skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "They are not interested in computers" is a huge cliché. So which non-cliché reasons do you see?

Motivation goes beyond "being interested" in something. If you ask why there aren't more men studying art history it would be rather silly to say that men are less interested in art history. Then again, if you said that men don't pursue art history because they (most often) wouldn't be able to sustain a family on an art historian salary - and are expected to do so, while women find it appealing because appreciating art and understanding social and political undercurrents is more important than earning potential to them.
(I don't know many art historians but see here for an example: https://www.pomona.edu/academics/departments/art-history/why...)

We could also ask why art history is not a candidate for "new collar jobs" (i.e., having people with associate-level degrees in art history) or why we don't have art history bootcamps for men. Part of the answer is that - at least since GC languages and Ruby on Rails - we do have good uses for people with shallow CS knowledge, or at least that there are less people interested in erecting high barriers of entry. The answer to that is that CS is thought of as skills-based and shallow, another aspect that is more likely to dissuade (especially white middle-class) women from pursuing a 100% CS career while it will help pull in people combining domain expertise with at least some CS skills.
Services that assume phone numbers are some kind of stable ID are infuriating.

Recently I wanted to log in to AirBnB. I hadn't signed in in 3 years. I was welcomed with a nice "We don't recognize this device. Get a code by text message or phone call at <number at my previous country of residence>." The thing is, I use social login on AirBnB! Specifically because I want to delegate MFA to a service where I'll keep my profile and login information up to date. I don't remember agreeing to my phone number being used as a second factor or as a way to recover my account.
So I contacted their customer service and they unlocked my account within 2 days, without any further verification.
Seems to me a built in 40 minute timeout on meetings could be a feature, rather than a limitation.

Seriously, usually people are pretty good at fitting stuff into the allotted time, however long that may be. 40 mins actually seems like a pretty good limit too, enough to accommodate most meetings without compromise.
I despise Oracle. And yet if faced with a choice I'd work for Oracle without hesitation before working for Google or Facebook.
The game is set up such that these quandaries are inevitable. This is a problem with capitalism and competitive markets. People bemoan the process and demonize those that have to balance financial pressure against other forces but the truth is, the result often goes unnoticed. We are all use to getting less than desirable results on a daily basis; it is just when a catastrophic failure occurs that we all start calling out from our soap boxes about how we should do better.

Aside, we all know safety and security are important, but we complain the other way too. How many people complain about how much we spend on defense as a country? The budget is reflective of the number of ways we need to defend ourselves and the number of ways we would need to overcome an adversary's defenses when we are on the offensive. That number grows as technology gets more advanced. The people involved in developing solutions are increasingly more specialized and salaries are getting higher. If we did nothing, somebody might drop a bomb on our head and we'd all wonder why we never spent money developing a defense.

TLDR: The world is funny and people complain about everything.
Also, since medicine is so much more prestiguous than programming, and probably at least as well paid, why do you even want women to go into programming? Why not let ambitious women study medicine, law and whatever else they do, and be rich and happy?
I can only assume you're joking. VB was never respected, it had a reputation back in the day of being the tool of choice for shoddy drag & drop Windows GUI apps.

On Windows C++ was the tool of choice and Delphi was kind of a secret weapon for GUI development. Then C# happened, and MS unceremoniously flushed VB down the drain. The VB community was outraged about VB.NET...
I love that site! Feels refreshing and old. Nice to see that not everyone learns to code these days by following a terrible React tutorial that gives them nearly a gigabyte of dependencies for a simple project.
> particular policies in Scandinavian countries

The gender-equality paradox does not just apply to Scandinavian countries, but reproduces pretty much around the world: female participation in engineering etc. is inversely proportional to HDI.

In fact, it even reproduces over time! I think we can all agree that, for example, the US is more egalitarian now than it was in the past. Yet female participation in CS has actually dropped since the 60s or 70s.

> we don't know what a "natural" allocation by gender in STEM might look like

This is both true and, maybe somewhat surprisingly, irrelevant. The reason is that the GEP is not about the absolute levels, but about the sign of the change. To be more precise:

If your hypothesis is that "societal forces/sexism/oppression are the main causes for lack of female representation", then you would expect higher levels of participation in societies that are generally more egalitarian and more free than in societies that are generally less egalitarian or not free, regardless of the absolute levels.

So your theory demands that there is a positive correlation between HDI and STEM participation.

If there were no correlation, that would probably already disprove that hypothesis.

However, it is worse than that, much worse, because the correlation is actually negative. I have to admit that this stunned me, as it apparently stunned the researchers working in the field, because it is such an unexpected and hugely significant result.

And once again, absolute levels are completely irrelevant here, it's just pretty clear that when you remove oppression, you get more gender-segregated workplaces at least when it comes to the empathising/systematising divide.

> The argument that where we're at now is where we should be

Who "should" be deciding where we "should" be? To me, it should be the people who decide what they want to do. If many more women than men now decide to go into veterinary medicine (used to be the other way around), who are we to second-guess them? If many more women than men prefer to go into early childhood education, who is to say that this is "wrong"?

That's the part I really don't understand, quite frankly.
Ok, so you are seriously going to argue that a person who rents new apartment isn't going to be significantly less wealthy than someone who purchases a new home?

Do you see the obvious contradiction here?

All this law does is take away poor people's ability to rent a home, that will instead be sold to a wealthy home owner.

If you can afford to purchase a new home then you are way way more wealthy than someone who can only afford to rent that same home.
> Then it may reach congress people or may be publicly released - I'm hoping for the latter as it may present an opportunity for the US to heal.

That is an...unreasonable expectation. There is literally no content it could have which would contribute to that, at least not other than in a facilitating a process of which it would not yet be the bottom or even close, but after which healing might occur.
Once upon Pinterest was great. But now it's just atrocious and toxic. Even logged in.

It's the worst outcome for solving a problem which could be naturally aced on the web. Instead we got a cancered platform causing headaches to everyone.

Full rant: https://twitter.com/bourquinary/status/1026877583772790784
Oh that comparison is wonderful. I would suggest Dollar Tree for Oracle because it's reasonably successful at making money
That's part of the problem with the debate about this though: that's a never ending slope. What constitutes relatively inexpensive for the 1,000s of parts in an aircraft?

There's a cost to human lives. We can quibble about what it is, but there's clearly a point where it is unreasonable and worse for society as a whole to make planes safer but more expensive.

They got it wrong here. But it's non-trivial to figure out without hindsight.
I believe that's the difference - Google demonstrated that the founders had a clue by running a profitable business. Snapchat did not.
I work for Oracle (and I'm reasonably high-end in my niche - speak at conferences about it and stuff). None of their competitors were willing to consider remote work for the type of stuff I do. Oracle was OK with it. Hence, I work (remotely) at Oracle for the time being.

I'd have loved to take a job at a local startup, but of the limited local options for my skillset, none had salaries that would pay the mortgage....
Gall's Law : A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.
It probably can, but there's a fundamental difference between a nuclear reactor and an airplane.

There's a handful of nuclear reactors compared to planes, and new nuclear reactor designs, where there's an opportunity to cut corners, are not being introduced at the same rate as new plane designs.

A reactor is a large, heavy, stationary thing. Economic concerns exist, but they're not going to make engineering decisions based on weight like you would in a plane where every kilogram of material costs a fortune in fuel over the lifetime of the plane. An extra chunk of concrete in a nuclear plant costs nothing, operationally speaking.

We're just lucky that the planes aren't nuclear despite many wildly ill-advised attempts to make this a reality.
I wouldn't bet on that. It might be protocol, but they're humans, not robots.
Show HN: Red pepper chef – distinguish parts of a red pepper to keep vs. discard
This is a good example of how mass vaccination has mostly flipped those who are susceptible: https://i.imgur.com/gdDkcJf.png Of course the answer from the pharmaceutical companies is just to require more vaccines. And around and around we go.
Using DeX?
Japan + EU and the West won't survive without

* Removing Duluth Model

* treating everyone as INDIVIDUALS

* treating everyone to the SAME STANDARD

* Removing LEFT , Feminism , Diversity from power and government funded

* Removing ISLAM

* Removing Black South Africans

* Removing LEFT WING "progressive"

* Removing Feminism (socialism)

Also one of the main factors of Japan is they refuse to remove the DULUTH MODEL and Socialist "tradition" marriage laws to be fair to BOTH people, not just simp to women at the expense of men

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How to fix Marriage in the west+EU+JP+South Korea+Russia+China

* Fault divorce, not no fault

* One LAW for everyone with the SAME punishment for ALL.

* REMOVE Duluth Model from LAW+Courts+Police

* REMOVE PUSSY PASS

* False rape and False Sexual Assault to be convicted

* Ban Abortion

* Remove Child support

* Remove Vagmony (Alimony)

* Remove forced 50% of other person's assets

* False rape/assault claim register database

* Kid goes to the BEST person

Not automatically to the mother

* DNA test at all birth of kids
They don't want to "transition" anything to USB-C. They use USB-C for consumer electronics that can equally-well be a USB host or USB client (like the iPad, or the Apple TV.) They use Lightning for consumer electronics that will only ever be a USB client (like the iPhone or the other iPads.) They set this policy as soon as USB-C came out, and haven't deviated from it since.
Checkout the weekly Culture War thread on /r/TheMotte - it might not be perfect, but IMO they at least try to steel man arguments. (IIRC the term "steel man" came from a lesswrong post, and the subreddit is at least moderately related to that community)

Of course, this also means that a lot of "unacceptable in normal discourse but supportable via evidence" positions get pushed. Which quite a few people seem to find disagreeable. (you see, only MY outside-the-overton-window ideas are worthy of discussion - everything else is horrible and you're a Nazi/Commie/Racist/Sexist/etc for even listening to it or allowing it to be discussed by others. How dare you!)
I think it's pretty clear that almost everyone that uses hackernews is in a bubble and this bubble does not include people that use Pinterest.
This may actually be useful in Chile because Chileans don't lose any sleep over a 5.4. Even a 7.0 is meh. You could even have timed earthquakes or just diffuse your earthquakes at noon on Sunday every week.
Sure, but isn't this literally just a notation convention?

There's big quakes and there's little quakes. But energy is still linear. The fact that a quake releasing 1/3 of the energy of a 6.0 is not denoted as 2.0 quake, does not mean that it isn't releasing 1/3 of the energy.

I'm not a quakologist. Am I wrong?
> I used the person's own source to display the cherry-picked nature of their data, try again.

Or you know, you could use a reliable source of information to counter their argument instead of using the same crap to try (and fail) to prove a point..
I'm not sure why you are getting downvoted but I'm a bit suspicious. Either he really likes Nomad that he went ahead and put their logo on a scooter or a disclaimer is lacking.
I thought it was genius (and manipulative, of course). It feels like they are using language that is most persuasive to their employees.
I agree that a renting car by the hour is not fiscally responsible, but neither is owning a car in the really long run. I do have a beautiful bikepath all the way to work, and being carless saves more than $300 per month, sure I spend it on other things, but I buy time with friends and family using that money.
I’m curious about the peer-to-peer aspect. How does that work?

A) Can I run my build on another developers machine?

B) Can I stop other developers from running builds on my local machine?!
> This article seems like a lot of speculating and throwing wild theories at the wall

The article is on 'military.com', would you expect anything less than speculative clickbait warmongering?
This was exactly my point above, but I seemingly have worded it in a way that was was unpopular. This is iPad Air and iPad Mini, not iPad Pro: Apple didn't see the need to figure out how to jam USB-C onto a "standard" iPad when Lightning does just fine.
Pinterest's primary demographic is women
Remember that Google Bot uses Chrome 41[1]. So some features from ES6+ might not be supported. It's always a good idea to use Babel during compiling a SPA without SSR.

[1] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/rendering
At work we have about 50 containers, which total RAM usage less than 32GB and about 10 CPU cores.

Docker swarm works great for us
Not really, AFAIK. Android tablets are not a particularly great market…
If I may, let me apply your comment to something else:

50% of phone calls made each day in the US are fake robocalls, that’s reflective of the phone system as a whole, wouldn’t you say?

The fake volume may be reflective of bitcoin price or the lack of regulation of bitcoin exchanges but I don’t think thenfake volume is reflective of bitcoin as a whole.
nobody is arguing that major tranquilizers don't have their place for controlling psychosis in emergencies but long term use of them has a degenerative effect on the brain
Being a doctor also carries much greater social respect (partially linked to the pay aspect). I expect this social respect gap has eroded in SV, but is still very significant in the remainder of the world.

I started in medicine when I went to university (parent pressure), but swapped to a computer science/engineering combination from the second year. The impact on my dating prospects at that time was very significant.
What I do not understand: what is fake? The graphs these exchanges report? What does it matter? I do not quite get it.
Point 7 is incorrect. Automatic trim adjustments by the Speed Trim System (STS) had been in place for a long time. However using automatic trim changes during manual flight to reduce a pitch-up tendency near the stall was new.
> some memory hungry apps that don't suspend correctly "start over" when switching between multiple apps

Correction: memory hungry apps that don't implement state restoration correctly.
But who defines "inexpensive"? Is a $1000 feature inexpensive on a $30,000 car? Is an $80K feature inexpensive on an $100M airplane?

That's $4M across a fleet of 50 jets (Ethiopean's 737 order size) - so it's not exactly insignificant.

Japanese authorities required the feature, while the FAA and others did not. Should all of the onus be on the manufacturer? There's definitely an argument to be made that Boeing didn't reveal the full nature of MCAS to the FAA, but if that weren't true, is it Boeing's fault that they didn't bundle the feature, or is it the FAA's fault? And why did the Japanese require it, did they have information that the FAA did not have?
What are you trying to achieve?
10x less contributors than Kubernetes is still over 200 contributors (actually more like 300 at this point). That's one of the bigger Open Source projects in my book. This number pales in comparison to Kubernetes, but show me a project which doesn't.

That doesn't mean that the ecosystem is not vibrant, however.
The HashiCorp stack is just more modular than Kubernetes. Consul and Vault are standalone products for example.

With less functionality, it's harder to build a system which depends on features that only exist in a particular orchestrator. This makes it easier to replace Nomad with something better in the future. I'm not sure if I'd want to work on migrating Kubernetes clusters in five years. :)
Apple gates multitasking features by model, so having more RAM is not a feature add in this case since you do not have control over this.
The Pixel Slate has been a fantastic travel computer.

I wouldn't want to work on it all day, every day. However, it's convenient to carry, and it runs Android and Linux apps reasonably well. So, if I want to work remotely for a week and then take a month's vacation, I can use Sublime on the Slate and then totally unplug from work without lugging a MacBook around. I can download Netflix for planes/trains/buses. And of course, it's perfect for any web surfing.

I realize it's a luxury to have a device that's just for relaxing in bed or taking on the road, but the Pixel Slate is really underrated for that use case.
That's what "iPad" is for.
Have you looked at https://habitat.sh ?
Why not? Did it not work for you?
BitMEX is not a spot exchange. Huobi fakes volume.
Intermediate Progress Heap Snapshots – Timo Paulssen
Ask HN: How to use the dice randomness like a memory?
Is it possible to know if somebody has been played with your dice if you write down the results and do some calculations?
I am not sure I get this - from my reading Spadino drove into a burning tunnel, drags another man into a refuge, calls the command to tell them where they are but both die.

Sounds more heroic than anything I am planning on.

Why beat up on the guy because reporters at the time and afterwards got their facts wrong.

It's not the motorcyclists fault the reporter was wrong but the sentence in the article where the reporter describes discovering his own mistake something like "married to him for years and now felt cheated on" sounds ... awful.
I like the idea of symmetry of Solarized. I know how much work goes into creating a balanced color scheme. One thing that’s super hard is to match the same perceived level of brightness across different hues, while also being aesthetically pleasing. To balance that out is a lot of work but ultimately leads to a more harmonious picture that’s easy to read. I gave it my best shot for https://www.monokai.pro
I think we're decades into the era of that kind of "robot" and on the horizon there is a world with more general purpose robots. By that I mean, the mindless rote tasks are mostly already served by mechanical devices, like dishwashers, luggage carousels, various manufacturing "robots", etc. (this list could go on for days, if we've decided that all forms of automation is a robot). There isn't a hole for a "dishwasher" (where "dishwasher" is a placeholder for whatever simple rote job it fulfills) robot in the market today.

You have to look a little higher up the complexity scale, for roles that require low skill but high something else (so humans are hard to find to fill the role). e.g. say you need deliveries in a building, or even at the neighborhood or city-block level. It's repetitive, boring, work that is hard to hire for but can plausibly be done by a robot. It's hard to hire for because it is repetitive, boring, and requires a level of trust and reliability that a low-paying job doesn't really inspire in human workers. Delivery is a huge industry, when you consider all the scales at which delivery takes place (from tube systems and intraoffice mail systems on up to freight on trucks, trains, and boats), which could support dozens of designs of robot, and some of them are probably most usefully shaped like and acting like what we think of when we think "robot".

"Delivery robot" is still pretty special purpose, I guess...you could say it's a dishwasher, but it's a very smart, very expensive, dishwasher. It needs a lot of skills to do the job, and the closer it gets to the human it is delivering to, the more it probably should look like a friendly humanoid(ish) "robot" rather than like a self-driving truck (of varying sizes, based on role). A truck can't navigate elevators and doors, for example.
Right I wasn't talking about just gold.

Bitcoin is held to a higher standard than actual currencies with regard to how much or little of it is used for purchases, and it is held to a higher standard than precious metals like gold with regard to how much or little of it is not moved at all.

The people educated in those asset classes commenting on bitcoin don't seem to notice, the people not-educated in those asset classes commenting on bitcoin aren't familiar with the economics and velocity of any asset class. That contributes to the state of the conversation today.

To move this discussion a little further, M0 of any currency would be a similar fraction of a percent as the trading portions of any commodity like gold.

With bitcoin, we also have to understand that trading volume on exchanges won't illuminate whether bitcoin is used for buying anything, as that likely would not be a transaction volume reported on exchange, but directly on chain itself and on secondary routing networks like Lightning.
I like swarm. Seems like Docker is moving away from it however. At least, that's what the commit numbers say [1]. The fact that Docker integrated Kubernetes into their desktop solutions is also telling.

At this point, I would rather have a closer look at either Nomad or k3s for smaller clusters.

[1]: https://github.com/docker/swarm/graphs/contributors
If you look international you can see the momentum

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=pinteres...

It's not hot and new any more in the USA but it seems to be spreading world wide
https://www.linuxondex.com/
Ok, so let's have 50 more years of social engineering. What would you do if the trend does not reverse? Would that be enough for you?
Apple's "budget" options are essentially last year's models.
Given my little ones still rock an iPad mini 1 and it still runs Netflix fine...
There are practical differences, though, such that it's often not implemented by subclassing string.