspected that it might be due to a logical fallacy the author could have been leaning on to close the reasoning gaps (and if that was the case, I was curious to know which). But I admit it could also be an issue on my side.
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Van Life is becoming super popular

I'm as intrigued as the next outdoors-loving fellow, but is it actually "super popular"? Do that many people, proportionately, take up van life? I suspect in the big picture it's still extremely niche, especially if you drill down to just people who are voluntary van dwellers.
I'm against using exceptions for flow control (that's nothing else but "goto" in disguise), and against handling exceptions far from where they occur.

I would deliberately throw exceptions as a "fail fast" safety switch, when I actually want the thing to burn down in flames. That's typically about violating some sort of a contract which indicates an implementation error - like an illegal argument. In such case to have them unhandled is sort of the point.

I found that following these principles by itself leads to a very limited role of exceptions in code.
That's one possibility for videos of political nature where a brand doesn't want to be associated with something.

Hardly explains why public domain educational videos and channels are booted, though :/
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$7M profit is superb, especially in a domain which many folks claimed was saturated and a commodity.

Another example that execution is still underrated. Everyone looks for the what do you (startup x) do that is so different and unique from the rest of the world to enable you to win. Feature-focused conversation.

Often the real answer is "simply" world class execution at scale, including business model, UX, GTM etc - as it remains the most difficult task.

Nice work, Zoom.
none. as gsuite becomes more widespread, people will switch to it. I'd be more worried about msft building something similar compared to zoom.

disclaimer: Used zoom couple times, use hangouts every day. google employee, opinions are my own.
for anyone that actually wants to take the time to email, all they do is tell you to keep making comments that others vouch for and maybe one day you’ll get unbanned. they won’t actually do it just based on you agreeing to follow the rules. kinda condescending and misleading.
Then what about learning their advanced features for tracing and scripting instead of always single stepping?